From "Uncle John's 'Slightly Irregular' Bathroom Reader"
Dracula cannot be killed by sunlight. At least in the Bram Stoker novel. He’s out and about during the day quite a bit. What sunlight does, is keep him from changing shapes. Same for garlic, crucifixes and holy water. He can’t stand them and they weaken him, but nothing in the text says they would be fatal. Silver isn’t even mentioned.
Those definitely aren't the highest scoring words in Scrabble. They may be the highest scoring using only the seven letters on one tray, but that's only possible on the first play of the game anyway.
Basically, this is the list of highest scoring first plays in Scrabble, which is very different from the actual list of highest scoring words in Scrabble.
Fun fact: The “Uncle John” who compiles these readers is acclaimed sci-fi writer John Scalzi
Which messed-up Scrabble board has two Z's in it so that you can spell 'quizzed' or 'jazzily'? You don't get the points if you use a blank...
I refuse to believe that all nine of those city names are more common than Springfield.
Seriously, Centerville?
Additionally, everyone knows there's three Salems: the witch trial one, the other one, and the cat.
The Banana Boat Song isn't about the bananas.
I'm moving to the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches.
Feel free to add to the lists. Especially the US wars.
But does a list of all lists contain itself?
Canadians claim the telephone too even though Alexander Graham Bell was British when he invented it in Canada.
My wife's a dromomaniac.
The doc told me I was a number 6 triangle =(
Nice, I love lists.
That list of murican wars was too easy. It would be more fun if it was a list of wars started in the 21 century. Or against Asian countries. Need some kind of constraint to make it slightly hard.
Those are great books for snack reading, and there are a lot of them. My dad and his family would share those as Christmas gifts and I have a few.
That's really cool, bite sized but informative
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