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139 4,489
140 4,489
141 4,489
142 4,489
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144 4,489
145 4,489
146 4,489
147 4,489
148 4,489
149 4,489
150 4,489
151 4,489
152 4,489
153 4,489
154 4,489
155 4,489
156 4,489
157 4,468
158 4,456
159 4,434
160 4,301
161 4,295
162 4,185
163 4,102
164 4,083
165 4,003
166 3,994
167 3,994
168 3,957
169 3,924
170 3,911
171 3,881
172 3,861
173 3,851
174 3,831
175 3,793
176 3,778
177 3,735
178 3,715
179 3,683
180 3,657
181 3,649
182 3,602
183 3,602
184 3,592
185 3,591
186 3,514
187 3,503
188 3,498
189 3,474
190 3,470
191 3,415
192 3,403
193 3,398
194 3,334
195 3,322
196 3,248
197 3,247
198 3,223
199 3,198
200 3,178
201 3,167
202 3,128
203 3,110
204 3,088
205 3,071
206 3,048
207 3,038
208 3,033
209 3,025
210 3,021
211 3,002
212 2,993
213 2,970
214 2,969
215 2,964
216 2,953
217 2,937
218 2,935
219 2,925
220 2,862
221 2,852
222 2,828
223 2,818
224 2,797
225 2,778
226 2,771
227 2,764
228 2,759
229 2,756
230 2,753
231 2,730
232 2,729
233 2,725
234 2,717
235 2,708
236 2,702
237 2,696
238 2,695
239 2,695
240 2,681
241 2,668
242 2,659
243 2,640
244 2,640
245 2,639
246 2,634
247 2,628
248 2,621
249 2,609
250 2,601
251 2,597
252 2,572
253 2,559
254 2,555
255 2,553
256 2,542
257 2,541
258 2,534
259 2,534
260 2,530
261 2,528
262 2,525
263 2,502
264 2,499
265 2,486
266 2,483
267 2,455
268 2,451
269 2,451
270 2,449
271 2,410
272 2,408
273 2,407
274 2,406
275 2,395
276 2,393
277 2,392
278 2,391
279 2,368
280 2,350
281 2,338
282 2,314
283 2,311
284 2,310
285 2,293
286 2,283
287 2,279
288 2,273
289 2,253
290 2,249
291 2,243
292 2,235
293 2,235
294 2,234
295 2,231
296 2,224
297 2,223
298 2,217
299 2,215
300 2,203
301 2,201
302 2,195
303 2,194
304 2,174
305 2,173
306 2,165
307 2,161
308 2,157
309 2,151
310 2,148
311 2,133
312 2,125
313 2,121
314 2,119
315 2,119
316 2,113
317 2,110
318 2,100
319 2,100
320 2,093
321 2,089
322 2,087
323 2,082
324 2,066
325 2,058
326 2,057
327 2,050
328 2,039
329 2,037
330 2,034
331 2,032
332 2,017
333 2,011
334 2,005
335 1,996
336 1,966
337 1,962
338 1,957
339 1,955
340 1,943
341 1,943
342 1,929
343 1,918
344 1,910
345 1,910
346 1,909
347 1,902
348 1,901
349 1,900
350 1,896
351 1,896
352 1,895
353 1,895
354 1,889
355 1,883
356 1,877
357 1,873
358 1,871
359 1,870
360 1,870
361 1,860
362 1,858
363 1,854
364 1,850
365 1,843
366 1,838
367 1,835
368 1,822
369 1,815
370 1,813
371 1,807
372 1,807
373 1,807
374 1,799
375 1,798
376 1,798
377 1,794
378 1,792
379 1,791
380 1,789
381 1,789
382 1,784
383 1,780
384 1,769
385 1,762
386 1,761
387 1,760
388 1,758
389 1,751
390 1,746
391 1,746
392 1,743
393 1,743
394 1,738
395 1,737
396 1,730
397 1,729
398 1,727
399 1,723
400 1,718
401 1,716
402 1,716
403 1,708
404 1,702
405 1,697
406 1,694
407 1,690
408 1,681
409 1,680
410 1,678
411 1,670
412 1,660
413 1,654
414 1,635
415 1,634
416 1,634
417 1,633
418 1,626
419 1,625
420 1,622
421 1,622
422 1,621
423 1,618
424 1,615
425 1,615
426 1,610
427 1,606
428 1,605
429 1,602
430 1,584
431 1,577
432 1,573
433 1,555
434 1,552
435 1,552
436 1,551
437 1,543
438 1,533
439 1,528
440 1,510
441 1,509
442 1,505
443 1,500
444 1,497
445 1,492
446 1,492
447 1,485
448 1,484
449 1,475
450 1,464
451 1,461
452 1,460
453 1,459
454 1,459
455 1,440
456 1,438
457 1,434
458 1,431
459 1,430
460 1,428
461 1,428
462 1,426
463 1,422
464 1,416
465 1,408
466 1,383
467 1,383
468 1,382
469 1,378
470 1,369
471 1,368
472 1,366
473 1,366
474 1,365
475 1,363
476 1,363
477 1,362
478 1,338
479 1,328
480 1,323
481 1,317
482 1,315
483 1,309
484 1,307
485 1,307
486 1,306
487 1,305
488 1,301
489 1,297
490 1,297
491 1,281
492 1,277
493 1,276
494 1,274
495 1,274
496 1,273
497 1,264
498 1,261
499 1,247
500 1,247
501 1,242
502 1,233
503 1,233
504 1,232
505 1,228
506 1,227
507 1,225
508 1,219
509 1,218
510 1,203
511 1,199
512 1,199
513 1,198
514 1,197
515 1,191
516 1,179
517 1,174
518 1,172
519 1,165
520 1,156
521 1,151
522 1,149
523 1,147
524 1,144
525 1,133
526 1,129
527 1,128
528 1,128
529 1,121
530 1,120
531 1,115
532 1,114
533 1,111
534 1,102
535 1,101
536 1,095
537 1,094
538 1,077
539 1,073
540 1,067
541 1,063
542 1,060
543 1,054
544 1,052
545 1,051
546 1,048
547 1,046
548 1,045
549 1,042
550 1,034
551 1,030
552 1,022
553 1,019
554 1,018
555 1,017
556 1,017
557 1,015
558 1,012
559 1,006
560 1,004
561 1,001
562 997
563 995
564 988
565 979
566 977
567 973
568 968
569 965
570 956
571 956
572 952
573 949
574 943
575 940
576 938
577 938
578 936
579 936
580 933
581 927
582 898
583 886
584 882
585 879
586 875
587 865
588 863
589 862
590 858
591 857
592 855
593 853
594 853
595 847
596 847
597 847
598 843
599 825
600 823
601 820
602 819
603 818
604 816
605 815
606 813
607 808
608 805
609 803
610 803
611 796
612 793
613 793
614 782
615 779
616 777
617 775
618 773
619 752
620 752
621 750
622 747
623 743
624 737
625 737
626 729
627 729
628 726
629 725
630 719
631 718
632 713
633 709
634 708
635 705
636 701
637 701
638 699
639 698
640 694
641 692
642 683
643 681
644 674
645 674
646 673
647 671
648 669
649 664
650 664
651 659
652 650
653 647
654 646
655 644
656 642
657 632
658 631
659 623
660 621
661 616
662 615
663 612
664 609
665 606
666 603
667 598
668 598
669 595
670 595
671 587
672 582
673 574
674 565
675 562
676 561
677 560
678 547
679 546
680 535
681 534
682 534
683 531
684 526
685 517
686 510
687 503
688 500
689 500
690 489
691 485
692 481
693 478
694 477
695 475
696 474
697 465
698 465
699 464
700 457
701 453
702 448
703 445
704 440
705 440
706 431
707 430
708 429
709 426
710 423
711 417
712 413
713 411
714 410
715 407
716 405
717 401
718 400
719 399
720 397
721 390
722 384
723 379
724 375
725 368
726 364
727 363
728 361
729 354
730 349
731 348
732 348
733 342
734 329
735 326
736 324
737 309
738 305
739 299
740 299
741 285
742 281
743 271
744 262
745 258
746 252
747 249
748 248
749 242
750 242
751 231
752 227
753 227
754 222
755 221
756 215
757 207
758 207
759 206
760 200
761 194
762 189
763 184
764 175
765 174
766 170
767 166
768 160
769 154
770 151
771 141
772 140
773 140
774 139
775 137
776 133
777 125
778 121
779 108
780 104
781 100
782 83
783 82
784 79
785 78
786 76
787 75
788 70
789 69
790 55
791 50
792 46
793 27
794 22
795 12
796 5
797 5

