Cheating at Scrabble.

If the picture has uploaded then you are looking at MIT sophomore Jason Katz-Brown, he's very good at scrabble. He's the sort of cheating bastard who knows all of the two letter words. You know the type, player A puts 'insipid' (12 points) running down the board, player B, using the 'n' puts 'intro' across (8 points), Jason Katz-Brown puts a 'q' in the corner -making 'qi' (chi-spiritual energy.) in two directions (157 points).

There are loads of them, from the obvious -IF, IN, ON.

To the interesting- AI- another word for 3-toed sloth.

All the noises we make, AH, OW, OH, are words - when you stub your toe- that's a sentence.

Unbelievably ES is how you spell the letter 'S'. I have no idea when this would be used, as a clarifier when writing signs? Surely it would cause more confusion.
-So the cake should say 'Happy Birthday Ross'-just to be safe, is Ross spelled r-e-es-es?

And there are a load of Scottish dialect terms, some are really different words 'OY' is Grandchild, but some are just the same words with a scottish accent 'KY' for cow.

Anyway, I've developed an easy menomic poem to help you remember these- but it takes 8 minutes, so if you want to hear it come to our show next week.

AND SPEAKING OF SHOWS, AT THE LLC TONIGHT...

We have the return of the students, so UK Student Comedians of the Year Donnachda O'Connill and Chris Martin will be around, as will multi-talented Kate Fox, Ric Wharton and Paul Gerrard. The theme is 'Primates' - will anyone remember to mention it? Who knows?

But if you only go to one gig in the next fortnight, make it this one...

TUE 17th- Best of Long Live Comedy - your regular hosts Al, Cal and Pete show off their best bits.

This is our Newcastle/Gateshead comedy festival show. It's Cal, Al and I doing 20 minutes each. Given that we've been doing this weekly for a year now, 20 minutes of our best material is as good as anyone's. (Though we'd be stuck if we each tried to do an hour on our own.) So it's not the usual Long Live Comedy show- it's shorter and more expensive. An hour for £5, as opposed to the usual £2 for two hours. But, this is an hour of tried and tested, slick, guaranteed A-grade material. And remember, all our money goes back into the show anyway- buying the PA, giving petrol money to the acts who've driven hours to get there, paying for the competition prizes etc, etc.

And it's not just us, there's a whole week of comedy...

TUE 17th- Best of Long Live Comedy - your regular hosts Al, Cal and Pete show off their best bits.
WED 18th- Steffen Peddie and Chris Martin- One and a Half Man Show.
THR 19th- Bob Doolally's Soccer Balls.
FRI 20th- Vladamir McTavish - A Brief History of Scotland.
SAT 21st- John Scott - A Scott in Newcastle.