This is too funny! I can't stand the baby thing either. Remember being annoyed by it in the last race as well. Sounds like a term Jimmy Cagney or Humphrey Bogart would use in a very old movie.

Is it possible idiot Jonathan is confusing Senegal with synagogue? I noted on a chat room just for TAR there were comments about him repeatedly talking about the "President of the Synagogue."

Marilyn: I too have roots in Hungary. My maternal grandmother's family immigrated from there. Wish I knew more about the family history, but sadly never asked questions when my relatives were alive and now it's too late. We were in Budapest last year and loved it.

Calling your mate "baby" must be a new thing, at Christmas, I noticed that my nephew's 19 year old girlfriend, always called him "baby"...very interesting...

Eeeewwww.... I'm going to dread hearing that one in my house!

Oh, come on Dreamer Baby..it'll be fine.

I was on the website of a New Zeland TV station this moring and saw a banner for their showing of Amazing Race.

It made me think - perhaps a good way to give new life to the race would be to have teams from different countries.

Keith

Sorry, but a lot of Americans have been calling their girl/boy-friends and even spouses "baby" for quite a long time. I've never liked it--always sounds either too cutesy or too condescencing, but it's been around at least since before WW 2. If you don't believe it, you might check song titles from the 30s, 40s and 50s: "Million-Dollar Baby" is 1931, but I suspect you could find earlier ones. I sure remember Bogie calling women "baby" in some of his films.

"I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby"
"I'll Be Your Baby Tonight"
"Be My, Be My Baby"
"My Baby Just Cares For Me"
etc etc etc

I am actually a bit shocked about the adverse reaction people are having to calling your loved one "baby". I've been married many years and we call each other "baby" all the time. Never once did I thought this would be annoying to some people, but guess what? since it seems to please my husband, I could not care not less what other people think.

Well, maybe a lot of these Baby people watched Dirty Dancing a few too many times...and they refuse to be put in corners!

....anyway, SPOILER WARNING! AR7 just wrapped up and guess who is one of the competing couples? BOSTON RON AND AMBER. I guess we'll see them next in The Surreal Life.....

Noooooooo!

>AR7 just wrapped up and guess who is one of the competing couples? BOSTON RON AND AMBER.<

Are you serious?! Ugh. These two have had more than their alloted 15 minutes . . . why not give their spots on AR7 to a team of regular people who really want to be on the race just for the experience? This is just like Alison (another reality show contestant) and her boyfriend from a previous season.

I am so tired of all these model/actor wannabes and DAWs getting placed on this show.

It appears there is a new career out there: reality show contestant. Perhaps colleges will begin offering majors in this field, with courses like "Backstabbing 101" and "How To Tell If Someone Is Lying Through Their Teeth."

Boston Rob and Amber -- I think that means my Tuesday nights will be free for other pursuits.

Who are Boston Rob and Amber?

Disgusting human beings from Survivor. Each was on a different season, then both were on the Survivor Superstar season, where they met, connived, fell in love, Amber won a million dollars, and Rob proposed on air on the final show. Can't they go away already? Do they really need another million? I guess it's the prolonging of their "fame" that's driving them on.

I suppose we should be amazed that they're still together.

Oh! Maybe they can get Bachelor Bob and Trista and Ryan!

For all you AR fans-twins sighting. Shopping at the Grove (LA) post holiday, I heard two very whiney annoying voices that sounded very familiar. Turned out to be Kami & Karli from last season. They seemed just as scattered as on the show.

Oh Lord have mercy!!!!!! Not Boston Rob!!!!!!!! Oh no!!!!!!! Well, that's it for me...my favorite show has go the way of Jerry Springer...What IS this world coming to.

I agree w/Marylin--- there is in fact a new entertainment industry out there looking for characters such as Omarosa, Boston Rob, Jerry, and guess what? they are making hundreds of thousands of dollars on public appearances, etc... A show like AR is being tainted with vulgarity and apparently the trend continues.