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Gone: "boob."

I thought at first they were trying to grapple with a serious issue. They're not--they're eliminating anything and everything that someone might object to so they don't have to grapple with it. (Who except a nine-year old boy would find prurient meaning in "boob"?)

Gone: "hornier."

You can still look for an open 't' and "thornier."

As I do every few years, went back to isc.ro for a month. One of the accounts I started two years ago was still active. Started out just above 1300, went up and down and dropped below 1200 at one point, slowly got back above 1300 and I think that's enough. (You get two ratings now: one for games of 4 minutes or longer, and a "blitz" rating for 3 minutes or less. There are a whole bunch of people who play 1-minute games now. I tried a few--insane.) Even at this level, I always felt overmatched. I regularly lost games where I had a big lead and then the other player dropped a bingo and other big plays right near the end. And you knew it was coming. They're like vultures; it's like they don't even want to win unless they come back from 100 points down. And the bingos...lost one game on "shylocks." (Yes: the other end of the spectrum from Pogo when it comes to offensive language.) Being a sore loser, I never responded when someone who'd just trounced me gave me a "good game." I hate that stuff.

"Sequoias" on a triple-triple for 203 points (625 for the game).

Oops--maybe a mod can remove that url.

https://phildellio.tripod.com/sequoias.jpg

Someone sent this to me today--amazing and hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWD1WdIvT6Y

lol pretty good. when i was about 12 i worked out that 'xylopyrographic' if played over three triples would get you over 1000 points but didn't get so many extra points from extending existing words - and xylopyrographic isn't in the official scrabble dictionary.

(though xylopyrography is)

looking 4 scrabble opponents!

Are you on isc.ro?

no, i should be tho - that's what my homey [REDACTED] plays on mostly. i use the dumb scrabble phone app.

Too bad...can't help you there.

PATRONNE or gtfo

Steve - there was nothing on the board, it was my opening rack!

i can't think of a valid bingo for PANTONE but maybe you can.

negative.

i'm a negative creep, and i'm stoned.

disappointed also to learn that MANEATER is not valid. cuz of woke. (cuz of hyphenated tbh)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anatreme

my man

This could be my highest scoring play ever: "quibbler" across a triple-triple for 239 points (189 + 50). Last play of the game...I was helped by this Pogo rule that allows you to take a blank off the board if you have the matching letter on your rack; that gave me the second 'b.' So a little tainted.

https://i.postimg.cc/xjwG4Nf6/quibbler.jpg

Scrolled back, and not my highest: "executed" for 262. Feels like "quibbler" should be higher.