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Total score 0 pts.
1 4,717
2 4,717
3 4,717
4 4,717
5 4,717
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80 4,717
81 4,717
82 4,717
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84 4,717
85 4,717
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88 4,717
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90 4,717
91 4,717
92 4,717
93 4,717
94 4,717
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100 4,717
101 4,717
102 4,717
103 4,717
104 4,717
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106 4,717
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111 4,717
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113 4,717
114 4,717
115 4,717
116 4,717
117 4,717
118 4,717
119 4,717
120 4,717
121 4,717
122 4,707
123 4,692
124 4,666
125 4,646
126 4,574
127 4,527
128 4,519
129 4,507
130 4,469
131 4,380
132 4,358
133 4,331
134 4,331
135 4,276
136 4,129
137 4,081
138 4,031
139 3,972
140 3,879
141 3,845
142 3,754
143 3,744
144 3,730
145 3,725
146 3,709
147 3,665
148 3,629
149 3,614
150 3,612
151 3,604
152 3,596
153 3,568
154 3,542
155 3,512
156 3,495
157 3,471
158 3,383
159 3,349
160 3,309
161 3,299
162 3,283
163 3,250
164 3,238
165 3,237
166 3,179
167 3,155
168 3,151
169 3,117
170 3,114
171 3,103
172 3,097
173 3,095
174 3,091
175 3,081
176 3,080
177 3,078
178 3,077
179 3,039
180 3,032
181 3,024
182 3,007
183 3,007
184 3,004
185 2,983
186 2,975
187 2,974
188 2,945
189 2,942
190 2,938
191 2,927
192 2,924
193 2,901
194 2,890
195 2,884
196 2,880
197 2,874
198 2,873
199 2,867
200 2,854
201 2,853
202 2,846
203 2,843
204 2,838
205 2,834
206 2,833
207 2,829
208 2,826
209 2,817
210 2,807
211 2,798
212 2,785
213 2,759
214 2,756
215 2,756
216 2,747
217 2,745
218 2,741
219 2,738
220 2,733
221 2,727
222 2,709
223 2,706
224 2,696
225 2,690
226 2,687
227 2,683
228 2,669
229 2,668
230 2,667
231 2,666
232 2,666
233 2,664
234 2,657
235 2,654
236 2,651
237 2,634
238 2,628
239 2,625
240 2,612
241 2,612
242 2,589
243 2,588
244 2,588
245 2,579
246 2,575
247 2,566
248 2,551
249 2,536
250 2,528
251 2,528
252 2,490
253 2,487
254 2,486
255 2,485
256 2,457
257 2,443
258 2,441
259 2,440
260 2,423
261 2,421
262 2,415
263 2,388
264 2,385
265 2,381
266 2,378
267 2,370
268 2,363
269 2,355
270 2,353
271 2,348
272 2,343
273 2,336
274 2,325
275 2,322
276 2,322
277 2,320
278 2,313
279 2,285
280 2,283
281 2,275
282 2,257
283 2,257
284 2,243
285 2,230
286 2,226
287 2,221
288 2,212
289 2,209
290 2,206
291 2,204
292 2,194
293 2,179
294 2,177
295 2,175
296 2,170
297 2,166
298 2,158
299 2,153
300 2,144
301 2,144
302 2,143
303 2,131
304 2,110
305 2,104
306 2,104
307 2,078
308 2,074
309 2,067
310 2,064
311 2,063
312 2,060
313 2,050
314 2,045
315 2,029
316 2,024
317 2,021
318 2,018
319 2,012
320 1,993
321 1,989
322 1,989
323 1,984
324 1,977
325 1,974
326 1,974
327 1,966
328 1,955
329 1,948
330 1,945
331 1,943
332 1,943
333 1,937
334 1,919
335 1,917
336 1,911
337 1,899
338 1,893
339 1,886
340 1,875
341 1,870
342 1,865
343 1,838
344 1,837
345 1,828
346 1,824
347 1,819
348 1,814
349 1,809
350 1,805
351 1,797
352 1,789
353 1,787
354 1,787
355 1,784
356 1,781
357 1,771
358 1,767
359 1,767
360 1,766
361 1,765
362 1,756
363 1,747
364 1,739
365 1,734
366 1,733
367 1,732
368 1,730
369 1,727
370 1,725
371 1,715
372 1,704
373 1,699
374 1,698
375 1,698
376 1,694
377 1,694
378 1,693
379 1,685
380 1,684
381 1,677
382 1,675
383 1,668
384 1,665
385 1,661
386 1,655
387 1,653
388 1,653
389 1,652
390 1,648
391 1,638
392 1,630
393 1,624
394 1,621
395 1,605
396 1,605
397 1,601
398 1,601
399 1,594
400 1,592
401 1,583
402 1,580
403 1,574
404 1,573
405 1,570
406 1,558
407 1,557
408 1,555
409 1,551
410 1,545
411 1,541
412 1,536
413 1,535
414 1,533
415 1,531
416 1,529
417 1,523
418 1,523
419 1,522
420 1,511
421 1,504
422 1,504
423 1,504
424 1,501
425 1,501
426 1,493
427 1,492
428 1,482
429 1,477
430 1,472
431 1,466
432 1,466
433 1,463
434 1,432
435 1,429
436 1,427
437 1,413
438 1,407
439 1,405
440 1,403
441 1,397
442 1,386
443 1,385
444 1,383
445 1,377
446 1,377
447 1,363
448 1,362
449 1,357
450 1,348
451 1,343
452 1,343
453 1,339
454 1,339
455 1,332
456 1,331
457 1,317
458 1,315
459 1,313
460 1,300
461 1,295
462 1,294
463 1,285
464 1,284
465 1,273
466 1,271
467 1,270
468 1,263
469 1,262
470 1,260
471 1,259
472 1,248
473 1,242
474 1,241
475 1,239
476 1,228
477 1,227
478 1,220
479 1,213
480 1,212
481 1,210
482 1,207
483 1,207
484 1,203
485 1,202
486 1,199
487 1,197
488 1,194
489 1,190
490 1,185
491 1,182
492 1,180
493 1,178
494 1,173
495 1,169
496 1,163
497 1,163
498 1,159
499 1,159
500 1,158
501 1,158
502 1,151
503 1,148
504 1,148
505 1,146
506 1,145
507 1,137
508 1,136
509 1,136
510 1,136
511 1,136
512 1,135
513 1,134
514 1,131
515 1,128
516 1,120
517 1,119
518 1,119
519 1,119
520 1,116
521 1,115
522 1,113
523 1,108
524 1,105
525 1,104
526 1,094
527 1,092
528 1,091
529 1,091
530 1,087
531 1,086
532 1,079
533 1,074
534 1,071
535 1,068
536 1,067
537 1,066
538 1,061
539 1,055
540 1,054
541 1,053
542 1,052
543 1,048
544 1,047
545 1,047
546 1,046
547 1,034
548 1,032
549 1,024
550 1,023
551 1,022
552 1,020
553 1,017
554 1,006
555 1,005
556 1,004
557 1,003
558 1,003
559 1,002
560 998
561 992
562 987
563 974
564 972
565 971
566 969
567 968
568 964
569 963
570 956
571 954
572 952
573 952
574 947
575 945
576 944
577 941
578 936
579 920
580 912
581 909
582 904
583 903
584 903
585 903
586 897
587 892
588 887
589 883
590 881
591 875
592 875
593 874
594 872
595 871
596 870
597 869
598 857
599 853
600 850
601 849
602 847
603 827
604 821
605 821
606 819
607 818
608 807
609 807
610 802
611 800
612 797
613 793
614 787
615 785
616 782
617 781
618 777
619 775
620 773
621 773
622 772
623 769
624 760
625 760
626 750
627 747
628 744
629 740
630 736
631 734
632 731
633 725
634 724
635 719
636 718
637 709
638 709
639 704
640 703
641 697
642 696
643 694
644 693
645 690
646 688
647 674
648 672
649 670
650 667
651 666
652 659
653 650
654 649
655 648
656 646
657 645
658 640
659 638
660 635
661 630
662 623
663 621
664 620
665 616
666 612
667 611
668 607
669 606
670 601
671 600
672 593
673 591
674 587
675 582
676 577
677 571
678 569
679 557
680 555
681 552
682 548
683 545
684 540
685 539
686 538
687 536
688 530
689 526
690 521
691 517
692 517
693 514
694 511
695 510
696 504
697 503
698 501
699 497
700 496
701 487
702 487
703 481
704 477
705 477
706 475
707 468
708 462
709 459
710 459
711 453
712 447
713 445
714 437
715 435
716 433
717 429
718 428
719 424
720 422
721 413
722 408
723 404
724 397
725 387
726 386
727 385
728 385
729 384
730 383
731 383
732 378
733 378
734 377
735 374
736 365
737 364
738 359
739 352
740 348
741 342
742 339
743 334
744 332
745 332
746 330
747 322
748 319
749 316
750 315
751 314
752 313
753 310
754 310
755 305
756 303
757 300
758 295
759 293
760 292
761 291
762 290
763 283
764 269
765 266
766 259
767 257
768 253
769 249
770 245
771 244
772 244
773 243
774 235
775 232
776 227
777 221
778 218
779 216
780 207
781 202
782 196
783 195
784 191
785 190
786 186
787 186
788 184
789 183
790 173
791 173
792 171
793 169
794 169
795 163
796 160
797 159
798 158
799 156
800 152
801 145
802 139
803 133
804 132
805 125
806 124
807 123
808 122
809 122
810 120
811 119
812 118
813 117
814 113
815 109
816 107
817 101
818 100
819 97
820 95
821 88
822 87
823 85
824 80
825 80
826 80
827 77
828 76
829 76
830 67
831 60
832 51
833 51
834 51
835 45
836 34
837 28
838 26
839 22
840 15
841 15
842 12
843 11
844 10
845 9
846 9
847 5
848 5
849 5
850 4

269 total words

12:00 am

flip

12:00 am

flip!

12:00 am

flip

12:00 am

flip out

12:00 am

fliiperooo!

flippity doo dah!

12:00 am

fliptastic!

12:01 am

no way. no way. no way. sorry all, I am NOT going to do another huge-big grid. NO NO NO!

12:01 am

flipt--must seek new identity

12:02 am

i already have 25 - seems easy

12:02 am

Is it a good puzzle when there are 10 8 letter words or a bad puzzle?

12:02 am

yeah - gonna change now

12:02 am

I have to concur, stidmama -- I couldn't play last week AT ALL because I have a problem with my elbow from too much Babble... so I had to lay off for a whole week. Yesterday's was short, so I justified it. On the other hand, it has been a week ...

12:03 am

I think it's going to be a good one

12:03 am

i'm ready i'm ready

12:04 am

renfield, your icon looks so familiar... i give. ?

12:04 am

I need nw duds

12:04 am

brain setzer

12:04 am

I think I'll sleep on it... just too much to try tonight.

12:04 am

how many words?

12:04 am

'night stidmama. Sleep well.

12:04 am

269

12:04 am

nite stid

12:05 am

ty

12:05 am

thanks everyone who was cluing me!! i think i ended with 7 left to go

12:05 am

way to go fran!

12:05 am

yeah, I ate it badly with that last board, so I need to make up today

12:05 am

that's what i get for going to sleep early last night and not working on the grid!!

12:06 am

good night all... see you tomorrow!

12:06 am

'night, stid

12:06 am

i need to go change my icon! bbl. night stid!!

12:07 am

oh okay (taking the plunge!)

12:09 am

you splashed me ch1212!!!!

12:09 am

oops, sorry ... but I have 27 so far

12:10 am

i'm back

12:11 am

Good morning all; R8/60

12:11 am

hey paddy

12:11 am

so ch1212, your icon is small on my screen & i can't make out who it is - it looks to me like either a young richard burton or russell crowe - am i close?

12:11 am

S8

12:11 am

s 8/50

12:12 am

You were right on -- it's Crowe in one of his first films, called "Blood Oath".

12:12 am

lol - never even heard of it, lol

12:13 am

Australian film, of course. Don't think it's been released in the U.S. -- he had a very small role

12:14 am

ahhh

12:14 am

brb - have to let the puppsters out for a few

hey, why don't lickety's clues work w/Safari browser? they had been.

12:17 am

269? easy or hard? or too soon to tell?

12:17 am

relatively easy so far, harpjane -- I've got 72 now. Lots of variations on lots of words.

12:18 am

i have 66 seems ok so far . . . dum-de-dum-dum

12:18 am

58 so far here

12:18 am

rude

12:18 am

ruder

12:18 am

achh sooo sorry

12:18 am

I'd say that was 59 saphyre ... no, 60 -- :)

12:19 am

true :)

12:19 am

saph - that was ru** of you to enter those words- you could at least have picked some i didn't aldreay have! :))

12:19 am

*aldready

12:19 am

lol helen

12:20 am

look - am i ***** or what - made the same mistake twice - lol

12:20 am

already!!!!

12:21 am

Good night kids -- this one is too rich for my blood -- I'll stop by tomorrow to chat :)

12:21 am

night GW

12:21 am

good nite grey :)

12:21 am

Sleep in peace, GreyWoulf.

12:21 am

nite wolf - are you working sunday?

12:22 am

melonheadjujube - I'm having the same issue with safari...

el, i'm doing lickety on firefox whilst babbling on Safari - i don't use firefox for babble bc it doesn't page for me - must use scrollbar.

12:24 am

okie dokie, here I come!

12:24 am

ok harp......come on in

12:26 am

melonheadjujube - yeah, I was using netscape and then we reached the flip and I was so confused...I am on eastern time, but I guess babble is central...

12:27 am

we must all be working very hard - so very little chat

12:27 am

yes babble is cst or cdt

12:28 am

for a picture do u need to pay..?

12:29 am

yes al

12:29 am

drift

12:29 am

yes aleksia - you must 'go pro'

12:29 am

oops

12:30 am

okay

12:30 am

how can you be more nu**

12:31 am

somethin can taste that way

12:32 am

(m)

82 so far

12:37 am

135... I think that is a good amount for 30 minutes of work. Good night!

12:37 am

147

12:37 am

good nite xandria

12:37 am

night xandria -- with 116, I'm nearly there too. Great work, helenkeller!

Xandria - impressive!

lots of 7 letter words - i only have 6 so far

and 1 8 letter

12:38 am

there are 33 7ltr words.

12:45 am

130 -- night all. be back after a good night's sleep. happy hunting!

12:45 am

good nite ch1212

nite ch

12:45 am

nite ch1212

100 - i should stop - beddybye time

12:51 am

good nite melon

12:51 am

nite melon

nite, all good fun, good company-

12:57 am

nite, melon

12:58 am

helen--I know your icon but can't place him--clue?

12:59 am

helen - where did you find that icon - i love him! he

12:59 am

i wrote a little something in my bio - a clue !

12:59 am

he's the sexiest ugly man in the world!

12:59 am

177 left

1:00 am

will go fetch clue...

well, ls1 - you cant' have him - he's mine !

1:00 am

So tomorrow it will feel like a medium puzzle

i think you can leave out the word ugly in your sentence & it would still be true

1:01 am

truly madly deeply is one of my favorite movies

ls1 - i just image googled his name & this was the best young close-up i could find - i wanted the one with the pageboy haircut, but pic was too small

who knew he could sing & dance like that - LOL

1:02 am

hmmm..

see- i knew right away i liked you, & it's not just that you live down the street from me either :)

lib - are you kidding - you can't place that quote?

1:03 am

iv got 1 word yay

1:03 am

i know- seems like we have a lot in common

1:03 am

maybe I was absent that day?

lib - i see by your profile that you ought to know

1:03 am

most recently lib, think harry potter

lol ok ls1 - give lib another clue

1:04 am

I know!

1:04 am

I mean I know I should know...

even more recently - think hhgttg

think deep, menacing, velvet voice

1:05 am

or love actually or dogma...

1:05 am

Morning all! I keep seeing "turnip".

sense & sensability, bob roberts,GALAXY QUEST

ls1 - have you seen 'dark harbor'?

1:06 am

morning sue

1:06 am

no, or galaxy quest either

hi sue

1:07 am

i've got to go find a new icon - i just can't think of anyone

ls1 you must see them both then - in galaxy quest he is an alien & in dark harbor (well, let's just say full fro....)

1:08 am

ok - on my way to blockbuster!

ROFL !!!

lib - are you still there?

renfield - before i signed off i read your profile - Ishtar? I've always wanted to see it - unfortunately blockbuster online doesn't have it ;(

1:09 am

oh, yes, the PROF!

bravo !!!

1:10 am

wow, brain lag :-[] lol

lol - now you can get even - i have been staring at your icon & i have absolutely no clue

i guess robert deniro, but i don't thin that's right

1:11 am

melon - sometimes it's on one of the movie channels

1:11 am

really, helen, *imagine* who it is...

really - that's john lennon?

1:12 am

you got it helen!

you're clue was perfect!

ahhhhhh...movie channels. just got another 8 letter - i gotta quit this not good for arthritic neck.

1:16 am

my bums asleep

sue Magee - you see turnip, i see putrify

1:17 am

hi everybody!! dh has a gig tonight so hopefully i can finish this puzzle tonight and avoid my horrible performance on yesterday's grid!

1:17 am

i see depends

lol ren

hiya fran

1:18 am

hi helen!

fran - i am loving this 'guess the icon' game - & yet again i am stumped, no clue who you got there - i guess....hmmmmm, billy bob thornton?

1:19 am

not billy bob, but he sometimes appears on the same red carpets

another clue, please

1:20 am

who is your icon?

i asked first - i have a clue in my bio

1:21 am

he is a recording superstar, was once part of a group, but now records solo records

is that mick?

1:21 am

sting?

1:21 am

ls1 got it helen!!

yes ls1 is right

1:21 am

is it jim carrey?

1:22 am

i'm listening to him right now

1:22 am

now i have to guess yours

1:22 am

oh sting!

ls1 - YET another stumper!!!!

1:22 am

can i get another clue?

1:22 am

i loooove sting

1:23 am

mine is not really as famous as yours, yet, but he is my current crush

1:23 am

i think ls1 is willen dafoe

ls1 fran needs another clue - what should we tell her - his first really big part was as the villan (which he is BEST at) in 'die hard'

1:24 am

helen i'm not sure you've guessed it yet!

ls1 - give me a clue

1:24 am

almost famous

no ls1 - not ringing any bells

1:25 am

stage beauty

nope, sorry

1:25 am

big fish

1:26 am

see, i told you he's not a household name...yet

ls1 - if those are 3 movies, i only know the first & don't remember it well

1:26 am

alan rickman

1:27 am

well - you definitely need to see big fish!

yes fran !!!! i was just going to ask if you were going to help me with ls1's

never even heard of big fish - have i?

1:27 am

Albert Finney was excellent in big fish, as usual.

i have to go to a wedding tomorrow - i think i am going to miss alot of fun here :(

1:28 am

billy crudup?

1:28 am

yes fran!

that's his name - he was cuuuuuute in almost famous!

Clues are up everyone! Enjoy!

1:28 am

okay, i have to fess up, i went on imdb.com

1:28 am

thanks lickety!

1:29 am

thanks licketysplit!!

1:29 am

you're a dream lickety!

1:29 am

well, i guess that he really fits the description "before they were famous" ... he's not really even famous yet!

1:29 am

renfield, who are you?

1:29 am

thanks, lickety, I am at 154 and stalling - need the clues for help, now

1:30 am

Morning dear gang :) Must be a great grid, my favorite 3 letter word is in it :)

1:30 am

hi sprite!

hiya sprite :)

1:31 am

brian setzer when he was in the bloodles pharohs

1:31 am

let me guess, since you were trying to make orgasm fit yesterday...

1:31 am

hey hey sprite

1:31 am

:) You see right through me, ls1

1:31 am

wow, would never have guessed that one renfield!

1:32 am

stid is in the grid again, third time in two weeks

i have 190 - it is 1:30 - i need to still get my laundry & am debating a soak in the tub - nope i'm skipping that, be back in a bit

1:34 am

k helen

1:34 am

hehe, spoken as a true addict!

1:35 am

later helen! i'll brb also, have to put baby to bed

1:37 am

yes, renfield--can't place you

1:41 am

wow, ren, wouldn't have guessed

1:43 am

see what happens to us silly fans! we want to know all there is about our favs!

1:45 am

so true, ren!

1:48 am

Hello and goodbye my friends. Hubby and me are off for the next seven days, for a vacation on the Isle of Wight, for you people across the pond, that is an Island just off the South coast of England! See you next month xx

1:48 am

enjoy exwren!!!!!!!

1:48 am

have a nice one, exwren! :)

1:49 am

I will miss Babble, but due to the recent 'biggies' I've not played mush in the past week

1:50 am

...much...

1:50 am

you won;t miss the re's though!

1:50 am

Oh! you know me well

1:51 am

i'm reminded of you everytime i see an re word...really bad if i'm in a meeting and i start to laugh!

1:52 am

bye

1:52 am

bye egm

1:54 am

99 to go, good night, good luck

1:55 am

Your nick is a re-word, ren ;)

1:55 am

nite joey

1:55 am

ooh, ren, just a few more days til 12!!

1:55 am

i know sprite - i hope exwren still loves me!

1:56 am

That love surpasses names, I am sure

1:57 am

yes joey - i guess we will all miss a day of babble

1:57 am

ExWren, have a great trip!

1:57 am

absolutely can't wait

1:58 am

What about 12?

1:58 am

the next Janet Evanovich book comes out on June 1st. it is the 12th in the series

1:58 am

janet evanovich's newst stephanie plum book

1:59 am

present company excepted ren!

1:59 am

I have read 1, I think. Is she that antiheroine with the great sense of humour?

1:59 am

have a great vacation exwren!

1:59 am

I remember something about a huge rabbit chasing her and threatening her life

2:00 am

i don't know about anti heroine, but she does have an offbeat sense of humor

2:00 am

i don't know about anti heroine, but she does have an offbeat sense of humor

2:00 am

i don't know about anti heroine, but she does have an offbeat sense of humor

2:00 am

thanks exwren!

2:03 am

Is that from her adventures, that giant rabbit?

2:04 am

fest not found?

2:04 am

okay, it's 3AM ... I have 203 words done and have again come to a screeching halt ... will be back later to finish

2:04 am

nm, looked it up, it is. From Hard Eight.

2:04 am

night all!

2:04 am

nite brkii

2:04 am

nrkii--who you?

2:05 am

I mean your icon--stumped

2:05 am

pre bosom buddies tom hanks... you?

2:06 am

wow, took a closer look; tom! lol nrkii, & nite :-)

2:07 am

et, moi, imagine a young beale :)

2:07 am

beatle

2:07 am

I'm never good with the really young pics

2:08 am

okay, truly crashing now -- me and my remaining words need sleep! hopefully when I drag myself out of bed later, we'll be on better terms...

2:08 am

the face does change...

2:09 am

thats paul?

2:10 am

imagine that it's not paul ;)

2:11 am

i can't believe te4/9ed is not in the dictionary!

2:11 am

night nrkii!

hey everyone!!

2:13 am

hi paige & maddie

2:13 am

hey p&m

how are we all?

2:13 am

FranMag--yes about te 4/9 past tense!

2:13 am

i'm a little sleepy

2:14 am

we are great, how are you?

2:14 am

one who te*** is...

good thankyou!

2:14 am

yes, i got those, thanks!

2:15 am

enable needs to bring itself into the new century!

2:15 am

indeed, renfield, so inconsistent!

2:15 am

hear, hear renfield

2:16 am

maybe Dr.G. will have an election for new words?

2:17 am

like mosh & blog?

2:18 am

phat is in Enable--why not mosh?

2:18 am

and fudgier

2:18 am

phat surprised me

2:19 am

me too, FanMag :D

2:19 am

and fudgier--more fudgy!

2:20 am

but blog, really, an internet game?

2:20 am

fudgier is most definitely a word!

2:20 am

not including blog?

what is everyone talking about?

2:22 am

the limited Enable dictionary--the source

2:25 am

ooh, i've found two 8 letter words! really easy ones, but i'm still proud of myself.

2:25 am

but, fest is really a word!

2:25 am

So is teste

2:26 am

just like ptui

2:26 am

There is a truly beautiful Y8 (not fitting the season though).

ok - i took care of the laundry & took a soak - i think i'll see if there is any life here after 196 for a few minutes & then check on the sudoku & then go to bed - are you all STILL here -LOL

2:26 am

it's also in today's grid libarebel!

2:26 am

teste, yes indeed

2:26 am

your f word that is

2:27 am

ptui maybe slang...

2:27 am

hi helen, lol, i'm still here!

2:27 am

lol helen!....yes

lol -addicts

2:27 am

Of course I am still here. Grid isn't finished yet, is it?

2:27 am

ooh, thanks sprite!

2:28 am

i think i've tried flex 5 times...it's still not working!

2:28 am

FranMag-- yup, the lack of fest is what set me off :-D

Can people please give us some clues??

another grey box!

2:28 am

helenkeller--us?

the i - lol

etir

2:29 am

sex goes nowhere...

no - don't even try it

uh, beg to differ, lib

2:29 am

not in dict...

2:29 am

no sex today, no orgasm yesterday... no wonder we get frustrated over these grids.

2:29 am

yes, it does libarebel, try again

anymore helenkeller?

2:30 am

But there is a word unrelated to sex, yet starting there.

2:30 am

ok, ty, helen & Fran!!

2:31 am

p&m there is a 4 letter word that starts with S that means to surprise and you can make two more words from it

thanks but we had them!!! anymore???

2:32 am

actually, you cna make 3 more words from it, 1 being a 7 letter word.

2:33 am

thanks rrrr!

2:33 am

ty, Fran-- one did lead to others

2:33 am

ok - going to sleep now...see ya'll later today! or tonight!

2:33 am

night renfield

2:33 am

s4/9, s6/33 adn S8/65

good nite rennie :)

2:34 am

yuft

2:34 am

nite, renfield

2:35 am

p&m, there is another 4 letter word that starts with S that is what a man wears to work in an office

eys thank you but we had that one aswell!!!

2:36 am

fran, yes, rhymes w/ zoo!ty!

2:36 am

zoot

anymore???

2:38 am

p&m, do you have the R word that means the smallest in the litter?

2:38 am

bb in a bit, baby really wants to sleep now

no..................

found my last d on the bottom - i went about de*****, lol

ok - i'm outta here - good nite all

2:39 am

night helen!

i dont get the R word!

see ya before the wedding - going to have to get up early, not sure if i'll be back by midnight, or in any state to work on the grid - 66 to go - sigh

nite fran :)

nite helen

can you please give me another clue for the R word that you were telling me about, FranMag?

2:43 am

good nite helenkeller :-D

2:44 am

P&M, when a dog has puppies, one of them is always smaller then the others, that's the ru**

2:45 am

ty, baby sting :-D

i dont get it

2:46 am

R4 fast walk + consonant

2:47 am

hey sprite, do you have a definition for that se8/65? can't seem to find a path

2:47 am

Fran: female group of 6 singers

2:48 am

wow, ty, sprite!

2:48 am

aha! is it a alternate spelling? that's a cool one

what is it????????

2:49 am

Yes, it's alt. spelling for the 6.

2:49 am

a french ending!, good one, sprite!

2:50 am

yw ;)

2:54 am

Also found a bit strange Es8/65, make into an Es5/10. Same ending as Te7/48 make very afraid and Te7/48 give an account of something you saw happen.

2:58 am

you are good, sprite ;-)

2:58 am

I thought the word was 'obsessed' ;)

2:58 am

thanks sprite, still working on those ESs, but found the TEs!

2:59 am

The Es's are chemical words, Fran! And finding the 8 was a result of one of my babble rules: try each ending on any word in the neighbourhood! :D

3:00 am

good tips sprite, i need to work on finding those longer words. thanks.

3:01 am

that es8/65 really is strange!

3:03 am

I looked up the def and beneath it are even stranger words with that Es5, lol. I will try and remember them too for another grid.

3:03 am

i'm sure you already have the r8/45 and the s8/50?

3:03 am

hmmm,8/65?

3:03 am

r8/45-to quiz again

3:04 am

libarebel, find the es5/10 first and then add that ending to it, it really is strange

3:04 am

I have all the 8s. Down to 13.

3:04 am

uh, past tense :)

3:04 am

you're my idol sprite!

3:04 am

lol! That Re8 has a D cousin.

3:05 am

thanks sprite!

3:07 am

ty, FanMag--es8/65--to make afraid of a chemical compound? lol :)

3:07 am

*grin*

3:07 am

Fran

3:07 am

libarebel, that will be our clever clue when other people ask later!!

3:08 am

That's the kind of clue I love most!

3:08 am

lol, FM

3:11 am

Greetings!

3:11 am

Hi there Hugs! *hugs Hugs*

3:11 am

hi

3:12 am

hi hugs

3:12 am

Hiya Sprite! How's it been going?

3:12 am

hi & welcome, Hugabugs

3:12 am

Slowly but surely in the right direction, Hugs. And you?

3:13 am

So many new faces... hello everyone!

3:13 am

My new job has been keeping me busy and to bed earlier than I had been

3:13 am

hello everybody

3:13 am

hi aleksia

3:14 am

hi aleksia

3:14 am

hi egm

3:14 am

Do you enjoy the new job, Hugs? Hi Aleksia

3:14 am

how many words do u hav

3:14 am

go on msn egm

3:14 am

fine

3:14 am

jess is on aswell

3:14 am

welcome back, aleksia

3:16 am

thanx

3:16 am

I thought soap opera theme was yesterday...

