Check out Google’s tribute to Mark Twain. Awesome.

Incidentally, I hold Mark Twain personally responsible for my untimely elimination in Mrs. Smith’s 4th Grade Spelling Bee. I’d been engrossed in Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn at the time, and was thrilled when the word I was asked to spell was, “Reckon”.

Aha! A trick question that would surely have eliminated my less precocious classmates. 

And so I proceeded to gaze across the room and triumphantly spell out: “R… E.. C… K… Apostrophe… N”

Needless to say, this was not the answer the teachers had in front of them. And despite my best efforts to contest their decision (I was convinced that since it had appeared that way in a printed book, it should be a valid response), I was forced to bow out.

I am still bitter about this.


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  1. caro said: Hahhahah that story is adorable
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