263 total words

12:00 am

holy flip!

12:00 am

flip

12:01 am

flip gl

12:01 am

flip and wow 5 x 9 letter words!

12:02 am

ah. there we go. another big one :( seriously doubt I can finish this one!! it's too big

12:02 am

and po 7/44

12:02 am

tr 7 8 8

12:03 am

ty Kaz

12:03 am

thx vash

12:03 am

*dives in, see you later*

12:03 am

po 7x2

12:04 am

ty for all those 7 and 8's

12:04 am

well, nytol

12:04 am

GNight Tyger- sleep well

I have my icon now i am lurking.

12:04 am

wow refreshing made it worse, now i have 263 to go instead of 57

12:05 am

oooh i have to go get my icon....'

12:05 am

LOL Harp!

Clues are up

12:05 am

ty Lickety

12:06 am

thanks so much, lickety! :)

12:06 am

Thankyou Lickety

12:06 am

Thank you, Lickety!!!

12:06 am

de 9 X 2

12:07 am

po 7x3

12:07 am

de7

12:07 am

ty for the de9x2 plus de8

12:08 am

re 9 X 2

12:09 am

got those too ARB

hi

12:10 am

Hi Josh

12:11 am

wow I have 130 already

12:12 am

nu 6/7/7

12:12 am

I only have 55 but i Have nbt

12:12 am

yay, DR!

12:12 am

flip?

12:12 am

hello all!

12:12 am

en7, 8, 8

12:12 am

new icon for jane

12:13 am

good morning from natanya...

12:13 am

go DR go!

12:13 am

ah, refreshed, and darn, this one's even bigger!

12:13 am

Hi Stid and ty Rbud

12:14 am

hello flosey!

12:14 am

and rolin!

12:14 am

Hi FLosey and Rolin

12:14 am

hi stid

12:14 am

and Dr

NBT

12:15 am

yay, josh!

12:15 am

wtg Josh!

12:15 am

go joshua go!

12:16 am

oooooh. I got a 9!

12:16 am

wow, good for you stid

12:16 am

ap 7

12:17 am

oh my, and there are 5 of them!

12:17 am

go ruru go!

12:17 am

ive got 4....and all by myself..my best ever

12:18 am

wtg rolin

12:18 am

go rolin go!!!

