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Haven't seen this yet - tech issues - but on the q of do eliminated contestants ever succeed: Kristen Kish was eliminated on Top Chef season 10, went on to Last Chance Kitchen & won that, returned & won the whole thing. On two seasons of Masterchef Australia, an eliminated contestant came back and ended up as runner up. That's off the top of my head. Ozzie didn't do it on Survivor, I don't think, but he came close, right? With this crowd, though, it was just a lazy way to extend the cheap episode run.

Somebody asked Bello about his background on twitter; he said: (Whatever that means. Puerto Rican & Dominican, I guess?) https://twitter.com/bellosanchez/status/629318838337703936

I hate to tell you, J Smoove, but your parents are probably right - this is such a longshot and not a good investment in your future. Get it out of your system and disappoint them by only becoming your town's cutest pharmacist who does local glamour stuff on the side, or shows up looking his best at all sorts of local events. Perhaps he has accurately assessed his prospects of doing well as a model (modest), and recognizes this show as not providing much of an opportunity beyond what he's already had to get modeling exposure, but possibly an opportunity to get exposure as a TV Personality. I don't know quite what to make of him. He has delusional moments, moments that are clearly manufactured, and moments of trying to actually buckle down and try to do well. I don't know how in control he is of which of these approaches he turns to in any given moment; I get the sense they're all sort of rote go-to shticks that he pulls out of his bag of tricks sort of at random, without thinking much about which is the right response to any given situation.

I could be wrong of course, but I don't remember her doing this (but remember others, who were overall more emotional, having to go outside and sometimes needing somebody else to help them get their emotions in check). Can you point to when this happened? She seems to be the sort to take a step back, reassess, and come right back at it. I could see her taking a walk away to do this, in theory, but if she's been showing doing that, it didn't leave an overall impression to me of someone who "constantly walk off due to stress," but rather of someone who has the presence of mind to take a step back when something isn't working, so that she can troubleshoot a problem or reconsider her approach. .

I noticed that the link from above, with Jo's lyrics, is from August 2011. I guess his twitter account still has the silly name (https://twitter.com/nerdin_acoolkid), but I give him a little bit of a pass on at least the photos in that article, given that he was quite a bit younger at the time (18?) and I'm assuming this was after Kail & before Vee. I'll save my criticism for what he's up to these days . . . .

"Nerd in a cool kid's body"? Really? Poor Jo, so misunderstood on so many levels.

Hands and arms are not all the same size! I thought she got lucky that the fairly tight fitting gloves she made based on her own hand actually fit her model's hands and arms well, too. (I'm a woman who wears a women's extra large/men's large glove. Many, many women's hands seem barely half the size of mine). I would guess that models with long limbs would also tend to have long fingers, but who knows. Aside from that, though, she just winged it, tracing her own hand and sewing, and it worked pretty well, so apparently it's not all that complicated - but I doubt they're insisting on quite the perfect fit as compared to, say, Edmond's pants (which fit beautifully but I absolutely hate pants that come up that high).

What does she mean (by #AAA)? Probably not the American Automobile Association, so I am clueless.

Also in the preview: "it's painstakingly obvious that portraits are not your thing." (Oliver)

The germaphobic comment came out when they were going to go through trash (electronics) for the second unconventional materials challenge. She seemed a little embarrassed by having a phobia that she knew to be a little irrational, and I have no problem imagining that the idea of going through piles of old stuff in a grubby looking space triggered it, but poking her hand with her own clean scissors did not.

33% more likely to be molested sounds a lot more plausible than 33x more likely! It may also have to do with the type of fellow the woman who's not with the father of her children may be choosing - bio-Dads in some cases included. (Less together mother hooking up with less-together men). That the man isn't related to her children may be less the issue, than that a certain percentage of women who are no longer with the father of their children are picking or settling for men who nobody should pick. Most second husbands are probably fine! Not so sure about the sort of guy who moves in with a woman and her children but has no intention of getting married. So it's also "multiple" nonrelated men? Well, I'm not surprised the risk goes up then. The risk factor is unscrupulous man in the household, and the more men cycle through the household, the greater the chance one of them is going to be a problem. Also, the more men cycle through, the more likely that the woman who's agreeing to live with them is not a great picker of men.

Thanks, lovesnark, you beat me to it! At least they spelled it right.

I just lost a post about the relative popularity of the names Chasity & Chastity. Bizarrely, Chasity is actually quite a bit more common, but still peaked at only #252, in 1976 (Chastity started out with a slight lead when they both first appear in the stats, in 1972, and peaked earlier, in 1974, at #311). Since then it's been a downhill slide for both names, but Chastity drops off much faster and farther, disappearing from these stats in 1993, whereas Chasity hangs on until 2008. http://www.behindthename.com/name/chasity/top/united-states?compare=chastity&type=percent(in 2008, per the SSA website, Chasity is still in the top 1000 names, at #961, but Chastity is not; http://ssa.gov/cgi-bin/popularnames.cgi (fill in birth year, then find names starting with 'chas'), I'm guessing that's where these rankings are from). I wondered if it were particularly popular in WV. Not enough for either to crack the top 100 baby names in the state in 1976: http://ssa.gov/cgi-bin/namesbystate.cgi (fill in state and birth year for specific results). I wonder what happened c. 1972 to set off this little trend. There were no Madisons, basically, before the movie Splash came out. There's probably something that got people started with Chastity/Chasity. ETA: I think I've got it. Sonny & Cher's baby, Chastity, born 1969? She got featured on the Sonny & Cher Show some, too, so was this cute little kid around the time the name was peaking. Movie called Chastity and soundtrack in 1969, but they were flops according to wikipedia. I certainly remembered the name Chastity Bono when I was growing up, though, because it was a name I wouldn't have wanted! (Chastity of course is now Chas; wasn't sure what gender pronoun to use for back then). Cher songs - Chastity's Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5vGnca8r1w. Chastity's Sun: (the second one, which looks to be from the Sonny & Cher show and is definitely about her baby daughter, is something I could definitely see people in these teen mom circles drawing on for inspiration for a baby name).

