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'' |
3 | |
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'' |
12 | |
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" |
21 | |
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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