12:19 am

hi all

12:19 am

hello nan!

12:19 am

hi nan, haven't seen you in a while

12:19 am

hey nan

12:19 am

been visiting the kids in AB, flosey

12:19 am

well done Rolin

12:20 am

how are they, nan?

12:20 am

oh hello bug....are you new?... or have we just not met?

12:20 am

lovely nan, I'm with daughter in Vancouver, awaiting new grandson

12:20 am

everyone seems to be thriving

12:20 am

exciting, flosey :)

12:21 am

good to hear, nan!

12:21 am

I am pretty new and I don't always speak up.

12:21 am

*sending flosey's daughter patience*

12:21 am

well a belated welcome...*s*

12:21 am

beautiful icon bugs

12:21 am

Is this her first? -- hope all goes well

12:21 am

Thanks flosey. It makes me think of home'

12:22 am

yes nan, all seems well, just getting impatient!

12:22 am

but when bugsaw gives clues, they're GRRRRREAT!

12:22 am

yes they are !!!

12:22 am

goose alert

12:23 am

ah stid, you're sweet

12:23 am

Thanks stid. I can't clue every word very well but I am trying

12:23 am

and the buffalo...

12:24 am

phantom: nascent

12:24 am

oh fiddle -- I can'r remember which babblet is the buffalo! LOL

12:24 am

an4, stid

12:24 am

I need two more tiles for NBT. up to 107 already

12:24 am

and pl

12:24 am

thanks rbud! *grin*

12:24 am

ha...didnt even know it was a buffalo...

12:26 am

ruru- there is a bird in thegrid

12:27 am

I see the goose

12:27 am

it is a different bird

12:28 am

now I need one tile for NBT *searching deep in the grid*

12:28 am

I am SO TIRED!!! *yawn*

12:29 am

I need 2, 2nd column E and last column E :(

12:29 am

left column grety

12:29 am

grey that is.

12:30 am

go ruru go!

12:31 am

I need help with the E in the second column, second row please

12:32 am

"roadent" a large, macadam-loving critter, aka possum

12:33 am

finished Stid

12:33 am

lol, stid!

en7 - part of an academic article, possibly

12:33 am

no- wrong e

12:33 am

no, that was the other EN, but thanks DR

12:33 am

thanks joshua! NBT!! *happy dance*

last column e is a 4/4

12:34 am

yea Stid!

12:34 am

tomorrow morning I need to read one more chapter and one more case study, and write one more essay, then I am ready for the evening class. It will feel like a VERY EASY day.

12:34 am

ty josh!

12:35 am

YES! I saw a poetry word before I monkeyed it or asked for help! *proud mama look*

12:35 am

I've greyed the left column too, ruru

i got that one too stid - love that word

12:35 am

go anike go!

12:37 am

thing is, I am only just beginning to really appreciate "poetry" as a genre... which is good since I hope to teach middle school language arts some day

12:39 am

well, past halfway now. I think I'll toddle off and finish tomorrow when I need a break. *hugs everyone* thanks for the help!

12:39 am

*poof*

12:39 am

hello everyone

12:39 am

Nite stid

12:40 am

gnight Stid

12:40 am

hi jill -- on my way as well -- see you tomorrow everyone :)

12:40 am

hi jilli, how was bridge tonight

12:40 am

another too-biggie, I see

wow - en7 x 2 en8 x 2

those are the 4 for that 2nd column e. tough tile!

luckily 3 of them are related :)

12:41 am

bridge was much as usual, flosey

12:42 am

sure hope to be back for next Monday

12:43 am

gads...had to refresh to see the flip (was distracted due to writing my first online comment about tonight's episode of the bachelorette) oy ve

12:43 am

100 to go - is lickety up yet?

12:43 am

Maybe the little one is waiting for Canada Day

12:43 am

Oh what in interesting icon theme for today, I think I will have to go and change mine.

12:43 am

lol, that would be a double header

12:44 am

and Good evening/morning all.

12:44 am

you're up early, FM! Welcome!

12:44 am

hello

12:45 am

great icon jilli

12:45 am

hi mlf

12:45 am

hi mlf

12:45 am

Oh jilli, don't talk to me about up early have been up since flipping 3am :(

12:46 am

ty flosey -- leaving Robert Bateman for you, lol

12:46 am

poor FM -- why?

12:46 am

hi flosey

12:46 am

SQ 6 i assume was caolled?

12:46 am

hi jill

12:46 am

would love to get with the icon themes but will have to wait until I'm home

12:46 am

It's too hot to sleep at the mo and bad dreams

hi all!

12:47 am

flosey, who would you have picked if you'd been able to?

12:47 am

hi dee hi

hugs jili

12:48 am

poor FM! How hot is it?

12:48 am

Back in a mo going to update icon and bio.

12:49 am

hadn't even given it a thought jilli, haven't kept up with the themes - keeping busy here

12:49 am

OU 6

12:50 am

wel, now you know what the theme is...

12:50 am

PO 7 x2

that ou6 is part of several longer words

12:51 am

josh i know its part of two P words

12:52 am

Po 7 x 3 which were probably already called

12:52 am

PB for mlf

12:53 am

DE 6

12:53 am

what did i say hill?lol

12:53 am

pa4, mlf

12:54 am

DE 7

12:54 am

oh yeah oops sorry

12:56 am

OK icon updated

there are several other than the 2 p words you are talking about, mlf

12:58 am

wow another biggie!...I didn't finish the last one either...was stuck at work 'til 9:30 pm, and tomorrow looks the same...in anticipation of not being able to work Wed or Thursday perhaps...

