August 06, 2004

"LEZ"..."SIGH"

Via BBC, Scrabble champ offends the fragile

The three letters looked innocent enough - E, L and Z.

But when Trey Wright combined them to make LEZ during the US Scrabble contest finals being taped for television, he provoked uncommon excitement.

The 32-point score put him on the verge of victory, but the use of a slang term for lesbian threatened to take him off the air.

When, oh when, can we please grow the hell up?

Posted by Jason at August 6, 2004 04:21 PM