3:16 am

libarebel, found an r8/60

hey guys

3:16 am

hey

3:16 am

HI

3:16 am

hi jess

3:17 am

ooh, do clue, fran...

3:17 am

c u everybody

3:17 am

re8/60, get measured for a dress again

3:18 am

missing 1 8, got de50, es65, re60, re45, se65, st50 & yu60????

3:19 am

TY!!! Fran!! :)

3:19 am

FranMag the Good! :-D

3:19 am

lshult, you have everything i have and then some!

3:20 am

oh wait, i have that yu also, i have the same ones you have lshult!

so

3:21 am

I think you are missing another De50, bit obscure one. It has a latin ending, def is Loose fragments or grains that have been worn away from rock

3:21 am

Good morning all.

3:21 am

But Ishult, there are 10 x 8, and you list only 7?

3:22 am

hello, Haz :-|

3:22 am

i've actually heard of that word sprite! ty

3:22 am

your right, am missing 3??????????

3:23 am

Is the grid friendlier today?

3:23 am

now i need two more

3:23 am

Ishult, you're missing un8/50

3:23 am

Also Fe8/55 and Un8/50

3:24 am

grid not like me... :-|

3:24 am

Haz: it is really nice. Lots of common biggies.

3:25 am

I got the de8/50 straightaway from your clue, so that was a good start!

3:25 am

My absolute favorite of today is Yu8. Put a smile on my face finding it and the smile is still there :)

3:26 am

just looking for the un now

3:26 am

sprite, can i get definitions for those last two 8s?

3:26 am

common biggies to you, sprite! lolol :OD

3:26 am

like i said, sprite is now my babble hero!

3:26 am

Fran: Fe 7/8 think iron and chemical words Un8: no canvas

3:28 am

she gives the best clues too!! got them!

3:28 am

yw ;)

3:30 am

that was a great pointer about trying the endings on everything you can think of, i just found 4 more shorter words with that scaring ending

3:31 am

It works for me every time. I always think: no one is watching, why not try stupid things? And it pays off more often than not, lol.

3:33 am

wow, having got rid of camping shelter-- ty sprite!

3:35 am

Down to 5, all S's. FIgures.

3:35 am

hmmm...

3:35 am

Why are S's always so hard in the end?

3:36 am

It's the law.

3:36 am

Must be :)

3:36 am

have a few--which ones?

3:36 am

i'm sure i read it somwhere

3:37 am

No idea which ones yet

3:37 am

Murphy's Law?

3:37 am

Universal law.

3:38 am

Another babble rule of mine: always check my own wordlist for forgotten plurals, singulars, verb forms etc. But so far no luck with that one.

3:38 am

there's st5/12--a trick

3:39 am

With a past tense, I think.

3:39 am

but st4/5--to amaze/paralyze sarts a bunch

3:39 am

um, starts

3:41 am

Sefir isn't a word... could have sworn I heard that somewhere. But I found one: S4 really great minus last letter.

3:41 am

Hello All just popping in for a minute before it's time for tea

3:42 am

ooh, i had that one sprite

3:42 am

hi miss abs, some of your students were on earlier

3:42 am

Good! Now 4 more...

3:44 am

Have to take a break to start getting lunch prepared but will pop in again. 94 done, 175 to go. Congratlations in advance, sprite!

3:44 am

later haz

3:44 am

lol Haz! *hug*

3:45 am

At least I found my last missing 7. St4/4 past tense = St7/32.

Hi Miss Scarlett, it is Maddie and Paige, your students!

3:47 am

now i have those also!

3:48 am

i found that u on the bottom left!

3:49 am

I simply ALWAYS forget some like these, a past tense, a plural, a singular. Always feels stupid, having 'fast' but not 'faster' and things like that. WTG Fran! Nice find!

3:50 am

today i'm actually missing the singulars and present tenses. i seemed to find longer words first.

Hello everyone!!

3:51 am

bi mrP :)

3:51 am

hi mrpresident!

3:51 am

*hi, not bi

bi?? who is going bi?

hi mrp

3:52 am

I will go byebye, soon as I find that stupid missing S5!

3:53 am

do you have the medical s5?

3:53 am

The compress one?

do you have the compound?

3:54 am

Yes, I think so. Se5/14

Hi paige and maddie!

hey mrp!

3:55 am

Sprite do you need se 5 that means to arrange to begin?

3:55 am

sprite, definition says it's like a catheter

3:55 am

se + coonsonant + oopposite of down?

3:55 am

hello, mrpresident :)

3:56 am

I have: se5/14, st5/12, st5/10, st5/12, st5/12, st5/14, su5/12, su5/12

:) hello liba and kateq and fran and sprite et al! this looks a bit of a thriller

3:57 am

catheter... might be the missing one, I only have a compress medical one, I think.

3:57 am

there's also an st5/14 that rhymes with a st4/5 up to a door

3:57 am

I think you are missing the St that is a medical term--a tube that is inserted into a blocked artery

3:58 am

it's not bad, but it might be because i get to take my time and i've been getting great advice from sprite

3:58 am

st+ tolkien tree creature

ohhhh I like the yu8!!

3:58 am

Yeah! You were right, that was the one. Thanks a lot, guys :)

3:58 am

Hurrah --then you're done and I'm done!

3:59 am

fireworks!!

3:59 am

WTG Kateq! *~*~*~%% FIREWORKS %%~*~*~*

3:59 am

Happy Sunday to all!

3:59 am

yay kateq!!

4:00 am

ty, ty

4:00 am

yes, Kateq-- had st4/4--for ASAP, but missed st5/10--ty! :)

4:00 am

and yay Kateq!!!

4:01 am

i was just going to ask if you were still here libarebel!

wat is the yu 8?

4:01 am

Any clues needed before I split?

4:01 am

P&M: think Christmas.

yes!!!!!!!!1

*~*~*~FIREWORKS!~*~*~*

4:02 am

alas, yes Fran--to bed soon...

4:02 am

yu8--christmastime

4:02 am

i'm going to keep plugging away sprite! thanks

i dont know it!!!!

4:04 am

and bedtime for me; 'nie all :-O

4:04 am

ok, have a great day/night/whatever then all of you, and happy hunting!

4:04 am

night libarebel!

4:04 am

night sprite!

bye sprite!

nite sprite!

nite liba

4:04 am

269! don't they know I've got visitors coming?

nite libaebel!

4:05 am

zzz :|

i still cant get the yu 8!!

how may words does everyone have?

I have 67 words

i have 61 and i am stuck on the yu 8!!! can you please give me another clue?

Good morning all - happy Sunday. How's the grid? 10 eights! AKKK

4:08 am

yu4/7 + ti4/5

4:08 am

yooltied

please??????????????

4:09 am

hi matty

4:09 am

lol libarebel!

4:09 am

yu 8 think ho ho time

4:09 am

suit

how many words are there today?

4:09 am

should have kept asleep! nite, mrpres & fran, et al for sure now :-O

4:10 am

that last word was a typo... mouse in wrong place... OOOps

P&M a donkey starting with m... then the ti4 meaning the water coming in and out at the beach

4:10 am

tide

now change the beginning to a y

4:11 am

I will not use the chat box again tonite... repeat 10 times....

i dont get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :(

4:12 am

don't worry about it blaze!

4:12 am

just put words we don't know yet next time! ;-)

omg i got it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WOOHOO!!!

4:14 am

yay paige & maddie!!

Soo...how is the grid?

how many words everyone??

4:15 am

i think it's better than yesterday's

4:15 am

do you mean total p&m or what we've found already?

i mean how many have you found?

4:16 am

i've found 164 so far

wow!!! can you please help me?

4:17 am

i'll try

i only have 62!!!

4:17 am

how many have you found?

ok can you please give me some clues?

4:18 am

do you have the 4 letter D word that means to watch what you eat?

no

i dont know what it is!

4:19 am

start looking for it! there

4:19 am

there's a plural too

4:20 am

Good morning everyone. How's the grid today?

4:20 am

hi eva! i like it better than yesterday

hang on wait i have that 1!!!!

4:20 am

do you have the plural?

anyway i have to go everyone!!!!!!

ite nite!!

4:21 am

bye paige & maddie!

hey

hey

4:22 am

hi AJsupercoach

how do u play

4:23 am

Gosh. A grid with no A's. That makes a change!

4:23 am

you find words in the grid to the left

4:23 am

hi hydra, i hadn't noticed!

its 6:55pm in australia

4:25 am

Hi FranMag. Hi AJsupercoach. It's 10.25 am in the UK.

My phantom word today - depend

4:26 am

it's 11:25 pm in Hawaii!

i dont no how to play

4:26 am

my phantom word matty, pundit

4:26 am

What a fabulous place to be! I'm near Heathrow on yet another grey day.

how do u play

I'm not far from LHR either!

4:27 am

AJ, there's a link at the bottom of the page for angelsong's babble page, that has all the info you'll need

4:28 am

usually our weather is great here, but the last few days have been very humid

4:30 am

Where are you, matty? I'm on the Hillingdon/Uxbridge border. Hate it!

Urg - don't envy you. I'm in Hampton

how old r u guys

4:31 am

Oh. That's nice! I've bought a house in East Finchley which is being renovated. Then I shall be near Highgate, my favourite place. Walks on the Heath. Can't wait!

Old! I have a teenaged daughter.

4:33 am

How old? Ancient! Only four years till I officially retire, but in my game (writing and editing) you never retire.

Finchley's gotta beat Uxbridge. I used to work in Park Royal - the Armpit of London.

4:33 am

i could have had a teenaged daughter!

You can always borrow mine!

4:34 am

You sound really young, AJ. What does the coach reference mean? Do you coach a team?

wat bout u franmag

4:34 am

i'm going to be 40 this year

no in (41)

4:35 am

Ah, that was a lovely age to be. i was in my prime then! Single and met loads of men!

I have another year (just under) to go for that.

4:35 am

thanks matty, but my daughter will be a teenager soon enough!! she just turned 1 on sunday!

lucky u!

Hah - mine'll be fifteen on a week tomorrow.

i turned 41 today

4:36 am

happy birthday AJ

4:36 am

My daughter is 37 but I never saw her grow up. She was adopted in the 60's, when my boyfriend left and my parents wouldn't have me home. But I found her last year and I'm still reeling. She's gorgeous.

4:37 am

PS. Happy Birthday, AJ. Have a great day.

Hydra, that's great (about finding her) - do you have grandchildren?

4:37 am

that's great hydra! that you found her that is

dont adopt u may get sick and die

joke

joke

4:38 am

I shall never forget the day I had the phone call to say the tracing agent had found her. And when she rang me for the first time, we talked right through the night. Magic.

hydra, how long hav u been playing this game

4:39 am

Can't remember. Since about November, I think.

4:39 am

hydra Wonderful that you found her but sad that you missed all those years.

4:39 am

I only became a pro member a couple of weeks back

thats so sad

4:40 am

Frances, thanks. Yes, it was sad and I thought about hr every day and wondered how she was, what she looked like, if she was happy, if she was even alive. I feel very lucky now.

were in the world cup i love soccer

AJ, how old are you really? 14? No offense, but you're not really coming across as a 41 year old.

4:42 am

i was just thinking the same thing matty!

4:42 am

hydra So pleased for you. Make the most of it - you have a lot to catch up on

4:43 am

same here hydra, it's really nice to have things turn out well

is it really that bad just to like soccer?

4:43 am

Thanks, both of you. She lives in Devon but we still manage to see one another.

r u married

4:44 am

hydra Nice place to holiday!!!!!!!!!!!!

4:44 am

AJ, no, it's great to like soccer.

then u do u think im so young

Love soccer!! watched 3 matches today

hey r u from new zealnd

4:45 am

I'm not thinking anything. It's great to chat to everyone who's hear. And carry on Babbling at the same time, tho' I've only found 56 words so far.

no, australia

4:46 am

Oops, I meant here! Call myself an editor?

awesome go aussie how old r u?

4:46 am

you're not on the job hydra, it's excuseable!

awesome go aussie how old r u?

mrpresident??

mrpresident??

4:47 am

mrpresident excited about the world cup yet?

4:47 am

I shall be back to work in a mo. Have to write my horoscope column (for a naughty men's mag. The things we do to earn money!).

i am

i am

4:48 am

hydra, that sounds like a right laugh :)

AJ, I am your age!

4:49 am

It is, Katie. I have to tell them the best sex day of the month!

14?! Hah! Anyhoo...Hydra, which mag? And how do you get into something like that?

4:49 am

admit it your dying to tell them the whole month will be rubbish!!

4:49 am

hydra So come on, tell me (nobody listening). Do you make it up?

ur 41

4:50 am

Fiesta. Yes, Katie, you're right! But they sent me on an astrology course so I could sound as if I knew what I was talking about when i said Mars was trine Uranus.

4:50 am

now can't do the grid for laughing :)

give or take a few years!

4:51 am

Reminds me - I keep wanting to type fettish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

4:51 am

LOL Frances

4:51 am

Well, I typed Fista and had to correct it!!!

hehe

hehe

4:52 am

......and I see the three letter S word is here

4:52 am

It sure is.

For me, I'm doing pretty well...94 and no list yet. Lessie how long that lasts...

4:52 am

Add three more and you get a group

4:53 am

Thanks Haz, I hadn't seen that.

4:53 am

add five more and you also get a group

4:53 am

Well done, matty. I',m on 72 now.

im on 192

me too!

I can see the list coming out soon. AJ, 192 left or done?

4:54 am

You're a genius, AJ. How long have you been playing today?

half an hour or so

4:55 am

And me. I'm impressed.

AJ, you are very clever!! wow!! I am hitting a wall here!

lol

lol

4:56 am

hello everyone. I see Dr. God likes giving us a lot of big grids...LOL

lol

lol

lol

lol

4:56 am

hi alien

4:56 am

Hi, Alien. How is it in space today?

4:57 am

ha ha...it's going quite well.

thats wat i was just going to say hydra

4:58 am

Babble telepathy

I'm on 192 too!

I have to concur, stidmama -- I couldn't play last week AT ALL because I have a problem with my elbow from too much Babble... so I had to lay off for a whole week. Yesterday's was short, so I justified it. On the other hand, it has been a week ...

Sorry - Only joking - I'm on 0

4:59 am

Hope you're elbow's better. It's my index finger that's suffering.

how old r u

5:00 am

Lickety - Sorry I asked mrp if there was excitement about the world cup but I suppose you are the one getting excited :)

licketysplit?

Oh well, I have some excitement - as with most of the general population - but I did play 2 games of soccer today

I am excited!! sorry katie! I am up all night watching the world cup AND the french open tennis! PITY ME!!

oops - This weekend I mean

AJ - I'm a coach too! Under 7's

5:01 am

At least we are lucky this year and it hits our timezone, so much easier than having to schedule all meetings round the matches.

yeah - We have most games at either 3am or 5am, some at 1am, and the rare one at 11pm

I have a friend that bet $8000 on Brazil to win.

What!! no way! England to win!

at the time I think he got 7-1 odds

5:04 am

I know they are good but that is a lot of money. I never bet on the football, I am fantical enough about it without money riding on it as well.

And he's an Australian - but parents from Yuclosavila (like might ignorant spelling! NOT)

5:05 am

I'm not sure about England winning, I know our team is good but there is usually a missed penalty somewhere along the line :(

Yes, I don't bet on anything either - MUGs game. ;-) The variety of soccer around the world is incredible. I think Brazil will win. Ever seen that video of :

Ronaldinho http://www.break.com/articles/ronaldin ho.html

Morning Lickety!

Evening Matty. Hows goes it?

Not too bad - well for me 96 without your ever so wonderful list (though the list will be coming out soon)

hehehe - That's what it's there for ;-)

I'm working on a way that it saves your list in case you refresh

Now that would be good - how bout if it saves your list if you leave work, go home and then log back on at home :)

and you won't need to log in. Just cookies. Unfortunately - it'll only work on the computer you where working on.

Darn! :D

I don't want much, just everything LOL

the other option might come later - but it needs me to link sites, and I have to explore that one first :-)

matty, I tell him that everyday!!

5:13 am

Better go now, I've got visitors coming (thought I note they are online at the moment), see you all later :)

Heh. I tell my husband that, but he ignores me. Or puts it down to PMS...

5:14 am

night katie

Night Katie!

Puts it down to PMS! Let me take him out!! I will show him what 'high maintanence' is!!

5:15 am

(whilst it is 11 am in the morning I have to admit to still being in my night clothes :))

HA!!! Men should know how PMS affects women, but never, ever mention it!

Yay! 100 words without the list...

I've just developed a new product for Women called 'Everything'. You can use it any time of the day, and any time of the year. All you need to to is to open the container it comes in, and take a deep breath and close you eyes, count to 10. After that, what you wanted initially is gone, and you have everything again.

Ha!!!

5:23 am

licketySplitAUS Just checked out your Ronaldinho clip - amazing - and I'm a cricket fan!

5:23 am

AGH!!! Re's!

5:24 am

ruttied

5:24 am

oops

5:24 am

Eva Take out the I

5:25 am

thanks frances-have it, was getting desperate

Frances - I know - 4 times off the crossbar - No wonder he was voted no 1 player in the world.

Right, 103 words...time for the list methinks.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. - Lillian Hellman

I assume full responsibility for my actions, except the ones that are someone else's fault.

5:26 am

mattygroves LOL

5:26 am

158 flowed pretty easily, now slowing down and I jsut don't see how there can be 31 D's!

I no longer need to punish, deceive or compromise myself. Unless, of course, I want to stay employed.

I refuse to enage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent...

Having control over myself is nearly as good as having control over others.

I have the power to channel my imagination into ever-soaring levels of suspicion and paranoia.

5:28 am

like many self-made men, he stood in awe of his creator

and my last one for now : As I let go of my feelings of guilt, I can get in touch with my Inner Sociopath.

If we want your opinion, we will ask you for it!

If I wanted to be president, I'd start by wearing a melon on my head.

Levy's Eleven Laws of the Disillusionment of the True Liberal. Law the first:

Large numbers of things are determined and therefore not subject to change.

2. Anticipated events never live up to expectations.

3. That segment of the communityh with which one has the greatest sympathy as a liberal inevitably turns out to be one of the most narrow-minded and bigoted segments fo the community.

Marion Stanley Kelley Jur's reformulation: Last guys don't finish nice.

*~*~*~FIREWORKS!~*~*~* for me!!

5:33 am

yay mrpresident!

5:33 am

hurray for mrp!!!

4. Always pray that your opposition be wicked. In wickedness there is a strong strain towards rationality. Therefore, there is always the possibility, in theory, of handling the wicked by outthinking them.

CONGRATS Pres!

that last de8 was a b#%*!

I only have one eight...

5:35 am

it's the rubble at the bottom of a slope

Would there, by any chance, be a Pratchett troll named after this word? Lessie...

There is indeed - thanks!

Fran, you rock!

5:37 am

thanks mrp! i'm still not done though, going to the list with 78 left

It is SuperBike time! sports is my religion on a sunday night! bye to you all and good day! (WAVING)!!

By Pres!

5:40 am

any hints for those of us troll ignorant?

5:41 am

night mrp!

Go read Terry Pratchett's Night Watch, or Guards Guards or any of the watch storylines from Discworld. Alternitively, visit www.lspace.org, or, for a more conventional method, use the reverse dictionary and find a word that means rubble

5:42 am

thanks matty-just thinking about rubble some more did it

Read the books anyway - they're fab. And fun. And all that.

5:43 am

still missing 5 8's though

5:43 am

I have read a few things by Pratchett and they were fun indeed

5:44 am

eva, do you have te7/48 that means to scare?

I have it, though not a te 8...

5:44 am

there is an es8/65 that ends the same way

5:45 am

it starts with a chemical es5/10

Oh - I was getting all excited. I hate words that begin in vowels!

5:45 am

thanks fran-will look for the es now

I've now got three of the eights, and 6 of the sevens

Breakfast/Lunch calls - I'm going to fry me an egg.

5:46 am

let me know if you want clues, i have all the 8s

5:46 am

later matty!

5:46 am

got it!

5:47 am

Fran-can you tell me which 8's I'm missing? I have:

Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt - comments please on this new addition to the names of hollywood babes!!

5:48 am

you've got to be kidding!

5:48 am

de8/50,de8/50,es8/65(thanks),re8/60,re 8/45,st8/50

5:49 am

did they say how they came up with the names?

can you tell if it is a boy or girl??

5:49 am

i think it's a boy

There are TWO de8/50s?

eva, fe8/55

it is a GIRL!

5:50 am

yes matty

5:50 am

eva and se8/65

5:50 am

They are crazy to inflict a name like that on a child.

5:50 am

un8/50 and yu8/60

Kingston James McGregor Rossdale - who is this celebrity child born today!

5:51 am

yes matty, two de8/50s

5:51 am

okay-the yu was the easiest-thanks,still hunting for the rest

5:51 am

that's a much better name, gwen and gavin's

Singer Gwen Stefani had a boy!

5:53 am

got the un!

Can you hint any of these eights? I have the yu8/60, the es8/65 and the de8/50 (the rubble)

5:54 am

There's a hated de8/50

Hello Haz!

5:55 am

the fe8/55 has to do with iron

hey

5:55 am

re8/60 - made alterations again.

5:55 am

Morning mrpresident - or rather good evening!

5:55 am

hello everybody

5:55 am

re8/60 or was measured for a dress again

5:55 am

st8/50 - stronger

5:55 am

re8/45 was quizzed again

5:56 am

just missing the se8

5:56 am

se8 group of six, french ending, females

5:57 am

hello everyone...!

5:57 am

thanks fran! That's it for the 8's. Couldn;t have done it withoutyou.

5:57 am

Hello alexsia - nearly missed seeing you there amid all the 8 letter words!

5:57 am

hi aleksia

hello aleksia and jess

5:57 am

and i couldn't have done it without sprite earlier!!

hey

5:57 am

ok

5:57 am

hi

aleksia go on msn

Thanks for the eights - 7 down, three to go - I'm missing the fe iron one...not sure now what else, have to go back and figure it out.

5:58 am

ok

mr president were do u live on australia

I live in Sydney jess

5:58 am

matty - it's a plural - iron plus ceremonies

ok

5:59 am

mrpresident..me and jess are missABS students

5:59 am

jess go on msn

Fab - just one to go (though not sure which one, as I haven't put the list up yet)

i am

I know aleksia, I am on msn too

r u

6:00 am

yes

6:00 am

time to take a break

mr presiden twhat is ur email addie

6:00 am

jess did you blok me

no

y would i

6:01 am

later eva!

6:01 am

are you on msn now jess

I have the two de8/50s, the es 8/65, fe8/55, re8/60, re8/45, se8/65, st8/50, so it's the u that is missing - can anyone help with that?

I also have the y

6:02 am

...?

ye i am

6:02 am

un8/50 - lacking in canvas dwellings

add me

6:02 am

say hi to me on msn

again

6:03 am

i just did

it ays ur off line

6:03 am

it says ur offline aswell

ok

Never mind, got it.

6:04 am

Could someone please tell me how many words we need to find for this puzzle?

269 in total

6:05 am

Thanks Mattygroves!

6:05 am

jess.....how cum it says ur offline

i dont know add me again loo_72@hotmail.com

6:06 am

yep i just did

and did it work

6:07 am

im done

6:07 am

it says ive alrady added u

6:07 am

try and add me

ok well im gons sign off then sign back on ok

6:08 am

Well done oggy!

6:08 am

ok

OGGY gets *~*~*~FIREWORKS!~*~*~*

6:09 am

thanks mrp/haz

6:09 am

how are u all doing.

6:10 am

It's certainly a more user friendly grid than yesterday's! I'm in and out a bit this morning as I'm cooking lunch.

This is a better day. How are you going?

6:10 am

haz your not the only one.

6:11 am

I'm on 143 at the minute but I'll have to go and set the table soon. 9 for lunch and the table is supposed to seat 8.....

6:14 am

there is only 2 of us thank god.

6:16 am

Well, a few more words found but this isn't getting the chores done. I'll be back later.

OK - de7/44 anyone (I'm actually missing three de words...)

ok my friends! off to bed! enjoy the rest of the day as it is just a couple of hours until monday here! (bye....waving!!)

Please help with de6/27, de7/44 and de7/40

6:25 am

i still need those also matty

6:28 am

it means to delegate

6:28 am

Matty - think of someone who stands in for you.

6:28 am

de 6 and 8 : to dislike or hate

6:29 am

de + te 4

6:29 am

fest

6:29 am

the third and fourth letters one sould say about a skunk

6:29 am

runt

6:30 am

sorry, about that, going back to my word box

I've got the loathing des - I'm looking for the words before those.

6:41 am

Think of the sheriff and his ------

Dat be the des - thanks! All the de words are now mine, off to the di

6:43 am

Congrats. I'm only up to the e's.

Well, I've only started on the list - I've got 118 left, just filling in the blanks now. DR here I come

6:45 am

I've got 138 left.

6:48 am

I'm on the f's. No ferrets, no ferries. Huh!

Dr done - onto du. Why oh why do I let this obsess me so...

6:49 am

I wish I knew, too. (Sighs)

morning guys!

6:52 am

morning, smokey

6:55 am

Have mercy, I've only one left, yet it completely eludes me -- anyone have the ti 6/27?

6:58 am

Melissa - It's a hat.

Not me, sorry. Morning smokey!

6:58 am

boob + not agin

anyone got the de 8s?

6:59 am

de8/50 hated

6:59 am

One means rubbish.

6:59 am

melissa, did you get the ti word?

7:00 am

it's a very odd cockney word for hat

7:00 am

I'm afraid not. And the words I am trying are quite lewd, I'm afraid.

It's rhyming slang. "ti6/7 tat = hat"

7:00 am

boob + sounds like what PETA is against

7:01 am

good afternoon everybody

7:01 am

Une - It isn't odd, it rhymes with the word it means.

7:01 am

Hi jean.

7:01 am

:-D it's odd for us Yanks

Hurrah - my favourite babblet word (actually, it is a real word, and I even know what it means) is there - et4/5

7:04 am

Une - I guess so.

7:04 am

Matty - Thanks for the needlecase. Hadn't spotted that.

7:04 am

I'm so embarrassed. I'll keep trying. You poor nice Brits. Thanks for trying to give the Yank a hand.

7:05 am

Jac, I didn't mean "odd" in a pejorative way

7:06 am

melissa--first half = boob, second half = the stuff that animals have all over their bodies and that people make coats from (but use a different vowel)

7:06 am

Morning, all... how goes the grid today?

7:06 am

FIREWORKS!

7:06 am

Melissa - Think of a saying that means 'to give as good as you get'. It is a bird word/bosom word + another word that sounds like a pine tree.

7:06 am

yay, Melissa!!

7:06 am

congrats melissamay and morning jera

7:06 am

WELL DONE, Melissa!

7:06 am

Good gravy, and I swear it's been in the puzzle before...I think I'm Babbled to bits. :)

7:07 am

Morning, Jera. I'm at 190 found. No list used yet.

7:07 am

Une - I know.x

7:08 am

Thanks so very much all -- anything that's driving you batty that I can help with before I go?

7:08 am

Doesn't sound too bad, then. Jacula... but then, you're good... hmmm...

How about en6/18 (no doubt simple)

7:08 am

Melissa - I went batty years ago! LOL.

7:08 am

en6 complete, total

7:08 am

Think of the whole thing, mattygroves.

Yep - too simple for words. I am a certified moron.

7:09 am

I see the 'Stid' family is in the grid today.:-)

7:10 am

No, no matty -- I spent a good 10 minutes right before this hunting for something with an s for a plural. It happens to us all!

7:10 am

Can't fool anyone again in this grid, I guess...

7:13 am

Oh no... lag time...

7:16 am

Am I still here??

7:16 am

morning, Jera

7:17 am

Jera - Yes.

7:17 am

:-D

7:17 am

Whew... hi, charm... I was worried there...

7:17 am

Unea, love the dog. what kind is it?

7:17 am

Jera, no you did not disappear into the ether!

7:18 am

Ok, then, I'll shove off -- but thanks again to you all for helping me with that last lovely Cockney bit! Best of luck finishing!

7:18 am

Bye, melissamay!

7:18 am

it's my sweet Shelby--rescue dog--"terrier mix"--i think that's the default description for lots of dogs! :-)

7:18 am

Question for the day: If one does not babble, does one exist?

7:18 am

'Bye melissamay. Enjoy your day.

7:18 am

bye melissamay

7:19 am

Une, I have a rescue dog, too, and the big ones' default description is "shepherd mix."

7:19 am

Thanks, Jac -- enjoy your evening. :) Bye Jera and Jean!

7:19 am

aren't rescue dogs great? My other one is a "beagle mix"

7:20 am

I have a rescue dog a deaf labarador

7:21 am

oh, labs are so adorable! I had a cocker for many years who was deaf--amazing how well they adapt, eh?

I have a cat mix. OK, I have a cat. My family used to have Komondors, though.

7:21 am

Mine is 5 yo in July. And he is a 80 pounds of puppyhood. He is wonderful with the 4yo, always patient, always willing to have fun - just the best temperament. Although my husband brought him home, he's MINE!

7:22 am

sounds terrific, charm!

7:22 am

it is isnt it uneaixoise it was hard work to start I had him from 5 months old and hes 12yrs now and hes a fab dog

7:22 am

matty, what are komondors?

7:23 am

Thankks Une. You just gave me another word!

Heh. Try googling - they are VERY unusual looking dogs.

