Scrabble with Al on a Wednesday night: a drama in one act.
Me: OK, I’m going to have to stop you there. ‘Frogurt’ isn’t a word.
Al: Yes it is.
Me: Seriously. No it isn’t. It’s like how you can’t use ‘lite’ because it’s nonexistent ad-speak and is not, and never has been, a real word.
Al: … Well you let me use ‘magnetasm.’
Me: That’s because I felt sorry for you because you didn’t have an ‘i’ and it was on the triple word score and you were like a hundred points behind.
Al: Actually, I think I still might be like a hundred points behind.
Me: Oh Lord. Want to just call it a draw and watch the new Venture Brothers episode?
I’ll trade you brothers… mine’s in near-mint condition. He snores a lot, and is fairly obnoxious, but he’s an electrician. Electricians are handy! Really.
You can’t have my sisters, though. I actually like them.
I think it may be appropriate to quote one of my favourite lines in the complete history of film and television:
The frogurt is also cursed!
To which one might reply: That’s bad. But if it comes with your choice of toppings? That’s good.
Either way, still not a legitimate Scrabble word, is it?
No, no, no. Words used on ‘The Simpsons’ are not necessarily always words. Didn’t they have an entire scene about that? Something about not having heard the word ‘embiggen’ before they came to Springfield?
Edna: Embiggens? I never heard that word before I moved to Springfield.
Ms.Hoover: I don’t know why. It’s a perfectly cromulent word.
From http://www.hasbro.com/scrabble/pl/page.tools/dn/home.cfm
LITE
lite \ adj lower in calories or having less of some ingredient
My contributions to sodacraze know no bounds
Final thought for the day:
Last night Al used the term ’roundtangle’ when describing the bookshelf he planned to build for me this Xmas - that is, a rectangle with rounded edges.
I’m so tired of fighting. For all I know this one might even be a word. :-S