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Saturday, May 31, 2008
Thank God there is no hockey tonight.
Cause you know what would crush the Stanley Cup Final in tonight's ratings?
SPELLING BEE!
Jesus, I love the spelling bee.
It's the perfect storm or nerdiness, child abuse, and white-knuckled tension.
Check this out:
<br/><br/> I know that I bitch a lot about<strong/> promos, but I'll tell ya, the<strong/> would do OK to get a couple of these kids up on a podium and get them to try to spell the more difficult names of some of the<strong/> stars. <br/><br/>Here's how it goes: <br/><br/><br/>LITTLE NERDY KID APPROACHES PODIUM, STANDS NERVOUSLY. <br/><br/>STERN JUDGE (Voiceover): Afinogenov. <br/><br/>KID: Definition please? <br/><br/>JUDGE: The last name of Maxim Afinogenov, an All Star Right Wing for the National Hockey League's Buffalo Sabres. <br/><br/>KID: Language of Origin please?<br/><br/>JUDGE: Russian<br/><br/>KID: Part of Speech please?<br/><br/>JUDGE: Noun, proper name. <br/><br/>KID: Afinogenov?<br/><br/>JUDGE: Afinogenov.<br/><br/>KID: Afinogenov?<br/><br/>JUDGE: Afinogenov.<br/><br/>KID: Can you use it in a sentence please?<br/><br/>JUDGE: After picking off a pass in the neutral zone, Afinogenov electrified the crowd by beating two defenders and scoring. <br/><br/>KID: Afinogenov. A-F-I-N-A-G-E-N-O-V. Afinogenov.<br/><br/>(BELL DINGS, THE KID GOT IT WRONG. THE KID REACTS IN SHOCKED DISAPPOINTMENT)<br/><br/>CUT TO CLIP OF AFINOGENOV PICKING OFF A PASS IN THE NEUTRAL ZONE, BEATING TWO DEFENDERS AND SCORING, ELECTRIFYING THE CROWD. <br/><br/>CUT TO EXIT SCREEN WITH<strong/> LOGO<br/><br/>VOICEOVER: The players of the National Hockey League: Hard to Spell, Easy to watch.<br/><br/>END<br/><br/>Then rinse and repeat with a different kid, doing Giguere, Kostitsyn, Datsyuk, you name it. You get a funny little sketch, and a great hockey highlight. <br/><br/>Perfect. <br/><br/>You see<strong/>?<br/><br/>How fucking hard is that?<br/><small><a href="http://www.americanhockeyfan.com/2008/05/thank-god-there-is-no-hockey-tonight.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Source</a></small><br /> </div><br /> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/03118362999478519358' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/03118362999478519358' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>William Ellis</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://nhlbuffalosabres.blogspot.com/2008/05/thank-god-there-is-no-hockey-tonight.html' itemprop='url'/> <a 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