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12:00 am

New grid!

12:01 am

Hello, Babblers all!

12:01 am

flip-y goodness

12:01 am

hi JB!

12:01 am

hey, stid!

12:02 am

Whoo hoo, I got first post tonight! and 54 words left to do on the last grid :(

12:02 am

whoo -- what happened? just a busy day? it was a big grid to finish...

12:02 am

flipski

12:03 am

waiting to see how many words before I start --- busy day tomorrow!

12:04 am

189 not too bad

12:04 am

203 words, nan!

12:05 am

It was a big 'un, and I started late, only 3 hours intermittent playing.

12:05 am

Heheh, I should look at the *correct* spot on my stats. 203 words... >.<

12:05 am

CA10/77!!

12:05 am

well, that's not bad for three hours here'n'there1

12:06 am

mrp! not a 10-letter word! I can't take it!

12:09 am

hey stid! it is an easy one... runs of the salad...

12:13 am

mrp, ??? salad???

12:15 am

yes... a ca**** salad with anchovies and bacon... parmesan cheese... not how you would normally give birth unless there was a problem???

12:15 am

CAN ANYBODY HELP IM ONLY 7

12:17 am

wow, mrp! I don't think I would have found that one by my self... thank you (humbly prostrates self before wise sage mrp)

12:17 am

Thanks, MrP! Definitely would not have gotten that. *joins stidmama*

12:19 am

you are all welcome! (remember it is also the 9)

12:19 am

What help do you need, Svet?

12:19 am

:-) miscounted the letters the first time, got the 9 before the 10

12:19 am

yup, did get the nine, once I had the ten! :-) also got the six...

12:21 am

ca7/44 se7/28 ca7/32

12:22 am

ca7/44 is the decanted wines that go with the salad!

12:23 am

DONT WORRY MY MISTAKE

12:24 am

mrp -- why don't you like brussel sprouts? I don't either, but my mother loves them!

12:25 am

HA****

12:26 am

oh stidman..! that is a long story. we had the kids in the supermarket in the fruit and vege section and my husband holds up a brussel sprout to my babies (1 & 2 years old) and says very loudly "YUCKY... YUCKY!!" to the horror of the grandmas and other parents in the vege section!!!

12:28 am

oh, that's funny! I actually tried to grow them once, so my mother could have fresh ones, but I guess they knew I didn't like them, and not one grew -- out of the 30 or so I planted!

12:29 am

RA**

12:30 am

mmm... brussel sprouts... actually do like them, myself. I do worry whether Liv will have my strange love of all fruits and veggies or not. Her father will only eat veggies if he can't avoid them in a dish.

12:31 am

our kids didn't have a choice... we were vegan the first few years, then vegetarian until a couple years ago.

12:33 am

my 8 year old daughter is a sef-professed vegetarian... she never liked meat or dairy and eats everything else but! She is also the tallest girl her year 3 class!!

12:33 am

Hi svet -- welcome. Start with one letter and try to spell words going out in every direction from that letter.

12:34 am

One of the words I entered showed up 3 times ... in the points column it looks like this: badbad badbadbad ba dbadbadbad I think I broke babble. Oops.

12:34 am

According to my parents, when my sibs and I were young, our grandparents were always trying to feed us sweets when we came over, so they instituted a healthy snack requirement at the grandparent's house. I learned to love veggies very quickly

12:36 am

turned out that after being sick with "allergies" most of my life, that I was actually allergic to anything from a cow... got really bad when I was waiting for our first child, and made all kinds of things unpalatable. For a few years, I couldn't stand anything from any living thing! Still can't eat land animals, and dairy is dangerous, but can eat fish and eggs again, for which I am grateful.

12:37 am

oh, caloli, how could you?!? actually, just try refreshing your screen -- that usually works :-)

12:38 am

gotta go for now! bye all & enjoy... :)

12:39 am

good night, MrP!

12:39 am

never heard of that salad and drawing a blank!

12:39 am

later mrp -- thanks! and hi to Lickety...

12:40 am

aha, the refresh worked. thanks,stid!

12:40 am

bye mrp

12:40 am

yw... nan -- it's also a way to give birth by surgery...

12:40 am

the c10 is also a type of surgical birth

12:41 am

think roman emperor!

12:41 am

I have 96 words left -- knutmeg, how are you doing? JB?

12:41 am

et tu brute?

12:42 am

gee ... the first word I saw (jumped right out at me) might be a subliminal message. ca4/9 - something delicious and sweet with lots of sugar. Pretty unhealthy, but so yummy - especially if it's of the 'mud' variety.

12:42 am

ha! that was one of my first words tonight also! did you get the last name of the man who played the Skipper on Gilligan's Island?

12:42 am

ty stid & knut

12:42 am

that was also one of my first words, cal :-) Mmmm... nummy c4/9...

12:43 am

I think I'll have to check out imdb for that one ... I haven't watched Gilligan's Island (I'm turning 30 soon, and I don't live in the US so I've never had the chance to watch reruns).

12:43 am

got the 6, 9 and 10 -- is there a 7 derivative?

12:45 am

no, there isn't

12:45 am

I got the surname (thankyouverymuch, imdb.com) - sounds like a type of storm which pelts small balls of ice?

12:46 am

that's the one :-)

12:46 am

excellent - thanks!

12:46 am

ooh, it can also be a plural.

12:46 am

yes, it does sound like a typical spring thunderstorm in the midwest! don't forget plurals, also where are you, caloli?

12:47 am

I'm in Australia.

12:48 am

I've only been babbling for a few days but I'm thinking of upgrading to pro, just for the pics and icons.

12:48 am

oh -- that's where mrp and Lickety are! there are some others, too... so you're experiencing autumn while we have spring! hope the recent cyclones have been far from your home!

12:49 am

Oh, the cyclones were dreadful - we're a LONG way from them, thank goodness, but our weather was still affected. I live in NSW.

12:49 am

i think being pro is kinda cool, mostly because it supports dr. god... but I also like having the stats panel (now that I know how to use it)

12:49 am

I took a look at the sample stats panel and had no clue how to decipher it! I'll have to find a tutorial when I sign up!

12:51 am

oh, okay, Botany Bay and Sydney and all that! the coolest thing about the stats panel is it shows you how many times each letter in the grid is used to begin a word... when you've got all those words, the entire letter in the stats panel goes gray so you know not to start from there anymore!

12:51 am

I caved to the pro version for the stats panel, and the icon. I find that the stats panel helps me stay away from the 2 letter lists longer. I think I hit 100 yesterday before I flipped to lickety's site

12:52 am

caloli -- the white squares under each letter show how many words you have beginning with that letter. The number in the grey square shows how many words in the grid begin with that letter

12:52 am

Yes, I was in Sydney last week (my brother lives there). I live a few hours away from Sydney in the mountains, so it gets much colder here.

12:52 am

with the stats panel and the hints here, I have managed once (only) to avoid the lists altogether!

12:53 am

I'll definitely have to sign up for it! It sounds good.

12:53 am

excellent, stid! I have yet to do that, but halfway on a 200+ word list definitely is my best. I figure in another week or so, I'll be able to finish some of the easier grids with clues and stats alone. :-) Its a goal to work towards...

12:54 am

I don't know much about Australia -- the pictures we always see show orange desert sands, or beaches and reefs... I suppose there have to be a few places that are green and cool and rainy?

12:55 am

90 to go -- good night all :)

12:55 am

good night, nan! pleasant dreams!

12:55 am

g'night nan!

12:57 am

Oh, there are definitely some green, rainy parts. I live in one of the greenest - no red sands here! My hubby grew up in the outback though (a place called 'Broken Hill' - if you've seen the movie The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert you'll know it). The beaches here really are great - we live about 2 hours from the beach, so we go camping a lot. We spent our honeymoon (nearly 10 years ago) doing a waterfall and rainforest tour. Gorgeous stuff.

12:57 am

i think nan has a good idea! I also have 90 words to go... good night, all, ((hugs)) and a kiss for Liv...

12:57 am

Bye for now, nan.

12:58 am

:-) G'night Stid, she has been kissed for you!

12:58 am

Good night, Stid!

12:58 am

caloli, I can see I should do a bit more research... hope to see you again when I log back on. :-) have a lovely evening!

12:59 am

Thanks Stid :) Sweet dreams!

1:02 am

the spelling on the 10 has me so stumped

1:02 am

hi all. how is it that "fest" is not a word??

1:03 am

kimberblue - try the British way of spelling it (don't drop the a)

1:04 am

I wondered the same thing,Twinkle

1:04 am

kimber- multiple surgical births, lots of first and second vowels, actually looks like its spelled phenetically

1:05 am

ca 10- romaine salad / c-section

1:06 am

Thanks, Kimber. I've never gotten at 77 point word before

1:08 am

is the ca 6/21 the start of it?

1:08 am

yes

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yes

1:09 am

yes

1:10 am

oh my- i was going at it from the wrong ca!

1:11 am

whoops! but you have it now?

1:12 am

that has happened to me plenty of times!

1:12 am

yes- thanks!

1:13 am

silly question - how many words are there today? I should check these things earlier!

1:13 am

203 words, cal. yay, kimber!

1:14 am

oh, I've got a LONG way to go. I've only got 58 so far.

1:15 am

but you've plenty of time, cal. :-)

1:15 am

That's right! Weekends I can spend more time on them. During the week I've usually only got an hour in the afternoon after work. Now *that's* a challenge!!

1:18 am

I bet that'll be me when I go back to work. This maternity leave thing has me spoiled. I've plenty of time, and I can play while feeding Liv

1:19 am

I loved being home when my boys were babies! How old is Liv?

1:19 am

She'll be 3 weeks old on Monday

1:20 am

awww, how precious! One of my best friends had a baby 2 weeks ago - she's Lily. I have an Oliver (we call him Oli but some of his friends call him Lev).

1:21 am

Amusingly, my best friend's daughter's name is Vivian, and she goes by Viv. So, the girls are Viv and Liv, and only 18 months apart in age. Coincidence, but cute.

1:22 am

Liv and Viv! How cute! I have a friend who has Amelia and William - shortened to Milly and Willy, Mill and Will or Mills and Wills. Not intentional, but still funny.

1:24 am

Is Liv your first baby?

1:25 am

:-) I think the most interesting naming scheme I've run into is my cousins' names. Their last name is St. Angel and the boys are named after archangels.

1:25 am

Yeah, she's my first. :-)

1:25 am

Now that's cool!!

1:26 am

We went for a theme too, but it's not obvious. Our first son is Callum (it means 'dove') and second is Oliver (which means - as you'd know - olive branch) so we've got that symbolism thing happening. DH has a tattoo of it.

1:27 am

:-) If we have a boy for our next he'll be Alexander, and we'll call him Xander. Their initials will be X and O. Kiss and Hug. That's about as theme-y as we'll get.

1:29 am

I want another baby!!

1:31 am

Oddly, after a really rough pregnancy, and torturous last month, I still say I want another. BUT, before we get pregnant again, I've a few stipulations. Mostly, to get my back and stomach in shape.

1:31 am

X and O is a fantastic theme!!! I love it!

1:32 am

The last month of pregnancy is just hell. I had an awful time too (pubic symphysis). I'm happy to cuddle the babies of other people - I've got my two precious boys and the baby factory is closed for business.

1:33 am

My cousin has a theme too - her boys start with A and Z. They send out their Christmas letter with the title 'Our year from A to Z'.

1:33 am

my pregnancies were hard as well- pre-eclampsia with both- but I would take another- but we are done as well as we are not getting any younger!

1:34 am

I was in labor literally for three weeks. Prodromal labor. Can't be stopped without drugs, but doesn't progress anything. I was in and out of the hospital. They finally induced me a week after my due date.

1:34 am

i also went right back to shape with my first- and i'm not talking about the second!

1:34 am

I am a doula- I LOVE it!

1:35 am

I had the same thing with my first!!! It was absolutely torture. But the second time I didn't have a single twinge until real labour started. Being overdue is the pits.

1:36 am

I'd love to be a doula too, but there's no demand for it in Australia. Our health/maternity care system is very different to the USA's.

1:36 am

as it should be- ours is the pits!

1:37 am

Counting my strange and lucky stars. I lost 15 pounds throughout the pregnancy, so after I had the baby, I fit into my pre-pregnancy clothes immediately, and some of them fit better than they did before I was pregnant. I'm overweight, so the doctor wasn't overly worried. That and Liv was growing perfectly, so the weight loss wasn't affecting her

1:37 am

I don't really have the right to judge since I don't live in the US, but from what I hear and see, I think you're right.

1:39 am

I struggled to put on weight while I was pregnant - I'm right in the middle of the healthy weight range, but I just couldn't gain weight. At 25 weeks I was still wearing my normal jeans with my first. I ended up starting to gain weight at 30 weeks (and he was over 8 pounds). I gained 8 pounds by 40 weeks with my second. But my doctor wasn't worried either - she knew I was eating a really healthy diet and that the baby was growing well. But congrats on your weight loss!! Isn't it a fantastic feeling.

1:41 am

It is wondeful. I put on a shirt today that I couldn't wear before I got pregnant because it emphasized my weight, and my husband was very pleased with the results, as was I. I want to shout and cheer because I've never had this big of a result when I have tried to lose weight. However, all my girlfriends have had babies recently and all that bragging would be very bad form. Especially since none of them are in their pre-pregnancy clothes yet,a nd they all had their babies before me by months.

1:42 am

I've always wondered, what's the difference between a doula and a midwife? Or is there?

1:42 am

i cant believe it wont allow laska

1:43 am

There's nothing wrong with being happy and proud of it! But yes, I know what you mean. I was always very slim (bordering on too skinny) while I was breastfeeding, but I gained weight after they weaned. I wish I could have nursed forever ;)

1:44 am

A midwife has medical training to be able to deliver a baby independently ... a doula is a support person who has medical training but isn't intended to deliver the baby. A doula is more a support person for the parents, while a midwife is more into birth support.

1:45 am

a mid wife actually delivers the baby and is a medical professional- a doula supports a woman in labor, without the medical side- depending what country you are from they are beneficial!

1:46 am

Thanks! My husband and I are talking about using a midwife for the next baby if there ever is one. :) We had two very successful pregnancies and births w/out drugs, so I think I can do it.

1:46 am

And speaking of baby, mine is up. I'm gonna put the puzzle away for the night. As soon as I'm done nursing her, I'm gonna wake her daddy and have him take over. Goodnight all!! It was great chatting with you!

1:46 am

here is the US, you see your Dr. the last 5 minutes of labor and a nurse every so often- a doula stays with the mother through the entire labor.

1:47 am

Goodnight, sweet dreams ... give that sweet girl's head a big sniff for me (anybody else LOVE the smell of a new baby's head???)

1:47 am

goodnight

1:47 am

I'd better go too ... it's nearly dinner time here and the kids are clamouring for food.

1:48 am

wassup - you would love the mid-wives then. they try to be very non-invasive and let birth progress naturally!

1:48 am

Oh yeah, my sister's baby smells so good I occasionally take a nibble. I truly think she's edible. It makes her laugh too.

1:50 am

Night caloli, it's 11:49 pm here and you're going to have dinner. Man that's wierd.

1:50 am

Time zones freak me out.

1:52 am

it's 2 am here- i'm heading to bed as well! g night all!

1:52 am

Kimber, thanks for the info. I am definitely going to look into that if I am ever pregnant again. I want one, but the hubby is too logical... $, space, starting all over...etc. I don't care, I want a baby! :)

1:52 am

Night Kimber. I'm hitting the hay too.

1:53 am

we have 2 as well- and my husband says the same- and I want more!

1:54 am

Well, hopefully we'll both get our way. :)

2:06 am

good afternoon all

2:20 am

hello...how many word this evening?

2:28 am

203 words today

3:18 am

ca9/60 and ca 10/77

3:20 am

woohoo!! wtg boys :)

3:22 am

Hi guys ca9/60 is a medical procedure for childbirth. ca10/77 is its plural

3:23 am

zas, thanks for the clue.

3:25 am

no prob. Will need your help pretty soon. Just got started, wanna struggle with them for a while

3:26 am

know what you mean, I've only just started too.

Im doing the best I have ever done so far on this, but havent got anything happening in the longer words.

3:28 am

thanks for that clue zas

3:30 am

oh why oh why is fest not a word. Guess I'm not in a festive mood boo hoo

3:31 am

try it w/o the t and add another crooked letter

3:33 am

ooh thanks Shorty, got it

3:33 am

yw!

3:44 am

its very quite in here

3:44 am

just a bit

3:45 am

ssshhhh, it's Sunday morning and everone is still asleep LOL

3:45 am

MORNING ALL!

3:45 am

oooooooooooh ok shhhhhhh!

3:46 am

Morning Atalante, I see you are up and about and all bright and shiny!!

3:46 am

um. well. that was my big effort for the day, I think!

3:47 am

morning all

3:49 am

Hi sha. Only 10 mins more babble time for me and then I must get dressed and go out.

morning all

4:00 am

morning ros

4:05 am

morning sha

4:05 am

morning sha

morning sha. sorrow I had to go away from the computor.

4:11 am

Good morning, everyone!

morning douglas

4:12 am

morning doug

4:12 am

Way-hay! Finished! First time for ages - not a bad grid at all...anyone need any help?

4:13 am

fracas isn't in the grid, but I want it to be...

4:13 am

i have none of the 7 letter words

4:13 am

neither do i

4:14 am

You most indisputably rock, boysaway!

4:14 am

I have one of them...

4:15 am

Thank you! ca7/44 ca7/32 se7/28

4:15 am

thank you

4:15 am

thanks

I've actually done nicely for me, 99 words so far. Anyone wanna gimme a sweet 4 letter word so I can click over 100? as 4/4?

le4/4

you're swaying swindler!

4:20 am

as-4 -4 a+ water on a beach

4:21 am

Pinky's exclamation "Narf!" is in the grid, but not accepted...

Thanks Sha, that was so obvious now that I look at it! :)

4:22 am

yw

4:23 am

Morning dear gang :)

4:24 am

taser is in the grid, but not accepted *sigh* grant me the serenity, yada yada yada

4:24 am

morning sprite

4:26 am

Morning all - can anyone help with the 1st fr5/16 please?

4:27 am

fr 5/16 - sassa ...

4:27 am

Ah will nae gi' ye any help on the fr 4/7

4:28 am

lol

4:28 am

bug poop?

4:29 am

1st fr5/16, ryhmes with a group of schoolchildren in a teaching room

4:30 am

hmm, isn't taser a word?

4:30 am

Thanks boysaway

4:30 am

Probably a brand name, capitalized.

4:31 am

Oh I see. Ty Sprite. Goode morgen

4:32 am

Hi zas, ook een goede morgen :)

4:33 am

Hi Sprite, it's 3AM here and I haven't been to bed yet. Talk about obsessive

4:34 am

Technically that's morning. But humanwise you should in bed ;)

4:34 am

morning all

4:35 am

it's curious that le 5/14 is considered a valid word

4:35 am

morning katie

4:38 am

It seems to help to try and find words starting at a given letter, because then I see all the words that don't start at the letter. Got that?

4:38 am

Douglas, that is because it is also alt. spelling for the double e version. Indeed the rest of the meanings are of capitalized words.

4:43 am

Makes perfect sense to me.

4:43 am

When all around my soul gives way He then is all my hope and st 4/6

4:44 am

I must agree, especially because I just found the 10/9 combo.

4:45 am

im done

4:46 am

WOOT! for oggy

4:46 am

oggy gets.... %%%~~~~%%%~~~~ FIREWORKS ~~~%%%~~~%%%~~~

4:47 am

thanks sprite/douglas. its my birthday. didnt i do well.

4:47 am

The Dixie Chicks wrote a song about ea 4/4

4:47 am

WTG oggy, and congratulations on your birthday too :)

4:48 am

It turned out he was a missing person Who nobody missed at all

4:48 am

A nice birthday present indeed to give to oneself...

4:53 am

fest is not a word???? odd...

4:53 am

I'm with you rykaut...grant me the serenity blah blah blah

4:56 am

I dont suppose anyone has clues for the sk5/18? It is really stumping me

4:57 am

Leland Sklar is a well-known session musician, but I don't think that's what they have in mind...

4:57 am

All those gaelic words... It's a double-edged dagger formerly used in Ireland and Scotland. And its plural.

4:58 am

I think I will take Sprite's wise suggestion and go to bed now. Have fun everybody

4:58 am

It's monkey typing time!

4:59 am

Welterusten zas :)

5:00 am

any clues on the ca 9 and 10?

5:01 am

ca 5/16 is a shortened form...I didn't expect it to be accepted

5:01 am

Birth with knives.

5:02 am

Why Macduff was able to harm Macbeth, even though the witches said "No man of woman born shall harm Macbeth..."

5:04 am

ca 9 and 10 when one needs assistance with child birth they have a ca ....... section

5:05 am

ello sha when u on msn ur nephews email addy will come up

5:05 am

I may never have mentioned it, but I hate K-words. Especially these K-words.

5:06 am

ello ruthy kk

5:06 am

Thanks sprite finally got it =p

5:06 am

clues for al 5/16 ?

5:07 am

I'd like to think I have a good vocabulary, but I don't get any of the k's yet.

5:07 am

Plural of Al4/7 hebrew letter.

5:08 am

Douglas: try alt. spelling for the C5 you wondered about. And plural.

5:08 am

ty sprite

5:09 am

al-5 add an s to the al 4 b4 it

5:09 am

That al 5/16 is so wrong! It should be with a ph...grant me the serenity etc. etc. etc.

5:10 am

Just accept that Babble uses the Unable dictionary :D

Im terrible with K words!

5:13 am

strange that aryan isn't working...?

5:13 am

Now that's political correctness for you...

5:14 am

selfcensorship... yikes

5:19 am

bye for now, your company has been delightful as usual

5:20 am

Ka5/6: measure(s) of the purity of gold Ka4/5: pile(s) of rocks, alt. spelling Ke4: brownish-green mountain-dwelling New Zealand parrots Ke4: smoking materials, such as Indian hemp, used especially in the Maghreb, or the euphoria caused by smoking them Ky4: cocoanut fiber, or the cordage made from it. Sounds like what seagulls say. Ky4/5: Myanmar currency + plural. Rhymes with the gold K-word.

5:21 am

Done, bye and happy hunting.

5:29 am

exactly *how* long did it take Spritey to do this! She's so clever ...

5:30 am

any clues for the 1st fr 5-16 please?

5:33 am

ello auntie sha

5:34 am

ello hannah lou

5:36 am

rhymes with a cr5 meaning rude

5:41 am

updated icon for today's theme :)

5:46 am

hello all. i am very happy to see there are no te's today. i think yesterday's were a bit much.

5:48 am

hi cliff! phew! I thought I'd broken the chat log! No-one was here ...

5:49 am

I'm here too, but only for a few minutes!

5:49 am

hiya everyone! just finished sudoku so have came to babble now! what todays icon theme?

5:49 am

hi haz!

5:50 am

Good morning - it's bright and sunny here but still SO cold. How's the grid today?

5:51 am

atlante, i've noticed the chatting is very slim around this time every day. gets lonely sometimes.

5:51 am

hi haz, hi bex :) i'm finding lots of words all by myself today.

5:52 am

there's usually a *few* people around though. Like Haz :) And it was sunny here ... now its cloudy and grey. and I havent ventured outside yet to test the coldness!

5:52 am

greek mythology, bex

5:52 am

oh dear i thnik if i cant find a nice one kermit will be back! :)

5:53 am

i'm trying to get as many as possible in the next hour. i am having lots of people over today (going away party for my son) and i still have 10+ chores on my list.

5:54 am

ok curmit has arrived! i didnt like any of the greek mythology pictures on google!

5:54 am

Have you noticed how the cl5/12 and cr5/12 are complete opposites of each other?

5:55 am

bex, i picked the sphinx. she ate anyone who did not give the correct answer (to her riddles)

5:55 am

good one haz!

5:55 am

and I've got Selene and Endymion - the Goddess of the Moon and her lover

5:56 am

A bit like Anne Robinson on the Weakest Link?

