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12:00 am

flip

12:00 am

flip

12:00 am

flip!

12:00 am

flip

12:00 am

phantom: apple

12:00 am

a valliant effort was made by all but i was still 9 short!

12:00 am

flip

12:00 am

thanks so much!

12:01 am

My Sweet Cousin, I can find you.

12:01 am

http://tinyurl.com/7ujxy7

12:01 am

You're welcome

12:02 am

fa6

12:02 am

tr7

12:02 am

http://tinyurl.com/9fomn3

12:02 am

However, I can't get the seal off the Aretha Franklin cd I bought the other day!

12:03 am

I'm wiped out, and tomorrow will be a long day, so I bid you all a fond adieu...Happy Babbling!

12:03 am

ni6

12:05 am

fi 6

12:05 am

re6

12:05 am

Ah, new grid, Isee. Going out then. Sleep. Then new grid.

12:06 am

hidi hi :)

12:07 am

HI KAZZZ

12:07 am

AN 6'

12:09 am

Ni 6

12:10 am

am 6

12:11 am

is this a small grid?

12:11 am

185

12:11 am

185 mlf

12:11 am

tr7

12:11 am

Pinik at the rate i am going thought it was much smaller lol thanks

12:11 am

pi 6 x 2

12:11 am

fa 6 if not called

12:12 am

real

12:12 am

sorry

12:12 am

na6

12:12 am

kaz does that go with a 4?

12:13 am

late arrival, hello everyone

12:13 am

not really MLF

12:14 am

AM 5/6

12:14 am

ty kaaz

12:15 am

late flip - Hi everyone

12:16 am

phantom: vomit

12:16 am

ma6

12:16 am

kaz was that FA 6 you called?

Clues are up

12:17 am

yep MLF

12:17 am

thx lickety!

12:17 am

have to go pick up hubby from the bar as there are no cabs lol..bbs

12:18 am

thanks Lickety

12:19 am

re6

12:22 am

ve7

12:22 am

re6 x 2

12:22 am

ty car i just got it too

12:23 am

car, add o before v

12:23 am

thanks for the ve

12:25 am

? van?

12:25 am

Oi 6

12:25 am

got it thx MLF

12:25 am

ve 8

12:26 am

lol yw that was fast kazz

12:26 am

Yeah diz!

12:27 am

he was halfway home lol..but so cold and icy out i didnt want him walking the whole way home MLF lol

12:27 am

Mo 6

12:27 am

phantom: aroma

late flip; howdy all

12:29 am

car i am here, just lost in puzzle

12:29 am

Hi Dee

12:30 am

2 more for NBT...

12:30 am

I just didn't understand what you meant about the o before the v

hi hug!

12:31 am

car-5 letter word

12:31 am

okay i have 70words i am out bye

12:31 am

100 down 85 to go

12:31 am

na6 x 2

12:32 am

I think I have that one!

12:32 am

email doesn't work * pout *

12:34 am

boy I sure don;t see the ve 8

12:34 am

me either

12:34 am

i found a ve7

12:34 am

me too

12:35 am

me neither but I also only see one na6

12:35 am

1 ni 6 too

12:36 am

the 2 na6's are very common words

12:37 am

thx hugs...got the 2nd na

12:37 am

High winds here, power went off, back on but may just leave before it happens again, back tomorrow - I hope!

12:37 am

tc flosey

12:37 am

dang, missed flosey

12:37 am

for sure, have my flashlight

12:38 am

no problem up there Jilli?

12:38 am

yw Pini

12:38 am

flosey -- the icon I see here looks like a New Year's one, but when I click on it I get the cat -- maybe your upload worked after all>

12:38 am

my phantom is maudlin

12:39 am

does the ve8 relate to the ve7?

12:39 am

flosey, there was a brief flicker a couple of minutes ago

12:39 am

no, couldn't get the picture up, so I posted latest pic of Max

12:39 am

taken last night sitting on my lap while babbling

12:40 am

but what was your previous icon?

12:40 am

wasn't it Sandra and Patrick?

12:40 am

Max is lovely

12:41 am

thanks, he's getting frendly again - but in his own sweet time

12:41 am

No -- I see what looks like a New Year's celebration glasses, bubbles

12:41 am

great icon there Jilli

12:41 am

are they on their side?

12:42 am

silly, I know

12:42 am

that's why I changed it to Max

12:42 am

ve8= covering for roots of orchids; as in epidermis.

12:43 am

flosey, the icon here is NOT Sandra and Patrick -- not people at all -- white background with drawings -- can't enlarge it

12:43 am

ve 7 & ve 8 NOT related

12:43 am

my goodness, that's really strange, I see Max

12:43 am

haha, I just have a ve4

12:44 am

me too jilli

12:44 am

I see Max when I click on the icon I see!

12:44 am

what were you trying to upload?

12:45 am

ma6 x 2

12:45 am

my old school chum/ maid of honour, etc. velma is in the grid - oh how she hated that name

12:45 am

was a couple of glasses of champagne bubbling jilli

12:45 am

Amanda is in the grid too

12:46 am

that's what I see as your icon flosey

12:46 am

and vera

12:46 am

well, isn't that strange, hugs are they on their side or upright?

12:46 am

that's what I see, flosey -- glasses and bubbles, as I said

ty, aeb for the ve8! now i'm off to bed!

12:47 am

PB for flosey for that ve4

12:47 am

got the ve 8 thanks aeb

12:47 am

I just can't make it work...grrrr.

12:47 am

oh dear, didn't realize that she was accepted!

12:47 am

* still working on the ve8 *

12:48 am

me too pini!

12:48 am

ah, got the ve8

ve8, use reverse dictionary and then go to merriam webster dictionary

that's how i got it.

that ve8 wuld make an interesting name for a little girl.

12:49 am

am sure my old friend would have preferred it smiles

12:50 am

I looked up orchid roots on google and it would accept the ve word I found

12:50 am

TY, Ty, TY! I just got it!!!

12:50 am

* still looking *

pini, there is a cany that is one letter different from the ve8, just change last letter to a vowel!

candy that is not cany

12:51 am

The name for a little girl is what clicked with me!

12:51 am

phantom: candy!

12:51 am

still looking!!!

12:52 am

ve8 found, yay!

feels good don't it!

12:52 am

* feeling rather dumb now *

that candy is a kind of breath freshener.

see!

12:53 am

* still looking *

12:53 am

Yeah Everyone!!!!!!

12:53 am

aurrggghhh

oh, i thought you had it pini!

ok, here is the easy clue.

12:54 am

* pout * no

12:54 am

*smile* yes

ever read harry potter books?

12:55 am

am I the last one now?????

12:55 am

No, I don't read Harry Potter

maybe

12:55 am

close your eyes pini

um

ok, ok

12:55 am

GOT IT

12:56 am

don't have the ve 8 either... :\

12:56 am

crap...I think I'm the last one now...oh this is sad!

12:56 am

is it related to the ve7?

12:56 am

they say, no, but I'm no so sure now!

12:56 am

No.....

ve+a note that follows so+a breath **** but change the last letter to a vowel.

12:57 am

velamin

12:57 am

an7

aeb, penalty box for you.

12:57 am

ve 8 --- ve + a type of flooring ******te

12:57 am

the last letter of the ve8 IS a vowel

12:57 am

GOT IT!!!!

12:57 am

not sure how...but I did!!!

12:57 am

its not a word... Babble doesn't accept it.

12:58 am

YEAH PINI!!!!!!!

12:58 am

thanx all for your patience!

12:58 am

velamin isn't the right word so no PB for aeb

12:58 am

thanks guys, finally got it

12:59 am

can you give me the stats on it pls? ve8/?

12:59 am

glad u agree Jillibus....see 12:57

12:59 am

I have 54 words but signing off for a bit - see you later

12:59 am

ve8/60

1:00 am

yes, musica

1:00 am

thx flosey

1:00 am

quite so, flosey

1:00 am

oooh, just hit 1/2! 1 hint for the E and I'll have NBT!

1:01 am

Pini, what is NBT?

1:01 am

no blank tiles

1:01 am

(will have at least 1 word from each available)

1:01 am

re6 x 3

1:01 am

Ohhhhhhh!

1:02 am

=]

1:02 am

el4 and el5 Pini.... now hint for the A in the last column?

1:02 am

e4=spirit in french

1:03 am

merci, musica :)

1:03 am

yvw

1:03 am

yvw

1:03 am

ar5 = add cons to ar4

1:04 am

<-- still don't know french

1:04 am

oh...got something

1:04 am

got 2

1:04 am

woot woot

1:04 am

ty Pini... now NBT for me too

1:04 am

actually, I had it and thought you meant an es5, then realised there is no S in the grid, yikes!

1:04 am

now off to bed with me...

1:04 am

happy hunting all...NYTOL!

1:04 am

Nite Pini!

1:05 am

this grid is too big to be without plurals :(

1:05 am

the other E is an antelope

1:05 am

e4= can also mean with a flair

1:05 am

ty hugs

1:05 am

panache

1:05 am

yw jili

1:06 am

May birthstone is a phantom

1:06 am

night pini

1:06 am

my birthstone is today

1:06 am

that's my birthstone, musica, lol!

1:07 am

1mar -- it's your birthday????

1:07 am

its called WEDNESDAY?(lol)

1:07 am

well sorta ....actually it's a couple hours past my birthday but not there in SSI

1:08 am

Happy 29th Birthday, 1mar!!!

1:09 am

indeed Happy Birthday Mar

1:09 am

oh thank you jilli but your only 10 years off lol (Jack Benny, remember!?)

1:09 am

ma6 x 3

1:09 am

thanks flosey

1:09 am

Happy belated Birthday 1mar!

1:10 am

thx vm aeb

1:10 am

Happy B-day Just

1:10 am

I thought I'd do beetter than Benny, mar -- you look too young to be his age, lol

1:11 am

aww thank huga :.)

1:11 am

lol would it be that was so!

1:11 am

at least I don't have his shnozz

1:12 am

or his money?

1:12 am

OK, 100 done. I'll finish up later! Good night my friends...and Happy New Year to all!

1:12 am

for sure not the money jilli...would it be that was so, too

1:13 am

aww here's a nice fa6

1:13 am

indeed Mar, that's what we all are here

1:14 am

an6

1:14 am

g'nite car

1:14 am

for sure flosey

1:15 am

there sure a lot of female first na4s in here

1:16 am

I have found Amanda, Emily, vera, Naomi, Amelia so far

1:17 am

and one puts you in pb hugs

1:17 am

my last Dane is here -- Lani, short for Atalanta, who beat all the guys in a race except one

1:17 am

got all the l's done yippeee

hi, all!

1:17 am

oops

1:17 am

Hi melon

1:18 am

hi melon

1:18 am

oops huga?? what happened?

1:18 am

found a fond memory in the fabric -- vo5/16

1:18 am

jilli put me in the PB

1:18 am

ohhh

1:19 am

Huga to the pb...you don't go there much...good to check it out

1:19 am

that was flosey, hugs -- she wanted company there

1:19 am

I was there earlier hugs, for same word

1:19 am

oh, sorry....

1:20 am

fi6 x 2

1:20 am

just thought of a cool cryptic clue for the ma7/36: military term for a bloke's nerp minus one legume

1:21 am

finding this a non-user friendly grid...

1:21 am

nerp?

1:21 am

agree Mar

hi hugs - i was engrossed in teh grid

1:22 am

nerp = slang for areolar region (isn't it?)

1:22 am

that's ok

1:22 am

areloar?

1:22 am

everything i know about anatomy, i learned from Scrubs

1:22 am

got the ma7... thanks gort

1:22 am

lol

1:23 am

ok 30 left..up way later than I should be! night all and a happy new year :)

1:23 am

you did well, huga, i thought it was too cryptic and ridiculous to be helpful

gortmold - i luv cryptic clues - not getting this one - yet (must cogitate)

1:23 am

I don't know why the don't accept the ni6 with a Y ending... that's what we say when it's quite chilly here

1:23 am

nice Kazz

1:24 am

i've tried that about 5 times hugs lol

my thought to hugs

too!

1:24 am

wtg Kaz - and Happy New Year to you too

1:24 am

maybe the L shouldn't be there, hugs?

1:24 am

how u doing with that clue, melon?

1:25 am

hi melon :)

1:25 am

or perhaps an extra i ?

just got it! good one!

1:25 am

I have one BT -- the right-hand A -- any ideas?

1:25 am

jilly, it's a pun on the reaction cold has on it

hi jilli, hi Just1Mar

1:26 am

ma7 clue besides the previous?

1:26 am

I realise that, hugs, lol

1:26 am

lol ruru

Man, I plead guilty to making bad cryptic clues.

any others 7s called?

fi6 is part of a recorder.

1:28 am

So far, I have an7, ma7, tr7 and ve7

1:28 am

jilli alternate spelling for what you used to put up on your roof to catch tv signals

1:28 am

here's one not so cryptic, ruru: ma7: term of endearment for mother + aereolar region - central p

1:28 am

oh, just got your cryptic ma7 clue, gort! Good one!

you know my 1:26 was a clue, too

1:29 am

I mean your original cryptic, gort

1:29 am

me6

1:29 am

thanks jilli

1:30 am

I see now, melon :)

1:31 am

melon thanks I got it

1:31 am

ah -- NBT!

1:31 am

prgress!

1:31 am

good for you jilli

1:31 am

hi ruru

1:31 am

I'm working on half way, then off to bed

1:32 am

slow going tonight

te7

1:32 am

hiya jilli

taDah on NBT jilli!

1:34 am

anyone have the me 7?

1:34 am

I'm nowhere near half way. Won't have time tomorrow, going to Victoria for NYEve and a sleepover with in-laws

1:34 am

has lickety posted?

1:34 am

oh yes, 1mar :)

1:34 am

nice jilli, enjoy....won't see you for a couple of weeks then

1:34 am

yes lickety is up.

1:35 am

ty

1:35 am

lovely jilli, we'll be our old dull selves - unless babbling late, we won't likely see midnight

1:35 am

we probably won't either!

1:36 am

and there's nothing dull about you two, flosey!

1:36 am

I'll be off to Acapulco for a couple of weeks, leaving early friday

1:36 am

the kids always called at midnight but have started calling earlier lately

1:36 am

btw, peeps, please click on my icon :)

1:36 am

wonderful Mar, enjoy

1:36 am

so I wish you all a very Happy and Healthy New Year

1:37 am

I did jilli very nice!

1:37 am

me too

1:37 am

thx flosey

1:37 am

oh, bon voyage, 1mar (beware of stowaways)

1:37 am

and while you're celebrating Mar, you can raise a glass to we babblers

1:37 am

I alwsays click yours and floseys and whomever else changes them daily, when I'm hear

1:37 am

that's cute jilli

1:38 am

stoways? such as yourself jilli?

1:38 am

just wanted you all to get that wish :)

1:38 am

you betcha, 1mar, lol!

1:38 am

geez ...having a hard time spelling correctly tonight...(they're just typos of course)

NBT!

1:39 am

wtg melon

1:39 am

always check yours jilli - especially when it looks so insignificant as it might seem here

1:40 am

I check lots -- yours specially, flosey -- lots of info lots of times

1:40 am

and tonight yours is special indeed, cuz it's double!

1:41 am

there's an al4 that is also a woman's na4

1:41 am

scary thought flosey, that , perhaps sitting on my lap :)

1:41 am

lol

1:43 am

when I took a pic face forward his eyes partially closed so didn't use it

1:43 am

Yes, Hugs....it means soul in italian.

1:44 am

I think I'll seriously have to go seen the optomatrist when I get back home..

1:44 am

ovea

1:44 am

no good, musica

80 down, just 3 7s - I'm off to lickety

1:45 am

geez aeb, that's 2x your words sucked...c'mon give us some goodies :)

1:45 am

Hey... its late....forgot to move over to the grid.

can anyone guide me to the ma 7?

1:45 am

omea

1:46 am

I know I know...and that's okay...just make 'em goodies, is all

1:46 am

ok, over half way, off to bed and will finish in the morning

1:46 am

gg flosey and good night

1:46 am

g'nite flosey

1:47 am

nite flosey ...HNY!

1:47 am

night flosey, happy 2009!

1:47 am

Dee - opp of lady + breast part, but drop a cons.

1:47 am

it's hard to clue Dee lol gord whomever cryptized (a word?) a clue about 1/2 ago

1:48 am

hi dee hi (missed your arrival!)

ty hug ... got it... hugs jili

1:48 am

yw Dee

1:49 am

loved the "breast part" description :)

1:49 am

oh my fav y babblet is in the grid

1:50 am

I can never spell the correct word for it

1:50 am

uh oh huga...you're starting to sound like dartie, now :)

1:50 am

Happy New Years Eve to all who won't be on tomorrow night

1:50 am

icon change again just for you dear friends

1:50 am

I'll be here Floesy

1:50 am

ty flosey :)

1:51 am

ok Mar, will have a new one for tomorrow

1:51 am

I'll be here as well

1:51 am

ok but this one's great too

have all the 7's been called? I have an, ma, tr, ve...

1:51 am

ty Mar

1:52 am

hey all

te7

ty mel

1:53 am

hi bf!

1:53 am

New Years Eve... where did this year go

1:54 am

te7 and me7

1:54 am

the older you get, the faster it goes bf...

ty hug

1:54 am

Just1Mar you are cheery today :

1:54 am

this decade's almost done

1:54 am

:)

1:55 am

ain't it the truth Mar

1:55 am

well my birthday just ended and that it my most favourite time of the year...

1:55 am

I remember such a flurry over Y2K... now were heading into the last year of the 1st decade

1:55 am

would someone clue the me 7?

1:56 am

....when I know that it'll be another 364 days til the next one!

1:56 am

yes hugs, and look how long ago that was now!

1:56 am

me7 - girl's name but with a cons ending

1:56 am

i remember changing software to be "y2k compatible"

1:57 am

that was such a scam, lol

1:57 am

I was on the Y2K committee at work

1:58 am

it wasn't actually a scam... most of the programs had just a 2 digit entry for the year and the default was 00

1:58 am

well yeah, the whole thing was they used 2 digits to signify a year and they didnt know what would happen after 99 rolled over.

1:58 am

I don't get that me7 clue hug

1:59 am

well I meant in the greater sense, with regards to power grids and financials, more or less on a worldwide scale

1:59 am

the default was 00 but once its been changed the default is useless

1:59 am

actress Ms Griffith - but change the last letter

I worked for Dept of Defense on Y2K. Mostly we did a lot of coding to replace 2position years with 4 positions. It was more tedium than anything.

1:59 am

an 7 anyone?

1:59 am

thnx

1:59 am

Mar, son had to be at the bank all night for same reason,

2:01 am

an7 - a condition that is caused by lack of iron in the blood

2:01 am

similar thing happened a few weeks back, when the VAT in the UK dropped to 15% - I seen it on the news and thought yay easy money!

2:01 am

ty hugs

2:01 am

an 7 -- alt spelling for iron poor blood

2:02 am

the whole scare was so media driven...just as everything is these days

2:02 am

thank you babble

2:03 am

thank you Hugs

2:03 am

yes Mar, he didn't have any problems

2:03 am

and.. just need the im 6 ?

2:03 am

but if no one had done any changes, what would have happened then? I think a lot of due diligence prevented anything from occurring

2:04 am

hi babrab

2:04 am

for sure hugs

2:04 am

I'm sure lots was done and was needed, but the scare tactics of the media was insane

2:04 am

well the date wound go to 00 because it loses the most important digits, but then the dates on a lot of software would be incorrect/not formatted correctly

2:05 am

im 6 --- add a metal weight (gold): c**** spire on a mosque

We tested before and after re: Y2K - eyes the changes were necessary. The funniest thing I heard was a 105 year old being told to report to kindergarten - their birthday was 1895!

2:05 am

not a spire a hospice

yes, not eyes in my previous remark - duh!

2:07 am

lost me babble sorry

2:07 am

add 24 c**** gold

2:08 am

ok, have it down to 80 for tomorrow and am really off to bed

2:08 am

thx babrab (last vowel is differnt)

2:09 am

ty for the im6 BR

2:09 am

night flosey

2:09 am

oh.. thanks.. finally got it

2:09 am

finito

2:09 am

Just - you can spell it both ways

2:10 am

la6

2:10 am

oh only thought you could change the first cons of the actual word

2:10 am

ya4,6 isnt in (US University and a type of door lock)

2:11 am

a brand of door lock, lol...we have them here too

2:11 am

la 6 la + talking bird

2:11 am

ya 4 ....rhymes with a type of rabbit.

2:12 am

yes, Just, hurshy reminds me I am wrong about that .... slow learner

2:12 am

thanks aeb, i have the y's but thought that ya would be in

2:12 am

yvw bfsog

2:12 am

night everyone...

2:13 am

congrats, ruru be well

2:13 am

good luck... did you get them all babble?

2:13 am

nite ru and congrats and happy new year

2:13 am

nitey nite ruru

all the 7s - the ve8 has me messed up and I have the words on either side of it! My monkeys are failing me!

2:13 am

y + the beginning of a type of tree

2:14 am

no quite --- plodding along take care of yourself, ruru, and enjoy

2:14 am

tomorrow is my last babble day for a while...see you then

2:14 am

nite ruru.. I'm going to sleep horizontally instead of sleeping in my chair.

2:14 am

g'nite ruru

2:14 am

lamera

2:15 am

is that a cross between a sheep and a camera?

I would luv a clue for ve8 - cryptic if possible :)

2:16 am

ve8....a type of expensive paper (latin plural) plus alt spelling of a singing bird

2:16 am

u got it.... i sometimes just have fun creating words ....sometimes they even work in the grid.

2:17 am

oh dear, dear ruru, I'll have to say bye-bye tonight then -- have a wonderful wander :D

2:17 am

mixed up young beef + talking bird

2:17 am

Rabbit Papparozzi ruru

2:17 am

thanks jilli take care... and keep these kids in line..lol

2:18 am

is that cryptic enough melon?

tx J1M - smacks head - I had the letters - wrong order - sheesh! Anyway, i got half, all the biggies, and NBT - mediocrity attained! good clue ruru!

I wil give clues for the next few minutes, should anyone desire.

2:18 am

un6

2:18 am

ve8 - very close to the name of a mint that was first popular in the 80's

2:19 am

Hi Melon and also g'nite.

2:19 am

un + what laundry looks like at my house a big ****

2:19 am

ummm... I'm calling them ruru, not asking for clues

2:20 am

oh sorry.

2:20 am

duh me...

2:20 am

lol but thanks didn't have it

2:20 am

I already have them too hugs...lol

2:20 am

np

2:21 am

I try not to use the list if I have the time and energy

2:21 am

I so wish that cindle was a word

may I clue the biggies just for fun?

2:25 am

clue the re7's

2:26 am

there are no re7's

there's no re7s, I have 2 re6s: re6/21 - postal again re6/24 dream state plus

2:27 am

Opps - sorry, looking at my notes from yesterday.

tho they've been clued, I thought i'd exit with some more cryptics:

ve7 - very Lawrence Welk style

ve 8, an animal, ever hidden in reverse

tr7: When boarding the tram, please don't step on any feet.

2:29 am

wow melon...i have these but I'd never get them with those clues (blush)

2:29 am

well the tr would've helped :)

te7: anagram of tr7, Fever, Lawrence?

2:30 am

I have re6/21 - to stay and re6/24 - to keep as in jail

hah - I forgot the re6 stay

2:31 am

lol didn't have the te and didn't really get your clue but I did get the word lol

2:31 am

ty ty for the re!

2:31 am

ty melon -- got some

2:32 am

re ...jail...hmmm

did you get the tr7?

2:33 am

ty huga for the jail clue

2:33 am

yep, got the te7 and the tr7

2:33 am

got the tr long time ago but would have gotten it from your clue melon :)

not referring to the Triumph - TR6's rather disappointing successor.

2:34 am

the te 7 reminds of that tv show with Roger Moore (60's) ...The Saint

2:34 am

which 7's am I missing? I have an, ma, me, te and tr

2:34 am

it looks like I am only missing one

2:34 am

ve7

2:34 am

didn't get the ve7 yet

la6/21 - amazingly ,a backward beast!

2:34 am

clue for the an7 melon?

2:35 am

te7 reminds me of the Knights and the Illuminati conspiracy

2:36 am

You don't remember The Saint ...Roger Moore played Simon Te7!

2:36 am

ve 7! I thought I had done my duty with ve8!

2:36 am

That was pre his James Bond Days

2:37 am

I do remember him, but my te7 comes to mind first

ae7: an agricultural engineer missing in action

2:37 am

oh lol well I just wanted to make sure you were as at least as old as I Huga :)

an7 - sorry

2:37 am

good one, melon, for the la (which I already had, plus its opposite)

I had just noticed that after i did my ve8 clue

2:38 am

ve7 - not so cryptic please, I am off to bed soon

2:39 am

ve7 - enclosed porch

2:39 am

no fair, melon -- there isn't an ae7

2:39 am

Rhett ran to Scarlet as she stood on the ve7

ma7 i already did at 1:26

2:39 am

she meant an jilli

2:39 am

thnx Hug - I just found yu4/7

2:40 am

yw

2:40 am

ok, 11mar :)

2:41 am

oh don't like the 1mar business...just do just....freep is freep

for clarity, I'll repeat (revised):

an7: an agricultural engineer missing in action

2:42 am

ok, I'll just use just :)

2:42 am

ty jilli (the 2 j's joining) :)

2:43 am

there are huge snow plows 'growling' outside my house now at 3:45am

yikes - it is 3:45! off to bed! luv u all! nitey-nite! {poof}

2:44 am

better than uncleared roads, just, which I've had for days and days

2:44 am

night melon!!!

2:44 am

your clue is wonderful melon and very cryptic....read...ain't getting it!

2:44 am

la6 x 2 --- one is the last na4 of actor Martin who was in Mission Impossible the TV series

2:44 am

bloody skating rink on roads and sidewalks....broken bones galore in this city

2:45 am

oh, I remember him, hugs, can't think of the na4!

2:45 am

I can thx huga

2:45 am

he also played Jack's father in Without a Trace

2:45 am

he was married to barbara bain who was also in the show

2:46 am

remembered it -- thanks

2:46 am

that's right

2:46 am

gg jilli

2:46 am

I've seen many episodes of WAT, but I've never seen him in it

2:47 am

It comes on at 4am here so i try to fall asleep to it

2:47 am

also remembered the yl babblet :)

2:48 am

It comes on here at 3 a.m and I too fall asleep to it

2:48 am

should you choose to accept this mission ...

2:48 am

this tape shall self-distruct in .....

2:48 am

on Bravo?

2:48 am

well, you guys are real night-owls -- worse than me!

2:49 am

I know it's terrible but in the depths of winter, who cares? Besides I won't be babbling for a few weeks

2:50 am

and after WAT comes old old Law&Order heheh

2:51 am

in Antarctica night and day is merely for the record

2:51 am

does it get a little light at all?

2:51 am

I think in Antactica, now, day is day all day (and night)

2:52 am

oh right I forgot about that hemisphere stuff

2:52 am

and I'm going in that direction but will stop just north of the equator :)

2:52 am

phantom: petaflops

2:52 am

where to?

2:53 am

fireworks, id love to go to Antarctica

2:53 am

acapulco

2:53 am

I'm going to bed! Night all -- 67 left

2:53 am

wtg bs

2:53 am

congrats, bfsog

2:53 am

Hanve fun Mar and congrats bf

2:53 am

be well, jilli

2:53 am

thx bird

2:53 am

YAY bfsog!

2:54 am

night jilli happy new year, be well and take care

2:54 am

nitey nite jilli I have 101 left!

2:55 am

HNY all *poof*

2:56 am

finally -- fireworks

2:56 am

congrats, Hugs

2:56 am

wtg huga

2:56 am

g'nite jilli HNY to you too

2:57 am

an time for me to head to be... g'nite all and Happy New Year to everyone who won't be here at flip

2:58 am

be well, Huga

3:21 am

does anyone have a clue for am5/18?

3:23 am

hi Birdlee - am5.18 means well endowed - or am & wood made in thin layers

3:24 am

isn't that 5/14?

3:25 am

oh..... "hangs head"

3:25 am

nope

3:25 am

lol - but thanks - didn't have that one

3:26 am

do you have the spanish beach??? they put in that clue just for Just1Mar

3:28 am

no - what was the start of that? perhaps was b4 I started

3:28 am

I just found it - pl5/16

3:32 am

mmm a shallow lake in the desert in the US - Spanish beach-?

3:32 am

beach in spanish

3:34 am

US types certainly know a lot of spanish - is that taught as a language in the schools over there?

3:34 am

ephermeral lake in desert I think is another way to describe it

3:35 am

yes and there are many spanish speaker at the school that I teach in now

3:37 am

hi, all. I'm up early due to a heavy cough associated with bronchitis...so here I am.

3:37 am

that explains why clues are often using spanish words - I never knew any sp. words till I started here

3:37 am

sorry you are sick but glad you are here

3:38 am

are there any writers among us? I have a list of free writing e books if anyone wants them, but they are time limited in that they will be taken down from the internet sometime today or tonight.

3:38 am

hi Angel, hope you get rid of that quickly

3:39 am

Lynxxx, my kids had Spanish in school from grades one through eight and then in high school they could choose - in the western part of the US spanish is very helpful. I did part of my midwifery training on the border with Mexico

3:39 am

You could ask Sprite when she comes on Angel

3:40 am

my husband brought me home from the doctor's office y'day, then he spent the next 3.5 to 4 hours at the pharmacy trying to get my medications. They were going to charge me over 200 dollars US for six prescriptions...but he eventually paid just $53.

3:40 am

Birdee - makes a lot of sense rather than a foreign language which you may never use

3:40 am

they had to take German also ;)

3:43 am

corner M?

3:43 am

Golly - its so expensive being sick in the States. A lot of our expensive medicines are covered by the Government - we only pay the 1st $20 or so

3:44 am

mo4.5 & mu4.6 only found so far

3:44 am

kje - in the midwest there are big indian mo***s

3:44 am

i found a 5/16 heap

3:45 am

yep

3:45 am

mu 4

3:45 am

my 4

3:45 am

TY BR

3:46 am

guess the mo4.5 doesn't come from there then as I have that too

3:46 am

two mu 4

3:46 am

TY BabRab, hi and HNY to you - hope it's a good one for you

3:47 am

there are 3 mo4/5's and two are done everywhere!

3:47 am

m***cipal bonds

3:47 am

Hello, lyn and best withes too

3:49 am

can anyone clue the mo6?

3:50 am

that can't be right, br - 2 mu4?

3:51 am

mo6 - the one who ending to mo4/5 before it. Or m plus the one who lubricates.

3:51 am

abbr for fighting irish U

3:52 am

my 4 --- Trashman: A-well-a everybody's heard about the bird

3:52 am

goodmorning Haz! celebrating tonite or are you still getting over Xmas

3:53 am

Good morning/evening all. I'll be going to friends' Open House this evening as my concession to New Year.

3:53 am

aaahhhh - my4, not mu... i systematically tried every mu4 combination possible for that second mu - LOLOL

3:54 am

an Irish NYE, should be fun I imagine. Enjoy!

3:54 am

puts glasses on and offers apologies for gross ineptitude

3:54 am

Thanks Haz1558

3:54 am

it is OK, BR... just my faith in your clues that made me keep trying it so many times...LOL

3:54 am

morning all

3:55 am

hi sprite...apparently I am still on your time... and none too happy about it

3:55 am

I'll do my best, lynxxx. I'm not great at large gatherings, too much conversation confuses my inner transcript writer.

3:55 am

mo 4

3:55 am

hello, sprite

3:56 am

hi Sprite! See message from Angelsong @3.38, noit sure if it would interest you

3:56 am

kje, I am happy to see you but sorry you are still not sleeping at 'normal' times. Hi BabbleRabble, good to see you :) Hi lyn!

