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  • laceylady, on 10/11/2007, -173/+10I digg it!
    • quomen, on 10/11/2007, -179/+18Catapault is wrong, FYI
      edit: not.. im pretty stupid.
    • Tunguska, on 10/11/2007, -26/+263I dont se aynthin wrung with thiss.
    • Rhino2, on 10/11/2007, -220/+42
      lolz. Iam in ur spell beez, mistyping ur statez!

    • xShad0w, on 10/11/2007, -17/+116Hmm I didn't know it was Maryalnd, boy all these years saying it wrong, i feel stupid
    • shewasjustagrl, on 10/11/2007, -23/+156Whoever was in charge of making those signs should go work for Hillary Clinton :3
    • reknaps, on 10/11/2007, -6/+40Even more ironic that the cities slogan is "The City That Reads"

      ...or it was before the new "Get in on it!" slogan
    • NgrHader, on 10/11/2007, -7/+65About as funny like one time I saw someone spell it : Road Island
    • Frankie4Fingers, on 10/11/2007, -33/+8Easy manipulation with photoshop.... I don't believe it.
    • sanman, on 10/11/2007, -18/+3Everyone knows that Baltimore is not the capitol of Maryland. It's Washington DC.
    • ricksite, on 10/11/2007, -11/+2I think laceylady meant to say "I dig it!"
    • duoproductionx, on 10/11/2007, -14/+6@bobthebuilder25
      Im in ur diggz, writin ur codez


      WITH THE ADVENT OF LOLCODE WE SHALL BE ETERNAL!
    • CBTF, on 10/11/2007, -18/+203"at some point, the lolcat ***** has to stop being funny"

      NOT ON CATURDAY!
    • Guard, on 10/11/2007, -25/+10This is stupid.

      Its a typo, not a spelling mistake. The irony fails.
    • gcnaddict, on 10/11/2007, -10/+2"oops"
    • airmann90, on 10/11/2007, -16/+6@guard

      You fail.. at life!

      **EDIT: You've failed, at life!
    • buyer687, on 10/11/2007, -15/+126im in ur threadz, annoyin u with lolcatz.
    • bariswheel, on 10/11/2007, -17/+6This has nothing to do with world news, it neither matters nor has any global impact, and most definitely does NOT belong in the Top 10 World News Function. Maybe in the comedy section, or pics -> comedy, but for crying out loud, Stop Destroying Digg.

      Buried.
    • iamjohnellis, on 10/11/2007, -10/+3@reknaps

      "Even more ironic that the cities slogan is 'The City That Reads'..."

      Considering this is a post about (mis)spelling things, you'd probably want to take the extra step and double check your grammar before posting. But yeah, you're right about _the city's_ slogan being "The City that Reads..."
    • mikesbaker, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2@airmann90
      http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=4yhd1g4
    • M4tt3r, on 10/11/2007, -7/+7Lolcat'z Law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a post involving a reference from the lolcatz approaches one.

      There, it's a remix of Godwin's.
    • Marshalrusty, on 10/11/2007, -7/+16reknaps: Even more ironic that the cities slogan is "The City That Reads"

      Even more ironic is that "cities" should be "city's" in that sentence.
    • macmcrae, on 10/11/2007, -8/+5What we need is to change the illogical ***** collection of word spelling that is the English language and spell every thing phonetically. Sound ideas are what matter. ***** spelling nazis. And ***** spelling competitions. Losers only point out incorrect spelling because they have nothing more important to add to most intelligent conversations.
    • themastersb, on 10/11/2007, -2/+33Me fail english? That unpossible!
    • Rocketbird, on 10/11/2007, -2/+17That's stupid..it's just a typo. Hardly a spelling error. It's not like anyone would actually misspell "land" as "alnd"
    • user777, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18Nobody spells BEE with a drawing. Jeez, what has this world become?
    • StephenCIreland, on 10/11/2007, -4/+8@bobthebuiilder25

      NEVERRR !!!!!

