The Cast Of Rutless.com Has Completed "Season 1"

Yes, after 12 straight weeks, Season 1 of Rutless.com has been completed. At some point, in the somewhat near future, I should be posting a full recap of Season 1. As of now, we have no idea when Season 2 will occur. We hope you have enjoyed this first season of Rutless.com and make sure to look for possible bonus tasks or material on Rutless during the offseason.

6/10/2006: Stephen And Seth Have Completed "Wal-Mart Games"

We went today about 3:00pm, right before Seth's work shift started at Wal-Mart. I was at a decided disavantage, as he already knows where most everything is in the store. We both chose twenty items and he finished putting mine back when I had about 9 items of his left. The items that I had to put up included aquarium solution, a grill, children's underware, a saturn shaped pillow, and so forth. Seth's items included a scooter, a folding chair, a desk clock, and a bunch more small items. Here are two photos of us holding the buggies of items that we had to replace:

Seth With The Items He Had To Put Up
Stephen With The Items He Had To Put Up

6/8/2006: Stephen And Seth Have Chosen "Wal-Mart Games" From The Refusal Pool

Here are the details of the task we chose: 1. "Wal-Mart Games"
Your task is to get together and go to Wal-Mart (or Target, or wherever). Once there, you are to each get a cart. You must seperate and go around filling up the cart with as many obscure objects as possible. Once the carts are full, you must them come together and switch carts. Then, you must put back, in the right place, all of your partner's obscure items.
Requirements: Post either video and/or pictures showing you did this task.

6/8/2006: Brandon And Tyson Cannot Complete "Hide And Seek"

Brandon and Tyson did not complete their task, Stephen and Seth can pick from the two person team tasks in the Refusal Pool.

6/6/2006: Allison and Brad Assign "Hide and Seek" to Brandon and Tyson

Brandon and Tyson, your task is simple. You are assigned to go to a local store, preferably a Wal*Mart, but a grocery store will do, and play a game of good old fashioned Hide and Seek. Make a game out of it. Have the person with the fastest time be the winner. Get someone to time you, or do it yourself.
Requirements: If possible get video, but if not, we'll go ahead and trust you. You must be TOGETHER at the place of business and tell us all about your hiding spots, and who had the best time, and the best place to hide. Good Luck.

6/6/2006: Brad and Allison Have Completed "Racecar"

Brad came out to visit last night from Durham, and together we worked for about an hour coming up with 30 palindromes. Now, our words are mostly 3 letter words. This is just the way it is. We promise we didn't use the internet. We did, however, watch Golden Girls and pay attention to every word that was said to try and come up with these. Let me just tell you, those Golden Girls need to use more palindromes. Ah well.

Here's our glorious list: (and can I just add that there are an uncanny amount of naughty words that are palindromes?):
1. racecar
2. dad
3. mom
4. did
5. dud
6. bib
7. bob
8. tat
9. gag
10. tit
11. pup
12. mum
13. eve
14. tot
15. pop
16. noon
17. poop
18. toot
19. boob
20. ewe
21. peep
22. tut
23. wow
24. gig
25. madam
26. nun
27. deed
28. sees
29. level
30. eye

We had a few more, but upon closer inspection (i.e. looking in the dictionary), we realized they weren't really words!
So there ya go!

6/5/2006: Allison And Brad Accept "Race Car"

Well it's a good thing Brad is coming to see me tonight, we can work on this together. I had no idea til this morning that we would be doing partner tasks again! ooops! We'll get it done!

Cast Order For The Week Of 6/5/2006

This is the 12th and final week of Season 1 of Rutless.com and after this week we will be taking a lengthy break. Hopefully we can go out with a bang by doing another week of two-person teams. Here are the teams:
Monday/Tuesday: Allison & Brad
Wednesday/Thursday: Brandon & Tyson
Friday/Saturday: Seth & Stephen

6/3/2006: Seth Assigns "Race Car" To ? And ?

This task in fact has nothing to do with a race car but everything to do with words. Palindrome: A word, phrase, verse, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward. Person and Person, your task is to find 30 palindromes, and post them. This work can be split up however you like, be it 15 a piece or not. And please don't just get palindromes off the net, try to come up with some creative ones yourselves.
Requirements: Post all of the palindromes that you come up with.

6/3/2006: Seth Has Completed "Use Heroin For Your First Time"

This goes to the tune of the Ducktales Theme Song

Life is a pain here in Morganton.
High fives, mustard, test drive
It's a rut blur
Might be buying Wendy’s
Or even hiding Cd’s
Rutless! Woo Hoo!
Everyday they're out there being
Rutless! Woo Hoo!
Tasks of daring, new, bad and good…
R-r-r Rut lurks behind you
There's the next task out to get you
What to do just get out and be
Rutless! Woo Hoo!
Everyday they're out there being
Rutless! Woo Hoo!
Tasks of daring, new, bad and good
Rutless! Woo Hoo!
Not pony tales, or cotton tales no
Rutless! Woo Hoo!

