National Spelling Bee

PJPixie

Yeah, that's what I'm up to tonight. Smart fucking kids!

stylo17

PJPixie wrote:

Yeah, that's what I'm up to tonight. Smart fucking kids!

yeaaaaaaaaaaa






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vedderfan10

And there's 3 Canadian kids in the Scripps semi-finals....maybe it needs to be called the International Spelling Bee..But yeah, amazingly smart kids! Have you ever seen that movie "Spellbound"? Very cool documentary about the world of the spelling bee. Quite interesting!

What the heck is a parfleche?

g under p

Vedderfan10 wrote:

And there's 3 Canadian kids in the Scripps semi-finals....maybe it needs to be called the International Spelling Bee..But yeah, amazingly smart kids! Have you ever seen that movie "Spellbound"? Very cool documentary about the world of the spelling bee. Quite interesting!

What the heck is a parfleche?

The National Geographic Bee is not too bad either. Talk about being international, it's all about the whole world.

Peace

PJPixie

WHOA! I watched that spelling bee for 2 straight hours. I can't believe how nervous I got for those kids!

sponger

Reminds me of when I was a kid. I was an especially smart young lad. I made it to the school-wide competition after beating everyone in my class, but I didn't make it past the first round I think. I think I may have made it to the second round. This was the third grade, and I had never really given any thought to spelling bees anyway.

PJPixie

sponger wrote:

Reminds me of when I was a kid. I was an especially smart young lad. I made it to the school-wide competition after beating everyone in my class, but I didn't make it past the first round I think. I think I may have made it to the second round. This was the third grade, and I had never really given any thought to spelling bees anyway.

Smart is HOT!

sponger

PJPixie wrote:

Smart is HOT!

Funny...I didn't start getting laid until I learned how to act like a complete dumbass. Girls like dumb guys. When smart guys get laid, it's because they have money.

PJPixie

sponger wrote:

Funny...I didn't start getting laid until I learned how to act like a complete dumbass. Girls like dumb guys. When smart guys get laid, it's because they have money.

I like a guy that can do a serious math problem.......that just turns me on.
Or, he can spell ORGASM.....and not just his OWN!

the wolf

PJPixie wrote:

I like a guy that can do a serious math problem.......that just turns me on.
Or, he can spell ORGASM.....and not just his OWN!

you forgot the I in the big O ! lol. not picking on you, i cant spell worth a crap!! but i just thought it was funny that this thread is about a spelling bee and all. : )

sponger

But, seriously though...I know this is probably some form of bragging in some respects...

In the 8th grade was I contacted by Johns Hopkins University's Center For Talented Youth and offered enrollment in their summer programs which would've included among other things SAT preparation courses. I was scoring 99's across the board in the State's standardized testing.

But, for some reason, I was waay more interested in acting cool, which subsequently resulted in getting laid at an obscene frequency.

In fact it wasn't until I dropped out of high school and became a total screw-up that I had an unlimited amount of friends, sexually active relationships, and just some of the best times I've had in my entire life.

It's one reason why I think society is geared to head straight into the toilet. It just doesn't pay to be smart when being smart matters most -which is in high school of course.

I remember a scene in a Simpson's episode when a teenaged fast food worker drops something in the french fry vat and burns his arm while trying to fish the object out with his bare hands.

He goes, "If only I had a girlfriend..." He says something after that which I forgot.

I did the same exact thing when I was working at a deli when I was this fucked up, screwed up teenager. I dropped a wash rag into the french fry vat and I burned my hand trying to fish it out. It was written up as an injury and I got chewed out for basically being stupid.

Well, later that night, my blonde, large-breasted, beautiful-as-all-hell g/f drove 20 minutes to my house to give me a blow-job after I called her to tell her that I was in pain from my burn.

At least at that age, girls think it's "cute" when guys are fucking dumbasses with no future.

Later on in life when the smart guys are making bank, those girls become women who know better.

Anyhow...so the moral of my diatribe is that these kids, in spite of being true gods amongst their peers, will have to endure their adolescence as social outcasts who probably won't even get laid until their mid-20's at the earliest. It's what's wrong with society.

SENROCK

PJPixie wrote:

Yeah, that's what I'm up to tonight. Smart fucking kids!

dude. what the effin FLOW?! we were WAITING FOR YOUUUUUUUU!!!!! you never im'd back or called and we thought u were on your way!!!!!! WE WERE WORRIED PIXXX!!!!!!!!!!! call one of us asap-you know the number!

jeffbr

sponger wrote:

It's one reason why I think society is geared to head straight into the toilet. It just doesn't pay to be smart when being smart matters most -which is in high school of course.

It depends on how you're smart, I suppose. If you're smart AND socially retarded, then yes, I'd agree with you. But those things don't have to be mutually exclusive. My kids are national honor society members, take honors and AP classes, and those classes are full of "popular" kids, athletes, etc.. who still like to go out, have fun, have parties, participate in competitive sports, do lots of extracurricular activities, etc...

Back to the spelling bee, how about that 12 year old who finished 2nd. The kid had a mustache!