      Trashcat is not amused by your dislike of the lolcats !
    • MacJazarus, on 10/11/2007, -9/+4LOL CAT WILL ALWAYZ BE FUNNYZ!!!
    • CanceledCzech, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1@bobthebuilder25

      The lolcat ***** was never funny.
  • MadRat779, on 10/11/2007, -33/+149It's missing the 7...
    • Hepburn82, on 10/11/2007, -9/+61Not strictly true, but funny all the same. You get a figg drom me.
    • tippmann1, on 10/11/2007, -23/+1@ hepburn82

      you could so be in that spelling bee! or at least be a judge...
    • J4320, on 10/11/2007, -23/+156What's missing the 7? Are talking about his number forming 1337? Last time I checked, if you added a 7 to the number sequence 113, there is no way you could make it say 1337. Maybe I'm just missing your joke though. (By the way, I'm not trying to come off as antagonistic here.)
    • Akaji, on 10/11/2007, -14/+4@J4320

      Didn't you hear? LLET is the new LEET.
    • jackyyll, on 10/11/2007, -11/+6Psh, J4320, you are ill-informed, I ARE 1137!
    • royall64, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12Silly sign writers, I before E except after C!
    • cyrix, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3"Silly sign writers, I before E except after C!"

      Brian...what's the I before E rule?

      Uh........ I before E......always.....

      **Brian Regan bit for those who don't know**
    • Grok22, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2@abdulla Its part of gestalt theory, people tend to see things as a whole and not as their individual parts.
    • kenongab, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1What a moran
  • Alex76, on 10/11/2007, -13/+88Ok, I am retarded. What is wrong with this pic?
    • kevir, on 10/11/2007, -12/+160Took me a while, too. They spelled "Maryland" wrong.
    • SonicRush, on 10/11/2007, -23/+105It's just a typo... not front page material in my opinion.
    • Roger, on 10/11/2007, -73/+4Maybe the full word couldn't fit on the sign?
    • channada, on 10/11/2007, -4/+54@roger

      Ok, I really hope you're joking because if not... you do realize that the whole word IS on the sign, there's just two letters switched.
    • Kumaku, on 10/11/2007, -15/+4@Roger

      You lose at digg/life/making channada feel smart.
    • slash128gnr, on 10/11/2007, -3/+67I just thought it was someone from Baltimore making it into a spelling bee.
    • Roger, on 10/11/2007, -15/+1That "A" wasn't there a minute ago. Some bastard changed the picture.
    • abdulla, on 10/11/2007, -2/+19I remember reading up on something that showed you can read a sentence perfectly if all the words have all the letters, and all but the first and last letter of each word are jumbled. So it makes it hard to catch errors like this at first glace because you often recognise them as what they're meant to be.
    • auhsor, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17This one?
      "Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe. ceehiro."
    • Timmaay, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13@SonicRush



      It's a typo at a national spelling bee...
    • mc7winkie, on 10/11/2007, -4/+11Should I feel bad if I thought Catapult was spelled wrong?
  • lemonoust, on 10/11/2007, -5/+81Baltimore, Maryalnd
  • dshPls, on 10/11/2007, -12/+154My home ciyt!!
  • Hepburn82, on 10/11/2007, -16/+3Yeah, i'll tell you what's wrong! The kids sponsored by a company called Catapult Online. He's young and good at spelling, not a freaking athlete.
    • MasterFunk, on 10/11/2007, -5/+6Say that again when you are trying to pay for all the bills to compete in the competition like that; Travel, hotel rooms, food, and most of the time you have to pay to register to even compete. I know, if I was in that kid's spot I would try to get help as much as I could.
  • PueSi, on 10/11/2007, -18/+11I don't see anything worng with that picture.
    • respekt, on 10/11/2007, -3/+17They didn't either.
    • PueSi, on 10/11/2007, -4/+12I was trying to be funny ("worng") but i'll stop. Sorry.
    • theone3, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8That's okay. You're frogiven.
    • WallnutBoy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3Hey! You're the guy who googles 'MicroPenis' !
  • frieddonuts, on 10/11/2007, -40/+12It would have been funnier if they had actually misspelled a word, instead of just a typo.
    • mattmcm, on 10/11/2007, -11/+79@frieddonuts (#6991432) said: "It would have been funnier if they had actually misspelled a word."
      Well, you see, that's exactly what they did.
    • spudnic, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20There's a difference between spelling something wrong and making a typo imo, I think that's what he was getting at.

