No, there's a scrabble app, ss. This is the words with friends app. I stopped playing once it crashed every day on my Android device. Works great apparently if you have an iPhone.

YES. GET.>> ^Stormsinger:

Is this the scrabble app?

Is this the scrabble app?

1. I can dance the tango, amongst other ballroom dances, and have won dance contests.

2. My father is a major part of space history – he was a range safety officer, blowing up missiles that went off course in the early days of the missile program – has destroyed more missiles than anyone else and no one is likely to ever catch up to him, since they know what they are doing now.

3. I love to tell stories, and when I travel, I write stories in my head to tell when I get home (did I ever tell you about spending an hour – at 10 pm in the winter night -- talking to the lone Scottish soldier guarding Edinburgh Castle and what he told me about kilts and Scottish pride?)

4. I am vain about my ears.

5. The only thing I have ever given birth to is a theater company, now defunct for ten years, and I am very proud that folks still mourn its passing. We did GREAT STUFF.

6. I am hypercritical and judgmental of others, but I am hardest of all on myself.

7. Once I moved to hippy haven Port Townsend, I grew out my armpit hair to see if I could blend in with the natives – and then scared myself in the shower because I thought it was a spider.

8. One of my best friends is my Oklahoma cousin, which is remarkable because we have never spent more than a week in each others company in five decades.

9. The precept I try to live by: “Everyone is doing the best they can in any given moment. Their best may stink, and you may need to avoid them, but it is indeed the best they can do.” I’m still hypercritical and judgmental. Even though I believe this to the core of my being.

10. I have cheated at Scrabble online.

11. I have had eight teeth pulled and braces, but my teeth are still crowded.

12. I am vain about my eyebrows.

13. I love telling jokes.

14. I was born in Alaska.

15. My mother died in 1988 and I still miss her terribly. She was funny and caring and smart.

16. Typing number 15 made me cry, which surprised me.

17. I paid $1,500 for a lifetime pass to the local arts cinema 14 years ago, which turned out to be a great investment – they recently sold some more and wanted $5,000 (that did include popcorn for life, but still).

18. I didn’t talk to my father for two years because he was an asshole when I was growing up, and now I call him every single day because he lives in a nursing home. He’s also not an asshole any more – or at least, I can walk him out of being an asshole. This transformation in our relationship is a great blessing in my life.

19. I am very very good at my job.

20. I am quick to anger.

21. I am very generous.

22. The librarians have a nickname for me. They call me The Gale, to differentiate me from all the other mere Gales, Gayles and Gails in town.

23. I have never lived anyplace with so many people named Gale/Gayle/Gail.

24. I am happy on the first day of winter and sad on the first day of summer – because the days are so frigging short in winter and they start to get longer on the Winter Solstice. And verse visa for Summer – it means the days are getting quickly shorter.

25. This list was interrupted by my friend Deb, and we went across the street for lemon drop martinis and baked poblana peppers and cheese. My friend Deb says that #25 should be: Once upon a time, I kissed too many boys.

60 characters or less, it feels like a scrabble game when i try and write titles. and i usually can't win

Ok, someone spent way too much time over the scrabble board...

It's actually a style; a kinetic editing style that adds energy to the delivery.

Monologuing for 8 minutes can be a killer. It's very hard to keep up energy and proper deliver for that time. Watching a monologue for that long can be especially brutal. You've probably never seen an 8 minute monologue in any movie or television show you've ever seen.

Speaking engagingly, by oneself, for extended periods of time is something that radio talk show hosts are often adept at. Politicians occasionally are. Professional speakers usually are. Even actors (film, not so much stage) can have a hard time not breaking character or flubbing a line or losing energy in an 8 minute scene. Youtube posters are usually not professionals in these fields. They have day jobs and do this as a hobby. They try to make it as entertaining as they can for you & play down their weak points.

It's not that they're incapable of memorizing an 8 minute rant (though I'm sure some are), but it takes a special person, and many years of experience, to be able to be engaging for that long.

This editing style also lets the performer assume multiple roles much more easily. It's not the case here, but if you watch, say, Michael Swaim on Cracked TV or this Ze Frank video on Scrabble, you're understand what I mean.>> ^xxovercastxx:

I had to look away to make it through this. Why can't anyone on YouTube read a prepared speech without having cuts every 2 second anymore?

