Saturday, March 14, 2009

Hey!  Good News From Sheboygan!

A seventh-grader’s correct spelling of another name for catfish snagged first place Saturday at the Badger Spelling Bee at Monona High School.

Twelve-year-old Andrew Grose, who attends Lake Country Academy in Sheboygan, correctly spelled nematognath to advance to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in May in Washington, D.C.


As far as we know, this kid has not been stuck in the snow trying to steal a car, nearly hit a police car while driving drunk, burgled his mom for drug money, tied his pit bull outside in a snowstorm, tried to pick a lock to a bar with his library card—then left the card behind, or dropped a load of meat on the highway. 

I’d say he’s off to a great start in life, though I hope he can spell R-E-L-O-C-A-T-E before it’s too late.

(5) Comments
Posted by Wendy at 2302 hrs
Culture

  1. Hey, Wendy, why don’t you folks mosey back to Texas if you’re so miserable here?  Practice what you preach for a change.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 15, 2009 at 0931 hrs


  2. It was a joke, RO.  The “relocate” was in reference to relocating away from Sheboygan to, you know…. like Manitowoc.  It’s a fun jab at the sheer volume of odd news that comes out of the great city of Sheboygan.  Perhaps we’re not such the “rational observer” we think we are. 

    Untwist your panties.

    Posted by Owen on March 15, 2009 at 0938 hrs


  3. When something like that gets posted it does not come across as a joke. If I lived in Sheboygan I may take offense to it. I have visited there often and aside from a vicious PETA group have always liked it there. They tried to take our dog away because putting her under a tree with water and food was not good enough for them.

    Don’t get mad at RO when if the shoe was on the other foot you would have responded much worse.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 15, 2009 at 1404 hrs


  4. Um, I’m not from Texas. And I don’t “mosey” anywhere.

    Get a life.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 15, 2009 at 2158 hrs


  5. Strange.  Couldn’t have been clearer to me that it was a joke.  And I thought it was funny.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 18, 2009 at 0850 hrs


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