From her family pictures I'm guessing she's got a varied ethnic/cultural background. Her grandmother who died recently looks Anglo, Dad looks maybe Hispanic (Latin American/Native/Spanish) or mixed that and something else, Mom looks mixed (light skinned black? maybe some Latina or Native American or something in there, too). Sort of southern Californian melting pot heritage, where you wouldn't necessarily single out one thing or the other as defining your identity, which in any event, in her case, has been overshadowed by her weight. .

Liege waffles are a yeast dough, and they are definitely making the dough. In episode 2, at 10 minutes in, after they've gotten the advantage in Flagstaff and a one hour lead on the competition to drive down to Sedona, they use it to go shopping and start banging out waffle dough, using massive amounts of flour, butter, eggs, etc. I read up on Liege waffles a little and many companies stateside that make them do buy specialty frozen dough, but you're not going to find it in any random town in the southwest. Also, unless you have a commercial waffle iron that you can set to a very specific temperature (365-370 degrees), you're going to have a hard time making them even if you make your dough. A home waffle iron is much hotter at its baseline (550 one site said, but it also said to heat it to 400 something, then turn it off to make your waffle. I haven't had a waffle maker in years but don't remember them having heat settings that precise. So, they've got it down, but it's not just making waffles like you'd make them at home. At their website, if you click on "about", the backstory for how they got started is interesting. Great way to turn things around after an extended period of un- and underemployment due to the recession. www.waffluv.com/about/ edited to add: I have a memory of them buying big bags of flour but couldn't find the footage where I thought it was going to be (only saw strawberries, eggs, steak, and chicken in the various flashbacks of grocery shopping that I found). I wonder if what I remember as big bags of flour, and what you remember as bags of dough, were the same scene? I remember a conversation where they were trying to decide how many batches to buy - but I thought they were buying ingredients to make the batches, not the dough, pre-made. And we've definitely seen them making dough.

I was struck by Cory and Jeremy's comments that "if it were us, we'd be crucified." True. But - that's also probably exactly what Leah is afraid of. She knows she has a problem, but she's afraid that admitting it to these guys will mean feeding herself to the sharks and she's still hoping to solve her problem without doing that. (How she defines and understands her problems is of course another issue.) She stands to lose a lot of things she hasn't lost yet, and it's not surprising she's trying not to let getting help be the thing that triggers all those consequences she fears.

Previous seasons were recapped here starting in January 2013, January 2014, and January 2015 - when PBS aired it. So I'm guessing they'll wait for the US broadcasts again.

Clearly TR is into the classy type.

Perhaps they're cutting out the part of the consultation where the Sally Beauty consultant says, "well, we could try that, but it will probably look terrible if I can only use the stuff we're shilling. How about we do something sleek instead? Or beachy waves. I think I can make beachy waves with this stuff."

Don't think I need to spoiler this, as it's in the trailer, but: . Mikey's french braids at elimination are ridiculous! As is Bello's turban (maybe if he'd caught his hair up in it, it would be interesting, but it's not, it's just an absurd little hat). But Justin's hair looks good, in a sort of 1920s glam guy way, and Lacey seems to be in good position to keep going. The concept behind the shoot looks like it might actually generate some acceptable photos.

The black material was all mousepads that he'd stitched together. He pretty much had the base of the dress done when Tim came through and you can get a good look at it at that point. He hadn't added all the keys yet.

Do courts often go for 50-50 custody? I can see it if both parents want that, but it seems to me in general that it would just be too disruptive for the child to have all that back and forth. (maybe just because we've been hearing about the proposed arrangement between Leah & Corey that would have him taking the kids midweek - but in that case I'd support it because it's an increase in time at the stable household). Maybe it depends on what the details of it look like; an every other week or every other month arrangement would certainly be better. But I certainly don't think just trying to keep things equal for the parents is really putting the kid's best interests first, and certainly asking for more custody so as to pay less child support is the wrong set of motives for wanting more time with your kid. (This isn't something Jo has proposed - he's definitely seeming to put his son's interests first, rather than his own - but it seems like some are suggesting it, as increasing fairness for Jo - more time, as a way to reduce Kail's demands for money. But I'm not interested in whether Jo & Kail get equal shares of Isaac - he's a person. They should do what's right by him, even if that means one parent doesn't get to see him as often as he or she would like.

I googled her and I can top that: I STILL don't know who she is!

I had thought it was some sort of weird stylized cross pinned to his Tshirt (it is OC, home to many of California's more ostentatious Christians), but on closer examination, I think it's a kendama (Japanese ball and string toy, with double-sided mallet and a spike the ball lands on on top) - note the ball hanging on the other side of his neck. Google ball and string toy, and voila, kendamas. It might be this model: http://www.amazon.com/Ozora-Kendama-Premium-StickyWhite/dp/B00FH4DOP2/ref=pd_sim_21_14?

Are EMTs allowed to give stitches? A quick google search suggests not and some reasons why not (need to evaluate what's in the wound before you close it off among other things; also I've known some EMTs with fairly minimal training and it looks like you can get certified with about a two-week intensive course). If they had a physician assistant on staff, that would be one thing, Anyway, I'm inclined to give Lindsay a pass on this. It was on her dominant working hand and was probably going to keep opening up while she tried to work if she didn't get it stitched up. The tetanus shot is just an easy thing to do that adds no time once you're in the ER or urgent care center anyway. And she did good work and didn't whine about it.