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12:00 am

flippy

flip

flip

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flip

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Flip flip hooray!

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flips

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12:00 am

flop Hi everyone

12:00 am

flip

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flip

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flip I was only 6 off

12:00 am

flip out!

12:01 am

flip!!!

12:01 am

FLIP IN!

12:01 am

whooo, we can get busy now

12:01 am

Hey Ankh!

12:01 am

sa 6 with cheese and crackers YUM

12:02 am

TO - in the grid!

: )

: ) owl

12:02 am

Hiya, Chic! I can't stay, just wanted to peek at the filp.

12:03 am

hi ankh!

flippitydoodah

12:03 am

And what TO does at full moon!

hi ankh! angb, you meal woulf ; )

12:04 am

And what I used to do, back when I was single, pr5

Ankh, i got that immed! takes one to know one?

12:05 am

LOL girls

12:05 am

*giggles* Oh, hey, hi, Helen! And all else I missed...

12:06 am

vo6

ow4 - lotsa TO

12:07 am

My la4 was well mo4 last summer, because I hired a guy to do it.

12:07 am

Darn, this is a good grid, but I really can't stay. :(

phantom: talisman

12:09 am

late flip

12:09 am

Ooooh, good one, Melon! Okay, y'all, have fun, I may get to see you tomorrow :::::*POOF!*:::::

bo7 :)

12:09 am

ro6

whoo hoo! finished the iron sudoku already.. tiem for bed, though... nite all!

almost, but no vodka

12:09 am

bye smooth

12:10 am

good nite smooth

ntie smooth

12:10 am

ad 6

laila tov smooth papa

alamo

uh - oh - bed time. and $2 i owe jean

12:11 am

who said no vodka? I have vodka

12:11 am

yep that's a word thnx TO

who - ho , jili!

12:11 am

wo6

12:12 am

helen - love your new year icon!

12:12 am

li 6

12:12 am

pr6

12:12 am

bad boy dennis - tatted bb player

12:12 am

Need more wine - back in 5 - I did spill most of mine remember

12:13 am

lol jili - ty

12:16 am

ok, angb -- guess it's winetime in NZ -- bedtime here

12:16 am

7pm and waiting for partner to cook my dinner

12:16 am

grid too big as usual, sigh

12:16 am

mans

i have 19 m words - and still not one from the bottom corner. it's going to be one of those grids.....

12:17 am

oh dear, did it again -- but you already have it I bet

12:17 am

la 6

12:19 am

hi7

12:20 am

in7

12:21 am

racist word sa5

12:21 am

li6

my new stat; "squares" there are 6 "square" in the grid which form a total of 8 words by my count - a square is 2 tles directly over 2 more tiles.

12:22 am

melon - WHAT ?? ??? ????

12:23 am

whatcha smokin' there melon?

12:23 am

thnx for asking that helen.

justy look for little 4-tile squares that form words, 2x2 - am i making sense?

12:23 am

lol ang

salmon, hk.

12:23 am

Good morning - shalom Everyone

12:23 am

you are to me, melon

12:23 am

hiya arb

12:24 am

Hi ARB

boker tov, ARB

12:24 am

lol - smoking salmon - lol

12:24 am

hi arb

12:24 am

Did I hear LOX?

jilli, be worried - be very, very worried ;)

Lox, Stox, & barrell :D

12:24 am

I gues...

12:25 am

how're you doing, Melon? Getting stronger?

a bit set back this week - i have a sharp pain toone side if i lean or turn the least bit wrong - had it checked out to be sure no obstrucion - may just be adhesions that will have to work out. I did get to my ceramics class, tho. good to be out of the house & with people.

12:27 am

I thought the bo 7 was a girl's name?

12:27 am

oh what happened melon?

Thanks for asking, btw. so much for the "organ recital" ;)

12:27 am

h07

hi kier, had a total hysterectomy. preventative bc family history of ovarian & breasy CA.

12:28 am

cy, the bo is also a fish

the bo is the only big word I've gotten so far. the 7s 8s & 9 are eluding me!

12:29 am

ty for the bo clue joey & nan :o)

12:29 am

do 7

at least the words are interesting. if i see "ante' or "tern' one more time. . .

12:29 am

yvw

12:30 am

ohh ouch melon.... i wish you a swift recovery

12:30 am

you guys who give clues to long words help me find short ones which begin with those letters but the long ones remain hidden from my bleary eyes!

12:31 am

warns

12:31 am

ach

jean d'espit is getting richer by the minute

12:31 am

still haven't found that hi 7

12:31 am

I'm with you jillibus

12:32 am

or the ho -- must be similar

tx, kier - i'm doing pretty good, but it will be a while b4 i'm back on my bicycle {sigh} - i had been doing 40 to 50 miles a week pre-op.

jilli, just read your profile - i will have to check this young musician out!

12:33 am

wow melon, that's impressive. and will help you recover more quickly i bet

12:34 am

melon -- your bassist looks dreamy!

cybernan, you have one of my very faves as an icon! he comes to Cleveland every few years to do benefits for local charities. saw one of his last performances with the late Sam Sanders.

don't he, jili - his playing is awesome.

12:35 am

ho 8

kier, i hope. right now i have to still be careful of bending, lifting, reaching - having a normal day in other words. infact i should get off the 'puter soon - too much sitting in one place isn't so good for me.

Hi all!!!

12:37 am

good one , nan! thanx!

Clues are up!

12:37 am

hi volley!

12:37 am

thanks Lickety

12:37 am

ty lickety

12:37 am

ty lickety

12:37 am

thanx, lickety!

mi7 - think jilli's other half, after tiny.

XOXOXOX lickety!

12:38 am

no, too much lounging is bad. i was on strict bedrest for 3 months when i was pregger, i was SOOOO weak afterwards

12:38 am

well i'm 1/2 way & can't see anything more

12:39 am

good nite everyone :)

12:39 am

hey, thanks for the mi7, melon!!! - lol!

12:39 am

Laila tov Helen

12:39 am

pr9

i do take walks. after i see doic in a week hope to start gentle water exercises.i

12:39 am

night helen

12:39 am

nite helen!

12:39 am

ooo, georgia!

xxoo, jilli, laila tov, hk.

12:39 am

night helen

12:40 am

mi clue went right over my head!

12:40 am

oh -- got it!

12:41 am

all the latin(esque) words we see but Ho**** (to man) is not accepted!

12:43 am

I want more e's in this grid

12:43 am

greyed the w -- yay!

is it just me, or are there more than the usual number of words ending in a vowel - not e?

12:44 am

me too nan :D

12:47 am

top row is grey

12:48 am

wtg drB

12:48 am

thats quick work dr!

12:49 am

well, its easier if you restrict yourself to four starting letters...

12:50 am

yeah, i am not that organised doc - its all over the board for me - at least initially

12:50 am

ok that's enough fun for one nite! see ya!

12:50 am

bye chic

12:50 am

night, chic

12:50 am

bye Chic

12:50 am

bye chic

12:50 am

are all the Vs similar dr?

12:51 am

have the v combo, but missing the other

night chix!

nite, all - see you later

12:51 am

it isn't a vo

12:51 am

me too nan

12:51 am

bye TO

12:51 am

oh ouch! thanks Dr

i give up - might come back tomorry. laila tov, all.

12:52 am

here is a visual clue for the other v: vvvvvvvvvv

12:52 am

i got it thanks dr

12:52 am

bye melon

12:52 am

thanks bernabo

12:53 am

Laila Tov Melon. Rest well

12:53 am

why isn't rasta a word?

12:53 am

it's too far ian

12:54 am

night melon

12:54 am

hi everyone, won't let me have satan, capital I expect

12:54 am

hi andree

12:54 am

hello Andree

thanks, everyone. {poof}

12:55 am

night TO -- ???

12:58 am

hi everyone

12:58 am

hi nat

12:58 am

hi Andree, Hi Natasha

1:01 am

hi natasha

1:01 am

hi natasha

1:01 am

half way -- time to call it a night -- see you tomorrow :)

1:02 am

night nan

1:02 am

good nite nan

1:02 am

wow, I cruised up to 58 words and am feeling stuck...maybe I should sleep. nah, not yet.

1:03 am

There is a big wall

1:03 am

if only there were more e's

1:05 am

oh so close to having subliminal in there

1:06 am

i think i have more phantoms than real words at this point

1:06 am

...and sundown!

1:07 am

has anyone seen comet mcnaught?

1:07 am

I have never "created" so many words -- I am coming up with combinations tht I'd swear were not words, and lo and behold, they are!

1:07 am

no kidding, Arb, i feel as if i am creating my own language!

1:08 am

finally got a word in each square. sigh

1:12 am

oh i can't go on.... gnite everyone!

1:12 am

I managed to eke out a few more words, but i'm falling asleep. see you all later.

1:12 am

bye kier, bye Nat

1:13 am

bye nat and kier

1:22 am

bye nat, kier...

1:31 am

Is there anyone out there?

1:31 am

me . . .

1:31 am

I just came back Jilli

1:31 am

Hi Une

1:31 am

yes, but we are all very quiet, hi all

1:31 am

:-D

1:32 am

Oops sorry - ARB. Hi Kanga

1:32 am

Good morning all -- the sun just came out here.

1:33 am

I'm still here but gridding

1:33 am

hi une

1:34 am

hey :-)

still here, but trying to concentrate; amazing grid!

1:34 am

is it just me, or is this a toughie?

1:34 am

very tough

1:34 am

I wish people would identify their musicians so dummies like me would know who they are

1:34 am

well, i've found 133 pretty quickly . . .

1:34 am

Paul Simon

1:34 am

I thin its tough - has break but only have110

1:34 am

*sob*

1:35 am

thanks, une! I like him too

1:35 am

sorry about my spelling! I really can - its the two finger typing that lets me down

1:36 am

not familiar with your guy, jillibus, but will check him out!

1:36 am

lynxxx -- you "only" have 110? I have 53

1:37 am

oh but Jilli - I specialise in 4 letter words !

1:37 am

He's young but oh so talented, une

1:37 am

lynxxx, me too--have 134 but nothing bigger than a 6!

1:38 am

*tries to edge unobtrusively out of room*

1:38 am

kanga, don't be silly! :-)

1:38 am

come back Kanga!

1:39 am

sorry, it's hot here, and I think I have brain overheating...

1:39 am

my 53 are mostly 4-letters too :(

1:39 am

I have 1 7, so we're all struggling.

1:40 am

oh goodie! a five letter word, and so smooth too...

1:40 am

of course, I'm also watching TV...

1:40 am

i'm mentally checking off my packing list... off camping tomorrow, and just taking a break from packing the car.

1:41 am

hope its not too hot kanga, nothing worse than a hot tent

1:41 am

where do you go to Kanga?

1:42 am

on TV everyone's been looking VERY hot at the Australian Open!

1:42 am

down to jervis bay, lynxxx. first time with the kids.

1:42 am

77 here , finding this hard

1:42 am

it is very hot une

1:43 am

and I think hotter in melbourne

1:43 am

big and hard, andree - not fair

1:43 am

but the weather forecast is for cooler for the rest of the week... here's hoping

1:43 am

Thats down here in Melbourne Unea - it was dreadful last week but has now been raining for 3 days and much cooler

1:44 am

not when its monday tomorrow jilli

1:44 am

Should be lovely Kanga - hope you don't get too much rain though

1:45 am

my family live down that way, so if it is too wet we have a bolthole.

1:45 am

more worried about the shark photographed just off the beach we are going to!

1:45 am

sounds good kanga

1:46 am

not the shark, the bolthole,lol

1:46 am

Think I would be too !!!!!

1:46 am

had me worried there, andree.

1:47 am

nothing wrong with sharks I just don't want to meet one swimming

1:47 am

Yay - I got a U !!!!

1:48 am

absolutely, andree. might send the kids in first ;)

1:48 am

i would be more shocked if he was walking andree :P kidding -- they are scary critters

1:48 am

anyone got a hint for the 9

1:48 am

lol kanga appetisers

1:48 am

met one once, while skindiving.

1:48 am

evening all Aussies and others. un 5 lynxxx

1:48 am

i'd settle for a clue for a 7!

1:49 am

hey angb

1:49 am

I just got one at the same time

1:49 am

all i can tell ya andree is that it supposedly starts with pr

1:49 am

hi angb

1:49 am

hi andree

1:49 am

TY AngB - the one I found was un5.18 - yours the same?

1:50 am

got to say bye -- will come back later with a clean conscience after doing what must be done today.

1:50 am

bye arb

1:50 am

and un5/12

1:50 am

see you later ARB

1:50 am

bye, arb

1:50 am

yeh - the others are a 4 and 4 combo 0which I have just found

1:50 am

bye arb

1:50 am

i've got a un5/12, but not a 5/18... swap? (mines a flat...)

1:50 am

4 and 5 - time to turn light on

1:51 am

I should be ironing but it is too hot inside, have laptop outside where its many degrees cooler

1:51 am

Thanks you all. un5.18 is what you don't do at an auction

1:51 am

had to do the washing up, earlier. was like a sauna, but not as relaxing.

1:52 am

thanks, lynxxx.

1:53 am

just got the pr9/78 -it's plural

1:53 am

all my housework is done after dark these days i'm like some sort of sadie vampire

1:53 am

too hot to eat so hence no washing up

1:53 am

well dne jilli

1:53 am

I mean it's a plural

1:53 am

just found what i've lost because of the head...

1:53 am

thx for the u's

1:53 am

the heat, rather

1:54 am

whats the temp in Sydney? sounds like your getting the weather we did

1:55 am

lynxx it must have been in the high 30's today, now a lovely breeze but heat still trapped in the house, so i will stay outside for a while yet

1:56 am

down from a high of 42 to 29 (just checked the bom site)

1:56 am

jilli, any hints on what the 9 is a plural of?

1:56 am

anything over 35 and i melt anything over 40 and i just wanna die

1:56 am

ugh - hope you don't have it for as long as we did! nor the fires

1:57 am

and the floods lynxxx - they look nasty too

1:57 am

the weather is supposed to break tonight, then just around 30. (there are floods?)

1:58 am

Pr8/9 - ban(s)

1:58 am

you have had terrible weather lynxxx, we have not had very many bad days so no complaints here

1:58 am

floods in SA

1:58 am

not really a plural -- a present tense

1:58 am

cheers jilli, got it

1:58 am

where are you kanga

1:58 am

thanks jilli!

1:58 am

thanks!!

1:58 am

sydney, andree

1:59 am

good, :D

1:59 am

Oh! thanks Jilli!

1:59 am

me too kanga

1:59 am

yw ;)

1:59 am

guessed from the icon!

2:07 am

if anyone cares, tha ad7/8 have the same ending as the pr8/9

2:07 am

GM All

2:07 am

milt

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thanks, jillibus!

2:07 am

salt

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I care - TY Jilli !

2:07 am

thanks jilli

2:07 am

jilli! you know we care... and about the words too. thanks v much.

2:07 am

Hello Iain - got that one but thanks anyway

2:08 am

:)

2:08 am

thx jilli, haven't found either yet

2:08 am

sorry my moknkey is misbehaving

2:10 am

I just want to say that as someone who has lived in Texas for 10+ years, it should not have taken me so long to get the first al 5/12 ;)

2:10 am

oohh, thanks, angel

2:10 am

going back to bed now . . BBL--happy babbling, all!

2:11 am

thanks angel.

2:11 am

thx, angel -- g'night une!

2:11 am

happy to help... I was beating myself in the head and thought I'd share :)

2:11 am

angel, where in Texas do you live?

2:11 am

why is that allowed, and not nubia? so confusing.

2:11 am

night une.

2:11 am

thanks Angel

2:11 am

I'm in Austin

2:11 am

Bye Une

2:12 am

bye une

2:12 am

I agree, kanga

2:12 am

too bad. i am in Fort worth and I love to do some of te same things you do.

2:12 am

Yes, too bad for sure. I'm moving overseas in a few months and need to get rid of stamp stuff! Fortunately I have several friends just waiting to get their hands on it.

2:13 am

well, if there are beads or stamps that they don't want, be sure to keep me in mind. 8)

2:13 am

I'll be going through FW on my way to visit family before I leave, so I will let you know if there are leftovers. :)

2:14 am

that would be way cool thanks

2:15 am

Okay, I hit 105 and my brain is obviously fried. Night all, be sure and leave good clues for me to find tomorrow!

2:15 am

night angel

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bye angel

2:15 am

nite Angel

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nite angel. sleep well

2:15 am

night angel

2:16 am

can someone please further hint that al5/12 for lil ol non-texan me?

2:16 am

D - the last stand at the al 5/12 - from a kiwi!!!!

2:17 am

al + Latin "I love"

2:17 am

ahhhh lol i should have gotten that thanx ang

2:17 am

D al + slang for what you put in guns & rifles

2:17 am

the one al/5 I have is a famous battle in Texas

2:17 am

That's the one Iain

2:17 am

speaking of slang - there a am 4 that is aussie for ambulance

2:18 am

cheers D

2:18 am

thanks :D. where are you?

2:18 am

Thanks D

2:18 am

add onto the front for a nasty racist word and a dance

2:19 am

thank :D

2:19 am

i m in bathurst, NSW

2:19 am

and again, ta!

2:19 am

no problem

2:19 am

can also be two slices of bread with filling, D...

2:20 am

There are lots of nasty little words in this grid!

2:20 am

yeah thats the racist one kanga - i like your clue better tho it would have had me looking for sanga LOL

2:21 am

racist is in the eye of the beholder

2:21 am

a good banger sanga and a schooner, would do me nicely right now!

2:21 am

sound great kanga

2:22 am

kanga wantsa banger sanga

2:22 am

agreed jilli - aussies tend not to be racist but r often accused of it as we tend to label people that way without meaning offence, like poms, yanks and wogs

2:22 am

pass some along

2:22 am

damn, might have to put some real clothes on and head for the bottle shop

2:22 am

get enough for us all kanga

2:23 am

I disagree that racism is in the eye of the beholder.

2:23 am

will do! any favourite brews?

2:23 am

i am having a margarita. have some left. any takers?

2:23 am

its only offensive if u choose it to be taken that way babble

2:23 am

settle for a margarita, any day joey!

2:23 am

memememe

2:24 am

here it comes, keep your mouth open.!!

2:24 am

I totally disagree

2:24 am

that's what I meant, :D

2:24 am

some people deliberately set out to be offensive babble, but if i called u a yank it would not be intended that way

2:25 am

and your intention is not definative

2:25 am

my two cents - which i don't often offer. there are some words in the english language that have the stigma of being in poor taste no matter what your intent. sad to say but that is how it is.

2:25 am

but it is babble - how else do afro americans get away with calling each other nigger?

2:26 am

racism is not subjective

2:26 am

i cant say it to them without being racist but its ok for them? THATs racist

2:26 am

I am a WASP, a honky, an ofay, a haole, a bitch, whatever, and I don't care

2:26 am

you are arguing in circles

2:26 am

my hubby calls canadians plastic frogs and some of our best mates r canadian

2:27 am

I think D is only referring to bterms we use in Australia. Lots of times, in our own weird way, they are terms of endearment. A lot of times, we only 'insult' when we care about someone - else we ignore!

2:27 am

oh, and a hag too

2:27 am

so what?

2:27 am

and i'm a skip, and proud to be known as one!

2:27 am

not arguing babble - just voicing my opinion

2:27 am

sure you are

2:27 am

me either jilli, we are a lot more jokey here than other countries but generally don't mean offence

2:28 am

and certainly not trying to offend babble

2:28 am

what's a skip?

2:28 am

a bog plain anglo australian, called that by wogs in reference to Skippy!

2:28 am

skip = skippy = Skippy the Bush kangaroo!

2:28 am

if u allow peoples words to hurt you babble they will continue to use those words to hurt you

2:29 am

morning all

2:29 am

not to mention bogan kanga :P

2:29 am

Hi MVA

2:29 am

morning MVA

2:29 am

ahh, i hear my wog husband returning with our takeaway dinner. see you later all.

2:29 am

Hi MVA

2:29 am

oh -- skippy sounds cute!

2:29 am

that does not mean the words are not offensive and racist

2:29 am

lol bye kanga

2:30 am

you can rationalize forever, but use of racist terms is racism

2:30 am

Bye Kanga - enjoy - and the trip as well!

2:30 am

if i upset someone unintentionally by my speech i will apologise babble but i can assure you that it is rarely intended in this country wen we refer to people that way

2:30 am

sticks and stones

2:30 am

they are not taken that way here, I refer to myself as a wog occasionally and I have lived here 50 years

2:30 am

thanks lynxx, will do *poof*

2:31 am

Unfortunately jilli - words are often the tip of an iceberg of racist behaviour.

2:31 am

oooh what interesting chat!

2:32 am

agreed ang, but that's where intention comes in - it is easy to tell if someone is using your race to try to undermine you or if they mean it affectionately

2:32 am

some'minorities' use racism as a lever to get what they want regerdless of the wishes of the majoity. Lets treat everyone equal ( no doubt someone will find a way to buck the system)

2:32 am

if no offence is meant, none should be taken

2:32 am

hear hear

2:32 am

to use racist language and then say " oh I didn't mean to be racist" is quite convenient

2:33 am

Not necessarily - that is from your point of view, not an oppressed person's point of view. I'll stop now - one of hot buttons

2:33 am

absolutely lain and that is wot i am saying if someone draws attention to my race it doesnt bother me - it is who i am as much as being female -- as long as they dont TRY to use it to hurt me, its a joke

2:34 am

but we don't do that babble, its how we speak here

2:34 am

no babble - its irreverant and that is the way australians tend to be

2:34 am

and lian, that is why in the US the there is equal protection so the majority cannot shove there racism down the minority's throat

2:34 am

Are you a white aussie D? That makes a major difference.

2:34 am

etting upset over being called a wog or woteva is just as silly as getting upset at being called a shiela

2:34 am

we are not yet terrified of every word we utter as you have to be in US

2:34 am

no ang

2:34 am

I see

2:34 am

i m of aboriginal descent

2:35 am

so you are fearless racists?

wow feel like I have been working on this forever, still have 69 to go

2:35 am

good for you

2:35 am

no i m an equalist babble

ty .. getting a brain freeze lol

2:35 am

I don't think anyone is exactly encouraging the use of derogatory terms. What triggered me was the designation of sa5/16 as a "nasty racist word" when it was, to me, the name of a delightful little boy in a favourite children's story.

2:36 am

is not you calling us racists just as bad

so very true jil... never ever thought of it as a pejorative then

2:37 am

this is a waste of time .... and andre, just as bad as what?

and the pics in my book were amazing

2:37 am

just as labelling someone according to their heritage is not racism for us volley - just as labelling by sex is not sexism or age is not ageism -- just calling it as it is

2:37 am

volleymomdee, i still have a copy of that book. was also a favorite of mine

2:38 am

good on you d

2:38 am

if you dont think your race is something to b ashamed of why would u be offended by me affectionately calling you a yank or wotever

so true... how I feel also

2:38 am

So I've always remembered the word "ghee"

2:38 am

isnt that cheese related jilli?

2:38 am

butter, :D

2:39 am

I have a golliwog here my grandchildren love, guess that is a no no too

2:39 am

so, every black person should be proud you call them a N?

2:39 am

how could i mean to disparage u by pointing out a proud heritage babble?

2:39 am

ach

2:39 am

what utter twaddle!

2:39 am

i have never used the N word because i know it causes offence babble - also i dont meet a lot of afro americans here

2:40 am

i do call mates black bastards tho

2:40 am

d they respond in kind with a laugh

2:40 am

i think its the person said word is directed to that should get to decide if they feel offended or not

2:41 am

if i call u a girl are u offended wyrd?

2:41 am

and like in the slave days the folks said yes master... or got whipped

2:41 am

wots the difference?

2:41 am

a whole bunch of difference ...

2:42 am

well i get to decided that myself i think

2:42 am

Well, I have only 73 words here and I think I'll go to bed

2:42 am

I give up .... no wonder intolerance is rampant in this world

2:42 am

fair enough - obviously i have my view and u have yours, neither seems to b changing

2:43 am

nite jilli

2:43 am

you have taken this too seriosly babble , our sense of humour is different

2:43 am

BabbleR - I think you are taking this way too far. D, Andree and even I were talking about the Australian climate. Of course, we do not know the circumstances in the US - only be hearsay. Australians, because of our now generous immigration policy, are very much indeed a multi racial society - and to the betterment of all who live here. We are, in the vast majority, not racist.

2:43 am

here here lynxxx

2:44 am

thanks lynxxx

2:44 am

and I think you miss the point.

2:44 am

Is babrab being tolerant of those who differ with him?

2:44 am

It seems that over the years words have altered their meanings. Some are upset by the changed word. If you KNOW the word will upset a person DO NOT use it, Idf you have used it then apologise if it caused offence, If you are offended please accept a well meant apology and lets get on with life, its hard enough as it is

2:44 am

and i do embrace people of all cultures and religions regardless of their skin colour and i hope that they will do the same for me

2:45 am

No BabbleR...we really do see your point. Racism is abhorant - and would not survive in Australia

2:45 am

if you want to let wot others say to u hurt u that is your perogative babble, it is never my intent, nor the intent of the people i know

2:46 am

there is an objective standard for rascism and it should not be enabled or tolerated .... you are rationalizing your racism

2:46 am

we are NOT racists

2:46 am

calling me intolerant and racist doesnt alter wot i know to be true for me and everyone i know

2:47 am

and that argument, :D, is such a convenient way to be racist

2:47 am

and that argument, :D, is such a convenient way to be racist

2:47 am

no its the way that we live and the way that we have embraced other races and cultures into our own

2:48 am

ignoring our differences does nothing

2:48 am

do you object to being called a yank, babble

2:48 am

owns

2:48 am

pretending that we are all the same and being careful not to mention certain aspects of race or culture is ridiculous

2:49 am

oops

2:49 am

got that one lain - keep trying :P

2:49 am

thanks, Iain! I didn't have that little one

2:50 am

Hi all, just coming in! was playing bridge online all evening

2:50 am

sometimes it is the easy words that are missed

2:50 am

hi flosey

2:50 am

Hi Andree

2:50 am

by our irreverance we have reduced the stigmas that so many other countries deal with in multicultural society

2:50 am

hi flosey! Did you win?

2:50 am

Hi Jilli - yes!! most of the time

2:51 am

was playing with hubby

2:51 am

anyways - i have to go, dinner time

2:51 am

Bye D

2:51 am

bye d

2:51 am

bye d

2:51 am

good night and good luck all

2:51 am

Bye :D

2:51 am

biah

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biah

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biah

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biah

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biah

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biah

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biah

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2:52 am

Puzzle looks long today, will at least start it

2:52 am

sorry

2:52 am

flosey, it's tough too IMHO

2:52 am

Control yourself Andree lol

2:52 am

Bye D.

2:53 am

IMHO - not familiar with that one Jilli

2:53 am

In My Humble Opinion

2:54 am

ah, thanks

2:55 am

I have not heard of your pianist Jilli - but love to hear Boogie - amongst other types

2:56 am

Michael Kaesahmmer has been here at ArtSpring twice -- great fun!

2:57 am

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr,goooooood mmmorninggggggggg alllllllllllllllll

2:57 am

hi ho!

2:57 am

morning all

2:58 am

annie are there

2:58 am

Hello sprite!

2:58 am

I should get out there more often, but don't like night driving - especially in Winter.

2:58 am

morning all

2:58 am

and oggy

2:58 am

gm hodag, sprite

2:58 am

hi hodag and sprite and oggy

2:58 am

hi mva

2:59 am

Hi Hodag & Sprite & Oggy & Flosey & anyone else I didn't notice!

2:59 am

gm oggy

2:59 am

hi jill

2:59 am

sizable grid today... is it fun?

2:59 am

Nope ! but probably will be for you Sprite !

3:00 am

hi Jilli and sprite,oggy MVA and lyn

3:00 am

I have only 77 words, sprite -- does that answer your question? But there has been some diverting chat

3:00 am

too many unwords is never fun

3:00 am

ah, chat is good :)

3:01 am

what, no satan?

3:02 am

not in the dictionary, like internet

3:02 am

what can I say

3:03 am

Halfway! time for Lickety or I'll never finish this before work tomorrow! BBS

3:03 am

a lot of the words i've tried aren't in the dictionary either!!

3:04 am

MVA, we know more words than the dictionary! Isn't that a bit scary?

3:10 am

ok, only to me perhaps then

3:10 am

sorry sprite, had to get more tea! i find it scary too!

3:11 am

tea, now that is a great idea! And perhaps some breakfast...

3:12 am

just what i was thinking sprite, ishall go and make braekfast now!! bbl

3:12 am

same here, back in a bit

3:13 am

Back again - kids in bed

3:14 am

that's where I'm going -- g'night all *poof*

3:14 am

Nite jilli

3:16 am

clue for ob7 please

3:17 am

It's the plural of the ob/6--though it's a Russian plural, so don't expect an s on it...

3:17 am

there is a bl 5 in second place, ending in the third vowel

3:18 am

thanks jan got it

3:18 am

must go and get the paper bye all

3:18 am

yw

3:18 am

bye iain

3:19 am

Way past my bed time...I'm off

3:19 am

bye, everyone who left or is leaving

3:19 am

nite jan

3:19 am

bye lain,jilli and jan

3:19 am

Bye Jan, Jilli and Iain

3:21 am

clever Lyn.lol

3:21 am

just a copy cat!

3:22 am

I have difficulty to believe there are biggies in this grid.

3:23 am

The biggest word I have sprite is 1 x 7 letter LOL

3:23 am

mine are 6 :)

3:23 am

now I never would have guessed that! Isn't this grid a pain in the ...OOPs?

3:24 am

do you want the ones Jilli found?

3:24 am

Yep - not enjoying it.

3:24 am

the ad 7 7& 8 and the pr 8 and 9 all end in the same 5 and 6 letters

3:24 am

sure

3:24 am

I saw something about ob7 and 8, but I couldn't make head or tail of it

3:25 am

Joey just gave them - the pr means to ban

3:26 am

I can see I'll never get this one finished I can't even get it started!!!!!!!!!!

3:26 am

great, that did the trick. I would have found the pr eventually, but that ad is new for me.

3:26 am

thanks for the clues :)

3:27 am

yvs

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oops, yvw

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Bye all

3:27 am

bye hodag

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bye Hodag

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bye hodag

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mans

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st

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tin

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rawl

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oops

3:28 am

arb is on a roll!

3:28 am

SOooooooooooooory

3:28 am

and Angb too

3:29 am

And I couldn't figure out why the word stats didn't change!

3:29 am

be alright if they were words LOL

3:29 am

LOL!

3:31 am

I was soooo smart, I found subliminal. But guess, it is not in the puzzle :(

3:32 am

me oo sprite i found talisman !!

3:33 am

*too

3:33 am

oh, and stamina! Darn!

3:33 am

I like talisman!

3:33 am

down

3:33 am

wns

3:33 am

ns

3:33 am

oops

3:34 am

now that one is there

3:34 am

Sprite have you found : the a kind of sausage, originally Italian, often flavored with garlic. sa 6?

3:34 am

no, but I have now, thanks :)

3:36 am

sorry am using laptop and making lots of typos

3:38 am

there is a swag of al & am words

3:41 am

I have this strange ho7/8 combo. I think it means resembling a human. The 8 ends in the robot ending. For the 7 drop one of the last vowels.

3:43 am

ohhhh... and do you have the tiny van mi7/44 that sounds like a granddaughter of jilli?

3:45 am

do know - though still don't know the name!

3:46 am

which name?

3:47 am

Jillis granddaughters

3:47 am

oh, I was not referring to a name, it was a clue, LOL. Look at the word and at jilli's name, you'll know what I meant :)

3:47 am

Ohhhhh - stupid me !

3:48 am

I only think of her as Jilli!

3:48 am

a bit farfetched I think

3:49 am

thnx sprite for the mi

3:49 am

yw :) It is tough going, isn't it?

3:50 am

yeah - its enough to make you vo***

3:50 am

I was trying to do it without list and clues. Started looking at the clues 5 minutes ago. Frustrated to ****

3:50 am

thanks! My first Vs... I was wondering how to ever make words start with that V.

3:51 am

pleasure - just worked it out!

fireworks! It has been tough & I would never have gotten it without Lickety!! May I help anyone?

3:51 am

YAY MomDee

3:51 am

yay volley

3:52 am

I want wombat!

ty

3:52 am

do you want a cute clue for the other V?

3:52 am

Woweeeee Dee! *F*IR*E*W*O*R*K*S** for you!

3:52 am

howl

3:52 am

I keep on seeing nubile

3:52 am

ooops!

3:52 am

Yay Volley!

never thought I would make it on this one

3:52 am

yay sprite.

3:52 am

oh yes please, lynxxx

anything I can help with?

3:52 am

vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

3:53 am

lollllll.... that was the clue?

I kept seeing nimble on night long

3:53 am

vees?

3:53 am

sure was - starts vr

3:53 am

thanks Dee, I still need so many I cannot really ask for clues.

3:53 am

Well I'm stumped lynxxx - something to ponder I suppose

3:54 am

I thought you went fireworks Sprite.

3:54 am

Think of Lynxx's clue and a motorcycle's sound

3:54 am

lol got it! You are right, it is a cute clue.

np I'll stop in later... have a wonderful day!!! poof

3:54 am

I used that in a scrabble game yesterdya LOL

3:54 am

Angb: no, Dee went fireworks, not me. I am only halfway.

3:54 am

Dr Bs clue I think

3:55 am

Did they accept it, Angb?

3:55 am

bye Dee

3:55 am

OK - I have got over 1/2 in every box. It was challenged of course. But valid - yeh

3:56 am

back again

3:56 am

hey, the V combo has a su variant.

3:57 am

Andree hi again

3:57 am

wb Andree

3:57 am

TY Sprite

3:57 am

And a am combo too

3:58 am

Thnx for the su sprite

3:58 am

this is hard work

3:59 am

it certainly is. Slow going and some pretty stupid words too.

3:59 am

Morning/afternoon/evening everyone. Another biggie again today, I can't cope with them, but I will try to do a few of the words

4:00 am

hey ExWren :)

4:00 am

Have you found the bananas? bo 6 and 7

4:01 am

hi ex wren

4:01 am

Just thought the banana word might just be a NZ brand!

4:01 am

are those bananas? I thought fish, lol.

4:01 am

I don't like the sound of your post regarding 'stupid words' Sprite!

4:01 am

Hello ExWren - good to see you

4:01 am

I thought that was a fish

4:02 am

The fish as an o on the end.

4:02 am

lots of REALLY stupid words ex

4:02 am

Good bait though

4:03 am

and rightly so, ExWren - some real unwords in this grid. Probably even more than I have :) Angb: just looked it up. Dictionary says B~o, Often incorrectly written ~a.

4:03 am

Thnx for that sprite

4:04 am

so you were right about the fish ending o

4:04 am

Good morning/evening all. I don't think I have time to start the grid just yet, but wanted to say hello and see what the lie of the land was.

4:04 am

hi Haz! Pretty tough going, this one.

4:05 am

it lies tough, Haz

4:05 am

Good evening Haz - not enjoying this grid

4:05 am

Well, that's really encouraged me!!

4:06 am

At least I know you're being honest.....

4:06 am

But glad to see you.

4:06 am

we are not luring you in with lies, that is something ;)

4:06 am

hi haz

4:06 am

do7/36 pastor, minister. Ends in double vowel.

4:07 am

Ah well, I'll view it as a challenge. Challenge, an experience, interesting - words that are charged with meaning, often negative!!

4:07 am

Morning Haz

4:07 am

Says "Good morning" with confidence but looks at the grid very tentatively

4:07 am

Hello FMitch - they say it has a government health warning.

