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1->''If you want to cause a break up amongst people, put them in a house without a TV or the news or anything like that, give them a ''TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}'' board and ''no'' dictionary. Watch the sparks fly!''
2-->--'''Ed Byrne''', ''The Bubble''
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4->'''Calvin''': Ha! I've got a great word and it's on a "double word score" box!\
5'''Hobbes''': "Zqfmgb" isn't a word! It doesn't even have a vowel! \
6'''Calvin''': It is ''so'' a word! It's a worm found in New Guinea! Everyone knows that! \
7'''Hobbes''': I'm looking it up. \
8'''Calvin''': You do, and I'll look up that 12-letter word ''you'' played with all the X's and J's!" \
9'''Hobbes''' (picking up the score card): ...What's your score for "zqfmgb"?\
10'''Calvin''': [[BlatantLies 957.]]
11--> ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''
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13->'''Bernoulli:''' The word was "flotsam".\
14'''Klein:''' WHAT?!\
15'''Bernoulli:''' ''(giggling)'' Flotsam!\
16'''Klein:''' Oh, come ''on'', Jordan!\
17'''Jordan:''' Nonononono! Do not blame the artist! The artist is without blame.\
18'''Birkhoff:''' Jordan, can you even ''define'' the word "flotsam"?\
19'''Jordan:''' ''(laughing)'' Of course I can define flotsam! ''({{beat}}, then quietly)'' No I can't, help, please.
20-->-- ''Podcast/Wolf359'', "Into the Depths"
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22->'''Andy''': "''Quazjex''? What's that? That's not a word!"
23->'''Terry''': "Yes, it is."
24->'''Andy''': "What does it mean?"
25->'''Terry''': "It means I win. Because I used up all my letters and I got 260 points!"
26->'''Andy''': "It means you ''cheated''. There's no such word as ''quazjex''.
27->'''Terry''': "Yes there is."
28->'''Andy''': "Prove it then. Use it in a sentence."
29->'''Terry''': "Easy. I got a new pet axolotl and its name is Quazjex!"
30->'''Andy''': "That doesn't count. You can't use proper nouns in ''Scrabble''."
31->'''Terry''': "What about your name? That's a proper noun, and you've used it over and over. If you can have ''Andy'', then I can have ''Quazjex''."
32->'''Andy''': "'Andy' may be a proper noun, but at least it's a ''proper'' proper noun."
33->'''Terry''': "So is Quazjex."
34-->-- ''Literature/{{Treehouse}}'', "143-Storey Treehouse"

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