MelissaA
Brenton
Shilpa Karhik
The LIGHTER Side of SCRABBLE!!!
August 3rd 2007 00:35
* In 1996 a woman was charged with assault when she struck her husband over the head with a Scrabble board.
* A resident in an old people’s home was thrown out when she admitted she didn’t play Scrabble.
* A five year old boy phoned Leicester police to complain that his sister was cheating at Scrabble.
* In Edun, Oxfordshire, there is a club for playing Nude Scrabble!
* An absent minded player set fire to the Scrabble bag by placing a lighted butt into it rather than into the ashtray which was next to it.
* A New Zealand player surprised opponents when, as they counted the tiles before the game, he picked out the two blanks and put them in his pocket. When asked what he was doing he replied, "Those ain’t got no letters on them sport. We never use’em".
* According to Ikea, people with wooden floors are good at Scrabble.
* A Nobel prize winner, Seamus Heaney wrote a poem called ‘Scrabble’
* There is a town called Scrabble in Virginia, USA.
* In 1985 Lt., Cdr. Waghorn and Lance Corporal Gill played Scrabble continuously for 5 days when trapped in a crevasse in Antarctica.
* A gold plated game is available from Franklin Mint.
* A resident in an old people’s home was thrown out when she admitted she didn’t play Scrabble.
* A five year old boy phoned Leicester police to complain that his sister was cheating at Scrabble.
* In Edun, Oxfordshire, there is a club for playing Nude Scrabble!
* An absent minded player set fire to the Scrabble bag by placing a lighted butt into it rather than into the ashtray which was next to it.
* A New Zealand player surprised opponents when, as they counted the tiles before the game, he picked out the two blanks and put them in his pocket. When asked what he was doing he replied, "Those ain’t got no letters on them sport. We never use’em".
* According to Ikea, people with wooden floors are good at Scrabble.
* A Nobel prize winner, Seamus Heaney wrote a poem called ‘Scrabble’
* There is a town called Scrabble in Virginia, USA.
* In 1985 Lt., Cdr. Waghorn and Lance Corporal Gill played Scrabble continuously for 5 days when trapped in a crevasse in Antarctica.
* A gold plated game is available from Franklin Mint.
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