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Erik Charles Nielsen
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You probably have two versions of Flash installed, and have to disable one of them. happened to me a month or two ago.

Here's the trick, though: the winning word is not the losing word. To win a spelling bee, you have to spell the word your opponent misspells, and then you have to spell ANOTHER word, which becomes the "winning" word. So a lot of the time, that second word isn't that difficult as compared to the word the second-place

I find it impossible to imagine any significant overlap between Arrested Development fans and people who would watch a spelling bee on TV.

In all fairness, spelling slowly and loudly is actually a pretty important tactic. I adopted it after getting bounced from the fourth grade school bee due to stuttering.

Third at regionals was also my highest finish — in 1993. I got tripped up on "shako", which is a sort of military helmet I've seen mentioned in print maybe half a dozen times since then. Placed fifth at regionals in '94, and I don't remember what word I got wrong there.

All my friends are comedians, and I do not relate to this song at all.

Whenever anyone mentions David Hyde-Pierce, the first thing I think of is his house.

Most of my crushes have been on GIRLS.

Marcie from Peanuts, anyone?

Maybe his next one will actually get picked up.

Still half expecting this to be a Hannibal Buress sitcom.

He's not creepy, he just likes dressing like a Victorian dandy!

Eminently. Not "imminently". I mean, seriously, how does THAT get past anyone?

I don't know… a name like Horace Pinker worked okay for Harvey Danger.

PEE-WEE HERMAN IS THE EPITOME OF ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

I hated Election, and have never watched another Payne movie after that — but I will say that, in Election at least, the condescension didn't seem to me to be specifically "Midwestern." It was just condescension.

Really? During the course of your entire life? I see at least five just looking around the room.

Yes. Finally a publisher for my novella "Caramel Vengeance"!

So Tim Dog could, theoretically, still eat a big fat dick?