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Numb nut?!: This year's National Spelling Bee highlight
Every year, there's always one great moment at the National Spelling Bee. Three years ago a kid did a "Napolean Dynamite" impression. (He later wrote about on it on OS&RR's comments area: "My mom slapped me across the face; left a mark."). Last Friday, the crowd broke up when a boy was asked to spell what sounded like "Numb Nut." That wasn't exactly it. Here's the YouTube video.
June 2, 2008 | Permalink
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i weep for the numb nuts of today
Posted by: AngrySockMonkey | Jun 2, 2008 12:59:55 PM
I saw this on the news this morning.
Hysterical...
numb nuts.
Umm, numb nuts?
numb nuts.
Numb Nuts??
(definition)
OHHHHHHH!
Posted by: Anna | Jun 2, 2008 1:11:39 PM
that was truly funny. it really did sound like the first time they guy said it he said "numb nuts" and to add insult to injury you can hear someone say "what did he call him? Numb Nuts" LOL
Posted by: cherie | Jun 2, 2008 1:21:51 PM
The orator is definitely a Numb Nut!.
Posted by: Anna | Jun 2, 2008 1:42:45 PM
My funny moment from this year was when a girl from California asked the orator to pronounce "canicular" in a California accent.
Posted by: andie | Jun 2, 2008 2:32:31 PM
I'm sorry andie, but why is that funny?
Posted by: Reno | Jun 2, 2008 2:39:41 PM
I'm a native Californian and most of us don't think we have an accent. I couldn't imagine someone trying to affect a "California accent." I envisioned the orator putting on a "valley girl" accent (which is stereotypically what most think of when they hear CA accent)
Posted by: andie | Jun 2, 2008 2:44:45 PM
andie - ya better give us the California phonetic spelling version or the rest of us won't get it...
Posted by: Anna | Jun 2, 2008 2:45:27 PM
Like, oh my God! I so totally get it now! Thanks!
Posted by: Reno | Jun 2, 2008 3:21:50 PM
I'm sorry! I do not get it!
Please do not hate me!
Posted by: Anna | Jun 2, 2008 4:05:57 PM
Anna, I'm guessing in California canicular is said something like can-ick-you-ler. It probably doesn't sound like that if someone from say, Alabama says it.
Posted by: Reno | Jun 2, 2008 4:08:03 PM
Like, totally canicular dude!
Posted by: mianne | Jun 2, 2008 4:33:39 PM
Thanks, Reno, for the education.
EWWW!
Sorry for dragging it out...
Illinois is a very long ways from California.
Chicago has it's own vernacular.
Now I totally require some brain bleach....
Posted by: Anna | Jun 2, 2008 4:40:01 PM
that was good
Posted by: chris n cali | Jun 2, 2008 6:48:23 PM
er, Napoleon?
Posted by: Ken | Jun 2, 2008 9:59:15 PM
Dude....that totaly blows! Cali native
Posted by: Lisa | Jun 3, 2008 12:46:38 AM
so very entertaining
Posted by: ULTRA | Jun 3, 2008 4:40:01 AM
I read a book about all this a few years ago. Some of these kids, all they do is study for the "big show" and hope they make it. Aside from their schoolwork, studying the lists is all they do.
Posted by: Swangirl | Jun 3, 2008 6:33:17 AM
This kid's no numb nut!
Posted by: Phranqlin | Jun 3, 2008 6:49:21 AM
Hey Anna,
Youse guys ever bin tuh Sisro 'n' Burwin?
I'm frum dere.
I also lived in Nort Rivrside an' Downrz Grave.
Posted by: A.V. | Jun 3, 2008 7:44:07 AM
