Wednesday, August 11, 2004
The most amazing thing I saw last night on The Amazing Race
Oh, hell, I'm just going to give it to her. Is it...can it be possible that Mirna actually knows Arabic? Once in Egypt, the woman who brought us such words as "doctor-o" and "stop-ay" seems to be speaking in a language that is foreign to my ears, yet is somehow understood by whoever's doing the subtitles. Not knowing any Arabic myself, it does seem somewhat possible that this is the language Mirna is speaking. However, knowing Mirna, it seems slightly more possible that, as part of her continuing descent into madness, she has made up an entirely new language that only she can understand, and the subtitle guy is just making stuff up. After all, this is the same woman who claims that all of the other teams "went ballistic" as a result of their jealousy of her and Charla. So she's clearly a lunatic. Creating a new language can't be far behind paranoid delusions resulting from an overinflated sense of self-importance. Oh, Mirna. I do hope someone checks you into an insane asylum once you get home.
You know what wasn't amazing about this episode? Marshall and Lance quitting. In fact, that was pretty crappy. It wasn't so much the fact that they quit (because, in all honesty, it was going to be pretty hard for Marshall to run the remainder of the race, and as much as I hate them, I wouldn't want him to horribly damage his knees), it was they way they did it. If you've come that far already, is it really going to hurt to finish the leg with a little dignity? And it's interesting to note that it was Lance, not Marshall, who refused to finish the Roadblock after he saw that all the other teams had been there. Sure, maybe there's something a little pathetic about, say, downing two pounds of caviar when you know there's really no point, but it's way more pathetic to throw a hissy fit and just give up in the middle of a task. Phil was suitably admonishing in this instance, I thought.
Oh, and I told you guys that Collin was going to get all incredulous and pissy when the inevitable bunching robbed him of his lead. Then again, Collin is pretty much incredulous and pissy all the time, so it wasn't that hard to predict.
UPDATE: It occurred to me after writing this that it's quite probable that Mirna is Jewish, and the foreign language that she was speaking with such fluency was Hebrew. Still, that doesn't explain how she knew such phrases as "Fast, horsey!" and "They're maniacs" in Hebrew. I mean, that's not exactly the kind of thing they teach you for your bat mitzvah, right? I still prefer the explanation that she's crazy and making up her own language.
Oh, hell, I'm just going to give it to her. Is it...can it be possible that Mirna actually knows Arabic? Once in Egypt, the woman who brought us such words as "doctor-o" and "stop-ay" seems to be speaking in a language that is foreign to my ears, yet is somehow understood by whoever's doing the subtitles. Not knowing any Arabic myself, it does seem somewhat possible that this is the language Mirna is speaking. However, knowing Mirna, it seems slightly more possible that, as part of her continuing descent into madness, she has made up an entirely new language that only she can understand, and the subtitle guy is just making stuff up. After all, this is the same woman who claims that all of the other teams "went ballistic" as a result of their jealousy of her and Charla. So she's clearly a lunatic. Creating a new language can't be far behind paranoid delusions resulting from an overinflated sense of self-importance. Oh, Mirna. I do hope someone checks you into an insane asylum once you get home.
You know what wasn't amazing about this episode? Marshall and Lance quitting. In fact, that was pretty crappy. It wasn't so much the fact that they quit (because, in all honesty, it was going to be pretty hard for Marshall to run the remainder of the race, and as much as I hate them, I wouldn't want him to horribly damage his knees), it was they way they did it. If you've come that far already, is it really going to hurt to finish the leg with a little dignity? And it's interesting to note that it was Lance, not Marshall, who refused to finish the Roadblock after he saw that all the other teams had been there. Sure, maybe there's something a little pathetic about, say, downing two pounds of caviar when you know there's really no point, but it's way more pathetic to throw a hissy fit and just give up in the middle of a task. Phil was suitably admonishing in this instance, I thought.
Oh, and I told you guys that Collin was going to get all incredulous and pissy when the inevitable bunching robbed him of his lead. Then again, Collin is pretty much incredulous and pissy all the time, so it wasn't that hard to predict.
UPDATE: It occurred to me after writing this that it's quite probable that Mirna is Jewish, and the foreign language that she was speaking with such fluency was Hebrew. Still, that doesn't explain how she knew such phrases as "Fast, horsey!" and "They're maniacs" in Hebrew. I mean, that's not exactly the kind of thing they teach you for your bat mitzvah, right? I still prefer the explanation that she's crazy and making up her own language.
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