3:57 am

*checks message from Angel* Thanks for the head's up, lyn, not for me, but thanks :)

3:58 am

what was the etiology of the car none-start, kj?

3:59 am

dead battery... apparently the dome light was on... dumb-dumb-dumb-dumb.....dumb!

Hi. Happy new years eve

3:59 am

happy new year's herin!!!

4:00 am

hi lady, same to you, you are already there, right? It is still morning here, can't wait for this year to end!

4:00 am

hello, herin

4:00 am

corneal edema

4:00 am

and to you Infernal. Have fun tonite

4:01 am

73 left but it is time for bed - see you later!

4:01 am

be well, Birdeee

4:01 am

night birdee

4:01 am

bye bye birdee

4:03 am

OK, going to try to get back to sleep... may be back in a bit

4:03 am

good luck, kj

4:03 am

BabbleRabble, thanks for your beautiful texts (and your funny grim reaper).

4:04 am

sleep well, kje

Will do. Hi my net is dropping in and out. We are on to a friends house

4:06 am

some good stuff got me thinking again the end of the year may time for reflection yet each day presents an opportunity anew

4:06 am

Hi all.....and happy new year to you Herin....

4:07 am

hello, Flask

4:07 am

Hi Flask. BBS

4:07 am

here the real fireworks have begun, and with this being a very crowded area to live in, that means nonstop bangs. I am behind closed windows and weaponed with earplugs, to slow down the eroding of my nerves. But my daughter is skating on real ice, the roofs are frozen white and my day started with cuddles from my love and our son. So life is good.

4:07 am

hi Flask

Lynxx you got anything planed for tonight

4:07 am

...and to you too Lynxxx

That doesn't sound too bad Sprite

4:08 am

that is so true, BabbleRabble. And the first text feels like a true consolation. Puts me back into a better mood, a better attitude.

4:08 am

fa

4:09 am

no lady, it doesn't and isn't. All I want to ask for is a New Year with far less big problems. We are due! ;)

I believe so too sprite. Lynxx what you doing this evening?

We had a lovely dinner. Oysters, prawns and salmon then steak. We are on thhe way to a friends house to get changed then go to another friends house then back to the first friends house so no one has to drink and drive

4:13 am

many still argue about natural selection and the survival of the fitness .... but those who seem to do best often are not the strongest or the brightest but those who accept the reality of changing circumstances and acquiring the capacity to see change as a challenge ... what is quite astounding is how the lowly cockroach has been around for so long because of its adapability

4:14 am

quite a few phantoms today: plier, pilaf...

Well said Babrab

4:16 am

but that makes them the fittest

HI Ata

4:17 am

sprite, I have som free e books on writing, if you are interested. they are on the internet for downloading, but will be taken down today or tonight.

well have a good night everyone

I am off have a good night Happy New Years Eve for Aus

4:18 am

be well, herein

4:18 am

have fun lady, and the best of wishes

4:19 am

Angel, thanks for thinking of me, but not for me at the moment, thanks though!

4:20 am

cockroaches, nature's best feature. Makes you look in the mirror in quite a different way.

4:22 am

no problem, Sprite.

4:26 am

brb

hello all :))

4:34 am

hi MRP - Happy New Year!

kiwi will be celebrating her new year in less than half an hour!! Isn't it great being around the globe at this time :)

4:34 am

some of these words seem worse than they actually are.

hi lynxx!! exciting new year ahead for us indeed!! happy new year!

4:36 am

Have a happy, healthy and wonderful 2009, my friends.

4:36 am

I hope so! I hope you have a hassle free year ahead MRP & Co and that good things come your way

4:37 am

TY Angelsong - and for you and yours

thanks angel! same to you and yours for 2009

indeed lynxx!

4:40 am

I buy online from Remo (based in Sydney) and they had this on their weekly email which I really liked...by American philosopher & poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 to 1882): "To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

amen lynxx

4:41 am

...and they make great Tshirts!

4:43 am

my husband and I have set a goal to vacation in Hawaii on our fifteenth anniversay. we have 5 years to prepare.

4:44 am

wonderful quote, Lynxxx.

4:44 am

good 5 year plan!

4:48 am

hi all

4:48 am

Hi Chick - Happy New Year from DownUnder

4:49 am

Happy New Year Lyn...lol

5:03 am

been busy copy and pasting your quote, lyn= i used to have it posted over my kitchen sink and lost it- thanks for finding it for me again!

5:04 am

a happy coincidence, yw Jaia

5:05 am

very- Happy New Year's Eve, all!

5:06 am

I just do not see thirty-five words off that "m"

5:06 am

I have nineteen...

5:07 am

TY Jaia - the fireworks here have just started, they do them early for the families they try to attract in the city

5:09 am

That is reqally neat, lynxxx- my crazy neighbors start at Christmas and go all through to New year's- drinking too much egg nog, no doubt....

The fireworks have started here too... but here that is neighborhood kids with smaller ones being a right hazard all over the place. Just got in from a LONG trip to the pet store where we get Saskia's special food, and the supermarket and all, and nothing spices up a three below ride on an open trike like fireworks exploding without warning right next to one! And hi folks.

5:12 am

hi all, back.

Hi Sprite!

I will find an icon as soon as I decide what to look for...

5:13 am

Hi MG and Sprite

5:13 am

it is not funny, is it, MonkeyG. Last year the neighbourhood 'gang' threw fireworks at and into our house, and at my body. This year they try to lure us out.

5:13 am

hi MG. We banned fireworks here quite a few years ago. No over the counter and only avail by licenced operators

5:13 am

hi jai!

Oh nasty! No, nothing like that here thang goodness, they're being generaly kind of responsible. But I sure am glad we don't live in Amsterdam anymore! THAT was scary!

5:14 am

I can't wait for the netherlands to ban fireworks. I'd love to see a law that would have fireworks done only by officials.

5:14 am

Hi. I have the 'flu and am taking abreak from sleeping...LOL!

I think it is so much fun for so many it should just eb maybe limited to specific locations and times with police around.

5:14 am

aw jai, rotten way to end the old year. I wish you heaps of health!

5:14 am

oh, the flu seems to be making the rounds again

5:15 am

Thanks. The kids have had this for weeeks and I thought I was going to escape- NO Such Luck- I need Luck this Year!!! Thanks!

5:16 am

after last year I have a zero tolerance for fireworks. I was so incredibly scared and the police refused to come. We reported 5 times. They said they'd come but did not, so right now I have the garden hose at the ready. If they should get back, I will get them soaking wet with cold water.

5:16 am

no doubt, THAT will bring the police to our house though.

Good for you! Yes, that is criminal behavior. I don't understand why the police wouldn't come. That is just shocking! Stay in and be safe!

Did you file a formal complaint against the police department?

5:17 am

It is that way in our neighborhood. Here is some states, fireworks are banned, but they are legal for the most pasrt in Mississippi...that tells you something about this state....that there are a lot of fingerless kids!

5:17 am

we knew their first names and where they lived. The police claimed they could only come if we knew their last names. Quite a lousy excuse to slack at work, right?

5:17 am

*in

Can you set up a web can to snap pictures of them if they start doing anything?

That is unbelievable! I hope you did file a formal complaint!

5:19 am

I don't have a webcam, but I will take pictures if they come back. I scared the beejeezus out of one of them though, last summer, when he came into our garden at night and I was standing there. He ran off like a frightened dog and they laid quite low after that.

5:19 am

Good for you, Sprite!

5:20 am

no we did not. I wanted to, very much, but my husband and therapists said to not put myself under that stress. It almost never results in something good and I was in very very bad shape.

Good! You don't need that kind of aggravation. Wish I could come over with Saskia-- she wouldn't DO anything of course, but she would bark and be bigger than them.

5:20 am

That is precisely why I have a big Labrador!

5:20 am

she would scare them big time. They wouldn't have a way to know she is the gentlest dog of her breed, lol.

I understand, but I would have filed a complaint and then if it was stressful to do so simply not tried to follow up-- that way it is at least on the record!

Well, I sincerely hope they stay well away this year.

OK, must go check on my breakfast (Been that kind of day so far...) back in a bit!

5:22 am

yeah, I really wanted to. But I think they were right to tell me not to, I was so on the brink of a total breakdown. And to tell you the truth, I am kinda scared now. And I HATE being scared.

5:22 am

same here, breakfast is standing right in front of me now. Enjoy, MonkeyG!

5:24 am

Enjoy Sprite & MG

5:24 am

thanks lyn

5:30 am

Good morning, and how is the grid today?

morning Merk and all. just started myself.

5:32 am

hi Merk & Katy, hit a wall at last 50

5:32 am

hi Merk and Katy, so far so good

doesn't look quite as daunting as yesterday's, but 35 m's ... really!

5:34 am

I find it a bit tight in the middle, so far, but the words keep coming. Quite sure that I will hit that wall lyn is at when I'll be as far as she.

5:40 am

funny that enable aknowledges a titman but not a ni6man.

Back, not sure for how long because Walter is allowed back into the shower today and wants one soon. Sprite, that IS funny!

5:46 am

:) enable mo4s in miraculous ways.

Are the y words weird ones all? I can only find teh yl4.

5:48 am

I have a ya4 too

Oh, there's another one...

Now I do too!

i have 2 ya's

5:49 am

2 ya4 and yu4 as well as the yl4

Thanks!

5:49 am

those should be all, thanks Katy and lyn.

thanks lynxxx

5:50 am

wow two tiles greyed out now.

5:50 am

the lovely na4.7 was my last N - such a sweet word

Don't have that one yet... looking...

5:51 am

and thanks again lyn

5:52 am

I always confuse that one with the other. For a female serf. Or for the other meaning.

Morning evening all. i so want to start this grid, but I have to drive to my actual house today and I know I wont finish. Drats....

5:54 am

hi red, does it matter?

I almost never finish the grid these days.

Well, i need to leave in about 15 minutes, so really I need to be doing other things...like packing some pants.

its cold there. I am going to suffer!

5:55 am

hi Red

5:55 am

ah, that is a very good reason not to start. Go pack, silly :)

And I am out of coffee, so...its a very slow morning. the dog has no idea....

5:56 am

fireworks! Since tomorrow is the beginning of the new year, I am taking a straw poll. shall I continue with the Babble Stats, yea or nay?

How cold is it?

5:56 am

Good day to all. We got 9 inches of snow overnight, with more falling still.

5:56 am

wtg Angel, well done.

5:56 am

Yahoo Angel.

Well it is normally 80 degrees in the day here I am now, and its about in the 40's in NC, so I am ready for a surprise....

5:56 am

hi Scrabs!

congrats Angelsong!

Hi Scrabbs!

5:57 am

Congrats Angel!

5:59 am

Angel - I have read your Resources page a few times and new players are usually referred to it...but i have not looked at the Stats

OK, time to take the dog out between firecrackjer salvos and then bathe the boy! Be back later! Have fun all!

6:00 am

bye MonkeyG. Angel, I have to second lyn.

6:00 am

bye MG

OK, So I must go. Happy New year to all, stay warm and safe, and I'll see you all in a bout 5 days....

bye those who are leaving have a good New Year's eve.

6:01 am

drive safely, red, and be well.

or day as the case may be

6:01 am

bye Red, remember to take lots of music for the long long drive

6:02 am

the stats page is linked on the main page of the Babble Guide. go have a quick peek and see what you think. I will likely make minor changes in the layout for next year.

6:05 am

I appreciate all initiatives people take around babble. It is just that I am not very interested in stats.

6:06 am

I use Babble Expert, with Lickety's clue list.

6:07 am

I must get an early start to work. With the snow, the radio stationjust described the roads as "treacherous."

6:07 am

be safe, Scrabs.

6:08 am

I'm sorry Angelsong, I couldn't find those Stats

6:08 am

Hi Scrabs, yes, please, take care

6:08 am

Bye all. I will be back in 8 -9 hrs.

6:10 am

48 left for me which is a good number/year to leave on. Bye everyone, be healthy and happy. See you in 2009!

6:10 am

bye lyn, have a great evening and a good start

6:12 am

the Babble stats link is under Babble links in the sidebar, Lynxxx.

6:17 am

looks like a good piece of work, Angel, and lists a couple of fun things. I don't think I would look them up often though, personally.

6:22 am

fireworks. To all of you a good ending of this year and a great start of the new one. May you be blessed.

6:22 am

good morning all :)

6:22 am

hi and bye jorjah!

6:23 am

happy new year sprite!

6:27 am

good morning all

6:28 am

help with A in right column please

Good Morning Babble

6:30 am

and help with D please, too

6:30 am

howdy all

it's ar 5,10 peri , add a cons.. to the Ar 4,4 above it

Good Morning and Happy New Year Babblers :)

6:31 am

di+ last 3 letters of how they do ultrasound and radar

6:31 am

ty, Kristine

6:31 am

ty, jbp

yvw

6:31 am

NBT

6:32 am

thanks Kristine

6:32 am

brb

yw

6:35 am

may I have a clue for the 8 please?

Don't have that one yet peri

just found it peri hold on for a clue

6:38 am

ok, I will keep looking

6:38 am

mix up the baby cow v... and mi4

ve 4,7 + mi 4,5

6:40 am

clue for the mi 4/5 that isn't distance?

mi + **t king cole

6:41 am

kristine you rock!!

6:41 am

also, we're almost neighbors, geographically

6:42 am

is it snowing in Rutland?

TY TY

6:42 am

have the 2 words but can't make the 8 :(

6:42 am

mess up the food part

6:43 am

thanks, got it now

gotta get ready for work now. have a great day all!

6:43 am

not liking this grid. liked yesterday's much better

6:43 am

ok, i know I'm setting myself up for a fish smack, but can anyone clue me some U words??\

6:44 am

you too Katy

u words are all un something.

6:44 am

un5 - to stand?

6:44 am

k that's a start

you put something on the table now take it off un5?16

by now fo real!

6:45 am

thanks kje and nono

un5/14 to unfasten

6:46 am

thanks Nono

un5/12 un + allow

6:46 am

ooh good clue Nono

6:46 am

ty

6:46 am

ty

un4 add a couple of vowels

6:49 am

wow, TY nono... didn't see that

6:49 am

never woulda found that NN

still can't find the un 6

still looking for it also

6:51 am

hi kris

ah got it ,

6:52 am

gb...:)

um

hi Lynn

ah un + a heap of something

6:52 am

a load of laundry is considered a P... of laundry.. for the un 6

un yes ty lol

6:52 am

thanks nono

6:52 am

ah ty

yw

6:53 am

been busy trying to change my icon and I see it still did

6:53 am

nt change

6:54 am

oops

6:54 am

the first un?

un + 2 vowels

6:54 am

un+2 vowels

its un + a couple of vowels lynn

6:55 am

ty

6:55 am

an sec un?

6:56 am

un+put or set

lynn they were alll just clued

6:56 am

ty

6:58 am

would love some i clues... have: not busy, one who isn't busy, in a not busy way, confused with infer, in+set

6:58 am

any clues appreciated

6:58 am

help with 7's please, don't have any

6:59 am

1 of the 7 is the knight order from the crusades

6:59 am

peri tr/7 walk over

6:59 am

another is to stomp something over and over

6:59 am

got the tr7 thanks

7:00 am

knight one, I didn't get

7:00 am

the knights te+++++

7:00 am

think of the 1st part as a jewish church

7:01 am

got the te7, thanks jbp

7:01 am

those are my only 2 7s

7:01 am

tx, jbp!

7:02 am

hi Une! and yw

7:02 am

aaaaahhhh, une... how cute!

7:02 am

did you take that pic?

7:02 am

LOVE your icon

ve7/44 a porch

7:02 am

what kinda hound is that?

7:02 am

ty, NoNo

7:02 am

thanks Nono

7:03 am

yep, one of my rescue girls1

7:03 am

*girls!

7:03 am

sweet, une

7:03 am

very sweet icon, Une

7:03 am

cah-yooot!

7:04 am

jbp, your guess is as good as mine! LOL

7:04 am

looks beagle-ish

7:04 am

she looks like a cross between my 2...maybe beagle pointer?

7:05 am

i need a dog

7:05 am

well, she's a mixed bag for sure . . . everyone agrees that it looks like a head from one dog was attached to the body of another! LOL

7:05 am

kje, go to your local shelter!!

7:05 am

she does not, however, look like she enjoys wearing the Princess Happy New year tiara

7:05 am

that is what i would do, une... just can't decide whether i should or not

7:05 am

kje, or petfinder.com. which is how we found our 2, each at a shelter about 40 miles away

7:05 am

all 3 of mine are rescues . . .

7:05 am

ours are very sweet and very wicked dogs

7:06 am

ty jbp

7:06 am

jbp, she only wore it for a few secs for the pic!

7:06 am

no wicked... not time for wicked...

7:06 am

yeah, you'd be surprised.

7:06 am

oh, the caninity, Une!

7:06 am

bbl

7:06 am

one of mine came from petfinder

7:07 am

my daughter refers to such as my "exploitation pix" :-)

7:07 am

oh, just went to pet finder - very clever

7:07 am

beagle+maybe doberman mix, and corgi +god knows what, maybe jack russel (gods help us) or border collie

7:07 am

saying doggie porn isn't as saucy as kitty porn

7:08 am

ugh jbp

7:08 am

I had no idea what I was getting into with the beagle mix.

7:08 am

yeah, I know.

7:08 am

totally off subject here, but my dad and I came to my youngest brother's for after christmas and it is snowing!! first time in 20 years I have seen snow!!

7:08 am

we have 4 exhibitionist cats, too, who love the camera

7:08 am

jbp, if you could see the rest of her . . . she's around 40 lbs

7:08 am

jorja, i saw that on the weather channel, that you got snow --freaky

7:09 am

was a very chubby 52 when I got her--her foster mom left food out all the time--can never do that with mine!

7:09 am

that's about what our beagle mix is maybe 45, because she is food crazed.

7:09 am

beagles are foodaholics

7:09 am

Im in Kentucky last time it snowed in Jesup Ga was Dec 22 1989... wow it is beautiful!!

7:10 am

yep, when we are home, they are on leash inside, because the beagle countersurfs (a word I didn't know before we got her) and the corgie is obsessed with peeing on this ONE spot...

7:10 am

my mom's springer is a master countersurfer!

7:10 am

the dog we lost in the spring was totally NOt food motivated, so this is a total switch.

7:11 am

wow, have never had a dog like that . . .

7:11 am

what do you know about karelian bear dogs?

7:11 am

we could leave food out in Jaenta's dish all day and she'd get around to it if the cats didn't eat it first

7:11 am

he's cute

7:11 am

they sound cute and very furry, and Finnish.

7:11 am

is it like a finnish spitz?

7:12 am

no idea

7:12 am

there's a pretty good site with info called dogster.com if you want to find out breed info.

7:12 am

or google, and tons of stuff will come up

7:13 am

any more i clues?

7:13 am

just googled it--"not a breed for the casual dog owner" . . .

7:13 am

powerful hunter

7:13 am

i love it when they say that,,, it can mean so many things...

7:14 am

powerful hunter???

7:14 am

:-D

7:14 am

fi 5/16 3rd one please?

7:14 am

well, it's a bear dog

7:14 am

a very forceful, dominant fighter

7:15 am

bred to kill bears--Stephen Colbert would be so proud! :-)

7:15 am

fi words I have... one who submits tax returns and fi+++mignon

7:15 am

ok, will skip that... don't want something hunting me

a piece of fish lynn

7:15 am

those are my only fi 5s

7:15 am

so sad... lots of pit bulls at the shelter

7:15 am

ty kris

7:15 am

swedish valhunds are adorable, and not fighters. check out that breed

7:15 am

so many pitt bulls.

7:16 am

fi 6 33

7:16 am

but with 4 cats and kids in the extended family, we just couldn't.

7:16 am

they really do make great adopted pets, kje (hint hint hint)

7:16 am

rhymes with the ni6

7:16 am

i'm a fan of mutts

7:16 am

ty

7:17 am

pointer-hound mix.... really cute... any info?

7:17 am

sounds very active

7:17 am

mutts are wonderful!!

7:17 am

you'd really have to meet the dog.

7:18 am

just because it's part anything doesn't necessarily mean it will have that temprament

7:18 am

oh, of course!

7:18 am

any Y clues

7:18 am

think I'll choose one that matches my furniture so i don't have to worry about shedding - LOLOL

7:18 am

o

7:18 am

i actually know someone who did that kje, don't laugh

7:19 am

we have so much pet hair here that everything "matches"

7:19 am

ya4/6, jbp

7:19 am

an 7?

7:19 am

seriously, jbp? i was just kidding, but i guess that makes sense

7:20 am

i know loony people

7:20 am

;-)

7:20 am

ya 4/6... clue?

7:21 am

rhymes with female horse

7:21 am

y+to be plural?

7:21 am

got it

7:21 am

ty

May I please have a clue for the im 6 ?

7:21 am

yawe

7:21 am

don't have it yet Kris

7:21 am

some of these mixes make you wonder about the mating session....

Back for a few! Hi folks. Walter is feeling very content after his first shower in a couple days: they said he could get the tape wet after two days. This boy likes water and got cold outsode, so he was very happy to be able to take a shower today. Now we have to watch the Polar Express AGAIN...

7:22 am

yeah and who played which parts

7:22 am

hi :)

7:22 am

yep, jbp

7:22 am

hi Harry and MOnkey

7:22 am

hi HH... time to go pro, btw

7:23 am

need 2 more i words

7:23 am

im6 - i + female horse + consonant

7:23 am

ty kje

TY kje

7:24 am

yw... i do not even remember entering that word... must have been a fortuitous typo

7:24 am

my last i word is on the bottom

Is trema just a Dutch word or something? Thought it was also in English. Oh well.

7:25 am

i am missing one down there too jbp

7:26 am

must be dutch, Monkey. what does it mean?

7:26 am

how about a shiba inu... he is 2/3 ears

7:27 am

they are supposed to be very nice dogs

It's the little dots over a letter to indicate that a new syllable starts there... thought the word for it was part of the IPA. Oh well.

7:27 am

that's the breed in the famous puppy cam, right?

7:27 am

id 5: to do nothing, and the doir

I would hesitate to adopt a dog with tow to three ears...

7:27 am

ah , ok. like diareses

7:28 am

what famous puppy cam

That sort of thing, yes.

7:28 am

kje!

7:28 am

very perky ears

I very much like the two shiba inu's I know. Calm dogs.

7:28 am

have those, and not busliy, in+set, and in+allow

~!~!~!~!~FIREWORKS~!~!~!~!~!~

YAY KRIS!!!!!

7:29 am

hooray kristine!

7:29 am

http://tinyurl.com/3nwgde

7:29 am

sorry une... don'y know

time to run , need to shop before the snow hits

7:29 am

woohoo kris!!!

7:29 am

yay, kris!!

7:30 am

(that's the URL for kje)

tyty AND HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE !!! BE SAFE !

7:30 am

you too, kris!!

7:31 am

OMG! i want one of those!!!

7:31 am

they are furrier and less eary than the shelter one, btw

7:32 am

kje, they've been a "web sensation" for a couple of months! LOL

7:32 am

well, i am not THAT geeky afterall, une...hehehe

7:33 am

:-D

jpb ... that in4/6 is in+consonant+sometimes vowel.

7:33 am

ty city

7:34 am

thanks City

7:34 am

those puppies are adorable. I love that they were all ignoring the toys until one of them started playing and then they ALL want the toy

yw, took me an age to find it.

BRB, must prepare snack time.

7:36 am

i still only have the one 1 y word that rhymes with female horse

7:38 am

ya4/7 rhymes with if you burn your finger in hot water

7:38 am

ty une!

7:38 am

yw :-)

7:39 am

must take pups out to pee . . . BBL!

7:39 am

off to clear snow for a bit

7:39 am

but working from home today so bbl

7:41 am

LOL Une! Your doggy looks soooo happy!

7:42 am

she's such a sweetheart!

OK, back.

7:42 am

February will be her one-year anniversary with me, ata! :-)

7:43 am

love the pic of your great dane, monkey!

7:43 am

er

7:43 am

looking for Baby New Year??

7:43 am

yes, beth?

Thanks!

7:43 am

awwwwwww

hi babblers!

7:44 am

ok, no more stalling, must take pups out to pee . . . later, all!

7:44 am

HI, Owl, how did your Doctor's appt go?

7:44 am

hello all

peri it went well. test later today.

7:45 am

what kind of test? MRI?

ultrasound

7:47 am

ok

I clearly missed some news-- what are they looking at, Owl? You OK?

i'm fine, monk.

Oh good!

Can someone please clue any A word except critter before i go mad?

7:52 am

morning everyone:)

Hi Cross!

7:52 am

hi crossy!

7:52 am

howdy mg:)

7:52 am

ata;)

7:52 am

take the L off

Ah, thanks!

7:53 am

change the last vowel of that one

Thanks again!

hi ata

7:54 am

am4 is a prehistoric fishy

7:54 am

hi TO!

Ah, again thanks!

7:54 am

:)

7:58 am

Hello all.

Hi!

7:59 am

hi bea

7:59 am

good morning!

8:00 am

hi inge!

Hello!

8:00 am

am4 the bowfin...yes, Ata, I remember her well from zoology...

8:00 am

it was a bg part of my PhD - never tobe forgotten!

8:00 am

really, ata? wow!

8:01 am

so you are our source for the Babble fishies

8:01 am

yep, gars and bowfins

8:01 am

usually LOL

8:02 am

phantom - vomit

My big phantom today is favorite.

8:02 am

charming!

8:03 am

vo5/18 reminds me of zoology also...but the mammals

8:03 am

fishies have them too

8:03 am

do they? must have been asleep during that part.

8:04 am

*grin* it's a throat bone in fishies

8:04 am

see. that's nice. learned something new about zoo in the chat

8:05 am

Everyone have big plans for the evening?

8:05 am

vera

8:05 am

I intend on doing as little as possible :)

8:06 am

Opps! So sorry.

8:06 am

lessee...maybe a movie, shoveling snow

Make a roast beef and gnocci, dinner, Walter's story and routine, Walter's bed time, watch entertainment until the neighbors set off all the fireworks at midnight, watch that, bed.

The neighborhood youth are out there practcing now-- glad I'm in for the day!

8:07 am

practicing fireworks?

8:07 am

We were going to go out to dinner to celebrate our anniversary, but changed our minds.

Yes, using a couple of each kind they bought until they have worked outa plan for which order to set them off in.

Happy anniversary! How many is it?

8:08 am

It will be our 9th tomorrow.

Great! Again, Happy Anniversary.

8:09 am

TY

8:09 am

happy anniversary, Bzz

8:09 am

How is Walter's head?

8:09 am

TY, inge

Doing great. There never was much bruising, he says it only hurts if he bumps it with a toy or tries to take his shirt off and scrapes it, it remains dry and sightly, and he was allowed to get it wet today so he had a shower (which he loves) and is feeling good. Thanks for asking!

8:11 am

what happened to him, monkey? Did he fall?

The doctor said just let the tape fall off by itself and no need to put more on.

Yeah, he tripped over his own feet turning around quickly after putting a plate on the table and went right down. We are uncertain what exactly he hit but it was probably the vaccuum cleaner. Got himself a short but very deep cut. We had to call an an ambulance and go in and have it glued. But no concussion or anything, and the scar will be high enough to be under his hair much of the time so the other kids probably won't call him Harry Potter later...

8:13 am

ouch! must have bled a lot at first

This was Sunday evening.

It SURE did! Luckily I know enough not to be shocked by that. We called because I have no car, the ambulance depot is 5 minutes away, and we were hoping they could patch it up here, but they said it'd leave one heck of a scar if we didn't go for teh glue.

8:15 am

Good morning everyone :)

8:15 am

Hey, nan.

8:15 am

*or afternoon, as the case may be

8:15 am

glue eh? I've heard that's how they're treating some wounds now. Like cyanoacrylate glue or something else?

hi nan

Afternioin here. Morning Nan!

8:16 am

Hello Nan.

It is a very close relative of superglue and they can use it on wounds that are not gaping too badly. They like to use it on kids-- way less traumatic than stitching.

I've only seen it on hospital shows before this.

8:17 am

wow. I'm glad he's healing up well.

Me too!

i wish they had had that glue years ago when my youngest gashed his head in diving practice

8:17 am

Well I have to get to work so happy new year all!

happy new year Inge2

I wish they'd had it when I was Walter's age and gashed my head something awful trying to climb a railing.

8:18 am

I'm off too.

8:18 am

Later

Bye, Inge 2! Happy New Year!

bye bye Bea

Bye Bea, Happy New Year!

that lonely littly y is getting a lot of use in todays grid

8:20 am

bye Inge, Bea

Can anyone clue either word for the lower middle A? The A's are ourt for my blood today...

sorry MG i dont have them yet

one refers to your butt

Ah, yes, now I see that one! Thanks!

8:25 am

an7/32 comes from that tile - lack of red blood cells

Oh, wow, willya lookit that! Thank you!

8:25 am

tx, fmithc!!

8:26 am

ty mitch -- didn't have that one

ty FM

Darn, I was hoping that since something can be COMmunal, maybe it could just be munal... oh well.

that was my last 7 as well

hey mitch - what happened to you?

8:28 am

she went undercover??

youare a mere shadow of yourself

8:29 am

Homeland Security??

8:29 am

morning all. okay, true confessions: my babble learning curve seems to have stagnated. whenever i dive into a new grid, I seem to find lots of four letter words, and sometimes a five or two, but I am not getting much better at finding long words. take today - I have been babbling for a half hour, and have found 9 sixes, but none of the longer words. any advice from you longer-termers?

Cutting back to help the global economy?

8:30 am

trif, I ALWAYS find the longer words later!

ihave 9 sixes and 2 sevens no 8

Hi Trif! Wait it out. Happens to me all the time. After a while it stops again.

8:30 am

aahhh, that muhst be it, Monkey! LOL

hi Trif

8:30 am

conserving pixels . . .

longer words come later for me as well usually following a clue or two in the chat

8:31 am

but how do you find them? just searching, or using the hints, or do you have a process you use?

8:31 am

often from hints in the chat

8:31 am

i'm the queen of the 4- and 5-letter words! :-D

8:31 am

i don't *mind* the hints, but I always feel better when I find it on my own.

I have no system... I glare at them and fiddle around until it isn't fun, then I get the list and ask for clues. If it stops being fun again, I stop playing and don't worry about finishing the grid.

8:32 am

ah, a true OCD Babbler!

when all else fails i turn to Amo's online dictionary

8:32 am

(referring to trif)

OCD?

8:32 am

its' not finishing as much as it is wanting to learn new words, and keep my mind perking. though I do love the fireworks, of course

8:32 am

obsessive compulsive disorder

Duh! Oops. Thanks.

8:33 am

:-D

8:34 am

I am drifting off into the ether of non chat babble world for a while TO and Une and Nono and so many other dear babblers.

8:34 am

jeez, only halfway . . .

8:34 am

good morning/afternoon everyone

8:34 am

hey, annie!

8:34 am

joining ruru in the real world, fmitch?

hi annie!

ok FM happy new year if we dont see ya again

hi Annie

yes happy new year to al, i am going to run errands.

8:35 am

Hi nono, Owl, une

bye bye TO stay safe

8:35 am

later, TO

8:35 am

FM, where did you disappear to?

Hi Annie, by FM and Owl, Happy New Year!

8:35 am

HI MG...

8:36 am

bye TO -- Happy New Year

8:38 am

hellko all

8:38 am

Hi sadie

8:38 am

er hello even

8:38 am

okay, diving back in...

Hi Sadie!

Hi all

8:39 am

hey, sadie and beach

hi beach

8:39 am

hi beach

hi Sadie

8:39 am

hiya beach

12 left time for the list

8:40 am

oh, wow, 87 here

92 left here.

8:40 am

185 here hehe

8:41 am

90 here and stalled

8:42 am

time for breakfast, I think

172 here

8:42 am

84 and gotta run for now . . . later . . .

8:42 am

me too cyber. grid locked

8:42 am

brain food time?