4:07 am

Hello FM

4:08 am

And hello lynxxx and Andree - how are our warmer than us friends?

4:08 am

so true, Haz! I never apply for jobs that have those words in their ads. "Challinging job, no 9-5 mentality, for a creative teamplayer" - no thanks.

4:08 am

Hey FMitch

4:09 am

Hi FMitch

4:09 am

hi fmitch

4:09 am

Still slighly wet and much cooler - weather has moved to where Andree is

4:09 am

That's the sort of job where they give you everything to do and act surprised that you want to go home occasionally.

4:09 am

Glad it's cooler, lynxxx.

4:10 am

Exactly :) Did a few of them when I was still young and stupid.

4:10 am

Hi Lynx and Haz and sprite and Angb and Andre and everyone. I think I am going to be good and get "stuff" done before I even think about starting this

4:10 am

hot today but a cooler evening and cooler weather forecast

4:11 am

We can be disciplined together, FMitch.

4:11 am

I think I will give up for the nite. See ya all tomorrow if I get up the courage. Good nite

4:11 am

Nite AngB

4:11 am

Night Angb

4:11 am

Sleep well Angb - maybe the grid will look better in the morning.

4:11 am

nite angb

4:11 am

night Angb :)

4:12 am

Hmmm - I doubt it - but here's hoping

4:12 am

night ANgb

4:12 am

Good morning everyone. Don't think I've ever seen a bit grid that got sticky so quickly.

4:12 am

pity clouds still isn't the theme today

4:12 am

Hello Eva

4:12 am

no, it is nasty. Hi Eva

4:12 am

hi eva

4:12 am

Oh well, there seems to be a concensus of opinion on this grid.

4:13 am

And even Rambo isn't acceptable to hlep us out of this mess.

4:13 am

hi eva

4:13 am

should we put the cubes back in the box and shake it up again?

4:13 am

Time to go!

4:13 am

just checked in - this might be one grid I pass on, I agree eva. Hi and good night, all - I'm on my 3rd night of no sleep and tomorrow (today) will have a hard time rooting for Da Bears if I don't get at least some shut eye!

4:14 am

let's do that, Eva :D

4:14 am

night babbz

4:14 am

I have seen one person finish so far Haz I will be off too then if we are going to be disciplined together. Happy Babbling and good luck!!

4:15 am

see you later, FMitch and Haz

4:15 am

I have 2 left -- but I've been at it for over 3 hours.

4:15 am

omg ARB!

4:15 am

one left

4:15 am

down to 70 and already here for a long time

4:16 am

go ARB goooooo!

4:16 am

Wow ARB ! surely not without a list!

4:16 am

arb, I have been at it for 3 hours too, have 140 left, lol

4:17 am

Are you nuts? Of course with Lickety's help plus a little help from my other friends (dictionaries). Fireworks

4:17 am

yeah ARB! Well done!

4:17 am

yay arb

4:17 am

Woohoo! doesn't matter how you get this one done. Congratulations ARB

4:18 am

If it is any consolation, I will use Lickety's list too today. No way I can finish it without help

4:18 am

Lots of words ending in vowels. Lots of words I have never seen. A challenge, if there ever was one.

4:20 am

I'm not proud. I use all the help I can get! I will try harder without a dictionary if the list is shorter.

4:20 am

BBS

4:21 am

yeah, same here. I just opened A2Z as well.

4:21 am

wtg arb

4:21 am

bye lynxxx

4:21 am

later lynxxx

4:21 am

the longer the grid the sooner I get the list

4:21 am

Bye Lynxxx

4:22 am

Sometimes there are big grids that flow so easily, I get 3/4 done without trying hard. But there are smaller ones that can drive me bananas before halfway. And this one combines the worst of both worlds ;)

4:23 am

I try to hold out till I have at least half and sometimes manage to get to 70%, but I don't think I have finished without the list and I've only finished a few times without the Z2Z lists

4:24 am

I start typing words in every language I can think of. Sometimes it works!

4:24 am

When I first started playing babble, I think it was Atalante who told me: only looking up the actual words is cheating. All the rest is research :D

4:24 am

oh yes, many words in other languages are valid... and many english words aren't.

4:24 am

walt

4:25 am

drat!

4:25 am

not found in the dictionary

4:25 am

and drat is not found in this puzzle, LOL

4:26 am

you never know when proper name also turn out to be words. Drat was the sanitized version of my internal vocalization

4:26 am

grin, thought as much. Couldn't resist teasing though.

4:27 am

Im even trying hebrew...that's a stretch

4:28 am

in some grids that really works well

4:28 am

There are two Hebrew words -- folk dance and its plural. Do you want any more clues?

4:28 am

yeah, but conjugating hebrew verbs in english doesn't

4:28 am

please (hi)

4:28 am

thanks ARB-hdan't seen those obvious ones yet

4:28 am

hi kanga

4:29 am

ho 4/5 and ho 5/12

4:29 am

thanks arb

4:29 am

hi kanga

4:30 am

lots of dances in this grid

4:30 am

yw

4:30 am

hi andree. shouldn't be here, should be cleaning house!

4:31 am

why clean if you are going away tomorrow

4:31 am

need to do something more soothing so I can fall back to sleep (maybe). See you all later.

4:31 am

cos my sister just asked if she could stay in my house while we were away

4:31 am

night Eva

4:31 am

bye eva

4:31 am

bye eva

4:32 am

and you did not answer your sister: "Sure, but you will have to clean it then!" ?

4:32 am

any other sister ... but this one is in the middle of chemo

4:33 am

ow, gosh sorry. No, then I understand you want her to have it as good as possible. How is she holding up?

4:33 am

you're a good sister

4:33 am

surprisingly well. she is astonishing. says it improves her arthritis.

4:33 am

Your sis sounds like a winner. What a great way to look at things.

4:34 am

she has her moments. difficult for the rest of us to keep up with!

4:34 am

good on her

4:34 am

my sister was diagnosed on thursday with a brain tumour

4:35 am

lord andree, i'm sorry. i know how hard this stuff is.

4:35 am

How is she doing? How are all of you doing? What a blow.

4:35 am

(((Andree))) That is terrible, what a blow.

4:35 am

if you have brain tumour she has the best you can have, meningioma, very good prognosis

4:36 am

that's a bit of a relief. but it is always so hard. my father's just had his bad prognosis revised to great, and we are all feeling better.

4:37 am

she flew to tasmania today to tell her kids and will have surgery mid feb, not cancer they say

4:37 am

my prayers are with all of you.

4:37 am

best wishes for your family, andree.

4:37 am

a real tough break, but good there are some lightpoints to it all. Will think of you all.

4:38 am

I am the only one she has told now I have told babble world, duh

4:38 am

my lips are sealed

4:38 am

Well, we don't know your sister, so it doesn't count. You told your babble support group - you're entitled to.

4:39 am

by now she will have told her kids , she has given me the job of telling my other sisters tomorrow

4:39 am

Not easy, Andree

4:39 am

tough one andree.

4:39 am

I am a tough old bird

4:40 am

and so is she

4:40 am

they breed us like that down here!

4:40 am

Sure you are. And who is there to give you support, dear tough old bird?

4:41 am

Hi everyone. Andree, I a, sorry to hear about your sister. I pray all goes well. :)

4:41 am

I have great kids who will help if I need it

4:41 am

hi Bittong

4:41 am

hi bilt

4:41 am

Does this grid look unfriendly, or is it just me?

4:41 am

Glad to hear it, Andree. Being tough is okay, as long as you don't have to cope all by yourself.

4:42 am

All good wishes to your sister, and to you and the others in the family Andree. It's a worrying time for you all xx

4:42 am

Hi Biltong. It is very tough

4:42 am

and hello everyone :)

4:42 am

Bittong: nasty grid today

4:42 am

thx all, will have more news when surgery is scheduled

4:43 am

((((kanga and Andree)))) Will pray for you and yours.

4:43 am

hi Karys

4:43 am

thank you sprite

4:44 am

well said Sprite

4:44 am

thx all

4:45 am

I'm back. Bad news Kanga & Andree - but I bet they are glad you are both around - you both seem such 'pillars of strength'. I am sure they will both come through it all

4:45 am

How can there possibly be 22 m's? lol.

4:46 am

hi lynxxx

4:46 am

I just finished m's bilt, it was a marathon

4:46 am

Hello Bittong. Is you daughter still with you?

4:46 am

not enjoying this at all

4:46 am

Just finisned them, with help from Lickety. Most are not too bad.

4:46 am

Ooh, well done Andree!

4:46 am

thx lynxxx

4:47 am

ssorry Kanga....just read back...of course all good wishes to you too x

4:47 am

sprite, it must be tough. As far as I know you normally don't use the list. Doesn't bode well for me!

4:47 am

Hello Karys

4:47 am

thanks karys, not offended at all!

4:48 am

Nope, usually I struggle along without the list, but I can't finish this one without help.

4:48 am

:)

4:49 am

I will be off now, may try from work tomorrow, happy babbling all

4:49 am

happy camping trip kanga

4:49 am

bye andree, best wishes

4:49 am

Bye Andree

4:49 am

bye Andree, *hug*

4:49 am

bye Andree

4:50 am

bye Andree, take care

4:50 am

some of these words are just plain wrong!

4:50 am

I agree

4:53 am

I am monkeytyping my head off

4:54 am

takes the fun out, a little

4:54 am

me too....and then you find a dear little word !

4:54 am

that's what keeps me going, Karys :)

4:55 am

I smiled to myself to see the litany of al's from the word list that seems to stick in my head

4:56 am

Good day, Babblers. A bigger grid than I expected after first review of the letters. How is it?

4:56 am

ok, better go and clean before i lost it! thanks for all the kind words, and see you later.

4:57 am

yes, they are great. I also smiled when I found Li6/27 and Po4/5 - 5/12 right after another.

4:57 am

Bye kanga *hug* Hope you have a great trip.

4:57 am

thanks sprite. hope so! *poof*

4:57 am

bye kanga

4:57 am

now why didn't I have to look at my list to see which ones you meant !!!

4:58 am

bye Kanga

4:58 am

Hi Scrabbler! It is just as you would think - all the words that make the grid this size are unwords.

4:58 am

lol Karys :)

4:59 am

I love finding "unwords". It's always a surprise.

5:00 am

Then you're in for a lot of surprises today, Scrabbler :)

5:02 am

Let me give you an impression. There is Sa6, tasty sausage with garlic. Great word. But for Sa5 drop middle vowel. And then plural for another Sa6. Now those are unwords.

5:02 am

***searching for sausage***

5:02 am

thanks, sprite :)

5:03 am

ty sprite...hadn't tried that !

5:03 am

monkied it because Lickety said there had to be words there.

5:03 am

Got 'em--TY Sprite

5:03 am

yw :)

5:03 am

sm5.12 & 6.21 - now what are they? I could cope if they had a z near the end

thanks Sprite

5:04 am

Isn't that an italian kind of sausage?

5:04 am

ty sprite that bumps up my miserable score!!!!

5:04 am

got one sm5/12 lynxxx

5:05 am

Yes, I believe it is, Bittong. Sm5/12: a coloring agent made of blue glass produced by fusing silica, potassium carbonate, and cobalt oxide, used in powdered form to add color to vitreous materials. As if we want to know that. But that strange 6 is not listed there.

5:06 am

ty sprite, after reading that I put the vowel on the end

5:06 am

ok, found it. It has the same def. Italian plural. They are used in mosaics.

5:06 am

Have to go now. See you later. Happy hunting everyone!

5:06 am

bye Bittong!

5:06 am

and here I was thinking it was goose fat or similar!

5:06 am

bye Bilt

5:06 am

Bye Bittong

5:07 am

At least we can boast we learned something new from our babbling today ;)

5:07 am

but will we remember it !

5:07 am

We are increasing our Word Power. My goal today is to use sm6 in a sentence.

5:08 am

LOL Scrabbler

5:08 am

Not verbally, but we will remember there were words with those letters... and perhaps we will vaguely remember they had to do with coloring glass :)

5:09 am

That is easy, Scrabbler. I needed sm6 to make a mosaic of my in4/4 ;)

5:09 am

well..... I'll try !

5:09 am

There is a lot of vagueness with many babble words..."I think that was here once, let me try that..."

5:10 am

TY Sprite, for in4, I have only been working on the bottom half of the grid so far.

5:10 am

there is a lot of ohhhh yes... I think I remeber that now

5:12 am

back in a bit....doing the ironing you know

5:12 am

I recognize that completely, Scrabbler. I often think something like that - usually there is one letter missing, of course, but sometimes it works :)

5:13 am

One of my monkeys is named "Babblette"--female, of course.

5:13 am

must be the leader of the pack, Scrabbler :)

5:13 am

bye Karys, hf

5:14 am

She gets extra treats!

5:14 am

Lots of bo7 for her today

5:15 am

TY for 2 words, Sprite!

5:15 am

yvw :)

5:18 am

OK, bottom half is "done" for now--time to look up.

5:18 am

good job!

5:19 am

Hinus is not a word. Don't they call the Queen, Your Hinus. LOL

5:19 am

LOL!

5:20 am

Very close to another word though

5:20 am

Such desperation.......ooo, I'll look.

5:21 am

Ah, found it. TY

5:21 am

Lol, I am getting ideas for a nice poem with those two :)

5:22 am

Uh oh, I just noticed the "un"--are there lots of "un" words.

5:22 am

Or a limerick.

5:22 am

with a man named Linus

5:22 am

Only one Scrabbler

5:22 am

Only one real UN-word, and none of the uns are stupid.

5:24 am

I found an "un + verb"--is that the only one?

5:25 am

Thanks to Lickety, the chat and A2Z I have fireworks. Yes Scrabbler, that is the one.

5:25 am

NM--U's are now done--I answered my own question.

5:25 am

Congrats Sprite!

5:25 am

Yahoooooo Sprite. Only 197 to go for me.

5:26 am

Any clues I can help with?

5:27 am

How about the 9 and 8's? I have 5 min then have to get ready to make hospital rounds.

5:27 am

Pr8 and 9, to ban / bans.

5:27 am

Ad7 and 8 have the same last part as the Pr.

5:28 am

TY! Never heard of the ad words.

5:28 am

Well done sprite, I only have 260 to find!

5:28 am

Same here, completely new to me.

5:28 am

that close, ExWren! Go for it! :)

5:29 am

ExWren--come on, I see fireworks close to you!

5:29 am

late flip!

5:30 am

The top half of the grid is not as fun as the lower half.

5:30 am

hey Fran!

5:30 am

hi sprite!

5:30 am

Only 5 1/2 hrs late, Fran--did you oversleep?

5:31 am

Fran wanted to show us how fast she can do a nasty grid :)

5:31 am

lol scrabbler! no, went out to dinner, got back late

5:31 am

What time is it there?

5:31 am

i haven't been to sleep yet, it's 1:30

5:31 am

I have a hard time keeping track of everyone's time zones.

5:31 am

in that case, don't start, Fran. Go to bed :)

5:31 am

oh no, is it a bad one?

5:32 am

For me the flip is at 1 AM--so I only stayed up for it once.

5:32 am

yup, not very nice. Some pretty words, but lots andlots of unwords.

5:32 am

+ space somewhere

5:32 am

i think i will go to sleep then and tackle this tomorrow.

5:33 am

so you're up early then scrabbler.

5:33 am

New babble definition: babblets are recurring unwords.

5:33 am

Mornin' or Good Evenin' to all!

5:33 am

I got up extra early, Fran. I have to get to the hospitals then the office to see sick kids. I will be back later today.

5:33 am

hey Odin

5:34 am

hi Odin

5:34 am

hi odin!

5:34 am

well, i'm going to do sudoku and then go to bed then.

5:34 am

not an easy job, Scrabbler

5:34 am

night/morning to everyone!

5:34 am

Mornin' Sprite, Fran, Scrabbler and anyone I missed. Big grid today.

5:35 am

81 done, 186 to go------aaaaarrrrrrrgggghhhhhh.

5:35 am

See you later, folks.

5:35 am

I'll join you for sudoku, Fran. You all have a great day/night/whatever and happy babbling!

5:35 am

Wow...just started and it looks tough.

5:39 am

Hi Odin. It is.. a lot of words are there but seem quite hidden until you use a list. but thee are a lot of 'words' I've never seen before

5:40 am

Hey lynxxx...I'm beginning to think I haven't seen many of them. Monkeying will be by best option!

5:43 am

Morning or Evening All - grid looks mean today

5:44 am

Hi Kazzer

5:45 am

Mornin' Kazzer

5:45 am

I have managed to get 108 but have got stuck now

5:46 am

I scraped through to halfway but then went to list

5:46 am

I have 102 and struggling...

5:47 am

anybody got a clue for ad 5/10

5:47 am

I have alot of ad's but no 5/10

5:48 am

no ad 5.10 - ?

5:49 am

do you mean al5.10 Kazzer?

5:50 am

oops ad 5/20 - prob find it myself now I am looking for the right numbers

5:51 am

a & opp of up - go figure!

5:52 am

ty and ty for al 5/10 - this grid is so weird that i ma having probs even seeing the 'real' words

5:55 am

good morning everybody:)

5:56 am

Hi Jean

5:56 am

Hi Jean

6:24 am

hi all...would someone pls clue the sa6/21?

6:24 am

Hello GraceM:)

6:25 am

sa 6/21 slice up this meat and serve with crackers and cheese

6:25 am

Havent got that one yet grace sorry

6:25 am

sa6.21 sa + vowel + abbrev for 60 seconds

6:25 am

thanx patact:)

6:25 am

I need the sa6 before that one patact...thx

6:26 am

after the boat part.

6:26 am

Thats my one then Grace

6:27 am

before that too I believe lynxxx...

6:27 am

There is none before that Grace

6:28 am

there is 3 sa6.21. My cle is first, then the meat, then another

6:29 am

ah, I thought you were cluing the one after the meat... sorry and thx.

6:31 am

S done!

6:45 am

got to go bbl happy babbling everybody:)

6:45 am

Good morning everyone. Not to bad looking a grid for a beautiful Sunday morning.........

6:47 am

morning all any clues for ad 7/44

6:47 am

Nite all - going to sleep here. 37 left. ida - don't be fooled

6:49 am

last clue Majmom pr8/60 & 9.78 means to ban. You can change the start of that for the ad you want

6:53 am

ty lynxxx-took a min but found it

6:54 am

thanx lynxxx......

morning fellow babblers

having a tough time with this puzzle, can someone clue the bi 5/14 pls and ty

just got it, always the way, ask and you shall find it

lol

7:03 am

aibils

7:04 am

sorry just monkeying

7:07 am

greetings all

7:11 am

greetings all

7:14 am

where is everyone?

hello

7:15 am

hello movieman - I've just logged on myself

Sorry movie, I wasn't watching the grid. I was trying to get as many in 15 mins.

7:16 am

*waves*

7:16 am

Hello movieman....I'm doing the ironing !

7:16 am

roman

I mean I wasn't watching the chat.

7:16 am

whoops!

7:16 am

that's better, now i have someone to ask about the 7s, 8s and the 9......clue me plz

7:17 am

pr8 and 9.....bans

pr 8 + 9 ban from doing something

7:18 am

ad7 and 8....change the first 2 letters

ad 7 ad + last part of the one just clued

7:18 am

lol nonnie

7:18 am

I'm still one 8 missing

:o) we're thinking alike!

me too!

I have to go...maybe see you all later? Have a good day and great fun babbling

7:20 am

later Nonnie :)

7:20 am

later nonnie and ty

You're very welcome, movieman

7:26 am

does anyone have the do7?

Hiya

7:28 am

Hello all...this is a tough grid. Anyone have the in7?

7:28 am

no in7 here yet...

7:29 am

I'm looking for the ho7 and the do7...

7:31 am

if you have the do 6/24, change the last voel to two other vowels

7:32 am

thx neschen

7:34 am

no problem. I'm lost on the hi7 and the in7 myself

7:35 am

initial

7:35 am

hi7- male pronoun + outdoor p**** (change last vowel)

7:38 am

Good Morning Babblers!

7:38 am

Hello. ho7 - ho** sapiens is the only one of this family left. ho8 is related. in7 = inherent.

7:38 am

Looks like a marathon today... May I have a word total please?

7:38 am

Must get back to preparing dinner now!

7:39 am

Lori - 267

7:39 am

Thank ye Jacula

7:39 am

Have a good dinner!

7:39 am

BBL.

7:40 am

No re words. Yea!!!!!!!

7:44 am

only i, o, u left!

7:44 am

Go Grace!

7:48 am

Found the in7 if anyone is still looking= in + bu5/16. Usually I think of this term in the reverse order.

7:50 am

how about the ob7?

7:51 am

do you have the ob 6/24?

7:51 am

yes...

7:51 am

add a vowel

7:52 am

weird word!

7:52 am

totally

7:52 am

thanks cathy

7:53 am

Fireworks!!

7:53 am

Congrats Grace!

7:53 am

yw - and thx for the ob7 clue. didn't have that one

7:54 am

Thanks Cathy...for the in7

7:54 am

morning! ok, how is the ro5/12 not a proper noun?

7:55 am

G'd morning feather

7:55 am

I wondered that myself, feather, but I was happy when I tried it and it worked!

8:03 am

Hi everybody. If you"re talking about thr ro5 I have, it's a novel.

8:04 am

ah, thanks gramma

8:07 am

G'd morning gramma.

8:07 am

really? didn't know that one. playing this game, I'm always learning something new . thnx gramma :)

8:08 am

I just scrolled down, looking for clues, but my mind isn't engaged yet. None of it made sense. I have to play a bit and get my brain working.

8:13 am

I thought nambie was a word. My Dad used it. ....like lily livered, nambie pambie.

8:14 am

namby

8:14 am

Oooh. ty

8:14 am

:-D

8:17 am

The al's first 5/12 and last 5/10 please?

8:17 am

I'm so angry. I'm libid!

8:18 am

ai6/24 please

8:18 am

al5 Battle of the Al***

8:18 am

ai6 compound word help + male

8:18 am

thx une

8:19 am

yw :-)

8:19 am

LOL gramma, thank ye Une

8:20 am

gotta run--BBL--happy babbling!

8:20 am

I'm afraid it's going to be one of those days. Just making up words, totally convinced they're real.

8:21 am

bye une

8:21 am

yeah, i'm not doing well with the first two rows of the grid at all

8:21 am

Later Une

8:21 am

some of them are in this grid

8:21 am

still missing four 7's.........i have ad7, do7, hi7, ho7, in7, and ob7.......clue me plz

8:21 am

wasn't till I hit the M that i started getting any kind of words in mass quantities

8:22 am

Hello, everyone, back to type my words in.

8:22 am

G'd morning Merk

8:23 am

The last al 5/10 please?

8:24 am

I don't have the ho7

8:24 am

Lori - getting married ... going to the al***

8:25 am

Ack! Thank ye Cathy. (coulda' sworn I tried that...) :(

8:25 am

yw -- happens to me all the time !

8:25 am

still missing four 7's.........i have ad7, do7, hi7, ho7, in7, and ob7.......clue me plz

8:26 am

sorry, can't help you, I only have 3 7's.

8:26 am

movieman, I have in7. Want to share the others?

8:27 am

gramma - ad7= like the pr8, but different beginning

8:28 am

PR8???? you've got to be kidding ;) No way, movieman. Let's start there then

8:28 am

do7= like a game tile with dots, but change the last vowel for two other ones

8:28 am

bo7 - plural of bo6. Think it means beautiful in Portugese

8:29 am

pr8= to ban something

8:29 am

ty

8:30 am

clue for ad8,60 plz

8:30 am

I don't have the bo6 yet

8:30 am

kwizno123 - add an s to the ad7

8:30 am

plural the ad7

8:31 am

the bo 6 is also a kind if fish

8:31 am

doxy - bo6 = madonna song - la isla b*****

8:31 am

My English is bad enough, let's not be dragging the Portugese into this.

8:32 am

bo6 = madonna song - la isla b*****

8:32 am

lol gramma -- don't worry, I only spent 3 days in Brazil one time so Portugese is VERY limited :)

8:32 am

thx, got it

8:33 am

i don't even know the madonna song

8:33 am

that's surprising, doxy, considering the song is over 20 years old.......

8:33 am

Limited! ah yes that's what I'd call it. or nonexistent

8:34 am

KateQ, the fish did it. ty

8:34 am

I'm old enough, I just don't listen to her

8:36 am

Keep going movieman! I'm finally with you on the BO fish.

8:37 am

yw!

8:38 am

do7= like a game tile with dots, but change the last vowel for two other ones

8:38 am

sail

8:38 am

tail

8:38 am

ho7= a scientific term for a human being.......

8:38 am

Got it ty, movieman.

8:38 am

kate, cute icon

8:38 am

sorry!!!

8:39 am

gramma, did you get the ho7?

8:40 am

Heck no

8:40 am

wow. is it me, or is this one tough?

8:41 am

it's a toughie

8:41 am

done with my first run through. didn't quite get to halfway though. i'll be back later.

8:41 am

i'm STILL working on the bo6 AND the ho7

8:42 am

bo + a girls name a****

8:43 am

ho7= h*** and away (no e)+opposite of out+3rd vowel+4th letter

8:44 am

thx movieman - got the ho finally!

thanks movieman

8:45 am

Thanks movieman 8)

8:45 am

for the ho8, add an o between the n and the i......

8:46 am

thanks movieman

8:46 am

thx movieman

8:46 am

Need more coffee....brb

8:47 am

Hi all, got the pr8 and 9 and ho8 thanks to great clues

8:47 am

clue for the last 8 please

8:47 am

ob7= o+bl5/14+3rd vowel

8:47 am

blast

8:47 am

thx movieman

8:48 am

oops, sorry, I will go back to my corner now

8:48 am

peri - ad7 & 8 = same as pr8 & 9, but change the beginning letters

8:48 am

hey all

8:48 am

thanks mm new words for me

8:48 am

hey kate

8:49 am

prawn

8:49 am

hey, katie

8:49 am

aw crap, sorry again

8:49 am

I am trying to keep my right arm on a pillow due to rotator cuff problems and it is causing havoc here

8:50 am

we'll let you off peri

8:50 am

:0)

8:51 am

I can't believe I only have 11 days left here

8:52 am

All of the passports in order now then Kate

8:52 am

February 1st can't come quick enough, can it katie

8:52 am

Peri, I think I have rotator cuff problem also, but have to leave right now to pick up our new second hand volvo on the Ohio Turnpike. Talk to you about that another time. Still need 73 words. Will have to come back later,

did you get some help to get out I have not seen you in a while

8:52 am

no I'm still waiting for my eldest's, I'm going to give them a call tomorrow and see what's going on with it

8:53 am

yes sudoku, James came through with the money from a loan

8:53 am

Hi Kate, glad to read all is working out. oops, one more passport needed. It will work out too

8:54 am

I was going to wait til I had the passports and cash in my hand before I booked my flight, but my dad kept teasing that it would sell out so I booked it in a panic

8:54 am

*poof*

8:54 am

Is he paying back the loan, or will you have to contribute?

8:55 am

no he's paying it all back

Good morning, I need two clues on for the first sa6/21 and the third 8 after ad8 and pr8 which I have. thanks

8:56 am

my a's are done.

8:56 am

marc - do you have the ho7?

good morning

8:56 am

That's a consolation then, he's not all bad!

8:56 am

marc. ho8 - another word for a human being.

8:56 am

congrats kthdsn. I hope things go better for you.

8:56 am

hello babblers

8:56 am

no we've been getting on really well again lately

8:56 am

Don't weaken

8:56 am

ty doxy, hi blood

yes I have the ho7

8:57 am

marc - then add an o between the n and the i

8:57 am

I'm not weakening, I have no interest in being with him any more, I'm just so excited about my new start and I can't wait to get out there and begin

8:57 am

have to go for now. will be back later

thanks movieman and Bloodaxe got it now need the first sa6/21 it is driving me crazy

8:58 am

do you have the meat Marc?

What do you mean by meat?

8:59 am

I'm beginning to realise all the things I will miss here though, friends, family, places, one person in particular who I've grown really close to lately, but I don't think I will really miss James that much if at all

8:59 am

a "tube" of meat...pork, seasoned...looks like summer sausage.

8:59 am

morning everybody

8:59 am

got to go now for a while, will be back. I've still only managed 20 words.

goodmorning everybody!

is ho8 related to ho7???

9:00 am

Hi, melon

heyCharm

I have no idea what you are talking about Blood

9:00 am

yes melonhead

9:01 am

haha..it's an Italian meat, Genoa Sa****

9:01 am

Marc - do you have the italian cured meat?

9:01 am

bbl

9:01 am

any clues for the 1st am 5/12

whee - got the in7

tx moviemand

9:02 am

Morning everyone. I haven't been around for a while. How are y'all?

Blood I have that one it is the first sa6 that I need the one after what you do at see in a special boat you sa**.

9:02 am

Hey, msree

9:02 am

Hi All again went off for some lunch

9:02 am

well I guess I should go and get some organising done, the packing won't do itself and I have 9 days to finish it all!

9:03 am

that's the only sa6 i have at the moment marc.

am i just adding a letter to the end of ho7? that doesn't seem to work -

9:03 am

Hi Charm, I missed you and Opus.

hora

wooops!

Anyone else can help me with the first sa6/21 I don't think it's there.

9:04 am

marc italian meat is first sa 6/21 2nd is another name for itailian sauce - take out 2nd first vowel and then pluralise

add an o between n and i

that was for the ho8

9:04 am

am 5/16 any hints?

ooooooh, the adjective - saw it just as you gave the hint - tx sudokuaddict

yw i got it from movieman

9:07 am

am5 = am + shave & a haircut, 2 ***(*). am6 is....

9:09 am

ty charm

9:09 am

bits

9:10 am

majmom, got it.

Are we looking at the same grid. I am telling you there is a sa6/21 before the italian sausage. There are three sa6/21's. I first sa is a sa4 for a way of boating then the sa5/10 is it's plural then the sa6/21 which I cannot find and then a sa4 which means your are not crazy which I am feeling right now. It has to sart with sa+third vowel and then I am stumped.

9:10 am

Marc Italian meat is the 2nd sa6/21, 1st is sa + 3rd vowel + wait a ***ute; I know this clue was too easy, but I can't help it

9:11 am

sorry

9:12 am

msree, ty

Thainks msree, I did not realize that was an Italian meat as the 2nd sa6 is an Italian meat. Sorry everyone. I have to go now. Have a great day.

9:13 am

Sorry Mark ty msree - got it as well

9:13 am

Marc before you go, what is your icon?

9:13 am

yw gramma and Marc

It is the logo for my company and the principle in my book. It is about the orange ball which is a simbol I use for clarifying who is in control in any negotiation or renegotiation. Who has the Orange Ball. You can go to my website at www.therenegotiator.com.

9:15 am

bi 5/16 any clues

9:16 am

"beamers"

it looks almost like a lisa Yuskavage painting, which would not be very logo-worthy ;)

9:16 am

thanks for the info. it looked familiar, but I thought it was from an album cover. I'll check out the website.

9:17 am

Alex7777, what do you mean by beamers?

9:18 am

a clue to bi5/16

beamer is punny - soundalike for stage.

9:19 am

msree, Pet Shop Boys?

9:19 am

I don't understand the hint. Would you mind trying something else for the feeble minded?

9:19 am

I was actually thinking REM maybe, Blood.

soundalike if you are from the eastern seabohd that is.

OK here' s a bi4 and 5 hiny "dual moms"

9:20 am

the bi 5/16, sounds like beamers

hint not hiny this is what happens wen i tyoe sidesaddle

9:21 am

ty got the bi 5/16

9:22 am

majmom, I'm still not catching on.

9:23 am

plural of bi4/7

bi + not pas

9:23 am

hi all. happy sunday.

btw gramma - your grandbaby is adorable!

sorry bi + not pa but **

hey gailnrb

9:23 am

Thanks. I love her beyond the beyond!

9:23 am

this puzzle is a tricky one, eh?

9:24 am

any clues for hi 7

9:24 am

I finally got it. Just shy of having someone come over and type it in for me.

9:25 am

i need hi words too

9:25 am

HI7 = hi + opp of pa + *** Maria (liqueur)

9:25 am

the 1st AD5?

9:25 am

please

9:25 am

himastia

9:25 am

close, alex!

9:26 am

almost

9:26 am

oopsy

9:26 am

ad5 = ad + male

9:26 am

Charm, ty

9:26 am

[erases one consonant in alex' word]

9:27 am

thanks

9:27 am

hi 7/36= male pronoun + 1st vowel + spanish aunt

9:27 am

hello, all!

9:28 am

hiya pam

9:28 am

whew. fireworks, finally.

9:28 am

i'm going to quit on 76, how many there are there all together?

9:28 am

hi, gail

9:28 am

bi 7/14-looking+++ but not finding..any help?

9:28 am

a whole dang bunch, alex --- 267

taDah! gail!

9:29 am

must be a lot of weird words

9:29 am

don't think there's a bi7....

9:29 am

ty

9:29 am

always are weird words, alex. lol.

9:30 am

there's a bi5/14

9:30 am

sorry bi5/14

Alex, there interesting words - i can't tell you how glad i was to have a grid with no "ante" or "tern" :D

they're - wot happened to my gremmer!

9:30 am

lol, melon. nor "etna"!

9:31 am

bi5 = bi + ***picking. bi6 is pl.

9:31 am

bi 5/14 = bi + louse eggs (!)

9:31 am

ty charm - what strange words today

9:31 am

Thks Charm.

quite a few end in a non-E vowel or 2 -

9:32 am

ty charm and qail

9:32 am

just when you think you've got a handle on the words, the grid throws some curves at you!

9:32 am

good afternoon : )

9:33 am

clue for bo6 please

9:33 am

hi babbler

9:33 am

bo 6/24 = a name for a tuna

9:34 am

hi babsy boo

9:34 am

or, bo + louse egg + 1st vowel, then plural for the b07.

9:34 am

ho6/36 plz

9:35 am

hey nutty : )

9:35 am

sorta like what a cowboy says, movieman.

9:35 am

thanks got it.

9:35 am

ty

9:35 am

a cowboy greeting, but spelled with a different ending.

9:35 am

ho**** pardner

9:35 am

ty gailinrb

9:36 am

al6? before the false name, please.

9:36 am

y/w. i struggled with that ho 6 myself.

9:36 am

Any clues for the v words?

9:36 am

al6 - unnaturally white. al**** aligator. The al**** from Princess Bride (or DaVinci Code)

9:36 am

al6--lacking color gramma

9:36 am

al 6 = white man

9:36 am

strider vo to be sick

9:37 am

thks kazzer

9:37 am

Oh for goodness sake! I have it.

9:37 am

the v words --- two are to throw up - singular and plural.

9:37 am

ai6 please

9:38 am

oggy - help plus male person

9:38 am

Strider, I just took a look at your icon--beautiful dog!

9:38 am

Hello!

9:38 am

the 3 v word is a vr 4

9:38 am

ai6 - ai* (help) + male

9:38 am

thks gailinrb

9:38 am

thanks kazzer/charm

9:39 am

*3rd v word, i meant. and it isn't a word. LOL.

9:39 am

thanks for the vr, strider

9:39 am

Hi ypsigirl

halfway with all the 7s and greater - will stick around a few min to give clues :)

oh, i forgot - mediocrity attained!!!!

9:39 am

you go, melon!

oh, i'm done - mediocrity is my "half vast" goal ;)

9:40 am

har.

9:41 am

9:41 am

hey inge

9:41 am

hi, inge

this is cute ro6 is a flamboynat NBA star.

howzat again inge?

