Post something just for the heck of it

[frankfrank]

This may seem like some kind of bragging, but in the past 60 days I've had two very strange things happen to me while playing Scrabble at the club. I don't expect either of these to happen again in my lifetime, and I actually think a recurrence of the second one is less likely than the first:

1. On December 26, I bingoed (emptying all seven letters from the rack) on FOUR consecutive turns in the same game. Such a play adds 50 points to the value of the word you play.

2. This past Sunday, I bingoed twice in one game. Early in the game, I played ABATING. Near the end of the game, I played (ABATING). HIGHLIGHT between the parentheses to see the second word that I played in that game.

Has either of these ever happened to any of you, or an opponent or somebody you were observing?

What I have NOT seen yet, ever, is somebody playing a "TRIPLE-TRIPLE" (with one or more letters on the perimeter between two Triple Word Scores, and a player adding all seven of their letters to make a word eight or more letters long which hits both of those spaces). I don't care if I play it or an opponent plays it against me. If somebody plays it against me, they're probably gonna get a big hug from me (if it's in person and not being played online of course).

 

[Kulindahr]

This may seem like some kind of bragging, but in the past 60 days I've had two very strange things happen to me while playing Scrabble at the club. I don't expect either of these to happen again in my lifetime, and I actually think a recurrence of the second one is less likely than the first:

1. On December 26, I bingoed (emptying all seven letters from the rack) on FOUR consecutive turns in the same game. Such a play adds 50 points to the value of the word you play.

2. This past Sunday, I bingoed twice in one game. Early in the game, I played ABATING. Near the end of the game, I played (ABATING). HIGHLIGHT between the parentheses to see the second word that I played in that game.

Has either of these ever happened to any of you, or an opponent or somebody you were observing?

What I have NOT seen yet, ever, is somebody playing a "TRIPLE-TRIPLE" (with one or more letters on the perimeter between two Triple Word Scores, and a player adding all seven of their letters to make a word eight or more letters long which hits both of those spaces). I don't care if I play it or an opponent plays it against me. If somebody plays it against me, they're probably gonna get a big hug from me (if it's in person and not being played online of course).

I've never bingoed more than twice in a single game.

I have, though, done a word that hit two triples at the same time... and if it had hit the left and center instead of the center and right, I would also have bingoed in the same play. I don't even remember the word, just that there was a four-letter word sitting between the two triples and I had the letters to add to front and end of that word to make a very long word.

 

[Charon]

The time has come.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

If you rotate-copy it by 90 degrees, it looks like a swastika as well.

 

[ChristianGianni]

 

[Alistair]

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And where can those be purchased? Asking for a friend.

 

[Peloso]

 

[belamyi]

^ That one I think I don't get at all.

 

[Peloso]

^ That one I think I don't get at all.

It means that a lifetime of responsible ecological behavior is undone in thirty seconds by the airline industry/oil companies/Target/McDonald's/Jeff Bezos et al.

 

[Kulindahr]

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The last person who ran away with the circus didn't bring it back. It may be lost forever.

 

[Peloso]

 

[belamyi]

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It means that a lifetime of responsible ecological behavior is undone in thirty seconds by the airline industry/oil companies/Target/McDonald's/Jeff Bezos et al.

Oh, the key was "recycling"

 

[belamyi]

 

[ChristianGianni]

It's been one of those days where ...

 

[belamyi]

 

[purina]

https://upnorthlive.com/news/local/michigan-gypsy-moth-renamed

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Entomological Society of America announced a new common name for the Lymantria dispar moth Wednesday.

Formerly known by the common name g***y moth, the hairy, yellow-faced caterpillar with red and blue spots down its back is now known as spongy moth.
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The old name was removed from the ESA Common Names of Insects and Related Organisms List in July of 2021 because it contained a derogatory term for Romani people.

 

[belamyi]

^ OMG, anything outside 'WASP' comes to be derogatory in Angloland

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"Gypsy", seriously?
When are then feminists, woke or wackos in general start fighting the use of "hysterical"?

 

[belamyi]

 

[belamyi]

 

[Kulindahr]