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Gretchen and Meredith appreciation thread !
puddin:
}^! I woundn't put anything past those two {l{ , theres a post at Sucks that you must read Rob and Amber are gonna be MEREDITHOWNED. (%#
--- Quote ---Don't be fooled by these two. Meredith and Gretchen are the undisputed champions of The Amazing Race. Trust me on this. They've been putting on this guise of being the old weak dumb team that's been skating by through pure luck and perserverence, but in reality they're playing one hell of a game.
They are the ones that broke Susan and Patrick's boat and got them eliminated. They screwed up Brian and Greg's SUV which caused them to spill over and wreck. They are the ones who bribed Lynn and Alex's driver to go to the other temple. You think Rob's a mastermind? Meredith and Gretchen engineered several eliminations without even having to mention it in front of the cameras.
They are also brilliant enough to play up the "old and useless" card to keep everyone offguard. They always stay in the bottom of the pack because they know how to escape elimination. The other teams underestimate them, which means they'll be too focused on each other to notice their MEREDITHOWNAGE as M&G pass them on the final leg and win the million.
They are brilliant in throwing the other teams off. Just this last leg, Meredith put Gretchen on top of that elephant to make themselves look stupid before the other teams. But Meredith can handle pushing a huge-ass elephant with his cyborg wife brainwashing the locals into helping her. Mariano ain't got **** on their people skills. I mean, does Rob have BLEEPing ovations wherever he goes? Meredith gets asked for his BLEEPing autograph. Not even Rob has been asked for an autograph.
Then, there was the first Africa leg. They made the brilliant play of making Gretchen look like she suffered an injury to throw off the other teams. In reality, it takes more than sheer rock to scratch Gretchen. Harming Gretchen requires a substance harder than diamonds and sharper than an atom's width. Then, calculating that this would be non-elimination, they went ahead and arrived at the pit-stop last, knowing they wouldn't need money nor their possessions. They decided to steal the teams' money anyway to screw them up a bit.
Next week, Uchenna and Joyce show how brilliant they are by going to Meredith and Gretchen for help. Rob remarks about the "blind leading the blind", yet he's unaware that he's soon going to have his ass MEREDITHOWNED.
So all you Romber fans rooting about how Rob is owning this race are going to be in for a shock when you see Rob and Amber get eliminated in fourth place after Meredith and Gretchen bribe the locals they so desperately rely on to give them a wrong turn. After all, Ray and Deana wanted to take out M&G, as did Brian and Greg and Lynn and Alex.
Romber will be the next to be MEREDITHOWNED.
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puddin:
Gretchen and Meredith Smith, Villages snowbirds, are shown in an episode of ÔThe Amazing Race.Õ The couple has outlasted previous seniors in race history and will advance to the ninth episode, which will air at 9 p.m. Tuesday. Photo courtsey of CBS
Villages snowbird couple now oldest to reach this stage of 'Amazing Race'
By THERESA CAMPBELL, DAILY SUN
THE VILLAGES - Villages snowbirds Meredith and Gretchen Smith continue to survive grueling challenges on "The Amazing Race," and they hold the honor of being the oldest couple to have ever made it this far on the adventure reality show.
The Smiths are now one of four teams left in the around-the-world race for a $1 million grand prize. The finale airs May 10.
During Tuesday night's pit stop in Jodhpur, India, host Phil Keoghan told the retirees they have outlasted other seniors who participated in previous seasons of the show.
"And for that, you should be very proud," Keoghan said.
The Villages snowbirds from Maryland beamed with delight and said they were pleased to be continuing in the race.
"It's absolute tenacity," host Keoghan said to USA Today about Meredith and Gretchen. "They just decided they were going to go all out and never give up."
Tuesday's episode showed the teams boarding a train to an unknown destination. At 1 a.m., a mysterious man paid a visit to each team while they were sleeping to give them their clue. The clues informed them that they would find the next route marker at the Jodhpur Train Station, almost 24 hours away.
Arriving in Jodhpur, the next clue revealed the teams were to travel one mile to the Sardar Marker and find a clock tower for their next clue on the first floor balcony. When all five teams arrived at the clock tower, they found that it was closed until 10 a.m. the next day.