9:43 am

"flamboyant" is putting it mildly! lol

i need in 7, mi 7, st 7, and su 7 any clues?

su7 gives in

mi7 - a little van

9:44 am

in 7 = in + bu 5

in7 - installed usually the -in would be at the end of this word.

st7 is from greek drama: go left til you can't then diagonal - finish with a vowel

9:46 am

that st 7 is a greek chorale ode (sure, i knew that! lol). st + 1st vowel + si 5/12, singular

good morning everybody... i was asleep for the flip. how's the grid? yikes 267 words! is this fair to a brand newbie??? lol

9:47 am

just one of those words one uses in everyday language, right, melon? ;-[}

actually, my kid was taking drama in HS - so I did too hear of that - but only just this week!

9:47 am

aww, go for it, ad!

ADHDW - it's a fun grid - just enjoy.

9:47 am

wow, melon! no kidding.

thank you that finished the 7 for me

9:48 am

yay, sudoku.

bye, ciao, l'hit, abientot for awhile - gotta do "real" things. {poof}

oh i will. i was jk. i play scrabulous and am bringing buddies over to this great fun site

whoever invented this game is a whiz

9:49 am

be forewarned, however: there are a few non-words (as usual).

9:49 am

bye melon.

non-words? what are non-words?

9:49 am

words that aren't in the dictionary when you click on the question mark in the word list!

9:49 am

a few non-words? a few?

9:50 am

a few more

9:50 am

har!

9:50 am

aaaaaaargggggggh!

oh lol is that what the ? mark is for

9:51 am

hey nut. THAT word should be in the dictionary, for sure.

9:51 am

thought it was?

9:51 am

it's in mine ; )

9:51 am

it's in mine, too.

9:52 am

going for a coffee refill. afk.

last ad5/20? plz and ty

9:53 am

system of * ****; name of rock group

adhd i tried your fowl words pretty fun

what fowl words?

ty msree great clue

9:54 am

i prefer foul words

it wasn't you that gave the clue to a game called fowl words yesterday? sorry i thought it was

9:55 am

mo6/21 plz

that's ok i wish i could take the credit, but kudos to whoever gave you the good clue lol

9:55 am

yw and ty Sudoku

9:56 am

think ethics, movieman

9:56 am

do 7/36 any clues

9:56 am

do you have mo 5 12?

9:56 am

ty, elisabet

9:57 am

do7 = like the do6 (game with black & white tiles) but change the last vowel to 2 other vowels.

9:58 am

i am really sutck on the ims

9:58 am

done. sorry, can't stay to clue (parents are visiting and getting restless). happy babbling and see y'all tomorrow.

9:58 am

bye charm!

IM + driver's license

IM4 sry

9:59 am

do 7/36= like a man's name, but change the last letter to a vowel.

don't know which one... don't know how u tell which one

9:59 am

kazzer, muslim clerical title (and plural)

10:00 am

ty Charm and bye

10:00 am

got that one after the last im 4 and last im 5/12

10:00 am

AD, you compare the words you have to lickety's list.

10:03 am

li6/30 please

10:03 am

li 6/30 = like a cloud, 'cept with an L.

10:04 am

Clue for the first ad 7/44?

10:04 am

ty charm

10:04 am

huh?

10:04 am

ty gail

10:06 am

well.

10:06 am

thanks gail got it

10:06 am

only 1 ad 7/44, which is ad + the last two syllables of the big pr word (then plural)

10:06 am

hey hurshy

like the pro 7,8 but with ad instead of pro

10:06 am

Babble has rewired my brain. I am typing words I do not know expecting them to be accepted and they are.

10:07 am

lol, dr. apparently that's the trick! lol

10:07 am

thks gailinrb and sudoku

10:07 am

y/w

10:07 am

this is quite the... quite the... ... ... words fail me

yw

10:07 am

hey, DR. how's du-lute? ;-[}

10:08 am

ooo, hurshy. bad time for words to fail you. lol.

10:08 am

i've only found one big word - do7

10:08 am

DR, i was born and raised in mpls.

ad7/44 clue anyone??

10:09 am

We are waiting for winter up here. Not much success yet.

10:09 am

I think we need the pr 6/7 clue, ADHD

10:09 am

just clued that one, AD. See 10:06

tx gail

10:10 am

gee, sublawns seems like a perfectly find compound word...

10:10 am

pr 8/9: to outlaw or ban

why is latin not a word?

10:10 am

path to madness...

10:10 am

if you add a vowel, it is. Funny

10:10 am

Many thanks galinrb

clue for the big PR word??? i just got here a few minutes ago... only 53 words

10:11 am

i wondered that myself, soduku. 'specially since another la word IS valid.

10:11 am

see 10:10, AD. just scroll down.

10:11 am

just clued by gail, adhd

10:11 am

(and ro 5/12 is valid...)

tx

got it tx

10:12 am

i have all the w's, at least that's something.

10:12 am

I know it's not going to be a fun puzzle when I see all these a words I don't have

10:12 am

i guess that ro 5 does have a lower case usage, hurshy.

10:13 am

path to madness, path to madness...

10:13 am

lol

10:13 am

<------ wanna borrow my brick wall, hurshy?

10:13 am

sduko addict - add a letter to the language that isnt allowed

10:14 am

nah, i gots cliffs and fire swamps and torture machines...

10:14 am

ooo.

10:14 am

what about "obla"? as in "obla dee, obla da, life goes on..."

10:15 am

that's oobla, hursh

10:15 am

is there life outside of babble?? ;)

10:15 am

shucks.

10:15 am

good thought though

10:15 am

it's so unusual that we have the L greek letter - we so often have et4 and rhymes for it, or some of the other short ones, but not the L one

10:16 am

i don't know... but i ususally use quite a few four letter words when doing these grids :-[}

10:16 am

thanks, hurshy, didn't have that one

10:17 am

does anyone have the 3rd v, that doesn't make you want to hurl?

10:17 am

yes, and it actually did make me want to hurl. lol

10:17 am

v + *** *** *** your boat

10:17 am

that's the non-word, hursh. sounds like forehead

10:18 am

it's a vr4, hurshy. and it's not a word.

10:18 am

nonword, ridiculous!

10:18 am

weird!

10:18 am

no, that's not it. starts with a v

10:18 am

favorite phantom today: omnibus

10:18 am

i thought it would be vrod --- maybe something in a car engine, ya know? lol

10:19 am

that would be better gail...

10:20 am

heck. that probably IS a valid word in some other day's grid!

10:20 am

nope.

10:20 am

you can find out by typing it in the box. if it says "not found in dictionary" that's different than "not in puzzle"

10:21 am

hursy ponder on your phantom and you will get m7/44

10:21 am

gotcha, hurshy. was just trying to be cute.

10:21 am

well, you don't have to try, you're naturally cute :)

10:21 am

momnibus...

10:21 am

ths fmitch

10:21 am

nice clue, fmitch

10:21 am

oh! thanks fmitch!

10:22 am

oHO that greyed my M!

10:22 am

har, hurshy. not today. hair looks like it got hit with a mixmaster. lol

10:22 am

ironically, found all 22 of those M's but miss one of the 3 from the lower M.

10:22 am

it's sunday, and my day of "rest"

10:23 am

lol glad to help (doing my online grocery shopping list)

10:23 am

rest? rest? with this grid?

10:23 am

can i give you my list too, fmitch? ;)

10:24 am

online grocery shopping? that doesn't sound very filling...

10:24 am

hi all. struggling to get even halfway here!

10:24 am

hiya feather

10:24 am

do they deliver, fmitch?

10:24 am

hey feather,,, just made halfway now

10:25 am

goooooo dorens!

10:25 am

sure gail. Yup I order orday and hey presto it all arrives at a designated time tomorrow

10:25 am

need a clue for the HI7.

10:25 am

i did some shopping last week, and the freeze had already affected prices and availability of produce.

10:25 am

if i die today, write in my ob4, "she came, she saw, she babbled... but babble conquered."

10:26 am

never, hurshy, you're bigger than this grid!

10:26 am

d'ya want that chisled in stone, hurshy?

10:26 am

i do NOT weight 268 pound

10:26 am

yes please gail

10:27 am

look, it's conquering my typing already.

10:27 am

yeah, i kinda thought you might take it that way (after I typed it)... how about "you're better than this grid"?

10:27 am

cuneform, maybe?

10:27 am

cuniform? whatever...

10:27 am

cuneiform :)

10:27 am

anything's better than this grid...

10:27 am

The la 6/21 please? I have the one ending in 2 vowels

10:27 am

t/y!

10:27 am

hi 7 is a greek cape - hi + ** and Pa + ti***n - name for a painter and red colou for hair

10:28 am

thanks kaz

10:28 am

Ms are my bugbear now

10:28 am

similar to the la 6/21 you have, Lori. just plural it as a normal plural.

10:29 am

Thank ye gail. Total brain freeze on that for some reason.

10:29 am

i hain't got any la6/21... think think

10:29 am

thx kazzer

10:30 am

i'm not getting that hi7 clue

10:30 am

o, i was there, lori!

10:30 am

got 'em!

10:30 am

hi + alien from nearby planet - r - n

10:30 am

Slap me with a fish for that.....

10:31 am

feather: male pronoun + 1st vowel + spanish aunt

10:31 am

ahhh! ty

10:31 am

there's a bo 6/24 we could use to slap with!

10:32 am

oh no, i don't know very many names of fishes

10:32 am

v goog gail

10:32 am

'tis also a female name.

10:32 am

madonna: la isla bo****

hot diggity! it is SNOWING out... and coming down good! :-D

10:32 am

bit like tuna

10:32 am

ok, i think i have that then.

10:32 am

snow! ick!

10:33 am

snow is a four letter word

10:33 am

LOL gail. Hit me! (I would be ashamed to admit how long I looked for that la 6...) :(

10:33 am

we got some last night. finally warmed up a little

10:33 am

did you all hear it snowed in Malibu last week? lol

10:33 am

wow

10:33 am

I dont have la 6/21 - clue please

10:33 am

and that bo6 was a former Pirate and Met 3b/OF

ol gail... snow is my best friend. lol well.. maybe not, but I didn't move to wisconsin for the summers, that's for sure. ;)

10:34 am

how does it decide which latin things to allow and which not? we can't have ibid, alia, sotto voce...

10:34 am

(sorta)

10:34 am

snow snow go away, come again another day!

10:34 am

gives a whole new meaning to "surf's up", hurshy.

10:34 am

path to madness, there i go again...

10:34 am

summer is wisconsin is like summer in minnesota.

yeah... I can't stand the het, but the cold winters make it worth while.

*heat*

10:35 am

I hope it's snowing in CHicago....

10:35 am

ahaha. you're KIDDING.

10:36 am

We're okaay here - we have snow so infrequently that when it does everything stops

lol gail, was that directed to me? if so, then not at all! I lived in DC and St. Louis, and it was just too miserable of summer in those places. If I could find a job therre, I'd move to fairbanks in a heart beat... just to enjoy the winters

10:36 am

need ho6 please

10:36 am

LOL that's true Kazzer

10:36 am

o, i do understand the heat thing, papa. i detest humidity.

10:36 am

ho 6 is a friendly western greeting, spelled differently

10:36 am

ooh i got ho7 from you saying that doxie

10:37 am

Im in the south of the country so its really silly when it snows here

10:37 am

you know i could find words a lot easier if more things with boston accent counted.

10:37 am

thx lori. monkey typed all over the place

10:38 am

pahk tha cah in hahvahd yahd?

10:38 am

ho8 - add an O in the ending part

same where my grandparents are, kazzer.. in the southern state of tennessee, when it snows even a little bit, everythig shuts down

10:38 am

powda, masta...

10:39 am

thanks doxy! only one more H now

10:39 am

that E is just sooo out of reach for so many words i want to use

10:39 am

We had snow in LA but it melted too fast,

10:39 am

thing is here - we are supposed to get reasonably cold winters with some snow but we still cant cope

10:39 am

It's mocking me feather.

10:39 am

are they all ho but the hi7?

la, los angeles, or la louisiana? both would be pretty infrequent. lol

10:39 am

we have pure powder here this morning

same here doxy... in the last two hours weve gotten 3 or 4 incvhes

10:40 am

the V must be a Virus, it's infected smooth pappa

10:40 am

los angeles, California

10:40 am

the "snow" here was more like sleet.

10:40 am

Is it snowing in Chicago?

10:40 am

yes

10:40 am

where in los angeles, eg? i'm in redondo beach.

lol you're right hursh, I think

10:41 am

Yea!

hi rabble! I bet you're getting it too?

10:42 am

beautiful day in the neighborhood

10:42 am

It's sunny here, but -7 (16 F)

10:42 am

please won't you be my neighbor?

10:42 am

actually, I'm in Irvine

10:42 am

ahh, okay, eg.

10:43 am

'bout 40 miles or so south of me

ok... I must be afflicted by snow blindness... any clue on the very first DO5?

nevermind... got it

10:45 am

yup

10:45 am

do + boy (m**e)

10:47 am

we're gonna keep on, keep on, keep on dancin all through the night... we're gonna keep on, keep on, keep on doin it right... we're gonna keep on, keep on, keep on movin, gonna keep on, keep on, keep on groovin, keep on singin and dancin all through the night...

10:47 am

been snorting too much iocaine powder hursh?

10:47 am

that came from Mr. Rogers?????

so anyone here like recipies for non alcoholic drinks?

10:48 am

i do

10:48 am

heavens, no... just brady bunch...

10:48 am

me, me (waving hand in the air)

well then hurshy block your eyes. ;)

10:48 am

i'll take a virgin strawberry daiquiri anytime

it's one I've made a long time ago, and just found the recipe again last night.

10:48 am

oh pappa, i didn't mean you

10:48 am

i don't think i've ever seen a full episode of the brady bunch

it's called ginger cordial, from india

10:48 am

yum

10:49 am

please pass on the recipe

10:49 am

:O FEATHER BEE (YOUR LAST NAME)

10:49 am

i'd love one right now smooth. thank you

10:49 am

I omly drink the nonalcoholic stuff

10:49 am

sounds great

10:49 am

*hides in shame* :-P

10:50 am

and I like ginger.

you take about a couple ounces of fresh ginger root, and bruise it pretty good. Mix in a cup of sugar with 10 cups boiling water and juice from 1/2 lime. boil until it dissolves (with the ginger added, also) and let it sit covered for about 3 days at that time, you need to strain it, and you can either drinki it right away, or seal it in bottles and let it sit for a little longer.

it's got one of the most refreshing flavors i've ever had.

10:51 am

thank you

10:51 am

i think they make something similar in jamaica

10:51 am

and hurshy, we could put rum in there if we choose to

10:51 am

i wouldn't choose to... lol

10:51 am

or vodka! lol

I think a little tequila would be optimal for it, but then again I love a good tequila. lol

10:52 am

oh hurshy, i was going by your "heavens no "response, but see now that wasn't to pappa.

10:52 am

[one tequila, two tequila, three tequila... FLOOR]

lol

10:53 am

i gots a blister on my toe. my little toe. there is a little plastic pointy thing inside my walking shoe that caused it. :(

10:53 am

oooooooh, one more word and i've passed halfway!

10:53 am

tequila, a.k.a. "ta-kill-ya"

10:53 am

go feather!

10:53 am

go, feather. you go, girl!

10:53 am

{{{everyone}}} good morning!

not the good stuff, gail. ;) for one birthday, a person was kind enough to get me an 80 dollar bottle of tequila... that stuff was SOOOO good!

morning stid!

10:54 am

Go feather go!

10:54 am

hiya stid

10:54 am

I don't have a lot of time, thought I would pick up a few words before we go on a nature walk...

10:54 am

hey stid

10:54 am

lol gailinrb

10:54 am

hi stid!

10:54 am

haha, funny stid. good luck. this grid is tough!

10:55 am

nuttin' natural 'bout this grid, stid! ;0

10:55 am

these PRETZELS are makin me THIRSTY

10:55 am

G'd morning stid.

10:55 am

F*I*R*E*W*O*R*K*S for me

10:55 am

it look tough... but since I stopped caring about finishing (my goal is to gain points in the middle column...) :-) it's a lot less stressful

10:55 am

yay, sha

10:55 am

got it! now i can get lickety.

10:55 am

Y*A*Y sha!

10:55 am

I surrender. The ma 5/14 please?

10:56 am

morning all. still trying to get over fireworks yesterday. Not too use to getting them

10:56 am

mrs. eisenhower, lori

10:56 am

ma 5/14: ike's wife.

10:56 am

{{{ollag}}} congrats on yesterday, then! :-)

10:56 am

Thank ye hurshy

10:56 am

yay, olla. it's addicting!

10:56 am

that and the dance, what is the 3rd M from the bottom?

10:57 am

same as the 5-28 but change last 2 letters to vowels

10:57 am

And thank ye gail. :)

10:57 am

off to put daniel to his nap, get my lunch, then enter words in lickety. bbl!

10:57 am

Hi stidmama, congrats for yesterday ollag & gl for today

10:57 am

see you (man yhours) later, feather!

10:57 am

urg. Tom

10:57 am

Later feather.

10:57 am

Tm's keyboard is not used to me! LOL

10:57 am

later feather

10:57 am

oops meant 5-18

10:57 am

not sure what you're asking for, hurshy...

10:58 am

any one for clues before i depart

10:58 am

well, it's an M word that has another M in it, most likely

10:58 am

only two m words with 2 Ms.

10:59 am

hmmm that's odd

10:59 am

m

10:59 am

naw, 'tis babble, hurshy.

10:59 am

do u have the 2 hurshy??

10:59 am

sha bu?

10:59 am

disregard m fingers are still asleep

10:59 am

yes... and i don't see what else can come from the bottom M

11:00 am

oh theres 3 with 2 ms a 4 and 2 5

11:00 am

la6/21 x2

11:00 am

o cripes. i can't tell what m goes where, now.

11:00 am

i thought there must be. i need the four.

11:00 am

got.

11:00 am

how about mans

11:01 am

sha, please ignore that ridiculous request. ty

11:01 am

if you need help knowing what comes from where, check out my profile

11:01 am

i need a U, have a 4/5 combo

11:01 am

both extend from the 5-12 one ends in 1st vowel other is plural

11:02 am

oop, pulled a peri

11:02 am

sha, are all the H's ho except HI7?

11:02 am

un 5/18, hurshy?

11:02 am

to take away an offer

11:02 am

thx sha

11:03 am

thanks hurshy, 100 points for you, grayed my first tile! :-)

11:03 am

yes hurshy

11:03 am

hmmm...

11:03 am

and are all the D

11:03 am

do?

11:04 am

one d is a dh

11:04 am

dh 4/10

11:04 am

hurshy - are those other 2 u's a un?

11:04 am

theres a dh-4-10 hurshy

11:04 am

and what in the world is the other m that comes off the corner?

11:04 am

yes wurdy, thanks gail brabble and sha

11:04 am

yes wurdy

11:04 am

rhymes with serene wurdy

11:06 am

hello again

11:06 am

hi again pam

11:06 am

so if i have one ho6, ho7, and ho8, and the rest i have are combos, what H do i miss?

11:06 am

y/w hurshy. what else d'ya need?

11:06 am

I hate Comcast

11:06 am

{{{pam}}} glad you showed up, I have to leave, but wanted to see how you're feeling today.

11:07 am

do u have the hi?

11:07 am

Good afternoon/morning all. Nobody told me in ante-natal classes that children would grow up to commandeer computers all day....

11:07 am

two ho 5/12

11:07 am

yes sha

11:08 am

poor haz. stressful, indeed.

11:08 am

Haz, just make sure your children have their own computers

11:08 am

LOL Haz!

11:08 am

theres 2 h05-12 off the 1st ho-4

11:08 am

ah, thanks sha

11:08 am

okay, heading out for the morning. back a in a few hours... *waves hand*

11:08 am

bye stid

11:08 am

now i've greyed 8 boxes. that's nice.

11:08 am

One is away, has her own laptop, the one at home is too mean to buy her own.....

11:08 am

hi haz and klaurel

11:08 am

bye stid

11:08 am

have a good one, stid.

11:08 am

go hurshy go

11:09 am

bye stid

11:09 am

good grief finally got those other un's i am officially an idiot.

11:09 am

speaking of mean, haz, don't know if you're aware, but this grid is, extremely

11:09 am

my 3-year old is playing on the WIggles website right now

11:09 am

still trying to find the m that rhymes with sserene

11:09 am

help with the ho 7/40 & 8/55 please.

11:09 am

my 3-year old is playing on the WIggles website right now

yeah, this is definitely a slow going grid!

11:09 am

Hi Haz, Me thinks it's time L got her own OR you get a new one and she can have the old version!

11:09 am

4 letters, wurdy.

11:09 am

my 3-year old is playing on the WIggles website right now

11:09 am

Yes, I got that vibe this morning when I looked in. Sprite was not impressed so I knew that I was in trouble.

11:10 am

i'm one, msree, as is spock, and worf, and you probably

11:10 am

Hello FMitch - yes, she tends to use her mother's cast-offs!

11:10 am

ho*** pidgeon minus last letter +**ea( thought)

11:11 am

mrsree: think humans

11:11 am

Have you been working on the grid, FMItch? How's it going?

11:11 am

Thanks hurshy. I forgot about coming back up. Again.

11:11 am

clues for in7 and ma5/16 please

IN7: IN+ constructed

11:11 am

probably? what do you mean probably?

11:12 am

in+ costructed

11:12 am

what? no rambo?

11:12 am

constructed

11:12 am

I had a meander round it for a while and found 112 words but have grouond to a halt, how about you?

11:12 am

well, i haven't met you. you MIGHT be a horta, for all i know...

11:12 am

ma 5/12 -- add movie dog rin *** ***

11:12 am

I'm still in the early stages, only 46 found so far.

11:12 am

gtg now bye all

11:13 am

bye sha

11:13 am

bye sha

11:13 am

comcast

11:13 am

if in7 is a word, why isn't the parallel on7 a word... path to madness...

11:13 am

this is my first day as a full babblepro member

11:13 am

welcome pro member

congrats jafro!

11:13 am

well good for you jafro!

11:13 am

welcome to hurshy's madness, jafro ;[]

11:14 am

Hi ya - love the icon

11:14 am

congrats jafro

11:14 am

I really hate Comacast

11:14 am

ok I have that one diddnt realize until just now that it rhymes with serene....and i have ikes wife...what am i missing

11:14 am

I really hate Comacst

11:14 am

thanks everyone

11:14 am

got that one babble is ma5/14 i need please

11:14 am

comcast was down again, klaurel?

11:14 am

really if you have to be in a cast, it's better to be in a coma...

11:14 am

up, down, slow, down, up, down, slow, down

11:15 am

a dance, wurdy

11:15 am

did you get the dance?

11:15 am

<LOL> cute Hursh! Unfortunatelu, DSL is unavailable in my area

11:15 am

oggy IKE's wife

11:15 am

did now thanks so much

11:15 am

bummer, klaurel

11:15 am

really I must need some coffee

11:15 am

i need some b's

11:16 am

and s's

11:16 am

vitamins!

11:16 am

oggy - try who did al jolson sing about his ma***

11:16 am

this grid is BS

11:16 am

i think you have a bi** against it, hurshy

11:16 am

ooohh, i do.

11:17 am

;)

11:17 am

one m to go - mo 5/12 2nd one

11:17 am

The b's that I have are mostly ridiculous "words" and I'm still missing three. This is a nasty, nasty grid.

11:17 am

thanks kazzer, thats me done.

11:17 am

I'm still missing 5

11:18 am

personally, i think the b's are a bl***!

11:18 am

there's a bl and its plural --- words you might see in a comic

11:18 am

you're a mean one, mr. grid... you're a nasty, wasty, skunk...

11:18 am

have those...

11:19 am

congrats oggy!

11:19 am

the B words are a bl 5/14, wyrd? heh...

11:19 am

The bo5/16 is unexpected, if only one did get a bo for it.

11:19 am

you finished oggy

11:19 am

mo5 same as first one diff last letter

11:20 am

and if only it's plural were boni...

11:20 am

very clever, fmitch

11:20 am

yes kazzer

11:20 am

ack!!

11:20 am

well im a liar gail

11:20 am

and thats my good side

11:20 am

way to go, oggy

11:20 am

congrats - you must have been at it for hours

11:20 am

aww, wyrd!

11:21 am

ty oggy got it

11:21 am

a couple of non words in that B list

11:21 am

kazzer, did some this morning, then came back to finish

11:21 am

ahhh, I have to say, that I am not sorry I got my son a Tigger costume when he was 9months

11:22 am

it is being passed around more than enough]

11:22 am

just got called in to work (crap). Be back later today

11:22 am

clue 'em then gail! :) :)

11:22 am

i've got 76 left - stopped for lunch and got side tracked into tvand housework so be out for 3 or 4 hours

11:22 am

hookay: bi 5/14 and plural: bi + louse egg(s)

11:23 am

hurshey you are close to the bo6/24 (yr post 11.20) from a Madonna song

11:23 am

jeepers guys, i got on first thing this morning and still didn't look for words

11:23 am

yay!

11:23 am

ooo! thanks gail!

11:23 am

yup, have that one fmitch

11:23 am

Shows how old I am. I saw Madonna and immediately thought of Lady Madonna by the Beatles...

11:23 am

Heya Nutty!

11:24 am

heya chixerie!

11:24 am

i'm so old, i thought of mary....

11:24 am

did you meet her hurshy? ; )

11:25 am

Haz you are not that old!! For heavens sake you are only 1 year older than me.

11:25 am

or not that old?

11:25 am

Yes, but look how old you are, FMitch.

11:25 am

sadly, no, for i was living in namibia at the time

11:25 am

Joking, honestly....

over the halfway mark over here!

11:26 am

I think I doing bloomin' well for 92

11:26 am

course it wasn't CALLED namibia back then.

11:26 am

My claim to fame at the moment is that I have seen Barack Obama in the flesh. I will sign autographs for those who would like.

11:26 am

he taught you how to forge his signature?

11:27 am

No, autographs of my own signature. You can be famous for no reason these days.

11:27 am

no, i tought her.

11:27 am

i bet they just signed with X's back then

11:27 am

hello all - back to try find another 110!!! So Hurshy you have been to Africa in the South West Africa days then

11:27 am

Do'n't you mean infamous LOL

11:27 am

back then, we didn't even know it WAS africa...

11:28 am

Yes, maybe infamous might be a better description. Give me obscurity.

11:28 am

You must have been very young

11:28 am

give me obscurity, or give me death! patrick henry's lesser known speech...

11:29 am

ursh - lol - go back and follow the thread... lol

11:29 am

thought it was give me chocolate or give me death? *sucks down yoohoo*, or give me choco or die?

11:29 am

ok will do - missing the real story then??

11:29 am

anybody got the first bl?

11:30 am

the "real" story would be more like it

11:30 am

ho66/36 from Texas, y'all

11:30 am

i hope you don't have a chilbl***, kaz

11:30 am

TY hurshy I have it

11:30 am

I think you get chill bl***s on fingers and toes

11:31 am

Blessings be upon you Angelsong, we need all the help we can get!

11:31 am

they finally delivered my sunday paper... yaaaaay. gonna go peruse it. catch you all another time. have fun!

11:31 am

ho6/36, I meant to say...

11:31 am

FIREWORKS!:)

11:31 am

hooray jacula

11:31 am

Just hit the 200 mark. Working in between phone calls, laundry and other annoying interruptions... :(

11:31 am

You get bl5/14 in bubbles and underground coffins and encased in ice.

11:31 am

Congrats Jacula!

11:31 am

Well done jacula!

11:31 am

you need a "babbling. do not disturb" sign

11:32 am

Yay Jacula!

11:32 am

hi all! Ursh, what would you know about chil b***** ???? LOL

well done jac!

11:32 am

Just need to check on dinner & laundry. BBL.

11:33 am

good morning, everyone -- back for the last 125 :)

all sorts of russian words here today!

11:34 am

Hello cybernan.

11:34 am

Maybe THAT's why I'm not making progress - my Russian is not great...

11:34 am

if you combine al5/14 with al6/24, do you get an excuse for a pigmentless person?

lol I'e noticed 3... I'm sure they have an english meaning, as well... but I definitely know them from my time in russia

the very last bl word... 5/14 is a great russina style crepe

11:35 am

oh i got that one!

11:35 am

Sugar grew up in Jo burg and it was much colder then in winter than it is now

11:35 am

but samovar is not there :(

and ob 6/7 are the political divisons in russia, similar to states or provinces

11:35 am

Oh, if you;re talking food. That's okay.

11:36 am

tx hurshy, didn't have the al5/14

11:36 am

ah ursh, excuses, excuses!!!!! I grew up in Rhodesia, and it was colder than Jhb, so there!

11:37 am

Well sugar where you are living now is colder than anywhere!!

11:37 am

THANK you pappa

11:38 am

wait...you're all talking about cold when a canadian is here? sheesh...

11:38 am

this is sooooooo true, ursh lol!

11:38 am

Excuse us Gadget - we are African and your kind of cold does'nt bear imagining

11:39 am

how many "sub" words are there? i just have two, a combo.

11:39 am

you Canadians have special intenal thermostats, Gadget!

11:39 am

lol

11:40 am

There was an earlier clue about the ho6 to do with texas could somebody please reclue for me

11:40 am

I just checked lickety and there are only the two sub's...

11:41 am

that is surprising, i thought there would be more.

11:41 am

It's what a cowboy would say when greeting you in Texas, ursh.

11:41 am

Think of a greeting jan

11:42 am

tx haz

11:42 am

You're welcome.

11:43 am

clue for the al 5/14? -- have the 6

11:43 am

poirot will be suspicious if your al5 is too good...

11:44 am

criminals get off because the have a good al***

11:44 am

thanks, hurshy and ursh

11:45 am

clues for the bottom right m, please

11:45 am

we naturally make a good team.

11:45 am

And Poirot's suspicions will increase if he finds out you've used an al/5/10

11:45 am

french mommy

11:45 am

ma5: Mrs. Eisehower

11:45 am

ooh, thanks jan, didn't have that one.

11:46 am

thanks cybernan!

11:47 am

Sometimes this grid annoys me (the b words, for example) and then the al criminal law words charm me...

11:48 am

don't see the french mother!

11:48 am

What on earth is the to 6/24 please?

11:49 am

Typo, I mean 'ro' 6/24

11:49 am

Sadly, have to leave for a while. I'll be back later.

11:49 am

later, haz

11:49 am

Might see you later Haz Night

11:49 am

Later Haz

11:50 am

the french mother is the same as Mrs. Eisenhower :-)

11:50 am

ro -- spare the *** spoil the child..... is the ***tra of some

11:50 am

always thought french mother was maman

11:50 am

i managed to finish the im words and am positive i made up every one of them

11:51 am

fireworks...sorry i can't clue but I'm late and won't be back till midnight so this was a mad rush for me. happy babbling everyone

11:51 am

Thank ye Babble

11:51 am

it's both, nan

11:51 am

bye dorens

11:51 am

YAY Dorens!

11:51 am

Congrats Dorens

11:52 am

Congrats Dorens

11:52 am

tx for the clue BabRab

11:53 am

oops, sorry, was very distracted--it's GRANDmother--it's a familiar term kinda like Granny . . . e.g., Mamie Francoise . . .

11:53 am

une!!!!! you said it!

11:53 am

Love your clues, BabbleRabble--they make me smile...

11:53 am

GREETINGS FELLOW BABBLERS

11:53 am

you said a word une....penalty box for you coffee and donuts await

11:54 am

hi William

11:54 am

thanks, une -- learn something new every day!

11:54 am

I need to get some sleep--oh, jeez, didn't realize I just said it . . . this morning, on my way to the post office to mail my Netflix movie back, I stopped at the drive-thru at the library and "mailed" it there! :-)

11:55 am

won't they be surprised!

11:55 am

Hi William

11:55 am

hey, william :-)

11:55 am

Kazzer, are you nearly done?

11:55 am

Sounds like time for bed and sweet dreams Une

11:56 am

binus is too a word " I have some binus to take care of"

11:56 am

I'm gonna stop trying to let my dogs sleep with me . . . they move around all nite!

11:56 am

wurdy, here in Tennessee you also hear 'bidness" :-)

11:57 am

this is what i am saying lol

11:57 am

ok can someone help with the last v i have ...I have the 2 sick ones

11:57 am

v + get your ducks in a ***

11:58 am

VERY bizarre word

11:58 am

thanks

11:58 am

Wurdy... v+ *** *** *** your boat

11:58 am

hey I have four boxes greyed out

12:00 pm

Not sure my monkey would have found that word, thanks

oi! still have 50 left, my I think my eyes are starting to melt

12:03 pm

wow, 156 left and I don't think I have looked up from this thing once

12:03 pm

pappa I have 146 left we could trade

lol

12:04 pm

The first sa 6/21 please?

12:04 pm

i think you misunderstand...i was being quite serious

12:04 pm

just kidding

12:04 pm

the grids are always easier once you have finished them

hee

that's a good point babble... hopefully I'll be there soon

snaw

I mean... whoops

12:05 pm

um, i dont have any n's and i have 0's in my boxes help pls

12:05 pm

tksn, pappa!

any time mom. lol

12:06 pm

smooth, you were talking about all the snOw again, right???? ;)

12:06 pm

li6/27 please it is the first li??

12:07 pm

how is it that la 6/18 is a word but la 5/10 isn't?

exactly feather... just with a convoluted southern drawl???

12:07 pm

Okay, no nibbles, how about the last sa 5/12?

12:07 pm

sa 6/21- ad: sw**m**g utilizes most of the muscles in the body

12:07 pm

sure! hehehe

12:07 pm

li 6/27: sex drive

12:08 pm

sa 5/12 -- spare the *** again

12:08 pm

Pappa--thought you means southern snore!

12:08 pm

oh tx nan no wonder i couldnt find it

12:08 pm

ty rabble

12:08 pm

Thanks babble, it's the 2nd 6/21 I'm hung on.

12:08 pm

*meant

12:09 pm

lol, ursh

12:09 pm

That 5 is a new on for me. I never would have gotten it. Thank ye Babble!

12:09 pm

st7/32 anyone?

any clue on the 1st SN5?

12:09 pm

sa 6 --- deli on rye

12:09 pm

does anyone have the n from the last column?

oh crap... I mean ST5... whoch is why O couldn't find it... lol nevermind

12:10 pm

Ack! Hit me with a fish.... Thank ye Babble

12:10 pm

na 5/10: to do with birth

12:11 pm

sandwich?

12:11 pm

thank you nan

12:12 pm

whew.

12:12 pm

internet went out. panic ensued in hurshy house. back now.

12:13 pm

eek

12:13 pm

st 7/32 -- add, a dash is a f**t race; and Our Lady of Fat***

12:13 pm

wish Dr. God would use a real dictionary!

12:14 pm

ooh, and just in time to get my last 7, thanks brabble

12:14 pm

thanks rabble

12:15 pm

thanks very much babblerabble - been looking for ages

12:15 pm

anyone know what the 9 is? -- an 8/9 combo, perhaps?

12:16 pm

pr8/9 disallow

12:16 pm

a foot race?

12:16 pm

no, a swift one

12:16 pm

ty hurshy -- looking

12:17 pm

good morning all

12:17 pm

tks hursh--would've hunted forever

12:17 pm

hi lynxxx

12:17 pm

ah -- got it!

12:17 pm

iman

12:18 pm

a go-without-food race

12:18 pm

oops!

12:18 pm

loved her in STVI

12:18 pm

but I was close!

12:18 pm

wheres sm

12:18 pm

in the bottom right corner...

12:18 pm

still missing an m from that bottom corner have the 4/6 and the 5/14

12:19 pm

not that sm

12:19 pm

she might not be back from church yet william...don't remember what time zone she is in

12:19 pm

a dance

12:19 pm

thank you!

12:21 pm

how about the left N, i got nothing, cloud and pl, and baby lice... what else is there?

