Hard News: The Short and Long of It
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I can do this -
Great, cos I just about started comparing PAS to Scrabble. ;)
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(Good to learn there are other killer Scrabble players here! My mother, a sweet but very worldly 82yr old beloved by almost all; my youngest sister, a really gifted nurse & midwife, and myself form a paticularly vicious killer-Scrabble triumverate. Very few other people will play us...we use a super-Scrabble set, and aim to to
*beat 239 (best score for a single play, which title Mary holds;)
*get more than twelve 7s in one game,
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*go out using the Kate manouvre - my youngest sister does this with hideous regularity (you go out with a 7 on your last possible turn, leaving your moaning opponents counting up the Zs & s...) -
does anyone else need a name-change? It's probably best to do it in a batch.
Yes pls. My temporary "patch" lacks elegance.
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my mother was born in 1927...maybe your mother was too. mum wasn't much of a scrabble player, but she was into genealogy in a big way. got into computers and the internet in her 70s. she's been gone a year now. we miss her a lot.
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Great Leaping Lammingtons...
Anyone got a copy of that card showing a herd of full-blown lammingtons rushing over a cliff?
@ Islander: My Publishing Pimp, Mr Wylie, is correct - that is indeed a card I print for Mr Ashley W. Smith Esq (twisted artist extraordinaire of the Port Robinson / North Canterbury locale)
- email me a postal address and I'll pop one in the post for ya : )yrs ephemerally
Dinzie Lala
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*beat 239 (best score for a single play, which title Mary holds;)
*get more than twelve 7s in one game,
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*go out using the Kate manouvre - my youngest sister does this with hideous regularity (you go out with a 7 on your last possible turn, leaving your moaning opponents counting up the Zs & s...)That's some unholy chops your family has got going on there Islander.
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Is there a better site than Pa/PAS in the entire ANZ blogisphere?
Nope.
I will sincerely appreciate the gift - and please give my note of my appreciation of his work to the twisted artist (I'm a kind of corkscrew one myself.) And thanks to the deeply knowledgable pimp also-
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Is there a better site than Pa/PAS in the entire ANZ blogisphere?
Nope
I concur. Oh, and I suck at scrabble. So if ever I happen to meet you, and manage to not be tonguetied and pathetic, don't take advantage and ask me to play this devilish game. Because I will cry.
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Yeah mark taslov- we've all been playing board games of all kinds (and cards ) for well over half-a-century each...and *all* my mother's kids are really good at words & mind games-
a niece has shown a tendency to dip her head into the swamp (she is bred from the younger end of the family)
and a grandnephew -who has what I can only call a ferocioius intelligence- has scanned a game or 2 and said "When I know more."We, canines dripping, await them. Eagerly-
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I'm doing a paper on New Media this semester and have been discussing you lot in class - expect a few new drive-by lurkers to check us out this week. Highly pertinent to our virtual communities topic.
So ya better get dressed, brush yr hair and polish up yr wit!
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Jackie - no you wont! You'll be in the house of over 150 dictionaries, and I will relax our rules, and you can consult every one of 'em! (instead of just the OSW & the OSP- because, frankly, they are *limited*...)
And -when the nasty triumverate plays - we always have very good nibbles & wine (or whatever.) This practise definitely extends to all Scrabble guests- -
Ooo Kerry - will they notice my hair actually engaes with things? I have uncontrollable curls (not quite as good as Death's grand-daughter. Susan Sto-Lit, but nearly-)
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gah - "engages"
(edit button, whimpery please? The preview doesnt do it because I only see what I think I wrote-)
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Kerry, in light of our discussion in this thread about this site's design, it would be really interesting to hear how your classmates reckon Public Address achieves a different tone to Kiwiblog or The Standard for example. Fresh eyes, that sort of thing. Failing that, challenge em to sign up and leap in.
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engaes
I thought you were just showing off a new word in a scrabbley way. :)
Which reminds me, when was that short story of yours featuring a certain local neologism of ours going to be published?
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But let's make it worthwhile: does anyone else need a name-change? It's probably best to do it in a batch
Quite happy with my name but I wouldn't mind a few years knocked off my age!
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So ya better get dressed, brush yr hair and polish up yr wit!
Well, the evening began at the gentleman's club, where we were discussing Wittgenstein over a game of backgammon.
(What? Lying to Kerry's class isn't a felony, is it?)
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Sacha -that wonderful neologism of *your's* is in the short story called "You see, my noise & moment" & I'll send you a copy just pre-pub-(the small collection is called "Falling Off The Planet")-
and (doffs skullcap - anyone else really disturbed by that word?) thank you so much for the coining!
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Thanks muchly, Islander. Our host has my details.
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Is backgammon that game involving waving of arms, womanising and loud techno? :)
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Though I'd believe that story if you were with Mr Beard, oddly enough.
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I figure Kerry's classmates deserve plenty of obscure insider references to keep em busy.
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plenty of obscure insider references to keep em busy.
So Liza in lead?
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Well, the evening began at the gentleman's club, where we were discussing Wittgenstein over a game of backgammon.
You just said that coz you haven't got any hair to brush and you thought you could get away with that paisley dressing gown at the gentlemen's club anyway.
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Actually, I've seriously considered changing from real name to an alias. I so often forget that this is a public forum and blather on, then wish I could take stuff back.
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