Scr- Babble

Last night at about 9 pm, the giggles of children subsided as they drifted into dreamland and we looked at each other with wide eyes that screamed, "You want to?" "Me too!"

After a few moments of setting the right mood, we began to party like only writers/parents/readers/lovers can. We got out that dictionary, set up the Earl Gray, and loaded down on the tiles....scrabble was on! We found that our brains were somewhat mush with words like axe and pi....but ozone, sniper, beige, and fink, though small words, proved to be quite high scorers.

Moral Dilemma: Is it okay to use nasty, low quality words on family game boards if the kids are sleeping?

I won't say who had the potty mouth, but could you blame them if that is all that they had? I mean if your options are slim, do you go for the high scoring profanity, or the missed turn for piety's sake? Obviously, not too much hesitation here at out house.

Yours truly won the game by at least 50 points, although Christo has the superior vocabulary.

p.s.- the naughty word is in the American Heritage Dictionary with a vast array of definitions. It in fact, dates back to the 1500's and was first used in Cambridge in a poem- so who has the dirty mind here.