8:42 am

Later, Une

8:42 am

cya later une

I still haven't figured out how to get the lickety

not that i want it already

but...

8:43 am

beach, scroll down and click on Lickety's Babble Clues

alet

scroll down in which area?

Oops!

below the grid beach

8:44 am

Right below the Tile Stats

my gaming window is full...no scroll

I have Friends of Babble below the Tile Stats

its in the friends of babble list

AAAAAHHHHHHH.... duh....(smack on forehead!)...got it!

8:46 am

glad im not the only one does that stuff lol

8:48 am

100 and definitely going for breakfast!

ahhhhhhh FIREWORKS!

8:48 am

congrats nono

Yay NoNo!

congrats Nanette!!

enjoy breakfast nan

8:48 am

Yay for Nono!!!

and thank you for your help

Bye Nan!

8:48 am

hello again

happy babbling everyone and Happy New Year!

8:49 am

Happy New Year to you too, Nono!

By NoNo, Happy New Year!

8:50 am

happy new year, nono!

8:51 am

Happy New Yar Nonoi

8:51 am

how is mylar not a word?

Proper noun, trif. It's pretty random about that.

8:51 am

like petri dish, chow mein...

8:52 am

and those are not proper nouns either

Yes. At least they shopuldn't be.

8:52 am

crossy is not happy, grid wont take "mylar"

8:53 am

i think the ma5 16 is a proper noun, and that made it in

8:53 am

*pats crossy on the head* and hi to you,. crossy

8:53 am

crossy, did you see the note i just wrote?

8:53 am

howdy annie;)

8:53 am

I tried that too, crossy

8:53 am

I tried that too, crossy

8:53 am

let me guess proper name etc?

8:53 am

hi peri

8:54 am

crossy - literally one minute ago!

8:54 am

lol my ears were burning

OK, time to get cleaning around here. Have fun everyone!

8:54 am

tc mg

8:55 am

cya Monkey tc

8:55 am

bye, MG, tell Walter to watch out for the vacuum cleaner

8:55 am

crossy dives back into the grid...sploosh!

8:58 am

Has anyone read "Forever Odd" by Dean Koontz. one of my neigbors is moving and giving away stuff. I took it and a free standing set of plastic drawers to put in my closet.

8:59 am

there is other stuff in the lobby but will wait til the moving van leaves

8:59 am

HI all:) Peri - I've read another book of his and enjoyed it. Not tried that one though

9:00 am

hi, Liz, have you ever read books by SARK?

9:00 am

Ive also read a couple of his books and enjoyed not that one yet

the "Odd Thomas" books are really good

but there is one that comes before Forever Odd

I do believe it is called Odd Thomas

9:01 am

No I never have Peri. The only thing I know about SARK is that she annoys me on ebay coz when I search for this Sark her books always show up lol

9:02 am

I really like her. She is a very creative, funny person. She has a free website that is full of other very creative people.

9:02 am

really, beach. Have not read the earlier one.

9:02 am

I should look sometime. I do keep meaning to! I just so wish her parents had christened her with other initials lol

It is quite good, different

9:03 am

her real name is Susan Ariel Kennedy. I think she added Rainbow in the middle

9:04 am

I am really stuck now with 73 left

9:04 am

Really? That would make sense then :) Incidently not that this is at all related but my first pony was called Rainbow!

9:05 am

Good morning, world word nerds! Happy New Year, Aussies!

9:06 am

Oh yes! I forgot Australia was already into the New Year. Happy 2009 to you all.

good morning Judi

9:06 am

Hi Judi

9:06 am

good morning all

9:06 am

and hi teach

9:06 am

hi, all. I've just set up a new Stats page for use beginning tomorrow. I've changed the colors and layout a bit, and I've made the new page the uppermost tab, with 2008 to the left at the bottom of the page. I hope everyone enjoys the new look. I've also come up with a few more stats types to track.

9:07 am

Oh beach! I am so disappointed! I thought your icon was chocolates until I looked closer LOL

9:08 am

Please don't eat the pots and pans, Lizark

9:08 am

No Judi, I'll just have to raid my own cupboards instead :)

9:11 am

*blinks* 12 V words????

9:12 am

I reckon thats a misprint myself, Judi

9:14 am

i have come up with 8 - can't find other 4

9:15 am

ve7 porch

very nice....

9:15 am

ah Peri ty didnt have that one

9:15 am

I've only found 5 so far.

9:15 am

someone clued it earlier

9:15 am

same here Judi

9:15 am

thanks, peri

9:15 am

and I stil; have 74 to go

9:16 am

The Ve7 was the first one I found. Go figure.

9:16 am

ve4 - green wa my 1st V

9:17 am

hello dc, same here

9:17 am

hi, liz and everyone. i've been lurking dfor a bit

hi dc

9:18 am

Whose is the cat in your flickr DC?

9:18 am

ve5 sounds, formed by tongue at part odf the roof of the mouth

9:18 am

hi, beach, judi nd peri and annie :)

9:18 am

hi dcseain

9:19 am

white one is Alabaster, the now 4 mo old kitten

9:19 am

hi dc!

9:19 am

Very pretty DC :)

9:19 am

ty. he's grown since those were taken. the growth rate odf young mammals is amazing

9:20 am

i should get me real camera

9:20 am

You only have to look at my dog to see that DC. When we got him at 12 weeks I could carry him easily. He weighs 40kgs now!

9:21 am

:) lol

9:21 am

Okay. Got all the V's. *shudders*

9:21 am

biab

9:21 am

go, judi!

9:21 am

wtg judi, i need 5 more

9:22 am

There's a ve8, I'm sorry to say. Builds off one of the ve7's.

9:23 am

Rather builds off one of the ve4's.

9:23 am

hello

9:23 am

shuts ears and ignores Judi!!!!

9:23 am

dc i dont get the ve sound word. can you reclue it? a sound you make?

9:24 am

Sounds a bit like a breath freashener, if that helps.

9:24 am

ve-um is a type of paper. change the last two letters

9:25 am

hi, all - and thanks for the breath freshener, judi, needed that!

9:25 am

are you from sark lizsark?

9:25 am

I am indeed BG

9:25 am

bryant gumble!

9:25 am

small world a?

9:25 am

ve8 sounds like a girl's name, russian probably

9:25 am

im on Guernsey

9:26 am

judi, dont get the breath freshener either. i am so dumb.

9:26 am

No! Are you really? You're the first person I've ever seen on Babble from down here!

9:26 am

wow, another channel islander.

9:26 am

seriuosly. St Peter Port

9:27 am

i just googled online games and found this.

9:27 am

How mad is that!

9:27 am

you've landed in a great one, BG, welcome!

9:27 am

rats. gotta run. need to drop off tertiare somewhere...prob won't get back to finish today, so happy new year, everyone!

9:27 am

I've been playing this for nearly 2 years I think and have never seen anyone else from the islands

9:27 am

cheers

9:28 am

bye Trif

9:28 am

njoy, flo, and happy new year

9:28 am

Happy New Year to you, too, Trif

9:29 am

Can anyone clue me the single d please?

9:29 am

I personally cannot WAIT to kiss 2008 goodbye. this year was a bucket of suck

9:29 am

di - monetary unit of iran? i think

9:29 am

di5 - unit of currency

9:29 am

ah ha thanks JB

9:29 am

Poor, Trif. *raises champagne glass* Here's to dumping the bucket of suck.

9:30 am

I always miss the obvious ones lol

9:30 am

i havent a clue lol

9:30 am

monetary unit of many countries, it turns out, just checked the dictionary

9:30 am

i thought yumo was a word - rachel ray uses it only 50 thousand times a day.....

9:30 am

that's cause it goes way back to bible times

9:31 am

here's to a better year for Trif and to everyone! (no champagne, drinking tea right now)

9:31 am

yum-oh!

9:31 am

rivas, it's japanese

9:31 am

DC, I just took my go in wordscraper...

9:31 am

I thought Rachel Ray says EVOO.

9:31 am

I got 48 on your bijou lol

9:32 am

she says that too

9:33 am

What does Yumo stand for in Rachel Ray-speak?

9:33 am

yum-oh!

9:33 am

i took my turn, liz

9:34 am

Oy.

9:34 am

how do i play this?

9:34 am

We have an oy, do i hear a gevalt?

9:34 am

BG, see the help link above for rules and explanations

9:35 am

thanks dc

9:35 am

nobody diss rachel, i love her and want her as my bff

9:35 am

No gevalt, but this grid is making me veklept.

9:35 am

and then watch the chat room for clues

9:35 am

BG just type any words you find into the Add Wrod box and away you go.

9:35 am

Add Word even

9:36 am

you wouldn't believe what works!

9:36 am

and what doesn't!

9:36 am

you wouldn't, but you will

9:36 am

that's right

9:36 am

someday

9:36 am

sooooome day ov4 the rainbow...

9:37 am

woo hoo i have 6 words lol

9:37 am

Listen I have to go.....BG if you need extra help lots of people use Licketys list, you can find a link in the Friends of Babble box at the bottom of the page

9:37 am

Bye Seain, bye all

9:37 am

hasta, liz!

9:37 am

bye Liz - happy new year

9:38 am

happy new year liz

9:38 am

thnks liz, bye for now :)

9:39 am

I only have 7 v's - cannot believe there are 5 more

9:39 am

same here, JBV!

9:39 am

tried vomet, doesn't work

9:39 am

hm. found ve8, but not the other ve7

9:39 am

saw that! LOL

9:40 am

my only vo is vo5 fabric

9:40 am

seriously, Mylar is not in the dictionary? What about the balloon?

9:40 am

ve7 . . . patio

9:40 am

merci, une

9:40 am

proper noun!

9:40 am

thanks, une

9:40 am

i'm surprised at you une!!!!

9:40 am

hey, seain :-)

9:40 am

there is an other ve7, i was told

9:40 am

dcseain: ve7: the porch where you may sip your mint julep.

9:40 am

of all people.

9:41 am

what, hursh? you mean vomet?

9:41 am

or i misunderstood

9:41 am

Mylar is a proper noun?

9:41 am

oh, another ve7??

9:41 am

no i mean there is another vo5 i thought you of all people would get right off :)

9:41 am

indeed, phan, it's a brand name

9:41 am

yes!

9:42 am

oh! just got it, thanks hurshy!

9:42 am

Mylar® is an extraordinarily strong polyester film that grew out of the development of Dacron® in the early 1950s

9:42 am

someone said ve8 was built off the other ve7 but then corrected herself and said off a ve4, so i think there may only be one ve7

9:42 am

do you hear a lot of people pronouncing that french word as if it starts with w -

9:42 am

Makes for great balloons.

9:42 am

oohhh, hursh, my head hangs in shame!! LOL

9:42 am

There are four ve7's. Sorry.

9:42 am

no, JBV, that's an Americanism

9:43 am

four ve7's!!!?!?! wow

9:43 am

4? yikes!

9:43 am

I hear it a lot - it's like fingernails on a chalkboard to me

9:43 am

cool, judi, ty :)

9:44 am

oh crud, i only have 1

9:44 am

hmmm, ve4man? one who prefers young beef?

9:45 am

une, that sounds kinda suggestive... tread lightly - LOL

9:45 am

LOL :-)

9:46 am

hi kje - are you back?

9:46 am

yes jbv... at home

9:46 am

only have one ve7 porch, clues for the others please

9:46 am

4?? 4 ve7's?? does anyone actually have them?

9:46 am

not i, peri

9:46 am

probably experiencing some culture shock, i bet

9:46 am

anyone want to toss out any ve7 clues... don't hold back!

9:47 am

only have the porch

9:47 am

indeed jbv - funny you say that... exactly what i felt while running errands yesterday

9:47 am

have one vo5 - material

9:47 am

ve7: fancy porch, gazebo, expansive deck with a fab view.

9:47 am

yep, and vo5 said in french with a flourish!

9:48 am

you were gone for how long ? 2 weeks? that's enough

9:48 am

peri - change last vowel for tada!

9:48 am

that's what we all have, judi . . . any more?

9:48 am

I mean enough to feel estranged

9:48 am

french tada!

9:48 am

vo 5 - french word

9:48 am

oops, une beat me to it

9:48 am

3 weeks

9:48 am

enough for my house to have dust bunnies

9:49 am

thanks kje

9:49 am

np

9:49 am

I used to go to Europe for whole summers (in my young life) and I remember coming home and feeling strange for a long time

9:49 am

There are 4 ve4/7, 1 ve7, 2 ve5, 1 ve8 ,1 ve4/8

9:49 am

i've tried v7 in every configuration possible in MoreWords . . . don't think there are more

9:49 am

Happy New Year everyone

9:50 am

i imagine so, jbv... this is a strange place - LOL

9:50 am

that's a relief, thanks hootowl, we were looking for 4 7's!

9:50 am

ahhhhh 4 ve 4/7, that makes more sense

9:50 am

ooohhh, she meant ve4/7, not ve7 x 4!

9:50 am

Ve7 could also be considered an la5/10. Now I'm fresh out of clues for that one.

9:50 am

i'm with une, as i had 3 left, with one 7, and just found a ve5

9:50 am

I saw that and took pity! :D

9:50 am

there is only one ve 7

9:50 am

well, who mislead us then... cuz i am wasting an aweful lot of time monkeying if they do not exist!

9:50 am

judi's the culprit

9:50 am

Uh oh. Where's FM? I need a scapegoat.

9:51 am

judi!!!!! front and center missy!

9:51 am

*placing judi against the wall in front of the firing squad*

9:51 am

There are 4 ve7's. I would not lie to y'all.

9:51 am

we need a new PB for misleading clues :)

9:51 am

ready

9:51 am

aim

9:52 am

stop saying that!!!!

9:52 am

Oh my what have I started. Stop! No firing squad!!!

9:52 am

wait, I vote for extraordinary rendition to the PB

9:52 am

judi!!!

9:52 am

u from tx judi

9:52 am

*poof*

9:52 am

oh, no!

9:52 am

LOL judi thinks she can poof out of this???? hahaha

9:52 am

cute owls, hoot!

9:52 am

chicken poofer!

9:53 am

thanks dc - was wondering when someone would notice

9:53 am

maybe she meant 7 ve4?

9:53 am

nope

9:53 am

quite possibly, kje

9:53 am

Noooooo I didn't. *re-poof*

9:53 am

though i think that's not what she said

9:53 am

did you make those, hoot??

9:54 am

LOL!!

9:54 am

she meant 4 ve 4/7

9:54 am

hey dc. how was jaleo... was monkey as wonderful as she seems online?

9:54 am

they're adorable!

9:54 am

though she steadfastly refused to admit it

9:54 am

lovely, and yes, kje. got to meet her parents and her cousin, too :)

9:54 am

stickler poofer~

9:54 am

Nope - Google is good. But I may try after I finish with curtains, nightgown and pilloews

9:55 am

wow... a family affair... like meet the fickers?

9:55 am

oops fockers

9:55 am

are there more than 2 vo's?

9:55 am

3

9:55 am

ok, 70 to go . . . be back tonite . . .

9:55 am

close call there, kje

9:55 am

only have 2, JBS

9:56 am

V

9:56 am

indeed... those u, i, and o's are awefully close

9:56 am

i can't find the ve8, i've tried everything i can think of that sounds like it could be a russian girl's name...

9:56 am

thanks wildcat

9:56 am

all vo5

9:56 am

yw

9:56 am

hurshy, think breath mints, with a vowel at the end

9:56 am

3 vo5

9:56 am

lower row a besides rectal reference

9:56 am

3 vo5

9:56 am

ve8 sounds like a light colored horse

9:56 am

go down and to the left hurshy

9:56 am

thanks, hoot

9:57 am

yw

9:57 am

yw

9:57 am

thinks what horses she knows...

9:57 am

roan, bay, arabian...

9:57 am

starts with word for a buddy or chum

9:57 am

ve8 + ve4/7 and mi 4/5

9:58 am

ve + la6/21

9:58 am

pala----, which i thin may be pantomime in british

9:58 am

aha, thanks all!!!

9:58 am

ty for la6 and mi4

9:58 am

:-D

9:59 am

i'm giving up on the third vo 5 - help, please (have the fabric and the french word)

9:59 am

ok so that leaves a ve5 and a vo5

9:59 am

both french, I guess

9:59 am

NOW I get the mints!

9:59 am

the ve 5 is related to a part of the speech apparatus, hursh

9:59 am

ty

10:00 am

ve5 not french, quity english

10:00 am

fi6/33 pls

10:00 am

quite

10:00 am

my typing not so good today

10:00 am

vo5 = skull bone

10:00 am

fi6 rhymes with ni6

10:01 am

got it, thanks hurshy

10:01 am

skull bone? hmm.....

10:01 am

hmmm, must look that fi up - funny word

10:01 am

which ve5 relates to speech apparatus? i have one but...

10:01 am

it is a funny word, kje

10:01 am

looked it up, yes, that's the one i have

10:02 am

I only have one ve 5 -

10:02 am

hoot said there were 2

10:02 am

skull bone is volmer... not here

10:02 am

ooh got it

10:02 am

lose a letter

10:02 am

silly adj.

10:02 am

thanks, got it, wildcat (and kje)

10:03 am

yw

10:03 am

crapola

10:03 am

lower row A? besides butt one

10:05 am

kje, an7/32 Brit way to spell lack of iron in blood

10:05 am

thank, peri

10:06 am

Happy New Year to all around the globe

10:06 am

yw, dc

10:06 am

has it hit at the IDL yet?

10:06 am

good morning everyone

10:07 am

TY peri

10:07 am

probably or i spose you wouldn't have said it

10:07 am

bbiab

10:07 am

hi flos, bye flos

10:07 am

hi, flosey

10:07 am

*quietly transports back in*

10:08 am

*throws cream pie SPLAT in judi's face!*

10:09 am

*thoughtfully licking cream pie* Uncalled for, but delicious. Why don't you BITE ME and try it yourself, Hurshy?

10:11 am

could someone please clue the 8 for me? thanks. v but then what?

10:12 am

I need help with me7, please?

10:13 am

the Ys were hateful

10:13 am

ve 8 = ve 4/7 + mi 4/5

10:13 am

i wish i had it flosey

10:13 am

me7 like skin pigment, but adj

10:13 am

I'm missing one y dc - have ya4 x 2 and yu4

10:13 am

i have many mi 4 5s but will try. ty

10:13 am

yl

10:13 am

yl4.7

10:14 am

ty

10:15 am

thanks hurshy

10:17 am

happy new year!! 3.15am 2009 and having a blast!!

10:17 am

hny mr p

10:18 am

happy new year to you and yours, mrp! :D

10:18 am

Happy New Year to all those Down Under!

10:18 am

Happy New Year to You, mrp. Wishing you and your family all the best in 2009

10:19 am

wvtech, still cant get that ve 8. i think i have the ve 4 but must not have the mi 4. any help welcome.

10:19 am

hi wildcat, dcs, bichon, peri et al :)) we have had a wonderful new year celebration! ready to retire and enjoy the rest of the year :))

10:19 am

ve + pergo is a ******te floor

10:20 am

happy new year mrp

10:20 am

thank you vwteach :))

10:20 am

mkg, go down and to the left, ends with top row vowel

10:20 am

oh, good clue, hurshy

10:22 am

ok, is 3.30am here and I think sleep is a good idea! the party is still going in 2009 but I must rest... Love to you all for the new year! Totally had a great night seeing the 2009 in!! Bye for now!

10:22 am

ve 4 pl of a type of paper - the mi 4 sounds like a type of bird

10:22 am

I can't remember the last time I was able to stay up til midnight

10:23 am

sleep well, mrp!

10:23 am

knights te7

10:24 am

bbl

10:24 am

hasta, wild

10:24 am

jeepers, the way that snowplow thumps around out there, i'm glad my car is safely out of the way

10:25 am

here, it's very windy

10:25 am

Here it's a blizzard [almost, but soon]

10:25 am

top i has il4, im5, and...?

10:28 am

im6

10:28 am

sort of like a tower on a mosque

10:28 am

ah thanks!!

10:29 am

TY dc!

10:29 am

what about U's? i have un4 , 5, 6, 5

10:29 am

yvw, hursh

10:29 am

another un5 before the 6

10:30 am

thank you again!

10:30 am

bottom 2 rows all grey!

10:30 am

:)

10:31 am

May I please have a clue for the un6?

10:32 am

when you do laundry, you may un6 the clothes

10:32 am

Just got it! TY!

10:32 am

Are all the u's UN words?

10:32 am

when you ask my nephew what various an6s say, he'll say moo, and baa, and woof, and so forth, but when you ask him what cats say, despite all the effort we put in to telling him it's "meow", he says nothing. my suspicion is that they are the one an6 he's gotten to observe a lot, and he sees that most of the time they do not say anything!

10:32 am

yes,indeedy

10:33 am

that means he's gentle with the cats, which is a good thing

10:33 am

no, it does not ... he mostly sees them over skype :)

10:34 am

in person, he can be a little grabby.

10:34 am

LOL :)

10:34 am

hi, all. new stats page for 2009 is ready to use. Colors and format have changed quite a bit, and new stats categories have been added

10:34 am

this is a bit of a hard grid

10:35 am

it is, hurshy

10:37 am

are there 4 pl4 ?

10:38 am

noho, there is 1 pl5!

10:38 am

have 3 4/s and a 5

10:38 am

which i totally did not expect to count.

10:38 am

only 3, hurshy

10:38 am

it must mean something entirely different from what i was thinking in my head

10:38 am

ok, just zipping thru . . . *poof*

10:39 am

i have 3-4's and 1-5, pl's that is

10:40 am

are there 4 fa's or 5?

10:40 am

4, hurshy

10:41 am

ok... *looks for another fi*

10:41 am

i need to go do some errands, bbl

10:42 am

fi4 x 3, fi5 x 3, fi6 x 2

10:43 am

tis a 5 then

10:43 am

got it!!

10:43 am

i need one more pi word... let me think

10:44 am

1 pi5 or 2?

10:44 am

2!

10:44 am

left 2 columns grey!

10:44 am

what's the te/tr breakdown?

10:44 am

How many words today?

10:45 am

185 and it's kinda hard

10:45 am

te x 8, tr x 4, but I'm missing one t

10:46 am

well, that tells me one of 'em anyway :)

10:47 am

are your te's mostly 4's, 2 5's, and a 7?

10:47 am

yes, hurshy

10:47 am

are your te5's a 10 pointer and a 14 pointer?

10:48 am

yep

10:48 am

hmm guess we prolly have the same ones then

10:48 am

Hi for just a couple of minutes!

10:50 am

Stuck for one M from the lower right-- is it just me or is there a weird one?

10:50 am

mu4, my4, mo5

10:50 am

hey

10:50 am

diny

10:51 am

Thanks! Need the mu then. Oops, husband#s home! Off with me! Have fun!

10:52 am

mo5 from the bottom m?

10:52 am

nm

10:58 am

*laughs at the ma7*

11:02 am

oh my - it's that time of year where they wrap up all that happened and here is one of the an6 stories of the year: On a fine October day, Gracie the horse decided to investigate a hole in a tree, but she went a little bit too far and got stuck. Owner Jason Harschbarger of Pullman, W.Va., snapped the photo before using a chainsaw to cut Gracie free. She was not seriously hurt. (picture horse with head in massive hole in tree trunk)

clue the ma7? I'd like to laugh too, but can't find it...

11:04 am

sounds like a male breast part

11:04 am

This is a pretty hard grid--there are 61 words that I couldn't give a definition of in the grid--and after Babbling a while I have a reasonably good vocabulary! So that's one in three that are, for me at least, unknown.

ty! (chuckle)

11:05 am

awesome clue ruru

11:05 am

fail failer

11:05 am

The ma/7 is a good example--it means a subdivision of a Roman legion or a band on the sleeve of a Eucharistic garment.

11:06 am

depressed dpo?

11:06 am

But I like ruru's clue better...

11:06 am

Clue for the last fi6 please?

You're not kidding, Jan! I have 45 left and can't believe there can be that many more.

11:06 am

one who makes movies, car.e

11:06 am

kind of like that famous dolpin with the letters mixed up and short an R

The one after that sounds like the breast part just mentioned...

11:07 am

tewral

11:07 am

Got that one, the one after it...unless it is similar?

11:07 am

oops sorry

11:07 am

The last fi/6 is the word for the end of a whistle or recorder. It rhymes with the character in the old Charmin commercials that urged us not to squeeze the tissue.

11:07 am

what is more frustrating Jan is when enable won't accept the words we do know exist.

11:08 am

fi 6 === add the charmin dude, mr wh*****

11:08 am

TY, BR did it for me!

11:08 am

thanks ruru

11:09 am

Enable frustrates me not.... altho a tool of caprice, caprice is the final arbitor and that is just the way it is

11:09 am

brb

11:10 am

Clue for oi6 please?

11:10 am

NM! Got it!

11:11 am

wanna clue it car.e?

11:11 am

oi 6 --- petro dude

11:11 am

thanks babblerabble

11:13 am

geez, i didn't even know there WERE that many words starting with M!!!

11:15 am

my 4 ---- A-well-a everybody's heard about the bird B-b-b-bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word

11:16 am

mu**cipality

11:16 am

mo 5 and shaker

11:16 am

burial mo5

11:17 am

mo 4 --- m + petrol mo 6 --one who mo 4

11:17 am

mo 4 -- word of agony or ecstacy

11:18 am

what online dict do u use

11:18 am

one look

11:19 am

mi 4 --- add, one **tion under god

11:19 am

i don't get the one look

11:19 am

babble do you really live in Antartica?

11:19 am

mi 4 -- 5280 feet and mi 5 the one who runs it

11:20 am

mi 4 -- telephone service: abbr for not local

11:20 am

only in virtual world ... but then perception is reality!

11:21 am

me 4 --- a term in pinochle and canasta

11:21 am

oh.. well then.. I live in New Zealand..

11:21 am

i know neither pinochle nor canasta

11:22 am

me 7 --- add an ocean: at*****

11:22 am

add the phone service clue

11:23 am

maybe me 7 having to do with pigment skin issues?

11:23 am

hmm, while the rest were FAB clues, I am stumped on the games one and on the me7

11:23 am

an7 please?

11:23 am

atlantic isn't in there

11:24 am

like skin cancer jbp

11:24 am

am workin' on it ry ry

11:24 am

me4 --- cruel; me 6 --- adverb form; me 5 --- short form abverb

11:24 am

me 7 -- add ocean: at***t**

11:25 am

me 4 -- repast

11:25 am

ma 4 -- rochester clinic

11:25 am

ah got it

11:25 am

I'm having trouble with the na words

11:25 am

thought ma7 was something you eat

11:26 am

car, an7 brit. spelling for low blood

11:26 am

if you are a carnivore...

11:26 am

oops, ma4

11:26 am

I knew that ae combo was in the word, just couldn't figure out where to go with it! Thank you Flosey!

11:27 am

or cannibal

11:27 am

yw car

11:27 am

ma 4 and 5 --- a member of a modern American Indian people of southern Mexico

11:27 am

in tx we use short words cuz we have to drive so far

11:27 am

ma 4 -- food condiment

11:28 am

Good evening all........

11:28 am

ma 5 -- captain the is the source of incredulity

11:28 am

hi caitlyn

11:28 am

hi there caitlyn

11:28 am

hi cait

11:29 am

ma 4 -- put a "k" in front for store chain with blue light specials

11:29 am

ma 4s eat oats

11:29 am

ma 5 === more than a few

11:30 am

ma 5 -- captain the is the source of incredulity??

11:30 am

Not a very nice grid today!

11:30 am

guess I have to give up on the na words for a while, come back to them later

11:31 am

li5/12 pls

11:31 am

7 left here

11:31 am

fa 6?

11:31 am

ack!! just started to snow here

11:31 am

nm, got it

11:32 am

ma7 --- Fernando Lamas, actor, "You look ma7ous"

11:32 am

li5/12 add a bloke to li

11:32 am

Bye for now. Be back later.

11:32 am

Yuck peri

11:32 am

Bye car, Happy New Year

11:32 am

bye car,e

11:33 am

how can I stil have 7 Ms left...ugh

11:33 am

your clues rock, though~~~

11:33 am

isn't that Lamas ma a 6 not a 7?

11:33 am

yes it is Cad

11:34 am

k just checking cause I still need 8 m's

11:34 am

ma 7 --- homo sapien and one who imbibes: t**p**r

11:35 am

ma 6 --- folder or capital of an island country

11:35 am

that doesn't take for me BabRab

11:36 am

don't get the ma7

11:36 am

supposed to go to my friends house for new years celebration, will wait to see what happens with the snow. not supposed to accumulate

11:36 am

but very blustery

11:36 am

oh that ma 7 is male breast part

11:36 am

the folder clue is great

11:36 am

the folder clue is great

11:37 am

ma 5 -- bangles song: ma 5 monday

11:37 am

hello again... back to hopefully finish this off... maybe

11:37 am

ma 5 == Hulkoma5

11:38 am

5 Ms left

11:38 am

Hi kje

11:38 am

gotta get back to work - thanks for the clues BabbleRabble!

11:38 am

ma 4 -- short form of the biblical food from heaven

11:38 am

morning kje

11:38 am

now4

11:38 am

hi flos

11:38 am

Hello KJE

11:38 am

hi cait

11:38 am

3 ms

11:38 am

ma 4 -- gender

11:38 am

hi kje

11:38 am

Bye Cad, Happy New Year

11:38 am

hi ruru... good to see you

11:38 am

ma 6 -- author norman

11:39 am

ty for li5, trouble with internet connection all day here

11:39 am

1st am5?

11:39 am

why are we given all the ma words?

11:39 am

ly5 pls

11:39 am

yw peri

11:39 am

well endowwed kje

11:39 am

ma 4 --- what the postman delivers ma 5 --- the bridge between the 4 and the 6

11:39 am

a+ a street name in just about every town in america

11:40 am

TY ru

11:40 am

babble rabble rocks.

11:40 am

ma 4 == add apart of to be: i am you **e

11:40 am

5

11:40 am

i'm still missing 2 tho

11:41 am

1 now.

11:41 am

got male-like

11:41 am

Go jbp Go!!

11:41 am

not in the whole grid, don't get too excited Cait

11:41 am

;-)

11:42 am

LOL

11:42 am

ma 4 -- a water apparatus or before "stay" pr sailing over the bounding ma 4

11:42 am

like the principle street, babble?

11:42 am

2nd ar5?

11:42 am

like the principle street, babble?

11:43 am

a+genuine

11:43 am

just checking whether my new icon came through

11:43 am

yes

11:43 am

OK, now I have to install it in Sudoku

11:43 am

after that, jbp

11:43 am

"principle" street???

11:43 am

ar 5 -- add show and ***l

11:44 am

ty babrab

11:44 am

rema4

11:44 am

TY BR

11:44 am

what is left over: the rema4der

11:45 am

finally fireworks for me

11:46 am

yea Peri!!

11:46 am

congrats, peri

11:46 am

woohoo peri!!!

11:46 am

woohoo peri!!

11:47 am

WTG! PERI!

11:47 am

with 59 left, I need to tak a break. but BabRab, you are awesome!!

11:47 am

kje, why us it Ru's last day?

11:48 am

thanks, happy babbling and Happy New Year everyone

11:48 am

help for bottom right corner M

11:48 am

be well, peri

11:49 am

cuz he said it is ... he's off to pursue other interests

11:49 am

30 left

11:49 am

40 here

11:49 am

I see. TY, wild.

11:49 am

ummm... ask ruru, bzzzz

11:50 am

he is lurking, i think

11:50 am

Happy New Year peri

11:50 am

Fireworks

11:50 am

**waiting to na4 a joke in**

11:50 am

woohoo flo!

11:50 am

can't believe how many of those words were monkeyed

11:50 am

congrats, flosey

11:50 am

Congrats flosey!!

11:52 am

was stuck on last na4/4

11:52 am

first ma4?

