TRUE TO YOU WE'LL EVER BE, EVER BE, H.C.C.....
That's Harold C. Crittenden Middle School, which this blog graduated from shortly after the Civil War. It's in the news.
(Thanks to Jo Anne Bander)
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March 21, 2007
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first to be eleemosynary with congratulations
Posted by: Gadfly | March 21, 2007 at 06:30 PM
Wow, Dave! Did they have this contest there when you were in school?
Posted by: Just Ducky | March 21, 2007 at 06:32 PM
Awe, sweet! Dave Barry is one of his favorite writers! That kid will go places!
Posted by: Beppie | March 21, 2007 at 06:34 PM
Will Shortz looks much taller than I'd imagined. Maybe standing next to a youngster helps.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | March 21, 2007 at 06:35 PM
Never mind--this contest started 7 years ago. Dave, perhaps this kid should be enlisted to help with the Dave Barry for President campaign!
Posted by: Just Ducky | March 21, 2007 at 06:35 PM
I'm looking forward to the Dave Barry Emulation Contest. Now With Emus!
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | March 21, 2007 at 06:36 PM
I hope they told Will Shortz to stop doing those awful and funky things he does to the puzzles on Thursdays. Diagonal clues? Weird shapes? One puzzle that included icons of a teepee? Stop it, Mr. Shortz. No one does crack and the NY Times crossword puzzle at the same time.
Yes, I am Team Word Nerd.
Posted by: writer132 | March 21, 2007 at 06:57 PM
"Giant Fungal Puffballs" wbagnfarb
Posted by: russellmc | March 21, 2007 at 07:05 PM
Sorry, writer132 - Will Shortz is just a scion of the Times.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | March 21, 2007 at 07:08 PM
*promises himself that he will use the words granivorous, magnanimous and cumbrous in tomorrow morning's meeting with his staff*
Posted by: AFKAT | March 21, 2007 at 07:16 PM
*snork!* Oh that was excellent, Annie.
Posted by: marfie | March 21, 2007 at 07:22 PM
AFKAT, not sure if "cumbrous" is SFW. IYKWIM.
*snork* @ annie!
Posted by: writer132 | March 21, 2007 at 07:26 PM
"Dave Barry is one of my favorite writers," he said, beaming.
Little sycophant.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | March 21, 2007 at 07:28 PM
Methinks jeffie's invidious.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | March 21, 2007 at 07:45 PM
Exceedingly risible, Annie ...
*new pickup line @ singles bar where only divorced folks hang out ... "Whut's your scion?"*
Posted by: O'theU(manity) | March 21, 2007 at 08:07 PM
Oooooooh, Annie! That was bad. :D
Posted by: Moon | March 21, 2007 at 09:20 PM
"The foundation for everything," he said, "is vocabulary."
*Tries doing chemistry using only vocabulary.*
Posted by: Edgar Greenberg | March 21, 2007 at 09:22 PM
Wow reactions of vocabulary can be quite exothermic!
Posted by: Edgar Greenberg | March 21, 2007 at 09:30 PM
Edgar...reactions can also be endothermic.
Posted by: Siouxie | March 21, 2007 at 10:09 PM
Edgar, iso know what you mean!
(Note to non-chemists: that is a geek joke)
Posted by: marlodianne | March 21, 2007 at 10:15 PM
I think there's a mole in the chemistry department!
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | March 22, 2007 at 09:43 AM
Edgar already got this one, but:
Principal H. Evan Powderly said he's been studying that list for more than 50 years. "The foundation for everything," he said, "is vocabulary."
In an unrelated incident, moments later Mr. Powderly's house collapsed in a pile of rubble.
Posted by: Federal Duck | March 22, 2007 at 11:17 AM
Dave,
You graduated from middle school?
Posted by: Steve Bradford | March 22, 2007 at 03:46 PM
I have a Scion at home. It's an xA.
Posted by: Kathybear | March 22, 2007 at 07:43 PM
I always thought Dave made up the name of his middle school. I am shocked to find out it is a real school.
Posted by: lizvocal | March 22, 2007 at 08:03 PM