laura (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} shinyobject) wrote,@ 2007-12-30 17:20:00 |
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words are sexy
Top Scoring Bingos
Word Score Played By
SeQUOIAs 200 Scott Farris-White
FACETIOUS 200 Thomas William Clement
ABNORMITY 200 Garreth Jones
BEZIQUES 200 Thomas William Clement
TERMINOLOGIES 200 Garreth Jones
ROMANTIC 200 Gavin McKercher
GENERALISATIONS 200 Garreth Jones
FABULOUS 200 ScrabbleJunkie McGee
ASHPLANT 200 Private
BLITzKRIEG 200 Mark Yang
Super Bingos
Word Score Played By
DESHYPOTHEQUIEZ 1797 Augustin De Vitry
OXYPHENBUTAZONE 1778 Louise Kidd
OXYPHENBUTAZONE 1778 Stephen James Clement
OXYPHENBUTAZONE 1778 Thomas William Clement
OXYPHENBUTAZONE 1778 Private
OXYPHENBUTAZONE 1778 Private
OXYPHENBUTAZONE 1778 Pete Lux
OXYPHENBUTAZONE 1778 Samuel Chenoweth
OXYPHENBUTAZONE 1778 Karlena Tomc-Barbosa
OXYPHENBUTAZONE 1778 Benjamin Gummer
Now, I do have some scrabble fu. The English language and word puzzles are decidedly my bitches.
I have a big vocabulary and love to whip it out.
NOTE:
This does NOT that I bust out words like "obfuscate" in daily life--I don't need to make people feel dumb to feel smart myself, and think it's just silly to use words that the person/s you're talking to won't understand when your goal is to be understood. Also, most people hate having to have things explained to them in the middle of a conversation (it just interrupts the flow, you know?). Even in an academic paper, you're trying to get a point across to whoever's reading or grading it. It doesn't help this goal if you say "The protagonist is as doomed to fail as an zygote with a faulty JAK/STAT* pathway" in a Lit paper. Even though it may be a perfectly valid analogy, because really understanding the what those terms mean takes literally years of bio classes, this would be really dumb thing to write. I also know perfectly well when to use whom or who, but refuse to use the word whom outside academia because it sounds really fucking pretentious. And I'm DAMN sure not going to correct people's grammar in a conversation.
To keep the sex analogy going, if you have a gigantic schlong, do you walk around with it hanging out and masturbate in public? No. You save it for situations when calling attention to it would be appropriate and appreciated, unless you yourself are also just a huge dick.
My big vocabulary, just like my addiction to and skill at puzzles in general but especially word puzzles, comes out when it is needed.
But in Scrabble, the goal is simple: Get Points. The more, the better.
It does not matter whether you know what the words mean, only that you know whether or not they are words. Knowing that ZA is a word got me 74 points the other day (Z on a double letter, used in ZA and ZONES simultaneously, one of them double worded. Bitch. [Scrabble is my bitch, to be clear, not you or any actual person]). So all the stops are out, I'm not offending anybody even if I do pwn them real hard.
I think my best word was QUARTZES on a triple word, a hundred some odd points.
No one in the last... several years has beaten me at Scrabble. **
**I think. To the best of my recollection. And I'm not counting two games:
1. "speed Scrabble" with Nate, in which we each had a total of 5 minutes to use the entire game, which I lost by less than five points.
2. When Sam and Nate and Andrew and I were playing, and fifteen minutes into the game John-the-rugby-guy arrived. Essentially our first date-thing. He sits *right* next to me, third person on the couch, as in our thighs keep touching. Listening to his stories and trying not to say irreparably stupid things were my priorities then, and I was playing words like RAIN and BAD, just flat out no looking for doubles, no multiple words at once, fucking 8 point words because I was spending all of 30 seconds contemplating each turn. So yes, I came in dead last, but come on.
What I need to do now, and by need I mean want, is actually study the game instead of just reading lotsa books and playing a couple times a month. Like, learn ALL the two-letter words, not depend on just the two or three Q¬U words I know, play with people who are better than me. I'm already playing with UofC students, and Nate is a Lit major and is into Scrabble, but until Scrabulous came around I couldn't find anyone better than me without like entering competitions or something. But now.... dear lord, OXYPHENBUTAZONE for almost two thousand points in one turn???!! DESHYPOTHEQUIEZ???? and in the dozens of games I've played (used to be something my family did together. When I had a family. No, that's way too melodramatic, most of my family is alive and well even if they all live alone and a thousand miles apart. When we were living together, I'll say.) in dozens of games, I've used all 7 letters all of twice. REGATTAS today though, ftw! I have a long way to go before I can really start bragging.
