Scrabble for cover...
I was reading that Mattel the makers of Scrabble have allowed proper nouns and names into a new version. Their marketing department have probably 're-genned it to fully immerse the playstation generation'.
You can imagine the scene, crimbo 2010, old uncle Tarquin and Aunt Elsbeth who've managed to get within 2 points of each other with 'egregious' on a double word (obviously going across another word) and 'cygnet' with the Y on a triple letter.... then Barry (Bazza) the 14 year old 'wigga' from Wolverhampton slams down 'JayZ' on the only 4 spaces available over the triple word score. Bazza: 'Tarquin, Elsbeth can I axe you ... ave' you ever done a 69'er cos you have just both been done by MY 69-er innit, boom, game over'
(Moominator missing the good stuff cos' the swear filter is on, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:01, 10 replies)

HAAAAAAAhahahahahahahahahahaha
Good stuff!
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:09, closed)

I too
am concerned.

Almost any combination of letters could be construed as a name of something or someone, if you can google it then it's allowed?
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:17, closed)

The Scrabble community are 'quite literally' freaking out...
Mattell are trying to spin it out by saying, and i'm paraphrasing here,
'Relax my nigga, the new rules only apply to the new 'Yoof' version, innit'
(Moominator missing the good stuff cos' the swear filter is on, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:22, closed)

We all know what happens
when an entire community is upset. How long before these scrabble enthusiasts blow up a bus or train killing tens of innocent people in the process? Mattel should open negotiations before it's too late.
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:38, closed)

I'd say blowing up a bus wouldn't be their style
They'd probably use letter bombs!
(Moominator missing the good stuff cos' the swear filter is on, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:49, closed)

most chortleworthy
well, for me it was.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:21, closed)

Listening to the radio yesterday
and they mentioned how the tabloids all approached the outrage (which probably doesn't exist) with pictures of Scrabble boards with JORDAN and CHERYLCOLE as examples of proper nouns. Not PYTHAGORUS or ARCHIMEDES, which are also proper nouns.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:24, closed)

panic over...
CHERYLCOLE , PYTHAGORUS or ARCHIMEDES.. are all (almost) technically impossible. You get 7 letters so in the unlikely event of having the right letters at either end and using all of your 7 tiles in the middle you're still only up to a nine letter word. I wouldn't mind playing with 'Jordan' on a triple word (as long as we didn't have to talk and i could leave straight after.)
Personally i'm not planning anything more ambitious than 'Ladygaga'
(Moominator missing the good stuff cos' the swear filter is on, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:49, closed)

I never saw the point of Scrabble anyhow.
Just being able to spell a word doesn't mean you are able to use it correctly, so it's not a test of vocabulary, and playing it doesn't teach you anything.
OK, I'm being harsh because it can be fun but it's only a game and nothing more.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 18:33, closed)

fuck 'em
monopoly's much better anyway
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 19:31, closed)