The Times Spelling Bee
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The Times Spelling Bee
Myself and three other boys from 1st year from our school will be competing against 699 other schools across the UK in a spelling bee held by the times.
Our heats are on the 23rd March in the Odeon cinema in Victoria Square, Belfast.
It will be tough but I think watching Countdown will have helped me.
Our heats are on the 23rd March in the Odeon cinema in Victoria Square, Belfast.
It will be tough but I think watching Countdown will have helped me.
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Spell RELATIONS.
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RHEELAISHINSKai Laddiman wrote:Spell RELATIONS.
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RHEELAISHUNS more like. Tut tut tut.Eoin Monaghan wrote:RHEELAISHINSKai Laddiman wrote:Spell RELATIONS.
16/10/2007 - Episode 4460
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
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Awesome. Hopefully DYSPNOEA will come up. Good luck
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Do you mean ORIENTALS?Kai Laddiman wrote:Spell RELATIONS.
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thanksDinos Sfyris wrote:Awesome. Hopefully DYSPNOEA will come up. Good luck
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Shouldn't that be the Timesed By Spelling Bee?
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Is it two halves of a competition or two competitions? Prove by induction that being good at Countdown and spelling are related.Michael Wallace wrote:Shouldn't that be the Timesed By Spelling Bee?
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16/10/2007 - Episode 4460
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
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Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
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Good luck Eoin
Keep us informed how it goes mate.
Keep us informed how it goes mate.
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The best of luck to you EoinEoin Monaghan wrote:Myself and three other boys from 1st year from our school will be competing against 699 other schools across the UK in a spelling bee held by the times.
Our heats are on the 23rd March in the Odeon cinema in Victoria Square, Belfast.
It will be tough but I think watching Countdown will have helped me.
This reminds me of the South Park episode "Hooked On Monkey Phonics" when Kyle had to spell the word KROCSYLDIPHITHIC
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Good luck! Some of the younger people in my school (I think it's year 7s) are taking part too, but I didn't know it was this big! If only competitions like these had been around in my youth...
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Thanks everyone- I promise to tell you's how it goes.
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Hear hear.Hannah O wrote:Good luck! Some of the younger people in my school (I think it's year 7s) are taking part too, but I didn't know it was this big! If only competitions like these had been around in my youth...
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Never got to you yesterday (sorry). But...
We came joint 2nd and lost by just 1 point, one more word would have won it for us.
We came joint 2nd and lost by just 1 point, one more word would have won it for us.
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Well done Eoin. 2nd out of 699. That's quite an achievement! What words did they throw at you? My mind's now racing back to that Simpsons episode where Lisa's in the Spellympics, which is rigged so the cute kid wins. They ask someone to spell WEATHER/WHETHER and then when she asks them to use it in a sentence they say "I don't know whether the weather will be good." Classic.
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Funny, I was thinking of the Will & Grace episode where Jack enters the gay spelling bee ("hosted by Club Foot"). "The word is TAFFETA." "Can you use it in a sentence, please?" "I like taffeta." You had to be there.Dinos Sfyris wrote:My mind's now racing back to that Simpsons episode where Lisa's in the Spellympics, which is rigged so the cute kid wins. They ask someone to spell WEATHER/WHETHER and then when she asks them to use it in a sentence they say "I don't know whether the weather will be good." Classic.
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You did extremely well Eoin. Well done.
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Lol I remember. Jack won because his opponent couldn't get erectPhil Reynolds wrote:Funny, I was thinking of the Will & Grace episode where Jack enters the gay spelling bee ("hosted by Club Foot"). "The word is TAFFETA." "Can you use it in a sentence, please?" "I like taffeta." You had to be there.Dinos Sfyris wrote:My mind's now racing back to that Simpsons episode where Lisa's in the Spellympics, which is rigged so the cute kid wins. They ask someone to spell WEATHER/WHETHER and then when she asks them to use it in a sentence they say "I don't know whether the weather will be good." Classic.
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Haha. Yeah, I'd forgotten that. I've just found the script here - when that series was on form, the speed at which those quality one-liners kept coming was breathtaking.Dinos Sfyris wrote:Lol I remember. Jack won because his opponent couldn't get erectPhil Reynolds wrote:Funny, I was thinking of the Will & Grace episode where Jack enters the gay spelling bee
My favourite ever W&G line (which I'd imagine a substantial proportion of people watching didn't get) was in the episode where Kevin Bacon appeared as himself:
KEVIN: When the stalkers leave, it's the first sign that your career is slipping. It's a little titbit I picked up from Val Kilmer.
