Hilarious Spelling Bee words/definitions/ and sentences, anyone?

[zunit1234]

Posted: 3/29/10 at 5:54pm

Since seeing The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee quite a few times back in 2005 it remains one of my favorites, recently, I've been trying to remember some of the funniest moments from the show.
I figured this would make a fun topic to discuss because who doesn't love laughing at these funny moments, right?!

Some favorites of mine:



*** I suppose this could be considered a potential SPOILER if you haven't seen the show/plan on being a speller (unless you want to cheat, I guess - which I in no way condone lol) *****

Atheist
A person who does not believe in the existence of a God or an afterlife
“Because she was an atheist, Suzie was not bothered by the other kids chanting: ‘Go to hell Suzie, go to hell”

Strabismus
The inability of one eye to obtain binocular vision with the other because of an imbalance of the muscles of the eyeball
In the schoolyard, Bully protested that he wasn’t cockeyed. ‘”I suffer from strabismus” he said, whereupon the bullies beat him harder.

"Catarjunes"
"an old Nantucket whaling term; its only known use in printed history was in a captain's log entry
'The time of judgment is upon us; the leviathan has come—catarjunes!'"

Phylactery: Either of two small square leather boxes containing religious texts traditionally worn on the left arm and head by Jewish me during morning weekday prayers
Scentence: Billy put down that phylactery- we're Episcopalian.

And when Al Sharpton lost on the tony awards!
Dengue – An infectious disease transmitted by mosquitoes and categorized by headache, joint-pain, skin rash, and severe diarrhea
“When the Pediatrician asked Billy to describe the symptoms of his Dengue, he said: It was like there was a race out of my tushie, and everybody won.”



does anyone out there have any funny memories of funny words or whatever that they'd like to share?

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 3/29/10 at 5:57pm

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1010280

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=878896&boardid=1

[AwesomeDanny]

Posted: 3/29/10 at 6:15pm

When I saw the show back in June, a bald man was described as "recovering from a recent case of head lice". Also, Logan mentioned something about the South Carolina Governor who had just had an affair at the time. She said "my Grandma says he is an example of an conservative man with a liberal--" and I think she was cut off at that point, I just know she didn't say the word "penis".

Posted: 3/29/10 at 6:26pm

I think they should add this word to Spelling Bee....
Negus

[zunit1234]

Posted: 3/29/10 at 7:03pm

Thanks Lizzie

I literally searched and searched and didn't see those for whatever reason :/

But thank you, that is what I had in mind

[singtopher]

Posted: 3/30/10 at 12:11am

In the Chicago production whenever there was a bad snow storm, they would pull out "Blizzard" and the sentence was "Who in their right mind would go to the theatre in a Blizzard?"