Did anyone watch the national spelling bee last night...sm

• Did anyone watch the national spelling bee last night...sm - Georgia Peach
  • No, but a friend called me and informed me that someone with my name was a judge, LOL nm - jade
  • You and me both - LinK
    • You did better than me then - ER MT
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7 of the 10 finalists are Indian.. probably American raised, but there were a few parents in the audience in Indian garb.  The winner's last name is Shivashankar (sp!).  Man, though, all these kids are really sharp!  They were allowed to ask questions about the origin of the words, etc. 

How many of us MT's are former spelling bee winners?  I bet lots.  8th grade county champ here.  My final word was ptomaine. 

in Africa and in the Adirondacks in this country and NOLA.  This was not the usual american idol - no one got booted off the show and they collected MILLIONS of dollars during this 2-hour special.

Unless you watched it last night, best hold your tongue because you have no clue.......last night was not a REALITY show American Idol -

AGAIN, IT WAS A TELETHON.......

Lord, did that hostess with him  talk to no end.  I couldn't believe it.  Everytime he'd start to say something, she'd butt in and yak, yak, yak.  She was talking nonstop.  And saying the same thing over and over.  Also, did you see when Wolfgang Puck sneezed into to the towel?  THen he wiped pans and the counter with it?  Then I noticed not too long after that he put some fritata on a plate and gave it to the talkative host and I didn't see her take a bite, in fact when the camera shot back to her she had put it down. It was so funny.  I have to hand it  Mr. Puck for the amount of patience he showed with Ms. Butt-In-Ski.  Well, I guess t.v. has really gone downhill when you end up enjoying the commercials more than the shows, but I do...especially when they are selling cookware.

First time in a long time I agreed with most of the choices they picked for winners.

I was especially thrilled when whatever category someone from the HBO series "John Adams" was up for they won.  What an excellent and superb series that was.  I went and bought it when it came to DVD and I have watched it many many many times.

I was also equally thrilled that whatever Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were affiliated with did not win anything.  That really made my night. 

There were a couple Hollyweird people I lost what little respect I had for them.  Glenn Close.  When they announced the foreign winner (some Israel movie) they showed her face and you could tell she was very angry about that.  And the other was Angelina Jolie.  My DH had told me earlier yesterday that there was trouble because Angelina was stating something about Ann Hathaway "kissing her way into Hollywood" or something along those lines, and when they announced Anne's name for one of the awards they tuned in to Angelina's face and she gave Brad a look that I can't even describe, but it was obvious what she was thinking. 

Anyway.....loved the Globes last night. 

I thought a much better group last night than in the weeks past. Von opened with a bang and Adrianna I thought not only pretty but a pretty good voice. I missed the song with the next to last guy, from Puerto Rico but think he was pretty good and of course the hit of the night probably last of all Lil Rounds. Well, 2 more nights of this but I still don’t like how they are choosing the 3 up front this year, makes for an uninspiring Idol this year, in my opinion.

a little unusual, not quite the norm. Although my daughter is Kalyn and she gets called Kaitlyn a lot.

I was in 5th grade -- boy were the 6th graders mad.  I was also on the 5th grade 3-kid all-star scholastic quiz team (kind of like jeopardy) and we beat the 6th graders that year, too!  We didn't get to compete any further than within our own building. 

Of course, as for the spelling bee last night, I only watched the last few rounds, but I couldn't spell any of those words.  Whew!  I was surprised at the questions they were allowed to ask.  We were only allowed to ask definition and to use it in a sentence.  The one last night asked what the root word was -- I'm not sure that should have been allowed. 

Anyway, the winner definitely earned it! 

Who would want your rudeness around their children or good neighbors anyway?  Since you seem to be just a judgmental person, perhaps there is some utopia somewhere for the likes of folks like you....hmmmmm?  We wouldn't want you in the city nor the country as neighbors of our family, that's for sure, and WE DON'T IMBIBE...so there!

Rudeness and hate is taught in the home - now we know how it was for you.....poor thing....

wrong. I study dog breeds, know every one in the dog shows, etc. and then made that fo-pa.  Not intentional, I assure you.  They had the Pembroke and Cardigan. You would have loved it.

Yes. You must make a point to see this next year. It is so adorable and a change of pace for those of us who don't watch the football game. They have them on what looks like a football field with lots of toys and they are all running around, and they play a sound track in the bakground that sounds like fans cherring in the crowd! 

Oh man, sorry about that.  Nothing worse than getting a name wrong.