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The Acme Oyster House in New Orleans, LA held the 2010 World Oyster Eating Championship today. I think I could've handled some oyster eating, those slimy little wads of flesh slide down real easy. Grandpa always told me they put lead in your pencil, and pencils need lead, so that's good, right? I'd have preferred Oysters Rockefeller, but you take what you can get, I guess.

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Welcome, friends, to the Scripps National Spelling Bee Finals! This is our biggest live event of the year. What you do is watch what you see on the TV, and talk about it here in the comments. 

We don't have a fancy Game Thread setup because we don't have any leagues, but it's going to be awesome when we get that stuff. Here's some links anyway.

Spelling Bee Official Site

ABC's Spelling Bee Site

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Welcome, uncommon ladies and gentlemen to the finale of Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains. It's been a wild ride, right? If this season's taught us one thing, it's that bad guys always win. Also, heroes are pretty lame, and if they want to win, they have to act like villains. Get a snack and a beverage, this is going to be quite a read. 

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Previously on ... UNCOMMON SURVIVOR: Everything was in line to finally get rid of Rupert, but Russell didn't like the way Danielle and Parvati were becoming so close. So he rallied the outcasts and staged a coup against his own alliance, voting against Danielle. She broke down to tears at Tribal Council and was eliminated. To top things off, Sandra found a hidden idol and nobody knows she has it.

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Last time on UNCOMMON SURVIVOR: Sandra spent the whole episode trying to convince the Heroes to get rid of Russell, only to turn on them when she learned Candice was flipping. The whole thing would've been a brilliant scheme had she actually intended to get Amanda out, but this is Sandra we're talking here. 

This episode features a double header, which is good because they need to get on the stick. It's Night 30 and there's too many people left. 

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"Hey Bro, I'm only doing this race for you Bro, I'd rather be on the show Big Bro-ther"

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This was easily my favorite episode of the Amazing Race this season.  Let's attack this in bullet points:

• How many times did they say "Garden Bridge" at the beginning of this episode?  I'm gonna guess 50.  Seriously shut up about the Garden Bridge.
• I hate Team Bros.  I love watching them panic when looking for Garden Bridges, but watching them lose their mother effin' minds in the backs of taxi cabs is like the best thing ever.  If that piece of plexi glass wasn't between them and their cab driver, they would have torn him apart with their teeth. Was that the biggest freak out in AR history?
• Team Bro, says "Bro" more than a whole Fraternity Row.  I hate those guys.
• Team Bro made a smart move, they realized that they were so dumb that they couldn't find a garden bridge by themselves.  They went back and teamed up with the detectives.  The detectives led them to two jackets hanging on a street sign.  So funny.
• Counting Buddha statues seemed like it would be hard but if these teams can do it, then it can't be that hard.
• I liked watching the guys riding behind the motorcycle driver, all of them were so scared to wrap their arms around the driver except gay Team Bro.  The other "straight" brother trying to pick up a Chinese girl wasn't fooling anybody.
• At the beginning of this episode I started thinking that I wanted the Beauty Queen to win this whole race, because it would show all these other teams how dumb they are and how much they suck.  That changed.
• I was so angry with Beauty Queen when she wouldn't let her boyfriend Brent urinate.  She just kept telling him to hold it, she had zero empathy.  You don't mess with somebody that needs to piss, that's cruel. Seriously, F her.  
• I liked how Team Cowboys want to make belt buckles that say " Amazing Race Champions". 
  
• You know how Phil stood waiting for teams with the tallest man in the world?  The tallest man in the world had to use crutches to stand.  How bad did you feel that he had to stand there all day probably in pain for these dumb ass teams?
• I actually started liking the Detectives towards the end of the season, but I think I'll enjoy watching Team Bro kill a cab driver in the season finale.

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Results are in from today's Cheesesteak World Championships at Dorney Park in Allentown, PA. Joey Chestnut, the world's number one ranked competitive eater, cleaned up the competition. The champ crushed nineteen cheesesteaks in ten minutes.

I'm not a fan of Subway sandwiches and I think Subway cheesesteaks served within the state of Pennsylvania are at least a misdemeanor. Full results after the jump.

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Welcome back to UNCOMMON SURVIVOR! Last time the Merge went down. The Heroes thought they were sitting pretty, getting ready to eliminate Parvati on the strength of Russell's vote, until Sandra tried to warn Rupert about what was really going on. As a contingency plan, the remaining Heroes tried to force Parvati into playing her idol while voting off Jerri instead, since she'd be the least likely to receive protection. Oh, but the best laid plans of Heroes always go awry, at least in this game. Parvati drops double immunity idols on everyone, handing one to Sandra and another to Jerri, cancelling out all the Heroes' votes and leaving J.T. to be sent home.

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