Before I Forget.

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. day and I'll tell you, we celebrated. I can't remember a time I really embraced this holiday like I did today.

I'm now totally exhausted and laying in bed drinking water waiting to fall asleep. Maybe I'll tell you all about our celebration another time.

Saturday night we played Scrabble, because we're trying to be more fiscally responsible and not go out every weekend. I guess people that don't have any money don't go out with their single, childless and therefore (relatively) rich friends every weekend. Shocking.

Logan scored 63 points with the word Manx. Which is perhaps the most bull shit word ever played in Scrabble.

Just when I thought he couldn't cheat any more, he pulled 'Et' out of his ass. According to Scrabble's online dictionary (not Webster's mind you) 'Et' is the past tense of 'Eat'.

...

Right.

Comments

[Cynical Mom]

You might enjoy online scrabble: http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/SSCrabble/

[patti]

Wow, Logan really is a robot. He has scrabble squares in his ASS?

[Leah]

Et?! Since when is 'et' the past tense of eat? That word annoys me...I think I'll start using it to annoy others;)

[emily]

I always thought Et was just bad english.lol.Leave it to the robot to know otherwise.;-)

[LargeMarge]

I think that you need to deduct double the 63 points and make him miss a turn next time you play. Manx is a proper name (breed of cat) so it isn't really legal. And get out of here with "et". Hope you were drinking heavily so that the playing with a cheat didn't get you down...LOL

[Mir]

Oh dear. That is just WRONG.

[Kay]

A charming example of the use of "et" from Lonesome Dove: "That hat looks like it was et by a heifer that had the green slobbers".

[Zach]

Of course 'et' is a word. Don't you remember how Arlo Guthrie 'et' his friend Al? (Don't worry, Al was a goose).

[erinire]

my dad got like 56 points in Scrabble once for "squid", and my boyfriend figured out that "qed" is, in fact, a word.

[cursingmama]

Is there anything Logan can't do? Shit, thats just not even fair at all. I cheat at scrabble by "getting the scrabble dictionary" before we play. I go to the "Q"'s and "X"'s to reaquaint myself with those "q"'s that don't need a "u" and anything "x" I might be able to pull out my ass.
We don't go out on weekends either - beer is cheaper at home, and then you don't have to worry about getting a DWI - which nobody except for the very rich can afford.

[kalisah]

yep...that's a proper noun and not allowed. You should've challenged him and made him lose a turn.

[Dan]

Well, even if it is unacceptable in the Scrabble dictionary, he could have done a lot worse (in terms of "bullshit" words, which my Dad also calls them) with words that *are* acceptable:

GOX
QAID
QAT
QOPH

etc.

The real Scrabble pros don't even care what the definitions are, they just want to learn as many words as possible. It's a sort of perversely beautifuly and inclusive use of the English language that way.

[Dan]

er, that's *beautiful* not *beautifuly*. Please don't challenge me off the board.

[slurpee]

haha. scrabbles rocks. :) manx? i have to remember that. ;)