I was looking at my earlier post about Mitt Romney, and it brought back a sweet childhood memory. Imagine that.

I'm one of the only people in the world outside of New England who can spell Massachusetts without looking it up. Don't get me started on how I'm one of the only people in the world who can pronounce it. It's MASS-UH-CHOO-SITS. Not MASS-UH-TOO-SITS. The inability to pronounce Massachusetts ranks at the top of the "things that irritate me" list, right along with the inability to pronounce NUCLEAR.

Anyway, back to the story. Captain Kangaroo taught me to spell. And, I particularly thank him for teaching me to spell Massachusetts. The president, JFK, was from Massachusetts, so it was important that we knew how to spell it.

One day they played a little song. Here are the lyrics:

"M A double S A C H U S E double T S. Oh, that's how we spell Massachusetts." There was more but I only remember the first line.

To this day, whenever I spell Massachusetts, that little song goes through my mind.

Thank you Captain Kangaroo.