12:58 am

Great choice, FM!

12:58 am

jilli re your earlier question, it is 70 degrees already and its only 7am, forecast for today is 90.

12:59 am

other 7's josh or p words that are bigger?

7s, 8s, 9s

1:00 am

re9 x 2

1:00 am

(if not already called)

1:01 am

whew, FM -- we had some of that a couple of weeks ago

1:01 am

hmmmm most famous person from our home town or place of residence? currently, Jordin Sparks of American Idol fame, or Alice Cooper, Sen. John McCain, US DHS Sec. Janet Napolitano....

1:01 am

MLF - they come from the basic ou5 word, diff. beginnings and endings

1:01 am

saw some in the list josh:)_

1:02 am

btw Jilli, when I left worjk this eve ( !!) at 9:30 pm...it was still 101 outside...

1:02 am

Oh excellent PAV I would choose Alice Cooper!

1:02 am

Oh, I vote for Alice Cooper, yay! lol

1:02 am

96 left but cant stay awake! night all :)

1:02 am

thanks rbud:)

1:02 am

RE 8 9 9

1:03 am

night

1:03 am

night kaz!

1:03 am

Kaz?

1:03 am

yep, now you're on the track!

1:03 am

oh Jilli, just remembered, former Prime Minister Pearson was raised either Aurora (where we lived for 30 years) or King next town

1:03 am

rbud did i stray away again??lol

1:03 am

if it was from my hometown, I would use a pic of moi...I'm the only one you'd care to know from my home town...(this is an attempt at humour)...but Phoenix is pretty big

1:04 am

there are de's, too, 8/9/9

1:04 am

Well, flosey, that would have beena great one!

1:04 am

yes, darn

1:05 am

rbud i got a 7

1:05 am

:)

1:05 am

I have seen quite a few interviews on TV recently and he comes over as such a grounded guy now, love the fact that he plays golf and has been faithful in his marriage, not the usual persona of a rock star!

there are en's and tr's as well

1:05 am

Can i have a clue for the AP 7?

1:06 am

please:)

1:06 am

and for you fans...I present...

1:06 am

PAV put up a pic you you then so we can see you :)

1:06 am

PAV should we hod our breath?

1:06 am

past tense of a kitchen clothing is the ap 7

1:06 am

I see him, yay, Alice!

1:06 am

thanks ruru

1:07 am

thanks ru

1:07 am

GOT IT

1:07 am

Pav, I take it that's Alice Cooper? It would be nice if you would identify it in your profile ;)

1:07 am

okay i found 75 words i am out poof

1:07 am

hi ruru

1:07 am

nite, MLF!

1:07 am

yup that is Alice jilli

1:07 am

well the grid is too big for me tonight, so I'll pass on that..I'll have to get some photos of meself posted on my Mac so I can oblige my small cadre of fans...

1:07 am

hi jilli

nbt!!! yipppeee

1:08 am

schools out for summer pav

1:08 am

I love Alice, he's really quite intelligent, I listen to his nightly radio show often

1:09 am

and yay, Dee!

1:09 am

hi all late flip

1:09 am

hey rbud, love yr icon, didn't know he was that talented, only know him as an actor.

ty rb and hi da 4

1:09 am

hiya, da4!

1:09 am

yay PAV, look forward to seeing you :)

1:10 am

Boo . . .

1:11 am

hello jc

1:11 am

Hello, ruru . . .

1:12 am

Ooh . . . just found the de8 and de9! :)

1:12 am

ok my profile's been updated for Ms. Jilli....hi JC and ruru! and everyone else I've ignored...mea culpa...

1:13 am

Hi, PAV! :)

1:13 am

Hi ruru good to see you!

1:13 am

At least you said hi, PAV - even if it took a while! ;)

1:13 am

hi FM.. up early or late.. I can never tell

1:14 am

up early ruru

1:14 am

here, JC , some imported water just for you! and may I wipe that silly (tired) grin off your face as well?

1:14 am

Hmmm, PAV?

1:15 am

although 7.15am might not be called early by some :)

1:15 am

I'm too tired to be grinning! :P

1:15 am

Hope all is well with you?

1:15 am

Well, no - I sometimes have to be up earlier. Somtimes not - I prefer not! ;)

1:16 am

see I knew it...! tired, as am I...looooonnnnnng day at work 12 hours! and I've to be up again for another loooonnnnngggg day

1:16 am

all I have to share is water, filtered, but water nonetheless

1:17 am

aha, found the other bird mentioned earlier, to 6

can anyone tell me what 9 is missing? I have de 9 x 2 and re 9 x 2

1:20 am

don't know, was wondering, too

1:20 am

ac 8/9

1:21 am

our politicos are screwed up here...tomorrow is the last day of the fiscal year...if we have no budget passed and signed, we don't work Wed...the stalemate is on the controlling republicans who don't want to increase taxes (temporarily) to help raise funds ($3 billion for the current year ending tomorrow) and would rather cut more form the education budget..in a state ranked 49th in education spending...the dems were never invited to help craft a budget so they don't really care what happens...they won't be to blame wither way...

1:21 am

ty, Just

k ty

1:21 am

'fraid not Volley, been to busy updating icon anc chatting, which reminds me I must get back to the grid.

ty just!!

1:21 am

ac 8/9

1:21 am

yw :)

ty diz

1:21 am

justy!!

1:22 am

wow, PAV, that's a mess!

