Alan Kirby
speaker
20 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2011
last heard Sep 2011
Alan Kirby’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Introduced to Scrabble when I was 19 at a social event, I drew to go first.
Staring at my seven blind-picked letters, I realised they could make a whole word and put down janitor to general consternation.
Could someone try to calculate the odds against the following I-can't-believe-it coincidence that happened, I swear, to me?
Introduced to Scrabble when I was 19 at a social event, I drew to go first.
Staring at my seven blind-picked letters, I realised they could make a whole word and put down janitor to general consternation.
I've played Scrabble many hundreds of times since – I'm now 61 – and can only remember a couple of occasions when I was able to make a seven-letter word when going first.
About two years ago, a newspaper gave away CDs of electronic Scrabble.
I inserted the disc into my computer and opted to play first in my first game against the programme.
And, well, you've guessed it.
The programme dealt me the seven letters necessary to make the word janitor.
My flabber has never been so gasted.
So what are the odds of drawing those same seven letters out on the first go in one's first Scrabble game in two differing formats?
Dear visitor, it seems like the map you're navigating by is maybe not fully up to date, or that it might have an error in it.
Or is it that your GPS is not loaded with the correct data?
We're just taking the scenic route, darling.
See, honey, we're not lost.
I know where we are.
This way, I think.
Oi!
Get off my land!
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