From: Jeff Shultz 

On Sun, 04 Jun 2000 14:45:51 -0500, in
, David N. Barnett
 wrote:

>On Fri, 02 Jun 2000 19:30:43 -0400, John Beamish 
>wrote in message :
>
>| As did I.  I was trying to imagine the [stereotype warning] "typical
>| Canadian jock" surfing over to TSN (The Sports Network) and being
>| confronted with miniature Howard Cosell's actually attempting to spell
>| the vocabulary he used .
>
>As it turns out, they're showing the National Spelling Bee on ESPN2, a
>sports channel, here too.  And The National Geographic Bee is on PBS
>at the same time.  Both bees include thirteen-year-old George Thampy.
>
Smart kid... if you've got any gullible relatives, bet on him to win the
spelling bee and place on the geographic bee...

Interestingly enough, I believe he won more taking second in the geographic
bee than he did from winning the spelling bee.

>--dnb

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