1:22 am

hiya d**tie!

1:22 am

ok ...I'm off to walk Joey and then to bed...ciao mes amis...

1:22 am

is it a compound ac word?

1:22 am

Toodles PAV and sweet dreams.

1:22 am

good luck with the fiscals, PAV, and g'nite!

1:22 am

yes ru it is...strange word

1:23 am

buena sera pav

1:23 am

Has the Sultan of Brunei's brother's house still got armed guards out front?

1:24 am

Oh morning Ata and yes

ahhh, got the ac8/9 ty. it looks like a compound word but i doubt it is

1:24 am

I always find that very bizarre - la la la Sunningdale la la la ARMED GUARDS!

1:25 am

You should have seen the way they built the walls around the estate, facinating.

1:27 am

The driveway to Mums old house was opposite the site and she used to meander down and have a chat with the builders

1:27 am

are thry special foot thick titanium cored nuclear proof walls?

1:28 am

Oh and the rest!! plus he was hit with a lawsuit when he took down some of the internal structure, several marble columns, which he was forced to reinstate at incredible cost.

1:28 am

I don't see the ac 9

1:29 am

highest card in deck + sc5, a smell

1:30 am

thank you rb

1:30 am

def. a new one for me!

1:30 am

I had no idea it belonged to John Lennon first!

1:31 am

Time for a break, not sure if it is breakfast or lunch that I want seeing as I have been up since 3. Back in a while.

1:32 am

bfn FM :)

1:33 am

bye dear!

1:33 am

later, FM

1:35 am

sorry I missed some arrivals -- was getting a snack

1:35 am

50 left time for lickety

1:36 am

nice work, da4!

1:36 am

ok jilli - just for you

1:36 am

Oh! Lickety arrived! when?

1:37 am

Wow, flosey! Didn't think you could!

1:37 am

was away for about an hour, chatted with hubby for a while after he finished the scoring

1:37 am

I didn't think I could either!

1:37 am

hmmm, now no excuse

1:38 am

but have only 81 words, better get to work

1:38 am

Didn't he also get the Nobel Peace Prize?

1:38 am

FMitch -- why could he not remove the columns?

1:38 am

I have all of 52 words, lol

1:38 am

meant to put that in, hmmm, how did I miss that

1:39 am

yes, in l957

1:39 am

ok, I must poof, I didn't really mean to start chatting anyway. I want to take pup out before it gets baking hot again today. BBL!

1:40 am

bye ata -- stay cool!

1:51 am

hi jilli, flosey..

1:51 am

hi Mar

1:51 am

hi just!

1:51 am

been in and out doing laundry...

1:52 am

didn't one of the flag ideas have the blues on the outside te represent ocean to ocean?

1:53 am

I don't know really...I actually tried to upload a "floating flag" but it didn't work so just picked this

1:53 am

the blue is to rep quebec I believe

1:55 am

I don't remember too much about the changing of the flag, just remember Dad and a few others still flew the red ensign on their boats - most of them military men who had served under that flag and had emotional attachment to it

1:55 am

oh, then it belongs inside the flag, doesn't it!

1:55 am

lol I guess...was just being silly

1:56 am

fireworks

1:56 am

If i was to pick a homegrown celeb...I'd pick guy laliberte not the diva!

1:56 am

YAY anike!

1:56 am

wtg Anike

1:56 am

yay, anike!!!

1:56 am

gg anike

1:57 am

How about PET, just?

1:57 am

for those who don't know...guy is the founder and ceo of Cirque de Soleil

1:58 am

TY - would try to do some clues but have to get ready - house hunting with my son and daughter - they are planning to buy a house together

1:58 am

oh thought "live" persons..

1:58 am

lol Mar, perhaps depends how old one is!

1:59 am

lol meant PET is not with us anymore, at least in the flesh

1:59 am

Bye for now

2:01 am

bye anike

2:01 am

sprite's choice lied inthe 1600s -- you should have her in your My Friends -- she is the one who lists the themes

2:01 am

don't think Pearson is either - Jilli?

2:02 am

don't think so, flosey

2:02 am

I do jilli

2:02 am

Whose photo would I use as my avatar for today's theme, Jilli - my next-door neighbour? Yes, I'd have to! HAHAHA . . .

2:02 am

I meant I do have her in my friends not that I do think pearson is alive!

2:03 am

Pearson died in Dec 1972

2:03 am

wow long time ago...

2:04 am

JC, you could put up the former owner of your house.

2:04 am

thanks jilli, should have known that

2:04 am

Well no, Jilli - he is deceased. Or doesn't that matter?

2:05 am

never knew bachman had a home on SSI how nice! always loved his music with burton

2:05 am

doesn't matter, JC -- as I said a minute ago, sprite's choice lived in the 1600s

2:05 am

saw them on their last tour maybe 6 or 7 years ago...they're gonna be here again in Aug

2:05 am

Oh, sorry Jilli - I'm in a chat window also, and being distracted by a puppy. :)

2:06 am

Laura (Fauxmage in my list on Myspace) is on a messenger with me - and Babbling here, incognito. :P

2:06 am

And she's doing better than me! :/

2:06 am

laaaate flip

2:06 am

Hello Laura :)

2:06 am

hey freep

2:07 am

hi freep

2:07 am

jilli....do you have NBT's??

2:07 am

NBT a while ago, btw

2:08 am

can you help me out with the middle column E?

2:08 am

HAHAHA, Laura doesn't want to type in the 'chog' Jilli, because she is playing with a weird name, But, she tried to add you on MySpace . . .

