Top Colorado speller emerges from duel (FR Member's politicket's Son)

Rocky Mountain News ^ | March 21, 2005 | Ann Carnahan

[politicket]

(I was their coach) Thought I'd better get this in before one of them zings me with the obvious answer.

It sure is a good thing that kids are resilient!

Did I spell 'resilient' right?

[GSWarrior]

I won third place in the Mesa County spellling bee once...of course there weren't as many words back then....

[JerseyHighlander]

felicitations and panegyrical venerations to you!

[BurbankKarl]

I am surprised they didnt disqualify him like in CA.

[jla]

Congratulations & best of luck to your son in the nat'l contest!

[eyespysomething]

Congrats to your son! Tell him we'll be praying for him to do his best in DC!

[Graybeard58]

bttt

[politicket]

felicitations and panegyrical venerations to you!

I think that I can say 'Thanks!' to that. ;-)

[politicket]

Thanks! We'll take all of the prayer that we can get. He's currently up to his kneecaps in Greek and Latin roots as I type this...

[politicket]

I am surprised they didnt disqualify him like in CA.

I hadn't heard about this. What was the story?

[BurbankKarl]

Some kid in Sacramento was disqualified because he wasn't in the public schools.

[anymouse]

Congratulations to your son for winning the CO spelling bee.

Kudos to you for preparing him for it.

[Horatio Gates]

Congrats to your son! Obviously a product of superior parenting. Good job.

[msmagoo54]

Wow! I just love stories like this one.

Congratulations to your son - and to his teacher.

You must be thrilled.

[politicket]

Congrats to your son! Obviously a product of superior parenting. Good job.

Thanks! My wife does a tremendous job teaching, and THANKFULLY he takes after her on abilities! ;-)

[politicket]

Thanks! We are very excited and can't wait to see what God has in store for us in Washington, D.C.

It's kind of funny that things worked out this way since my son was the only child in the bee that wasn't really trying to win it. We were actually pulling for the boy that came in 3rd (Gabriel) to win since it was his last year of eligibility.

When the competition was down to just 3 boys, and it was Gabriel's turn to spell, my son would whisper: "Gabriel, spell this word correctly. You have to win!" It was kind of funny to watch a competitor that was pulling for the competition.

[Boazo]

That's good news,Congratulations

[politicket]

Thank you very much! (And I like your tag line...)

[Critter]

WTG kid! Dang it's nice to just read something decent and uplifting for a change!

[Explorer89]

It has been nearly 25 years since I spelled attempting to get to Washington (didn't make it :) and just reading the story still gives me butterflies. Congratulations!

On an aside, I recently saw a story about the Prince Georges County winner (suburban Maryland, outside of DC) and her winning word was "labyrinth" after her competitor mis-spelled "rutabaga". I cringed. Those were the winning words? And I got bumped for "mnioid" for the love of all that's holy?