Apr 17
You just can’t plan on those times when words like “smelly” and “arses” will end up so close to each other. Tonight was that time.
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You just can’t plan on those times when words like “smelly” and “arses” will end up so close to each other. Tonight was that time.
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I take it you play with a dictionary in hand? I looked up pater, and it is a medieval word meaning father. Noone really used it after the 14th century. -_-
It’s Latin for father – an educated person should know that.
FUTUE TE ET IPSUM CABALLUM
(I hate snobs)
Educated people don’t use so many 3 letter words, my god has the language escaped you? Not to mention Gators is an abbreviation. Maybe just British games of scrabble are different…
Wow, people are real dicks when it comes to Scrabble.
I laughed, Scott.
But what exactly is a Gip?
Someone, have you thought that maybe he found this picture online? Or maybe he was playing with one of his kids hense the 3 letter words? Think before you post?
Lol Scott =P Made me laugh
Real players know that QI is a word.
@ El Fnord
– Dude, come on, dont be so critical… no one likes that.
@ Someone
– First of all, the word Gator is, yes, an abbreviation, but non the less it IS a word.
– Just because you say a lot of 3 letter words does not mean that you uneducated… at all (possibly lazy).
– And don’t even get me started on the Brit’s…
@ Mercator
– agreed
Long words in scrabble don’t mean jack if you’re not hitting the “TL” or “TW” word spaces. Check out the 3 letter word “zap” the “z” is on a “TL”. Just saying
Gip is another valid spelling of gyp:
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Verb 1. gip – deprive of by deceit; “He swindled me out of my inheritance”; “She defrauded the customers who trusted her”; “the cashier gipped me when he gave me too little change”
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Gator is not an abbreviation, but an informal form of alligator.
The wife & I play Scrabble all the time & usually many games at once. Here’s one we’re playing right now. I’m cleaning house with this one, but it doesn’t always go that way:
http://www.audiocomix.com/miscpix/scrabble.jpg
Everybody is a critic. The man was playing while recording the show.
Give him a break.
I mean you try to concentrate with Turpster telling jokes. Not an easy task and in the middle of the night no less.
Just to include myself in this pater business – pater is also slavic word for priest.
scott…this is the only place I could find after going into “twitter”…to send a note or a reply. Nothing on my twitter page or yours says to REPLY! so how do I do it????
wow…this comment thread is crazy.
It is clear that scrabble, is in fact… Serious Business.
Hawkito speaks the truth. I wanna play too! Fun times! Pull me in.
thetipgiver(at)gmail(dot)com
Too many peevologists in this thread. Sometimes all you get in a Scrabble game are three-letter or *gasp* two-letter words. The other day I used a two-letter CHINESE LOAN — qi “vital energy” (also spelled chi or ch’i, from Chinese 气 “air, breath, vital energy” — the last sense from religious Daosim). So sure, using two- and three-letter words shows my poor intelligence and education. The fact that I can speak and write three different languages is totally irrelevant.
In Scrabble, size doesn’t matter.
As with many things in life it isnt the size (of the word in this case) that matters so much as finding the best position…
Cuz ya know what they say if ya got big words…
big brain…….
My wife and I are both technically card-carrying smart people (MENSA members), and we regularly get schooled in scrabble by her mother in Scrabble. The trick that she uses to whoop up on us is short words, but *lots* of crossing words. So, instead of scoring on a single 4-letter word, she gets that, a couple 2-letter ones, maybe a 3-letter… and god help you if she hits a double or triple word score…
By the way, Super Scrabble is just that… I recommend picking it up if you don’t own a copy. Bigger board, more tiles, and QUADRUPLE letter/word scores…
Who cares how many letters in words you use. The point of the game is not to impress everyone with your dumbass vocabulary, the point is to have the highest score when you’re all done with it.
Scott, you’re wrong, and here’s why. [burp sound as heard on ELR]
Scott, you’re wrong, and here’s why. [loud burp sound as heard on ELR]
NHTI’s Internet sucks. I apologize for my now-triple post.
Quiet up there, # JeffyD. We don’t wanna be giving anyone any ideas.
I agree with Scott. ‘Jot’ on the triple word score is worth what, 30 points? Okay 27 of the ‘O’ is a blank. Average 27 a turn and you will do quite well, thank you.
And Scott, with ‘pater,’ you did impress me with your dumbass vocabulary. That was the point of my original post… a back-handed compliment, but a compliment nonetheless
I bet half the people here are the ones who play Illuminati on Yahoo or scrabble online with a scrabble word finder website at the ready. Where I come from, that is called cheating. Chicanery or fraudulence, for those of you too good for such a simple word as cheating…
Jot that on your smelly arses, twit mob! Rue and be gone!
On your bike to the zoo! ZAP!
It’s one thing to be an educated person, and quite another to come running into a room with it on a business card. People who come in judging your intelligence based on a Scrabble game should get slapped in the face with a Halibut so that they realize that there is no Scrabble assessment test for college. (Thank goodness)
Looks like you had a fun game, Scott.
F-E-R-T, “fert”.
pater = a Dutch word for a monk who is a priest …
and then there’s the “pater noster” aka “the lord’s prayer”
For me the goal of scrabble is to get the most exclamations from the other players, such as. ‘WHAT THE !@#$!?’ ‘Thats a word!?’ ‘A q and a v on a triple word score?’
hey Scott……nice game….don’t know how I even got on this site……..????????