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.”
February 28th, 2006 9:02 am
YEA!!!! congrats!
it has never happened to me, though I have come close.
scrabble on!!
February 28th, 2006 9:37 am
I envy the fun you have!
Hope your weekend was pleasant!
February 28th, 2006 10:12 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
February 28th, 2006 10:41 am
LOL! You have so much fun in your life. YEAH!
February 28th, 2006 11:39 am
Um…is there really such a thing as a spontaneous orgasm? And if so, how can I have one?
::ponders::
😉
Fey
February 28th, 2006 12:05 pm
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!
February 28th, 2006 12:19 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?
February 28th, 2006 12:56 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? 🙂
February 28th, 2006 5:11 pm
You have way, way, waaay, too much fun out there in the remoteness of the woods. Keep it clean, girl.
February 28th, 2006 5:43 pm
Uh yeah..I was curious about the spontaneous orgasms too 😉
February 28th, 2006 8:31 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*)?
February 28th, 2006 10:18 pm
Congratulations. I’ve never had one of those. If I ever did my daughter would probably never play with me again. What fun!
February 28th, 2006 11:02 pm
I think you’re having way too much fun down there in Floyd! I want to play! Congrats!
February 28th, 2006 11:20 pm
Great game!
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March 1st, 2006 6:01 am
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.
March 1st, 2006 11:54 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!
March 1st, 2006 7:16 pm
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?
March 2nd, 2006 1:49 pm
What fun!!
July 24th, 2007 4:05 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..
August 7th, 2009 9:16 pm
A true story. Many years ago I was playing Scrabble with my then-girlfriend. The first seven letters I took out of the bag spelled “CUISINE”. My girlfriend went first, and placed an “S” on the star in the middle.
“CUISINES”, using all seven letters, on a triple-word score, on my first move of the game. That’s like the royal flush of scrabble bingo.
August 8th, 2009 2:06 pm
That’s Awesome! I should be so lucky.