• @[email protected]
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      118 months ago

      We used to play “if you can convince me it’s a word, it counts”. I got a triple word score on zaxticuous and that shit got shut down. It means: Having the property or appearance of Zach Morris from Saved by the Bell.

      (The events in this comment are a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.)

      • @[email protected]
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        58 months ago

        “Any resemblance to actual persons— Zach Morris or otherwise— or actual events… is purely coincidental.”

      • Flying Squid
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        48 months ago

        The best Scrabble move I ever saw:

        My brother: “Can you put down swear words?”

        My mother: “No.”

        My brother: (Puts down SHIT) “Not a swear, just what I have to do.” (Leaves to go to the bathroom.)

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      8 months ago

      Ours was the unabridged OED when I was a kid.

      And my father with his English PhD didn’t even play.