You could have picked DIFFERING middle names for your kids, y'know...

Bingo of the night so far:

REAROUSES (90 points) - against Nadine S.-F.

High-scoring words of the night so far:

OXY (130 points) - against Josephine S. [5W, 3L on Y]
MAFIOSO (334 points) - against Itamar R. [two 4W, hook off FAZE for a plural]
THROAT (192 points; two 4W), AXSEED (256 points; two 4W), ACHOO (126 points; two 3W) - against Monica M.
MYOPIA (256 points) - against Kristin M. [two 4W]
DISJOINS (287 points) - against Patricia V. [4W, 3W, hook off PITA for a plural]
JANE (260 points) - against Kelly T. [4W, 5W]
COUNT (120 points) - against Alice P. [4W, 3W]
WHYS (247 points) - against Leslie S. [5W, 3W] (a good deficit-erasing word!)
MARCHERS (212 points) - against Lynn L. [two 3W]
LAZAR (400 points) - against Baz W. [two 5W]
INFARES (275 points; two 5W), BESIDE (147 points; two 4W, hook off ZEALOT for a plural) - against Greg B.
INWOVEN (192 points) - against Tricia B. [3W, two 2W]
REAVAIL (315 points) - against Max P. [5W, 2W]
OUTFITS (114 points) - against Melindy M. [4W, hook off CHI to make CHIT]

Raymond played TRAMP for 120 points on me, and declared it a Wordscraper milestone - YAY FOR HIM! :D

The names of Nadya Suleman's octuplets are Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jonah, Josiah, Maliah, McCai, Nariah, and Noah. Each child's middle name is Angel. Their birthing and initial care is expected to cost between $1.5 and $3 million. I say she should have used more imagination for the middle names (differing names would have been GREAT!), but not TOO much creativity!

Poo nugget for Wednesday, Feb. 11: Doo You Know? - Flush Facts - Prior to 1992, toilets used between three and seven gallons of water per flush. The Energy Conservation Act mandated that all toilets manufactured after 1994 utilize no more than 1.6 gallons per flush. Even with this law in effect, Americans flush away about three billion gallons of drinkable water every day, not to mention millions of pounds of useful fertilizer.