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General Discussions => Spunk => Topic started by: Wolfman on January 31, 2006, 10:14:03 am
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I love stories about people who are fanatics... stories that delve into little worlds within our world, worlds that I know nothing about.
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This book fits your description perfectly. Fascinating new read by America\'s most renowned sports book writer. You don\'t have to be a Pats fan or even a football fan to enjoy it. It\'s an incredible breakdown of how people pick up influences from different people in their lives, and how one man used his influences to rise to the top of his (most intruiging) profession.
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start using \'ser\' in all your documents and see if she notices.
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Thesaurus.com= easier than a book
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Yeah I have heard that book was fantastic as well. I love stories about people who are fanatics... stories that delve into little worlds within our world, worlds that I know nothing about.
It wasn\'t my word choice that annoyed my professor. She just asked who didn\'t have a thesaurus, I said I didn\'t, and she demanded to see one the next time I showed up for class. That is a good trick though; I\'ll keep it in mind.
I never had this problem when I was working towards an English major. odd.
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English professor yelled at me the other day for not having [a thesauraus]
Try pressing Shift-F7 on most Microsoft Word programs :) One of my best paper-writing tricks in college was to write the paper, then go back and shift-F7 every other adjective in the paper. This trick was worth anywhere from 2-10 points per paper!
I also keep a pocket rhyming dictionary by my bed.
I have never owned a Scrabble dictionary, but if you want to read a great book, I highly reccomend "Word Freak" by Stefan Fatsis. He follows around pro Scrabble players (who are 10 times loonier than the pro poker players on TV) and ends up getting sucked in himself. The "Sports Guy" Bill Simmons actually lists this book in his top sports books as well.
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I love ultimate frisbee
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:doh: ok, have we really run out of REAL sport .info threads? What about Rugby? Water polo? Ultimate Frisbee? :lol:
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No, but my English professor yelled at me the other day for not having one. She was also annoyed that I do not have a "writer\'s reference," whatever the hell that is. What a joke. I have a dictionary, I figure that should be sufficient.
Plus, those words are only loosely synonymous.
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Man I am never playing games with any of you gyus; you\'re all too competitive. You make it barely sound fun!
I like Scrabble, but do not like being mutilated, eradicated, annihilated, obliterated, invalidated, clobbered, crushed, destroyed, demolished, speared, incinerated, axed, pummeled, crunched, chewed up, spit out, assaulted, bruised, squished, squashed, smushed, shattered, pulverized, massacred, mangled, slaughtered, or lambasted.
You guys are crazy.
looks like someone got a thesauruses for Christmas
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Man I am never playing games with any of you gyus; you\'re all too competitive. You make it barely sound fun!
I like Scrabble, but do not like being mutilated, eradicated, annihilated, obliterated, invalidated, clobbered, crushed, destroyed, demolished, speared, incinerated, axed, pummeled, crunched, chewed up, spit out, assaulted, bruised, squished, squashed, smushed, shattered, pulverized, massacred, mangled, slaughtered, or lambasted.
You guys are crazy.
rotfl
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Man I am never playing games with any of you gyus; you\'re all too competitive. You make it barely sound fun!
I like Scrabble, but do not like being mutilated, eradicated, annihilated, obliterated, invalidated, clobbered, crushed, destroyed, demolished, speared, incinerated, axed, pummeled, crunched, chewed up, spit out, assaulted, bruised, squished, squashed, smushed, shattered, pulverized, massacred, mangled, slaughtered, or lambasted.
You guys are crazy.
:hscratch: I think I got lost around being.
:cough:nerds:cough:
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Man I am never playing games with any of you gyus; you\'re all too competitive. You make it barely sound fun!
I like Scrabble, but do not like being mutilated, eradicated, annihilated, obliterated, invalidated, clobbered, crushed, destroyed, demolished, speared, incinerated, axed, pummeled, crunched, chewed up, spit out, assaulted, bruised, squished, squashed, smushed, shattered, pulverized, massacred, mangled, slaughtered, or lambasted.
You guys are crazy.
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where\'s my boggle thread?? i mutilate entire families in boggle.
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board games != sports.
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don\'t forget the "q" without "u" (http://www.hasbro.com/scrabble/pl/page.QwithoutU/dn/home.cfm) words... they\'ve gotten me some huge points before!!
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:cough:nerds:cough:
I suck at spelling
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the key to winning at scrabble is mastering all of the two letter words.
Kwyjibo
Kwyjibo (IPA: /kwdibo/) is a fictitious word made up by Bart Simpson during a game of Scrabble with his family. In the episode "Bart the Genius", Bart puts "Kwyjibo" on the board and scores upwards of 150 points (50 of those points having been obtained by using all his letters). When Homer Simpson asks Bart what a Kwyjibo is, Bart replies, "A big, dumb, balding North American ape. With no chin." Marge Simpson adds in, "…and a short temper". At this point, Homer chases Bart away, causing him to exclaim, "Uh oh! Kwyjibo on the loose!" Humorously enough, earlier in that same episode, Homer moans words to the effect of "How could anyone form a good word out of these letters?" His Scrabble letters spell OXIDIZE, and were arranged in that order. The word would be worth a minimum of 74 points, including 50 points for using all his letters.
Kwyjibo acquired some later notoriety as an alias used by the writer of the Melissa worm.
Kwyjibo was also adopted as the name of a relatively advanced and popular yo-yo string trick in 1999 by Taylor Whitley, the trick\'s creator. The trick is often misspelled as Kwijibo, possibly as a result of a webboard poster who went by that handle.
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get a room.
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I\'m the king of Scrabble
There is none higher
I get 200 points
Off the word "Quagmire"