Reason for Divorce: Scattergories Answers

"Yes, that's correct, Your Honor.  The reason that I'm requesting this divorce is because of Scattergories answers."

At least I imagine the conversation would go something like that.  I am not actually filing for divorce over Scattergories answers, but after the events of last night I am seriously wondering how many marriages Hasbro has contributed to ending.

Background info: I like games that involve words and defining words and spelling words out of random letters.  I like these games because I am usually pretty good at them.  My parents actually used to have a game called Blurt (where someone reads a definition and you blurt out the defined word) that we played as a family a few times and then they all refused to play it with me ever again because I trounced them quite soundly (this was also when I was young and a horrible winner.  I am a better winner now).  So, Scattergories is right up my alley.

We went over to Jackie and Craig's house last evening for a bbq and decided to play a game after consuming our fabulous feast.  Out of the options available we settled on Scattergories (as you may have deduced from the previous information).  And it all pretty much went downhill from there.  The first issue arose when Jay protested that I could not use "Nemo" as something you find in the ocean that starts with an "N" because Nemo is a cartoon character and would therefore not be in the ocean.  Jackie and I vetoed his protest since Nemo is a clownfish and you can find clownfish in the ocean.  And then things got more tense when Jay tried to insist that Jackie and I couldn't have points for Jackie using "Lady Gaga" and me using "Lady" (from Lady and the Tramp) as Famous Females starting with the letter "L."  2 completely different females, and it does not specify that they need to be human.  But the straw that broke the camel's back was when Jay tried to pass off "Babe Ruth" as a Television Star starting with the letter "B."  We had about a 5 minute argument which went something like this:

Me: "A TV Star is someone in a sitcom, or a drama, or some other series that airs on TV, not an athlete!" 

Jay: "Well, if you'd been alive when he was playing baseball, where would you have seen him?" 

Me: "In person because people didn't have TVs in their homes at that point in time!!!   Or I would have listened to the announcer on the radio!!!" 

Jay: "Well some people had TVs and would have watched the games there.  And there would have been multiple games so it would have been more than once and that qualifies as a TV series!  And you're winning anyway, so why do you care?" 

Me: "Because if I let you have points for all your answers that make no sense I won't be winning anymore!"

Ya.  That's right.  Ridonculous.  Jay finally grudgingly did not take the point and we continued with the game.  HOWEVER, at least once a round thereafter we had to listen to some sort of comment about "Nemo" or how "that's the same as me putting Babe Ruth!"  Longest. Game. Ever.

And for the record, I even deducted my Nemo point later on just to shut him up … and it didn't work.  But I did win … and also lost I suppose.