If You Want Great Seats to a George Michael Concert....Meet Donna at Wordrampage.com!

I'm not sure why I'm even going to add Donna's profile onto this blog! Maybe because...ohhhh...I don't...but....maybe.....SHE ORDERED ME TO DO IT!!!!! That is apparently what she likes to do...boss men around. In the beginning at wordrampage.com, we had a bartender. He was a good bartender too. He gave all the people drinks, and did what a bartender was supposed to do. Have you noticed the bartender is no longer on duty at wordrampage.com? Thats because of Donna. She kept bossing him around, spilling her wine. The guy just quit, and we haven't been able to replace him since! But, thats ok. We still let Donna play here. But, that is only because the next time George Michael is in town for a concert...Donna is taking everyone and getting us front row seats!!! So, if you want to go, you might want to....Meet Donna!

Name: Donna
Age: 40
City: New York

Married:

Let's just say that I have been there & done that.

Kids:

Joseph, Jessica, Justin & James

Interests:

Well, I am obviously obsessed with boggle. Oh yeah, Scrabble & Upwords too. I love reading, shopping & gossip. I do love red wine, a good red wine, that is. There's nothing like a good french wine! Well, I could name one or two things...lol

Favorite things to do:

Sitting on the beach with a good book. Having a great poker game with my friends. Laughing, outings with my kids & enjoying life to the fullest.

Anything else you would like to add?

I am currently the manager of a major trucking company. The reason I chose to work for a trucking company is because the majority of the people that drive trucks are men & quite frankly, I like to boss men around! Lol!

Top L to R going clockwise: Joseph, Justin,

Jessica (with Spike) & James (with Daisey)

Sometimes Images Do Just as Well. Meet Vern!

If you don't want to put a picture on our site, you don't have to. But, you better be able to draw. And apparently Vern can do one thing, and not do one thing. He can certainly draw, but he can not play against Murray on Wordrampage.com. So here is Vern!

Name: "Vern"
Age: Rapidly approaching the big 4-0.
City: Indianapolis, IN
Married: To "Murray," who borrowed our former cat's name for her Boggle name.
Kids: (Ages) 2, ages 7 and 4

Anything else you would like to add?
Vern's name isn't really Vern, and the drawing shown here doesn't really resemble him a whole lot.

Of course, it's not supposed to. It does, however, look EXACTLY like "Vern," the comic strip character that he drew for his college comic strip way back in the late '80s.

He sometimes dreams of the day when their family gets another decent Mac so that he and Murray can finally play on-line Boggle against each other and find out who's better.

Janet, Will You Tell Everyone, Cross is Here!!!

Ok, Ok, Don't say I didn't warn you. This is going to be a LOOOOONNNNNGGGGG profile. I would suggest you save this to read while you are curled up and tucked away for the winter. But, wait, in Australia, it is winter! So, I guess thats why CROSSEYED was able to write such a LOOOOONNNNNGGGGG profile.

Here is our Top Ten List of Questions on the WordRampage.com site:

Number 10 - Who should be President of the US, McCain or Obama?
Number 9 - When is the price of gas and oil going to come down?
Number 8 - Is this country in a recession?
Number 7 - Will Brett Farve play football this year?
Number 6 - Who is Bill Clinton sleeping with now that Hilary has nowhere to go?
Number 5 - Did anybody see the Judge Judy video of the LA Earthquake on youtube.com? (Check it out)
Number 4 - How come whenever a problem comes up, Mike always says he is in marketing?
Number 3 - How exactly did Scott not win $1050 by not listening to his uncle?
Number 2 - Why does Mike believe Scott owes him $525 by not listening to him?
And the number one question on the wordrampage.com site is????
(drum roll please) Is CROSSEYED a man or a woman?

Alright, so now the truth is going to come out. The biggest question on our site, and what I would consider to be still open for debate is about to be answered. If you read this far, I was only trying to add some symmetry to the site considering how long Cross's profile is. And if anyone in the future asks if CROSSEYED is a man or woman, please don't tell them, just send them to the blog and make them endure this agony as much as you are!!! :) (One :) for all the above)

So, here is Cross!!!

Name: CROSSEYED (aka ~ Teresa)
1st Aussie Profile!

Age: VINTAGE.... I'm 42yrs

City: I was born and live Australia (and far away from Mike, thank goodness for that)

Married: Been with my husband Paul for 25years and married for 19years.
Looking forward to our retirement and travelling around Australia in our Motorhome!

Kids: I have two beautiful girls.....Sarah ~ 12yrs & Emily ~ 10yrs old


My two beautiful daughters, Sarah & Emily (must take after their father) with our two dogs, Conan the Staffy and Gypsy the Fox Terrier














Another photo of two of the most important people in my world.






