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CLICK ON THIS BIRTHDAY CALCULATOR FOR ALL SORTS OF INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT YOUR BIRTHDAY!!! (When you get into the Birthday Calculator site, scroll down the page to place where you are prompted to enter your birth date) BIRTHDAY-RELATED QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Old Scrabble players never die, they just become "inconsonant" and lose their vowels!"  ====== FEBRUARY Happy Birthday wishes to OSSIE MAIR  FEBRUARY 19 ++++++++++ JANUARY BAMDINGERS (Words scoring 100+ points) Congratulations to the following club members who scored Bamdingers during the past month! ========== LARRY GRADUS EXCEEDS-101 pts ========== CHERYL LEVIN SHELLED-110 pts ========== MARLA RIFF ADVISER-104 pts ========== MAXINE SAPERSTEIN SAGGIEST-122 pts ========== GEORGE ROGERS HAZIEST-104 pts ========== JERRY SCHEITEN ASSIGNER-131 pts ========== IAN WEINSTEIN DEFAMING-135 pts THORACES-102 pts TRASHMAN-101 pts ========== To view all of the Bamdingers (100+ scoring words) that have been played at Scrabble Club 276 during the past 13 years, click on this link: Download Bamdingers Hall of Fame through December 31, 2011 |
from Your Director January was an exciting month for us at Scrabble Club 276! Not only did we celebrate our 23rd Annual Awards Night on the first Wednesday of this new year, but we also welcomed two new members to our club, VICKI HOLMES and REX OSBOURNE. During this past month we enjoyed getting to know both of you and look forward to your regular attendance at our club.   VICKI HOLMES REX OSBOURNE In addition, we were happy to see some of our Scrabble players from the north as they were vacationing and enjoying our wonderful mild winter weather. Our five-month "Snow Bird!" JOHN SCALZO Middle Village, NY   HARRIET LAKERNICK JERRY SCHEITEN Chicago, IL Buffalo, NY  LISA SLANKARD Arlington Heights, IL and MERVET HEARTBERG, NY As previously mentioned, on January 4 we had our 23rd Annual Scrabble Awards Night. Because the web site was updated later than usual due to the Awards night, I will keep the results and photos posted on our home page until our next month's update.  Since TRIP PAYNE moved to California and was unable to attend our Awards Night ceremony, I accepted his awards and then sent them to him the next day.  Shortly thereafter, I was happy to receive an email from Trip with these words ("Here I am at club tonight, proudly wearing that great t-shirt you sent me!") along with his photo. We miss you,Trip! Hoping that you'll be able to visit us one of these days. On January 11, eight 2012 magnetic Scrabble Club 275 Year-at-a-Glance calendars were awarded to the first eight people who scored bingos in the first game.  And the winners were:  L to R, Front Row: Judy Ford, Randy Taylor, Jerry Scheiten, Harriet Lakernick On January 18, EVERYONE was a winner when IAN WEINSTEIN once again paid for everyone's club dues that night when he shared his winnings from the previous 3-day weekend Ft. Lauderdale tournament where he came in FIRST in the Expert Division raising his rating to 2002 which ranks him 8th in the United States and 11th in North America!!!! Following in her son's footsteps of generosity, SHEREEN WEINSTEIN also spread some joy around from her winnings of placing FIRST in the Third Division at the same 3-day weekend Ft. Lauderdale tournament by supplying all kinds of snacks that evening for everyone at club to enjoy!  On January 18th, in belated observance of Elvis Presley's 77th birthday which would have occurred on January 8th, a DVD of the Mini Series about Elvis' life was awarded for the highest word containing the letters "E" and "P." Our visitor from Buffalo, JERRY SCHEITEN was the winner with his word "TRAIPSE" for 87 points!   In January, the Chinese New Year is also celebrated, this year being "The Year of The Dragon." Although I was unsuccessful at finding a dragon to slay, I was able to purchase a box of fortune cookies which was awarded to the person who scored the highest word beginning with the letter "D" for "Dragon." And our winner on January 25 was IAN WEINSTEIN when he scored a whopping 135 points for his non-bingo word, "DEFAMING!"  It's been quite a while since we heard the melodic tones of a cell phone going off during our club hours, but on February 1, it finally happened again....and it happened to RANDY TAYLOR! Although he fessed up quickly to the fact that it was his phone that went off, if you look closely you can see his lower lip pouting as he handed over his dollar.  So we now have $4.00 in the cell phone kitty with only one more dollar needed to reach the $5.00 mark for it to be awarded back to a lucky club member who scores the highest "C" word. Stay tuned..... Happy tiling, " |
