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Julia, Julia, Julia...see Cagayan Sarah to see what the arrogance of assuming you have power because you're the swing vote gets you.
Or years before that, Vanuatu Dolly. Nobody likes the swing vote.
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Yeah, that Seattle haunted house ep was so obviously a hoax.
I accidentally saw a rerun of this episode and I couldn't stop laughing at the "tough guy" investigators walking around an empty house trying to pick a fight with ghost.
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My Comcast doesn't carry RetroTV either. I get it through my antenna.
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Well, the silhouette of a lobster anyway.
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More good episodes are trickling to Retro TV for the first time. "Teenagers from Outer Space" was aired last night.
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Scot Pollard played 11 seasons in the NBA and won, err I mean earned a little over $38 million and got a championship ring (although he road the pine all through the playoffs that year).
I don't think Scot needs to win a paltry $1 million and screw CBS for even interviewing this guy let alone putting him on the show. What's next, "Celebrity Survivor", or "Surviving with the Stars?"
Don't forget that Cliff Robinson from a few seasons ago played in the NBA for eighteen years and earned over $62 million... and declared bankruptcy two years after he retired.
Rich people just go broke bigger than the rest of us.
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I liked this ending cuz it was right here in Portland... right when we had half of downtown torn up for another light rail expansion. There was no way to drive on 5th between the Portland Building and The Standard building because the street was completely destroyed. I just went over the Bridge of the God last weekend. The zip line to the tiny island below must have been a frightening drop but if you can walk along a log 40 feet up in the air and jump off of it, a zip line is probably nothing.
And poor Andrew and Dan, not even close to winning. I loved Nick and Starr. They hardly argued and Starr looked great on my TV.
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Yeah, I'm not interested in this at all. Aside from the issue of attachment to the old cast, Mythbusters was already out of myths.
People started claiming they were out of myths at the beginning of season four. As long as there's an Internet, myths will never stop being produced.
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Amy and Maya are my all-time favorite TAR team (so far). They're the reason I gave this show another chance after the dizzy camerawork and the crashing soundtrack made me gave up.
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As long as somebody's posting here . . . has there been a team as hapless as Andrew & Dan? It's a miracle that they made the final leg, because they sucked so hard.
I'm watching season 13 and these two are proof that you don't have to be very good at Amazing Race to somehow get very far. It's not just the many stupid things they did. It's the slack-jawed cluelessness and indifference on their faces whenever they messed yet another thing up. They talk about how they're going to have to do better in a emotionless monotone, because they have no idea what "do better" means.
They were saved twice by non-elimination legs late in the season.
And of course they have to show how us how little they know about the countries on our planet. One of them didn't know that Cambodia is in Asia, however the other one did. The dumber one said he didn't know because he didn't go to "an expensive private school" like the other one did. Do public schools not teach geography any more? I know the subject has gotten tougher with the fall of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia but I'm sure most of the kids could pass.
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The beginning of the episode was pretty funny. Cydney is explaining to us that Neil has a huge idol-shaped bulge in his pocket and we see him walking around with this bulge. However, Cydney is shown speaking in hushed tones to Bounty while Neil is a few feet away from them. Bounty does not get it.
Bounty: "Which pocket?"
Cydney: "The left."
Us: The one with the huge thing in it, you idiot!
Bounty: "In his cargo?"
Us: No, his shirt pocket! Of course his cargo shorts! Jeezus! You've seen an idol!
I hope they dubbed that conversation from sometime when Neil wasn't walking right in front of them.
Then we have a TH where Bounty explains why he thinks it looks so much like an idol...cuz he's seen one!
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I think we've been punked.
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Oh jeez.
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Well, the man likes to share his food with everyone!
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Glad to see Phillip is back to leaving a trail of bodies for the Feds to find. That's what spying is all about.
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Staying in the league for 11 years is a testament to the idea that Pollard was an excellent basketball player. Not an excellent NBA basketball player, but good enough to make it into the league and stick around for 11 years. And, as an 11 year veteran he would be guaranteed a higher salary than, say, a young guy with no experience in the NBA so he was kept because he brought something to the team.
I'm unable to determine what that something was. There are so many veterans in the NBA warming the benches that I wonder if they keep them to make the union happy. Salary is rarely an issue. A ten year veteran's minimum salary can be less than 5% of the NBA salary cap.
It looks to me like a few good seasons in the NBA will greatly increase a player's chances of quietly spending the majority of their career on the bottom of some team's roster.
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He was obviously an extremely good basketball player - my son loves playing basketball, I remind him that the last guy on the bench of an NBA team is better than anyone he'll play in AAU or high school basketball. Being good enough to make the NBA and stick around for 11 years means you are an excellent basketball player.
Or that you were at one time in your career.
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I'm skipping this season because I've had enough Boston Rob and spacey Amber on my television screen. I assume they started planning this All-Star season as soon as he lost.
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Yikes, why didn't you warn...? Oh you did...
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I don't have an opinion about his relative value as an NBA player. But I do think it's pretty tacky and small-minded for an NBA player, any professional athlete really, to lord his career over a young woman who is just starting out in life.
And to talk to her like she is the only reason Brawn keeps losing.
Hey Scot, two other people on your team haven't found any bags. Go shit on them too.
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Never one of the most important players on any team he played for, but there are far worse.
I recently looked through the NBA roster for some pub trivia. I was amazed at how many players have been bouncing around the league warming teams' benches for over ten years. They're making around $700K a year staying in shape and playing just well enough to be an eleventh or twelfth player on a team's roster. At least Pollard did have some success early in his career.
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In the 2007-2008 season he was the Celtics' third center on the bench behind P.J. Brown. It looks like he was on the injured inactive list. I guess he was sitting with the best basketball players in the world.
I like to think that Polard made some suggestion in a timeout and Kevin Garnett told him, "I scored 24 points! What have you done?"
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Cliff Robinson was a way better player than Scot Pollard. Robinson was a good player and a borderline star (he made one All Star team). Scot was a so-so role player off the bench for about 10 seasons.
And we fans in Portland loved Cliff. Anyone in Boston love Scot? Anyone remember him?
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Scot was a total douchebag. Also, he bragged about being an "NBA Champion" when he didn't play at all after February and didn't play a minute in the playoffs and scored a total of 39 points for the entire season for the 2007-08 Celtics. The ball boys contributed more to the championship than he did.
Was he a good cheerleader when he was on the bench?
ETA Sleddog beat me to this obvious question!
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S32: Ponderosa
in Survivor
Debbie: "I've studied 10,000 years of human history."
DEBBIE: HISTORY STUDENT
Nick: "Debbie was hitting on me non-stop at camp."
DEBBIE: PICKUP ARTIST