Kerri Okie
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I only got wrestling, too. The other ones were: quadruple bogie, mir, Spanish-American War, and Simon Bolivar.
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8 hours ago, Fex said:
For me, it's not that I was trying to think of a lakeside city, it's that the clue writer chose to put the word "lake" in the clue. It was a hint. So I thought city on a famous lake with the same name. It worked!
Exactly my thinking. So I said Lucerne.
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Didn't Christina say she'd be the sous chef for one of the teams this season? If I'm remembering that correctly, I'm not sure why she'd say that and then leave at the end of the first episode. I was thinking Marino as well, but I missed the part where he said he'd be there for the season, so now I don't know. I don't think it's anything as drastic as someone's death though. Maybe someone behind the scenes like a producer or something is leaving? But then why the general public would care about that is beyond me.
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22 hours ago, peeayebee said:
Thanks. I thought Mole Day had to do with the little animals. As I read thru the article you linked, my brain glazed over, but I learned there's another meaning to 'mole' I wasn't aware of.
I remembered Avagadro and the mole from HS chemistry some 35 years ago. Funny how those things stick, but I couldn't tell you what I had for dinner last night.
18 hours ago, Kathira said:Me too. Add "Catholic" to that list at least for me. I knew the Alamo was a Spanish mission. Definitely an easy FJ even without PeeWee Herman.
I thought it was a fort, but deduced it must have been a mission since it's similar to the California missions from around the same time. Also because I couldn't come up with any other Texas landmarks. But all I could get out in time was "that place in San Antonio!"
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16 minutes ago, seacliffsal said:
I also found it interesting that they didn't mention that Colton was the next Bachelor. I'm thinking that they are going to try to gauge Joe's popularity on DWTS (and GMA confirmed this morning that he's on the show), and maybe switch over to him if he goes very far (which shows a fan base). I would not be surprised if there is a Bachelor switcheroo coming.
Joe is with Kendall, so he won't be the next bachelor. I don't know why on Earth they went with Colton over Wills, or Diggy, or even Kenny, but I don't think there's anyone else who was on BIP this year that they can use. After everyone who got paired up, who's left? Leo? Robbie? Kamil? David? There's no way. I grew to kind of love Jordan, and now he's available, but I suspect his pain will be too raw to consider him, so unless they go with someone else from Becca's or Rachel's seasons, I suspect we're stuck with Colton.
ETA:
QuoteAnd those other guys were, I'm sure, smiling during the Reunion regarding the bullet that they dodged.
I'd say the same for Benoit, who was so pissy toward Jordan on the reunion show, and yet ended up dodging the Jenna bullet.
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3 hours ago, TheFinalRose said:
I do not believe they didn't talk to Tia and Colton extensively on the reunion, seeing that they focused the first 40% of the series on them. Why were they such nonfactors?
I assume two reasons: one because there was so much more drama to be mined from Kamil/Annaliese, Astrid/Kevin, and Joe/Kendall, about whom I'm puzzled that Chris could say were being "reunited for the first time since leaving Paradise," and then showing footage of them meeting and talking in Chicago. And secondly because they got just what they needed from Colton and Tia, which was Tia basically letting him go and sanctioning him to be the next bachelor, and then moving on before Colton could say anything more dumb than, "Tia is somebody that I will always be friends with, and someone that I will consider a friend for a very long time." Better to quit while you're ahead and move on to the next train wreck.
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16 hours ago, ljenkins782 said:
I know who they are, but I can't imagine the need for them to make a cameo, with babies in tow. Is seeing the "success stories" supposed to juice up the cast to get even more desperate to get engaged after roughly 15 days of knowing each other?
I think the purpose is so that the Bachelor franchise can keep trying to convince itself, and us, that they are somehow relevant and to justify the show continuing.
I find Ashley I. vastly entertaining in an "OMG, I can't believe there are really people like that out there" kind of way, but I couldn't stand to spend the rest of my life, or whatever will be the shelf life of her and Jared's relationship, married to her. More power to him, I guess.
