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In an effort to internationalise the game, a group of nutcases periodically revise the allowed vocabulary. Scrabble vocabulary developed into a bizarre jargon claimed to cover words from other languages. If you only play with friends, use any dictionary without the word "Scrabble" on its cover. This blog is primarily concerned with competitive Scrabble and the incompetence of some of its custodians..

Saturday, March 14, 2020

CORONA ON A ROTATING BOARD



The Coronavirus is a strain of the common flu virus. It has been developed by the biological warfare laboratories of the USA. For the virus to be effective, it has to be manually implanted under favourable conditions that would help spread the infection.


Another conspiracy theory? Well, if you are gullible enough to believe in the myth that box cutters and aeroplane fires caused the collapse of three New York skyscrapers on 9 September 2001, you would then be more gullible to believe that Zionist America would not unleash a bioweapon in the course of its trade wars with China.

It is laughable to see people wearing masks for protection. Any mask that would allow you to breathe air would not prevent a virus, or even a larger bacterium, from safe passage to your lungs. It is even more laughable to cancel a scrabble tournament for fear of an imaginary danger far less dangerous than a trip on a Melbourne train during rush hours. But then, stupidity is not a monopoly. Any person or group can elect to be stupid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJm4wu97tYE

Saturday, February 1, 2020

HALF SOLUTIONS ARE BETTER THAN NO SOLUTIONS (PART 2)


I still maintain that half solutions were better than no solutions, but only marginally better so far. To prove my assumption, I will relate this funny incident:

My membership of ASPA(Vic) lapsed because of my failure to pay the annual subscription fee for more than 12 months. The rules of membership assumed that I had resigned. Therefore, I had to submit a new application for membership.

It took the committee of ASPA(Vic) several months to inform me that my application was rejected. In the past, when that committee decided to take a silly decision, I used to be gleefully told that the decision had been unanimous. That was not the case in 2020, the reason being that some members of the reformed committee are not just position fillers, albeit that several naive new members were victims of the continuing campaign of disinformation, obfuscation and character assassination persistently practised by two members of the old committee.

The silly decision of ASPA(Vic) to reject my application for membership would make the late Harry Malcolm roll over in his grave. He might also annoy his graveyard neighbours with loud laughter, if told that a couple of days ago my online application for membership of ASPA(NSW) took only a few hours to get approved by an efficient and sensible committee, not swayed by malicious hearsay nonsense.

So, my earlier assumptions about the stillborn Victorian committee were wrong. Several new members turned out to be uninformed raw nuts.