matthew and keith are spelling these words like it was their job for hours until finally the judges were like, enough, we ve gone on for more than 70 rounds. they scheduled a new spelloff between just those two boys in another couple of weeks. the winner of that mini spelling bee is going to win an all expenses paid trip to the scripps national spelling bee in washington, d.c. in may. but here s where it gets even weirder than that. because while this was going on at the same time the word tchotchke was helping another kid take down another spelling bee, this one in kansas city, missouri, where 11-year-old sophia hoffman and her 13-year-old nemesis kush sharma blew through 47 rounds head to head just the two of them in the jackson county, missouri spelling bee. they went through so many rounds that the pronouncer and the judges ran out of words. they ran out of the approved words provided by scripps. so the judges took i lunch break, and then they enlisted the help of merriam webster t
word i use but have no idea how to spell. obviously it s the enjoyment obtained from the mishaps of others. s-c-h-a-d-e-n-f-r-e-u-d-e. what? there s no u up there? seriously? mow about mahout. a person who keeps and drives an elephant. spell mahout. m-a-h-o-u-t. okay. mahout. sure. sophia and kush did so well with these backup words the organizers had no choice but to call it a day and schedule again a rematch. a rematch. they ran out of words. they went to a second thing of words that they made up and they ran out of those too. by all accounts sophia and kush in kansas city were totally nice to each other the whole time. they high fived. they cheered one another on. they were all smiles. and the best new thing in the
to spell. obviously it s the enjoyment obtained from the mishaps of others. s-c-h-a-d-e-n-f-r-e-u-d-e. what? there s no u up there? seriously? mow about mahout. a person who keeps and drives an elephant. spell mahout. m-a-h-o-u-t. okay. mahout. sure. sophia and kush did so well with these backup words the organizers had no choice but to call it a day and schedule again a rematch. a rematch. they ran out of words. they went to a second thing of words that they made up and they ran out of those too. by all accounts sophia and kush in kansas city were totally nice to each other the whole time.
words like entalio, which is an engraving or incised figure in stone or other hard material. can you spell intaglio? yeah, i had no idea that s what that word was. no idea. also, schadenfreude, another word i use but have no idea how to spell. obviously it s the enjoyment obtained from the mishaps of others. s-c-h-a-d-e-n, if-r-e-u-d-e. what? there s no u up there? seriously? mow about mahaut. a person who keeps and drives an elephant. spell mahout. m-a-h-o-u-t. okay. mahout. sure. sophia and kush did so well with these backup words the organizers had no choice but to call it a day and schedule again a rematch. a rematch. they ran out of words. they went to a second thing of words that they made up and they ran out of those too. by all accounts sophia and kush in kansas city were totally nice to each other the whole time. they high fived.
it should be treated as such. frank zappa testified in congress in 1985, called it an ill conceived piece of nonsense which fails to deliver benefits to children and infringes on the civil liberties of people who are not children. he was very articulate in making his case. he was actually kind of the hit of those hearings. particularly because of this amazing exchange with a florida senator named paula hawkins. behold. senator hawkins. you say you have four children? yes. pardon me? four children. have you ever purchased toys for those children? no, my wife does. well, i might tell you that if you were to go in a toy store which is very educational for fathers, by the way, it s not a maternal responsibility to buy toys for children, that you may look on the box and the box says, this is suitable for 5 to 7 years of age or 8 to 15 or 15 and above to give you some guidance for a toy for child. do you object to that? in a way, i do. because that means that some