WWTBAM Bored

This week's show had me move Luke down my list of people to root for and admire. What a wimp! "I can't" "I don't know what to do." "I tried four times." Really! Stay in action, that's what you do. Use your brain, that's what you do. He did figure it out and he would have figured it out quicker if he didn't spend so much time fretting.

I seems next week Luke somehow lets it get out that they used the blind U-Turn. Not a great move at all. No one had to know. Let others think it was someone else and suspect everyone before them.

peacock2121 wrote:This week's show had me move Luke down my list of people to root for and admire. What a wimp! "I can't" "I don't know what to do." "I tried four times." Really! Stay in action, that's what you do. Use your brain, that's what you do. He did figure it out and he would have figured it out quicker if he didn't spend so much time fretting.

I seems next week Luke somehow lets it get out that they used the blind U-Turn. Not a great move at all. No one had to know. Let others think it was someone else and suspect everyone before them.

I thought the whole wood stacking detour was harder than it seemed it would be, and I thought the comment about the teams being "a caravan of fools" looking for the shutter house was dead on.

Unless the team that was U-turned had friends among the remaining teams I can't imagine that Luke's decision will come back to hurt him. By the same token I can't imagine why he thought it necessary to do it because they were comfortably in the middle of the pack.

I was dismayed to hear so many of the teams confess ignorance about Checkhov.

I was impressed by the people who did not know Checkov and figured out the name based on Russian and how so many of those names are. Kudos to them!

Having stacked wood, I would have headed for the building of the shutters no matter who my partner was. That stack was too long and too high to make easily without braces.

earendel wrote:

peacock2121 wrote:This week's show had me move Luke down my list of people to root for and admire. What a wimp! "I can't" "I don't know what to do." "I tried four times." Really! Stay in action, that's what you do. Use your brain, that's what you do. He did figure it out and he would have figured it out quicker if he didn't spend so much time fretting.

I seems next week Luke somehow lets it get out that they used the blind U-Turn. Not a great move at all. No one had to know. Let others think it was someone else and suspect everyone before them.

I thought the whole wood stacking detour was harder than it seemed it would be, and I thought the comment about the teams being "a caravan of fools" looking for the shutter house was dead on.

Unless the team that was U-turned had friends among the remaining teams I can't imagine that Luke's decision will come back to hurt him. By the same token I can't imagine why he thought it necessary to do it because they were comfortably in the middle of the pack.

I was dismayed to hear so many of the teams confess ignorance about Checkhov.

I was not the least bit surprised or dismayed by the number of teams that did not know Chekhov. You would likely get a similar success rates interviewing people on the streets. We tend to be the exceptions in our tidy little bored world. They might have had better luck if they had asked about "the Russian dude on Star Trek".

OK, maybe not...

The winter race in your underwear segment next week looks, umm, stimulating....

tanstaafl2 wrote:

earendel wrote:

peacock2121 wrote:This week's show had me move Luke down my list of people to root for and admire. What a wimp! "I can't" "I don't know what to do." "I tried four times." Really! Stay in action, that's what you do. Use your brain, that's what you do. He did figure it out and he would have figured it out quicker if he didn't spend so much time fretting.

I seems next week Luke somehow lets it get out that they used the blind U-Turn. Not a great move at all. No one had to know. Let others think it was someone else and suspect everyone before them.

I thought the whole wood stacking detour was harder than it seemed it would be, and I thought the comment about the teams being "a caravan of fools" looking for the shutter house was dead on.

Unless the team that was U-turned had friends among the remaining teams I can't imagine that Luke's decision will come back to hurt him. By the same token I can't imagine why he thought it necessary to do it because they were comfortably in the middle of the pack.

I was dismayed to hear so many of the teams confess ignorance about Checkhov.

I was not the least bit surprised or dismayed by the number of teams that did not know Chekhov. You would like get a similar success rates interviewing people on the streets. We tend to be the exceptions in our tidy little bored world. They might have had better luck if they had asked about "the Russian dude on Star Trek".

OK, maybe not...

The winter race in your underwear segment next week looks, umm, stimulating....

