We decided to play " Bird Scrabble" last night ....we're mad us .... the idea is, you can do ordinary words in the usual way, but any bird you make gets a 20-point bonus ! Well, this time it went amazingly well !! Now you might think ... hold on ...how could they get Starling on the first go. Well ..we didn't. The Significant Otter did "Star" as her first go, and then jammy old me stuck LING on the end of it to get Starling !! Hah !! And, for the first time ever, every "go" after that was a bird. On the way, a few other words were made as a side-effect ... he, on, ya. But that's OK. And we got 17 species altogether. We've never got anywhere near that before. I mean, what are the odds ?? The S.O. didn't know about Willets and Serins ...but she did get Hobby. She could hardly forget that, because we once had a big argument when I spotted one low in a tree as she was driving along a Norfolk road, and she wouldn't stop ! Pa! Jings !! Crivens !!! R'Arglwyd !!!! But that game got me thinking. What's the most birds on the UK list you can get in a real Scrabble game, if luck is with you ? Can you beat 17 ? Surely it's do-able. Just look at all the letters we had left over at that point .... we did go on to complete the game, but we didn't get any more birds. By the way, we don't allow plurals to count as well, and some of you might have noticed we could have made DOVE onto the E of Smew ... but we don't allow generic bird names like Tit/Finch/DoveThrush/Gull/Warbler etc. Swift just scrapes into allowability .... just. That's why we couldn't/didn't make the available RAIL either. Too generic. Can you spot where it could go ? Dodo and Rhea were available ... but there's no extinct birds allowed either. You can have them... but no bonus. So .... can you create a feasible Scrabble game and get › 17 different species ? After all .. a dark, probably cold and wet weekend is looming. Unless you live in the Softy South. So .. the music. " I don't want to stay well-behaved" is a literal translation. The "paroles" are a bit creepy actually ...
Le mal est entré meilleur ennemi Il sait m'abandonner Me ramener près de lui Je n'veux pas rester sage J'aime le souffre et l'envie Abuser de mon âge Je n'veux pas rester sage Le mal est ma lueur Son ombre est ma couleur Le mal est ma lueur Mon parfum son odeur Prend ton mal en douceur. Le mal est entré Et je sais qu'il détruit Qu'il pourrait me faire crever Que reste-t-il ici? Je n'veux pas rester sage J'aime le souffre et l'envie Abuser de mon âge Je n'veux pas rester sage Le mal est ma lueur Son ombre est ma couleur Le mal est ma lueur Mon parfum son odeur Prend ton mal en douceur Prend ton mal en douceur Prend ton mal en douceur Le mal est entré Meilleur ennemi Il sait m'abandonner Je brûlerais avec lui Le mal est ma lueur Son ombre est ma couleur Le mal est ma lueur Mon parfum son odeur Le mal est ma lueur Son ombre est ma couleur Le mal est ma lueur Mon parfum son odeur Le mal est ma lueur Son ombre est ma lueur Le mal est ma lueur
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