12:21 pm

my phantom today has been the opposite of the mi 7/44

12:22 pm

me too cnan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

12:22 pm

Hi William...just came in.

12:22 pm

need sn4

12:22 pm

ah, soft fabric and pl

12:23 pm

have the same n's as you hurshy

12:23 pm

the others, i just found. nu5 and 6

12:24 pm

William - sn4 is the white stuff that falls from the sky but change the vowel

12:24 pm

ah -- there is an nu 5

12:24 pm

William..it is like the white stuff that falls from the sky but change o to an a.

12:24 pm

and the nu 5 plural for nu 6

12:24 pm

ty

12:24 pm

have you got all 5 top R cnan? i got caesar (et pl) and tree (and pl)...

12:24 pm

I did not have that one til you asked.

FIREWORKS!

12:25 pm

this is a tuffy today.

12:25 pm

yay smooth!

12:25 pm

Yay Smooth !

12:25 pm

oh, thanks for hte tree hursh

12:25 pm

it is tough but i'm surprised how well i'm doing, lots of good cluing going on today. 35 left and still listless.

12:25 pm

ro 6: mr. Serling + male

Collapses on the winning end of the finishline

12:25 pm

Hurshy - a fasherman perhaps

12:26 pm

congrats, smooth

12:26 pm

ra6,18

12:26 pm

thanks, and lol @ fasherman

12:26 pm

COngrats Smooth!

12:26 pm

Yay pappa

thank you all!

12:27 pm

anybody here in the age group 8-12

12:27 pm

Is Carmen in here with Dennis?

12:27 pm

don't have that one yet Wills...let me work on it.

12:27 pm

mentally, or biologically?

12:27 pm

Bad Hurshy

lol

12:28 pm

ra6.18 - vrmin + draw a straight ***e with a ruler

smdnjv... what does your name stand for?

12:28 pm

Savvy Medical Doctor, New Jersey Vet

lol hursh... good one

12:29 pm

anybody need the ro6,24

12:29 pm

okay, time to take a break before my head explodes

12:29 pm

or... Singing Makes Daddy Nicely Jazzed Vp (with the old ro5 tradition of V = U)

12:30 pm

I wonder how you got that one William!! LOL

12:30 pm

got it, thanks william

12:30 pm

Some Men Don't, Nicely Juxtaposed and Vexed.

12:31 pm

Say, May Dogs Never Join VISTA?

12:31 pm

ralias

12:31 pm

79 to go -- time for a break!

12:31 pm

Summarise My Dissetation, Not Just Verbose.

12:31 pm

Sultans Must Decree New Jihads Vehemently

HA!

12:31 pm

She Models Dogs, New Jersey Variety

12:32 pm

Seamen May Die, Not Just Vehemently.

12:32 pm

some men dont need jersey girls

12:32 pm

Super Mali Dagil Nistic Jespi Validocious

so my dear, never joke violently?

12:33 pm

lol, ok, smd, are you going to stop the madness?

12:33 pm

I think wiliam is more than he appears

12:33 pm

Silence My Demons, Not Just Verticaly

so my dear, never juice vermin

hurshy, that last one was great!

12:34 pm

ewww pappa, nope, not a good drink

12:34 pm

Some Mental Doctors Never Juice Valium

12:35 pm

Silly Mice Drive Nifty Jettas (Volkswagen)

you guys are hilarious! you kill me

12:35 pm

LOL hurshey

hello everyone!

12:36 pm

so many days no jelly

12:36 pm

Hi Gramma & FM

12:36 pm

(does she realize we'll go on like this indefinitely if she doesn't say anything?)

foflol hursh

hi lynxxx

salamanders make dashing newts jealous

12:36 pm

(does she realize you're trying to guess what her letters stand for?)

lol pappa

12:37 pm

nice one smooth

yeesh, forgot the v... lol

12:37 pm

So Much Dithering, No-one Just Vocalises.

salamanders make dashing newts jealously violent

12:37 pm

Hey lynxxx nice to see you again. Hi Dachelf long time!

is there such a word as dithering dachef?

12:37 pm

Yay Dachef !

lol

12:38 pm

yes, dithering very good word

12:38 pm

salvation means doing nothing just vacationing

lol yes enable says so...I like it

HA!

12:38 pm

Sidearms Might Deter Nasty Ju Veniles

good one strider!

12:38 pm

Hi Peppe. Still here, often lurking in background.

lol, I can't take it anymore, going to wet my pants ( :

12:39 pm

Peppe? Where did that come from. Think it was supposed to be Peeps.

lol dachef

12:39 pm

someone clued the mi 7 as a small van. I didn't get it. Can I have another clue?

spewing mountains do not jiggle volcanos

12:40 pm

Some Men Do Not Jam Vermine.

12:40 pm

sorry - I just got it!!! DUH

12:40 pm

Seven Maids Don't Necessarily Jar Vases

wee things kids ride to school strider

12:40 pm

can't get much plainer than that, strider

12:40 pm

I know, I know - just a senior moment.

hey I resemble that remark!

12:41 pm

afternoon everyone - I see the silliness is abounding

we're trying to figure out what SMDNJV's name stand \s for. lol

12:41 pm

missing an o from the left -- have ob x 6 and an on -- missing?

12:41 pm

Subliminal Messages Direct Nurses' Jobs Villainously

12:42 pm

I see that Pappa - and you are all doing a darn fine job!

12:42 pm

om x 2

12:42 pm

cant chat anymore, sorry

12:42 pm

afternoon all :)

12:42 pm

what is this SMDNJV business about?

12:42 pm

You know that if both me and Hurshy are chatting, rthen there is bound to be an abundance of silliness. In fact: Seriousness Must Die, Nonsensical Jokes Verily.

12:42 pm

ob*7 Nan

12:42 pm

the left o, sherb

12:43 pm

mi 7/44 --- quick kiss

12:43 pm

lol dachef

12:43 pm

Say More, Dachef, Never Just Vaporize!

12:43 pm

ah, sorry... then I need those too...

12:43 pm

Nan - do you have ob7.36?

12:43 pm

bye william

strict mothers divert new jovial vocations

12:44 pm

ob 4 x3, 5 x2, 6 x1 -- missing?

12:44 pm

some men don't need jovial verbage

12:44 pm

Nan - ob7.36

12:45 pm

ty lynxxx

12:46 pm

Santa's Mare Dancer Neighed, Jolting Vixen

Smooth_pappa (one word) must digress, never joking verbosely

12:46 pm

la6/27 please?

12:47 pm

never mind! saw it

12:47 pm

scornful mad dowagers, not just vexed

12:47 pm

Seacoast, Mountains, Desert, None Just Vanish

hey bonkler!

12:48 pm

cheers folks, 100 left and brane freeze sets in

12:49 pm

See My Dancing: Nicely Jiggling Vertically.

12:49 pm

evening all

12:49 pm

Hi Bonkler

12:49 pm

feather - la = small ewe + 2 vowel ending

12:50 pm

hi everyone. Back to try more of this cursed grid. I give-can I have a little clue for that ob7?

12:50 pm

hey bonkler, ren8

12:50 pm

hey eva

12:50 pm

Someone Miffed Darth "Non-Jolly" Vader

12:50 pm

hi angela

12:51 pm

Hi Eva - if you have ob6.24 just add a vowel on end

12:51 pm

missing 2 h's -- a combo maybe? are there any hi's?

12:51 pm

one hi7

12:51 pm

and if I don't have ob6/24?

12:51 pm

hi7.36 Nan

12:52 pm

then say "O B****!"

need help on do7 and bo7?

12:52 pm

Eva - o +b5.14

12:52 pm

oh yes -- remember it from last night -- a clue?

12:53 pm

bo6 - Spanish for beautiful. Plural for the 7.

12:53 pm

sm u there

12:53 pm

do 7: scottish religious leader

12:53 pm

and if I don't have the right b5/14? (infinite regression here)

12:53 pm

i think we drove her away with our guessing :(

12:53 pm

ya think Hursh? :D

i thin k so hurshy. lol

12:53 pm

hi7.36 - hi* (not her) + vowel + drink *** Maria

12:53 pm

Eva - the b5/14 means to blow up.

12:54 pm

but it was so humorous!

12:54 pm

had that one, but didn't see in on my list...I'm doing really well here....not

12:54 pm

thanks, hurshy -- in other words, a toga

12:54 pm

hey, if they can't take a joke...well...a few...then they're in the wrong place!

12:55 pm

Cnan - there is 3 ho5.12's

12:55 pm

adwoman is so a word !!!!!!!!

12:55 pm

any ha's?

12:55 pm

thanks dachef...got it now!

12:55 pm

do7, latin for Lord, funny ending

12:55 pm

no, all but that are HO

12:55 pm

C'nan - no ha's

12:55 pm

love the icon Dachef...just noticed it

12:55 pm

there is an ni 6/30 I'm having trouble with. Clue?

12:56 pm

kind of clous

12:56 pm

cloud.

12:56 pm

hello today. very cold at my house. how about a clue for am5/12 amd 5/14, the first 5/12 please

12:56 pm

Angela -"What I did on my Holidays"!!!

12:56 pm

Hi all again - only 12 left now - ts

12:56 pm

You have got to be kidding me!!! How did I miss that???

12:56 pm

lmao - too funny

12:56 pm

ho 4 x3, 5 x4, 6 x 1, 8 x1 -- missing?

12:57 pm

am*** acid

12:57 pm

the first am5/12 is a pl (i think)

12:57 pm

Cnan ho7.40 - starts like the 8

12:57 pm

7 - lose a letter from 8

12:58 pm

thanks -- got it

12:59 pm

am5/14 am + what the couple says at the altar

1:00 pm

i need an i... have bird, muslim thing and pl, the other im's from lower i, in7, in4/4...

1:01 pm

do you have in + bu5?

1:01 pm

that'd be in7, yes :)

1:01 pm

ok, couldn't tell if you were asking for that one

1:02 pm

thanks une. hurshy i can't get the pleural

1:02 pm

clue for ad8,60 please

1:02 pm

are you going up when you should go do4, mag?

1:02 pm

nm hurshy, got it

1:02 pm

ad7/8 like pr 8/9

1:02 pm

I need the same i...

1:03 pm

Hursh - after the muslin there is im 4.6 5.14 5.12 before the furniture one

1:03 pm

ah, so i need that 5/12

1:03 pm

no hurshy, was trying to pleural a completely wrong word.

1:03 pm

do you have the im5/12 that's like am*** acid?

1:04 pm

just found it une! :)

1:04 pm

thanks Une :)

1:04 pm

cnan, you asked about left O's before, have you got all the right hand O's? i miss one of them.

1:04 pm

yw :-)

1:05 pm

do you have the oh4 that's like a state?

1:05 pm

have 6 of the 7, hurshy -- looking for the im's from the lower i

1:05 pm

yep

1:05 pm

and the sing and plural of leave out?

1:05 pm

got them

1:05 pm

ob4 like bird?

1:05 pm

yup

1:05 pm

and night birds?

1:05 pm

now the right o...

1:05 pm

sorry, wrong O...

1:05 pm

and sing and plural of a kind of test

1:06 pm

yup

1:06 pm

and the hooters

1:06 pm

possesses?

1:06 pm

and ob6/ and 7 like an explosion?

1:06 pm

good grief. thank you sherb.

1:06 pm

a bigger fish there never was.

1:07 pm

ooh lookee, i'm 90% done

hooters, hurshy? I didn't see THAT in the puzzle..... Oh! you mean Those kinds of hooters. lol

1:07 pm

*ahem*

1:07 pm

thank you sherb -- was missing the same one!

1:07 pm

only 80% here...

1:08 pm

lol smooth

1:08 pm

missing an i from the top -- any guesses?

speaking of hooters, I kind of want buffalo wings now. lol

1:09 pm

hows about... the lower R... i have 5 of those 7...

1:09 pm

pray cyber

1:09 pm

:)

1:09 pm

have the bird and the muslim priests

1:09 pm

in7 or in4 babblet

1:09 pm

the in 7 and the in 4 -- missing?

1:09 pm

me too...

1:09 pm

do you have the in4 babblet

1:09 pm

there's an i that's a chemistry term - sounds like the acid

1:10 pm

yes

1:10 pm

pray?

1:10 pm

oh, sorry, hursh, didn't see your post

1:10 pm

oh, then im5 like am5 acid

1:10 pm

ah, just found ra5/6 combo...

1:10 pm

thank you, hurshy -- another box greyed

1:11 pm

do share, sherb!

1:11 pm

last ra6/18 please

1:11 pm

like the na5 which sounds like Christmas...

1:11 pm

thks sherb

1:11 pm

w00t! 25 to go!

1:12 pm

ra6/18 rodent + toe the ***e

1:12 pm

the one after that sherb

1:12 pm

dang it, they're so evenly distributed. 5 A'

1:12 pm

Dang. There are 267 words?

1:12 pm

pab, vermin + Loretta ***

1:12 pm

thanks hurshy, tried every other combination

1:12 pm

(different spelling)

1:12 pm

3 B, 3 L, 4 P, 7 S, 3 T

1:12 pm

57 to go...

1:13 pm

do 7/36 please

1:13 pm

I WANT wombat.

1:13 pm

anno do***** + vowel

1:14 pm

how many po's?

1:14 pm

there is a support group for that dach

1:14 pm

3 pos

1:15 pm

*annoyed mocking voice* "simian" does not exist in the puzzle. nyah.

1:15 pm

"Hello, my name is Dachef, and I want wombat."

1:15 pm

mmm -- missing a pr then

1:15 pm

i miss 4 pr!

1:15 pm

2 of the 3 po's are from "Avenue Q" :-)

1:15 pm

the first step is admitting there is a problem.

1:15 pm

there are 2!

1:15 pm

baby carriage? shrimp? nudge

1:16 pm

senior year party? front of a boat?

1:16 pm

Well its FIREWORKS for me so I'm off to do tea for hubby - strange old grid today - took a lot of brain power - killed the monkeys

1:16 pm

yes i just found carriage, and i had shrimp, and party and boat

1:16 pm

congrats, kazzer!

1:16 pm

yay kazzer

1:16 pm

ooh needed nudge.

1:16 pm

of the prs, I have one 6 , 8 and 9 -- the rest are 4/s and 5's -- any more biggies?

1:16 pm

pr6 in favor of fighting

1:16 pm

"Hello, my name is Dachef and I am addicted to small Australasian marsupials."

1:16 pm

sorry I have pr 6 x2

1:16 pm

Congrats Kazzer!

1:16 pm

3 6's then

1:17 pm

r intervention moce. Are there 266 words or 267?

1:17 pm

yes

1:17 pm

*wonders how the marsupials feel about this*

1:17 pm

alRIGHT, thanks une!!!!!!!!

1:17 pm

:-D

1:17 pm

267

1:17 pm

Lori 267

1:17 pm

267

1:17 pm

thank you the pr 6 was the one I was missing

1:17 pm

What was that drivel I typed? ***Near intervention mode***

1:18 pm

Dachef?

1:18 pm

Ack!!!!!!! I'm missing a stoopid word. (pout) Now I gotta' go dig. :(

1:18 pm

lol - I wondered lori :)

1:18 pm

it started cause he wanted wombat to be in the grid, babs

1:18 pm

aaah

1:19 pm

thought he was off his trolley

1:19 pm

Yo Babbler, how you?

1:19 pm

hi Babs :)

1:19 pm

hanging by a thread...

1:19 pm

well, he is, but that's neither here nor there

1:19 pm

very well, ta, Dachef. Now I know you're ok. How you?

1:19 pm

hi sherb : )

1:19 pm

Babbler - very rarely on it, to be honest. <watches his trolley trundling off into the sunset>

1:20 pm

if you know he's ok why are you asking how he is?

1:20 pm

you told me he's ok. I had no idea before that.

1:20 pm

ast

1:20 pm

ack! you're right! I asked how he was AFTER you told me!

1:20 pm

check out Dachef's icon... looks painful...

1:20 pm

we just can't stop the silliness babs...

1:20 pm

well I was just being polite, remembering my manners

1:21 pm

I think it was the chili Sherb

1:21 pm

how rrrrrude, Dachef. tsk tsk.

1:21 pm

can you imagine how long a babble quoteboard would be?

1:22 pm

anyone have ob6 & 7?

1:22 pm

Me? Rude? When? <fakes a look of horror>

1:22 pm

not you, your trolly rude to YOU

1:22 pm

o + a bl*** from the past

1:22 pm

with your icon, Dachef. *shakes head* I don't know.

1:22 pm

third V?... I have the unwell two...

1:22 pm

thanks@

1:23 pm

vr4/11

1:23 pm

(that's "I don't know" as muttered by aunties and neighbours)

1:23 pm

v + r** r** r** your boat

1:23 pm

urg... thanks...

1:23 pm

rude! ha! that's hilaaaaaarious!

1:23 pm

stalled with 49 to go -- break time, I guess

1:23 pm

adam from mythbusters would LOVE that icon.

1:23 pm

why, hursh?

1:24 pm

he just... would...

1:24 pm

passing gas and setting light to it is classy?

1:24 pm

Aha! Found it. Foiled by a missing oh 4, but I outsmarted it... LOL Done!

1:24 pm

from the bottom M I have the female and the dance... the thord one?

1:24 pm

*looks around* did anyone say adam savage was classy?

1:24 pm

No. Its like a dwarf with learning diffiulties - it isn't big, and it isn't clever.

1:24 pm

rhymes with serene, sherb

1:25 pm

lol dachef!

1:25 pm

no idea who adam savage is.

1:25 pm

you are right hurshy, he would love that

1:25 pm

it looks big to me...

1:25 pm

s'right, Dachef. as long as you know, that's all that matters. ; )

1:25 pm

Also, if you're not clever, it can seriously char the inner thighs.

1:25 pm

(*rolling on floor in laughter*) :D

1:26 pm

better than liposuction I guess...

1:26 pm

ok, not laughing at 2nd degree burns, laughing at myself for getting on my high horse

1:26 pm

no way, lipo every time

1:27 pm

Now that that torture is behind me, domestisity rules. Have a great day all!

1:27 pm

did you know some people in asia eat LIVE octopus and sometimes the suction cups stick to the inside of their throat and they die???????????

1:27 pm

I can't see how anything can rhyme with serene... *prepares to feel embarrassed*...

1:28 pm

I heard that Hursh

1:28 pm

not serene itself, a synonym of serene.

1:28 pm

bye Lori

1:29 pm

even a cat could lose 8 lives that way...

hi all

1:29 pm

hiya ADHD!

1:29 pm

*F*I*R*E*W*O*R*K*S* FOR ME

1:29 pm

I prefer my sushi raw, but dead :)

1:30 pm

yay hannah

1:30 pm

hmmm...

WTG HANNAH

1:30 pm

thanx all byebyebye

1:30 pm

5-10-5 to go, ah the symmetry

how's everybody doing w/this grid? i only got a few minutes to play before i had to leave

1:31 pm

158 to go here...

1:31 pm

is a tricksy grid...

1:31 pm

55 to go... back after Corrie...

1:31 pm

sm u there

i have 210 to go lol

1:31 pm

me too, gone to watch Corrie...

1:31 pm

what's corrie?

1:31 pm

who's corrie?

1:31 pm

110 here

1:31 pm

Coronation Street

1:32 pm

when's corrie? (now)

1:32 pm

where's corrie?

1:32 pm

how's corrie?

1:32 pm

why's corrie?

what's corrie?

1:32 pm

you're going to watch a street??

corrie's on first

1:32 pm

LOL

1:33 pm

who's on second?

1:33 pm

no, what's on secnod

what's on second

why?

1:33 pm

why is short stop

1:33 pm

why is on third

who?

1:34 pm

i don't know who is on third

1:34 pm

who is on second

1:34 pm

no, who is on FIRST

who is on third

1:34 pm

who is on first

why?

1:34 pm

yes

i mean what

1:34 pm

giggle

what is the umpire

1:34 pm

what's the name of the guy on first?

1:34 pm

i thought questioning enable was the path to madness... but maybe abbott and costello...

1:35 pm

so really...what the heck is corrie?

1:35 pm

Good afternoon Babblers. I see some silliness in the chat below.

1:35 pm

a TV programme called Coronation Street.

1:35 pm

its a type of soap

1:35 pm

good timing scrabbler :)

1:35 pm

hello scrabbler

1:35 pm

scrabbler... the silliness has been going on for hours

any clues for the AD 5/14s, 5/20 and 6/24... i've got over 200 to get

1:36 pm

oh. never heard of it

1:36 pm

me neither, until today

1:36 pm

must be an olde tymme programme?

1:36 pm

Is it grid- induced psychosis?

1:36 pm

no, just british

1:37 pm

oh, yes scrabbler, verily

1:37 pm

ah

1:37 pm

corrie has been on since the 60's

1:37 pm

ad 5/14 and 6/24 - when you go into hospital

1:37 pm

ad5/14 dude who makes commercials

1:37 pm

OH! When someone mentioned soap, I wasn't thinking TV, I was thinking bath

1:37 pm

ad 5/20 a + not up

tx candy

I am terribly sorry, but I had to leave for lunch, did anyone give me clues for do7and bo7?

1:38 pm

AD's are done, lickety split!

tx sher gd cl

1:39 pm

do 7/36 - a scottish teacher

1:39 pm

bo/7 = Madonna song la isla.........

i hope someday i can make clues as good as u guys. u guys r GOOD

1:39 pm

i got 8 ad and ae4, what else i need from top A?

1:39 pm

bbl to finish - try to keep it to a dull roar people

1:40 pm

LOL Angela

1:40 pm

bye angela

1:40 pm

ho 6/36 please

my ADs r finished tx 2 u

1:40 pm

Way of saying hi in Texas

1:40 pm

ai 6/24 hursh?

1:40 pm

hurshy...you need an ai6

1:40 pm

ty d and o

1:40 pm

how many ad's are there?

8 ADs

1:41 pm

5, cybernan

1:41 pm

mmm -- missing 2

1:41 pm

sorry, sorry! 8 ad's!

1:41 pm

slowly slowly i get wordses... my preciousssss

i'm still trying to get the texas hiya

1:42 pm

ad 5 x3, 6, 7, 8 -- missing?

got it duh

1:43 pm

nother 5 and 6

1:43 pm

anyone got hi 7/36, please?

1:43 pm

Another ad5 and ad6

1:43 pm

thanks, hurshy

ai 6/24? and ai 4/4 not the one that means feeling ill

1:44 pm

hi 7: not her _+ vowel + *** maria

1:44 pm

I'm must be being really thick tonight, I'm really having problems with this grid. The list could be coming out early here!

1:44 pm

hi7...it is one big rectangular piece of cloth wrapped around the body

1:44 pm

is not you katie, is the grid

1:45 pm

ai 6/24 to give help to a male person

1:45 pm

tx cybernab, will have to work on it........

1:45 pm

my cinder baby is having a dream

1:46 pm

Thanks Hurshy it's always good to know your not the only one :-)

1:46 pm

But, Nan, I don't see Ave Maria--is there another Maria?

1:46 pm

i was struggling after only finding 45 words, so the list came out early for me Katie

1:46 pm

Katie--my hamster, Oliver, is 2 yrs old today.

hap[y birthday to oliver

1:47 pm

how do you solve a problem like maria? how do you catch a cloud and pin it do4? how do you find a word that means maria? a flibbertigibbet, a will o' the wisp, a clown...

1:47 pm

Fantastic. I hope he is well. Fuggles is sulking as I left him on his own yesterday but I'm sure a little chocolate will win him round later.

1:47 pm

Morning all - scrabbler it's a liquor you dirnk

1:47 pm

scrabbler -- spanish aunt

1:48 pm

wonderful hursh, no closer to solving the riddle tho..........lol

1:48 pm

I guess we know where Scrabbler's been -- hope you put a good word in for us, Scrabbler

1:48 pm

Afternoon, all. Ah, the sound of mucous. Nicely done, Hurshy.

1:49 pm

please, are there 10 am words?

afternoon, all (insert correct time of say) 8-)

1:49 pm

Hurshy, you are offically insane from the grid--I hope to be there too soon.

1:49 pm

got it, think drink for maria, scrabbler!

say=day (oy)

1:49 pm

don't know how you remember the lyrics to all the songs, hurshy

got 117 to go, time to maybe start begging for help

1:50 pm

Got it as well, alcohol is obviously the key for me :-)

1:50 pm

*highly offended, draws self up to full height* i am in full control of my faculties, thank you very much. i just happen to direct them to do silly things.

1:50 pm

any di's?

1:50 pm

mmm, i dunno cnan, they're catchy

1:50 pm

no di but one dh

1:50 pm

I understood the Spanish aunt clue, but no the other as I don't imbibe. And maybe I should start praying for all Babblers

1:50 pm

The hills are aliiiiiiiive.... and it's pretty frightening.

1:51 pm

I do better at Babble when my faculties are out of control

1:51 pm

thanks, hurshy -- missed that one!

1:51 pm

OOOOOOOOOOklahoma, where the wind comes whipping 'cross the plain...............

1:52 pm

how about do5/14?

1:52 pm

have do 4 x1, 5 x2, 6, 7 -- missing do?

1:52 pm

chicks and ducks and geese better scurry, when i take you out in my surrey with the fringe on top

1:52 pm

LOL hursh

1:52 pm

have the do 5/14

1:52 pm

like an enclosed football stadium

1:53 pm

do4/6

1:53 pm

do 5/14 do + french word for sickness

1:53 pm

tx angb, got it!

1:54 pm

thank you hurshy -- that was the one

1:55 pm

wooo, just sa4ed past the dreaded 14...

i still didn't get the hi7/36 and don't parley voo francais

1:55 pm

think it's time for the 2-ltr list -- missing too many in each of the boxes that are left

1:56 pm

you're always missing too many at some point :)

do i get extra points for namibia? LOL

1:57 pm

yes, but they only count in africa

1:58 pm

stupid s's *grumble*

1:59 pm

hurshy - I agree. 5 words to go - all s's and I'm having trouble figuring them out. Maybe we can compare.

2:00 pm

ma5/18 has eluded me for long enough! What is it, pray tell ???????

2:00 pm

i need 5 s's too... imagine if they are the same ones...

2:00 pm

Like a clue for the first s = 6/21?

2:00 pm

s + ready *** fire + preposition

2:00 pm

I'll keep track of the ones I don't have and then compare later.

2:00 pm

Sugar - ma5.18 latin american dance

2:00 pm

is it a plural milk shake

2:00 pm

is it a plural milk shake

2:00 pm

i need 2 left and 3 right

2:01 pm

hey ma5/18, ma5/18 italiano

2:01 pm

hi lynxxx, so easy when you know how! thank you!

2:01 pm

Hursh - sa5.12 & 6.21 after the meat

2:01 pm

I need three left and two right. all are sa.

obilasm should be a word

2:02 pm

thanks lynx!

2:02 pm

Had that one,thanks joemammy

2:02 pm

obilasm???

2:02 pm

sa5.12 sa + Mr Sterling

2:03 pm

obilasm : excitement on seeing an obelisk!

2:03 pm

sa6.21 sa + vowel + abbrev for 60 seconds

2:03 pm

thks lynxxx

which one is a plural milkshake?

2:03 pm

ma5/12

2:03 pm

missing a bi 4 -- have slant and pieces

2:04 pm

bi + mother

2:04 pm

lynxxx - that was the one I was really hunting for.

tx

2:04 pm

thank you

2:05 pm

just one sm, and one sn?

2:05 pm

there is sm5.12 & 6.21 which are odd

2:06 pm

aha!

is there any way to go further back in chat to get clues missed?

2:06 pm

Hursh - extend the sm5 yu probably have with a vowel

2:06 pm

yes, thanks

2:06 pm

8 to go!

2:06 pm

one left.

193 to go WOW

and game time! go saints go!

2:07 pm

yeah i have one S left but 7 other things, lol

aibi

sry

2:07 pm

click on archives for previous chat

2:08 pm

ADHD most right hand button just above the chat log, shows the log starting with the flip

2:08 pm

With grids like this one, its always the same--hit brick wall and recognize that I'm not going to finish, slink off to lickety's list just to get a few extra words, get enough obvious and interesting ones to get a second wind, realize that I'm close enough to see the finish line, and then I'm hooked again. This isn't just a game, it's a way of life...

u r kidding lol i've been going nuts trying to hurry so i don't miss anything and i can't keep with you speedy chatters lol

2:08 pm

5!

2:09 pm

it's an si I am missing. No wonder I couldn't find it!

2:09 pm

no, 6

2:09 pm

the instrument?

2:10 pm

there is 2 si5.12s after the sa4.5 - last letter changes

2:10 pm

no, i have that

2:11 pm

thanks lynxxx!

2:11 pm

NOW 5 to go.

2:11 pm

si4.4 si** in a chair?

2:11 pm

Got it. Thanks lynxxx. Fireworks!!!

2:11 pm

congrats strider

this is awesome,,, tx hurshy

2:11 pm

wtg Strider!!!!!

2:12 pm

Yay for Strider!

congrats strider wtg

2:12 pm

sa6/21 - tubular cured meat.

2:12 pm

Congrats, Strider. This was was a beast of a puzzle.

2:13 pm

lynxxx, got any A combos from the right hand A that you think i might be missing? 4/5 or 5/6?

2:13 pm

If it wasn't a Sunday, I would never have finished. It was fun, even with the really wierdo words.

2:14 pm

what about male name, hursh?

2:14 pm

hurshy - you have the cloth?

cute icon wordlover

2:14 pm

H - am5.16 & 6.27

2:15 pm

There's a weird one from the right hand a--an a/4 meaning a desk in a medieval church from which the epistles were read or chanted aloud

2:15 pm

that's them! 100 points lynxxx!

2:15 pm

H - am4.5 & 5.12

2:15 pm

3 to go!

2:16 pm

letters?

2:16 pm

BLT (hehe)

2:16 pm

2 5's and a 4

2:16 pm

Speaking of weird, there are three unrelated si words (plus corresponding plurals) that are related to geology or soil...

2:17 pm

Do you have the b + l 4, 8?

2:17 pm

hi, all, i need a clue for the ow 4 and 5 please

2:17 pm

ta5.10 - 2 of them after ta4.4 - chnage last letter

2:17 pm

And...finally done.

2:17 pm

have those

2:18 pm

H - ta4.5 last one of the ta's

2:18 pm

predatory night birds, buttonman.

2:18 pm

the last 2 ta's i have are 4/5's

2:19 pm

and oh, yes strider i do

2:19 pm

not the ta4.5 then

2:19 pm

wa 4 & 5 please

2:19 pm

H ti4.4 & ts4.4

2:19 pm

have 4 ti and a ts

2:19 pm

Buttonman, someone who possesses barn dwelling birds o/4 o/4

2:20 pm

i'm only going to alert you once, buttonman

2:20 pm

H - ta4.4 - like another only a different vowel on end

2:20 pm

there's a ta 5 that's odd - seems like a greek letter to me

2:21 pm

ta5.12 ta + unmarried woman truncated

2:21 pm

aha, that's the one lynxxx!

2:22 pm

bl5.22 b + grass

2:23 pm

The one that lynxxx clued is a kind that I often miss while monkey typing because it is a faux plural of a word that isn't a word.

2:23 pm

yup

2:23 pm

yeah. well it's probably singular of tames...

i don't see spinster in this grid at all

2:23 pm

bl5.14 b + l4.4

2:24 pm

i have 3 bl5 that fit that description :)

2:25 pm

Actually, it's a kind of coarse woven cloth used for sieving. Another word that will doubtless enhance our daily discourse.

huh

huh

2:26 pm

Sorry H didn't realise there was so many - there are 4 bl5.14s in all

what are you talkin about

2:27 pm

yup, i have them then

2:27 pm

Fireworks here tx all for good clues

2:27 pm

Hi tad - not talking, clueing

2:27 pm

Congrats Ursh

2:28 pm

3 bo and 1 bu, is that right?

ok but i g2g 4 church

2:28 pm

and 6 bi?

2:28 pm

Tadb, it's a kind of shorthand for clues for finding words. Scroll down the page and lick on angelsong's page for a good introduction to this

2:28 pm

Thats right H

2:29 pm

ok then, got it.

2:29 pm

H so only L now?

2:29 pm

Good afternoon/evening. Babble session 3 about to begin.

2:29 pm

yup, L5

2:30 pm

Hi Haz

2:30 pm

and, the point total i heard, so i believe is L5/10

2:30 pm

Hello lynxxx. Feeling frustrated today, not just with the grid, but with getting time to do the grid. 160 to go.....

2:30 pm

got it!

2:30 pm

another pl with no singular...

2:31 pm

Yay for Hursh !!!! fatastic effort

2:31 pm

Another faux plural, old Lithuanian coin...

2:32 pm

Haz - you must use the list if you aren't already then - this one is a torment

2:32 pm

*the penny drops* ...finally found the serene synonym...

2:33 pm

Checking the definitions of some of these words is like that old game of dictionary, except lots of these seem like obvious bluffs

2:34 pm

lynxxx - haven't used the list yet, but am about to. My masochistic tendencies tend to be on the low side.

2:34 pm

lol sherb

2:34 pm

Bye everyone - must think about going to work

2:34 pm

did you just finish hursh?

2:34 pm

this one seemed really bad, but with the chat log clues, it went pretty darn well - much better than i expected

2:34 pm

Bye lynxxx, see you tomorrow.

2:34 pm

yeah

2:34 pm

la 6? -- have little sheep, two plurals (lat. & eng.) and ethnic designation -- missing?

2:34 pm

greek letter

2:34 pm

bye lynxxx

2:35 pm

:)

2:35 pm

don't know greek!

2:35 pm

congrats Hurshy!

2:35 pm

well... it comes after kappa... um... i...

2:36 pm

finished, hurshy? -- congrats!

2:36 pm

baby sheep + russian yes

2:36 pm

la 6/27 What Mary might call her little sheep affectionately

2:37 pm

One more vowel and the la6/18 could dance to his heart's content

2:37 pm

my dad says he can speak any language but greek, so you say how bout swahili, or whatever, and he says, oh, it's all greek to me

2:37 pm

have that one ang and hurshy

2:37 pm

I am back--taking on-call phone calls---a mother just screamed at me, demanding antibiotics for her baby with a cold and cough. Aaaggghhhh.

2:37 pm

LOL hursh

2:38 pm

Hello Scrabbler. No-one will scream at you here.

2:38 pm

i have a pediatrician friend - she finds call very stressful, trying to make decisions sometimes without examining the patient, and what could happen if she is wrong

2:38 pm

ah, dad jokes are the best...

2:38 pm

don't understand, haz -- there is no la 7

2:39 pm

I was joking that if you added a vowel to the la6 (the one featuring Mary's ovine) the la6/18 could dance away.

2:39 pm

It is stressful--wanting to do the right thing for the baby, yet the mother "knows" what is needed and will not listen to me. I need a new career, STAT.

2:39 pm

Deep, cleansing breaths....in and out....in and out...

2:39 pm

are there 2 6's that start with baby sheep?

2:40 pm

I feel so mean, but there's this girl on American Idol who can't remember her words and it's making me cringe and laugh.

2:40 pm

Yes, one ends like an affectionate babying term, the other in Russian yes (almost affectionate term for father)

2:41 pm

don't know russian -- back to the monkey!

2:41 pm

i think that people just pretend to think they are good just to make the show entertaining. they can't be that bad and really think they are good.

2:41 pm

got it -- thanks

2:41 pm

That's good.

2:42 pm

I wonder that. Can people really be that deluded? Must be actors, surely.

2:42 pm

I don't think actors could be paid enough to do those stunts. People really are that self-deluded.

hi all!

2:43 pm

They hear something different to what the rest of us hear. What makes it worse is that family and friends collude in the delusion.

