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Are you kidding me that the sports news of the day was dominated by coverage of the Scripps National Spelling Bee? If ESPN insists on dedicating hours and hours of coverage to this nonsense, why then don't they force them to hold the event in mid-January, during one of those hollow weekends just after the Super Bowl and right before Spring Training? Sorry to sound like such a curmudgeonly old bastard, but what a waste of time!
Do you think they tell the kids beforehand that the prizes suck? The winner gets about $30,000 in cash, which will be spent long before the kid goes to college; a library of reference books, which none of these super-nerds really needs, particularly the dictionaries; and a $2,500 savings bond, one of the few fixed-income securities that declines in value over time.
All those hours of reading, all those hours studying etymology, all that travel, all that pressure. And, ultimately, all the contestants wind up with is yet another exucse for the football team to kick their asses at recess.
How do you spell, "W-H-Y I-S-N-T T-H-E N-A-T-S - B-R-E-W-E-R-S 1-0-5 G-A-M-E O-N?"
Do you think they tell the kids beforehand that the prizes suck? The winner gets about $30,000 in cash, which will be spent long before the kid goes to college; a library of reference books, which none of these super-nerds really needs, particularly the dictionaries; and a $2,500 savings bond, one of the few fixed-income securities that declines in value over time.
All those hours of reading, all those hours studying etymology, all that travel, all that pressure. And, ultimately, all the contestants wind up with is yet another exucse for the football team to kick their asses at recess.
How do you spell, "W-H-Y I-S-N-T T-H-E N-A-T-S - B-R-E-W-E-R-S 1-0-5 G-A-M-E O-N?"
posted by Pat at 1:42 AM
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