      It's the person's typing/checking abilities that are in question, not their ability to spell, which kinda detracts from the irony.
    • charlie55, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10rarely is it more obvious that a mistake was a typo and not a spelling problem. if i type "aslo", do you think i dont know how to spell "also"? of course not. its a typo, idiots.
    • theone3, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5matt- Marieland is a spelling error. Marlyalnd is a typo. Comprende?
  • Dayyve, on 10/11/2007, -9/+4That kid looks like a young Bill Gates. Poor feller.
  • mutatron, on 10/11/2007, -8/+34We drove through Maryalnd on that little stretch where you can be in four states within about 30 minutes: Virgniia, Wset Virgniia, Maryalnd, and Pennslyvania. We were on a driving trip from Texsa to Massachsuetts.
  • Cyre, on 10/11/2007, -20/+3That picture is more than likely shopped.
  • famousdave, on 10/11/2007, -17/+3No, but I have a erection now.
  • Demonmonger, on 10/11/2007, -12/+2Photoshopped.
  • Teething, on 10/11/2007, -11/+1Looks like a fake...but still funny.
  • Silthrim, on 10/11/2007, -8/+1I heard about this spelling bee on the radio the other day (98 Rock). I live about 30 minutes from Baltimore. It's pretty funny to see this come out after hearing about it.
  • Kautylia, on 10/11/2007, -7/+0DING!
  • majinosity, on 10/11/2007, -9/+0Theres only one 1 in 13
  • aresef, on 10/11/2007, -7/+1Thank you Baltimore. Ugh.

  • TheSabre, on 10/11/2007, -10/+3Who cares? The kid didn't make the sign - he's the one that can spell at the Bee. It would be more ironic if HE made the sign.
  • chrisinsocalif, on 10/11/2007, -7/+1You never been to Maryalnd before?
  • iStunT, on 10/11/2007, -8/+3Yeah, i get it. Pretty lame I'm not going to lie. Not really a spelling mistake, just a typo. I guess it still is a mistake but w.e, not good enough for the front page IMO. Barried as lame.
  • spawesume, on 10/11/2007, -7/+0This didn't amuse me, inform me, or help my life in anyway. This really shouldn't be on the front page.
    • drilldown, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2Amused my sense of the ironic. Humor check?
      Wy does a kitchen cross the road?
    • popltree2, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3@drill
      Wait, kitchens can move? Where do I find one of these magical food preparatory rooms, good sir?
  • digitaltrav, on 10/11/2007, -10/+5Unfortunate coincidence, yes. Irony? No.
    • Archeologist, on 10/11/2007, -4/+6A misspelling in a spelling bee is a coincidence? It's definitely irony.
    • allthewhile, on 10/11/2007, -4/+5This officially falls under the definition of irony. For you idiots out there that want to constantly correct us on the definition of irony, please get over yourselves. We know what irony means, and we don't need some smarmy 10 year old correcting us on the "true meaning".
    • Klarth, on 10/11/2007, -9/+4No, this isn't irony. At all. It might be an unfortunate coincidence, it might be situationally amusing, it might be befitting, maybe even karmic. People misusing the word "irony" is the result of a peculiar little hole in the English language - There's no suitable easily accessible word to fill that hole, so people substitute something they know relates to underlying qualities in multiple situations - Thus, rampant misuse, and even redefinition by "authoritative sources". Yes, I'm calling dictionary.com and all similar out as total hacks.
    • wingo123, on 10/11/2007, -5/+8@Klarth - Hey man, do you need a hug?
    • Klarth, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Yes
    • digitaltrav, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Digg my observation down all you want, it doesn't change the definition of Irony. It seems our lazy generation will speak in AOL/MySpace/Text Messaging memes entirely by the end of the century. If you don't like smarmy 10 year olds, why are you clicking, reading, and responding to a post about the Scripps Spelling Bee? It's the unofficial "gentleman's club" of smarmy 10 year olds across the nation.
    • CanceledCzech, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Actually, Klarth and digitaltrav are right. Too bad I buried their comments before I realized it...

