Ipodding Geeky Bliss

I have to recommend the podcast that I have begun listening to recently. The Word Nerds is an etymology podcast, where three American gents (Howard and Dave Shepherd and Howard Chang) natter about the origin of English/American words. I love this podcast, the guys are intelligent, interesting and amusing and I often learn something, despite that fact having Americans teaching me about a language that they don't bleeding well speak properly rankles a little! Theydo occasionally get it wrong however, there have been a number of references to how us English use words which just are either plain wrong or a little off-center, but that is to be expected as they don't live here.

Anyway, enough whittering on on my part - go listen to it!

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Revenge is a dish best served SCRABBLED!

Well, the first proper entry for a scrabble game and I WON! However, it wasn't smooth sailing...

Firstly, while I made our tea, I foolishly let John set out the scrabble board. He "helpfully" picked out our letters for us so we could just start - as you can hopefully see, the results were a tad biased, mine tiles being on the left. (Click on any picture to enlarge it).



After returning the tiles to the bag, we pulled tiles and John was to go first. And it was then that his little plan to fix the tiles backfired.


His first go was therefore 0 points, while he swapped his tiles. The game then ran smoothly-(ish) until John tried to put down the word "quipe". I challenged and, while I was checking in the handy dictionary, John took a sneeky peek and saw the word "Quipo". So, cheat that he is, he used it the next go! There is no edd to the man's evil streak. Just look at the cheat's little cheating face.



Has anyone every looked so evil? Anyway, here is the final board :




And I feel vindicated, because after all, as my old Mum says, cheats never prosper!

My First Post

OK, so things have been going wrong in our house for some time. In arguments, the slamming of doors and the taunting only point to one thing.... Scrabble envy!

That's right, my other 1/2 and I have been playing scrabble for some time and things have become a bit... heated. The problem is as follows - I have a much better vocabulary but zero patience, no head for strategy and am dyslexic. He, however, is quite happy to spend 20 minutes contemplating his next move and makes moves merely for points. This is an anathema to me - scrabble should be a fast paced game that is about the love of words and life, he makes it about capitalism and boredom. He has started a site to catalogue our game scores and this is my rebuttal cataloguing the strife and the heartbreak that is our competition.