2:08 am

stopped justy

2:08 am

If you log in there, on the 'Home' page (where you are when you first log in), scroll down and look on the left, and you should see a link to click, notifying you of new friend requests . . .

2:09 am

oooh. this looks friendly... or at least up to a point

2:09 am

en5/14, just (concluded -- with a fishslap, lol)

2:09 am

oh fish thx d**rtie

2:10 am

d***, I guess you've found the nice ts word :)

2:10 am

I need one too, Jilli - preferably with a fake/rubber fish.

2:10 am

so hate ce words :(

2:10 am

yes jilli :)

2:10 am

Or just a slap . . .

2:11 am

must pay some attention to MySpace when I have time -- sorry, Laura

2:12 am

She is 'Fauxmage' in my 'Friend Space' there, Jilli - you'll see her on my page. She is the one who posted that funny comment with the Richard Simmons graphic - did you see that? :P

2:13 am

didn't notice Richard -- really just skimmed there

2:14 am

Oh - well you should read the comments, Jilli - some funny stuff there. ;)

2:14 am

That one, and my response to it - two comments above.

2:14 am

Of course, you may want to slap me . . . ;)

2:15 am

I will, JC, soon -- but not now -- nearly bedtime

2:17 am

Yes . . .

2:20 am

I don't mean I'll slap you soon, lol...

2:22 am

HAHAHA!

2:23 am

I think you just might, Jilli - when you see my reply to Laura's comment on my page . . . :P

2:23 am

Oh, and I added a funny graphic to the page earlier - under the bit about shelter adoption, in the 'Heroes' section.

2:23 am

Should make you laugh . . .

2:24 am

What the text on it says . . .

2:25 am

Right now Jon Stewart is making me laugh

2:26 am

firewords

2:26 am

wtg Dart

2:26 am

YAY d***!!!

2:26 am

Oh well . . . glad someone is! ;)

2:26 am

wtg d**rtie!!

2:26 am

Congrats, dart . . .

2:27 am

tomorrow, JC!

2:27 am

ty flos jilli justy jc am falling asleep...nite all

2:27 am

Yes, Jilli - I typed a winking face there. ;)

2:28 am

night dartie

2:28 am

byeeee pooof

2:28 am

night d*** :)

2:28 am

saw that JC ;)

2:29 am

Good night, dart . . .

evening all :)

2:52 am

hello mrp

2:52 am

hi MrP!

2:54 am

Morning, mrp! :)

2:56 am

hi osgd

Hi OSGM

2:56 am

What is 'OSGM"?

2:56 am

hi herin

2:56 am

Or 'OGSD'?

2:57 am

Hi again jilli and hello all :)

2:57 am

'OGSM', sorry . . .

Overseas Grandma

2:57 am

Over Seas Grand Ma (or Daughter)

2:57 am

HAHA . . .

2:57 am

hi fm

2:57 am

Oh, it is?

Yep

2:57 am

Hi again FM -- did you have a nap?

Because I want Jill as my Grandma

2:58 am

Don't we all, herin? :)

2:58 am

Hi Just, herin et al. No went out and did food shopping and errands, now back to babble :)

2:58 am

and I think herin would make a lovely granddaughter

2:59 am

so do I herin jilli would just be the best GM

Hi FM to. Hi Jc and Just

3:00 am

She would, FMitch - or any relation, or friend. :)

3:00 am

awwww

3:00 am

I concur wholeheartedly :)

3:01 am

but jilli would be too young to be my gramdmother :)

awww

3:01 am

phew!

3:01 am

Same here, Just . . .

3:01 am

aunty?

Sorry but my internet is really bad.

3:02 am

Sure, Jilli . . . if you wish? ;)

and my typing is really bad

3:02 am

whatever

3:02 am

oh yeah fer sure

3:02 am

Does that mean I have to call you 'Aunty Jill' now?

3:02 am

Very true J.C, a lovely warm woman with so much interesting life history and experience to share with us all - esp via her icons.

3:02 am

shudder!

3:02 am

Yes, she certainly is, FMitch . . . :)

3:03 am

lol

3:03 am

Shudder? Aww, sorry Jilli! :/

3:03 am

I'd have to call you ACA (Across country auntie)

3:03 am

oh pleeze -- jilli is just fine

3:03 am

I'll just keep calling you jilli and you can always call me ERmintrude ;)

3:03 am

Bet my typing is worse, mrp - it flies out the window on a regular basis, and travels to far-away, unknown places, where perhaps they can actually read and make sense of it?! :P

3:04 am

and that was typed perfectly, JC

3:04 am

Yes - THAT was, Jilli. But I have made many typos here already, this morning.

3:05 am

don't we all!

JC, been there done that! Got criticized for it, moved on!

3:05 am

HAHA . . .

3:05 am

brb while I shut off horrible noise on TV

no horrible tv noise here, just the beautiful sound of balls being hit!

brb whilst i do this tax return. If we don't get the $900 if feaking kill him

3:06 am

Bye herin, go for it!

3:07 am

the tax return bit not the killing

I would prefer a good killing to doing tax return

3:08 am

I'd rather kill the tax man and be done with it!

Lickety did something really good today!!

3:10 am

he does something good everyday, mrP! :)

3:10 am

Oh what, what?

3:10 am

besides giving us the list...

3:11 am

Did Lickety ever realise the global effect he would have?!

I just asked him FM... he is perplexed!