*JAnus Kinases / Signal Transducers and Activators of Transcription, if anyone cares.
Top Scoring Bingos
Word Score Played By
SeQUOIAs 200 Scott Farris-White
FACETIOUS 200 Thomas William Clement
ABNORMITY 200 Garreth Jones
BEZIQUES 200 Thomas William Clement
TERMINOLOGIES 200 Garreth Jones
ROMANTIC 200 Gavin McKercher
GENERALISATIONS 200 Garreth Jones
FABULOUS 200 ScrabbleJunkie McGee
ASHPLANT 200 Private
BLITzKRIEG 200 Mark Yang
Super Bingos
Word Score Played By
DESHYPOTHEQUIEZ 1797 Augustin De Vitry
OXYPHENBUTAZONE 1778 Louise Kidd
OXYPHENBUTAZONE 1778 Stephen James Clement
OXYPHENBUTAZONE 1778 Thomas William Clement
OXYPHENBUTAZONE 1778 Private
OXYPHENBUTAZONE 1778 Private
OXYPHENBUTAZONE 1778 Pete Lux
OXYPHENBUTAZONE 1778 Samuel Chenoweth
OXYPHENBUTAZONE 1778 Karlena Tomc-Barbosa
OXYPHENBUTAZONE 1778 Benjamin Gummer
Now, I do have some scrabble fu. The English language and word puzzles are decidedly my bitches.
I have a big vocabulary and love to whip it out.
NOTE:
This does NOT that I bust out words like "obfuscate" in daily life--I don't need to make people feel dumb to feel smart myself, and think it's just silly to use words that the person/s you're talking to won't understand when your goal is to be understood. Also, most people hate having to have things explained to them in the middle of a conversation (it just interrupts the flow, you know?). Even in an academic paper, you're trying to get a point across to whoever's reading or grading it. It doesn't help this goal if you say "The protagonist is as doomed to fail as an zygote with a faulty JAK/STAT* pathway" in a Lit paper. Even though it may be a perfectly valid analogy, because really understanding the what those terms mean takes literally years of bio classes, this would be really dumb thing to write. I also know perfectly well when to use whom or who, but refuse to use the word whom outside academia because it sounds really fucking pretentious. And I'm DAMN sure not going to correct people's grammar in a conversation.
To keep the sex analogy going, if you have a gigantic schlong, do you walk around with it hanging out and masturbate in public? No. You save it for situations when calling attention to it would be appropriate and appreciated, unless you yourself are also just a huge dick.
My big vocabulary, just like my addiction to and skill at puzzles in general but especially word puzzles, comes out when it is needed.
But in Scrabble, the goal is simple: Get Points. The more, the better.
It does not matter whether you know what the words mean, only that you know whether or not they are words. Knowing that ZA is a word got me 74 points the other day (Z on a double letter, used in ZA and ZONES simultaneously, one of them double worded. Bitch. [Scrabble is my bitch, to be clear, not you or any actual person]). So all the stops are out, I'm not offending anybody even if I do pwn them real hard.
I think my best word was QUARTZES on a triple word, a hundred some odd points.
No one in the last... several years has beaten me at Scrabble. **
**I think. To the best of my recollection. And I'm not counting two games:
1. "speed Scrabble" with Nate, in which we each had a total of 5 minutes to use the entire game, which I lost by less than five points.
2. When Sam and Nate and Andrew and I were playing, and fifteen minutes into the game John-the-rugby-guy arrived. Essentially our first date-thing. He sits *right* next to me, third person on the couch, as in our thighs keep touching. Listening to his stories and trying not to say irreparably stupid things were my priorities then, and I was playing words like RAIN and BAD, just flat out no looking for doubles, no multiple words at once, fucking 8 point words because I was spending all of 30 seconds contemplating each turn. So yes, I came in dead last, but come on.
What I need to do now, and by need I mean want, is actually study the game instead of just reading lotsa books and playing a couple times a month. Like, learn ALL the two-letter words, not depend on just the two or three Q¬U words I know, play with people who are better than me. I'm already playing with UofC students, and Nate is a Lit major and is into Scrabble, but until Scrabulous came around I couldn't find anyone better than me without like entering competitions or something. But now.... dear lord, OXYPHENBUTAZONE for almost two thousand points in one turn???!! DESHYPOTHEQUIEZ???? and in the dozens of games I've played (used to be something my family did together. When I had a family. No, that's way too melodramatic, most of my family is alive and well even if they all live alone and a thousand miles apart. When we were living together, I'll say.) in dozens of games, I've used all 7 letters all of twice. REGATTAS today though, ftw! I have a long way to go before I can really start bragging.
*JAnus Kinases / Signal Transducers and Activators of Transcription, if anyone cares.
