So after thinking it over rationally, and going a quick search of Google, I have come across the newest sign of the apocalypse: Mattel has changed the rules of Scrabble to allow proper nouns. Like names of people, places, companies, etc.
Obviously we have reached the end of days.
One of the things Alan and I did that was crazy for the wedding was Scrabble related. About a year before the wedding, we decided we wanted to do the name tags at the tables with Scrabble tiles. We had our mothers and their team of friends and relatives and acquaintances and really everyone they knew searching for Scrabble boards for us. Our moms found us about 25 Scrabble boards, and we had a friend make us about sixty additional tile holders. When we started doing the table arrangements, we made each person’s name and put them in individual baggies, and then put each table in a big freezer bag, and then when we set up the hall, about a dozen of us spent about half an hour making each person’s name in Scrabble tiles.
We weren’t really sure how this would work, but it looked pretty cool, and it was fairly nerdy. People immediately started renaming people and looking for dirty words. We used the Scrabble tiles as the kissing game instead of people having to clink glasses or sing songs about love or anything else. After dinner, we had people come up with the words they had created. Our best man and maid of honour would determine how good the word was, and that was how good the kiss would be.
It worked better than we had really imagined. It passed the time quickly between dinner and desert, and everyone relaxed and started trading letters between tables and so on. Some of the tables came up with really elaborate stuff, like “were sorry mario but your princess is in another castle” (this was related to our recessional song, which rocked). After a while, people didn’t care if we kissed or not, and we were able to sit down and eat our wedding pie.
Because yes, we had wedding pie. It was the day before pi day. And pie is so much better than cake.
All this to say that Mattel changing the rules of Scrabble hurts me deep down inside. In a way that others just may not understand.
Ah yes, good memories.
The new proper nouns addition is gonna be disastrous. I don’t think it would be as problematic if it were to only include names of places but otherwise its a problem. Like, ok, Michael is a name. I also have a friend named Givy. Is there going to be a list? How do you stop people from making up names? Is the list going to include names from different cultures? Ya, not good.
You look gorgeous in that picture incidentally.
I finally got around to adding your blog to my RSS feed. I’m really enjoying it thus far.
And you’re so right about pie being better than cake. What kind of pie was your wedding pie?