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In honor of the upcoming spelling bee

I sat through teh spelling Bee once when my sister was in it (she finished in the top 10). Aside from being proud of her, i was bored as hell.
 
It's on ESPN right now. Round 6. I'm about to bitch slap the next kid who keeps asking alternative pronounciation and definition.
 
Originally posted by: Baked
It's on ESPN right now. Round 6. I'm about to bitch slap the next kid who keeps asking alternative pronounciation and definition.
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From the article:

Reason No. 34 Why I Love The Spelling Bee: Whenever one of the contestants asks, "Is there another pronunciation?" for a word, and Dr. Cameron coldly looks up and says, "No." That kills me for some reason. He would make a fantastic movie villain.

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Originally posted by: junkerman123
I'm sure many of you have heard of "The Sports Guy" Bill Simmons, a hilarious writer from Boston. This is my personal favorite article of his of all time, his running diary of the 2002 spelling bee. Check it out, its great.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/vault
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3:36 -- Some words from the last 30 minutes: "pelean" (pertaining to volcanic ash); "badigeon" (plaster); "talipot" (Taliban marijuana); "saxifrage" (showy five-part flowers); "troching" (a small point of a stag's antler); "icteric (afflicted with jaundice); "repoussage" (hammering out thin metal).
🙂
 
Bill Simmons is one of the most entertaining writers out there IMO. I love it when he talks basketball 🙂
 
Here's what the champion wins: $12,000 ... an engraved trophy that looks a little like the Stanley Cup ... an Encyclopedia Britannica set ... Great Books of the Western World ... the 2002 Britannica CD ... a $1,000 U.S. Savings Bond ... the Merriam Webster reference library ... and the new X-rated DVD, "Home School Orgy: Final Exams."
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You know, I keep waiting for one of the contestants to miss a word, then magically disappear from the screen with a loud pop, like the contestants during the Charlie Brown spelling bee. By the way, I'm drunk again.
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Haha, he cracks me up.
 
Originally posted by: Patt
Bill Simmons is one of the most entertaining writers out there IMO. I love it when he talks basketball 🙂
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Yeah...its his best sport by far IMO. The only thing I don't like is when he tries to make predictions, or when he blatantly lets his Boston bias take over. But when he just writes funny articles like this, hes the best.
 
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