6/2/2006: Seth Accepts " Use Heroin For Your First Time"

Oh I have a feeling that my lack of creativity will only make for a theme slogan not so much song, but maybe I'll get something.

6/2/2006: Tyson Assigns "Use Heroin For Your First Time" To Seth

Ok, so this task has abolsutely nothing to do with heroin or drugs or anything like that. I just wanted to put that as the title. Honestly, I've been thinking on and off for the past hour trying to come up with something for you to do. I think I've finally come up with something. Hopefully, you feel up to doing this. Seth, your task should you choose to accept it, is to write the lyrics for a Rutless.com theme song. I'm not going to put a limit on how long or how short it has to be, but hopefully if you do it you will put a little thought into it and make it reasonable. You don't have to do anything over the top by any means. Just a little tune. Maybe, hopefully, sometime in the future we will have Stephen sing the song. hehe. Well, have fun!

6/2/2006: Tyson Has Completed "Options"

Well, this task pretty much ended up sucking. I picked task #3. Which was to shake a can of Sundrop or Moutain Dew up for 20 minutes and open it in the passengers seat of my car. Stephen and I both thought that maybe 20 minutes was a bit too much. As in, maybe it would kill all the pressure in that extended period of time. It did just that. It was a big disappointment as far as the explosion went. We probably should have done it for about 3-5 minutes. Anyway, here is the video if you wanna check it out:
Shaken Can Option (Medium: 3.1 MB)

6/1/2006: Tyson Accepts "Options"

This is one kick ass task! I will not give away which one I am picking, because I do not know myself. However, I will tell you it's not gonna be the wildlife, and most likely not the TV. Not the wildlife, because I am too lazy. Not the TV because I only have one good eye and I don't want to damage that any further. So it's gonna be something funny at this point. Haha. Anyway, this should be fun. Hopefully, Stephen can come during his lunch to help me film.

6/1/2006: Stephen Assigns "Options" To Tyson

I've been saving this task up for awhile now and it's time to unleash it.
You will be given 5 options. The most risky option will also be the least time consuming, while the least risky option will be the most time consuming.
When you complete one of the options, your task for the day is complete.
Option 1: High Risk / Very Quick
Film yourself hitting a real golf ball inside of your house. You must use a driver and must swing as hard as you would during a normal drive on the course. It must make impact with a hard object. Whatever happens, happens.
Option 2: Medium/High Risk / Quick
Film yourself riding a bicycle full speed into a pine tree that is at least 5 feet tall. You may use a ramp if you would like. You can't hold back on the speed though.
Option 3: Medium Risk / Average Speed
Shake up a canned mountain dew or sun drop for 20 minutes. Film yourself opening the can quickly, with the can suspended over the driver's seat of your car.
Option 4: Medium/Low Risk / Slow
Sit as close as you can to the TV and watch a home shopping channel for 40 minutes. Take pictures and post some.
Option 5: Low Risk / Very Slow
Go out with a camera and take pictures of wildlife for one hour. Make a flickr set of the ten best pics.
Requirements: Post your reactions to each option and then tell us which you chose and post the required elements of that option.

6/1/2006: Stephen Has Completed "Fake Black Eye"

Well, I got up this morning and read the task and went and fixed up the eye with some kind of eye shadow pen that mom had. It looked pretty darn good, but I noticed it wore away very easy. When I got to work, I noticed several strange looks from familiar people, but no one asked me about it. I even went to lunch with my brother, dad, and cousin and none of them mentioned it. It wasn't until after lunch that one person asked me, "What happened to your eye right there?" I used the elbowed playing basketball story as I mentioned in the acceptance. That was it. Some odd looks and one question. I repainted it when I got home for a quick photo session and I've posted the best photo below. Click on it to view the full size:

Stephen's Shiner

5/31/2006: Stephen Accepts "Fake Black Eye"

I already have it painted on. I think I got elbowed playing basketball yesterday. Yeah, that should stick.

5/31/2006: Brandon Assigns "Fake Black Eye" To Stephen

Stephen your task is to make it look like you where in a fight last night. Try to make one of your eyes dark or both. I would use makeup if I could but use what ever you can. Also have a good story if anyone does think it's real.
Requirements: Please take some pics, I don't think videos will be needed unless you get a real blackeye. Have Fun.

5/31/2006: Brandon Has Completed "Musically Declined"

Stephen came over and helped me out with this one. It was pretty late and I was about to just go to bed, but then he found just the right song to play along with, so it turned out ok. Here's the video, in two quality formats:
The Blew Danube Waltz (High: 14.6 MB)
The Blew Danube Waltz (Low: 4.4 MB)