5:56 am

lol haz. a perfect example.

6:01 am

but which was fiercer?

6:02 am

I wouldn't like to come up against either of them! Have to go now but will be back later. Happy hunting.

6:03 am

I suppose ANne Robinson isnt officially allowed to disembowel you at least

6:06 am

so why are you on at this time of the day, Cliff, with the UK babbler contingent? I'm just being nosey

6:07 am

well, it is now just after 7 am here. i get up at about 6 am every day. i'm addicted to babble and like to get an early start. (plus i like the people 'across the pond' :) enough info or too much?

6:08 am

Good morning. Thanks for all the k's Sprite. I have a question for you. What exactly is it that you hear seagulls saying?(-:

6:08 am

morning eva.

6:08 am

Hi all! Looks like an interesting one today. How many are we searching for?

6:08 am

Morning cliff. A beautiful one here. Is it there too?

6:09 am

gorgeous. which will be great for our party. maybe we can even use the picinic table today.

6:09 am

oh true. I keep forgetting that the east coast isnt so far away from us in hours ... (all my US friends are in CA)

6:11 am

well, if you ever need a friend on the east coast let me know. we're a bit different tho.

6:11 am

different in a good way or bad way? :P

6:11 am

I usually sign on between 5 and 6 am here. It takes a while before most of the rest of the US clan speaks up.

6:12 am

I'm eager to see what you say about the east/west thing cliff.

6:13 am

I like early morning babbling. I get up about 6, drag the dog round the fields, get a cup of tea, and log onto babble

6:13 am

anyone help with the 9 and 10 today? someone gave a clue earlier but i didnt understand it

6:14 am

bex - a non-natural way to have a baby (plus plural)

6:14 am

i find that not everyone on the east coast is as open minded as those on the west. in the north we are not very well integrated above massachusetts. i'm not exactly happy with the situation because i was raised by open minded worldly people.

9 *********section

6:17 am

From my very limited experience - I've been to Rhode Island, New York, California and Oregon - so probably not a very good sample - I've found that the E coast is much more traditional. Going to Newport, RI was like being back in England. CA is very do as you please, but Oregon again seems to be more traditional. Is there still a north-south divide in the US, do you think?

6:18 am

thanks atlante! thats what i thought it was but i just couldnt work out how to spell it!

6:19 am

i feel very strongly there is still a north south divide. when i travel south i have to be more careful of my conversation. (i am not a conservative republican)

6:21 am

I would love to go to the south, because it does seem so different, and I like learning about places. Hopefully in a few weeks, I'll end up in Washington as well - going to CA and Oregon but I think we're going to drive up into Washington for a while

6:24 am

DC is a wonderful place - so many things to see. Washington state is beautiful! i spent a week there during my honeymoon. the mts are spectacular, the pacific rainforest was amazing, mt st helens is beautiful in a scary way. you can drive up to a point on mt rainier (?) where you feel as tho you are on top of the world. and everyone we met was friendly and laid-back.

6:26 am

got the 9 & 10 no problem but I need help with the 7's got ca7 anyone know the other 2?

6:27 am

I can't wait to see Mt St Helens - it has a very special place in my heart (sounds strange I know). When I was young I had the most wonderful junior school headmistress who used to give me extra lessons where we could study anything I wanted to. And I was obsessed with volcanoes at that point, and she was on holiday somewhere up there soon after the big eruption, and brought me back a small jar with some of the ash in. I've still got it ... it seems to symbolise to me all the possibilities and joys of learning in this world (even though I know how terrible a souvenir that must seem to some people)

6:28 am

For what it's worth-my 2cents-yes, the West Coast tends to be more expansive and laid back, but there's also a lot of emphasis on material success, glitz, and it can feel rather superficial (mainly talking about california). The east coast varies from state to state and within state. New Hampshire, although right next to Vermont, is much, much more conservative than vermont, politically and culturally. Vermont has a long tradition of eccentricity and rebellion. But living with long, cold winters, as opposed to someplace where you can hang around outside together does create differences in social patterns.

6:28 am

thats me finished

6:29 am

I agree Eva. Went to Palm Springs last year. Apologies if anyone here loves it, but I couldn't wait to get out of the place! So tacky and artificial and bright

6:29 am

atlante, there is a wonderful museum at the site where you can watch a movie on the eruption and aftermath, and at the end the big curtain behind the screen opens and you see the volcano. it took my breath away even tho i had seen it already from outside the museum.

6:30 am

Also, with all the talk about the West Coast's progressiveness, look who they voted in as governor in California!

6:30 am

thats me finished too well done ruthy

6:31 am

wtg sha

6:31 am

I'm going to try and get there. The friend who I'm visiting lives in AStoria, and that's only 90(?)km away from Mt StH

6:31 am

well, it's cat food time again. See you later.

6:32 am

i agree with you eva, and VT is where i would live if my family would go with me. materialism is so foolish. you can't take all that stuff with you!

6:33 am

which of the New England states is Mt Washington in? New Hampshire?

6:33 am

californians seem to like actors no matter how off the mainstream.

6:33 am

cliff-why did you end up in NH? Just nudge them over the border. If you do it gradually enough they won't notice.

6:34 am

mt washington is in my state, NH. and you can drive to the top if you're not in shape to hike it. another spectacular mt!

6:34 am

I want to see Mt Washington. And climb it. It's one of my absolute ambitions in life

6:35 am

eva, my dad's family live along the NH/VT border and would probably spear me if i tried to cross over to the other side.

6:35 am

It is beautiful Atalante. Spent 3 summers as a teenager at a camp right near Mt. Washington.

6:36 am

atlante, after today's party i will pull out some of my best mt washington pics and email them to you.

6:36 am

So where did you go wrong cliff(-: Did he makes the mistake of letting you read something other than the Manchester Guardian?

6:37 am

really? oh WOW! thank you! Its one of the main settings for my absoulte favourite series of books. Those books are really a part of them by now, I've read them so many times, and I would love to see the actual places ...

6:37 am

as an aside-does anyone have a clue for the se7? I'm guessing its a compound with the se_ root, but can't find it.

6:38 am

do you mean the manchester union leader? i wouldn't even use that paper to put under my cats litter. but my father's family treats it like the bible. if it's in there, it must be true.

6:39 am

Yes, that's the one I mean. Must make for some interesting fammily gatherings! Okay , now it's really cat food time!

6:40 am

Eva - se7 - when the waters sleep?

6:40 am

good morning all, up to 100 words. got the 9 and 10 with clues, but got the others all by myself. but have no 7 letter words, clues please?

6:40 am

that's a word?!

6:40 am

thanks just got the se7 with a clue

6:41 am

thanks amanda

6:41 am

My thought exactly, Eva.

6:42 am

ty amanda. great clue.

6:43 am

yw to all

6:45 am

help with the c7 words please

6:46 am

Okay, so I got the ca7 & se7, so what 7 am I still missing?

6:46 am

not there yet, Peri. I'm working from the bottom up

6:47 am

ca6= container for wine (plural for 7)

6:47 am

There's a ca7/44 & ca7/32, Ishult

6:47 am

Ishult, thanks

6:48 am

anyone have a hint for the ca7/32

6:51 am

Ca/7: plural of something you pour wine or water from

6:52 am

Fayelle, got that one, need the ca7/32

6:53 am

ca7/21=an enzyme that is formed by some bacteria, that decomposes casein, and that is used in ripening cheese

6:54 am

Good Morning All... BJ's list is posted.

6:54 am

thanks, Ishult up to 115 time for a break, bbl

6:55 am

72 words to go time to take a break later

6:56 am

i guess its time for me to go as well. at least i am half way to finishing. hopefully will get the rest after the party. happy hunting everyone.

6:56 am

have a wonderful party!

good afternoon :-)

hey; is it the rest of you have your country's flag beside your names, but i don't, i wonder? :-/

7:16 am

Hi from Hamburg, Mikey!

er.....'how is it', i meant to ask! :-P

Hallo, Amanda.....wie geht's? :-)

7:17 am

Gut, selber? 'Cept I'm stuck on this ca6/36 that I just can't seem to make work.

7:17 am

i dont no mikey sorry!

7:19 am

actually go on your profile change your location to a different country save it then change it back again see if that works cause it just worked when i tried it

oh, ok; thanks, Bex! so nobody else here sees a flag beside my name either, hmm?

7:22 am

no its not there

7:23 am

Hello, Mikey - nein, no flag!

oh, ok Aloyisius.....but i've just done as Bex suggested.....so, 'testing'?

no fair; does this site just not give a flag to anyone in Deutschland, like they do to everyone else? :-/ sheesh! :-P

7:24 am

no its still not there!

7:25 am

Good morning, all... Yea! Mikey's back (glad we didn't scare you away yesterday)!

7:25 am

not yet..

7:26 am

mikey you could email dr_god to ask about it!

lol, Jera; ja, i'm back.....and no, you didn't....not *quite* yet, anyhow! ;-)

who's 'dr_god', bex777.....or what's his email address, please?

7:29 am

Oh, the day is young... at least here in the States...

7:30 am

hes the creator of the game! if u click on whats dr_god up to in the dev log then on the next page u can contacts him!

oh ja; thank you, bex777!!! :-) i'm a complete 'newbie' here, can't you tell? :-P

ok; i've emailed him.....i want my flag, dammit! :-/ hehe!

7:39 am

lol hope he tells u how to get it! :)

7:42 am

I wonder if anyone else in Deutschland is Babbling right now - perhaps they could post a message to see if the flag appears? Just a thought...(-:

ja; there was another of my countryfolk in here, who's in Hamburg, and she didn't have our flag either! :-/

7:47 am

h'mm, I wonder was is los?

7:47 am

Is Germany a recent addition? Maybe there is a glitch with the icon for that flag?

7:47 am

hello everyone :) I'm back to tackle another couple.

7:47 am

morning! I have 100 words, with no list, no clues. I haven't looked at the stats panel yet, but I bet there are at least 250 words today...

7:48 am

I am so proud of you, Angelsong... there are only 203 today!

7:48 am

Hi Angelsong... you are close. 203

7:49 am

I got to 75 today with no list or clues ... I think this is my 5th or 6th babble puzzle, so I was happy with that.

7:50 am

Amandacath have you got the ca6/36 yet?

hello again, Angelsong! :-)

7:52 am

My goal is to do half without list... sometimes I sneak a peek at the chat fro clues if I get stuck, though!

7:53 am

Gutten tag, Mikey!

8:02 am

lots of Babble words today.

8:04 am

heck yeah

8:07 am

I'm back... had to go help subdue a small kitchen fire...

8:18 am

Hi Jera Who was setting fire to what in yr kitchen? Morning/afternoon all.

8:18 am

10 year old making breakfast, bless her hearst...

8:19 am

LOL... Mum to the rescue :)

8:22 am

I mostly just supervised, she was doing everything right... we need more baking soda now, though...

8:24 am

Hope your morning is less exciting than mine, FMitch?

8:25 am

I applaud you Jera, not enough children are taught to cook or even how to function in a kitchen these days. Glad to say my sunday has been peacful and incident free, mind you thats probably because I dont have any children!!! LOL

8:30 am

ca9?

What? Fe 5/16 plural isn't a valid word?

8:31 am

Angel - ca9 , when you cant give birth naturally.. and ca10 pl

8:33 am

I began teaching both my son and my daughter to cook when they were five years old. My mother wouldn't let me even try to cook until I was 15 or 16, because of my disablities. She was afraid I'd get hurt. I told her, "of course I'll get hurt, but I have to learn to deal with that, too." Now, I love cooking and baking...from scratch.

8:34 am

With me being handicapped, I stress independence... otherwise they miss out!

8:35 am

yes, Jera! You and I have that in common.

8:36 am

I'm going to teach my grandson to cook as well. we're going to have such fun. I want to see his face the first time he gets his hands into bread dough.

8:38 am

May I ask what your handicap is, Angelsong?

8:38 am

Mikey, bei mir kam die Mädchen Figur nie zum Erscheinen. Bis ich mein Profil wiederholte und am Schluss UPDate gedrückt habe. Vielleicht klappt das.

8:40 am

In Babbleland gibt es offenbar keine Umlaute

8:41 am

I promise to talk English again now.

8:41 am

I was born with Cerebral Palsy and optic nerve atrophy, Jera. I am legally blind, but thank God my speech is unimpaired, although my entire left side is much weaker than my right side.

8:42 am

I see, so you can empathize with my mobility issues...

8:43 am

Greetings, everyone!!!!! How are you all doin'?

8:43 am

empathize? Jera, I live with them daily, just as you do...so yes, I do understand.

8:45 am

Greetings, movieman... it's not you but I have to take a break & warm up... it got chilly again last night... back later!

8:45 am

it's so odd. because of my disabilities, people either look at me with pity (which I can't stand, and don't tolerate) or they see me as some kind of a saint. The reality is, I'm no different from anyone else, other than the way I get from Point A to Point B and back.

8:47 am

Angel and Jera I think you are both wonderful !!.....no one would ever guess that your lives are just not as easy as ours....I wonder if I could be so 'unfazed' are you both appear to be.

8:47 am

not pity here Angel.....just admiration !!

8:52 am

Part of it, I'm certain, is that my disabilities are from birth. You can't miss what you've never had. I've got lots of unique ways of doing things, but I do get things accomplished. I even took care of my kids in unique ways. I kept a large sturdy cardboard box at the end of my daughter's crib when she was in infant, with a large firm pillow and a blanket inside. My mom asked me what it was for. I told her, if the house ever caught fire, the baby goes into the box, and then she's secured with the blanket and I will lower the box out the window!

8:54 am

Angelsong, I like your outlook. Some people who are in good health take it somewhat for granted and upon meeting someone else who has to work a bit harder to enjoy what comes so easily to them puts a lot of things in perspective.

ummm. predjudices and biases do flavour our views. it is sad. I do have a personal issues with one disability--ones' lack of thinking--when people don't use their heads...then I have something worse than pity to express. All other issues are just issues, and don't really affect the character of an individual...that'ws my two cents

8:56 am

I was not expected to even survive when I was born. I weighed just 2 pounds, 7 ounces (3 months premature). Yet, I have children and a grandchild. I also managed to go to college, though I never thought I would be able to afford it, and I have a Master's Degree. So, doctors don't know everything.

8:57 am

my thought is: Ignorance is teachable. Stupidity is voluntary.

It is difficult for me to pity Hawkings, even though he's truly in a bad bind...I just admire the perseverence and his abilities irrespective of his 'handicap'...and Angel, one would never know when one reads postings or books about others

8:58 am

I respect and admire Hawkings tremendously.

me2...even though I dont understand him verbally, and have a tough time with his math, his ability to cope with the changes in his life, and his drive to survive are admirable

9:05 am

Good afternoon/morning everyone.

9:05 am

hiya haz!

9:06 am

Hello bex - how are you getting on?

9:06 am

back ... and I also admire Hawkings work and the way he's managed to become such a force in science. I don't actually admire *him* though.

9:13 am

Guten morgen/buon giorno/good morning, (or afternoon) all ... :-)

9:13 am

Hello, artlady.

9:14 am

bon apres-midi!

9:14 am

i have 68 words haz how many u got?

9:15 am

62 - I got a few this morning and am just starting again.

9:19 am

prynhawn da welsh for good afternoon

what's the longest word you've ever seen on one of these things?

9:20 am

janus, how do you pronounce that? (the Welsh good afternoon)

9:20 am

if you can be a miscreant, why can't you be a creant?

9:21 am

prin hown ( like down) dar

9:22 am

prin hown (like down) dar

9:22 am

thank you, janus!

9:22 am

i think we've had 12 letter words...

9:22 am

lol, hurshy I also think taser should be in there!

9:23 am

yeah, i tried that too

9:23 am

I really want to enter "kestrel"......

9:26 am

Good Heavens......it has taken me long to get logged on again....just read thro' all your posts....great !!!

9:27 am

laughed at your 'box' idea Angel....that was definately forward thinking !

9:29 am

g morning

9:29 am

I always have been able to think around corners, Karys. Thank goodness I never had to use the "box." Having a solid sense of humor is a big help, too.

9:31 am

Angel-I work with people with developmental disabilites. Once I asked a woman with Cerebral Palsy what she thought heaven would be like. I expected her to say the usual "in heaven I'll be able to run and jump and walk". But instead she said, "no floors."

9:32 am

What she meant was, "in heaven, when I fall down I won't get hurt." She did not want to be a different person in heaven, she just wanted the environment to be a little easier on her.

9:33 am

That comment, 20 years ago, has shaped my whole view of heaven, and of so-called "disability."

9:34 am

I agree with her completely. I learned to fall long before I learned to walk. The only times I've been hurt in falls have been when I've tried to prevent the falls when they began. if I just go limp like a rag doll, I'm not hurt.

9:36 am

sounds like what they tell a beginning skier!

9:36 am

just reading back in the log - Angelsong, I always heard it as: Ignorance is curable, Stupidity is for life Therest of the thread is pretty interesting... (sorry, I have no better word)

9:37 am

harpjane: pretty interesting comments, too. (sorry, just being a lurker)

9:38 am

hey hey hey

9:38 am

's okay klone, I'm off to church now anyway....the Holy Week Music Vortex begins....

9:39 am

Howcum Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday have names, but not Saturday?

9:39 am

Ash, Maundy, Good, ?, and Palm/Easter

Sabbath?

9:40 am

I've met people who have had a much more difficult time with CP than I do. So it's all a matter of degree. Being born with a disability is not as difficult, in my mind, as one that occurs through trauma later. I've had a lifetime to learn to adjust to my situation; it's no big deal. I just do it. But to have a broken neck/back and be a quadriplegic? I'd freak.

9:41 am

Shadow: different ruleset :-)

9:41 am

i think it's called holy saturday

9:41 am

'nut, how did the cleaning go?

9:41 am

are you purged of the urge??

9:42 am

art lady, YES! it is so done, and i think i made out, what with that new dishwasher and all.

9:44 am

Anyone have any clues on ca/9 and ca/10? "Salad" just didn't do it for me. Perhaps my diet is too crude(ite)

9:44 am

when you don't have your baby "naturally"

9:44 am

ca9 - operation named after Roman Emperor and performed to facilitate childbirth.

9:45 am

(excellent crudite pun btw)

9:46 am

Hello all. I am just popping in and out. Will finish tonight after Interlochen concert at Orchestra Hall in Detroit. But that was a truly inspiring discussion. I admire you gals.

9:46 am

A blunt clue (as I was from my mother's womb untimely rip't), but an adequate one, thank you!

9:48 am

Thanks hurshy (I did improvisational comedy for 6 years :-)

9:48 am

good afternoon everyone

9:48 am

Good afternoon jean.

9:48 am

well then, keep us entertained while we hunt :)

9:49 am

and why stop klone?

9:50 am

Angelsong: My GF has just pulled/torn her quadriceps. Years ago I had an ACL transplant that kept me off my feet for a while. So she asked me "how did you stand it?" (she has a lot of trouble sitting still). I said what you said: you just do.

9:51 am

eva: I still do it, just not professionally. The effort of maintaining a troupe was too hard. But I miss it, too :-/

9:52 am

hello all :D Klone - where are you from?

9:52 am

Morning, everyone! Can I beg a clue for the first FR5/16?

9:54 am

The trouble with comedy is that it is halibut forming. I went to a sturgeon to see if he could operate on the problem, but all I got was a haddock, and I hake that. I know it was shellfish of me, but I wanted my plaice in the world to be something other than the butt of jokes.

9:54 am

I've had multiple surgeries in my life...beginning when I was six until I was 16, I had 4 surgeries on each leg (both legs at the same time.) I couldn't bear weight for six weeks following, and had to re-learn to walk each time. I went to school in a wheelchair. I then had surgeries (two on each eye) for retinal detachments and cataracts). and yes, "you just do." You do what you have to do.

9:54 am

fr5/16 - add a donkey

9:55 am

sherb: Pittsburgh, PA. Alas, no TheatreSports nearby any more (that was us).

9:55 am

Haz! Too funny. But a great clue. Thanks. =8-)

9:55 am

hey klone, i'm north of pittsburgh

9:56 am

Charm - I could think of no other way of putting it! Glad it worked.

Hey, my sister is living in Pittsburgh right now. Unfortunately she doesn't like it

9:58 am

Hi Klone and evanonut...I'm originally from Pittsburgh and my parents still iive there. I'm now in Seattle, WA

9:58 am

Angel: I have a good friend with CP. He was an Eagle Scout (they waived the mile swim for him). Another friend with CP is not so lucky (boy, that's showing my bias, isn't it?), but he works for the Presidents somethingorother for the handicapped (and is something of a big deal in that organization).

9:58 am

DONE....anyone need a clue??

9:59 am

ah beautiful western pa

9:59 am

interesting... and I've just discovered what ACL and Theatresports mean...

9:59 am

klone - you're funny, but you can't compete with o'chita here

9:59 am

So many people from the MidEast!

10:00 am

mid east? well my future sister in law is in kuwait right now.

10:00 am

hurshy: It was lame, I know (and mostly canned - the real improv is always funnier)

10:01 am

Eva: Pittsburgh isn't the MidWest - that starts in Ohio. We are the "gateway to the West", hence the MidEast :-)

10:01 am

no, no, it was funny, i like that sort of thing. but o'chita gets me every time. hasn't anyone else noticed??

10:02 am

what's that hurshy? i didn't get it.

10:02 am

noticed what, hurshy?

10:02 am

Hurshy thinks I am a creature of habit...

10:03 am

seriously, nobody else has noticed that o'chita uses the exact same format to tell us every time he finishes? this amuses me tremendously

10:03 am

well we know that, Ouwachita... that's not funny...

10:03 am

oh hurshy, it's probably a macro, silly girl.

10:04 am

ok, maybe i just have a weird sense of humor

10:04 am

no, it isnt...I just happen to type it exactly the same every time..."Done...anyone need a clue??"

10:04 am

I didn't notice...now I'm going to watching o'chita very closely

10:04 am

we all have our habits...

10:05 am

and the DONE is always all caps and there are always 2 ?? at the end :)

10:05 am

pine, with a looking glass.

10:05 am

I've noticed - but it's just what you do, Ouwachita.

10:05 am

so what?

10:06 am

poor owchinchilla

10:06 am

Back to Pittsburgh...I spent 2 weeks there last summer working and really like the CM museum. Great contemporary collection! The Warhol was not great, tho.

10:06 am

i like it! i like people who have a definitive trait to hang your hat on. :)

10:06 am

and Pittsburgh won the SuperBowl this year!

10:06 am

artlady: The warhol is filled with Warhols - THAT is why it sucks :-)

10:06 am

i'm not trying to poke fun, honest.

10:07 am

I went to Fallingwater a couple of years ago...which is SE of Pittsburgh...it was fantastic

10:07 am

love the museam too artlady, and agree on the andy warhol. i don't like him representing our region quite so much.

10:07 am

hmmm...

10:07 am

owchinchilla, keep meaning to go to falling water, haven't got there yet.

10:08 am

Hello everybody. It's a beautiful Palm Sunday here in Vermont.

10:08 am

Not only that Warhol is over-rated, the museum itself is inaccessible. Inaccessible in the sense that it doesn't present the work or the context to make it understandable for people who don't know his work. Sorry, I get really annoyed at places that make art too obscure!

10:08 am

it was rated the #1 architectural feat of the 20th century

10:08 am

go to Fallingwater during a nice, sunny day and picnic nearby...it is worth the trip.

10:08 am

If you go to FallingWater, you also need to go to Kentuck Knob

10:09 am

hi gramma :D

10:09 am

Fallingwater is fabulous. I haven't seen it since the multimillion dollar restoration, tho.

10:10 am

speaking of the Steelers: http://www.inacchord.com/steel ers.html - feel free to download the song my a cappella group produced (and then you can guess which of the 6 members I am :-)

10:12 am

Warhol ...I liked the time capsules (boxes) he kept and wished they showed more of them. The museum did a bad job of discussing Warhol's life too. A large part of his fame was the projects he did and people he knew.

hi everyone! does dr. G think all we have to do all weekend is sit around, babble and chat? LOL!

