B 3 A 1 B 3 B 3 L 1 E 1
← Archives

December 21, 2005

Closed
T 1
M 2
E 1
M 2
C 2
R 1
E 1
R 1
U 2
H 2
O 1
N 1
E 1
T 1
I 1
L 1
T 1
J 6
D 2
I 1
I 1
O 1
D 2
F 4
A 1

Your Words

No words submitted.

Total score 0 pts.
1 1,900
2 1,900
3 1,900
4 1,900
5 1,900
6 1,900
7 1,900
8 1,900
9 1,900
10 1,900
11 1,900
12 1,900
13 1,900
14 1,900
15 1,900
16 1,900
17 1,900
18 1,900
19 1,900
20 1,900
21 1,900
22 1,900
23 1,900
24 1,900
25 1,900
26 1,900
27 1,900
28 1,900
29 1,900
30 1,900
31 1,900
32 1,900
33 1,900
34 1,900
35 1,900
36 1,900
37 1,900
38 1,900
39 1,900
40 1,900
41 1,900
42 1,900
43 1,900
44 1,900
45 1,900
46 1,900
47 1,900
48 1,900
49 1,900
50 1,900
51 1,900
52 1,900
53 1,900
54 1,900
55 1,900
56 1,900
57 1,900
58 1,900
59 1,900
60 1,900
61 1,900
62 1,900
63 1,900
64 1,900
65 1,900
66 1,900
67 1,900
68 1,900
69 1,900
70 1,900
71 1,900
72 1,900
73 1,900
74 1,900
75 1,900
76 1,900
77 1,900
78 1,900
79 1,900
80 1,900
81 1,900
82 1,900
83 1,900
84 1,900
85 1,900
86 1,900
87 1,900
88 1,900
89 1,900
90 1,900
91 1,900
92 1,900
93 1,900
94 1,900
95 1,900
96 1,900
97 1,900
98 1,900
99 1,900
100 1,900
101 1,900
102 1,900
103 1,900
104 1,900
105 1,900
106 1,900
107 1,900
108 1,900
109 1,900
110 1,900
111 1,900
112 1,900
113 1,900
114 1,900
115 1,900
116 1,900
117 1,900
118 1,900
119 1,900
120 1,900
121 1,900
122 1,900
123 1,900
124 1,900
125 1,900
126 1,900
127 1,900
128 1,900
129 1,900
130 1,900
131 1,900
132 1,900
133 1,896
134 1,892
135 1,879
136 1,874
137 1,868
138 1,847
139 1,820
140 1,820
141 1,814
142 1,813
143 1,767
144 1,757
145 1,737
146 1,719
147 1,691
148 1,683
149 1,667
150 1,663
151 1,659
152 1,655
153 1,653
154 1,637
155 1,630
156 1,623
157 1,616
158 1,610
159 1,601
160 1,590
161 1,585
162 1,555
163 1,547
164 1,546
165 1,529
166 1,523
167 1,499
168 1,489
169 1,475
170 1,471
171 1,470
172 1,463
173 1,454
174 1,444
175 1,434
176 1,422
177 1,420
178 1,411
179 1,405
180 1,402
181 1,401
182 1,398
183 1,394
184 1,393
185 1,388
186 1,388
187 1,387
188 1,383
189 1,379
190 1,369
191 1,361
192 1,356
193 1,348
194 1,345
195 1,325
196 1,322
197 1,315
198 1,301
199 1,298
200 1,294
201 1,252
202 1,247
203 1,240
204 1,235
205 1,235
206 1,224
207 1,222
208 1,220
209 1,215
210 1,210
211 1,195
212 1,188
213 1,187
214 1,187
215 1,187
216 1,183
217 1,181
218 1,181
219 1,180
220 1,180
221 1,168
222 1,166
223 1,159
224 1,157
225 1,153
226 1,152
227 1,144
228 1,142
229 1,141
230 1,141
231 1,136
232 1,136
233 1,134
234 1,132
235 1,132
236 1,129
237 1,120
238 1,118
239 1,108
240 1,108
241 1,108
242 1,103
243 1,101
244 1,098
245 1,093
246 1,089
247 1,086
248 1,080
249 1,079
250 1,076
251 1,071
252 1,071
253 1,068
254 1,062
255 1,061
256 1,051
257 1,051
258 1,050
259 1,050
260 1,049
261 1,048
262 1,046
263 1,043
264 1,040
265 1,037
266 1,036
267 1,034
268 1,022
269 1,022
270 1,016
271 1,013
272 1,013
273 1,002
274 1,000
275 1,000
276 996
277 991
278 986
279 982
280 981
281 979
282 972
283 971
284 971
285 969
286 968
287 960
288 959
289 956
290 954
291 953
292 952
293 950
294 945
295 943
296 943
297 940
298 937
299 931
300 924
301 921
302 915
303 913
304 908
305 908
306 907
307 905
308 904
309 895
310 894
311 891
312 886
313 885
314 884
315 883
316 872
317 870
318 862
319 860
320 856
321 852
322 844
323 842
324 842
325 840
326 839
327 833
328 832
329 831
330 831
331 827
332 826
333 825
334 822
335 818
336 816
337 813
338 810
339 808
340 808
341 805
342 801
343 797
344 794
345 794
346 792
347 790
348 789
349 788
350 787
351 785
352 784
353 784
354 783
355 778
356 776
357 774
358 771
359 771
360 769
361 763
362 762
363 761
364 758
365 757
366 757
367 756
368 753
369 753
370 752
371 750
372 749
373 748
374 744
375 740
376 737
377 736
378 735
379 734
380 734
381 733
382 732
383 730
384 729
385 729
386 728
387 726
388 725
389 725
390 722
391 722
392 719
393 718
394 713
395 713
396 712
397 711
398 707
399 707
400 703
401 702
402 698
403 692
404 691
405 690
406 687
407 687
408 686
409 684
410 683
411 682
412 673
413 672
414 668
415 667
416 667
417 665
418 661
419 658
420 657
421 654
422 653
423 653
424 653
425 652
426 647
427 647
428 646
429 646
430 645
431 645
432 642
433 642
434 639
435 639
436 636
437 631
438 628
439 626
440 616
441 615
442 613
443 613
444 605
445 605
446 604
447 603
448 600
449 600
450 600
451 599
452 597
453 592
454 591
455 589
456 588
457 587
458 587
459 583
460 582
461 581
462 579
463 578
464 577
465 577
466 576
467 576
468 576
469 574
470 573
471 572
472 571
473 571
474 568
475 568
476 564
477 564
478 563
479 562
480 562
481 561
482 560
483 559
484 558
485 558
486 557
487 557
488 555
489 555
490 555
491 554
492 553
493 552
494 551
495 549
496 548
497 547
498 545
499 544
500 540
501 538
502 535
503 534
504 534
505 533
506 533
507 532
508 530
509 529
510 528
511 524
512 523
513 522
514 517
515 516
516 514
517 514
518 513
519 511
520 511
521 511
522 510
523 507
524 506
525 506
526 504
527 504
528 499
529 499
530 497
531 492
532 491
533 489
534 487
535 484
536 478
537 478
538 477
539 477
540 477
541 473
542 471
543 471
544 470
545 468
546 465
547 465
548 464
549 460
550 460
551 459
552 458
553 458
554 456
555 455
556 454
557 453
558 452
559 452
560 450
561 450
562 450
563 449
564 448
565 444
566 444
567 444
568 443
569 440
570 440
571 439
572 438
573 438
574 436
575 434
576 426
577 425
578 423
579 422
580 421
581 419
582 416
583 413
584 410
585 405
586 404
587 403
588 403
589 401
590 398
591 397
592 397
593 396
594 395
595 393
596 392
597 391
598 391
599 391
600 389
601 387
602 384
603 383
604 383
605 382
606 373
607 370
608 369
609 366
610 362
611 361
612 361
613 361
614 361
615 360
616 358
617 355
618 343
619 342
620 342
621 339
622 333
623 333
624 328
625 328
626 327
627 322
628 320
629 318
630 316
631 313
632 313
633 313
634 309
635 308
636 302
637 299
638 299
639 299
640 297
641 296
642 293
643 293
644 289
645 287
646 287
647 284
648 281
649 278
650 278
651 275
652 275
653 273
654 270
655 266
656 266
657 263
658 262
659 262
660 261
661 260
662 259
663 258
664 254
665 253
666 252
667 252
668 250
669 250
670 247
671 246
672 245
673 242
674 242
675 241
676 239
677 238
678 238
679 236
680 236
681 235
682 235
683 234
684 234
685 234
686 233
687 229
688 228
689 228
690 228
691 227
692 222
693 212
694 212
695 210
696 207
697 206
698 205
699 202
700 200
701 200
702 196
703 195
704 190
705 189
706 178
707 177
708 176
709 176
710 173
711 172
712 171
713 168
714 167
715 166
716 159
717 152
718 149
719 148
720 146
721 146
722 146
723 144
724 144
725 142
726 141
727 141
728 141
729 140
730 138
731 136
732 136
733 134
734 134
735 134
736 134
737 131
738 131
739 127
740 126
741 125
742 123
743 120
744 120
745 119
746 119
747 116
748 111
749 110
750 110
751 109
752 107
753 105
754 104
755 103
756 99
757 97
758 95
759 93
760 93
761 93
762 90
763 90
764 83
765 82
766 81
767 81
768 80
769 75
770 75
771 74
772 73
773 72
774 71
775 68
776 67
777 67
778 63
779 62
780 60
781 57
782 52
783 52
784 52
785 51
786 50
787 47
788 47
789 46
790 45
791 44
792 43
793 39
794 34
795 32
796 28
797 27
798 25
799 25
800 22
801 21
802 19
803 14
804 13
805 13
806 9
807 8
808 6
809 5
810 5
811 4
812 4
813 4

165 total words

12:00 am

New puzzle!

12:01 am

good morning! A new day has dawned!

12:01 am

i always run out of time

12:01 am

Morning all :)

12:01 am

HI EasternBlue!!!

12:01 am

I had 50 left onyx...

12:01 am

hi schroeder!!

12:02 am

hi debs!

12:02 am

Oh babe I see they`re full of festive cheer at your place then...........NOT :(

12:02 am

Hi all! had 100 to go and no chance of finishing! Too much xmas shopping today!

12:02 am

hi lotti!

12:02 am

i had 35

12:02 am

I had about 80... So where are you onyx? No rain or snow here yet?

12:02 am

Mornin EB

12:02 am

mrpres...I had too much work to do!!

12:02 am

Hey EB, how are you?

12:03 am

OK, that's it... JEDI isn't a word!!

12:03 am

lotti - I'm great...officially on vacation!

12:03 am

near sf, i heard it was raining, my nephew said the snow was all man made on the slopes

12:04 am

mrpres...it wasn't a word 2 days ago either...rats!! : )

12:05 am

It's true onyx, snow level is about 7500ft....

12:05 am

Hurray for Christmas...it gets us all a break from work eh!!!!! I`m at work today, but I only do one day a week at the mo anyway :)

12:05 am

lotti - I am about as cheerful as a cranky old fart can be right now! My boss is on vacation for a week. Yay! My oldest has moved into her own apartment (flat) with her boyfriend, and my youngers have recently displayed some amazing maturity. AND it's Christmas!

12:05 am

Only 165 today....

12:06 am

i must confess i have 2 things to finish, but I'll do it in the morning...I was at work for over 13 hours today - my brain couldn't do any more!!

12:06 am

160 to go . . .

OK Mab and Schroeder the word i was looking for was collop. But when you gave the clue sc7/36 and take off the first letter that was scooper which would them be cooper which was the 2nd 6/24. Very sorry i was so thick. Just tired. Now on to the new babble.

12:07 am

tor...you don't tell us in your profile where we can go to read your musings... : )

12:07 am

L 8/40

12:07 am

If I could be there babe to cheer you up...I would :) (((((((((((warm squeezes))))))))))))) xx

12:07 am

Marc - that's the great thing about Babble...the next 'day' there's always a new one to start fresh!

12:08 am

any picture request for today??

12:08 am

(still seasonal...)

12:08 am

A Stocking EB

12:09 am

back in a moment!!

12:09 am

Lol marc, hate it when there is more than on sc7/36

12:09 am

this looks tough... am bailing now before I get caught up and can't pull myself off the keyboard. Bye for now!!

12:09 am

Remember it takes my pc half a day to refresh!!!!!!

12:10 am

this is tough

12:10 am

oooh someone has a slower computer than i do

12:11 am

What! no 'mermut?'

12:11 am

LOL Onyx.........Yup it`s a pile of cr*p!!!!!!!!!!!

12:12 am

How are you Mab???

12:12 am

Love them squeezes! . . . EB - My musings aren't really out there except for my caps on some of the captioning sites..

12:12 am

i can't babble with the icons showing or it won't reload

12:13 am

Stupid dictionary won't take jedi...

12:13 am

Ok here, Lotti. Bit of holiday blues, but such things pass. Are you ready for xmas?

12:15 am

I`ve tried all that, but nothing seems to make a difference. Sometimes I can be waiting 45 seconds for it to accept one word!!

12:16 am

(((((Squeeze)))))X(((((Squeeze )))))x(((((Squeeze)))))x(((((S queeze)))))xxxxxxx

12:16 am

Oh, dear! Poor Marc! How confusing our clues must have been!

12:17 am

lotti - That seems to happen some times, especially at the flip when lots of people are entering words . .

12:18 am

Just about ready Mab. A couple of things to pick up today, then party food shopping tomorrow :)

12:19 am

Mab......do you think I should be getting a flight to SD to go and cheer Tor up?? :)

12:20 am

I don't know how you Christians do it! (she said, not meaning to offend anyone)

12:21 am

Mmmm neither do I sometimes!!!

12:21 am

Oh, by all means Lotti. You are a jet setter aren't you. Torgone needs you.

12:21 am

j 6/36 sudden movement

12:21 am

:o)

12:23 am

Good evening everyone --- not too bad number wise.

12:24 am

Hi Cyber :)

12:24 am

Hi cyber. This is the perffect size puzzle for me -- I can actually pay attention long enough to get it done.

Don't worry Mabs I am going to bed I am tired and have to drive to Kansas City tomorrow. Probably won't be here for a couple of days. Best, Marc

12:26 am

Drive safely Marc,

12:26 am

'night Marc. Drive carefully tomorrow.

12:26 am

Take care Marc.....don`t miss us all too much LOL!!!

12:27 am

Seriously. Be UBER careful on the roads, marc.

12:28 am

I'm off to bed...happy babbling all, see you later

12:28 am

Is the weather really bad over there at the mo??

12:29 am

Sleep well Schroeder, and thanks again.

