A Conversation for The Annoyances of Scrabble
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Munchkin Started conversation Mar 14, 2001
Actually, at the last Edinburgh gathering a game of Scrabble was played, during which one of the players passed out from a surfeit of alcohol. 
Interestingly, the first word on the board was pub, illustrating a lack of imagination amongst the players.
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Is mise Duncan Posted Mar 14, 2001
I once started a game of scrabble in a coffee bar in Amsterdam. I forget what happened, but I remember being hungry 
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 14, 2001
*I* started the game of Scrabble in Edinburgh, mentioned above; There are photos of the final board on the web (somewhere) and believe me, they show no lack of imagination! 
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The Admiral Posted Mar 17, 2001
Never drink and dri.....play scrabble. You could end up killing someone, either with boredom or with a dictionary...
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~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Mar 17, 2001
It is uncanny that a word like 'pub' should come up as the first word played in a Scrabble game set up in a pub. There is a voodoo/hoodoo truth revealed here and I would not like any of you to think that I'm taking the micky on this. It's a mystery like the Ouija board.
These Ouija-board phenomena of the Scrabble board have intrigued me or years. It is most interesting when playing a new aquaintance of the opposex. Words like 'bed' and 'screw' and 'tongue' and 'hardy' seem to 'come' up with a frequency beyond simple chance. It's almost as if an intelligence is at work, manipulating the letters into significant and relevant arrangements.
~ jwf ~
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Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" Posted Nov 24, 2008
Yes...... That intelligence is you, in case you didn't realize.
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~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Nov 25, 2008
Moi?
At least you didn't say I have a one track mind.
My own fault though for choosing the example of players of opposite sex whose subconscious minds (or the subtext of their encounter) would be aware at some level of sexual tension or potential. The choice however did limit the range of possibilities.
So just let me say that it is equally possible to have a board fill up with associated words from any number of other topics beside sex - like transportation words, or floral nomenclature, or shipping news. I'll wager that two carpenters playing would inevitably use a lot of terms from their trade.
And of course at the time (March 2001) sex was a favourite subject in cyberspace and I was trying to be 'popular'.
~jwf~
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- 1: Munchkin (Mar 14, 2001)
- 2: Is mise Duncan (Mar 14, 2001)
- 3: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Mar 14, 2001)
- 4: The Admiral (Mar 17, 2001)
- 5: ~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum (Mar 17, 2001)
- 6: Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" (Nov 24, 2008)
- 7: ~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum (Nov 25, 2008)
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