general Scrabble variation

Last night we played Scrabble using only proper nouns.

It was shockingly difficult. Lisa won, having come out to an early and dramatic lead when she used GABE (as in Kotter) to make MIR (the space station) into MIRA (Sorvino) and FRY (from Futurama) into FRYE (Cameron), for something like a billion points. She also did well later in the game with GUZA (a writer on a soap opera or some damn thing), with the Z on a triple-letter score. QUARK also worked well for her. I think my best word was either GOOGLE or BORAX.

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