A SCRABBLE BINGO!
A SCRABBLE BINGO is to a Scrabble player what an eagle is to a golfer, or what two goals in a row made from the other end of the field might be to a soccer player. It’s when you use all 7 of your letters in one turn, for which you score 50 points over those that your word adds up to. It happened to me this past Sunday while playing with my friend Mara in the back of Oddfellas Cantina at the table with the kokopellis painted on it. For the first time in 30 years of playing, I was no longer a SCRABBLE BINGO virgin. In fact, getting my first SCRABBLE BINGO was a little like a first-time spontaneous orgasm.
“I’m so glad it happened with you, Mara, you know, rather than with a stranger.”
I wasn’t the least bit quiet about it. People at other tables craned their necks to see what the commotion was about. Some came over to look.
The word was RECITING. It rambled across the board. The waitress came back to serve our coffee and tea, and by this time Mara and I were standing up and hugging. “Don’t you want to go out for a cigarette now?” I asked her, hoping to get a little breathing room to absorb what had happened, but also just because I wanted to flaunt the innuendo.
“Don’t you?” she returned, laughing out loud as she said it, and then added, “I’d go, but I feel like I would be abandoning you. You know, missing out on all that afterglow.”
Comments
YEA!!!! congrats!
it has never happened to me, though I have come close.
scrabble on!!
Posted by: amy | February 28, 2006 9:02 AM
I envy the fun you have!
Hope your weekend was pleasant!
Posted by: Harmonia | February 28, 2006 9:37 AM
“I’m so glad it happened with you, Mara, you know, rather than with a stranger.”
This really made me laugh! And I am not a Scrabble Bingo virgin either. It happened with one of my kids, who promptly gave up playing with me....lol
Posted by: kenju | February 28, 2006 10:12 AM
LOL! You have so much fun in your life. YEAH!
Posted by: Nancy | February 28, 2006 10:41 AM
Um...is there really such a thing as a spontaneous orgasm? And if so, how can I have one?
::ponders::
;)
Fey
Posted by: Fey | February 28, 2006 11:39 AM
Ha! I knew someone would ask that. I'm still waiting for someone to say, "I'll have what she's having." I really meant the kind of woman's orgasm that happens without effort. You know like it's SUPPOSED to happen but you don't think it ever will. Easier to describe in a comment than on the front page. I don't want to scare any readers....or draw the wrong ones!
Posted by: colleen | February 28, 2006 12:05 PM
Oh Colleen...I just wish I'd had MY first bingo with you. But now that I think about it, the only bingo I've ever gotten was during an email game. Would that make it like cybersex? :)
Can we play again soon?
Posted by: Mara | February 28, 2006 12:19 PM
This post had me rolling on the floor! I have yet to get a scrabble bingo... I suppose if I played more I might have more of a shot at it! So, Colleen, was it good for you? :-)
Posted by: Jeanne | February 28, 2006 12:56 PM
You have way, way, waaay, too much fun out there in the remoteness of the woods. Keep it clean, girl.
Posted by: Tabor | February 28, 2006 5:11 PM
Uh yeah..I was curious about the spontaneous orgasms too ;)
Posted by: poopie | February 28, 2006 5:43 PM
Congratulations Colleen...I've never known anyone that used ALL seven letters!! BRAVO, to you and your SCRABBLE BINGO (great name, by the way..or you could call it SOS..Spontaneous Orgasm Scrable..lol!)
What DID you do to celebrate..(I mean since you didn't go out and smoke...*smiles slyly*)?
Posted by: OldOldLady Of The Hills | February 28, 2006 8:31 PM
Congratulations. I've never had one of those. If I ever did my daughter would probably never play with me again. What fun!
Posted by: srp | February 28, 2006 10:18 PM
I think you're having way too much fun down there in Floyd! I want to play! Congrats!
Posted by: Patry | February 28, 2006 11:02 PM
Great game!
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Posted by: Pearl | February 28, 2006 11:20 PM
Congratulations!
You are the most enthusiastic scabble person I've even heard of. Last week I saw a blog toy that made me think of you: A Scrabble Score Generator.
Posted by: Lora | March 1, 2006 6:01 AM
Whoa! Scrabble bingo... that's amazing. I can only think of dinkly little words for scrabble... you know like "the" "she" "to"...! So big congrats on losing the scrabble bingo virginity!!
Love the pic too!
Posted by: goofy girl | March 1, 2006 11:54 AM
I can only remember it happening to me one time many years ago playing with my best buddy who never liked playing with me anyway. I am one of those that gets ill if you mess up the board.
I bet you were tickled....
Have they reopened Oddfellows?
Posted by: deana | March 1, 2006 7:16 PM
What fun!!
Posted by: Simply Coll | March 2, 2006 1:49 PM
lol.. nice going. i play with people who normally bingo 3 to 5 times a game. first one for me was the word "urinate" lol. but now i am a regular at it. good luck..
Posted by: dave | July 24, 2007 4:05 PM