7:23 am

Are those the one that look like they have dredlocks?

Yep - the big ones (Puli are smaller and often black)

7:24 am

oh, i've seen those before--can't imagine the high maintenance! :-)

7:24 am

Look like giant floormops! Lovely though.

I've written reviews about them - check out www.ciao.co.uk or www.dooyoo.co.uk - I'm mattygroves there too - the Ciao review has piccies

7:25 am

probably would be miserable here in Tennessee--too hot and muggy in the summer

7:25 am

cool--will go look right now! BBL

7:25 am

We had a retired K-9 for our family pet when I was little... German Shepherds are still my favorite of the "real dogs". For toys I like poms (I think).

7:27 am

He wasn't exactly a rescue dog, but he could no longer work, so he was adopted for home life.

7:27 am

mattygroves Wonderful. Looks like a well bred mop!

7:27 am

are there any words eending with ly??

7:28 am

how many words in today's grid?

7:28 am

269

7:28 am

269

7:28 am

thx

7:28 am

Rolin - I've got 2 that end in 'ly' so far.

7:28 am

oh dear.. thx jac

7:29 am

hello, Babble!

7:29 am

am off out now bbl everyone have a good babbling day :)

7:29 am

Hi, Angelsong.

7:29 am

'Bye, Jean.

Hi Angel!

7:29 am

morning, angel!

7:30 am

matty, do you have a personal website?

7:31 am

Did this dog talk with terrier almost being in the grid?

7:31 am

ense

7:31 am

Wrong box, Rolin.:)

Nope - but I have spaces on Ciao and Dooyoo, and I can be found on www.opinionators and reviewwritersforum. Plus I've dabbled on Epinions. Why?

7:32 am

oops...

7:32 am

Well, I'm taking a break with 150 to go... nice first leg of the journey... later, all...

7:32 am

because there is space for links to Babblers' websites on the Resource page.

7:33 am

Rolin - Just found another 'ly' ender.

Oooh- I could put my Ciao or dooyoo profile up...

7:33 am

mattygroves Check my new icon. This is Rizla the vizla. Weimaraner/Hungarian Vizla cross. Very affectionate. Needs about three hours running a day.

But in the meantime, can anyone help with fi7/40? and the 6/27 before it

7:34 am

... and another 'ly' ender.

7:34 am

matty: if you will e mail your links to me, I will add them for you...

Gorgeous dog, Frances!

7:35 am

cant keep up jac...only have 2

OK - on their way! What's your email addy?! Bet I can find it on your page

7:36 am

mattygroves He is wonderful. When three year old granddaughter was new born the only thing he was guilty of was very gently removing her socks without waking her. They now adore one another

7:37 am

Rolin - I'll give you a chance to catch up as I'm off for some food and a break at 203 words found. Clues - de7/40, ri6/33, te7/36, tr7/36.

7:38 am

Thanks, Jac!

7:38 am

BBL. Happy Babbling, all.x

7:40 am

Oh frances he is great I have a wire haired Viszla, and as yet I have never seen another one. I also have a smooth. You are right I spend hours walking them.

7:42 am

harvey Ours doesn't know the meaning of walk. He just wants to run....and run. We would love to see him race against a greyhound over a good distance. Don't think the breyhound would have a hope.

7:42 am

Snap,

7:43 am

harvey Is yours affectionate. I've never known such a dog

7:43 am

harvey By the way, where are you?

http://www.ciao.co.uk/Member__mattygro ves_5025486

7:45 am

The wire is very stand offish with people and dogs. But the smooth, oh my goodness he loves everyone and shows it with far to many licks, and lots of cuddles. I am in exotic Peterborough for my sins, but originally a Geordie.

7:47 am

harvey We are in Essex and he loves running wild in Epping Forest

7:49 am

yesterday should be in this frid

7:49 am

grid

7:49 am

not frid

Take out the day...

7:50 am

I know, I figured that one out.

7:50 am

Shame we were not nearer they could tire each other out! Anyway must finish hosework before hubby says are you on that ***** babble again. Take care

I'm now struggling with the fi words, but probably shouldn't be. How about the fi7/40?

7:50 am

You too harvey. Bye

7:53 am

Matty, I dont have that one, but did you get the really hot ones?

I've got three hot fi words. One treelike word (or fuzzy alt spelling), one that works, and its variants

7:56 am

Do you have the one the you wear what FI**?

Yep. I need 5/16 and fi 4/7

Got the four seven

7:57 am

pluralize it.

Got it now - thanks!

8:04 am

matty, yes, my e mail is on the resource page, under Contact in the sidebar. I just put it back in.

I've emailed you! The email addy I used is my 'real' name - an aol addy.

I used your addy from your profile here.

8:09 am

how many words?

8:09 am

stent

8:09 am

269

8:10 am

thx

8:10 am

yw

No pen set - surely?

8:11 am

no pen set, and don't call me surely

pe732 anyone?

8:12 am

:

8:12 am

:D

8:13 am

pluralize pe6,21

Bugger. I give up. See you all later! 75 left. Sigh.

8:18 am

matty - plural of very small in stature

8:19 am

Shalom everyone -- this is a much more user friendly grid than yesterday

8:19 am

Morning ARB - focused on the grid - trying to get as many as I can as fast as i can'

8:20 am

tend

8:21 am

sorry:-(

8:21 am

How is suri not there? It's Tom Cruise's kid's name! :)

8:21 am

Morning, BTW!

8:22 am

Matty: yuor links are up...:)

8:22 am

in that case it would be capitalise jen...*biting lip*

8:22 am

aww, i want purdie to work! "she shore is purdie!"

8:25 am

((Music Mom)) ((Rollin))

8:25 am

hey angel

8:25 am

Morning Angel -- brb - food in the oven

8:29 am

afternoon, its been a while since i last played

8:33 am

hi all... I'm stuck w/ 169. Any hints for the se8/65?

8:33 am

GraceM se8/65 music group

8:34 am

isn't that the se6/33?

8:35 am

GraceM Extend it

8:35 am

good morning

8:35 am

Oops - sorry about that. Do you think anyone noticed?

8:35 am

34 words and im stumped already lol

8:35 am

careful grace...lol

8:36 am

Ah! got it... tnx!

8:45 am

i need help with my last 'l' pls... i have le4/7, le6/27, le5/16, le 4/4 (2), le 6/21, lu 4/5, ly 4/6

8:45 am

I've added a new link for the Free Dicitonary to the resource page, under Word Searches.

8:49 am

rolin, do you have le5/14, a kind of reprieve or pause?

8:49 am

sorry rolin can't help as those are tho only l's i have too!

8:49 am

I don't know rolin - I have the same as you

8:49 am

morning mm

8:49 am

thanks une

8:49 am

morning all

8:49 am

lettus

8:50 am

ahhh

8:50 am

lol knitter

8:51 am

brb - need to take care of a GS issue

8:51 am

Good Evening All

8:52 am

musicmom..i got that last 'l' if youd like a hint

8:52 am

hi tiny, morning here

8:52 am

i'd love a hint for that last L

8:53 am

extend

8:53 am

well i have four eights, which is good, except that there are 10 of them

8:53 am

11:55pm here

8:53 am

when you just keep going...no le***

8:53 am

thanks rolin, ignore the ex word i just typed (sorry)

8:54 am

hurshy - I'd love some clues to the 8's you have (I only found 2), please.

8:54 am

hurshy, do you have de8/50 hated and de8/50 trash or remainders?

8:54 am

i have hated but aha on the other!

8:54 am

s'ok..i had it

8:55 am

do you have un8/50 lack of canvas dwellings?

8:55 am

i have what they did to the enterprise between the original series and the motion picture...

8:55 am

and yu8/60 Xmas season?

8:55 am

thanks une, i needed both of those!

8:55 am

un 8 is NOT a word!! lIKED THAT CLUE UNE

8:56 am

i have more stable

8:56 am

can't take credit--was posted earlier :-)

8:56 am

and the longer version of the 6 person group

8:57 am

Hurshy - you lost me on the Enterprise clue. What's the 1st letters?

8:57 am

do you have "went back to the tailor for more adjustments"?

8:57 am

re - it's the one une just gave :)

8:57 am

i cant the trash one... unless you mean rock leftover bits?

8:57 am

i didn't get the enterprise clue either . . .

8:57 am

do you have "took the SATs again"?

8:57 am

i didn't get the enterprise clue either

8:58 am

aha! thanks une. just use une's tailor clue if you aren't a trek fan :)

8:58 am

when a ship returns from service to port, it is often re****** with new gear

8:58 am

ooohh

8:58 am

i'm back.

8:58 am

ah, thanks, hurshy, bonkler. Need two more 8s.

8:58 am

what is the trash 8?

8:58 am

see, bonkler knows what i mean.

8:59 am

brb - dog needs a private moment with the grass.

8:59 am

so we're missing an fe8 . . .

8:59 am

me too charm

8:59 am

i mean i need 2 more 8's, not a private moment with the grass

8:59 am

fester

8:59 am

trash 8 is bits and pieces left over

8:59 am

hurshy! LOL!

8:59 am

crap i did it again!!!

9:00 am

fe8 is pl of fe7 sounds like an iron metal

9:00 am

oh, it's the plural of fe7/40 . . .

9:00 am

now i just need one more 8

9:00 am

me too

9:01 am

and 14 7's....sigh.

9:01 am

it's an es8

9:02 am

anyone have the es8/65?

9:03 am

yes

9:03 am

you build on the es5/10, whilst thinking about points.

9:05 am

what a word!

9:05 am

nk

9:06 am

(are you melting?)

9:06 am

is that the es that sounds like a woman's name?

9:06 am

yup

9:07 am

the woman's name + questionable (kinda)

9:07 am

I was afraid you were going to say that - back to the math:-)

9:07 am

good one, charm!

9:07 am

same ending as de 5/20 and re 5/20

9:07 am

or es + to frighten (kinda).

9:07 am

hiya everyone!!

9:07 am

hiya bexie

9:08 am

I don't have those hurshy. still working with charm's clue

9:08 am

hiya :) you not on im?

9:08 am

well you see the beauty then SMF, once you get charm's clue you'll have 2 other words.

9:09 am

cool--didn't have those two 5's--thanks, hursh

9:09 am

no, i'm not on IM...i'm kinda hoping to finish this quickly and get some more sleep, i may have to make a long drive today.

9:09 am

also same ending as te7

or to change one organic compound into the es 5/10

9:09 am

oh ok :)

9:10 am

Well crap once I figure out this stupid word I should have half the grid -- is the y involved?

9:10 am

yes SMF at the end

9:10 am

yes!

9:11 am

Got it!

9:11 am

Shew need another cup of coffee after that:-))

9:11 am

go, mm!

9:11 am

let's all start tossing out 7's, shall we?

9:11 am

de 7/44 most capable with, perhaps, a needle and thread

9:11 am

dr7/44--old TV series

9:11 am

de 7/40 New Jersey is de7 populated

9:12 am

de 7/44 what andy taylor did on another old TV series

9:12 am

got all the rest of those words

9:12 am

what Andy did to Barney to make him official

9:12 am

de 7/40 present te5 of that

9:12 am

re7/32 comes back

9:13 am

what's the old TV series? dr7/44 person who moves from place to place?

9:13 am

yes!

9:13 am

ex7 pl of ex6

9:13 am

my last 8 is the re 45...any clues pls?

9:13 am

fe7 iron metal

9:14 am

fi7 most fi3 that is basis of several words

9:14 am

ru7/32 description of a road that's more full of ru4/5

9:14 am

rolin, your students did bad the first time so you re8 them

9:14 am

yay une, needed that one

9:14 am

un7/36 not fatigued

9:15 am

cheers hurshy

9:15 am

cheers hurshy

9:15 am

ne7/28 more like a tennis barrier

9:15 am

pe7/32 smalls

9:15 am

tu7/44 more full of tu4/8

9:15 am

pe 7/32 more selfishly concerned about unimportant issues

9:15 am

nu - more walnut ful

9:16 am

pu 7 more window sealant

9:16 am

oh, thanks, rolin!

9:16 am

re 7/44 fills up gas tank again

9:17 am

st7 rotated spoon in pot

9:17 am

Hiya, everyone!!!!

9:17 am

st 7/36 person who preps for exams

9:17 am

st 7/36 prevented from growing

9:17 am

hurshy..fills the tank??..whats that base?

9:18 am

te7/36 adv on the te5

9:18 am

the base is fu4, rolin

9:18 am

te7/28 more like a camping house

9:18 am

te7/48 scare very much

9:18 am

terrify

9:19 am

i knew it had to urshybe there...just couldnt see it..thx h

9:19 am

oh no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

9:19 am

te 7/28 pl of te 6/18 sounds like that little furry animal that steals stuff and hides it away if you have it as a pet

9:19 am

did we include te7/48 to speak on the stand in court?

9:19 am

te 7/28 more irritable

9:19 am

ty une LOL

9:20 am

aha thanks une

9:20 am

ok that's all mine, i need 6 more so if you have any i didn't mention...

9:20 am

(or that someone else didn't clue just now)

9:21 am

What? No "YUTE"???? Made perfect sense in My Cousin Vinny...

9:21 am

I don't know hurshy -- somehow with all those clues I'm still missing 11.

9:22 am

going back in the log to see what I missed

9:22 am

yeah, i'm still missing 9

9:23 am

any pn words today?

9:23 am

i didn't get the te furry animal clue -- anyone have another clue?

9:24 am

ah, de7/44 most de4/8

9:24 am

it's not a word i know... it rhymes with... worth

9:24 am

I didn't get it either knitter

9:24 am

thanks une

9:24 am

furry annimal is for te6/18 and plural--sounds like a furry weasel

9:25 am

if you crossed a wire haired dog with a type of wesel you'd get a te****

9:25 am

very weird looking creature?

9:26 am

ru7 even more the smallest of the litter

9:26 am

yay SMF

9:26 am

fi7/40 most buff

9:27 am

thanks, mm!

9:27 am

oh i said that one but it wasn't a great clue

9:27 am

we could also say survival of the fi7

9:27 am

sorry, hursh--missed it earlier

9:27 am

brb

9:28 am

now THAT's a great clue!

9:28 am

don't worry une, my first clue stunk

9:30 am

so we all need like 5 more now :)

9:30 am

well, 6 here

9:30 am

I'm the dunce today I still need 8

9:30 am

Hello, everyone!!!!!!!

9:30 am

I'm not sure what I missed

9:30 am

I still need 11 more 7's......

9:30 am

I need to go prepare lunch right now. I will come back while sarah cleans the kitchen and figure it out.

9:30 am

hi CHS, sorry we were in the midst of 7's

9:31 am

i'm missing a pe7--i've got smalls and more superficial

9:32 am

i need to decaffeinate, a private moment with the grass if you will...brb

9:32 am

oh, there's another? cool.

9:32 am

Need an extra clue for the pe7 smalls.....

9:32 am

french smalls

9:33 am

in the ladies section of the department store, the clothes for women < 5foot.

9:33 am

ok, got it--remember the Xerox guy on SNL? it's pe4/5 plus the ending he always tacked on

9:33 am

Got it, ty SCD & charm.......

9:34 am

i just got it too une! :)

9:34 am

yes, clothes for the lady quadripeds

9:34 am

i was just going to say writer

9:34 am

bonkler, ???

9:34 am

great clue hurshy!

9:35 am

Right, then, that's 9 more 7's I need now....

9:35 am

bonkler's little joke... < 5 foot = 4 foot = quadruped

9:35 am

women < 5foot...lack of sleep comedy, please excuse...lol

well - this one is long - how's it playing?

9:36 am

it's pretty great, temple, lots of nice endings

9:36 am

TO! Go back in the chat - LOTS of great clues.

tu 7/44 - more puffy

9:36 am

ok, i need a second st7/32--got the one re cigarettes st*** your growth

9:37 am

ok, wrong, that was st7/36

9:37 am

you mean you need another 7/36 - person who preps for exams?

9:37 am

i've got the one about prepping for exams

9:38 am

st7/32 = I st***** cream & sugar into my coffee this morning.

9:38 am

so you need 7/32 rotated spoon in pot

9:38 am

unless there's another!

9:38 am

past tense of st4/4 an editorial term

9:38 am

sorry--had all 3--blind from sleep deprivation

9:38 am

woohoo bonkler!

9:38 am

thanks, bonkler!!!

9:39 am

bonkler!

9:39 am

neuter, still not in grid

9:39 am

six t37's -- sure i don't have them all . . .

9:39 am

te7's

9:40 am

well, yeah, i do . . . what am i missing?

9:40 am

i dunno, 3 more right une?

9:40 am

aha! missing 2 tr7's

9:41 am

oooh

9:41 am

just got one--most superficial

9:41 am

you mean the rhyme for most luminous?

9:42 am

yes

9:42 am

oh tr5 doesn't mean superficial, it's more like... cheesy because it's been said too often

9:43 am

yeah, been there done that

9:43 am

hmm, maybe the other is tri- as a prefix on something?

9:44 am

aha! adverb!

9:45 am

ends in y

9:45 am

oh, duh - fish!

9:45 am

me too

9:45 am

ok so that just leaves ONE MORE 7

9:45 am

well, 2 for moi

9:45 am

Still missing 7 more 7's here......

9:46 am

we've clued them all but one movieman if you read the log maybe you can tell us which clues you don't understand

9:47 am

och, that sentence could've used commas

9:47 am

Its more than trite its

9:47 am

That means I'm gonna have to go through the ENTIRE log....

9:48 am

well they were all clued within the last like 15 or 20 minutes, so while there is the loading time, there isn't much searching time

9:48 am

ok i'm missing a pu7/40--got the golf/window sealant one

9:48 am

trite_ _

9:48 am

cool une, that's what i need.

9:49 am

une, they are both that!

9:49 am

i mean one is past tense and one is a comparative

9:50 am

aha!

9:50 am

ok, now to figure which ONE i still need . . . argh

9:50 am

what a great barrage of clue, you cats rock

9:50 am

now i just need five more sixes and how i'm to know if i left out any -ed's i DON'T have the foggiest

9:51 am

gosh, i need a lot of D's

9:51 am

hmmm, need 9 6's . . . will go hunting

9:52 am

Well, got over 100 so far, gonna go eat..... BBL......

9:53 am

i've got all the d's . . . bwaaahhhhhaaaa

9:53 am

couldn't resist!

9:53 am

are a lot of them de as prefix? cause i only have the de 6/8 combo with prefix

9:53 am

but you know i have no list une :)

9:54 am

ok...im stumped here...thers a un5/14 that comes before the un+writes...and i CANT see it..

9:54 am

lol rolin, take off the s

9:54 am

someone shoot me

9:54 am

de6 bent a fender, de6 make a vice-sheriff, de6 hate, dr6 floats aimlessly, du6 pasten tense of word just above it

9:54 am

un7/36 anyone?

9:54 am

rolin, we have a fish for that!

9:55 am

i know--you're WAY beyond my abillities, hursh!

9:55 am

better make it a bloody marlin..lol

9:55 am

getting a wet nose request to make an outdoor run--BBL

9:57 am

hydra

9:57 am

hydra..no longer sleepy

9:58 am

Hurshy think about thick forests are de_ _ _

9:58 am

I never knew that was a word. Thanks!

9:58 am

yeah, i have that one tiny, but thanks.

9:58 am

I didnt either..lol, I just tried it..and it woiked!!

9:58 am

when i say i have a lot of D's to find... well i have 6 more to find now

9:59 am

holes in cars

9:59 am

I'm still on the st words really. I was just taking a break lest i go blind.

10:00 am

try dispute with one letter changed to an e

10:02 am

am out for breakfast ..and meds..You will all be finished by the time I return..HA..Good luck all..leave me a list ..lol

10:18 am

oogley

10:19 am

night all I'm going to bed

10:19 am

night all I am off to bed

10:20 am

I have 70+1+1+1+1+1 words

10:28 am

i am missing ..1 fe4/5... i have the writing tool and the start of the five prefix

10:28 am

sorry that should be pe

10:29 am

did you get what you call your dog and cat

or to hang or wait?

10:29 am

how about stored up?

10:30 am

oooook.....FISH!!!!!!!!!!!

10:30 am

what's the 5 prefix one tho?

10:32 am

same as stored up

10:32 am

ah, thx rolin

10:37 am

wow, thanks for the 7s everyone! just finished the chat log

10:37 am

100 left, will save for later

10:43 am

can I get a clue for the other DE 8. I have the one that means to really hate.

10:46 am

alien..its a strange word...meand rubbish left from digging

10:47 am

which DE do I use?

10:47 am

I mean start with?

10:48 am

start with the top D, i just got it

10:49 am

thanks---I will look there. I was using the bottom one.

10:49 am

thanks rolin & featherbee

10:49 am

move left, then double back to the right

10:51 am

Anyone got the t on the bottom? It's killing me!

10:51 am

more like tee pees

10:52 am

its a person who loves camping.slang

10:52 am

thanks featherbee

10:52 am

yup, yw

10:52 am

what about the other one for that 7?

10:53 am

not sure what you're asking jbp!

10:53 am

Erm, still ain't got it

10:54 am

ktf, do you have the te 4/4? that is like a tee pee? add three letters to that that make it more like a tee pee

10:54 am

one who goes head to head could be a ....

10:54 am

ktf..a campling item +ie

10:55 am

featherbee - that doesn't come off the bottom t --- that's what she is looking for

10:55 am

I think I have both...

10:55 am

oh wait.....that's the wrong T!

10:55 am

They keep scoring under the middle t's

10:55 am

i have that bottom T, trying to figure out which word it is

10:56 am

*grin* No worries. But that bottom one! Everything I can think of is another t!

10:56 am

is there something that is tet?

10:56 am

yes 2 words

10:56 am

not the plural of that though - it came off the left

10:56 am

the bottom t is also like one who sets trials for, but change the 3rd letter to t

10:57 am

rhymes with more boog

10:57 am

more good, i mean

10:57 am

dept

10:57 am

oops

10:57 am

got it!

10:57 am

ok, found it, i don't think it's that one jbp..you mean the one like more annoyed?

10:58 am

Thanks guys!

10:58 am

Any of various skin diseases, such as eczema, psoriasis, or herpes, characterized by eruptions and itching.

10:58 am

it's like good, *****, best, except use a t for the first letter

10:58 am

is the derfinition

10:58 am

how about the lower d next to it?

10:59 am

i have 8 out of 9 of the bottom D, which do you need?

10:59 am

i have 8 of those as well...

10:59 am

lol, we're probably missing the same one

11:01 am

to mar a car, past tense of that, plural of it, to make some one 2nd in command (sort of), past tense of that,

11:01 am

places where cubscouts meet

11:01 am

thick or not too bright

11:02 am

in the manner of thick or not too bright

11:02 am

those are my 8 of 9...

11:02 am

yep, looks like mine

11:02 am

hi all

11:02 am

please tell me those aren't the same as yours featherbee

11:02 am

;-)

11:02 am

i'm working on the de's right now, will tellyou if i get it

11:02 am

lol, sorry!

11:02 am

you have the de 5/22?

11:03 am

weh

11:03 am

i'm monkey typing as fast as my monkey fingers will go

11:03 am

nvm, got hte 5/22

11:04 am

*I*( think that to be more marred (as in a car) should be a word...

11:04 am

what's the 5/22??

11:04 am

de6/27?

11:04 am

ktf Did you get the bottom T?

11:04 am

ok, i must have it...the box just grayed out on one of your words...let me see

11:04 am

5/22 is from the top D, means to make godlike

11:04 am

angel, think of the eric clapton song about the sherrif and just don't ad -y to the end of it

11:05 am

I did, thank you

11:05 am

got the 5/22 thx

11:06 am

so featherbee... it's all up to you (drumroll...)

11:06 am

places where cub scouts meet, more thick, more thick as an adverb, mar a car, past tense of that, plural of that, sherrif one singular, past, and plural

11:06 am

Afternoon all! Fireworks!

11:06 am

that's all 9

11:06 am

hi. the bottom t is te6/18. It uses three t's.

11:06 am

yay Jen!!!!

11:06 am

hi Jen & yippee!!!

11:07 am

There have been some great clues today! I love that I can display the whole chat log in another window!

11:07 am

i know, they went 7 and 8 crazy earlier!

11:08 am

ah, thanks featherbee =--whew!!

11:08 am

find it yet jbp?

11:08 am

yay!!!

11:08 am

ok, gotta put son down for nap, bbl

11:08 am

i'm at 139 --gotta do some yardwork...hope to be back later. ;-)

11:08 am

Bravo Jen! I didn't know we could display the chat in another window - I'm going to have to try that.

11:10 am

can't get the sheriff's assistant de....help?

11:10 am

Yeah, MM, if you click on the square above the chat, it opens up a whole new window with the chat log

11:10 am

Excellent - I'm going to try that!

11:11 am

I shot the sherriff, but I did not shoot the de.... (but change the sometimes vowel to the 2nd vowel)

11:11 am

I am missing 2 8's...I have 2 de's, 2 re's, 1 se, 1 st, and 1 te. what are the othe ones?

11:11 am

Have all the d words done. Wow there were a lot of them

11:12 am

maybe I am missing 3 8's

11:12 am

there is an es8 means "To change or cause to change to an es5"

11:13 am

fe8, pl of the fe7

11:13 am

re8, past tense of re5

11:13 am

Hello again, all... how is everyone today??

11:14 am

{{Jera}} How you feeling hon?

11:14 am

Hi Jera doing well. How are you?

11:14 am

Quite well, thank you, down to only 2 naps a day!

11:15 am

I might even venture to tak en actual bath... the dizzy spells are down

11:15 am

un8... un + te6/21

11:15 am

Been playing Feeding Frenzy a lot...

11:15 am

jera - that sounds good. I hate dizzy spells

11:15 am

What's feeding frenzy?

11:15 am

Very scary, especially when driving!

11:15 am

It's a yahoo game I've become obsessed with up to level 37!

11:16 am

Uck, I'm stuck on 89

11:16 am

that dumb et4/5 trips me up every time. Finally found it

11:16 am

The needle case one?

11:16 am

have to go break up a sibling fight. Brb

11:16 am

yes jera that is the one.

11:16 am

I blacked out once when I was driving... lost about 10 seconds of my life! Had to have an EEG after that one!

11:17 am

That's bad, jen...

11:17 am

Hey do you guys have plans tomorrow? We're grilling!

11:17 am

what is it you have jen is it virtigo?

11:17 am

Yeah, turns out my brain isn't normal, LOL. I stopped having normal EEGs after I was in a coma for 3 days

11:18 am

Yikes, you win, Jen!!

11:19 am

You didn't have your son with you, did you?

11:19 am

We aren't allowed to grill at our apt., Jera Fairfax fire rules. :(

11:19 am

No, this was when I was in college

11:19 am

I'm back. Why won't children just go to sleep when they are ti5 instead of fighting?

11:19 am

And I was in my coma when I was 11

11:19 am

Jen - could you clue me up with the fe7 & 8 combo?

11:20 am

That would be too easy, mm

11:20 am

My biggest fear is my health problems would cause injury to my kids...

11:21 am

LOL no doubt. Hannah stuck her tongue out at me which got her in trouble. While she was crying Sarah starts yelling at her -yeah that helps!

11:21 am

fe7 means Iron that has not combined with carbon, occurring commonly in steel, cast iron, and pig iron below 910°C

11:21 am

jen said a word!!!!!!!!! at 11:19

11:21 am

You guys are welcome to come over if you like... our area is clear of construction & we have a lovely newly paved driveway!

11:22 am

hey, the chat log/firefox problem has been fixed! lovely....

11:22 am

ty, jera, and the es6 & 8?

11:22 am

Oh yeah, you can't grill without fi4/7...

11:22 am

Sorry, I mean ty jen.......

11:22 am

Woops... sorry 'bout that! What time Jera?

11:22 am

what problem was that Angel --- the script warning?

11:22 am

Movieman are you getting me & Jen mixed up again?

11:23 am

Nope, just a slip of the finger!!!!!!

11:23 am

Ummmmm... afternoon? We are pretty casual, but will pick a time for guests' sake...

11:24 am

no, MM, for a while after the site change, the chat log would only partially display in Firefox. now, the entire chat will load.

11:24 am

Need the es6 & 8 now......

11:24 am

Oh I hadn't tried that. I keep getting a slow script warning after I finish the grid and then half my words disappear from my list -- makes it hard to clue

11:25 am

I would scream if my words disappeared...

11:25 am

es8 means "To change or cause to change to an es5" (which is a common chemical in Babbledom)... it's like an alcohol, or sort of Madonna's Kabalah name

11:26 am

mm, send me an e mail, and I can forward Dr G's suggestion for fixing the script error.

11:26 am

And Firefox keeps kicking me off Babble and making me re-log in... I am going to head off for now. Jera, I'll be on tomorrow morning or you can e-mail me... also let me know if I can bring anyting over!

11:27 am

Great thanks Angel. Bye Jen

11:27 am

Got it, ty again jen.......

11:27 am

Sounds, good Jen!

11:27 am

YW!

11:27 am

I'm outta here! Have a good SUnday all! :)

11:28 am

does anyone have the first st 4/5

11:28 am

stairs have what?

11:29 am

rolin, the first one that I have is the one you climb, is that what you need? I dont think I have them all yet so it might now be the right one.

11:29 am

i have a st 5/10 before that....*puzzled

11:29 am

yep

11:30 am

I do to, but you wanted the 4/5

11:30 am

aaah so the list is mistyped?

