Spelling bee finalist eliminated on the word "girlfriend"

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http://www.sportspickle.com/features/volume3/2004-0609-spellingbee.html

Christopher Heck, a finalist at last week?s Scripps National Spelling Bee, was eliminated when he was unable to spell the word ?girlfriend.? Bee champion David Tidmarsh then clinched the title by successfully spelling ?autochthonous,? a word meaning ?indigenous.?

Heck, 13, gamely tried to spell ?girlfriend? for several minutes, asking its origin (English), definition (?a favored female companion or sweetheart?) and for it to be used in a sentence. Bee Master Michael Winchester provided Heck with the sentence: ?You will never have a girlfriend,? prompting the boy to break into tears and run off the stage.

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But Heck said he was unable to spell ?girlfriend? simply because the word is foreign to him and because girls think he is weird, not because he is taunted about it. ?My mother homeschools me because she says I?m special and that the normal kids at public school would be a detriment to my educational well-being, so I don?t get ridiculed too much ? except when my family takes its monthly trip to the shopping mall,? he said. ?Then I get my share of abuse if I stray away from mother or father.?

Heck claims the Spelling Bee was only the second time he ever heard the word ?girlfriend.? ?I once heard it on television when I was staying at my cousin?s house while my mother was giving birth to my little sister, so I know what it means,? he said. ?But that was the only time. We don?t have a television at my house because my parents say TV is for proletariat ignoramuses.?

Riley said the Bee Master Winchester has been reprimanded about his choice of context sentence for Heck?s word.? ?Not only did he use a word that is a bit risky with most of these kids,? said Riley, ?but the sentence he used to describe it was highly inappropriate. I can assure you it won?t happen again.?

?I apologized to Heck about making him cry,? said Winchester. ?I didn?t mean to do it, I just couldn?t find the paper with the context sentence, so I simply said what came to my mind first. I looked up at that kid and all I could think was: ?You will never have a girlfriend.? I?m sorry he took it so personally.?
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yllus

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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

That kid will NEVER live that down. :D

Edit: Oh, I actually read more/clicked the story link. Satire. :)
 
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?It is our goal to not upset the children or remind them of their status as social outcasts...?

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chuckywang

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If you think any of these spelling bee finalists cannot spell "girlfriend", you seriously do not know anything about the level of competition of this beast.
 
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http://www.sportspickle.com/features/volume1/06052002-spelling.html

Spelling Bee Winner Returns Home to Receive Triumphant Beating

Pratyush Buddiga, 13, will return to school tomorrow after winning the National Spelling Bee held last Thursday in Washington, D.C. Pratyush survived 11 rounds and won the engraved trophy and $12,000 award after correctly spelling ?prospicience? ? meaning foresight.

Pratyush is expected to use his prospicience to see that he will likely get the crap beaten out of him when he returns to Mountain Ridge Middle School in Colorado Springs tomorrow.

Buddiga is the first public school student to win the competition since 1999. But that honor is not expected to help him on the bus, in lunch, or at gym class come Thursday morning.

?Not only am I a smart, dorky kid as I always have been,? said Buddiga. ?But now I?m a nationally recognized dork whose been award for nerdiness. I?m going to be killed. Public school is not the place for me. Today will be climacteric for me. Cli ? mac ? ter ? ic. C-l-i-m-a-c-t-e-r-i-c. Climacteric.? (Editor?s note: ?climacteric? means ?a crucial period.?)

Buddiga?s day will begin with a middle school assembly held in his honor. But after that, Buddiga will be alone among his peers, or at least his classmates.

?I?m going to make that little dork pay,? said Bobby Woskins, a member of Buddiga?s gym class. ?He brought our school national recognition for nerdiness. That ain?t cool.?

Several Mountain Ridge faculty have even hinted that they?ll look the other way when Buddiga?s classmates try to beat the nerd out of him. ?He?s extremely annoying and arrogant,? said a science teacher who requested to remain anonymous. ?Anytime I use a big word in class he starts spelling it out loud and he?s always correcting me when I misuse words.?

But Buddiga?s impending beating has not left him without his smarts or his pride.

?I?ve got tear-away underwear prepared for potential wedgies and a thin flack jacket to help absorb all the body blows.?

But what if it hurts?

?Sure it?ll hurt. All the beatings we nerds take hurt,? said Buddiga. ?But it will be the sweet pain of victory. I feel absolutely indomitable. I-n-d-o-m-i-t-a-b-l-e.?
 
BrokenVisage

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http://www.sportspickle.com/features/volume3/2004-0609-spellingbee.html

Heck claims the Spelling Bee was only the second time he ever heard the word ?girlfriend.? ?I once heard it on television when I was staying at my cousin?s house while my mother was giving birth to my little sister, so I know what it means,? he said. ?But that was the only time. We don?t have a television at my house because my parents say TV is for proletariat ignoramuses.?
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Talk about living in Soviet Russia, what a horrible way to live if you ask me, it's bad enough they shut him in like that.

I looked up at that kid and all I could think was: ?You will never have a girlfriend.?
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Yup, time to destroy yourself now.
 
Mrvile

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Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Originally posted by: Mrvile
Well if it's fake then it's not that funny.
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But if it's real... it's teh funnay! :D
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:) Seriously I thought it was real when I read it, then I thought no way that's real then I remembered the Spelling Bees were today at 1:00pm (didn't watch them but a few of my friends did for good times). Oh well.
 
Baked

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LOL, that kid's gonna grow up to be a serial killer, with his family being the 1st victims. Home school weirdo.
 
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chuckywang

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It's fake. Here's proof. The photo they use is not a kid named Christopher Heck. It's of a kid named Harry Altman. He was in a documentary about the spelling bee called Spellbound. His pic is on the poster for the movie.

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