2:43 pm

that's a point. just one job and never working again. deluded people. wow

2:44 pm

Hi tea

2:44 pm

i dunno, i'd love to meet simon cowell... i'd pretend to be horribly deluded for the sake of that

2:44 pm

LOL! Hursh!! you got a crush on him??

hi ang, how's the grid? I am working and babbling

2:44 pm

don't you?

2:45 pm

Yucky grid - need the list for this one

2:45 pm

i guess it's a theme with me... men who are bluntly honest - house, simon...

2:45 pm

HI.

oy!

2:46 pm

You saw that Hugh Laurie got an award recently (Emmy? Golden Globe?)

2:46 pm

Any clues for the al 5/14?

2:46 pm

I think those people who can't sing on AI have never heard themselves sing on a tape recorder or something like that. I'll bet when they watch the show they are appalled at how bad they sound.

2:46 pm

Yes, I'm so proud of Hugh! Love that show.

2:47 pm

For a long time I didn't realize that Hugh Laurie had a British accent.

2:47 pm

dunno about Simon Cowell, hursh. Mostly he's a euw, but he is straight-talking, I'll give him that.

2:47 pm

an excuse, especially in a criminal case, Angb

2:47 pm

He's as English as they come, which goes to show what a good actor he is!

2:48 pm

yes, haz, saw the award - AND borat got the best actor comedy movie globe!

2:48 pm

thnx inge - was looking for something far more difficult LOL

2:48 pm

I agree Haz. I think he's great!

2:48 pm

oh yeah and thanks for the hint inge.

2:48 pm

some interesting words in this grid

2:49 pm

apparently he finds it quite hard to do the accent, I read. It can get tiring, trying to pronounce words and sounds you're not used to.

2:49 pm

i should think so

2:49 pm

Borat I would have less time for.

2:49 pm

THis is a tough grid. I got 95 words with hints and searching but I think it's time to pull up the list.

2:49 pm

maybe they should have him do an exchange program with some doc in england so he could "pick up" a british accent, lol

2:49 pm

I don't like Borat at all

2:52 pm

we've all been stunned into silence...

2:52 pm

bu anyone?

2:52 pm

off to watch 24... have a good week everyone... see you next Saturday... :)

2:52 pm

quiddler doesn't think vibe is a valid word!

2:52 pm

No, I haven't seen the film but trailers don't really appeal to me. And the actor is deliberately controversial in everything he does.

2:53 pm

bye sherb, enjoy your week

2:53 pm

or fudgier!!!!

2:53 pm

Bye sherb - sorry not to have seen you much today.

2:53 pm

by 5/ 15 erected

2:54 pm

*bu

2:54 pm

ti 5? -- have the bone

2:54 pm

thx Angb *hangs head in stupidity*

2:54 pm

nm -- found it

2:54 pm

don't be scared of finding the other one, nan

nan - shy

2:54 pm

Going thru the list at moment and there are plenty of words I should have found - so you are not the only one

2:56 pm

that is one of the few benefits of going listless, you don't have that experience.

2:56 pm

you still feel fishy with clues sometimes, but that's not as bad or as frequent

2:57 pm

I don't care in the slightest about feeling fishy. I keep the feeling to myself and let everyone think I find words easily.....

2:57 pm

lol - and you do pull it off quite well

2:58 pm

I've perfected the technique - never explain, never apologise...

2:58 pm

:O Chicago school teacher Colleen Pavelka knows how much her husband loves the Bears. Apparently, she loves him even more. Colleen chose to have the birth of their second child induced a few days early so Mark Pavelka could attend Sunday's NFC Championship showdown between the Bears and the New Orleans Saints.

3:00 pm

There's a bi 4/7 and 5/16 (pl) that sounds like what we affectionately call a German make of car. Mind you it could only be in NZ. Real def'n: a platform in a synagogue holding the reading table used when chanting or reading portions of the Torah and the Prophets.

3:02 pm

back for a bit of grid with my football.... hi, all.

my husband always said that it was a good thing that our kids were due before the football season started.

I think he was half serious.

hi Pam!

3:02 pm

are you going to iron as well pam? hahahahaha

3:02 pm

hello pam

3:02 pm

hi everyone.

3:02 pm

LOLOLOL, hursh!

hey biltong

3:02 pm

Hello pam and Biltong.

3:02 pm

hi, TNC

3:03 pm

great clue for the altar angb!

3:03 pm

hi, haz

3:03 pm

missing a ta 4 -- any guesses?

3:03 pm

hi pam and thx. Do you call the cars that in the US?

3:03 pm

ro clues please

3:04 pm

we call 'em beemers here in the Boston area

sort of, ang, we usually put an r on the end

3:04 pm

We don't say r's on the end of words here supposedly with our accent!

3:04 pm

Hi Biltong :)

3:04 pm

lol, ang!

3:05 pm

monkeys are tired - going for lunch

3:05 pm

SU6/30 & SU7/44 please?

3:05 pm

Hi Inge2. Are those new puppies?

3:05 pm

Same here Angb.

3:05 pm

hello biltong

3:05 pm

Are you ready to give in minski?

3:05 pm

no old puppies :) the top two are mine, now grown

3:05 pm

hi ren8

3:05 pm

hi all. Tea--who are the twins in your icon?

3:06 pm

Thanks ang

3:06 pm

hi, natasha

3:06 pm

oh I see. Just gorgeous!!

3:06 pm

I knew there had to be at least one word with that 3 letter beginning.

3:06 pm

hey pam, how's it going?

3:06 pm

hello tasha

that is my new niece and nephew - born on 1/17. She was first and weighed in at 6 lb 6 oz, 19 inches and he weighed in at 6 lb 7 oz, 20 inches.

3:06 pm

minski...su6...to give up...and the pl

3:06 pm

oops -- missed the ts

3:07 pm

big twins, tnc!!!!!

they were honkers!

3:07 pm

really big twins! poor mom!

3:08 pm

mine were 5 lb, 11 oz and 7 lb, 5 oz--they're growing twins big these days!

fortunately? she had a c-section scheduled due to 2 previous c-sections, but still - almost 13 punds of baby

natasha - it's about the same total weight!

*pounds

3:08 pm

Mine were 6 lb 6 oz and 6 lbs 13 oz. I looked like the Taj Mahal on its side.

3:09 pm

yep--I'm glad my partner was the birth mom and not me!

3:09 pm

There was a lady featured in a British paper last week - her baby (one!) was 15lb something!

hee hee Vicuna. My best friend had smaller twins and she measured exactly 5 feet around the day before birth

3:09 pm

My twin and I were both over 7 lbs!

3:09 pm

wow, deeha that's amazing

my husbands grandfather was 16 something at birth. crikey, dee - that's huge!

3:10 pm

Yikes, Deeha!

3:10 pm

wow, TNC. Is he a tall man?

3:11 pm

I was the same size as if I'd been pregant for 12 months with a 13-something pounder.

I never met him, neither did my husband, so I have no idea

my husband is 6' 2" though

3:11 pm

Because she was expecting twins (this was at the beginning of the war before NHS) she had to have a doctor as well as a midwife. She complained all he did was sit on the windowsill and smoke!! And she had to pay him 3/6 - thats about 32p!!! Or I think 70 cents!!!

3:12 pm

My youngest son was 10lbs at birth and is big and tall. He is 6' 5", so I can imagine that your husbands grandad was very tall.

3:12 pm

st7/32?

that bodes well for my little prokers then! they were both 9 lb 3 oz and 21 inches at birth

3:13 pm

And I thought 8 pounds 12 ounces was big!

*porkers

3:13 pm

and I thought the 8lb, 13 oz baby my sister just had was big.

3:13 pm

i call him gigantor. not sure how she feels about that!

the twins have wrinkly skin and it cracks me up, because mine never did. The size newborn clothes are all too big for the twins, and my kids went right to 0 - 3 month clothes, no newborn size for them~

3:14 pm

hi all

3:14 pm

hi all

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hi all

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hi all

3:15 pm

hi arwennn

hi hi hi hi!

3:15 pm

hi hi hi hi arwennn

3:15 pm

hi arwen

3:15 pm

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3:15 pm

hello hello hello hello

now bilt wants in on the action

3:15 pm

Same with my Paigey TNC.

3:15 pm

lol, sorry

3:15 pm

Hello Uneaixoise.

3:15 pm

whoops pressed enter more than once

3:16 pm

hey, haz :-)

3:16 pm

I was over 10 lbs at birth, and my sister in a diabetic pregnancy, had an 11pound, 14 oz baby...

3:16 pm

I was over 10 lbs at birth, and my sister in a diabetic pregnancy, had an 11pound, 14 oz baby...

oy - that was the thing - no diabetes for me, just big porkers ;)

3:16 pm

lol, tnc

3:17 pm

hi all :)

3:17 pm

i was only 4 lb, 4 oz but I've more than made up for it!

I say it with much affection!

hi, rae

3:17 pm

hi raelite

3:17 pm

Hello raelite!

3:17 pm

hey, raelite

3:17 pm

hi hi hi hi (all in one box)

3:18 pm

wow, natasha, you were a peanut, LOL

3:18 pm

if I may be so bold as to ask...how did you know you were pregnant?

3:18 pm

did you have to test? was it a surprise?

we were trying, so I ped on lots of sticks~

3:18 pm

I was pam. 9 weeks early.

*peed

3:19 pm

hi everyone

3:19 pm

hey, ping!

3:19 pm

hi ping

3:19 pm

Tea, my kids were the same -- LOL hi all! no diabetes for me, just too many cookies and BIG kids!

3:19 pm

hey ping

3:19 pm

Hello ping.

3:20 pm

hi ping

3:20 pm

hi stid

hey stid!

3:20 pm

HI all :)

hi ping

3:20 pm

hi stid, did you have a fun day in the sunshone yesterday?

3:20 pm

hi peri

hi peri - how's the shoulder today?

3:20 pm

stidmama, I made my almond cake yesterday and it stuck to the bottom of the pan even though I greased and floured it :(

3:20 pm

rae -- I knew I was pregnant when my mammaries began to get really firm and hurt a peculiar way, happened early on each time (had more pregnancies than children), and never unless I was pregnant...

3:20 pm

hi all! i scrolled for clues, and got baby weights!

3:20 pm

hi peri and feather

3:21 pm

HI Tea, still hurts, I have been icing it and doing some exercises I found on line.

3:21 pm

and then of course there was the all-day-long sickness for the entire pregnancy... :-(

heyfeather

3:21 pm

oh really stid...very interesting....

3:21 pm

I have been her off and on, trying not to sit too long at the computer

3:21 pm

Well, all those babies were ho7/40's, so they were on topic, right?

poor stid! I was lucky that after the first 12 weeks, I was fine

3:21 pm

all day sickness? oh man...that had to bite!

3:21 pm

so is anyone here pregnant right now? (besides me that is) i've discovered 2 other preggo babblers so far

3:21 pm

I had a lovely day yesterday! thanks! even went out shopping for longer pants for one of the kids. If they only made size ten waist with size 14 length, we'd be in hog heaven with that lanky kid...

not me, no way, no how!

3:22 pm

That's right, TNC. If I may say, God Forbid!!! :)

3:22 pm

aww..lanky! they grow so fast...not preggers feather...thank goodness!

3:22 pm

NEVER again, feather --

uh, yes, even, God forbid!~

we're probably scaring Feather!~

3:23 pm

nahhh

3:23 pm

I need ni 5/16 to finish, please help!

3:23 pm

this is my second time

that's because she only has one!

3:23 pm

plural of ni6/30

3:23 pm

peri, my almond cake stuck just a little when I made it, but that just meant I got to eat the scrapings! LOL I almost wonder if a springform pan might be a choice?

3:23 pm

hi, ping and peri

3:24 pm

gooooo bears!!!!

3:24 pm

natasha, I just read your reply--that was very early!!! My twin sister and brother were 8 weeks early and each were over pounds. Just over, but still...

3:24 pm

nibi

3:24 pm

Hey there pam

3:24 pm

tx Une, Fireworks for me!

3:24 pm

wow, I'm keyboard retarded

3:24 pm

hey pam, feather, stid, une, rae, peri, natasha, tea, sugar

3:25 pm

YAY sugar!

yay, sugar

3:25 pm

well done, sugar!!

3:25 pm

yay, sugar!!!!

3:25 pm

Yay for sugar!

3:25 pm

congrats, sugar!!!

3:25 pm

bbl

bye peri

3:25 pm

yay sugar!

3:25 pm

Yipppeee sugar!

inia

3:25 pm

bye peri

3:25 pm

hello Ping, and thanks for all the help, everyone. Not an easy one today!

sorry!

3:25 pm

later peri! hi Scrabbler!

3:26 pm

cya, peri

3:26 pm

Clues for anyone?

3:26 pm

hi?

3:26 pm

hi, scrabbler and stid

3:26 pm

ghey scrabbler

3:26 pm

please, sugar. COuld you clue the ai6/24?

3:26 pm

(that was a request for a clue )

3:26 pm

be back in a bit

3:26 pm

59 left here on the never ending grid

3:26 pm

cya, natasha

by natasha

3:27 pm

ai6/24 to help a male

3:27 pm

Hi Stid, Pam, et al--I have been here, but I am on call so phone calls have been interrupting Babble.

3:27 pm

163 feather... are you still stir-crazy?

3:27 pm

ai6 help + male

3:27 pm

*hands on hips* the nerve of people having medical needs while you're trying to babble! *hmph*

3:27 pm

ty :)

3:27 pm

nope, doing better today. been doing some laundry, and delegating tasks to doug. 59 left

3:27 pm

at least you haven't had to go in, scrabbler. which hospital?

don't parents realize that weekends are not for medical problems?

3:28 pm

lol, tnc

3:28 pm

good feather! keep delegating -- this is a skill you will need in about seven more years, when the kids are ready to take on the housekeeping...

3:28 pm

there is a couple across the street with a miracle baby

we have pediatric urgent care here, which takes appointments and answers calls on the phone - it's kind of nice

3:29 pm

my mom always said she had me so i could fetch things for her

3:29 pm

i've always said i had daniel so i had someone to play games with later

3:29 pm

How has that worked out for her, feather?

3:29 pm

clue for the ad7/44 and 8/60 please?

3:29 pm

lol, pretty darn well, unfortunately for me!

3:29 pm

LOL vi!

3:30 pm

hi 7/36 opp of her +1st vowel + *** maria.

3:30 pm

vic are you channeling Dr Phil?

3:30 pm

ad7 is like pr8

3:30 pm

i never finished, LOL. anyway, i think of you when i see him, scrabbler. he was due in may 06, but born in feb 06...

3:30 pm

Hope that helps Inge 2

3:30 pm

ad7/44 and 8 end just like pr8 and 9.

hello everyone

3:30 pm

mrp! :-)

3:30 pm

I hope not, rae!

3:30 pm

hi mr president

3:31 pm

sugar, the only maria I know is ave maria...not that th

3:31 pm

hi, mr p

3:31 pm

hi mrp

3:31 pm

So far none of the 5 calls in the last 2 hrs have been "urgent". I am recovering from the mother that unleashed her fury on me--she demanded an antibiotic for her baby........it ended with her hanging up on me. Deep cleansing breaths....

3:31 pm

Hello mrpresident - nice to see you!

3:31 pm

hello mrp! how's life treating you-all these days? I read that the drought is driving bad snakes into the cities over there...

3:31 pm

hi mr p!

3:31 pm

hi mr p!

3:31 pm

No inge2, think of the liquer!

3:31 pm

poor scrabbler.

3:31 pm

Poor Scrabbler! Hello, MrP.

3:31 pm

hi all

3:31 pm

lol sugar, got it!

3:31 pm

as if she didn't know that antibiotics are not necessary 8- of the time... grrrrr on your behalf, scrabbler

thanks, sugar

3:32 pm

{{{Scrabbler}}}

3:32 pm

hi everyone who just came in

3:32 pm

hello, all who've just signed on

but, Scrab, don't antibiotics cure everything?

3:32 pm

Pam, those "ultra" or "micro" premies are amazing! They start out at about 1 lb.

just kidding - I know better

hello hello! the drought is killing everything! the bushfire off the front balcony is more frightening than the snakes right now!

3:32 pm

yw

3:32 pm

Scrabbler, I can sympathise - taking phone calls from the public can be stressful!

scary, Mrp

3:33 pm

yikes, mr.p ! stay safe!

hey, Pam, any lingering problems with the miracle baby?

3:33 pm

oh mrp! be careful!

3:33 pm

He was at about 1 lb. He now has a double ear infection and bronchiolitis, but is smiling away, LOL. His mom said he is always cheery when he is sick, LOL. His dad is a psychiatrist, so there is a doc around...

3:33 pm

I almost cried after that call--I tried so hard to be understanding and to help her, but she wanted something that was not reasonable.

it is huge! and there are 7 aircraft dropping water as we type! another day of 105 degrees I am afraid

3:33 pm

some parents are just like that, as are some adult children... grrr.....

3:33 pm

{{{{Australia}}}} wish I could send you some rain...

3:34 pm

mr p, that is horrid. And, I read and saw flooding in Vic...

3:34 pm

As a teacher I got that a lot: parents who think they are trying to help their kids, but they're really going to make things worse.

3:34 pm

i am with stid and the hugs....

3:34 pm

Bronchiolitis is epidemic right now. Morning hospital rounds included a 5 wk old with it.

3:34 pm

scrabbler - **happy thoughts**

3:34 pm

At least you know you were in the right - but the wobbly legs after a phone confrontation take some time to ease.

we get a lot of that in the tax office, too. if they are so right, then do it yourself!

3:35 pm

we, on the other hand, sometimes decline antibiotics... on the basis of "most small infections seem to resolve themselves" -- but not really huge ones or strep. THOSE we hit with everything we have ... stidmatt had to have several courses to overcome MRSA a couple years back.

there is flooding in the Northern Territories, really bad bushfires throughout Victoria and central NSW is completely burnt out... the Farm is burnt to the ground... so dad doesn't have to 'worry' about clearing anymore

oh man, Mrp - that stinks

3:36 pm

poor dad...

3:36 pm

TY for your support, I am starting to settle down, esp because Australia has far bigger problems now!

3:36 pm

lmao! daniel went up to the dog, pointed his finger and touched her nose, and said "boop"

3:36 pm

stid - I'm so glad someone else outt here refuses antibiotics! I thought I was the only one!

3:36 pm

Oh dear, mrp!

we do, too, rae

3:37 pm

ROFL {{{daniel}}} cute kid!

3:37 pm

Oh, mr p, I am sorry about the farm.

3:37 pm

yay!

3:37 pm

I don't feel so alone anymore

3:37 pm

An epidemic, scrabbler? How scary.

3:37 pm

mr p - you'll get through it, I'll be sending you rain shortly

3:38 pm

i've read stats that anitbiotics are extremely overprescribed in this country, especially to the poor

3:38 pm

I think that the overuse of antibiotics is scary. Of course, when I had an undiagnosed bone infection in my jaw, and was put on an ineffective antibiotic, I REALLY appreciated it when the right one worked!

3:38 pm

be back in a bit

3:38 pm

I always ask "why" do I need this, what are the risks, what will happen if I do something else... what is the normal course with and without... most docs seem to prefer that, it lets them know that I really care and that I want to be involved in decision-making.

darn stinking rain never came yesterday, was forecast for huge rain and it just.... didn't show!... can't see any coming today either! Thanks for the raindance everyone!

3:39 pm

I am the same way, stid. I don't present like an "average" patient, though, so I have had some near-lethal infections....

3:39 pm

yeah - that you're not going in expecting a prescription

3:39 pm

clue for the nu 6 please

3:39 pm

We will keep dancing, mr p!!!!!!!

3:39 pm

right, raelite

3:39 pm

**shaking her "groove thang"

3:40 pm

*adds bells and music to dance*

3:40 pm

tambourine here

3:40 pm

nu 6? hmmmm *looking*

3:40 pm

shake it grrl make sure you don't break it grrl

3:40 pm

nu 6 is a plural of the nu 5 --

3:40 pm

Antibiotics are vital for significant bacterial infections--MRSA is a biggie, and Strep, and others---but not for colds, coughs, etc--- they must be used judiciously--

bells on my shoes here ( :

3:41 pm

I

being american indian, I can rain dance ( :

antibiotics should only be used in extreme cases... *my two cents*... agree with scrabbler

3:41 pm

I have allergies to some common things, so even some normal medications can cause trouble for me... hence my concern. and stidgrant's really bad reaction to amoxicillin once...

3:41 pm

well now we have an authority

3:41 pm

Pam---that is scary for you, having serious infections.

3:41 pm

you go, girl, grammaterri

come on grammat!! bring on the waterworks

lol ty pam

3:41 pm

dance, grammaterri dance!

3:42 pm

we can really get this rain dance going!!

3:42 pm

are there more than one nu 5?

3:42 pm

stid, want a clue for nu6?

3:42 pm

*cheering for gramma*

3:42 pm

How about snow? We have lots here.

3:42 pm

it is scrabbler. I remain afebrile, and have an enormous tolerance to pain. Plus, CNS depressants have little to no effect in the usual dosages, so I am not easy to manage when I have a severe issue

3:43 pm

yes stid

melt it and send it where it is needed scrabbler ( :

3:43 pm

yes please, sugar...

3:43 pm

good thing my doc understands all of this, though, and that I am lucky enough to have health insurance, or I would be in deep trouble

3:43 pm

pl the nu5, stid

3:43 pm

but the nu 5 I have doesn't plural!

back to the grid for me 105 left, blessings babblers!

3:43 pm

i assume you have the nu5?

3:44 pm

nu+ letter before C + EYE + first letter

pam, I have chronic Osteo Myalitis... they found one that works... intravenous antibiotics for 8 weeks at a time!

3:44 pm

there is only one nu 5 -

3:44 pm

oh -- wait. *blush* yes it did...

3:44 pm

*sigh*

3:44 pm

chronic, mr p? I am sooooo sorry.....

3:44 pm

yes it does, stid, there are only 2xnu/5's

3:44 pm

yay, stid!

3:44 pm

oh mrp --- I am sorry!

3:45 pm

clue for ad8,60 please

3:45 pm

mr p...that is harsh! good health wishes to you!!

3:45 pm

okay, so now I need another nu5...

3:45 pm

I had a pain in my jaw that turned out to be a hole the size of a quarter in my jawbone from a root canal gone bad. They were shocked when they found the hole....

nu5?Thanks

3:45 pm

my brother had that too, Pam

3:45 pm

that sounds serious, mr. p

3:45 pm

oh pam... wow.

3:46 pm

ad8/68 change the 1st 3letters of pr8/60

3:46 pm

And, of course, there was some blame the patient going on. I had pain. I never had swelling or a fever or ignored it and the endodontist really had a hard time believing that!

3:46 pm

Yikes, Pam!

3:46 pm

eek! just got beaned with a tennis ball! he's playing catch with the dog. and she's actually listening sometimes when he says "drop it"

3:46 pm

LOL, feather

chronic... it is continually coming back and I have to have treatment every year to 18 months.... they just can't get rid of the stuff out of my bones

3:46 pm

good for daniel!

3:46 pm

exact same thing happened to my brother - they couldn't believe he didn't feel it

3:47 pm

realite, hope your brother healed as well as I.

3:47 pm

nu5/16 nu+2nd letter+ 2 vowels

3:47 pm

And now, he has to be mindful of how he presents, raelite...

3:47 pm

and then pl for the nu6

3:47 pm

oh yeah, he's back ot his beer swelling best :) three years later

3:47 pm

darn. I almost forgot the first al5/12

3:47 pm

hello everyone ....any clues for the next to last pr6/33 please?

3:47 pm

proman

3:47 pm

hello mo

3:48 pm

'allo mo!

3:48 pm

excuse me!

pam, tell the endon to FO... it took a team of so called specialists to determine that my screaming pain wasnt in my head.... I really hate when doctors think they know everything

3:48 pm

bush seems pretty pr 6/33...

3:49 pm

hi mo , try opp of anti + fighting

3:49 pm

well, I have got three more words in the last however long I've been on. Going to go watch football and knit, instead.

3:49 pm

thanks for all the help, friends!

3:49 pm

scrabbler, it gets better. THe pain meds wore off sooner than they thought, and I had to BEG the pharmacy to fill my script before others that came in. It was unbelievable. The doc told my partner that the meds would last the hour or so we needed. They lasted 1 minutes...

3:49 pm

later stid

3:49 pm

i'm watching football right now stid

3:49 pm

Oh, mr p, that just sucks. Now, I am very clear with docs. ...

3:49 pm

bye stid

3:49 pm

bye for now stid!

3:49 pm

bye, stid

bye stid

3:49 pm

hurshy and sugar thank you both.

3:50 pm

hey Biltong, how are you?

3:50 pm

you guys must be good at this game. I have 189 words left to find and I'm absolutely stuck

bye stid

3:50 pm

yw mo

we cheat, arwenn ;)

3:50 pm

bye stid.

3:50 pm

yeah, we pretty much rock the house

3:50 pm

ok thanks sugar, and you?

3:50 pm

Good evening mo.

3:50 pm

lol

3:50 pm

lol TnC

I like Hurshy's answer better

3:50 pm

arwennn, are you in love with aragornnn?

3:50 pm

hi, mo

3:50 pm

hi Haz.

3:51 pm

arwenn, have you been using lickety's list? if not, that will help, then you can ask for clues, which is how we get so far!

3:51 pm

and pam.

3:51 pm

he's pretty cool, but I'm actually in love with a guy named ericcc

3:51 pm

lickety's list?

3:51 pm

hmmm.... well good, more aragorn for me then

3:51 pm

bottom left of the screen, under friend's of babble

3:51 pm

isn't every woman (and probably some men) in love with "the hot blonde with the bow"!!!!!!

3:52 pm

clues are listed like sa4/8, which means the word starts with sa, is 4 letters long, and 8 points

3:52 pm

eh, legolas doesn't really do it for me

3:52 pm

take a number, hursh!

3:52 pm

sugar, scruffy dude with the sword for me

3:52 pm

lol I've liked legolas since way before the movies

3:52 pm

do you need glasses hursh!

3:53 pm

warns

3:53 pm

can I ask for help with the first sa6/21 please?

3:53 pm

I typed that in the wrong box, sorry

3:53 pm

oh well, MUCH more hot blonde for me then!

that's okay - that's how we cheat!

3:53 pm

as a matter of fact, i DO need glasses. but, even with them on, i still don't really go for legolas. but aragorn... when he pushes open those doors esp...

I just found yummy sa6/21... better when it is white hungarian too

3:53 pm

love the h7! what a nice surprise

3:53 pm

Clue for the pr8 and 9 please?

3:54 pm

sa 6?? - have hawaiian food

3:54 pm

oh, yes, the doors - that's worth the whole movie!!! and 'hi

3:54 pm

you'll have enough competition for the blond bowman

3:55 pm

biltong, to disallow and pl

3:55 pm

no, no! He's all mine!

3:56 pm

pr 8 & 9: banishes (think 1920's when liquor was banned)

3:56 pm

aah, ty sugar. I can't believe I spent so much time searching for it!

3:56 pm

cyber ... dont know hawaiian food!

3:56 pm

hola mrp!

goodness gracious - anyone watching this football game?

yes takuma... what a run!

3:57 pm

mo, sa+vowel+shot form of 60 seconds

3:57 pm

also just found the sausage

hey smooth

3:57 pm

Oh, yeah. My husband's quite a Bears fan.

i mean... what a run after the pass!

hi TnC!

holy moly!

3:57 pm

sugar -- that is the hawaiian delicacy

3:57 pm

yep, bears fan here, out of loyalty for a friend

3:57 pm

hi smooth, where ya been all day?

3:58 pm

but would you have labor induced so he could go to a bears game

3:58 pm

I know nan, but mo isn't getting it.........

poor guy, jan... for them to come so far only to hgave their seaspn fall apart in the second half (at least, that's my prediction.;)

3:58 pm

nope!

watching football, sugar... I was on earlier, though

heh, hurshy -- that's fandom

3:58 pm

thanks, sugar

3:58 pm

Uuuuh, no. But I'm not sure he wouldn't suggest it....

3:58 pm

sugar thank you I have it now.

3:59 pm

me too smooth, just managed to finish!

3:59 pm

i only ask because a woman in chicago did, on friday. i posted it earlier in the log.

3:59 pm

good for you mo

3:59 pm

Not that I'm not expecting. I'm a 3 time grandma.

I think I saw you earlier only for a minute or two, though

stranger things have happend, janiece!

4:00 pm

I really struggled with this grid, took me forever!

great, my kids are watching a show on how to defend yourself agains a wedgie!! I didn't know there was such a thing as an 'atomic wedgie'! LOL

4:00 pm

Don't start the whole preganancy and babies thread again, hurshy, or you'll have to flee!

it's a rough grid today

4:00 pm

Eeek! But I married into being a grandma. Never had kids of my own. Boy would that be a shock!

4:00 pm

me too sugar!!!!

lol Mr. P... I remember that from the 80.s lol

There's something weird about sports that way. You don't hear about women having labor induced in order to go to a play

4:01 pm

good point vi.

Mr. P, the atomic wedgie is a myth. None have been spotted in the wild.

4:01 pm

don't sweat it mo, ask for clues!

that's because women are more level headed about these things ;)

yeah, but you on't get the same adreniline rush from watching dance of the sugarplum faries, as you do from watching favre annihilate da bears

LOL!! looks bloody painful!

4:02 pm

lol smooth

4:02 pm

sugar I amm not sweating any more I finished with your clue thank you.

this is true, smooth

4:02 pm

well done, mo!!

4:02 pm

YAY mo!!!!! Congrats!

my 10 times typed already phantom ...sultanas

4:03 pm

That's because the play gets performed multiple times, each game only once.

4:03 pm

thanks ....takes a bow!!!

yay, mo!

4:03 pm

Of course, each kid gets born only once, too, so you'd think that would be at least equally important...

and each game has the potential to be legendary... once you've heard beethovan's 5th, even if you like the music, you know how its gonna end. lol

that's waht TIVO is for!

lol

4:04 pm

Congrats, mo......

4:04 pm

ty pida.

4:04 pm

Clue for ad5/20 please?

4:05 pm

What's TIVO?

4:05 pm

yay, mo...

4:05 pm

!!!!!

digital video recording, mo

4:05 pm

ad 5 ... a + not up.

4:05 pm

a + opp of up, Biltong

4:05 pm

oooooh!

it's a device that records tv as you watch it, so you can go back and watch the great parts right then and there

4:05 pm

wo5 and wo6

4:05 pm

ty, mo and sugar

4:06 pm

is like wizard binoculars

4:06 pm

yw Biltong

4:06 pm

Okay, okay smooth, i got it!!!!!!!!lol

4:06 pm

femaleperson, then plural, scrabbler

lmao, hursh

thanks, pam

4:07 pm

sure, tnc

4:07 pm

TY--a bug duh!

4:07 pm

I lOVE my DVR. I ahve had to make some changes in my lifestyle, and redo my budget, but I have kept my DVR and on demand, and it has been nice.

4:08 pm

lol, scrabbler!

I love mine, too, Pam - I go to bed early with the kids sometimes, and like to catch up opn my shows while they are napping.

4:08 pm

back later, gotta get dinner

4:08 pm

that makses sense, tnc

4:08 pm

bye feather

4:08 pm

cya, feather

ciao, folks. Gotta get back to writing

4:08 pm

bye feather.

bye, feather

4:09 pm

ciao, takuma

bye, takuma

see ya sto

4:09 pm

bye Takuma

bye feather

4:09 pm

Takuma byeee.

4:09 pm

phantoms: wombat dimwit

4:10 pm

rhombus

4:10 pm

good one, vic!

4:10 pm

fireworks! -- at last

4:10 pm

okay people, I bid you all goodnight and happy babbling, see you all tomorrow!

yay, nan

4:10 pm

well done cybernan.

bye, sugar

4:10 pm

Yay for cybernan! Bye, sugar.

4:10 pm

good night, sugar!

4:11 pm

Yay Cybernan, well done!!!!!!!

4:11 pm

Think my monkeys are ruined for the next week.

4:11 pm

Yep, I looked for wombat too.

bye sugar

4:11 pm

good night sugar.

4:11 pm

Congrats, cybernan

4:11 pm

well done cybernan

4:11 pm

bye sugar, sleep well

4:11 pm

Yahooooo Nan.

4:11 pm

anyone want a clue before I leave?

4:12 pm

I need 148 clues, please. Do you have time?

4:12 pm

How about bo6/24 and 7/36 please, cyber?

4:12 pm

lol, scrabbler

lol scrabbler

4:13 pm

bo 6/7 combo -- spanish lady's name?

4:13 pm

bo + lice egg + vowel

4:13 pm

ty cybernan :)

4:14 pm

I did great with the bottom half of the grid--lots of easy words, but I have been like a tortoise for the last 2 hrs, thinking about giving up.

4:14 pm

sorry scrabbler -- which do you want first ;)

4:15 pm

I will be back later. Work beckons...

4:15 pm

un 5/18 please?

4:15 pm

lol -- been at it for 5 hours, scrabbler -- should have gone to the list earlier!

4:15 pm

That is OK, Nan--I just need to look at the list and hunt.

4:15 pm

I am going to try to get halfway and I still need about 20 to get there!

4:15 pm

bye pam

4:16 pm

un 5: took back raising hand at the auction

4:16 pm

ty :)

4:18 pm

tomorrow's theme is robots -- think I'll post a pic of myself!

4:18 pm

lol, nan. Is that how you feel?

4:18 pm

right now it is!

4:19 pm

must be off now , to have an early night ... I think a cold is on its way!!!! GOODNIGHT ALL.

4:20 pm

night mo, sleep well. Take care.

4:20 pm

hope you feel better Mo

4:20 pm

goodnight mo -- hope you are feeling better in the morning :)

4:20 pm

How are you doing with the grid ren8?

4:20 pm

Mo ==get some zinc lozenges

4:21 pm

thanks you all ... Night Nurse is what I need. byeee.

4:21 pm

I'm away as well -- good luck, everyone!

4:21 pm

90 left but going to give up in a minute, work tomorrow, how you getting on Biltong

4:21 pm

bye, nan.

4:21 pm

ob 6 and 7??

4:21 pm

bye nan

4:22 pm

sorry Scrabbler, don't have those yet

4:22 pm

151 left, I am going to try and get halfway.

4:23 pm

ob 6/24: ob + "not first" -- don't have the seven *vanishes again*

4:23 pm

ob7 - lating pl of ob6

4:23 pm

Latin pl, that is.

4:23 pm

ob 6: o + bomb going off -- add a vowel for the 7

4:23 pm

ty, stid and nan

4:24 pm

TY Stid and Vicuna and nan

4:24 pm

and Vi :)

4:24 pm

nu5 and 6?

weboggle still hanging up a lot. be back if it stays stuck 8-)

4:25 pm

No problem, Biltong. I didn't feel slighted. No, not at all. Even though you left me out. But I was fine. Yeah, don't worry about me. I can just sit here and have everyone ignore me. I don't mind...

4:25 pm

nu + bi4/6, but drop the last letter and then pl

4:25 pm

(just kidding, of course.)

4:26 pm

love you, Vi :)

4:26 pm

:)

4:27 pm

TY Biltong. And Vicuna, I fully appreciate you and Iove you.

4:27 pm

my post was a bit garbled, but I knew you would get it :)

4:27 pm

ni5 and 6 (Scrabbler shows a suspicious pattern of begging shamelessly for clues)

4:28 pm

Thanks, Scrabbler! As Eeyore would say, "You're a Real Friend. Not like Some." ;)

4:28 pm

hello again. can i have a clue for ho 6 please

4:28 pm

LOL Vicuna!

4:29 pm

ni6/30 - like a halo or cloud around something, ni5 - is it's latin pl

4:29 pm

lol, Scrabbler. I am benefitting from your begging.

