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    Brought To You By The Letters A, A, R And P.

    Spelling Bee Champion, Family Talk To GMA

    13-Year-Old Kansas Girl Wins Spelling Bee

    Magnificent Obsession: Spelling Bee Semifinals Are Written On The Wind!

    Awesome Moment From Daytime TV

    Spell/Check

    Shakespeare Hits Sing Sing • Menopausal Women Exhibit Difficulties Learning?

    What Makes The Spelling Bee So Special?
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    Image of Laulau Laulau
    06/22/09

    In reply to Brought To You By The Letters A, A, R And P.
    I am probably the only one, but AARP's super-low age (relative to how long Americans actually live, on average, not to mention when they actually get to retire) for joining cracks me up. In my extended family, whenever someone treats me like a child because of my generation in the family but despite the fact I'm 28, I point out that I'm more than halfway to my AARP membership.
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    Image of tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock
    06/22/09

    In reply to Brought To You By The Letters A, A, R And P.
    VIRGINIA, WOT.


    Can he spell l-o-v-e-r-s? Because that, and e-q-u-a-l-r-i-g-h-t-s are all that really matter.

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    Image of vamusical vamusical
    06/22/09

    In reply to Brought To You By The Letters A, A, R And P.
    ARLINGTON REPRESENT! This year's winner brought to you by the letter ARRRRRR!
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    Image of BeckySharper BeckySharper
    06/22/09

    @vamusical: WHOOT WHOOT!
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    Image of Zombies make the heart grow fonder Zombies make the heart grow fonder
    06/22/09

    @vamusical: Please confirm that you all saw the Arlington Rap... Sadly this gentleman did not make an appearance in it!
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    Image of BeckySharper BeckySharper
    06/22/09

    @Zombies make the heart grow fonder:



    + Watch video





    Just in case...I'm from the C-dizzle-izzle myself...although when I grew up there it was all Vietnamese and no yuppies!
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    Image of mass romantic mass romantic
    06/22/09

    @vamusical: Yay Arlington! (I'm from East Falls Church, which contrary to its name is part of Arlington!) I'm hearting all my fellow Arlingtonians here.
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    Image of BeckySharper BeckySharper
    06/22/09

    @mass romantic: Sending you Orange Line love!
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    Image of ladylie ladylie
    06/22/09

    @vamusical: Awww, we should all have a meetup sometime. At the Starbucks?
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    Image of Zombies make the heart grow fonder Zombies make the heart grow fonder
    06/22/09

    @ladylie: or the starbucks or the starbucks or the starbucks
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    Image of Santos L Halper Santos L Halper
    06/22/09

    In reply to Brought To You By The Letters A, A, R And P.
    At 64, hopefully I'll be too busy spelling r-e-t-i-r-e-m-e-n-t, b-i-t-c-h-e-s, w-o-r-k i-s f-o-r s-u-c-k-e-r-s, ,p-r-i-v-a-t-e i-s-l-a-n-d and m-a-n s-e-r-v-a-n-t to worry about a spelling bee.
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    Image of dianersb was bit by a zombie dianersb was bit by a zombie
    06/22/09

    @Santos L Halper: Substitute c-a-b-a-n-a b-o-y for m-a-n s-e-r-v-a-n-t and you have described my future.
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    Image of BeckySharper BeckySharper
    06/22/09

    @Santos L Halper: t-r-o-p-i-c-a-l i-s-l-a-n-d!
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    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    06/22/09

    @Santos L Halper: s-e-n-d-me-a-p-o-s-t-c-a-r-d-w-h-e-n-y-o....
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    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    06/22/09

    @BabyJane: H-U-H?


    *w-h-e-n-y-o-u-g-e-t-s-e-t-t-l-e-d....

