Barb's Burblings

From an article by Philip

From an article by Philip Michaels on TeeVee, on why he hates Kelly and Jon (from The Amazing Race):

...if there's one team I particularly don't want to capture the grand prize, it's Kelly and Jon.

Why? Quite simply, they irritate me. She's alternately bossy and whiny, rattled by the slightest setback and prone to saddling her competitors with demeaning nicknames. He's a self-assured blowhard with a talent for saying staggeringly stupid things whenever the cameras are rolling. (A loosely paraphrased sample of the wit and wisdom of The Amazing Race's Jon: "It's like a woman's orgasm: it takes a long time and it's hard to get there, but once she's had it, she's good for a week" -- which may explain why Kelly seems so agitated most of the time, come to think of it.) Together, they bicker with one another and sneer at everyone else -- during the Mumbai, India, leg of the race, Kelly made such a point of complaining about the overpowering odor emanating from the teeming masses, you were left waiting for someone in the crowd to turn to her and say, "You know, many of us here understand English perfectly well, and you're smelling a bit ripe yourself." Based on the sort of behavior frequently on display during The Amazing Race, if you ever found yourself sharing a train compartment with the two of them, I'd give you about 15 minutes -- 20, if you've got the patience of a saint -- before you've tuned out their yammering in order to silently weigh the internal injuries you'll suffer versus the mental relief you'll feel if you just fling yourself off the train at the next switchbox.

That pretty much sums up my feelings. They do have moments where you can tell that they care about each other...but on the whole, they annoy me so much that I don't really care about that. Of the four teams left, they're the only team that I really don't want to win.