11:30 am

aaah so the list is mistyped?

11:30 am

rolin, it's also an aerobics class that was VERY popular in the 90s

11:30 am

no

11:31 am

the 5/10 before it has "lower" letters in it.

11:31 am

the clues are in order of the letters in the word, not the points

11:32 am

hi all!

11:33 am

Anyone care to assist me with the bottom u and the bottom t plz?

11:34 am

Hi, gem_gem... I like your icon!

11:35 am

thankyou

11:35 am

Pe 7/32 the one after the plural writing insturments

11:36 am

oops. it's nice when you accidentally transpose a word and that's a word, too

11:37 am

OHHH wait! I think i'm missing a pe 4.5 nm on the cule

11:37 am

clue

11:37 am

do you need a clue for that musicmom?

11:37 am

not yet shirin -I think I have things out of order

11:37 am

Anyone care to assist me with the bottom u and the bottom t plz?

11:37 am

ok, just checking

11:37 am

the bottom t is a te and has three ts in it.

11:37 am

Actually shirin yes I do. It has to be that.

11:38 am

thanks. Sorry to be so confusing

11:38 am

movieman - for the U, think of N Ireland...

11:39 am

ty, mm & sherb..... I was gonna try that Irish one, but I didn't think it'd work.......

11:39 am

some people have larger body fi++++ and some have smaller or pe++++ ones. Then plural the word

11:40 am

13 t's to go..

11:40 am

Nope I need the one before that. It comes between the plural writing instruments and the 5 prefix

11:41 am

sorry, I guess I need that one too. GOtta go for now though. Have fun kids

11:41 am

thanks anyway shirin. Have fun yourself!

11:41 am

see ya shirin

11:43 am

nutter

11:43 am

oops!

11:44 am

hey, MM.. I've placed Jamie's tip for fixing the unresponsive script error in Firefox on the third page of the Resource site.

11:44 am

Thanks Agnel!

11:45 am

As soon as I finish this I'll go look

11:45 am

angel

11:45 am

I'm back to dyslexic typing today

11:45 am

good afternoon room, does anyone know how many words are on the puzzle today? :)

11:46 am

269.....

11:46 am

musicmom, pe7,32 =pen + st4,4 only different vowel

11:46 am

hi all!

11:46 am

Got it pabtrek THANK YOU!

11:46 am

tks movie man

11:46 am

And there's 33 7's and 10 8's......

11:47 am

refer

11:47 am

crap!

11:48 am

yw, mm

11:48 am

I like to think of this as Jamie's way of giving us free cues... ;)

11:48 am

Musicmom, that word is not in here.

11:49 am

...or even clues...

11:49 am

Sherb, who is jamie?

11:49 am

Jamie is the creator of Babble... aka Dr God...

11:50 am

I'm glad - I realized what I had done as soon as I hit return

11:50 am

oh, dr-god is a women?

drier

11:51 am

woman? ...Jamie is a man's name...

Oh snap. That's the first time I've done that in a while.

11:51 am

Leigh, I already have that.

11:51 am

word is that dr god is a man

11:51 am

Oh, I thought it was a ladies name. My nieghbor is a women and her name is Jamie.

Sorry, shutter. Next time I'll type a better one.

11:52 am

could someone tell me how many total DE words there are please?

11:52 am

shutter, can be both

11:52 am

Well, leigh, make sure it is all nice long one! LOL!!!!!

11:53 am

nrkii, why are you asking for infor that's available on lickety's site easily?

11:53 am

crap I still said a word - I'm so sorry

11:53 am

there are 17 de words.

11:53 am

don't want to go to lickety's list yet samantha -- thought I understand that my question is part of what I'd get there anyway

11:53 am

thanks shutter!

11:54 am

Okey dokey.

11:54 am

yes, musicmom, and I did not have those either so, THANKS!

11:54 am

same here musicmom, thanks indeed

11:54 am

oooooohh fireworks

11:54 am

Bravo Rolin

11:54 am

whoo hoo rolin!!!!!!!!!!!!

11:54 am

Glad to oblige your lists in my carelessness

11:55 am

congrats, rolin

Oh sure, mm gets a great big thanks.... *sulk*

11:58 am

there there leigh

11:59 am

nrkii - I think I recognise your icon, it's Mr. Hanks in his high school days.....

11:59 am

yes ma'am

11:59 am

try the T's leigh... I still need 23 of those...

11:59 am

Anyone got a clue for the first te7/48?

12:00 pm

ntkii, I live in NJ too!

12:00 pm

i mean nrkii

I live in NJ too.... *feels left out*

12:00 pm

hydra - to really scare someone!!!!

12:00 pm

I'm in Lambertville, on Delaware river (was in Morristown till this past December)

12:01 pm

oh leigh, I hadnt read your profile.

It's okay. I'm just cranky cuz I'm sick. It's time to go lay down again.

12:02 pm

Brilliant, movieman.

12:02 pm

I think it is more commonly a man's name in England than US

12:02 pm

feel better leigh!

12:02 pm

what kind of sick? i just over a cold.

12:02 pm

23 to go. I'm shattered!

I have a cold too, though my mom thinks I might be getting strep.

12:02 pm

YAY---all done finally.

12:02 pm

good going hydra

12:03 pm

YAY ALIEN!!!!

12:03 pm

Fireworks, Alien!

12:03 pm

fireworks, alien

12:03 pm

i hope you feel better soon.

Okay, I'm going now. Maybe I'll be back later.

Thank you shutter. =)

Bye everyone

12:04 pm

bye leigh!

12:04 pm

later leigh... take care :)

12:05 pm

Love your icon, sherb...

12:05 pm

Bye, leigh

12:05 pm

Yes, it's lovely. I know your area well. Lived in Hampstead and Highgate for years.

12:06 pm

thanks Jera.. I take it you can see Titania, and not a young Harrison Ford... :)

12:06 pm

Oh... either one, LOL... but I was talking about the fairy...

12:07 pm

where do you live now hydra?

12:08 pm

Temporarily in UJxbridge. I've bought a house in E. Finchley which is being done up. Then I'll move. It's a sort of sideways step, trying to make some cash to move back to Ham or High!

12:09 pm

Hmmm... I refreshed but still see Titania...

12:09 pm

hey where are those te clues. thats all I need, te 7/48 2x te 7/28 and te6/18 Please

12:09 pm

te 7 48 = to scare badly or to be a witness in court

12:10 pm

te 7 28 is more cranky

12:10 pm

it's funny how we have to play the property market... I've been thinking of moving for the same reason...

12:10 pm

te 6 18 is someone who puts up a shelter at a campsite

12:11 pm

sorry, Jera... I switched back to Titania earlier...

12:12 pm

thanks for the te words, I keep loosing my place in the list, but wil get them down

12:12 pm

anyone need any clues?

clue for the u in the bottom left corner?

12:17 pm

flippyfloppy, think Ireland

12:17 pm

It's one of the four provinces in Ireland and also a type of overcoat

12:17 pm

alien, I'm missing one NU word, I have 3 NU4, 2 NU5, 1 NU6 and 1 NU7 -- can you tell me the length of the one I'm missing?

woo hoo! got it!

12:18 pm

stupid T's... *trudges off to the list*...

12:18 pm

there are 2 NU 6's

12:19 pm

AH, got it, tx!!

12:19 pm

surprised I missed the DOER one, when I had all the others

12:19 pm

well, not surprised, pretty typical actually

12:19 pm

it happens to all of us. I keep forgetting the root word itself.

any help on the last fe 5/20

12:22 pm

there is another te 6/ 18 and 7/28, between the scared to death and 4 ;etter wprd meaning experiment, Can you help???

12:22 pm

fe5/20...fe + last vowel + man's name

12:23 pm

adverb, adverb, adverb...!!!

12:23 pm

inge, it rhymes with a little weasely creature people like as pets that likes to steal things and hide them away.

thanks

12:24 pm

te 6 and 7: te + double cons. +third vowel + cross-like letter. (then plural)

12:26 pm

thanks Hurshy, and Alien, I got it

12:28 pm

that hat appears surprisingly often...

12:29 pm

and another adverb... I should just add -ly to everything...

12:31 pm

and with the courtroom word, finally finished the T's... time for a cuppa..

12:41 pm

39 to go -- time for a little help from Lickety's list I think

12:41 pm

Finished. Got my fireworks! Bye all.

12:43 pm

Got mine too. Thanks to all. Now I have to look up that crazy final de word that took 20 minutes to figure out.

12:44 pm

yay hydra and inge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

12:44 pm

can anyone help me with the UT 5 that is not "speak"

12:45 pm

nm, got it

12:45 pm

That u word is the Latin plural...never mind

12:49 pm

Well, I better find something else to do, since there is no action here. Bye till later

12:49 pm

see ya inge

12:51 pm

tr7/36?

12:51 pm

if you say something with remorse, you say it CONTR***** (adverb)

12:52 pm

thanks nrkii!!!

12:58 pm

hey everyone ! -left 66 to do really quickly, gotta get ready to go to wedding

12:58 pm

hi helen!

12:59 pm

hey nrk!!!!! get any sleep?

12:59 pm

quiet board this afternoon

12:59 pm

yes helen, thanks -- and look, still breathing!

1:00 pm

Lots of words to find -- no time to chat!

1:00 pm

st7/32 the first one

1:00 pm

Helen, is that Alan Rickman?

breathing - always a good thing!

i think i found all the words, lol

1:01 pm

don't have that one musicmom, sorry

why yes, nrkii!!! you did prefect, much guessing last night!

1:01 pm

I love alan rickman!!!

1:01 pm

okay I'll keep noodling. Do you have the ut 5/12 that isn't speak

no

1:02 pm

music, it's plural of female anatomy

1:02 pm

latin plural

no nrkii - i love alan rickman!!!!

1:02 pm

UGH I always miss that -- thanks

1:03 pm

now I'm in the mood to go watch Robin Hood (he was the absolute hands down best part of that movie)

i'll cut your heart out with a spoon AND cancel christmas, lol

1:04 pm

do you MIIIIIIIIIIIND...

1:04 pm

Hi, may I sk for some help with the 8s please. I have: de8/50 Hates de8/50 Rubbish es8/65 change compound re8/60 make fit again re8/45 tried again se8/65 music group un8/50 not housed yu8/60 Christmas

LOL

franc - you have more than i

1:05 pm

st - more secure

1:06 pm

yes frances, thank you for that lovely list -- I don't have any you don't have, except what musicmom just clued

1:06 pm

fe - having to do with iron not combined with carbon

1:06 pm

the fe is a plural -- the singular is your 7

1:07 pm

ack, I had that 7!!!

1:07 pm

Thanks mm

1:08 pm

Thanks, got them all now

1:09 pm

I am trying so hard these days to manage without reference to lists. So far I have 182 and struggling

i made it listless yesterday :)

1:11 pm

Well done you. Something for me to aim at!

1:11 pm

You guys are great! I got down really far yesterday. TOday I caved when I had about 98 left

1:11 pm

I got through 230 today without list, but then gave in.

1:11 pm

Good afternoon, all

ugh - must go take shower now, be back in a bit

1:12 pm

hi bgl, see ya later helen!

1:12 pm

Okay I'm missing two words. st 7/32 - the first one and ti 6/27 --- any help?

i'm at 206, gonna have to do what i can now, not sure if we'll be back before the flip :(

1:12 pm

Hi BGL -- how are you? Im going to be going soon - hope to find these last two words

1:12 pm

Not bad. Just finished making items for our picnic this afternoon. Thought I'd take a stab

1:13 pm

it really isn't too bad -- lots of related word sets

1:13 pm

musicmom st7/32 an editing word

1:13 pm

st7/32 - make your preceding st4/4 past tense

1:14 pm

music, ti 6 is like the phrase ti* *** TAT

1:14 pm

Thanks Haz - now why didn't I htink of that.

1:14 pm

ti6/27 is an English term for hat. Bird type plus iron related word

1:15 pm

musicmom ti6/27is cockney rhyming slang for hat

1:17 pm

Got it!!! fireworks for me!!!1

1:17 pm

yay music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1:17 pm

Congratulations! Did you actually get fireworks?

1:17 pm

Congratulations musicmom!

1:17 pm

I have about 10 minutes if anyone needs clues

1:18 pm

yes I actually did!

1:18 pm

Not unless you want to clue the 227 words I have left ot find... I don't even know what I need yet! :)

1:18 pm

Angelsong called me today and told me that she put a fix up on her page for keeping my list from disappearing. I will play with that tonight when I get home from worship

1:19 pm

LOL BGL - How about if I check back in later tonight.

1:19 pm

grab that ti they just clued for me -- it was a real stumper

1:19 pm

mm - not unless you want me to list all the 7's I have.....I still need 5 more!!!!!!

1:19 pm

I haven't gotten the words for the 8 clues for rubbish or singing group. Can you offer more assistance?

1:19 pm

Sounds good. We're going to Jeff and Brenda's don't know what time we'll be back I may just have to try my best

1:20 pm

okay - give me a minute to get them together

1:20 pm

gwenski - the se8 sounds like a six-piece girl group.....

1:20 pm

gwenski, it's a singing group of 6 people, with a french-ish ending

1:21 pm

the rubbish one is DE + syllable that sounds like silly or meaningless + you and me, objective case

1:23 pm

Those were great clues. Thanks. I'm still working on getting the words, unfortunately.

1:24 pm

can someone please help with the fe that means and iron compound. I am still have trouble with that

1:25 pm

Ooh! Got the rubbish! Still looking for the end of the singing group...

1:25 pm

sounds like "all's **** in love and war" + rituals, as in the priest giving last *****

1:25 pm

The first part is three letters, referring to iron. The remaining part of the word can be used for ceremonies and is a homonym for right.

nrkii, that was a great clue. Thanks

1:26 pm

de7/44 (2),de7/40(2), dr7/44,ex7/48, fe7/40, fi7/40, ne7/28,nu7/32, pe7/32 (3), pu7/40, pu7/36,re7/44, re7/32, ru7/32 (2), st7/32 (2), st7/36(2) te7/36,te7/28(3),te7/48(2),tr7/36, tu7/44,un7/36

1:26 pm

I hope I didn't miss any movieman

1:26 pm

shirin fe8/55 first three letters like animal covering last five r***** of passage

1:27 pm

Uh oh - I think I missed one. I'll look for it.

1:27 pm

thank you Frances

1:27 pm

I missed a tr 7/28

1:28 pm

okay need to go get ready for worship services. Talk later

1:28 pm

et5 please? hurshy listing for last 20, big hurry today

1:28 pm

French for study

1:28 pm

it is a study piece for a musician hurhsy

1:28 pm

hurshy

1:29 pm

tyvm

1:30 pm

fe 5/20?

1:30 pm

like a fight between clans, hurshy, but add an extra E

1:30 pm

past tense of french word for fire

1:30 pm

tyvm

1:36 pm

LOL -- turdify.....

1:36 pm

ti 6/27?

1:37 pm

I tried turdier

1:37 pm

hurshy, like the phrase TI* *** TAT, but change last vowel

1:37 pm

clues for the pu7/40 plz?

1:38 pm

I did too, BGL...

1:38 pm

movieman, applied a sticky substance to a surface

1:38 pm

ah, like the tw we had

1:38 pm

hurshy, exactly!

1:38 pm

ty, nrkii.....

1:39 pm

done! enjoy the rest of the puzzle, friends! :-)

1:39 pm

alrighty, thanks all, i'm done.

1:39 pm

DONE!

1:39 pm

YAY HURSHY!!!!

1:39 pm

hooray, hurshy!

1:39 pm

and nrkii!

1:39 pm

YAY UNE!!!!!!!!!!

1:39 pm

Good job!

1:40 pm

greetings

1:40 pm

hi harpjane!

1:41 pm

I have to step out to go get NYT crossword puzzle, and something to eat (haven't stopped to eat yet today, between mowing lawn and babbling) --- will be back later for clueing

1:41 pm

Hello Sonia

1:42 pm

well done hurshy!! i no its a bit late but i just came back and noticed :)

1:43 pm

the te7/36 plz....

1:44 pm

Hello gramp - we have 96 words!

1:44 pm

adverb of te5 to be taut

1:44 pm

adverb form of te 5/10 meaning uptight (now I'm really going!)

1:46 pm

ty, bonkler & nrkii.....

1:46 pm

Gramp - we've just reached 100 - daddy says that's the best we've done.

1:47 pm

turn

1:47 pm

Sorry!

1:48 pm

Finally!!!!!! I've found all 43 of the 7's & 8's...... Now I can concentrate on the rest of the grid.....

1:49 pm

well done try un/8 camping without any cover?

1:49 pm

Good job, movieman. Wish I could say the same.

1:49 pm

Wow! Great movieman! (Personally, I'd drive myself crazy if I searched for all the biggies first!)

1:50 pm

If you're a college sports fan utep IS a word! :)

1:53 pm

Daddy says that was a good clue gramp. I'm going for my bath now, but we've got 103 words! Night night!

1:54 pm

night sleep tight

1:57 pm

de 5/22?

1:58 pm

to make something into a god

1:58 pm

es 8/65 please???

2:00 pm

ty gwenski

2:00 pm

to make something become like the es5/10

2:00 pm

i suck at this game but i cant help coming back...

2:01 pm

ty gwenski

dang- gotta finish getting ready for this wedding -have to (sadly) leave 62 -

2:02 pm

hi helen

good luck everyone - is it bad to wish for a laptop to use in the church?

2:02 pm

you be back later tonight?

2:02 pm

reid

hi feather - bye (sob) feather

2:02 pm

Only if you're taking notes on the sermon, helen!

don't know what time we'll be back -he may crash early, gets up everyday at 4am -so i may just be back (keeping fingers crossed)

2:03 pm

What's the dr5/16? It could be easy, but I'm missing it.

uh, yeah, that's what i meant, gwen, ;)

2:04 pm

dr5/16 - add two letters meaning opposite of down and add a vowel.

outta here - gl everyone!

2:04 pm

Bye helen - GO!

2:04 pm

Thanks, Haz. Bye helen

2:04 pm

ut5? I have the one that sounds like the underside of a cow. Need the other one please.

2:05 pm

bye helen!

2:05 pm

plural of female organ

2:05 pm

It's the latin plural for womb, harpjane

2:06 pm

uteri

2:06 pm

Yep! That'd be it! :)

2:06 pm

Right first time!

2:06 pm

lol...that's the one

2:06 pm

well, now EVERYBODY knows it! : (

2:10 pm

thanks for the wprd!

2:10 pm

word

2:11 pm

with great trepidation I ask for another clue. se5/14?

2:12 pm

se 5/14 is a compound word se_ + oopposite of down

2:13 pm

thanks arb

2:14 pm

thanks, and I put it in the right place this time!

2:16 pm

There's an le 5/14 of the same genre

2:17 pm

go that too.

2:20 pm

se8, 65?

2:20 pm

se 8/65 is an extension of the se 6/33 -- with a French feminine ending

2:21 pm

oogle

2:21 pm

se8/65, a group of six musicians

2:22 pm

can you beat 75+2 words?

2:24 pm

Oogley, I don't understand your question.

2:30 pm

haz, have u finished.

2:32 pm

evening all

2:32 pm

evening sha

2:33 pm

evening ruthy how u doing?

2:33 pm

ok u?

2:33 pm

Hi Sha

2:33 pm

54 left u?

2:33 pm

hi arb

2:34 pm

104

2:37 pm

i'm getting tons of pop ups when i babble these days, is it my compouter or is this new? i don't get them on other sites? any one else?

2:39 pm

Haven't had that problem -- you can disable popups on Firefox

2:39 pm

onyx, are you accessing other sites, like dictionary.com or a2z? They could be the cause.

2:42 pm

no. i stay away from dictionary because of the pop ups. i thought i had the pop ups disabled.... maybe some thing happened.... silly computers my son plays on this machine an who knows where he gets toi

2:42 pm

Yes, blame it on the children!

2:43 pm

don't have a dog....

2:44 pm

es5/10?

2:45 pm

sounds like the name of an old testament book

2:45 pm

es 5/10 chemical word. Misspelled woman's name

2:46 pm

then get es8 by turning it into an action word!

2:48 pm

thanks

2:49 pm

WOOOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! IT' S FIREWORKS TIME!!!!!!!!

2:49 pm

Congrats!!

2:51 pm

Yay Movieman

2:58 pm

Hey folks - sorry if thsd has already been covered but I'm trying to find the st5/10 between the 1st st4/5 and the st4\4 that comes after it. Any clues because I think I've tried everything??

2:59 pm

I don't have all the st's right, but it might be the medical device. s + camping house

3:00 pm

the st4/4 is the last te4/4 backwards

3:02 pm

thanks gwenski - that was it

3:02 pm

Glad to help, but now must go.

3:06 pm

its messin up for me

3:12 pm

oh ho ... any one else having probs with the site?

the very model of low expectations that i am, plus needing to garden & do laundry, allows me to be content at passing the afway mark. that & a stiff neck. best of luck, babblers! hi & bye for now.

ri 6/30 is driving me crazy

add a suffix to the 2nd ri 4/7

3:13 pm

past tense ri 4/7

thanks. seems easy now.

3:16 pm

help with "Y". i have 4/6, 4/7, 5/16 and 8/60

3:19 pm

ye+double consonant and plural

3:19 pm

ye 4/6, 5/15, 6/24

3:19 pm

I have an fi4/7 that is a plural for an evergreen tree. any clues for the 5/16 that follows it?

3:19 pm

thanks mo

3:20 pm

one Y left

3:20 pm

lmj glad to assist

3:21 pm

imj...did you pluralise it?

3:21 pm

help with es....

3:22 pm

ruthy, i got 105

3:22 pm

angel..do you need another fi4/7 before the evergreen?

3:23 pm

mo, yes, got the plural 4/6 and 4/7

3:23 pm

which y do you need now?

3:24 pm

not sure, haven't checked the list yet

3:24 pm

i think you need to pu an s on the end of ye4/6

3:25 pm

i have: ye4/6, ye/46, ye5/14, yu4/7, yu5/16, yu8/60

3:25 pm

sorry pu should be put

3:25 pm

fi6/27?

3:26 pm

could I please have help with the se/4??

3:26 pm

fi6/27 is someone who makes sure your clothes fi*

3:26 pm

se/4/4

3:28 pm

lmj...you need a ye6/24...crude clue "was saturday" nearly

3:28 pm

es for ester and how about the other es.

3:29 pm

not today but ......day!!!

3:31 pm

i'm dense

3:32 pm

you are not ....how about ...the day before today minus the last three letters

3:32 pm

sorry "es for ester and how about the other es." Still don't get it.. Help!

3:35 pm

finally, i was making a mountain out of a molehill

3:35 pm

Thanks for the help

3:35 pm

thanks, mo

3:36 pm

es8....the one you have +"might"+sometimes vowel

3:36 pm

imj...glad you got it

3:37 pm

the first te 7/48?

3:39 pm

harpjane ...make deeply afraid

3:41 pm

thanks mo

3:41 pm

woo hoo! fireworks!

3:41 pm

YAY Dippnall!

3:42 pm

hi all -- on for a few before I go out in the yard...

3:42 pm

yay dipp!!!

3:42 pm

hi stid and nrkii

3:42 pm

hi stid!

3:42 pm

se-8 / 65 please!

3:42 pm

hi featherbee -- I have 105 left. you?

3:42 pm

hi feather!

3:43 pm

hi stid, nrk and featherbee!

3:43 pm

66 left! ;)

3:43 pm

Hi fran!

3:43 pm

been doing this off and on in between cleaning house

3:43 pm

hi fran!

3:43 pm

I finished earlier today, but came back on to see if I could help

3:43 pm

hi nrkii! how's the grid for you today -- and Fran, and mo and harpjane and Angelsong.... :-)

3:44 pm

4 left! i stayed up until 2:00 am!

3:44 pm

wow fran!

3:44 pm

it wasn't too bad -- I got most of it done last night, but quit around 3AM and picked up the last 60 earlier today

3:44 pm

Our well stopped working last night, so I went out this morning to get bottled water for drinking and fill a couple storage containers for handwashing...

3:44 pm

ok, i'm heading off to clean the bathroom...fun fun fun!

3:44 pm

Way to go Fran! assuming you didn't have anything you needed to do early today, LOL

3:44 pm

later featherbee!

3:45 pm

so you're just hanging around to clue, nrkii?

3:45 pm

bye feather!

3:45 pm

later featherbee...

3:45 pm

hi stidmama...I have finished...just here for a while to give clues

3:45 pm

of course the baby wanted to get up early, so i had about 5 hours of sleep

3:45 pm

can someone clue ti6/27?

3:45 pm

yeah, I went out to get the NY Times crossword, and struck out at 4 different stores, so I figured I'd spend some time on this instead

3:46 pm

giving up at 120 words.good night all

3:46 pm

fran, like the phrase T** *** TAT, but change last vowel

3:46 pm

night billmster!

3:46 pm

good night billmster!

3:46 pm

good night bill

3:46 pm

clue for ul6/21 and un7/36 please?

3:47 pm

wow. such good clues coming in, I don't even have to ask! :-)

3:47 pm

ul 6 - think Ireland

3:47 pm

what the heck kind of word was that?? thanks nrk!!

3:47 pm

ul - another word for northern ireland

3:47 pm

thats me finished

3:47 pm

un 7 = not sleepy

3:47 pm

I asked earlier for a clue to se/4/4.. could someone help? Thanks

3:47 pm

fireworks sha?

3:47 pm

yay sha!!

3:47 pm

se - home of a badger

3:47 pm

oh yes nrkii

3:48 pm

thanks nrkii

3:48 pm

FranMag - ti6/27 is a hat. It's Cockney rhyming slang.

3:48 pm

judierae, to s** something down, double the consonant

3:48 pm

yay sha!!!!!!!!!

3:48 pm

not sure about ireland clue

3:48 pm

YAY sha!

3:48 pm

thats me finished

3:48 pm

judierae, it's like a SE* of dishes, but double last letter

3:48 pm

wtg sha

3:48 pm

thanks jacula!

3:48 pm

Judie is your middle name Rae?

3:48 pm

well done ruthy

3:48 pm

yay ruthy!

3:48 pm

FranMag, y/w.

3:49 pm

re6/30?

3:49 pm

ul...is also an overcoat

3:49 pm

yes nrkii and thanks sooo much for the clue

3:49 pm

my middle name is rae too!

3:49 pm

fran, put gas in the car again

3:49 pm

ul6/21 rhymes with something that holds a gun

3:49 pm

Jacula, I don't speak cockney... can you elaborate on the hat clue a little more?

3:49 pm

really!!! it is different

3:50 pm

Hi stidmama - The Stid name is in the grid today. Not allowed, though.

3:50 pm

'Sup y'all?

3:50 pm

;-) yes, I saw that last night! It's always fun to see us in there... :-)

3:50 pm

what's the third letter of the ul word?

3:50 pm

thanks nrk! i really should have seen that one!

3:50 pm

hi stidmatt

3:51 pm

hello Matthew, please be a little more polite... to you *ahem* elders...

3:51 pm

Stidmama - The hat - See nrkii's clue at 3:46

3:51 pm

nevermide, just got it

3:51 pm

stid, are you talking about *ahem* us?

3:51 pm

ty Jacula -- and nrkii!

3:51 pm

like the Warhol look, Jacula.

3:51 pm

*ahem* or just me, as my mother took me birthday shopping yesterday...

3:52 pm

bye all see you tomorrow

3:52 pm

bye sha

3:52 pm

hi artlady! haven't seen you for ages... hope you've just been busy with school.

3:52 pm

imj...shouldnt really but between you and me it is s

3:52 pm

bye sha!

3:52 pm

Thanks, Artlady. It's Ena Sharples, left over from Soap theme day.

3:52 pm

lol, i still think i'm a young 'un sometimes

3:53 pm

am using bj's list tonight, and have got down to 2 words left - both s's - but according to the list I'm done! Is the list right or have we a kink?

3:53 pm

yes, nice icon jacula!

3:53 pm

if you have an infant Fran, you're young! LOL

3:53 pm

Yep. Two weeks left. I've kept up with my Sudoku, but Babble takes a lot more time.

3:53 pm

ri6/18? my last one!!

3:54 pm

fran - most ri4/7.

3:54 pm

thanks stid, she just turned one though and i started with the kids later

3:54 pm

actor who died last year or year before, 3's company, John RI****

3:54 pm

my boys have just under a month left of school. Mother has a few days fewer (she teaches first grade). We are all counting down to our lazy long leisure...

3:54 pm

that was the one nrk!! fireworks!!

3:55 pm

YAY Fran!

3:55 pm

YAY FRAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3:55 pm

Right.. LAZY!

3:55 pm

bj's list is right

3:55 pm

re6/30?

3:55 pm

WTG FRAN!!!!

3:55 pm

harpjane, put gas in the car again

3:56 pm

Dachef, did you forget to enter a word you found?

3:57 pm

cant work it out. Bj's list has the st4/5 as the first st word, but I have a st5/10 that comes before it...?!?

3:57 pm

nrkii, thanks. I got an F word out of that clue, too!

3:57 pm

dachef, you should have 5 se, 1 sl, 1 sn, 17 st, and 8 su

3:57 pm

I know better than to do the re words before I've done the rest of the puzzle

3:57 pm

yes, Lickity's has a 5/10 there

3:57 pm

harpjane, don't forget the plurals for both!