11:52 am

BZZ.. I am going to do some traveling and catch up on a lot of personal stuff in my life.. this game takes a lot of time to play everyday and I have been spending way too much time on it ..even though I enjoy the people here and the game itself...it is a New Year's resolution for myself

11:52 am

la 5 --- medical prefix or a beatle's tune: ou say you want a r***lution

11:52 am

to scratch something kje with an extra a

11:52 am

might want to copy that so you can post it about 100 times today ru - LOL

11:53 am

I understand, Ru.

11:53 am

TY ru

11:53 am

ma 4 --- add part of to be --- I am you **e

11:53 am

I've been staying away as well.

11:53 am

ruru we will all miss you and your sense of fun.I wish you and yours a Very Happy New Year

11:53 am

rhymes with haar

11:54 am

lol

11:54 am

thank you caitlyn..same to you

11:54 am

I second that ruru - it won't be the same without u

11:54 am

bye ru...

11:54 am

why is that bzz?

11:55 am

It just means that Kje will find another new player to pick on..lol

11:55 am

Been persuing other interests

11:55 am

bye..tata ....ruru.....i'll miss your great and funny cluing. Have fun.....come back refreshed.

11:55 am

Will miss you RU, although I have to agree - these puzzles can take up too much time

11:56 am

pursuing

11:56 am

ah hah!!

11:56 am

nope, ru... you can't be replaced

11:56 am

my point exactly bzz

11:56 am

But you couldnt stay away for too long Bea

11:56 am

me7?

11:57 am

need one more I from upper one

11:57 am

having to do with skin cancer kje

11:57 am

I think I was away fro about two months.

11:57 am

And I have not been playing everyday since I have come back.

11:58 am

ummm... not really ru... but thanks for the clue - LOL

11:58 am

Welcome back Bea LOL

11:58 am

ends with most of frozen h20

11:58 am

got it from your first clue : )

11:59 am

if I were not making a myself a pest in babble, I would be contemplating the vicissitudes of life

11:59 am

Isn't the melanotic index involved in skin cancer?

12:00 pm

or trying out a new syntax!

12:00 pm

babble you are so bright it is scary..

12:00 pm

well help me with the top I please br

12:01 pm

not! but my dad at times did call me sunny

12:01 pm

have il4 and im5

12:01 pm

im + I am you *** + cons.

12:02 pm

ty ruru

12:02 pm

simon te 7 on the Saint

12:02 pm

lol BR

12:02 pm

yw wild..are you having a better day today?

12:03 pm

yes ty

12:03 pm

one step at a time..

12:03 pm

yesterday was the anniversary of my mom's passing ... always a hard day

12:04 pm

ra5/12?

12:04 pm

(((wild))

12:04 pm

I'm sorry, wild.

12:04 pm

ty

12:04 pm

sorry to hear that wild... hope you are doing better today

12:04 pm

I am ty

12:05 pm

ra5 like something spoiled without the C

12:05 pm

re 6 --- add, a river *e***ers its way downstream ... when the river course is cut, an oxbow lake may be created

12:05 pm

10

12:05 pm

TY

12:05 pm

*** holding tape at the finish line ***

12:06 pm

gooooo kje!

12:06 pm

cute icon by the way...thanks

12:06 pm

hi weed... please say you'll never leave... kinda pissed at ruru

12:07 pm

will ask the BIG dude to bring back good memories of times past and the strength to appreciate them each passing year,

12:07 pm

happy new years!

12:07 pm

hello, SeanS

12:07 pm

Happy New Year Sean!

12:07 pm

ugh... too many v's

12:07 pm

hi sean - ditto

12:07 pm

nope, i may take breaks, but you'll always find me on facebook, and i'll always peek in at chat. anyway, i'm here.

12:08 pm

Hi feather

12:08 pm

4

12:08 pm

: ) weed

12:08 pm

geez kj

12:08 pm

*** still holding tape at the finish line..getting tired ***

12:08 pm

lol

12:09 pm

LOL ruru

12:09 pm

shoot forgot that yl

12:09 pm

the irony of birth is it is the first step of the journey to death

12:09 pm

may need to sit a bit ru

12:09 pm

Hi all....I have just realised that ruru is leaving us.......is it something we said?....lolol

12:09 pm

at your age, holding the tape an be tiring

12:09 pm

*props up ruru's arms with some 2x4s*

12:09 pm

hello, Flask

12:09 pm

*** ready to hand off tape to some other sucker***

12:10 pm

lol ruru

12:10 pm

2

12:10 pm

we will all miss him but he did say he would come back.. if I am not mistaken

12:10 pm

Hi Flask, yes it is all changing in babbleland and its sad

12:10 pm

Hi babrab...

12:10 pm

but not as ruru

12:10 pm

on my knees holding tape

12:10 pm

he's not vaporizing off the planet so he could return at any time, if he so chose

12:10 pm

hands ruru a pillow

12:10 pm

an7 anyone?

12:10 pm

for his knees

12:11 pm

*starts constructing scaffolding around ru*

12:11 pm

an7 - lack of red blood

12:11 pm

so why is he leaving?

12:11 pm

the name may change but the manner of speech is hard to

12:11 pm

and he gave us warning... not like others who just disappear

12:11 pm

Ouch feather that pole just caught my leg!

12:11 pm

1st ra5/12?

12:11 pm

flask see chat about 10-15 min ago

12:11 pm

oops sorry cait!

12:12 pm

*sets out construction warning signs*

12:12 pm

lol feather

12:12 pm

***puts on hardhat***

12:12 pm

ra 5 -- add the opera,***ropolitan

12:13 pm

shoot

12:13 pm

ty... and done

12:13 pm

bang!

12:13 pm

wtg KJE!!

12:13 pm

woohoo kje!!

12:13 pm

yayyyyy kje!!!

12:13 pm

*curtsies*

12:13 pm

Congrats kje!!

12:13 pm

congrats, kj

12:13 pm

WTG! KJE!

12:13 pm

let's go of tape YAAYAYA kje

12:14 pm

lets

12:14 pm

congrat kje

12:14 pm

does your ankle abide curtsies?

12:14 pm

Last la6, please?

12:14 pm

all kidding aside ru... it's been fun... hope you have a great time traveling and with whatever pursuit you pick up next

12:14 pm

thanks

12:14 pm

my ankle does great, br

12:15 pm

maybe this will give you more time to practice your tennis game....

12:15 pm

that..is hopeless..lol

12:15 pm

you can practice jumping the net without breaking bones, for instance

12:16 pm

la 6 -- terra ferma and a car: **to

12:16 pm

Bea extend the last la 4/5 with a couple of vowels

12:16 pm

my net jumping days are over

12:16 pm

help for the U

12:16 pm

ruru I have just read your reasons for leaving us for awhile...and agree with you entirely, however, whatever you do decide to do this year

12:17 pm

all are un, wild

12:17 pm

or walking upright and chewing gum at the same time

12:17 pm

TY.

12:17 pm

un 4 5 5 6 5

12:17 pm

kinda figured that

12:17 pm

lol weed

12:17 pm

un what?

12:17 pm

let me wish you all the happiness in the world and lots of happiness.......and loadsa luck!

12:17 pm

ty br

12:17 pm

***dragging knuckles..er what do you mean weed?***

12:18 pm

still having a hard time with an7 - lack of red blood, another clue?

12:18 pm

ok, ok, SEMI upright

12:18 pm

he called you weed - LOLOLOLOL it is catching

12:18 pm

stick an extra vowell in the middle hlj

12:18 pm

Well its time for me to go. ruru we will miss you, hope you will pop insometimes just to say hi and let us know how things are. Happy New Year to you all!!

12:18 pm

british spelling of low red cell count

12:18 pm

hny cait

12:18 pm

an 7 --- is a variant of the medical term for an iron deficiency

12:18 pm

oh yeah, he's been calling me weed for a while! so has pini, and at least one other person, i forget who

12:19 pm

help for bottom right corner M please

12:19 pm

bye cait - happy new year to you too

12:19 pm

LOL - funny weed

12:19 pm

is low hemoglobin accurate too, kj?

12:19 pm

ty br and ruru

12:19 pm

weed is a lot shorter and faster to type than feather too...

12:19 pm

bye cait... nice to know you.. happy new year to you.

12:19 pm

and what is the ideal sed rate

12:19 pm

Back to the studio for me...Ru, may God bless you! And have a good time!

12:20 pm

I like weed better anyway

12:20 pm

sed rate depends on your age... what a funny question, br - LOL - hopefully you do not need that personally

12:20 pm

bye bzz thank you

12:20 pm

bet you do ruru... explains so much

12:20 pm

:)

12:20 pm

sedrate male 0-10 female 0-20 is average in most labs

12:20 pm

lol, wanna brownie kje?

12:20 pm

you wanna hash this out weed?

12:21 pm

(((ruru))) HAve a great time and it has been a blast hun. Will miss you, I am backing out of babble for a while too. Bon Voyage :)

12:21 pm

depends on age

12:21 pm

*grooooooooan*

12:21 pm

what is the operative that makes blood cells adhere

12:21 pm

would love a brownie, actually

12:21 pm

I will miss you ruru

12:21 pm

FM, you're faceless!

12:21 pm

bye FM... when?

12:21 pm

Hello, all!

12:21 pm

** I feel the love***lol

12:21 pm

lots of variables, age, meds, how hydrated, anemic, etc

12:21 pm

she is faceless b/c she is backing away

12:21 pm

hi tim

12:21 pm

ah, ok

12:22 pm

Oops, this is Jellen....

12:22 pm

help for bottom right corner M pleaseeeeeeee

12:22 pm

hi tim...

12:22 pm

sed rate is a test, not a diagnosis?

12:22 pm

jelen - lol... when will you learn to check your face before popping in

12:22 pm

hi jellen in disguise

12:22 pm

sed rate is a test, erthrocytic sedimentation rate

12:22 pm

ma mo mu --- all 4s

12:22 pm

la6,21?

12:22 pm

ruru-I wanted to say you have made babble more fun and i will missyou but i know our paths will cross again.....

12:22 pm

you look pretty good there jellen

12:23 pm

giving myself 10 more minutes

12:23 pm

ok am outa here....bye ruru..take care and stay safe....:-)..X

12:23 pm

wild...pitcher's mo***

12:23 pm

sounds like a voice exercise, br

12:23 pm

Jellen when you are Tim.. do you leave the toilet seat up?

12:23 pm

lol

12:23 pm

have that phae

12:23 pm

i should be off

12:23 pm

Hi folks. My sed rate is normal... do I win a prize?

12:23 pm

you are off

12:23 pm

mu...**ce of you to say so

12:23 pm

my4 bird

12:23 pm

la6 add mi4

12:23 pm

Was going to lurk, but saw chat about ruru...going to miss you terribly....

12:23 pm

I second that!

12:23 pm

wow, expected that from ru... but not from you weed - LOL

12:24 pm

muni

12:24 pm

hee hee, i was just faster than him

12:24 pm

oh thanks jellen

12:24 pm

Sorry about that...

12:24 pm

bad jellen

12:24 pm

when does school restart, weed?

12:24 pm

hard to resist such a good opening

12:24 pm

thnx tim

12:24 pm

can you send tim to the pb?

12:24 pm

jan 5th

12:24 pm

whatever

12:24 pm

ruru- when are you in San Diego

12:24 pm

straightens hair after weed blew by

12:24 pm

hey, that is my brithday, weed

12:25 pm

Jan 14th & 15th

12:25 pm

oh cool! i'll remember that then

12:25 pm

land

12:25 pm

cripe

12:25 pm

Happy birthday in advance, kje!

12:25 pm

LOL - any hair left to straighten at your gae, ru?

12:25 pm

ty mg

12:25 pm

age

12:25 pm

la 6 -- add a small version of: ***i*ture === like what airlines hand out for drinks

12:25 pm

booker t and mgs

12:25 pm

ugh... this is why i should go... jet-lagged and dead-brained

12:25 pm

ok... I will request sunny weather for you

12:26 pm

still have hair...

12:26 pm

but the grant app is done?

12:26 pm

jet-lagged I can understand

12:26 pm

my**...bird

12:26 pm

Still jetlagged? I'm sorry to hear that! I don't get it that bad myself but I have a couple of friends who do.

12:26 pm

ty phae that was the one i was missing

12:26 pm

br - it is not due until the 16th... i promise it will not be done before then... that is not my nature : )

12:26 pm

thanks DR I need good weather

12:26 pm

i want terminal to work, and the letters aren't even really that close to each other

12:27 pm

i only get it coming west.. no problem at all going east

12:27 pm

and stop bothering me about it!

12:27 pm

help for bottom I please

12:27 pm

ty grant

12:27 pm

I'm sure they

12:27 pm

I'm sure they're all in words

12:27 pm

a waterway is in5

12:27 pm

LOL - exactly! rofl... it is like a guilty conscious or something!!!

12:27 pm

yw

12:28 pm

yw wildcat

12:28 pm

have it

12:28 pm

in....get in a prone position

12:28 pm

in + **e soap?

12:28 pm

conscience... opps

12:28 pm

Walter thorws it right off but my view is taht it's because he Does Not Sleep on intercontinental flights. That way when it IS bed time he just passes out for 12 hours and is fine when morning rolls around. VBut that does make for One Fried Little Boy meantime.

12:28 pm

a dental in5

12:28 pm

OK, last mistake... going to go nap

12:28 pm

bye kj

12:28 pm

have it ruru

12:29 pm

Bye kje!

12:29 pm

see ya kje

12:29 pm

cya kje

12:29 pm

id** curiosity ..

12:29 pm

kj? does a snooze sound good?

12:29 pm

hugs, ruru... hope to see you again... maybe in a year or two when you retire

12:29 pm

ty torg that gave me 2

12:29 pm

Hi Torg

12:29 pm

3

12:29 pm

poof

12:29 pm

one more

12:30 pm

I try to nap before I fall to sleep

12:30 pm

lol br

12:30 pm

adverb ..

12:30 pm

Heyas guys ..

12:30 pm

hi torg

12:31 pm

wild....more of the clue torgone gave you

12:31 pm

got all those

12:31 pm

im6? then I'll just have a's left

12:32 pm

use the sometime vowel instead of the regular one

12:32 pm

got it ty e1

12:32 pm

hi everyone

12:32 pm

Like a tower on a Russian building but replace "min" with "im"

12:32 pm

yw wild

12:32 pm

Hi Carlee!

12:32 pm

nice clue monkey, thanks

12:33 pm

hi carlee

12:33 pm

Am back fromNorth carolina:)

12:33 pm

ty monkey

12:33 pm

Can anyone cluethe U? I only have to destack.

12:33 pm

Sure thing!

12:33 pm

I am off to run errands but will be back

12:33 pm

help for lefthand N

12:33 pm

Bye DR! Happy New Year!

12:33 pm

RURU_ Take care of yourself-

12:33 pm

bye dr

12:34 pm

I only have 4 from that N...

12:34 pm

un 4 -- add first **d or **de

12:34 pm

bye wild and MG and everyone else

12:34 pm

thanks dr... bye for now

12:34 pm

have 6 of them .. missing 2

12:34 pm

Bye DR

12:34 pm

ok, gotta go for now. ruru, i'll miss you, make sure to stop in every now and then to just say hi, even if you don't do the grid!

12:34 pm

un 5 == add what a hen does to an egg

12:34 pm

how many ni's?

12:34 pm

Take up tile ..

12:34 pm

will do bye for weed

12:35 pm

Thanks, BabRab! Something seems to be wrong with my brain regarding the first clue though...

12:35 pm

un 5 -- add to rent

12:35 pm

bye feather

12:35 pm

Thank you, thank you!

12:35 pm

I only have one ni wild ni6/24

12:36 pm

that's what I have

12:36 pm

un 6 --- add, homonym of war correspondent ernie

12:36 pm

Bye Feather!

12:36 pm

Ooof... must look him up...

12:36 pm

un 5 --- what must have been done in years gone by to remove a diaper

12:36 pm

na** what you hit with a hammer

12:37 pm

and who does the hammering

12:37 pm

mile

12:37 pm

Thanks, even remember those days when my brother was tiny...

12:37 pm

and the one running it

12:37 pm

OOPS! ..Sorry .. PB for me ..

12:37 pm

So just one more U-- probably from that clue I was too dense to get the first time...

12:38 pm

yup have all those

12:38 pm

miler

12:38 pm

Akkkkk!!!! Sorry.

12:38 pm

na4..** you say so then it is true

12:38 pm

fileworks

12:38 pm

Come on in MG .. There's strudel ..

12:38 pm

Ooooh, some neighbor is testing out some nice fireworks!

12:38 pm

un4 un + breathe **r (oxygen)

12:38 pm

WTG mixi

12:38 pm

Apple strudel?

12:38 pm

woohoo mix!

12:39 pm

un 4 -- add the ambient **r

12:39 pm

That was the one! And now I feel RIGHT dumb about the forst clue. Thank you both!!!

12:39 pm

na6/27...add on to your moniker

12:39 pm

Yay Mixi!

12:40 pm

nice clue, Jes

12:40 pm

tx BR

12:40 pm

30 to go! later!

12:41 pm

na + **l is used to lubricate things

12:41 pm

ve 7 === add, increased the pace and a construction to hold back water: **m

12:42 pm

bye harry

12:42 pm

OK, I am stuck for one F... rather than waffle on describing the 11 I do have I will now go to the list. I need: the first fi5/16

12:43 pm

vo 5 -- add the ***chant of venice

12:43 pm

fi5..one who does your nails

12:43 pm

fi 5 -- add, small medium ***ge

12:44 pm

That was it, thanks!

12:44 pm

ok. must get down to the grid properly now!

12:44 pm

OOOOOOH, Can't wait to see what this neighbor will be doinga t midnight!

12:45 pm

hello, Ata, how is your latest commission coming along

12:45 pm

MONKEY!!!!! BR!!!!! everyone!!!!!!

12:45 pm

gah! its with the client and I refuse to do any more until he pays me!

12:45 pm

STID!!!!!!!!!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

12:45 pm

so like, how is this grid?

12:45 pm

Ouch, Ata, I know that one!

12:45 pm

thanks Monkey! I think it will be. :-D

12:46 pm

Entertaining but stickyt, Stid. And kinda slow.

12:46 pm

Hello, stid === may you look back with fondness and forward with great anticipation

12:46 pm

stid!! glad to be stopping in now - I missed your warm greeting last night - thanks and many hugs back!!

12:46 pm

well slow isn't a big problem...

12:46 pm

good for you, Ata

12:46 pm

Hi JBV!

12:46 pm

hello JBV! (((more hugs)))

12:47 pm

hello, JBV

12:47 pm

Hi Stid...Happy New Year!

12:47 pm

hi, everybody - hi Monkey - how's your little one?

12:47 pm

Ooooohhh! Either this neighbor is a moron and blowing all the big guns now or we are in for a real treat at midnight!

12:47 pm

Hi JBV

12:47 pm

I am guessing moron, Monkey... hoping anyway!

12:47 pm

STIDDY!

12:47 pm

hi, hi, hi! - are we having a party? oh yes, it's new year's eve!

12:47 pm

How much longer before midnight MG?

12:48 pm

Walter is well. His head is healing up nicely and he was allowed a shower today. He says it only hurts if he umps it with a toy or the like. Further he's great.

12:48 pm

Monkey, I am ssuming the cougar-like animal in your tiny icon is actually the dog?

12:48 pm

Just over 4 hours to midnight.

12:48 pm

It's a going away party for RURU too.

12:48 pm

oh! yes it is! -- what a handsome one, too.

12:48 pm

That is in deed our little doggy.

12:48 pm

a big moron and a little moron were riding a horse ... the big moron fell off, but the little one road on ... because it was a little more on

12:48 pm

CARLEE!!!! *breaks out the noisemakers*

12:48 pm

wait -- going away? to where? when? for how long?

12:49 pm

oh gee BR.... *groan*

12:49 pm

ruru? where's he going?

12:49 pm

Happy New Year...I'm just back from Asheville...and the town of "scarlet"

12:49 pm

Lunch time...bbl

12:49 pm

why is ruru leaving us?

12:49 pm

later phaeton

12:49 pm

which asheville, carlee?

12:49 pm

ruru made a new years resolution to take a break from babble to do other things in his life

12:49 pm

North Carolina

12:49 pm

Bye Phaeton!

12:50 pm

bye

12:50 pm

because he believes there is a world beyond babble

12:50 pm

We will miss him.

12:50 pm

oh -- okay, I know where that one is. :-D I bet it was a lot warmer there!

12:50 pm

Carlee..did you go to the Biltmore?

12:50 pm

a world beyond babble... *shrug* poor poor delusional man!

12:50 pm

it was gorgeous.... short sleeve weather day after boxing day...

12:50 pm

Heya stidster ..

12:50 pm

Oooooh, one of those 5-storey tall Roman candles!

12:50 pm

yeap..we did the biltmore and chimney rock

12:51 pm

I know. It's sad.

12:51 pm

hello tor! what a treat to see you today!

12:51 pm

Nice Christmas display at Biltmore

12:51 pm

?

12:51 pm

it was really pretty...the wine there SUCKS

12:51 pm

oooooh. admiring the fireworks -- did you finish the grid Monkey?

12:52 pm

I've never had the wine. Keep meaning to at least try one or two of them

12:52 pm

im6?

12:52 pm

not worth ur time or the taste buds u'll kill

12:52 pm

lol...noted

12:52 pm

Nope. Probably won't either-- still have 75 and will be knocking off fo rmindless entertainment soon. At least Walter could get exercise today; the last couple of days I tried to keep him a tad on the quiet side, rather unsuccessfully.

12:53 pm

Thats the mansion from the movie Ritchie Rich

12:53 pm

is it?... I vaguely remember

12:53 pm

It helps when he's not stir crazy.

12:53 pm

so this head injury. is it new since last week?

12:53 pm

im 6 == add former brit ***gar** thatcher

12:53 pm

good clue BR

12:53 pm

we did the hike to the falls they used in the film last mohican

12:53 pm

ty br

12:54 pm

My son ahs been there twice on school field trips. He'd love to go again

12:54 pm

what a great excursion you had carlee!

12:54 pm

Different seasons..............

12:54 pm

Yeah, Sunday evening. Just a cut, short but really deep, needed to call an ambulance and go in and get ot glued an deverything, poor little guy. But no concussion or anything and today he's fine, albeit with tape on his head.

12:54 pm

had christmas dinner with scarlet...and beloved

12:54 pm

i think it was used in peter sellers' movie, too - being there

12:54 pm

oh dear... *wrapping walter in bubble wrap, extra large size* poor you!

12:55 pm

poor walter.... heisdetermined to get bumped around a buch isn't he?

12:55 pm

OOH, good idea! Wrapping him in bubble wrap would keep him busy for hours!

12:55 pm

thanks for the im, bR

12:55 pm

rofl...

12:55 pm

meant to say former brit prime minister but being befuddled is now a fact of life

12:55 pm

Lived in NC for 17 years and have yet to get to the Biltmore....sigh

12:55 pm

Yeah, he's a normal very active boy. But he has injured himself far less tahn I had by this age...

12:56 pm

oh...Scarlet asked me to say hello BR

12:56 pm

I wish her well, carlee

12:56 pm

have you heard about the bubble wrap calendar? each page has a bubble for each day, you can pop one by one

12:56 pm

I was a concussion expert. And at the age Walter is now I laid my head RIGHT open... was in the hospital for hours, instead of teh ten minutes we were there with this one.

12:57 pm

ok..well..time to flip more laundry...I hate coming back from vacation....laundry laundry laundry....

12:57 pm

yay scarletta!

12:57 pm

yes, this is a slow grid.... only up to 43 so far. but then I am also trying to stay connected in the chat

12:57 pm

What is misleading about his health is that Mystery Virus in the summer. He was so ill for so long most people have the idea he's often unwell when thatis not actually true. He gave that to Sprite's kids and her adughter is just now really all better...

12:57 pm

later carlee -- I am waiting on the last spin cycle for mine!

12:57 pm

Bye Carlee!

12:57 pm

i'm just about at half - have 92, need 93

12:58 pm

go JBV!!

12:59 pm

are there any AA words today?

12:59 pm

I still need one more v - are there more than three vo's?

12:59 pm

I need the A in the middle row on the far right...

12:59 pm

length x width

1:00 pm

oops, sorry, wrong A

OK, Celebrity Mastermind is on, off with me for the moment! Will be back sporadically.

1:00 pm

only 3 vo's

1:00 pm

that's the one next to it, but thanks JBV

1:00 pm

later Monkey!

1:00 pm

length x width + consonant ending

1:00 pm

ok, thanks jessmom

1:01 pm

yw

1:01 pm

so then I need a ve - I have a ve 5, a 7, 8, and five 4s

1:01 pm

un6?

1:02 pm

ar 5 --- a + the **** deal or genuine

1:02 pm

thanks BR! that was it!

1:02 pm

ve4/7 x 4, ve4/8 x1, ve7/44

1:03 pm

un + pi4

1:03 pm

oops, I guess I don't have them all yet.... sorry1

1:03 pm

ve8? ve7? *fainT*

1:03 pm

I have 5 ve 4's and one ve 5

1:03 pm

un 6 -- add a homonym for gomer's last

1:03 pm

ve 7 --- is a porch

1:04 pm

oooh! got the porch...

1:04 pm

shame there's not an h there too

1:04 pm

ty jbv and br, just one left for me!!! la 6,24 - last la

1:04 pm

ve 8 -- add a ply or coat

1:05 pm

that's what you need hlj, br's last clue

1:06 pm

bbl

1:06 pm

ve 8 == add a bonder

1:06 pm

later wildcat

1:06 pm

no the right la

1:06 pm

not finding glue in the grid BR...

1:07 pm

not the right la, ty, but the last one

1:07 pm

lol nor me

1:07 pm

la is like a kind of flooring, minus the last two letters

1:07 pm

ve8 ve4/7 + all spelling of copycat bird

1:07 pm

jbv, i already have that one, it's a different one

1:08 pm

la 6,24

1:08 pm

ve 8 == mary had a little ***b and the n*** pinta and santa maria

1:08 pm

ve8 * ve4/7 #2

1:08 pm

wow. what a word

1:09 pm

la 6/24 - a type of carriage or car = ends in a two point vowel

1:09 pm

or, Ike and T*** Turner

1:10 pm

andle should be a word

1:11 pm

of course, then we'd have to make indle and undle words too

1:11 pm

ty, jbv, still cant get it

1:11 pm

la 6 = by la**, sea and air + symbol for gold

1:12 pm

the my 4/7 on the bottom right is yet another spelling off that bird.

1:12 pm

Martin La**** from Mission:Impossible ..

1:12 pm

ty jbv, that was it, I now have fireworks!!!

1:13 pm

congrats, hlj

1:13 pm

goodmorning everyone

1:13 pm

congrats, hij

1:13 pm

ty so much

1:13 pm

Congrats hlj!

1:13 pm

hello, lyn

1:13 pm

hi, lynxx, happy new year

1:13 pm

Heya lynxxxxxxxxxxx ..

1:14 pm

lynx is in a different year to us!

1:14 pm

thanks for the ve 8

1:14 pm

how does it feel lynxxx, 2009 I mean

1:14 pm

just another time traveller...

1:14 pm

hello lynxxx! what does 2009 feel like?

1:14 pm

was on the phone with Mother, she says hello

1:16 pm

2009 feels great - its going to be a good good year! (well, its got to be better than 2008 surely)

1:16 pm

excellent! looking forward to experiencing it myself.

1:17 pm

okay, the last one I need for no blank tiles is the A on the bottom row please?

1:17 pm

not enough iron in the blood

1:18 pm

OMG, just found the last ve - it's not even a real word - ve 5 - calf meat + sometimes vowel - ugh!

1:18 pm

an4.4 retentive

1:19 pm

thanks for that one JBV

1:19 pm

TY JBV

1:19 pm

LOL thanks lynxxx...

1:19 pm

oh! that low blood! thanks also atalante

1:20 pm

well, I suppose I ought to get dressed and get my day started.... another 12 hours and 40 minutes to 2008 for me!

1:20 pm

do you have all the i's on the bottom row, stid? care to clue? all I have is two in 5's

1:20 pm

wow stid

1:20 pm

you really ARE a time traveller

1:20 pm

a worthy new year's resolution: resolve to be nicer to yourself ... people are so willing to be compassionate and empathetic about the peccadilloes of others but refuse to cut themselves any slack

1:20 pm

no, I only have one eye on the bottom row JBV, the water thing

1:21 pm

the other is what you do with tiles

1:21 pm

in 5 -- add what a hen does to an egg

1:21 pm

JBV a lazy id54.5, 5.12 & 4.7

1:21 pm

oops. MEANT "of" 2008 -- there is a colloquialism around here that uses of-to interchangeably. I don't usually use it in writing though

1:21 pm

thanks for the other in 5

1:21 pm

in 4 -- add the adverbial suffix

1:22 pm

thanks, BR

1:22 pm

id 4 -- what your car does in neutral

1:22 pm

aha! that's a grey tile for me...

1:22 pm

oh, that was so close to my made up word before - never saw it, thanks

1:22 pm

dont do that when Haz is around :P

1:23 pm

to stand id 4 by when help or aid would be appropriate

1:23 pm

the id 5 is the one who id 4

1:23 pm

what Ata - an id5?

1:24 pm

I'm back! 69 left.

1:24 pm

no LOL use the american to / of thing

1:24 pm

okay, I'm off for a while. back later if I can, if not, happy new year everyone and see you tomorrow!

1:24 pm

hi Phae

1:24 pm

bye stid, happy new year!

1:24 pm

and to your too, stid

1:25 pm

bye Stid, have a good day

1:25 pm

BR -- just read your 1:20 bit. I agree and thanks for saying that.

1:26 pm

na 4 -- is a babblet with a paucity of consonants

1:28 pm

mo 4 -- There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who mo** for gold;

1:29 pm

ov 5 -- an operation the CIA would eschew

1:38 pm

14 left! going shopping. later

1:39 pm

bye Harry

1:42 pm

tr 6 === extend the streetcar with an electric elevated railway

1:47 pm

Does anyone know how much a postcard stamp is in the USA?

1:49 pm

.27

1:49 pm

thanks torgone

1:52 pm

BBL - I'm just staring at this

1:56 pm

26 cents

1:56 pm

sorry, I'm wrong, it is 27 cents

1:57 pm

Whee .. New furniture ..

hi everyone, back for another go....

2:03 pm

Heya beach ..

an7/32 plz

2:10 pm

Low iron in the blood ..

2:12 pm

afternoon, all!

hi jes

2:13 pm

Heya jes ..

2:13 pm

how goes?

2:14 pm

I do not like this grid

2:14 pm

47 left ..

2:14 pm

Hi eveyrone... hurmpf

2:14 pm

that is about how many I have Torg

hi DR

I don't care for this one, myself.....

2:15 pm

Hi Beach

2:15 pm

Lots of common words but twisty-turny to get them ..

2:15 pm

I am not seeing it

2:17 pm

Lots of goofy word too though ..

2:18 pm

ok thanks Torg

2:19 pm

Speaking of goofy .. fi6/33 ..rhymes with ni6/24 ..

2:20 pm

ty

2:21 pm

greyed the bottom M

2:21 pm

celebrate the small things in life

2:22 pm

Is it me or is today's grid super slowwwww? (sigh)

2:23 pm

it is slow for me jj

2:23 pm

I'm back for a it and it is super slow for me - 65 left

2:23 pm

S l o w . . .

2:23 pm

wb birdeee

2:24 pm

this grid is not even enjoyable to do it is more of a chore

2:25 pm

ve7 clue please?

2:26 pm

nm got it

2:26 pm

We shall take tea out on the ve7 ..

2:26 pm

ty Torg

2:28 pm

Hello everyone. I made it home in the snow (we got 9 inches overnightand the snowfall continues) and don't have to leave the house until Friday AM.

2:29 pm

hullo scrabs. welcome home :)

Hi Scabbler

2:29 pm

welcome home Scrabs!

