The Homeschool Olympics

The Homeschool Olympics#87845

By Fumblerooskies - May 31st, 2007, 11:01 am

- May 31st, 2007, 11:01 am #87845

AKA 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee...
...everyone from "country of origin is USA" in the semis today has been eliminated, at least the ones I have seen. I think tonite's finals will look much like the front desk at a budget hotel or the checkout counter at a convenience store.

(yes, sad commentary on my life that I am actually watching it)

#87846

By thesportscritic - May 31st, 2007, 11:06 am

- May 31st, 2007, 11:06 am #87846

i am watching that now.

JT

#87851

By givemethemic - May 31st, 2007, 11:22 am

- May 31st, 2007, 11:22 am #87851

But having Greeny and Golic is great!!!!!

#87866

By RubberMallet - May 31st, 2007, 12:10 pm

- May 31st, 2007, 12:10 pm #87866

givemethemic wrote:But having Greeny and Golic is great!!!!!

yeah finding the most boring radio personalities to do the most boring play by play is a great fit....

Formerly ishbox.

<--idiot, i guess, per bigsmooth/thepostman

<--smart jerk per bigsmooth

SuperJon wrote: I love dc Talk.

#87867

By RubberMallet - May 31st, 2007, 12:11 pm

- May 31st, 2007, 12:11 pm #87867

also having golic and greeney doing the Scripps (sounds like script) spelling bee is something i find hilariously ironic...

Formerly ishbox.

<--idiot, i guess, per bigsmooth/thepostman

<--smart jerk per bigsmooth

SuperJon wrote: I love dc Talk.

#87874

By Fumblerooskies - May 31st, 2007, 12:39 pm

- May 31st, 2007, 12:39 pm #87874

How can the kid be protesting "Clevis." Geeze...what a moron.

#87902

By ATrain - May 31st, 2007, 2:41 pm

- May 31st, 2007, 2:41 pm #87902

Rooskies, call Cider Jim and make sure he's watching as well...this could be valuable information for Quiz Bowl tournaments.

4:28:2009-RIP Jeff Taylor

PAmedic wrote:you're absolutely right

#87903

By HenryGale - May 31st, 2007, 2:43 pm

- May 31st, 2007, 2:43 pm #87903

Fumblerooskies wrote:How can the kid be protesting "Clevis." Geeze...what a moron.

And all you students wondered what the LU Faculty did during their summer breaks! It doesn't get any more exciting than that!

You are up a river of excrement in a native american water vessel without any means of propulsion

**R.I.P JT 4-28-09**

#87921

By Libertine - May 31st, 2007, 3:39 pm

- May 31st, 2007, 3:39 pm #87921

Wow. Barbeque and spelling. You live a full life, Fumble.

"I invite all the young champions on Liberty Mountain to come up and rub my woolly mustache."

#87948

By Fumblerooskies - May 31st, 2007, 4:41 pm

- May 31st, 2007, 4:41 pm #87948

Libertine wrote:Wow. Barbeque and spelling. You live a full life, Fumble.

....and don't forget a healthy does of FlameFans.
and it is BARBECUE....or simply BBQ.

#88093

By Fumblerooskies - June 1st, 2007, 5:00 am

- June 1st, 2007, 5:00 am #88093

and the winner is...

Thirteen-year-old Evan O'Dorney of Danville, Calif., breezed through the Scripps National Spelling Bee with barely a hitch Thursday night, taking the title, the trophy and the prizes in a competition that he confessed really wasn't his favorite.

Great quotes...

The home-schooled eighth-grader easily aced "serrefine" -- a noun describing small forceps -- to become the last youngster standing at the 80th annual bee. He triumphed after a tense duel with Nate Gartke of Spruce Grove, Alberta, who was trying to become the first Canadian to win.

Afterward, Evan spoke more enthusiastically about attending a math camp in Nebraska this summer than about becoming the English language's top speller.

"My favorite things to do were math and music, and with the math I really like the way the numbers fit together," he said. "And with the music I like to let out ideas by composing notes -- and the spelling is just a bunch of memorization."

Evan, who tied for 14th last year, won $35,000 cash, plus a $5,000 scholarship, a $2,500 savings bond and a set of reference works. He said he knew how to spell the winning word as soon as the pronouncer said it.