10:12 am

you must be DK...

hey, nut! *ducks*

10:13 am

sherb: got it in 1

10:14 am

The problem is, the chat gets so interesting that I take too long to finish the puzzle!

10:14 am

hi Temple :D ... well compared to weekdays, he'd be right... my weekends are leisurely compared to the working week...

10:14 am

72! * jumps on top of 72 * what are we ducking from?

10:15 am

I work 7 days a week...so one day is just like another

10:15 am

klone, i see three men fold there, if you give me your age, i could eliminate a bit - good song by the way.

10:15 am

hey nut... where were you on Janet Evanovich Day? I found a special icon, but you didn't show up...

10:16 am

men folk, not men fold

nut: i've alwaays wanted to go to fallingwater...is it near you?

10:16 am

sherb,i was later. i can't have internet at work. do you still have the icon? will you show me?

10:16 am

I'm back for my final 25 words... how's it going here in Babbleland?

10:16 am

what work do you do Ouwa?

Hello, all...I'm new(ish), and generally lurk, as I'm shy. I have 202 words, though, and cannot for the life of me find ra6. Can anyone help?

10:17 am

72 - little over an hour i think - i've been wanting to see it for quite some time, but never get there.

10:18 am

I deleted it... it was a Trenton PD badge... I have a soft spot for Morelli...

10:18 am

ra6 - gotta ra6 that thar pig to the ground

10:18 am

eva - age? that's too easy! I am the most glabrous, but also the most hirsute male

10:18 am

morning to all or afternoon or night as the case may be stuck on the last ca 6/36 word any help?? pls and ty

10:18 am

lindyt - shy, with a name like that?

10:19 am

ra6-- it's a slang word for tussle or fight on a mat

10:19 am

klone - you will be the wonderful cat in the middle then or the chap in the top right hand corner (me thinks)!!!

10:19 am

hurshy...how many pigs have you ra6....to the ground???

10:19 am

oka then klone, top right

10:19 am

Welcome, lindy. You're ahead of me, I'm only halfway done...'course there are distractions...

10:19 am

that was handy - I needed that ra6... :D

10:20 am

ca6 - to your receptacle for packing clothes add what a bird does, minus one letter

10:20 am

that'd be a big zero

10:20 am

72! * looks around room*

10:20 am

yay, that was my last C!

10:21 am

eva: ding!

10:22 am

100

10:22 am

eva: and also the bottom of the chord, all the way down to G below low C

*hastily swallows bagel* yes nut?

10:22 am

whoooo hooooo i win! what do i win? are you the deep voice go steelers guy?

10:22 am

Haz1558--ty

10:23 am

72, you can't just jump in, say hi, and disappear! that's not nice.

10:23 am

ty haz had to really think about that clue but got it, lol

10:23 am

using the list makes this a bit mathematical... the last ra4 and ra5 after the rodents, for example...

Thanks so much! Yes, I'm shy -- the name comes from the fact that I will dance (lindy hop/swing) with anyone at any time. That doesn't mean I'm any good at talking. ;)

10:23 am

You're welcome.

10:24 am

klone - your mother is an internationally know sexologist?

sorry, nut - hungry!

10:25 am

down with a's and k's!

10:25 am

s'okay 72, i'm over it. *turns over can of whipped topping and squirts it on 72*

10:25 am

eva: indeed she is (and you win a free copy of the song :-)

10:26 am

next to the polamalu song, that's my new favorite.

if i knew you had whipped cream, i would have made waffles! LOL! (that better be real (light) cream),

10:28 am

no no, it's heavy, and an excellent conditioner.

10:29 am

these ca's remind me of yesterday's re's!!

10:29 am

'nut, it's also sticky and will mess up that nice clean kitchen you have...

then that calls for strawberries! have you ever made cake for berries with heavy cream vs. butter for shortening? heaven!

10:30 am

worry not artlady, its in 72's kitchen.

yea - THAT'LL work

10:31 am

I dropped a carton of double (heavy) cream on my kitchen floor the other week... what a MESS!!! ...had me skating across the floor as I tried to clean it up...

10:32 am

gah! sherb - where's the cat when you need it?

10:33 am

72, 'nut is on a cleaning jag. Make sure she comes over to clean up her mess!!

10:33 am

ttfn...going for coffee with my daughter b4 she heads back to college. Happy babbling!

bye, al!

10:34 am

your cleaning binge yesterday had me noticing all the dirt in my kitchen today, nut... ignorance was bliss...

10:34 am

later artlady :D

10:35 am

so sorry sherb, but on the plus side, that over doors vents are white again!

10:40 am

Anyone care to assist me with my last h? I have the ha4/5, ha512 & the ha6/21......

10:41 am

Don't worry, just got it...... Damn these alternate spellings!!!!!!!

10:42 am

ty movieman :)

10:44 am

so let's see, we have medusa, i assume nut is representing adonis? what's yours sherb?

why are searay and searat not words? : /

10:45 am

and temple, is that narcissus?

hurshy, it's a siren

10:47 am

mine is multipurpose... for when I can't find a new icon that inspires me...

10:47 am

oh, of course, silly me. and siren was in yesterday's puzzle!

10:51 am

Good afternoon all you Babblers - how is it going

10:52 am

hursh, i don't know the names. but i googled greek god and he came up.

10:52 am

hi Norma :D

10:53 am

lol nut :) hi norma

10:53 am

Anyone need any clues ????? I have finished it today

10:55 am

haven't a clue

10:55 am

eva, my Mom is at: http://www.lightfoot-klein.com /

way to go, norma! bye everyone- happy babbling! BBL!

10:55 am

toodaloo 72

10:56 am

HURRY BACK 72 :)

10:57 am

thats not pulling up klone

10:57 am

norma, if you'd care to throw out clues for some weird a's and k's, i'd be most grateful

10:58 am

Hurshy - which ones do you need????

10:59 am

i don't know, norma, i'm going list-less... but i need half the k's and more than half the a's

10:59 am

try http://www.lightfoot-klein.com / (without the extra space)

10:59 am

any clue for the ak's?

10:59 am

aha, there are ak's!

11:00 am

ak5/18 & ak6/30

11:00 am

The ak words are used in guiding/scouting circles if that's any help

11:00 am

If it's not, then to a add an anagram of lake and plural for the 6

11:01 am

The ak's are an inuit/aluet canine

11:01 am

Have you got the ak's ?? ak - miss fitzgerald minus one of the l's ak5/18 ak6/30 pluralise it

11:01 am

was never a scout?!?

11:01 am

you weren't kidding klone

11:01 am

oh how lovely, my whole left side is grey

11:02 am

would I lie to you?

11:03 am

ty lshult, haz, and norma

11:04 am

Dinner time bbl - happy babbling everyone

11:06 am

Bye Norma - enjoy your dinner!

11:06 am

Well, it hasn't been anywhere near seven years, but, like Odysseus, I have returned!

11:07 am

bet you know more than you care to klone

11:07 am

you're lucky temple left, odysseus, she was a siren

11:07 am

i'm here! ta-da! good morning, all --

11:08 am

hi stidmama!

11:08 am

Tis a better fate to see a siren than a cyclops I always say.

11:08 am

stiddeddydoodaa

11:08 am

(((hurshy))) i got 113 last night without a list...

11:09 am

Thanx Haz :D

11:09 am

good for you, stidmama! :) :) :)

11:09 am

evanonut... hi! who's the hunk?

11:10 am

beats me stidarama, i googled greek god and there he was, i didn't see a reason to search farther.

11:11 am

LoL, evanout. Makes sense.

11:11 am

eva: I edited her first two books, so yes. But ending the practice is also a good thing to know :-)

11:12 am

looks like today's theme is a winner! sirens, cyclops, medusa...

11:12 am

klone, i already contemplate ordering up a book.

11:13 am

i'll put it on the coffee table when company comes. it'll be sure to be a conversation starter.

11:14 am

I think you can get it on Amazon, but if you get it from her, she'll autograph it (just say I said so). Also, it is not a "fun" read, but it is also rife with her travel stories, and she is a good writer (if you peruse my site, you'll see where I learnt my craft)

11:14 am

ah, but what does it run...i'm poor you know.

11:15 am

hee hee - I have a few of those on my coffee table. They are either starters or enders :-)

11:15 am

well, if they are enders, i'm sure the company wasn't much fun anyway!

11:17 am

most of my company would be intrigued, with the exception of grandma maybe - wouldn't want to explain it to her.

11:19 am

atalante - you around? IM?

11:19 am

evanout, explain what to me?

11:20 am

hi gramma! is that atlas?

11:21 am

Darn tootin'.

11:21 am

he he gramma, i actually meant my grandma - but- that would be the presence of klones mothers books.

11:21 am

Why isn't arear included as a word? it's a real word...

11:22 am

arrear

11:22 am

Is it not usually spelt arrear?

11:22 am

okay folks... not to make anyone jealous or anything, but it's Sunday -- waffle day -- My Tom says the chocolate waffles are ready. (of course you're all invited if you get here before they're gone...) -- later!

11:22 am

but hursh, when i twist just so, i see that i have arear.

11:23 am

why is it that having a cold makes you FEEL cold, even with a fleece blanket over a sweater over a sweatshirt over a shirt?

11:23 am

I've seen it spelt arear, and dictionary.com backs me up

11:23 am

*pun intended*

11:23 am

lol nut... some of us don't have to twist as far as others

11:23 am

What's the meaning of arear in dictionary.com?

11:24 am

hurshy, that's why they call it a "cold". Get it?

11:24 am

well they don't take afear either, which is a pretty legitimate slang in my opinion

11:24 am

just so isn't far i assure you hurshy, i have that honky tonk badonkadonk

11:24 am

lol nut

11:25 am

hurshy -- that's your body working the way it should. It means you have a fever, to chase away the virus. Drink lots of clear liquids (tea, juice, water) to help your system flush it out, and sleep. If you are truly miserable, then tylenol or advil will help bring the fever down. where is your mother to tell you these things?

11:25 am

backwards or in reverse, as in 'arear march'

11:25 am

Don't forget we are at the whim of the Enable dictionary here in babble land.

11:25 am

what geek myth is that 'nut?

11:25 am

i don't have a fever - and i do know these things. i just don't like having a cold. :)

11:26 am

bleh

11:26 am

hurshy: ginger tea and a hot bath help the immune system fight what's ailing you. LOTS of fluids (no caffeine)..jewish mother speaking.

11:26 am

well no caffeine is easy, bc i don't drink coffee anyway

11:26 am

well then, hurshy, the best I can offer is ((((hugs)))) of sympathy as I dash off to consume my waffles! bye!

11:26 am

i made homemade chicken soup for lunch yesterday and i will have some of the leftovers soon

11:27 am

chic, what greek myth is what? CHIX DE CLIX! *snicker*

11:27 am

hursh, i'm in sympathy, my house is sixty degrees right now.

11:27 am

ty stidmama :)

11:28 am

Oy vey. There's too many e's and a's today. I'd like to buy more consanants, please.

11:28 am

or just SELL some of these stupid vowels!

11:28 am

r3n and I were talking about what would be a good icon for 'geek myths'. I said perhaps a statue of Bill Gates...

11:28 am

eva: back again. Yep, conversation ender books are to get rid of boring company. I have the ReSearch book on body modification for that purpose. All sorts of "sick" stuff (I think it is interesting without being "into" it), but when closed-minded people call it sick, I know they won't be back (and good riddance :-)

11:29 am

Good afternoon/evening, y'all. Any ren sightings today? I'm beginning to worry.

11:30 am

What is today's icon theme??

11:30 am

hi mab :) i have not seen ren

11:31 am

greek mythology

11:31 am

saw ren last night

11:31 am

eva: talking with you caused my muse to show up. I feel the need to write it down. If you want to chat about my Mom's book (or other things), better to do it directly, as I won't be reading this thread for a while. You can find out how on my contact page. ttyl!

11:32 am

chix - my highschool picture!

11:32 am

klone - get to work, i understand the muse!

11:34 am

I'm firing on only half a brain; this time difference is tolling. Ren was up to at least 3 a.m. lastt nite... How was bowling, 'nut?

11:34 am

okay, back mmmph -- waffles are finger food when babble calls...

11:35 am

I'm back... refreshed!

11:35 am

Jera, wicked icon! who is it?

11:35 am

Now to the last 11 nasty ca's... today's re's are ca's!

11:36 am

nut, I have a just read a book I think you would li-ike. Kate Atkinson, Emotionally Weird. It's a comic novel and a mystery and it's brilliant. I like everything she writes - mostly comic novels, funnily enough - but this one reminded me somehow of you. I hope you read it so I'll know if I'm right or wrong with my intuition.

11:36 am

Gaia... Mother Earth...

11:36 am

a fews ca's are related to a famous leader that was killed...and the birth method...and salad. etc.

11:37 am

ah! of course! i don't usually see her as having a waistline! :-) but I suppose before she had all those kids she must have! [like me...]

11:38 am

That's the beauty of magic, I suppose... Gaia is Mother Earth. She is from whom everything comes, but she is not quite a divinity, because she is Earth. She bore the Titans as well as monsters like the hundred armed men, and some of the Cyclopes - others were sons of Poseidon. She was the daughter of Chaos, and the mother of all creatures (according to some). She was the first and the last, and wanted all of her children, no matter what. She was primarily spoken of as a Mother of other Gods, rather than having her own myths.

11:40 am

mab, got it written down. ill grab it for next week. chix - we won all four, took commanding lead of first, and i almost lost my thumb

11:42 am

ouch!

11:42 am

he he!

11:43 am

did Mab just describe you as 'emotionally weird'?

11:43 am

also, should i find it disturbing that you think emotionally weird is a good book for me mab?

11:44 am

i think so chix, i'm not sure how i FEEL about that, you know, emotionally.

11:45 am

The content, not the title, made me think of you, nut. Emotionally weird? I wouldn't limit myself in that way.

11:46 am

Good re ren sightings.

11:46 am

he he, either way, sounds like it will keep me good company when i'll be needing it.

11:47 am

Hi Babblers Just jumping in for a few words Jera *sprinkle*sprinkle*sprinkle I also chose Mother Earth how strange is that???

11:47 am

faeriekae! good morning!

11:48 am

{{{Stid}}} good afternoon.

11:48 am

Evan - LOVE your Icon :)

11:49 am

Mab who is your icon. beautifulllllllll

11:49 am

thank you faerie!

11:49 am

Hi faerie! Persephone.

11:50 am

Whoo-hoo! *happy dance of doneness* Thanks, {{{faeriekae}}} your sprinkles worked!

11:50 am

Mab she has such a presence abut her. I love it.

11:50 am

persephone is a pretty name

11:51 am

mab, i thought she was an orange sheet tossed on the bed.

11:51 am

re5/14?

11:51 am

Hi Hurshy - who is your icon... and yes it is a pretty name (not going to try and spell it lol)

11:51 am

question; proper names are/are not allowed...so many words i wonder about the border between proper noun, etc. for example, ar 4 (riv** in turkey)???

11:51 am

{{{{Angel}}}}} HI!!

11:52 am

a lot of words are used in more than one way. a 4 can be a river, or it can mean "a distance" ...

11:52 am

not to mention the icon theme word.... that looks like the plural of to be in the third person?

11:52 am

mine is icarus

11:52 am

morning, Angelsong!

11:52 am

re5/14 = tell it again

11:53 am

i don't mean the one meaning distance. i mean the one with the 'k'....and it's plural? dictionary.com only has the proper name definition...maybe it's me being picky.

11:53 am

Hurshy - Icarus was the god of what? I almost when with Athen then chose Mother Earth instead.

11:53 am

such a poet, nut. she's all about the underworld and sleep -- she=me. Except I'm real. I think. I think therefore I must be real. I think.

11:54 am

never mind. i scrolled down (duh) and foudn the non proper definition. it' sjust me being groggy on a sunday

11:54 am

flew too high did ic.

11:54 am

i thought it was i think therefore i am?

11:54 am

I don't think Icarus was a god, but he is definitely part of Greek mythology...

11:54 am

icarus isn't a god....he was used as an example i believe of pride/fall....wanted to be a god, made wings, flew too close to the sun despite warnings...and fell. he's a parable :-0)

11:55 am

wasn't icarus the one who made some wings w/daedalos but then got a little showy & flew too close to the sun, melted his wings and then died?

11:55 am

I essentially live in novels. not too clear on reality. at least I try not to be.

11:55 am

decartes said 'i think therefore i am" the joke goes, someone asked him a question and he replied 'wait, i can't think" and disappeared. mathmatician humor.

11:55 am

I was thinking Athena/Minerva at first, too... but Gaia is close to my naked ivy fairy so I used her... felt comfy!

11:55 am

As you can tell I'm not up on the Greek thing but I did study Athen very extensively. I really was intrested in her. The goddess of wisdom and warfare....

11:55 am

{{{Faerie}}} hi, Stidmama...

11:56 am

mab, i do tend to live vicariously through lots of novels. so sometimes when they are embarassed, so am i.

11:56 am

gaia is all things. we use her example extensively in yoga... grounding, earth, strength, etc.

11:56 am

well everyone has summed up icarus very nicely :)

11:56 am

Ashtang - I think your correct.

11:57 am

icarus and ichabod....both fated myth men...do you think they have the same root?

11:57 am

i was never big on greek gods, soap operas worked just as well.

11:58 am

Jera - now that is strange. I have several photos of Athena/Minerva downloaded.

11:58 am

faerie.....hi its scribble!

11:58 am

icarus is mentioned in one of my favorite songs, so that is why i chose him. "i am the only one to blame for this somehow it all ends up the same soaring on the wings of selfish pride flew too high and like icarus i collide with a world i tried so hard to leave behind..."

11:58 am

mab, are you a Pisces? you sound like me; only half of a foot in reality....

11:58 am

(((Scribble))) Hi... good to see you

11:59 am

hurshy - what song is that?

11:59 am

hursh: what song is that?

11:59 am

is the sudoku hard today?

11:59 am

Hurshy what song is that *teehee*

12:00 pm

Scribble I haven't been there so I don't know.

12:00 pm

it's called "worlds apart" and it is by jars of clay

12:01 pm

I will have to look that one up Hushy. It sounds like something I would really like.

12:01 pm

oooh, jars of clay

12:01 pm

Thanks faerie, I like this image too. T'is a pre-Raphaelite painting (I forget which one). They just loved this sort of thing: sleep, death, rebirth, blah, blah.

12:01 pm

JofC....they have a christian bent, do they not? i rememer that song something about 40 days...(noah? rain?)

12:02 pm

it's from their first album, which is self-titled.

12:02 pm

even the band name is a biblical reference...i think/

12:02 pm

jars of clay is a really good band!

12:02 pm

they are christian - yes.

12:02 pm

i liked them, but not the entire album, therefore never bought another.

12:03 pm

indeed it is..."we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this power is from God and not from us"

12:03 pm

takes a lot to become a pop (forgive the term) band with a message.... i give them props.

12:04 pm

hey does anyone have the ak 5 word?

12:04 pm

hey hey -- Moshe wandered around in circles for 40 years, lest we forget. Pre-jc.

12:05 pm

as one of lost tribes, yeah, foo on me for forgetting...this being the passover time of year... :-0) my bad mab.

12:05 pm

well mab, it's all biblical, anyway...and the 40 days song referred to, flood, is more referring to noah, which is even pre-mosaic!

12:05 pm

Scribble - ak5=character from Kipling's "The Jungle Book", or a name given to a Scout leader......

12:06 pm

hurshy you listen to jars of clay

12:06 pm

it was funny to me that flood was the first single released, i think it's my least favorite song on that album

12:06 pm

Scribble ak + 2nd vowel + stick letter + 1st vowel then for th 6 make plural

12:06 pm

yes shorty, i love them

12:06 pm

me too cool

12:07 pm

:)

12:07 pm

thank you faerie!

12:07 pm

{{{Shorty}}}

12:07 pm

Scribble-your welcome :)

12:07 pm

{{{{{faerie}}}}}

12:07 pm

Scribble - did ya see my clue as well?

12:08 pm

OMG-I just got the first 3 ca's without clues...

12:08 pm

movieman- yes and thank you for trying to help but i am a little slow and didnt understand your clue. Sorry!

12:08 pm

Hey movieman-what's shakin'?

12:08 pm

movieman, your icon make me think of the ring, with the woman brushing her hair in the video

12:09 pm

some the online dictionary doesn't have....how do we qualify ?

12:09 pm

'are ya ready boots? Start walkin! duh duh, duh duh duh, duh duh, etc.' oh lord, i'm starting to quote the log. hi shorty.

12:10 pm

I'm absolutely over the moon, faerie..... My team, Chelsea, won yet again, by 4 goals to 1 despite having a man sent off in the first half........ And despite what Sir Alex Ferguson says, I still believe Chelsea have done too much to be denied a second consecutive title.......

12:10 pm

Mab - LOL - one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you...

12:11 pm

now who's gonna clean the general lee?

12:12 pm

hey mab

12:12 pm

Movieman-Fantastic - and I agree about Chelsea.

12:12 pm

Chelsea does deserve the title with a record like that.

12:14 pm

brb phone

12:14 pm

ok, time for some serious focused monkey typing

12:15 pm

are you guys still seeing boots or a man?

12:15 pm

greco-roman mythology is so interesting, in part because it continues to be who we are. not surprising since the basis/source of anglo culture is hellenism, which bumped into earliest Judaic culture in spite of.....zzzzzz.

12:15 pm

I agree, faerie, Chelsea just did too much in the first half of the season and built up too big a lead points-wise..... And many are saying that they are going through a 'blip', but I reckon if you are gonna falter, you're better off doing it when there's only 4 or 5 matches left.....

12:15 pm

mob...you had a good start. put yourself to sleep, eh? theology major?

12:15 pm

who got their stuff from Egypt & Sumeria & Assyria, etc

12:16 pm

see a man now shorty - boots before the refresh

12:16 pm

ok ty

12:17 pm

thats me finished bye all

12:18 pm

bye hannah lou!

12:18 pm

Stidmama, are you Iris?

12:19 pm

hi shorty, Shadow, movieman... my mother called and I disappeared. down to 66 words, going to get the list. later all!

12:19 pm

Vicuna! yes! you are the first person to know that! you get a gold star!

12:20 pm

noah, pre-mosaic, oh yeah..... fig, my father was a wandering aramaen (sp). oh right, the grid.

12:20 pm

are you pandora?

12:20 pm

Ooh, yippeee! A gold star for me! (It helps tide me over, since I've got 108 words still to find.)

12:21 pm

And yes, I am Pandora. Gold star for you, too!

12:21 pm

I'm back... catching up on the chat... jars of clay is from II Corinthians 4:7... the things I know...

12:21 pm

i like gold stars! and pink stars, and crystal stars... and chocolate... here, have a bit of chocolate waffle!

12:22 pm

Gold stars are good, but chocolate makes the world go round.

12:22 pm

gold star for jera too :) my monkeys are letting me down

12:23 pm

bb later gonna eat

12:23 pm

im back! hurshy it wont let me sign on IM

12:23 pm

*spinning* okay, I really do have to go get that list and get going... have a lovely grid, people!

12:23 pm

that's weird, bex!

12:23 pm

Bye!

12:23 pm

Good idea Mom!

12:24 pm

bye

12:24 pm

hey stidmatt

12:25 pm

miss p, cute kitty

12:25 pm

thanks

12:25 pm

finished the C's with dimished capacity! Yay!

12:25 pm

so bex - is your mom all hung over or what, lol

12:26 pm

no! she had a good time but shes not hung over!

12:26 pm

oh, that's good :)

12:27 pm

The ca's are today's re's...

12:28 pm

atalante, are you lurking?

12:30 pm

c's are done...... Gotta go, the Simpsons are on..... Be back in half an hour.....

12:31 pm

(oops, during all this talk of gold st4/4's, I didn't realize it was a grid word today.)