2:29 pm

ty torgone!

2:30 pm

Heya Scrabby ..

2:30 pm

Today I was surveying my re*** from my dining room table

2:30 pm

The morning commute was not easy--I was going up a rather steep hill and even with all-wheel drive I could not make it in the snow, so I did a 12-point turn ON THE HILL and came down to take an alternate route.

2:31 pm

Youare brave Scrabs!!

THAT had to be nervewracking!

2:31 pm

anyone have the un 5/16?

2:31 pm

I almost started crying and I thought about going right back home, but I persevered.

2:32 pm

nm, got it

2:32 pm

un + Now I ** me down to sleep, ...

2:32 pm

Do you have all wheel drive Scrabs

2:32 pm

I do--a Subaru Forester, but the roads were not well plowed.

2:33 pm

I miss my Forester

2:33 pm

I love my Forester--I will keep it til it dies then probably get another.

2:34 pm

My son has a Forrester. They love it, but they don't live in an area that gets snow

2:34 pm

I had to sell it when I moved to MA - didn't need a car that year (was in grad school)

2:34 pm

I think that I need new tires. My father is looking for a deal for me--he loves to find bargains.

2:35 pm

tires make a HUGE difference

2:35 pm

Could anyone help with an 7, please?

2:35 pm

Good tires make all the difference in snow ..

2:35 pm

I just made a pot of mint green tea (decaf). Anybody want some?

2:35 pm

an7 = low iron in the blood ..

2:36 pm

Yes please ..

yes please, Scrabbler

2:36 pm

Brit spelling for an7

2:36 pm

got chamomile myself, scrab. but thanks

2:36 pm

thx, torgone and scrabbler...hadn't tried the brit vowels!

2:37 pm

Here you go, BB, and be careful, it's hot.

2:37 pm

And torgone, here is your cupful.

2:37 pm

ty ty ty for the Brit. clue!

2:37 pm

I have a sink full of dirty dishes mocking me .. Back in a few ..

2:38 pm

New icon for the theme

2:38 pm

YW, jj

2:38 pm

Hmmmm . . didn't show up yet

2:38 pm

bye, torg

thx Scrabbler, needed that!...

2:39 pm

there it is

2:39 pm

The hot tea is perfect on a day with wind chill of 10 degrees F below zero

2:39 pm

heh. indeed, birdee... guess I don't have to change my icon for that theme, since my last several months have been all about finding homes for critters :)

2:39 pm

Not really here. Just wanted to let Scrabbler know I have a Subaru Forester also. It is a pretty good car.

2:40 pm

I can only imagine that weather Scrabs

2:40 pm

Hi Min..

2:40 pm

jes, the foster bunny is officially mine. I changed her na4 from Bijou to Beatrix Potter and I call her Miss B most of the time.

2:40 pm

cute :)

2:41 pm

Back to General Hospital (even though it is a repeat)

2:41 pm

official babble welcome for Miss B.

2:41 pm

I love it, Minveryork. I add kayak cradles for 2 kayaks during the nice weather, and can put my XC skis in the back during the winter. It handles well.

2:41 pm

Nice Picture Min - Happy Birthday Val

2:41 pm

ahh... we were at that temp and worse most of last week

2:41 pm

Brrr, Natts

2:42 pm

nice enough today at 5F, I think, but I have snow to shovel

2:42 pm

it's warmed up from -11 (without windchill!) last week to in the 20s this week, but we've also had over 50 inches of snow in the past 10-14 days.

2:42 pm

You are in the Seattle ar4, right, jes?

2:43 pm

well, closer to there than you are, but there's a mountain range between me and seattle, scrabs

2:44 pm

Pacific Northwest is more accurate, right?

2:44 pm

inland northwest is what they usually call us

2:44 pm

eastern washington

2:44 pm

so much closer to spokane than seattle

2:45 pm

I had neighbors that moved to that ar4. The father was a nuclear engineer and went to WA to manage a nuclear plant.

2:46 pm

trying to think where the closest nuke is, and all i'm coming up with is hanford

2:46 pm

there is also Trojan - now decommisioned

2:47 pm

That might be it.

2:47 pm

where was trojan at?

2:48 pm

About an one and a half hours north of Portland near I-5

2:48 pm

was the Trojan condomed..er I mean condemed

2:48 pm

good afternoon

2:48 pm

ah. yeah, that's why it sounds familiar; used to live over there.

2:48 pm

heheh. thanks, ruru

Hello Madi

2:49 pm

Trojan needed to many repairs/upkeep so they blew it up - made the news

2:50 pm

afternoon all :)

2:51 pm

firewords for me... quite frankly I hated those Us and Vs and Ys

2:51 pm

afternoon, madi and kaz

2:51 pm

yay, lady!

2:51 pm

Congrats LadyNatts

2:51 pm

Hi Ruru, Madi and Kazozz. Congrats Natts!

2:51 pm

ty ty

am5/14 plase

2:52 pm

am5/14 means there are as many as you could need

2:53 pm

now I'm going to throw some laundry in ... still snowing, so don't want to waste time on that - yet.

2:53 pm

al5/10 pretty please

2:53 pm

have fun babbling, everyone, and happy new year!

2:53 pm

have fun, lady

i am high

2:54 pm

cna i have a clue for fa6?

hello everyone. Please can I have some help with my last word - un6/24

2:54 pm

fa6 is what gathers for the holidays.

2:54 pm

FA6 - the group you live with

2:55 pm

Hi Chrissie

al5/10 - if you are wide awake you are al***

2:55 pm

thanks. i should have seen it

Hi Scrabbler

2:55 pm

Thanx Chrissie

yw

nm, got it, fireworks for me !!!

Have a Happy New Year everyone. See you in 2009 ;-)

2:59 pm

you too, chrissie :)

3:00 pm

Congrats Chrissie!

WTG Chrissie

3:01 pm

Is this grid tough or am I struggling, or both? I have hit the wall after finding only 69 words.

3:02 pm

It is tough for me - I have 58 left

3:02 pm

people have been saying so, scrab. doesn't seem too horrible to me yet, but i just started too

3:04 pm

**focusing**

3:06 pm

I got 4 words from focusing, LOL.

3:07 pm

good on ya! :)

3:12 pm

silly fi 6/33 word

3:12 pm

I monkeyed it from your clue.

3:13 pm

I was thinking the same thing of the ma7.

3:14 pm

A clue, please, Bea?

3:15 pm

ma + baby bottle tip - one of the double cons.

3:15 pm

i found the 1st 120 or so without too much trouble...down to 23 now but been struggling with some of these words!

3:15 pm

Haha--an abbreviation for a guy's teat?

3:15 pm

LOL!

3:16 pm

thats similar to the fi i didnt like...great clue bzz

3:17 pm

TY

3:18 pm

could someone clue the la5/10

3:19 pm

Hawaiian porch

3:19 pm

thnx Bzz

3:20 pm

yw

3:21 pm

TY, Bea

3:22 pm

la5- another name for ve7

3:23 pm

Thanks for that one, aeb

3:24 pm

yw

3:25 pm

unalert should be a word

3:27 pm

unalert- to take back your alert?

3:27 pm

sounds fine to me : )

3:30 pm

No, meaning sleepy

3:31 pm

I guess we should go to the penalty box for using al5 in the chat

3:31 pm

probably, but we're all so un-al5 that nobody noticed ;)

3:32 pm

perhaps... but i've already had my fill of sweets today

LOL

3:33 pm

la6/24....clue please

3:34 pm

Haha, jes

3:38 pm

I need a break. BBL

3:38 pm

Hi all

3:39 pm

La6/24 type of carriage

3:39 pm

Martin La**** from Mission: Impossible ..

3:39 pm

ty reader

3:40 pm

good afternoon folks!

3:40 pm

YW

3:40 pm

ty torgone

hi reader

hi kristinc

3:41 pm

Hi Beach

3:41 pm

hi there BB!

3:42 pm

yikes! I'm in trouble with this grid already

3:43 pm

pi5/12 the first?? please ..

3:44 pm

It's a hard one

3:44 pm

Got it ..

3:44 pm

just finished and have to get ready to go to our neighbours for a new year party.... so I wish everyone a happy and a more successful new year for 2009.

3:45 pm

Happy New Year mo!

3:45 pm

cheers mo, happy new year to you as well!

3:46 pm

Happy New Year Mo

3:46 pm

can i have a clue for the first pi 5/12

3:47 pm

Having to do with hair ..

3:47 pm

thank you all again ... see you in 2009 byeee....

3:47 pm

ma7

3:48 pm

thank u

3:50 pm

ma 7/36 a division of a Roman legion

3:52 pm

does it build off any of the other ma words

3:53 pm

Ha! sounds like two things on a man's chest ..

3:54 pm

it starts with the same four letters as the 3 words before

3:54 pm

It uses one of the double letters ..

3:55 pm

How is the snow in MA piling up by now?

3:55 pm

off for a bit - back later 57 left

3:56 pm

I just came in from from shoveling I have about 6-7 inches in Bostin

3:56 pm

bye birdee...enjoy!

3:57 pm

bye, birdeee

3:57 pm

wow! SE Mihcigan was supposed to get 2-4 inches. We got just a dusting.

3:58 pm

Hey Holly! Down here in Marshfield we have a foot!

3:58 pm

No snow here ..

3:59 pm

Car, you always get more because you are close to the water

4:00 pm

Fireworks Finally!

4:00 pm

haha. Torgone. but wehre you live evreybody speaks Spanish

4:00 pm

Well, sometimes it is just the opposite and the temp of the water causes us to only have rain!

4:01 pm

Congratulations Reader and thanks for the clue on the Roman army I had to go to the internet for a search but I got it

4:01 pm

well done reader!

4:02 pm

You're Welcome - I had to look it up myself

4:02 pm

Anyone need clues before I poof

4:03 pm

not I...I can't even keep my eyes open long enough to type in words...it might me time for me to sign off and take a quick snooze :)

4:04 pm

un6?

4:04 pm

nevermind. found it.

4:04 pm

Vo5/16! V's are done ..

4:04 pm

un 6/24 +heap

4:05 pm

oops SB un + heap for anyone else who might need it

4:06 pm

ve8?

4:07 pm

hah. never mind. found it.

4:07 pm

guess ijust need to ask for them, and they jump out.

4:07 pm

LOL

4:08 pm

Well going to call it a day. Happy New Year to All.

4:08 pm

lets try it again :) vo5/18?

4:08 pm

yup. there it is.

4:08 pm

wow reader, you're GOOD at this.

4:09 pm

lol - I'm a slowwwwwww cluer

4:11 pm

jes the cat on your bio looks a little like one of mine - except mine is over 10 lb and just over a year old

4:11 pm

does he need a little buddy? Tiny Tim needs a home.

4:11 pm

I'll try...ve8?

4:11 pm

add a talking bird to the ve4/7 :)

4:12 pm

I think my other two would protest - loudly. And I will be moving soon - juggling 3 carriers will be enough

4:13 pm

oh, c'mon. it'll average. he makes 5 cats in my house right now (along with the 3 dogs, 2 gerbils, 2 rats, guinea pig, rabbit, 2 chinchillas, and snake...)

4:15 pm

maybe another time - 3 carriers, cross country in the back seat of a Civic - I'll need the tranq not the cats

4:15 pm

okay. 8 left.

4:15 pm

fine, fine, be all reasonable and stuff :P

4:15 pm

im6?

4:16 pm

Go jes!

4:16 pm

need help with the lower A...not the blood word, have that

4:17 pm

im 6/24 a type of hospice

4:17 pm

an4/4, phaeton

4:17 pm

im6...*** you done with the grid yet? add cons

4:17 pm

thankee, i was horribly misspelling that.

4:17 pm

Got to go! poof

4:18 pm

bye, reader!

4:18 pm

thanks :)

4:18 pm

la6/24?

4:18 pm

got it, thanks...i always forget that one...bye reader

4:19 pm

er. nevermind :)

4:20 pm

need help with the Y words...have ya4/6 and yl4/7...?

4:20 pm

there's a ya4/7 also

4:20 pm

back online, still have 90 to go

4:20 pm

and a yu 4/7

4:20 pm

welcome back, van

4:20 pm

re6/21, not the one that meas to stay

4:21 pm

thanks

4:21 pm

dunno holly, sorry. i have an re6/24

4:22 pm

thanks Jes got the other 3 res

4:23 pm

clue for the ya4/7?

4:23 pm

Duh getting huge fish to hit myself with

4:23 pm

heh. gonna share that, holly? since i haven't seen it either...

4:23 pm

thx jesdraggon, got it

4:24 pm

Sounds like a souther accent sayng you are old

4:24 pm

re6/21...to stay behind

4:24 pm

Jes, to send again

4:24 pm

oi! thanks, holly

4:24 pm

phaeton-did you find the ancient indian nation

4:24 pm

the southern clue was for phaeton

4:25 pm

me7,36?

4:25 pm

no...

4:25 pm

thanks Holly

4:25 pm

what about the white stuff you eat, phae

4:25 pm

jes, having to do with skin cancer

4:26 pm

thankee, thankee

4:26 pm

done with the Y's ...what white stuff?

4:26 pm

another name for a clinic

4:27 pm

Van...what word are we working on?

4:27 pm

the ya, or ay, whatever

4:27 pm

found it..thanks

4:28 pm

mo5,16 please

4:28 pm

we texans shorten our words cuz we have to drive so far

4:29 pm

pitchers mo***

4:29 pm

re5/10

4:29 pm

argh. totally using the wrong m. thank you, phaeton

4:30 pm

yw...need an O from the top...have 2xoi...om..2xov...?

4:30 pm

need another oi

4:31 pm

probably the oi6

4:31 pm

got it thanks jes

4:31 pm

which 2 ois do you have, there is a 4,5,6

4:31 pm

and the re5 needs the oi also :)

4:31 pm

which is firewords for me

4:32 pm

Jes JR Ewing was an oi____

4:32 pm

WTG Jes!!!

4:32 pm

Yeah Jes!

4:32 pm

Congratulations jes, I hope I am right behind you

4:32 pm

reiuk

4:33 pm

Whoops

4:33 pm

me7,36... the skin cancer clue has me close but not quite

4:33 pm

57 to go yet

4:33 pm

nhes, ends in the cold water word minus the last vowel

4:34 pm

use the oi, holly

4:34 pm

and work calls. gotta go. have a good one, all.

4:35 pm

HNY Jes

4:35 pm

wohoo! thx!

4:36 pm

yw nhes

4:37 pm

any clues for the E words?

4:37 pm

nm, found them

4:38 pm

talkin to myself here!

4:38 pm

el 5/12 is e+la 4/5 word. el4/4 takes away last letter

4:38 pm

Hi Minver!

4:39 pm

Good evening to my fellow babblers!How is everyone?

4:39 pm

By the way, congratulations to all the finishers! YAY!

4:39 pm

Very well Min!

4:39 pm

okay, after am impromptu snooze, I'm back to trying to muddle through

4:39 pm

Only 1 to go...

4:39 pm

hi minver...sleepy but good here! And you?

4:39 pm

they are out celebrating

4:39 pm

they are out celebrating

4:39 pm

they are out celebrating

4:39 pm

they are out celebrating

4:39 pm

they are out celebrating

4:39 pm

they are out celebrating

4:39 pm

they are out celebrating

4:39 pm

they are out celebrating

4:39 pm

they are out celebrating

4:39 pm

they are out celebrating

4:39 pm

they are out celebrating

4:39 pm

they are out celebrating

4:39 pm

they are out celebrating

4:40 pm

they are out celebrating

4:40 pm

they are out celebrating

4:40 pm

they are out celebrating

4:40 pm

they are out celebrating

4:40 pm

they are out celebrating

4:40 pm

they are out celebrating

4:40 pm

they are out celebrating

4:40 pm

they are out celebrating

4:40 pm

they are out celebrating

4:40 pm

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4:40 pm

Hello kristinc! How are you? I am having a nice quiet evening at home.Not into the whole New Year's thing

4:40 pm

oops sorry about that!

4:41 pm

If I had 20 ears, I would have heard all that phaeton!

4:41 pm

sounds very nice then minver...it's not yet evening here. We're meeting some friends for a get together in the early evening but then home and off the road to toast the new year warm and cozy in bed! :)

4:41 pm

don't know how that happened

4:42 pm

Finally Firewords!

4:42 pm

Yeah Holly!

4:42 pm

WTG Holly!

4:42 pm

well done holly!

4:43 pm

Clues anyone

4:43 pm

Is there a F7?

4:43 pm

Fireworks!!!!!

4:43 pm

im back, had to find a dict

4:43 pm

Only f6's

4:43 pm

Congratulations HollF on your fireworks!Good for you

4:43 pm

Car, I knew you were breathing down my neck congratulations

4:43 pm

3 f6's?

4:43 pm

F6 x 3

4:44 pm

WTG Car.!!

4:44 pm

Congratulations car.eeyore on fireworks! Good for U

4:44 pm

well done car!

4:44 pm

Thanks Phaeton! Thanks Min!

4:44 pm

Thanks Kristin!

4:44 pm

3 fa's?

4:45 pm

Yesterday someone stated the server was slow.Mine was not slow yesterday, but it is now. Anybody else?

4:45 pm

fa x 4

4:45 pm

Car, check my post at 443

4:45 pm

Car do you know any of the Goldens from Marshfield

4:45 pm

fa...4,4,6...?

4:46 pm

Sorry Holly! Thank you'!

4:46 pm

no I don't. I am actually an import from Norwell.

4:46 pm

I'm doing great!

4:46 pm

fa 4, 4, 4, 6

4:47 pm

found the last fa...thanks car.

4:47 pm

Everyone have a great New Years, hope 09 is better than 08

4:47 pm

It HAS to be!

4:48 pm

bye holly...cheers!

4:48 pm

Goodbye HollyF! I'll see you tomorrow in the chat log!

4:48 pm

Happy New Year to you Holly! And Happy New Year to my Babble friends! I am off later to Trifioso's house for a bash!

4:48 pm

According to Russia...the USA is going to fall apart and be controlled by other countries

4:48 pm

That is going to happen by 2010

4:49 pm

Goodbye car.eeyore! I'll see you tomorrow in the log!

4:49 pm

where you read that

4:49 pm

Have fun Car!!

4:49 pm

CNN van

4:49 pm

everybody have fun, be safe

4:51 pm

is there an R7?

4:52 pm

not that I can see phae

4:53 pm

all i have is 4's and 5's

4:53 pm

ty kris

4:56 pm

Happy New Year's Eve to all (and Happy New Year's Day to those who are already into 2009)

4:57 pm

Hello Mom!How are you doing? Welcome to the puzzle

4:57 pm

Hi Mom...HNY to you too

4:57 pm

Hi Min, nice to see you again.

4:57 pm

Hi Phae, thank you

4:57 pm

hi mom...happy NYE to you!

4:57 pm

gonna break for a bit

4:58 pm

Hi Kristin, thank you.

4:58 pm

bye van

4:58 pm

bye for now Vanassies

4:58 pm

Keep getting "word couldn't be added";very annoying

4:58 pm

bye van (see if you can find some of my missing words! :))

4:58 pm

Goodbye vanassies! I will see you later on in the chog

4:59 pm

hi, everyone - best wishes for a very happy new year - I've got dinner almost ready, so only have a few mnutes til the timer rings

4:59 pm

Have 16 words left. I guess I'll put up with annoyance

5:00 pm

Happy New Year and hello JBV

5:00 pm

Hello JBV! How are you doing? Welcome to the puzzle

5:00 pm

hello friends!

5:00 pm

hello JBV...real dinner eh? (we're eating leftovers tonight)

5:00 pm

Happy New Year and hello Stid

5:00 pm

Hi stidmama!How are you doing? Welcome to the grid

5:00 pm

kristin! how's our boy today? does he miss the snow?

5:00 pm

hello stid!

5:00 pm

he is cute min

5:01 pm

hi (((mom)))

5:01 pm

well, the dinner IS our party - it's only the three of us at home tonight, so I thought I'd make it special

5:01 pm

HYN JBV...enjoy your last meal of the year!

5:01 pm

We are having surf and turf: lobster tails and steak.

5:01 pm

hiyas - just dropping in for an hour before the party stars

5:01 pm

thanks min -- down to 103 earlier

5:01 pm

just popping in briefly while hair dries... then off

5:01 pm

oh tri! how are people getting there? snowshoes?

5:01 pm

did you have a good nap kje?

5:01 pm

(((kje))) happy new year!

5:01 pm

{{KJE}} hello, and Happy New Year's Eve. Big plans for tonight?

5:01 pm

kje, sounds like you and I are on the same page.

5:01 pm

yes phae... now must make it til midnight

5:01 pm

def, stid. sled dogs out in full force....

5:02 pm

not big plans, mom... but plans yes : )

5:02 pm

Who is cute, kje, Val Kilmer? This is a good pic of him.

5:02 pm

just got power back...woo hoo!!

5:02 pm

Hope ya do! Enjoy the last night of the year!

5:02 pm

Hi Trif

5:02 pm

*grin* we have only wind and rain at this elevation, but a couple hundred feet further inland and higher up and they are getting the slushy snow again

hey hey hey everyone, happy new year!!

5:02 pm

yes, nice smile

5:02 pm

ok, bell ringing - have fun everyone - see you later (or next year) :)

5:02 pm

Have a good time KJE

5:02 pm

hi mom!

5:02 pm

YAY nut! (((hugs))) happy last day of a long year!

5:02 pm

he cetainly does stid...missing both the snow and my mom...kind of out of sorts

5:02 pm

and I'm not usually fond of blondes, but he is cute

5:02 pm

Hi evanonut!How are you doing? Welcome to the grid

5:02 pm

{{Nutty}} hello. how are you feeling?

5:02 pm

later JBV! see you soon!

5:02 pm

hi lindylou

5:02 pm

bye bye JBV

5:02 pm

Hello Trifioso!How are you doing?Welcome to the grid

5:03 pm

amen to that, stid. NEVER have I been so glad to see a year end. What a bucket of suck

5:03 pm

still hacking stuff up mom, but at least i have heat now

5:03 pm

Hi Lindrickway! How are you doing? Welcome to grid!

5:03 pm

Nut...are you feeling better?

5:03 pm

lindy!!!! hi there! (wow, people are really coming and going today)

5:03 pm

Goodbye JBV! I will see you tomorrow in the chat log!

5:03 pm

that sucks nut - wishing you well

5:03 pm

bye jbv

5:03 pm

yes. down to 100 now...

5:03 pm

Hi Lindrick, happy new year to you

5:04 pm

oh Nut, I hope this passes soon. What kind of storm did you have that made you lose electric?

5:04 pm

poor nutly... needs more RUM! *pours generous helping for nut and generouser helping for self*

5:04 pm

thanks kjerjerjer

just popped in for a bit, have to pick hubby up soon

5:04 pm

Happy New Year to all Europeans!

5:04 pm

you are a nut

thanks phae! I'm european lol

5:04 pm

true phae - most just switched... Happy New Year!!!

another hour to go for England though!

5:05 pm

lindy...U look like U r a peeing!

LOLOL phae, didn't know you could see! *blushing*

5:06 pm

Do they consider themselves part of Europe?

some do!

technically they are

5:07 pm

oh, babble doesn't like me today!

5:07 pm

that's what happens when you pee over the side of that space needle things

5:07 pm

*thingy

aaawww (((stid))) but we babblers do

5:07 pm

thanks lindy. :-)

5:08 pm

down to 89 now.

yvw

5:08 pm

Well, better go get ready for dindin...enjoy the last night of 2008 everyone!!

5:08 pm

happy new year, phae!

happy new year phae, have fun

5:08 pm

bye bye Phae, enjoy the evening

5:08 pm

at Mother's... she and the stidkid are baking a fancy cake. When they are done I will start work on the lasagne. We found a spelt noodle (related to wheat but doesn't make me ill) to try this time.

5:08 pm

bye phae...enjoy your dinner :) HNY

5:08 pm

later phaeton

5:08 pm

Goodbye phaeton!I will see you tomorrow in the chat

5:09 pm

Hello dcseain!How are you doing?Welcome to the grid

5:09 pm

stidmama -- did you move from western Washington? We just relocated here from Mass. I told my beloved we would be living near the "stidfamily" :) but I see you have a Canadian flag now.

5:09 pm

hi, minver, and stid and kristin and mom, i'm well, how are yall?

hey dc

5:09 pm

hello seain! how's you? and alabaster and ...

5:09 pm

Hi Seain

5:09 pm

DC!!! so happy to see you....

5:09 pm

Phantom words for me today are apple, familiar, final

5:10 pm

hello again, flo

5:10 pm

no ch -- I just forgot to change back after getting home Tuesday... we are still here. whereabouts have you settled?

5:10 pm

Mine is vomit

5:10 pm

Hi Bzz

5:10 pm

sitting in an airport, happy new year to you all

and to you dorens

5:11 pm

Hello ch1212!How are you doing? Welcome to the grid

5:11 pm

hi again all

5:11 pm

north of Seattle about an hour, south of Canada about an hour, foot of the Cascades. And today we had more snow! I thought we would leave it behind in New England.

5:11 pm

Hey, mom

5:11 pm

Happy New Year to you {{Dorens}}

5:11 pm

Happy New Year Carlee

5:11 pm

Hi BuzznBea! How are you doing?Welcome to the grid

5:11 pm

Happy New Year

5:11 pm

Hello carleekat! How are you doing? Welcome to grid!

hi carlee

5:11 pm

happy new year, carlee!

5:11 pm

this is an unusual year, ch -- that part does get more snow than we do, but nothing like the last couple weeks! until now...

5:11 pm

hi minver

5:11 pm

ooh ch1212-not far from me then!

well gotta go again, so happy new year everyone may BBL

5:12 pm

hello dorens! *offers eggnog latte with extra cream, extra 'nog and lots of red and green sprinkles*

5:12 pm

later lindy!

5:12 pm

Happy New Year {{Lindrick}}

5:12 pm

Glad to hear that, stid. It's been awhile since I chatted -- does Miss Hetty still play?

5:12 pm

perhaps we should do a babble meet up later this year kristin? I say the newest person in Washington should host...

5:12 pm

we are getting more snow right now ourselves

5:12 pm

Goodbye Lindrickway! I'll see you tomorrow in the log

5:13 pm

not as often as she would like -- saw her Monday. she has really bad hand arthritis now.

5:13 pm

thankfully the snow has stayed away from us, I hope it continues to do so

5:13 pm

i heard there's snow up north, and we fly in i will be in for a major shock. it's been in the 80's down here every day

5:13 pm

Whoa!! :D You haven't seen our tiny apt. We plan to buy land and build in a couple years, so we should plan on it then :)

5:13 pm

I like that idea stid! :) (we'll see what ch1212 thinks about that though)

5:13 pm

anyway, Mother's computer is throwing hissy fits so can't change my profile stuff until I get home (if I remember)...

5:14 pm

oh good stid, I'm glad you saw hetty (but I'm sorry about her hands)

5:14 pm

LOL ch! we can meet at the Seattle Center then. It's a nice location and plenty of restaurants around to choose from.

5:14 pm

She does lurk occasionally, though.

5:14 pm

I mean -- hetty lurks occasionally. *sigh* my brain isn't off vacation yet.

5:14 pm

Well, good to see you again, stid, kristin and everyone. Seattle Center it is! Now I must dive back into the grid. Happy, healthy new year everyone.

5:15 pm

AND I just realized that my classes start up THIS monday evening... not the following one.

5:15 pm

later ch!

5:15 pm

same to you, CH

5:15 pm

bye ch

5:15 pm

that is soon Stid, another week off would be nice

5:16 pm

yes, it would Mom! especially since with the snow canceling the kids' last three days of school I didn't get my "week off" earlier, either!

5:16 pm

well, let's see.... another M on the bottom row...

5:16 pm

you all have had a heck of a time with all the snow. My Aunt can here for a week and a half to get away from the snow and then to Phoenix for 2 weeks

5:17 pm

came*

5:17 pm

why does the snow always trap the kids at home and not at school? *ducks flying objects from teachers*

5:18 pm

hey, folks! Those of you who've shown in interest in the Hohenwald, TN Elephant Sanctuary . . . here's their Xmas video on YouTube! www.youtube.com/elephantsanctuarytn

5:18 pm

because at school, they just send them home early

5:18 pm

nov 11 1987 most kids in this county got stuck at school due to snow

5:18 pm

closing early was too late :)

5:18 pm

bon jour, Une! bonne annee! bon bons! *tosses choclit to Une*

5:19 pm

bonjour et bonne annee a toi aussi, stid!! :-)

5:19 pm

oh dear, Seain. Thankfully mine were not in school then. Although the elementary school was across the street.

5:19 pm

yes, the children were trapped at the schools in some districts almost ten years ago after the earthquake, too. I really felt sorry for the teachers

5:19 pm

Hi Une, happy new year's eve

5:19 pm

you too, mom :-)

5:19 pm

thank you Une.

5:19 pm

fortunately those things don't happen too often.

5:20 pm

yes, thank goodness

5:21 pm

and when I am a teacher, I hope the children don't have to get stuck at school... they will too. I have a HUGE selection of "great reading" that isn't part of a normal curriculum... LOL

5:21 pm

how much more schooling do you have to do until you become a teacher, Stid?

5:22 pm

at least 2.5 years... after I am done with this extra undergrad bits I have two years for the master's program.

5:23 pm

that will just fly by

5:23 pm

I think I just invented the next manga super-hero...

5:23 pm

animeal: the french fries that bite back!

5:23 pm

lol, Stid how cute

5:23 pm

your son is quite handsome, Stid

5:24 pm

*grin* rofl

5:24 pm

LOL stid

5:24 pm

thanks Mom! he'll be more so in about two hours after his haircut...

5:24 pm

fireworks here

5:24 pm

YAY wv!

5:24 pm

congrats WVteach

5:25 pm

congrats, teach!!!

5:25 pm

well done wvt!

5:25 pm

yay, teach!!

5:25 pm

we had a good time in Victoria *surprised mama look* he enjoyed the excursions I had planned and had good ideas for other ways to fill our time after Jill and saanichcat got all snowed in.

5:25 pm

how cool, stid!

5:25 pm

kritin, cute pic. before looking @ profile , ithought it was paula deen

5:25 pm

good evening all. Happy new Year

5:26 pm

hello boo! happy new year to you also!

5:26 pm

happy new year to you as well Boobear

5:26 pm

hi stid

5:26 pm

well*

5:26 pm

hah, yes you know...Zach the toddler, Paula Deen...I can see it dc :)

5:26 pm

hey, boo :-)

5:27 pm

hi there boo bear

5:27 pm

well, up to 111, perhaps I will take a little break now. back later!

5:27 pm

and une too...I didn't see you sneak in whilst I was buried in the grid

5:27 pm

bye bye Stid

5:27 pm

bye stid

5:27 pm

*reaches for choclit and falls off chair...* *poof*

5:28 pm

hey, kris :-) precious pic!

5:28 pm

thanks une...my friends 7 year old daughter took-not bad for a kiddo I say!

5:28 pm

wow! impressive! :-)

5:30 pm

can anyone help with the la6/24 please?

5:31 pm

don't have it, sorry . . .

5:31 pm

wish I could Kristin, but alas .....

5:32 pm

weeelll...at least I don't feel like a heel for not having it yet

5:32 pm

city in Wyoming . . . Laremi

5:32 pm

LOLOLOL!

5:32 pm

amusing myself!

5:32 pm

hello all!

5:32 pm

hey, nrkii

5:32 pm

Hi Nrkii

5:33 pm

I typed it in and hoped you were loosing it!

5:33 pm

haloo nrkii

5:33 pm

kris! LOL

5:33 pm

LA6 - LA + not yours with a different vowel at the end.