12:29 am

Nite Schroeder :)

12:33 am

night schroeder!

12:35 am

bye marc...

12:36 am

(lotti the stocking should show for you soon!)

12:36 am

Have you changed EB?? I`ve refreshed twice...logged out and back in and still see the snowman!!! :/

12:36 am

m7/36 ...

12:37 am

lemme check... yup...i've changed!

12:37 am

I have to crash, all you lovely people. See you in about 20 hours, plus or minus . . ((((((((lotti)))))))) xxxx oooooxxxx And no less affection to the rest of you...

12:37 am

C7/44

12:37 am

LOL!!!! I`ll see it eventually :)

12:37 am

bye Tor!! : )

12:38 am

Sleep well, dear Torgone.

12:39 am

(((((((((XXXXxxxTorxxxXXXX)))) )))))))) Nite babe.....sweet dreams, keep smiling xxxx :)

12:41 am

Man, if I could just get a back rub . . . .

12:43 am

lotti??

12:43 am

Lotti warms hands and oil and begins the firm but fair rubbing!!

12:44 am

Lo 8/40

12:46 am

Half way there -- the kids and grandkids arrive tomorrow, so this will be my last puzzle until after Christmas. Back in the morning. Good night, all

12:47 am

'Night cyber

12:48 am

Night Cybernan.

12:48 am

Goodnight Cyber :)

12:49 am

c7/40 c7/44 m7/37 L8/40

12:49 am

ooo Debs..you're good...I only have one of those so far!

12:50 am

make that 2...one was a 'duh!"

12:51 am

(that is, if you have one of the words...no offense to anyone!!)

12:52 am

I'm in the highly unusual position of having them for once, Eastern. But I wouldn't be offended if I didn't. Honestly.

12:53 am

mab...my 'duh' just seemed a bit rude & I didn't mean for it too...it more a duh at me for not seeing it when I got the other one...

12:55 am

I understand Eastern. Just polished off the Fs by the way. (all three!)

12:56 am

And the bottom O. (one)

12:57 am

got the bottom o...missing an "f"... I don't go in any order at the beginning...i just 'find' what I can & then go back to knock out the rest!! : D

12:58 am

Well...time for me to get a shower, wake the kids and start the morning chaos!!! Poor Macadam is looking after the kids again today. She`s had at least one of them for the last.......I don`t know how many days. See you all later. Have a good night/day etc ((((hugs)))) to all :)

12:59 am

'Night lotti!! (or rather, good day for you!!)

12:59 am

I do too. I'm just trying to be amusing, always a dodgy endeavor.

1:00 am

Bye Lotti! Hope you still recognize the kids!

just missing that pesky m 7....then I'll have the 7's & 8 done!!

1:02 am

It is in a perfect right angle.

1:03 am

Although the sides are not of equal length. I should never introduce anything even vaguely mathematical into conversation.

mab...at this hour, I was thinking...I know what a right angle is...(I think!) but I'm too dog-tired to see it...even the monkeys aren't helping!! LOL!!

mab - let's have pi instead!! (apple, pecan...blueberry!!)

1:06 am

Top right M? Go west and then south.

aaaahhhhh..... now i'll be able to sleep tonight... bizarro movie from what i've heard too!! have you seen it?

1:08 am

No. Haven't even heard of it. Pi does sound good.

1:08 am

Hello to all back tonite and hopefully will come much closer to finishing.... been dragged away too much lately...

hiya blaze...mab & i were just going to have some pi...would you like a slice?

1:09 am

Hi Blaze! The grid seems gentle so far.

I'm 1/2 asleep at the keyboard...I've got under 100 to find...I shall leave them for tomorrow!! Goodnight all... Thanks for the clues mab...my tired brain thanks you (and passes a slice of pie whilst you enjoy the grid some more!!)

1:14 am

Niight Eastern. I am fa4 ing myself.

1:16 am

I would love some pi 4... thank you... I think I just may dig a moat around my computer room to keep reality at bay.... and ear plugs...

1:50 am

m6/24 lots of half fish - half .......

1:52 am

malise.... about that m6 ?? which m please

1:54 am

that m6 is a funny word....

1:54 am

Blaze - you want blood too ???? Right-hand m

1:55 am

got my fish catch of the day....thanks

2:01 am

Morning all - how many words today please?

2:04 am

165 words

2:05 am

and, no words start with the two i's on the bottom rows

2:06 am

Thanks!

2:11 am

lots of ---ed and ---er words in this one

2:22 am

corih - why after you told me no word starts with the bottom "i" do I keep trying to get "iodine"?

2:30 am

can't believe "jedi" not allowed. The other day "droid" was rejected as well. May the force be with you all!!

2:31 am

thanks.... i seem to be slowing down here.... not much force left only 79 words to go...

2:31 am

Hello everyone.Looks reasonable today.Sad about Jedi though!!!

hello everyone!

2:45 am

Hi Sam

hi macadam!

2:48 am

Are you enjoying the holiday ?

sure am! and soon my logo will change!

2:51 am

Only found 50 words this morning before grinding to a halt. oh well, i have work to do today so i guess it's just as well, hehe.

It's changed!

2:53 am

So am I Sam.Lotti is bringing my Grandchildren today as she is working.I don`t know what they will want to do.

2:53 am

Morning all

2:53 am

Hi Speedfreaksam - sorry I missed your message yesterday - I would hate you to think I was being rude. To answer the question - I visit most days but usually sit quietly in the corner and enjoy all the repartee!

2:55 am

You have changed Sam.I just refreshed to check you out.

hi sprite! mari-You wern't being rude at all. because you awnserd anyway!

2:55 am

Hi Sprite.

2:57 am

:) A short round of babble today. Husband fell ill this morning, just when I got home sick from work yesterday, and this is one helluva day. Better use this hour for myself then ;)

3:00 am

Why does everything go wrong at the same time? Roll on warmer weather and the uplifting feeling it gives.

3:02 am

I don't know, it must be some law of nature they haven't yet discovered. I am ill, my love is ill, kids has to go to the doctor this afternoon, I have to teach a class tonight. There should be 3 me's today.

3:02 am

Morning all :)

3:04 am

Hi Yoink :)

3:04 am

I hope tonight is your last class before the break the you can concentrate on the family. Hi Yoink.

3:05 am

It is. I told myself this morning: don't cry, don't panic, just put everything of yourself on hold till tonight is done. THEN you can crack. ;)

3:06 am

The Wassail bowl will be left on permanent standby.Help yourself.

3:07 am

:D Thanks, that will help!

3:08 am

Considering how life goes atm, it probably isn't so strange I keep wanting to make 'tremor'.

3:08 am

My pleasure.I`ll be thinking of you.Battle on babe.You know you can do it :0)

why isn't faid a word???

3:10 am

I`m still upset about Jedi not being allowed.

3:10 am

A good question Sam.

3:12 am

Try the other bottom corner and you will find my daughter( with one letter missing)

3:12 am

cooo - eeee :D

3:12 am

Yoo-hoo.

3:12 am

...this is all a bit surreal... : /

3:13 am

tee hee :D

3:13 am

oooh!! you're up early!!! :D

3:13 am

Wow ---Anj does it again.Love the icon.

3:14 am

yeah Anj - gorgey :)

3:14 am

Hi Mac, Sprite, Babbler : ) Yes, I'm wondering about that... lol

3:14 am

I sometimes think all mothers can do that. No matter how bad things are, if the need arises, we pull together what we have and go on. Strange thing. My love fell ill this morning and simply stopped. Back in bed, back to sleep and let the world just take care of itself.

3:15 am

Anj and Babbler, hi :)

3:15 am

Hi Anj :) Babs! ((xx))

3:15 am

lol Babbler - can you see me or the piantjob??

3:15 am

Morning Yoink : )

3:16 am

Wow Anj, your icon is bordering on dangerous ;)

3:16 am

paintjob - I'm on my sister's laptop so there's no need to refresh !! Hey Yoink!! I just mailed you :D ((xx))

3:16 am

...ug?? Whoa! everyone press refresh : /

3:18 am

Doesn't help to refresh, lol. Still so flashy it could evoke some epileptical attack in sensitive people.

3:22 am

oooh - your icon just changed, Anj. solid horizontal rainbow colours. : )

3:23 am

...back to verticals, but not as intense as the last one??

3:24 am

morning all :)

3:24 am

Yes, a little softer, this one. But I liked the other one too :)

3:24 am

much nicer, Anj! : )

3:25 am

Hi sherb :D

3:25 am

Morning Sherb

3:25 am

me too, I liked the other one too : )

3:25 am

hi Sherb

3:27 am

Morning Sherb : ) OK, back to the original...

3:29 am

looks like basketweave ;)

3:30 am

.... brb Sprite, if you're not here by the time I get back, I hope you and yours get well soon. I'm sorry to hear everyone's poorly. ((( hugs )))

3:30 am

Morning Sherb.

3:31 am

hi mac :)

3:32 am

Thanks Babbler :)

3:38 am

Hey Anj this is Lotti invading Macadams pc again!! Have you peed the bed or what?????? ;)

3:40 am

Oooo((((((Babs)))))) you ok babe?? I think we need a pink icon day in Jan for us girly girls btw!! :)

3:40 am

Hi Lotti ; ) No I was dreaming of way too many speed cameras, just got irritated and woke up with a MAJOR paddy : / How are you??

3:41 am

Hi Lotti :)

3:42 am

I`m fine luv....why speed cameras??? Have you just been ketched??

3:42 am

Hi Yoink :)

3:43 am

I don't think so, lol. I just see them all the time and I guess it's better than dreaming of all the BIG bugs with waaay too many teeth that I saw in King Kong last night : )

3:44 am

I've got away with 2 flashes this year, cameras mustn't have had film in

3:45 am

...whoops! Should have said fangs there. Sorry! *whistles* *shuffles feet*

3:45 am

LOL!!!! Was it good, I think Jack Blacks great...a complete nutter, but great!!!

3:46 am

LUCKY Yoink!! I pass one on my way to work this morning, but I know where it is :)

3:47 am

Yoink, hope that was in a car lol! : )

3:48 am

ROFPML!!!!!!!! :D

3:48 am

Lotti, I know where most are round by me but one was a temporary one at some roadworks, and another somewhere I hadn't driven before. Anj - if I ever decide to flash myself I hope there are no cameras handy!

3:50 am

steady Lotti...it's a bit early in the day for that ; ) Good to hear Yoink lol : )

ahh breakfast time back in an 1/2 hour or so.

3:51 am

I`d better get to work then eh!! Let Macadam have her pc back :) Bye everyone!! :) *waves*

3:52 am

*waves* toodlelooo!

3:53 am

bye lotti :)

3:53 am

And away Lotti goes to work.

3:54 am

lol Lotti!! ((( lotti ))) :D

3:54 am

grrr! I missed her! : (

3:55 am

Bye Lotti :)

3:57 am

I had another Babble dream! I dreamt the grid was huge, like 100s of words, and the big word for the day was 'nincompoop'!! lol! what was the po10 yesterday?

3:58 am

pollenoses!

wait delete that last message I managed to sneak past mum and dad and I brought my food into the computer room.

3:58 am

It was pollenoses

3:58 am

well that's just silly! : )

3:59 am

Hi Sam!!! I just had white bread toast and jam. what have you got?

3:59 am

...it's probably the fear of triffids or something...

4:00 am

triffids Anj? que?

4:00 am

Which would be a perfectly rational fear, those things are nasty!

weeto's, weetabix, frosted shredies, toast and honey and some cherio's BURP!

4:00 am

oh, what pollenoses means?

4:01 am

Babbler, big, mobile, take-over-the-world type plants. Like jap seaweed, only worse...

4:01 am

all in one bowl, Sam??? lol!! I like your style!

whats a triffid?

4:02 am

didn't even look up what it meant...imaging a definition is much better :)

oh just seen anj's message

4:03 am

Sam, Day of The Triffids was a horror story written in the last century about these alien plants that took over the world. It's a cracking story if you get to read it.

4:03 am

*imagining* sam - that's some breakfast you've got there...making me feel hungry :)

4:03 am

Yup, right up there with The Kraken Wakes as well.

4:04 am

Anj, and in case U didn't know, triffids originated from the John Wyndham novel, "the Day of the Triffids"... P.S. Hi, everybody.........

4:04 am

what's Kraken Wakes? Not read that.

I'm am so off to ottakers later! sherb I know!

4:05 am

thx movieman, I couldn't remember the author. hi! :D

4:05 am

BIG angry fish thing...might have been john wyndham as well Morning movieman : )

4:05 am

Hi Movieman

4:06 am

big angry fish? most appropriate for babble then?!?! (don't like the sound of nasty fish.... : / )

4:06 am

*pulls tattered paperback off bookshelf* ...first published in 1951...I suppose that is last century...

4:07 am

1951 for Day of the Triffids? I thought it was then, but then I got confused as I think they made a movie of it not too long after. Movieman..... do correct me! : )

4:08 am

John Wyndham was quite a prolific author....he was like the Stephen King or James Herbert of his day..... He was also responsible for, amongst others, The Chrysalids, Chocky, and the Midwich Cuckoos, which was filmed as "The Village of the Damned"....

4:09 am

The Kraken has been all kinds of shapes according to different stories, it was a massive ugly but humanoid thing with a big tail in "Clash of the titans" I remember Chocky from when I was little! Babs, reply sent

4:09 am

my school library had all of them.... : /

4:09 am

...eek! scary film! I always remember that bit where they force the local to turn the shotgun on himself using their minds : /

4:09 am

VERY scary film!! I only managed to watch it once, a looooooooong time ago..... never again *shudders*

4:10 am

I think I last read it as a huge whale thing... TP/NG's Good Omens I think....

4:12 am

The following is a basic plot synopsis of "The Kraken Wakes" by John Wyndham for those of you who want to know.... *Spoilers ahead* The novel describes three phases of an alien attack. In the first phase objects from outer space land in the oceans. Investigations show that 'there is something intelligent down there'. Phase two starts with ships being attacked causing havoc to world shipping. Shortly after the aliens start 'harvesting' the land by sending up 'sea tanks', for the purpose of capturing and kidnapping humans from small seaside settlements. In phase three, the aliens start melting the ice caps causing sea levels to rise.

THE OMEN ARRRRGGGHHHH! I hate the bit when the omen makes his mum fall off the balkony and he makes a lift smash on the floor and he chops a man in half with a stain glass window THE HORROR!

4:13 am

Part 2 of synopsis The story follows Mike and Phyllis Watson as they try to survive and discover what is going on. By the end humanity believes that an uneasy stand-off has been achieved, with the development of a sonic weapon which appears capable of keeping the aliens penned into the ocean depths. Humanity has, however, lost immense ranges of landmass and the major proportion of its population.

