Comments on: Me and Mama Play Scrabble http://blog.murphymethod.com/2009/11/12/me-and-mama-play-scrabble-2/ Where the Murphy Method community keeps in touch. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:31:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mama « The Murphy Method Blog http://blog.murphymethod.com/2009/11/12/me-and-mama-play-scrabble-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2543 Mama « The Murphy Method Blog Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:46:17 +0000 http://blog.murphymethod.com/2009/11/12/me-and-mama-play-scrabble-2/#comment-2543 [...] graveside service after a prayer and a poem, the preacher read a portion of one of my blogs about Mama and me playing Scrabble. It felt good to remember those happy times, and even smile a little, in the midst of so much [...] [...] graveside service after a prayer and a poem, the preacher read a portion of one of my blogs about Mama and me playing Scrabble. It felt good to remember those happy times, and even smile a little, in the midst of so much [...]

]]> By: rpcondon http://blog.murphymethod.com/2009/11/12/me-and-mama-play-scrabble-2/comment-page-1/#comment-824 rpcondon Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:50:08 +0000 http://blog.murphymethod.com/2009/11/12/me-and-mama-play-scrabble-2/#comment-824 Oh! You've sent me into a nostalgic tailspin! My Grandmother and Mom were total Scrabble champs and taught us well. We as young Pre-teens had commandeered the board one day and one of the players wanted to get a ruling on a word she had in mind. We all followed her into the room of adults whereupon she inquired at large, "Is there such a word as whore?" The room audibly gasped and stared at us stunned. Unphased, my Mom deadpanned, "Why yes. Do you mean h-o-a-r as in the frost, or h-o-e-r as in one who hoes a garden?" She actually had a couple more to the amazement and amusement of all the adults. Us kds returned to our Scrabble posts scratching our heads and going, "I thought it was something dirty!". Good times. And oh...I've got the first part of "Banjo In The Hollow" and I couldn't be more pleased! Thanks, Murphy. Oh! You’ve sent me into a nostalgic tailspin! My Grandmother and Mom were total Scrabble champs and taught us well. We as young Pre-teens had commandeered the board one day and one of the players wanted to get a ruling on a word she had in mind. We all followed her into the room of adults whereupon she inquired at large, “Is there such a word as whore?” The room audibly gasped and stared at us stunned. Unphased, my Mom deadpanned, “Why yes. Do you mean h-o-a-r as in the frost, or h-o-e-r as in one who hoes a garden?” She actually had a couple more to the amazement and amusement of all the adults. Us kds returned to our Scrabble posts scratching our heads and going, “I thought it was something dirty!”. Good times.
And oh…I’ve got the first part of “Banjo In The Hollow” and I couldn’t be more pleased! Thanks, Murphy.

]]> By: Martin Bacon http://blog.murphymethod.com/2009/11/12/me-and-mama-play-scrabble-2/comment-page-1/#comment-821 Martin Bacon Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:45:49 +0000 http://blog.murphymethod.com/2009/11/12/me-and-mama-play-scrabble-2/#comment-821 Who needs a U when you are in the lead? Sounds like it was a great jam. Marty Who needs a U when you are in the lead? Sounds like it was a great jam.

Marty

]]> By: Murphy http://blog.murphymethod.com/2009/11/12/me-and-mama-play-scrabble-2/comment-page-1/#comment-812 Murphy Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:59:28 +0000 http://blog.murphymethod.com/2009/11/12/me-and-mama-play-scrabble-2/#comment-812 OK, so I didn't blog about the jam. But just wanted to say Susan played Sally Goodwin, high and low, for the first time in a group and did quite well. Go Susan! And Logan. Wow! He did some improvs to John Hardy (a C lick in second position) that made me so happy tears came into my eyes. Really. And then he improvised a whole break to Fireball Mail after hearing Susan play it. (Of course, he's heard it before.) For his second break, he played it up the neck! Did it sound like Earl? No. Did it sound like Logan? YES! It was great. And Josh came through with several breaks on mandolin and fiddle. So we were small in number but stout in performance. And yes, Bobby, we wouldn't have sounded nearly as good without your strong bass! OK, so I didn’t blog about the jam. But just wanted to say Susan played Sally Goodwin, high and low, for the first time in a group and did quite well. Go Susan! And Logan. Wow! He did some improvs to John Hardy (a C lick in second position) that made me so happy tears came into my eyes. Really. And then he improvised a whole break to Fireball Mail after hearing Susan play it. (Of course, he’s heard it before.) For his second break, he played it up the neck! Did it sound like Earl? No. Did it sound like Logan? YES! It was great. And Josh came through with several breaks on mandolin and fiddle. So we were small in number but stout in performance. And yes, Bobby, we wouldn’t have sounded nearly as good without your strong bass!

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