5:34 pm

thanks Bzz

5:34 pm

Happy New Year... anyone doing anything cool and exciting tonight? I have a date with a lot of Chinese food and a DVR

5:34 pm

YW

5:34 pm

that's the la6/21

5:34 pm

Happy New Year to you as well. Nothing planned here

5:34 pm

didn't she ask for la6/24?

5:35 pm

soup and a DVD here! :-)

5:35 pm

LA6/24 is terra firma with two vowels at the end.

5:35 pm

sounds like heaven, nrkii! i was going to a party, but then the people that were hosting had to cancel it, so I am hosting it instead. three days to get ready for 35 people. What was I thinking? and then it snowed nine inches today.

5:35 pm

we're heading off to see some lights with Zach at a botanical garden. We're with a group of families are are going to do the "countdown" at 9 PM...then home for a movie!

5:36 pm

and it's 6:30, and I am babbling. what is the point value of "avoidance"?

5:36 pm

I am sure you will have a great time Trifioso

5:36 pm

ah, Martin La****--thanks!

5:36 pm

I did ask for the 6/24 just as an FYI

5:36 pm

I wish I was hosting a party Trif... I bore myself

5:36 pm

what? who is the Martin La**** you speak of?

5:36 pm

actor

5:37 pm

Martin La**** is a great character actor with very bushy eyebrows

5:37 pm

Hub and I are going to bore each other.

5:37 pm

I think he played Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood????

5:37 pm

haven't heard a word from mine. happy new year!

5:37 pm

was a key character in the Tv show Mission Impossible

5:38 pm

yes, nrkii, he did!!

5:38 pm

oh bother...I am thoroughly horrible with names but I can try to google it in a bit...thanks

5:38 pm

phantom lipid

5:38 pm

two vowels after the la 4 word before it

5:39 pm

this la** is your la** . . . + abbrev for Down Under

5:39 pm

think I will get up and walk around for a bit, hind end is getting numb. See everyone after while. {{Hugs}}

5:39 pm

later, mom :-)

5:40 pm

bye bye {{Une}}

5:40 pm

just as well that I am not doing anything exciting tonight... I got 3 very bad hours of sleep last night, and that's after taking a sleeping pill and I was exhausted before that!

5:40 pm

aha, thanks...last L for me!

5:40 pm

see ya Mom

5:40 pm

bye mom, Happy New Year

5:40 pm

ma7?

5:40 pm

bye Kristin, Happy New Year to you and your family

5:40 pm

bye bye Nrkii, hope you get some sleep tonight

5:41 pm

thanks mom

5:41 pm

you're welcome

5:43 pm

ma 7 = guy + Jesus had 12 Disc****s

5:44 pm

ma7+ is ma+what is on your chest minus the double vowel

5:44 pm

ty kristin

5:44 pm

ty nrkii

5:44 pm

I was going to go down the ni6 route, but couldn't keep it clean

5:44 pm

3 left :)

5:45 pm

tx nrkii

5:45 pm

yep...and then you go really clean for the same word...hmph! :)

5:47 pm

un6?

5:48 pm

un6 = to destack

5:48 pm

un6-what I have to do when I need clean clothes...I have to un**** the clothes in the basket (un+p4)

5:48 pm

aah! ty 2 again :)

5:48 pm

good clue, nrkii

5:49 pm

ok...ve8 - got the first 4 letters, but can't figure out the ending

5:50 pm

Hi!I am back.Lost the internet for a bit but now it is up and running again. Now I can get my last 9 words.

5:50 pm

harry, I am in the exact same boat!

5:50 pm

and of course this pesky yl4 :)

5:50 pm

welcome back minver!

5:50 pm

ve8/60 is ve4/7 plus anagram for ma 4/5 word Harry

5:51 pm

ve8 ends with opp of Max + vowel

5:52 pm

ty minv nrk :)

5:52 pm

yw

5:52 pm

one left....yl4 grrrr

5:52 pm

yl4/7 word is yl plus the not you reversed HarryHood

5:53 pm

harry - it;s like the divisions in biology

5:53 pm

oh dun I entered it already :)

5:53 pm

duh even

5:53 pm

taxa ?

5:53 pm

wtg harryhood!

5:53 pm

thanks yall....gotta put the kids to sleep. bbl to clue

5:54 pm

conrats and good night, harry

5:54 pm

Congratulations HarryHood on finishing!Good for you

5:54 pm

wahoo, I'm done too!

5:54 pm

bye harry and congrats :)

5:54 pm

Goodbye HarryHood! I'll see you later in the chat log!

5:55 pm

congrats, krstin!

5:55 pm

good job kristin!

5:55 pm

Congratulations kristinc on fireworks! Hooray for U!

5:56 pm

20 left here

6:00 pm

well, I guess I will have to say goodbye to 2008 and leave this grid unfinished. bummer. but hey, at least I found babble this past year! That is good. happy new year to you all - gotta go get fancy now!

6:00 pm

thanks...now off to pack for our very cold, NYE adventure...Happy New Year all!

6:00 pm

Have fun Trif!

6:01 pm

enjoy kristin!

6:04 pm

Goodbye Trifioso! I will see you tomorrow in the chat

6:04 pm

Goodbye kristinc! I will see you tomorrow in the chog

6:06 pm

done

6:06 pm

Congratulations nrkii on you fireworks! Good for you

6:06 pm

thanks Min

6:06 pm

time for my Chinese food binge to begin

6:07 pm

happy hunting and Happy New Year all

6:07 pm

(poof)

6:07 pm

Are ya going to leave me all by my lonesome now nrkii

6:07 pm

Goodbye nrkii! I will see you tomorrow in the chat log

6:08 pm

Happy New Year to one all.....

6:09 pm

refresh....

6:10 pm

Hello Flask1! How are you doing? Welcome to the grid

6:13 pm

hi all, I just found this game today and it's pretty straightforward (says the one with 118 words left, haha). Are there any useful tricks for this game?

6:14 pm

Is the server slow for you too Flask1! Thought it was my computer since I lost the internet awhile before.

6:15 pm

Hello twg! How are you doing? Welcome to the puzzle

6:16 pm

i'm doing very well, thank you!

6:17 pm

AngelSong's Babble page at the bottom of the screen tells you about all babble. You can learn the tricks of the trade on the website twg.Welcome to babbleland

6:20 pm

k back to tackle my last 21

6:21 pm

Hello wildcat17! How are you doing? Welcome to grid!

6:21 pm

it's been a good day ty how bout you?

6:22 pm

I am doing well, but getting annoyed because server is very slow. I keep getting "word couldn't be added".

6:22 pm

that's not fun

6:24 pm

4 words left&scared babble will die out before I finish

6:26 pm

need one more 7 not sure which one tho

6:27 pm

Min...sorry to hear you're so close and having that problem...it's happened to us sometimes and we figure we're just not getting enough "juice" in our connection!

6:28 pm

does anyone have a clue for the ma 7?

6:29 pm

has to do with skin cancer

6:30 pm

thx, van...happy new year to you for your help!

6:31 pm

that's the me7 .. ma7 is male + upper body part - one of the double letters

6:31 pm

yeah...if figured that out, but needed the me, too! so wildcat, thx for that one, too!

6:32 pm

hate to tell you i haven't figured it out, opened a dict and plugged in some "correct" words and babble won't accept them

6:34 pm

oops! fireworks are starting (outside, not on this grid, unfortunately!) good luck!

6:41 pm

Lucky 13 left

6:51 pm

fireworks

6:51 pm

Oh noes .. I deaded the chat ..

6:52 pm

hny e1

6:52 pm

Yay wild!

hi al!

a clue for the 8 please?ty

6:58 pm

ve + la6/21

why ty, vioxx!

tor i thought of you yesterday - you should see the tom servo like lamp i saw in local gallery!

woo grateful dead.

please fi6/33 clue?ty

7:09 pm

hi TOwl - rhymes with ni6.24

hi lynxx, sorry having difficulty receving chat

7:12 pm

what's happening with the US Babble - so many are complaining the last few days. OK here and in UK

7:12 pm

think server may be running slow

i dunno but i am sick of it.

7:13 pm

wonder if anyone has emailed DrG about it

has tor forsaken us?

7:14 pm

Hi, all!

7:14 pm

hi pam

7:14 pm

Happy, Healthy, Safe, Sane, and Prosperous New Year!

7:14 pm

Hi, van

7:15 pm

Sounds good Pam! Hi

hi pam, same to you!

7:15 pm

What is the chog problem? I seem to have no problems...

7:15 pm

hi, Lynn and TO!

7:16 pm

having trouble receiving chat us side

7:17 pm

morocco huh, sounds enticing

ma6/21 and 7/36 please? hell someone please just post the rest to me :/

morning all :)... oh wait, it is the afternoon

7:17 pm

Are you really in Morocco Pam? if so I am jealous! but also the problem seems to be in the States only

7:18 pm

I am not in Morocco; just traveling about....

7:18 pm

afternoon MRP

7:18 pm

I should say traveling about in cyber space

7:18 pm

Hi, MRP!!!!!!!!! Long time 8-)

HAPY NEW YEAR MR> P AND FAMILY!!!!!!

tragically hungover

7:18 pm

ma6.21 capital of the Phillipines

7:19 pm

You have good reason to celebrate, Bionic Woman!!!!

*whispers* sorry i am about to go do the same mr. p!

7:19 pm

thanks, lyn

7:19 pm

lol MRP - you are supposed to be setting an example for your kids!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! !~!~!~FIREWORKS~!~!~! for 2009

7:20 pm

ma7 ma & centre of a breast less one of the double cons

and after that capital?

ty isn't that a church stole.vestment?

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

7:20 pm

thanks, lyn, what an odd ma7!

7:21 pm

Congrats, lind!

7:21 pm

I think so TO

7:21 pm

Congrats Lind!

yay lindy!

7:21 pm

yes, it is a church vestment and something in a roman army...

thanks guys & happy new year!

me7please?

7:22 pm

(in ancient Rome) a subdivision of a legion, consisting of 60 or 120 men.

ME 7 skin cancer

ty

yw

7:24 pm

skin cancer? hmmmm

pam ends in 2/3 frozen water!

7:25 pm

the me7 ends in a gin & to***

7:25 pm

got it, thanks!

has ultrasound today, to rule out gall stones and anything else they could see. but it made my tummy tender again! ouch!

7:28 pm

see you guys later, party time

aaww (((hugs))) to

have fun van!

bye vanassies, have fun

7:28 pm

thanks, be good and safe

mo5/16 would help my tummua hce... :0

mo 5/16 small hill?

7:29 pm

bye vanass

7:29 pm

burial mo 5

hey BR happy new year!

7:30 pm

you too, Lindrick

hi br

ty

7:30 pm

hello, TO

7:30 pm

hi, babbler

7:31 pm

yo, pam

7:31 pm

the saint, simon te 7

hahahahaha BR!

wasn't that an English show?

7:34 pm

tr 6/21 === add a firm chewy candy" c*ra***

7:34 pm

yes

did it pl** over this side of the planet too?

7:36 pm

thanks, BR. would not have gotten that tr--thought it had to of the middle consonant...

7:36 pm

thought it was quite boolah boolah

un6/24 aND THE 5 THEREAFTER PLEASE?

I prefered Roger Moore as the saint, rather than a slimy Bond!!

UN & heap

UN & needles & ***s

7:38 pm

ve 7 --- a large, open porch

oh really! in the UK it is a balcony!

7:39 pm

ve 8 --- add mary had a little ***b and ike and t*** turner

cool clue!

7:40 pm

happy new year to you all!

BR why do you have the grim reaper as your icon?

7:40 pm

Can I get a clue for the al 4/7 please? The monkeys are not coming up with it.

hey sprite, happy new year to you too!

7:40 pm

n. A porch or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building. Also called regionally gallery.

7:40 pm

hello, sprite

7:40 pm

BabbleRabble, I have copied the poem in your profile into mine for tomorrow, do you mind?

AL 7 a & an elevator is also a ***t

7:41 pm

be my guest

7:41 pm

that ve8 is weird... thanks, br!

7:41 pm

thank you. They are just the right words at the right time for me.

7:41 pm

Thanks Lindrick!!

7:41 pm

happy new year, sprite!

7:42 pm

Happy New Year everyone!

yvw tabbycat & happy new year!

DAWG!!!!!!!!!!!!! happy new year!

7:42 pm

LIND!!

7:42 pm

I am the grim reaper cause I could not find a grin reaper

lol

7:43 pm

Sprite, is it the Neruda poem?

7:43 pm

or a gin reaper?

7:43 pm

it is such an industrious grim reaper, I like it.

oohhh sounds even better pam!

7:43 pm

hi, lbd and mab

7:43 pm

mab, I copied it from BabbleRabble's poem, and there it says Author unknown. I wouldn't know.

7:43 pm

hi Pam

7:44 pm

one word left and it's making me crazy......a clue for AN7/32 ???

sorry net issues again

7:44 pm

Oh, I see. I was going to recommend Pablo Neruda's love poems, which are very very caliente. Happy New Year!

7:45 pm

an7 = similar to blood disease

7:45 pm

hi all

7:45 pm

lkdubb: bloodlessness?

AN 7 - memory loss

7:45 pm

odd way to spell blood disorder, usually lacking in iron.

oh ignore me i am going mad!

le5/12 and following le 4 please?ty hi pini

english spelling dawg!

hi Pini

7:45 pm

*giggles* Lindri, is it your memory or your blood iron failing? ;)

7:46 pm

well, that's pretty odd! Lind...:-)

7:46 pm

hi Pini

7:46 pm

Hi Pini

7:46 pm

hi hi

I have amnesia!

who are you all???? LOL

7:46 pm

Happy New Year to those who've seen midnight already!

both i think sprite!!

7:47 pm

lol... who are all those people and why are they calling me Lindri....

exactly! LOL

7:47 pm

...and pre HNY to those still yet to hit it!

7:47 pm

what people?

7:47 pm

roses are red ... violets are blue ....

7:47 pm

animea

7:47 pm

uuuuuuuuum

and to you too Pini! may you have a fantastic year to come!

7:47 pm

amnesia seems like the perfect state in which to receive the new year

7:48 pm

aren't you all just my imaginary friends?

7:48 pm

I like peanut butter can you skate?

I am working on it very hard mab! LOL

7:48 pm

here it is 2.47 am into the New Year. Fireworks are dieing out slowly and I think I should go to bed.

hi mabster

7:48 pm

hey TOwl

7:49 pm

I still have over 6 hours to go!

7:49 pm

BR, a poet in the rough

7:49 pm

Hi all, back from errands - sprite I have over 6 hours to go till the noise starts here

7:49 pm

hi TO

7:49 pm

hi bird

7:49 pm

hi dawg

7:49 pm

You're a west coaster, too, Birdeee?

hi dawg

hi birdee

7:49 pm

Pacific Wonderland

hi sprite struggling to finish 5 before i get dressed to go out

7:50 pm

babble is funny that way. Our Australian and NS friends start the event and our American buds finish it

7:50 pm

Gotta love the PNW!!!

7:50 pm

YES!

7:50 pm

Yeah, we apparently enjoy bringing up the rear!!! LOL

7:50 pm

i have to tell a funny on myself...i was at the grocery store and writing out my check...the date i put on it was 31 February 2008

go TO go go go

LOL pini

personally I will be glad to see the end of this year!

7:51 pm

We are dressing in our pajamas to stay IN this year. Mad Scrabble games are planned

7:51 pm

love your icon, Birdee

7:51 pm

Lindri, I second that!

7:51 pm

brb

LOL dawg, maybe this amnesia is catching!!

7:51 pm

lol dawg!

7:51 pm

it was for your theme of what did last year signify sprite

7:51 pm

i think it was a time warp or a worm hole!

7:51 pm

yes I read your story too, thanks for sharing!

cr** birdee, that is my response!!

7:52 pm

I am sure you could find a good icon for that, Lindri :)

7:52 pm

me too!

LOLOL sprite, i like your thinking!

7:53 pm

wow birdee, that's some significant change in your life!

I am looking forward to better times (even though i am a pessimist!)

7:53 pm

I have 57 words left - time to focus or something. Yes - it is a whole handful of change dawg

go birdee go go go

7:54 pm

wow.....crazy spelling for AN7/32....thanks for the clue......now I can take a couple excedrin watch the ball drop.....happy new year guys

7:54 pm

An optimist thinks we live in the best world possible. A pessimist is afraid that is true.

7:54 pm

i have hope and faith that the new year will be better than this last one. changes are in the making.

Yahoo dubb, happy new year!

7:54 pm

happy new year lkdubb

7:55 pm

all the best, dubb, and lots of happiness

7:55 pm

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Plato

I believe if i look on the dark side sprite, things can only get better and so it cheers me up when it is better!

7:55 pm

go dawg, may you be right!

7:55 pm

sounds so simple, BabbleRabble, and yet it can be so hard to be kind and keep that in mind.

looking on the bright side usually leaves me depressed! lol

7:56 pm

come to the darkside, Lind...we have cookies! lol

7:56 pm

hey, nothing wrong with the dark side!

on my way dawg! lol

7:56 pm

and the dark side usually has the best men :)

lol sprite that is where i found mine!

7:57 pm

OK...icon is better now! ;)

7:57 pm

hello everyone!

7:57 pm

...and Koda is having nervous fits (this is his first NY celebration)

hi asliny

7:57 pm

good one, Pini. Hi asliny

cool pini

7:57 pm

hi aslindy

7:58 pm

hi aslindy

oh bum sorry i meant hi aslindy!

7:58 pm

how is everyone?

7:58 pm

poor koda, build him a little den and reassure him the world is not blowing up.

7:59 pm

Would it help if I put him in his kennel with a cover???

unfortunately I am brain dead! (no change there) but otherwise great thanks aslindy!

7:59 pm

ok gang am5/12 and the first am4/5

7:59 pm

yes, the more you can sound proof his "den" the better he will feel

7:59 pm

tranquilizers for the dog

7:59 pm

a+ central street in town

7:59 pm

ok, I guess a firm impression of the keyboard on my cheek means I should really go to bed. Have a brilliant NYE if you are still in 2008, and/or a wonderful start of 2009. *hugs* to you all.

7:59 pm

reward yourself, Lind, you are maintaining

8:00 pm

thnx dawg

8:00 pm

Sweet Sleep Sprite! Happy New Year

ty BR i'll reward myself with a nice alcoholic drink, then maybe i will be coherent!

8:00 pm

nitey nite sprite - what is the icon for my tomorrow???

8:00 pm

be well, sprite

8:00 pm

to you as well, sprite!!!

8:00 pm

HNY everyone!

night sprite, happy new year & take care

oh dar...i need one l 6 word but there is only one in the grid and i have it..i just refreshed to no avail

8:00 pm

that will be Happy New Year, Birdee

8:00 pm

OK...I might have to step away to get his kennel before the fireworks begin!!!

8:01 pm

My dogs used to go bonkers, so i'd build them a den of sleeping bags and old blankets, they'd burrow in there and whimper for a while then go to sleep

8:01 pm

sounds like a plan, lbd

8:01 pm

aman

8:01 pm

opppps

la6 24 please*BEGS ON HANDS AND J=KNEES* I MUST GET READY TO PARTY

8:01 pm

Hi Phae!

AM 4 - am & 2 vowels or am & not out

8:02 pm

Barbara Bain's husband, Martin La*****

8:02 pm

Hi Dawger

la 6 - terra firma & 2 vowels

hi phae, happy new year!

WELL RAISE THEROOF! HAPPY NEW YEAR AND SEE YOU NEXT YEAR *poof*

8:03 pm

it's the ma4/5 above that onelindrick - thnx tho

A DHI PHAE *REAL POOF*

Yahoo TO, have a great time

8:03 pm

Bye TO have fun, stay safe

8:03 pm

bye temple - happpy new year

8:04 pm

Birdee not the stuff from the usps?

8:04 pm

oopps not ma4/5 but am4/5

8:05 pm

tis too cold in new england to go out. brrrrr....

8:05 pm

Birdee...remember Idi Am**?

those are the only 2 am 4's birdee

8:05 pm

dada

AM & 2 vowels & AM & not out

8:05 pm

yes phae - I have him it is the one before him in the list

8:06 pm

sub a vowel for the last letter

8:06 pm

change the last letter to a vowel

8:06 pm

sailing the bounding am6

8:06 pm

mab the wind is howling outside here (CT)

8:06 pm

thanx you guys I thought I had typed that one a million times with my monkey fingers

go birdeee go go go

8:07 pm

the bounding what BR?

8:07 pm

I think I need a glass of wine to finish these

as i said go birdeee go go go LOL

8:08 pm

not sure what BR is bounding over, glad he's not captaining my boat!

8:08 pm

is there an AM6?

8:09 pm

yes, it's more of the am5

yes phae it is an extention of the am 5

snap dawg!

8:09 pm

phae, list is in my profile

8:09 pm

more am5

8:09 pm

la5/16?

8:09 pm

I had a glass of wine, but then i ate a half dozen shrimpies and the shrimpies drank all the wine

bad shrimpies!

8:09 pm

pb is replenished with coke products, Lind

8:09 pm

..Oh and Heyas all ..

8:10 pm

GONE!!!!

8:10 pm

add "are we not men we are d***"

8:10 pm

were they drunken shrimpies?

8:10 pm

thanks dawger, checked earlier but you still had yesterdays. :)

8:10 pm

SHOES!!

RURU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

8:10 pm

la + adam's companion change last vowel to another.

hi torg * red!

8:10 pm

they are now! ruru

8:10 pm

LINDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

8:11 pm

Hi Redshoes! Hi ruru, Hi TORG!!

is this your last day ruru?

8:11 pm

*passes around more vino to those 21+ in the US, 18+ elsewhere*

8:11 pm

brb, need more tea

8:11 pm

wow. i never would have gotten that la

8:11 pm

Perfect clue Harry ..thanks!

8:11 pm

next time I wouldn't drink first

8:11 pm

thank you

lol red, just to be awkward it is 19 here LOL

8:11 pm

yw tor

8:11 pm

hi, again....

8:11 pm

yes lindy

wb pam

8:11 pm

dangit!

8:12 pm

le5/12? ..plznthx ..

aaww ruru I miss you already! )0:

8:12 pm

uh..lindy I haven't left yet

nevertheless )0:

LE & not fema**

8:13 pm

ok fine. *passes adult beverages to all 'of age' parties*

8:13 pm

la -- darwin's theory of ***lution is opposed by creationists

woohoo ty red!

in anticipation ruru I am sad I hate goodbyes!!

ty Lindy

8:15 pm

you know, I actually like to believe in a mixture of micro***lution and creationism. =)

8:15 pm

I will pop in from time to time...when you least expect it

8:15 pm

Thanks Lindy! .. 8 left ..trying to finish before the party gets going ..

8:15 pm

weird la word--thanks, babbler

yvw torg, go go go

8:16 pm

how about id 4/7?

8:16 pm

at your house, tor?

8:16 pm

to torture kje, ruru?

yvw beachboggle go go go

8:16 pm

Ruru!!!! So good to see you. I have missed you. Happy New Year to you and all babblers

8:16 pm

yes.. that would be first on my list..lol

Id 4/7 same as id 4/5 but sometime vowel

8:16 pm

PARTY AT TORGONES!! .. Come on in!

id4/7 id4/4 change last vowel

8:17 pm

;-)

((((mom)))) happy new year

8:17 pm

yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

8:17 pm

{{Lindrick}} to you as well

i mean id4/5... newbie here

8:17 pm

thanks mom

ty mom

ID 4/5 lazy

8:17 pm

thnx bboggle

;-)

8:17 pm

back to keep working

8:18 pm

welcome to Babble Beachboggle

yw

8:18 pm

I'll hop on my beach horse and be at torgone's house in about three weeks!

8:18 pm

Hi Feather

wb feather & happy new year

ty so much

8:18 pm

:)

8:18 pm

The prty should still be going mab ..

8:18 pm

oafily should be a word =)

8:19 pm

thought Lindrick would clue the id + *ind* hop

ve5/20, anyone?

8:19 pm

woot!!!!

lol BR

ve 5/20 add sometimes vowel to the 4

8:20 pm

ve5 add ***ynx

8:20 pm

vo 5 == v + author of the Iliad: h****

8:21 pm

D help please?

ty vm guys!

8:21 pm

time to get my bath. Happy New Year to all. See you tomorrow. {{Hugs}}

8:21 pm

saudi arabian currency

8:21 pm

currency weed

8:21 pm

or is it syrian?

8:21 pm

egyptian?

8:22 pm

hmm.

8:22 pm

jordanian?

8:22 pm

got it, thanks

8:22 pm

It's Iraqi I think ..

tunisia & iraq?

8:22 pm

soounds like someone going out to eat

8:22 pm

turkey, i think.

8:23 pm

can

8:23 pm

Or all of them actually ..

8:23 pm

t see the ve5/20....

8:23 pm

who have we missed in the middle east? lol

actually 9 different countries

Iraqi, according to dict

8:23 pm

how about the bottom middle A?

8:23 pm

really young ve4 pam

8:24 pm

add the sometimes vowell

8:24 pm

thanks!

8:24 pm

feath think iron poor blood

8:24 pm

currency of iraq, and several other countries.

algeria, bahrain, iraq, jordan, kuwait, libya, serbia, tunisia & macedonia!!

8:24 pm

k, thinking

according to wikipedia

8:25 pm

and yugoslavia

8:25 pm

doh missed macedonia :)

LOL harry!

turkey is the turkish lira

8:25 pm

ra5/12 - either? ..

8:25 pm

an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Yugoslavia, equal to 100 paras

8:26 pm

harry, how many letters long is it?

8:26 pm

8

8:26 pm

ra+ pt of meet

8:26 pm

7 rather :)

8:26 pm

re 5 --- add spooky movie street

8:26 pm

lol ok

8:26 pm

ra+ letter after M + freud's little friend

8:27 pm

alt spelling feath

8:27 pm

yah, figured, working on it

8:27 pm

wrong re 5 --- ***s for the poor

8:27 pm

aha, got it!

8:27 pm

Thanks lb! Drink?

8:27 pm

woohoo

go feather go go go

8:28 pm

got my tea, Torg

8:28 pm

hehe, thanks lind, i'm feeling particularly sluggish on this grid!

oh so did I feather (0:

8:28 pm

or...not al5/10 as the case may be

8:28 pm

this grid was a not easy, for me.

lol feather!

8:29 pm

3 left .. re6/24?

8:29 pm

when they give a criminal over to some juristiction

8:29 pm

just happened to be the word i found next

8:29 pm

re+ i de**** a recount

RE 6 - in prison waiting for your sentence

8:29 pm

jursdiction?

8:30 pm

re 6 -- add required: ****atory

8:30 pm

ok, just got over halfway, don't think i feel like finishing this one. night all!

8:30 pm

That's it! Firewerks! Thank you all so much!

8:30 pm

bye feath

8:30 pm

sweet dreams, Feather

8:30 pm

WHOOO HOOOO TORG!!!

night feather, happy new year!

Yahoo Torg

8:30 pm

re 6 -- is when a higher court reviews a lower court proceeding and returns it to the lower court for further action

8:31 pm

congrats, Tor

8:32 pm

Thank yew thank yew ..

8:32 pm

yauy torg

8:32 pm

woot, tor!!!!

8:32 pm

so humble. happy new year torgone

8:32 pm

Almost time to start the grill so I can finish the ribs ..

mmmm ribs!

8:33 pm

mmmm warm

8:33 pm

Thank you ms. mab ..

8:33 pm

My ribs are legendary ..

you sexy beast torg!!! (0:

8:33 pm

ribs...dry rub or wet?

oh you meant your cooking !! *blushing*

8:34 pm

do servo's have ribs?

8:34 pm

lindrick! :D

8:35 pm

umbrellas have ribs

LOL

8:35 pm

!*!FIREWORKS!*!....thank you Dawger

8:35 pm

corsets do, too

8:35 pm

(back)

8:35 pm

whooooo hooooo PHAE!!!!

Yahoo phae!

8:35 pm

congrats, phaeton

8:35 pm

gogo phae

yeah but neither of those are sexy! )0:

8:35 pm

wtg phae

8:35 pm

A little dry rub .. bake in oven with vinegar .. finish on grill with sauce ..

hi all. Who else doesn't "have a life" and is home, doing nothing on New YEar's eve?

8:36 pm

oooh, Torg, you're the servo!

8:36 pm

lindy !!!

8:36 pm

The other ribs are just okay ..

hi autumn * hands up*

8:36 pm

Hi autumn! choose me!

8:36 pm

hello, autumn

kinky torg!! LOL

8:36 pm

Thank you! Have a Happy New Year and keep those resolutions!

8:37 pm

* raising hand in response to AM's Q *

8:37 pm

hubby is outside shoveling more snow.

happy new year phae

I thought I would be the only one here

8:37 pm

I can't recall the last time I was up at midnight on 12/31....unless it was with a crying baby.

hi Just! happy new year

8:37 pm

set a december record for snowfall

8:37 pm

lol autumn...you thought wrong

8:38 pm

well, it's not really a record here, but it's more than necessary!

8:38 pm

thank you lindy Happy New Year to you and to all who are here

8:38 pm

around here tonight it's either be home or lose parts of your body to frostbite. Only the young and drunk are out

8:38 pm

happy new year, Just1

your babble family are here autumn!!

8:38 pm

last time I was out on ny eve bell bottoms were in

Well, wishing you all the best for the new year and may the best of your past be the worst of your future.

8:38 pm

I wonder if, by staying at home and taking it easy, some would be inclined to call us a bunch of fuddy duddies!?

8:38 pm

ty dawger to you too!

8:38 pm

BR bellbottoms are back. lol

same here Eva, with the wind chill it is minus 20, happy new year!

8:39 pm

happy new year!

I've been up since 4:50 this morning. I never make it to midnight...

8:39 pm

oooo a heat wave lindy ...here it's -28

you will do it autumn, as the home depot says "we can help"!!

8:39 pm

yeah we're the old, warm and drunk...

oh yuck Just!!

8:39 pm

i've been up early too, autumn, 9:00 seems late for me!

cheers to that ruru!

8:40 pm

A sante!

old & warm, working on the drunk ruru! LOL

8:40 pm

but I shall be in + 32 + humidity by friday eve ...

8:40 pm

LOL

yeah, Lind... you staying up to 3am? I'll make it to your midnight

8:40 pm

YOu go girl

where Just?

Where you off to Just?

8:40 pm

acapulco

8:40 pm

I will be up until three...does that count?

LOL

*green with envy again* Just!

8:41 pm

i'm already drunk...

then so shall I ruru!

*green with envy again* Just!!

8:41 pm

ROFL just..WTG

8:41 pm

hubby passes out on the sofa so what else is there to do but drink and babble

Well, on that note, I am going to make supper. back in about 1/2 hour.

8:41 pm

tropical heat wave here...27°F 18 windchill. that's minus 2.5°C and minus 7 windchill, lind

go Just go!

Later autumn

Later autumn

whoops!

8:42 pm

bye autumn

8:42 pm

bon apetit autumn

oh bikini weather then dawg!

8:42 pm

happy new year Autumn, and I'm jealous, Just!

8:43 pm

*** sets up video cameras ***

8:43 pm

gnight happy ny all c u in 09

8:43 pm

well, I thought that coming back with fresh eyes would make a difference, but I'm stuck just where I was this morning, so toodleloo everyone and happy new year

8:43 pm

"Babble girls gone wild@!

LOL ruru, bit pervy again!!

8:43 pm

aww dawg...well when we were young we never went anywhere so gave hubs an ultimatum...

8:43 pm

dont say that too loud, Lind. Hubby will strip down to his shorts and then there will be he** to pay!

happy new year eva, take care!

8:44 pm

Happy New Year, Eva

woohoo dawg!

night harry, happy new year

8:44 pm

no, lind. it would not be a pretty sight!

8:44 pm

my wonderful new years eve dinner is gin n tonic with pepper pate on crackers...decadent

8:44 pm

happy new year, Harry. sweet dreams

mmm gin & tonic sounds good to me Just!