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    Image of maybeimamazed02 maybeimamazed02
    05/29/09

    In reply to Spelling Bee Champion, Family Talk To GMA
    Anyone posting here who hasn't seen it, NEEDS to rent Spellbound IMMEDIATELY. So good.
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    Image of Aesop's Foibles. YES. Aesop's Foibles. YES.
    05/29/09

    In reply to Spelling Bee Champion, Family Talk To GMA
    The Spelling Bee will always have a special place in my heart. If memory serves, the year I was in it, the winner was a beautiful Indian girl, and at the ceremony/dinner, they displayed her school pictures on a huge projection screen and everyone clapped and cheered. I was SO jealous. She was so nice, too, like not snotty or anything. Which made me even more sad because I really wanted to hate her. (I went down on my first word. Still chaps my ass to this day.) I'm always so nerdily proud of the kids; they've beaten everyone in their state, and they and their families get to go to DC and be on television and it's so scary and exciting. Spellers, I salute you all!!
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    Image of The Queen of No The Queen of No
    05/29/09

    In reply to Spelling Bee Champion, Family Talk To GMA
    She looked so ecstatic to win; it made me smile.


    There were so many kids with quirky personalities in the Bee last night. I think I even saw some future Jezzies (Serena & Aishwarya). And I loved the sentences-- nice touch to keep people's attention. I also loved all the food words.

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    Image of save jinger save jinger
    05/29/09

    In reply to Spelling Bee Champion, Family Talk To GMA
    My take on last night's spelling bee:


    Competitors - adorable, full of win


    Competitors' siblings - adorable, full of win


    Commentators - annoying, full of shit

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    Image of save jinger save jinger
    05/29/09

    @save jinger: It was like the Olympics; you're trying to watch the events, but the constant chattering of commentators drives you a bit nuts. With every word last night, they were like, "Oh, the origin should be the key to this one for her," or "She's probably debating over the beginning letter to this one." Shut up and let the kids do their thing! They were all so cool in their own ways. I thought Kyle Mou had it in the bag because he seemed so calm and didn't even ask all the questions for each word, but Kavya knew her shit. She seems very knowledgeable about the roots of words. This was the best thing I've seen on tv in a while.
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    Image of Trulymadlyme Trulymadlyme
    05/29/09

    In reply to Spelling Bee Champion, Family Talk To GMA
    If anyone knows how to bring the sibling dramz, it's Cuomo. I see some of his sibling rivalry is alive and well. Sheesh.
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    Image of EKane EKane
    05/29/09

    In reply to 13-Year-Old Kansas Girl Wins Spelling Bee
    I'm sad... but not really. I wanted Kennyi to win even though I had a feeling Kavya would take it all!


    I really want that set of reference books though.

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    Image of lalaland13 lalaland13
    05/29/09

    In reply to 13-Year-Old Kansas Girl Wins Spelling Bee
    I couldn't watch this, because stuff like this makes me feel woefully inadequate (and I was dog-tired and fell asleep). But when I woke up and saw that she won, and saw how happy her family was for her, I got teary-eyed. Girls kick ass. Too bad I couldn't even make it out of the school spelling bee (I got close a few times, though).
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    Image of missdona missdona
    05/29/09

    In reply to 13-Year-Old Kansas Girl Wins Spelling Bee
    I watched last night, and was totally proud of myself when I could spell Neufchatel, and I knew it's definition and part of speech.


    I loved Kavya's hand-spelling technique, so cute!

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    Image of JinxyMcDeath JinxyMcDeath
    05/29/09

    In reply to 13-Year-Old Kansas Girl Wins Spelling Bee
    Yaaaaaaaaaaay, GIRLS!
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    Image of sciencerules sciencerules
    05/29/09

    In reply to 13-Year-Old Kansas Girl Wins Spelling Bee
    I used to do spelling bees when I was younger and cherished great ambitions of this one. Turns out I'm not actually a great speller, or memorizer, but dang were they fun.


    Oh, and:


    "X. Y. L. O. C. A. R. P. Xylocarp!"

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    Image of battleaxonista...is a humorless bitch battleaxonista...is a humorless bitch
    05/29/09

    In reply to 13-Year-Old Kansas Girl Wins Spelling Bee
    Awesome. Now, if only we can convince America that watching the Physics, Math, etc Olympiads would be equally exciting.
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    Image of sciencerules sciencerules
    05/29/09

    @battleaxonista: I would watch the HELL out of some chem, bio, or physics olympiads. And math ones if they had really good announcers. Unsurprisingly, I did chem olympiads in high school, which were buckets of fun.
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