Grandkids: Not just yet!!! and not for many years to come I hope.
Not that I don't want grandkids, but want my girls to enjoy life to the fullest before they
contemplate being a Mum!!

Interests: Number one on my Interest list lately is making life as hard as possible for Mike!!

I enjoy a number of interests.........Enjoying time with my family. I love word games obviously
if you hadn't already guessed, play tennis (okay so I go and make up the numbers for the
doubles set and stand on the court with a tennis racquet in my hand)!
Scrapbooking, reading (especially the dictionary lately),
drawing, spending quality time with my friends,
(yes Mike I do have friends, unlike you who has to ring Dial~a~friend)
I enjoy the Horse Racing, the theatre, and listening to all types of music!
I think that as time goes on my interests do change but the one thing that remains throughout is
smiling, laughing and trying not to take life too seriously (yes there are moments when that is necessary)
but I am of the opinion that Life is meant to be enjoyed,
you get one shot at it.........live for today, life is too short to be wasted!!

Favorite things to do: I love cold rainy days when I can curl up with a good book.
I love to walk along the beach paddling in the water and listen to the sound of the waves
and feel the sand between my toes.
I love to watch a heart wrenching movie in the comfort of my home, where,
if I want to cry like a baby out loud, I can!
I love to give Mike a hard time and know that his come backs are going to be pathetic!
I love to sit and enjoy a hot cup of coffee.
I love spending time with family and friends.
I love to Laugh! :)

Quote: "Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts.
And we are never, ever the same."
(like the fact that I am now in therapy having met Mike!)

and this is for my new found boggle friends.........................

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."

Anything else you would like to add?
I was in the finance industry for many years until I stopped to start our family, I became a stay home Mum.
Paul started his own company about 2years ago and now I do the Books for the business and the general
office duties.....End of month statements, banking, debt collecting and the like.......
Official Title ~ Manager! Real Title ~ Major Dung Kicker!

The Flow of Profiles Continues!!! Meet Stepanie

Here is our next wordrampage.com profile, Stephanie, who I believe plays under the name of Steph...except maybe when its late at night and she has to use a (Guest) name so her mother, Janet doesn't keep telling her to go to sleep! :) Just stay up all night and play wordrampage.com Steph! I'm sure you can find Scott talking your mother into just one more game in the wee hours of the morning!

So here is Stephanie!

Name: Stephanie
Age: 28
City: Baltimore, MD
Married: Not Married
Kids: No kids, just 2 cats - Tori and Pumpkin
Favorite things to do: Playing sports (I play softball and volleyball on local social leagues); Traveling; Watching movies and T.V.; reading murder mysteries
Quote: 2 of my favorite quotes - one is serious and one is just makes me laugh every time I hear it:

"Consider it pure joy my brothers when you face trials of many kinds, because the testing of faith develops perseverance." -The Bible (James 1:2-3)

"I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!" - Dr. Evil in Austin Powers

Anything else you would like to add? After 9 long years of part-time college, I finally earned my Bachelor's Degree in May 2007 (I received my Associates in 2001). Then I passed my Human Resources certifications in December 2007. Oh yeah, member "Janet" is my mom. :)

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Fort McHenry (where Francis Scott Key was inspired to write the Star Spangled Banner) in Baltimore, MD

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My 2 cats Tori and Pumpkin.

We Are On A Roll!!! Meet Faith!

Ok, you've seen her name. She's won a lot of games. She uses the name Faith on wordrampage.com, but her real name is.....Faith?

Thanks Faith for sending in your profile and pics. Its finally nice to have retired school psychologist. Now we have someone qualified who can tell Mike and CROSSEYED to play nice!!!

So here is Faith and her family!


Name: Faith (surprise!)
Age: 59
City: a tiny town south of Buffalo, NY, USA
Married: yep, to Lee for 36 years
Kids: Philip, 34, married and lives in California
Miranda, 31, married and lives in western NY (about 30 minutes from me)
Ben, 27, single and lives in Portland, Oregon
Grandkids:
4 grandbabies Zea, age 6, and Addie, age 2, live in California
Elspeth (aka Ellie), age 3, and Liam, age 5 months, live nearby

Interests:
kids, grandkids, reading, travel, Outer Banks and Cape Cod, church activities, friends, family
Favorite things to do:
spending time with the grandbabies (being the most fun gramma ever), reading a good book, planning a trip, laughing with friends, sunrise walks on the beach, emailing, watching TiVo (it's changed our TV watching) and movies, going to a baseball game or watching the Mets on TV, watching tennis, walks in the woods, being with my kids, and, obviously, playing Boggle. I'm also enjoying getting to know my fellow bogglers as we chat.
Quote:

Anything else you would like to add?
I'm retired from public education (school psychologist and special ed. administrator) and haven't been bored once since I retired. I still do some part time work and also keep an eye on my aging parents who live nearby.
I'm not computer literate, besides email and shopping,(I don't even know how to text on my phone)and chatting on boggle games has been my first foray into this sort of communication.





