Primers, tampons, cores, lovely faxes, missing people, Google

High-scoring words of the night:

OUTBEAM (135 points; two 3W; a good deficit-erasing word!), GEES (106 points; two 3W - one used twice, hook off JO to make JOG, hook off BEST for a plural) - against Judy P.
PRIMERS (233 points) - against Betty W. [5W, 3W, hook off KAY for a plural] {a good deficit-erasing word!}
TAMPONED (210 points) - against Grace A. [5W, 4L on P]
NONCORE (157 points; two 3W, hook off REELS to make CREELS), JAKE (160 points; 5W used twice, hook off LOFT to make ALOFT) - against Lynn R.
FAX (162 points) - against John G. [4W used twice, 3L on X, hook off ASSET to make EF / TA] {a good deficit-erasing word!}
LOVELY (528 points) - against Colleen J. [two 4W, 5L on V]


I saw Eric H. briefly on MSN last night (and again tonight), but didn't talk to him - at least I know he's alive. Man, I miss having him around! Same goes for Teunis, but y'know that a man's gotta go on to the next stage eventually! Hahaha!

Trivia fact for Wednesday, Aug. 11: What was the original name of the Web search engine known today as Google? BackRub, in 1996. The name was based on the search engine's unique ability to analyze the "back links" pointing to a given website.