      Edit: I hate smarmy 10-year-olds...
  • PRlME, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13the mic is upside down?
  • jayunsplanet, on 10/11/2007, -10/+0Haha, nice. I saw it right away.
    I'm from Baltimore, Maryalnd too!
  • fLUx1337, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2hes got his hands in his pockets!! bad boy, bad!
  • KLowD9x, on 10/11/2007, -10/+1Maryland sucks.
  • bendedavis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+22Best Spelling Bee moment ever

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06JUfkiMOVc
    • wolvin, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0not a single person moved, wth is that all about?
  • gabezor, on 10/11/2007, -5/+0who cares? people make mistakes. and i'm sure it was an adult who typed up the number cards too, must be a real idiot huh??
  • diggumjonez, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3Yeah, I see something wrong with the photo. His mom cuts his hair.
  • douglasjkruse, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1Klassik.
  • SMITHN4, on 10/11/2007, -5/+3i laughed for a full minute but I had to google baltimore to make sure they spelled it wrong
  • ltkerr0r, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9Probably just a typo. Would be more ironic if it was a typing competition.
  • Avaseal, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2Ah I see, the ***** mispelled the word "Bee". Last time I checked, a Bee was a flying insect, not a letter in the ***** alphabet!
    • jennamalia, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5You need to get out more. May I suggest a knitting bee?
  • charlie55, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2the problem with that photo is that it made it to digg even though it is just a boring typo.
  • danielsimon, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1someone has set him up the spelling.
  • Bansuri, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14Dugg for linking directly to the photo! Amazing, no click-through or blog rubbish! Just a photo.
    Thanks!
  • jspo, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1He's juicing.
  • duke, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1At first, I thought you were referring to the logo on his shirt -- that he's somebody's BEE07(ch).
  • JonnyTrombone, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Almost as good as the huge "Natoinal Spelling Bee" sign from a year or two ago.
  • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2"Oh we'll reprint the name cards tommorrow."
  • teaBagger, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2I DECLARE SHENANIGANS!
  • foxyfox, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1Oh the iorny...
  • dan21328, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1This image has been edited using Adobe® Photoshop® Image Manipulation Software™.
  • underrun, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2I was really hoping that someone had misspelled "spelling" or "bee". :(
  • Spandia, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1I guess Hilary has contacts in baltimore
  • cyclox, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3total lamesauce
  • toxicityj, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3as a Maryland citizen, I must say that we pride ourselves in our inability to spell.
  • blakemara, on 10/11/2007, -4/+4look at all those buried comments, you guys need to stop eat those hater tots.
  • HolyJuan, on 10/11/2007, -6/+2Dang...looks like I missed out on some tremendous traffic because Digg linked directly to the photo instead of to my site. http://www.holyjuan.com/2007/06/spelling-bee-photo.html

    The internet is a real bitch.
    • jtizzle, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Nobody cares about your ***** blog.
    • DanJohnHarris, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Bansuri: "Dugg for linking directly to the photo! Amazing, no click-through or blog rubbish! Just a photo. Thanks!"
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