From L to R) Daughter-in-law Cindy, Addie, Miranda and baby Liam, Faith and Elspeth, and Philip with Zea in California strawberry fields

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Lee and Faith at Haystack Rock on the northern Oregon coast

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Ellie in front of Faith's house in the summer rain

Here's akaann!!!

The Profiles Are Pouring In! Please be patient and I'll get yours up!! (hmmm, wonder if that will motivate people to send their profile in!!)

Ok, here's our second profile to be published. Thanks Bev......errrr....ann! :) Ok, so, here is the woman with NINE GRANDCHILDREN!!!!

Thanks again akaann!

Name: akaann (Bev)
Age: 63
City: Lincoln, NE
Married: 2 1/2 yrs
Kids: 1 Boy and 2 Girls

Grandkids: I have nine ankle biters. Five granddaughters and 4 grandsons, and love them all with a Grannies pride!!

Interests: Reading, playing word games, ( found out how poorly I play the game when I met Faith, Crosseyed, Janet and now Dorrit.) :) motorcycles, and many more things.


Favorite things to do: Jump on the Goldwing trike and with Jim (my hubby) sitting in the crow's nest, take off into the wind. Destination unknown, direction unknown until we hit the highway and only then do we decide on a direction. More fun that way and we have found some wonderful places and talked to some very interesting people with great stories to tell. :)

Spending time with my grandsons that live close to me. The other 6 live out state or out of state.

How Much Easier Can It Be?

Well, the folks at WordRampage.com have made it soooooo easy for you to write up your own profile, even a caveman can do it. Why this is easier than getting 15 consonants and 1 vowel on the boggle board!

So, all you have to do is cut and paste the info below into an email. And send a pic or two to mike@wordrampage.com. We'll put it up on the blog and as you learn more about everyone, they can learn more about you.




Name:
Age:
City:
Married: (How Long?)
Kids: (Ages)

Grandkids:(Write as much as you want)

Interests:


Favorite things to do:

Quote:

Anything else you would like to add?

Our Very First Profile - leap

Well, finally after begging some of you, I can now thank leap for being the first person to provide her profile. But, this is good having leap first, because she is the one who told a lot of you about wordrampage.com

Who's next? Come on, not everyone at once!!!



Here's a picture of leap's
Son-in-law Ken and Her Grandson Tyler






Name: MaryAnn
Age: 48
City: Albuquerque, NM
Married: Yes - 28 years
Kids: 2 married daughters - 1 is 27 and 1 is 26.
Grands: YES! The best little sweetie in the world! Born on my birthday in 2003 he lives in North Pole, Alaska with his mom and dad. Other daughter lives in Montana.
Interests: Word games and many others both on and offline, chatting online with friends and family, voracious reader of almost everything but Sci-Fi, Westerns and military - type war books.
Travel is another interest - thus my job that allows me to travel a lot! On my travels I've met about 10 people in real life that I've known from online and had nary a bad experience with that. It's lots of fun to see if the online personality jives with the "real" thing!
Big favorites: Being with our wonderful grandson and if not that, talking to him on the phone is a substitute, although not the best one. Curling up with a good book on a rainy day...bubble baths with a good book, a glass of iced tea and the phone nearby...trying new restaurants with Bill, one of the most patient men in the world...and just relaxing and being lazy.
Questions: Ask away - I'm pretty open and honest!


Thankfully leap continues to lead the pack in pics and profiles!

Here are few more pics of leap, (MaryAnn), and her husband Bill, and the rest of her family.


leap and her husband Bill in Sedona



Tyler at his Aunt Sky's wedding


leap's Family - Bill, Nicky, Ken with Tyler, Sky, and Aaron

Who Are JB and Mike?

Well, we would like to say that we are internet tycoons, but that might be a bit premature. But, we did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night! Just not in the same room!

But seriously, hmmm, did I really say seriously!!! We have had a great time meeting everyone and playing boggle online with everyone, so thanks as always for playing at our site. We always talk about improving WordRampage and hopefully you have seen the changes. Many of the recommendations come from the different new friends we have met. We want to make WordRampage a fun community, that is exciting, competitive, and addictive.

So, we thought we would tell you a little about us.

