Chuck's Weird World

Where Radio goes to get it's News

The Language of Scrabble

A thirty-six year-old mom bought her eight year-old son the innocent digital board-game conversion of Scrabble only to discover that its vocabulary was more vulgar than expected.
When
the gamewas tested, the computer opponent tried to use “tits” as an answer with the definition “a garden bird” or “an informal word for female breasts.” Soon she found “f*ckers” (“a slang word for chavs”) and toke (“a draw on a cannabis cigarette”) to also be featured.
more HERE

…another missed parental opportunity…AND, the definitions are given, helping to ease the apparent embarrassment of the immature mom…

December 10, 2008 Posted by | scrabble | Leave a comment

Happy Birthday Scrabble


Animation from PES, in celebration of Scrabble’s 60th anniversary. The game was invented in 1938, but not mass-produced until 1948.

December 5, 2008 Posted by | pes, scrabble | Leave a comment