4:14 am

Sam - the photographer doesn't get 'chopped in half' with the sheet of glass, he only gets decapitated...

4:14 am

The story just gets od5/14 and od5/14

4:14 am

Day of the triffids was the only film ever to give me nightmares as a kid. just thought i'd share that with you all!!

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN??? WHAT DOES IS MEAN????

4:15 am

hi Haz! Hi lshult! oooh, did I tell you my brother-in-law is a massive West Ham fan?

4:16 am

thanks movieman...can't bear to watch horror movies, but it's fun reading about them :)

4:16 am

Good morning, all.

4:16 am

Gremlins gave me a nightmare despite the film itself not being frightening in the slightest

go middlesborough!

4:17 am

Good for him. You know we just signed our 2nd Israeli to the team.Yaniv Ketan!

4:17 am

I couldn't even watch Gremlins. I scare easily... : /

4:17 am

OK, gotta go do the xmas thing again : ) BBL folks - have fun : D

4:17 am

go Middlesbrough? are you a Boro fan, Sam?

4:17 am

I'm clueless, lshult, but I'll be sure to share that! : )

4:18 am

b'bye Anj!!! have a lovely day! : )

4:18 am

Bye Anj :)

4:18 am

bye Anj :)

hi haz1558!I was eight when I saw gremlins and i wasn't scared at all! I CAN'T BELIVE IT GOT A 15+!

BYE ANJ!

4:21 am

Hi Sam. I'm a real scaredy-cat when it comes to films. Everyone has different tastes, so the censors have to take that into account.

I have to go too bye everyone!

4:21 am

On the other hand sam, you have to realise that if the "Final Destination" films were released at least 15 years ago, they would have been sure-fire 18 certificates.....

4:22 am

Bye Sam

4:22 am

Bye, Sam! Why not see if the cereal manufacturers would produce your recipe for breakfast?

good point bye!

4:23 am

bye Sam :) dressing gowns aren't a good look at Waitrose...better go and put some proper clothes on...back later :)

4:23 am

Sherb - dressing gowns might be an improvement on some of the stuff people wear to do their shopping..

4:24 am

Bye Sherb It's a mass exodus!

4:25 am

Don't worry Yoink, I'm still here, with all my gory details about various horror movie death scenes.......

4:25 am

And I'm going, as well. I've made out a list of Christmas chores and it's time to get some of it done. See you later.

4:27 am

Bye Haz :) Movieman, what's the most gory death you can remember offhand?

4:29 am

Yoink - it would probably have to be a toss up between Glen's (Johnny Depp's) death scene in the first "Elm Street" film, and the opening scene in Steve Beck's "Ghost Ship"....

4:30 am

I haven't seen ghost ship, and it's a loooooong time since I saw the 1st ELm st. film. I saw part 2 the other night for the first time in ages, it's hilarious!

4:33 am

Ah, well, time to join the mass exodus of Babblers like rats from a sinking ship..... But don't worry, I shall be back for some more punishment later........ Bye for now......

4:34 am

Bye Movieman :)

4:35 am

Boys and horror stories...... I don't know.... *shakes head* oh Yoink, I have to go now too!! Will you be ok on your own? I just replied, btw. : ) b'bye!! ((xx))

4:36 am

I guess I'll have to be! I think I'll leave to and try to do some work. See you later. ((xx))

4:38 am

well you could always look for words, uninterrupted! lol! see you tomorrow probably ((xx)) :D

5:18 am

1/2 way through, but no sign of last 7. Have the 2 ch's.

5:19 am

there is an me 7

5:27 am

it's no good, don't see it. any chance of a clue?

5:28 am

i don't have the word either... I peeked at the brandy jack list on babanon.

5:28 am

It's another word for souvenir

5:29 am

you dissapoint me

5:29 am

me7 - if I gave you a clue and you kept it as a reminder of this time, then you would have the word!

5:29 am

thank thankyou thank you...

5:30 am

Hi there... back for a moment.

5:30 am

hello sprite how are you.... merry christmas

5:30 am

Ho Hum your the best

5:31 am

.... and if you 'hang around' long enough you will become the lo8/40

5:32 am

infact your sooo good, bet you can help withe the 8 as well.....huh....??

5:33 am

Thanks - got the 8

5:33 am

flattery will get you everywhre Ishult LOL just posted one!

5:39 am

wow, didn't see it at first & hadn't got the lo6. ty, gonna take a break now. 74 still to go. later

5:40 am

Bye Ishult

5:44 am

Another 21 to go and no time, no time, no time... argh! (which is, btw, a valid babble word)

5:47 am

awe c'mon sprite you can do the last few words in 5 mins you're the babble heroine!!!

5:47 am

Hints for the LO8 please....

5:48 am

Cream of the flop today :P

5:49 am

mousakka - look at posting at 5.31. Chin up sprite, ((hugs))

5:51 am

*hugs right back* I'll get the kids and the bedridden beloved fed and then I'll be back to try and finish :) Have fun while I am away, all!

5:51 am

Hello again.Time to play whilst grandchildren visit my sister.

5:55 am

Hi macadam

5:56 am

hello Hi Hum.Frantically typing in words I`ve found.

5:57 am

I mean Ho Hum I apologise.Too much haste.

5:57 am

LOL go for it!!! I'm allowing a bit of chat time as I have 33 words left to find so the finish line is almost in sight.

5:59 am

I don`t know how long hubby will be at my sisters with the grandchidren.I hope an hour or so so i can finish and chat.

Good morning all, I am stuck on my t's Can I get a clue for to6/21 been monstoring for 1/2 hour can't figure out how it fits between the 5/10 before it and the 5/12 after it.

6:04 am

5/10 before,remove last letter then add self

6:04 am

Blaze, sorry I missed your post and wishes. Merry Christmas to you too!

Thanks Mac couldn't figure out who self was but finally got it.

6:08 am

grat clue! I was missing that one.

6:08 am

Glad you got it.

6:08 am

or even - great clue!

OK I give up, I admit it I need help te5/12 te5/16 Pleeeese

6:24 am

I need te 5/12, too. Marc, the beginning of te 5/16 looks germanic (to me). Then count the points.

6:24 am

te5/12 they are in your mouth

6:25 am

**smack** Thanks, edmo!

Smack me to thanks

Thanks gnubee got it.

6:30 am

Bathroom break with no chat through the door.What a novelty.

6:32 am

How goes it Marc?Are you making progress?

Yes, Mac 72 to go and I got all the l's including the 8/40 on my own, very proud

6:36 am

Great stuff.I`m now fighting the re`s and te`s.14 to go in all.

6:39 am

Just finished.....now to wrap the presents! Have a fun day/night everyone

6:40 am

Well played Judierae , happy wrapping.

6:43 am

just finished?! man, i just got here! hehe mornin all!

6:44 am

Hi Evanadine.Love your snowman.

6:44 am

thanks -- bit giant snowman face makes me smile. :)

6:44 am

Good morning all!

6:47 am

Hi Jen.

6:49 am

hi everyone!

6:54 am

Morning renee!

6:57 am

morning for you, but over here, the night is veryveryvery dark. ;) oh, and nice tree jen!

6:59 am

anyone have hints yet for the 8 or the 7 that doesnt start with Ch?

7:00 am

oh wait, i dound my last 7. just need a clue for the 8 if anyone has it. :)

7:01 am

i need a clue for the 8 too. :)

7:01 am

Eva.lo8/40

7:03 am

oops pressed wrong button.lo8,one who hangs about

7:04 am

ooh. thanks macadam!

7:04 am

possibly with intent

7:04 am

yay! got all the biggies! thanks macadam!

7:05 am

My pleasure.

Top of the mornin' to ya! Oh! Nice.... 165 today :)

7:10 am

i've still got 106 to go, being very slow today! too many vowels, lol.

7:10 am

Hi TSM nice to see you.

miametro - Yes, I can see it will b a slow one. Hoping I can get at least 100 if I am lucky today! :) macadam - Hey! How are you? =o)

7:12 am

mia, not too bad except for te`s and re`s.

7:12 am

i managed to find the 7's by myself, so i'm happy, lol. only 62 found tho, I can't believe it, feels like i've found a million bloomin' words! hehe

Well congrats on your luck so far! :) so goes anyone have a clue for me on that 8 letter word? hehe please? =o)

7:14 am

lo8 one who hangs about possibly with intent

7:22 am

Good Morning Jen! You are at it rather early today! Band

7:25 am

Hey Mom! I work on it while I drink my coffee!

Hi everybody!

7:31 am

afternoon Temple Owl

7:31 am

hi temple owl!

7:32 am

Can anyone help me with the te6/27, the first the word.It`s driving me nuts.

7:34 am

macadam, it's the quality of boredom.

7:35 am

no JEDI?

7:35 am

Good clue, Jen! I got that one. Mom

7:37 am

You are welcome Mom!

7:39 am

Thanks Jen I`d tried the ia ending ,fool that I am..Now it`s just a few re`s.

Thank you soooo much macadam!

I am back but just for a little while. Jumping in and out. On my m's and r's. Need a clue on me7/36 and re6/21 Thanks

Hi Everyone not to bad a puzzle today

7:41 am

me7/36, a reminder of an event, such as perhaps a ticket stub from a concert

7:41 am

me7 a token with fond reminders of someone or something

7:42 am

re6/21 to make one's aquaintance again to rewrite text

Thanks guys got the me7/36 great clues

Sorry had that one I meen the other re6/21

still stuck on lo8 though

7:45 am

Marc, It's to do wth the letting clues - re 4/4 and re 6/18

7:45 am

lo8,you can be arrested for being a lo------ with intent.

7:45 am

ToeSockMonkey lo8/40 one who hangs around

toe, use the oy sound and then finish it up the grid keep repeating from lo6 to lo8

Neeny, I think you are giving clues on the wrong re6/21. There are two back to back in the beginning 4th and 5th word. I have the one where to see someone again.

Woot! Thanks! :) Got the 8

7:50 am

Marc I need that one too.

7:52 am

the other Re6/21 i have means the past tense of paying money to live somewhere temporarily

7:52 am

Marc, There are only two re6/21s and I have them both.

Nope there are 3 6/21's I will check again thought

7:53 am

Thanks Eva, I guess you don't say letting in the US

Yep 3

7:54 am

yes there are 3 6/21

7:55 am

Sorry Marc, missed the one further down the list...any clues, anyone?

Neeny do you have the two together in the beginning?

7:56 am

Yes

7:56 am

Marc, how do you know which words you have on the list??

Neeny OK then you may be able to help here are the first five re's 1) 4/6 color of a tomato with double last two letters 2) 5/12 color of a tomato + two vowels 3) 4/5 little wooden thing you put into a clarinet 4) 6/21 could be when you see someone again or the one we need 5) 6/21could be when you see someone again or the one we need

Neeny you have to become a Babble Pro it is cheap and supports the site. Then you go to Babble Anonymous and click through until you get all of the words in line how many of each letter and their values

Mac do you have the 4 4/4 ro's I have 3 of them and the 4th is driving me crazy. I have monstered them but to no avail. I have all the ones with a 't' I think

Also Mac there are 3 re6/18's I have two of them re + rip past tense and the next one re+legal term do you have a clue on the 3rd one?

8:08 am

morning everyone! :)

Sorry Mac the 6/18's I am referring to are the one that are all together

8:11 am

morning, efor!

8:19 am

sorry called away.Yes I have the ro`s learn by heart other 3 begin with word for decay, one with added consonant is a weight of mediterranean origin,the other 2 with a vowel

8:20 am

Can`t help with 6/18.I need it too.

8:21 am

i don't have any 6/18's, sorry.

Mac the 4 r/4's I have are learn my heart, Indian bread and the first word for the people who clean you pipes when they are plugged

8:23 am

Just found re6/18 a sarcastic reply or a piece of glass equipment in a chemistry lab.

8:24 am

"re6/18's I have two of them re + rip past tense and the next one re+legal term" - i can't find either of these, feeling a bit dense today!

8:24 am

thanks, macadam!

Mia re + to4/4 for both

8:26 am

ah, thank you :)

8:27 am

90 words to find. -groans-

Mac I found it but it was re+ another form of have ripped your shirt

8:28 am

marc Is ro +Igo -- bed at night your missing word?

Got that one that is the one ro*** rooter Still missing one ro4/4 also still missing one re6/21

8:32 am

ro4 decay +L

That's it, thanks how about the re6/21 have the one re+seeing someone again

8:35 am

re6/21 lease again

8:35 am

That is the only one I need.Is this the time for a2z?

8:35 am

oops, i mean just "leased"

What does a2z mean?

8:37 am

a2z a word finder program

Anyone have a clue for me6/24?

How do you get that?

8:38 am

www.a2zwordfinder.Try it .

8:39 am

me6 males with fish tail.

8:40 am

not to be confused with Ethel! :-)

8:41 am

Good one Une

8:41 am

showing my age!

I went there but how do you use it?

8:42 am

There`s no buisiness like babble buisiness!!!!! /:0)

8:43 am

hahahahahaha!

8:44 am

You need partial letters look up.Remove dw and put in the letters you need.It will bring up rows of words for your choice.

8:48 am

Une I can`t sing and spell thats for sure.

Mac do you have a clue for me6/24?

8:56 am

that was her clue at 8:39am

8:56 am

Males with fish tails.

Got the male part but missing the fish tales?

9:00 am

if there were a male version of Daryl Hannah's movie "Splash" . . .

9:00 am

People who live in the sea in childrens stories.

9:05 am

me-+males

9:06 am

macadam and uni - good clues. Marc - get ready to be hit with a big wet fish tail whe you do get this one!

Thanks slap my head

Did we ever get that re6/21 I never did?

9:07 am

hey marc - did you slap yourself w/ a me**** tail? 8)

9:07 am

I should have said which way round.sorry.

9:07 am

lease past tense

Mac by the way a great clue for me6 would have been Ethel Me****

9:08 am

Hindsight is a great thing!

9:09 am

ho hum - so tr**...!

Unea lease past tense doesn't work for me. Are you suggesting rerent?

164 down, loading up on more cofee... Some off the wall words today that I haven't used in awhile...sigh

9:10 am

I`ve got that one Une thanks .the one We want follows woodwind mouthpiece re4,but not the one that means reaquainting.

9:10 am

LOL Ren

If you upgrade, is it a monthly fee or one time?

9:12 am

Marc read Une at 8-40

9:12 am

Marc - you must have missed Mac's posting at 8.42 which is a variation on Ethel's song! WTG Mac

9:13 am

bunny - it is a one time payment

9:13 am

Bunny it`s a one off payment

9:15 am

sorry, hadn't noticed there were two re6/21s!