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20 minutes ago, jcbrown said:
That's right--I'd forgotten that. It looked so claustrophobic. What would be enjoyable or relaxing about being in a pool with so many people that you literally could not turn around?
Knowing you were going to be on TV?
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20 hours ago, GaT said:
Yes, & why "heroes"? It didn't make any sense at all.
Hoagies or sub sandwiches are also called hero sandwiches. I thought the name was actually kind of clever but not very effective because until they explained it, I had no idea what they were selling, and half shell doesn't make me think of a scooped out loaf of bread. I can't believe that their inability to sell tuna in episode one didn't teach them anything.
I had to laugh when the New England team commented that the other teams would probably make something basic like skewers with their shrimp, and then they went ahead and made...a sandwich.
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I doubt Amy wins--that's not the kind of thing I imagine FN wants their next "star" going around saying on social media. Between Christian and Manny, it doesn't really matter who wins--the only point of having a "winner" anymore is so they can do the show, but I'd bet anything that both Manny and Christian will show up as judges on any FN show that will have them. I wouldn't watch either of them on their own show, but either one of them is fully qualified to sit alongside Damaris or Melissa at the GGG judges' table.
Question: what qualifies one to be called chef? Why is firehouse-chef Manny, "chef Manny" while personal-chef Palak is simply "Palak"?
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Usually the upspeak grates on me, but I didn't even notice it this time, probably because I was grinding my teeth over Alex's pronunciation of ME-chelle. Has he always said it that way, or is this something new since last week?
I got Close Encounters, but for some reason I said First Encounters. I knew there was a number in there, but my tired brain couldn't come up with it. Hubs and I also briefly considered ET and Star Wars, but we knew it wasn't either of them.
Poldark is definitely worth a watch if the genre (drink!) is your type.
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Becca has a way of making every. single. conversation about her. Ugh.
Good luck to Leo; I liked him. He seemed to have his head on straight, but he felt too mature for Becca. I hope he finds someone who's a good fit. It was ironic to me that he was sent home because he wasn't ready to go down on one knee (gawd, how I hate that phrase!) while Wills got sent home because he was. FWIW, I think Wills is a kind, thoughtful, genuine guy, and I loved his reactions to all the drama week after week. I think he would probably be a great BF if you met him at work or in a bar or someplace other than on TV, but most likely a terrible bachelor. I wonder if part of his flat affect has to do with the cameras. Some people can tune them out, while others (like me, I'm horrible on video) can't, and end up being self-conscious and get too much in their own head. He lit up more when he saw the guys' room at the Baha-Mar than he did even once with Becca.
I can hardly tell the remaining four guys apart. Jason I like, which means he probably won't be the last man standing. Colton and Garrett are basically the same person to me, and I didn't even know there was a Blake until this week.
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On 5/21/2018 at 5:09 PM, BlancheDevoreaux said:
I'm currently rewatching the series and have made it to the baby being born in season 6. I have to say, I think Erin was a horrible addition. I don't find her funny in the least abs think she is too stupid to function. Yes, Michael and Andy showed themselves to be stupid often, but they also showed some intelligence from time to time. Erin is just a complete moron and it isn't amusing at all.
Funny, we're rewatching too and just got to that episode last night. I had moments of liking Erin, and really wanted to root for her and Andy, but they were just too weird. You know it's bad when even Michael calls her a rube.
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7 hours ago, chocolatine said:
They do this almost every season though. There's always someone who'll say that so-and-so was an idiot for letting the lead go. When Deanna was Bachelorette, she carried on about Brad, claiming that he "broke America's heart" by not choosing her. Then on Brad's second go-around, Chantal slapped him for not choosing anyone on his first season. But I agree that Becca is laying it on too thick with the "this is my first date since my engagement ended" crap. It wasn't much of an engagement. Arie proposed to her after knowing her for six weeks, during which time he was also dating a bunch of other women. And six weeks after he proposed, he dumped her and went back to Lauren. If I were Becca I'd be embarrassed to call that an engagement.