I despise playing scrabble. However, I enjoyed this video because I can imagine that injecting a little (or a lot of) anarchy into the game would be entertaining... If you can't beat them, change your definition of "winning" to "making the game as frustrating as possible for your opponent".

Ay yi yi. Kids these days...

Two-letter words are a crucial part of Scrabble gameplay. They form "hooks" (words forming "L" shapes), and can be used to "stack" words on top of each other. If you actually want to play the game for points (which is like, the point of the game, last time I checked), you must use two-letter words to form the big-point combos. To declare that two-letter words are a "bane" is the height of absurdity, like telling a chess player he cannot sacrifice pieces to strengthen his position. You're being silly because, I suspect, you're too lazy to memorize the approximately 100 two-letter words, most of which you already know. (like "ah", "ha", "ma", "or", etc). If you play Scrabble enough, remembering the "obscure" two-letter words ("xi", "xu", "oe", "ka", etc) does not take a photographic memory...it becomes like riding a bike or typing.

And if you bothered to read my comment carefully, I said that the players must agree upon a two-letter word list before they begin playing, thereby avoiding any confusion. All that takes is having the list handy. On online Scrabble, that list is already determined. I am currently only aware of two lists, English TWL and English Miriam-Webster.

Good luck on your next Scrabble game, champ.



>> ^Zyrxil:

>> ^ChairmanRoberto:
>> ^Zyrxil:
Obscure yet acceptable 2 letter words are the bane of scrabble.

You obviously don't play much Scrabble. Two-letter words are an essential part of strategy, and any Scrabble player should have them committed to memory (for a serious game), or at least the players should have a list of them during the game. Also, there are several different lists of two-letter words, so players must agree on which list they use. Most of these two-letter words are not particularly obscure. I suppose "xu" and "za" are obscure, but if everyone knows the two-letter words, then there's no "bane", now is there?

You're admitting to the existence of multiple lists of acceptable 2 letter words. I don't see that you have a leg to stand on. You can't actually want play Scrabble and not have it devolve into 'use 2 letter words to block everything so there's only space for other two letter words' as if it were a world championship tournament.

>> ^ChairmanRoberto:

>> ^Zyrxil:
Obscure yet acceptable 2 letter words are the bane of scrabble.

You obviously don't play much Scrabble. Two-letter words are an essential part of strategy, and any Scrabble player should have them committed to memory (for a serious game), or at least the players should have a list of them during the game. Also, there are several different lists of two-letter words, so players must agree on which list they use. Most of these two-letter words are not particularly obscure. I suppose "xu" and "za" are obscure, but if everyone knows the two-letter words, then there's no "bane", now is there?

You're admitting to the existence of multiple lists of acceptable 2 letter words. I don't see that you have a leg to stand on. You can't actually want play Scrabble and not have it devolve into 'use 2 letter words to block everything so there's only space for other two letter words' as if it were a world championship tournament.

>> ^rychan:

Why the hell do they have the slide timings on the presentation? That's distracting. They presentation should be about the content, not the delivery mechanism. The organizers of this think they're cleverer than they are.


I fully agree. I'm also not totally sure why they are forcing people to keep it under 5 minutes. I don't mind someone going for a little while about something interesting. It's like they are trying to be TED Talks, but want to be different somehow and since we know all youngsters have ADD, they settled on this idea.

>> ^Zyrxil:

Obscure yet acceptable 2 letter words are the bane of scrabble.


You obviously don't play much Scrabble. Two-letter words are an essential part of strategy, and any Scrabble player should have them committed to memory (for a serious game), or at least the players should have a list of them during the game. Also, there are several different lists of two-letter words, so players must agree on which list they use. Most of these two-letter words are not particularly obscure. I suppose "xu" and "za" are obscure, but if everyone knows the two-letter words, then there's no "bane", now is there?

Obscure yet acceptable 2 letter words are the bane of scrabble.

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This would really be *eia* if a raging fire had consumed that crowd while the private, non-government fire departments and private police contractors scrabbled to see who they should save as per their insurance policies.