8:45 pm

puts on lens cap at lbd's house

8:45 pm

however yesteday...having been by birthday...hubby bbg'd some thick ny strips for dinner :)

8:45 pm

we had dim sum, sushi and other finger foods for dinner.

aaww dawg! and I was getting all hot under the collar!

8:45 pm

at least it is not lientery pate

8:45 pm

Happy belated birthday Just

8:45 pm

and he bbq'd 'em too!

oh Happy Birthday Just!

8:46 pm

was wondering what bbg'd was...

LOL ruru

8:46 pm

he boggled them?

8:46 pm

oh ty ty you're so sweet...but Dec31st is my fave day....only 364 til the next bday

LOLOL ruru!

8:46 pm

lots of capricorns playing babble. Unea, Mixi, Just, and me! all early capricorns at that!

8:47 pm

nah ru...he doesn't know from boggle babble tangle scramble

8:47 pm

hmmm...

8:47 pm

what is he into?

8:47 pm

what is he into?

8:47 pm

but.....bbq.ing in -20c is a treat

dawg my baby is capricorn too!

8:48 pm

my wife is a capricorn

8:48 pm

what day, lind

14th Jan

8:48 pm

my baby is capricorn too....actually he was my 31st bday present!

8:48 pm

we are loyal to a fault, us capricorns

8:48 pm

cute...

8:48 pm

to a fault is understated dawger!!!

8:49 pm

(demanding too>>>)

8:49 pm

my baby born Jan 9th

my baby is 14th & one of my best buddies is 19th

8:49 pm

the synapse between venus and mars is hupe

8:49 pm

not demanding, ruru, insistant

8:50 pm

hupe?

8:50 pm

and the difference is?

8:50 pm

19 is cuspish no? lindy?

8:50 pm

hupe?

yes Just

8:50 pm

the difference is, the couch

8:51 pm

are all you guys finished the grid? I still have 55 miserable words left

cuspish on aquarius - which would include my hubby, daugher, mother, sister & brother in law!

8:51 pm

ROFL

8:51 pm

wow lindy...my father was aquarius

go Just go go go

I am surrounded Just!

8:51 pm

the couch ... are capricorns the couchers or the couchees?

8:51 pm

my father was a feces

8:52 pm

aww ru... really?

8:52 pm

oh shoot, i just remembered...i forgot to mail a birthday card!

8:52 pm

really...

((((ruru)))))

bummer dawg!

8:52 pm

BR, depends

8:52 pm

my father died suddenly when I was only 19...although we never got along well...

8:52 pm

my father was a wandering aremean.

8:52 pm

sometimes all I need is the air that I breath

8:53 pm

diapers play a role?

8:53 pm

and to love you? babrab?

(((((Just)))))

what's that BR you role pl** in diapers?? LOL

8:53 pm

oh just1mar, same with me, excepy mother.

8:53 pm

silent angel go to sleep

8:53 pm

it's okay lindy....been a looooooong time

8:53 pm

depends

LOL BR

8:54 pm

***groan****

8:54 pm

lol, br

I have just forgiven my parents and got back intouch (0:

8:54 pm

and i was a bit younger. but it leaves certain naggng issues

8:54 pm

I haven't spoken to my parents in 25 years

8:54 pm

well both mine are gone so I guess they're both forgiven

8:55 pm

oh ru...that's so sad...so sorry

8:55 pm

do you have any kids ru?

8:55 pm

that's sad, ruru.

I figure they did their best and that is all one can ask!

8:55 pm

my father is 82 and I'm afraid i don't speak to him either.

however bad it was!! LOL

8:55 pm

nope...my brother does and he hasn't spoken to them in decades either

8:56 pm

sometimes it's just not possible to make things ok

8:56 pm

yes but we only realize that once we are older and have our own kids lindy

8:56 pm

my dad is still alive, and we talk every week. don't say a whole lot but we let each other know we're okay.

8:56 pm

I can relate to ruru...my family hasn't spoken with me in three years (except for 1 brother)

8:56 pm

my parent that is.. he does talk to his kids

too true Just

8:56 pm

sometimes parents are just tooo toxic and it is better to leave them out of your life so that you can live it

8:56 pm

well I feel for ya ru...don't have many happy memories of me as a child with my parents....

8:57 pm

oh, pini - i'm sorry. and ru too.

but I treasure my kids and speak to them every day (0: I have learned from my parents mistakes (made new ones of my own but.........)

8:57 pm

I'm beginning to believe that now, ruru, along with the siblings...

8:57 pm

well said, I think ru.

8:57 pm

but I sure as hell hope I did a better job with my kid and that he won't/doesn't feel that way

8:57 pm

now THAT sounds like a parent lindy

8:57 pm

that's true, ruru. families can be that way. i haven't spoken to my brother in 8 years, haven't seen him in 40

8:57 pm

Oh, please don't be sorry...I'd rather have friends who care than a family who could care less...

thanks ruru

8:58 pm

15 minutes after a cardiologist told my Dad his heart was fine, he died of a heart attack ... he opened his eyes briefly during cpr .. a look of terror

8:58 pm

some people want to make their children miserable and beat them down.. it makes them bigger people (they think)

8:58 pm

that's so sad too dawger...my only sis and I are best buds...even though we live far apart

8:58 pm

maybe that's the lesson...how not to be the parent who the kids disown.

8:59 pm

oh horrible BR

8:59 pm

l

8:59 pm

my brother's choice, and it's fine with me. i'm close with my sisters and that's the best.

8:59 pm

...or if one of their own family members hurts another family member, they stand back and watch it happen without concern or support for the injured.

by gum, we picked a cheerful topic for new year eve didn't we!! LOL

8:59 pm

hi Phan

8:59 pm

I am on to cooking dinner and champagne babble on everyone see you at the flip..

8:59 pm

sorry to hear that, BR

hi phan, happy new year

8:59 pm

yes, if a parent does something illegal - any kind of abuse

8:59 pm

have fun ruru

8:59 pm

yeah change the subject..

8:59 pm

night ruru! happy new year

9:00 pm

oh bab...sorta the same thing happened with my father...came home from a date (I was 19) found him dead in bed and had to wake my mother, sleeping on the sofa, to tell her that her husband was gone

bye ruru, take care & enjoy cooking!

9:00 pm

(oh, no abuse, just stood back while 2 of my siblings destroyed me)

9:00 pm

adieu ruru

9:00 pm

ru...you gonna be back at the flip or is this it?

9:00 pm

...but that's another story...

9:00 pm

no I am playing tonight...

9:00 pm

so sorry, Just

9:00 pm

bye mab

aaww such sad stories from such wonderful people! (0:

9:01 pm

((((group hug))))

((((((group hug))))))

9:01 pm

(((((hugs)))))

9:01 pm

charlie brown he's a clown --- why is everybody always picking on me

9:01 pm

charlie brown he's a clown --- why is everybody always picking on me

9:02 pm

whose always writing on the wall?

9:02 pm

johnny is a joker...he's a dawg...

9:03 pm

so lindy...babrab...you guys put this grid to bed, or what?

yup!

9:03 pm

yup

9:03 pm

wtg....but sighhhh for me

7.20 grid time Just

9:03 pm

yes, ma'am

9:04 pm

wtg u2

go Just go go go

how many left?

9:04 pm

you can do it, and we can help, just

9:04 pm

cinquante cinq (55)

9:04 pm

58 here

go pini go go go

oh you are both almost there!

9:04 pm

pini and just can race to the finish!

9:05 pm

we;re almost tied pini!

9:05 pm

oy vey

go girls go go go

9:05 pm

just can't seem to get into it tho and ditto on the oy vey

Canada versu USA!! LOL

no pressure though!! LOLOL

9:06 pm

lol....nah my US cousins are my bestest friends!

9:06 pm

the la 5/10 is a ve 8.60

hey! )0:

9:06 pm

pini, do you have koda all tucked in?

9:06 pm

I just love them yanks!

9:06 pm

largest undefended border in the world....

9:07 pm

and that's a good thing!

what about us Candians???? )o:

9:07 pm

oh of course I love my own lindy and my commonwealth brethren too!

Canadians even!! LOLOL

9:07 pm

made a lot of canadian friends at school, ay

9:08 pm

gads, this is slow going!

aaww shucks! *blushes* and me, you too!!

9:08 pm

have you gone to the list yet, pini?

9:08 pm

ay= eh babrab

9:08 pm

they kept me on SHEDule

9:08 pm

lol br

9:09 pm

don't know where you were babrab but it's skedule for me!

schedule for me!! LOL

what have you all done to the English language???!!!

9:09 pm

well yeah lindy...i phonetically spelled my pronunciation

LOL I gathered!!

Canada wins ANOTHER Junior hockey game (-4)!!! YAY

9:10 pm

Lindy, i told you English was odd!

9:10 pm

pfff to "the queen's" english

lol dawg, too true

9:10 pm

55

woohoo autumn!

9:10 pm

are we tied, Just???

9:11 pm

86

LOL just

go pini go go go

(7-4) against the States

happy new year DR & go go go

9:11 pm

now we are really tied pini cause I've gotten 'nada'

9:11 pm

go DR!

9:11 pm

oh really autumn???

9:11 pm

ty Dawger

go Just go go go

9:11 pm

Happy new year to all

9:11 pm

I'm going to strain my brain here shortly!

9:11 pm

hi lindy

9:12 pm

ain't (sadly) goin' anywhere lindy...babblewise

9:12 pm

hi DR

off to find my 185

LOL autumn go go go

9:12 pm

hi just.. how are you

9:12 pm

you can do it, autumn

hope you are not going anywhere otherwise Just!

9:12 pm

I'm good Dr and yourself?

9:12 pm

I am good thanks

9:13 pm

well yes actually I am day after tomorrow...

9:13 pm

47 left

9:13 pm

rub it in, Just!

9:13 pm

go birdee

tut, *green with envy again* LOL

9:13 pm

I should really go and make my toenails pretty (blech)

go birdee go go go

9:14 pm

had a nice dinner and haven't finished my glass of wine yet

hey Just, you promised I could fit in your case remember!!

9:14 pm

actually lindy we got with my TO sis and her hubby and meet up there and have a ball for 2 weeks for the past 5 or 6 winters

9:14 pm

of course lindy....bringing a carryon just for you

aaww thanks Just!

I wish!!

9:15 pm

we'll all have a ball

9:15 pm

where re you going Just?

9:15 pm

lots of brits love to go there...

9:15 pm

ya 4 -- y+ hairless: b*** ya 4 --- add do ** me fa sol yl 4 -- add a pismire: **met yu 4 -- add, diary of **ne frank

9:15 pm

going to acapulco on friday Dr (blush)

9:16 pm

YEA Have fun

9:16 pm

need to replace my 30 year old fridge.....to replace my 2o year old tv...but the hell with them...I'm getting outta here

9:16 pm

ve 4 -- calf dish ve 5 -- like the calf dish ve 4 -- add fa sol ** te

you can stick your food outside right now Just!! LOL

9:17 pm

thx Dr!

9:17 pm

lol that's for sure and I have lindy

LOLOL

9:17 pm

you just keep that up, BR...I might actually finish!

9:17 pm

yvw. .. I am not going anywhere

go pini go go go

9:17 pm

but I live in San Diego so...

9:18 pm

<-- I used to live down there, DR

you can heat your food outside then DR!!

9:18 pm

well there ya go DR....lucky you!!!!!!!!

9:18 pm

Is McDougal's Restaurant still downtown?

9:18 pm

IDo indeed feel very lucky

I should think so too DR LOL

9:18 pm

right now it is -18c with a wind chill of to -26 and my furnace is chugging away

9:19 pm

not sure Pini.... It was

9:19 pm

let me check

9:19 pm

chug = $$$$

9:19 pm

50

9:19 pm

Pini's on a mission folks...still at 55 lol

9:20 pm

yes.. on 6th avenue

9:20 pm

82

9:20 pm

Just...BR gave me a few with those Y and V words!

how long are you going for Just?

9:20 pm

McDougal's has the best cheese cake!!!!

9:20 pm

ve 5 -- add small medium and ***ge ve 4 -- add the outside ambient air in winter in temperate zones is co** ve 4 --- first of actress miles

9:21 pm

what is the 3rd letter of the im6?

9:21 pm

in my state ...they're too cryptic....although I do have the y's but still need 4 v's

9:21 pm

ve 8 -- porch

need more alcohol to reach Just's state!! lol

9:21 pm

still working on the yl

9:21 pm

ve 4 -- not horizontal: ve**

9:21 pm

have all but 2 vo's now (the 1st 2)

yl & get th** if you can!

9:22 pm

yl+ nightmare on *l* street

9:22 pm

got the yl!

9:22 pm

thx babrab was lucid enough to get the ve5

9:22 pm

vo+ ho*** Simpson

yahoo 54? Just!

9:22 pm

vo 5 -- add a flower: l***c

9:23 pm

lol yup lindy!

LOL Just!

9:23 pm

vo 5 -- add funt show: sm*** you are on candid camera

9:23 pm

I know those 2 even...ugh!

9:24 pm

have that one babrab

9:24 pm

I need the ve8

9:24 pm

have the long v's....

9:24 pm

nm see the clue below

9:24 pm

ve8 sounds like it could be a girl's name

9:24 pm

43 lefy

9:24 pm

ve4.7 + a talking bird

9:24 pm

ve8 is fancy paper (latin plural) plus a singing bird

VE & cheap wood flooring is *********ted not solid

9:24 pm

vo 5 -- add **mer pyle, USMC

9:25 pm

un 4 -- add on p**d leave

9:25 pm

ummm is there a g in the grid...cause I'm not seeing one

9:25 pm

un 5 -- add what a hen does to an egg

9:25 pm

un 5 -- add to rent

9:25 pm

un 6 -- add a heap

9:26 pm

un 5 -- add what in the not to distant past kept a diaper on

9:26 pm

too

9:26 pm

clearly we are not in the same state of mind babrab...meaning you're clues are coming fast and furious but my sotted brain just cannot keep up

9:27 pm

okay, kings X

9:27 pm

add to rent?

9:27 pm

allow pt

9:27 pm

down to 41 now

9:27 pm

un + *** the good times roll

9:28 pm

oh, THAT rent

9:28 pm

oy is that furnace chugging away...

LOL Just!

turn it down Just and put another sweater on!! LOL

9:28 pm

ooo 53 now

LOL go Just go go go

9:29 pm

no way lindy....

9:29 pm

tr6?

9:29 pm

just read that in 1996/7 the valley had 8 feet of snow! yikes! we are currently at 35 inches!

9:29 pm

last te7 ?

9:29 pm

he's a real nowhere man

wow dawg!

9:29 pm

I need that one, too, DR

9:29 pm

a type of religious knight.

9:29 pm

got it! tr

9:29 pm

the saint, simon te7

9:29 pm

computer's in the basement next to utility room...so I'm hearing it greatly

9:29 pm

tr = tr4/5 + chicago train

tr 7 - get squashed underfoot

9:31 pm

thx for the te7

9:31 pm

isn't he a bit like you and me?

9:31 pm

ty Pini

9:31 pm

tr+ desert critter, dromedary

9:31 pm

ty Dawger

9:31 pm

or a bactian

9:31 pm

vo5/16....my v's are done and dusted

Yahoo Just!

9:32 pm

nowhere man?

9:32 pm

1st re6/18? (have the first 4 letters...)

add 2 vowels pini

9:33 pm

i'm falling asleep here, 3:00 was way too long ago. good luck Pini, Just, DR and Autumn! Lind and BR will clue you to the finish!

9:33 pm

re 6 -- genuine and diva solo: ar**

9:33 pm

dank

night dawg & happy new year

9:33 pm

gnight Dawger.. ty for your help

9:33 pm

happy new year

9:33 pm

be well, ib

9:33 pm

wow night dawger...musta been a rough day

9:34 pm

happy new year to everyone! see you tomorrow. *poof*

9:34 pm

thx, lbd...g'night...sleep well!!

9:34 pm

last re5/10?

9:35 pm

re 5 == add texas tea

re & canola or olive or sunflower ***

9:35 pm

thx lindy (slaps face for not seeing it)

yvw Just!

9:35 pm

ugh...I think I'm blind to the easier ones!

9:36 pm

thank you!

9:36 pm

texas tea ......ooooggg

yw

9:36 pm

now had you said texas t...maybeeee

9:36 pm

35

9:37 pm

yeahh furnace shut off (for maybe a minute if we're lucky)

9:37 pm

65

9:37 pm

50

peace & quiet!

9:38 pm

first vo5/16 please?

9:38 pm

mu**cipality

9:38 pm

I don't mind the sound (mainly water sounds) as long as I got electricty and all's working well

VO & van**l* flavouring

9:39 pm

na 4 -- add no **s, ands or buts

9:39 pm

we heat with electric heated water

9:39 pm

burial mo 5

9:40 pm

me 7 -- add an ocean: at**t**

9:40 pm

Thanks lindrick

9:40 pm

last la6?

9:40 pm

ooo just got that horrible pi bacteria

9:40 pm

bacterium i should say

LA - terra firma & 2 vowels

9:41 pm

oi6?

9:41 pm

la 6 --l + sp***** ballet

9:41 pm

the one that gives you ulcers (as is this grid doing to me)

OI 6 - compound - fat & not fema**

9:41 pm

oi 6 -- petrol dude

9:42 pm

tu for hte la

9:42 pm

or TY for the LA

9:42 pm

oh and the bad man whose ladies of the night feed him

9:42 pm

clue for el5?

LOL Just!

EL - E & terra firma

9:43 pm

thx (gads, the easy ones are almost the toughest!)

9:43 pm

el 5 antelope

9:43 pm

and its acne extension

9:44 pm

thx!

brb

9:44 pm

lol, I got the bad man and acne extension -- good clue!

9:44 pm

is the last ra4 easy?

9:45 pm

fi 6 --- f + the charmon dude, mr wh*****

9:45 pm

it was for me pini

9:45 pm

just...you said your mind was gone though!!!

9:45 pm

ra 4 -- band: **rdbirds

9:45 pm

ooh thx for the fi6 babrab

9:46 pm

it is pini...i got that yesterday!! lol

9:46 pm

down to 48

9:46 pm

26

9:46 pm

oh, shoot...

9:46 pm

go Pini

9:46 pm

think sun plus a vowel ending

9:46 pm

care to clue it now, just?

9:46 pm

44

9:46 pm

cmon Just!

9:46 pm

ma 6 -- folder of capital of the Philippines

ok back again

9:47 pm

wb lindy and thx for the ma6 babrab

9:47 pm

ly 5 --- add carney linkletter garfunkel

9:47 pm

BR you clever boy!

thx Just

9:48 pm

think I'm falling in love with you babrab! (blush)

hey Une, happy new year

9:48 pm

im6?

9:48 pm

and to you, lin!

thx une!

9:48 pm

welcome Une

9:48 pm

happy new year une you cryptic clue lover and giver

9:48 pm

monkeyed the last ra4! woot woot!

9:48 pm

im + red wine cl****

IM 6 - I & fema** horse & con

9:49 pm

hey, just! :-)

yahoo pini!

9:49 pm

howdy, DR

9:49 pm

well I'd like to think my clue helped you there pini

9:49 pm

ty Lindy

yvw DR

9:50 pm

I was watching for a clue from you, just, but didn't see (have now seen it scrolling back)!! EYE SOWWY!!!!

9:50 pm

are you done Pini?

9:50 pm

24 more to !

9:50 pm

np pini....i totally understand

9:52 pm

am 6 -- a sam****: a piece of embroidery demonstrating skill with various stitches

9:53 pm

yeahhhh my p's are done

9:53 pm

my4?

9:53 pm

go Just

9:53 pm

bird

9:53 pm

its a bird

9:53 pm

it's a plane

yahoo Just!!

9:53 pm

thank you!

9:53 pm

faster than a speeding bullet

9:54 pm

more powerful than a locomotive

9:54 pm

my 4== add carrie **tion

9:54 pm

able to leap tall buildings in a single bound

9:54 pm

it's . . .

9:55 pm

SUperman... ( or Underdog)

9:55 pm

:-D

9:55 pm

one more R (2nd ra) and the lower 1/2 of the alphabet will be done!!!

9:55 pm

its a bird its a plane ewwwwwwwwwwwwww it's a bird

ra & pt of meet!

9:56 pm

Hands BR a rag

LOL BR!

9:57 pm

oh, man, takes me back to second grade! LOL

age 7???

9:58 pm

pretty much, yeah

aah thx!

9:58 pm

ov 5 -- patent blatant transparent

9:59 pm

thx for the ra5...it finally took! (ok...my brain finally registered on that one)

10:00 pm

20

10:00 pm

sigh amazing how I've missed such easy words on my first and 2nd go rounnds...(this is my 10th) heheh

10:00 pm

only the upper 1/2 now though!!! :-)

10:00 pm

go pini go go go

10:00 pm

get a job get a job get a job --- that I never could find

10:00 pm

(but *after* I take the puppy out)

10:00 pm

brb

10:00 pm

LOL Just!

10:00 pm

bang a gong

10:01 pm

get it on!

10:01 pm

t rex lindy :)

10:01 pm

yup Just!

10:01 pm

chuck barris has the gong and the gonger

10:01 pm

loved that song

10:01 pm

total cr**, but fun!

10:02 pm

yep

10:02 pm

lol

10:02 pm

na 4 -- babblet with a paucity of consonants

10:02 pm

you're dirty sweet n you're my girl!

10:03 pm

we seem to have quite a lot in common, considering we originate from different continents!

10:03 pm

lol

10:03 pm

but but but we're commonwealth related lindy! (wink)

10:03 pm

lol

10:03 pm

we're the poor relations....

10:03 pm

Just do you know the Stranglers?

10:04 pm

and both Canadians now!

10:04 pm

not sure...

10:04 pm

if only!

10:04 pm

oh did you take citizenship lindy???

10:04 pm

golden brown, texture like sun

10:04 pm

yeah aug 13th last year

10:05 pm

ok... 15 more

10:05 pm

with my match he runs

10:05 pm

p's and m's

10:05 pm

congrats!!! so did you have to give up brit status or dual citizenship?

10:05 pm

through out the night, no need to shout, never a frown with golden brown

10:05 pm

no but I know the guillotiners

10:05 pm

clue for am5/18 please/

10:05 pm

what all of them DR?

10:06 pm

4 pi's

10:06 pm

am 5-- add a layer like on a tire

10:06 pm

am5 adverb, like am5/14

10:06 pm

the rest ma's

10:06 pm

divin gback in

10:06 pm

go dr go go go

10:07 pm

LOL BR!

10:07 pm

dual Just!

10:07 pm

clue for mu4?

10:07 pm

nice!!!!! good for you!

10:07 pm

thx

10:07 pm

sorry was too busy singing!!

10:07 pm

I'm mo4/5ing that I didn't get mo4/5 slap

10:08 pm

mu**cipality

10:08 pm

35

10:08 pm

tnx

10:08 pm

that's not bragging btw....

10:08 pm

Great got thank you

10:09 pm

Itrumped you Just... down to 12

10:09 pm

but my dogtakes itself out

10:09 pm

actually Just - I became a citizen on aug 13, 2007, but time passes sooooooo quickly!!! LOL

10:10 pm

only a little over a year lindy...

10:10 pm

back from dinner - 38 left!

10:10 pm

spent all this year ill!!

10:10 pm

There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who mo 4 (mo 6 is one who mo 4s) for gold;

10:10 pm

but yeah the older you get the quicker it goes

10:10 pm

LOL

10:10 pm

wb birdee go go go

10:10 pm

hitting the ma's....

10:11 pm

go DR go go go

10:11 pm

been trying to explain that phenomenom to my 26 almost 27 year old son

10:11 pm

it is a priviledge of age!! LOL

10:11 pm

ma 6 -- a captain or fernado lamas, "you look ma6ous"

10:12 pm

sigh....some privilege...can live without it very nicely, thank you

10:12 pm

and the rest Just!! LOL

10:13 pm

ty BR

10:13 pm

5 to go

10:13 pm

go go go DR

10:14 pm

ma 4 -- add part of to be I am you **e

10:15 pm

firewords!!!

10:15 pm

how the bangles described monday: ma 5

10:15 pm

yahoo! une

10:15 pm

Yahoo une!

10:15 pm

back...

10:15 pm

congrats, Unea

10:15 pm

wb pini

10:15 pm

thanks! Off to take pups out to pee . . . brrrrr

10:16 pm

beatle or hulka ma 5

10:16 pm

1 left

10:16 pm

go DR go!

10:16 pm

wrap up warm une!

10:16 pm

go dr go go go

10:16 pm

and Done!

10:16 pm

wtg DR

10:16 pm

30

10:16 pm

Yahoo DR

10:16 pm

19

10:16 pm

go Just go go go

10:16 pm

ty for all the good wishes and clues

10:16 pm

good for you DR

10:16 pm

18

10:17 pm

congrats, DR

10:17 pm

ty Birdeee

10:17 pm

and BR :)

10:17 pm

promised son we would watch Harry Potter

10:17 pm

can someone please clue the second ve4 for me???

10:17 pm

help on the mo5/16? easy?

10:17 pm

enjoy DR, happy new year

10:17 pm

enjoy, DR

10:18 pm

mo 5/16 burial mo***

10:18 pm

bird- the girl with glasses in scooby doo minus a cons

10:18 pm

wtg DR!

10:18 pm

Happy new year DR

10:18 pm

burial mo 5

10:18 pm

pini - in the midwest there are indian burial *****s

10:18 pm

happy new year all... seeyou after the flip

10:18 pm

sorry BR pinched your clue!

10:18 pm

good for you!

10:19 pm

it was better than mine!

10:19 pm

I don't know Scooby Doo!:( (raised her children without TV)

10:19 pm

VE & hum with me tra **

10:19 pm

crap...wasn't looking from that M...thx!!!

10:19 pm

momma said there would be days like this

10:20 pm

Thnx Lindrick

10:20 pm

yvw, bit of a freaky clue!! lol

10:20 pm

there'd be days like this, my momma said!

10:20 pm

ohhh I am ma6/30ing at the fact that i got ma6/30!

10:21 pm

LOL Just!

10:21 pm

yea, Just

10:21 pm

the second le4/4 and the le 4/7 - cluing my way to the end so I can play scrabble with the DH

10:21 pm

hum with me tra **?

10:21 pm

I need those, too, Just!

10:22 pm

LE - shakespear King le**

10:22 pm

king le 4

10:22 pm

thnx

10:22 pm

LE 4/7 Le & **lcano

10:23 pm

**lcano?

10:23 pm

Thnx Lindrick (I should just copy and paste that phrase tonight)

10:23 pm

erupts with lava

10:23 pm

ty pini!

10:23 pm

oooo thx never heard or saw that one before

10:23 pm

LOL birdee!

10:24 pm

larva is a phantom for me tonight - I have entered it a lot

10:24 pm

anagram of how I feel about lindy! will remember that fer sure

10:24 pm

I keep entering VOMIT...I wonder why????

10:24 pm

piin, I thought of that because of the lava comment

10:24 pm

LOL

10:24 pm

Hi

10:24 pm

hi yogo

10:24 pm

hi yogo

10:24 pm

ummm pini cause you feel like vomitting due to this grid?

10:25 pm

hi yogo

10:25 pm

hello, yogo

10:25 pm

btw....bevomit it a word too!

10:25 pm

help with that ma6/30, just?

10:25 pm

hego higo yogo!

10:25 pm

how are you all doing?

10:25 pm

help with last 4 am5,12 1st one an7,32 1st ne im6,21 and me7,36

10:25 pm

it's also the name of a brand of comics pini

10:25 pm

second la 5/12 pretty please - don't have the ma 30 yet pini

10:26 pm

ooooh, got the ma6/30!!!

10:26 pm

and NOW I see your clue!

10:26 pm

me too!! thnx

10:26 pm

lol story of my life pini

10:26 pm

me 7 == add, one if by ***d, two if by sea; frozen water:**e

10:26 pm

LA & mama *** abba musical

10:26 pm

how about ma6/21 followed by ma7/36?

10:27 pm

sorry AGAIN, Just!!! :/

10:27 pm

AN 7 - iron deficiency

10:27 pm

np jk pini :)

10:27 pm

I know... =]

10:27 pm

they're not related pini

10:27 pm

IM 6 - im & red wine cl****

10:28 pm

the ma 6 is a brown envelope

10:28 pm

oh, that just makes it worse, Just!!!

10:28 pm

im 6 -- I + m**y had a little lamb and ** tu brute?

10:28 pm

thx for the 21!

10:28 pm

what happens if you find all the words

10:28 pm

capital of the philippines

10:29 pm

the ma7 is a "male" and a breast part

10:29 pm

the ma7/36 is ma***** - what a baby nurses from with a consonant

10:29 pm

you get fireworks, yogo!

10:29 pm

you feel good yogo & you get fireworks!

10:29 pm

an 7 == variant spelling of an iron deficiency

10:29 pm

good clue birdeee!

10:29 pm

cool lindrickway

10:29 pm

M's mastered!

10:30 pm

so hubby's already gone to beddy bye :(

10:30 pm

I want fireworks!!

10:30 pm

aawwww

10:30 pm

Yogo - if you find all the word there is a little box that lights up with fireworks and then we just wait for it to flip to a new puzzle (about an hour from now) and we start all over again - it's sad really. . . .

10:30 pm

you find all the words you can stop looking .. but you don not have to

10:30 pm

how many do you need beachboggle?

10:30 pm

lol.... 52

10:30 pm

sad but we love it!! LOL

10:30 pm

:-(

10:30 pm

alright cool

10:30 pm

Under 10 now!!!!! (9)

10:30 pm

I am getting better....

10:30 pm

pini

10:31 pm

go BB go go go

10:31 pm

go pini go go go

10:31 pm

wtg

10:31 pm

24

10:31 pm

li5/12 and the third li4/5 and the last li4/6

10:31 pm

go pini anda BB - I have 30 left - might not make it tonight

10:31 pm

am 5 == add, respond to: re***

10:31 pm

li5 = li + not female

10:31 pm

LI 5/12 li & not female

10:31 pm

go Mar

10:31 pm

you can do it, birdeee!

10:32 pm

LI 4 - elongated car!

10:32 pm

how do you tell how many words you have left?

10:32 pm

LI 4/6 with a swollen ankle you walk with a li**

10:32 pm

go Just go go go

10:33 pm

thanks all!!

10:33 pm

yogo...look at the bottom of your Word List and at the Top of the Word Stats

10:33 pm

51...

10:33 pm

yogo, you can also get some help from the HELP icon at the top of the chat log (if this is your first visit)

10:33 pm

go guys go go go

10:33 pm

look below the word list for word stats to the right there is a number followed by "left"

10:33 pm

There isn't stats

10:33 pm

no stats

10:34 pm

ly 5/14

10:34 pm

yogo there are 185 words to find today

10:34 pm

I have 4 all up so a long way to go

10:34 pm

LY & paintings & drawings are ***

10:34 pm

ly 5 -- carney garfunkel linkletter

10:34 pm

yogo under the puzzle grid there is all sorts of info - scroll down further

10:34 pm

Your Word List will tell you how many you've found (subtract that from the 185 words in the grid today and you'll have how many more you have to find)

10:35 pm

181

10:35 pm

yahoo - thnx - 27 left

10:35 pm

le5/12? easy or hard?

10:35 pm

you've found 181? or you have 181 more to find?

10:35 pm

if it's the latter, get going!!!!

10:35 pm

yes, Pini

10:35 pm

181 to find

10:36 pm

16

10:36 pm

yes, what BR?

10:36 pm

LE & not a female

10:36 pm

hop to it, yogo!!!! ;)

10:36 pm

second ar 5/10 and ar 4/7

10:36 pm

thx lind

10:36 pm

got the le's pini - thnx

10:36 pm

most words are either easy or hard

10:36 pm

AR 5 & ***ephone this number

10:36 pm

hello again all!