I agree that it's not new, so maybe I just have less patience with it now than I used to. But I also think it's the second thing you said--she knew him all of what, ten, twelve weeks? It's like the guys (and the ladies) who cry being let go on episode 2 or 3 after knowing the bachelor/ette for all of two cocktail parties and a group date, if that. I get that the whole thing is hyper-emotional, but it's more about pride than love and just so hard to take seriously. Not that taking any of it seriously is the point of the franchise anyway...
QuoteI was really liking Becca until this whole over-reaction with Colton and Tia. I understand why it might be of some concern that Colton had dated Tia, but to have it make her feel sick when she found out, and to still be so distraught the next day? That's just far too drama-ish and over-indulgent.
Right? I grew up in a small town. If you dated more than one person throughout high school, you were most likely, by default, dating a friend's ex. Technically you could say that Tia dated Becca's ex, too, since they were both dating Arie at the same time. If you don't want to get involved in semi-incestual dating circles, don't become part of Bachelor nation. There. Problem solved.
I'd comment on some of the guys, but I still can't tell any of them apart.
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7 hours ago, jade.black said:
I would have hated that demolition date! How freaking wasteful! How much did those TVs cost? The guitars and furniture? Those could have gone to people in need. The pointless destruction of expensive or even just useful items upsets me.
Are they going to drag out this narrative forever that Arie is the most awful heinous villain ever for NOT marrying Becca and going after the woman he truly loved when he admitted he was pressured into a decision the day of the proposal without having the proper time to think it over? And who has now set a date with Lauren to be married next year so clearly did actually take the process more seriously than a lot of other past Bachelors? All that Arie cutout at the cocktail party last week did is remind me how much cuter Arie is than basically all of the dudes on this season. Whatever, Team Arie for life.
Thank you for both these comments. I had the exact same thought when they showed all the TVs.
As for the "Arie is awful" narrative, I didn't watch Arie's season and don't know much about it other than, obviously, how it ended, but I'm already so sick of hearing about it. How about we move on and make this season about this bachelorette and these bachelors? I realize it's redundant to accuse this show of being tacky, but that's pretty classless, ABC, inviting Arie to be your bachelor one season, then ripping him apart the next.
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2 hours ago, txhorns79 said:
Yeah, particularly since she came in over 200 dollars under budget. I appreciated what she could do with the budget she had, but it seemed like an odd choice to make when there was a lot of money left on the table.
I felt like the whole googly-eyes-for-buttons thing was something she had to check off her TS must-do designer checklist: paint color reveal, check. Have the homeowners make some kind of art project, check. Give some tasks to and banter with your carpenter, check. Repurpose something, preferably something cheap into something that doesn't look cheap, check. Reminds me of those "Next Design Star" and "Food Network Star" shows where the contestants had to give design or cooking tips to viewers as part of the task.
Because, like you said, with $200 left, who couldn't afford buttons?
QuoteI quite liked Kahi’s room, though I wish she’d spent the remainder of her budget on a console table. I wasn’t impressed by the one that the carpenter (forget his name) made. It made me think of the top half of a puppet theatre.
I didn't get the console table either. I realize those little boxy things they pushed under it were ottomans and were probably intended to be pulled out and moved elsewhere in the room to sit on or put feet up on, but the way they tucked them under the table it looked like you were supposed to be able to use them there, which would bring the top of the table up to about chin height. It looked really awkward. Maybe she could have skirted the table for hidden storage and put the ottomans under it.
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Kahi's room looked beautiful; I think her color choices have been the best of the season. But both of them did it right--the rooms were simple but tasteful and elegant. Doug's gray was a bit dark for my taste, but he covered it with those giant canvases that (from a distance at least) ended up looking pretty darned good. But even if they hadn't, at least his dirt and leaves went onto canvas and would be easy to take down. Had it been Hildi, it would have been glued all over the walls.
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2 hours ago, jackjill89 said:
Where did "Let's do the damn thing" come from anyway? I'm so over it. You can't make a catchphrase a catchphrase. It's supposed to happen organically.