12:31 pm

done! anyone need a clue before I go?

12:32 pm

welld one macuser!

12:32 pm

throw out some k clues, mac, maybe you'll hit a winner

12:32 pm

You wouldn't have to have very good aim!

12:33 pm

Thanks bex :) lol, at random, hurshy?

12:33 pm

well i need 4 of them

12:33 pm

yes mac go ahead!!

12:33 pm

Courtesy of Sprite: Ka5/6: measure(s) of the purity of gold Ka4/5: pile(s) of rocks, alt. spelling Ke4: brownish-green mountain-dwelling New Zealand parrots Ke4: smoking materials, such as Indian hemp, used especially in the Maghreb, or the euphoria caused by smoking them Ky4: cocoanut fiber, or the cordage made from it. Sounds like what seagulls say. Ky4/5: Myanmar currency + plural. Rhymes with the gold K-word.

12:34 pm

how many words today?

12:34 pm

Beat me to it, mab, lol

12:34 pm

203 words today!

12:34 pm

203

12:36 pm

I thought the ka5 & 6 was a breed of cat

12:38 pm

thanks mab (and sprite) got 'em all now!

12:38 pm

I have the coffee container ca7/44. Any clues for the other ca7s? Thanks!

12:39 pm

mac, now how about some random a clues. make 'em for the weirdos, now!

12:40 pm

hurshy - do you have the ak?

12:40 pm

yes i did get those from earlier clues

12:40 pm

Thanks for the clues Mab!

12:41 pm

ca4/5 + ea4/4 ...run them together for the other ca7

12:41 pm

the al's?

12:41 pm

Hurshy, measurement of land with plural, measurement of a room, with plural, a + tool to rid leaves minus the e, plural

12:41 pm

yes the al's please....

12:41 pm

1st hebrew letter and its plurals for 'al' and, nickname for someone that drinks too much

12:42 pm

aha - that tool one was a winner, jee

12:42 pm

al + the Keebler's creature, minus a consonant, then plural

12:43 pm

and the nickname one! five points each to fig and jee!

12:43 pm

clues on the 9 or 10 letter words?

12:43 pm

Thanks Jera, I am still looking, but I am sure your clues will be very helpful!

12:43 pm

my last 2 a's are from row 4 column 4

12:44 pm

shadow - if you don't have your baby "naturally"

12:44 pm

hurshy, about not anear, but a***

12:44 pm

hurshy - do you have the sound a dog makes?

12:45 pm

ooh, got one! just one to go!

12:45 pm

good grief, that counts? thanks mac!!

12:45 pm

ty--understood

12:45 pm

five points plus one to mac for my last A word!

12:45 pm

wtg hurshy ! :)

12:46 pm

oh i'm not DONE, just with a's

12:46 pm

i have 20 more to go

12:46 pm

lots of r's and s's

12:47 pm

I will have to get used to a new person named Shadow... I keep thinking you all are talking to me (my fll Name is Jera Shadowdancer & many call be Shadow for short).

12:47 pm

oh okay - and thanks for the point! I can use all I can get ;)

12:47 pm

All finished!

12:47 pm

Congrats Angel!

12:47 pm

mac, that was SIX points, i just said them dramatically :)

12:48 pm

hello other Shadow...ya'll can call me Duke, Jason, Richard, Shadow, or ShadowHyrst...just don't call me late for food!

12:48 pm

long words are on the same root....olde spelling of a ruler of rome, the birth style.

12:49 pm

Gosh, thanks hurshy! :)

12:49 pm

you get five more every time you guess a word i'm missing :)

12:50 pm

lol, sounds like a good deal to me :)

12:51 pm

of course they are like the points on "whose line is it anyway?" they don't really count for anything... :( just my love and esteem

12:51 pm

Hurshy do you have the comparative and superlative of sa4?

12:51 pm

I'll take love and esteem over points any day :)

12:52 pm

it's sa4 to say i do!

12:52 pm

Do you have the re4 that say sa4?

12:53 pm

do you have the sk's?

12:53 pm

indeedy

12:53 pm

sk - now you're talking!

12:53 pm

Okay, guess you are going to have to give me clues, cause I am out of clever ones for you.

12:54 pm

ok i just got 2 sk's are there more?

12:54 pm

sk5/18 and its plural for the 6

12:54 pm

nope, that's it

12:54 pm

yeah, i only have 16 to go, jee, so they are probably mostly weirdos

12:54 pm

alrighty - only need one more from THAT s

12:55 pm

39 left. any clues for the sk's?

12:55 pm

Weirdos abound in here.

12:55 pm

sk sounds like a thing of wool but spelled funny

12:55 pm

hurshy - do you have a re5/16?

12:56 pm

got it. (sheepishly)

12:57 pm

no mac i do not!!! you are racking up points now!

12:57 pm

:)

12:57 pm

got 'em

12:57 pm

once you find it, make it a plural also

12:57 pm

nm

12:58 pm

that leaves just 2 r's, from the top

12:58 pm

You've got us pegged, JeeWhiz! ;>

12:58 pm

se7/28?

12:58 pm

top left?

12:58 pm

top...middle

12:58 pm

Do you have the tool to gather leaves?

12:59 pm

se7/28 add onto the se4/4 above it

12:59 pm

se7/28 = the most se4/4 above it

12:59 pm

jera, i'll try not to be insulted by that :)

1:00 pm

do you have the ry's?

1:00 pm

oh, kind of like mommy de7

1:00 pm

The tool that you use to make pile of leaves in the fall is ra 4/8.

1:00 pm

Arrrrrrggggghhhhh, there are way too many ca words today!!!

1:00 pm

i have 2 ry 4's

1:01 pm

hurshy, there are 2 more

1:01 pm

does anyone have the ca 10 word?

1:02 pm

4's? 5's? ca10 is pl of ca9 when you don't have your baby "naturally"

1:02 pm

ok, everyone....there's a new section in the sidebar of the Resource page (both pages are the same). I've added a section for Babblers' Homepages, and the first link is now up in that section!

1:02 pm

scribble, plural of the ca9 - unatural birth

1:02 pm

ry4/10 and its plural

1:02 pm

The ca 10 is a variation of cesarean.

1:03 pm

got 'em!

1:03 pm

Yay hurshy!

1:03 pm

Hurshy it's kind of like that le4 tool again

1:04 pm

i still need 5 s's from the right side which seems a little ridiculous

1:04 pm

and i have only 4's and 5's remaining

1:04 pm

I still need 7 of those right sided s's.

1:05 pm

10 to go - you guys are speeding me right along

1:05 pm

do you havev a se5/12?

1:05 pm

sorry but i cant figure out the cesarean clue. im sp-ed sorry

1:06 pm

how many words todY?

1:06 pm

start it with cae..(old school latin)

1:06 pm

now i do, thanks mac!!! 5 more points for you!

1:06 pm

actually, there are two se5/12's

1:07 pm

dont' have either se5/12 , clues please

1:07 pm

5 MORE points, go mac!

1:08 pm

care to try your hand at my missing e from the center box, mac? you're on fire today.

1:08 pm

se is something akin to whats in hypodermic needle.

1:08 pm

i have the cae 6 but the 10 is still evasive.....sorry if i seem dumb

1:08 pm

hurshy - do you have es5/18?

1:09 pm

se 5 sounds like fe 5...rhymes.

1:09 pm

and he hits it again! woohoo mac! for the ca10, make sure you start with the top left c

1:09 pm

scrib: it's the same word your were typing, but just add the two endings....and use the alternate beginning (cae***ean...and plural)

1:10 pm

ok mac, down to 2 f's from top, one from 3rd row, and 4 stinkin' s's from the right

1:11 pm

hurshy: almost identicial stats. i'll be watching to see what clues comeup. also have 2k's left..ugh.

1:11 pm

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! i must be mental...

1:12 pm

fr4/7?

1:12 pm

Do you have the fy's?

1:12 pm

like sorority for boys? have that

1:12 pm

think college campus, and it's plural

1:12 pm

ohh, i bet you need the fy's?

1:13 pm

i also have the scottish one

1:13 pm

i bet i do!

1:13 pm

yes. FY please...

1:13 pm

fy4/13 and its plural

1:13 pm

got 'em

1:13 pm

do you have the fr that rhymes with the donkey's behind?

1:14 pm

akin to the thing that holds back water ('cept with an f...)..who would thunk. thanks.

1:14 pm

yes jee, thanks. need one more from that 3rd row though.

sheesh...I'm stuck at 26 to go; but I'm closing down for a while

1:15 pm

one 'f' left...from the third row...brain pounding.

1:15 pm

fr4/9?

1:15 pm

Well, it's naptime for me & the littlies... see you all later...

1:15 pm

Thanks JeeWhiz!

1:16 pm

Bye Jera

1:16 pm

Must be a good f since we are all missing one in that row.

1:16 pm

that's from top, isn't it mac? i'm thinking it's prob a 5 anyway...

1:17 pm

fe4/7? sounds like to touch something

1:17 pm

off for a bit. good luck peeps.

1:18 pm

some 5's from lower f: opp of true, rhymes with p--- porridge hot

1:18 pm

Still missing three of the 9 e's from the centre..... I have the ea4/4 (the lordly title & the plural), another 3 ea4/4's (to be comfortable, the direction & consumes), and the ey4/6 (A nestling hawk or falcon, especially one to be trained for falconry)...... What are the other 3 plz.....

1:18 pm

have that... pretty sure it's a 5, bc i have 2 5's and a 4 left, so the 4 and one 5 are prob a combo from the s

1:18 pm

or fe5/16... not the one that's a meal

1:18 pm

five points to vi for the porridge clue!

1:19 pm

right you are mac

1:19 pm

fe5/16 fe +ea4 to relax

1:19 pm

two more ey's

1:19 pm

the only 4/5 combo is fe brave deed

1:19 pm

good clue vicuna

1:20 pm

no vi, sorry if i was confusing, it's an S combo that i will need (assuming it IS a combo)

1:20 pm

and ye olde es5 that mac clued me in on

1:20 pm

(ok i am giving those e clues, not asking, just to be clear)

1:21 pm

Oh, okay. I haven't got enough s's yet to offer clues on those.

1:21 pm

what's left hurshy?

1:21 pm

ey sounds like a man's name Ira, with its plural

1:21 pm

s4 and s5 from right. have monkeyed so much don't see what's left!!!

1:23 pm

hurshy... do you have the sn's?

1:24 pm

thank you mac!! 10 for the words plus 1000 for finishing me off!

1:24 pm

sn4/6 and its plural

1:24 pm

lol, you're welcome hurshy :) it was fun trying to guess what you didn't have

1:25 pm

i know, i love doing that!

1:26 pm

okay, I'm outta here. Happy babbling everyone :) Bye!

1:27 pm

bye mac!

1:27 pm

Toodle-oo, macuser.

1:29 pm

la 5/10 anyone? I'm drawing a blank...

1:30 pm

la 5/10 l + ar4 (greek god!)

1:30 pm

carpe felis!

1:30 pm

thanks, hurshy!

1:31 pm

la5/10 - in keeping with today's theme, Roman household gods, sounds like dens where animals lurk

1:41 pm

Desperately need help with my last k..... Here's what I have so far: Ka5/6: measure(s) of the purity of gold (ka5/18 & ka6/30) Ka4/5: pile(s) of rocks, alt. spelling (ka4/8 & ka5/18) Ke4: brownish-green mountain-dwelling New Zealand parrots (ke4/8) Ke4: smoking materials, such as Indian hemp, used especially in the Maghreb, or the euphoria caused by smoking them (ke4/11) Ky4: cocoanut fiber, or the cordage made from it. Sounds like what seagulls say.(ky4/10) Ky4/5: Myanmar currency + plural. Rhymes with the gold K-word. (ky4/10 & ky5/22) What is the other one plz.......

1:43 pm

ka4/8 - just rearrange your parrot a bit

hey, everyone; hope this doesn't seem a stupid question, but i'm brand new here as of yesterday.....if you have friends that join can you 'add' them somehow?

1:44 pm

yo wazzup

1:45 pm

oooooooh poor parrot! that sounds painful!

1:46 pm

What's wrong with having your beak in your wingpit? :)

1:46 pm

Thanx Vicuna.....

1:46 pm

Atalante, why don't you get your namesake for an icon today?

1:47 pm

atalante, THERE you are!

1:47 pm

I suppose I could do ... but I've always loved Selene, so I've got her and Endymion

1:49 pm

are you finished ata?

1:50 pm

not quite ... been curled up on the sofa with the kitten for the afternoon!

1:50 pm

Ah yes, I can see her crescent on her head now.

1:50 pm

mmm, that sounds nice. carpe felis!

1:52 pm

bye all! Hurshy, I didn't need any clues repeated for me today...;-)

1:53 pm

yay artlady :)

1:55 pm

do you guys remember me?!?!?!

2:00 pm

of course we do hilary/narnia fan!

Hello? is my dialogue showing up?

2:01 pm

does ne body have ca10/77? hints plz:)

2:01 pm

yes mikey

2:01 pm

ca10 pl of ca9 when you give birth "unnaturally"

2:02 pm

Freckle - ca10=plural of an alternative method of giving birth....(too posh to push)......

thanks, hurshy; well, i asked several minutes ago....'hey, everyone; hope this doesn't seem a stupid question, but i'm brand new here as of yesterday.....if you have friends that join can you 'add' them somehow?' i've been trying to find some info on this in the site, but haven't come across any yet? :-/

2:03 pm

movieman - to quote rachel from friends... "no uterus, no opinion"

2:03 pm

i think we didn't understand your question, mikey. they need to add themselves. or if you mean can you have a list of friends, the answer is no.

me either, hurshy :-P

ah, right hurshy; that is what i meant, sorry....and thanks!

2:06 pm

lmao.....is ok mikey.....i know where to find you!!

2:06 pm

narnia_fan, how have you been???

2:06 pm

ca9 doesn't make ne cents

2:07 pm

I think i know what ca9 is but it wont take it

2:08 pm

it makes big bucks for the doctors who perform it, i think

2:08 pm

I looked it up on google

2:09 pm

movieman, thanks for great K clues, and hurshy, too, or the c 9 & 10. Four of my eight grandchildren were born c10.

2:09 pm

there - that's better - close-up of my Selene pic now. You can actually see her and Endymion now!

2:09 pm

Freckle - start with the name of a famous Roman emperor, Julius C*****, then go from there......

2:09 pm

check last 3 letters of ca 9 - freckle - they might not be what you have tried

2:10 pm

nice, atalante

2:11 pm

thnx guys! that's a big one

2:13 pm

yw, Freckle....

Gabbyn??? :-o uh oh; you really do.....yikes; question is, what are you going to do, now you've found me? :-P

2:14 pm

should I stop faffing about with pics now and finish the grid? *ponders*

2:14 pm

how many to go, ata?

2:16 pm

atalante - pictures are too complicated for me, I have to stick to the grid

2:17 pm

Hi guys : )

2:17 pm

loly!

2:19 pm

did you ever download AIM as i suggested, lola dear?

2:19 pm

Hey hursh! How you doing? : )

2:19 pm

i'm fine, except for a little cold

2:19 pm

Oops! No, completely forgot....sorry : /

2:20 pm

you should, it's soooo much easier for chatting

2:21 pm

*lola hands hurshy box of tissues* Aww, sorry to hear that. I've had so many colds this winter that it feels like I've been permanently sick : /

2:22 pm

hursh, I will...I promise! Just takes lola awhile to get to things sometimes (I blame the toddler!) : )

2:22 pm

i had a cold or two in the fall... was fine all winter... now that it's spring i get one... i guess it's the changing temps that throw me

2:23 pm

lola, i don't think i even knew you had a kid!

2:24 pm

hursh, she'll be four next month : )

2:24 pm

nice :)

2:28 pm

Hurrah!!!!! It's doneness dance time....... Yippeeeeeee!!!!!! Care to join me anyone?!!!!!!

2:28 pm

*dances*

2:29 pm

*sits down dizzy. should not dance with cold.*

2:29 pm

Woot! Go movieman! *grabs m/m by the hand and boogies with him*

2:29 pm

Who's up for the Timewarp, then?!!!!

Timewarp!

2:30 pm

*sings* well put your hands on your hips, and bring your knees in tight!

2:30 pm

Well done! [shame about your footie allegiance!]

it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insaaaaaaane!

2:31 pm

Ooooh! Fightin' talk! : D

2:31 pm

please a clue for ra6/18 anyone......i

2:32 pm

*sings* Let's do the time warp agaaaaaaaaaain!

2:32 pm

Let's do the Timewarp agaaaaaaaiiiiiinnnnn!!!!!!!

2:32 pm

lol.....mikey.....you dont even wanna know

2:32 pm

if I told you you'd run away and hide from me

2:33 pm

ra6 - you need to ra6 that thar pig to the ground

huh? :-o uhm.....why's that, Gabbyn???

2:33 pm

LOL! Nice one hursh! : D

2:34 pm

duct tape.......spray paint.........bbbwwhhaahaaaa!! !

2:34 pm

(it's my second go-round with that clue - o'chita wanted to know how many pigs i'd ra6d)

2:34 pm

yew aint skeered are ya?

2:34 pm

hurshy ...thanks so much ...a great clue!!!

duct tape and spray paint? :-/ for.....what? :-P

2:35 pm

movieman - I'm a westham fan, you will forgive me for not being in the mood for the timewarp!

2:35 pm

...and how many have you hursh?? lol : D

2:35 pm

hey mikey

2:35 pm

well i'm just glad you brits understand american hick terminology

2:36 pm

none - i'm a new england intellectual, lol

2:36 pm

and lolalulutotootu

2:36 pm

gabbyn, I don't know whether he should be scared or excited! : D

Hey, evanonut.....nice to see you!!! :-D

2:36 pm

hursh, there are hicks EVERYWHERE! Hey nut! : )

2:37 pm

hows your babbling going mikey

2:37 pm

hursh, notice lola intelligently greets me after mentioning hicks are everywhere.

2:37 pm

mikey's skeered of me!!!! lmao......who ya all callin a hick?!?!

2:38 pm

nut, I trust things go well with the hubbynut?

2:38 pm

lol nut

well; it's going i suppose, evanonut.....only found 70 words so far, though :-/

2:38 pm

LOL! Wow, only been playing for 20 minutes and I'm already in trouble 8 )

2:38 pm

lola - going quite well, one more week of chemo at home, then back to the ole hospital.

hmm; i don't know whether to be scared of you or not, Gabbyn? i mean, you're going to fix your ductwork or spray paint it, i assume? hmm, ja; that's terrifying me :-P

2:39 pm

the 2nd (I think)ar5/10 will not come to me ...help please

2:39 pm

Mikey's scared of duct tape and spray paint. I have to tease him with them

2:40 pm

Well nut, tell him lola said hang in there. Are you taking care of yourself?

2:40 pm

first, but latin pl instead of regular, mo

hmm.....i *am*, Gabbyn? :-P

2:40 pm

gabbyn, if he's truly as hairy as he claimed to be, i'd be scared of duct tape too!

2:40 pm

oh no!!! spraypainting my duct work wasn't what I was talking about!!!! lmao.......you know.......that hairy chest thing .......roflmao!!!!

2:40 pm

gabbyn, the duct tape I get...but where are you going to spraypaint him??

oh no, evanonut; you're undergoing chemotherapy? :-( sorry, didn't know that? wow.....sure hope it all goes well!

2:41 pm

he is hairy!!! I've seen previews!! ;) hahhahahahaaa

2:41 pm

not me mikey - my hubby

*starts to worry* :-/

2:42 pm

evanout.....go look at his profile!! he's not claiming to be hairy!!!!! lmao.....he IS!!!!

oh; i see, evanonut.....well still, i'm very sorry to hear that :-( and i hope it all works out well for him, i really do

2:43 pm

evanout......I hope things go well with the chemo for your hubby

2:43 pm

* runs off to mikeys profile *

oh god, Gabbyn; sheesh.....is this 'embarrass me day' or what??? :-/ some people; can't take'em anywhere :-P

2:43 pm

roflmao.......uh oh......she's comin back with more duct tape!!!!!!!!

2:44 pm

MAYBE some hott waxx?

2:44 pm

hurshy thanks for your clue ...but still dont have it!!

2:44 pm

change the last letter on the one you do have, mo

2:44 pm

LOL - mikey could give hubbynut a run for the money!

2:44 pm

lmao.....you should know better by now, shouldn't you?? : D

2:45 pm

lmao.....I don't have a clue either!

2:45 pm

Hey gang I'm back for more abuse.

2:46 pm

mikey, you know taking me anywhere with you involves me embarassing you!!

hmm, evanonut? :-/

2:46 pm

for hairiest mikey.

2:46 pm

hurshy ...got it now ...i am such a dumbhead!!!

2:46 pm

mikey, you're german?

2:46 pm

looked at profile, now completely distracted - how much duct tape?

2:47 pm

hey faerie! : )

2:47 pm

lmao....I don't know how much duct tape!! might need lots!!

2:48 pm

don't ask Mikey if he's german!! he'll start typing in it and then we'll all be lost!

2:48 pm

any help with the ca6/36 pleeease!

ja, das ist richtig, Lola; halb deutsch, und auch halb englisch

2:48 pm

Hi Lola - just looking at Mikey *drool*

2:48 pm

can I answer for you since you're bein slow Mikey?? can I ?? can I ?? huh,huh?!?!

ja, faeriekae; i'm starting to think that's what's on offer here today, all right! :-P lol

2:49 pm

dang it....there he goes!!!!!

2:49 pm

Mikey, ek is van Suid Afrika af...as ons baie staadig praat meskien kan ons mekaar verstaan?? : )

2:49 pm

I can't do the grid and I'm English, god knows how i would manage in German.

2:50 pm

hey!! I actually understood what you said this time Mikey!!! Been hangin around you too long!!

lol; yes, i understand your Dutch, Lola :-)

2:50 pm

LOL Mikey - I must say you are one handsome man. If only I could find one here in Michigan that isn't an ass I'd be a very happy faerie :)

2:51 pm

Dis afrikaans mikey ; )

wow, Lola; well i don't speak Dutch at all, but i can read a fair amount of it, and that looks *very* similar, and made sense to me! :-o

2:52 pm

lmao......she don't want my opinion of men, does she Mikey?? lmao....good luck on fiding one that isn't an ass......they're all hiding in germany!! hahahaa

2:52 pm

mo think of what you pack clothes in add a small insect omit middle letter of insect

aw; Gabbyn....thanks, that's sweet; but also not true.....we have our share of die arschen here too! :-P

2:53 pm

Any clues for re5/16 please

2:54 pm

You guys should meet my neightbor Brian...

2:54 pm

mikey, ja, it's closer to dutch than german but similar to both I think? I find it easier to read dutch or german, I think the accents make them more difficult to understand : )

2:54 pm

lol.....I gues you might be right mikey.......it's a lost cause!!

2:54 pm

OH no my asshole is here now. Gotta go. Gotta get rid of him bbl

2:54 pm

found a perfectly good one in pa

2:55 pm

lol...she left!! I wanted to know if her neighbor was hairy or an ass!! lmao...maybe he's a hairy ass!! ;)

there you are, Gabbyn; evanonut found a good one right in PA.....that's not far from you! ;-)

2:56 pm

re 5/16 - refute or disprove

why'd you want to know if her neighbour was hairy, Gabbyn? :-/

2:56 pm

jean thanks so much ,i think i would have been here forever with that one

2:56 pm

the key is to find one who's weirdness falls in line with your weirdness.

2:57 pm

yw mo :)

2:57 pm

lmao......you know I'm not looking for any of that right now!! and there's plenty right here where I'm at Mikey....as you already know!! ;)

2:58 pm

she said we should meet her neighbor Brian

2:58 pm

lmao.....evanout has no clue as to my kind of weirdness!!!!! lmao

2:59 pm

maybe he's sasquatch

2:59 pm

there can't be anyone that falls in the same line of weirdnes that I have!! well....wait....there is BUBBA!!!!

3:00 pm

does bubba have teeth.

