I'm prettier than you are.
Friday, 1 February 2008
A few words, please

Okay, so I'm going to spell this out for you, in whatever the equivalent of "loud and clear" is when something is merely read and not actually uttered (unless you're reading this aloud, which you are free to do within the confines of your own home but which you must pay me a royalty for if you read them in an acting class or on stage), so we can all move on and live our lives and I don't have to carry, deep inside my viscera and soul, the disdain and resentment that have been residing there, where they are progressing from mere back burner simmering to full-on front burner boiling.

Here goes: In playing Scrabulous, you should not be permitted to use words that seemingly never existed before the advent of the game or its ancestor, Scrabble. The only words permitted should be those that you can use or have heard in an ordinary day that doesn't involve you being abducted by aliens who, while probing you in places that secretly thrill you, also injected you with a vocabulary that has yet to be unveiled on this planet. So please please please, kindly refrain from dragging your tiles to form such eye-rolling blatherskite as KLAXONNERAIT or PROSPONDICOUS or EXCRASCONDONE.

Especially since I just made up two of them.


P.S. I must confess to using QI, but only because I saw it included in the list of acceptable two-letter words, when I was checking to see if IQ was. (It was not.)

fresh-baked at 07:26 PM
Comments

I'm with jamied about the computer accepting magic pity words (when one is in a proverbial pickle - RUN WITH IT DS). And I love "Qi" (an Chinese word, I believe, meaning "life energy")

However, though I laughed my ass off at your "blatherskite," I believe you can rest easy about seeing any of THOSE words:

Seven tiles, Love, seven tiles...

Offered by: Kate on February 5, 2008 5:23 AM

You're kidding me with this, right? You really are a cuntbedgroaner!

Offered by: Mrs. Z on February 3, 2008 5:32 PM

All games bring out the worst in me. Years ago my mom said she wouldn't play Monopoly with me anymore because I acted like a "slumlord."

Offered by: Jodi on February 2, 2008 10:12 AM

Scrabble brings out the worst in me.
I either get obsessed about winning or I stop caring and use words like "the."

Offered by: KarenZipdrive on February 2, 2008 9:22 AM

I disagree, Jodi Love. Because I am LOSING like a BIG DUMB LOSER to you right now, I think I should be able to use whatever combination of letters the computer will allow me to put together whether I know what it means or not! ESPECIALLY since it keeps calling mine "Invalid Entries" when I KNOW it IS valid and is CLEARLY accepting bribes from you. When the computer takes pitty on me and will accept words I have never heard of, it feels very...well...validating.

Offered by: jamied on February 1, 2008 7:58 PM