I was driving to work on Friday morning, listening to The River (92.5 WXRV). They've been doing a call-in contest all week where the caller has to spell a tricky word to win the prize. As a former winner of the 4th grade diocesan spelling bee, I felt qualified to compete. I grabbed my cell phone and looked up the number. Busy. Redial. Busy. Repeat ad nauseum.
Amazingly, the phone started to ring and I actually got through! I spelled "rhythm" correctly and won tickets to see Coldplay at the Tweeter Center (Great Woods) in Mansfield next Saturday. Apparently a limo ride is also part of the deal, but it leaves from the radio station in Haverhill, so that's suboptimal for me.
The first contestant misspelled "affidavit" (I think he tried "affadavit") and the second misspelled "liaison" (left out the first "i"). Finally, those countless games of Scrabble have paid off! (Particularly those where I have a rack full of consonants and no vowels.)
Posted by rv at July 30, 2005 09:18 AM to musicVery excellent. That is so cool. Have fun seeing "Cold Play".
I am going to see a play tonight starring 5 women talking about their bodies.
What is your next game show?
Posted by: debra at July 30, 2005 09:47 AMIs the play called, perchance, "5 Women"? If so, Gail from Acme Theater (the stage manager for "Complete Works of Shakespeare [Abridged]") has been in a production of it up here. I've not seen it, but I'd like to hear what you think of it.
Next game show: uncertain. I still haven't heard anything from Comedy Central (and the end of July has arrived). I'll try sending in my info again and see if they do another round of auditions/ taping in NYC.
Posted by: rv at July 30, 2005 03:22 PM