3:00 pm

how many words are there today?

lol, i know, Gabbyn.....and ja; that 'Bubba' is pretty hot stuff!!! :-P *gag me* but.....why'd you want to know if her neighbour's hairy? :-/

not many, or many that aren't broken, evanonut!!! :-D lmao!!!

3:01 pm

jean ..there are 203

3:01 pm

bubba has a few teeth I think!! he's soooo handsonme....looks like jethro on beverly hillbillies...kind of...but cuter!!

3:02 pm

thanx mo im nowhere near that lol never mind its fun anyway

3:02 pm

jean ..and 2451 points

3:03 pm

she said we should meet her neghbor Brian....we were talking about hairy and asses......lmao...so was wondering why we should meet her neighbor!!

3:03 pm

oh good grief ive only got half of that lol

oh, ok Gabbyn; makes sense though really, 'cos you just *love* hairy assed men, don't you? ;-)

3:07 pm

jean...thats what it is all about....fun fun fun ...enjoy

3:08 pm

i certainly do mo and im fairly new to this and addicted already

3:09 pm

dippnall - sorry I'm being really thick and still haven't got it.

3:09 pm

mo, we sucked another one in! * pats jean on the back *

only 80 words so far :-/

3:10 pm

lmao evanonut im definitely sucked in lol

3:11 pm

um, I may need the fish for this one but....is the se7 a compound word?

3:11 pm

evan ...indeed we have ...why should we have all the pleasure!

3:12 pm

especially since it makes us enjoy it more mo.

hello everyone!

3:12 pm

i agree evan

3:12 pm

no, lola, it's a superlative

3:13 pm

hey temple! : )

3:13 pm

* grabs 72 from behind and spins her around * - hey 72, gotcha!

Temple Owl!!!!! :-D wow; hello again!!!

3:13 pm

aargh! thanks hursh...had not even seen that ending : /

hey, Temple Owl.....meet my, uhm.....friend? ja; that's it i guess.....Gabbyn! ;-) hehe!

3:13 pm

time to give it a break for a while night everyone

3:14 pm

Mikey...I never told you I liked hairy assed men!! lmao....only chasing them around with duct tape .....hot wax.......lmao.....run mikey run!!

who i've just introduced to Literati, and this game :-)

oh; i'm safe then, Gabbyn, 'cos i'm not hairy-assed :-P

3:14 pm

yer uhmmmmmm friend?? wow......you had to think about that?? gheesh!!

gee - have i come at a bad time?

3:14 pm

'bye jean...come back soon! : )

3:15 pm

time for a break night everyone

3:15 pm

bad time 72? why?

3:15 pm

uhhmmmmmmmmmm........that aplies to your hairy assed chest mikey!!!roflmao!!

3:15 pm

oops seem to have sent same message twice lol

can someone please give me the first letters of the 8, 9 and the other two 7's?

3:16 pm

they're all CA temple

whaaat, Gabbyn??? :-/ uhm; no.....i don't have an 'ass' there! :-P

3:17 pm

night night jean see you soon

heck - my board has only 4 letters - guess it's time to refresh : ) ty hursh - gues it's a good ting two fo those 4 are c's? : /

3:18 pm

goodnight all ..time for a nightcap,and then bed!!

3:18 pm

lol, yes temple :)

3:20 pm

lol.....hairy assed.....just a figure of speech...wasn't implying you had an ass there mikey

3:20 pm

is 4pm too early for a nightcap?

3:20 pm

'nite mo, sweet dreams : )

3:21 pm

*lola pours round of babble champers for everyone* nut, of course not!

3:21 pm

no evanout....it's not too early!! it'll be late before we know it!!

3:21 pm

oh goody

3:22 pm

no burping the alphabet Mikey.....that's my job!!

3:23 pm

* nudges lola and whispers * - that gabbyn one is giddy already, make hers grape juice.

ah; well that's good to know, Gabbyn.....'cos i'd be seriously deformed, in that case! :-P and, when/where was i 'burping' anything here? :-/ you're right; that's definitely your forte! :-P hehe!

3:24 pm

*whispers back* ...but she's the entertainment for tonight nut! ; )

3:25 pm

lmao!! hey!! I heard that!! *takes out bottle from pocket* **hiccough!!** ooopsss!! grape juice? I'll take it for a chaser!!!

3:25 pm

your champers lola - i was just angling for an extra glass anyway.

3:25 pm

*lola tops up gabbyn's champers* : )

3:26 pm

lmao......alright Mikey......I just can't hold it in no more!!!!!!

3:26 pm

guess i'll have to get into the whisky

3:26 pm

nut, you know that lola's champers is free flowing...all you have to do is ask ; )

3:26 pm

I have a question: does anyone know of any resorces or links that are not currently included on the resource page that would be helpful to include?

3:27 pm

Woot! Lola ditches the champers and joins nut in some whiskey shots! : D

3:27 pm

angel, you could always put in a good link to find icons.

3:27 pm

whut in tarnashun is champers ya all??

3:27 pm

I saw the word champers & knew Lola was in the house, LOL!

3:27 pm

yippee skippee lola, but here we hit straight off the bottle - * hands over bottle of crown *

3:28 pm

lol, it's champagne gabbyn : )

3:28 pm

'nut: there is a link for Google image search already listed.

3:28 pm

eva: I'm back - I had to write a story about my Mom. Do you want to see it?

3:28 pm

what's the theme today -- hot guys?

3:28 pm

angel, sorry, should have inspected your page closer klone, sure thing!

3:29 pm

Hey jera! *pours jera large glass of chilled champers* thanks nut! *takes bottle, wipes top and takes a large swig*

3:29 pm

oh no......champaign aint muh thang! thems jager bombs dew the trick fer me!! haha boom!! give sum ta mikey thoh....he aint gotrs enuff hair on his chest....think hes needin sum more!

3:29 pm

eva: I need an email address, or I can put it on the web - your choice

hmm; nobody offered me any champers, but that's fine.....we have a bottle of a very fine vintage dom Perignon here, anyhow ;-) and i'm not sharing, either! :-P

3:30 pm

guirrl, that is a fab idea (it's greek myths, but I like yours better!). Shall we go pick up some hot guys?? ; )

3:30 pm

klone: evanofan@yahoo.com

3:30 pm

aint taht watur mikey?

3:30 pm

veuve clicquot la grande dame for me! :)

3:30 pm

theme: greek mythology

3:31 pm

mikey, firstly, lola ALWAYS pours for everyone. I'm not going to beg ya to take a glass! Secondly, we all share her otherwise I have to use the mommy voice! ; )

lol; no Gabby.....not water! :-P and i think i have more than i want already, thanks :-/

3:31 pm

mikey im gonna hafta be gittin hear purdie soon!

3:31 pm

but lola, greek myths was anj's suggestion, aren't you being disloyal? :)

3:32 pm

lols, does that mean i have to share the whiskey too?

3:32 pm

i dint kno yew were much of a drinker...want sum litnin??

lol, Lola.....ok! ;-)

well, no; i'm not, Gabbyn.....but once in a while, a glass is nice ;-)

3:33 pm

eva: in the mail. LMK what you think, I'm going to go off-chat again

3:33 pm

nut, yes! *holds out hand for whisky bottle* hursh, it was?? Well then, it's up to the other babblers. Should I get a hot guy icon or be loyal??

3:34 pm

good boy mikey ; )

of course i'm a good boy, Lola; i'm a 'little angel'.....just ask my mom! ;-)

3:36 pm

i'm for loyalty (and i like the myths anyway)

3:36 pm

mikey, don't be too good now or else I won't be able to put you on the naughty step... ; )

3:37 pm

*sigh* Does anyone else miss JoelGee??

3:37 pm

okay hursh, who should I be then?

3:37 pm

YES! i had a huge babble crush on him. where did he go???

3:38 pm

lola...be danae, maybe?

3:38 pm

i may not be JoelGee, but you guys dont need to miss ME any longer. ;)

3:39 pm

hello, evanadine!

3:39 pm

Hello Ev, Hurshy, Lola...everyone!

3:39 pm

hi angela :)

3:39 pm

get a hot guy greek god / hero icon, lola!

3:39 pm

hursh, he's a writer and I believe he found that babble was taking over so decided to spend more time writing. Wish he'd pop in now and then though. Okay, who was danae?

evanonut, are you evanofan too? i added you to my yahoo messenger, but it says 'add request pending' still; and i wanted to introduce you to Gabbyn there :-/

3:40 pm

hey evaN! How you doing?? : ) hey angela! : )

3:41 pm

ata, I'm off to google 'hot guy greek god/ hero' as we speak...lol! : D

3:41 pm

"Danae was the daughter of Acrisius. An oracle warned Acrisius that Danae's son would someday kill him, so Acrisius shut Danae in a bronze room, away from all male company. However, Zeus conceived a passion for Danae, and came to her through the roof, in the form of a shower of gold that poured down into her lap; as a result she had a son, Perseus."

hey, evaN! welcome back!

3:42 pm

im good! work has been so busy i havent had much babble time lately... vegetating this weekend though. :)

3:43 pm

hursh, that is rather romantic. Her very own passion?? I'm off to get an icon, back in a bit : )

3:46 pm

okay, refresh for danae : )

3:46 pm

mikey, yes, i'm evanofan too, remember the confusing convo? he EvaN, good to see.

3:47 pm

lola, i googled those images just now too and that was the one i liked best!!! yay!!

3:48 pm

hey hursh, great minds! I liked the naked one too (very arty) but didn't want to offend : )

3:49 pm

WHICH naked one - they almost all are!

3:50 pm

lol, the klimt one : )

3:51 pm

*catching up on chat* Mikey, you know, not all angels are sent from heaven above... ;>

3:52 pm

Back in the good old days it was not big deal to be naked... the old Olympics, everyone competed that way... of course, it was just guys...

3:52 pm

Angela... I like your icon... Pan was a great guy...

3:54 pm

Lola... wasn't JoelGee the guy who left soon after I proposed? i was just thinking about him the other day...

3:54 pm

anybody like the classic trek episode with apollo? he said not to bring spock down to see him because he reminded him of pan, and pan always bored him (no offense angela!)

3:55 pm

YOU proposed??? i was going to propose!!!

3:55 pm

Hi ya, kidz, how's it going?

3:56 pm

me and jera are having a moot fight over joelgee

3:56 pm

Haven't seen JoelGee in ages...

3:57 pm

hence the mootness

3:57 pm

CHIX DE CLIX!

3:57 pm

jera, lol! I don't remember who you proposed to! I miss lots of the old players...torgone, PAV3, bobsta, baggo, mtn.... : (

3:57 pm

Hey 'nut and Mikey!

3:58 pm

hi chic : )

3:58 pm

I'm feeling a little more awake now.

3:58 pm

torgone still comes around - and you can catch him over in sudoku

3:58 pm

Hi Lola!

3:59 pm

Can anyone help me fine a good icon page - I do the google search on profiles but it takes me ages to find one that has good pictures. Thanks :)

4:00 pm

hursh, yeah, the firewall they had put in on his work pc was down so he came by a few times! It was so nice to see him again : )

4:01 pm

I fell for him when he knew about the "fake millenium"... I'm a sucker for smart guys!

4:02 pm

he was just so witty, that's why i liked him

4:02 pm

'nut go to IM; I want to hear my new ringtone....

4:02 pm

What happened to them Lola... are they too busy sudoku-ing? Or just drifted away?

4:02 pm

mmm, very dry sense of humour : )

4:03 pm

chix, you mean send you one? okay

4:04 pm

Sorry i took off a bit ago... my 4 year old had the caterpillars out... fortunately they all survived the experience!

4:07 pm

jera, baggo is working in the ER now, so waaay less time to babble. JoelGee had to stop playing because his writing was suffering. Torgone had a nasty firewall installed at work and couldn't get into babble. mtn changed jobs and is too busy to play (although he did pop in a couple of times a few weeks ago). Bobsta has a new job AND is renovating the house he and bubbles have recently bought together. Don't know where PAV3 went...and I do fret over that periodically!

4:08 pm

Tee-hee! I just sent joelgee an e-mail!

4:09 pm

Good to know, Lola... I'm glad people keep in touch even if they aren't playing the grid...

4:10 pm

you have his email?? well if you email him again tell him i said hi.

4:11 pm

jera, send him another one! Tell him the babble girls are missing him! : D

4:14 pm

I just went to the ranking page, found his name & clicked on his bio... it has an e-mail

4:14 pm

just read your post Jera - thanks :)

4:14 pm

good evening all,its a long one again then

4:15 pm

We should ALL mail him!! LOL!

4:15 pm

i can't see me finishing this one, i only have 60 words so far

4:15 pm

That would make his day... or scare him to bits...

4:15 pm

hi scatty : ) jera, that's a great idea! : )

4:16 pm

somehow I don't think joel scares that easily... : )

stilll here, evanonut? you left the conference chat :-/

lol; you gals all trying to scare another guy now? ;-)

4:17 pm

Ok back again....and not happy

4:17 pm

Mikey, we're in IM. come join

4:17 pm

i see no clues in the recent log...is everyone done or something? all my guests are gone now - back to babble.

4:18 pm

oh dear, what's up faerie?

4:18 pm

Don't be jealous, Mikey, there's plenty of attention to go around... ;>

afternoon all I am really stuck on the sa 6/27 any clues pls and ty

4:18 pm

What's wrong, fellow faerie??

4:18 pm

Cliff - I really still just starting sorry I'm of no help at all

4:18 pm

jera, what is joelgee's address? is it in your profile or anything?

4:18 pm

hi cliff : ) ...clues?...words?...oh yeah!

4:18 pm

Hey cliff - it's been a pretty easy one so far *knock wood*

4:18 pm

Jera-My "friend" John is an asshole.

4:18 pm

sa6 most sa4

4:19 pm

I think those who are working are quiet & the rest of us are playing, cliffopa... can I help you, hon?

4:19 pm

Poor {{{faerie}}}

4:19 pm

i am having no luck with the y words. anything would be appreciated :)

4:19 pm

sa6 = most sa4/7

4:19 pm

He doesn't like ANY of my friends and is very judgemental of others. I just can't handle it any longer. I lost my job because of us seeing each other and now it is just getting worse. I'm ready to bale out.

Do Any Of YoU GuYs KnOw HoW mAny WoRdS tHeRe ArE ToDaY??

ty jera

4:20 pm

Bail, Faerie, bail...soon!

4:20 pm

The y's include a hairy beast, sweater material, & longing...

4:20 pm

203 words

4:21 pm

203 total, Natasha

ThAnKs BuNcHeS!

4:21 pm

Angela-thanks hon. I'm going to have to. I can't change who I am.

4:22 pm

Actually, ya4/10 = plural hairy beasts of burden... ox-like with long horns...

4:22 pm

ty jera - got those from your clues.

4:22 pm

ya4 - animals like buffalo ya4 - you knit with it ya5 - pl ye4 - rhymes with not nice ye5 - pl ye4 - 365 days ye5 - to long for ye6 - pl ye4 - not nays ye5 - makes the bread rise ye4 - y + moose-like animal ye5 - pl

4:22 pm

cliff, 12 months, what you knit with, wild shaggy haired oxen, to long for : )

4:22 pm

Sounding a bit OJ to me...not good.

4:22 pm

*bows low to hurshy's awesome clue-giving all in one fell swoop*

4:23 pm

Angela - by the way I had my very own 1990 Fatboy up until John and I started dating and he thought it was to dangerous for me to ride any longer. Too much traffic ;\

4:23 pm

oh, faerie... i'm sorry

4:23 pm

{{{{faerie}}}} *lola sprinkles some of the faerie dust she saved from her last sprinkling on faerie*

4:23 pm

Thanks Hurshy

4:23 pm

*blush*

4:24 pm

Thank you Lola *spinning in faerie dust* I think I might just smile :)

4:24 pm

WRONG! My hubby hated the idea of me getting my own bike and my license last year, but he went to the class WITH me and helped every step of the way. It shouldn't be like that.

4:25 pm

Angela - I know....I had that bike for 10yrs. and gone just like that.

4:25 pm

faerie, that sounds more like a control issue than concern for your safety : /

4:25 pm

I'm single after a long relationship and it has surprised me how much fun being single can be when there is no one to judge you. Bail and have some fun (after a pause for reflection)

4:26 pm

I've had bikes since I was 25yrs old I'm soon to be 47 I think I'm old enough.

4:26 pm

Well, that should be you then...gone...just like that, IMHO

4:26 pm

OMG you guys are awesome clue-givers. all y's are done!

4:26 pm

Oh faerie... to thine own self be true... don't let someone change you int eh name of love... you might not be you anymore if you let it go on too long!

4:26 pm

Lola - it is a control issue. Totally. I can't stand it. Plus I have a really bad habit. I smoke. It drives him crazy.

4:27 pm

Thank you everyone. I really needed to vent.

Does anyone have some clues to the R's

4:27 pm

Huzzah for cliffopa! How are you doing in the evil ca section??

4:27 pm

It sounds to me that even if you didn't smoke, he would find something that was wrong...

4:27 pm

hey cliffy!

down to my last word and can't find it can i pls have a clue for the se 7/28

4:28 pm

ok, there are too many r's to post 'em all...

4:28 pm

Angela-he would think the with drawl was fake or something stupid like that. LOL

4:28 pm

se7 - most se4

4:28 pm

anytime faerie.

4:28 pm

Hmm, I agree with jera. If you have to try to please someone all the time by being diferent from who you are then it's not the real thing.

4:28 pm

se7/28 = most se4/4 just above...

4:29 pm

at 47 surely it's up to you if you smoke or not (and ride a bike for that matter) we all know smoking is a bad habit (I'm a smoker too), but there comes a point of freedom of choice.

4:29 pm

got 15 of the ca's early this morning from the UK babblers. even got the 9 letter one.

ra4,8 ra5,18 ra4,4 ra5,10 ra4,4 ra5,10 ra6,18 ra4,4 ra4,6 ra5,14 re4,4 re5,10 re4,4 re5,16 re6,27 re4,7 re5,14 re4,4 ry4,6 ry4,6 ry4,10 ry5,22

ty ty ty

4:30 pm

evanonut! how u doin'? puzzle done?

4:30 pm

I was a ce9 baby, as were both of mine... so that one came pretty easily...

4:31 pm

i never finish puzzles cliffy, it's stresses me out if i try

4:32 pm

I can't be anyone but who I am. I am a free spirit and he is a stiff shirt. I'm just an old hippie through back and that's that. I love tie-die and baggy jeans and barefeet :)

4:32 pm

i was having a c9 conversation at our party today. re-telling the story of when the dr. asked if i wanted bikini cut or the other. i said to the dr "does this body look like it will ever wear a bikini?" i had been thru 20+ hrs of induced labor and told him to just take the damned baby out as fast as he could!!!

4:32 pm

Amen to that Ev. I think I've finished two :)

4:33 pm

think i finishe 3 or 4 angela, i've enough stress, now sudoku is another story. something about empty boxes.

does anyone know any of the H's by any chance

4:35 pm

ack cliff! i'm childless, scare me not!

4:35 pm

My neurolgist forbade me to go into labor with my babies... but Gwyd was so anxious to come out & play, I went into labor the morning of my c-section... had to take those nasty drugs to stop labor...

4:36 pm

I'm done and am going to play Sudoku, remember to be your self faerie and you won't go far wrong. See you tomorrow :)

4:36 pm

The whole Sudoku thing never really thrilled me. NEver got it.

4:36 pm

ha4 + healthy, as in ha4 & hearty... the other set is a bothersome thing (with a double consonant) & an alternate spelling ending

4:37 pm

don't be scared nut - my sister barely made it to the hospital for her two girls. less that 4 hrs of labor, not even hard. i would do it all over again to get the son i have. he is the best think that ever happened to me.

4:37 pm

ah...labor... icky until they gave me the lovely epidural

4:38 pm

shouldn't worry, i'll probably never get to make one anyway, but you know what they say, practise, practise, practise.

4:38 pm

thing! i mean thing! don't know how think got in there, because i can't often do that!

4:38 pm

Evan - LOL - practice is good.

4:39 pm

ditto Ev...no kids here either :) But boy do we try!! hehehe

4:39 pm

i like practicing!

4:39 pm

a clue for the last fe 5/16 please?

4:40 pm

Me too - but I may be practising by myself very soon.

4:40 pm

chixie, back again? *snicker*

4:40 pm

last fe5/16 = wild

4:40 pm

:) Crack me up Faerie!

4:40 pm

phone again brb.

4:41 pm

some of these words are crazy. the sn 4/6 for example. anyone ever heard that word before?

4:41 pm

faerie, a gorgeous gal like you?? Not for long! Besides, you never have to try to tell yourself what to do while worrying about bruising your ego ; )

4:42 pm

I'm trying to work the grid; didn't get to finish yesterday or even make the flip! We watched "Memoirs of a Geisha"; very good movie (Book was better of course)

4:42 pm

well work chic, whatchu talking to us for? ;-)

4:43 pm

I don't have the sn word yet...

4:43 pm

thanx, Jera; hard to see'em when thy're not all laid out in a straight line ;-)

4:43 pm

can u help with the sn words >i've been trying for ages

4:44 pm

shesshhh! I can do both!

4:44 pm

okay chix, but if you don't finish, i'll stand you in the corner.

4:45 pm

just got 2 sn words, made me look... :)

4:45 pm

angela, sn + what you see with (singular) minus the first vowel. next one is plural,

4:45 pm

sn5, add the opp of no. Lose the last letter for the 4 : )

4:46 pm

you can try, tough 'nut!

4:46 pm

are there just those 2 sn words or are there more?

4:46 pm

just 2 sn's

4:46 pm

that's all angela

great clue, cliffopa; thank you! ;-)

4:46 pm

Hurshy, you still here? I'm impressed!

4:47 pm

mikey, you are fairly new to babble, right? how are you liking it?

4:47 pm

impressed that i sit on my butt at the computer all day? you're easily wowed, jee :)

4:48 pm

thankyou everyone

4:48 pm

Probably I'm impressed because I am back for more, and understand your/our addiciton.

4:49 pm

i finished long ago... but i don't have much else to do... i'm following the masters online though...

4:49 pm

i have no clue as to how there are 10 "k" words. i've only managed three. no judgements please. can a girl get some help, please?

4:50 pm

the K's are weird, it's not you. hang on for complete clue list.

4:50 pm

yikes! 10 k's? i've only got 2.

4:50 pm

thanks so much!!

4:52 pm

two of the ks look like the martial art form, just drop the final e.

4:52 pm

ka 4 pl of our friend faerie ka5 measure of diamonds or gold, like ca5 ka6 pl ka4 - like ca4, variant of small hill or pile (or the guy who played al on home improvement) ka5 - pl ke4 - homonym of what you unlock things with ke4 - rhymes with re4 sporting officials ky4 - add abbr for arkansas ky4 - add preposition ky5 - pl

4:54 pm

hursh, can you help me out with the ca7/32 and ca6/36 please?? : )

4:54 pm

hurshy, i bow to your greatness.....

4:54 pm

thanks for the k's hurshy -- found the one i'd missed!

4:54 pm

room goes silent as everyone scuttles to use hurshy's clues.

4:55 pm

you called it Ev....HA!

4:55 pm

hi stidmama :)

4:56 pm

ca 7/32 smush ca4 with ea4 ca 6 use same ca4 and add this witness will now testi**

4:57 pm

thanks hursh, GREAT clues! : )

4:58 pm

thanks so much hurshy!

4:58 pm

yw

5:00 pm

back to lurk mode -- the sun just came out and there are plants to plant!

5:03 pm

Woot! I'm all done : )

5:03 pm

gotta love when one clue for one word gets you like 10 words. :-) Good afternoon, everyone!

5:03 pm

hey knut

5:03 pm

congrats, loly!

5:03 pm

YEAY Lola! I'm still trying to figure out the "smush" clue :)

5:04 pm

afternoon knut :)

5:04 pm

way to go lola!

5:04 pm

hi all...having trouble with my last word ca 6/36...a clue pls?