Then I think it's time, I'd never finish these without bugging everyone all day. Done for the day...fianlly. Back tomorrow (if my husband goes to work, lol). Merry Christmas!

9:16 am

No problem.I just hate the prefix re today.

9:17 am

Merry Christmas to you too Bunny

9:17 am

May I have clues for the c7/40 and c7/44?

9:17 am

oh, i've already got that one--are you talking about "to reword again"?

9:17 am

Merry Christmas Bunny, but dont think going pro excludes you from taking part in the log - it wouldn't be the same sort of game if we didnt all participate

9:17 am

both build on ch5 . . . to make butter

9:18 am

Une, thanks so much, found them right away

9:19 am

Une, to reword again sounds hopeful.I`ll go hunting.

9:19 am

""to reword again"?" ? eh? can't figure that out for the life of me, lol

9:21 am

that fish tail has left me clueless

9:21 am

re + ed4/5

9:22 am

macadam Think of what a newspaper ----or does over and over again

9:22 am

how many words today?

9:22 am

Une, thanks so much, I was going crazy trying to find the "reword again" word

9:23 am

where am i, think of "the little mer****", but male and a group of them.

9:23 am

165 words today.

9:25 am

thanks that helped

9:25 am

Cheers Une .At last the penny dropped.

Thanks finally did you get it Mac, I have to go have a great day. LOL

9:26 am

Bye Marc see you later.

9:28 am

reword...... I am having a thick head day

9:28 am

Afternoon all

9:29 am

Hi Yoink - 9:30a here....

9:29 am

whereami Think of what a newspaper e---or does over and over again

9:30 am

whereami look at 9.21

9:30 am

duh.. got it thanks

9:46 am

any clues for the it6/24 please

9:47 am

any clues for the em s?

9:56 am

SJW em 4 a different spelling of the large bird related to the ostrich which can run swiftly but cannot fly

9:58 am

Mari, it6 think of standing in front of a crowd giving a speech and suddenly can't remember the words so you stammer it -- -- second stammer starts with second vowel third stammer starts with last vowel

9:59 am

thanks plebian

10:02 am

the em 6 -- take the em 4, stop thinking bird and add two letters ( a consonant and a vowel) to form a word that means: A seditious tumult; an outbreak

10:04 am

Plebian thanks a million that was a great clue

10:05 am

YW

10:05 am

thanks again, last 20 words proving difficult!

10:46 am

thanks plebian! i now have 3 words!

10:48 am

Good morning! I need some help w/ the me 7/36 please...

10:48 am

wow 40 minutes of no chat. didn't think that was possible here

10:49 am

The me 7/36 is another word for a souvenir

10:49 am

Nonny me7/36 something to remember someone

10:50 am

Once again, I miss the ones right b/4 my eyes. Thanx Haz & Frances

10:50 am

thanks!

10:51 am

You're welcome.

10:51 am

Nonny You're welcome

10:52 am

smaller!!!! hey!!!!

10:56 am

hi ren! people have been giving great clues today! if you scroll back there's a bazillion of them! so how are you?!

10:56 am

jedi isn't a valid word? says who?

10:58 am

liter- ain't it a female dog?

10:58 am

i'm good - sorry i missed your wave this morning....saw some of the earlier clues.... 8)

10:59 am

ren- don't worry I'll wave extra at you tomorrow! so do you still audition for roles?

11:01 am

Morning all!!

11:02 am

smaller - no - i did some summerstock until i broke my foot - now i just play the radio real loud and drive to and from the office. i do costumes and scenery now for small community / fund raiser productions - when i have time that is...

11:03 am

Morning Tink! Here's a venti triple mocha with whipped cream and sprinkles! I made it special for you. Even milked the cow to get the cream to make the whipped cream. all this morning.

11:03 am

shro!!!!

11:03 am

Greetings, all! Merry Solstice!!

11:03 am

nothing like the fresh and the best for our shro - rite smaller?

11:04 am

hey jera - how do you celebrate the soltice?

11:05 am

i guess i could spell it correctly - solstice....8) sorry

11:05 am

Ty smaller, need it this morning. Must get some work done, babbling done all before company party at the brewery....

11:05 am

Special ritual to honor Macha at 1:35 (EST), feasting tonight... no dancing naked... too cold, LOL!

11:06 am

rite ren!!!! and I got a bag of red and green m&m's for you but I know how you are and you would just eat all the green ones and be dangerous hi jera! pretty icon!

11:06 am

Thanks, smaller... simple & to the point today!

11:07 am

greetings all :) sure is the shortest day today...got dark ages ago...

11:07 am

shro - you're having a party at a brewery?

11:07 am

But just think sherb... it all starts getting lighter from here on out!

11:08 am

interesting and useless fact - my mother was born on the shortest day (ie today), and I was born on the longest day!

11:08 am

hi sherb! schro-in and out today then?

11:09 am

sherb - you still have on your shades - like a jake & elwood blues - we've got a pull tank of gas, it's dark,and we're wearing shades

11:09 am

Cool, Atalante... bet she got a lot of combo presents (you know, Christmas/birthday). My birthday is January 2nd & I always hated that!

11:09 am

atalante- that's highly interesting!

11:09 am

Yes Renfield, nothing but the best for my people....liquid lunch!!

11:09 am

atlante - so that's the long and the short of it? 8) kind of a double special bond !

11:09 am

that's the way I see it too, Jera :) hi smaller :)

11:10 am

Oh wow... 12 more days until my birthday!!!

11:10 am

at least makes our birthdays easy to remember :P and my cousin's - he was born on the spring equinox. I think my family is very orientated to certain days of the year!

11:10 am

shro - is like a micro brewery

11:10 am

ren - just dressed my Christmas tree, and I'm dazzled by the lights ;)

11:11 am

afternoon all!

11:11 am

hi Eva :)

11:12 am

hey teach evanadine - the chrous line is here - except for harp & mab

11:12 am

hi evanadine!

11:12 am

Yeah, not bad stuff they have a Pale Ale that is really good. They have a good food also, killer garlic fries. Hi evanadine, sherb, jera and Atalante

11:12 am

step-kick-kick-knee-kick-touch ! again!

11:13 am

That is so cool... our family represents the four season, but not that exactly... I'm Winter (Jan 2nd) my husband is Summer, Sprite is Spring & Gwyd is Autumn. His was the worst... being hugely pregnant in August was horrible!!

11:13 am

I'm here. Shall I put on my tap shoes?

11:13 am

Atlante - you are the 4 seasons!

11:14 am

ooo dinner and a show garlic fries and a chorus line!

11:14 am

my mother gave birth to my brother in Louisiana in August 1952 with no AC. . . arrrgghh!!

11:15 am

ouu ouu ouu ouu ouu - une -

11:15 am

*grins* its quite fun! I have a really small family and everyone's birthday is on some cool day. Apart from my gran;s who was born on April 1st. Not the best with April Fools' Day! My aunt was born on Valentine's Day, my grandfather on St George's Day. And then the equinoxes ...

11:16 am

that is soooo cool, atalante!

11:16 am

I was born on Halloween...quite proud of being a witch!...

11:16 am

Wow Atalante, it would be hard to forget a birthday in your family..

11:17 am

I always thought having a birthday on Valentine's Day would be really cool - because you'd be guaranteed to get *loads* of cards each year and then you can pretend they are all Valentine's cards ;)

11:17 am

ok then atalante - the we could sing the calendar girl song

11:17 am

born on Halloween? now that *is* cool!

11:18 am

wow sherb - i've never know anyone born on oct 31st b4

11:18 am

I was born on the same day as Beethoven and Jane Austen. Different year.

11:18 am

are those tap shoes on mab?

11:19 am

LOL mab

11:19 am

shuffle-ball-change, shuffle-STOMP!

11:19 am

me neither, ren...strange.... mab - lol :D

11:20 am

Yes ma'am, teacher. I hope the dust from my tap shoes isn't bothering anyone.

11:20 am

come on shro - get those taps a tapping

11:20 am

Juliette Gordon Low, the Founder of Girl Scouting in the USA was born on Halloween... it's always a big party for us Girl Scouts!

11:21 am

i'm wearing my glitter red ones -

11:21 am

good morning schroeder

11:21 am

any excuse for a party, lol :D

11:21 am

This is good. I'm getting warm doing this.

11:22 am

i agree shreb - any excuse1

11:23 am

I'm buying a space heater today to celebrate the solstice. I will be dancing when it gets above freezing in here.

11:25 am

ok mab - then we can have a space heater party at your place!

11:25 am

Morning Kenth, back for some more words.... Sorry broke my taps, waiting for more in the mail, I hate breaking in new tap shoes... :(

11:25 am

*runs to phone mother to say happy birthday*

11:26 am

Yes, do all come over. Once I've plugged in the heater I'm not leaving this room until Spring.

11:27 am

i woudl loan you a pair shro - but i wear a sz 9

11:29 am

Size 9, I could use that for both feet.... My house heater went out on Sunday, still waiting for the repair guy to show up...I'm on my way Mab

11:30 am

shro - mental picture of you tap dancing in one shoe is too much!!!!!

11:31 am

I could practice my one footed wings....

11:32 am

That's terrible Shcoeder! I do have some heat coming from the radiators, but my landlady is stingey and the radiator in the bedroom doesn't work. still and all, I'm much better off than you are at the moment.

11:32 am

Any clues for the je5/20 please

11:33 am

je5/20 is a little counter or coin (French word) :)

11:34 am

not me mari - i work backwards -

11:34 am

I do have a wood burning stove in the living room, but the heat doesn't make it into the bedrooms...bbrrr

11:36 am

Schro - my mother always used to tell me it was healthy to keep the bedrooms cool...in the days before we had central heating, we only had one fire in the house...how did we manage before central heating?...

11:36 am

us to shro - a wood burning stove in one part of the house - but nothing in the bedroom - we were suppose to have a heat pump....don't know what happened...kind of fozzled out on us

11:38 am

thanks a million

11:38 am

My London friends Gina and Huge dislike central heating. They have only the heat from their Aga. I nearly die of exposure when I visit them.

11:39 am

Agas can be toasty warm ... or they can leave the house feeling like an icicle!

11:39 am

Hugh, not 'Huge.'

11:39 am

Sherb, I always like to sleep in a cool bedroom, but this morning is was in the 40's....just a little to cool for my taste. I am just happy that the storm that is coming thru right now is a warm one, no snow..

11:40 am

I like the sound of Huge ;)

11:40 am

marie - j** plane = opp of off

11:40 am

shro - i think we get the tail end of that storm over the weekend - maybe it will head up to the ne for mab

11:41 am

Huge is kind of good. We actually call him Hughie.

has anyone given a clue for the lo8/40?

11:45 am

One never knows what the weather willl be here. I think because of the mountains.

11:46 am

lo8/40 is an extension of the lo6/18 - someone who hangs about ;)

11:46 am

oh hi Temple, by the way :)

thanx sherb! : )

11:48 am

Hi Temple!

oh - where ARE my manners? Came on earlier and am an and off - sorry sherb! and une, and ren, and shro, and atalante, and mab, and mari, and ho hum - whenever i peek back in there's someone new!

11:48 am

hi t-owl!!!

11:50 am

hiiiiii!

11:50 am

Hi Temple! I'm off now to shop for a space heater. Later.

11:50 am

Hellooeee!

11:50 am

ok mab - we'll be waiting for you!

11:51 am

bye mab :)

bye, mab!

11:52 am

Buy Mab, I mean Bye Mab

11:53 am

lol shro 8) good one

11:58 am

time to cook...back later :)

11:59 am

See ya Sherb, making something yummy..

12:01 pm

Anyone know how many words there are today?

12:01 pm

165

12:02 pm

thanks, Sherb for those clues earlier

12:03 pm

Thanks!

12:06 pm

Down to seven. Need a hint/clue for the last re 6/18's???

12:08 pm

add on to re4/4

12:10 pm

sorry if you guys were dancin without me -- i had to go grab lunch just quick! teachers back now!!

12:11 pm

Rosalind.........do you mean the last three re6/18's go with 4/4???

12:11 pm

mab went to the store - sherb went to cook - shro broke her shoes -

12:13 pm

Nevermind Ros. Figured them out myself. Thanx anyway.

do6/24. please?

12:22 pm

Past tense of do4/5. Nike's ad---Just do**

12:23 pm

I'm DONE!!! YEA ME!!! Feel better about today's since I didn't finish yesterday's. Any help b/4 I go and clean???

thanks, nonny! and kudos to you!

12:29 pm

How come the last word you try to find is always the hardest/easiest - in my case the 1st te4/5, just took me 5 mins to find!! Argh!!

12:30 pm

Sorry Nonny went to take a phonecall

12:37 pm

how is tron not a word?

12:38 pm

any clues on the or5/12?

12:39 pm

beats me liter. Every time it shows up I try to enter it.

12:39 pm

nvm! just guessed it!

12:39 pm

care to enlighten efor?

12:40 pm

broke her shoes?! i certainly hope that wasnt on purpose!!

12:40 pm

definition is abalone... but alter the spelling of what a knight wears a bit... sorta sounds the same

12:42 pm

thank you sir

hi efor! first re5/12?

12:43 pm

well teach - it's like this.....she thinks she can wear 1 of my shoes and flutter around w/ her wings....i don't knwo what i'll do w/ only 1 shoe - step - bare foot ball - change?

12:43 pm

does anyone have clues for the it6/24 ur6/24 plz & ty!

12:44 pm

hey temple!

efor: it = it + most used vowel + carribean liqour

12:45 pm

it 6 - it + vowel + kind of alcohol

12:45 pm

thanks temple!

12:46 pm

you too leslieann

12:46 pm

ur 6 - ur + vowel + "day" in spanish?

12:47 pm

no problem. what is your icon, efor?

12:47 pm

thanks again leslie!

12:48 pm

it's three cats arm in arm (w/ their backs to the camera) wearing santa hats. :)

12:49 pm

mickie--are you there?

12:50 pm

all right then. bad eyesight. thought it had something to do with cupcakes. :)

12:51 pm

it is kinda hard to tell.

1st re5/12 clue, please?

12:57 pm

Temple Owl, take the u off the the ur6.

12:57 pm

Okay back again, of course I didn't break my taps on purpose, to expensive for that.....just over use

12:58 pm

re+ what you would do to call out on a non push putton phone- l

12:58 pm

i've spent way too long on the de6/21...any clues please?

1:02 pm

Sorry tutti, can't get it either.

1:02 pm

oh! the de 4/5 that you might have in your car plus "sick" - an L

ty, jw :)

1:04 pm

thanks Leslie!!!