4:29 pm

Can I have help with the st7 word Thanks

4:29 pm

ho6= Ho***y Doodie, but change the spelling--it is a Texan way of saying hello

4:30 pm

nimbus

4:30 pm

Yup, that's it, magzel!

thanks, Mag!

4:30 pm

Now try its Latin pl!

4:30 pm

TY my dear, dear friend, Vicuna, for that perfect set of clues.

4:31 pm

Which sounds like the Acronym Not In My Back Yard.

4:31 pm

Okay, Scrabbler, now you're just overdoing it! :P

4:31 pm

As spoken to all unwelcome neighbours' animals.

4:31 pm

Sorry, my nose is brown.

4:32 pm

thanks scrabbler.

4:32 pm

lol!

4:32 pm

whoa! anyone see that? interesting bears touchdown!

4:32 pm

na5?

4:33 pm

this is a terribly hard grid today. i have been here all day

4:33 pm

na5 - Your na5 Day is your birthday

4:33 pm

This grid will be the death of me!

4:33 pm

I was just thinking about becoming a couchpotato and watching the Australian Open (tennis)

4:33 pm

i know how you feel magzel still got 70 to find

4:33 pm

ni5/16?

4:34 pm

TY Vicuna--that was in a recent grid and I missed it then too.

phantom: nimrod

4:34 pm

Yes, I "saw" that too, TNC.

4:34 pm

ni5/16 - see clues at 4:29

4:34 pm

Hello All Can I have help with the st7 plese

4:35 pm

ni5,16 is latin pl of ni6

especially with your day!

4:35 pm

And another phantom is DIMWIT--to fit with my theme today

4:35 pm

I don't have it, speedfreak.

4:35 pm

thanks scrabbler and vi

;)

4:37 pm

OK, I am hypothermic--time for hot tea and another layer of clothes. It was 4 degrees this AM!

4:37 pm

i am finally going to leave this grid for today, night all

4:37 pm

Goodnight ren.

4:37 pm

night ren, sleep well.

4:37 pm

Bye ren8

4:38 pm

Bye, ren8.

4:38 pm

Have you finished Haz?

4:38 pm

I bet Hazel finished hours ago.

4:39 pm

No, Biltong, I've 75 left. Husband needed help with typing stuff so that has slowed me down. It's a conspiracy today. Daughter commandeered the computer for hours this afternoon.

4:39 pm

Haz any chance you would have the st7 word

4:39 pm

It's a very weird grid.

4:40 pm

That is just plain WRONG, Hazel. Babble takes priority.

hi again. whazaaaap?

4:40 pm

Not yet, but I'll look. (I know about priorities, Scrabbler, the rest of the household needs educated!)

4:40 pm

Hear, hear, Scrabbler!

4:41 pm

Fireworks!

4:41 pm

You need a dedicated Babble computer, and then one for the others.

4:41 pm

well done, Merk!!

4:41 pm

Yipppeeee Merk!

4:42 pm

Merk please clue the st7 I know I am obsessive but I have been monkey typing forever

4:42 pm

I am wo5 hear me roar! Well... Am close to calling this one a day--but can't call it Tuesday 'cause it's existence is still in question!

4:43 pm

lol, mom23. Today "Sun" is in the grid. Does that count to justify today's existence?

4:43 pm

I've found it (st7) - it ends in a shortened form of mother.

4:44 pm

If there's babbling being done, today's existence is justified!

4:44 pm

st, the two letter word used in similes, a vowel and shortened mother.

4:45 pm

It's a choral ode in ancient Greek tragedy.

4:45 pm

st 7 st + 1st vowel + another s 4 word.

4:45 pm

Thanks, Haz! Ancient Greek choral odes, I might have known!

4:45 pm

ty, Haz

4:45 pm

Don't thank me, thank morewords!

4:45 pm

Wow I am impressed how did you ever get that even the definition is weird!!

4:45 pm

very nivc clue, Haz--thanks. Hi, everyone--snowing in Colorado today--as usual

4:45 pm

*nice

hey "satan" is on the puzzle... creepy

4:46 pm

hi miranda

4:46 pm

More than one of them, too, mcscotty.

4:46 pm

This grid about did me in. Now is the first time I've been able to read clues and its after I'm finished. The internet does not work in China during the day. I have to open the screen and work on paper, hoping for the best. Then I can get on the internet if I get up at 4 AM and type my words in and see what I'm still lacking.

4:46 pm

Glad to help.

4:46 pm

well, I'm calling it a day at halfway. Bye everyone.

yikes

4:47 pm

Am I addicted, you ask?

4:47 pm

Bye, bilt

4:47 pm

Bye Biltong - see you tomorrow at some stage.

4:47 pm

Bye, Biltong!

4:48 pm

Ha, Merk--no need to ask, right?

4:48 pm

I am so dependent on your help here and there along the way, it is cruel and unusual punishment to be deprived of it while I'm here. Something about an earthquake breaking a cable off Taiwan.

4:49 pm

time to get ready to watch the Patsies and Colts. Hubby's got his Teddy Bruschi shirt on for luck. remaining words will have to get by without knowing me! 'til the morrow, kids.

4:50 pm

Bye mom. Have a good afternoon/evening.

4:50 pm

st5/10? monkeying isn't doing it.

4:50 pm

st5/10 - nasty when you get it on clothes

4:51 pm

st 5/10 = like a pet st*** on your carpet

4:51 pm

I just found it when you hinted it. THanks haz and dazzle

4:52 pm

No problem, Minski.

4:53 pm

I have three weeks left here. Thankfully I keep busy and love my work. Slight problem this go around, I have developed an rash of sorts. It is blister-like postules on my forearms. I've had to stop my swims that I do for exercise, stop eating foods new to me, and hope it's not the laundry detergent.

4:54 pm

That doesn't sound pleasant, Merk. Would the detergent not affect all of your body?

4:55 pm

That's my thinking, but wouldn't the food, too? Someone thought the pool water, but no one else is affected. I know it's not bedbugs. I recognize that having run into them twice before in the U.S.

4:56 pm

I - I mean just one - 1 little 7 letter word. Help please. I need ST7??

4:56 pm

If you have an allergy to something it wouldn't necessarily affect your whole body. Is it itchy?

4:57 pm

I'm just thankful it's winter and I have long sleeves to cover some ugly looking sores. Never had anything like it before in my life. I am taking steroid tablets and using a cream. Does this mean that I'm going to look like Barry Bonds?

4:57 pm

gramma - clued a little while ago - st, the two letter word used in similes, a vowel then a shortened form of mother.

4:57 pm

I clued it earlier Gramma. It is st+ 1st vowel + another s4 word.

4:57 pm

I clued it earlier Gramma. It is st+ 1st vowel + another s4 word.

4:58 pm

I've no idea who Barry Bonds is, but by the sound of it you don't want to end up resembling him.

4:58 pm

TY. I wasn't reading the log before.

4:58 pm

He's the baseball player in the US who hit so many homeruns and was accused of using steroids.

4:58 pm

Along with Mark McGuire

4:59 pm

It seems to me only fair that if you can inhibit something, you ought to be able to hibit it first.

4:59 pm

It's not often we have this many non-words in a grid. We had one a short time ago that was also a killer.

4:59 pm

Time for breakfast. tty tomorrow

merk, TY for that. I mean the barry bonds thing. i keep hearing his name but never hear what the big deal was

4:59 pm

Time for breakfast. tty tomorrow

4:59 pm

The problem is that you won't know what cures it - the cream or the tablets.

5:00 pm

Bye merk.

enjoy your raw fish and rice, merk! 8-)

po5,14 anyone?

5:03 pm

po5/14 - the latin plural for a platform

haz, can you dumb that down a bit? LOL

5:05 pm

Okay - use three letters of where the pea grows, then two vowels. The singular platform usually ends in um.

platform? I would have said lectern (i figgered it out)

5:05 pm

Probably lectern would be better.

TY tho!

5:05 pm

ra6/18, I have the plural one

5:07 pm

ra6/18 - sounds like a description to go along with rolling.

pr6,33, the second one? (got the little shrimpy things)

5:08 pm

Start with the rodent, end with the first three letters of a word, the shortest distance between two objects being a straight one.

5:08 pm

pr6/33 - one who is in favour of battle

pr6/33 its just the plural form of another words

5:08 pm

thx. haz

5:08 pm

You're welcome.

5:09 pm

is there anything you can do to help a blister go away faster?

hmmm, the one before the 2nd pr6 is a pr4 -- it's a plural?

hurshy, bury a potato.

5:09 pm

pr6/33 - start with the pr4/9 and add vowel and then a consonant

5:09 pm

bury a potato???

5:09 pm

No, it's a part of a boat (the pr before the 'hawk')

5:10 pm

don't pop it

5:10 pm

i know don't pop it, but what CAN i do?

pr3 = ahhh, in favor of mass slaughter of one country on another. (plural indeed!) LOL

5:11 pm

pr6 - pr4 + m**e(female horse)

hurshy, you can pop a blister in some cases. don't squeeze, though, use a needled that has been wiped with Hydrogen Peroxide to sterilize it

5:11 pm

how do you know which cases? and what about the potato?

5:12 pm

if i bury a potato, i'll just get more potatoes...

5:12 pm

Forget the potato, it'll have precisely no effect. What caused your blister and how big is it?

5:12 pm

You say that like it's a bad thing, hurshy. Dontcha like potatoes?

the potato is a joke, old folklore "cure." if blister is fairly small i would not be afraid to puncture it. treat it like a scrape afterward: use a Band-Aid and stuff

5:13 pm

i love potatoes, but i want my blister to go away. it was caused by a little piece of plastic on the inside of my shoe. it is approx 1 cm in diameter.

that's a good sized blister. you might want a padded bandage to go over it

5:14 pm

Sit down with a big platter of french fires (or mashed potatoes, or latkes, or whatever you like best ) and you will forget all about your blister for a while...

5:14 pm

I would use the sterile needle method, and cover it up.

5:14 pm

try using some antiseptic ointment and a bandaid on it. Usually you don't pop them because the fluid inside is protecting from infection

5:14 pm

french fries, I mean. French fires might burn out of control.

5:15 pm

Am I helping yet?

5:15 pm

lol, thank you one and all for the advice. i'll save the potatoes for tomorrow, as i just ate dinner.

5:16 pm

wait, how big is a centimeter again

5:16 pm

1st ro6 please

5:16 pm

maybe it's only 1/2 a centimeter

5:16 pm

Just under half an inch.

5:16 pm

i'm so bad at estimating

5:16 pm

The first ro6 is a male interested in fish?

5:16 pm

crazy former bulls player dennis, doxy

5:17 pm

thx hurshy

5:17 pm

i'm not any better at estimating in english measurments than metric. i'm just a bad estimator.

one cm is about 1/2 inch.

5:17 pm

it's about the size of a pea. that is easier.

if you don't have any hydrogen peroxide (which is very cheap, in first aid section of any grocery store) you can use rubbing alcohol

5:17 pm

You would make a good ro6. Their estimates of catches are notoriously generous.

5:17 pm

i have hydrogen peroxide and rubbing alcohol.

hurshy, if ya took that blindfold off you could measure it LOL

5:18 pm

use the hydrogen peroxide

5:18 pm

i could measure it, but then i would have to get up and find a measuring device

5:18 pm

and by the time i'm at the measuring device, i'm at the peroxide, and might as well just go for it.

5:19 pm

I would recommend getting some neosporin ointment or some kind of triple antibiotic ointment

wishing you luck with the puncturing, hurshy!

5:19 pm

ooh i think i have antibiotic ointment

5:19 pm

the peroxide won't burn like alcohol

right, use peroxide if you have the choice.

5:19 pm

lol, sorry for the grossness, and thanks again, ttfn

5:20 pm

You haven't seen grossness until you've seen the pictures on the front of veterinary magazines.

hey, there's a rerally sick idea for an icon theme LOL

5:22 pm

well i am starting off well .. can anyone clue the first ad word?

5:23 pm

ad - remember the era when America was dry of alcohol? Use the ending of the word associated with that time.

5:24 pm

prohibition haz/

ro6,24 anyone?

5:24 pm

ahhhhh got it

5:25 pm

Yes, but take off the last three letters..... (sorry, it wasn't precise enough a clue)

5:25 pm

ro 6 is that weird basket ball player dennis ..... the one who got married and wore a wedding dress, married himslef

5:25 pm

no haz your clue was great my brain is in looooow gear today

5:26 pm

Well, just to keep the theme going, that pr word is in the grid...

aknit, TY, i used to work in a bookstore and we had his book, o/w i would have said WTF???? LOL

5:26 pm

haz i was looking for the tion part of the word .lol

any I clues

5:27 pm

didn't know he could read, let alone write

5:27 pm

It's a strange grid, that's for sure.

most celebrity books are not written by the celebrity

wans

sometimes publishers are honest enough to admit this, like a book by Joe Blow "with" Jane Blaine

5:28 pm

ack, does hydrogen peroxide bleach things, or am i only thinking that cause i'm confusing it with the fact that you can't mix them or you'll make a deadly vapor??

5:28 pm

any clues for im 5/12 and in 7/40?

5:29 pm

Isn't hydrogen peroxide used in hair dye?

hurshy, it won't blean things, but still, don't spill it all over the place! (It'll be okay on your sink)

5:29 pm

hydrogen peroxide in the form you buy at the grocery store will not bleach anything

5:29 pm

oh no!!!

5:29 pm

how do clues work?

5:29 pm

oh phew

5:29 pm

i spilt some on my new jeans, that's all

(sorry, still need most of the i woids)

5:30 pm

im 5/12 like am5/12

5:30 pm

in7 = in + bu5

5:30 pm

no worries hursh, it will only eat a giant hole in them when you wash them !!!!

mebbe you shouldn't pop yourself while you're at the keyboard 8-)

5:30 pm

:O

5:30 pm

hope it is not in a "sensitive" spot

5:30 pm

oh no again!!!!!!!!!!

5:30 pm

i didn't, gwen, i went away, and it's done now.

5:31 pm

it hurts a lot less now, so thanks.

glad to hear it. now let blister look ugly while it heals. (seriously)

5:31 pm

but but will it really eat a hole in my jeans when i wash them???

5:31 pm

hands hurshey a lollipop for being sooo brave

5:31 pm

teasing hursh teasing

hurshy, only if you waash them with a potato (joke!)

5:31 pm

i thought so but had to make sure

5:32 pm

peroxide is in the laundry soaps that have bleach alternatives

5:32 pm

lol

5:32 pm

could wreck havoc on your thighs though.... cause them to triple in size over night

5:32 pm

ok, i'm not THAT gullible

5:33 pm

checks gullibitlity meter

5:33 pm

is that a word??

5:33 pm

gullibility is a word...

5:34 pm

part of me wants to go bury a potato just to cover all the bases...

5:34 pm

measures a person's ability to impersonate a gull?

5:35 pm

lol babble

5:38 pm

oh my, sa 5/16 not a nice word!

5:38 pm

oh no, i forgot to measure it first. well, how big IS a pea?

5:38 pm

why, what does it mean?

5:38 pm

petit pea. lesseur pea. sugar snap pea?

5:39 pm

like, a regular old green pea

actually, i think the potato superstition is for moles. or maybe warts. your mileage may vary

5:39 pm

i thought sa5/16 was the name of a character in some book...

5:39 pm

i have some moles i want to get rid of too, so either way...

5:39 pm

it is however the word is a slang / slam of a black person

5:39 pm

It is, hurshy -- a dear little boy in India

5:40 pm

this led to a long conversation last night in chat

5:40 pm

Hi all!

5:40 pm

yes we won't go there

5:40 pm

hi jilli

5:40 pm

hi jilli, you're half in the grid today

5:41 pm

no, 5/8

5:41 pm

I saw that, hursh! - lol

5:42 pm

how big is a peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeea?

original story was about a boy in India, but the meaning and usage have evolved a lot since it was published, which was about 120 years ago

5:42 pm

the size or the end of your little finger

hurshy, 1 cm!! LOL

5:43 pm

really, so i was right in the first place

5:43 pm

or the size of the peeeeeeeeeeeea depends on how much you have to drink!!

clue for the 9?

5:43 pm

i think there is another book with a char by that name too

5:43 pm

i go look

5:44 pm

don't have it yet jean sorry

ok, I have 179 others you can helpme with :-)

5:44 pm

pr8/9 -- ban(s)

5:44 pm

hahaha i have 196!! so you have to help me

ty jill

5:45 pm

la 6/27 and the2nd la 6/21-any hints?

ok lay it on me!

5:45 pm

it IS, in the beginning of George MacDonald's tale of wee Sir Gibbie, there is a character named sa5/16

5:45 pm

la6/27 cute little sheepie

5:45 pm

la 6/21 latin pl, regular pl

5:46 pm

yw, esprit

5:46 pm

yes i am a cute little la 6 aren't i LOL

5:47 pm

ty hurshy

5:47 pm

TIme to go - goodnight all!

5:47 pm

yes you are aknitter

5:47 pm

night haz

5:47 pm

hi ho folks!

5:47 pm

night haz

5:47 pm

and i must go play psych eye spy

5:47 pm

kristin!!

5:48 pm

night haz

5:48 pm

hi there aknitter...been a long time! :)

5:48 pm

So this is like Scroggle, but with Chat?

5:48 pm

i have been around, mostly lurking

5:48 pm

slat

5:49 pm

aha...one of them :) been good though?

5:49 pm

hi again

I have vr4/11 what are the other two V's please?

5:49 pm

i am a very good lurker!! LOL

5:49 pm

suki...I don't know Scroggle but Boggle...yes

5:50 pm

hi natasha

5:50 pm

jean i am on the vo hunt myself not too successful i might add

vo=to get sick and throw up, then plural

5:50 pm

other v's--to throw up

5:50 pm

Hi all.

got one ak...vo*** to puke

5:51 pm

Difference with Scroggle is that you use the mouse to select the words instead of typing, and the layout looks more like Bookworm with shifted tiles.

5:51 pm

add an s jean to make more of a mess to clean up!

5:51 pm

suki...then yep, sounds just about right

5:51 pm

evening jac

5:51 pm

hi jacula!

5:51 pm

Hursh - for all the info you need on Helen Bannerman, the author of the LBS books & other little 'LB' books, and more, go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Ban nerman

5:51 pm

hi jac

yes got it

5:54 pm

Anyone need any help? I finished earlier on today.

5:54 pm

I think the ni6/30 is my favorite word on this grid (so far at least)

5:54 pm

su 6/30 would be nice jac

5:55 pm

ni 6 30 too natasha

5:55 pm

harry potter's broom was a ni**** 2000

5:55 pm

ak - su6/30 & verb form 7 = to give in to. A wrestler might su6 to another.

5:56 pm

ni6/30 is a type of cloud - cumulus ni****.

5:56 pm

li6/21?

5:56 pm

ty jac i kept seeing nimrod

5:56 pm

wonder why...

5:57 pm

thx for the clue jac. I finally have all the 7's

5:57 pm

li6/21 is the plural of li5 before it, which is li + male

5:57 pm

LOL, ak.

5:57 pm

y/w, doxy.

5:58 pm

ty jacula

5:59 pm

ad7?

5:59 pm

Speaking of books, as I was a while ago to Hursh (though she's not here, it seems), I've been reading some extracts from a book called 'Lost in Translation'. It's about mangled English in foreign places.

6:00 pm

like "tootle him with vigor"

6:00 pm

i'm too sloooooooooow

6:00 pm

night all.... i made it to 68 left..... but i 'm gone for the night...

6:00 pm

Take care and I'll check in later this week

6:01 pm

hi Jac

6:01 pm

night arlene

6:01 pm

i'm trying to be the fastest at psych eye spy jac, so, i'm not really here

6:01 pm

night arlene

6:01 pm

ad7 & verb form mean to take in, attach or apply. Same ending as an in***** word (not in grid) that means you might feel you can't do something for some reason.

6:01 pm

natasha the ad 7 is like the pr8 and 9 word

6:01 pm

Hi jilli.

6:01 pm

jac -- I've seen those "Lost in Translation" things -- priceless, but I have a topper.

6:02 pm

st 7 please

6:02 pm

What's that, jilli?

6:02 pm

thanks jac, that's a new word for me

6:02 pm

Back in the Win 3.1 days I had a scanner and got htis notification one time:

6:02 pm

Finally got that last word ho8 !! for Fireworks

6:03 pm

Congratulations, flosey!

6:03 pm

TWAIN ERROR Sorry, detailed error status returns success

6:03 pm

st7 has to do with Greek drama. st + vowel + s4 word.

6:03 pm

so flosey congrats on fireworks care to share that ho8

6:03 pm

Well done, flosey.

6:03 pm

YAY flosey!!! I still have 115 left!

6:04 pm

hubby helped me there - a science fiction author - exstudent, wrote a book ho8

6:04 pm

ty jac lookig

6:05 pm

Jilli - My favourites from the list I just read were - Austria: Not to perambulate the corridors in the hours of repose in the boots of ascension.

6:05 pm

ho8 - meaning human like

6:05 pm

ho 8 -- add a part of an hour, abbr, and, perhaps, you will find this clue v*** for vagueness

6:05 pm

homial

6:05 pm

oops

6:05 pm

if you have ho8 and a vowel third last letter

6:06 pm

And - Poland: As for the tripe served you at the Hotel Monopol, you will be singing its praises to your grandchildren on your deathbed.

6:06 pm

19 left, all S words

6:06 pm

Jac -- that's lovely!

6:06 pm

if you have ho7, add a vowel third last letter

6:06 pm

back to the grid...

6:06 pm

jilli - 'the boots of ascension' has a certain ring to it, don't you hink?:-)

6:07 pm

*think

6:07 pm

One final one - Madrid, Spain: Our wine list leaves you nothing to hope for.

6:08 pm

ho7/40 - homo sapiens is the last surviving member of this family. ho8/55 is related.

6:09 pm

yes indeed. It reminds me of a short poem by F.R. Scott, a Montrealer. You hve to understand that in those days there were a lot of Roman Catholic holidays in Quebec (not so much now). I'll look it up and enter it here when I find it.

6:10 pm

ho8 has the same ending as the medical names for 'piles'.

6:10 pm

Thanks, jilli.

6:10 pm

*name, not names.

6:11 pm

HI all clue for the hi7 please

6:12 pm

Hi peri. hi7 = that male + vowel (definite article) + first part of a drink, *** Maria.

6:13 pm

BRB - luandry to hang up.

6:13 pm

thanks Jacula,new word for me

6:14 pm

BONNE ENTENTE The advantages of living with two cultures Strike one at every turn, Especially when one finds a notice in an office building: 'This elevator will not run on Ascension Day'; Or reads in the Montreal Star:

6:14 pm

in 7 please will not finish but will hopefully have al the long words

6:15 pm

NM monkeys woke up and helped with that one :)

6:15 pm

mi 7 please

6:16 pm

Jilli--love the poem!

6:16 pm

'Tomorrow being the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, There will be no collection of garbage in the city'; Or sees on the restaurant menu the bilingual dish: DEEP APPLE PIE TARTE AUX POMMES PROFONDES

6:17 pm

Sorry about the break in the middle - forgot to hit Shift

6:17 pm

wonderful!

hi evryone! : )

6:18 pm

hi owl!

6:19 pm

glad, miranda! He wrote several great verses -- was also a Law professor at McGill University

6:19 pm

Hi TO!

6:19 pm

HI TO

6:19 pm

peri..that vehicle that transports many people

are the i words particularly difficult? i only have the dolphin so faar

6:19 pm

ooh, ooh, the only episode of psych i missed was the pilot and they are letting you download it free on iTunes!!! w00t!

6:19 pm

thanks helen, I just knew it would be a compound word

6:19 pm

yes--I'd love to see more--imagine: a "profound" apple tart

6:20 pm

i'm pro-(found apple tart)

6:20 pm

I'm back. Thanks for the poem, jilli.

6:20 pm

long as it wasn't found in the dumpster

6:20 pm

Hursh - LOL

hi jacs!

6:21 pm

hi everyone

6:21 pm

His other work was more serious

ok now i have the muslim clerics, too...any thoughts on the i wrods?

6:22 pm

114 left to find -- back to the grid...

6:22 pm

Hi TO. Some 'i' words for you. im4 & plural 5 - Muslim leaders. in7 - inherent. ib4 - a wading bird.

6:22 pm

im5 like am5 acids

6:23 pm

im4 - like the ti5 (shy) word.

6:23 pm

im5 following that (my clue) - add a round vowel.

6:24 pm

Hi Luwanda.

one to go on the upper i ty

6:24 pm

hi luwanda!

6:25 pm

TO is that the in7?

6:25 pm

sa6/21, the one after the boat clue

6:25 pm

owl...what is the dolphin i...i think it is the one I am missing

no i have that

6:26 pm

TO - must be the wading bird then ib4.

6:26 pm

ahhh--my last one ra 6/18--I have the plural of the 5/10 above it...please?

6:27 pm

nm, got it

go tit, ty!

6:28 pm

That's quite a cheer, TO!

6:28 pm

Leave out the comma space and it's even better!

6:28 pm

2nd ra6/18 = rodent + little Mrs. Mac. (late wife of a divorcing Beatle.)

lol hi vi!

6:29 pm

ra6 - ra (critter) + shortened girls name

6:29 pm

Hello, TO! :)

6:29 pm

TO! ROFLOL.

6:30 pm

TO - no, the bird was not a tit. *grins*

sounds bit british, no?

6:30 pm

could someone tell me the "dolphin" I referred to earlier...that is the one I am missing

i am so disoriiented from decongestant

6:30 pm

kristinc - it's a hiary-nosed dolphin. in4.

6:31 pm

Thanks for the ra 6/16 clues--found it! Whew!

6:31 pm

in + two vowels, TO

6:31 pm

Fireworks

6:31 pm

thanks jac!

6:31 pm

Amazonian hairy-nosed dolphin. Google it! :)

6:31 pm

TO - if your decongestant is 'Sudafed', I'm not surprised. I can't take that stuff, it spaces me out.

6:31 pm

and others :)

6:31 pm

no Kristink wanted taht clue not TO

6:31 pm

Well done, doxy.

6:31 pm

well done doxy!

wtg, doxy!

6:32 pm

Hi everybody. Just lurking in the background here. Home alone, so I am multitasking.

6:32 pm

this was an awful one. Took me all day (except when I had to go to work)

6:32 pm

hi there inge!

6:33 pm

Yes, this is not going quickly!

6:33 pm

Hi inge.

ad7/ 8 clue, please? ty

6:33 pm

A wo6/33's work is never done, eh Inge?!

6:34 pm

ad7 and 8 ends like pr8 and 9, if you have those

6:34 pm

lol Jacula, indeed

6:34 pm

how come wo 6/33 can be plural? Not what I learned in English class

6:34 pm

TO - ad & & 8 end like pr8 & 9 (to not allow/to ban).

6:35 pm

the dictionary disapproves also

6:35 pm

Maybe it's like "persons" instead of "people"!

6:35 pm

inge - yes, there should be an apostrophe either penultimately or afterwards.

6:35 pm

Or maybe it's a more PC way to say "She womans the telephone at the hotline."

ty jsca now i have the pr -s till working on the ad : /

6:36 pm

And yes, I did just type the stupid word straight into the chatlog. Sigh. Sorry.

ah vi owes jean $1

6:36 pm

TO - for the 'ad' words just add the letters after the 3rd letter of the 'pr' words.

6:37 pm

How come jean gets the cash, anyway?

6:37 pm

Oops, Vi!

ty weird word

6:37 pm

is Jean going to throw a party with that money --party for all of us!

6:38 pm

what cashola?

6:38 pm

This whole darn grid is one big oops, as far as I can tell.

you're right, vi...it's my dau top ge the cash LOL

6:38 pm

Will there be pr5/20 cocktail?

6:38 pm

...and sa6/21 sausages?

6:38 pm

TO, I have NO idea what you're trying to type! lol

6:39 pm

Hi all...this grid is hard. Anyone have a clue for AI6/24? And what's today's icon?

i mena it's MY day to get the cash - geez!

6:39 pm

al6/24 - melanin deficient Grid theme: musicians

6:39 pm

Hi joy. Yes. ai6/24 is ai* (to help or assist) + male.

6:40 pm

al 6: person or animal that has no skin color

6:40 pm

OWLLLLLLLLLLLERY!!!!!!!!!!!

6:40 pm

Oh. Now I get it, TO!

6:40 pm

Vicuna, you phrased it so elegantly

6:40 pm

OOps! Can't tell me l's from my i's. *Cleans specs.*

6:41 pm

Thanks, Jacula. I just learned a new word!

6:41 pm

nutsy, how did the icestorm hit Butler and New Castle??

6:41 pm

No, you were right, Jacula. I was looking for the AI, not the AL.

hi nut!

6:41 pm

Well, inge, it was that or another "Princess Bride" reference!

hi all!

6:41 pm

I guess I should go find a musician. I still have CRIME from Friday's grid

6:42 pm

hi Tea!

6:42 pm

Hello, again, TNC.

6:42 pm

More party food in the grid = bl5/14 (a pancake).

6:42 pm

Hi TNC.

6:42 pm

hit butler for sure ingy...ice was sticking to the windshield on my way home from target

break out the caviar and sour cream

6:43 pm

party?

6:43 pm

ewwwwwwwwww

6:43 pm

renster!!! i been tryin to get hold of you big poo self today

6:43 pm

Looks like you're dressed to party, anyway, ren!

hi ren! jacs, don't they go with bl5/14?

6:43 pm

good one jacula. i hadn't seen that one

6:44 pm

I need help with the ho8/55 If it is like the one before it I can't figure it out. Please help?

6:44 pm

i'm ready to party - been working nutster

6:44 pm

Hi rennie. You look bo6/24 (beautiful to a Spaniard).

6:44 pm

aha...thanks for the bl5 :)

6:44 pm

hi ren!

6:44 pm

ho8 - yes, like the one before, end like a robot

6:44 pm

hey mistress heya gold toes

6:45 pm

hello babblers. can i get a clue for the ti5/14...the first one, please?

6:45 pm

well that's what i wanted to do. i was playing with google earth, only my area is fuzzy, so i thought i'd try to see your work

6:45 pm

ti5 is a bone

6:46 pm

ti6 following is plural bones.

6:46 pm

(Latin plural.)

i want rohmboid, rhombus, and womabt....

6:46 pm

work this town - work it inside out...well - did you see it nutster?

6:46 pm

heya axe

6:46 pm

hey ya owl

hey i found some new groups to like in my review packets...

6:47 pm

no, i lost my address book and couldn't remember the name of the road, so i hunted taco bells, but that didn't help me much.

6:47 pm

hey ren. how's the grid treating you?

6:47 pm

slow axe - slow

6:47 pm

TO - You'll habe to make do with having a wo4/11 instead (unless you've had a hysterectomy).

6:47 pm

isn't wombit a baby wombat? lol

could be, luwanda

6:48 pm

same here ren... thanks for the clues.

6:49 pm

did see chixee's place though, she gotta nice pool

6:49 pm

nice! i could use a pool right now -

6:50 pm

Thanks for your help Vicuna but I still can't find it. Will keep trying.

6:50 pm

ro6/24 = fisherman or maybe the man who cleans the drains.

6:50 pm

what? last i talked you said it was cold there!

6:50 pm

Got myself a musical icon!

6:50 pm

heaters....yeck - pool - i want a pool

6:50 pm

what about you owllery...lemme zoom in on ya, this is fun!

6:51 pm

i got my heater going full blast....it's icy outside

wait a minute *gets dressed* ok now

6:51 pm

does the st7 build off the st4/4?

6:51 pm

found a usician icon, hope it shows

6:51 pm

BettyAnne - ho8/55 = first three letters of the place where you live + 'not out' + vowel + short form of what you need to show to prove who you are.

6:52 pm

*musician

6:52 pm

Inge, I LOVE Savion!!!

6:52 pm

We got to meet him when he performed here a few years ago--so friendly and gracious!

6:52 pm

Now that I'm properly musical, I need some more clues...I'm missing the H7's and 8

6:52 pm

ty jacula

6:53 pm

Thanks so much Jacula. I was trying to add a letter everywhere else.

6:53 pm

Blood - No. Not after 3rd letter.

6:53 pm

thanks jac

6:53 pm

y/w, BettyAnne.

6:54 pm

y/w, Blood.

bi5/14, 6/24 clue please?

6:55 pm

TO - bi5 & 6. bi5 - throw it away!

6:55 pm

bi pus little bugs

6:55 pm

gotta go. i always enjoy babbling with everyone but i have school work to do. see ya. have a wonderful week everyone ;)

6:55 pm

bye luwanda

6:55 pm

enjoy Luwanda :) bye!

6:56 pm

'Bye Luwanda.

bye lu

6:56 pm

lula? where's lula!

6:56 pm

brb - domestic diva duty callls

6:56 pm

ta ta domestic diva

6:57 pm

HO 7 and HI7, anyone?

6:57 pm

'Bye Domestic Diva. I may be asleep by the time you return.

6:58 pm

hi everyone! 108 left...will i make it?

6:59 pm

sure dawg...94 here!

6:59 pm

DAWGSTER!

6:59 pm

Nutty! Rennie! To! Golden Toes! Jac,

hi dawg! : )

7:00 pm

ahh, at least I have Kristi to keep me company, cuz I bet everyone else is finished

7:00 pm

orecious pic, dawg!

7:00 pm

*precious

7:00 pm

Hi Une!

hi une

7:00 pm

thanks I think he's precious too

7:00 pm

hey, TO :-)

7:01 pm

ah precious makes much more sense

lbd - I still have 127 to find

7:01 pm

Well I defintely will NOT finish - still 189 to find - no way!!!

7:01 pm

Hi TNC, well I'm in good company

hi wren! i think i may be ready to throw in the towel myself

7:01 pm

it is past 1am here

7:02 pm

I have 90 to find and I think I don't like this grid -- too many obscure words

thx :)

7:02 pm

yikes wren...my accuracy in babble decreases as the night wears on :)

help please i have no m words fromt he bottom right m - each time i type one in it comes off the other one!

7:03 pm

Hi lbd & ExWren. I was off having a quick Weboggle.

7:04 pm

temple,owl ike's wife is a m word, it works from that corner

7:04 pm

TO - ma5/18 - a dance. Ma*** No.5?

7:04 pm

ma5/14 - Eisenhower's wife.

7:04 pm

ma4/5 - that male's.

ty

7:05 pm

No, the male one isn't from that 'm'. Sorry.

7:05 pm

brb, i'll be fast since my bath will be cold

how is blamo not a word?

7:06 pm

I guess you've all got the mi7/44 from the middle 'm'? A vehicle with quite a few seats.

the b's are tamed

7:06 pm

brr...cold bath..brr!

7:07 pm

TNC - try knocking off the 'o' for one word and adding a pluraliser for the next.

thx, Jac

7:10 pm

y/w, TNC.

7:10 pm

thanks jac for the many seated vehicle

7:11 pm

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

7:11 pm

Damn! WeBoggle site's gone belly up again just I had had another Babbler join me to help.

7:11 pm

y/w, lbd.

7:11 pm

that was a quickie nut!

7:11 pm

nutsy, are you babbling while taking a cold bath???

7:11 pm

TNC, I think it's spelled BLAMMO!

ooops! :)

ad 7?

7:13 pm

ad7 - just like pr8, if you have that

ty!

7:13 pm

ad + ending of pr 7 meaning to forbid

7:14 pm

ho6/36 - How a cowboy might greet you (usually ends in just a 'y'). 'Ho**** pardner!'

7:15 pm

la6/30 - little sheep + little father.

7:15 pm

I meant pr 8 like Vicouna said

7:15 pm

whew . . . fireworks!!!

