Good News for NCS (and other people from Big D)
 

It's not the heat, it's the humidity, desert girl.

Edited to say, Dammit! Not fast enough.

Good News for NCS (and other people from Big D)
 

Congrats goes out to Sai R. Gunturi, who went from 32d in 2000, to 16th in 2001, to 7th in 2002, to #1 in 2003. Goes to show that there's a lot of value in having been there before -- the old "bet on the team that lost in the semi-finals or finals last year" theory that's made me a lot of money over the years (Ahem, New Jersey Nets, I'm talking to you now). Sai plays violin and studies Indian classical music. And he's quite easy on the eyes as well. Here's the link cause I'm feeling dumb.
http://www.spellingbee.com/03bios/090.shtml

I was rooting for the girl from Kingston, Jamaica who would shout "Thank you sir" after receiving a response to each inquiry. She tied for 3d.

Kid stuff
 

Since so many of you seem to have forgotten your suburban roots, allow me to bring you up to speed. Kids still have Lite-Brite, spirograph, and Operation, not to mention Easy Bake Ovens. Sinclair gas stations are around, but I never go to the one near my house because it costs 10 cents more than Sam’s Club and 3 cents more than Shell. Lots and lots of people have trampolines, including almost every one of my Mormon friends. I think it must be a church requirement of some kind. Kids still do Miss Mary Mack.

I wonder what our kids will reminisce about. SpongeBob Squarepants, Bratz, PlayStation 2, and Apple Jacks that come in orange and green only?

Good News for NCS (and other people from Big D)
 

Trudy rocked, but I was pulling for the 9 year old.

Good News for NCS (and other people from Big D)
 

I was rooting for him too. I was crushed that he was a Texan and didn't know how to spell boudin. Maybe they don't have cajun food in Ft. Worth.

Good News for NCS (and other people from Big D)
 

Apropos of nothing, but this spelling bee/math competition on ESPN thing is yet another sign of the impending Apocolypse. Back in the day, ESPN used to show Australian rules football. Now we get to watch geek kids spelling words that exist only in dictionaries? Jesus!

Evolution of language
 

You, my dear, are in danger of being branded a socktease.

I feel so old
 

So I get home to see some young thing chasing a dog. I had just opened my door and the dog came running over to me. He tried to get into my apartment so I closed it. Turned around and met my apparently new neighbor. She tells me it is her best friend's dog. Her best friend, she tells me, might be moving in with her, cause, well, it is scary living alone. Remember that kid from Blossom, six was it? It was kind of like talking to six.

Anyway, I said it is? She says, well I am only 22 and this is my first apartment. I am thinking damn, I lived on my own from the time I was 18, and had my first apartment, alone, when I was 20. What's the big deal? Instead I nodded knowingly and said, yes that is young, and this is kind of the middle of nowhere.

Anyway, she asks me my name. And then she wants to know, would I like to hang out sometime.

Hang out?

My god, I felt like saying, my mom won't let me play after work.

Instead I just said, um, sure.

Next she says, wow you live all alone? I said, well, um, I'm 30.

I couldn't think of anything else to say. I felt like saying except for the occasional woman I like to fuck who spends the night....wanna come over? We can hang out ;)

Is it such a big deal to live alone?

Oh well, a somewhat amusing anecdote for the day.

Good News for NCS (and other people from Big D)
 

I suspect places from up and down I 35 are currently preparing boxes of boudin for his family.

I feel so old
 

Amazing. The BBC recently told that same story. Only they stretched it to three agonizing hours by repeatedly finding new artless neighbor girls to turn into jaded lesbians.

"Tipping the Velvet" was hardly worth the recockulous effort to remake "Moulin Rouge" with a couple of tame girl-on-girl sex scenes. I'm giving the BBC the finger (this week).

I feel so old
 

Was a good book, but it dragged on. I saw only a moment or two of the movie. It was the part with the strap on.

Which, I believe, we consider to not be vanilla in the Fashion rules.

Damn. Now not only am I old, I am jaded.

Good News for NCS (and other people from Big D)
 

And sometimes, not even in dictionaries!! (I had to look up more words than I'd like to admit from that list -- and several of them weren't in any of the on-line dictionaries I know about; I had to google them.)

I guess I am dum.

Evolution of language
 

Wonk doesn't use "lines." If I can't charm you with my wit and joie de vivre, then I'd probably just fall asleep on you anyway.

Tax(fuck me, I'm gonna die soon)wonk

Kid stuff
 

I would hope this has been answered already, but you're thinking of Mystery Date

"will he be a dream? Or a dud?"

Kid stuff
 

Yes! That's it! We had it, too, but I think we may have been missing some pieces or something, or maybe the rules, because we never did figure out how to play it and have any fun. I loved the cardboard gal playing pieces with the little plastic base.

tm
who's saving the Easy-Bake Oven in her basement for when Magnus is a little older (the new ones don't work as well, probably because of new CPSC rules or something)