Those interested in the numerical equivalent of the F-bomb will rejoice to know that thier four-letter friend is worth more than 13 Scrabble points. In civil proceedings, it is worth about $367 per use.
HTFC's CEO and his attorney became the unwitting spokespersons for that math lesson when a court fined the two $29,000 for the CEO's "vulgar" behavior during a deposition. The highlights were 73 f-bomb laced tirades, displaying the senior executive's command of the grammaton. F-laced verbs, nouns, and adjective all made appearances, some colorful and descriptive like "F*&! face," and "I am the one F()*^!! your world right now."
Oddly enough, the F-bomb was roughly equal to the hourly rates of both attorneys in the room, implying that there may be some "Cussin's Theorem" under which legal billing rates could be correlated to the expletive client's utter when they get the bill.
(For the record, yes, I know that such words are illegal in Scrabble.)
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(For the record, yes, I know that such words are illegal in Scrabble.)
Says who? The sense I got from reading Word Freak, a good book about competitive scrabble players, was that the taboo words were permitted, and were part of the OWL (official word list) but were not included in the dictionary, because they were concerned about offending families.
The OWL is what governs tournament scrabble play.
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