3:58 pm

yw harpjane :)

3:58 pm

st5/10 is the first st wotd Dachef

3:58 pm

i have an st5/10 as the first ST word

3:59 pm

okay. Im stoopid. I need 2 se words. The st5/10 and the st4/5 are the wrong way round in Bj's list.

3:59 pm

sorry typing error...WORD

3:59 pm

dachef, do you have the groups of six, se6/33 and se8/65?

4:00 pm

need help with those se's dachef, or you okay?

4:00 pm

Harp, nice icon. My 5th graders were really disappointed when we went down to the Art Institute 3 weeks ago and it was still in Iowa.

4:00 pm

Your version is a bit updated, tho, I see...

4:00 pm

de 7/44 is not working for me today...

4:00 pm

just an se4/4 to go - should be easy, right?

4:01 pm

take a common 3-letter word to describe a group, and double the last consonant

4:01 pm

whoo-hoo, Fireworks! Cheer guys!

4:01 pm

stid, to delegate or appoinot

4:01 pm

YAY Dachef!

4:01 pm

yay dachef!!

4:01 pm

YAY DACHEF!!!!!!!!!

4:02 pm

cheers, even!

4:02 pm

er, appoint

4:02 pm

STG DACHEF!

4:02 pm

nrkii - appoinot should be a word.

4:02 pm

sorry stid, the 7 is past tense

4:03 pm

sorry, the FIRST de 7/44, right after the two 4/8s

4:03 pm

dachef, it looks like a good word, doesn't it?

4:03 pm

ah, stid, most handy, able, good with hands

4:03 pm

stid - take the word directly above it and make it more so.....

4:03 pm

ty nrkii!

4:04 pm

Sorry, I meant WTG, no STG.

4:04 pm

the "most" words eluded me till very late in the game

4:04 pm

"soway to go!"

4:04 pm

and thanks Dachef... :-)

4:04 pm

yup - almost all my last words ended in ly or est.

4:05 pm

those are hard ones for some reason.

4:07 pm

so can anybody guess who my icon is?

4:08 pm

Fran, I know it's one of 4 (three really, because I saw someone guess wrong), but I don't know which!

4:09 pm

he's a singer, was part of a group, but now records solo

4:10 pm

what he's wearing is a clue

4:10 pm

his original band was 3 guys

4:10 pm

oh wait, that's a different picture than the one I was thinking of.... hmmmm

4:11 pm

he plays bass

4:11 pm

franmag, british?

4:11 pm

you were thinking of john lennon

4:11 pm

yes, he's british, still lives in England

sting

4:12 pm

yay johnny!!

4:12 pm

isit sting?

4:12 pm

johnny2times got it

4:12 pm

It is sting!!!

4:12 pm

he still has the same face!

4:13 pm

yes, it's sting, my most favorite male artist of all time

4:13 pm

mine too,Fran

4:14 pm

in college my favorite video was fortress around your heart and i had to stay up until it played, then i would go to sleep!

4:14 pm

I remember the first time I say him as a young girl, my heart was really pounding

4:15 pm

are you kidding my heart would pound now if i ever came within 100 yards of him!!

4:15 pm

I was just telling my mom this morning that he is still so handsome

4:16 pm

of course good looking men just get better and better looking as they age

4:16 pm

the ones who take care of themselves of course

4:16 pm

very true

4:17 pm

I've changed my icon now to a 'before they were famous' one.

4:17 pm

gotta run away for a bit -- see ya later!

4:18 pm

later nrkii!

4:18 pm

See ya nrkii!

4:19 pm

'Bye nrkii.

4:19 pm

Jacula, one of the Beatles?

4:21 pm

Stidmama - Nope. Think glamrock.

4:21 pm

Elton?

4:21 pm

Nope. Think dinosaurs.

4:22 pm

???? I think he's a lot older than I am going to remember... Elvis?

4:23 pm

LOL. Not THAT old! Think late 60s for full group name then 70s for shortened version.

4:23 pm

Rolling Stones?

4:24 pm

pu6/39?

If I get this one, will you guys help me with the ul 6?

4:24 pm

He was an 'electric warrior' who rode 'a white swan. He died in 1977.

Marc Bolan. T. Rex

4:25 pm

Johnny - Correct!

4:25 pm

Angel -pu6/39 - cleanse.

<-better at music trivia than babble

4:26 pm

Johnny - ul6 - A man's overcoat or another name for N. Ireland.

4:26 pm

I never even heard of T.Rex... oh well, leave it to my folks to bring me up on a diet of Mitch Miller and Big Band tunes in the 70s...

4:27 pm

Never heard of T Tex?? *Swoons with horror.*

4:27 pm

*throws cold coffee on Jacula*

4:28 pm

* or even T Rex! Gotta run for a while; the 2nd part of a 3-parter about The Bermuda Triangle is on TV. BBL.

4:28 pm

Mom! Be nice!

thanks, Jacula.

4:28 pm

*Need time to wash that darned coffee of!* LOL.

4:28 pm

later Jacula, thanks for the clues!

4:28 pm

See ya Jacula!

4:28 pm

NICE? since when am *I* ever nice? LOL

4:28 pm

*off

4:29 pm

Byeee. *Slosh, splosh, slosh* ... drips away to TV.

4:29 pm

:-)

4:29 pm

Good point Mom! *Sticks out tongue at stidmama*

4:31 pm

okay, I am stuck on two de words... one is the 5/22, the other is one of the 8/50s (I have a past-tense 8/50). I have the rest.

4:33 pm

I got the de 5/22 just now...

4:33 pm

de 5 / 22 - to make godlike

4:34 pm

...er, I was just late there. ;)

4:34 pm

ShadeEagle, thanks though -- I am sure someone else (like stidmatt) needed it!

4:34 pm

de 8/50: another word for debris

4:36 pm

de 8/50 really means particles of worn rock, Latin ending

4:36 pm

yeah, sorry, should've clarified that: natural rock-like debris. oops.

4:37 pm

ty inge and Shade! I was totally looking in the wrong direction there!

4:38 pm

Just passing by, and thought that clue needed a bit of help.

4:38 pm

My computer is READING MY MIND! Seriously....

4:39 pm

:-) you're a gem, inge, nothing like that de 8/50! LOL

4:39 pm

hey stid, how far are you now?

4:39 pm

*put on your aluminum hat son*

4:39 pm

52 words.

4:39 pm

I need the st 5/10 ( the second on the list) Please

4:40 pm

By the way mom, that metal hat thing is nonsense.

4:40 pm

oh, you lapped me! 65 left here

4:40 pm

87 to go featherbee!

4:40 pm

ty, all; got de8 :-D

4:40 pm

lol, sorry stidmatt, i read you and thought you were your mom!

4:40 pm

Shadeeagle, where is your eerie?

4:40 pm

i forget there are two stids sometimes

4:40 pm

my what?

4:41 pm

hi all, had to hang some laundry while baby is asleep. anyone need clues!

4:41 pm

he *sounds* nothing like me anymore thankfully -- he has a lovely deep baritone voice. :-) *proud mama look*

4:41 pm

re5/16 aftert the 7/44?

4:41 pm

well, the whole back of my house is clean...bedrooms and bathroom. we won't discuss the state of the living room after daniel's been playing there all day!

4:41 pm

I think the little grumpy one is bored, I need to go give her some attention. Hi FM!

4:41 pm

eagles live in eeries or did I missspell?

4:42 pm

bye stidmatt!

4:42 pm

inge, i think it's aerie

4:42 pm

aeries? :)

4:42 pm

I think it's closer to eyrie, actually.

4:42 pm

I think it's closer to eyrie, actually.

4:42 pm

I incline my head in your direction to honor your dedication to hearth and home, featherbee! I am about to take a short nap.... floors be hanged!

4:42 pm

thanks Franmag, I thought an eagle would understand...

4:43 pm

lol stidmama

4:43 pm

we have company coming tomorrow, thus the all out scrubbing

4:43 pm

angelsong, it's re+no **s ands or buts

4:43 pm

Wow, ow I have to consult Websters, back in a minute

4:43 pm

lol. inge!

4:43 pm

the st 5/10 is my lst word to finish..Please please help!!!

4:43 pm

that's the only time i ever do major cleaning featherbee!

4:44 pm

oops last

4:44 pm

it's a catheter that's put in to support an artery

4:44 pm

me too fran! need to invite company more often, then my house would always be spotless

4:44 pm

Okay, I'm back, tug tug tug, pant pant pant.

4:44 pm

is that the one you need judierae? the first st?

4:44 pm

aerie accordingidng to Websters

4:45 pm

judie, sorry I can't help with st yet...

4:45 pm

*people should know Matthew was wrestling with a dog just now*

4:45 pm

so glad you cleared that up inge!!

4:45 pm

yes Fran

4:45 pm

aerie is in crosswords a lot...

4:46 pm

st 5 is that think doctors insert to widen an artery

4:46 pm

plural of turning around the contents of a container.

4:46 pm

wee, another box grayed out

4:46 pm

*thing*

4:46 pm

go featherbee!!

4:46 pm

go featherbee go!

4:47 pm

i hope i can babble this week, my husband is home using up vacation time!!

4:47 pm

When mom said that I was wrestling, if I did to that with the dog I was playing with, I most likely would be dead.

4:47 pm

lol, Fran; those pesky loved ones... :-D

4:48 pm

Or close.

4:48 pm

judearia, did you ever get that st word?

4:49 pm

who inge??

4:49 pm

any help with the fe 6 / 27?

4:49 pm

what kind of dog stidmatt?

4:49 pm

help with et5,14 please

4:49 pm

shade, what sores do without antibiotic

4:49 pm

yes, thanks to Fran...and "dumb Dora" here has had 2 different angioplasys done!!!

4:50 pm

pabtrek, in music it's a piece written for study

4:50 pm

pabrek--et 5/14 = musical piece

4:50 pm

Mutt, poodle, etc. stidmama can tell you what she is.

4:50 pm

thanks

4:50 pm

i'm sure you just wanted to forget what was done to you judirae!

4:51 pm

thanks bookgrrl, love your name, i'm one myself :)

4:51 pm

stidmatt, a shnoodle?

4:51 pm

fe 6, a wound that wont heal is said to fe*****

4:51 pm

yw, pabtrek...always nice to meet other readers.

4:51 pm

fireworks for judierae!!

4:52 pm

probably Fran, but thanks a bunch anyway.. you all are a great group!! REALLY

4:52 pm

YAY judierae!

4:52 pm

congratulatons Judierae

4:53 pm

fireworks, Judierae

4:53 pm

-------> is dancing around the room..oops just tripped!

4:53 pm

Sahdy ealge: it means to give off puss,

4:53 pm

WTG JUDIERAE!

4:53 pm

no Buffy is a mutt -- part itty-bitty poodle, part pig, part no one knows...

4:53 pm

careful there judi!

4:53 pm

Sahde Eagle, sorry for butchering your name

4:54 pm

What's a shnoodle?

4:54 pm

lol, part pig?

4:54 pm

I am off to nap... see you all later!

4:54 pm

it's cool, I got it - thanks Fran

4:54 pm

a shnauzer and poodle mix, stidmatt

4:54 pm

The Munsters had an Uncle Fe****6/27

4:54 pm

See ya Mom! Okay FM.

4:54 pm

later stid!

4:55 pm

gotta go.. again, many thanks

4:55 pm

ok, i'm having trouble thinking around the pe 6/24

4:55 pm

bye judierae!!

4:55 pm

bye stid!

4:55 pm

See ya judierae!

4:55 pm

time to take a break. got the airconditioning running. My daughter in Vegas has lowerwoer tmperatures than we do in Michigan

4:56 pm

bye inge!

4:56 pm

feather, it's past tense of patting a pup

4:57 pm

thank you fran! i get these roadblocks in my head...

4:57 pm

yw featherbee!

4:57 pm

hey - anyone have the fe 7/40 yet?

4:58 pm

shade, it has to do with iron

4:58 pm

the 8/55 is the plural

4:59 pm

oops, sorry, the other one

4:59 pm

fi7/40?

4:59 pm

and the fi 7/40, 'cause I obviously passed basic reading comprehension. ;)

5:00 pm

fi7/40, most athletic

5:00 pm

Ps done, saving the REs for later tonight...off to do the kitchen floor...or vacuum, not sure which yet

5:00 pm

or most healthy

5:00 pm

i say kitchen floor, see you later feather!

5:01 pm

had missed fi7/40, ty! :)

5:01 pm

yw libarebel!

5:01 pm

ul6,21 pls.

5:02 pm

lady eva, it rhymes with something that holds a gun on your belt

5:02 pm

thanks!

5:02 pm

u6/21 - a northern ireland county, i believe

5:02 pm

ul6/21--think northern ireland or raincoat

5:03 pm

franmag thanks. got it

5:03 pm

franmag thanks. got it

5:04 pm

i guess in this grid it's the raincoat because proper names aren't allowed, right?

5:04 pm

yw ladyeva!

5:06 pm

I think you'r right, Franmag--it will take "nile"

5:07 pm

i wonder what the def of that one is, if it's not the river

5:07 pm

but gun pouch was the clue that worked! :-D

5:09 pm

Fran-- I think of the color, but thought that the color meant the color of the river... :-|

5:10 pm

oh, as in nile green...

5:10 pm

dictionary.com says it's a dark blue

5:11 pm

brb

5:12 pm

ty, Fran--you do your research :)

5:14 pm

I have checked and doubled checked and I have all of my words listed, but they don't give me credit for two of them. I also refreshed. Looks like I don't get fireworks today.

5:14 pm

awww, Merk--contact Dr. G.!

5:15 pm

Hey, everyone! I made myself wait until I only had 50 left to find before I allowed myself to chat.

5:15 pm

Have to hit the road and leave my internet connection. Too bad, so sad, but I'll get over it.

5:15 pm

Tata. See you tomorrow.

5:15 pm

Tata. See you tomorrow.

5:15 pm

Merk Did you refresh using F5?

5:18 pm

woo, I found an 8 with no hints!

5:18 pm

Hi, elmer!

5:21 pm

Hello...

5:28 pm

Well, if nobody else is around, I'll say hello to you, smithchick!

5:30 pm

Hi Haz I'm around but trying, really trying to do this without any lists. So far I have 192 and really struggling!

5:30 pm

So just another 77 to go.

5:30 pm

Yep

5:31 pm

Hullo, Haz and everyone. I also am trying to get ahead without lists but so far have only 46. AWay I go to bury my head in the grid again

5:31 pm

Help, I have 158 words and I dont see anymore!

5:32 pm

I think I need to go to the list

5:32 pm

Keep going hetty

5:32 pm

Hello hetty - it's a nice grid today so you should enjoy it.

5:33 pm

Thanks, Haz! I was beginning to give up!

5:33 pm

shirin

5:33 pm

shirin

5:33 pm

shirin, six of them! (hint)

5:33 pm

I'm not using the list yet, either.

5:34 pm

the group of six?

5:34 pm

yes

5:35 pm

I got that one, thanks

5:35 pm

shirin There are two versions of a music group of six

5:35 pm

do they both start with se?

5:36 pm

Yes

5:36 pm

sex?

5:36 pm

Yes make longer the first one

5:37 pm

w/ feminine ending

5:38 pm

any clues for 6/27??

5:38 pm

any clues for FE 6/27??

5:38 pm

i'm back! hi georgiaj and frances!

5:38 pm

yes, shirin, sex...

5:39 pm

Hi FranMag

5:39 pm

georgia, if you have a sore that does not heal, it is said to fe****

5:39 pm

georgiaj If you don't treat a boilt it will fe6/2

5:40 pm

thank you for the gross clue

5:40 pm

there has to be one really gross word in each grid i think!

5:40 pm

I think you're welcome!

5:40 pm

I still cannot figure it out?

5:41 pm

HE'S ALSO THE MUNSTERS UNCLE

5:41 pm

frances, is that quilt square one of your own?

5:41 pm

FranMag

5:41 pm

Yes

5:41 pm

it's incredible frances

5:42 pm

shirin - the se6/33 adds two letters to become se8/65 - it ends up with the same ending as a cigar****

5:43 pm

FranMag Thank you. I make all my quilts entirely by hand. I think it must be about twenty years since I used my sewing machine.

5:43 pm

Frances--I was wondering why your flag icon was not the Union Jack...

5:44 pm

Hi libarebel I'm proud to be English

5:44 pm

Hi everyone!!! Have 2 of the 8 letter words from the wonderful clues given, may I have clues for the other 8 letter words please

5:44 pm

hi peri!! which ones do you have?

5:45 pm

thanks HAz, I finally got it!

5:45 pm

de8/50 means disliked strongly

5:45 pm

Oops, forgot to say what I had: es8/65 and se8/65

5:45 pm

Good, that's a relief for you, I'm sure!

5:45 pm

another de8/50 is another word for rubble

5:46 pm

yu8/60 - another way of saying Christmas time

5:46 pm

fe8/55 has to do with iron, plural of fe7/40

5:46 pm

FranMag, thanks, got the first de8/50, now to look for the other

5:47 pm

Hi, Haz, thanks for the yu8 clue

5:47 pm

re8/60 measured for a dress again

5:47 pm

un8/50 - without canvas dwellings, st8/50 stronger

5:47 pm

re8/45 quizzed or examed again

5:47 pm

Haz, thanks for the un8 clue

5:48 pm

Hello periwinkle - this is a nice grid today so you'll enjoy it.

5:48 pm

st8/50 stronger

5:49 pm

How about a clue for the se8 and es8?

5:49 pm

FranMag, thanks, now have 8 of the 8 letter words

5:50 pm

de8/50 Hates de8/50 Rubbish es8/65 change compound fe8/55 to with iron re8/60 make fit again re8/45 tried again se8/65 music group st8/50 stronger un8/50 not housed yu8/60 Christmas

5:50 pm

se8/65, group of six female singers

5:50 pm

female is the operative clue

5:51 pm

FranMag, figured out how to spell the other de8, thanks, Frances, thanks for the list, missing one of the 8 letter words, fe8/55 , don't have the fe7, will look for them now

5:51 pm

Thanks, Frances and Fran!

5:51 pm

You're welcome

5:51 pm

hi smithchick!

5:51 pm

Frances, thanks, now have all of the 8 letter words, woohoo!

5:52 pm

How are ya, Fran?

5:52 pm

You're welcome peri

5:52 pm

have over 100 words and have not looked at a list yet, wonderful clue givers here!!!

5:52 pm

fine smithchick, stayed up late and got most of the grid and was able to finish earlier today!

5:53 pm

still 155 to go, time to take another break, bbl

5:53 pm

wow, ty, Frances! :)

5:53 pm

peri, i got to about 180 without the list, could have gotten further if i was more careful

5:53 pm

Yay for you! I'm actually getting to chat with no disapproval from hubby because he is watching racing.

5:53 pm

later peri!

5:53 pm

You're welcome too libarebel

5:53 pm

He's being sweet and made me choc. chip cookies.

5:54 pm

Bye peri!

5:54 pm

The de 8/50 rubbish..is that rubbish in the sense of hogwash, or in trash?

5:54 pm

dh is at a wedding, he's the emcee and dj

5:54 pm

i love chocolate chip cookies!

5:54 pm

Sounds like fun, Fran...does he have good taste in tunes?

5:54 pm

boa, it's more like rubble

5:54 pm

Thanks :)

5:55 pm

smith, he's done it for almost 15 years, 5 with me here, he's really good

5:55 pm

boatierra Disintegrated or eroded matter

5:55 pm

TE 7/48?? Clues...

5:55 pm

Got it! Thanks :)

5:56 pm

georgia, give an account of, like in court

5:56 pm

What you do in court

5:56 pm

te7/48--to tell one's story in a court of law

5:56 pm

we do a lot of off-island weddings with music personalized for each bride and groom. it's a lot of fun

5:57 pm

WHOOHOOO!!!! FIREWORKS!!!! THANK YOU FRANMAG

5:57 pm

yay georgia!!!

5:58 pm

Well done georgiaj

5:58 pm

Congrats, georgia!!!

5:58 pm

thank you (takes a bow)

6:00 pm

Okay, I've been trying to get the se8, but apparently my brain has shut down. Could some one give me another clue?

6:00 pm

FranMag Remember seeing a wedding in the Fern Grotto a few years back. Very beautiful.

6:00 pm

smith, it's an alternate spelling of the se6/33, group of six

6:01 pm

where is the fern grotto frances?

6:01 pm

Okay, got it...Thanks, Fran

6:01 pm

if you have the 6/33, make the ending french

6:02 pm

FranMag On Kauai

6:03 pm

we do weddings in Oahu, i'm sure that wedding was lovely, kauai is much more lush than oahu

6:03 pm

by off-island i meant the couples come from elsewhere, destination weddings mostly

6:04 pm

in fact, we're doing a wedding for a couple that lives in England next month

6:06 pm

FranMag Took my son (when he was younger) several times to feed the fish in Hanauma Bay near Diamond Head

6:07 pm

I've never been to Hawaii. I feel very deprived.

6:07 pm

would you believe i haven't been down there Frances? every time we want to go the parking is full!

6:07 pm

me, neither, smithchick :-[

6:07 pm

smithchick It is truly beautiful and each island is so very different

6:07 pm

smithchick, you should come!

6:08 pm

sounds like you're well traveled Frances.

6:09 pm

oh, that plane fare thing...

6:09 pm

I'd love to... Unfortunately, it won't be for a while. All the money is going to go into the new house we're getting ready to build.

6:09 pm

I consider myself very fortunate. I worked for the wonderful (noe defunct) PanAm for twenty years so was able to travel the world

6:09 pm

Frances, did you ever go to Guam? PanAm flew there for many years

6:10 pm

What's really ironic is that my hubby is a pilot. I don't even think he has traveled to Hawaii, though.

6:10 pm

smithchick, after your house is built you'll have to take a vacation

6:10 pm

I've been to Guam! HAH! And while in Guam, we went to Palau for a week and then to the Phillipines for a couple of days.

6:10 pm

lol smithchick! his airline probably doesn't have a route to hawaii

6:11 pm

can ne1 help me with fe8/55?

6:11 pm

No, never got there. Did manage places like Fiji, Samoa and Tahiti in the Pacific

6:11 pm

After my house is built, we'll be living on peanut butter sandwiches until the old house is sold. Hopefully it won't take long.

6:11 pm

Can I get the third letter for the un 8/50 not housed?

6:11 pm

Hubby flies corporate. He spends lots of time in Antigua and St. Croix.

6:12 pm

rexy, it's the plural of fe7/40, has to do with iron

6:12 pm

boa, think of camping shelters

6:12 pm

fe8/55--an iron product -- plural

6:12 pm

See, I was thinking that, I just have not found the right combination of letters. Thanks.

6:13 pm

Frances, when my father was alive and i was very young we traveled a lot, i've also been to Samoa, New Caledonia, Nauru, New Hebrides

6:13 pm

I am still stuck on es8, te7, and de8 meaning rubbish...can you help me a little more? Thanks.

6:13 pm

fe 8/55---fe+double cons+3rd vowel+cross letter+2nd vowel (plural)

6:13 pm

jeewhiz, it's not rubbish, it'

6:13 pm

it's rubble

6:13 pm

Ahhh, got it. Thanks FranMag.

6:14 pm

FranMag That is the one thing I miss about working - the super perks!!!

6:14 pm

jeewhiz, which te7 do you need?

6:14 pm

the one that has something to do with what you do in court. Which de do I use for the rubble? I am totally lost. thanks...:)

6:14 pm

same here Frances, the job i had not too long out of college was a buyer and i went to Italy 5 times

6:15 pm

Hubby used to fly for a company that would let the wives go sometimes when there was room on the plane, so I got to go to Cabo San Lucas a couple of times. When I was young, my father was in the Air Force and we were stationed in Spain for 18 mos. I went on a jewelry buying trip to Acapulco and Taxco Mexico. That is the extent of my travels.I've led a very sheltered life!

6:15 pm

top left DE

6:15 pm

Oh Italy. The shoes, the bags and everything else

6:16 pm

jeewhiz, the te7/48 that has to do with court is what a witness does on the stand, or in church sometimes people do it too

6:16 pm

yes Frances, too bad the job was eliminated in my region!!

6:16 pm

can i et help with un 8/50?

6:16 pm

I'd love to go to Italy...and Paris. Hubby came home from a trip to Paris and informed me that it was overrated. HMPH...I'd like to go and find out that is is overrated my own self!

6:16 pm

Thanks, finally got the te7...I was going the wrong way, had the word, but was blind to finding it...

6:16 pm

Know just how you feel

6:17 pm

te7/48?

6:17 pm

smithchick

6:17 pm

LOL

6:17 pm

Angelsong, that is the one that was just clued for me. Look below.

6:17 pm

jeewhiz, the de8/50 has a latin ending and means rubble like the kind that collects at the bottom of slopes

6:17 pm

there is also a te7/48 that means to scare

6:17 pm

un8/50: un+thing you sleep in when camping+2nd vowel+bad grade in school

6:18 pm

FranMag, because I am still clueless, can you please tell me the third letter? PATY

6:18 pm

Jee - try this

6:18 pm

Okay, I need a dummies clue for the es8 please!

6:18 pm

third letter is S

6:18 pm

dummy's I guess that should be.

6:18 pm

de+3prefix+per***sis (a vaccination kids get)

6:19 pm

have the te7 for court...need the first te7/48

6:19 pm

smith, es8/65 starts with the es5/10 that is a chemical compound and ends like the te7/48s

6:19 pm

adverb of stress angel

6:19 pm

angelsong, to scare horribly

6:19 pm

Thanks again, Fran!

6:19 pm

re 8/60? Anyone?

6:20 pm

smithchick ed8/65 es plus ghe te7/48 but drop one R

6:20 pm

ah ha!! Finally got the de...thanks for all of the coaxing.

6:20 pm

es+cross letter+2nd vowel+re 5/20 minus e

6:20 pm

To be measured for a dress again...(Someone's clue from earlier)

6:20 pm

rexy, to be measured for a dress again

6:21 pm

Got the es...Thanks!

6:21 pm

I got it! Thanx Franmag

6:21 pm

great rexy!

6:21 pm

isn't that just the strangest word smith??

6:22 pm

anyone else need a clue. I am done with nothing to do.

6:22 pm

Very strange! I wouldn't have monkeyed that one...I'm still trying not to use the list.

6:24 pm

For the nu's...I've got nu4x3, nu5, nu6x2 and nu7...What am I missing?

6:24 pm

I guess that many things can be "ified"

6:25 pm

you need another nu5

6:25 pm

smith should be two 5

6:25 pm

2 nu 5's

6:25 pm

smith, do you or your sister scuba dive? is that why you went to palau?

6:25 pm

Thanks...Hey, Alien and musicmom, by the way!

6:26 pm

hey -- i'm kind of in and out but will clue if I see the request

6:26 pm

hi musicmom, there's an et5/14 for you today!

6:27 pm

could I maybe have a clue for the last? de 8 I have the one that means you hate something.

6:27 pm

I saw that Fran --- almost drove myself crazy looking for it too

6:27 pm

I was certified and she got certified after doing a beginner dive. She just wanted to go while they were in close proximity. My mother was there visiting and I got there, then we flew with my sister, her hubby and three kids. Swam in the jellyfish lake, snorkeled, dove, toured, shopped. It was gorgeous!

6:27 pm

My brother-in-law was certified, too. It was beautiful diving!

6:28 pm

yes, it's beautiful. my mother is from Kosrae at the other end of the island chain, it's kind of a unknown destination for divers now

6:29 pm

phandmd, de + syllable sounds like a word for trivial or silly + you and I, objective case

6:29 pm

We pretty much stuck to the beaten path...

6:29 pm

de8/50 means rubble that collects at the bottom of slopes

6:29 pm

hi all by the way

6:29 pm

nrkii!!!

6:29 pm

she's back!!

6:29 pm

smith!!!

6:29 pm

de+cross letter+another way to spell right minus last letter + last vowel +plural letter

6:29 pm

yeah, I went off to do the NY Times sunday puzzles

6:30 pm

you found one then

6:30 pm

Where do you find them at?

6:30 pm

That sounds like fun if I ever finish this...

6:30 pm

I ended up subscribing online, because this is the second time I couldnt find one in my town, and I got aggravated -- plus it's cheaper to get the online subscription

6:30 pm

it used to be in our paper in Guam, but the ones in Hawaii don't have it!!

6:31 pm

nrkii-- since I started babbling I've been neglecting my NY Times Sunday puz-- I miss it!

6:31 pm

when i was single it was part of my Sunday routine

6:31 pm

can't lay around in be any more!! :-(

6:31 pm

having hard time with de's how about the second de7/44 please

6:31 pm

liberabel, it took me till Thursday to get to last week's!

6:32 pm

How much is an online subscription?

6:32 pm

in bed any more

6:32 pm

(because of babble)

6:32 pm

for just the puzzles, one year is $35

6:32 pm

Know what you mean, Fran!

6:32 pm

that's for every day

6:33 pm

speedfreak, appointed, as in sherrif's de****, but past tense

6:33 pm

Hmmm... tightwad hubby probably wouldn't go for that right now. I'll have to conjure up an occasion for a gift!

6:33 pm

you can get a 1 month subscription for like $6 I think, to try it out and see if you'd make use of the full year

6:33 pm

Or wait for him to leave next week!

6:33 pm

nrkii-- last week's --nelected & unfinished...:-|

6:33 pm

de+what you do on the golf course+man's name

6:33 pm

just think of the beautiful home you're going to have smith!

6:33 pm

fran - who is your icon?

6:33 pm

actually, that was a bad clue.