1:06 pm

yw, i had been looking for it too

1:18 pm

hello

1:20 pm

hi jane. groovy snowman.

1:21 pm

Thanks. He's holding a harp!

1:22 pm

cute

1:23 pm

how many words today?

1:24 pm

165 words

1:25 pm

thanks, efor.

1:33 pm

Any clues for the cu 4/7? I'm sure I've tried all the combinations....

1:35 pm

past-tense it

1:35 pm

harp...it is a past tense

1:36 pm

Oh, you mean go THAT direction! Thank you!

snooker term

1:39 pm

DONE...anyone need a clue???

1:40 pm

how many use J? and how many CH- words?

10 ch words

1:42 pm

I have a question. I've been playing for a couple months, and have paid for the grid of letters and numbers of words. Is there another tool I'm missing? It seems like maybe people know something about word lengths that I don't?

1:42 pm

5 J words

1:42 pm

thanks

1:42 pm

anyone seen anj or lola around today??

1:43 pm

Have a look at Babblers Anonymous for word counts

1:43 pm

do you go to babbers anonymous and look at the stats?

1:43 pm

I'm off to my company christmas party, be back in a couple of hours....

1:44 pm

Hi EvaN Anj was around earlier today but went off to do xmas things, haven't seen Lola today

1:44 pm

Okay I'm looking at that site :)

1:44 pm

Trying to find my last word for 10 minutes! the te 5/12. any clues?

1:45 pm

kel...you have them in your mouth

1:45 pm

kelstar - you will kick yourself. You have a mouthful of them.

ugh, i missed that one too kel!

1:46 pm

Okay, cool. Now, how is it that Brandyjack knows all that?? :)

1:46 pm

Yeesh!

1:46 pm

Thanks, FMitch.

In the same boat as corih post 1:42

1:47 pm

corih - he has a program that extracts the data and is kind enough to post it there for all of us!

1:48 pm

Okay... I'm going to look a lot smarter now!

1:52 pm

yeah, ch 7/44

1:58 pm

anyone have clues on the em's? i have the arab leader but i need the other 2.

2:01 pm

start with the e on the 2nd line and think different spelling for flightless bird for the em4/6

2:09 pm

help with the ur6/24 please

2:09 pm

thanks fmitch!

2:12 pm

efor, you should be able to monkey type the em6 now using the em4, if not take em 4 go south 1 and west 1.

2:15 pm

got 'em (no pun intended) thanks again fmitch!

2:16 pm

LOL you're welcome!

2:17 pm

yo homies! *cheesy grin*

2:18 pm

Hey Miy!!! ((hugs))) where you been, hows things?

2:20 pm

Ah, I've been everywhere* and done everything**, and everything's fine***...:D *Plymouth **v isiting Grandparents ***boooored! How are you? ^_^

2:20 pm

does anyone have a clue for me for either of the ch 7s?

2:21 pm

kittybat, its all about the butter!

with ch5/16

hi fmitch, miya! I just finished! yay me!

yo boreetos!

2:22 pm

kittybat - both ch build off the ch5/16 Miy have to say you have had more exciting tme tham as am still working right up til end of Friday.

2:22 pm

Woo, go Temple! :)

2:22 pm

Yay 72TO

2:22 pm

Can't get the last five words - giving up . Going to Scotland tomorrow for Xmas Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year

2:22 pm

hey hey TO. a little bonus babble for me today, I didn't think I'd get to play again till after Xmas.

2:23 pm

FMitch...ew...work :/ Can't quite understand the attraction myself...*sighs* if only adults would laze around watching TV like us kids...

2:23 pm

happy holidays Mari!!

mari - don't give up! we can help...

know what you mean - going to parents, land of no modern conveniences : D

2:24 pm

I know Miy, it does get in the way of life but there is that attraction of a thing called ...er... what is it ... babble .... oh no real world..... it's called money!

2:25 pm

Temple, I was going mad...no computer...no computer... *sitting in corner, rocking back and forth*

2:26 pm

Oh, I see them now! Thank you so much!

2:27 pm

does anyone have a clue for the ME7? Please??

2:27 pm

Hey miy, so wot's been happening at your end then.....?

2:27 pm

FMitch, now you're just looking for excuses lol :)

2:27 pm

Miy don't think it gets any better I'm in my 60's going to my parents - no computer - sits in the corner and rocks!!!!!!!!!!

2:28 pm

HEY Movieman, my home boy! (just go along with it) not a lot down this end...rewatching Battle Royale with a gross fascination :) How are you?

2:28 pm

mari - ROFL

2:28 pm

Mari, be strong... *breaks down into tears* Be strong for the both of us!!!

2:30 pm

That didn't come over right - they are both in their late 80's and the best parents in the world - can't wait to see them

2:31 pm

we know what you mean mari :)

2:31 pm

Ahhh, parental love...it's really quite sad, makes you want to cry and hit them both. At my age, anyway...

2:33 pm

I'm absolutely fine miy, just been watching a rather disturbing Austrian psychological thriller called "Funny Games", have U heard of or seen it......

2:33 pm

ok kids, I'm out. Merry Christmas all!!!

2:34 pm

Austrian pyschological thriller? Can't say I have heard of it, I'll look into it...is it subtitled?

2:34 pm

...From the title alone, it sounds sort of like the movie 'Saw'...have you seen that?

2:35 pm

someone? please? ME7 clue?

2:35 pm

A souvenir

2:36 pm

thanks Haz!!

2:37 pm

You're welcome - I'm back to finish off hopefully.

2:37 pm

me7/36 anyone, pretty please?

2:38 pm

nevermind...i had it all along. I'm losing my mind!

2:38 pm

A souvenir

2:43 pm

It certainly is...... I first saw it on Channel 4, I think, about three or four years ago, and I couldn't believe the events that happened in the film, what with the two psychos invading the family's holiday home, torturing them then shooting them....(the mother, father AND their young son)

2:45 pm

*shudders* So I guess it's pretty appropriate that the song I'm listening to is called 'Child Prey'!

2:46 pm

A bit too much detail I think Movieman!!

2:47 pm

FMitch, unless it involves colonic irrigations, there's no such thing as too much info!!! (*^_^*)

2:48 pm

LOL Miy

2:49 pm

FMitch, I'm serious!! Have seen one too many episodes of 'you are what you eat'...*shudders*

2:51 pm

yup have seen some of that series and can only say, thank goodness for the remote control. Time for me to go - see you all anon.

Bye, everyone! time to go to the salon for that holiday makeover (LOL) well haircut, at least! Owl out!

2:54 pm

colonic irrigations? what a time to pop in for a few. lol

2:54 pm

Later FMitch! Let us pray for fast remote action :)

2:54 pm

lol! Hey Smaller ^_^

2:54 pm

bye Temple owl i had mine done yesterday! soooo fun

2:55 pm

you're such a corker miya!

2:57 pm

Smaller, they could use a cork in the case of those colonic irrigations... ...but thank you (*^_^*)

2:58 pm

ROFLMAO miya!!!!!! good one!!!!!

2:59 pm

whose popping corks?

3:00 pm

*taking a bow* thank you, thank you... sorry...my brain will just make those connections *shudders* cork + ... *HAPPY THOUGHTS HAPPY THOUGHTS*

3:00 pm

Ren, not so much popping as stuffing.

3:01 pm

oh miya they are happy thoughts. think of all those people who feel so much better after a colonic irrigation. ahhhhhhhh. see, it's happy for them.

3:02 pm

yes, all squeaky clean... oh cr**!

3:03 pm

i wonder if they fart a lot after b/c of all that free space. i hope i just thought that instead of typed it

3:03 pm

*banging head against desk* must...get...rid...of...though ts...

3:03 pm

Hi REN!!!!!

3:08 pm

*holding gun to head* SMALLER...

3:09 pm

hey smaller - sorry in and out - really slow at the office - still - needs must! 8)

3:09 pm

Hi. Miy take a deep breath, count to 10, then think of hot mulled wine and mistletoe and chocolate.

3:10 pm

miya - liten to minski's voice of reason....

3:11 pm

Does anyone have the LO8?

3:12 pm

it's lo 6 doing the same thing

3:12 pm

Lo8/10 - someone who hangs around

3:13 pm

Mulled wine! nooooooo...grandpa got drunk on mulled wine (tipsy) and made me dance to the HOlly and the Ivy...*shudders*

3:14 pm

help with the last te 4/5 please, making me nuts

3:14 pm

Remove a vowel from te5/12

3:15 pm

Thanks Ren and Haz. I found it just as your hints appeared. *smack*smack* took the fish to clear the fog out of my eyes.

3:16 pm

minski - was it the frozen fish?

3:16 pm

ahhh, thank you

3:16 pm

yes it was. needed that extra strong wack to break loose the thought processes.

3:20 pm

Just finished. I'll stay around for a while if anybody needs clues.

Thanks Haz

3:25 pm

woo! nice one, Haz! :)

3:27 pm

Hi everyone! Happy winter solstice day!

3:30 pm

oops sorry in and out too. how rude of me. miya, glad you recovered! you were looking rather flushed. hahahahaha

3:37 pm

Hi smaller, are we the only ones here? LOL

3:39 pm

flushed = flush = poo = colonic irrigation nooooooooooooooo

3:39 pm

Hi deutsch, lol! yep! and I hope you have a lot of the puzzle done b/c I have 89 left and I get lazy about now

3:40 pm

Hi mayavi! smaller, I have 85 to find! I'll be no help today!

3:40 pm

oooo miya, did i do that. i SWEAR i did realize it *blinks in wide-eyed innocence*

3:43 pm

Hey Deutsch! Smaller...just... poopoopoopoopoopoopoopoo oh great. thanks a lot.

3:45 pm

poo-town ladies sing this song, do poo, do poo!

3:46 pm

miya, you defecately have a fixasstion on that subuttject tushday.

3:46 pm

Noooooooooooooo.... .l...I think I'm cracking up... nooo...cracking = crack = poo noooooooooooo

3:46 pm

LOL Deutsch!

3:46 pm

smaller, lol!

3:47 pm

You GUYS! Did you realize I had my second-ever colonoscopy on Monday? How thoughtful that your'e spending so much time talking about poo... It was on my mind a lot!

3:47 pm

*goes pale*

3:48 pm

miya, i think you're arse reading into everything i write yay for harpjane!! tell miya all about it!

3:48 pm

Harpjane, I feel for you. Mine was 5 years ago.

3:48 pm

Oh, and Hi, Harpjane!

3:49 pm

Actually, I think it was harder on my CATS than it was on me! I was up all night, sitting on that porcelan thingy. Until that night, they thought it was their water dish! They discovered it's dual purpose.... whoa, too much information....

3:50 pm

I feel your pain, but I LOL, too!

3:50 pm

so harpjane, does one of those hurt?

3:51 pm

how ya doin' mipoopya?

3:52 pm

It 6/24? No, I was knocked out. It only hurt when they stuck the IV needle in....

3:53 pm

oops sorry, posted a word noodle whipping for me!!!!

3:53 pm

HARO - are you ok????? i missed you!!!!

3:54 pm

it 6 - follow the it with two words of hesitation

3:54 pm

Smaller... ooooh, man. THere's this pic in my school on a noticeboard which looks like a poo with legs. Amazing.

3:54 pm

hey HARP - i missed you so much it looks like i forgot how to spell your name...8( sorry

3:54 pm

it6 = it+ vowel + jamaican alchohol

3:55 pm

Hi haz, didn't you finish? Yea for haz!

3:55 pm

Thank you , thank you.

3:55 pm

you know - like drinking *** and coca cola

3:55 pm

ren, I'm fine. Just took a day off. Yesterday's puzzle was too big. I worked part of it under the name of my evil twin, "goofball."

3:55 pm

funny clue Haz!!!!

3:57 pm

Funny good or funny strange?

3:57 pm

ouuuuu - evil twin - i wonder if the mistress jacula would find out if i did that?????

3:57 pm

Miya, if that's what the picture looks like, what is the picture supposed to be for?

3:59 pm

ren, does jacula just have a sense for those double entries or something. and a lot of people do that. wouldn't people want the points for themselves always, why split it?

4:00 pm

Renfield - I may be busy elsewhere but my eye is always on you. *Evil laughter'

4:00 pm

smaller - she knows everything that i do .......will do - have done....soemthing like that - points? we get ponts?

4:01 pm

Renny got busted! Renny got busted!

4:01 pm

see smaller - see what i mean - she know!!!!!!

4:01 pm

me 5 & 6? The last ones?

4:01 pm

...one, two, three and kick! Evening everyone - i'm doing my bar exercises : D

4:02 pm

me large city area

4:02 pm

wow, check out those man gams!

4:02 pm

er, Anj, that's rather disturbing...

4:02 pm

Hi Anj! meaning that you're bellying up to one for a beer?

4:03 pm

Hi Anj, "When I wear my majic tutu..."

4:03 pm

anj - you've got on your pink tutu - we can sing that favorizte zydeco song don't mess w/ my tutu

4:03 pm

oooo! thankyou thankyou RobRob!

4:04 pm

tsk smaller, please...you can't drink en pointe. You's spill some... Evening Miya ; )

4:04 pm

em 4 has me nuts!!!

4:04 pm

Hi Deutsch, Ren : D So where's Miss EvaN for my lesson then??

4:04 pm

Anj, you drink when you go to the loo? : )

4:06 pm

Robrob, the bird plus another vowel before the last vowel

4:06 pm

anj ms evan - she was here - we were all here- only mab needed a heater and shro broke her shoe...

4:06 pm

smaller, I go to the loo when I drink. I believe the Merovingian explained it thus: kawz an eefect LOL

4:07 pm

but you just said you can't drink and point(e).

4:07 pm

thanks smaller!

4:08 pm

better pont when you go to the loo!!!

4:08 pm

welcome welcome!

4:08 pm

Anyway, Anjypops, my home boy (pleeease don't ask) how are you, homie?

4:09 pm

oh come on miya! it's excretion day!!! he was almost there!

4:10 pm

er....... point

4:11 pm

I just discovered two more presents to wrap. Back in a bit!

4:11 pm

smaller, true, geometry doesn't play much of a part. Pressure does the hard bit, gravity does the rest, a quick bouree and voila! Your own 10' dancing space.... : )

4:11 pm

Smaller, you vile minded...egg fiend

4:11 pm

deutsch - i hope they're foe me me me...

4:12 pm

Robrob, got it! uncooperative fingers happen A LOT here.

4:12 pm

Miya, chillin' man, kickin' back and relaxin' like : ) How about you??