If you want to tell some of the others about yourself, that would be great! If you want to post a picture of yourself and write a little about yourself, we'll be happy to add it to the blog. Just write it up and email it to Mike at mike@wordrampage.com. I'll cut and paste and add it to the blog! It will be fun to get to know more about everyone. I just don't check that email all the time, so mention to me that you sent it. You can add a few pictures if you want, and I'll give you your own blog post!




JB is 32, and a consultant who lives in South Riding, VA, which is in Fairfax, and is married to Cathy, who also plays wordrampage.com under the name Catbelo.

They have a daughter named Addy. Here's a picture of JB and Addy. Apparently Cathy must have been glued to the computer playing boggle online at wordrampage.com and couldn't be in this picture! :)










Mike is 49, and owns his own business. He lives in Lorton, VA,
also in Fairfax. He's single and has one son, Zach , who is 13.

He has corrupted his nephew, Scott, who is also friends with JB, into playing boggle at wordrampage.com You might also find his sister Marilyn playing here too.












Thats us! Send us your pic or pics, and write up and you can be the star of the next Wordrampage Blog!!! (Unless I beat you to it when something else comes to my mind that I need to write!)

Why WordRampage?

After meeting with JB, and putting the "contract" napkin into my fireproof box, since I was sure all of the arsonists that JB hired were out to find my house to burn up that napkin and if my house went up, well that was too bad. As long as the napkin was gone, JB would be happy having full ownership to this online boggle site! :) Just kidding JB. I trust you implicitly. However I find myself moving at nights and sleeping by day just so you can't find me, just in case! LOL

Sorry for getting off on that tangent. Back to the night of our meeting. I spent some time that night coming up with some website names. Knowing something about trademark law, I knew we couldn't use Boggle in the name. But, I also knew that we really didn't want to use Boggle in our name. We wanted to create our own brand. We didn't want to limit our free, fun, exciting, competitive, addictive, and a way to end boredom site to just having a Boggle game. But, it had to have a .com ending. While wordrampage.com may not be the best, it was available as a .com name. And, it sounded good. And the definition of rampage sort of fit the dichotomy of what a game of boggle is like at times. Here are some definitions:

1.	violent or excited behavior that is reckless, uncontrolled, or destructive.

2.	a state of violent anger or agitation: The smallest mistake sends him into a rampage. The river has gone on a rampage and flooded the countryside.

–verb (used without object)

3.	to rush, move, or act furiously or violently: a bull elephant rampaging through the jungle.

Sure, you could argue that maybe a bull elephant rampaging through the jungle, has nothing to do with an online boggle game. And you probably would be arguing with yourself. Because I'm not going to be the devil's advocate and take that other side!!! But, here is a hint if anyone reads this other than maybe leap :) btw leap, thanks for the nice comment on my last entry! Anyway back to the bull elephant. Guess what, I checked all of the screen names, and THAT one is still available. So, I would suggest you register it while you can!!! It won't last forever, unless no-one reads this post! :) I guess even if the whole world, or every boggle playing addict read this site, that name still could last forever! :)

Below are a few other site names that I came up with that we didn't use. If you like any of these, feel free to get them.

Thanks for reading this and thanks for playing wordrampage.com!

wordslolam.com - This sort of describes the game pretty well. Definition of Slolam-

"any winding or zigzag course marked by obstacles or barriers"

worddiversion.com

wordclash.com

wordtitans.com

threefunminutes.com

haltboredom.com

threeminuteaddict.com

3minuteaddict.com

funandaddictive.com

fastfungame.com

gotthreeminutes.com

Some .net sites

addictivefun.net

wordsport.net

worddash.net

wordrace.net

How the heck did we come up with this crazy idea for an online boggle type game!

So I feel that to start this blog, I should mention that I'm 49 and never played boggle until about 4 months ago. I don't know if that makes me a loser or a big loser! But, anyway, I have this nephew who was friends with this guy JB and I've known JB for years too and became friends by playing poker with him.

So, this one day around the beginning of June 2008, the three of us met for lunch and JB's talking about all these websites that he has, and how he can do almost anything. Now, I've owned my own business, which is a drycleaning chemical company, for more than ten years and marketing is my background, so after hearing about all of JB's websites which mostly seem to center around poker, (my favorite being his top ten women of poker site), I tell him I've been playing this game boggle. And I also mention that it is addicting! So, right there, JB and I sign a contract on a napkin at this chicken wing place and agree to start a word game site like boggle.

I can't remember if JB ever played boggle before then or not, or even knew what it was. But, he was about to find out fast!!! LOL

So that was the start of this crazy idea to start a free online boggle type of word game.