Talk:The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
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we've got duplicate articles here folks. see 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. consult your playbills and talk amongst yourselves to decide whether you want the "the" in the title or not. J. Van Meter 00:17, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
The official site has "The" in it, and this page existed prior to the other one, so I redirected the other article here. --Arcadian 00:51, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Geographicall Ambiguous?
The article refers to Putnam County as "geographically ambiguous". I haven't seen the show so I don't know if there's a reason for this description. I assumed that the title county was Putnam County New York.
I saw it in Boston, and the cast kept throwing in local jokes, that definetly change at each venue. I think its meant to be geographically ambiguous, or possibly take place in the city the performance is in.
[edit] Plot?
Anyone care to summerize it?
[edit] Words
Can we have a list of words used in the play? I just saw it tonight and headed to wikipedia to find some words, but they weren't there. Anyone else think that would be a good idea?
I can think of a few:
- Syzygy.
- Kakapo.
- Chinchilla.
- Vug.
- Catarjuens. (Awesome word. Spelling?)
- Acoochie. (Spelling?)
(And the "easy" ones, if we want them, include jihad, cow, and Mexican.) ---Dana 03:59, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
- Some more: acouchi, phylactery, gardyloo, strabismus, sluice, camouflage, omphaloskepsis, ilspile, zoonosis, chromatophore, astrobleme, elanguescence, weltanschauung --Arcadian 11:54, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
I decided to add the section. I feel it's an important section to have, because I knew Wikipedia would be the best place to look to find these words. Thanks Arcadian for the other words. Please add more words if you know them. Thanks! ---Dana 01:40, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Catarjuens
Can we have a section devoted to this word? I love it. I think I spelled it correctly, but either way, I can't find any information on it anywhere (though I suppose that's the nature of the word and why they chose it). It has to be somewhere, and if it's not, it has to be on Wikipedia. ---Dana 13:34, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
I saw the show in SF 20 May 2006. A bright young girl wowed the crowd by "correctly" spelling this and another difficult word, before missing xerophthalmia. Unfortunately, the first word was wanigan (alternately "wannigan"), but she spelled it "whannegan"; and the second she spelled "catterjune", which I suspect is not a word at all. I'm rather disappointed that the show violates the sanctity of the bee in order to play with the volunteer and the audience (but that may just be because I misspelled gardyloo--though my spelling "gardeloo" is given as an alternative on some sites). Pim 05:09, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
- I saw this show yesterday in Boston. The last audience speller spelled the word in question as "caterjune" (one T). I can't find any spelling of it anywhere on the Internet (and this page (search it) says "Caterjune(s) is not a real word and is always "correct." The cast is directed to semi-break character and act flustered when the participant gets it right." It also claims "Xerophalmeology is the ultra-elimination word for the volunteers. Occasionally Panch will refuse to give the speller a definition and/or use it in a sentence." which sounds like the way I remember it. -- Plutor talk 21:06, 10
Seriously, get real. It's a made-up word for the show. When I saw it the kid from the audience (a boy in this case) spelled it "correctly" as caterjune. Then the next word he got was xerosomethigorother. The vice principle cut him off after the first couple of letters. This is all scripted. The kid is always the last of the of the three of four audience members left and always gets caterjune, a made-up word, and always is credited with getting it right no matter how the kid spells it. Then gets the long word xeroas;dlkasdf or zeroxasfaasldkfn and is always cut off short told it's wrong. This is scripted folks! Really. It's amazing how many people don't figure this out and think the kid just figured out how to spell an extinct word that has no meaning or derivation, until Panch is forced to say it was something to do with Nantucket whaling if I recall correctly. If you doubt me, google "caterjune" and you'll get a slew of stories of the smart little audience kid who went to see "Bee" and spelled the obscure word correctly and impressed the cast. Crunch 01:55, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Word?
I'm not sure about this. I know that the word I put down was spelled incorrectly, and that Xerophthalmia is a real word, but the word used ended with "ology", and the person got out because the word did not start with an "x". I am sure of this. -AtionSong 20:42, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Casey Wollen?
The "Trivia" section needs to be changed, but I am not sure of the best way to do so. Currently, only the first statement has any relevance since the second has already been stated, and the third appears to be simply unnecessary. The entire section seems to have been added by Kiwiboy1221. Thoughts? Rctbone 23:12, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Balmacaan
What? Balmacaan not a real word? Haven't they ever heard of a balmacaan suit?
[edit] Strike outs for passed dates
I see that someone has added strike throughs for dates that have passed in the tour. I understand the logic of this but I think strike throughs connote a cancellation, rather than a completed performace. Can we just assume that people will understand the current date and be intelligent enough to know which dates are in the past and which are in the future in relation to the current date? I suggest remove the strikethroughs. Crunch 01:57, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
