Do I sound like a musical robot?
Like every year, last night’s Scripps National Spelling Bee was awesome. Among my favorite moments was the fact that the kid who won this year thinks spelling bees suck :
“My favorite things to do were math and music, and with the math I really like the way the numbers fit together,” Evan said. “And with the music I like to let out ideas by composing notes – and the spelling is just a bunch of memorization.”
The best moment of the evening was during one of the bio-clips when one of the spellers revealed her favorite word, kakistocracy :
kak·is·toc·ra·cy n., pl. -cies.Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.
Who says TV can’t be educational?
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I wanted the less freakish Canadian kid to win, so I was pissed when homeschooled kid was handed two softball words in a row (pappardelle and yosenabe–the former being one everyone knows and the latter being japanese and thus spellable only one way, if you know how japanese works). But then the other kid blew it on coryza, so I suppose he didn’t really deserve to win anyway.
Not that I was paying close attention or anything.
Comment by Cakesniffer — June 1, 2007 @ 2:40 pm