Mattel and Electonic Arts,
Word has it (heh) that you, the owners of the original Scrabble, are planning to force facebook to remove the Scrabulous application. I have mixed feelings about this.
On the one hand, you are being short-sighted because my rotten, stinking Scrabulous performances are about to make you some real money. I haven’t played Scrabble for about … well, since I was quite young. In that time, everyone else has apparently turned into a #%$& Scrabble genius. This means that I have to go out and purchase an accredited Scrabble dictionary (full of idiotic words that do not appear in any other dictionary and seem to exist only to allow my aunt to create three letter words using “x”, “v” and “q” meaning “to pick one’s nose vigorously” and gain 45 points).
I’m also going to be forced to purchase an actual Scrabble game so I can stop getting my ass kicked by every Tom and Dick and Random.
On the plus side, if you pull Scrabulous, my productivity will quadruple. (Get a few of the gossip sites shut down and I’ll turn into a Stephen King-style prolificon). [Please note that I’ll be lobbying to get “prolificon” added to the Scrabulous dictionary, if it isn’t already there.]
The truth is that the popularity of Scrabulous is at least partly my fault. See, word has gotten around that if you want to improve your stats (and your self-esteem), start a game with Susan Juby. You are bound to win. And I’m going to have to counter this growing trend with all the add-ons and supplementals that you people can offer. The online cheat sites are simply not enough!
So, don’t force Scrabulous off facebook. Send me everything you’ve got and help me to win a few #%^* games already.
Yours in single-digit scores,
Susan