6:34 pm

liberabel, last week's was a nightmare

6:34 pm

musicmom, he is a musician, an accomplished bass player, started with a group, now solo

6:34 pm

funniest part of last week's sunday times puzzle was that I couldn't get the French city name, even though I had the N and the Y and it was MY NAME!!!!!

6:34 pm

how funny nrk!!

6:35 pm

I was so embarrassed for myself

6:35 pm

thx Alien Got It!!!

6:35 pm

He looks like a young Frank McCourt

6:35 pm

music, he does!

6:35 pm

the writer?

6:35 pm

nrkii, they can be maddening until that aha moment! :)

6:36 pm

yes. I just finished reading Teacher Man. Had previously read Tis and Angela's Ashes.

6:36 pm

musicmom, do you want another clue, or do you want me to tell you?

6:36 pm

the only problem I have with the online one is that I really enjoy the paper/ink experience

6:36 pm

I know who FranMag's icon is :|

6:37 pm

music, it's ST 5 / 14

6:37 pm

I'm thinking

6:37 pm

don't tell libarebel!!

6:37 pm

Thanx for the de clue, I was thinking that was the word, but I couldn't find it at first

6:37 pm

of course not, willie!

6:37 pm

and I don't mean the ST 5/14 in today's word list!

6:38 pm

oops :D

6:38 pm

phandmd, when that happens i just type the word, there is no penalty for guessing! or typing the same word over and over again for that matter. ;-)

6:38 pm

no, not willie

6:38 pm

Hmmm...does that mean that there is an st5/14?

6:38 pm

yes smith!

6:39 pm

but it's not the icon fran has

6:39 pm

yes there is smith

6:39 pm

what genre fran?

6:39 pm

Don't tell me the answer yet...

6:39 pm

I'm off to search!

6:39 pm

in the group they played pop/rock, now his style is more jazzy

6:40 pm

one of the marsalis brothers plays in his backup band

6:40 pm

I don't know Stewart Ham?

6:40 pm

no, he goes by one name and it was his nickname when he was little

6:40 pm

okay tell me

6:41 pm

(st 5/14 musicmom)

6:41 pm

it's Sting aka Gordon Sumner

6:42 pm

AHA! I should have known that ---- I could have even come up with is real name.

6:42 pm

AHA! I should have known that ---- I could have even come up with is real name.

6:42 pm

Float like a butterfly, ST 5/14 like a bee!

6:42 pm

float like a butterfly, ***** like a bee-- mohamed ali

6:43 pm

libarebel --- he he!

6:43 pm

wow, nrkii--great minds do think alike lol!

6:43 pm

LOL you guys -- now we are cluing words that aren't in the grid but answer other questions. Serious addictions here

6:43 pm

hey, and I even figured out how many points a G was, even though it's not on the grid!!!

6:44 pm

I know --- impressive<G>

6:44 pm

well, who do you thinkI am? (icon)

6:44 pm

Dang it...Can I get a clue for the st5/14?

6:45 pm

sounds like a short mean nickname for not smart

6:45 pm

smith, it rhymes with the st4/5 up to a door or porch

6:45 pm

I think you're libarebel....

6:45 pm

a dumb person is called a st5/14

6:45 pm

sortof here at the moment, sort of not... hi musicmom...

6:45 pm

but actually means: A hot, wet, often medicated cloth used as a compress

6:45 pm

i know who libarebel is!!

6:45 pm

Well I really hate it when I got it and didn't pay attention to the fact that I had it and keep looking for it!

6:45 pm

hey stid!

6:46 pm

Or something like that...Hey, stid!

6:46 pm

I don't know...

6:46 pm

I know you do, FranMag--maybe we could jam & entertain.

6:46 pm

give her clues libarebel

6:47 pm

Bono

6:47 pm

libarebel's persona today is the one I had confused with Fran's earlier

6:47 pm

I was in a rock band once...

6:47 pm

presently alive libarebel?

6:47 pm

Fireworks!

6:47 pm

Paul McCartney

6:47 pm

I like bono

6:47 pm

we could if you weren't deceased, or do i have the wrong person

6:47 pm

YAY ANGELSONG!!!!!!!!!

6:47 pm

aaaarrrgghhh--paul!

6:47 pm

yay angelsong!!!

6:48 pm

Bravo Angel

6:48 pm

walrus

6:48 pm

YAY, Angel!!1

6:49 pm

ringo?

6:49 pm

yes, Fran-- jamming can happen even if you've passed, I think...

6:49 pm

do we have the right band?

6:49 pm

a fantasy jam session? or creative editing?

6:50 pm

I think I'm cuter than that Starr guy...

6:50 pm

lol, Fran, maybe both :)

6:51 pm

begins w/ 10th letter of alphabet...I thought I was famous!

6:52 pm

John Lennon

6:52 pm

yes, musicmom!

6:52 pm

ok, back, with 47 to go

6:53 pm

Wow, libarebel...you were a lot cuter as a little guy!

6:53 pm

and starting the dreaded REs

6:53 pm

Hey featherbee... still struggling to find 31.

6:53 pm

LOL smith

6:54 pm

hey smithchick :)

6:54 pm

alas, smithchick :)

6:54 pm

I was too lazy to go icon hunting.

6:55 pm

I guess I'll do that now, since I don't seem to be finding any words!

6:55 pm

sorry, had to take a call, a music survey of all things!

6:55 pm

me too smith - I spent my time finding words

6:55 pm

told them my favorite artist was sting of course

6:56 pm

when i have time, i do several day's themes at a time and save them with the date

6:57 pm

with these huge grids i haven't been able to do that!

6:58 pm

the REs aren't toooo bad today featherbee.

6:58 pm

ha, easy for you to say! i hate em

7:00 pm

feather, the funny thing was i found the longest ones first and had to go back later and find the short ones!

7:01 pm

oy vey, i'm missing obvious ones here!

7:01 pm

like the 4/4, i just got now

7:01 pm

sounds like i'm doing the same thing

7:02 pm

brb, have to feed baby

7:03 pm

It's alright feather, I HATE re's!!! :) Do you need help?

7:03 pm

working on my last one...gimme a few minutes, if i don't get it, i'll ask!

this is give me a dolor de la cabeza

7:04 pm

YAY Angelsong!

7:04 pm

Hey stidmama! How are you this evening?

7:06 pm

doing okay -- we are out of water -- something failed in the electric system for our well and the people who can fix it aren't available this weekend (of course).

7:06 pm

ok, re 6/21...i have the one you do with ugly sweaters at christmastime

7:07 pm

rewrap? regift? re re?

7:07 pm

Yikers! Is it in your whole system? i.e., unable to flush toilets?

7:07 pm

feather, sounds like your pe 6/24

7:07 pm

lol, no stid, not regift! you go back to the store and re**** them

7:07 pm

retch?

7:07 pm

lmao

7:07 pm

oh! LOL...

7:08 pm

got it nrkii, ty!

7:08 pm

okay, i'm back, you guys are so funny!

7:08 pm

anyone close enough to race me? i'm at 41

7:09 pm

stid-why do things always fail on holiday weekends? Sounds like a good excuse to check into a luxuxry hotel(-:

7:09 pm

stid, of course it happened on a holiday weekend!

7:09 pm

still have 78 left feather, so no contest

7:10 pm

darn eva. stid??

7:10 pm

if only! but we can use my parents' shower and laundry when we need, they're only a few miles away.

7:10 pm

smithchick may want to, but she went to change her icon

7:10 pm

80 left featherbee -- how about we race to when I get 40?

7:10 pm

and then Eva and I can race also!

7:10 pm

lol, or i can go clean some more and come back, which is probably what i should do anyway

7:11 pm

Hello everyone...

7:11 pm

that would even us out a bit!

7:11 pm

you and eva race, let me know when you get to 40...i'll keep watching the chat as i windex

7:11 pm

Douglas! hi! are you still in Scotland?

7:11 pm

hi douglas

7:12 pm

i'm back in the USA

7:12 pm

I'm going to have to stop for a while-down to 76 now. see you later alligators.

7:12 pm

Okay, sorry I lost you guys... Hubby called (and no, he doesnt have tomorrow off).

7:12 pm

later Eva...

7:12 pm

was scotland fun Douglas?

7:12 pm

punter

7:12 pm

later eva!

7:12 pm

Scotland was wonderful...I have pictures up af Flickr

7:13 pm

seeya eva

7:13 pm

hi douglas!!

7:13 pm

sorry!

7:13 pm

good weather?

7:13 pm

How was the haggis? :)

7:14 pm

They were basically waiting for summer to get on with it. Unseasonably cold and gray.

7:14 pm

I had a plate of haggis, neeps (rutabagas) and tatties (mashed potatoes), with some whiskey and onion gravy (that helped)

7:15 pm

oh, that's too bad. The pics of scotland in nice weather are quite gorgeous...

7:15 pm

nrkii, we whupped the deblogs good!

7:15 pm

which helped? the whisky or the gravy?

7:15 pm

Oooh, sounds yummy! (and I am not being sarcastic!! I loooove haggis!)

7:15 pm

I give up on the icon...I'm not going to change it.

7:16 pm

yes we did douglas!

7:16 pm

Oh, I didn't make that clear...it was gravy, laced with whiskey and onion

7:16 pm

I know what haggis is, but never ate it.

7:16 pm

Either way, it sounds good!

7:16 pm

It does sound good.

7:16 pm

The ultimate testimony to Scottish thrift and frugality!

7:17 pm

my husband is Filipino, we know about thrift and frugality when it comes to food!

7:17 pm

I think the key to haggis is that you don't think too much about what you are eating

7:18 pm

That's true...

7:18 pm

tony bourdain ate it on his chef's tour, it looked good to me!

7:19 pm

I love Filipino food!

7:19 pm

Yeah, Fran, but he also ate raw blowfish as well. LOL I love him as a very down to earth chef, but I don't trust his taste sometimes. :)

7:20 pm

smithchick, what have you tried and where did you try it?

7:20 pm

Mmm, pancit!

7:20 pm

jen, i think the dangers of eating fugu are overrated

7:21 pm

I had some chicken adobo in 2002 in Makati...yum!

i eat chicken adobo at least twice a week

7:21 pm

I've got a good friend who is from the Phillipines and she has cooked for me a few times. Pork adobo, and some noodle stuff whose name I can't remember. She fixed some stuff with tomatoes, cabbage, spinach, onions, pork, and tamarind in it. Yummy!

have it over rice with frech cut green beans

7:21 pm

but, i would still make sure it came from a good source!! the fugu that is

pansit, lumpia

it's all good

7:22 pm

Yeah, Jen...Ponsitt is the way it looks to me.

7:22 pm

I actually don't eat anything raw, as I have an intestinal immune disorder... anything (toxic or not) could be deadly for me.

7:22 pm

But I think that's what it is, pansit. Good stuff!

7:23 pm

today's grid was wonderful, if a trifle redundant...

7:23 pm

i see why the raw fish episode didn't float your boat jen!!

7:23 pm

I've added some new content to the online resource pages, fyi.

7:23 pm

we like adobo, I made some last week. We also enjoy mole (chocolate, of course!)

7:24 pm

Yeah, it kills me to order steak medium in restaurants, but I can't take any chances.

7:24 pm

and the time zone map was great when I needed it a few hours ago! Thanks Angelsong!

7:24 pm

love your resource pages angelsong!

7:24 pm

different kind of adobo stid.

7:25 pm

is it?

7:25 pm

I made mole sauce once and it wasn't all that good, so I stick with getting that out .

7:25 pm

What is pilipino adobo like?

7:25 pm

well, my neck is killing me. I'm gonna have to break out the list.I've still got 31 to find.

7:26 pm

yes, filipino adobo is kind of a stew flavored with vinegar, black pepper, bay leaves and other things depending on where you are from in the phillipines

7:26 pm

I love the citrusy flavor they put in a lot of things.

7:27 pm

Delicious fruit is in abundance in the Phillippines, and sold on every corner

7:27 pm

Latino adobo is definitely not the same kind of seasoning as filipino... both are good though!

7:27 pm

oh -- I see! I would like to try that sometime. There is a pilipino restaurant nearby, I will see if they have it.

if you are talking about geography and the country it's phillippines

7:28 pm

i'm sure they do stid, it's a dish made all over the phillipines

if you are talking about the people and/or culture, it's filipino

:)

7:28 pm

FranMag, I have to ask ... who is your icon?

7:28 pm

i'm going to have to find out why that is smokey

7:29 pm

do you want clues ch1212 or do you want me to just tell you?

7:29 pm

oooh, clues please!

7:29 pm

sorry, filipino. of course.

7:29 pm

Gotta have lumpia stid... it's the filipino version of an eggroll/springroll... out of this world!

7:30 pm

see if they have shrimp sinigang, my son's favorite

if you can get some babinka or "shoopow" both are awesome

7:30 pm

okay ch1212, he is a musician, was part of a band that was big in the 80s, but he records solo now

7:31 pm

okay, will have to do a real restaurant run son, I can tell!

7:31 pm

Hey Fran, just read your profile and you started playing on my 11th wedding anniversay! :) (just thought I'd throw that our there)

7:31 pm

"pilipino' is ok too, stidmama. P and F are pretty much interchangeable in Tagalog.

7:31 pm

Gordon Sumner?

7:31 pm

Ah, thought I recognized that cute grin ... is it Sting?

the shoopow is like a jelly doughnut, but with meat instead of jelly and the donut is more like a roll

7:31 pm

that son should have been soon...

7:31 pm

what's funny is most of the dishes you are all mentioning are adapted from chinese dishes, filipino cuisine is adapted from all over southeast asia

7:31 pm

how many words?

yeah

7:32 pm

269 words today

7:32 pm

and spain from the conquering world domination times

lots of filipinos are of chinese ancestry, and spanish too

7:32 pm

guess ch1212?

7:32 pm

So... FranMag, is it Sting? And I used to live in Hawaii as a young girl, in Kailua on Oahu.

7:32 pm

Hi all, back for a little while, un7/36?

7:33 pm

you got it ch1212!!

7:33 pm

peri, not weary

I lived on Oahu for three years.

Beautiful.

expensive, but beautiful

7:33 pm

periwinkle, un7/36 is when you are not all tuckered out and ready for bed

7:33 pm

can anyone help me with st 8/50? I'm stuck

7:33 pm

we love Kailua ch1212, we drive over there whenever we can

7:33 pm

Thanks, FranMag -- he is one of my all time favorite artists, and humanitarian.

7:33 pm

un7/36, if you aren't ready for bed because you are totally awake, you are un7

7:33 pm

rexy, more strong or stable

7:34 pm

Plus, Sting is just sexy!!! :)

7:34 pm

i think he's the best too!

7:34 pm

Oh yes, the sexy goes along with it too! :)BBL -- must fix dinner

7:35 pm

later ch1212

7:35 pm

Jen and ch1212, thanks, that un7 is really a stupidhead word

7:36 pm

last un6/24 please

7:36 pm

YW, and a lot of the 7s and 8s are stupidhead words today! :)

7:36 pm

peri, before you took off your shoes you UN**** the laces

7:36 pm

How many un6/24's are there?

7:37 pm

peri, you may trip, your laces are un****

7:37 pm

smith, there are 3

7:37 pm

un6/24+ un + pe4/5

7:37 pm

stid, still here?

7:38 pm

Oops, that wasn't the last un6

7:38 pm

nrkii and FranMag, thanks

7:38 pm

yw peri!

7:38 pm

un5/12 please

7:38 pm

Is there only one u4?

7:38 pm

no jen, but that was the two others, so should help anyway!

7:38 pm

yes smith, only 1 U4

7:38 pm

yes smithchick

7:39 pm

Glad it helped someone! lol

7:39 pm

peri, present tense of that un6/24

7:39 pm

I'm trying to hold out, but I may still get the list. I'm waiting for other people to ask for clues I need!

7:40 pm

if it's the ut5/14s you need, one is to say, the other is plural of womb

7:40 pm

smith, is there any tile where you want help, so you don't have to go to the list?

7:40 pm

FranMag, OMG, don't know how I missed that one, un5, thanks

7:40 pm

Thanks, Fran...That was the last u I needed!

7:41 pm

peri, i had to go back and fill in a lot of short words that i had longer forms of!! the long ones were more obvious today i think

7:41 pm

Ask away smith! I finished up a while ago and letting my munchkin watch a Power Rangers marathon for the 2nd time today!! (the things you do when the other parent is out of town lol)

7:41 pm

et 5/14?

7:41 pm

how many left stid?

7:41 pm

Well, I've just got one or two of r's, s's, d's, e's and f's but I need 9 t's.

7:41 pm

french study, used in music, stid

7:42 pm

stid, piece of music written specifically for study

7:42 pm

and that et 5/14 reminds me of a student

7:42 pm

I still have 69... not able to focus very well today

7:42 pm

help with tr7's pleae

7:42 pm

ah yes, piano lessons! ty feather and nrkii!

7:42 pm

that was me yesterday!!

7:42 pm

that's ok! i'll just go ahead then and work on mine

7:42 pm

Me either, stid... infernal headaches!

7:42 pm

only so much windex i can handle you know and not get bored

7:43 pm

If something is cliche', it is tr5/10

7:43 pm

How many tr7's are there? I've got one tr7/28.

7:43 pm

s'ok stidmama...i still have 120 wah!!!!!!!!

7:43 pm

LOL, feather!!

7:43 pm

tr7, if you are sorry, you are contr***, if you're the most sorry, you're the contr*****

7:43 pm

tr7/36 - adverb of tr5/10

7:43 pm

take that, tr5 and make it the most for the tr7

7:43 pm

tr7/28, most tr5/10

7:44 pm

trary

7:44 pm

go cathy, go stid, go feather, go peri!

7:44 pm

cathyar, use tr 5/10 meaning silly or meaningless

7:45 pm

rhymes with opp of day

7:45 pm

ooh, it's quarter to 9, I need dinner I think... bbl

7:46 pm

later nrkii!

7:46 pm

Bye, nrkii!

7:46 pm

Are there more than three e4's?

7:46 pm

later nrk!!

7:46 pm

Enjoy dinner nrkii!

7:47 pm

ok, what am i not seeing? ri 6/33, i know what it HAS to have as the first 4 letters, but am getting nowhere

7:47 pm

bye nrkii

7:47 pm

no smith, that's all of them

7:47 pm

adverb, featherbeee.

7:47 pm

unless i've checked the wrong other ones off...

7:47 pm

does anyone know what the word for I is? Can you help me?

7:47 pm

TY, Fran...Are there more than three e5's?

7:48 pm

yep, checked the wrong ones off! that helped me get it though, thanks

7:48 pm

FranMag, can't figure out the try/36 :(

7:48 pm

i did that featherbee

7:48 pm

feather, ad the most common adverb ending onto the re4/7

7:48 pm

peri, no try today

7:49 pm

I meant tr7/36 :)

7:49 pm

peri, take tr5/10 that means meaningless and add the ending that makes it an adverb

7:49 pm

The i word is past te*** of anger.

7:49 pm

or i+ a color

7:50 pm

FranMag, finally got the tr7/36, thanks

7:50 pm

YAY! Thanx guys

7:50 pm

did you get the tr7/28?

7:51 pm

tks smithchick...that's the only letter i now have all of!!!! ;) lol

7:51 pm

LOL, Cath!

7:51 pm

guess o

7:51 pm

smithchick and shirin, thanks for the i also...

7:51 pm

Need to get my munchikin into night clothes and then bed... Have a great evening all and if I am not on tomorrow, have a safe Memorial Day to all mu other felloe Americans! :)

7:51 pm

superlative form of the same tr5/10

7:51 pm

down to 63 now! LOL

7:51 pm

oops...guess i'm a later bloomer 2day

7:51 pm

night jen!!

7:51 pm

good night Jen, and have a great memorial day.

7:52 pm

lol stid....115 for me.

7:52 pm

night jen

7:52 pm

think i'll give it up 2nite...well...at least for a little bit.

7:52 pm

35 now!

7:52 pm

What about U?

7:52 pm

you can do it cathy! the words are pretty decent today

7:52 pm

I'm missing one e (and a bunch of other letters). I've got three e4's, four e5's, four e6's an e7 and an e8...What am I missing?

7:52 pm

Night, jen!

7:52 pm

Can anyone help me with that?

7:52 pm

later Cathy -- :-)

7:52 pm

go featherbee!!

7:52 pm

pettier

7:52 pm

oops

7:52 pm

sorry

7:53 pm

I cannot figure out the first 2 fe words... (and a lot more obviously)

7:53 pm

150n to go , another break, may be back later

7:53 pm

rexy, it's a type of raincoat or a county in ireland, rhymes with a holder for a gun

7:53 pm

good think it wasn't a word...that'd be 40 lashes!!!!

7:53 pm

later peri!!

7:53 pm

fete

7:53 pm

Bye, peri!

7:53 pm

stid, think an animal like a weasel, spelled differently

7:54 pm

stid, starts out like iron and ends like ri4/4 that means ceremony

7:54 pm

40 lashes, Cath!

7:54 pm

later periwinkle...

7:54 pm

sheesh.... sorry

7:54 pm

lol two completely different clues!

7:54 pm

strike that from the record yer honor pls

7:54 pm

ty Fran!

7:55 pm

keep forgetting to move my cursor from chat to word entry

7:55 pm

and feather -- those were really great clues!

7:55 pm

Will someone please tell me what e I'm missing?

7:55 pm

dr. god might wanna think about a fix for that...dunno what it'd be tho

7:56 pm

do you have an ef4/7?

7:56 pm

Yes, I do...

7:56 pm

ed5/22?

7:56 pm

can someone tell me the clues for Y?

7:57 pm

3 ex words

7:57 pm

Nope, that's what I'm missing. I shall commence the search.

7:57 pm

the day before today without the day

7:57 pm

smith, it has the same ending as the t7s

7:57 pm

if u have the ed 5/22 then u MUST have the ed6/24

7:57 pm

Got it...TY!!!

7:57 pm

Rexy140 All to do with Christmas

7:58 pm

Yer thats the only one i got Dorens

7:58 pm

ok. think christmas

7:58 pm

one, and then multiples

7:58 pm

Rexy140

7:58 pm

I mean three are

7:58 pm

oh i got one. the 4/7 one

7:59 pm

Are all the l's but two le's? I've got an lu and an ly.

7:59 pm

ok, thanx Frances

7:59 pm

the abonimable snowman

8:00 pm

I need an fe 5/18 that comes after the plural French party, and then the last two fe 5s please...

8:00 pm

Makes me think of bad breath, stid...

8:00 pm

Brilliant clue Dorens, thanx for that

8:00 pm

the fe5/18 that is.

8:00 pm

yw

8:00 pm

fe 5/18, unborn baby

8:00 pm

very smelly

8:01 pm

fe 5/20, a fight between clans, but with an extra vowel

8:01 pm

cool, I needed that feather!

8:01 pm

Now I'm only missing one f.

8:02 pm

sorry, my husband called

8:02 pm

thanks, got all three folks!

8:02 pm

smith, do you have the fe4/7 after putrid smell?

8:02 pm

okay, my last f word the fe 7/40?

8:03 pm

like iron?

8:03 pm

Got all my f's finally, Fran.

8:03 pm

singular of the 8/55 stid

8:03 pm

great smith!

8:03 pm

sorry -- I meant the FI 7/40.... grrrr fingner

8:04 pm

Everbody is from America!

8:04 pm

most healthy, able

8:04 pm

i'se a canadian rexy

8:04 pm

L's...I've got three le4's, an le5, two le6's, one lu4, and one ly4.

8:04 pm

one more le4

8:05 pm

another le5

8:05 pm

geeze, how'd i miss the st 4/5????

8:05 pm

Oh yer, thats good, can't have all American! lol

8:05 pm

Could I get a clue for the ul 6 please

8:05 pm

sheila rae, it's a county in ireland or a raincoat, rhymes with a holder for a gun on your belt

8:06 pm

Fran, I'm confused! I'm only missing one l!

8:06 pm

FranMag-thanks, got it!

8:06 pm

sorry, i was counting all the ls, you have all the le4s

8:06 pm

tks fran...stolen clue which was meant for another...

8:06 pm

no Rexy, there are loads of BRitish and Canadian and Australians, as well as people in Africa, Asia, India...

8:06 pm

Okay, TY!

8:06 pm

you still need another le5

8:07 pm

that's what they are there for cathy!!

8:07 pm

Don't worry Cathyar, I'm not American either

8:07 pm

thats cool

8:07 pm

where ya from rexy?

8:08 pm

Australia

8:08 pm

I just got a bunch of large words watching everyone else's clues. That's half the fun.

8:08 pm

(not worried at all....americans are GREAT!!!)

8:08 pm

thank you cathyar! i wasn't sure whether to be insulted or not!

8:10 pm

smith, do you have the le5/14 compound word, when will the rain le***?

8:10 pm

Nope, that's the one...Thanks again!

8:10 pm

well...canada is part of north america...if yer talkin continents...but...hey....we're all human!!!!

8:10 pm

still trying to find the last fi 7, also the final le 5 now...

8:10 pm

having trouble with the top st 7/32

8:10 pm

in babbleland....we are one of a kind :) :) :)

8:11 pm

Past tense of the preceding st4/4 with a double consonant.

8:12 pm

aaah, ty smithchick

8:12 pm

stid, if you have the fi6/27, make it superlative, most f**

8:12 pm

our own private babble island...

8:12 pm

Thanks all, gotta go though. Missing all the good plays by my Suns.

8:12 pm

ty Fran.

8:12 pm

le5/14, just clued it, compound word, allow + opposite of down

8:12 pm

later sheila rae!

8:12 pm

stid, survival of the fi++++++

8:13 pm

guess i better go...or get bk to the puzzle.

8:13 pm

Bye, Sheila!

8:13 pm

get back to the puzzle cathy!

8:13 pm

thanks shirin!

8:13 pm

Bye all. Go SUNS!!!

8:13 pm

later Sheila!

8:14 pm

yw

8:14 pm

hmm, st 8/50?

8:14 pm

st8/50 more stable, or more strong

8:14 pm

Able to hold up better...my kids need st8 shoes for school.

8:15 pm

done with the Ls! 51 to go...

8:15 pm

got it!

8:15 pm

go stid!!

8:15 pm

24 here, home stretch!

8:15 pm

go featherbee!

8:15 pm

good clue smith!

8:16 pm

17 here. Lots of t's! four p's, two d's an r, and an s.

8:16 pm

TY, Fran

8:17 pm

smith, do you have two de4/8s at the beginning?

8:17 pm

I've got one de4/8 at the beginning. The one that goes with the 7/44.

8:18 pm

the other one is de + last part of stereo abbrev. hi-**

8:18 pm

Got it...

8:18 pm

it's before the one you have

8:19 pm

do you have 3 words that relate to appointed ones?

8:19 pm

17 de's, 8 di's, 4 dr's and 10 du's.

8:20 pm

Yes, I've got those three.

8:20 pm

ok, somebody smack me with a fish? i cannot get the first te 4/4

8:20 pm

you have all the des, all the dis, you need one dr

8:20 pm

first pe 7/32?

8:20 pm

The first one I have feather is the plural of the number

8:20 pm

just got it

8:21 pm

featherbee, it's something you use when camping

8:21 pm

there's one before that, it's like someone te*** a secret, but minus one of the double letters

8:21 pm

pe7/32 - writing implement + ending of ul word

8:21 pm

feather, I think what you want is the plural of the unit of the decimal system

8:22 pm

thanks for the help anyway!

8:22 pm

TY, feather!

8:22 pm

hi hetty!

8:22 pm

HI, hetty:)

8:22 pm

hello hetty!

8:23 pm

thanks Fran for the pe. :-)

8:23 pm

yw!

8:24 pm

Is there a dr4? I've got two dr5's, a 6 and a 7.

8:24 pm

Hi, everyone! I'm just starting with a real handicap, having been preaching and cavorting all day so far, But I want you all to know I have introduced a friend to the pleasures of babbling, ad she's even older than I. Look for her on the log--she's jillibeth and she lives near to me on theis beautiful island

8:25 pm

i HATE pe words... how about the pe 5, 6, 7 in the middle of the pack?

8:25 pm

LOL, hetty. You say that as though it is a near impossibility!

8:26 pm

smith, you are missing a dr5

8:26 pm

Good to see your son in the log too,Stid. Now I must knuckle down to finding words. . .

8:26 pm

Jillibeth is a wondeful, fun name. I will definitely hope to see her in the chat log.

8:26 pm

Small without the last vowel, small with the last vowel, and plural. Do you have those stid?

8:26 pm

Ok guys, i have ta go now, catch yas all later! mwah

8:26 pm

TY again, Fran:)

8:26 pm

stid, small in french

8:26 pm

later Rexy

8:26 pm

later rexy!

8:26 pm

Smithchick.let'sjust say not many of us are pushing eighty

8:26 pm

Bye, Rexy

8:27 pm

pass a little french trout please.... argh

8:27 pm

*tossing le pe5/12 trout to stid*

8:28 pm

Just monkeyed the dr5...Whew!

8:28 pm

no, but I am halfway there, hetty! LOL

8:28 pm

*grin* way to go smithchick!

8:28 pm

i was going to clue you smith!! sorry

8:28 pm

This is true, hetty! You are still very young at heart, I suspect!

8:29 pm

me too this year stid!

8:29 pm

It's okay Fran... You've given me most of my last 15 or so:)

8:29 pm

can someone clue me in on the t on the bottom?