4:13 pm

Hello everyone -- I have until the kids arrive -- hopefully I'll find my last 18 words by then! That must have been some party, Anj!

4:13 pm

Anj, dancing with my grandpa, interspersed with sleeping. *shudders* whoever told my grandpa he could dance, he shouldn't have believed them...

4:13 pm

Hi C-nan - the traffic cone is just out of shot ; )

4:14 pm

Helloo - I'm new to this - just can't find 2 more j words - I have je4/9 and jo4/9 and past-tense - help, please?

4:15 pm

H Tank - i've got the same ones as you. Will yell when I find the others : )

one other form of jo

4:18 pm

jo 6/33 - one who jo 4/9's

4:19 pm

en 5/10? - have 'go in'

4:19 pm

Seasons greetings amigo?

4:19 pm

Cheers liter, C-nan : ) The je5/20 - think TWA and add the opposite of off : )

4:19 pm

Thanks, guys - one more hint and I'll be through with j

4:21 pm

...or British Airways, Quantas, Cathay Pacific, United, Lufthansa, whatever your carrier of choice... : )

4:21 pm

Thanks, anj - didn't know that was a word

4:22 pm

en 5/10 - to 'join' a school

4:22 pm

or army

4:23 pm

Ah Tank, welcome to Rule No.1: No, hang on, that's "Do not act rashly when confronted by small wrinkly bald men" Try Rule No.9: In Babble, if it looks like a word, it probably is" : D

These are my awards, Mother. From Army. The seal is for marksmanship and the gorilla is for sand racing.

4:26 pm

Anj- just read your pee post- ROFLMAO!!! funny stuff.

4:26 pm

Thanks Haz -- I had it all along --- in the wrong spot!!

4:26 pm

Hi Miya! !!!!Hi everybody!!!!!!!!! Merry Christmas Everybody

4:26 pm

merry christmas shorty!!!

4:26 pm

TY

4:27 pm

Hey Shorty, jingle your nose!

4:27 pm

smaller, just another service I provide ; ) Evening Shorty : )

4:28 pm

en 5/12?

4:28 pm

seems like forever since I've been on but its only been 2 days

4:28 pm

small wrinkly bald men? Yoda?

not exit

4:30 pm

C-nan - en5/12 - size matters to ous ; )

whoops wrong one

4:30 pm

LOL Anj

good clue anj, thanks

4:31 pm

literofcola, I have to ask, did you get your name from super troppers?

4:31 pm

Miya, it's Terrry Pratchett - Lu Tze, I believe. He knows Okidoki, Upzidazi, Origami and Deja Fu : )

yes indeed

4:32 pm

very nice, good show

i still can't believe jedi isn't a word

4:34 pm

It's OK liter, Sith isn't either...

4:35 pm

...oh. right. okay. cherry strawberry very very good

of course not anj, thats the dark side

4:38 pm

Thanks, Anj, but still not getting it!

4:40 pm

C-nan - when in Brooklyn, the standard measure of size is "gee, that's annoymous" 1st 5 letters of the normal spelling will do just nicely : )

use no4/5 to help you

4:40 pm

e+ the large guy from tv show cheer

4:41 pm

nan - excuse me thats the tv show cheers

4:42 pm

hey...it's nearly christmas

4:44 pm

Thank you all ----- it's been along time since Cheers was on TV and the memory is good -- just short!

4:44 pm

Only 3 more shopping days until 90% of folk expecting an XBox-360 will be getting an IOU from Microslop...

4:46 pm

tis the season, though, tis the season. even Kyo is smiling...

4:46 pm

so nan - did you get it?

4:46 pm

give money

4:47 pm

give credit

4:48 pm

ok - so if i accidently type in a formula - it's not a clue - it's a mistake... give gift cards!

4:48 pm

'and if you get annoyed, you can always cry "argh!" and break a snowman' good advice, I think

4:52 pm

Miya, I hate to bear bad tidings, but the Met Office have changed their long range forecast from 'buy skis' to 'buy a hawiian shirt'

4:52 pm

here's a question, can hats eat your head?

4:52 pm

*puts hands over ears* blah blah blah, I'm not LISTENING!!!

4:52 pm

anj - this is the christmas tree http://www.norwalkraceway .com/images/NRP.SWF my best time is 5.19 seconds w/ out getting the red eye http://www.wallaceracing.com/n orwalk2001/image31.htm http://www.norwalkraceway.com/ master_content.html

4:53 pm

RE 6/18 ( have person who leases and ripped again X2)

4:56 pm

woo-hoo! 5.03 secs and no redeye rock'nroll : D

4:56 pm

me 7- something you keep to remind you of a person or event...lots of e's and m's.

4:56 pm

nan - do you have the one that has to do w/ law? -

4:57 pm

ok - i'm going back there and try it again....

4:57 pm

Thank you, Ren

4:57 pm

*pointing at new icon* Kyo isn't listening either. so there. and you can't get me. it will snow.

5:01 pm

me 6? either one?

5:02 pm

oooooh, I've got to go...remember to eat cashews and jingle your noses, my homies, farewell

5:03 pm

ok anj - even running at 11.0 mpbs - i can't get to 5.03....i guess you win this match - but i'll be back

5:03 pm

me 6/24 - male version of Ariel

5:04 pm

harp - like the singer ethel me****

totally reminds me of zoolander!

5:04 pm

me 6/21 -- your guide or support person (person who acts as your guide when doing your doctorate)

5:06 pm

ro 4/4 (have 3 that begin with decay)

5:06 pm

thank you. I have all the m's now.

5:07 pm

cybernan, ro 4/4 has same beginnig - think of a chat room

5:07 pm

Got it (missed the turn)

5:08 pm

'nite Miya : ) er Ren, i've just e-mailed you a pic of my time but it's taking ages to scan and i'm on broadband : ( Sorry...

5:08 pm

m&m's harp - what flavor!!!!

5:13 pm

it's ok anj - like - i guess i 'll have to use it as a wallpaper to remind me to keep trying - my best time has been 5.17 sec- i guess this 389 goat is just sluggish today

5:13 pm

Does anyone have the 3rd re6/21 - I have the person who leases and to meet again.

5:14 pm

LOL! Whose is the TA then?? Yours??? : D

5:16 pm

It's okay - I just found it.

5:17 pm

TA - like trans am? how about a 64 GTO - 389 4bbl 4 speed? - was mine while my cousin was in the navy - then i had to give it back 8(

5:18 pm

woot! When's he going back to sea then???

5:20 pm

not - he's a dj- but hey - i'm his fav - and i've got money now and i beg real good 8)

5:21 pm

5.07 - better watch out!

5:21 pm

lol, it's an art form : )

5:24 pm

any help for the last two te's? -- there's sure none for me -- feeling particulary dense right now!

5:25 pm

*ahem* 5.01 secs : ) Would one like a screen grab?? ; )

5:27 pm

ratzen fratzen snitzen 5.01????? the wound is open - are you pouring salt in** now? 8)

5:27 pm

*pirouettes in and gives ank a great big Wednesday Whallop*

5:28 pm

ank?

5:29 pm

...Ren, knowing my luck the Posi-t would blow at 5.31 : /

5:29 pm

Is luvmypom here????

5:29 pm

heh, been wrapping gifts all evening...the fingers have a mind of their own!

5:30 pm

Love your icon eva! Hi everyone.

5:30 pm

*Anj gracefully pirhouettes around the room and gives EvaN and big, warm Xmas hug* Evening miss : )

5:30 pm

big ol snowman face makes me very happy. :D so anj, all dressed up for ballet class??

5:31 pm

Oh, Anj! You're ever so graceful. Who knew?

5:35 pm

Ooo, I wonder what's on ebay....

5:36 pm

te 4/5 and te 5/12 (last two), please?

5:37 pm

I've been practising : ) I can arabesque, scissors, glissade, assemble and frapee...although I need a coffee after that : D

5:37 pm

ANJ GOTSES MAIL!!

5:38 pm

te 4 = like the things in your mouth - 1 of the vowels

5:38 pm

Hello all! How are we this fine Winter evening?

5:39 pm

te 5 = like when you to*** something(to feel) - only use the te instead of the to

5:39 pm

dancing in the moonlite jera -

5:40 pm

Hi Jera. Merry Solstice!

5:42 pm

mab - did you get your heater/

5:43 pm

I did. Are you bidding on something on ebay?

5:43 pm

lol EvaN - they look very nice : ) Do they still exist??? LOL!

5:44 pm

they still do!! i still havent even cut the rice krispie treats yet

5:44 pm

no anj and i are drag racing - he keeps winning- however - just for the moment!

5:45 pm

Really? That must be damn near temptation beyond endurance lol : )

5:45 pm

well, im hoping to take them down to my parents house this weekend...heh

5:48 pm

Thank you Renfield ......... I am finished!!

5:49 pm

you are welcome nan - i am not! it's from all those years of reading - no that's attempting to read hebrew - i start at the back! 8)

5:51 pm

The kids just phoned to say they have been held up for three hours en route by a traffic accident -- they are still 3-1/2 hours away! It will be a long day for them as they left home almost 8 hours ago.

5:53 pm

I'm very good at reading hebrew. it's understanding the hebrew I read that I suck at. I like that you're drag racing, Ren, but let's see you win! And bravo Anj. I'm on everyone's side.

5:54 pm

Ah, so it's just a stay of execution then lol : )

5:54 pm

Applause for cybernan!!!!!

5:54 pm

that is a long day nan - i'm sure you have some comfort food for them!

5:55 pm

HI all, back from company lunch....party moved to employees house so won't be here for long..

5:55 pm

a brief one...heh

5:55 pm

thanks mab - i will win - i will win....hang that red lite!

5:56 pm

how was the mico brewery shro?

5:57 pm

oh - did i hit the delete key on that e-mail - my my my... 8)

5:57 pm

Ren, talking of drag racing, I nearly got nailed by Don Green's Rat Trap top fuel dragster at Goodwood this year. They had problems on fire up and the bl**dy thing launched in reverse and came thru' the hay bails before someone managed to kill the engine. By the time the dust cleared I was about 5' away from the derrier thinking 'what an epitaph that would make!'

5:58 pm

Sorry, I wandered off to check e-mail... I'm back now for a bit... gotta go pack soon...

5:58 pm

It was too good, most of my swing shift didn't show up to work...lol...it's the holiday must join them soon..wait is that Anj in a tutu!!!!!! I must have had to much to drink at lunch.

5:58 pm

Schroe, did anyone at the party do anything outrageous that they'll regret? It was company party, yes?

5:59 pm

Hi Schro : ) EvaN's giving me lessons : D

6:00 pm

Don't worry Schroeder, after a few minutes of that, you'll be thinking you didn't have quite enough to drink.....

6:00 pm

first position -- now, plie, tendu, battement, plie, releve!

6:00 pm

- caught in a rat trap - anj - mental picture - priceless - pits can be exciting - no pits are exciting!

6:01 pm

...stretcher bearer! : /

6:02 pm

Renfield - Lots of comfort food including a big pot of chili and an open bar -- want to come?

6:02 pm

Oh Mab everyone did something they would regret normally....we have all worked together a minimum of 10 years some 25+years so there isn't much we haven't seen (or places we haven't been kick out of) Your right BJ more booze would help the image in my brain....

6:02 pm

shro - let's show them how to do the paso doble - you want to be the matador or shall i?

hi kids! happy winter solstice!!

6:03 pm

on nan - chili - i'm coming to your house!!! i love chili

6:03 pm

Ren, this was really hairy for a few secs. DG was catapulted off the front of the car which promptly did a 90' turn to the right where I and about 30 other soon-to-be-vapour-trail spectators were standing. Not surprisingly they cancelled that run...

6:05 pm

Oh Renfield now your talking my lingo, I think you should lead, do to liquid lunch...hehehe EasternBlue, you are as cu** as ever!!!!

6:05 pm

Brightest Blessings to you, Eastern!!

6:05 pm

anj - i know that's it's not funny - sorry - i love the smell of nitro and the caking of the rubber in the nostrils -

Schro...thanks! lotti requested a stocking last night...

hi Jera...haven't seen you in awhile!

6:07 pm

Nitro....did someone say Nitro? Sometime I will post a pic of my last car....1923 T-bucket with a blown 427....oh what fun it is to ride in a.....

6:07 pm

Tomorrow will be my last puzzle for awhile... going out of town to do Christmas with family in Atlanta...

6:07 pm

I doesn't look like anyone needs any clues, so I will be off --------- Won't be back until after Christmas, so all the best to everyone -- enjoy your holiday.

6:08 pm

Hi Eastern! Lots going on here -- drag racing, drinking, ballet dancing....

6:08 pm

hey eb!!!! will you sing while shro and i do the paso doble? ms evan is giving anj ballet lessons- mab is warming up w/ her new heater- nan is waiting for her family (and sh'e got chili and an open bar)

6:08 pm

Bye, cybernan... have a Merry Christmas!

6:08 pm

bye nan - have a wonderful holiday w/ your family

6:09 pm

Merry Christmas Cybernan......

6:09 pm

Have a very wonderful holiday, Cybernan!

6:09 pm

oh yes eb - and jera is dancing in the moonlight!

wow!! what a whirlwind of activity...sounds like more fun than I was doing...scrubbing the bathroom, dusting...still have the vacuuming to go!

6:09 pm

There are a lot of T's!!! WOW>

bye cybernan...have a wonderful holiday!!

6:10 pm

ok - shro!!! nitro burning rails and funny cars!

6:10 pm

I am??? I didn't even realize...

6:10 pm

ive been wrapping presents -- still have more to do! also sent anj a photo of the cookies + treats everyone was drooling over last night. :)

*clears throat* um...not sure how to sing for the passe doble! Perhaps... ba -rump-bump baaa, ba rump bump baaa...

*thinking* *that sounded better in my head*

Just finished watching Holiday Inn...I love Christmas! (sorry mab - I know you don't like Bing!) but Freddie was in it too!

6:12 pm

ok eb - it sounds good -

6:13 pm

True, but Holiday Inn is among my favorite movies.

6:13 pm

*still drooling* Ren, you sent me off on a nostalgia trip! Goodwood had Jerry Titus' '68 Firebird, Parnelli Jones '69 Boss 302 and Dick Landy's '70 426 Hemi Challenger doing demo runs : ) I wanted to marry the Firebird : ' )

*hands Anj a towel to wipe his chin*

6:13 pm

hello everybody! :D can anybody tell me, how many words there are in todays puzzel?

tu...165

oops...I meant tru

6:14 pm

thank u east

6:15 pm

Cheers EB : ) *regains composure* *thinks: hang on i'm wearing a tutu* *loses it...again!*

mab...whew! it was as good as always!!

