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[PA Comic] Monday, September 17, 2012 - Adjudicator

GethGeth LegionPerseus VeilRegistered User, Moderator, Penny Arcade Staff, Vanilla Staff vanilla
edited September 2012 in The Penny Arcade Hub
Adjudicator


Adjudicator
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/09/17

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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    Did Jerry actually judge a Spelling Bee?

  • FandeathisFandeathis Registered User regular
    That first panel is amazing. The expressions are perfect.

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  • JortalusJortalus Registered User regular
    I was in a spelling bee once. The judges were really strict about stuff. My word was "gruff", and I rushed and said "G-U-Waiit..." but they told me I couldn't go back, but I had to spell out the word as I started it. So, as a 4th grader, I looked like an idiot saying "G-U-R-F-F". Then I cried.

  • TleilaxuTleilaxu Registered User regular
    The first panel expressions are really great and I like the comic as a whole; however, this is the one comic where there should have been a Tychpo deliberately inserted. Where is it?!

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  • TurambarTurambar Independent Registered User regular
    I loved this episode of Psych

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  • Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    Jortalus wrote: »
    I was in a spelling bee once. The judges were really strict about stuff. My word was "gruff", and I rushed and said "G-U-Waiit..." but they told me I couldn't go back, but I had to spell out the word as I started it. So, as a 4th grader, I looked like an idiot saying "G-U-R-F-F". Then I cried.

    And still you remember the incident in vivid detail today! Character building stuff, keeping the psychiatrists of America in gainful employment.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Tycho investigates the seedy underbelly of the Bee.

    Rouge dictionarys looking for a little adverb on the cheap. Vowels running wild.

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  • DarkewolfeDarkewolfe Registered User regular
    I went to the spelling bee regionals once. I was son insanely proud of myself. I WAS ACCOMPLISHING.

    Then I was mocked mercilessly on the school bus for months.

    Good times.

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  • A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    edited September 2012
    King Riptor wrote: »
    Tycho investigates the seedy underbelly of the Bee.

    Rouge dictionarys looking for a little adverb on the cheap. Vowels running wild.
    King Riptor wrote: »
    Rouge dictionarys



    Sorry. I had to.

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  • OddfishOddfish On opposite weeks In odd numbered monthsRegistered User regular
    A Dabble Of Thelonius wrote: »
    King Riptor wrote: »
    Tycho investigates the seedy underbelly of the Bee.

    Rouge dictionarys looking for a little adverb on the cheap. Vowels running wild.
    King Riptor wrote: »
    Rouge dictionarys



    Sorry. I had to.

    One of us was going to do it. Better you than me.

  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    I'm a good speller on paper. But I'm a TERRIBLE spelling bee participant. I have a hard time visualizing words in my head. I suck at head-math too. I can work calculations just fine on paper, but ask me to add or multiply in my head and I go all sorts of retarded.

  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    Dimension breaking cthulu tie!

  • SwashbucklerXXSwashbucklerXX Swashbucklin' Canuck Registered User regular
    Damn right it's complicated. Somebody's gotta be able to use that shit in a sentence.

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  • ShanksShanks "THAT FELLOW" Registered User regular
    Turambar wrote: »
    I loved this episode of Psych

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  • PeccaviPeccavi Registered User regular
    The trick to spelling bees is to ask for parts of speech and for the word to be put in a sentence, buying you extra time to think.

    Not that that advice is useful for anyone over 10...

  • badger2dbadger2d San FranciscoRegistered User regular
    edited September 2012
    Spelling bees are so bizarre. Putting kids up on stage to compete over who's memorized more of the dictionary? WTF.

    When I worked in an afterschool program with 4th and 5th graders I had this kid who had the idea in her head that spelling is actually a skill and was all gung-ho about how good she was at it. She wanted me to make up a list of 10 words and test her on them, and she wanted me to challenge her with "hard" words so she could prove how awesome she was. I tried to explain that there's no such thing as "hard" words, there are just words that have weird unphonetic spellings and you've either seen them before and memorized them or you haven't. She really didn't understand and insisted on going ahead with me making up a test. So I made a list full of words that have unphonetic letters in them but I did the best I could to pick words that I really thought a 5th grader should already be familiar with, stuff like "doubt" and "thought". She scored like 3 out of 10 and she ran away and cried, and I felt like such an ass.

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  • SabreMauSabreMau ネトゲしよう 판다리아Registered User regular
    edited September 2012
    Having won a city spelling bee back in the early 90s and taking second place the following year, I didn't think it was so much about memorizing a dictionary as it was reading many more books than most of the other kids in school and having seen many more words in their natural habitat. Which I suppose is at least some of the point: to get kids reading.

    Now, at the national championship level when they're pulling out words like "Pneumococcal", then it's for kids who've read more medical journals than most of the other kids in school.

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  • badger2dbadger2d San FranciscoRegistered User regular
    SabreMau wrote: »
    Having won a city spelling bee back in the early 90s and taking second place the following year, I didn't think it was so much about memorizing a dictionary as it was reading many more books than most of the other kids in school and having seen many more words in their natural habitat. Which I suppose is at least some of the point: to get kids reading.

    Now, at the national championship level when they're pulling out words like "Pneumococcal", then it's for kids who've read more medical journals than most of the other kids in school.

    Well yeah, I agree. I was just being pithy when I said memorizing the dictionary. But regardless of where you're seeing the words it's primarily about memorization, just whether you already know it or not.

    When I was a kid I was a voracious reader and a "good speller" as a result, but even then I held the same opinion about spelling bees as I do now. I was well aware I knew how to spell more words than most kids just because I'd seen them more, not because there was some kind of problem-solving, actual brainpower skill behind it.

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  • Groosenat0rGroosenat0r http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy70Z6x00TM SkyloftRegistered User regular
    I wonder if anyone still remembers that Tycho's a grammar nazi... or Mr. Period for that matter... I hope he appears...

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  • LovelyLovely Registered User regular
    When I was a kid, I read pretty much anything I could get my hands on. For some reason though, I had a hell of a time with spelling. Something I'm still not all that great at.

    I don't know what the hell is wrong with me :/ .

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  • jothkijothki Registered User regular
    Jortalus wrote: »
    I was in a spelling bee once. The judges were really strict about stuff. My word was "gruff", and I rushed and said "G-U-Waiit..." but they told me I couldn't go back, but I had to spell out the word as I started it. So, as a 4th grader, I looked like an idiot saying "G-U-R-F-F". Then I cried.

    The proper way to handle that would have been to say "G-U-^H-R-U-F-F"

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