8:29 pm

shirin, a king of egypt, plural

8:29 pm

hello hetty :0

8:30 pm

I think I have that one. I am going by the grid and I need a t from the bottom row

8:31 pm

oh, that's what you meant!!

8:31 pm

sorry for the confusion

8:31 pm

Could be the vietnamese celebration, shirin...change the vowel in the king of egypt one.

8:31 pm

give me a second to figure out which one it is

8:32 pm

te4/4

8:32 pm

done with the P words, 42 to go.

8:32 pm

Go stid!

8:33 pm

I'm still missing four pesky p's.

8:33 pm

go stid!!

8:33 pm

theere are six te words that start from there, basic meaning of canvas coverer sleeping facility

8:33 pm

oh crud, 269? i don't think now is the time to start.

8:33 pm

i think that is the one shirin, that smithchick clued

8:33 pm

hi leslie!

8:34 pm

you can probably do it leslie, it's not that awful

8:34 pm

Hey, Leslie!

8:34 pm

I was trying to finish w/o the list, but it is getting too hard. Thanks anyway

8:34 pm

LeslieAnn, if anyone can, you can!

8:35 pm

hrm, i still think i am gonna wuss out. i will see you all at the flip, though!

8:35 pm

leslie....come into the grid....don't be afraid...

8:35 pm

Okay, I've only got five te's that have to do with the canvas.

8:35 pm

(quick exit as to not be sucked in) ;)

8:35 pm

okay, see you later!

8:36 pm

*great sucking sound as LeslieAnn struggles to get feet out*

8:36 pm

Bye, Leslie:)

8:36 pm

later LesliaAnn!

8:36 pm

smith, you probably don't have the 7/28 that can't possibly be a real word, but means more te4/4y

8:37 pm

I have that one...as well as the 4/4, 6/21, 6/18 and 5/10.

8:37 pm

there is another 6/18

8:38 pm

I am down to 39... going out to dinner, will be back later.

8:38 pm

Got it...what a dumb word!

8:38 pm

one who te4/4s and one that sounds like an adjective form of te4/4

8:38 pm

Later, stid!

8:38 pm

later stid!

8:39 pm

bye stid!

8:41 pm

smith, do you have the te6/18 and 7/28 that sounds like what you do with a ticket stub?

8:41 pm

are both de8/50 words from the same root?

8:41 pm

no harjane

8:41 pm

or is the last one a totally different worx?

8:41 pm

Just got them, Fran.

8:41 pm

make that word?

8:42 pm

they have the same first 3 letters that's it

8:42 pm

you're good smithchick!!

8:43 pm

My monkeys are good!

8:43 pm

do you want a clue harpjane?

8:43 pm

1 de 8 is the past tense of de6/21

8:44 pm

thanks, that helps. I

8:45 pm

I'll cogitate a while before I ask for a clue. i only have 9 left so I'm in good shape.

8:45 pm

Good word, harpjane...I like cogitate!

8:46 pm

I'm in & out here --trying to paint a room & babble too :-[]

8:47 pm

I'm down to 10. One r, one s four t's and four p's.

8:47 pm

go smith!

8:47 pm

oh heck, give me a clue!

8:48 pm

de8/50 is another word for rubble

8:48 pm

How come purdier isn't a word...Haven't they been to the south?

8:49 pm

de8/50--rubble, sounds like inflammation

8:49 pm

lol smithchick, i lamented about that earlier!

8:50 pm

yes, we even know purdy in boston...

8:50 pm

smith, there are two p5s that come in between two sets of 6s and 7s, never thought they were real words!

8:51 pm

it's a word, just not in old english or whatever language enable speaks!!

8:51 pm

LOL, Fran!

8:52 pm

thanks!

8:52 pm

yw harpjane, great word, huh?

8:52 pm

Enable speaks limited English, I think...

8:53 pm

Okay, based on your clue Fran, I think I'm missing a p7...I have the one that girls are more of than boys (just ask any mom whose daughter has had a sleepover with more than two girls).

8:54 pm

i hate the Ts

8:54 pm

It's a pe7/32...the third one that I have.

8:54 pm

too many bleepin choices

8:54 pm

Well, that's the one I have, I mean.

8:55 pm

I'm with you, feather...

8:56 pm

smith do you have the pu7/36 that is something you do during construction?

8:56 pm

hi pepz

8:56 pm

Yes...I've got a pe7/32, pe7/32, pe7/32, pu7/40 and pu7/36.

8:57 pm

those are all the p7s

8:57 pm

shut up

8:58 pm

Hmmm... Well darn.

8:58 pm

ti 6/27?

8:58 pm

hi freckle

8:58 pm

Yeah, what featherbee said:)

8:58 pm

lol smith

8:59 pm

now that's a strange word, ti+t+what dogs are covered with, but change the vowel

8:59 pm

sounds like the lead-in for a bad dirty joke!!

9:00 pm

lol, got it fran, and you're right!

9:00 pm

what's a ti****?

9:00 pm

TY!

9:00 pm

that was my set-up for the joke, btw, not a real question!

9:00 pm

problem is, i can't think of the punch line!

That ti is slang for a hat

9:00 pm

ed's HELP!!

9:00 pm

What, feather?

9:00 pm

thanks angus!

9:01 pm

"Q-what's a ti****?" "A-some smart mouth reply"

9:01 pm

I have four r7's. Is that right?

9:01 pm

jacula told me that earlier also, didn't think you and smith would know it though!

9:01 pm

just can't think of the reply

9:02 pm

yes smith, 4 r7s

9:02 pm

Are there also 4 s7's?

9:03 pm

yes smith

9:03 pm

Wow I just got fireworks. The first time I've finished a grid without lists and it is three in the morning! Time for beddy byes. Nite all

9:04 pm

That means my missing 7 is a t. YAY, Frances!!!

9:04 pm

yay frances!!! good night

9:04 pm

Night, Frances...congrats on no list!

9:04 pm

9 T7s

9:04 pm

have a tr 7/28 at the bottom of the list smith?

9:05 pm

Thanks smith. It was a long haul

9:05 pm

I do...I have two tr7's.

9:05 pm

tu7?

9:05 pm

I know what you mean, Frances. I'm down to 6 but without help, I wouldn't be able to do it.

9:06 pm

that tu 7/44 is more tu 4/8

9:06 pm

Yes, I have tu7/44.

9:06 pm

must be a te7 then

9:06 pm

te7/28?

9:06 pm

It is from the t right in the middle of the grid.

9:06 pm

te 7/28...more snippy

9:07 pm

te 7/48, do in a court

9:07 pm

It was the more snippy...TY feather!

9:07 pm

yay!

9:08 pm

what else smith?

9:08 pm

Are there any pn words?

9:08 pm

no

9:09 pm

I've got one four letter word, one five letter word, and three six letter words. A p, an r, an s, and two t's.

9:09 pm

do you have the pu4/6, virginal but change last vowel?

9:10 pm

tr 7/28 please?

9:10 pm

Yes, I do...

9:10 pm

tr7/28, most tr5/10

9:10 pm

tr7/28 the most tr5/10.

9:11 pm

how many p7s do you have again?

9:11 pm

I've got all my 7's. I have 18 t4's. Am I missing one?

9:11 pm

which 5/10? there are 3

9:12 pm

The last one, feather

9:12 pm

gaahhhhh.....

9:12 pm

I have six p6's.

9:12 pm

you have all the t4s

9:12 pm

Is that a good gaahhhh or a bad gaahhhh?

9:13 pm

bad gaaaaahhhh

9:13 pm

lol

9:13 pm

you need a p6

9:14 pm

it works me into a corner, i can't pluralize it or use the "more" ending

9:14 pm

14 r4's.

9:14 pm

The most ending, feather

9:14 pm

feather, start with t on the far left

9:14 pm

Hiya everyone.

9:14 pm

Hey, Jacula!

9:14 pm

i am...gahh

9:14 pm

hi jacula!

9:15 pm

Feather - that tr word you seek, it means the most over-used.

9:15 pm

you have all the r4s

9:15 pm

ok, i must be looking in a rut...starting fresh, from...now!

9:15 pm

Then I'm missing an s4, I guess.

9:16 pm

got it, wasn't thinking of that ending combo, was using the other more common one in this grid

9:16 pm

13 s4s

9:16 pm

I'm here to clue. Can't sleep; damned nightsweats! It's my age, you know! LOL.

9:17 pm

Well done, featherbee.

9:18 pm

Yay, feather:)

9:18 pm

two se4s

9:18 pm

one sl4, one sn4

9:18 pm

Anyone who needs an s4 needs to be a little more specific...

9:18 pm

6 st4s

9:19 pm

Is that a clue, Jac?

9:19 pm

i'm listing them for smithchick

9:19 pm

3 su4s

9:19 pm

she thought i was asking for clues smithchick

9:20 pm

a su** of clothes, to start...

9:20 pm

sl4 - rhymes with something that sticks stuff. Sounds like past tense sl word (not in this grid) meaning 'killed'.

9:21 pm

Well, I have all those. Curioser and curioser.

9:21 pm

Ah! I see a list is being made. Let me know if help is needed.

9:21 pm

Jac, I commiserate about the hot you-know-whats. Once they're over the good times will begin, I ptomise. Could you kindly clue me for the di4/5 and the di5/12?Darned if I can see them on the grid

9:21 pm

my eyes are probably crossed and i'm not counting correctly smith!!

9:21 pm

ul 6/21?

9:22 pm

ul 6/21 is a county in ireland or a raincoat, rhymes with gun holder

9:22 pm

ul6 like the irish city

9:22 pm

Dang. I don't know which 4 I'm missing. I'll save it for last.

9:22 pm

I'm going to work on my missing p6.

9:22 pm

Hetty - my Mum's in her 70s and they still haven't stopped, and a friend of hers who is 84 still has the dratted things!:-(( Mine only started about 2 days after my 49th b/day last month.

9:22 pm

i'm blanking on any irish cities right now

9:23 pm

i think it's a t4 smith, do you have 3 T4s at the beginning of your Ts?

9:23 pm

Hetty - 1st di4/5 & corresponding 5/12 have to do with losing weight.

9:23 pm

Yes, I do. I'll count them again.

9:24 pm

jac-mine started about 15 years ago! The herb black cohosh, has been very helpful. But I sure know what you mean about the slsseep disruption.

9:25 pm

Featherbee - for the ul word, think of a painful stomach sore and change the middle letters a little. Sounds a bit the same. The real word is a man's overcoat + another name for N. Ireland.

9:25 pm

Feather, UL + what you do with the spoon when you add sugar to your drink

9:25 pm

feather, remember the copier room guy from saturday night live? he made stupid nicknames for people...the ultinator, the ulman, the ul**** first star is an ess

9:25 pm

Eva - I am trying the herbs etc., when I remember to take them.

9:25 pm

I've got 18 t4's. 13 s4's. 14 r4's and 10 p4's.

9:26 pm

Jac, I have those. it's the second pair I'm missing--before the third letters become r's and t's

9:26 pm

the black cohosh can take a few weeks to reach maximum helpfulness

9:26 pm

got it! the copy meister! that did it for me

9:26 pm

and that was my final one, yay!

9:26 pm

YAY FEATHER!!!!!

9:26 pm

way to go feather

9:26 pm

yay feather!!

9:26 pm

WooHoo, featherbee!!!

9:27 pm

I thought was too old to awake sweating like a sumo wrestler in the desert wearing a wetsuit...

9:27 pm

Hetty - 2nd set of related di4 & 5 are terrible, dreadful, calamitous!

9:27 pm

Hetty, think di** consequences!

9:27 pm

ROFL, Liba!!!

9:27 pm

libarebel-I'm 56! Enough already!

9:27 pm

:OD, smith!

9:28 pm

me 56, too!

9:28 pm

for the life of me I cannot find the tu7. Does it really exist?

9:28 pm

Well, from all the sweaty ladies here I would imagine a deodorant seller could make a fortune, as could an air-conditioning salesman or a portable fan seller. LOL.

9:28 pm

It is furrier, Eva.

9:28 pm

i keep coming up with the same numbers as you smith!! my eyes must be crossed!

9:29 pm

tu7 a tu of cloud, but even more so

9:29 pm

Eva - tu7/44 = more tu48 (like a squirrel's tail).

9:29 pm

or blankets that automatically remove themselves, hover above the bed for 5 minutes and then come back

9:29 pm

Having more hair sticking out here and there.

9:29 pm

I have those too. Help, here we go again. I have 4 wotds (3 4's and a 5) whichbegin with r or t after the di. And, Eva, take your tu4/8 and make it more (don' forget the intervenig third vowel)

9:29 pm

thanks!

9:30 pm

I've refreshed and everything. I think I should probably just get the list out.

9:30 pm

LOL, re the blankets or duvets, Eva. My o/h thinks I've gone mad; one minute I'm cold and snuggling up, next minute the duvet's flung back and I'm fighting his loving embrace away.

9:30 pm

smith, what are you stuck on?

9:30 pm

dute

9:31 pm

oops

9:32 pm

I'm missing a four, a five, and three 6's. An r, a p, an s and two t's.

9:32 pm

My ob/gyn has assured me I am unlikely to be the first woman in history to never reach menopause. I'm not so sure anymore.

9:32 pm

Hello, Jacula-- yep, the sweats & chills

9:32 pm

Hetty. Next di4/5 is filthy. The one after that, wit a related 5/12 is to prepare for action (but sounds like French for 'speak')..

9:33 pm

there are 22 tes

9:33 pm

8 tis

9:33 pm

I didn't get the big M until I was 54... lots of luck!

9:33 pm

there are two strange P 5 words that end with me/myself/* - have those?

9:33 pm

9 trs

9:33 pm

and 10 tus

9:33 pm

Hello Libarebel. I seemed to have touched a common nerve here with we ladies.

9:34 pm

liba-I'm already 2 years past that! Slowing down a lot, but not done.

9:34 pm

indee, jacula, lolol :-[]

9:34 pm

I give up. I have the french-sounding sing and pl. The "filthy" clue doesn't twig for me--I have the 4-letter word that rhymes with"tire"

9:35 pm

hetty, do you have the "giving up food to lose weight" ones?

9:35 pm

12 pes 15 pus

9:35 pm

well, Eva, maybe don't get pregnant... :-D

9:35 pm

Why can't we just have the same 'problems' as menopausal men? Bad dress sense, silly medallions, a roving eye, an open-topped fast car etc? LOL.

9:36 pm

ROFL Jac!!

9:36 pm

Thanks, nrkii, I do. They are at the top in Licketyd lst. I'm missing 3 and 4in that list

9:36 pm

bite your tongue liba!

9:36 pm

19 re 13 ri 9ru

9:36 pm

Well, the p I'm missing is a pu.

9:36 pm

Got all the dang r's finally.

9:36 pm

I second that, Jacula!

9:37 pm

I'm missing two te's.

9:37 pm

I have no idea what s I'm missing.

9:37 pm

ouch, Eva :-[]

9:37 pm

5 se 1 sl 1 sn 17 st 8 su

9:37 pm

Hetty - the filthy one is soil, or what you need to clean your house to remove.

9:38 pm

It's an se. Okay... I have two se4's, an se6 and an se8.

9:38 pm

okay, so the list goes like this hetty: giving up food, plural, rhymes with tire, more of that one, what you get under your nails when you garden without gloves, giving up food with letters transposed at end, plural, drop the e.

9:38 pm

6 te4s 3 te5s 6 te6s

9:38 pm

Who wanted a pu word? How long was the word?

9:38 pm

smith, do you have the te that rhymes with what you write to a friend and mail?

9:39 pm

I think it is pu6, Jacula.

9:39 pm

okay-speaking of sleep disturbances,time to go to sleep so that I can still get some before waking up at 4;15 or whatevr ungodly hour my body decides is enough.

9:39 pm

I have three pu6's.

9:39 pm

or the te that rhymes with the little sleek animals people sometimes have as pets

9:39 pm

Yes, I have that one, nrkii.

9:39 pm

missing se 5/14 smith

9:39 pm

night eva

9:39 pm

Bye, Eva

9:39 pm

pu6/39 - cleanse

9:39 pm

se 5/14 is a compound word

9:39 pm

brb, have to give baby a bottle

9:40 pm

Thanks Jac. I suddenly saw it. Onc agai nI have the filled in wordsin the wroing place on my list. All O'K' now, thanks all

190 to go and I'm falling asleep, might as well give up on this one

9:40 pm

Whew, got the se!

9:40 pm

pu6/27 - went along in a one-poled boat (a pu4/6)

I'll finish one one day

Night night

9:41 pm

Night, angus!

9:41 pm

pu6s: did to a football, do to water, did with a golf ball, thing you use to do to a golf ball

9:41 pm

You will, angus_prune! You will!

9:41 pm

alternate for pu 6/27, past tense of hit the golf ball on the green

9:41 pm

pu6/27 - hit a golf ball.

9:41 pm

Also got the pu!

9:42 pm

pu6/24 - one who hits a golf ball.

9:42 pm

Down to the two t's. A six and a four.

9:42 pm

ty, Jacula & nrkii

9:42 pm

Eva - Sleep as well as you can. Sweet (not sweat) dreams!

9:43 pm

"thing you use to do to a golf ball" i assume that isn't a clue for shot the bloody things into any body of water within sight?

9:43 pm

TY, TY!

9:43 pm

lolol, Jacula!

9:43 pm

elmer, there are 6 te4s and 6 te6s, do you have them?

9:43 pm

thanks Jacula! You too.

9:43 pm

I'll be needing a great big fish for the te4/4 that I was missing.

9:43 pm

But, Eva, sweet, dry dreams ;-)

9:43 pm

lol bonkler and smith

9:44 pm

night libarebel

9:44 pm

so where are we now smith?

9:44 pm

Not the te 6

9:44 pm

Bonkler - Oh dear! You sound like just the same kind of golfer as myself.

9:44 pm

However. I discovered at 18 that I was that kind of golfer, so have not played since.

9:44 pm

I have one more...a te6.

9:45 pm

I don't even play putt-putt well!

9:45 pm

i have a magical ability to make golf balls seek water. even if there is only one puddle on a fairway, my second shot will find a way to spray me or require scuba assistance.

9:45 pm

TE 6 ... how about the diminutive name or cute nickname for what you use as shelter when camping

9:45 pm

LOL, bonkler!

9:46 pm

Bonkler - can you video that for us?:-))))))))

9:46 pm

te6, did when camping (teepee), person who does this when camping, adj describing the teepee?, one that sounds like another word for weasel, got quizzed, one like good, be***, best, but with an L

9:46 pm

Yes, I think I have all the canvas ones.

9:46 pm

oops, my last one, substitute T instead of L!

9:46 pm

te7/48

9:47 pm

libarebel, to be a witness in court

9:47 pm

Finally fireworks!!!Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

9:47 pm

or to scare the pants off

9:47 pm

yay!!!!!!!!

9:47 pm

YAY SMITH!!!!

9:47 pm

(which one was your last?)

9:47 pm

te 7/48, to scare a lot, or there's another, to do in court

9:47 pm

um, te7/48--to state in a court of law

9:47 pm

I need much fish-slapping for my last two te words.

9:47 pm

help!!! un8,50

9:48 pm

The quiz and to be quizzed ones.

9:48 pm

HA!

9:48 pm

un + te 6/21

9:48 pm

karob, without shelters at campsite

9:48 pm

yup, nrkii--I was trying to clue (lamely) :)

9:48 pm

un8/50 - a stupid word meaning your camping cover has gone, you have been un******!

9:48 pm

I'm challenged today, it appears. But at least I'm not suffering hot flashes!!

9:49 pm

amen smith

9:49 pm

love those campsite shelters, lol

9:50 pm

It's blowing a gale outside, your canvas cover has finally uprooted itself from the pegs and ropes nd you are lying there shivering and wet in your sleeping bag. LOL. Sorry! Real-life experience made me type too much.

9:50 pm

Can I help anybody before I go to bed with my patient hubby whose race ended long ago?

9:50 pm

LOL, Jacula...Been there, done that!

9:50 pm

Erm.. Smithchick... how can we help you with your hubby?

9:51 pm

What's especially fun is when it blows away and you have to run through the rain chasing it!

9:51 pm

yay smithchick, i see everything got sorted out!

9:51 pm

Smithchick - misread your last post. You want to help not us to help you.

9:51 pm

You can't help with my hubby...Sorry Jac, I just don't swing that way!!

9:52 pm

I can handle him all by myself!

9:52 pm

maybe i could help with hubby, mines riden his cycle to AK

9:52 pm

LOL, Jac.

9:52 pm

Smithchick - re the rain and wind thing re canvas shelters... I almost got carried away over the Welsh mountains trying to hold one down to fold it.

9:52 pm

can i have a clue for the 63 words i need...lol

9:52 pm

un8/50de--tepeed

9:52 pm

Hey, karob...where are you in AR?

9:53 pm

HEE HEE, Jacula!

9:53 pm

Bonkler - you may have to be a little mroe specific there...

9:53 pm

SW, near TX

9:53 pm

lol bonk!

9:53 pm

gotta refresh

9:53 pm

bonkler, they all have at least 4 letters

9:54 pm

I went to college at HSU...Now I'm in central AR

9:54 pm

LR???

9:54 pm

jeez. i was hoping somebody might have a really good clue. like that, thanks nrkii!

9:54 pm

No, Dover.

9:54 pm

I had to think for a solid 2 minutes before I could come up with something really helpful for you bonk.

9:55 pm

have been there, dont 'member where it is tho

9:55 pm

lol, buncha smarta**es

9:55 pm

Close to Russellville.

9:55 pm

LOL, feather

9:55 pm

i've hit the so tired i'm goofy stage. soon to bed

9:56 pm

me too, bonkler.

9:56 pm

i'm gone too, see you all tomorrow

9:56 pm

night folkses

9:56 pm

night smith, night feather

9:56 pm

bonkler, good night!

9:57 pm

NIght bonkler and featherbee!

9:57 pm

Are you trying to get rid of me nrkii?

9:57 pm

Is it cause I ask for too many clues?

9:58 pm

I'm still here. Not sure who else is though.

9:58 pm

yes, exactly (sorry, thought you just threatened twice to leave us, and didn't want to miss the opportunity to say good night)

9:58 pm

:)

9:58 pm

Went off to chat to my son and then came back and saw lots of goodbyes.

9:58 pm

clue plz.... ur 4/5 ???

9:59 pm

who wants to play... cheer hurshy up

9:59 pm

karob, what you keep ashes in

9:59 pm

I DO!

9:59 pm

ur4/5 - large vases or receptacles for human ashes.

9:59 pm

I DO!

9:59 pm

whats up hursh?

9:59 pm

jac - that's not going to cut it...

9:59 pm

Hey hursh...CHEER UP!!!

9:59 pm

fruit jar??? i'm from AR

9:59 pm

Oh, Hursh! You're not still playing the guess which words I need game, are you?

9:59 pm

ooh, I stuttered -- I see folks do that time to time, and this is my first time

10:00 pm

LOL!

10:00 pm

nothing is up. everything is way way down, that is why i need cheering up

10:00 pm

Oh, and hi everyone

10:00 pm

I like to threaten several times before I actually leave, nrkii...

10:00 pm

no jac, i was just saying that things about dead people's ashes are not very cheering.

10:00 pm

I'm still here

10:00 pm

smith, good to give folks lots of warning so they're prepared!

10:00 pm

hurshy, how can we help?

10:00 pm

the menu includes:

10:01 pm

supportive

10:01 pm

can i talk to huby??? did i mention mine has been gone 2 wks??/

10:01 pm

supportive silly

10:01 pm

i dunno - it's just nice to see you all and have company.

10:01 pm

I stuttered again!

10:01 pm

silly would be good :)

10:01 pm

Mine leaves for two weeks every two weeks.

10:01 pm

hurshy, lift up your sweet head.

10:01 pm

see, that's hetty being supportive

10:01 pm

supportive is good too.

10:01 pm

where does he go??

10:01 pm

hi, hurshy

10:02 pm

silly is a tough order, may take the chefs some time to fully prepare

10:02 pm

hi libarebel - you went back to being a girl?

10:02 pm

hurshy did you hear my litany of all the folks who showed up for my fire situation last night?

10:02 pm

oh, well, i'll eat anything, don't go to any trouble :)

10:02 pm

fire situation?

10:02 pm

I can't remember who was online for the saga

10:02 pm

hey all

10:03 pm

Hursh - actually, that things about dead people's ashes not being cheering isn't always true. My Mum and I watched a thing called Booze Cruise III on TV the other night... all about a group of people journeying to scatter someone's mother's ashes. It ws hilarious. Hursh - it's not so long since my Dad died. I'll tell you a story about that and his ashes in a moment.

10:03 pm

yes, hurshy, i agreed w/you!

10:03 pm

my carbon monoxide detector went off last night, interrupting a perfectly lovely session of babble

10:03 pm

well nrkii, i've been offline for 7 hours (a record for non-sleeping time for me)

10:03 pm

Hmm..--maybe a joke, hurshy?

10:04 pm

after some internal debate and a quick phone call to mom for a sanity check and kick in the ar**, I called the fire department

10:04 pm

but you didn't feel pressured, libarebel, i hope

10:04 pm

they sent:

10:04 pm

karob, he goes to work out of state.

10:04 pm

i will take a joke (oooohh go on nrkii)

10:04 pm

3 cars, flashing lights (2 cute cops plus 1 fireman)

10:04 pm

Will it cheer you to help an old lady find a few de's? I don't have a joke' I'm afraid. Not even about ashes

10:04 pm

2 fire trucks (another 6 or 7 firemen)

10:04 pm

!!

10:04 pm

and ...

10:04 pm

Ooh, cute cops are always good nrkii!

10:05 pm

the YOUTH RESCUE SQUAD!!!

10:05 pm

!!!!

10:05 pm

my hubby rides from AR to AK once a yr to meet friends

10:05 pm

nrkii! What have you been up to?!

10:05 pm

sure hetty, i can help with your de's, do you have all the barney fife ones? (3)

10:05 pm

hursh, you're crackin' me up!

10:05 pm

at least 20 of my neighbors came out to their porches and sidewalks to watch the show

10:05 pm

did you hear about the grilled cheese sandwich that went into a bar and ordered a beer?

10:05 pm

it was about 11 PM when this started

10:05 pm

In the Booze Cruise tv programme, a lady said to her hubby (who had never liked her mother), 'You brought Mother's ashes home in a CARRIER BAG? ON THE BUS?' This reminded me of my Mum going off without telling me to get my Dad's ashes from the local undertaker's...

10:05 pm

hetty... just read your profile... where in England are your relations?

10:05 pm

A good time was had by all, nrkii!

10:06 pm

At home in her bed, cathy...

10:06 pm

and about 11:45 or even later when they finally left

10:06 pm

karob, i grew up in AR

10:06 pm

ha

10:06 pm

Sorry, it's the loopiness that bonkler was talking about.

10:06 pm

that was joke/riddle for hurshy

10:06 pm

no, libarebel...what happened coolness nrkii!! jac - my probs don't begin to compare to yours, ((hug))

10:06 pm

which part of AR?

10:06 pm

Ping, where in AR?

10:06 pm

My father always called me Ann Miller when I was a kid, because every time I told a story, I made a big production out of it. This was my masterpiece of big productions.

10:06 pm

wynne

10:07 pm

northeast corner, near memphis

10:07 pm

it was very well done nrkii

10:07 pm

i do know where that is... where r u now?

10:07 pm

the bartender said "we don't serve food here"...

10:07 pm

houston, tx ... you?

10:07 pm

hahahahhahahahahaha

10:07 pm

long story short, no carbon monoxide issues, but I should call them again if the alarm goes off again (not bloody likely)

10:07 pm

Well, we've got sw represented, central represented, and ne represented!

10:07 pm

You pals sure know how to make a canuck feel stupid. I don't know who barnet fife is when he's at hoem. And I was born in England close to Jac's home in Worcestershire. Oh saucy Worcester!

10:07 pm

15 mi. N of Txkna

10:08 pm

lol...

10:08 pm

lol nrkii, really, that is all very funny, and you said you didn't have a joke

10:08 pm

'Will you walk a little faster?' said a whiting to a snail./'There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail.

10:08 pm

is that silly enough to dd any good?

10:08 pm

well when the sheriff needs to make someone he has to de6/27 them

10:08 pm

(what's a whiting)

10:08 pm

Mum brought Dad's ashes home in her shopping bag with a loaf atop. (Well, she needed a loaf and he always did like a slice of bread with his gravy.) However, on he way home (when her arms were acheing and he was thinking, 'He was never this heavy in life!') someone stopped her and asked, 'How's your husband?' It's a small village we live in, most folks knew he'd been in the last stages of senile dementia & Parkinson's Disease for a while.

10:09 pm

Well, this time I mean it...I have to go...hubby will mope otherwise. Night all...Be happy, hursh!

10:09 pm

Anyway, Hursh, the de's I don't have are de6/27, de7/44, and de7/40-the ones lower in the list

10:09 pm

termite walks into a bar...says, "is the bar tender here?" Get it? bar...tender...termite eats wood? :) Doesn't work as well written

10:09 pm

hi mab!!! how are you? how are things going? should i get on chat (i'm at my parents, i was going to download it tomorrow but i can do it now if you want)

10:09 pm

the good news for me is that I got to chat with two very attractive law enforcement officials, and spend some quality time with my neighbors too!

10:09 pm

yeah hetty that is what i was cluing you...see i gave you another clue there...

10:09 pm

wassup, that is very funny in a very stupid way!!!

