Given that there's money at stake, wouldn't they have to disclose that to the contestants (which maybe they do, who knows?), or be risking fraud?
Also, the hippies may be lucky, but this leg is pretty much always non-elim.
Take jobs as they come -- and we'll never be under the heel of nobody ever again. No matter how long the arm of the Alliance might get, we'll just get ourselves a little further.
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
brenda m - May 04, 2006 11:25:18 am PDT #5420 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Hayden - May 04, 2006 11:27:13 am PDT #5421 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Hey Nutty, your first marriage proposal resulting from your High Hat article just came in. That took ~15 minutes.
Jessica - May 04, 2006 11:28:29 am PDT #5422 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think they're locked into the route and the nonelim legs before the race starts -- logistically, it would just be too difficult to arrange that sort of thing on the fly.
Jesse - May 04, 2006 11:31:44 am PDT #5423 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, yeah, OK. Then I'm back to the hippies are the luckiest people in the world.
Jessica - May 04, 2006 11:34:03 am PDT #5424 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
What I've always wondered about is how they manage to arrange travel visas for everything without giving away the route to the racers. Do they make people get a whole bunch of extra visas as decoys, or do people just promise not to look at their passports until they open the clue?
Nutty - May 04, 2006 11:34:38 am PDT #5425 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
is shy.
Thanks, Mr. Industries. I owe it to you.
Jesse - May 04, 2006 11:37:11 am PDT #5426 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's a great question, Jess, especially since I saw on show about Top Model that in the first season, the girls got held for like three days because they couldn't answer any questions about why they were travelling. Or something. They knew where they were going ahead of time, but that was it.
Kathy A - May 04, 2006 11:38:21 am PDT #5427 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Do they make people get a whole bunch of extra visas as decoys
According to some of the racers who post over at TWOP, they do just that.
Jessica - May 04, 2006 11:41:37 am PDT #5428 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
because they couldn't answer any questions about why they were travelling.
Ha! I can just imagine. "Well, I have to go to a park and find a box. After that, well...how long am I going to be here? Um..."
According to some of the racers who post over at TWOP, they do just that.
That must be maddening. I hope CBS at least pays for them!
Kathy A - May 04, 2006 11:42:47 am PDT #5429 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I just got off the phone with the manager of my old apartment, who was unable to get in to look at the place yesterday because he didn't have a master key (and I had left the keys in the kitchen). What he didn't know was that I had left the front door open, so as long as he was able to get past the lobby, he could just walk in. When he went back this afternoon to check it out, he discovered that the construction guys already had taken out the kitchen cabinets and walls, as well as removed the living room windows. So, apparently, I passed the inspection!