3:13 am

awe and lol

3:13 am

100 to go and I'm off to bed, goodnight all

He got Foxtel IQ so now we can pause and rewind live tv, record 2 other programs whilst watching another... on all channels!! It is brilliant for the tennis!!

3:13 am

wow flosey you're up late!

3:13 am

Hi/bye flosey

3:14 am

night flosey -- 110 left here so far

3:14 am

just -- you're up later!

3:14 am

yes and not very smart! hope Sandy doesn't go into labour until morning

3:14 am

that's so nice for you mrp....only good on 1 tv tho?

3:14 am

yes but I am a nightowl

3:14 am

or a vampire

3:15 am

Sorry Mr but Licketys list is much more impressive than being able to watch sport (not a tennis fan and I know I am blaspheming here).

yes Mar, we have two units, but only one is IQ. I was dubious about it, but now see the love!

3:15 am

I'm with you, FM

3:16 am

they're quite expensive here...about 500 to 600 CDN

3:16 am

but having a gizmo like that is great, I'm told

Why so much Mar??

3:17 am

Enjoy watching the finals, same for football and most major sports.

3:17 am

if it weren't for Lickety's list, I doubt that I'd have stayed with babble. Am very glad I did though, this is the greatest group of friends. and now poof before lI fall asleep in this chair

3:17 am

here it's called a PVR...personal video recorder

Lickety loves to pleasure us! That is all he says!

3:17 am

cause our cable and satelite companies like to gouge us :(

3:18 am

Glad you did stay flosey.

3:18 am

basically they collude...cell phones too

That sucks! we have foxtel IQ free for the first year, then it is $80 per month for the Gold Package

3:18 am

Right, I am diving ito the grid cos I have a lot of words to find.

3:18 am

night, flosey, and good luck to Sandy

3:19 am

we are about the only country in the world where our communcations companies are so expensive

3:19 am

nite flosey

FM, he had to do something to get me off babble! I was spending time away from him without his fancy list!

3:20 am

bye FM -- I'll be off to bed before you come up for air

3:20 am

I agree with flosey

3:21 am

Nighty night the jilli, glad to have caught up with you again. lol MrP

3:23 am

OK, I'm off with 99 left -- goodnight all!

nighters jilli! (hugs)

3:23 am

Oops just realised I posted a word earlier, heads off home AKA the PB :)

3:23 am

night jilli...have 24 left so gonna try and finish

LOL FM! could it be that the PB has turned into a 5 star hotel by now!?

3:24 am

Night, Jilli . . .

3:25 am

The way I build it - more than likely :D

3:26 am

I did try an austere version of the PB a while ago but no-one wanted it.

I like the showers in there!

3:26 am

There are showers in the PB?

3:26 am

and the cabana boys ;)

3:27 am

Ooh, cabana boys??? *FANS SELF!* :P

oooh, love that too!! great at peeling grapes!

3:27 am

LOL

JC, take deep breaths...!! Haven't you been introduced to the hot tub parties??

3:28 am

J.C have a look at my priile and the Flickr pcis

3:28 am

*profile even

I remember Torgone's wife shutting down one of the hot tub parties! It got way out of hand!! LOL

3:29 am

Ang and Lola had a lot to answer for, eh MrP?

I believe it was Mamabear who went in nekkid??

3:30 am

and the rest!!!

she threw her size double D cups at torgone! He nearly died!

3:31 am

loooool

3:32 am

death by drowning in a custard jaccuzi by way of DD cups

LOL !! :D

But when Torg's wife found out... he was banned for ages! LOL!!

3:33 am

Torg is a tease and love to flirt.

Torg the Tease

3:35 am

Oh, OK FMitch - sorry, was sidetracked for a bit.

3:37 am

HAHAHA - that's so funny!!!

3:37 am

I had to click 'All Sizes' to see it full-size.

3:37 am

you like?

Mr PRes can i speak to you on faceboob

3:37 am

you like?

3:37 am

faceboob - now that I would join!

3:38 am

No, no, NO - don't feed the troll! :P

what troll?

3:38 am

There are so many babble references in there J.C

faceboob ! sure infern

3:39 am

Erm, the one the little sign in the Penalty Box picture warns everyone not to feed?

3:39 am

I see that . . .

3:39 am

It's OK herin J.C is just looking at the viual of the PB in my bio.

3:39 am

I see stidmama! HAHAHA . . .

Oh you got piccies again

3:40 am

Even the fish is there . . .

3:40 am

Yes, FMitch - I had to log into Flickr, in order to view the pic full size.

3:41 am

there are so many references, I should count them up and invent a game!

3:46 am

I wouldn't even know them all . . .

3:46 am

The references in the picture, I mean.

3:49 am

lol NP you have to have been aBabbler for along time to get some of them, will let you know some of them if you give me an email?

3:51 am

Erm, OK FMitch - I do have an extra e-mail account, made just for Babble. It is: j.c.babbler - at - gmail dot com.

3:51 am

Sorry - wanted to thwart spam-bots. ;)

3:52 am

Okey dokey - and ta, will email you a bit later once I have put this grid to bed.

3:52 am

Ok, thank you - I'm off now.

3:52 am

*WAVES bye to everyone!*

bye bye now

Hello everyone

4:23 am

Hello Becca. How's the little one?

Not so good at the moment - he's had a bit of a virus so grumpy and sleeping even worse than usual :o(

4:24 am

Not nice for him or for you!

4:24 am

And the warm weather will make it even more difficult to keep him cool, I suppose.

We are having a rough time of it, yes.

