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[earthrimroamer]

From MSN.com--

P-O-C-O-C-U-R-A-N-T-E: Couldn't tell you what it means, but to National Spelling Bee champ Sai Gunturi it was worth $12,000 and a lifetime of living up to what you accomplished at 13 -- and worth a priceless amount to the Dallas junior-high bullies who covet rare bee-champ beatings.
I find this particularly amusing, given that I

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[verbomaniac]

spelling bees are fun only as long as you keep winning, heh, i didnt get as far as nationals, you must be a psychotically good speller! :) go you!

[earthrimroamer]

"Psychotically good speller" is a good way of describing the other kids in the competition. Even the kickoff luau was tinged with the intoxicating flavor of blood and really big words.

After the competition was over, we had a bonfire of the official Spelling Bee study book, the Paideia, and the champ that year "mysteriously" burned her dominant hand.

It's intense stuff.

[anniefee]

what?! i don't remember this! what bonfire? what champ with a burned hand? i thought a guy won that year

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[earthrimroamer]

It was advertised on the Spelling Bee Bulletin Board. The champ was Wendy Guey, not a dude. She was from Palm Beach or somesuch.