our own rules...

In accordance with our renaming almost anything we see with our own "words", Beth and I played Scrab (some of you may call it Scrabble) by our own rules.

The rules were made as we went along, as in any good game. We quickly decided that "new" words would be permitted as long as we could define them. And that going off the board would be permissible if the resulting word was more interesting and/or funny than its truncated counterpart. Here are the results:


Rach coined...

Hui (noun): As in the sound made my Timon and Pumba at the end of the "Are you achin' for some bacon" song in the Lion King. Denoting the termination of a jam session or song.

Iud (verb): To gallop at breakneck speed across a highway towards an icecream shop or shaved ice station. Conjugated similarly to "bud." Not to be confused with the intrauterine device. Abbreviations are, naturally, not permitted in Scrab.

Ir (noun): The name of the place adjacent to Ur, crib of Abram.

Bling (noun): As in "bling bling" (which is probably familiar to many of you outside of the Scrab inner circle). Meaning the shine of a diamond or other such gaudy jewelry. As in "I got bling in my grill." Meaning one either has braces or has diamonds in your teeth. We are obviously also in the inner circle of the hip-hop community.

And Beth's contributions were...

Wiff (noun): Wife, but more endearing.

Okt (adjective): In reference to the German holiday of Oktoberfest. It is descriptive of anything relating to the harvest season.

Gooyata (noun): A Japanese delicacy consisting of rice and spinach. A derivative of "goo" (meaning yummy) and "yata" (as in, "yata yata yata" from Seinfeld. Don't tell us this is spelled incorrectly. We already said we are making up our own rules. And omniscient, if that was not previously mentioned).

Hooters (noun): the kind of owls that hoot.
This was permitted to run off the board because it is much more fun than "hoot". Not to be confused with the restaurant (not that anyone goes for anything but the chicken wings, of course) or any references to Dumb and Dumber.

If only Squeaky knew what kind of nonsense went on after her bedtime.