3-Letter Word Sparks Scrabble Scramble

AP Via Excite news ^ | Aug 5, 11:05 PM (ET) | AP

[tdadams]

And here I thought professional bowling on ESPN was kind of a joke.

[TheBigB]

You're forgetting the really, REALLY funny part of the article...

"...emergency meeting of the Scrabble Advisory Board."

There's actually a "Scrabble Advisory Board." Do the members wear beepers? Are they pulled out of their other jobs? "Dammit Bob, I've gotta go...there's a SCRABBLE EMERGENCY!!"

[Tai_Chung]

I thought abbreviations were not allowed in scrabble.

[martin_fierro]

There are levels and levels of Scrabble Hoi Polloi:

The National SCRABBLE^® Association has the following boards and committees drawn from its community which work with and advise the head office staff on various issues:

• Advisory Board
• Dictionary Committee
• Ratings Committee
• Rules Committee

All that's missing is a Scrabble Board Board.

[Red Badger]

What if he'd used the word "FAG"?????.....cigarette anyone?.....bundle of sticks used for firewood?.......

[TheBigB]

Don't forget the Standing Committee on Scrabble Committees.

Stop the world, I wanna get off!

[martin_fierro]

I tried getting on their Advisory Board, but they determined that my lifestyle was too ... hardscrabble.

[DonnDe]

The best was about 15+ years ago, Sportschannel in Chicago had slot car racing.

[mikrofon]

Have you ever tried to use FR terms while playing scrabble -- they don't tend to go over real well...

[NCjim]

Hey, watch it! Forty years ago when I was in high school I worked in a hobby shop that had three slot car racetracks! It took pure athletic ability to coordinate your thumb pressure and the car's speed... *g

Where was the Sports Channel when I needed them?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

So the guy cheated, then went on to win. Don't you get disqualified for cheating any more?

[VRWC_minion]

like feijoa (an evergreen shrub)

Bush basher.

[gopwinsin04]

Coming up next on ESPN 8 'The Ocho..' the National Scrabble Tournament!

[TheBigB]

but they determined that my lifestyle was too ... hardscrabble.

*slapslapslapslapslapslap*

Don't you ever...make...another...joke...that...bad...ever. Ever.

Now go to bed without supper. :)

[Charles Henrickson]

There are levels and levels of Scrabble Hoi Polloi

Martin, if by "Hoi Polloi" you intend to mean "hoity-toity muckety-mucks and poobahs," you are falling into a very common lexical error. Actually, "hoi polloi" means just the opposite. It's Greek for "the many," and it properly refers to "the masses," "the common folks," "the great unwashed."

[martin_fierro]

Hey. ALL I KNOW IS WHAT I LEARN ON...

So there, Porcupine.

[discostu]

Lez is a slang term, slang isn't acceptable according to the normal Scrabble rules. What's the big deal?