6:16 pm

to 6/21? and te 6/27?

6:16 pm

i like hemi's - no i love hemi's - i love big blocks!!!!!

*averts eyes* Anj...you're losing your tutu??

6:17 pm

Well found an employees cell phone at his desk, just happens to be the one that is holding the party...will check in later....hopefully!!!! (I have been a good boss, right)

6:17 pm

EB, well it IS cold out tonight : / LOL!

bye schroeder!! enjoy the party!!

6:18 pm

Ummm.... I'm neutral on hemis. I think. I can fully endorse big blocks, however.

6:19 pm

Well, I'd better go do something productive... the kids have the trimmed & we gotta do the pressie thing & then pack... Brightest Blessings to you all!

6:19 pm

Later Schroeder.

6:19 pm

good boss - go to party - enjoy 8)

Bye Jera! Have a loverly evening!! : D

6:19 pm

later jera - enjoy your time!

As long as people are heading out...I'm going to finish my 'chores' and then be back to polish off the grid...maybe not polish..that sounds like the cleaning I've been doing most of the afternoon!! : D Be back later!!

6:21 pm

Okay Renfield, this icon is for you babe, will have to find a bette pic at home.... *refresh*

6:22 pm

'bye all leavers : )

6:26 pm

ok shro - i'm getting ou the scanner! we're going to have a west coast rally! 8)

6:26 pm

shro - di you and your husband build the rod?

6:26 pm

Ok. I got the t's. How aobut ad 5/14?

6:27 pm

Hi everyone!

6:27 pm

Hi Poos : )

6:27 pm

harp... build on your first de4

6:28 pm

The car was an Autorama winner, not a driver when I got it....I don't believe in having a car that is not meant to be driven....a lot of money later I loved the car but hubby couldn't drive it due to size.

6:28 pm

well hello anj!

6:28 pm

Thank you!

6:29 pm

Okay must run for real....be back soon to race Renfield...Racers start your engines.....

6:29 pm

hi poo - sorry harp - i'm still in the d's plus drag racing plus trying to see ig a wire tansfer hit the ban plus send a quote out plus......can you tell a bunch of people are on vacation this week?

6:31 pm

ok shro - go to that web site i posted - have fun!

6:42 pm

OK, i've changed into something more appropriate... *refresh*

6:45 pm

ok anj!

Anyone have clues for ne 5/10? And am I correct to assume that ne 6/18 spins off of that?

6:54 pm

Hot, think Mr Flynn with an N in front for the 5, and and the letter you see with on the end for the 6

Anj, that clue execution was perfect! Thanks!

6:57 pm

mab - are you still warm?

6:59 pm

y/w hot : )

7:02 pm

Sorry, was just listening to news. Yah. warm, deliciously.

7:04 pm

anj - can't get any lower than 5.07 - i think i've worn the arrow off of my key

7:06 pm

Ren, park it for tonight and try again tomorrow : ) Gotta split now...all outta gas : / Catch you all in tomorrow's grid : )

7:06 pm

mab - it's going to in the 70F here this weekend - 8) i sued to spend about 8 weeks every year in south walpole

7:06 pm

ok anj -enjoyed the race -

7:06 pm

Gotta find extension cord. Drive wrecklessly. Be back in a moment.

7:07 pm

ok mab -

7:07 pm

night anj

7:11 pm

Is Babblers Anonymous up and running today? I keep timing out when going to the site.

7:12 pm

poo - it's kinda quiet - kind of scary huh?

7:12 pm

ab - it was up this morning - ill check

7:13 pm

ab - it's up

7:14 pm

any clues for the ch 6/30?

7:15 pm

it's quiet alright.. but i'm working on the t's so that's ok!

7:15 pm

i'm not there yet jj

7:16 pm

just got it....thanks anyway!

7:23 pm

any clues for do 6/24?

7:26 pm

jj - take the do 4 right above it and make it past tense

7:26 pm

JJ past tense of your first do4

7:26 pm

once again....thanks!

7:30 pm

lets ask for another one here...... em 5/12?

7:32 pm

em + what a wild stag is in USA (animal not the human male) - d

7:37 pm

thanks renfield!

7:38 pm

y/w jj - i'll be back - ok poo - i have this urge to go to big lots.... but i'm forced to make an emergency stop at walmart - my dad needs a toity seat for my mom's bathroom....go from corp exec to head mechanic - see ya'll in a little while

7:39 pm

i'd go to big lots myself... :D

7:39 pm

*gasp* Good luck braving the holiday crowds at Walmart, renfield!!

7:41 pm

Man, bummer. JETI should be in the dictionary. lol

7:43 pm

er, or is it JEDI? anywho ... this banter helps no one, I will go back to my silence.

7:44 pm

jo, jedi would be correct

7:45 pm

jedi would be a noun

7:46 pm

LOL ... you're right. I think at this stage of the puzzle, anything is visible but the words I actually need.

7:46 pm

anyone have a clue for lo 6/18 or lo 8/40?

7:46 pm

this is a hard one tonight. so many words are not where i think they should be!!

7:47 pm

only on the c's sorry

lo 6/18 person hanging around

7:49 pm

jj - lo6 to dawdle, to linger aimlessly. usually see signs saying No Lo*******! lo8 - a person who does this

7:49 pm

got them both! Thanks Rosalind!

lo 6/18 hanging around 8/40 person hanging around

7:51 pm

are there REALLY words starting with the letter j in this puzzle?

7:52 pm

aknitter. I was thinking the same thing, so I took a break. And, when I came back found all but one.

7:53 pm

i can't even think of 3 j words right now, perhaps i need to rest my brain

7:53 pm

caffeine might jo4 your brain into action....

7:54 pm

aknitter, a cup of coffee can give you a jo 4/9. :-)

7:54 pm

Oop. Poo's Mom beat me to it! ;-)

7:55 pm

poo that clue just jo**** my brain, thank you. that bright light in the sky was the light bulb going on over my head

7:55 pm

je 4/9 ... to mock somebody.

7:55 pm

the je 4 is what you can all do to me for being so blind

7:57 pm

I'm blind to the cu 5/16. Its my last C, anyone? *looking pathetic*

7:59 pm

past tense of your second cu4

7:59 pm

ooooo me me me .... take a pill and be cu*** ha i can be useful

8:02 pm

OMG, aknitter. I couldn't figure that clue out, because I thought I already typed the answer! I was about to go nuts ... thanks for pointing it out for me! :-)

8:03 pm

you are very welcome. it's nice to know that once in a while i can help out LOL

8:04 pm

I wonder ... does anyone have my last J? .... je 5/20

8:05 pm

oops. nevermind. monkey typed it just now!

8:05 pm

there's another je? oh put me out of my misery

8:05 pm

combine type of fast plane j** and "not off"

8:06 pm

Refresh to see MY favorite car!

8:06 pm

Great clue poo's mom. What the heck does it mean? The question mark definer doesn't give me anything.

8:07 pm

i have no idea what it means Jo

8:08 pm

I think that I read earlier in the log that the je5 is a french coin.

8:08 pm

is that a mini cooper harp?

8:08 pm

je --- a token or coin-like medal produced across Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries. EVERYONE know this

8:09 pm

is there a clue for the de 6/21

8:10 pm

It's a 1959 Vespa. (Thanks for asking!)

8:13 pm

YIkes, can't find that one either aknitter. I think I'm going to take another break ....

8:14 pm

de6 sounds like an exam for your teeth but spelled wrong... actually has to do with cornices

8:14 pm

It's an adorable car. It wasn't too big of a jump for Vespa to move to the little vroom-vrooms, two-wheeled things. I would love to have one of those.

8:14 pm

the de 6/21 is one of my last ones too...I'm stuck or I'd help!

8:15 pm

de6--take the previous de4, add how you feel when sick, drop a letter.

8:16 pm

it is a cute car (any guys in here must be groaning....) very economical i'm sure. But i wouldn't want to meet a log truck in it...

8:17 pm

thanks for the de!

8:18 pm

need help with E's please, en4, em4, and en6 and em6

8:21 pm

anyone have a clue for the other en 5/10? (other than the opposite of exit)

sign up for college

8:23 pm

EM4 another way to spell the ostrich like bird (add an extra vowel)

8:23 pm

once again, thanks rosalind!

glad to be of help

8:25 pm

EN4 drop the 3rd letter from the EN5/10 (college one)

8:26 pm

anyone have a clue for the second fa5/18?

8:26 pm

O Come all Ye F**** ful

8:27 pm

JJ...to believe is to have fa...

8:27 pm

oh man.....long day....got it, thanks!

8:28 pm

Poo's Mom, thanks so much. still need en6, is it an obvious one

8:28 pm

Nevermind, found all of the e words

8:35 pm

anyone with a clue for te 6/27?

8:42 pm

te 6/27 = ho humm every day stuff - small, me****, large

8:42 pm

hey hey hey, probably this is fishworthy, but i'm tripping on the em5...any help?

8:43 pm

Alt spelling for eastern chieftan or leader, eva.

8:43 pm

em 5, an arabic leader usually spelled with an i

8:44 pm

em 6 like the fist letters of the em 4 bird poo was taking about plus a cross consonent + 2nd vowel

8:45 pm

ok - i'm putting on my glasses -

8:46 pm

hey mab - did you get your extension cord?

8:46 pm

Time for me to say good night - see you tomorrow!

8:47 pm

nite poo !

8:48 pm

Night, poo's mom.

8:50 pm

Yes, found extension cord and have space heater 18 inches away from me. Am happy.

8:50 pm

I need an ro 4 I have: unit of weight, by memory, round. What am I missing?

8:51 pm

But I must leave bedroom door ajar for cats and so there's quite a draft. I hope I don't burn out my heater within the first 24 hours. I lead such a thrilling life.

8:53 pm

okay, the eastern chieftan thing just has me more screwed up, any clues for dummies on the em5

8:54 pm

Do you have the roasty chicken one?

8:54 pm

ok harp - do you have the ro that ends w. the 3td vowel?

8:54 pm

em + something you hear with (mispelled of course)!!

8:55 pm

eva: it has the same vowel three times. Just spell the word phonetically.

8:55 pm

Ren- I have it now. Thanks!

8:55 pm

ooooooooooooh aknitter - ur good thanks

8:56 pm

bows to the loud applause

8:56 pm

harp - that is the cutest little car!!!! mab -

8:57 pm

mab - i was going to say - look at the things we do for our kitties!!!

8:57 pm

mab-thanks. It doesn't run. It's a someday project. All the parts are there....

8:57 pm

me 7/36??

8:58 pm

aknitter - keepsakes, reminders of events

8:58 pm

me 7- a keepsake

8:59 pm

i can't see it AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

aknitter...start top right (and then take a "right angle down)

9:00 pm

You can see it, ak, just start at the top, go two left, then straight down.....

9:01 pm

Start with top right M and go west, then go north to bottom of grid.

9:01 pm

smacks self multiple times with a very large fish ... no more like a whale TY for you patience

9:01 pm

hey mab, wouldn't that be south?

9:02 pm

good evening (or morning) everyone

north, south, east, west...it all depends upon where you live!! : D

9:02 pm

oops. I have poor sense of direction. Going south will get one nowhere.

9:03 pm

I mean north.

9:03 pm

Where am I?

9:04 pm

in a room w. a space heater

9:04 pm

Thanks ren.

mab...in the state of confusion!! : D

9:05 pm

Thanks Eastern.

...or is it Western?? tee hee hee!!

9:06 pm

time for a little knitting Ta-ta for now, ty for all the assistance

9:06 pm

Thanks northwesterly green.

bye aknitter...

9:06 pm

ok aknitter

9:06 pm

Bye aknitter, stay warm. Hi doxy.

9:07 pm

warm with my afghan. nite

hi doxy!

9:07 pm

need clue for te6/27 please

9:08 pm

there's doxy!

9:08 pm

and to6/21 too

9:08 pm

finally home from work and can play now

9:08 pm

Done!

mab...anytime! : D LOL! I think I'm giddy from all the cleaning products!

9:09 pm

yay for harpjane

9:09 pm

Applause for harpjane! Hurrah!!!!

woo hoo harpjane!

9:10 pm

te 6/27, a boring task that you have to do anyway. rhymes with small, large, me****

9:10 pm

Oh is that it, eastern. Maybe I'm loopy on carbon monoxide!

9:10 pm

way to go harp!!! (sorry doggies were barking and i had to let them out)

9:11 pm

harpjane, thanks, but just realized I already had the te/6 uh, oh

*sings* who let the dogs out? woof! woof! woof!

9:11 pm

Anyone help with last de4? I have 1) Opinion 2) Woodland critter 3) bug repellent 4) fender bender remnant 5) Chaucer's "hurt" 6) Skeleton's need What's missing?

9:11 pm

LOL eb - LOL

9:12 pm

to 6/21- a phonics word, rhymes with "low beam"

mab - sounds good to me...I use any excuse I can get...I usually say my poor sense of direction is b/c I'm a 'lefty' : D

9:13 pm

de - plus sounds like the place on your leg that bends

9:14 pm

That's the one! Thank you, Renfield!

9:14 pm

ok ab - like you are welcome!

9:15 pm

I have zero sense of direction. My ex-husband can see entire maps in his head -- he always worried when I went fo a walk in an unfamiliar place.

I always get a map whenever I'm in an unfamiliar place...

9:16 pm

my pace is now pathetic, any help on lo 6 and 8?

9:17 pm

i was trained very early to find my way - i lived w/ my cousins and they always tried to lose me - you know how boys are - they didn't want the bratnik following them

9:18 pm

lo 6 = to stay in one place to long - (can get you arrested) the lo 8 - is the same word w/ the same ending twice

9:19 pm

any help on de6?

evanout... "don't stay in front of the store or they might say you are lo _ _ _ _ _ ing

rennie - so I see you're back in my brain!!

9:19 pm

ah ren, thanks - maybe i should take a fish to the face for that one.

9:20 pm

nevermind, got it

doxy - think 'teeth'...

9:20 pm

tx 2 you to eb

9:20 pm

I just go off boldly into the unknown. Once I got lost in the woods at sunset. Oh-oh, city woman at large in forest. But I found my way out eventually.

9:20 pm

de 6 = de 4 (when you de** tour fender)+ it makes you **l (sick)

I got lost in a cornfield once...

9:21 pm

you are brave mab -

9:22 pm

I need help with the second to last re 5/10

...I eventually popped out!!

9:22 pm

cornfield? i guess that would be scary - how did you get out?

9:22 pm

I have a semi-concious desire to get lost permanently.

9:22 pm

I got lost in Prague once . .

9:23 pm

hey torg - is that a joke? or for real?

