SCRABBLE: Fact or Fantasy

A recording of a camel’s moan was slowed down and used as the sound of a tornado in the movie Twister.

A certain player’s incessant moaning after drawing tiles has been recorded and used to sooth moaning camels.

Big Ben is not a clock but the thirteen-ton bell inside the clock tower of England’s House of Parliament.

Big Bertha is not a golf club with a gigantic sweet spot but instead is an oversized scrabble player from for Kissimmee, Florida who has a propensity for playing on Hot Spots.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

You can predict that a newbie will make the grade when he/she can identify all 101 2-Letter-Words with one eye shut.

Three of the first five U.S. presidents- John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe all died on July 4th.

Three of the top five players at Club #350 all bombed in their first sanctioned tournaments.

There are 1,218 peanuts in a single twenty-eight-ounce jar of Jif peanut butter.

There are 763 sub-anagrams between 2 and 15 letters long in Jif peanut butter.

If Jell-O is hooked to an EEG it registers movements virtually identical to the brain waves of a healty adult.

After having played in the 28 game National Scrabble Tournament, most players will describe their brains as being reduced to the consistancy of Jell-O.

The only two words in the English dictionary that have 5 vowels in a row are ‘miaouing’ and ‘queueing’.

Most scrabble players who find themselves with 5 vowels on their rack at the same time, on the other hand have 5 fingers.

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