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Any Scrabble fans out there?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Diabeetus, Nov 16, 2007.

  1. BYH

    BYH Active Member

    The reason I don't play Scrabble online is because I'm not a looser! :D

    My wife plays Scrabble online. Don't worry. I tell her the same thing!
     
  2. Blitz

    Blitz Active Member

    My wife doesn't like to play with me. She says I take it too serious.
    She hangs in and competes, but there's usually one big play at the end which sinks her.
    We ordered 3 Scrabble games from Parker Bros. last Christmas and gave them to family.
     
  3. Moderator1

    Moderator1 Moderator Staff Member

    http://www.amazon.com/Word-Freak-Heartbreak-Competitive-ScrabblePlayers/dp/0142002267/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195306976&sr=8-1

    Great book
     
  4. mike311gd

    mike311gd Active Member

    My favorite way to play Scrabble is with my grandpa. He's "Pennsylvania Dutch"; I use the quotes because, for years, I've told him he made up that entire heritage just to get away with sounding like a crazy person. My grandparents and I would sit around a board while I was younger, and while I'm killing with three- and four-letter words, I'd just be waiting for my grandpa to throw down six tiles to spell a word with five consonants, then unwrap a definition, give an honest look and break down with laughter.

    Once I began doing the same thing, Grandma Elsie stopped playing with us.
     
  5. Satchel Pooch

    Satchel Pooch Member

    A few years back I went to a coffeehouse on Monday nights and played with some guys who were much better than I. They brought their custom-made boards, which they took out of neoprene cymbal cases. I don't think I won one game.

    Then I discovered poker and Scrabble became an afterthought.
     
  6. mike311gd

    mike311gd Active Member

    Seriously, guys, watch this:
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  7. Diabeetus

    Diabeetus Active Member

    Jeesus...I didn't even know it used to be a show. Then again, I probably wasn't even born when it was on the air.
     
  8. Diabeetus

    Diabeetus Active Member

    I'm sorry nobody responded to the Seinfeld quote. It was one of my favorite scenes.

    Jerry: "Quone"?
    Helen: …30…31…
    Jerry: "Quone"? No, I'm afraid that I'm going to have to challenge that.
    (Jerry picks up the dictionary.)
    Helen: …32…
    Kramer: No, you don't have to challenge that. That's a word. That's a definite word.
    Jerry: I am challenging.
    Kramer: Quone. To quone something.
    Jerry: Uh-huh.
    (Jerry looks up the word.)
    Helen: I'm not playing with you anymore.
    Morty: Quone's not a word.
    Jerry: No good. Sorry. There it is. Get it off.
    Helen: (to Kramer) Why did you make me put that down?
    Kramer: Nah, we need a medical dictionary! If a patient gets difficult, you quone him.
     
  9. Cadet

    Cadet Guest

    My family has a traveling Scrabble trophy.
     
  10. three_bags_full

    three_bags_full Well-Known Member

    Dorks.
     
  11. mike311gd

    mike311gd Active Member

    Thanks for not leaving me hanging.

    And Scrabble was a very good game show. It was on USA's three-hour block of them during weekday afternoons.
     
  12. wickedwritah

    wickedwritah Guest

    Seriously, I wish I could marry into a family that has one. I love dorkdom.
     
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