7:15 pm

nope ingy, done that fast, we have no hot water

7:15 pm

la6/27 - little sheep + 'for example' abbreviation.

7:15 pm

Yay for Une!

7:15 pm

well done une!

7:15 pm

Well done, Une.

7:16 pm

did I miss an earlier report on lack of electricity in Butler?

7:16 pm

whoo hoo Une

7:16 pm

bravo UNE!

7:16 pm

Nut - no idea what your convo with Inge was about but, from reading your last post, it sounds like you use Babble pedal power to generate your electricity! LOL.

7:16 pm

nope ingster, this seems to be a 'very local problem', could be the only residence in chicora without hot water

7:17 pm

Nutsy, I can offer you lots of firewood to warm up your water

7:17 pm

i'd have plenty then, but no jac, something very suddenly, (like just as i drew my bath) died in my water heater

7:17 pm

hi all, i'm STILL trying to work out the bo's. help

7:17 pm

i have five running cords, thanks ingster

7:17 pm

Was just trying random clues before, btw, to help those still in need.

7:18 pm

Oh dear, nut! Hope it's sorted soon.

7:18 pm

yep...helped me...thanks jac!

7:18 pm

y/w, kristinc.

7:18 pm

bo 6: Spanish word for little good

7:18 pm

bo5 sometimes an employee gets a year-end bo***

7:18 pm

yikes! sorry to hear that nut :(

7:19 pm

bo6 and 7 spanish for pretty

7:19 pm

have that one - need the others. thx

7:19 pm

if not jacula, our neighbor has a business called dr. water heater

7:19 pm

That's handy, nut!

7:20 pm

i'll say jac, and my mom claims he's reasonably priced so i'm not too worried, except i'd rather spend the money on me

7:20 pm

all three bo words were clues, the bo 6 just gets puralized

7:20 pm

ewwww, i hate bo

7:20 pm

*clued*

7:20 pm

Well, obviously you would,nut. There's the Caribbean cruise to go on for starters. But you need warm water in the meantime...

7:21 pm

i got a stove top and some pots

7:21 pm

So, nut, the cruise wins then?

7:22 pm

um...sure, soon as i can pay for it

7:22 pm

brb, car in drive?

7:22 pm

Can I come, too?

7:22 pm

When you can afford it.

7:22 pm

okay, nut.

7:23 pm

Wonder who's visiting nut unexpectedly? Unless it's just some cheeky devil using her drive as a turning point...

7:23 pm

Maybe someone is bringing her a new hot water heater!!!

7:24 pm

Maybe, inge.

7:25 pm

Shall I go back to random clueing for now, or does anyone need anything specific?

7:25 pm

hi7?

7:25 pm

how about the li 6/21 that is not the plural?

7:26 pm

random cluing, please :D

7:26 pm

wait...wait...LA, not li

7:26 pm

lbd - hi7 = 'that man' + vowel (definite article) + start of a drink *** Maria.

7:26 pm

here's my dog dealing with the cold :-)

7:27 pm

kristinc - la6/21 = little sheep + little father.

7:27 pm

aww...I feel like doing that sometime! :)

7:27 pm

la 6: those people crossing the border from the south

7:27 pm

tws my mil, she brought homemade stickybuns

7:27 pm

LOL, Une. I think most of us know just how he feels!

7:28 pm

:-D

7:28 pm

jac...did you see, I messed up and asked for the wrong one...I needed the li 6/21 that is not plural (so embarassed)

7:28 pm

une, my cat does that mid summer

7:28 pm

Ah, nutster! We were wondering. Sharing them out, are you?

7:28 pm

poor kitty!

7:28 pm

um....*sigh*, i suppose so...

7:29 pm

I did, kristinc - and clued appropriately.

7:29 pm

li 6: sexual drive in psychology

7:29 pm

Be gracious, nut... *grins*

clue ofr do5/14 please? ty

7:29 pm

okay...got it...thanks folks!

7:30 pm

*holds out sticky bun to jac* OOPS, oh no jac, sorry, didn't mean to land it sticky side down in your lap!!!

7:30 pm

do 5: do + ***practice suit

7:30 pm

TO - do5/14 = do + little Malcolm.

7:30 pm

Aw, thanks Nut. Pity I'm wearing white trousers today.

7:31 pm

BRB - need to change trousers for nightie.

7:31 pm

can i get a clue for na please?

7:31 pm

so so so so sorry jac, lemme just *scrapes sticky bun off of jacs lap with spatula and deposits it on plate*...ah there, that's better

7:32 pm

na 5: your birth outfit?

7:32 pm

eating so close to bedtime, this means funny dreams

7:33 pm

na 5: pertaining to a person's birth

7:34 pm

Thanks, nut.

7:34 pm

thanks inge.

i hate this grid

7:34 pm

Funny dreams are always good for a laugh.

7:34 pm

pleasure jac, anything for a babbler

7:34 pm

True, Vi!

7:34 pm

yes vic, and for a lot of yawns at work

7:35 pm

I've only managed 120 words, but I will have to retire gracefully, it's past 1.30am. Goodnight all - time you turned in to Jacula

7:35 pm

If I'm woken out of a dream I'm always way more tired.

7:35 pm

ta ta ex

7:35 pm

Goodnight, ExWren.

7:35 pm

*too

7:35 pm

well done anyhow wren...niters!

i habe't yet had dinner. unless you count a bag of doritos and six hershey's kisses.

7:36 pm

'Night Wrennie. See you again soon.

7:36 pm

night-night, X Wren

7:36 pm

Hmm... Maybe it is time the rest of us turned into Jacula! lol

7:36 pm

i count macaroni and cheese and a stickie bun, so sure 72

7:36 pm

LOL, Vic.

that was breakfast. less the mac & cheese.

7:36 pm

back to finish up

ggod night, wren

hi feather

7:37 pm

i see harry potters first broom made the grid

7:37 pm

hi ho feather!

7:37 pm

night wren, hi Feather

7:37 pm

Hi feather.

7:37 pm

Indeed it did, nut!

7:37 pm

Hey, again, feather.

clue for hi 7 please?

7:38 pm

TO - I thought I'd clued the hi7 for you?

7:38 pm

A whole team's worth of them!

7:38 pm

ad7 anyone?

7:38 pm

there are so many almost-words here like nubile but there's no e where it belongs -- aarrrggghhh

7:38 pm

ad7 - same as pr8, if you have that!

7:38 pm

harry potter's first broom? which one is that?

7:38 pm

I particularly want rhombus.

7:38 pm

ah yes, so there is! guess that would be the slytherin team

7:39 pm

ni 6/30 feather

7:39 pm

feather - ni6/30 - the cloud, cumuls ni****.

7:39 pm

ni6/30 and the pl ni5/16 - brand of Quidditch broomstick

7:39 pm

oh, right! had it, just couldn't think which was his broom

7:39 pm

going to turn in myself. Gute Nacht Babblers

night, inge

7:40 pm

ta ta ingy thingy!

7:40 pm

night inge

7:40 pm

Guten Nacht, inge.

7:40 pm

goodnight inge! :)

7:40 pm

Gute Nacht, ingchen!

7:41 pm

night inge

7:42 pm

night inge

7:43 pm

yay! got my new wireless mouse! no more cord!

7:43 pm

limbo

7:43 pm

aw crap!

7:44 pm

I planted about 40 pots of bulbs up in December and put them on top of the g/pig hutch in the rabbit shed. My mi4/5 irises are flowering already!

7:44 pm

I got a cordless battery free mouse

7:45 pm

nut - there's another dance that ends like that - ma5/18 No.5.

7:45 pm

i broke my last one. dropped the laptop sideways, it landed on the usb stick. didn't seem to like that much, stopped working the next day

7:45 pm

*sigh*, thank you jac, i suppose i couldn't expect to be unteased for that one

7:46 pm

t's great it costed $35AU (however it is a genericy brand, though it does has some software with it that can do cool things). I love it. (oh it has 5 buttons too :D)

7:46 pm

laptops are very sensitive, feather.

7:46 pm

Oh, were you typing a word in the chat, nut? Gosh, I thought you were just revving up for the party!

7:46 pm

Yeah, i'm not sure the laptop would have appreaciated it either

7:46 pm

we could if you like....party is good

7:46 pm

no kidding? hehehe

7:47 pm

Nutty - never mind! Just dance ma5/18 and forget your troubles. LOL.

7:47 pm

i'm just glad it only cost me a mouse, rather than the laptop

7:47 pm

True, feather. What about the memory stick?

7:47 pm

don't know how but *strike a pose* let us pretend.

7:48 pm

Get some chips for the sa5/10, and let's get this party started!

7:48 pm

the stick was for the wireless mouse, not a memory stick. that would have sucked.

7:48 pm

Or, if this is more your style, you could sl4/5 dance.

7:48 pm

...Mambo No.5! Jump up and down, go and move it all around, Shake your head to the sound, put your hand on the ground. Take one step left, and one step right, One to the front, and one to the side. Clap your hands once, and clap your hands twice, And if it looks like this, then you're doing it right!

7:49 pm

not at the s's yet...lalalalalala

7:49 pm

i prefer the accousical version myself jac

7:49 pm

Hey, Jac, that was about as obvious a chat-type as my wo5 earlier!

7:49 pm

brb, gotta fold laundry

7:50 pm

sa5/10 - a type of dance or a spicy sauce.

7:50 pm

I was thinking more "Hey ma5/18, ma5/18 italiano!"

7:52 pm

sa5/10: tap left on the first beat, a step forward on the same foot, a rock back onto the right foot and the sequence is finished by stepping back left to close. This is the forward basic movement, which is followed by the back basic movement. Tap right, step back right, rock forward left and close right. These steps are discussed more fully below. Generally, the wo5/20 always mirrors the ma4/5 steps, so while the man performs a forward basic movement, the wo5/20 performs a back basic movement and visa versa.

7:53 pm

Wow, most impressive! *rocks back on left foot, no wait, right...*

7:54 pm

It's like playing 'Twister', isn't it, Vic? LOL.

7:55 pm

I can see us all ending up in a heap on the floor;trying out our various dances.

7:55 pm

help on the second ad5/14 please?

7:56 pm

Shall we try the macarena next? LOL.

7:56 pm

Well, if your partner is doing the li5 and you're doing the sa5, things could get ugly!

7:56 pm

feather - ad*** it, you don't know what the word is!

53 left, down to letter n, bbl. dinner time

7:56 pm

I can't beleive you ad5/14 that you don't have that word!

7:56 pm

ha! good clue! thanks

7:57 pm

Bon appetit, TO!

7:57 pm

y/w, feather. ad6 is the verb form.

7:57 pm

got that. 15 left!

7:57 pm

Have a good meal, TO.

7:57 pm

ugh, I think I give up

7:57 pm

uh oh, colts are catching up

7:57 pm

enjoy TO!

7:58 pm

arwenn, this is a harder than usual grid, don't feel bad

7:58 pm

Vic - just imagining your li and sa scene. LOL.

7:58 pm

I've got 120 words and I'm absolutely stuck

7:59 pm

I think a chiropractor might be needed after that, Vic.

7:59 pm

are you using lickety yet?

7:59 pm

yeah...this grid stinks somethin' awful!

7:59 pm

yeah I've been using lickety

7:59 pm

Me? No. Didn't use a list.

8:00 pm

we're watching the game here too feather and husband is cheering for the colts since the pats beat his chargers last week :)

8:00 pm

Yes, and probably a marriage counselor, too.

8:00 pm

go ahead and ask for clues on any you're stuck on. sometimes getting one will lead you to a string of more.

8:00 pm

hi7 anyone?

8:00 pm

i'm hoping for the patriots! being a new england gal...

8:01 pm

it seemed a boring game at first....suddenly got very interesting!

8:01 pm

fair enough...I couldn't care less at this point...no seahawks

8:01 pm

holy cow!!!!!

8:01 pm

shmooz - hi7 = 'that man' + vowel (definite article) + start of drink *** Maria.

8:01 pm

yes, I'm trying to finish my last 17 so I can actually watch instead of being acused of not paying attention :)

8:02 pm

Can't join in the sports chat. Sorry!

8:02 pm

i've stopped looking for words for the moment.....

8:03 pm

jac...only because if I don't learn how it works, I'd be bored...we watch a lot of sports in my house :)

8:03 pm

that's why I'm praying for boys...then I don't have to watch anymore :)

8:03 pm

i'd race you kristin, but i'm reduced to babbling on commercials right now

Go Colts!

8:04 pm

my hubby is downstairs playing playstation. my mom and i follow football more than he does!

8:04 pm

that's funny feather :)

8:05 pm

Been there, UK style, done that, kristinc.:( I did learn how to score darts, snooker and sumo though.

8:05 pm

ad 7/44?

8:05 pm

touchdown!

8:05 pm

In fact, I was the sumo 'expert'. I would shout out the scoring before the commentator. That was a long time ago though.

8:05 pm

yep...one can learn quick if they need to jac :)

8:06 pm

Sorry to interrupt, but I just need to say, AAAAARRRRRGH! (Okay, I'm better now.)

8:06 pm

quite the feat jac to attain "expert" status

8:07 pm

game or grid vic?

8:07 pm

ad7 & verb form 8. If you've got the pr8 & 9 (to ban, not allow) then these words end same way as after the 3rd letter of the pr words.

8:07 pm

Grid. Here I am in New England, and the TV isn't even on in our house!

8:07 pm

kristinc - for some reason, it was a sport I understood.

8:08 pm

Vic - TV isn't on in this house either.

8:08 pm

Everyone's asleep except for me.

8:08 pm

thanks :)

8:08 pm

y/w, arwenn.

8:09 pm

how did the birthday go last week jac?

8:09 pm

I've never had any interest in US football, and my husband is a Denver fan, so he doesn't care now that they've been eliminated.

8:09 pm

Your na5 day last week, Jac?

8:10 pm

Good evening everybody

8:10 pm

bi5/14 please? (hope it's not a fish word)

8:10 pm

kristinc - Paul's 38th? Well he was working for most of it, but he enjoyed his presents and cards when he came home and we had a steak meal on the next night, with wine and romance. LOL.

8:10 pm

bi5/14 - bi + louse egg

8:10 pm

ah, ok, thanks

8:10 pm

Could someone clue me for the ad 7 & 8 please

8:11 pm

hah! my husband has determined that our boy cat is too fat and how he is trying to keep the fat one from taking the little one's food...neither party seems impressed :)

8:11 pm

good for you guys jac...sounds fun!

8:11 pm

Well, as much 'romance' as you can have with an almot 20-yr-old, an almost 23-yr-old (my two) and a just 12-yr-old (his, on 'phone) interrupting.

8:11 pm

ad 6/21 and ad 5/20?

8:11 pm

kristinc - we have exactly that situation with our cats.

8:12 pm

ok, is the ho8 related to the ho7 in any way?

8:12 pm

Heh, well, worth a try anyway, Jac!

8:12 pm

Yep. ho8 is just like it, but with robotic ending.

8:12 pm

hmm.....

8:13 pm

yeah...it took us a while to figure out he was stealing her food...she was always hungry and he was/is getting bigger and bigger...he's on the straight and narrow now!

8:13 pm

aha!

8:13 pm

this game is addictive!

8:13 pm

ad6/21 is the verb form of the decorating ad5. ad5/20 is a + 'not up'. Or think of a band, System of a D***.

8:13 pm

ad6/21 - "pl" of ad5/12 ad5/20 - a + opp of up

8:13 pm

very true arwenn...why my house is so dirty all the time

8:15 pm

lol I've been playing to pass the time while my laundry dries, but man! I can't step away from it

8:15 pm

HELLo, anyone helping with clues? I need the ad 7 & 8 PLEASE

8:16 pm

kristinc - Our two cats have gone really weird since we've put him on half a tin (half of 390g) at each of the 2 meals and her on one sachet (100g) at each meal. They're turning their noses up until it's gone all hard and stale and then going in and pinching each other's rations.

8:16 pm

Jac, it's nice to see that you are preserving your grammatical integrity on words that end with -s. It's a battle I gave up a while ago!

8:16 pm

oh no...soon you'll stop doing laundry all together :)

8:16 pm

sorry buttonman, i'm very distracted right now, not a good person to clue

8:16 pm

Vic - I try, re the grammar.

8:16 pm

ad7 - ends just like pr8 meaning forbid

8:17 pm

haha

8:17 pm

I have a clue for the second pr6/33 if anyone wants it -- George W Bush

8:17 pm

that is strange jac...well this is our new experiment, so we'll see. Nothing like trying to hold back a 15 pound cat when he wants to eat :)

8:17 pm

evening all - how many words today

8:18 pm

okay, gonna grab a bite to eat (not cat food)

8:18 pm

267, sandr, and every one of -em a battle!

8:18 pm

prawns

8:18 pm

I know, Kristinc, re the cat. Especially when he's got big, strong claws!

8:18 pm

sorry sorry - free one all

8:18 pm

Same to you, sandr!

8:18 pm

Sandr, is that a menu suggestion for kristin?

8:18 pm

pr4/5!

8:18 pm

LOL.

8:19 pm

second sa6/21 please?

8:19 pm

lol is this jeapordy now?

8:19 pm

Hi all... am logging in after a busy day with hopes of finishing this grid.. still have 50 to find, so I will plunge in and emerge if I can be of any help along the way..

8:19 pm

hi aloy

8:19 pm

second sa6/21 - lumch meat

8:19 pm

feather - take the 'a' out of the sausage.

8:20 pm

lunch. Whatever.

8:20 pm

Hi Aloy.

8:20 pm

hi feather... nice to "see" you ! And Jacula, too.. are you two finished?

8:20 pm

Hello, Aloy.

8:20 pm

got it thanks

8:20 pm

guess nobody noticed or needed or wanted my pr6/33 clue

8:20 pm

I'm finished, yes, ALoy.

8:21 pm

and jac, thanks for reading my mind on the next one!

8:21 pm

I didn't need it, jilli, but I appreciated it all the same, lol!

8:21 pm

Hi jilli. Sorry, didn't see you there.

8:22 pm

oh good, vicuna! And I'm totally wioth you on that "plural" s!

8:22 pm

ooh, thanks for the sa clue: didn't have that one, Vicuna..(-:

8:22 pm

Jacula, do you have the ad 7 & 8?

8:22 pm

But I do love pr6/33, jilli. *Holds out arms for forgiveness.*

8:22 pm

congrats to you, Jacula!!!

8:22 pm

jac - arms out too

8:22 pm

al 5/12 and al5/10?

8:22 pm

Button, I gave it to you: ends just like pr8 meaning forbid.

8:23 pm

now I'll shut up and work on the last 55

8:23 pm

I do have those words, Button. Sick of clueing them, but you're not to know that. Have you got the pr8 & 9 (to ban, not allow) words?

8:23 pm

i don't have the pr8

8:23 pm

((((Hugs Jilli))))

8:23 pm

Well, it means forbid.

8:24 pm

in + same ending, Button, would mean you might feel unable to do something in front of someone.

8:24 pm

Their presence would in***** you.

8:24 pm

(Think of what they did to alcohol in the 20s.)

8:24 pm

ugh! I'm not even halfway done with this yet

8:26 pm

Think of your parents at a school play, Button. Mum's crying (how embarrassing!) and Dad's leaping around and getting in everyone's way with his camcorder! If that wouldn't either in***** or pr***** you from performing, I don't know what would!

8:27 pm

Good clue, Vic!

8:27 pm

last sa5/12? i feel like i keep asking for "easy" ones, yet i'm not seeing them!

8:27 pm

('Though appaarently without effect?)

8:28 pm

lol

8:28 pm

sa5/12 - sa + Thy --- and thy staff, they comfort me.

8:28 pm

And it took me FOREVER to find that one.

8:28 pm

feather - ;ast sa5/12 = sa + fisherman's upright thing.

8:28 pm

ok, i haven't heard of that one at least. thanks!

8:29 pm

go the pr 7 and 8, thanks...

8:30 pm

Good, Buttonman. Now do you have the ad7 and 8?

8:30 pm

I am back again, to find some more words. 114 to go--I never expected to finish this monster grid--too many weird words.

8:30 pm

got the ad 7 & 8, thanks

8:31 pm

Oh, good grief! Word endings for ad and pr are h*! (a greeting + b** (drill end or a small part).

8:31 pm

*sigh*

8:31 pm

i have 92 to go and i have to go so I will see you all tomorrow...thanks for the clues

8:32 pm

Bye, Buttonman.

8:32 pm

lol Jacula

8:32 pm

Bye Buttonman--good work.

8:32 pm

Night, Button.

8:32 pm

bye Buttonman

8:33 pm

Sorry arwennn! Being 'peri-menopausal, as my doctor calls it, or 'why the hell does a night sweat wake me up every hour on the hour?, in my view, sometimes makes me a little impatient.

8:34 pm

Forgive me. I may be over this stage in 10, 20, 30 years... depends which wo5/20 friends I listen to! LOL.

8:34 pm

understandable... you actually had more patience than I would... he asked like 4 times

8:34 pm

LOL

8:34 pm

Thanks, arwenn.x

8:35 pm

Poor Jac. It's so difficult being a wo5! :)

8:35 pm

is this what happens when you play too much? you start speaking in babble clues?

8:36 pm

Well, we have this convention that you shouldn't type grid words into the chat log. So then it becomes a bit of a game when you're chatting.

8:36 pm

haha, wonderful!

8:37 pm

And yes, I'm sure it's because we play too much!

8:37 pm

Vic - I feel a Tammy Wynette song coming on...

8:37 pm

Run away from it, Jac! Run away!

8:37 pm

Stop me, please! No karaoke here! LOL.

8:37 pm

I think I might look forward to making this game part of my every waking hour

8:38 pm

lord knows it will turn me into a boggle champion when I play with my family..

8:39 pm

That much is certainly true. I'm much better at Boggle now. But beware: your family may not be willing to accept some of the more obscure words that this dictionary allows.

8:39 pm

Vic - now I'm about to sing a Del Shannon number.

8:39 pm

could i get a clue foe the ai6? please

8:39 pm

Ooh, I'm not familiar with Del Shannon. Let 'er rip!

8:39 pm

yeah, this game has foreign words!

8:40 pm

ai6 - male who helps

8:40 pm

ahh thanks

8:40 pm

Raging at the Enable dictionary used by Babble is a recurring motif for all of us here.

8:41 pm

lol I see

8:41 pm

AARGH! When I was in my late teens and 20's, I was in charge of an office where a woman just about to go into her 50s was an employee. I could never understand her scattiness, nor her hot sweats, but what annoyed me most of all was her habit of finding a song to sing, whatever the situation. Suddenly, I have become that poor woman! Helen, if you're out there, I'm really sorry for my impatience.xx

8:42 pm

Not much point in raging at the totally disabled dictionary. Vic.

8:42 pm

Jacula, I think you are become wise! lol

8:42 pm

ok, my last pair. su6/30?

8:43 pm

fireworks for me....what a rough grid!

8:43 pm

I know there's no point, Jac, but every time I think I have come to terms with it, some new absurdity sets me to raging again.

8:43 pm

Well done, Blood!

8:43 pm

congrats :)

8:43 pm

congrats bloodaxe!

8:43 pm

Yay for Bloodaxe! Are you feeling any better recently?

good evening all

8:44 pm

i'm feeling very ood vic. thanks for asking.

8:44 pm

Del Shannon - As I walk along, I wonder what went wrong, With our love, a love that was so strong. And as I still walk on, I think of the things we've done Together, a-while our hearts were young. I'm a-walkin' in the rain, Tears are fallin' and I feel the pain, Wishin' you were here by me, To end this misery And I wonder-- I wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder, Why, Why, why, why, why, why she ran away, Yes, and I wonder, A-where she will stay-ay, My little runaway, Run, run, run, run, runaway.

8:44 pm

So... are you feeling good, or odd?

slept off most of the day w/a fever. wonder if i'll get to celebrate? 113 words left

8:45 pm

You need to hear the song though, Vic.

8:45 pm

Oh, I do know that song, just never knew the name of the singer.

8:45 pm

I think I'm going to call it a night with this grid, and give tomorrow's a fresh try

8:45 pm

LOL Jacula! We are all slowly turning into our parents through time-release genes. It is downright frightening. If I make it to my 70's then I will be a cranky wo5.

blood... i see people asking u if u r okay. is everything alright w/you?

8:45 pm

haha...sorry vic. i'm feeling GOOD, but i'm also ver tired.

8:45 pm

Good-night, arwennn.

8:46 pm

You gave it your best shot, arwenn. See you again.

8:46 pm

Oh, that's a relief, Blood! lol

8:46 pm

alrighty, catch you all tomorrow, and thanks for all the help you all provided

8:46 pm

Congrats Bloodaxe. How are your classes going?

8:46 pm

night arwenn!

8:47 pm

Bye arwennnnnnnnnnnn (How many N's are in your name?)

8:47 pm

haha...i'm STILL on break scrabbler! but classes start on tuesday.

8:47 pm

She certainly has a sufficiency of n's!

8:47 pm

Srabbler, that is frighteningly (although comfortingly) true! I once looked in the mirror at the hairdresser's and saw my Mum there. But she hadn't turned up there. T'was myself.:((

8:47 pm

su6/30 please?

8:47 pm

What courses will you be taking?

8:48 pm

su6/30 - to yield or give in to

8:48 pm

feather - su6/30 - bow down to the grid. You can't take it any more!

8:48 pm

lmao, what a perfect last word! i'm done!

8:48 pm

I don't look like my mom--I look like my dad--but I do and say things that annoyed me when she did them

8:48 pm

Congrats, feather!

8:48 pm

ooh, me too heather! probably the same second!

8:49 pm

hey fran!

8:49 pm

been here long?

8:49 pm

hi everyone!

8:49 pm

feather - that was my last word, too. Well, su7/44 was.

8:49 pm

And yay for Fran!

8:49 pm

i had the chat covered

8:49 pm

hi jac!

8:49 pm

Yes, a perfect last word! Yahooo featherheather

8:49 pm

i'll be taking Arabic, Research Methods, North Africa and the Middle East in the 20th Century, and Moroccan Foriegn Policy. then i'm done with school...I graduate and enter the "real world"

8:49 pm

right, mine was the 7 technically

8:49 pm

Made me laugh.

8:49 pm

Hi Fran.

8:50 pm

oh yeah, yay heather!!

8:50 pm

holy cow the game is tied again

8:50 pm

sa5/16 please

8:51 pm

Have a great semester, Bloodaxe.

8:51 pm

im5,12?

8:51 pm

thanks scrabbler. goodnight everyone

8:51 pm

BA, remember the book, "little black sa***?"

8:51 pm

Night, Blood.

8:51 pm

night bloodaxe!

8:52 pm

scrabbler, im5/12 is like an am*** acid

8:52 pm

Thanks Fran

8:52 pm

(spelled the same way)

8:52 pm

im5/12, Scrabbler, is like the am5 acids.

8:52 pm

yw BA

8:52 pm

goodnight, Bloodaxe.

8:52 pm

ob 6/24 please

8:52 pm

TY Jacula.

8:53 pm

(still here, just watching the game)

8:53 pm

Oh, Fran-TY first to you!

8:53 pm

ak - o + an explosion.

8:53 pm

ahh an irish explosion LOL

8:53 pm

ty jac

8:54 pm

ob7 is the same with an 'i' at the end.

8:54 pm

fran -- I saw your clue for sa5/16 and am so glad you just gave the name of the book instead of saying "nasty word" as some have done. To me it was just a clever little boy.

8:54 pm

that's okay scrab! sometimes the first clue is not seen, i understand. :-)

8:54 pm

thanks jilli.

8:55 pm

clever knitter!

8:55 pm

jilli - I got lambasted a few nights ago for not giving the raccoon version of the co4 word.

8:55 pm

The boy in the book was very clever, but the pictures were a product of their time, and not acceptable today. There have been some versions with new illustrations, I think.

8:55 pm

jac, is that what that little exchange was about the other night?

8:55 pm

let's not be basting la** here -- running to hide

8:56 pm

knitter, you're safe from me, not fond of lamb myself.

8:56 pm

fran said a wooooooord!

8:56 pm

me neither except in the wool form

8:56 pm

I did say it was not a nice term but it was one that some in UK call themselves. Never mind. Cultural differences, I guess. Not that I would ever call my friends who call themselves that word.

8:56 pm

ooops! sorry, jac said it first!!

8:56 pm

lol aknitter. You're just a precious baa la6/27!

8:57 pm

yeah, but she blended it into another word at least! plus, i gotta pick on you!

8:57 pm

I need the second si5/12 please

8:57 pm

lol, okay heather. :-(

8:57 pm

firewords! *panting on burning fingers*

8:57 pm

yay lbd!

8:58 pm

what is the other ow? i have the birdie

8:58 pm

BA, same as the first one, just change the last letter

8:58 pm

Well done, lbd.

8:58 pm

yeah lbd

8:58 pm

yay lbd!!!

8:58 pm

aknitter, you ow* something, it belongs to you

8:58 pm

If the birdie belongs to you... that's the other ow4

8:58 pm

the ow is to have, belongs to you.

8:58 pm

Wow dawger!

8:58 pm

Thanks again Fran. Appreciate your help.

8:58 pm

just make a right instead of a left for the second ow.

8:59 pm

smacks self on head for missing obvious

8:59 pm

no problem BA!

8:59 pm

Thank you all, what a not fun grid, except for the chat which really really helped

8:59 pm

Such a shame Enable doesn't recognise the w**k and 'er' word. However, I believe it's a term not known in USA.

8:59 pm

I want "vorpal."

8:59 pm

there are a lot of words that are recognized in the USA Jac, what's one more? lol

9:00 pm

Ah, the vorpal sword, Vic!

9:00 pm

(Actually, come to think of it, I want ANY vo6.)

poop sausage

9:00 pm

That is spelled with 2 R's, Vicuna....vorrpal

9:00 pm

i think sprite psyched me out last night, when i came on she said it wasn't a nice grid so i went to sleep and didn't start on it until this afternoon.

9:00 pm

No it isn't Scrabbler. But it sounds nice pronounced that way.

9:00 pm

poop sausage? doesn't sound too tasty

9:01 pm

She was right, Fran.

9:01 pm

Don't get spooked by Sprite, LOL! How do you think she maintains the No. 1 spot? LOL.

9:01 pm

lol jac!

oh, aknitter, it isnt believe meh

lol

9:01 pm

when does sprite play? i almost never run into her

9:02 pm

ahh she has madness to her meanings! lol

9:02 pm

Vicuna -- have you seen the original illustrations? I had the book as a child and loved it and saw nothing derogatory about any part of it -- just a fun story. I see some of the more recent illustrations change the clever little Indian boy into the worst kind of caricature of an African black which was never intended by the author. "Death to Political Correctness! Viva Helen Bannerman!" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Ban nerman

9:02 pm

between 10:00 and 11:00 my time is when she starts heather.

9:02 pm

Or is it, vopwan, or vopral, or vowpran, or vodmas---have I been looking at this grid too long?

9:02 pm

ah, 3 and 4 am here

9:03 pm

yup, you're snug in your bed. :-)

i just dozed off on my laptop... did i miss anything? like maybe a clue for BL 5/16?

9:03 pm

Well, Vicuna, I thought the version I had was the original, and although he was said to be in India (with tigers), he looked like a golliwog. But maybe that wasn't the original. Let me go check it out...

9:03 pm

feather, sprite is in Holland and comes on way after you're in bed!

9:03 pm

She was on this AM, around 6 AM on the grid time.

9:03 pm

desperate begging for a clue for an sm word

9:03 pm

And in case you're wondering, yes, I did just call jilli "Vicuna." Holy moly, I'm losing it!

9:03 pm

My other half has sugested that we must come up with some programme that will zap Sprite's computer in a very sneaky way... she can enter Babble, she can enter words on Babble, but any words she enters will go on our list! ROFLOL. Don't worry! He's a trucker and I'm a housewife. We won't do it.

9:03 pm

probably comes on about when i'm needing to get up for my potty break! sigh, i miss sleeping through the night.

9:03 pm

hi ADHD, bl5/16 is plural of bl4/7, sound a gun makes

9:04 pm

ak, s+ a kind of milk shake

9:04 pm

Hi everyone

duh tx fran must be the fever

9:04 pm

Hi Angb

9:04 pm

now -- 50 left...

9:04 pm

Hi Angb

9:04 pm

sm5 = s + a type of whisky. sm6/21 = same but with a personal pronoun at the end.

9:05 pm

do7,36?

9:05 pm

heather, both my pregnancies i had to go EVERY 2 hours like clockwork

9:05 pm

does anyone watching football know what the big clear half dome things are on the sidelines? some kind of microphone?

9:05 pm

hi angb!

9:05 pm

ho 7?

9:05 pm

now those are weird words -- ty for the clues

9:05 pm

i'm good with once a night right now at least

9:05 pm

scrabbler, in do***** patris

9:05 pm

hi Fran - congrats on the week win on QP

hi again!

9:05 pm

angb, a creature with human characteristics

has anyone seen cj?

9:06 pm

oh right, congrats fran!!!!

9:06 pm

thanks angb! i can't believe it!

9:06 pm

ho7=anthropological term for type of primate

9:06 pm

Original version of little BS book was 1899.

9:06 pm

I'm very annoyed to be watching football while I wait for the @#$%^&* game to end and I can see 60 Minutes

i need so many words i feel guilty asking for so many clues. HO 4/5 x2; HO 4/9; HO 5/12 x 2 and HO 4/9

pretty much all the HOs

9:06 pm

OK but that clue game me the 8 - not complaining mind you

9:07 pm

jilli, that could be another hour!

9:07 pm

*gave

9:07 pm

thanks heather!

9:07 pm

angb, take the last O out for the 7

9:07 pm

Angb, take out the third to last letter for the 7

9:07 pm

angb take out the o at the end

9:07 pm

Hi folks!!

9:08 pm

do 6, 24?

9:08 pm

Hey smd!

9:08 pm

thnx fran and lbd

9:08 pm

ADHD, ho4/5 is alt spelling of a jewish dance

9:08 pm

60 Minutes has been sacred 7pm Sunday watching for years in my house. The local CBS outlet is moronic

9:08 pm

yw angb

9:08 pm

hi smd!

9:08 pm

a pizza franchise scrabbler or tiles with pips on them you lay end to end

9:08 pm

ho4/9 is what a wolf does at the moon

9:08 pm

*grin* jill, you are so "intellectual"! ;-)

9:08 pm

ho4/5 - what a ram, a billy goat and a bull has 2 of on his head.

9:08 pm

Hi Ladies....Is it safe to come back on tonight Ibd??

9:09 pm

ho6/36 is how a cowboy may greet someone.

9:09 pm

hi all -- not here as the dinner just beeped (timer says the main course is ready) ...

9:09 pm

I sure hope so smd. Not quite sure how all that came about but she had it out for me.

9:09 pm

hi stid!

9:09 pm

Oh, wait, I have do 6--I thought that was the do7 that dawger clued....checking

9:09 pm

Hi Stid

9:09 pm

ho4.5 before that - same word but knock off the 's' and add a definite article.

9:09 pm

hiya stid. done here, just hanging out while watchign the game

hi stid!

9:09 pm

why would it be UNsafe SMD?

9:10 pm

I am not done... 153 to go. may have to hit the list before I get to halfway, never going to finish tonight...

9:10 pm

scrabbler, change the last vowel on the pizza clue and add two different vowels

9:10 pm

hey stid 120 here

9:10 pm

okay, gotta serve up the meal, say kids... back later!

9:10 pm

stid, i hit the list waaay before halfway today.

9:10 pm

later stid!

9:10 pm

OK, I have do 7 and do 6.

9:11 pm

oh nooooooo!!!!!!!

9:11 pm

bo 6 please

9:11 pm

knitter, pretty in spanish

9:11 pm

spanish for beautiful AK then plural

9:11 pm

Whaaaaaaaat Fran?

