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Now is the time on MesteeBlogger that we pull electronic letters from the electronic mailbag.

Mestee,
"Christians issue gay warning on SpongeBob video" is surely more ridiculous than "Mr. Potato Head goes to the dark side." But neither headline is as crazy as "It's the End of the World as We Know It...And My Teeth Are Clean" (Mestee Blogger, Thursday, August 12, 2004). Gosh, Mestee, you sure are nutty!
-Sirius in Digestion

Serious Indigestion,
Surely more ridiculous? Very few things seem more ridiculous to me than a potato dressed in black body armor, not to mention his cape and light saber accessories, referred to as Darth Tater. I mean, dubbing SpongeBob Squarepants an advocate for gay rights is certainly ridiculous, but is it surely more ridiculous than a sword-weilding potato? Perhaps you have some more thinking to do. By the way, the entry you referred to (8-12-04)included a link (since removed by CNN.com) that warned of a giant tsunami causing mass destruction. One might wish to peruse the backlog of MesteeBlogger entries to take a look into the future of the world.

Truly Yours,
Brian


I was supposed to go to Foxwoods with the fam this weekend, but Mother Nature rudely interrupted by dropping a few feet of snow on the northeastern states. On Saturday afternoon, the four of us went to lunch at Super Wok, went to Kmart to buy Scrabble, then hunkered down at 22 Devonshire and prepared for outrageous amounts of snow, which arrived as anticipated.

During the first game of Scrabble, I unintentionally horded all of the N's. In fact, I realized that five of the six N's had been in my possession during the game, along with many T's, O's, and I's -- hardly the kind of high-scoring letters I was looking for. Ann Adams got out to a quick lead and never looked back, taking the first game by a healthy margin.

In round two, I got what I asked for: I got a Q and a Z early on, but couldn't get rid of them. According to the distribution of letters chart, there are 4 U's in circulation. There was only one on the board, but it was inaccesible, and the end of the game was near. With only a few tiles left on everyone's slate, and a closed-off board, people began turning their tiles in and taking deductions. This is when I realized that my parents and my sister were all holding U's, never to be played! "Conspiracy!" I yelled, "Conspiracy!", but it did no good. They laughed mockingly at the 10 point deduction for my remaining Q, and Ray Adams reaped the rewards of some deftly placed J's and X's, taking home the victory in game number two.

Round 3. Surely I could redeem myself in this round. Early on, I got the dreaded Q again, but this time I had a U of my own to go with it. I waited for the right time, then....BAM! I played "Q-U-I-L-T-S", Q on the double letter score, L on the double word score. 50 points. Bam! Surely I had this game wrapped up early, simply needing to maintain my lead. I made some conservative plays, but meanwhile, Ray Adams and Ann Adams had landed some 30+ point words. My lead narrowed, then disappeared. They both passed me, and I came in third, with Ann Adams re-establishing herself as the Scrabble Champion of the Adams household. The moral of the story is: I can get you to read an entire story about me playing Scrabble with my family.

Oh, by the way, the Patriots are in the SuperBowl again (yawn)...are we becoming the Yankees of football? I hope not, though I did hear someone refer to Bill Belichick's Evil Empire.

This will go on the list of "Trends that will hopefully Start and Stop in California". Also on that list: electing movie stars as governers.
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