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March 11, 2007

The Toothy Yogi Boxed the Bearclaw with a Spork

I really ought to take more photos of Scrabble boards

Whilst I'll admit to a long-term fascation with/ enthusiasm for Scrabble (tm), I haven't really played very often in recent years. I'll chalk that up mostly to (a) my ever-dwindling attention span having rendered me incapable of sitting still for an entire game, and (b) my free time being routinely consumed by things that flicker and blare (see also, (a)).

Anyhoo, some friends put a lovely dinner together last night and we cracked the Scrabble board post-meal. Good times ensued. What I learned:

(1) Not everyone is obsessed with strategy and placement at the expense of fun/ clever words. In fact, it's a lot more fun to play with people who don't obsess about strategy and placement. (Five triple word scores went unclaimed! I don't have enough exclamation points for that!!!!!!)

(2) Completed Scrabble boards make for excellent photos:

(3) I didn't think "lither" was a word, but I didn't get all bent out of shape about it. According to dictionary.com (accessed from my phone), it is.

(4) We got to "spork" as an addition to "pork" late in the game.

(4a) I was responsible for "pork," adding the "ork" to a p on the board; the irony is that this move left me with two letters: "ig." Wait for it. Yup. There it is:

(5) "Seafoams" started as "foam" which later became "seafoam" before succumbing to the final s. Turns out neither seafoam nor seafoams is a word. I was chill with it comma though.

(6) Tip of the cap on "bearclaw," "toothy," and "gutted." Those were nice ones.

(7) It's ridiculous that you can't actually play Scrabble (tm) when you visit scrabble.com; instead, they just try to sell you stuff. Yuck.

Posted by thatkid at March 11, 2007 9:38 PM under ThatKid

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