Survivor Cook Islands Winner: Not J.P.

Survivor Cook Islands Recap

This weeks episode of Survivor kicks off with a sulky and emo sounding Ozzy, complaining about how he feels like an outcast in the new tribe. I have to say, I can see why, he’s the only member of his original tribe left on his new tribe and he doesn’t really seem to fit with anyone else in the tribe. Although, you’d figure he might be a little more comfortable, he seemed to manage in Playboys Foursome no problem, I’m sure he can manage Survivor.

Candice returns from Exile island and the lazy ass boys on Rarotonga make a pact to stick together. I guess they don’t realize that the girls out number them, but they’ll realize that soon enough.

Survivor Cook Islands Reward Challenge
Reward: 3 Blankets, 2 Pillows and 1 Hammock.

  • Two tribe members attached together by a rope.
  • The remaining tribe members must push, pull and drag the teathered tribe members through an obstacle course.
  • Once through the course, one member must swim out to a marker, dive down and retreive a ships wheel decoder.
  • Once back on land the team must use the ships wheel to successfully decode a sentence.

Everything starts off as all square and both teams manage to stay even through the second portion of the obstacle course. It isn’t until Rarotonga gets hung up on their ropes that Aitutaki breaks into a pretty big lead.

Ozzy for Aitutaki busts it into the water and is back on the beach, starting to decode before Rarotonga has even managed to get themselves untangled. But Rarotonga’s luck runs out briefly as they get stumped by the puzzle and Aitutaki recovers fully. Both teams are scrambling to decode the sentence, but only one team manages to pull it off first and Aitutaki walks away with the win and some comfy bedding. But before they walk away as survivor reward challenge winners, they send Adam of Rarotonga to Exile Island.

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Biggest Loser Recap: Nelson Eliminated

Welly, Welly, Welly my droogies, Wednesday nights reality TV time is done with and now it’s time to recap Biggest Loser. Off we go then, for a little of the old in-out in-out, real horror show.

To date both the Red and Blue teams have lost a combined total weight of 356lbs. That is a huge number to have so early in. This season of the biggest loser is going to be a total success.

The blue teams sitting around sulking, as usual, since they had to get rid of a member on the last episode of biggest loser when Bob walks in and let’s loose a pretty damn cool surprise. Everyone is taking off for a cruise! Is it just me, or have they been going to a lot of different places this season? Thus far they’ve hardly spent any time at the ranch it seems.

As soon as the trainers set foot on the cruise ship a wave of yummy food smells flows over them and the contestants, putting the fear of bad eating and no working out into the trainers. Naturally, to curb that thought right away and to get their minds on something else, Bob takes the blue team for a run around the cruise ship and Kim throws the red team into the pool to swim some laps. Hey, at least you’re working out on a cruise ship and not at the ranch, right? That’s got to be some kind of positive.

Dinner time! The ultimate in healthy eating challenges is about to take place as both teams file into the cruise ships buffet to get a bite to eat. Buffets are notorious for being, shall we say, less than healthy, which is why they’re so damn good and so hard to resist. Both teams, however, managed to cruise the entire buffet, pick up tips from their trainers and get a nice healthy meal out of the deal. Good work guys! Way to curb that temptation and kick it in the face. Wish I had that kind of will power… mmmmm buffet.

Biggest Loser at Home:

Erin of Rhode Island came in to Biggest Loser weighing in at 244lbs. To date, Erin has dropped her weigh to a mere 189lbs, for a total loss of 55lbs! That’s fantastic to do on your own, great work girl, you’re looking awesome!

More info on Biggest Loser Home Contestants.

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Quit Clowning Around: 500lbs of Cocaine found on Tour Bus

Latin grammy nominated musical group Los Payasonicos was caught crossing the board at Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge with 200 bricks of cocaine hidden in a secret compartment on their tour bus.

On Sunday, US Customs and Border Patrol searched the private tour bus of musical clown act Los Payasonicos, finding 200 bricks of cocaine, weighing a total of 500lbs. A spokesperson for the US Border Patrol refused to release names of the people on the bus, sighting instructions given by someone higher up the food chain than him.

The bus driver and co-driver were taken in for questioning but cleared and released later on Monday. The singing clowns are undergoing questioning, though no arrests have been made at this time.

Interestingly enough, another bus, very similar to the Los Payasonicos bus, for the Mexican musical group Arnulfo Rey y As pulled into the same border crossing a short time later and was found to be carrying some 600lbs – 700lbs of cocaine. No reports of any sad clowns being arrested at this time.

