The International Campaign for "Score Point Five"

Every phrase must have started somewhere.  Somebody must have started using "cool" to describe something desirable, or "wack" to describe something crazy or bad.  Most likely, the person who began saying these things that are currently ubiquitous in our modern society was criticized and mocked for it.  Well, I am on the cusp of the new wave of expressive verbiage.  The crappy animation above, I think, sufficiently demonstrates the entire concept of "score-point-five".  I forget how I specifically thought up of the phrase, but at some point, I began to integrate it into my vocabulary, and as I kept using it, I began to admire how well it flowed.  The basic usage is that if something good happens to a you, you will say "score" -- then, if something even better happens, you don't want to be ambiguous, you want to emphasize that it really is better, so you can't say "score" again ... that's when you use "score-point-five".  But, with all of its flexibility, you can also use the phrase to describe things that are very good, such as if you won a million dollars.  Of course, when I had worked out all of the complexities of using the phrase, I was excited to share it with my friends.  I received primarily criticism.  Some of them said that it was too complex, some people (their names are withheld to protect them from proponents of "score-point-five," of course) believed that it was too difficult to distinguish "score plus point five" (the phrase's true meaning, implying that "score-point-five" is more than just a mere "score") and "score times point five" (which it cannot be, since that is incorrect mathematical grammar -- the correct method of saying it would be "point-five-score").  I think that the phrase is relatively unambiguous, but the debate still continues among me and my peers.  For those who do agree with me, and think that "score-point-five" would be a useful and hip phrase to have in one's "vernacular toolbox" (is "vernacular" the right word?), start using it, and given enough time, it will become a standard phrase.

Shown below is an email that I sent to NBC, response pending, regarding including the phrase in one of the episodes of Friends.  If this were to happen, it would be a very big thing for the International Campaign for "Score-Point-Five," but it still seems like a long shot.  If we start using the phrase, it will happen, even if NBC doesn't decide to include it.

Email me at amf3@cec.wustl.edu to show your support for "score-point-five".

Dear NBC:
 
I have been a fan of your shows, especially Frasier and Friends (among others) for a long time, and I realize that you guys do receive an incredible volume of email from fans and viewers, but I just wanted to drop a line about an idea that you might include in Friends that might be very entertaining.  Do with it what you want, of course.
 
To explain my idea fully, I ask that you bear with me and read my explanation of what happened to me specifically.  I am a college student at Washington University in St. Louis, and I am known as somewhat of a quirky guy who says funny things.  Well, at one point for reasons beyond me, something good happened and I said, "Score!"  Something better happened (I forget the exact scenario) and I said, "Score-point-five!"  My friends all said that they were confused by my saying and that I was being a dork, so I tried to explain it to them.  I said, "Which is bigger?  One or one-point-five?"  They said, "One-point-five".  And then I said, "which is bigger?  Score of score-point-five?"  They would try to argue that score-point-five makes it sound as if I am trying to say half a score.  Well, regardless of the semantics, I vowed to my friends that I would get the phrase "score-point-five" into mainstream.  As I thought about it -- it sounded exactly like one of those things that Chandler would just blurt out and everyone wouldn't understand him (much like what happened with me and my friends ...), so I decided to take the time to email you guys, partially because I do think it's a funny thing to include in an episode of yours, as just a little bit, or something, but of course I'd also like to receive some personal gratification, especially in the face of the cynicism of my friends.  Like I said before, I know how much mail you guys must receive, and I think it'd be achievement enough if you guys even read this email, much less decided to include it on your show (I am only a college student, after all), but I just decided it was worth a shot.  Whether you guys *do* decide to include my idea, I appreciate your reading my email, and I will remain a fan of your shows.  Thank you for your time.
 
I would also appreciate it if anybody who reads this email would try to integrate the phrase "Score-point-five" into their vocabulary and use it when anything good happens to them.  Perhaps I still have a shot at getting it mainstream.
 
Sincerely,
 
Andrew Foerster