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You watch one episode of "Cheap Seats," and it takes you back to 1997.

It brings up memories. Some good, some painful.

Good memories: The year I was going for the Spelling Bee. I remember winning the 8th grade Spelling Bee. I beat the "smart kid" after he screwed up a word. I finished in the top 15 in the Lucas County Spelling Bee. I moved on to the Toledo Blade Spelling Bee. I placed in the top 10, but only the winner moved to the National Spelling Bee.

And here's where the painful memories begin: Stupid Frank Venner mispronounced the word I missed: The word was "indiscriminate," but he said it so it sounded like "indiscriminant," which isn't even a word.

This is where Rebecca Sealfon comes in.

Miss Rebecca won the National Spelling Bee that year, and I remember it because of the way she spelled words -- one letter at a time -- into her hands.

She was home schooled, and this is why she lacked any and all social skills necessary to survive in life.

Last time I heard she goes to school at Princeton University, presumably still with no friends.

What I'm trying to say is, you could be the sweetest person in the world. But you could only make fun of one person, and it would be Rebecca Sealfon. That's just how fun, apt and easy it is.

And "Cheap Seats" did well.

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COULD BE FAKE, BUT SO WHAT? The problem with humorous instant messaging conversations is that there hasn't been one über-conversation log that has captured the imagination and laughter of the country. Chances are there never will be, since there are so many of them, and half of them were cooked up by losers who have even fewer friends than Rebecca Sealfon.

Nonetheless, this conversation on Albino Black Sheep was pretty good, and it bears linking.

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People are beginning to flash back to the 90's, mainly because their elders can flash back to cooler decades, and all we have are the 90's. Well, I still don't think we're that developed to flash back to anywhere, but today I thought of Ask Jeeves and laughed, because that search engine is soooooooo 2002.

The cool thing about Ask Jeeves is that it was a search engine with a personality. You could ask Jeeves anything and he'd tell you the answer by -- whoa -- giving you a bunch of other websites that knew what he was talking about.

So Jeeves didn't know anything. He just knew everybody.

We should have been calling it "Ask Jeeves' Friends." However, nobody put up much of a fight about this, and people stopped using Altavista except for its foreign language translator, which was a big help with that French, Spanish or German homework. However, most of us are done with foreign language, so we just use Google.

To this sentence, I am still not sure why I wrote about Ask Jeeves.

Personally, I don't think anyone else is, so maybe I initially thought I'd be dominating the Ask Jeeves school of thought.

That'll do, Jeeves.

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IN CONCLUSION Adding graphics to my site has done one of three things:

(1) Improved the visual quality of the blog.

(2) Distracted people from the substandard humor.

(3) Driven away anyone with a 28.8 kbps modem.
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