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This is an archive collection of entries from my main personal blog, My Mundane Mid-Life.
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This collection of entries is from January 22, 2003.
Wednesday, January 22, 2003
Celebrity Mole Hawaii - Episode 3
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The first game is called Offshore Account. Corbin leads a the group in building a raft out of material dumped on the beach that will hold the entire team and get a flag out on a buoy within 30 minutes to claim $30,000 that is stashed there. Erik's only job is to make smoothies for the rest of the team. Ahmad offers Erik an exemption if he can get to the flag on the buoy first. the catch - he has to finish making the smoothies, and he has to rent a kayak from the cabana boy for $15 (which Erik doesn't have). Oh, and the money doesn't go into the pot either. Ahmad calls for the cabana boy and up pops - Stephen Baldwin! Erik must use a metal detector on the beach to find the $15 in change. Well, the raft making isn't turning out all that well, and falls apart as they test it. Erik finds enough change, rents the kayak, and gets out to the buoy to grab the flag and the exemption, stopping the $35,000 from making it into the pot. Ahmad calls Erik over to the rocks and offers to add $60,000 into the pot if Erik gives up the exemption. He gives it up. Erik finally tells the group what happened - and no one seems to care. During a meal outside the hotel (could have been a breakfast or lunch) Ahmad tells the group that he hopes they left some room for the next game and a woman walks out with a tray of six different hot peppers. The group goes inside. On a table is a plastic maze containing five mice. Ahmad explains that they each get to pick a mouse. The mouse will be released, and whichever door the mouse runs through will determine which pepper the player has to eat. Each pepper is worth $10,000. Ahmad will ask each player a pop-culture question. A correct answer means the player can either eat the pepper or pass it on to another player. An incorrect answer means the player has to eat the pepper for the money. Ahmad points out that each pepper is numbered from one to six. One means hot, and six means really, really, really hot. The game is called Hot Pepper Lookie-Lookie. The player must bite the pepper in the middle and chew, and when ready, the other players say "Lookie lookie!" and look at the chewed-up pepper before the player can swallow. Oh, and there's a big pitcher of cold milk - the perfect thing to combat the burn of the peppers. Each glass of milk will cost $1,000. Corbin goes first and blows his question, and his mouse (Stripe) picks pepper 6 - the hottest. Corbin eats it without a problem. Erik blows his question, his mouse (Grey Ghost) goes for Pepper 4, and eats his pepper. Corbin, for no reason, eats another pepper. Michael blows his question, the mouse (Daphne) picks pepper 5, and he gets through the pepper. Frederique answers correctly, her mouse (Zoro) picks pepper 3, and passes the pepper to Corbin who eats it. Kathy answers correctly, her mouse (Spooky) picks pepper 2, and passes it to Corbin - who eats the pepper and finally requests a glass of milk. The team wins $49,000 and the pot is now up to $151,000. At dinner, Ahmad asks the team to open their journals and tear out page 17. He collects them and reads them aloud to the group. Ahmad reads one of the pages: "I hate everybody. The game is driving me crazy. I can't stand Frederique. Every day she comes out and looks so pretty, and I just can't stand it. Michael thinks he's just the tops. Corbin? A bully." Everyone laughs because it's Kathy's - except it isn't: her page is blank and Ahmad is just making it up. Time for the quiz and execution. Ahmad enters the names into the laptop, and after four people come up green, they all look toward the only one left - as Corbin turns up red and is executed. « hide the extended part of this entry
posted at 10:31 PM | Link | The Mole § |
2003 BloggiesThe Third Annual Weblog Award nominations, also known as the 2003 Bloggies, were announced yesterday. Take a look at the nominees, visit their sites and vote. (Now, before anyone says anything, I'm not doing this blog to ever win an award - I'm doing it for me, so I'm not upset at all that I didn't get nominated for anything... I'm a realist. My stuff isn't that good and, I think, doesn't hold a candle to any of these nominees. I think that's a healthy way of blogging. Do it for yourself. My life is mundane, that's why I named the blog My Mundane Mid-Life, and I have no aspirations to become something bigger. That's why I write about the things I do, that's why the blog doesn't look any "snazzier" than it does, that's why a lot of people don't come here to read it. I'm mundane and boring and that's just the way it is. Now, for those people that do come here regularly to read my drivel, thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing so! I really do appreciate you being 'round!) If you want to see the list of sites that were submitted to the judges for voting to come up with this year's nominees, wander over here. The list isn't linked, so you'll have to do some searching on your own for the URL's.
posted at 03:54 PM | Link | Blogging | 1 comment § |
How cold is it?Another morning of 6 degree weather. (What is it with 6 degrees every morning? It's either coincidence or somebody's equipment may need calibrating...) 17 deaths in the Chicago area related to the cold. The weather-critters are using the term "dangerously cold" when talking about the wind chills. Looks like we may be in the 20's at the weekend. That's if you trust those weather-critters. Why is it that there's hardly a weatherman in your local town that you trust? Must of the TV guys are just goofy or even possibly inept. There's some that should have retired decades ago, others that can't form complete sentences, let alone come up with witty banter with the other news people. I just want it to warm-up a bit, and the winds to die down.
posted at 08:09 AM | Link | Mundane § |
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