Friday, June 01, 2007

Serrefine

Mike Theiler/European Pressphoto Agency
The face of the uberbee who knocks out the other 285 bees.

Every year, the nerdy geeky kids get to embarrass adults like me that really can't write or spell. The kiddie blood sport that's called Scripps National Spelling Bee is carried live on ESPN and ABC, both owned by the Mickey Mouse company.

This year, the last nerd standing was 13-year old Evan O'Dorney from California, who beat the other 285 nerds to become the ubernerd that can spell words like "serrefine."

I can't spell any of the words mentioned in the last round.

Additional reading from the New York Times.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous9:47 PM

    What does it mean?
    I can't find it in my American Heritage dictionary.

    Vincent

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  2. It's a small forceps for clamping a blood vessel.

    Google is your friend.

    See here or here.

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