Apparently every day on Hasbro’s Web site, there’s a Scrabble Word of the Day. Sunday’s was extremely educational.

This is an important lesson to learn and I’m glad Scrabble is teaching it to us. We don’t really discuss penis substitutes enough in school. If it were up to me, I’d dedicate an entire class to it. The aforementioned dildos, cucumbers, Coke bottles, bananas, flashlights can all be substituted. Conversely, you may not want to substitute in a knife handle (or blade) or a lit stick of dynamite. This is what kids should be taught at an early age. Yet when I try to teach this when working as a substitute teacher, I end up burnt alive in the boiler room and forced to come back to hunt children in their dreams. Real fair.
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February 23, 2009
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Here’s the most comprehensive write-up I’ve found on the web about this brief lapse on Hasbro’s part. Mistah Jellyfish goes into some of the more interesting details of Scrabble’s lexical history and includes an expurgated word list! check it out here: http://theopenend.com/2009/02/23/scrabble-an-adult-game