In 5th grade I lost on "restaurant." I've never spelled that word wrong since.
We have to see the chimp playing hockey! That's hilarious! The ice is so slippery, and, and monkeys are all irrational. We have to see this!
Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Scrappy - May 31, 2007 11:05:44 am PDT #225 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Daisy Jane - May 31, 2007 11:06:19 am PDT #226 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I always spell it wrong. I mostly avoid using it while writing.
Hil R. - May 31, 2007 11:08:39 am PDT #227 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The other person from my school got out of the seventh-grade bee on "restaurateur."
amych - May 31, 2007 11:14:16 am PDT #228 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
4th grade, "Massachusetts" (I swapped the double-S near the beginning and the single-S in the middle. And I was freakin' BORN THERE!)
It's too bad you can't generalize from that incredibly clear memory of the one word you spelled wrong that one time to correct all those other words you keep spelling wrong even now. (And by "you", I mean "me".)
Kathy A - May 31, 2007 11:17:26 am PDT #229 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I couldn't get the spelling of "separate" right until I was in college, and a co-worker at the library told me his mnemonic for remembering it: "Just remember--there's always 'a rat' in 'separate'!" (I always spelled it "seperate".)
aurelia - May 31, 2007 11:17:54 am PDT #230 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Nope. Just poof, gone.
Huh. I'm so out of the loop on the whole thing.
I can identify with the kid mixing up the j and g. I was eliminated from a bee by spelling "journey" with a g. I totally thought I had said "j". But since I wasn't all that interested in being up on stage it didn't bother me much.
Oooh, thunderstorm. Makes me want to nap.
ChiKat - May 31, 2007 11:28:11 am PDT #231 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Good thunderstorm. And I just got home, so perfect timing. Yay me!
Dana - May 31, 2007 11:54:01 am PDT #232 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
P.M. Marc - May 31, 2007 11:59:27 am PDT #233 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I can't speak and spell. Have to write it.
I've always hated spelling bees. I spell fairly well, generally speaking. Bees were torture and hell.
Steph L. - May 31, 2007 12:06:26 pm PDT #234 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I love Buffistas. Of COURSE we all remember what word we spelled incorrectly in the spelling bee! (Grade 6, city-wide bee, "smorgasbord." I thought it had an "A" in the "b-o-r-d" part.)
Any idea what is objectionable about a spelling bee?
According to one of the Spelling Bee blogs I've been following, "the contest has drawn a good sized crowd of protesters who are demanding an increase in the number of words that are spelled phonetically. I kid you not."
I think this picture says it all. I wish this were a joke, but it's not.
I can't speak and spell. Have to write it.
Man, ever since grade school, my friends and family have used me as walking, talking spellcheck.