I was sent this video clip by my brother-in-law yesterday. It was just what I needed at this time in my life (funny, no pun intended, how God works that way). I was laughing so hard I about wet my pants (sorry, I had to get some sort of kidney reference in there). My brainiac 12 year old (see gun wielding Pookie post) who watches things like the National Spelling Bee informed me this contestant, Sameer Mishra, actually went on to win the whole, “kit and caboodle.” As a long time connoisseur of the cliche, I quickly informed brainiac that it was an improper cliche to use in this situation because the meaning certainly wasn’t appropriate. He proceeded to take me out to the newly renovated basketball court and give me the “whole nine yards” (yes fellow cliche freekazoids, I am using the war time meaning of the term, jeez) by beating me P-I-G to nadda (nice use of urban slang huh!).  And in case you were wondering, he didn’t make me use it is a sentence.  In the famous words of Homer, Simpson that is…DOH!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6214100200406816721&q=spelling+bee&e