5:04 pm

angela, put the two words together but 'share' the E : )

5:05 pm

kim, the ca4 before it plus what birds do in the sky but without the middle letter : )

5:05 pm

Congratulations, Lola!

5:06 pm

now that you're done, lola, you can download AIM :)

5:06 pm

Got it Lola - tx!

5:06 pm

please help me with the ak words...thanks...

5:06 pm

hursh, it's 11pm here and I still want to sudoku...how about I do it tomorrow? : )

5:07 pm

thanx lola...i'm done!!

5:07 pm

it only takes a minute. but whatever. :)

5:07 pm

Congratulations, Kim1

5:07 pm

ak plus vowel plus last two letters of my name, then pluralise : )

5:07 pm

ak5 - add cinder**** but drop an L

5:08 pm

Never mind on the ak's...got 'em.

5:08 pm

hursh, okay, okay...I'll see if I can do it... : )

5:08 pm

Thanks for trying....

5:10 pm

I'm back.

5:10 pm

Hurshy - thanks. I see I'm in the grid today :)

5:11 pm

yup :) lola - i mean, since it's late, you prob won't want to chat much anyway...

5:12 pm

just uploaded a pic of my son & i from today's party. refresh.

5:12 pm

ca 6/30 please.

5:13 pm

ca 6/30 a thing for holding beverages

5:13 pm

Thanks Hurshy - great clue.

5:14 pm

great pic cliff

5:15 pm

i'm still in denial about my son heading off to the airforce on wednesday.

5:15 pm

awweee {{{Cliff}}}}

5:18 pm

okay hursh, I did it! : )

5:18 pm

Lola are you finished????

5:18 pm

same name as here?

5:19 pm

faerie, yup! A little while ago : )

5:19 pm

no, LOLA9676 : )

5:20 pm

Congrats////I'm way behind.

5:20 pm

y6?

5:20 pm

y6, longs for.

5:20 pm

y6 = plural of longing

5:21 pm

Thanks, should have seen that one.

5:22 pm

anyone have a clue for the third 7 letter word? I have the 2 that start with ca...

5:23 pm

Angela - I don't have it. Sorry.

5:24 pm

se7, rhymes with mommy de*****

5:25 pm

compound word superlative

5:25 pm

beautiful...thanks Jee!

5:27 pm

You are welcome

5:27 pm

ok thought I had the ca 6/30 but I don't. Hurshy said it was a beverage holder. I'm lost. It is not what I thought. Any other clues?

5:27 pm

hi everyone ... how's it going?

5:28 pm

if everyone at the table shares wine they bring it in a ca**** sometimes.

5:28 pm

{{{Talk}}} Hi...I'm getting another late start today. I'm on the ca's...LOL

5:28 pm

Angela - thanks I love you.

5:30 pm

i'm just starting too faerie.... didn't look at the list yet.. how many words?

5:30 pm

203

5:31 pm

Talk - It doesn't seem to bad so far but like I said I'm on the ca's...

5:31 pm

brb gotta work out :)

5:31 pm

Talk were are you? I'm in Michigan..Hell

5:32 pm

Later Angela - thanks for the help :)

5:33 pm

I'm in PA ... I want warm weather dammit lol ... 203? blah, i prob won't finish, too tired to stay on that long today

5:34 pm

Talk-I here ya. We had snow Friday and Saturday. It is 37 degrees out right now. This sucks. I think I'm going to move back to Kentucky.

5:35 pm

Talk-clue for you ka 4/8 is the end of my name plural.

5:36 pm

lol, i'll take florida these days blah it's like 56 out but still cold

5:37 pm

hey! thanks! :) I'm still looking without the list, just testing myself haha I'm only at around 30 so I'll prob start with the list soon :)

5:37 pm

My family is Ky so I'm seriously thinking of putting a for sale sign in my yard and going back to the bluegrass.

5:37 pm

hey all!

5:37 pm

down to my last 4! need help with 2nd ar 5/10 ea 5/10 3rd and ea 6/18 es 5/18, please...

5:38 pm

take your ar 4/4 and eithe add and e or an s on the end

5:38 pm

I don't have the e's yet. Sorry.

5:39 pm

Hardcore-HI!! Hows it going on your end.

5:40 pm

thanx, faerie!

5:40 pm

chic - artist puts his canvas on an ea5, pl for 6

5:40 pm

chic - yw

5:40 pm

es5 add beginning of first k5

5:41 pm

hey harcore!

5:42 pm

right, I'm off to sudoku then bed. 'nite all : )

5:42 pm

good faeriekae down AL its pretty here :)

5:42 pm

hey talk24hr!!!

5:43 pm

Hurshy, you bailed me out! Thanx!

5:43 pm

Hard - I'll be right there. *teehee* I love AL I had an Aunt and Uncle who lived in Bessmer all thier lives and it was my most favorite place in the world.

5:43 pm

Chic - are you finished?

5:43 pm

Done! now I can nap! See you at the flip!

5:44 pm

yay chic! :)

5:44 pm

CONGRATULATIONS CHIC!!!!!

5:45 pm

yay chic

5:47 pm

ya i live in Clay about 15 min north from bham its about 70 outside :)

5:48 pm

Hard-I know exactly where Clay is. I'm very familiar with AL. I also have a friend how lives in Huey Town plus my Aunt and Uncle had a big Pecan grove there.

5:49 pm

I think I just finished the ca's...yeah. all 27 of them.

5:50 pm

Good timing, Faerie. I need a clue for the Ca6/36.

5:51 pm

hardcore, what's it like in bama during july? have to go to my son's usaf officer training graduation there. sweating already.

5:51 pm

Judi - ca 4/5 plus first letter of my name and the sometimes vowel.

5:52 pm

27?? good gosh, time to break out the list I suppose

5:53 pm

Fab, darling. Thank you. Done with all the C's.

5:53 pm

Hard-there are 31 c words....

5:53 pm

woot! survived the ca's!

5:53 pm

Judi - I wasn't sure I'd ever get through them. LOL

5:54 pm

Doh! I lied. Lash me to the mast and plug my ears. the "C"irens still sing. Three Ca's left.

5:54 pm

Judi - do you know which ones?

5:55 pm

Okay, NOW I'm done with the C's. Geesh. I was missing the first three Ca6,9 and 10. Fortunately they were all related.

5:55 pm

faerie-i have a friend Huey Town who owns a farm ther and cliff-it can be real warm down here in july but it dapinds on the wether relly :)

5:57 pm

Hard-small world isn't it? I still vist Heuy Town every couple of years just to see my friend Donna Cisco.

5:59 pm

faerie-well i don't know Donna but it is a small world definitely :)

5:59 pm

LOL didn't think you would know her but ya never know.

6:00 pm

ill brb i got to help my brother :)

6:07 pm

MIKEY R U STILL HERE?

6:07 pm

Shorty-haven't seen Micky for awhile think he is off chatting on IM

6:08 pm

hey i'm back

6:08 pm

brb

6:08 pm

this is my daughter and she wanted to know

who, me??? am i being paged? :-) ja; i've been having tea and talking with Heinrich for a while....and chatting with another friend, too

or did you mean another Mikey/Mickey? :-/

6:12 pm

yes you r very very handsome- per- shortys daughter

oh my, shorty; uhm.....thanks :"> *blush*

6:14 pm

is that pic really you?

yes, shorty; certainly is

6:18 pm

yeah....that's mikey......

6:18 pm

well u r sooooo hot

6:18 pm

lol.......mikey, ya got a fan?!

hmm; actually, shorty, i'm quite comfortable right now.....quite cool in here :-)

apparently, Gabbyn; apparently :-P

6:20 pm

apparently!! ha....I've known you too long to say apparently

6:20 pm

im sorry you just dont see many men like that in america ..lol

6:20 pm

Mikey has better pics than that!!

6:21 pm

lets see them,.. pleeeeeze

6:22 pm

hahaha!!! he's not here in the US!! maybe that's why!!

6:22 pm

So, just for conversation sake, what do you look like from the neck down, Mikey? Oh no... don't tell me... the body of a goat? This is Greek Mythology day. He could be a sartyr, girls. Say it isn't so, Mikey.

hmm; well i don't think i do, Gabbyn :-P

Judi, i'm a ballet dancer.....form your own conclusions :-P

6:23 pm

Mikey has a firm tight butt.......from his ballet training

6:24 pm

Okay, so you have the body of a (much younger) Nureyev (sp?).

6:24 pm

can I tell?? Mikey looks really good!! has a hairy chest.......cute butt.........lmao........

i have my own body, Judi :-P the body of a Mikey ;-)

6:25 pm

this current chat about Mickey is making me laugh so hard...I'm unable to work on the puzzle!

ach; Gabbyn.....sheesh! :-/ *cringe*

6:25 pm

same here pinecone05 :)

6:26 pm

lol.....i think that's the firm tite butt of H......dont it belong to him??

ja; i'm about to give up too, pinecone05.....and go hide for a while, i think! :-P

6:26 pm

no dont leave

6:28 pm

No, don't go Mikey. Dance for us! lol. Just kidding.

6:28 pm

i was simply paying a compliment where it was due,Mikey.

i only have 101 words so far.....sheesh! :-/

6:29 pm

Mikey can sing and dance!! He's very talented!!

6:30 pm

gabbyn,how do u know Mikey?

6:30 pm

he can't leave with only 101 words

6:30 pm

greetings. I need a "Jump start" for the K words. Any clues would be graciously accepted.....

6:31 pm

I've known Mikey what........2 or 3 years now?

6:32 pm

in person or computer?

6:32 pm

I should be quiet......sometimes I talk too much!!!! lmao.....gabbyn!!

6:33 pm

on the puter......I've seen many pics of him.....met a friend of his.......I can't go to germany

6:33 pm

Go backwards to 4:52 PM wheree evanonut was giving out clues harpjane.

something like that, Gabbyn; how have i survived it, i wonder? ;-)

6:34 pm

talked to alot of people in Canada that know and grew up with him

6:35 pm

hello folks... just fyi, you get some crazy stuff if you type "aphrodite" into google images

6:36 pm

have spent countless hours on IM with mikey....

6:37 pm

hi leslieann :)

6:38 pm

oh ok just curiuos... thank u gabbyn

6:38 pm

hint on ca 9/60 and ca 10/77

6:39 pm

that's uh... quite a greek god you've got there, shorty

6:39 pm

mikey...you complainin?

6:40 pm

leslie ...thanks

6:40 pm

the clue for ca has been when you C-section birth

6:41 pm

do greek gods wear sunglasses?

6:41 pm

shorty....you should ask him for more pics.... *am I embarassing you yet, mikey?

6:41 pm

Evening folks. ca6,9 & 10 are all related and refer to a Roman called Gaius Julius...

6:42 pm

thanks jac! just started and now have all the c's in the first row

6:42 pm

sa6/27 anyone?

i'm ignoring it, Gabbbyn.....busy talking with Heinrich here, drinking our tea, and i'm trying to come up with 101 more words!!! :-P

6:43 pm

lol.....you've been doing that all day!!

6:44 pm

thanks pine, jac

6:44 pm

sa 6/27 = sa 4/7 meaning secure or a metal box you keep things in + plural consonant + letter in the alphabet after that. confused yet?

6:44 pm

I should get off of here!! my butt is getting bigger....I can tell!! been sitting here maybe too long already

6:45 pm

cliff- figured out your clue, thanks

not steadily, Gabbyn; on and off :-P

6:45 pm

sa6/27 - most sa4/7.

6:46 pm

glad i didn't confuse you peri - i almost confused myself :|

6:46 pm

8-)

6:47 pm

re6/27?

6:48 pm

re 6/27 = guy on sports field that wears stripes (1st 3 letters) + last name of golfer ernie ***

6:48 pm

I'm giving up mikey.....I maybe should stick to the other game

6:48 pm

hey cliffy! who are they?

6:49 pm

I goof off too much to do this one

6:49 pm

who they nut? my pic or my clue?

6:49 pm

gabbyn ...are you using one of the clue lists?

6:49 pm

your pic silly cliffy

6:50 pm

looks like mulder and scully to me ;)

6:50 pm

re6/27 - verb form of re5 above it. Obsolete way to saying 'to disprove or refute'. Sounds more like someone chopping a tree down again.

6:50 pm

cliff, don't know much about golf, just Tiger Woods :)

6:50 pm

no..... I'm not......

6:51 pm

not you i know

6:51 pm

silly me yes. my son on the left and moi. we had a going-away party for him today. he is off to the usaf on wed.

6:51 pm

Jacula, don't have the re5

6:51 pm

** not usin a clue list pine....but have been on wayy too long today.....

6:51 pm

wow! he's a handsome one. oh, and your hair is quite different from the other pic. looks good both ways though.

6:52 pm

leslieann - it is so cool you said scully & mulder. we are both xfiles fans.

no, Gabbyn; don't give up yet.....i'm already doing a lot better on today's puzzle than i did on yesterday's; it's a matter of getting used to seeing the words, i think

6:52 pm

love xfiles! we should have an xfiles day

6:53 pm

well, your hair is especially cute. that's why i said it, cause your hair reminded me of hers

6:53 pm

try using one of the clue lists...I find them fun when I get stuck on a puzzle or want to goof off

6:53 pm

Is anyone else getting dupe and triplicates of every message?

6:53 pm

Peri - re5 sounds a bit like you have tumbled down again. Or think of that stuff you spray on on holiday to re*** insects and change the middle consonant.

6:53 pm

gabbyn, the "lickety's babble clues" link to the right is especially helpful

6:54 pm

not today, eva, but i have had that problem before

6:54 pm

nope. I get one copy. refresh your screen

6:54 pm

i was going to mention my hair is not really straight. when we have no humidity i like to straighten it for something different. i like my curls, but i've had them 46 yrs. i like to shake it up a bit. thank you - my son is a handsome guy. and nice. and intelligent. and not a chauvanist. and still likes me.

6:54 pm

Hi guys, I'm back, but much too late to play this grid, thank goodness

6:55 pm

lmao....yeah....but it's almost 8pm here!! I haven't done anything at all today

6:55 pm

Hi ExWren. Did you have a good time?

6:55 pm

yeah, well, gabbyn, what do you think the weekends are for? i think they're for babbling.

6:55 pm

consider it a restful, re-energize day Gabbyn...

6:56 pm

and grey's anatomy. but that's it.

6:56 pm

ah...if only i were single, dated an airforceman once.

6:56 pm

It was brilliant, I don't think the host Male choir had ever heard anything like us, we knocked 'em dead!

6:56 pm

what is the es word? i'm losing focus.

6:56 pm

lmao.......I'll have to go get my kid on a lil while.......and the other ones are wanting the puter!!

6:56 pm

fa5/28?

6:57 pm

es + beginning of k 5 word ...that was the clue that helped me

6:57 pm

peri - fa and something you open a lock with

6:57 pm

builds off fa 4/11, peri

6:57 pm

oh yeah!! grays anatomy is on tonight!! I keep forgetting to watch it!! but its a good show

6:58 pm

ty leslieann :)

6:58 pm

thanks cliff and Leslie, silly word

6:59 pm

i've heard it used when they show skateboard competitions.

7:00 pm

cr6/21?

7:01 pm

cr6, what you use an iron to get out (or put in)

7:01 pm

cr = something you make when you press slacks

7:01 pm

cr6/21 - What Mum's sometimes iron down the front & back of the legs of jeans, much to their kids' horror.:-) Not me! Ever!

7:01 pm

I need to iron my pants, they are ....

7:02 pm

I'm finished. 203 words for 2451 points.

7:02 pm

thanks everyone, found the cr6, kept trying to make it but just couldn't "see"it

7:02 pm

caca :( i'm working backwards, just got to the ca's they are the re's for me today

7:03 pm

41 words left to find, but I am quitting, see you all tomorrow.

7:03 pm

good night peri!

7:03 pm

have the longest ones from this morning's chats with the UK peeps. man! this ca list is awful

7:05 pm

I'm having trouble with fa 5/16. Any help?

7:05 pm

I did most of the grid on paper today, as I've been out.

7:06 pm

stid. Is it really TRUE that you can't find it? or the opposite?

7:07 pm

stidmatt - fa5/16 - opposite of true fa5/16 - obsolete word for to roll up & secure (as of a flag).

7:07 pm

The first one, it is a little hard.

7:07 pm

stidmatt are you related to stidmama?

7:07 pm

Thanks, Jacula.

7:08 pm

I'm back.

7:08 pm

LeaslieAnn - I was wondering that, too.

7:08 pm

Yes, I am related to Stidmama. She's my Mom.

7:09 pm

Oops! First a spurious apostrophe in 'mums' and now I've stuck an extra 'a' in Leslie's name. Sorry!

7:09 pm

ah, she pulled you in, huh? how are you liking it?

7:09 pm

Stidmatt-Welcome to our madness.

7:09 pm

ahhhhh im holding mt 8 week old grandson he is sooooooooooooo cute i wanna kiss his face off

7:09 pm

Mickey are you still here?

7:09 pm

Yes, she introduced me to this game. It's pretty fun.

7:10 pm

Shorty - I want to hold him...awwwwwww

7:10 pm

careful, shorty, you can get in trouble for that ;)

7:10 pm

ok here you go

7:10 pm

lol leslie

118 words so far.....and i still haven't found even 1 'AK' word :-/

7:11 pm

I think he just pooped. *grin*

7:11 pm

there's ak words? oh dear.

ja, faeriekae; why? do you yahoo, btw?

7:11 pm

oh man heres his diaper and wipes

apparently, LeslieAnn :-/ haven't found 1 yet, though

7:12 pm

Mikey-there you are ak +2nd vowel + stick letter + 1st vowel then make plural for next word

7:12 pm

stidmatt -- have you found those fa words? thanks guys for helping him out... i get to hold the baby when he's cleaned up!

7:12 pm

Mikey - yes I do.

7:12 pm

The 'ak' words - Think of the Cub Scouts' leader or the leader of the wolf pack in The Jungle Book...

7:13 pm

ok - All clean and fresh. Smells like Baby powder now :)

7:13 pm

so is your guys' last name a variant on stid? i always thought mama was making a word play on stidmata (although i guess stidmatt works for that too)

7:13 pm

mmmmmmm smells good

7:14 pm

Stidmama - *hands baby over*

7:14 pm

yep -- last name is on our website, linked from angelsong's page.... don't want to publish it too obviously!

7:14 pm

It's the beggining, but the end is a secret.

i've added you, faeriekae.....anyhow, thanks; but that clue didn't work for me? :-/

7:15 pm

oh that's ok! just wondering where the name came from.

7:15 pm

oooh -- baby sweet! baby pretty! baby goo-goo gaga! *hugs baby with happy smile* :-)

7:15 pm

you have to give him baaaack soon i miss him

7:15 pm

Mikey - ak + 2nd vowel + l + 1st vowel

7:16 pm

we also wonder where the name came from... there are many variations, first one to this continent came from Sweden in the mid 1600s, but wasn't of scandinavian ancestry -- that's all we know!

7:16 pm

okay shorty, but when your arms are tired... *hands pretty baby back* tell the mama "well done!"

wow, faeriekae; i aready tried that the first time, and it didn't work, but now when i tried it again, it did! :-o thanks! :-)

7:17 pm

your welcome (*^_^*)

7:17 pm

who knows stidmama? my last name is the name of a dutch town, but no one we know of in our ancestry is dutch *shrug*

7:18 pm

Good job remembering Mom!

7:19 pm

i'm finally done with those tiresome ca's. 9 left. all a's. i can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

7:19 pm

*giggle* we also know of "dutchified" scottish names on my side of the family... donkers = duncanse which is dutch for "son of duncan"!

7:19 pm

go cliffopa go!

7:20 pm

Howmany a words are there today?

7:20 pm

alright, I give!! I'll try tomorrows puzzle......when do they start the new one?

7:20 pm

203 words today.

7:20 pm

ok stidmama here ya go hes hungry u can feed him

7:21 pm

midnight central time, gabbyn

7:21 pm

And, there is a town that has the same sound in Modern day Poland, and possible cousins, but they aren't my ancestors, besides they're from about the same time period that we have traced back to!

7:21 pm

oh no! those stopped working 9 years ago! where's the bottle!

7:21 pm

Thanks, Jacula. How many strt with A?

depends probably who was working that at Ellis Island on how some names came into being...

7:22 pm

okay sweetie, back to the puzzle. how many words do you have so far?

7:22 pm

oh noooooooooooooooooo

does anyone know how many words tonight?

7:22 pm

I think the creators of the puzzle could've backed down on the hot stuff to eat!

7:22 pm

19 A words by my count, playwoman

203

7:23 pm

Playwoman-you should check out Angelsongs resource page and click on 2 letter word list. It is a big help.

7:23 pm

Words Total = 203 --- --- Total Score = 2451 --- --- Word Sizes --- 4 - 101 5 - 79 6 - 18 7 - 3 9 - 1 10 - 1 --- 1st Letter Count --- A - 19 C - 31 E - 18 F - 26 H - 5 K - 10 L - 25 N - 1 R - 22 S - 28 T - 6 Y - 12

7:24 pm

jac - you are so quick. nimble fingers.

7:24 pm

Jacula -- I just figured out your icon! way cool.

7:24 pm

Thanks, Jacula and Faeriekae. Maybe it's time I went pro... then I wouldn't bug you so much

ah well; only 123 words now, and i won't get any more.....we're heading off to bed.....anyone here want to chat some time, on yahoo.....same id name as my username here! ;-) gut'nacht, meine Freunden!

7:25 pm

Playwoman-your not buging us. Happy to help anytime.

7:25 pm

TY Leslieann!! I'll try again later..... had some fun here! TY!!

7:26 pm

gut nacht, Mikey -- auf wiedersehen!

7:26 pm

Good night Mikey sweet dreams.

7:26 pm

G'nite everyone!! good luck!

7:26 pm

Very kind. Thanks.

7:26 pm

nite mikey

7:26 pm

good night gabbyn

clue for ca 7/32?

7:27 pm

sweet dreams :)

7:27 pm

shorty, baby's falling asleep and the formula in the bottle is nearly gone -- should I try to burp him, or?

7:27 pm

'Night to all who are going. Sorry for delay - I was playing a game on another site. Playwoman - You're not bugging us. Half the fun of the game is giving clues.

7:27 pm

Bye Mikey and Gabbyn. Just finished the S's. On to the F's now. Yish.

7:27 pm

Gabbyn good night sweetie.

7:28 pm

yes burp him watch out his burb will blow you out the door

7:28 pm

ca7/32 - an enzyme that is formed by some bacteria, that decomposes casein, and that is used in ripening cheese.

7:28 pm

Gut nacht to everyone who is leaving.

7:28 pm

ooh, i am out of practice! forgot the burp rag -- here, shorty, hold him while i go change!

thanks Jacula

7:29 pm

awww comemere baby

7:31 pm

aww gotta take baby home now see ya all later

7:31 pm

bye baby! see you later shorty!

7:32 pm

bye bye

7:32 pm

ty for feeding the baby stidmama

7:33 pm

yessssssssssssssssssssssssssss s. done. finished.

7:34 pm

Hi to the cluegivers! ca 5/16 and re 5/16 please?

7:34 pm

Congratulations Cliffopa!

7:35 pm

good job cliffopa! hey jeffer, only saying hi to the cluegivers, huh? what about the rest of us schmucks?

7:35 pm

YAY cliffopa!

7:35 pm

GAAA!!! IT WON'T! EXCEPT! TASER!

7:36 pm

lol, stidmatt, i tried that one too

7:36 pm

hollered like a true star wars/trekkie person... breathe, son, and relax

7:36 pm

leslieann i remember a clue or two from you too

Hi everyone!

7:37 pm

hi mrp!

7:37 pm

*~*~*~*FIREWORKS OFR CLIFFOPA*~*~*~*~

7:37 pm

Hi Jeffer & MrP.

7:37 pm

fair enough, jeffer, but i've only got 77 so far so i won't be able to give clues for much!

7:38 pm

Sorry! *for Cliffopa. Trying to multi-multi-task! LOL.