10:10 pm

lolol, wassup! :-D

10:10 pm

Girl walks into a bar and asks for a double entendre. So the bartender gives it to her.

10:10 pm

lol wassup, i like all kinds of humor except crass, so i appreciate such punnishness

10:10 pm

exactly! I'm full of 'em!

10:10 pm

:-)

10:10 pm

ohhhhhh

10:10 pm

well, then there's the horse that walks into the bar...

10:10 pm

Anyway, my Mum resisted the urge to reply to Dad's wellwisher, 'He's in here!'

10:10 pm

3 legged dog walks into a saloon and says "I'm looking for the man who shot my paw..."

10:11 pm

My favorite is always the tiny pianist.

10:11 pm

jfarber, I've been waiting for you to come back online!!!

10:11 pm

and the bartender asks...

10:11 pm

that is a funny story, jacula

10:11 pm

((((jac))))

10:11 pm

LOL. Back after a long trip north to see the inlaws. Got trapped in a streetful of morris dancers.

10:11 pm

We Still don't know whether we should laugh or cry over that story, but we laugh because we know my Dad would have found it hilarious.

10:11 pm

(((mrkii)))

10:11 pm

"why the long face" --lolol :OD

10:11 pm

Good evening, all. How about, a man walked into a bar and said, "Ouch!"

10:11 pm

love it janiece

10:12 pm

jfarber, I grew up in Springfield MA!

10:12 pm

you're in Monson?

10:12 pm

haha liba

10:12 pm

Monson -- middle of nowhere.

10:12 pm

jac, that is the best sad/funny story I've heard

10:12 pm

And I teach middle school in wilbraham -- home of Friendly's.

10:12 pm

jfarber, What were the morris dancers doing? Celebrating ascensiontide?

10:12 pm

hilarious, all & TY!

10:12 pm

hilarious, all!

10:12 pm

i like that bush there jfarber

10:13 pm

Thanks, Wassup. Unfortunately, I've got a million of 'em!

10:13 pm

I'm very very familiar with Wilbraham -- nieces and nephews there

10:13 pm

Not sure, actually -- mostly hopping up and down, jingling (Ithose ankle bells), and saying ":whoop!"

10:13 pm

jfarber, I am in easthampton and I can almost see nowhere from here.

10:13 pm

and grew up 2 miles from Wilbraham, in Sixteen Acres section of Springfield

10:13 pm

Ah, the famous friendly's bush.

10:13 pm

me too, my dad is the jokemaster (self proclaimed). He starts out all of his jokes with "true story". That's how I know it's not

10:13 pm

you mean the sign on the Turnpike?

10:13 pm

you know the great barrington one? my husband is a packer fan so he likes that.

10:14 pm

finally done, need any clues

10:14 pm

Nowhere is where we live, indeed -- cows live across the street, we abut dam land (all that Damn land!), and the other day we found baby turtles in our yard.

10:14 pm

nrkii - You have to find the black humour in life/death - it's the only way to survive all the sh4/5 it throws at you.

10:14 pm

Yeah, that bush, I assume.

10:14 pm

my dad's stories don't start with anything particular but they all end with "gangrene sets in, off comes the leg"

10:14 pm

wassup--lolol

10:14 pm

laughter through tears is often the best laughter Jac

10:14 pm

odd dad, Hursh.

10:14 pm

oooh! baby turtles!!!!! how cute!

10:14 pm

yes :)

10:15 pm

nrkii your fire story reminds me of a fire story of mine from college...

10:15 pm

They were quarter sized. Neat wee things.

10:15 pm

LOL Hurshy. My dad always says "back in the navy". He never served in any military...

10:15 pm

jfarber,where were the morris dancers?

10:15 pm

Hursh - re the life stories thing.. there's no competition. No one's story compares to another's exactly, but what happens to each person affects them no less.xxx

10:15 pm

Nature lives here. We just visit the ONE bar in town -- Lady Sally's Salloon, which says it all, really.

10:15 pm

do tell hursh

10:15 pm

This is all reminding me of my own dad, who used to say when his spine was hurting he thought he'd have to have it out

10:16 pm

oh come on, Monson's not THAT small!!!

10:16 pm

8k people in a town most people never see? Literally, one bar.

10:16 pm

BUT -- written in capital letters & turned upsidedown, MONSON spells NO SNOW.

10:17 pm

wow, i live in a city with 10 thousand more people... :)

10:17 pm

well my sophomore year i woke up one night, and wasn't sure why i'd woken up. i pulled back the curtain and looked out and saw fire trucks and flashing lights. thought nothing of it, fell back asleep. next thing i know a fireman in full gear is busting my door in yelling "what's the matter with you? didn't you hear the alarm? get out of here!" (i believe it was merely one of the burnt micro popcorn fires as it turned out, so he was really being overdramatic i think)

10:17 pm

LOL jfarber

hi babblers! : )

10:18 pm

my father tells this great story about his grandfather, a Scot and a drunk, who had a glass eye. Old Jim Frazer used to go pick fights at the local bars in Hartford CT, and when the other guy would say, "let's step outside" he'd answer, "give me just a second" and he'd pop out his fake eye and put it on the bar!!!!

10:18 pm

Unfortunately, it does snow here.

10:18 pm

clue plz, 1st, te 4/4 ???

10:18 pm

Hursh - you had a fireman full of adrenalin and in full uniform in your room and you just told him not to be a drama queen??

10:18 pm

but jfarber... if you write that in footprints in the snow... the space-time continuum might be in danger

10:18 pm

Hursh, we used to just turn up the stereo very loud whenever the fire alarm went off in our dorm.

10:19 pm

jac - i didn't tell him anything, he scared me half to death! i meekly got up and left the building.

10:19 pm

Hursh-- you were scantily clad w/ a firman in your room?

10:19 pm

The only good story I ever got out of my father was about him acing the sharpshooter badge training so he could get a 3 day pass to make the stones concert in NYC.

10:19 pm

nah, i wear t-shirts and shorts to bed.

10:19 pm

easthampton upside down says 'help! I'm a city person and I've got to get out of here!'

10:19 pm

Hursh - But you are older and wiser now, should such an event occur again? LOL.

10:19 pm

Only if you stand on your head, hurshy

10:19 pm

ooh, lala! :-D

10:19 pm

LOL, mab.

10:20 pm

I like easthampton. Pretty old mills, good barbecue, and a great fish joint.

10:20 pm

te 4/4 things that give away your poker hand, minus one of the double consonant

10:20 pm

nrkii, that reminds me of when I got home to the dorms one morning after having snuck out the night before to hang out with my boyfriend (christian college) to discover all the rooms empty with alarm clocks going off everywhere. No one was in sight. There had been an electrical fire in the basement and the dorm had been evacuated. I thought...rapture...

10:20 pm

And, um...that's where the annual beer festival is, isn't it?

10:20 pm

Great Grandpa Jim Frazer used to also play the numbers game .. .and when he'd stumble home drunk and without money, my great grandma would give him a piece of her mind. At which point, he'd put up his index finger, weave back and forth, and say, "When I win my 10,000 dollars, you're not going to get one G** D**ned cent.... well... maybe I'll give you a buck."

10:20 pm

no shortage of cocktail spots in easthampton

10:21 pm

Oh yea! Clues! I came here to give them. Not my fault I got distracted by black humour and fully-loaded firemen.;-/

10:21 pm

lol wassup - my dad thought that once when he was a kid and came home to an empty house (he's one of 9 kids) and a sink full of half-done dishes, the poor thing.\

10:22 pm

Temple, a belated HELLO!!!

10:22 pm

those firemen do ring my alarm! :-D

10:23 pm

yes, hi temple, just jump right in, it's crazy night!

hello to all...i finished already - just dropping in

10:23 pm

Am now singing some awful song from the 80's called 'You Can Ring My Bell'. No idea who performed it.

10:23 pm

hubby just got home. see y'all later

10:23 pm

(someone pass me today's total, will you? First time hitting 150 w/out licketyclues, but I was curious to see a percentage)...

10:23 pm

Well, my husband, who always helps me with these, tells me that he quits! We only have 163 words and he says there's no way there's a 100 more! So, good night, all.

10:23 pm

LOLOL, Jacula!

10:24 pm

269

night, wass

10:24 pm

OY. thanks, hursh.

10:24 pm

Night Wassup & Jan.

10:24 pm

g'night quitters (haha)

10:24 pm

Hiya Temple.

10:24 pm

And if anyone has been following my Great Grandpa story, I'll bring it home now. When my parents were newly married, and broke, my father put some money in an office pool. My mother gave him a bit of a hard time, and as they were going to bed, he suddenly said to her, slurring, "When I win my $10,000, you're not going to get one GD cent! Well... maybe I'll give you a buck." My mother was terrified because my father had never told her the story!

10:24 pm

I'm buckling down in tha OTHER data entry field -- over there under the yelow boxes...

10:24 pm

oh nite, wassup & jen :)

10:25 pm

k janiece...enjoy your evening

10:25 pm

lol nrkii

10:25 pm

night wassup and jen!

10:25 pm

ok i have a joke!

night jan

10:25 pm

nite wassup

10:26 pm

go hursh

10:26 pm

a man's walking down the street and another man comes up and introduces himself, saying, "hi, i'm pete. you're the last person in the world that i've had to meet - now i know everybody in the world."

10:26 pm

mietress....are you home for the nite / morning????

10:26 pm

and, hurshey...

10:26 pm

Hiya, Ren!

10:26 pm

naturally the man is skeptical of pete, so he stops some passerby and asks if they know this man

10:26 pm

I am home, yes.

10:26 pm

I don't care about finishing the grid today. tell the joke, hursh.

10:26 pm

On home soil, so to speak.

10:26 pm

"sure," says one, "me and pete go way back", "of course i know pete, says another"

10:27 pm

k - didn;t want the dawn to catch you!

10:27 pm

Let's listen to Hurshy's joke...

10:27 pm

after this happens several times the man is getting more and more perplexed. how can pete know everyone in the world. he challenges pete by taking him to various states but in each he cannot find a single person who hasn't met pete

10:28 pm

hmmm...

10:28 pm

finally they end up in vatican city. surely pete doesn't know the pope, he thinks. but pete goes right up to the pope and the pope greets pete with a smile of recognition and a hug.

10:28 pm

Let Hursh do the punchline, please.

10:29 pm

shaking his head in disbelief at pete up on the stage with the pope, his neighbor turns to him and says, "hey, who's that guy up there...

10:29 pm

...next to pete?"

10:29 pm

O_o

10:29 pm

Go on...

10:29 pm

LOL Hurshy!

10:29 pm

that's it.

10:29 pm

hanging...

10:30 pm

Okay, my favorite recent joke, taken from a site where previously-offensive jokes were de-funnied (and de-offensed): How do you confuse a blond?

10:30 pm

Don't get it unles it's a Jesus joke.

bada boom...

10:30 pm

a: paint yourself green and throw forks at her.

10:30 pm

...with pete? ha ha ha ha

10:31 pm

i don't have to explain the pete joke do i???

10:31 pm

I could explain it, but it'd make the joke less funny. Better to leave it stand.

10:32 pm

Yes, nrkii, st4/4.

10:33 pm

though it's tempting to explain it because it's funny!

10:33 pm

ah, how i love earplugs

10:33 pm

pete has more groupies than god?

10:34 pm

well...than the pope

10:34 pm

it's funny because the man thinks for a split second that he's finally found someone who doesn't know pete, but he DOES know pete but not the pope

10:35 pm

Wait, Pope who?

well gang - 5 minutes past my bedtime...see you tomorrow! happy babbling!

10:35 pm

;-)

10:35 pm

hey, I had a harry potter moment today ... I was weed-whacking my lawn in back yard, and suddenly a torrent of spiders went scurrying out of the grass and across the stone path into the neighbor's yard ... made me think of chamber of secrets and all those spiders bolting

10:35 pm

night TO

10:35 pm

lol... oooh nrkii!!!!!

10:36 pm

I thought that by giving th end of the punchline I was explaining

10:36 pm

and I HATE spiders, so I was just as glad to have them relocate

10:36 pm

i could have had a harry potter moment but i refused to go near the sn5/18 (not in today's puzzle, i'm just scared of even the word)

10:37 pm

i gave the end of the punchline, right after the beginning of the punchline. did people not see it? oh what a disastrous joke teller i am

10:37 pm

I saw it Hurshy. Not sure what the sn 5/18 is though.

10:37 pm

nrkii, generally i call them "BCs" (bad creatures)

10:38 pm

ohhhhhh

10:38 pm

not a fan of those either

10:38 pm

even just the two letters "sn" together are kinda freaky enough because of BCs

10:39 pm

by the way, during my lengthy description of last night's theatrics, did you all catch on to the fact that the YOUTH RESCUE SQUAD came to my house (in addition to the 2 policemen and 8 firemen)?

10:39 pm

well i brought a student home today and his brother (also a student) has a PET BC in his ROOM. i did not go close enough to see. would probably have had a heart attack.

10:39 pm

lolol, hurshey! my icon once got into deep doodoo for comparing hispopularity w/ JC. ..

10:39 pm

pete's?

10:40 pm

nrkii - are those youth who rescue people of all ages, or people of all ages who rescue youth?

ok wait a minute - what did i miss?

10:40 pm

definitely the former hursh, lmao

10:40 pm

I'm crying now, I'm laughing so hard.

10:41 pm

is your icon john lennon?

10:41 pm

lolol. nrkii!

10:41 pm

oh yeah, today is before they were famous - didn't get a chance to do it with all the driving, and that is one of my favoritest of my theme suggestions.

10:41 pm

yes, mab! :-D

10:42 pm

nrkii is yours tom hanks?

10:42 pm

well hurshy, I don't know about you, but after this last 30 minutes, I feel a lot better!

10:42 pm

yes hursh

10:42 pm

yes, i do feel better. i'm ready to go to bed now and there is now a chance that i will NOT cry myself to sleep.

10:43 pm

thanks for all the cheering everyone. what would i do without babblers? nighty night now.

10:43 pm

a very young TH , nrkii! :)

10:43 pm

((((((hurshy))))))) At least you didn't get et by a BC today. Let's chat tomorrow.

10:43 pm

I just keep giggling thinking, libarebel got in trouble because she said pete was more popular than god

10:43 pm

hmm, i wonder if tom and his wife do the hanksy panksy

10:44 pm

ok mab :)

10:44 pm

nite, hurshy :)

10:44 pm

{{{{hurshy}}}}

10:44 pm

lolol, nrkii...

10:45 pm

sweeeeeeeeeeeeet dreams

10:45 pm

back in a mo, laughing too hard ... must get water

10:45 pm

{{{all}}} and ty again

10:47 pm

back now, sorry, got the sillies

10:48 pm

Good night, Hurshy, Ther'es goiing to be a bright tomorrow

10:49 pm

anyone out there looking for clues?

10:50 pm

well, fr pete's sake I guess so... :D--clues!

10:50 pm

me! me!

10:50 pm

I need some 8 clues, I only have 2

10:50 pm

jfarber -- you still there?

10:51 pm

which 2 you have sleeky?

10:51 pm

first two letters of them, please

10:51 pm

the de and the se

10:52 pm

okay, there is a YU 8 meaning christmas time

10:52 pm

d'oh! how obvious!

10:52 pm

jfarber? I have a question for you?

10:53 pm

there are two de 8's, one means hated and the other means rubbish left behind

10:54 pm

man, I can't believe I missed these!

10:54 pm

I've decided since I'm only half way through I'm signing off tonight. I spent far more time on the chat log than in the grid, and I don't regret it one bit.

10:54 pm

okay, 4 down. :-)

10:54 pm

there is an fe 8 which is a plural of fe 7 iron compound

10:54 pm

night hetty!

10:54 pm

Before I leave, though, does anyone know how Aussieme is?

take hated, change one letter, examined again.

10:56 pm

that's weird, I tried that one earlier and it didn't take

10:56 pm

sleeky?

10:56 pm

ya?

10:56 pm

okay, two re 8's: examined again, and made alterations to clothing again

10:57 pm

hetty, I haven't heard

christmastime

without temporary shelter

more unbreakable

10:59 pm

hello, melonheadjujube :)

10:59 pm

sleeky, that should get you to 7, and melonheadjujube has just hinted at the last one

10:59 pm

oh wait, there's 10, right

11:00 pm

you need the last two that melonhead hinted at

hi, liba - i'm babbling in fits & starts - too much puter aggravates my sorry arthritic neck.

oh, yeah - 10! i stopped at 8 too. time to hunt those other two down!

11:01 pm

sleeky started out with the se and one of the de's already

11:02 pm

oh, sorry, melon; I'm distracted too, but by painting a room

se i don't have - is it obvious - will i slap myself silly for not finding it???? :P

11:02 pm

it's a french version of the se 6/33

11:02 pm

group of 6 singers, perhaps

ooooh, found a racy music ensemble!

ahh, french - racier!

11:03 pm

:)

as in Lucia di Lammermoor.

11:03 pm

yup, w/ fr. feminine ending

how girlie can we get?

11:03 pm

:D

11:03 pm

okay, I have 8 now

11:03 pm

there's also a 4/9 related to those two

11:04 pm

sleeky, you have to remind me which 8 you have

11:04 pm

a girlie as we want! :)

11:04 pm

I lost track (sorry)

tx nrkii

11:04 pm

I'm still missing the iron one and... not sure what else

11:04 pm

oh, there's an ES 8/65 which looks like you are scaring the heck out of whoever ES is

11:05 pm

(but drop an R)

11:05 pm

the iron one sounds like the amount you pay a taxi driver F*** and not LEFTS

11:06 pm

okay, not to be ungrateful, but that was the single weirdest clue I've ever seen. ;-)

11:06 pm

sleeky, did you get it?

11:06 pm

ES 8/65--es + scare the **** out of, but minus an r

11:06 pm

thanks lib

not getting es 8 - i have es the chemical with the ---girlie name.

11:07 pm

i'm just sitting here enjoying your clues nrk! loved the es8/65!

ooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh! minus the R. as in making es______

11:08 pm

melon, add two syllables that sound like "** * were a rich man"

11:08 pm

yes!

11:08 pm

fran :)

11:08 pm

you guys are all gaslighting me, I know it!

11:08 pm

;-)

11:08 pm

yw, nrkii :)

11:09 pm

they are real clues sleeky! really!

11:09 pm

sleeky, do you have a te 7/48 meaning to scare badly?

didle,didle,didle, didleidleeedleeedelee. all day long i'd diddy-diddy dum....

11:09 pm

I don't

11:09 pm

sing it melon!

11:09 pm

but I think I can find it

11:10 pm

well that one will help you for sure -- it has a double consonant in middle

11:10 pm

okay, now I do

not gaslighting, just passing - - oh never mind

11:10 pm

once you have that one sleeky the es8/65 will be easier to see

11:10 pm

you'll be ok, melon

LLLLLAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

11:10 pm

okay, so if you scare the heck out of ES, but you drop an r along the way

11:10 pm

OH!

11:10 pm

Okay, that is one hard word to clue for.

11:10 pm

I have them all! Thank you!

11:11 pm

cool!

11:11 pm

if you drop last 3 letters, you'll get your ES 5, in case you don't have that one

Polly's sister in fabric, if you look at it a certain way.

11:11 pm

zackly

sure'nuf

11:12 pm

wait, I want to pretend to be one of the trolls...

11:12 pm

'alo peeps, wassup?

11:12 pm

yup, sis es***

11:12 pm

yay, I hit the halfway mark

11:12 pm

oops, should have said ola

11:13 pm

for me, that's good. :-)

tadah, sleeky!

11:13 pm

good going sleeky

afway's usually where i quit, otherwise i'd be frozen in this one spot.

11:14 pm

theme for monday is insects -- going to put my new icon up now....

11:15 pm

say goodbye to tommy hanks

11:15 pm

Is everyone all clued up now?

11:17 pm

I'm back, 39 to go and desperate.... had to have dinner out tonight, etc. etc.

11:17 pm

stid, we can get you through these 39 with NO problem

11:17 pm

yay, I have an icon!

et clues - & don't nobody tell me to phone home!

11:18 pm

not that anyone can see what it is, but still.

11:18 pm

thanks nrkii, I will go through my list -- i have to enter in ri and ru to know what I need next...

11:18 pm

nice to see you sleeky

hi stid

11:18 pm

sleeky, that's cute.

11:18 pm

melon, et5 is french study related to music

11:18 pm

I've always looked good in black.

11:19 pm

et 4/5 is common babble word with two vowels on end

got it - just remembered it from the other day, et 5?

11:20 pm

french music for study

damn, i just practised one of those! what is wrong w/mi?

11:20 pm

re 6/33 please?

11:21 pm

ri 6/33?

11:21 pm

yes, rI 6/33... silly me.

11:21 pm

adverb coming off ri 4/7

11:22 pm

abundantly

11:22 pm

ty, got it.

11:23 pm

se 5/14 and 8/65?

11:23 pm

Hello from a newbie already addicted by Hetty. Will probably be back tomorrow.

11:23 pm

se 5/14 is a compound word - police sting would be an example

11:24 pm

hi jill

99 left - that's enough for this underachiever. nite all.

11:24 pm

got nrkii! thanks

11:24 pm

se 8/65 is french version of se 6/33 group of 6 singers

11:24 pm

well done melonhead! see you tomorrow!

11:24 pm

night melonheadjujube!

11:24 pm

hi jillibus! hetty told us about you earlier

11:24 pm

welcome!

11:24 pm

night melonhead!

11:25 pm

Fran, your icon scares me. I can tell I'm going to have a tough time with this theme already.

11:25 pm

i'm stumped by the UTs

11:25 pm

Good evening Jillibus! so pleased to meet you!

11:25 pm

ping, one is speak

11:25 pm

the other is latin plural for womb

11:26 pm

sorry nrk, i'm a scorpio so i picked scorpions

11:26 pm

welcome to the dark side jillibus

11:26 pm

:)

11:26 pm

thanks, nrkii

11:26 pm

nrkii, I am sorry, my babblefish is boycotting french this evening...?

11:27 pm

stid, do you have the se 6/33?

11:28 pm

yes, I have all the se but the 8

11:28 pm

okay, just stretch out the ending on the 6, like you would with a small kitchen set called a DINET**

11:29 pm

de oh! de duh! de fish please!

11:32 pm

finished the s words...

11:32 pm

22 to go

11:32 pm

go stid!!!

11:33 pm

go stid!!

11:34 pm

okay, I need the first te 7/48 please,

11:35 pm

scare badly stid

11:35 pm

that's the first 7 - 28 isn't it?

11:36 pm

nope, thats a 48

11:36 pm

no it's a 7/48

11:36 pm

first 7/28 is more like a shelter at a campsite

11:36 pm

I have a te 7/48 - is there more than one?

11:36 pm

jillibus, the other one is to bear witness in a courtroom

11:37 pm

That's the one I have, durnit.

11:37 pm

ty then I am missing the te 6 and the 7/28 that come after the one you just clued...

11:37 pm

so the first one is to scare badly jillibus

11:38 pm

rhymes with weasel like animal stid?

11:38 pm

oh, those! not real words i think, te6/18 sounds like rip + it

11:39 pm

Thanx nrkii, gotcha

11:39 pm

ty nrkii... :-)

11:40 pm

15...

11:40 pm

jillibus, is that great dane picture your own artwork?

11:40 pm

I need one of the first ti 4/5 -- I have the one that means to make a knot in

11:40 pm

you have detergent, stid?

11:40 pm

switch last two letters for ocean change

11:40 pm

Yup, but slightly distorted here

11:41 pm

it's beautiful jill!

11:41 pm

I CANNOT believe I missed that, and thanks.

11:41 pm

Thanks -- Danes are!

11:42 pm

ooh, I'm getting so sleepy -- will I make it till the flip?

11:43 pm

tr 7/36?

11:43 pm

Is everyone all clued up now?

11:43 pm

if you answer with remorse, you answer conTR*****

11:43 pm

adverb of tr5/10

11:43 pm

ty again nrkii!

11:44 pm

(use adverb ending with tr 5/10)

11:44 pm

and FRan...: -)

11:44 pm

down to 8!

11:44 pm

go stid!!

11:44 pm

whoo hoo stidmama!

11:44 pm

hello everyone

11:44 pm

done with Ts...

11:44 pm

hi aleksia

11:45 pm

hi aleksia

11:45 pm

hi, aleksia

11:46 pm

What are you missing, stid? Not that I can help...

11:47 pm

I am missing several Un words, but need to figure out which ones first...

11:47 pm

anyone need any clues befoe I collAPSE?

11:47 pm

I know I need the un 8 and the following 5 and 6....

11:48 pm

I only have 2 6/24s

11:48 pm

un 8 is when you go to a campsite and there are no shelters there -- its UN******

11:48 pm

un4/14-- to put outside an enclosure?

11:48 pm

yes, I have those, ther is a un 5/21 that takes the last letter off the un 6/24s...

11:48 pm

I meant un 5/14... urg.

11:48 pm

UN 5 after that is what you do to your shoelaces before you take off your sneakers

11:49 pm

got the 8,

11:49 pm

that un 5, 6 got me a couple days ago, too! *pouty face*

11:50 pm

no, that was LACE a couple days ago

11:50 pm

right... I thought so! LOL

11:50 pm

stid, whatchagot left now?

11:50 pm

the ut 5/12 that is not speech?

11:50 pm

latin plural of womb

11:51 pm

thanks again...

11:51 pm

I've just come back to see whether my pal Jill has plunged into the chatlog and there she is! Everyone, I want you to know that I mistakenly said she would be calling herself jillibeth, this dear friend of mine,

11:51 pm

ut5/12-- plural for womb

11:51 pm

2 left....

11:51 pm

It's okay, hetty! we adapted! :-)

11:52 pm

hetty, she made it, and we haven't put her through the initiation rituals yet

11:52 pm

yet......

11:52 pm

I have the ye 6 and a ye 4 abominable snowman... just the other ye 4/6 and I assume the ye 5 is its plural?

11:52 pm

omigod, what rituals????

11:52 pm

ah-ha-ha-ha-ha (evil laughter)!

11:53 pm

take what renfield just wrote, and double last letter

11:53 pm

and it WAS! I doned it again! yippee for me....

11:53 pm

nice timing ren

11:53 pm

YAY STID!!!!!!!!!

11:53 pm

jillibus, the rituals won't start until after you have your first fireworks....

11:53 pm

we have only got 7 minute left

11:54 pm

hey nrkii......

11:54 pm

THANK YOU nrkii! and Jacula, I know you're out there, you helped a lot earlier... (and Fran, and all the little people)

11:54 pm

wtg stid

11:54 pm

. . .but actually please meet Jilli oops. Stid you're nothing if not adapable. You'll see what rituals tomorrow jill--hope to be a part of the hazing.Meantime, good night all. Tell Jill how to negotiate the flip!

11:54 pm

Whew! That'll be a while yet(t)

11:54 pm

I wish to thank especially the elves and the leprechauns, without whom this evening would not have been possible....

11:54 pm

stidmama gives her awards speech

11:55 pm

*bows right, bows left, bows center*

11:55 pm

*backs up and trips on train of gown...*

11:55 pm

lolol, stid!

11:55 pm

jill, in about 5 or 6 mins, the screen will flip over to tomorrow's puzzle

11:55 pm

jillibus, we get a little silly toward the end when we've finished...

11:55 pm

ready or not here comes the flip

11:55 pm

when that happens, stand by and be ready to type into the chat the word "flip" or any variation on that you can come up with -- then ...

11:55 pm

Bow and wow to stid!

11:55 pm

and this is important...

11:56 pm

move your curser to the ADD WORD box before you start typing in words

11:56 pm

and when "The Flip" happens your score is over and the whole word count and all reset to zero.

11:56 pm

because there's always one person who doesn't do that

11:56 pm

and it's often one of us who think we know better...

11:56 pm

but be prepared that at some point you will be in the chat, and you will type a word guess in the chat by mistake

11:56 pm

and we will all forgive you

11:56 pm

once

11:57 pm

:)

11:57 pm

*shakes nrkii* tell the truth, dear!

11:57 pm

sheesh, you guys are tough!

11:57 pm

yeti

11:57 pm

we will all forgive you once per each error, jillibus!

11:57 pm

we like it if it's a real word (kidding) :-)

11:57 pm

deep snow, there nrkii!

11:57 pm

I'm showing by EXAMPLE folks!

11:58 pm

but sometimes we have parties! I am famous for my mochajavachocolatte drink....

11:58 pm

and I'll inadvertently show by example in, oh, 5 minutes or so

11:58 pm

lolol, nrkii!

11:58 pm

:)

11:58 pm

I put yet(t) on purpose but don't know what it means

11:58 pm

come on now, everyone tell me how much you forgive me, oh wait, I forgot to say OOOPS! SORRY!

11:58 pm

hi everyone

11:58 pm

and many of us like to toss chocolate around the chat log as well!

11:58 pm

bigfoot

11:58 pm

hi saphyre

11:59 pm

hello saphyre! meet jillibus -- she's one of hetty's friends!

11:59 pm

I had to resort to Reese's earlier to stop an attack of silliness Stid, you missed it.

11:59 pm

hi jillibus - nice to meet you :)

11:59 pm

I know yeti, yet, but don't know yett yet.

11:59 pm

I sure hope the new grid will be smaller!

11:59 pm

hello jillibus! :)

11:59 pm

loch ness

11:59 pm

none of us do jilli, it's babblish

11:59 pm

I'll go with 175

12:00 am

:-) Jillibus, you'll do fine!

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