The next morning, teams raced to the top of the clock tower to find their next clue, which included the second and final fast forward of the race and a detour. To win the fast forward, teams had to travel 10 1/2 miles to a Hindu temple and participate in a good-fortune ritual: Having their heads shaved. Teams would not learn that the ritual required head shaving until they arrived. Once both team members were completely bald, they could claim the fast forward.
Uchenna and Joyce headed to the fast forward with Lynn and Alex in hot pursuit, hoping to snare the prize first. The remaining three teams weighed their options at the detour, faced with a choice between Trunk and Dunk. To complete Trunk, teams had to go to Jodhpur's Old City and transport a wooden tiki elephant weighing 600 pounds a half-mile to a temple, where a priest would hand them their clue. While physically demanding, this task could be completed quickly with the help of locals.
For Dunk, teams had to travel to a neighborhood of Jodhpur famous for tie-dyed fabrics and dye white sheets. The dye color would make the next clue visible on the fabric once the sheet was untied. While not physically demanding, this task could take some time, because the clue would appear on only one sheet out of 25.
Meredith and Gretchen, as well as the other teams, chose the Trunk task.
The teams were shown struggling to navigate their elephants through the crowded streets of Jodhpur. Gretchen made the task more difficult when she hopped on top and rode the elephant while Meredith mustered all the strength he could to keep pushing the wooden elephant.
"We have a bad elephant!" Gretchen cried out to the crowd, while begging to the locals for aid as the wheels of their elephant got stuck in a rut. As Meredith and Gretchen fought to keep up, Ron and Kelly and Rob and Amber pulled their wooden elephants into the temple to earn their next clue. Opening it, the teams learned they needed to travel eight miles by auto rickshaw to the Oeora Krishi Farm for the next clue.
That clue revealed a roadblock, where one team member had to choose a camel cart and race two times around a marked course. As the teams battled it out on the camel racetrack, Uchenna and Joyce arrived at the temple, only to realize that they must shave their heads to win the fast forward. While Uchenna's already smooth head offered no problems, Joyce's was another matter altogether. Over Uchenna's insistence that she didn't need to go through with this, Joyce simply took off her bandanna and sat down, telling Uchenna, "Let's just do it. I'm not going back."
As Uchenna and Joyce hurried off in hopes of a first-place finish, Kelly finished her second lap in the camel cart to complete the roadblock with Amber close behind.
Frustrated, Meredith remained on the course with a stubborn camel, and found himself in last place.
After finishing, Meredith shouted for Gretchen to join him, prompting her to respond, "For God sakes, we've never acted like this with each other."
With all five teams en route to Jaswant Thada, the pit stop for this leg of the race, the margin of error was razor-thin in the race to avoid elimination.
Ron and Kelly literally climbed over rocks to finish moments ahead of Rob and Amber, with only Meredith and Gretchen and Lynn and Alex remaining to check in with Phil. In the end, going to the wrong palace proved too costly for Lynn and Alex, allowing Meredith and Gretchen to survive once more.
The Villages snowbirds finished in fourth place, while Lynn and Alex were eliminated.
What will happen next? Viewers can tune in 9 p.m. on Tuesday on CBS as "The Amazing Race" continues, and Meredith-and-Gretchen fans will have another week to cheer for the celebrity Villages snowbirds.
Theresa Campbell is senior features writer with the Daily Sun. She can be reached at 753-1119, ext. 9260, or theresa.campbell@thevillagesmedia.com.
gingerman28:
Found this on another site:
http://www.tombguard.org/afterTheShow.htm
Go down to the bottom and click on Main Menu and then down to current events. Interesting reading. And a lot of good inside info of what has happened on TAR so far.
PenguinsDance:
Thanks for the thread. Interesting reading too! No matter where they finish in the race I applaud them. /#}
puddin:
Aww you know I have a problem with this ..I saw it posted at Sucks and it just feels like an invasion of privacy ( everyone picking it apart )..I'm sure Gretchen did now that the world would see this or she probably would not have shared with Meredith's buddies or maybe she is not even aware that they post her private newsletter at that site , I hope that my link was not the cause of this :':') .
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