WILL: You... you did a movie with Val Kilmer?
KEVIN: No, but Val was in Top Gun with Tom Cruise, and Tom was in A Few Good Men with me.
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Ha, Erdos would be proud. If the rest of it was that clever then I would actually watch Will & Grace, but what little I've seen of it was just really really annoying.Phil Reynolds wrote: My favourite ever W&G line (which I'd imagine a substantial proportion of people watching didn't get) was in the episode where Kevin Bacon appeared as himself:
KEVIN: When the stalkers leave, it's the first sign that your career is slipping. It's a little titbit I picked up from Val Kilmer.
WILL: You... you did a movie with Val Kilmer?
KEVIN: No, but Val was in Top Gun with Tom Cruise, and Tom was in A Few Good Men with me.
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Homophobic poofter.Charlie Reams wrote:If the rest of it was that clever then I would actually watch Will & Grace, but what little I've seen of it was just really really annoying.
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It annoyed me in the same way that 4 Poofs And A Piano annoys me, like these characters have nothing to offer except their sexuality. Still, I guess I'd rather see that than the not-so-latent homophobia of a lot of '60s and '70s sitcoms.Phil Reynolds wrote:Homophobic poofter.Charlie Reams wrote:If the rest of it was that clever then I would actually watch Will & Grace, but what little I've seen of it was just really really annoying.
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I guess it's all a question of personal perspective - Four Poofs and a Piano annoy me because they're lazy and don't put enough effort into rehearsing their harmony arrangements. The week before last, even Jonathan Ross commented on how shoddy one of their offerings sounded.Charlie Reams wrote:It annoyed me in the same way that 4 Poofs And A Piano annoys me, like these characters have nothing to offer except their sexuality.
With W&G, I think the humour would be pretty limited if it were true that the characters had nothing to offer besides their sexuality. In fact, most of Jack's funny lines stemmed from his being dumb and self-centred. I suppose that could be taken as offensive if it were implied that those characteristics were somehow related to his sexuality; but in the same show you also had gay Will, who was smart and selfless, so the writers could have their cake and eat it.
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Will & Grace is great.
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Personally I think they overdo the whole Will & Grace "will they, won't they?" angle.Jon O'Neill wrote:Will & Grace is great.
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I used to watch it when it was in its prime. Like CSI I think it took a real downturn after series 5 or 6 (nothing compared to Quentin Tarantino's Grave Danger CSI double episode afterwards). The gay spelling bee is one of my favourite W&G episodes and I just remembered my favourite snippet from it where Jack's practicing spelling gay words with Karen:Phil Reynolds wrote:Haha. Yeah, I'd forgotten that. I've just found the script here - when that series was on form, the speed at which those quality one-liners kept coming was breathtaking.Dinos Sfyris wrote:Lol I remember. Jack won because his opponent couldn't get erectPhil Reynolds wrote:Funny, I was thinking of the Will & Grace episode where Jack enters the gay spelling bee
My favourite ever W&G line (which I'd imagine a substantial proportion of people watching didn't get) was in the episode where Kevin Bacon appeared as himself:
KEVIN: When the stalkers leave, it's the first sign that your career is slipping. It's a little titbit I picked up from Val Kilmer.
WILL: You... you did a movie with Val Kilmer?
KEVIN: No, but Val was in Top Gun with Tom Cruise, and Tom was in A Few Good Men with me.
Karen: The word is... doily
Jack: Doily?
Karen: Doily.
Jack: Hmmm... doily... can you use it in a sentence please.
Karen: He walked doily down the street.
Jack: Oh, doily! (demonstrating with hand gestures) D - O - I - L - Y. Doily.
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Ha yeah, and from the same scene:Dinos Sfyris wrote:The gay spelling bee is one of my favourite W&G episodes and I just remembered my favourite snippet from it where Jack's practicing spelling gay words with Karen:
Karen: The word is... doily
Jack: Doily?
Karen: Doily.
Jack: Hmmm... doily... can you use it in a sentence please.
Karen: He walked doily down the street.
Jack: Oh, doily! (demonstrating with hand gestures) D - O - I - L - Y. Doily.
Jack: (whining) Spelling is so hard. It's not nearly as glamorous as it looks in the movies.