Bee Good

Each year, there is the National Spelling Bee hosted in Washington DC. Recently, they crowned a new champion, Sameer Mishra who spelled guerdon. Earlier, he had been given numdah (I believe, at least, there's a definition of it), which he misheard as "numbnuts".

There was a mail sent to the Tony Kornheiser show where the listener asks Tony if he had seen the National Spelling Bee, or as they call it at home, "Indian Thanksgiving".

That was one of those hilarious comments that only makes sense if you follow PTI. Tony Kornheiser cohosts that show with Michael Wilbon. Wilbon has referred to the NBA All-Star Weekend as "Black Thanksgiving", as the weekend African-Americans look forward to as a show case of African American basketball talent.

The joke has to do with the fact that the Spelling Bee is now being dominated by Indian Americans. The runner-up was 12 year old Sidharth Chand of Michigan (Sameer was from Indiana).

Very funny indeed.