{"id":6402,"date":"2020-11-12T21:03:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T02:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=6402"},"modified":"2020-11-12T21:11:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T02:11:05","slug":"episode-164-scrabble-tournament-has-gone-on-for-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=6402","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 164 SCRABBLE TOURNAMENT – HAS GONE ON FOR MONTHS"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 164   SCRABBLE TOURNAMENT -GONE ON FOR MONTHS (result?  Same as US election\u2026narrow victory\u2026for Marjorie)<\/p>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
Nov.  2020<\/div>\n

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We had never played Scrabble until the forced  isolation  of  Covid 19.  Our Scrabble Tournament<\/div>\n
is as near to a  draw as the Biden\/Trump U.S. election.   Notably absent is the sore loser syndrome <\/div>\n
though.  We have been having a great time with the game by playing twice a day and seeing who<\/div>\n
will win in groups of ten games per tournament.<\/div>\n

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The results  are sometimes too close to call.  Marjorie has won games by a single point.  I have<\/div>\n
done the same.  A very good natured  competition.   Sometimes sitting in the sun.  At others<\/div>\n
sitting in the cold.  <\/div>\n

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When  the tension in the U.S. election reached  a  fever point on the Tuesday,  election day, we got<\/div>\n
so nervous  that we turned to Scrabble to settle our nerves.  <\/div>\n

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 We now have Scrabble games set<\/div>\n
up in two locations.  Sometimes we stop one game midway through\u2026take s  break\u2026and<\/div>\n
come back.  Super relaxing game folks.  <\/div>\n

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Occasionally Marjorie makes up a  non existent word.  And I do the same.  All words  can be<\/div>\n
checked on the Internet.<\/div>\n

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Since it looks like this Covid thing will last until Christmas or longer, I suggest you buy a Scrabble<\/div>\n
game.   We found our second Scrabble game at the Salvation Army thrift store in the Children\u2019s<\/div>\n
games section.  Cheap.  It was brand new\u2026I think the owners had trouble with spelling\u2026or maybe<\/div>\n
they took the game too seriously.  Too seriously?  Yes,  just like that EX PRESIDENT TRUMP the<\/div>\n
original owners of the game could not stand the thought of losing.  <\/div>\n

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If you happen to be reading this Episode Donald (Trump) I would like to inform you that<\/div>\n
you lost the 2020 election.   You  are a loser.  If you had the guts to admit it you might<\/div>\n
find yourself in good company.  Winning and  Losing is part of  life.   Your daddy never<\/div>\n
told you that.   When you get bored  sitting around in Florida sneak up here and play<\/div>\n
Scrabble with us.<\/div>\n

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\u201cHow about another Scrabble game, Marjorie?  I think I am on a roll.”<\/div>\n

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Nice  warm day  in the house.<\/div>\n

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Nice cold day on the back porch.<\/div>\n

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I had to check this Scrabble board to make sure there were no cuss words\u2026or sexy words\u2026or misspelled words.<\/div>\n
We accept all words\u2026even \u2018damn\u2019 and other impolite words.<\/div>\n
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Sometimes Marjorie wins.  Actually often she comes up with bigger words and  when<\/div>\n
that happens I try to tack an \u201cS\u201d on the end\u2026that way  I cancel out her points.<\/div>\n
It hurts my ego to see Marjorie making up bigger words than i do.  But my ego<\/div>\n
is not like Trumps\u2026I can lose with a smile.  Most of the time.<\/div>\n

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alan  skeoch<\/div>\n
Nov. 2020<\/div>\n

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P.S.  On second thought , Donald, do not come up here to Canada.  Our border is closed.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EPISODE 164   SCRABBLE TOURNAMENT -GONE ON FOR MONTHS (result?  Same as US election\u2026narrow victory\u2026for Marjorie) alan skeoch Nov.  2020 We had never played Scrabble until the forced  isolation  of  Covid 19.  Our Scrabble Tournament is as near to a  draw as the Biden\/Trump U.S. election.   Notably absent is the sore loser syndrome  though. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}