7:39 pm

ca5/16 - 1. A traveling amusement show; a carnival. 2. One who works with a carnival.

hello, i'm new to this game

7:39 pm

well, i'm off to finish up the after-party cleaning. happy babbling and see ya on the flip side :)

7:40 pm

re5/16 - scroll back a page or two. I gave clues then.

7:40 pm

hi Jac (sorry) thanks - and we're off!

7:41 pm

hi cait

7:42 pm

Need clue for last Fe5/16.

7:43 pm

judi, like a wild cat?

7:43 pm

judi have you tried a word for "gone wild" as domestic pets do sometimes?

7:43 pm

Nope, Leslie. Have that one.

7:44 pm

did you plural the last fe 4?

7:44 pm

ty again jacula got the re 5

7:46 pm

fe5/16 f + ea4/4 (rest or leisure) fe5/16 - a sumptuous meal fe5/16 (pl. of the fe4 before it) - episodes of derring do or heroics. fe5/16 - wild, like cats.

7:47 pm

Last fe4 ends in a duplicate consonants. Can't pluralize and still be a 5 letter word.

203 words 4.67 2451 FINISHED!

7:47 pm

whoa mr. p you're quick. congrats!

7:47 pm

YAY mrp!

I have been on and off this puzzle for 18 hours!!

7:48 pm

Thank you , Jacula. I was looking for the first clue on your list. Done with the F's. Now onto the L's. Ah, the punishment just never seems to end.

7:50 pm

well, ok. you are thorough, then.

7:50 pm

fr 5/16 the first please?

hey everyone!

7:52 pm

oops no got that fr sorry

7:52 pm

fe 5/16 has to do with insects.

in between cooking, sleeping, watching the football and the golf and the tennis.... I think I did ok to have it finished by now...! It is nearly 11am and time for tea!!

7:52 pm

first fr 5 i have is sassa*****

(((Owl!)))

7:52 pm

ra 6/18 a hint please

7:52 pm

Sorry, didn't mean fe, meant fr.

7:53 pm

*~*~*~*~FIREWORKS FOR MRPRES*~*~*~*~

7:53 pm

I am babbled by both of the 'ak' words. I assume one is a plural of the other perhaps?

7:53 pm

To tumble and play a little violently.

7:53 pm

yup, merk. ak + **** fitzgerald, - one L

ra 6 rhymes with ha6

7:54 pm

ra6/18 - To engage in wrestling or wrestle with. Rhymes with ha6/21 (to pester).

7:55 pm

thanks mrP and jacula - did NOT think that a word!

nice to see you, mr. P! and jacs! and studmama! and cliff! and leslie ann! and everyone!!! only 49 to go!

whoops! sorry stidmama! bad typist!

7:57 pm

stidmatt -- when you give a clue, let people know which word it's for, give the first two letters and the letter count/total points ==> ra 6/18

7:57 pm

Thanks. Any clue for the "al" 4,10 would be appreciated.

7:57 pm

nah, that's right. she is a stud. right mama?

7:58 pm

hi TempleOwl! didn't see you come in -- i'm concentrating on my last ca -- the c/36 that comes after the 7/32... monkeytyping isn't working for me :-(

7:58 pm

Nevermind, I got it. Sorry to bother.

7:58 pm

that's right --- stud! I can support any wall you need!

8:08 pm

woot for me! Done it without having to grovel for clues or use that nasty a2z site!!!! <looks smug>

8:08 pm

congrats dachef!

8:09 pm

YAY dachef! *look of wonder at dachef's great accomplishment*

8:10 pm

Well done, Dachef.

8:10 pm

Got to be back in work in a coupla hours (have only been home for one hour), so anyone need one of my notriously crappy clues before I try unsuccessfully to sleep?

8:11 pm

Dachef - I'm okay, thanks. Done.

8:12 pm

Jacula -- when did you done?

8:12 pm

stidmatt, time for supper!

8:14 pm

later, all!

well done, dachef! jacs - how have you been?

8:15 pm

bye stidfamily!

8:15 pm

laters, Stidmama, and on that rather yawnful note, my nice warm bed beckons (its 2:15 am here), so I'll bid you all farewell, and see you tomorrow!

8:16 pm

bye dachef

8:16 pm

I got finished a while ago now, Stidmama. 'Bye stid family! See you later. Owl - I've been fine, thanks. How about you?

8:17 pm

'Bye Chef! See you again.

bye to all stids! bye, dachef! i need clues please to the big c words...

8:18 pm

salads and c-sections, temple

8:20 pm

ca6, 9 & 10 all refer to that Roman, Gaius Julius...

got the 8 & ( thanks! and i have the pot for coffee or water

8:24 pm

ca6 & pl. ca7 also hold wine!

8:24 pm

LOL.

8:27 pm

Hi everybody. I'm too lazy to look for an icon. So it's still shoes for me.

8:27 pm

ca7/32 - used in making cheese. A 'ca' you pack to go on holiday + and ea4 (leisure or rest) without the first letter.

8:29 pm

Smithchick. Hi. Didn't play yesterday; no time. Was busy grocery shopping and then having quality time with O/H, we watched 'Narnia'. But I had some great kinky boots saved for icons....

8:30 pm

Good evening, everyone -- just in from a day of golf and back for my last few "stinkers"

hi smoth! thanks jac! i had picked out disco shoes with goldfish in the heels - but they didn't show up very well

8:31 pm

I'm a very conservative person for the most part (religion, politics, dress, makeup, etc.), but I like the hoochie mama shoes. My feet are still relatively skinny, unlike the rest of me, so they still look cute in strappy heels.

8:31 pm

hi nan

8:31 pm

Too funny, TO... I've never seen anything like that!

8:31 pm

Hi, cybernan!

8:33 pm

Temple - I remember those goldfish shoes coming out in the 70s AND the hue and cry about the cruelty of it.

8:34 pm

Obviously Enable doesn't have a lhasa apsa (o?).

yes - now they are made with artifical fish. i long for a 60's day - psychedelia...and a disco day

brb - laundry

8:40 pm

we're back -- hi smithchick, nan!

8:41 pm

Hey, stid... Have you multiple personalities?

8:41 pm

I am down to 7 words. can someone clue me for ca 6/36 that comes after the ca 7/32? it's just not happening for me!

8:41 pm

sweetie, say hi to smithchick!

8:42 pm

Hi Smithchick!

8:42 pm

:-D *proud mama look*

8:42 pm

ca6/36 - the ca4 you pack for your holidays + a small buzzing insect without its middle.

8:42 pm

HI, stidmatt... I was a little concerned for a second there... but only a second.

8:43 pm

thanks, Jacula! that just didn't come easy...

8:43 pm

ive got Ca7 and Se7 -- hints on the other 7?

8:45 pm

there are 2 ca 7...

8:45 pm

two ca 7's

8:45 pm

Hi Temple :)

8:45 pm

ive got Ca7/44 -- something beverages are served in

8:46 pm

ca7/44 and ca7/32

8:47 pm

Oh my goodness. My computer was stuck on when TO came in and I thought noone had noticed here. *blush*

8:48 pm

faeriekae my sweet!

8:48 pm

{{{Tamara}}}}

8:48 pm

How the Hell are you?

8:48 pm

Any luck?

8:49 pm

No :(

8:49 pm

faeriekae -- please! my boy's listening!

8:49 pm

new job going well. A bit bored at the moment. But will be wonderful. The lack of stress is monumental.

8:50 pm

ANything I can do?

8:50 pm

EVERYONE I would like you to meet my very best friend in the whole wide world. We grew up childhood friends. Meet. Tamara27 (*^_^*)

8:51 pm

hi tamara!

8:51 pm

*bows* to the Babble world...

8:51 pm

hello Tamara! how did you weather the recent storms?

8:51 pm

I apoligize for the profanity...

8:51 pm

No damage. Beautiful lightening!

hi faeriekae! welcome. tamara!

8:52 pm

so good to hear! I like lightening -- from a distance!

8:52 pm

Do you have your wind chimes up?

8:52 pm

Hi all. I love this game...but I keep forgetting about it. *sigh*

8:52 pm

Any clues on the Sn words?

8:52 pm

"yarf" should SO be a word...its what i do when im nauseous!!

8:53 pm

Yup. I have these six foot Penatonic scale Chimes.

8:53 pm

ha 6/21? -- have the one that means to give a hard time

8:53 pm

Hi, faerie... Nice to meet you, tamara!

8:53 pm

Tamara - go the Angelsongs Resource page and find in links 2wrd letter list. check out lickitys it works great for me.

8:53 pm

never mind -- got it!

8:54 pm

7 a's to go --- after supper :)

8:54 pm

(((Smith))) still have your heels on. Don't your feet hurt hon? LOL

8:55 pm

I'm short so I like my heels! Too lazy to search for my other icon. Just got to get back on here a little while ago.

8:55 pm

dun dun dun DONE

8:55 pm

yay stid!

8:55 pm

Stidmama CONGRATULATIONS!!!

8:55 pm

Well done, Stidmama!

8:55 pm

Oh, back at ya {{{{{Faerie}}}}}! No pain no gain with the heels, you know.

8:56 pm

sn 4/6: sn + first two letters of the opposite of "no" sn5 is plural

yay, stidmama!

8:56 pm

WooHoo, stidmama!!!!! YAY, stidmatt!!!! (are you working together or separately?)

8:56 pm

Cybernan. Hi! Didn't see you come in. (I'm multi-tasking.) The other ha word has the last 2 letters reversed.

8:56 pm

i make him work for all his points!

8:57 pm

How old are you, stidmatt?

8:57 pm

Tamara - I bet your chimes sound beautiful in the wind or did you have to take them down?

8:57 pm

I'm in my first year of being a teenager.

8:58 pm

That ha6 is a Norwegian surname, think writer Sven. I've no idea why Enable allows it.

8:58 pm

12? or 13? My son is 13 but I still have a hard time thinking of him as a teenager!

8:59 pm

Surely thirTEEN is the 1st teenaged year?

8:59 pm

oh, he's a teen, all right! and growing... needed new clothes again yesterday!

8:59 pm

Jacula's right.

9:00 pm

I leave them up all year. They have a really deep tone and it takes a lot of wind to move them. 30 mile gusts and above will make them move.

9:00 pm

My 11 yr. old daughter is like that. She's gone through about three sizes in the last four months.

9:00 pm

I give clues to my age! <sub>I'm getting good at this game!</sub> Hee hee!

9:00 pm

My 13 yr. old son doesn't grow very quickly. He is very small for his age.

9:01 pm

LOL, stidmatt!

9:02 pm

No kidding. I know they are loud from when you were sitting outside talking to me on the phone. But they sound beautiful. Cathy Wesly just bought some...well she bought them back in Oct. but they are still in the trunk of her car because she isn't ready for Bill to know that she has them. LOL

9:02 pm

Actually, your thirteenth year, is the year between your 12th birthday and your thirteenth birthday.

9:03 pm

Good thinking Tamara! Yes, I'm thirteen.

9:03 pm

LOL, Faerie! That is my mother's favorite strategy...or she'll hide things in plain sight in her closet. My dad says she has ownamania...

9:03 pm

Only 2 hours left! Eek!

9:04 pm

Tamara - Hello, don't think we've talked before. I guess you age depends on whether you count it from conception. In which case, we are all around 9 months older than our 'offical' age.

9:04 pm

3 hours, matt... it's on central time

9:04 pm

give me hints!!!!!!!! please ;)

9:05 pm

Okay boys and girls, I am tird. It was nice talking to you all. Maybe tomorrow I will start earlier. FK, I will talk to you later this week....T

9:05 pm

what do you need help with Kyle?

9:05 pm

Kyle - If you want hints you will have to be more specific about what you want hints for.

9:05 pm

Smith-It is wild she is shop-acholic and she will buy stuff and sit out and if hubby ask is that new she just says no because its been her trunk for a week or longer. The chimes were pretty pricey so she is really holding off on them. so funny.

9:05 pm

tamara, nice to meet you -- hope to see you often!

9:05 pm

Night Tamara!

9:05 pm

Love Ya T {{{{XXX}}}} Goodnight.

9:06 pm

Me too! Now that I am not working 60 hour weeks!`

9:06 pm

'Bye Tamara. See you again.

9:06 pm

YEAH

9:06 pm

thanks. but im fine my sister came to the rescue(shes good at this) ;)

9:06 pm

Bye, tamara!

9:07 pm

Kyle - who is you sister? Do we know her on Babble?

bye, tamara!

9:07 pm

smithchick -- our 13 year old was really small for his age for a long time, turned out to be partly stress... he sorta stopped growing when he started school and started up again when we brought him home to learn a couple years later!

9:08 pm

no but she is really good at this and is only 11(very good) ;)

9:08 pm

And boy were those the years! THEY WERE GREAT! HOMESCHOOL! Boo-Yah!

9:09 pm

lol this kid cracks me up :)

9:09 pm

but then, most of my family is really small -- and only a few people on his father's side are tall (no one more than 6 foot, though)!

9:09 pm

Faerie, she sounds just like my mother! Cracks me up. I usually tell my hubby on the phone when he's been gone a few days and he misses me. He gets mad over the phone, but by the time he comes home, he wants to be sweet at first so he doesn't say anything. Then when he brings it up and tries to get mad I inform him that he already got mad about that and he doesn't get to get mad again. It works pretty well and I don't have to hide anything! (limited space)

9:10 pm

Well, I applaud your patience and stidmatt's diligence. If I tried to homeschool mine, one of us would suffer grave injury at the hands of the other! :)

9:10 pm

Smith - LOLOL that is too good. You are the master. Bar none. My friend Cathy's hubby works from home so that wouldn't work out very well for her.

9:11 pm

do note that they are no longer homeschooled -- my health got in the way, so we put them back in school a couple years ago (where they are dong fine!).

9:11 pm

oops, meant *doing* my fingers are tired...

9:11 pm

I don't have to hide anything. I live alone. So YEAH for being single. *grin*

9:12 pm

I'm off to my games site for a while. BBL if anyone wants any clues. Mind you, must say that one thing that p**s me off on that site is that US citizens earn Walmart vouchers and that we in UK, whilst earning them, cannot use them! GRRR!

9:13 pm

LOL, Faerie!!! A definite benefit, I'd say. I guess I get benefits from both because I'm single every two weeks and married every two weeks.

9:13 pm

Bye, Jacula!

9:13 pm

Bye Jacula!

9:13 pm

Which site can you win WalMart vouchers on?

9:13 pm

Faerie - Don't say you live alone or Max will be v. upset!

9:14 pm

Smith - on Grab.com.

9:14 pm

Jacula - You are sooooo correct. I can't believe I said that. He is laying on his pillow sleeping now right beside me. awwwwww.

night, jacula! see you tomorrow!

9:15 pm

Well, since most of our income is spent at Wal-Mart, I'll have to check that out. If I ever finish this one.

9:15 pm

im back! awww i miss them already

9:16 pm

Hey, shorty...Who are you missing? Was our eye candy on here earlier?

9:16 pm

I only have 96 words Smith lol. I know I'm not finishing. I'm going to put my boy Max to bed and then I'm going to dream land myself so good night all :)

9:17 pm

my grand babys smith

9:17 pm

i had to take them home :(

9:17 pm

'night, faerie

9:18 pm

I am so excited I have 74 words WITHOUT a list go me!!!

9:18 pm

Bye, faerie!!! See you tomorrow!

9:18 pm

go shorty! well done!

9:19 pm

night faerie {{HUGS}}

9:19 pm

good night, Faeriekae! sweet dreams!

goodnight, faeriekae!

9:19 pm

ty SM

9:21 pm

Awww.... I babysat my three nephews for the weekend. With my three kids I had 2,7,8,11,11, and 13. Fun, fun getting them all to church this morning.

9:22 pm

English is getting on my nerves. It is so inconsistent!

9:23 pm

truer words never spoken, matt

9:23 pm

oh my yeah i had to help my daughter get het kids ready she went to church with me 8weeks and 15 months

9:24 pm

and now I say how did I ever do it with 6 kids!

9:25 pm

Any clues on the sk words? Because I know skies won't fit.

9:26 pm

sk + what you hear out of, change r to n

9:26 pm

Thanks LeslieAnn!

9:28 pm

Good evening!!

9:28 pm

Yeah, my mother had six daughters. My father was in the military and was gone two years sometimes. We were stair-steps. She did everything with us by herself.

9:28 pm

oh bless her heart

9:29 pm

yw

9:29 pm

Hey, knut! How is your darling baby girl?

9:29 pm

hi knutmeg! How's Liv?

9:31 pm

she's doing well. eating right now :-) went to the mall today, tuckered her out

9:32 pm

All grey!!!!

9:32 pm

yay nan!

cr6/21, please? hi knutmeg and liv!

9:33 pm

glad you got out -- it was hard for me to get out and about when I had our first newborn... i was so tired all the time! and worried about germs and things. with the second, we got out a lot more -- partly 'cause you just can't stay home all the time with a 3 year old!

9:33 pm

WooHoo, NAN!!!!!

9:33 pm

YAY nan!

9:33 pm

cr 6/21: to make a fold in something, or to wrinkle

9:35 pm

my lovely lovely husband took a turn at baby duty last night so I got 7 hours of sleep, and I was climbing the walls, so we decided to get out. Tried out our new stroller, had some lunch, wandered a bit. It was pretty fun. Gorgeous day, too. :-)

9:35 pm

Thanks Cybernan and Mom!

thanks, nan! : )

9:39 pm

I was wondering y taser wasn't a word:(

9:40 pm

I thought it had been accepted before, Freckle, but apparently not.

9:40 pm

Anyone want a clue before I go and tackle my kitchen?

9:41 pm

i thought so too. maybe it is laser it takes

9:41 pm

Possibly because Phaser is from Science Fiction and is in real life a proper noun. A company.

9:42 pm

oh you're right matt, it is like Kleenex - proper noun although everyone knows it for the catch-all

9:42 pm

Oh well, so much for procrastination -- I tried!! -- see you at the flip :)

9:42 pm

:) bye nan!

9:43 pm

Bye, cybernan...Have I ever mentioned that I loathe a's?

9:43 pm

Bye nan!

9:43 pm

so do we all, smith!

9:43 pm

oh, 7 hours of sleep -- must have felt like heaven! I think i'm still making up for the paucity of REM time... we got out today too -- first weekend of the local farmer's market; my mother came along and we had a blast. AND it didn't rain while we were there!

9:43 pm

bye nan!

9:44 pm

ca7 please anyone? already have the ca7/44.

9:44 pm

well son -- time to give your computer a break. Say good night to all the nice people, and tell us how many words and points you got!

9:45 pm

Sounds fun knut and stid!

9:45 pm

well i guess im done am going to go to bed i guess cant find anymore words

9:45 pm

ca 7/32: the previous ca 4/4 - e + ea 4/4 meaning rest

9:45 pm

ca7/32 - is a combination of ca4/5 (what you pack your clothes in) plus anagram of sea.

9:45 pm

hmmm hi

9:46 pm

Bye Y'all, see you later or tomorrow (definately)!

9:46 pm

good night shorty, thanks for sharing the baby with us!

9:46 pm

Bye shorty! Hi Haz and racquelle!

9:46 pm

oh you are so welcome

9:46 pm

hello

9:47 pm

Bye stidmatt!!

9:47 pm

Hello smithchick - sorry to miss you shorty!

9:47 pm

I'm going to take a break, too, and spend time with the kids before they go to sleep. BBL!

9:47 pm

nite stidmama!

9:48 pm

good night stid family! nice to meet you, matt.

9:48 pm

ty haz... what the heck does it mean??? WoW!

9:49 pm

It's apparently an enzyme used to ripen cheese.

9:49 pm

done!

9:49 pm

YAY, Leslie!!!!!!!!!!

9:50 pm

I have 27 left to find. In 11 minutes I'm going to break out the list.

9:50 pm

no list yet smith?? that is impressive.

9:50 pm

What's significant about 11 minutes?

bye, shorty bye, stidmatt and stidmama! hi, haz and raq!

9:51 pm

Hello Temple Owl!

9:52 pm

I am having a tough time with the two "sk" words. Any suggestions please?

9:52 pm

When it is 10:00 my time. By the time it posted, a it was really 10 minutes more.

9:52 pm

A thing of yarn spelled with a different second vowel. then the plural.

9:53 pm

sk + what you hear with, change r to n

9:56 pm

I'll be back...I'm going to go digging for clues in the log before I look at the list.

9:56 pm

sk5 - worn by Scotsmen as part of Highland dress, it's the dagger tucked into their sock.

9:56 pm

I'm back. sk 5 & plural 6. A double-edged dagger formerly used in Ireland and Scotland.

9:57 pm

Hi Haz! You're up early/late. Is hubby off on a call?

9:57 pm

cafe, please don't post words in the log. some people like to guess.

9:57 pm

Cafe Vinta - Please do not post words in the log.

9:58 pm

Thanks a bundle of yarn!

9:58 pm

Hi, Jacula - no, too much cheese has caused me to have a gall bladder flare up and I'm using babble as distraction from the discomfort!

9:59 pm

Haz - Oh dear! Painful. What will counteract it? I can't think right now. I have to watch how much garlic I eat as I have naturally low b/p and garlic lowers b/p.

9:59 pm

that's ok, cafe. you a newbie?

10:01 pm

Okay Cafe Vinta. Mind you, even part of your name is a grid word today. LOL. In general,on here, we hint and tip and clue. Even last minute, we star letters out so as not to give the whole word.

10:01 pm

From past experience it will subside eventually. I've just got to be careful about how much dairy I eat.

10:02 pm

well, just ask if you have any questions. it's a friendly bunch.

10:02 pm

The only "ta" I can find is what happens to me when I'm in the sun. I must be getting sleepy. I'm finding nothing tonight. Time is slipping away and I hear my bed calling.

10:03 pm

Ineed help with the last fe5/16. Any hints?

10:03 pm

merk, if something is dirty you could say it is ta**ished... that's a 4 and 5

10:03 pm

dan score mo?

10:03 pm

like a wild cat, meg

10:03 pm

Merk - one of the ta words is an anagram of 'late' - quite appropriate for how you're feeling..

10:04 pm

Thanks, Lesllie!!

10:04 pm

37

10:04 pm

379

10:05 pm

haaay im so bored...

10:05 pm

Thanks, Haz, but what of the other?

10:05 pm

Haz - I had to avoid alcohol (no prob at 7/10 yrs of age!), dairy products etc., for about 3 years after I got hepatitis (yellow jaundice) as a child. Even now, too much of any of those and my liver aches. That's why, even though I'm a rare blood group (only 8% of population have it), I'm not a blood donor, although my blood is clear of hepatitis or anything else, my low blood pressure makes it almost impossible to get out anyway.

10:06 pm

all right, i'm off, folks... (maybe) see you at the flip

10:06 pm

Merk - don't forget to pluralise that ta.

10:07 pm

'Bye LeslieAnn - see you another night.

10:08 pm

My O/H has almost got his gold card now though on the blood donating front.

10:08 pm

I did and then I rhymed with a different word someone gave me and I got it. Thanks Haz.

10:08 pm

It's a nuisance having to be careful, isn't it? I avoid garlic like the plague because of the smell!

10:09 pm

Good, Merk - have you been re-energised?

10:10 pm

Haz - re the garlic - if we are going to eat it, we both eat it. However, if you have to meet 'the public' then eat parsley afterwards.

10:10 pm

Jacula - now you know why I'm awake at this hour - what is your excuse?

ja, Haz; you're an hour behind us, so you're up early too! (woke up, bathroom trip, checking game board, seeing if i can throw in a few words while i drink a glass of water, then heading back to bed) :-P

10:13 pm

Haz - what's my excuse? A few early nights almost in a row. I'm a night owl at heart. Not wanting to disturb O/H either, since I stayed up to watch The South Bank Show and he has to be up by 5.20am. Also, O/H is the most active sleeper I've ever slept with! Oh, that sounds bad! But you know what | mean?

