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- From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
- Subject: The Way of Scrabble
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.215223.28006@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:52:23 GMT
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- [Dr. Strychnine gave me
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- Four words: `dimethylaminoethanol,' `bunnies,' `ethnocide,' and `gnosis.'
- Style preference: mainstream
- Constraint: 100 words.
-
- I know that Scrabble boards aren't usually as large as depicted in the story,
- but I've still got an Artistic License, so Fifi's is bigger.]
-
- Fifi put down the letters "amino" to form the word "dimethylaminoethanol,"
- encompassing three Triple Word Scores. Zynych cursed and overturned the board.
-
- Fifi clucked her tongue. "You will never achieve gnosis this way. We must try
- again. Pick up the tiles."
-
- At that moment, Fifi and her entire sect of Bunnies, or Lagomorphoi, or
- whatever they called themselves, irritated him almost to the point of ethnocide.
-
- Then something clicked in his brain.
-
- He picked up the tiles and put them back in the bag. "Let's try this again,"
- he said. "I feel lucky." There was a glint in his eye.
-
- --
- ---Alfvaen(a.k.a. Aaron V. Humphrey)
- "So you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts
- what's so amazing about really deep thoughts" -- Tori Amos
- Current Album--The Iron Man Soundtrack
- Current Read--Henry David Thoreau:Walden and Other Writings
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