9:11 pm

no no no no no the colts can not win

9:11 pm

in 7 please

9:11 pm

I mean feather?

9:11 pm

B*gger off, stid. LOL. Go and serve dinner. What on earth made you sign in, just as you knew the dinger was about to go off? Did you have some mad dream about men dishing up meals?

9:11 pm

OMG!!!

9:11 pm

or a type of tuna that is used in japanese cooking

9:11 pm

NO

9:11 pm

wow. the colts did play a good game, i must say. just sad patriots didn't get it. well, 1 minute left, you never know.......

9:12 pm

I'll just mute it and get on with the grid. I should explain -- I have a small TV in my computer room/office and a gizmo which sends a UHF signal from the main set to all the others (blush -- I have 4 sets altogether -- hells bells, I live alone and need company)

9:12 pm

Having said that, my man can, and often does.

9:12 pm

jili...I saw earlier what you said about a book. If I recognized the author correctly, one of her books was my favorite when I was a child. I would love to find a first edition sometime when I am out looking through antiques stores to buy for my grandchildren.

9:12 pm

angb, in + constructed

grt clues... fever is affecting my brain i think... w/ADD and fever against me... how did i get over 100 words?

I don't know the jewish dance one tho... another clue?

9:12 pm

ADHD, ho + **in, **in go away

9:13 pm

thnx fran - so busy looking for odd words don't see the normal ones

9:13 pm

SMD -- try Amazon for a reprint although it may have been Bowdlerised

9:13 pm

same here angb, i missed a lot of normal words

9:13 pm

that's a fact for sure Angb

why am i not getting this. like maybe too analytical

9:14 pm

I still have 50 to go and dinner to tackle!

i need clues for the ra5/ ra 6 after the male sheep

9:15 pm

rodent + ** Gore and plural

9:15 pm

TO, rodent + ** gore and plural

i only know one jewish dance and it's long word

9:15 pm

oh no Frannie's in my head!

9:15 pm

or are you in mine lbd?

9:16 pm

or i'm in hers! lol

9:16 pm

ADHD, ho4/5 ho**tio alger, go west young man!

9:16 pm

rofl!!

9:16 pm

Hava nagila....

9:16 pm

see!!! this is getting spooky

9:16 pm

Yahoo, <100 left (97), so off to bed. Good luck to folks that want to finish!

ty fran! thanks dawg!

9:16 pm

Jili I saw a first edition once in an antique mall about 80 miles from where i liive. I wish I had bought it then. It was about $80, but I ran across the Old Morther West Wind books and valued them more at th time.

9:17 pm

Thanks, Jacula. Don't mind if I do...

9:17 pm

night scrabbler! see you tomorrow!

got it fran that means hour en espanol

9:17 pm

wow. ok, games over, i'm sad, heading to bed!

9:17 pm

yw TO

9:17 pm

they did play well. sigh.

9:17 pm

night scrabbler

9:17 pm

ADHD, in this case it's the dance

9:17 pm

night Feather. yw TO

9:18 pm

night heather! sleep tight!

9:18 pm

ugh, what an outcome....

9:18 pm

it was quite the game to watch.

9:18 pm

hi pam!

9:18 pm

Night, feather. Not want to have a quick hava nagila with us before you go?

9:18 pm

bye *poof*

9:18 pm

night, scrabbler, feather

tx fran learn something new every day tx agn for your kind patience lol

9:18 pm

hi Pam

bye feather

9:19 pm

no problem ADHD!

9:19 pm

hi, lbd

night scrabs hi pam

clue for the ai 4/4 (not the one that means your sick)

9:19 pm

Hello, any hints for the pr9?

9:20 pm

Plural PR 8

9:20 pm

pr9 is plural of the pr8

9:20 pm

ADHD, it's plural of a small island, sounds like plural of past tense of eat.

9:20 pm

Let us rejoice? Oh, maybe not.

9:20 pm

Hi Mom2

9:20 pm

mom, plural of pr8 to keep something from happening

PR9 plural banning something, as was done w/liquor in the 20s

9:21 pm

great clue ADHD!

9:21 pm

pr8-forbid

9:21 pm

Oof. Must regain my strength for tomorrow's grid. Goodnight, all.

9:21 pm

bi 5/14

9:21 pm

night vicuna!

9:21 pm

Thanks!

night vi

tx and tx fran

9:21 pm

'Night, Vic. See you again.

9:22 pm

knitter, bi + louse egg

9:22 pm

SMD -- there's also a website for rare and old books --http://www.abebooks.com -- don't go for the "retelling crap -- the originals are advetised for under $3!!!! I think I'll order one too!

9:22 pm

or bi + what your sheep is doing minus the K

9:22 pm

yick! ty fran

9:22 pm

AK, a storage box+ he, she or **

9:22 pm

night, vic

9:23 pm

Night Vic

9:23 pm

icky poo payton manning is smirking on my tv screen

9:23 pm

jilli, there are two babblers that sell used books, bookwomen and book doctor gwen, you could ask them about that book.

9:23 pm

ick, aknitter

9:23 pm

he is a very poor sportsman

9:23 pm

Did I upset a Jewish Babbler? If I did, I din't mean to.

9:23 pm

you sports fans are so funny!

9:24 pm

why, what did you do jac?

9:24 pm

I was partying. I realise HVG isn't to everyone's tastes... but:(

9:24 pm

what is hvg

9:25 pm

Wel feather went suddenly Fran, when I mentioned Hava Nagila. I know it's not purist.

9:25 pm

jac was singing...and i don't think anyone too offence jac, but then again, i may be wrong.

9:25 pm

heather left because the game ended, plus as far as i know she's not jewish.

9:26 pm

It's such a fun song and dance for getting everyone of all creeds up and dancing though.

9:26 pm

it could have been that one note that you didn't quite hit jac! :-)

9:26 pm

nothing offensive that this non-practicing jew saw

9:26 pm

Jili...Wow!! What a site. I bookmarked it to go back to. I am hoping to find several old books I have been looking for...thanks so much.

9:26 pm

now i have that song stuck in my head ty jac LOL

9:27 pm

Sorry, ak! Same here though!

9:27 pm

well sing something else that will unstick it!

9:27 pm

Can't do the arms around the shoulders thing to dance to it with you though.

9:28 pm

AK, don't get her started again! lol

9:28 pm

how about Bon Jovi, Living on a Prayer. I love the vocalizer at the beginning...that wah, wah sound.

c;ue please for sa5/12 after the character that ate all of those pancakes?

9:28 pm

Remember that broken arm I mentioned a month or two ago that I might have been walking about with since july/August last year? I saw my doc about it this week, and he agreed. he winced when it cracked.

9:28 pm

its a small world after all its a small world after all .... HAHA hows that grab ya?

9:29 pm

Jimmy used to work on the docks, union went on strike, he's down on his luck, it's tough....so tough.

9:29 pm

mi 5/14 - any clues.

9:29 pm

what did they do to it jac? or what does he recommend?

9:29 pm

sa+ axil *** TO, at least i think that's the one you asked for

9:30 pm

angb, opposite of add

ty dawg!

9:30 pm

and i just realized i used it in a clue earlier!!

9:30 pm

Send the fish! LOL I read it! thnx fran

9:30 pm

angb, you're gonna get a fish for that...opp of add

which MI 5/12?

9:30 pm

<*))<< here Angb

9:31 pm

LOL angb!

one means very small + s

9:31 pm

that was for mi5/14 ADHD

9:31 pm

yw TO

9:31 pm

Fran - x-ray to see what's bent, chipped, cracked or broken. Either physio or surgery after that. At same time I have to have 101 blood tests re the hot sweats, just to make sure it's menopause.

uh oh

no... it's 5/12 on the list

9:32 pm

well, that doesn't sound so great, jac.

9:32 pm

adhd - uh oh, is quite the right thing to say! I said that, too. LOL.

9:32 pm

I hope that surgery is unnecessary and that it is menopause.

MI ** S very small thing plural

9:33 pm

wow jac, i hope it is menopause

9:33 pm

well, time to read.

i need the MI 5/14 and the first MI 4/5 also

9:33 pm

see you tomorrow, i hope

9:33 pm

It seems odd to have to have all those blood tests Jac. but i hope it all gets resolved for you.

9:33 pm

night Pam

9:33 pm

mi5/14 was just clued, opp of add

9:34 pm

night pam!

9:34 pm

good night pam, see you manyana!

9:34 pm

ADHD the sign -

night pam

9:34 pm

first mi4/5 is abbreviation of lots of money (1,000,000s)

missed it fran... tx

got them both tx bunches

9:35 pm

or acronym for mother-in-lawS

9:35 pm

pam - no - plus the thing on the end of my nose - what the hell is that? I asked. got cream to send a not scarey thing away, and, if it doesn't do it in 8 weeks, I have to see an end of nose shaver offer of nasty things on end of nose in a hospital somewhere.! Oh dear! I might have had my arm, my reproductive organs and my nose chopped off when next you see me!

MA 4/9 anyone? my last MA

9:35 pm

jac! not funny!

9:35 pm

yw ADHD

9:36 pm

ma4/9 rhymes with la4 (grass).

9:36 pm

adhd, rhymes with the grass that grows on your front la**

9:36 pm

ADHD, sounds like how a jamaican might say "male"

9:36 pm

Fran - No. But if I don't have humour, I will be lost. And 'lost' is not what I choose to be.

9:37 pm

I would really like to have one of the V words before I get the list... please?

9:37 pm

ADHD sounds like the last name of author somerset ******

9:38 pm

stid vo4 & verb form 5 - to be sick.

9:38 pm

you're right jac, the right attitude and being positive can do wonders in medical situations. i'm sending you good vibrations.

9:38 pm

thanks Jacula -- LOL speaking of docs and medical issues!

9:38 pm

vr4/11, stid - v + what you do with a little boat.

9:39 pm

Thanks, Fran,re that. Stid??

9:39 pm

yay! my fourth gray tile! thanks Jacula {[hug}}

ty jacs - that completed my v words : )

9:39 pm

hi TO!

grt clue for MA4/9 fran tx so much

hi stid

9:41 pm

yw ADHD

9:41 pm

off to get list, back soon

9:41 pm

stid - you said 'speaking of medical issues...'?

just read back in the chat for all of your great clues for MA4/9 and I thank u all

9:41 pm

how was dinner Stid?

9:42 pm

ADHD, who's the cutie in your icon?

9:42 pm

adhad - it's what we do here. We're a community.xx

9:43 pm

It was good. We don't usually eat red meat, but Costco had a coupon for pork chops this week. Served over vegetable rice with home-made applesauce on the side. Quite yummy.

and a great community it is... glad i joined. just a few days here and it's like i've been here for a long time

9:44 pm

darn, we forgot about the coupon stid! we were supposed to get some!

the cutie is my youngest granddaughter Meredith

she just turned 2

why do the pictures get stretched sideways in the icons

9:45 pm

i love seeing pics of everyone's kids and grandkids. she's adorable.

9:45 pm

Forgot to warn you, ADHD, Fran will flirt with any sexy icon you put up.

9:45 pm

Stid...I buy the boneless porkchops when on special at costco. they are like having your own mini pork roast. we love them.

tx i think so.

9:45 pm

if you don't pick a square picture, it gets distorted.

9:45 pm

*Runs and ducks from Fran's ensuing wrath.*

hi guys

9:45 pm

the icons are a set ratio, if your base image is not at that ratio, the icon "fixes" it. We've had some very funny-looking icons!

9:45 pm

hi pappa!

9:46 pm

jac, you are incorrigible!

9:46 pm

hi smooth!

hee hee... hi smdnjv... enjoy that game earlier? lol

tx for explanation stid. i'll try diff photos... Lord knows i've got plenty of them (the grandkids... all five of them)

9:47 pm

Hey smooth

9:47 pm

smooth, you should have heard the moaning and groaning when the game ended!

9:47 pm

*snigger, snigger, snort, cough, cough*, Fran.:)))

9:47 pm

happy grandma, eh, ADHD? my mother-in-law loves her 6 grandkids, too!

how ya'll doing?

lol

any clues for me for MO5/12 #2 & 3; and both MO 4/5 s

moaning and groaning? I thought it was pretty funny. ;)

9:48 pm

knitter was growling at the post-game interview with payton manning (yes, sheep growl)

only need the 5/12 s

9:48 pm

i have slipped into dispair and complete sadness

I meant the name game we were playing with smdnjv

ok did the pats win?

9:49 pm

sigh

9:49 pm

one of the mo5/12s is the plural of the first mo4/5

9:49 pm

Ma + 10 alternate spelling

9:49 pm

somebody slap TO for me

I asked her what her name stood for, so my and Hurshy and a couple others started takking guesses at the acronym

9:49 pm

ak - over this grid or some sports I don't give an eff about?

9:49 pm

I think the second game was a much better match-up than the first today... the Saints were SO outclassed. I was embarrassed to watch that one. At least the second game wasn't decided until the last minute.

9:49 pm

actually, both mo5/12s you need are plurals of the 4/5s

9:49 pm

no, TO, they did not.

what did i do?

9:49 pm

jac the eff sports

9:50 pm

sorry clue for wrong word

got them both tx fran

9:50 pm

Oh, it's tht bloody US sports thing again.

9:50 pm

Never mind.

just wanted to know what kind of mood the boss will be in tomorrow : /

9:50 pm

now now knitter... *offers a chocolate sweater for her to chew on*

9:50 pm

I feel a hot flush cming on.

my brain is being sluggish tonite

9:50 pm

TO you asked about the Pats --- I am saddened by the loss thank you stid for the choc seater

9:51 pm

ro 6/24 clue pretty please

9:51 pm

knitter, that christmas knitting must have been a big project, it looks like you're still working on it.

gee there was a time when i would know everything that ws ging on in any sport in the country

9:51 pm

AD 7 please? I cannot see it

9:51 pm

i need to change my icon i guess

9:51 pm

angb, dennis ro****, bad boy of basketball

their loss makes you want to vo5/18?

9:51 pm

ro6/24,AngB = a fisherman.

9:51 pm

LOL

9:52 pm

angb, fishing *** and reel + male

OB 4/6 x 2 and OB 5/14 (not the death announcement/s)

9:52 pm

stid, like the pr8 that means to prevent

9:52 pm

*grin* hetty's husband is in the grid today... and he counts!

9:52 pm

I don't have the pr... *looking* (thanks)

9:52 pm

hi everyone

9:52 pm

ro is dennis ro**** of Basketball fame

9:52 pm

thnx fran, lbd and jacula

9:52 pm

adhd, change the cross letter to a snake letter

9:52 pm

now I do! THANKS!

9:52 pm

checking out now, folks... finished the grid and it was sort of a grind today! Hope to be more conversive tomorrow.. happy babbling, all!!!

hi ping

9:53 pm

hi ping!

got it

9:53 pm

Night Aloy Hi Ping

bye, aloy

9:53 pm

upright fishing thingey whotsite + male = ro6/24.

9:53 pm

night aloy! and congrats!

9:53 pm

{{{aloyisius}}} YAY and sweet dreams...

9:53 pm

ping, beautiful photo today

9:53 pm

thanks, fran

hiya ping

9:54 pm

hi ping! why tomatoes? (or to-mah-toes if you prefer)

9:54 pm

I didn't feel that conversational tonight, myself, aloy.

9:54 pm

ty, ty.. see you tomorrow. (-:

9:54 pm

I grayed the A!

9:54 pm

I just bounced back somehow.

9:54 pm

stid, i like the color in the picture

9:54 pm

the top one... still working on the the others.

9:55 pm

go stid, keep on graying!

go stid!

9:55 pm

brb, diaper time

9:55 pm

well, I am past halfway now... (barely)

clue for the first OB 4/6 and 5/14?

9:56 pm

i think i'm a quarter way in so far

9:56 pm

adhd, same first three letters + first vowel then plural

got the OB 4/6

got them all tx tx tx

9:57 pm

yw adhd

9:57 pm

ADHD - shot form of a write up for a dead person, ob5 is the plural.

9:58 pm

Too late! Never mind!

9:58 pm

Lol

9:58 pm

HI 7 please?

9:58 pm

I lied. I'm back for a bit. ;)

9:59 pm

male word+first vowel+ spanish word for aunt= hi7

9:59 pm

hi again arwennn

9:59 pm

welcome back arwenn

9:59 pm

thanks lbd!

tx jacula... i had the death notices already

9:59 pm

hi arwen

i've got all the ob/s now

9:59 pm

yw stid

10:00 pm

stid - hi7 = 'that man' + vowel (definite article) + first part of drink *** Maria (coffee liq.)

10:00 pm

HI 7 HI + opposite or pa + spanish aunt

10:00 pm

does the ho 8 build off the ho 7?

10:00 pm

thanks also Jacula!

10:00 pm

what does that mean, lbd?

i need the OH, both OMs, the ON, both ORs and the first OW WHEW!!

10:01 pm

ho8 is relatedated to the ho7 - means 'like' at the end.

10:01 pm

although, now I'm on my home computer and I lost my entire lickety's clues list. bleh.

fireworks! and ihave to run - predicting a sleety rush hour tomorrow

10:01 pm

bi 5/16 please

10:01 pm

kind of Stid, you need to add 4th vowel after the first 5 letters

10:01 pm

thanks again Jac!

10:01 pm

whoo hoo TO!

10:01 pm

woo hoo TO!

10:01 pm

*looking* good clue lbd!

10:02 pm

plural of the bi4.7 AK

10:02 pm

YAY TO!!!!

10:02 pm

bi5/16 is plural form of the bi4/7 before it.

thanks for the help -couldn't have done it without you!

10:02 pm

bi + little mother/s.

10:02 pm

got it, and that was my last 8... down to 119

10:02 pm

Welll done, TO!

10:02 pm

go Stid go!

10:02 pm

*sigh* kid is misbehving. tired, I suspect. back soon.

10:02 pm

ty missed that plural

10:03 pm

easy to do in this grid AK

10:03 pm

lots of weird words today

and if s dosn't work - try o or a ending

10:03 pm

more than usual it seems.

try that even if s does work

bye! *poof*

10:04 pm

or any other combination of pluralization!

10:05 pm

i don't think i will finish tonight i will have to settle for being under 100

10:05 pm

night TO

10:06 pm

Oh dear, I guess this truly was an old English and latin and latin endings grid. Sorry, you UK folks. T'was a nice Sunday grid for we in UK though! LOL.

10:06 pm

getting over half is good AK!

10:06 pm

i have 164 to go, aknitter, so i might be settling for the same

10:06 pm

LOL Jac!

clue for the second to last AL 4/4 and 4/5 under it and 5/12

10:07 pm

Sorry for smiling so broadly, ping.

i'm at a standstill... keep monkeying around and coming up with nada

10:07 pm

adhd, al** mater

10:07 pm

you have a fine, fine smile jac - i'm smiling with you

tx lbd how did i miss that

10:08 pm

I did mean, sorry you US folks.

10:08 pm

a+ l*gh* the candles

got that one i need the one above AL** mater

10:09 pm

Not all of us missed the unusual endings Jac. just not always looking for them

10:10 pm

Time I zonked out soon, zonking out means almost no interruptions re night sweats. Niether option is goood for the health.

10:10 pm

adhd, al+ **s a small world after all.

i have that one too... on lickety's list i need the one above al** mater

10:10 pm

night Jac.

10:11 pm

al5/12 - ranch where the cowboys fought it out!

10:11 pm

that is the one above al** mater.

then that's wierd

10:12 pm

al+ ** good ** it gets

10:12 pm

sweet dreams, jacula

10:13 pm

nite jac, nite everyone one, see ya in the am

10:14 pm

night Pida

this is wierd

i need the AL 5/10 below a man's name and the 4/4 under that

10:14 pm

Looks like yiu yank have decided it's time for me to go. I hope you get a hit country song from saying that.

10:14 pm

adhd, check your list again. is it a 4 letter word or a 5?

10:14 pm

Nite then!

10:14 pm

Byeee!!!!!!!!!!

oh i know what happened

10:15 pm

Im kinda confused about the clues ...im new here

when i found some words, i just put them in the list instead of typing them up top (if therre was more than one word w/the same point value)

10:15 pm

there was a show on tv called al*** smith and jones

10:15 pm

could someone clue HO 7/8 please?

loved that show LB

10:16 pm

Sorry, Pika, can't help you! The USA vote is that I bog off!

10:16 pm

So am am doing so.

10:16 pm

Goodnight!

10:16 pm

ping, Ho+ not max + robot ending for the 8

i erased them and retyped and forgot two of the words i erased duh... so now i have empty spaces... the 5/10 under the man's name and the 4/4 below that

10:17 pm

im just kinda confused on how to go about using the clues...

10:17 pm

Pika, you might get a bettr understanding by reading anglesongs babble page linked at the bottom of this page

lickety put the words in different order... than i did when i typed them in.. guess u have to type them in at the top of the list and let lickety place them in order.

10:18 pm

adhd, that makes it a little easier. lol I've done the same thing a dozen times before it finally dawned on me what i was doing!

pika... go to the links at the bottom of this page and click on Angel Song's (it's where i was directed when i joined a few days ago) it'll help you understand a lot

10:18 pm

thanks for ho clue, lbd

10:19 pm

Ping, take the 6th letter out of the 8 and you'll get the 7

10:19 pm

Hi all....I think I will stop working on the grid and chat for a bit... still have 149 left!

10:19 pm

Hey autumn

10:19 pm

i've got the 7, will try to reverse that clue

okay... now i don't feel so dumb... but i still need that AL 5/10 under the man's name and the AL 4/4 below that

10:20 pm

Hi ibd

10:20 pm

ihave 144 autumn

10:20 pm

al/5 is plural the one before

10:20 pm

adhd. you got the assumed name one right?

oh do i feel toopit... lickety's is in alphabetical order lol

tx got it

10:21 pm

lol poor adhd, that fever really has bitten you

10:21 pm

lbd, got them both, thanks!

10:21 pm

sorry---hi lbd...I think I did that yesterday too

now i understand how the list can help you

10:21 pm

that's okay autumn, lots of things going on

light bulb just burned out in my brain

how have i gotten 180 words... now it should be a lot easier lol

10:22 pm

al5.14 is to have a story that will back up where you were during a crime.

i only need the 4/4 after the man's name plural

10:23 pm

Save us - need clue for st 7

10:24 pm

hey peep - if you have your ears on, open up your IM account so we can chat

10:24 pm

al+ **gh me maties

10:25 pm

well, I think I will call it a night. Have to go get the clothes ready for work and pack up the laptop....Have a good night, all.

10:25 pm

Angb, st + ** you like it + 3rd vowel + not pa

i had placed that one below the space where it was supposed to go so now i need the AL 4/4 below it lol

10:25 pm

night autumn

10:25 pm

al+ ** you like it

10:25 pm

night, autumn

see what i did? i just put words in the list spaces as i found them. i did not know they were supposed to be in ABC order duh

10:26 pm

thnx lbd.

10:26 pm

buh-bye *wave*

10:26 pm

yw Angb

got is straightened out and got all the ALs tx IBD for clues and patience lol

10:26 pm

adhd, you'll find it a lot easier for tomorrow's grid! :-)

10:27 pm

time to log off for me. good luck babblers, see you all tomorrow

10:27 pm

Colts won!!

i will now that i know how the list works for you lol

the first BL on the list? 5/14? help?

10:28 pm

explode

never mind.. got the first need the last two BLs 4/6 and 5/14

10:30 pm

b + la4/4

i onlyh need the last BL 5/14

got that too...

it's the list working... i'm so excited i know how the list works lol

10:32 pm

ad 5/14 please please?

which one ping?

10:33 pm

both? :(

AD + male

10:34 pm

bl5/15 - a kind of pancake

10:35 pm

thanks adhd

AD*** what u do when u get to a hospital for a scheduled surgery (then plural it)

10:35 pm

thanks, got them all

AM 5/16 anyone?

10:36 pm

Hey Krys10. Just saw your chat note. trying to Babble while watching TV (Dad)

10:37 pm

add a vowel to the one before it

now need the AM 4/7 help?? please?

hello

10:39 pm

aha, that's your problem, dad, trying to Babble and watch TV at the same time :)

10:39 pm

Fireworks - and my brain (and Keith's) hurts

yay ang!

10:40 pm

My helper says she is the problem too

helo everyoine

hello her

10:41 pm

wtg angb

can anyone help me w/ AM 4/7

CONGRATS TO ANGB

sorry about your brain tho

10:42 pm

i don't remember seeing a VR word before

10:42 pm

Thnx everyone - had a little help from bro-in-lay

10:42 pm

hi infernal

10:42 pm

*law

10:43 pm

congrats, ang

hey ad

is it me or is this a hard grid

10:44 pm

hard one for me

10:44 pm

from what i've read in the chat log everyone found it difficult

10:44 pm

many obscur words

clue anyone please for AM 4/7 monkey's tired

10:46 pm

am4/7 - sylvester stalone character R****

10:46 pm

monkeys found it

10:47 pm

gotta go bye

10:47 pm

have a great evening

10:47 pm

night lu

good monkeys. you deserve a banana.

first AW anyone????

i figured it out

10:53 pm

okay i had to change my iconbefore i signed off. check out my boys

10:53 pm

nite again

10:55 pm

is the OB 6/7 combo connected to the previous words?

10:57 pm

good morning all - no ping

10:58 pm

thanks ursh and good morning to you

11:06 pm

DO 7 clue, anyone, please?

a pastor or minister

ping do u have the DO 6/24?

11:07 pm

yes, adhd, i do

11:08 pm

do7 = do + very small + 2nd vowel

11:08 pm

hi everyone

do 7/36 DO + MI 4/5 + 2nd vowel

11:08 pm

thanks, adhd and my muse - got it now

11:09 pm

hi my muse!

hi my nice to meet u

11:09 pm

hi Ping!

11:09 pm

hi ADHD

i am new here... few days

how many words is in this puzzle please

11:09 pm

how are things in *Malta*?

11:09 pm

nice to meet you too, another one bites the grid lol!

11:09 pm

267 words, chris

thanks

11:10 pm

ooooh, beautiful ocean waters, sunny breezes (at least in my mind)

any clue for HO 5/12 (below spanish word for hours)

11:10 pm

plural of musical insturment

wront 5/12 on lickety it's the second one

11:11 pm

H + OR 4

i don't have either OR

or the OH or the OMs or the ORs

11:12 pm

is the HO 6 rel. to the musical instrument too?

11:12 pm

spanish hour + ** Gore but only 1 vowel

11:13 pm

no that would be ho**** doodie

11:13 pm

thanks, my muse, very much

11:14 pm

i'll have to visit malta some day

grt clue ping got it tx

11:14 pm

me too Ping

11:16 pm

Hi, all. Could anyone clue for the su6/30 and 7/44? Can't monkey my way to a normal word... doh, what am I saying... this is Babble!:-)

got all my Os but the first OW any clues anyone?

11:17 pm

su6,7 = prefix for under + catcher's ***t, glove

11:17 pm

plural of night bird

11:17 pm

then plural that su

11:17 pm

Oh, fish by the boatload. Thanks, mymuse.

tx mym

11:21 pm

st 7 please?

11:22 pm

st + ** you like it + L***, Peru or that yukky veggie l*** bean

11:22 pm

thanks, my muse, once again!

11:23 pm

np glad I can help

SM g/21 anyone? please?

11:24 pm

add the personal vowel to the 5

tx muse

how about the SU 4/5 and 5/12

11:27 pm

Can someone help with sa5/12, The last one: Or the first SA 5/10?

11:27 pm

corporate clothes for the su4,5

11:27 pm

Wrong word. I have the sa 5/10; it's the sa6/21... the first one.

i'd luve to but i don't have them

11:28 pm

sa5/10 is plural of 4/4, sa5/12 sa + *** Serling

11:28 pm

sa 5/12 sa + fishing pole

11:29 pm

like the deli sandwich but omit the middle vowel

11:29 pm

hi Ang

11:29 pm

sa 6/21 and cheese is great on crackers

11:29 pm

Hi muse. How goes it?

11:30 pm

Did you see Fran the weekly QP?

11:30 pm

sa + Id* A***, notorious for genocide in Africa

11:30 pm

yes, i did ang, cool!

11:30 pm

I'm trying to do some of the puzzles now Ang, so haven't had a look yet

11:30 pm

yes, proud for her!!!!

11:31 pm

Thanks, mymuse for the sa5/12. I have the deli delights, but not first 6/21. That was the one! Thank you very much mm

11:31 pm

muse, it's on the first screen before you see today's puzzlers

11:31 pm

Fireworks

11:31 pm

yay anike

WTG ANIKE

11:32 pm

congrats anike!

ca u clue me for the 3 SAs after the deli meat?

11:32 pm

Love the tomatoes ping

11:32 pm

woo hoo anike!

11:32 pm

thanks ang

11:32 pm

hmmm what happened to my message?

11:32 pm

Good job, anike.

11:33 pm

Drop one of the a's out of the meat ADHD, and for the 6 plural it

11:33 pm

I saw it ping just took a while for ANG"S message to get through coz my brain is fried right now

11:33 pm

And the sa 4/4 is like an abbrev of the meats

tx angb ... need the two above that

11:34 pm

Good evening to my fellow babblers!How is everyone?

11:34 pm

By the way, congratulations to all the finishers! YAY!

11:34 pm

hi Min!

11:34 pm

Hi Min how are you this evening?

11:35 pm

Have clued it two chats below

11:35 pm

muse, my brain is too

11:35 pm

hi there, min, welcome to the grid!

great tx

11:35 pm

I am doing well Angb,but will not finish the grid tonite

11:35 pm

How's it going ADHD? How many more

11:36 pm

Didn't think I would either Min. Next week will be another story - back to work after summer holidays

11:37 pm

6 year old son is outside riding our quad bike around front paddock LOL. Grandfather bought it!

11:37 pm

Does anyone have a clue for the pr 8/60 word please

11:38 pm

to stop something Minver as in 1920's there was Pr******ion against drinking

11:39 pm

mi 7/44?

11:39 pm

We all go on holiday in a small omni***

11:39 pm

mi 7/44 clue

11:39 pm

small transport vehicle ping

11:40 pm

thanks, guys!

11:40 pm

What was that Cliff Richard movie - we're all going on a summer holiday?

11:43 pm

don't know that one Ang

11:43 pm

Oh it was "Summer Holiday". I was a fan when a little younger muse

11:45 pm

Does anybody have a clue for the li 6/21 word please?

may i have a clue for both LA 6/21

11:46 pm

li6/21= sex drive

11:46 pm

la 6/21 is plural of la 5/12 before it ADHDWordLover.

11:46 pm

li 6/21 plural of li 5/12. li + gent

11:46 pm

oops thats 6/27

anyone here in a proof-ready mood?

tx min and the other 6/21?

11:47 pm

hark, is that tom sawyer?

11:47 pm

Pardon smooth?

11:47 pm

The latin plural ADHD

11:47 pm

la6/21 other is latin plural

11:48 pm

hey smooth

I just added a new page to my site, and was curious if anyone would be willing to give it a look over to make sure it looks fine

hi muse

11:48 pm

had 2 glasses of wine, does that qualify for proof-ready? lol

11:48 pm

hiya smooth

grt cluing tx

hey ping!

lol muse

11:48 pm

Hi, Smooth, I'm a retired editor... does that count?

11:48 pm

your clues are sharp as ever, muse

11:48 pm

I'm catching up to you muse. What type you drinking?

11:49 pm

Hi smooth_pappa! How are you? Welcome to the grid?

11:49 pm

oh, thanks Ping

LA 6/18 and the 4/4 above it and the last 5/18 and i'mdone w/ my LAs

11:49 pm

had some red wine at my in-laws, I cooked baked ziti

scarlet... sure! if you don't mind, that is... go to www.madcityfinearts.com click on galleries, and scroll down to the "artistic figures" image, then click yes, and look at that page?

hi min!

11:50 pm

la + do re mi......la ** do

11:50 pm

ziti? I have seen that in scrabble games but not eaten it LOL. I am a white wine girl - so sauvignon blanc here

11:50 pm

la6/18 Spanish male might be called a hot la****

and I'm on newcastle again tonight. lol

11:51 pm

hello everyone

11:51 pm

Does anyone have a clue for the ni 5/16 word please?

11:51 pm

I like white wine too, indulged in the red for its "health benefits" lol

11:51 pm

hi kalea

didn't get that one muse

11:51 pm

Hello kalea!How are you doing?Welcome to the puzzle

11:51 pm

The singular of the 6 - add me not them to the end.

11:51 pm

hi kalea

NI 5/16: NI + double hump letter + **cycle

11:52 pm

That is a clue for the ni 5 / 16

11:52 pm

hiya muse and Min and Ping

hey kalea!

11:52 pm

Hi kalea

11:52 pm

la6/18 = la + ***a Turner + *h no,

11:52 pm

hiya pappa and Ang

11:53 pm

ob6 and 7?

fireworks, whew

kalea a russian province...

11:53 pm

o + bl5/14 then add personal vowel

11:53 pm

O bl 6/24 I knew someone would ask that. Then add me to the end

i was putting Lana Turner lol

o + an explosion is also called this

11:54 pm

lol

11:54 pm

Congratulations TeaNCrackers on fireworks!Hooray!

11:54 pm

wow.........thanks

11:54 pm

congrats Tea

good job tnc!

11:54 pm

Tea - congrats

ty

11:55 pm

yay TnC!

speaking of russia, Kalea, I spent the millineum new years at the place in your icon. :)

11:55 pm

hi people!

11:55 pm

Hi fran - oh conqueror of QP

hi fran

11:55 pm

Hi Fran, CONGRATS!!!! on your QP win

tx now i need to tackle the LIs (got sex drive and tree branch + o and the last two 4/4s . i need all the rest. clue me?

brb need medicine

11:56 pm

Hi FranMag! How are you doing? Welcome to the grid

11:56 pm

hey fran

11:56 pm

congrats fran for qp

11:56 pm

li 4/5 - type of bean

11:56 pm

thanks Muse!

11:56 pm

li4/5,5/12, li** beans, plural; li + male, plural

11:56 pm

thanks ping!

11:56 pm

li 4/7 is - an arm and a leg is a li**

11:56 pm

li4/7 arms and legs are your li**, then add personal vowel

11:57 pm

Well, smooth, there isn't a single thing that could, or should, be changed. Images are powerful, the text is tight and the message is subjective, yet universal. Good work.

11:57 pm

wow. got the VR word and... fini!

11:57 pm

congrats just

11:57 pm

li 5/16 - do the li*** - dance under a stick

yay, justa!

thanks scarlet! i tend to make typos and grammatical mistakes, so I always love to have someone look it over. images, as well!... thanks a lot!

11:58 pm

li 5/16 change the vowel of previous to the one previous

11:58 pm

sorry, got a phone call just as i came on!

11:58 pm

yay just

11:58 pm

hi muse, angb, ping, smooth, TnC, scarlet!

11:58 pm

You're welcome. Any time I'm here, I'd be happy to look anything over for you.

11:58 pm

and hello anyone i missed

hey, fran

thanks... I'll keep that in mind!

11:59 pm

yay angb!

11:59 pm

shoot, I wanted to get to 50!

11:59 pm

Hi justafreep! How are you? Welcome to the puzzle!

11:59 pm

3 short

11:59 pm

You yaying me for any reason Fran - or merely my existence?

11:59 pm

Hi egbokmom!How are you doing?Welcome to the grid

11:59 pm

how about sa** and pepper, plural

11:59 pm

oh, i thought you just finished.

11:59 pm

332 tomorrow I think

isn't that enough?

12:00 am

Congratulations justafreep on fireworks! Good for U!

12:00 am

heaven forbid ANG!!!!

12:00 am

Hi FranMag and all.

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