9:23 pm

I can beat that -- London, without the address of where I was staying.

my friend & I decided we'd walk down 1 whole row...and then we had to walk all the way around the field... it must have been a few miles we walked that day!

9:23 pm

re + liquior *** maria

mab...I'm guessing you found your way...that must have been overwhelming!

9:26 pm

where were you mab? were there bears and cougars and wolves????

9:27 pm

sorry - i was still stuck in the woods mab

9:27 pm

Hey Torgone -- you having a flashback? Yoooo hoooo.

9:28 pm

torg - are you watching a very brady christmas?

9:28 pm

Could have been. It was here in Mass. I don't know from woods, but I think 'bears!'

9:29 pm

I got picked up by a woman who turned out to be a hooker after my money. Idiotically, I thought she actually was attracted to me. We met in my hotel, but we had to take a cab ride to "her place". When we switched to her boyfriend's taxi, and they asked for some ourageous sum of money, and I had very little on me (in a rare stroke of intelligence, I had stashed the bulk of my money in my room), they ditched me somewhere in Prague. I walked to a cop shop, somehow got my sad story across to them, and they drove me back to my hotel. Naive American idiot.

9:30 pm

Come on out Torgone and tell us about Prague. Everyone says it's gorgeous.

poor Tor! best that you stick with lotti from now on!! : D

9:31 pm

torg - woah! - that is some bad story!

9:32 pm

c'est si triste, tor.

9:32 pm

That was quite a few years ago - my first overseas foray. But Prague is an absolutely beautiful city. I walked around for days.

9:36 pm

So when you tell this story in real life, does it have comedic value?

9:39 pm

That's poorly worded, but does it seem funny in retrospect?

9:43 pm

It actually does, mab. When I left Prague to go to Sophia, I couldn't get a flight so I took a train. I blithely handed my bags to a guy in the apparent baggage area of the train station, told him I was going to Sophia, and got a lovely little slip of paper. A day and a half on the train with NO FOOD later, I'm wandering around the Sophia, Bulgaria train station looking for where I can pick up my bags...

ooo....Tor...ooo.... I don't know if I should laugh or cry!!

9:44 pm

I'm actually laughing out loud. Eastern Europe was not kind to you.

are you a hermit now Tor? afraid to go out anywhere? : D

9:45 pm

torg - is there a sign on your head?

9:45 pm

That's me, actually.

9:46 pm

or a bullseye on your back?

9:46 pm

mab - you have the sign on your head as well?

9:46 pm

No, agoraphobia for the past year, among other ills. I'm quite the study.

9:48 pm

Finally ran into someone who could read the slip of paper from Prague (they use a different alphabet in Bulgaria), who informed me that the slip of paper was a claim check! My bags were safely residing in the baggage STORAGE area of the Prague railroad station! Idiot moi, I had assumed they were going to load my bags on the train I was boarding, just like they do in America when you get on a plane . . .

mab...*HUG*

9:49 pm

mab - i had no idea. (((huggies - mucho grande)))))))

so Tor...did you travel the day & 1/2 back??

9:50 pm

torg - and?????

9:52 pm

Aw, thanks. It's a long boring story, blah, blah, blah. So your story has a happy ending Torgone! Maybe I should go into the con racket. Oh! that's right, can't tell lies credibly at all.

...the only thing we can say about Tor's tale, is that we know he lived to tell about it... ...so then what happened??

9:56 pm

So, I went to the Czech consulate to see if there was anything I could do. One piece of my luggage was a computer I was going to need, when I met my contact in Sophia, who had a machine I was supposed to start up. Alas, there was nothing I could do. Communication and transportation were in a state of "flux" in those days. So I bought a change of clothes, hung around the Sophia Sheraton a few days, met some Scotland football fans who were there for a Scotland v. Bulgaria match, almost got my butt kicked by the Scotland football team, Flew back to Prague to get my stuff, and eventually came home. In retrospect, yes it was all quite humorous.

9:57 pm

A happy ending indeed. As a result of the first event you could have had your lifeless body dumped in the river. It's amazing how trusting we USians can be.

9:57 pm

torgone, that was quite an adventure. Glad it all turned out ok.

9:58 pm

Indeed. Somehow, I didn't feel like Iwas going to get killed there, but I certainly could have. A couple years later in China, however . . .

Tor... you should write a book - "What not to do..." If you use your anecdote - it would be a hit!! : D

9:59 pm

yes torg - i agree w/ mab - and i am certainly glad you are here to tell about it!!!

Oh my! There's MORE??? Do tell!!

9:59 pm

I hope you use this material in your stand-up routine. Now, tell us about china....

10:00 pm

oh boy ! a saga!!!!! let me get my woobies on!

10:00 pm

woobies?

10:02 pm

Bear with me. I type veeeery slowly. .

10:04 pm

you know - mab - those jammies with feet -

10:05 pm

rennie...footies!!

10:06 pm

that's it eb - jammies w, footies

10:07 pm

I've always known to be a wary traveler, but in Zimbabwe, in the bush, I really wanted to get a close look at a bull elephant. That made him angry. It's very unfortunate to make an elephant angry. It was hard for me to understand fully that the animals were wild, no matter how close they came to me.

10:07 pm

A few years ago, when you wanted to go to China, you could go to Hong Kong, get a visa in a couple days, and proceed to China. I did so, got a flight to my destination city, where I was supposed to be met by a rep. from the company selling our macines in China. I get there, and no rep. Nobody. Nobody speaks English. I wait. and Wait. Nobody. I'm somewheer in China and all I know is the name of the hotel I should go to. I finally meet a girl from Hong Kong who speaks English, writes down the name of my hotel in Chinese, and directs me to the taxi stand (oh boy another taxi) . . .

10:08 pm

Tor - hee hee hee...

10:09 pm

mab...that's a BIIIIIIGGGG uh-oh!!

10:09 pm

This is great stuff Torgone. I haven't laughed for months. Continue - tell us what the Chinese did with you.

10:10 pm

You've had quite a life Tor. The closest I came to that was the time a wacko punched me in the face in one of the small town central bus stations in Israel. I just ignored her and kept going with blood running down my face. Cleaned up in the toilet on the bus.

10:13 pm

I was staying at a camp with my ex-sister-in-law, and one evening during cocktails this same elephant charged her and then came to a full stop without hurting anyone. Fabienne being Fabienne was quite unalarmed. (She's half Brit)

10:13 pm

i got flashed one time at the houston bus station - mab - how did you come to travel so much?

10:14 pm

mab - I'd have been SCreAMING!!!

10:15 pm

i would have plotzed!!!!

10:15 pm

I go to get in the taxi, and immediately one of the armed military/police guys approaches the driver. They have an INTENSE discussion, and the military guy TAKES the taxi guy's paperwork and walks away. The driver motions me into the car and we drive off. First, I negotiate the fare for the ride based on advance intelligence from a coworker who had been there. We drive along for a while, then suddenly pull into a side street AND ANOTHER CAR PULLS IN RIGHT BEHIND!!! I thought: "This is it. I'm going to get my throat cut and my body dumped somewhere in China. It's the end." Actually, I got transfered into another taxi (that had the right paperwork to go to my hotel or something.)

10:15 pm

Minski, how shocking! My husband has a bit of money. Ironically, I am now literally poor. Ah, the great panorama of life.

10:17 pm

Tor - you must have been dying!! Holy cow... I don't think my travels are quite like that!

10:17 pm

Wow, tor, how communist. Did you feel like James Bond?

10:17 pm

minski - why did the wacko punch you ?

10:20 pm

That episode, minski, would have made me hide in the closet.

10:21 pm

I would have whacked her back (I think...) or maybe just cried...

10:21 pm

you're to kind minski - i would have kcked their bu** and probably been the one arrested

10:21 pm

I was carrying a rather large heavy duffelbag over my shoulder and it brushed her causing her to drop her cigarette. I said "excuse me. I'm sorry" in Hebrew (one of my few phrases) but I guess that didn't excuse my error. I love Israel though and highly recommend it for a visit for everyone. It is an amazing, magical, beautiful country.

10:24 pm

I would loooove to go to Israel. That is such a bizarre incident, though. Would have freaked me out completely.

10:24 pm

I used to imagine myself some sort of international spy/playboy, but in reality, I was just a technician, running all over the place, making machines work. When I got done in that city and had to go to another city, way in the north of China, I booked a flight (with the help of local rep. who finally showed up) to my destination. They didn't tell me that the flight stopped in some other city on the way. We deplaned, and Iwas wandering around this podunk airport in the middle of CHINA waiting to get on the flight continuation. Of course, I did not speak Chinese, and did not understand the anouncements. La la la - I'm wandering around this little airport, when they come and get me, and drag me to the line to get on the plane. They apparently knew to find the big dumb American and get him on the plane. That's service!

10:26 pm

any clues on te4/5? seems silly, but I just can't see it and with only 21 words left I'd like to finish. I've got upset, te** paper and misspelled sports te**

10:26 pm

Torgone... International Man of Intrigue!

10:26 pm

can't find the last ne4 and ne5, help?

10:27 pm

Actually, I was pretty freaked out because it was the first time I travelled alone. I was inbetween my student tour ending and my family arriving and was just kind of wandering around going museum hopping. I am a chickensh*t and would never have confronted her in a million years (even if I could have communicated with her which I couldn't do).

10:28 pm

te 4 - do you have the one who is between the age of 12 & 20 and the one you sleep in when camping?

10:29 pm

You are well-travelled, torgone. You were there and had fascinating experiences, saw beauty, etc. And you did something useful - no small thing.

10:29 pm

ne+ 5th vowel + m ne 5 = sames word w/ 2nd vowel added to the end

10:30 pm

Oh, yeah, the puzzle.

10:30 pm

I wouldn't trade a second . .

10:30 pm

no - please keep telling stories = please......

10:31 pm

thank you ren, thought I had typed that one.

10:31 pm

y/w doxy

10:32 pm

Renfield, Those are te4/4 - I need te 4/5

10:32 pm

Tor - thank you for the stories!!

10:32 pm

sorry - te 4/5 = things in your mouth - 1 of the vowels

10:34 pm

Thanks, Ren.. I was using the wrong t Silly me

10:35 pm

y/w - 8)

10:36 pm

Morning all

10:37 pm

Hi Ish!!

10:37 pm

morning ish

10:37 pm

Morning Ishult.

10:37 pm

56 words still to go. got to start working in 20 minutes so i don't think i'ii be finishing this one.

10:39 pm

Well, that's it for me. Pumpkin time. So close but yet so far. 23 words left to find but morning comes early when you have a baby so I'm throwing in the towel. I love your stories Tor and will come back tomorrow to read the rest of them so keep them coming please. You have had an interesting life and many really great travel experiences. Thanks for sharing. Good Night All. 8)

10:40 pm

nite minski -

10:40 pm

Goodnight Minski!!

10:40 pm

missing the je5, ai5 & u6 amougst other?

10:40 pm

One of the other fun things was when we went to Baku, Azerbaijan. We ran into some Iranian students, eager to practice their English, and we got to talking. They asked us how we liked Baku. We kind of hedged a little bit, but let on how we didn't really like it that much(Baku sucks more than the suckiest suck that ever sucked). The Iranians jumped in with how much they hated it! When Iranians think your city sucks, it must really suck BAD!!!

10:41 pm

je 5 "plane" + opposite of "off"

10:41 pm

je 5 - je* (fast flying plane) + opposite of off

10:41 pm

ai 5 one who is the ai 4/5

10:42 pm

rennie...my brain...you still there?? LOL!! : D

10:42 pm

Tor - ROFL!!!!!!!!

10:42 pm

oops. it was the ad5 that i was missing?

10:43 pm

i;m here - your right my brain.... that's why i waited....

10:43 pm

a + your first de 4/5

10:43 pm

a + de 4/6

10:44 pm

ty

10:44 pm

rennie - didn't realize you were still in there!!

10:44 pm

u + do ** mi fa so _3rd & 2st vowel am i out of your brain?

10:45 pm

thanks easternblue

10:46 pm

ok - i'm out ....it;s crowded in there - lot of words and songs!!!! 8)

10:46 pm

rennie - good thing...with that clue, the "Sound of Music" was starting!! 8 D

10:47 pm

that's why i jumped out!

10:51 pm

anyone got do 6/24?

10:52 pm

past tense of do4/5

10:53 pm

do 4/5 past tense just do **

10:54 pm

I need help with me 6/21 Anyone?

10:54 pm

thanks...i toatlly though ti tried the past tense and it didn't work...obviosuly i typed it wrong...thanks guys

10:55 pm

me 6/21 - someone who inspres / helps you

10:57 pm

or wo*** (the males) + tonight's in't story teller's 1st 3 letters

11:05 pm

The TO6s?

11:08 pm

to 4/4 (like to** deaf) + opposite of you

11:09 pm

to 6 = to 4 (the law) + 2nd vowel + n

11:10 pm

Thanks ren.

11:11 pm

ok mab

11:17 pm

only one left. Last te5/16, help pls?

11:21 pm

finished.

11:22 pm

ok doxy!!!!

11:24 pm

hey bbnaz on you on?

11:31 pm

te+ 3 two point letters in a row.

11:48 pm

Hello.. :)

11:48 pm

hi lotti...

11:49 pm

Hi Lotti!

11:49 pm

...any requests for another seasonal drawing??

11:50 pm

hi lotti

11:51 pm

You mean now i`ve finally seen the stocking......which is fab btw!! :) Mmm let me have a think!!

11:51 pm

thanks!

11:51 pm

Where`s the mystery author gone??!!!!

11:52 pm

lotti...did you read all his travails?? it was funny!!

11:52 pm

How about a pile of prezzi`s EB :)

11:53 pm

i guess the grinch is out eb????

11:53 pm

Not all of it, but I scrolled back and read some!!! What a guy!! :)

11:53 pm

I'll see if I can do both!! be right back! 8 D

11:54 pm

how many words are there?

11:54 pm

Ok EB :)

11:54 pm

lotti - we were all in our jammies listening to his sotries - then he just stopped - he left us hanging for more,,,,8)

11:56 pm

Oh Ren...he doesn`t normally disappoint!!!!LOL (((((Tor))) )) Where are you babe XxXxXx (((squeeze)))

11:56 pm

It was so hilarious, Lotti! I forgot about finishing the puzzle -- hi stories were much more fun.

11:57 pm

Tad 165, but the new puzzle will be here in a few mins :)

11:58 pm

wow i only have 16 words i am no good at this first time

11:58 pm

He is one funny, caring, wonderful man!! :o)

11:58 pm

Tad wait for this one.....any second :)

12:00 am

where do you guys get the cute little pics by your names?

Loading…

No words submitted.