Words With Friends, the Scrabble-like word game played on smartphones by millions of people around the world, may get famous actors thrown off planes like it did Alec Baldwin, but the good news is that it also saves lives.

By that we don’t mean it’s been updated with a medical alert system connected to the local hospital, although perhaps that wouldn’t be such a bad idea—Zynga’s popular word game can get the heart racing from time to time.

The life-saving story we’re referring to came about thanks to the Words With Friends feature that randomly matches up players around the world in search of an opponent.

AGP’s crack research team has uncovered top level security clearance documents pertaining to the enigmatic origin of AGP mystery man, Buzz Finger. The document was uncovered during a reading break in the men’s restroom when one of the researchers came across a very telling ad in a 1979 edition of The Avengers comic book (see featured image). The image was presumably of a younger Buzz Finger in a Hubba Bubba bubble gum print ad (sound familar?) using an exclamation that has largely belonged solely to one Mike “Daggum” Krisle; “Dadgum my Bubble Gum!”

Two impressive videos of people showing their “talents.” Which impresses you more? Watch and decide!

Be sure to remind this guy that your party is B.Y.O.B. or you could be headed back to the store quickly!

Exercise more your thing? Maybe an attempt at breaking the world record for speed climbing is how you get your buzz.

Rated R, 158 mins

Cast: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgard

Okay…so I know it says Rated R, but if this movie had come out in 1997, it would have been known as NC-17…or possibly a PPV movie on the Playboy Channel.  Rooney Mara (“The Girl”) spends so much time undressed or in certain sexual predicaments that it would be utterly impossible NOT to know what kind of tattoos she had on her body.  However, if you can get past the sexual violence interlaced within the plot, it is one of the best thrillers to come along in quite some time.  Now of course, any woman you know has probably already read the entire series of books, so don’t try to be cute and guess the ending in the middle of the flick…because they will knowingly just nod their head and smirk…Consequently I did figure out the twist at the end but not fully.  Any movie that can stump me just a little bit is worth seeing in my opinion.  Warning: this movie is not for the queasy stomach.  Warning #2: if you are a woman expecting the movie to be exactly like the book, be forewarned…it’s not…apparently Daniel Craig’s character does many things differently…but hey I didn’t read it so good for me!

I award this 3 1/2 steaks.

On a side note…fellow columnist Sarah Wolff and I saw this on a Thursday night at Carmike for $7 total (including Halloween candy and a bottled water from home)

Guest Columnist and Movie Reviewer – Bryan “Quad Steak” Knepper

The AGP season began this past Tuesday night and in typical AGP fashion didn’t disappoint. The game started off like a preseason football game with plenty of missteps and fumbles. The chip stacks were out of order and didn’t have the right amount before the game even began! Buzz Finger became the first regular to feel the wrath of the no call/no show rule (see rules page). When play began it appeared as if all players fell to old school Mark’s level. There was folding out of turn, mucking big blinds and staring into space when it was your time to act. We had to switch cards 3 times (a record) due to defects. Hell, nobody could figure out the new poker timer that Dan graciously loaned us while he sits out the first two months because of work constraints. Maybe it was because we were at Bryan’s and the new location distracted us. That’s what we will blame it on since we’re all clearly professionals. However, in the midst of all the confusion it was a rather good game. The game featured 6 of the 9 members, a probation player (Jerry) and a scab (Cory).