Also looks like one of my beloved pseudo red headed former cheerleaders hasn't been doing a lot of cheerleading recently...

tanstaafl2 wrote:

tanstaafl2 wrote:

earendel wrote: I thought the whole wood stacking detour was harder than it seemed it would be, and I thought the comment about the teams being "a caravan of fools" looking for the shutter house was dead on.

Unless the team that was U-turned had friends among the remaining teams I can't imagine that Luke's decision will come back to hurt him. By the same token I can't imagine why he thought it necessary to do it because they were comfortably in the middle of the pack.

I was dismayed to hear so many of the teams confess ignorance about Checkhov.

I was not the least bit surprised or dismayed by the number of teams that did not know Chekhov. You would like get a similar success rates interviewing people on the streets. We tend to be the exceptions in our tidy little bored world. They might have had better luck if they had asked about "the Russian dude on Star Trek".

OK, maybe not...

The winter race in your underwear segment next week looks, umm, stimulating....

Also looks like one of my beloved pseudo red headed former cheerleaders hasn't been doing a lot of cheerleading recently...

When I saw that preview I was hit with my own "I can't do that" moment. I could and would shave my hair off. I could and would bungee jump or any of those other things - run through a town in next to no clothing with all of my jiggles for the camera to see - not so much.

earendel wrote:By the same token I can't imagine why he thought it necessary to do it because they were comfortably in the middle of the pack.

He did it to protect the redheads. Those two teams have formed a strong alliance, not for strategic reasons, but just because they really like each other.

plasticene wrote:

earendel wrote:By the same token I can't imagine why he thought it necessary to do it because they were comfortably in the middle of the pack.

He did it to protect the redheads. Those two teams have formed a strong alliance, not for strategic reasons, but just because they really like each other.

Umm, yeah that was the story. Luke REALLY likes the Reds. The Reds think Luke is "cute" in that way that the scruffy younger underclassmen kid in high school gets thought of as being cute when he ends up being the "mascot" of a pack blood thirsty older "women" (you know, juniors and seniors).

I suppose mom has bought into it for the sake of Luke. She should know better. The Reds would rip him in half just for sport. Not that I am conjuring up old memories or anything...

tanstaafl2 wrote:

plasticene wrote:

earendel wrote:By the same token I can't imagine why he thought it necessary to do it because they were comfortably in the middle of the pack.

He did it to protect the redheads. Those two teams have formed a strong alliance, not for strategic reasons, but just because they really like each other.

Umm, yeah that was the story. Luke REALLY likes the Reds. The Reds think Luke is "cute" in that way that the scruffy younger underclassmen kid in high school gets thought of as being cute when he ends up being the "mascot" of a pack blood thirsty older "women" (you know, juniors and seniors).

I suppose mom has bought into it for the sake of Luke. She should know better. The Reds would rip him in half just for sport. Not that I am conjuring up old memories or anything...

Can't wait to hear "the rest of the story"

a1mamacat wrote:

tanstaafl2 wrote:

plasticene wrote: He did it to protect the redheads. Those two teams have formed a strong alliance, not for strategic reasons, but just because they really like each other.

Umm, yeah that was the story. Luke REALLY likes the Reds. The Reds think Luke is "cute" in that way that the scruffy younger underclassmen kid in high school gets thought of as being cute when he ends up being the "mascot" of a pack blood thirsty older "women" (you know, juniors and seniors).

I suppose mom has bought into it for the sake of Luke. She should know better. The Reds would rip him in half just for sport. Not that I am conjuring up old memories or anything...

Can't wait to hear "the rest of the story"

No rest of the story to tell!

Not like I went to a high school that went from 8th to 12th grade in one building and was a scrawny 13 year old in the band who lusted mightly (and fairly obviously) after the "rapidly blossoming" upper class girls (hell, some of 'em had "blossomed" by the seventh grade for that matter...) in the color guard/majorettes/drill team etc that are a regular part of any Fall Friday at a high school in the south in the 70's.

Those proper southern belles certainly wouldn't amuse themselves by unmercilessly teasing such an impressionable youngster in the back of the bus late at night on the long drive home after the game. Nope, no way, didn't happen...