10:37 pm

thank br...I KNOW that much!!! LOL

10:37 pm

down to 69 and ready to list, methinks

10:37 pm

can I have a clue please

10:37 pm

AR 4/7 ar & a **lcano spews lava

10:37 pm

hi stid!

10:37 pm

WB stid

10:37 pm

clue for which, yogo?

10:37 pm

hi

10:37 pm

I was agreeing with you!

10:37 pm

stidmama

10:37 pm

la5/16 1st one on list?

10:37 pm

hi stidmama

10:37 pm

Yogo, to see a clue list: Open --Lickety's Babble Clues -- (found at the bottom of this page) in another window. Next, copy the words you've found (under Babble - My Word List) and paste them in the large box at the bottom of the Lickety's List (Bulk Add). Press Add and your found words will be placed in their appropriate places on the list. Then you simply try and find the words that are still missing. Update your Lickety's List by repeating the copy / paste / Bulk Add.

10:38 pm

hiya stid!

10:38 pm

LA & vowel & **lcano spews lava!

10:38 pm

(((pini))) you good? it's so WET here! but not as windy as they had feared.

10:38 pm

i'll try

10:38 pm

thx lindy sweety

10:38 pm

it's very wet here...but still no more snow!!!

10:39 pm

yvw Just!

10:39 pm

*happy for no more snow*

10:39 pm

first AM 5 please?

10:39 pm

woohoo for no more snow - if only!

10:39 pm

ra 4 --- wife of a rajah ra 5 -- add faster than a trot and freud, not ego

10:39 pm

hi stid...did you ever get to jillis?

10:39 pm

ok not getting any the clue for me7,36 help plez

10:40 pm

AM 5 am & cont*** the contamination by separation!

10:40 pm

nothing happened

10:40 pm

no just... she was snowed in -- and I was scared to try driving a rented car though would have tried if it were my own.

10:40 pm

me + do re me so fa ** ti do + I ***ked my leg shaving

10:40 pm

thanks for the AM -- A's annexed!

10:40 pm

pasting ing my thanks to lindrick

10:41 pm

in lickety's whatever

10:41 pm

you don't know about m**y and her little lamb? or that forzen water is **e?

10:41 pm

awww what a shame ...so did you lose money with you reservations?

10:41 pm

nothing happened for what, yogo?

10:41 pm

LOL birdeee!

10:41 pm

fill the word in here and add in the top box of Lickety so it gets placed in the right space in the list

10:41 pm

pini....are you done? chat going to fast for my pea brain

10:41 pm

first ma5/12 and both ma5/16 - I hope Lindrick is still willing

10:41 pm

oh no -- we stayed in victoria at the little James Bay Inn (old and quirky -- we love it) and hung around doing the museums instead, saw hetty for a couple hours on Monday, too.

10:42 pm

dah thank you

10:42 pm

when i did that thing in lickety thing

10:42 pm

still have 8 more to go!

10:42 pm

MA 5/12 add a vowel to ma 4

10:42 pm

oh nice stid (not sure who hetty is)

10:42 pm

yogo, it is really fun but you are checking in at the wildest time when everyone is trying to finish their words before the "flip" to a new puzzle and talking in a bit of Babble shorthand - but hang in there - it is fun!

10:42 pm

last la6/24?

10:43 pm

MA 5/16 not female & adverb ending

10:43 pm

hetty is a babbler also -- she doesn't babble much any more, but used to live on Salt Spring Island (our favorite vacation spot)

10:43 pm

ok you can finish

10:43 pm

la 6 -- l + spa**** ballet

10:43 pm

hang in there, yogo...you'll get it!!! :)

10:43 pm

LA 6 - terra firma & 2 vowels

10:44 pm

keep an eye on the chat for help with words ;)

10:44 pm

it'll give you some practice ;)

10:44 pm

la and singing bird

10:44 pm

it gets easier Yogo

10:44 pm

ok

10:44 pm

ladirtea?

10:44 pm

lindrick, it's not taking it!!! :(

10:44 pm

hang in there yogo!

10:45 pm

stid, use the la4?

10:45 pm

180 to go 1 more down yay

10:45 pm

thanks again lindrick - hmmmmm now what

10:45 pm

what?? did i miss something??? hahahaha

10:45 pm

oh! got the la 6/24... *giggle*

10:45 pm

go yogo go!

10:45 pm

good job yogo!

10:45 pm

GOT IT!!!! the LA6 is the village my forefathers founded in Russia!!!

10:45 pm

should be == la 6 -- l + span*** ballet

10:45 pm

yvw birdeee!

10:45 pm

go yogo go!

10:45 pm

ty

10:45 pm

yahoo pini & stid!

10:45 pm

pini...check my clue at 10:44

10:46 pm

how about the first LA 5?

10:46 pm

I got, Just! ;)

10:46 pm

la 6 -- terra firma and car: **to

10:46 pm

way cool, pini!

10:46 pm

birdee, have you finished????

10:46 pm

la + adam's partner (change last vowel)

10:46 pm

no . . 22 more - still up for cluing me to the end?

10:46 pm

sure, np!

10:47 pm

thanks for the la 5

10:47 pm

la 5 -- add *** farrow

10:47 pm

la5/10?

10:47 pm

good clues, BR -- have you taken a break today? *concerned mama look* you seem to have been here every time I logged in!

10:47 pm

la 5 is an hawaiian porch

10:47 pm

LA 5/10 la & sounds like what horses say!

10:47 pm

im5? please

10:47 pm

5th ma4/5, ma 5/14 and ma 6/21

10:48 pm

or hawaiian porch, lindrick?

10:48 pm

ooh.... almost grey L... need the ell-wye

10:48 pm

MA 4/5 not female & 1st vowel

10:48 pm

im 5: if you want to hint at but not say I am silly, you might im*** I am one brick short of a full load

10:48 pm

if you like pini!

10:49 pm

ly*** paintings are considered ***

10:49 pm

how about the la4/6 before it?

10:49 pm

MA 5/14 - not female & 2/3 of frozen water

10:49 pm

oh sorry! im 6

10:49 pm

how are you doing over there, yogo???

10:49 pm

another 3 gone after that 1

10:49 pm

MA 6/21 - not female & nothing as in sports score & 1st vowel

10:50 pm

YAY

10:50 pm

go yogo go!

10:50 pm

im 6: im + single indefinite article + scarlet o'hara's man *h**t butler

10:50 pm

aha! got the ell-wye 5. thanks!

10:51 pm

is that a clue lin because if it is i got it

10:51 pm

LA 4/6 - instead of a ceiling light you put you smaller la** on

10:51 pm

am4,12 1st an 7,32 1st please

10:51 pm

need the MA 6 before the 7?

10:51 pm

lots of clues flying right now, yogo...grab what you can!! ;)

10:51 pm

lamp

10:51 pm

Lindrick - not getting the zero sports score one

10:51 pm

thank you kindly stid :)

10:51 pm

oops

10:51 pm

10 (never thought I 'd even get to 10left)

10:52 pm

Thx yogo...that's the one I needed!!! * giggle *

10:52 pm

MA 6 - not female & nothing scored in sports & 1st vowel

10:52 pm

that is the 1st am 5,12

10:52 pm

take one off the 6

10:52 pm

49 here, and feelin good about it!

10:52 pm

NO am 4/12 -- but am 5/12 is a + m4 (primary, most important)

10:52 pm

go beach go!

10:52 pm

birdee - the score is 4 - 0 or 4 ***

10:52 pm

MA 6 - ma****** file

10:52 pm

go BB go!

10:53 pm

ma 6 -- cap of the philippines

10:53 pm

go JUST! *puts grid down and gets ready to celebrate*

10:53 pm

oh golly, thanks for the MA 6!

10:53 pm

whoo hoo lind, ty

10:53 pm

has anyone done it yet

10:53 pm

did you finish pini???

10:53 pm

5 more

10:53 pm

gawd I'm slow tonight

10:53 pm

:)

10:53 pm

yvw BB

10:53 pm

several have, yogo...

10:53 pm

down to 28 here

10:54 pm

how many more, just?

10:54 pm

I finished earlier yogo

10:54 pm

in5/10 and in4/6?

10:54 pm

cool

10:54 pm

YAY lindy!

10:54 pm

way to go

10:54 pm

9 pini

10:54 pm

in 5 -- add to rent

10:54 pm

IN 5/10 in & allow

10:55 pm

I thought I did that one earlier, BR!!!!

10:55 pm

t's and r's left

10:55 pm

IN 4/6 in & adverb ending

10:55 pm

4

10:55 pm

in 4 -- add a caustic: **e

10:55 pm

ty stid!! lol

10:55 pm

go pini go go go

10:55 pm

thanks lindrick - 16th time I have typed this

10:55 pm

got 'em!

10:55 pm

what do the numbers mean

10:55 pm

RE 6/18 please?

10:55 pm

3

10:55 pm

yvw 16 times LOL

10:55 pm

the first number is the number of letters in the word...the 2nd is the point value of the word

10:55 pm

like 3/5

10:56 pm

hehehe, Lindrick

10:56 pm

RE 6/18 same 4 as last one & 2 vowels

10:56 pm

re 6 -- genuine and diva solo: ar**

10:56 pm

last one an 7,32 1st one

10:56 pm

both ra 4/6 and ra5/12 - I know you are still here Lindrick

10:56 pm

whats point value

10:56 pm

AN 7 - english spelling of iron shortage

10:56 pm

each letter has a point value...add them up (and if larger than 4 tiles, there's a multiplier)

10:56 pm

yogo - the first number is the number of letters a word has and the second number is the point value of the word

10:56 pm

yogo --- go to help and find out

10:57 pm

RA 4/6 speed bumps or speed ra**s

10:57 pm

is point value the amount of points it gets

10:57 pm

hmph. thanks for that RE

10:57 pm

ok sorry

10:57 pm

yes, yogo

10:57 pm

RA 4/6 - a little ra* of sunshine & 1st vowel

10:57 pm

more explained in HELP above chat log

10:57 pm

thanks

10:57 pm

did I miss the am5/12 clue?

10:58 pm

Rs removed!!!!

10:58 pm

RA 5/12 - ra & **tropolis

10:58 pm

down to 11

10:58 pm

how are you doing, Just?

10:58 pm

(or am I just that slow that I didn't pay attention earlier?)

10:58 pm

go stid go go go

10:58 pm

I'm good stiddy....off to Mexico on fri! thx for asking

10:58 pm

stuck on TE 7 now... my last T word

10:58 pm

woo hoo Just!

10:58 pm

AM 5/12 am & cont*** the contamination!

10:59 pm

tear

10:59 pm

thx lindrick!

10:59 pm

oops

10:59 pm

te7....Remember Roger Moore as the Saint...Simon Te7

10:59 pm

merci viel mal lindrick - second re5/12 and first pi4/7

10:59 pm

down to 4....

10:59 pm

sprry

10:59 pm

TE 7 simon te7 from the saint

10:59 pm

2

10:59 pm

sorry

10:59 pm

thanks lindy! 3

11:00 pm

wtg pini....7

11:00 pm

two...

11:00 pm

RE 5/12 re & not female

11:00 pm

gave you same clue stiddy (blush)

11:00 pm

first am4/5?

11:00 pm

HAPPY NEW YEAR, EST!!!!!

11:00 pm

ONE!!!

11:00 pm

PI 4/7 - pi & adverb ending

11:00 pm

Happy New Year!!

11:00 pm

happy happy indeed!

11:00 pm

re6/21 1st one?

11:00 pm

spacing out just do not get the an7,32 know what it is just don't see spelling

11:01 pm

FIREWORDS!!!!

11:01 pm

wtg STID!

11:01 pm

YAYAYAY, stid!!!!!

11:01 pm

*sits back to wait for pini and just*

11:01 pm

oooo lookatdat willya....happy new year!

11:01 pm

Yahoo stid, what a climax!!

11:01 pm

2nd AM clue?

11:01 pm

Just -- send the letter again

11:01 pm

wtg stiddy.....right on est new year!!!

11:01 pm

yeah, stid...you zoomed right by!!!

11:01 pm

gotta go talk to ya soon

11:01 pm

congrats, stid

11:02 pm

the AM 4/5 that looks like french "friend?"

11:02 pm

take care yogo

11:02 pm

later yogo!

11:02 pm

re6/21 first one svp?

11:02 pm

that was quick mum needed me

11:02 pm

AM 4 - A & mama *** - abba stage show

11:02 pm

*liking being done so early* I still need to blog about the vacation!

11:02 pm

for a sec

11:02 pm

Lindrick - that gave me a hemmerhoidal image!

11:02 pm

literally

11:02 pm

french friend?

11:02 pm

RE & post!

11:02 pm

re 6/21 at 11:01 just

11:03 pm

got it!

11:03 pm

1

11:03 pm

french please

11:03 pm

what did birdeee?

11:03 pm

yeah, you know how french say friend? am + two vowels -- change the last vowel

11:03 pm

thx lindy......good thing I know your veddy british lingo!

11:03 pm

the pi4

11:03 pm

12 words gone whooooooooohoooooooooooooooooooooooooo

11:03 pm

go pini go go go

11:03 pm

you're cruizing right along, yogo!

11:03 pm

yvw just

11:04 pm

uhu

11:04 pm

whoooooooo yogo

11:04 pm

thanks

11:04 pm

so now my chat box is fu**ed up...anyone know why?

11:04 pm

the last ra 5/12 - lindrick

11:04 pm

tylin

11:04 pm

15 left

11:04 pm

finally fireworks happy new year all

11:04 pm

the first ma is killing my monkeys!

11:05 pm

YAY regis!

11:05 pm

Yahoo regis, happy new year

11:05 pm

go birdee go!

11:05 pm

congrats, regis

11:05 pm

yay, regis

11:05 pm

no idea, just -- refresh?

11:05 pm

wtg regis!

11:05 pm

yay reg

11:05 pm

RA 5/12 ra & con & ego

11:05 pm

first ma.....my name with extra vowel

11:05 pm

pini - the first ma looks dutch

11:05 pm

nimo

11:06 pm

oops again i'll check next time

11:06 pm

M & double vowel & con

Happy New Year everyone :)

11:06 pm

~*~ Firewords ~*~

11:06 pm

damn hate have to sideways scroll the chat :( :(

11:06 pm

how do the dutch look?

11:06 pm

Yahooooooooo pini

11:06 pm

hurrah PINI!

11:06 pm

congrats, pini

11:06 pm

wtg pini

11:06 pm

YAY pini!!!!

11:06 pm

BR - you know what I meeeannnn

11:06 pm

thanks for all of the help!!!!

11:06 pm

yayayay, pini

11:06 pm

oh, that is yucky just -- are you using lickety?

11:07 pm

last four took forever what will 09 bring yahoo pini

11:07 pm

and a happy to you, too, welsh!

11:07 pm

happy new year welsh book worm

11:07 pm

brb

11:08 pm

thnx lindrick - the last three ma's on the list

11:08 pm

hello, welsh

11:08 pm

happy new year bookworm!

11:08 pm

14 left - still up for it lindrick??

11:08 pm

MA 4 - april ma* June & 1st vowel

11:08 pm

ma 4 --yucatan native

11:08 pm

MA 5 add a con to last ma 4

thanks for your good wishes too, hope 2009 is a good one for all of you

11:09 pm

ma 4 -- clinic in rochester minn

11:09 pm

happy new year welsh and evy1 (head buried for last 5)

11:09 pm

good night all

11:09 pm

or a condiment

11:09 pm

night

11:09 pm

be well, refis

11:09 pm

thanks all for my ma's!

11:10 pm

night yogo - hope to see you in here again

11:10 pm

night regis, happy new year!

11:10 pm

good night regis!

11:10 pm

are people still giving clues hehe

11:10 pm

night yogo, come back soon

11:10 pm

buffalo springfield - something is happening here ...

11:10 pm

me 6/27 and me 4/6 are the next on my list

11:11 pm

what it is is not exactly clear ... there is a man with a gun over there

11:11 pm

me 6/27 me 4 & adverb ending

11:11 pm

ok bye i might not go to bed yet i need a break

11:11 pm

Me & not young but o**

11:12 pm

later yogo

11:12 pm

me 4 -- term in pinochle and canasta

11:12 pm

2

11:12 pm

woo go just go go go

11:12 pm

go Just go!

11:12 pm

go just go!

11:12 pm

yahoo - thanks

11:12 pm

*wandering in and out trying to download the last pics of 2008 before the year ends...*

11:13 pm

fireworks finalfingly

11:13 pm

Yahoo Just WOOHOO

11:13 pm

na 4/7 - 9 left now

11:13 pm

yayayay, just

11:13 pm

wtg, Just

11:13 pm

ohhh what happened to my icon???

11:13 pm

tytytty

11:13 pm

NA & ** only

11:13 pm

still looks the same to me just...

11:13 pm

wtg JUST!!!!

11:14 pm

YAY just!!!

11:14 pm

looks the same to me

11:14 pm

'tis the same Just!

11:14 pm

oh just the post I did at 11:13 came blank

11:14 pm

ty stiddy pini evy1 and ty for all your help

11:14 pm

thanks lindrick x 18

11:15 pm

is that just the post Just did at 11/13 !! LOLOL

11:15 pm

yvw birdeee

11:15 pm

what was the ckue about vomit ??

11:15 pm

huh lindy??? y'ain't makin' sense to me

11:16 pm

tr5/14 - and just letting you know I got one all by myself (says in two year old voice)

11:16 pm

LOL Just!

11:16 pm

wtg birdeee!

11:16 pm

wooooooo birdeeeee

11:16 pm

not sure, christine...but VOMIT is a phantom word in the grid today! ;)

11:17 pm

i got so bored so i'm back

11:17 pm

welcome back yogo!

11:17 pm

mums asleep dads asleep and so is my uncle

11:17 pm

te 5/14 - pretty please

11:17 pm

wb yogo! short break!

11:17 pm

thanks

11:17 pm

whats wb

11:17 pm

te 5/14 add a vowel to the 4 before!

11:17 pm

birdee...think city in Arizona (or add vowel to te4/6 before it)

11:18 pm

well, I need to get stuff actually accomplished around here... back later! *poof*

11:18 pm

gonna take a break til flip....

11:18 pm

wb = welcome back

11:18 pm

oh thanks

11:18 pm

night stid, happy new year

11:18 pm

phantom: uglyography

11:18 pm

thanks Pinilula ...very annoying ... 49 to go.

11:18 pm

bye Just, happy new year and have a great holiday if i dont see you before!

11:19 pm

go christine go go go

11:19 pm

*yeah, so NOT going to finish this*

11:19 pm

go christine go!

11:19 pm

go AM go!

11:19 pm

go autumn go go go

11:19 pm

do you know each otherlin

11:19 pm

41 minutes = 82 words.... not going to happen

11:20 pm

we have got to know each other through babble yogo

11:20 pm

But, HNY lind. I wasn't watching the clock until just now.

11:20 pm

other space lin

11:20 pm

*stage whisper* YOU CAN DO IT, AUTUMN!

11:20 pm

2 per min, AM...it's possible!!!

11:20 pm

do you meet

11:20 pm

HNY autumn!!

11:20 pm

I did it one day last week, autumn. you can too

11:20 pm

which ones?

11:20 pm

I have met the enemy and the enemy is me

11:20 pm

go autumn go go go

11:20 pm

Thanks pini and lindrick - like what the orchestra leader needs to keep straight!

11:21 pm

oh, go to list... that will help... right?

11:21 pm

lin

11:21 pm

*grin* deliberately not commenting on BR's comment

11:21 pm

yes yogo?

11:21 pm

* rolling eyes * Yes, AM!!! LOL

11:21 pm

how many left birdeee?

11:21 pm

does that mean you can leave home alone

11:22 pm

last mi4/5 and then the4/5, the next 2 te 4/4's te 5/10 and te 5/14 and that would be it

11:22 pm

mi 4 - sounds like the talking bird

11:22 pm

lin

11:22 pm

oh geez autumn... *list list list*

11:22 pm

and the my sounds like a talking bird too

11:23 pm

yes yogo?

11:23 pm

does what mean i can leave home alone?

11:23 pm

yogo, are you under the age of 19?

11:23 pm

cool i can't i need an aduld

11:23 pm

yes

11:23 pm

te 5 -- extend the te 4 with a vowel

11:23 pm

t

11:23 pm

adult

11:23 pm

TE 5/14 - same as the te4 before & add a vowel

11:23 pm

hold are you, yogo?

11:24 pm

19 minus 10

11:24 pm

9

11:24 pm

pini, Lind - want to do the "parental" discussion with our new young friend?

11:24 pm

TE 4/4 is a colour (greenish blue)

11:25 pm

who me???!!

11:25 pm

There's a speech, AM??? ;)

11:25 pm

stid?

11:25 pm

what disscusion

11:25 pm

yogo, if you are in fact 9, then you need to ask a parent for permission to tell us anything about yourself. This is because you don't know us and we might not have your best interests at heart.

11:25 pm

TE 4/4 if you cry you get te**s

11:26 pm

ty stid!

11:26 pm

ok

11:26 pm

THX Stid (copied/pasted for appropriate insertion when needed)

11:26 pm

Similarly, don't expect us to tell you how old we are, where we live or go to school, or the ages and names of our own children.

11:26 pm

how old are you yogo?

11:26 pm

9

11:27 pm

Yogo is 9 yrs old

11:27 pm

oh sorry missed that! doh!

11:27 pm

ok sorry

11:27 pm

got the first te 4/4 and need the next 4/5 and then next 4/4 and the te 5/10 then the tr5/14 - these 4 left

11:28 pm

No need to be sorry, yogo! Just 'protecting' you and us

11:28 pm

as an example, yogo -- my profile says that I am ten years old... but I promise you that I am close to old enough to be your grandmother.

11:28 pm

ty

11:28 pm

<-- definitely old enuf to be GM!

11:28 pm

LOL pini!

11:28 pm

right

11:28 pm

TE 4/5 the toronto maple leafs are my favourite hockey te**

11:29 pm

Well, I am!!! LOL

11:29 pm

*thinking pini is old enough to be the youngest grandmother ever...*

11:29 pm

go lindy go! (you cluing machine)

11:29 pm

My GD is 8!!!!

11:29 pm

TE 4/4 sounds like a bank te**** simplified

11:29 pm

If Yogo is in fact 9-years old, shoulddn't her/his Mum or Dad know about signing on to a board ??

11:29 pm

I still treasure my favorite wall ... even after it ran off with the ceiling

11:29 pm

TE 5/10 - ***ephone & 2 vowels

11:30 pm

christing -- "should" and "do" are not necessarily the same in this world.

11:30 pm

TR 5/14 is like a hobo

11:30 pm

Yes, Christine...so, YOGO...does your mum/dad know you're playing Babble?

11:30 pm

thanks stid!

11:30 pm

and the the tr 7 is what elephants (or large dogs) do to the grass

11:30 pm

yes

11:31 pm

so, even after opening list, I am still missing 73. Getting sidetracked by Bones.

11:31 pm

but there asleep now so not now

11:31 pm

=]

11:31 pm

willie nelson got me interested in walls

11:31 pm

what is bones?

11:31 pm

* calming suggests AM turn off the tv until grid done *

11:31 pm

Bones = tv show

11:31 pm

tv show stid

11:31 pm

I suggest yogo -- that if your parents are asleep then you should not be online.

11:31 pm

go autumn go go go

11:32 pm

oh, okay. *SOOO out of the loop on popular TV*

11:32 pm

LOL pini

11:32 pm

Fireworks thanks to Lindrick, Pini et al - only needed cluing for the last 37 words!!!

11:32 pm

does that mean you think i should be off now

11:32 pm

YAY birdee!!!!!

11:32 pm

i have nothing else to do

11:32 pm

I'm g;ad computers weren't one of the things to worry about, whrn my DD was young.

11:32 pm

congrats, Birdeee

11:32 pm

Yahoo Birdeee WOOHOOOOOOOO

11:32 pm

wtg birdeee!

11:33 pm

I am so early tonight!!

11:33 pm

(Bones is not really a show I watch, but my dau does.)

11:33 pm

yogo - find a good book

11:33 pm

unfortunately yogo, I do think so. But I am not your mother, just "a" mother. I would hope you can come back tomorrow and share the game again, though!

11:33 pm

How about the disney website...

11:33 pm

or draw a picture, or write a story...

11:33 pm

or find a book you like and read until you go to sleep!

11:33 pm

OMGosh ... posting while lying down sure messes with my spelling.

11:33 pm

ok bye

11:34 pm

We'll be here tmw

11:34 pm

good luck all

11:34 pm

bye yogo, take care

11:34 pm

be well, yogo

11:34 pm

g'night yogo!!! ;)

11:34 pm

so can i see you all tommorrow

11:34 pm

Goodnight, Yogo ... show the site to your Mum, and let her decide.

11:34 pm

check with your parents yogo

11:34 pm

ty bye

11:34 pm

most everyone pops in and out throughout the day...

11:34 pm

...we'll remember! ;)

11:35 pm

:]

11:36 pm

bye yogo

11:37 pm

who all still needs to finish???

11:38 pm

good night yogo

11:38 pm

D'YOU THINK HE/SHE'S HAVING US ON? aLL THE 9-YEAR OLDS i KNOW, KNOW ALL THE ABBREVIATIONS ... IT"S ONLY OLD GALS LIKE ME THAT NEED EXPLANATIONS.

11:38 pm

okay, trying to blog about my trip. back after the flip....

11:38 pm

me....Pini!

11:38 pm

bye stid, happy new year

11:38 pm

Ooops, sorry about the caps.

11:38 pm

hello aeb!

11:39 pm

hi aeb

11:39 pm

hi ! & help

11:39 pm

yes christine, I think that is a possibility -- even precocious 9-year olds wouldn't have the syntax and spelling. but that is just an opinion. *wink*

11:39 pm

what do you need aeb?

11:39 pm

back later *mini-poof*

11:39 pm

(actually, my GD doesn't know them...not allowed on sites other than children's)

11:39 pm

TV still on, 71 to go, hubby asleep in the lazyboy

11:39 pm

hi Stid

11:39 pm

agreed, stid

11:40 pm

later stid

11:40 pm

go musica go!

11:40 pm

LOL autumn, go go go

11:40 pm

un4

11:41 pm

UN & 2 vowels

11:42 pm

ty... lind

11:42 pm

yvw

11:42 pm

un6. plz

11:42 pm

un & heap

11:43 pm

ty...not Uraiah

11:43 pm

lol

11:43 pm

Some years ago, on this site, we had a 9-yearold, George", who turned out to be older, but enjoyed winding us up. Was also signed on as a grown man.

11:43 pm

okay, finally got NBT

11:44 pm

* about time, AM * ;)

11:44 pm

everyone to their own christine!!

11:44 pm

it's well past bedtime too, remember

11:45 pm

NBT???

11:45 pm

NBT = no blank tiles

11:45 pm

omg ty pini, I will wake up soon!

11:45 pm

=]

11:47 pm

Oh ,life was simpler when we could SEE that our kids were not meeting creepy old men in raincoats (my generation's idea of dirty old men).

11:47 pm

oh, my, clue for the ve8 please

11:48 pm

ve8 sounds like a woman's name

11:48 pm

VE & not totally wood floor just coated is *********ted

11:48 pm

i mean not solid wood!

11:49 pm

ve + mary had a little ***b + italian babies are bamb***s

11:49 pm

oh, that was good, lindrick!!!!!

11:49 pm

I think the creepy old men were sneekier than you think christine!!

11:49 pm

pup patrol - brb

11:49 pm

ty pini, not sure it helped though!!

11:50 pm

did you get it autumn??

11:50 pm

both helped - Pini got the first part... Lind gave me the vowel ending

11:50 pm

wooo

11:50 pm

ty ty

11:50 pm

10 minutes, what else do you need?

11:51 pm

Good evening ladies and gents - just coming on to wish everyone a Happy New Year before I get locked out by the crowd! 7 min to go!

11:51 pm

hi hoot, happy new year

11:51 pm

Pooh, I'm not getting 47 in ten minutes.

11:51 pm

don't think we have met before hoot

11:51 pm

te6....plz

11:51 pm

what do you need christine?

11:52 pm

hi lin - I am central time so it will be flip and new year!

11:52 pm

Oh it;s

11:52 pm

oh cool

11:52 pm

no TE 6 aeb

11:52 pm

te 7?

11:53 pm

I am eastern time hoot

11:53 pm

I don't know if we've actuallt met but I know you from the chog. I don't come on too often.

11:53 pm

knight's te7

11:53 pm

I am going to go knit a while before the flip - back later Happy New Year to all in the Midwest and further east

11:53 pm

well it is nice to meet you

11:53 pm

Hello, and Happy New Year to you all! I still have 7 minutes until it's officially 2009....

11:53 pm

So I'm late for you:D

11:53 pm

hi mix, sorry was just seeing if that was what someone else needed!

11:54 pm

probably hoot!

11:54 pm

Yes it is.

11:54 pm

night birdeee, happy new year

11:54 pm

happy new year.

11:54 pm

What is NBT

11:54 pm

hi mix & jai

11:54 pm

It's ok honey ... a little bit of everything. But, hey, in 6 minutes, it's a whole new grid.

11:54 pm

BBL - time for toast w/bf.

11:54 pm

Hiya, Lind!

11:54 pm

no blank tiles

11:55 pm

aha --- bbl

11:55 pm

later hoot, nice to meet you

11:55 pm

later birdeee

11:56 pm

I give up. 50 left

11:57 pm

back

11:57 pm

aaww, new grid round the corner autumn!

11:57 pm

wb pini

11:57 pm

AM!

11:57 pm

I already gave up. I have pneumonia, and thisa puzzle was a little too much for my brain today....Lack of o2, I think....

11:57 pm

What do you think is coming up? Big ? Little? No list because lickety is still celebrating new years?

11:58 pm

little! usually are small when i have lots of time!! LOL

11:58 pm

I hope little but not devious

11:58 pm

(((((Jai))))))) hope you feel better soon

11:58 pm

I hope medium, but not TOO hard!

11:58 pm

yeah, I am going with the little call because I have all day tomorrow to work on it

11:58 pm

I need something to do tmw!

11:58 pm

* passes O2 bottle to Jai *

11:58 pm

Thanks, Lind! Hugs to you, too!

11:59 pm

thx

11:59 pm

lets hope 2009 is better than 2008 eh!!

11:59 pm

Thanks Pink...I also need a roll of paper towels for my nose...yuk...I feel like a little kid with a cold....

11:59 pm

hubby just got home from work.

11:59 pm

wow mix

11:59 pm

* hands over box of soft, but effective, tissues *

12:00 am

Hug hubby tight!

12:00 am

flip!

12:00 am

Thanks, Pink!

12:00 am

Stiddie!

12:00 am

mine hasn't flipped!!

12:00 am

Flip!

12:00 am

wb stid!

12:01 am

Flip! Not!

12:01 am

server?

12:01 am

we are in a time warp

12:02 am

no one will get any older!!! lol

12:02 am

I think the flipper is celebrating

12:02 am

Yeah....That extra minute to fix time...

12:03 am

BABBLE!! WHERE TIME STANDS STILL!!!

12:03 am

hey atodd!

12:03 am

hi, lindrick

12:03 am

The server is serving drinks, maybe?

12:03 am

I am going to try hitting refresh...here goes...

12:07 am

freaky!!

12:07 am

it is an anomaly

12:08 am

anyone still here?

12:09 am

ooohhhh spooky am I all alone????

12:09 am

heellloooooooooooooooooooooo?????

12:11 am

anyone?????

12:12 am

brb

12:14 am

back again

12:15 am

has everyone disapeared???

12:17 am

hey Lindrick im still here working on the grid. i wonder if others refreshed and cant get back in?

boo

12:18 am

or they are in the new grid maybe?

12:19 am

any idea whats up with the grid lickety?

12:24 am

The new grid opens if you open a new window

12:25 am

ok.. thanks Poirot. I thought that might be the case. Happy New Year

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