On a side note, this isn’t the first time Los Payasonicos has had drug related issues. According to a Mexican newspaper, Los Payasonicos has direct ties to Osiel Cardenas and the Gulf Cartel.

Cardenas was arrested in 2003 and it is believed that he still controls much of the drug trade in northeastern Mexico from his jail cell.

How cool is that, a Mexican clown musical act with their own kids show, that was nominated for a Latin Grammy Award, could have ties to the Gulf Drug Cartel. Those are some bad ass clowns!

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Kinky Boots Review

The other night we made use of a free DVD rental we had amassed at Blockbuster and took the oppertunity to pick up a copy of Kinky Boots. We’ve been trying to get the movie since it came out, but the Blockbuster near our house only got two copies of the movie for some reason and it was out everytime we went. But we got lucky and finally got a copy, yay! Now, on to the Kinky Boots Mini-Review:

Kinky Boots is a UK flick that came out late in 2005 and was just recently released on DVD. The movie is based on a true story and, from the special features included on the DVD, it seems like they actually kept the movie quite close to the true story, which is definitely a rarity now-a-days.

The Price & Sons Shoe Factory has been in business for years in Northamptonshire and has been passed down from generation to generation. In a sudden change of events, Charlie Price’s father suffers a sudden and unexpected death, forcing Charlie to follow in his dear ol’ dads foot steps, only problem is, he’s terrible with shoes and the industry is taking a huge dump. For years the Price & Son’s factory has produced well made, high quality oxford shoes but there’s no longer a market for plain, well made shoes with cheap, foreign imports flooding the market.

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Free Transit From Translink

To all you folks out there that are still in school (high school, that is), be sure to take advantage of a new offer Translink has running until Friday, October 6th, 2006.

For all students between Kindergarten and Grade 12, transit of all forms is completely FREE until October 6th, 2006, as long as you have a student ID to prove you’re a student.

Translink is offering the free ride to all school students to promote international “walk to school week”, if such a thing really exists, and in the hopes of making kids “think outside the car” when it comes to transportation.

From October 2 through 6, students from kindergarten through Grade 12 are being encouraged to walk or take alternate modes of transportation to get to school. TransLink will make transit an easier choice by providing free rides for students on Coast Mountain and West Vancouver buses, SeaBus, SkyTrain and West Coast Express during that time.

Translink

This is a great way to get from A to B if you qualify and can save you some cash. Naturally it’s only running during the week, so if you’re skipping school to hit the mall, take the bus and save some cash. Oh, and they don’t stipulate any times anywhere, they don’t say is has to be during school hours, to take full advantage and ride for free at night too. Taking advantage of Translink is like taking advantage of Starbucks, only less free starbucks coffee and more stinky people.

Good Deals in Vancouver

Being the cheap bastard that I am, when Chrys and I were thinking about going out for dinner and the various other things we might do over the weekend, I hit the interweb and started to deal search. After all, what sense is there in paying full price if you don’t have to, right? Right.

We ended up going to Original Joe’s on Broadway and Cambie for dinner, which I didn’t find any coupons for, but is well worth paying full price for anyhow. It’s been over a year now since we’ve been to Original Joe’s, the last time we were there was when Chrys & I went to pick up her wedding dress. It is a bar, but there is just something about it that has a homey, relaxing feeling to it. We always both feel really comfortable when eating there and, the best part, the food is always really good and a good price. They also have beer special everyday and are one of the few places in Vancouver that sells Russel’s Cream Ale, which, if you haven’t tried it yet, just so happens to be the best beer on the face of the earth, and it’s made by a local Vancouver brewery. Yay, local! Original Joe’s is well worth giving a shot if you’re looking for a yummy meal of comfort food and a good beer. I highly recommend the Montreal Smoked Meat Sandwich, very tastey.

Anyways, back to the good deals in Vancouver portion of the post. I was originally on the search for an illusive 2 for 1 Vancouver Aquarium coupon from the newest Yellow Pages or this years Entertainment book, but alas, I couldn’t manage to find one. Speaking of which, anyone know where I can get a Vancouver Entertainment Book? Anyhow, on my search I found a few websites with some good coupons and deals on restaurants and various other things around Vancouver. Check them out before heading out for a night on the city and you could just save yourself a few bucks.

DatersCorner.com
FoodVancouver.com
VancouverAttractions.com
PriceNetwork.ca
PriceGrabber.ca

Enjoy! And please, let me know if you have any sites you use for coupons and various other good deals in Vancouver.