I know; it's so fetch.
4 hours ago, Ohwell said:Becca is so lame it's going to be hard to watch the whole season of her, so I'm just going to watch the eye candy tonight and be done with it.
I gave up on Arie's season after episode 1 and know nothing about Becca except that she was dumped by Arie after he proposed to her. Based on tonight, I thought she was okay--pretty but bland, and more or less a carbon copy of every other bachelorette so far, so fill me in...what makes her lame?
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Wow, those boxes looked...bad. When John finished his cutouts and slipped the two parts of the boxes together, I thought he had something there, but in the end, the finishes were horrible. The other two looked like something my grade-school-aged kid would have made.
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13 hours ago, Bastet said:
Oh my stars - you mean not every sharp corner, sheet of glass, hinge, or floor lamp (?) was a death trap that needed to be eradicated from the home until the kids hit puberty? And that parents supervised/corralled when the kids were too young to understand rules and then taught rules once they aged? And that the occasional accident wasn't a disaster? It's a miracle any of the four of you survived to adulthood, never mind all of you.
This is what drives me bonkers about the people on shows like House Hunters: "Oh no, we can't have a house with stairs/countertops with corners/an upstairs master/etc because of the 2 year-old!" Folks, your toddlers are only going to be toddlers for a year or two. They'll learn how to climb stairs, maneuver around furniture, and sleep through the night long before you'll be ready to buy another house.
QuoteI didn't understand why Laurie reused the glass table inserts instead of replacing them with a thin sheet of plywood. Anybody, not just a kid, is likely to slap something down on that table and shatter the glass that they can't see.
I thought maybe she was going to do some etching on it. Hiding it seemed more dangerous than simply leaving it alone.
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I just caught the last few minutes of this again in rerun when I watched my DVR'd new episode, and am I mistaken or did the HO with in red (can't remember her name) tell her neighbor at the end (after the neighbor hated the room) that she liked Hildi personally but didn't care for her style? Was that not the same HO who said mid-episode that if their room didn't look good, she wanted Hildi to come over and redesign it for her?
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Sabrina Soto can design for me anytime. Her dining room was beautiful!
Laurie's room was actually very pretty, just a bit overly-cluttered, so I also don't get the HOs reactions to it. I would have used those lovely barn doors where she used the mirrored doors (no need for two sets of barn doors in one room) and kept them open to serve more as wall art than functional doors. Or I would have wall-mounted the TV and built a smaller (not as deep) surround unit with the barn doors to cover the TV and provide some storage, and moved the buffet elsewhere in the room. Just because it was currently being used as a TV stand doesn't mean it still had to be used as a TV stand. Laurie's color and fabric choices, though, were fantastic.
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19 minutes ago, catrice2 said:
Prince fan here....For those who keep talking about Little Red Corvette.....have YOU heard the song? Prince did not drive one......uh well....listen to the song. She is correct.
Well, technically, if you listen to the lyrics of the song, he did. Once.
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I got the feeling the women homeowners decided before they ever started taping that they were going to "Oh f--- no!" the reveal, no matter what the rooms looked like. Hildi's room, meh. It was bland, the leaves were awful, and it was mostly a mishmash of elements that didn't work. Bad, but not "F--- no!" bad. At least they don't have to strip hay or unstaple thousands of fake flowers from the walls. (FWIW, I think when they said "Prince-inspired," they really meant "prints-inspired." It had everything to do with that drab fabric and nothing to do with the artist.)
That blue wall though...loved it, loved it, loved it! It's too much for a small room, but in a space that size, it's striking. I am kind of surprised that Crystal of the speckled puff-sleeved, red tutu'd smock couldn't embrace a little color (okay, a lot of color), but was glad that after a minute to take it all in, she admitted that she liked most of the elements as they went through the room.
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S18.E03: Hell's Riders
in Hell's Kitchen
I don't think it was a "plan" as much as a CYA move after seeing how his team reacted to his using the pass so early on. He realized they were pissed, so he came up with the lame spy plan to win them back over.