'Oh Shit'

You gotta love kids. They sometimes forget where they are. Like in the case of Kenley Farace. He was the 20th speller to compete, so obviously pretty early in the competition, where at 8:20 in the morning people are still sipping their coffee and getting into the day. He walks up on the stage and gets the word "cornice."

Typically, kids start asking questions to the head judge about etymology or definitions or anything to jog loose something to help them spell it right. Kenley's response was a little different.

"Oh, shit."

Ladies and gentleman, welcome to the 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee!

He misspelled the word, which sucks, because I was hoping for our first moral police moment when he made it to the finals and misspelled, then left the stage saying, "fuck it, I'm out!" That would have been great. In any case, to get our first curse word 20 spellers in (out of 250), I'm suddenly having high hopes for this year's crop of spellers.