Exotic promo betting trifecta in play?

Loser only has one "o".

Wow... 1st by a second...

/is there a spellcheck bee?

We're the Hornish/Andretti of FARK this evening!

These kids will be cleaning your toilet in 15 years.

I want to bet on it now.

/only way to make it interesting

The Grammar Nazis are watching. We are always watching.

/the the

the the people

The headline is stuttering...

The girl that came in second place is hawt..for a 13 yr old.


I hope she ages like wine and not like milk.

Why was a Canadian in our National Spelling Bee?

Fart_Machine: The headline is stuttering...

Tha-tha-that's mean!

Ah fark, feel the compassion.

I got 2-1 odds on the Asian kid.

/It doesn't matter which one.
//Sorry about the stereotype.
///Could careless who wins the spelling bee.

Where else but the spelling bee is one exposed to linguistic masterpeices such as fetuscine or haitch.. there should be photoshop contest on such words.

Grammar, or a system to spread similar ideas, must be used to gain support of the ignorant masses. Since the people are dull and forgetful, Grammar must be limited to only a few points and repeated over and over again in important slogans, It is not important that these ideas be true, for people are willing to believe anything. In fact, the bigger the lies, the better.

/LOL

I watched it because there was a Canadian in the running. She came in second.

The New Jersey Girl was a savant-esque spelling machine.

I watched it today. Every male contestant has glasses and a scummy looking moustache.

/just observant
//not weird

no LegacyDL the third or fourth place chick was hawt (for a 13 year old), shes the one who got kicked out and then let back in.

Ok seriously now.

Who the heck uses "URSPRACHE" in everyday conversation? I placed that word in www.dictionary.com and the result was "protolanguage".

I bet on:

Has the winner been thrown in the trash can more than 5 times this year?

Lost.

Is the winner's grandfather from India or China?

Lost.

shes the one who got kicked out and then let back in.

Was she on the juice or something?

It's German for crying out loud!

Was she on the juice or something?

No initially they said she had misspelled a word, but then they found an alternate spelling or something. And apparently she was more like 8th..ish.

I wasn't really paying attention, I was just laughing at them when they got the bell of death.

I can't believe they aired the spelling bee on ABC... in freakin' HD. ABC's college football coverage wasn't even in HD last year.

ezra000

///Could careless who wins the spelling bee.

You mean you couldn't care less.

To say you "could care less" implies you currently care to some degree.

/pet peeve

Analogy: I can't believe they aired the spelling bee on ABC... in freakin' HD. ABC's college football coverage wasn't even in HD last year.

Well it is in summer off season, and there's far fewer cameras required than for football, so it doesn't seem that odd. It'll be interesting to see the ratings tomorrow.

obvious tag surrenders?

zerplex

It was actually an error in the word list; it got misprinted.

12349876: Well it is in summer off season, and there's far fewer cameras required than for football, so it doesn't seem that odd. It'll be interesting to see the ratings tomorrow.

It doesn't cost ABC any more to rent more cameras. When you rent a TV truck you get everything that's on it no matter what you actually need.

As for it being the summer off season... There's a whole lotta baseball going on at the moment. Football season is actually when the smallest number of TV trucks are required in the country.

zerplex: Was she on the juice or something?

No initially they said she had misspelled a word, but then they found an alternate spelling or something. And apparently she was more like 8th..ish.

I wasn't really paying attention, I was just laughing at them when they got the bell of death.

I thought the judges had the word spelled wrong on their cards, but I wasn't really paying attention either. I watched it to see the kids cry over a silly spelling bee. Some teared up, but nothing like what I expected.

More like: In 5 years 1 of these kids will design a new water-saving toilet that will become the industry standard.

They'll make a bazillion dollars.

And... Your kid will be parking their Ferarri.

I'd say about 20% of them are child prodigies who will wind up flaming out and spend their life holed up in a filthy apartment installing septic tanks for a living.

Oh, and it's a bit of an urban myth that football coverage "needs" dozens of cameras. You do hear a lot about shows like Monday Night Football using insane numbers of cameras, but an "average" football game is more along the lines of 8 cameras, which is pretty consistent with regional hockey, basketball or baseball coverage.

I thought this may have been the most impressive thing I've seen on TV in years, maybe ever. I didn't even know the words existed much less have any clue how to spell the damn things.

I love to watch football but put one of these kids next to the best football player you can name and I'd be more impressed with the kid. HD TV? You bet. About time they put something on TV that highlights brain over brawn.

Did not see it.

No clue as to who is competing.

But I'd bet on the chink (female preferably)

/one puh-leez

Gosling

I was in the finals, in my youth.

Now I'm here.

/the filthy apartment fits
//I wish I were a septic tank installer. It's the cleaning that really bites.

Analogy: I can't believe they aired the spelling bee on ABC... in freakin' HD. ABC's college football coverage wasn't even in HD last year.

It's 'cause they're geeks.

Not surprised...I was in the school spelling bee in 7th grade, and apparently, I was the favorite.
I went down early and afterward, one of the football players came up to me.
"I'm very disappointed in you," he said.
"And how much did you have on me?"
"Ten bucks."

Mogwai!

Was it this guy by any chance?

Jesus, how does my wife manage to find the most boring shiat on all of TV night after night? This is why I'm on Fark.

Can't believe an Indian kid (dot-head, not feathers) wasn't in first place, or even top 3..

Lmao this is popular?
I won (1) dollars earlier today betting on whether they will make the word or not.

the biggest redneck here

Did anyone else actually watch (I'll admit to it) and catch on to the fact that something like 16 out of the last 25 left standing were of Indian descent and that most of them spoke English as their SECOND language?? Shocking, how our educational system is failing us at even the highest levels and for even the brightest kids.

If I were to have a kid, and those educating that kid decided that instead of focusing on real subjects they would make him a Scripps-Howard spelling bee champion, I would immediately start home schooling.

The national spelling bee is a specialized event on par with professional food eating. It is not an educational experience.

After having the Spelling Bee hijack many, many quality programs on TSN (The Sports Network in Canada), I can easily say that the whole competition is for spoiled home school students who will grow up and be completly anti-social for the rest of their lives...

/knows this because there was one person in my high school that had been home schooled... I shudder when her name is brought up in conversations

Why the heck was there so much German in the bee? I don't pay attention to spelling bees at all until today, but our local kid in the competition lost on "heiligschein", the winner won with "ursprache", and the the runner-up lost on "weltschmerz". I thought American spelling bees were for words Americans actually use in their language. How do they expect kids to spell well in some random language? Why not Arabic or Swahili?

/or Esperanto, *snicker*
//admittedly, we used "ursprache" sometimes in my linguistics class

My bet is that the winner will be an ethnic kid with overbearing parents.

ERRONEOUS!

I dont know whether the weather will change.