10:13 pm

Hi, mikey. I'm not awake by choice - over-indulgence in cheese has left me in some 'digestive discomfort'!

10:14 pm

Jacula - arms flailing, pinwheel turning, that sort of thing?

ja; that will do it, Haz.....dairy products are not at all appropriate for our bodies, and can do a lot of harm :-/ i don't go near them, or any other animal products; but, hope you feel much better soon!

10:15 pm

Hi Mikey, Having read all that stuff where the girls were lusting after you earlier on in the chat log, I feel the need to stick 'Hey Mickey' by Toni Basil on the Babble jukebox. LOL.

oh brother, Jacula; that's not still around, is it??? :-/ sheesh.....and my nickname's Mikey, not 'Mickey' :-P

10:16 pm

wla bang counterstrike d2?

10:16 pm

I am still missing a "le" 4,4 word. On the Lickety list it is seven or eight, depending on the one I have above or below it. I know I am describing this terribly. It is below what a bad pipe can be and above what I do using a cane.

10:16 pm

Thanks, Mikey!

i'll never finish this; only 151 words now :-P

10:16 pm

para mas exciting

10:16 pm

ne hints for sk6?

10:17 pm

The le4/4 you're looking for begins and ends with the same letter.

ja, Merk; you've totally lost me there :-P

10:17 pm

Haz - Yes, the things you said plus giggling, muttering, yelling, tooth-grinding (AAARGH!) and smacking me in back of head with flailing elbow. Oh, and pinching duvet and going off to other side of king-sized bed with bottom sheet. I do love him. Honest!

10:18 pm

sk6 - plural of sk 5 - double edged Scottish dagger. Add body part that listens but change the r to an n and then pluralise.

10:18 pm

That is the seventh word in my list. Then I am missing the 4,4 below it. If I've placed it right. There are two 4,4 in a row.

10:18 pm

Mikey - I know your nick, but it's still short for Michael, I assume? LOL.

oh, say; if any of you love playing Literati, yahoo's version of 'Scrabble', then add me to your yahoo messengers with my username you see here.....always looking for game partners to connect with from time to time, and form some multiplayer games on yahoo's site!

ja; of course it is, Jacula.....but i'm never called 'Mickey'! :-P

10:19 pm

got all 203

10:19 pm

Are you looking for the shakesperian le4/4?

10:19 pm

Haz, are you still with me? I have the 'le' word you described. It is the other le 4,4 word next to it in the lickety list that I am missing.

oh my, Jacula; if Heinrich slept like that, he'd sleep alone forevermore! :-P

10:20 pm

Huh? Shakesperian? I haven't read him since I don't know when. The King? I have the king.

10:21 pm

Heinrich, Mikey? Does that mean you're disappointing the girls on here and making them sigh and say, What A waste?' LOL. Not being nasty. It matters not to me. I take people for what they are.

10:22 pm

The two 4/4 (le) together are the le (ending as beginning) and le (meat or verb to incline against).

hey everyone! i got booted out with only one word to go! X 'P last ca - i believe it's a 5?

10:23 pm

Do you hear the gnarling and gnashing of teeth? I found it. I had one misplaced. Boy, does that clear things up. What a way to start a week!

hmm; i don't think i'm a 'waste', Jacula.....and Heinrich sure doesn't, either! ;-)

10:23 pm

the only other le4/4 you might be missing is a plural.

10:23 pm

Merk - glad you got there in the end!

that doesn't mean you lose the list you've already got, does it, Temple Owl?

10:24 pm

Mikey - I don't think you're 'a waste' either. But you must realise what girls means when they say that? LOL.

grrrrr; long ways off.....only 155 words :-/

10:24 pm

ca5/24 - describes the containing ca4 before it

10:25 pm

Temple - I think you're looking for a really silly ca6/24 - barrelly!

no, mikey - that's one good thing about this game - you can work it when you have time and it keeps your list

well, Jacula; i do, but.....it's not a waste to a guy like Heinrich! ;-) lol

10:26 pm

I doubt 'barrelly' is a word, but that ca6 shouln't be either.

oh very cool, Temple Owl; that's good to know! so, even if you sign out and back in? i just left myself signed in for the last few hours while i was asleep, 'cos i feared losing it!

10:27 pm

mistress!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

10:27 pm

Mikey - I read earlier that you are a dancer. What sort od dance? Ballet, or the Michael Flatley sort of stuff, or that tub-thumping hunks stuff or what?

DONE! yay! hi rennie!

10:27 pm

Hello!

10:28 pm

Ren!!! Hello servant.

10:28 pm

Well done, Temple Owl!

10:28 pm

**F**I**R**E**W**O**R**K**S** for t-owl!!!!!

10:28 pm

Well done, Temple!

hi gromit!

10:28 pm

Gromit - where's Wallace?:-)

10:28 pm

hello mistress! i have missed you the past few days!

10:29 pm

What about the "ka" 5,18 please

Renny!!!!!!! :-D

10:29 pm

hey mikey!

i finished friday and yesterday and my rank stayed the same!!!

(((((hugs))))) Renny!!! :-)

10:29 pm

ka5/18 is an alternative spelling of the diamond measuring ca5/12

10:30 pm

Hi temple. Hi Jacula. Wallace is eating having a spot of Stilton I believe

10:30 pm

Ren - I did say 'Boo!' to you on MSN on Fridaynight but you were too busy catching insects to see me there.

10:30 pm

how are you today mikey? i've been working all day.

yes, Jacula.....ballet; i'm also a vocalist, and perform in musical theatre

10:30 pm

LOL mistress! mama bear was giving me flys!

half asleep, Renny; it's only 5:29 am, and i woke up to make a bathroom trip and get a glass of water, and thought i'd try to throw in some more words :-P lol

10:31 pm

nothing like the shoofly pie you make for me though!

10:31 pm

Yup, I knew that! Thanks for the refresher.

10:31 pm

Finished! What a lot of words!

10:31 pm

Ren - that's cheating! You are not supposed to pick flies off Mama's winter hide!

gee ren - that 's awful! you know ididn't go out at all on saturday - too tired!

10:32 pm

LOL mikey - that's what happens to us all in babblelonia

hmm; guess i'll end up with no rank, 'cos i usually won't have much time for this! :-P

10:32 pm

Any clues for the 8 and 9 letter words?

10:32 pm

Gromit - If you have the 10-letter word then you have one of the 9's.

10:32 pm

Congratulations Deb! ^*^*^*^*FIREWORKS^*^*^*^*^*

10:33 pm

ca5 help?

i have Renny on msn too :-)

10:33 pm

t=owl - i had to (gasp) do the grocery shopping saturday.... 8-( sorry mistress.....

way to go, deb!

10:33 pm

ne ak5 help

10:33 pm

plz! ne one!

10:33 pm

:-\ I meant the 9 and 10 letter words.

10:33 pm

Freckle - can you be more specific about what ca5 you are looking for?

10:34 pm

*Sits back and waits for Gromit to spill mug of tea and accidentally pull wrong levers as the realisation that there is a 10-letter word hits home...*

i might as well give up; still only 155 words.....i'll never finish this! :-/ *sigh*

10:34 pm

**F**I**R**E**W**O**R**K**S** for bed!!!!!!!!

10:34 pm

Whew! I just finished going through only about a third of the list and it took me forever! On the positive side, I got 12 more words than I had. I'm down to 15! Time to break out the list!

eeeeeewwwwwwwww! but i still had no get up and go today - need an easter outfit and although i starved and walked 5 miles, i don't think i can go down a size by nexy sunday!

10:35 pm

ren! I've missed you, although others have reported sightings. Come back when you can Mikey; you seem like a nice person, and you know the rankings are not as interesting as the game and the chat.

10:35 pm

it's ok mikey..it's the fun.. jacula is the mistressof the dark...and i'm her humble servant renfield..8-)

10:36 pm

I am almost finished, but there are those buggers ... ca 9,60 and 10,77. Are they compound words, or what?

10:36 pm

ca9/60 and 10/77 - operation performed on pregnant woman

10:36 pm

ak 5 & 6 words, as I said before. Think Cub Scouts' master or the leader of the wolf pack in 'Jungle Book'.

10:37 pm

hey mab!!! i keep looking for you as well. i saw a painting of MAB in women of mythology last night!

10:37 pm

ca9 & 10 come from the ca6 before. Roman emperor, Gaius Julius Ca****.

awwwww; thanks, Mab! :-) and of course they're not; the chat's what makes this *so* much fun.....i don't really care about score, in Literati either.....it's just a lot of fun to play and chat and joke around with my game partners! :-D

10:37 pm

Merk - see hint below, or Roman emperor plus ending of sk word.

10:37 pm

already got the 10 and 12 leter words haha

oh; then who can i be, Renny? ;-) lol

freckle: see 10:24 for ca5 clues

10:38 pm

Aha! Thanks for the hints Haz and Jacula!!

10:38 pm

Well, good for you, Axe. Maybe you will join most of th rest of us in having got all the words shortly.

10:39 pm

You're welcome, gromit.

10:39 pm

Ah, like the surgery! Thanks you. I'd never have gotten it by myself. What friends!

10:40 pm

ye6/24?

10:40 pm

hmmm mikey....you are our mystery right now....8-)

10:40 pm

Glad to help, Merk. How many more to go?

10:41 pm

Mikey - You will have to be Van Helsing.

i'm a mystery, Renny? why's that? :-/

10:41 pm

ye6/24 - longs for (y plus ea5/10)

10:41 pm

whomever you choose, mikey, although on general principles I would advise against servitude (although it works for Jac and ren. I am mab sleepy jewish queen of the faeries. But those damned faeries just do as they please. you might say i'm neither a leader nor a follower.

ren: lola and nut were plying him with champers earlier

why Van Helsing, Jacula?

lol, mab; i'm sure i don't even know what that's even about! :-P

10:42 pm

Oh Haz! It's just so obvious sometimes!! **blushing**

10:42 pm

120 words to go. I'd better hustle!

10:42 pm

well mikey...i know you're a rambo for kicking off those bad dudes yesterday...LOL...we talked about that!

10:43 pm

go philippines!!!!

10:43 pm

Mikey - because I see you as some kind of vanquisher type film hero, However, if you'd rather be one of the flying ones, you could do that, too. Incidentally, you still haven't answered my q about what kind of dancing you do.

10:43 pm

what is a van helsing? removal company?

10:43 pm

gromit - they're only obvious once you see them!

are you 'tikvaeve' on yahoo, mab?

10:44 pm

I was using the wrong C, that's why I had problems - I used ca6,30 with the 'wrong' one

oh, but indeed i *did* answer your question, Jacula! check the archive ;-)

10:44 pm

LOL mab...yes van helsing did remove many vampires! (also very good looking foe!!)

lol mab! hi harpjane! : ( everyone's here and now i have to go....

10:44 pm

calling all knuts...

10:44 pm

Mab! What (or rather who) is Van Helsing? Have you never watched or read anything about Dracula?

10:44 pm

Bye Owl!!

10:45 pm

Bless you all, I am finished! I think there should be bells and whistles when we finish so we know we are.

10:45 pm

Freckle - did you get the ak words?

10:45 pm

Bye Temple Owl....

10:45 pm

nite t-owl...see you later!

10:45 pm

Great job Merk!!

*rings bell* *blows whistle* yay, merk!

10:46 pm

G'night all. See you tomorrow.

10:46 pm

Merk - well done, first of all. And yes, we all agree that there should be something spectacular to recognise our achievement. Some of the players are good at improvising, though.

ach; my cat just horked up a hairball on the rug! :-/

hey ren, mikey - did you have a troll attack friday night?

10:46 pm

Mikey - Sorry, I've been back now and seen that you did indeed answer me. Ballet and also a vocalist.

10:46 pm

Umm...eewww...

10:46 pm

LOL mikey! ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww

10:47 pm

Poor kitty!

10:47 pm

Mikey - cats tend to do that when they feel you are not giving them the attention they feel they are entitled to.

10:47 pm

I tune back in just in time for horked up hairballs!

10:47 pm

27 left...

10:48 pm

LOL, Smithchick.

10:48 pm

mikey - mab does ballet and yoga, she wants to learn to tap dance so she and i can do a dance routine!

10:48 pm

ta5/10? Please??

10:48 pm

great going smith! good timing!

10:49 pm

Haz - I love you to bits though not even met you yet, but let go and give the next winner *~*~*~*FIREWORKS*~*~*~* PLEASE!

10:49 pm

Well, I'm reading about all of your talents. I have none. Now I'm horribly depressed. I don't think "you're such a good listener" counts in the grand scheme of things.

10:50 pm

t-owl - yes....and yesterday as well. van helsing booted their behind

10:50 pm

There are two, both plurals of the preceding ta 4/ One is an anagram of 'late', the other an anagram of ra4/4 - a lake, I think

10:50 pm

Smithchick - if it wasn't for good listeners most of us would be dead by now!

10:51 pm

I am repressed, aren't I. Okay, I'll study the format and try to do better next time.

way to go, mikey! ren - how did they get to your table? it was private

10:51 pm

TY haz! How about se7/28?

10:51 pm

amen & mazel tov to that mistress - we need good listeners smith!!!

10:51 pm

TY, Jacula...But couldn't I listen well and also dance and be artistic and play musical instruments too?

10:52 pm

i think we were waiting on mama to get back in - her computer kept burping

gromit: a superlative

10:52 pm

se 7/28 is a superlative for se4/4 - or you could look at it as 'shore leave'

10:53 pm

smith - get mab to spinkle some faerie majik on you and you can do it all!!!!

10:53 pm

Smithchick, my pet, you can do anything you want on the net! :-)

10:54 pm

TY Haz and Owl!! 7 minutes... Ahhhhh!

10:54 pm

That's a good plan...How 'bout it mab? Please? I'm in desperate need of fabulous talent!

10:54 pm

Oh, this is exciting. I've never been on at the flip before....

10:54 pm

se5/12?

10:54 pm

Done! Night, all! :-)

une! congrats!

10:55 pm

se 5/12 is a Hebrew word - seen in some of the Psalms.

10:55 pm

oh wait! Or is it an hour and 7 minutes until the flip?

10:55 pm

Haz - LOL. I must get you on my MSN. You, me and Ren wuld make a great nattering 3-some.

10:55 pm

It's an anagram of ha5/12

10:55 pm

Well one thing I can do is finish this grid!!! Congrats to you, Une!!!!!!!!!!!

10:55 pm

Woohooo Un!!!

10:56 pm

Haz - don't get too excited yet. 'Cos unless their clock hasn't changed the flip happens at 6am here, and I make it 4.56am on my comp.

anyone know tomorrow's theme?

10:57 pm

Hold on, I have to get fireworks constructed for Uneaixoise *****##*****##F I R E W O R K S ##****###

10:57 pm

**F**I**R**E**W**O**R**K**S** for everyone who has finished!!!!!! (sorry i missed it!!)

10:57 pm

*~*~*~FIREWORKS FOR UNE*~*~*~*

10:57 pm

severe weather

10:58 pm

Thanks! :-D

10:58 pm

So I'm not going to be at the flip after all? Just as I was getting my fingers poised for a new grid!

10:58 pm

flip is in 1 hr and bout 2 minutes

10:58 pm

Smithchick sits patiently waiting for her fireworks...

10:59 pm

Haz - those were great fireworks. Loud, and those crackerjack things chased me around the yard a bit, but they were good.:-)) WELL DONE.

10:59 pm

TY Haz! Had to monkey it, but I got it!

10:59 pm

Did you finish smithchick?

10:59 pm

*~*~*~*~FIREWORKS FOR SMITHCHICK*~*~*~*~

11:00 pm

!!###**F**I**R**E**W**O**R**K* *S** !!### for smith

11:00 pm

ca 6/30 and ca7/44?

11:00 pm

Smitchchick, on the occasion of your having completed babble grid number 1111 I am pleased to present you with *~*~* F I R E W O R K S *~*~*

11:01 pm

TY, TY!! Cause I wasn't above giving my own self fireworks...If I could figure out how!

11:01 pm

WELL DONE, Haz!:-))))))))))

11:01 pm

ca6/30 and the 7 are containers for wine

11:01 pm

Yeah smithchick!! **********###### ####FIREWORKS########*********

11:01 pm

ca6/30- a thing you pour stuff out of.

11:02 pm

Thank you, Jacula!

11:02 pm

Mind you, Haz. That was terribly formal. Can I come over to Ireland and ply you with drink? LOL. I'd like you on my msn. How can we achieve that?

woo-hoo, smith! and with that i bid you all good night dear babblers. see you tomorrow!

11:03 pm

thanks!

11:03 pm

Wow, these are great fireworks! I'll try it... ~*$$$*~*!*~*!!!!*~*!*!! !!*~*!*~*$$$*~

11:03 pm

Nite all! Time for Sopranos...

11:03 pm

Night, TO!

11:03 pm

Smthchick - your last definition. ROFLOL! So true, but I hope you didn't spill any.

11:03 pm

Bye, gromit!

11:04 pm

ok all you sweet wonderful people - i have depositions tomorrow - nighty nite....(hope i didn;t use a word)

11:04 pm

ca7/32 and ca6/36?

11:04 pm

It's getting bloody noisy in here with all these fireworks!

11:04 pm

Bye, Ren! LOL, Jacula!

11:04 pm

Naw, Ren., you're ok. Depostion isn't in the grid today.

11:04 pm

Good night, Temple Owl! Jacula, what are you trying to do to my digestive system? If wensleydale cheese with cranberries renders me ill, what would strong drink do? The MSN thing - I'm not a member as yet.

11:05 pm

Well, I too must be off. McDreamy awaits me on TiVo. Also there is that pesky matter of getting up with the kids in the morning.

11:06 pm

ROFL, Jacula...

11:06 pm

ca7/32 - combine ca4/5 (what you pack your clothes in) with a shortened version of ea4/4 - what you take when you rest.

11:07 pm

ca 6 - to the aforementioned receptacle for holiday clothes, add what a bird does in the air, minus a letter

11:07 pm

Haz - re MSN, if you want to get it go to MSN.com not elsewhere or they will try to charge you for the service. You don't need a hotmail or msn address to get in there now. However, go to BabAnon and send me a message initially through the ez message board on there. I'll get you sorted then.

11:08 pm

Okay, but I'll not do it just at this minute.

11:09 pm

Okay, Haz.

11:10 pm

got em! Thanks

11:10 pm

I still have 86 to go though. Not too hopeful for a gal with dialup.

11:11 pm

harp - i'm in the same boat, started too late & have 77 to go - let's race!

11:12 pm

Woot!! Finished!!!

11:13 pm

se 7/28 and either of the se5/12?

11:13 pm

Congratulations, knutmeg!!

11:14 pm

se5/12 - Hebrew word, seen in Psalms, anagram of ha5/12 se 5/12 - add the first part of a contest (athletes run in a ***e)

11:15 pm

Harp - regretfully, probably not. We got my o'H's parents on line today. Not dial-up nor fast broadband, but a paid for monthly thing using their phone line and a filter. Couldn't believe how slow it was! Which brings me back to a point I meant to make earlier about Babblers (myself included) getting impatient with people who don't seem to have scrolled back before they post - Folks, if you've had broadband for a while, you might just forget how slow other internet connections are. Let's try to have a little more patience, eh? I was reading in my Sunday paper earlier about how a computer that reads your thoughts and types them might come in one day. ERK!

11:15 pm

se7/28 - superlative of se4/4

11:16 pm

Good point about scrolling back. It's much too time-consuming on short notice. I have to take out the icons, and put the log update on "never"

finally back :-P boy, that was 'fun'

11:18 pm

79 to go....

11:18 pm

se7/28 - the blackest creme caramel you ever saw! Think charred, think blow torch.

11:19 pm

Think kitchen in flames...

11:19 pm

No, perish the thought!

11:20 pm

Haz - that's a bit dramatic! LOL.

hmm; i don't understand this stat thing at all :-/

that's DSL, Jacula; which is broadband/high speed, or should be.....but there are different levels you can have, too.....lite/basic, standard, and high speed ultra; we have the latter kind of DSL.....anything else would frustrate me!

11:24 pm

Mikey - stats - what don't you understand? Go to Angel's page for the full explanation. However, if it's simple like ar4/4 for instance it could be ARTS. Each letter is worth 1 point and ther are 4 of them. SCORING Each tile has a point value. To determine the score for a word, the point-value for the length of the word is multiplied by the total letter values for the word: 4-letter word = 1 x Points 5-letter word = 2 x Points 6-letter word = 3 x Points 7-letter word = 4 x Points 8-letter word = 5 x Points 9-letter word = 6 x Points Go into 'Babble Rules' for the rest.

11:25 pm

re5/16, 6/27, and 5/14? Thank you in advance

the 'Number of words that start with:' section, Jacula; why there are 2 lots of numbers under each letter in the table there?

11:29 pm

i'm a latecomer. how many words in this puzzle?

11:29 pm

Mikey - where are you looking at that?

11:30 pm

Batty - 203 words and not enough time to find them now. Sorry!

11:32 pm

ra6/18? I"m beggin here!

when i click 'flip to stats', Jacula; under where it tells me i have 48 words left to find.....which i'll never find now :-/

11:33 pm

what olde west folks called wrestling....5/18

11:35 pm

thank you. re5/16, 6/27, and 5/14? purty please?

11:36 pm

203!! and I was feeling proud for finding 105 in an hour and a half LOL. oh well, we'll see how much i get done before it clicks over :)

11:37 pm

re 5/16 is re + what you use to fill up your car minus the 'u'

11:37 pm

ra6/18 - To engage in wrestling or wrestle with. Failing that, think of the collie film star, that lovely collie dog that made us all cry La****. Change the first letter.

11:37 pm

re 5/14 to speak again

11:37 pm

i could use help with la 5/10

11:37 pm

re5/16 - add part of past tense of fall, then plural for re6

11:38 pm

la5/10 is an anagram of re5/10

11:38 pm

bless you all. 51 to go.!

11:38 pm

thx haz! (ps -duh!) :)

11:38 pm

re 6 27 falls down again past tense, minus an L

11:40 pm

la5/10 - A tutelary deity or spirit of an ancient Roman household.

11:41 pm

the re5 and 6... if you chop a tree down, you fe** it.

11:41 pm

la 5 and penates...

11:42 pm

Well, it would be nice to stay around to see the finishers through, but my pain has eased and I'll head off to bed. Hope you all get fireworks!

11:42 pm

Mab - hang on! Not everyone has studied Latin.

11:43 pm

Oh come on, Haz. u8 mins to the flip! You can hang around for that!

11:43 pm

'night Haz. (sorry to hear about pain)

11:45 pm

Haz - not being unsympathetic.xx But stay for a minute or two.

11:45 pm

ha6/12? I have one, the "bother" but need the other.

11:45 pm

harp - reverse the last 2 letters for the other one.

11:46 pm

ty jac!

11:46 pm

y/w, Harp.

11:48 pm

O'H is toiing and roeiing right now, going out to work.

11:49 pm

*froeing

11:49 pm

Haz - have you gone?

11:49 pm

fr5/16? The first one?

11:50 pm

the ca 9 please

11:50 pm

fra * 2 curly consonants.

11:50 pm

ca9 = pl 10. c-section birth method. Roman connections.

11:51 pm

ty

11:52 pm

:-) Helen

11:52 pm

how about the ca 7/32 & ca 6/36

11:53 pm

ca6/36 - thing you pack for your hols plus annoying buzzing intest minus middle consonant.

11:54 pm

ca7/32 - thing you pack plus time of leisure minus the first letter (e).

11:54 pm

*insect!

11:56 pm

finished....thanks, k-megan.....mommy's mommy girl

11:57 pm

duh sorry to be dull - which insect would that be?

11:57 pm

8 to go - dang it

11:58 pm

an fl one that buzzes around annnoyingly!

11:59 pm

YAY jaianniah!

11:59 pm

hi all -- just got back, in time for the flip!

12:00 am

Helen - if you don't finish don't worry! The fun is in trying.

12:00 am

actually, only 8 left is really good, HelenK! way to go!

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