Scrabble is Talking to Me
My Scrabble board is talking to me, and I have proof of sorts. Now I know, this is a little like that "Beautiful Mind" thing where the fella, as I recall, was seeing messages in everything. I'm aware of the lunacy. I really am. But at this stage of my lunacy, at least I'm thinking it a fun coincidence.
The other day, I was speaking with a fellow Scrabble lover, and answered his question. He asked me, "The other day, you said you spend the weekend with your boys. Do you have sons, or are you, like, spending time with the boyz." I told him I have two sons.
The funny thing is that, when I got home later and played some Scrabble on my computer, the following showed up on my rack during the game. Now, this is only proof of sorts, because you have to believe that I didn't rearrange the tiles for this message. You'll see in a later image that I'm honest about the way the tiles show up. Anyway, here's what showed up on the rack:
Now, why this is EXTRA interesting is that, several weeks before (as memory of the timeline serves), my wife and I had a detailed conversation about something, and when I came down that night to play, my opening rack -- unaltered -- gave an explicit commentary on our conversation. It was so amazing that I called her to the board right away, and neither of us could believe it.
I also did a screen capture on that board, but alas, didn't take it immediately into Photoshop, and before I pasted the image anywhere, I forgot about it and screen captured something else. So I lost it.
At least, though, the board didn't stop talking. Just yesterday I was playing and the board came up with this:
This was interesting enough that I went to Google news to look up Beirut. The lastest news was that Beirut was claiming that 2 Israeli war jets had invaded their air space the day before. It seems like things like this are happening all the time in the Middle East, so I'm still chalking this one up to fun or quirky. If the board is trying to make some sort of worldly prediction, hopefully it's about something like Beirut peace talks that revolutionize our world.
Or something like that.
Anyway, today I'm playing again, and the board has another message. Ok, this one is more garbled, but this is where you can see I'm honest about the order that the letters are showing up in. Now, you can believe me or not, but the message really has nothing to do with me, and I'll continue with my optimism that no negative predictions are being made. Here's what the rack read:
For those who don't automatically rearrange such things in their heads, the "Rx" at the end hints to the mention of a prescription. In this case, of course, Viagra.
So again I was off to Google to check out Viagra in the news, only to find that this month is the 10th anniversary for Viagra. How about that! Almost makes you wonder if the board isn't trying anything fancy -- just check to see if I'm looking.
Next come the important predictions via Scrabble. Watch out Nostradamus!
posted by Steve M. @ 11:24 PM
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