Boy Collapses at Spelling Bee, Nails Word

[rumguy]

"The National Spelling Bee took a scary turn Thursday when a 13-year-old Colorado boy appeared to faint and collapsed on stage, drawing gasps from an audience packed in for the finals. Akshay Buddiga gathered himself after a few seconds, stood up and, to the amazement of the judges, immediately started spelling his word: 'alopecoid.'"

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=1&u=/ap/20040603/ap_on_re_us/spelling_bee_13


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[NicoleM]

1. These kids are amazing.

A-M-A-Z-I-N-G, amazing.

There was a math competition on The Deuce this morning, and holy cow, those kids were freaky geniuses. They had the answers before the guy finished reading the question (they had monitors on which they could see the questions while the guy read them).

[Lavender Brown]

2. There's a great movie about the National Spelling Bee

Spellbound. The kids are so driven, its scary.

[BBradley]

3. I don't understand these competitions.

Aren't the kind of y'know, useless?

[markses]

5. Oh, yer in trouble now!

Soon you will be accosted by every DUer who was ever picked on as a kid, and become the object of their long-festering resentment. It's over for you, bully boy! The nerds will have their revenge! Revenge, I say! Reveeeeeenge! :evilgrin:

[markses]

4. Freaks

That's right. They're freaks. To each his or her own, I guess, but they're still little freaky-freaks.

[mmm]

6. Funkin' whiz kids - singing the whiz kid blues

'little freaky-freaks' -
I'll have to write that one down for use
at a later date

[NicoleM]

7. He got 2nd place.

A kid from Indiana won.

[markses]

8. Thanks for ruining that

So much for high suspense on CSPAN...

[NicoleM]

10. ESPN.

They carried it live.

[markses]

11. You do a great service

with the spoilers.

[NicoleM]

12. Seriously?

For reals? It's the freakin' spelling bee!

[Paragon]

9. "'faint'...F-A-I-Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn"

:silly:

[Dookus]

13. did they show the fainting?

I just recorded it on ESPN, but didn't see the part where he fainted. But the coverage seemed to start partway into it.