Oh it's horrible trying to keep him cool - he's just in a nappy and he's still too hot.

Luckily our old Victorian house is quite cool inside so that helps a bit.

4:25 am

I sympathise. It's not nice when you're used to having a pleasant, contented baby and suddenly he's replaced by an unhappy wee soul.

4:26 am

Is he still getting Calpol or was one dose of it over your clothes enough?

I just feel so sorry for him because he doesn't know what's going on and he can't say how miserab;e he is or tell me where it hurts - poor thing.

He had some last night and some neurofen too.

I've found he'll take it better from a soon, but the syringe is so much less messy at night

4:28 am

Hopefully that's keeping on top of things a bit. He WILL get better and probably very rapidly in the end but it's just horrible in the meantime.

I think he's nearly over it, but I think there is a tooth coming through too, which is compounding things a bit!

4:28 am

Is he coughing with the virus or all stuffed up?

A little bit of a cough but nothing much, and he's not stuffed up at all thankfully.

He's just hot and bothered!

4:30 am

Poor wee soul! Feeling hot and bothered is really not nice even when there's nothing else wrong with you.

The hardest part for me is not being able to go anywhere - I'm getting so bored!

4:31 am

Is it too hot to venture out at all or is he just not up to it?

Too hot to sit outside, and I'm wary of passing virus on to other babies.

We have one friend who's baby also has hte same virus so we can go to her house!

4:32 am

Ideally, a nice shady park nearby populated only by virus immune adults...

Hmm, where will I find one of those? LOL

4:33 am

How about e-bay?

LOL!

4:33 am

They seem to sell most things these days.

I'll have to look.

Ooh, I've just found one of my favourite words in the grid - fe6/36.

4:35 am

If they do have one, be prepare for a bidding war.

4:35 am

Have you something to tell us, Becca!?

Could turn out very expensive.

4:35 am

There's an se6/27 with the same structure.

No! God, no. I can barely cope with the one I've got at the moment!

4:36 am

You're coping beautifully - childhood illnesses are enough to try the patience of a saint.

Besides, it's far too soon for another baby. He only turns one next week.

4:37 am

My girls are grown but I do remember the level of frustration with having to cope when they weren't well.

Thank you Haz, that makes me feel much better, because I feel like tearing my hair out at the moment.

It has such a massive effect on al of us. Hubby and I are rowing because we're both so tired.

4:38 am

I know - I know the feeling but I've also had the experience of knowing that they do get better and that you'll get into a routine again.

Yes I know. I just wish I knew when!

4:39 am

The sort of tiredness that leaves you feeling muzzy and murderous?

Oh rats, he's awake. Bye for now.

4:39 am

Bye Becca. It WILL get better.

Hooray, we're in luck, a quick rock and he's back to sleep already!

And muzzy and murderous sounds about right, yes.

Uh oh, waving feet.

4:42 am

Good, glad he's gone back to sleep again. I don't suppose you can catch up on sleep?

I find it really hard to sleep during the day. I tend to read or play Baable to relax rather than sleep.

Better than doing housework anyway!

4:45 am

Dear me, you'll never get your gold star for Housework at this rate.

4:45 am

Of course, you can buy THEM on e-bay as well.

I can live without that particular gold star.

LOL!

4:46 am

Anyway, good excuse is that the vacuum will waken Grumpypants.

If only I could buy a clean house on e-bay.

4:46 am

And the baby might not like it either.

Ha ha!!

4:47 am

E-bay's bound to be interested in some of these suggestions. Can I claim copyright?

He hates the vacuum.

But he loves the robot vacuum cleaner we have (as do I).

4:48 am

I've seen them on TV but never in operation. Are they effective?

Not sure about claiming copyright on these ideas. You'll have to apply to the patents office

4:48 am

Taking a note... patents office...e-bay... instant riches.

More effective than I am. Yes, it's very good actually.

Can I claim half the takings for being your muse?

4:49 am

We'll have to negotiate, Becca.

BIAM

4:50 am

I can see you claiming money for the baby, since it's his illness that started the ball rolling.

4:50 am

Worked it out. Back in a minute?

4:51 am

I should have worked at Bletchley Park.

Yes, back in a minute. What's Bletchley Park?

4:52 am

It was a station during the war where they cracked codes. The film 'Enigma' was set there.

Ah, I see!

He's trying to sleep but keeps waking up a bit. I'm doing my best to keep him sleeping.

4:53 am

It must have been an incredible place, all those brains working flat out in an enclosed and secretive environment and with the pressure of knowing that there were lives at stake.

Sounds like hell to me.

I don't work welll under pressure. I prefer to take my time.

4:55 am

I don't mind a bit of pressure, but I've never had lives depending on me.

I have had the lives depending on me bit (to a small degree).

wow, that andy murray match was a sensation!

I think I'm the only person in Britain not watching the tennis.

hey becca, is baby doing better?

Did he do well?

4:57 am

wasn't it, mrp!!!!!

4:57 am

Well, Becca, if you've coped with lives depending on you, you're well able to cope with the wee one. The problem is the emotional attachment you feel.

hi movieman! It was incredible! Wish I was there!

4:58 am

Nearly 4 hours of edge of the seat stuff

He's getting there mrp, just grumpy and tired and too hot!

Becca, he/we came to within an inch of having a coronary! Was so close!

I'm not emotionally attached Haz - I'm emotionally welded!

grumpy, tired, hot.... must be time for a nice cool bath!

4:59 am

Exactly.

Wow -sounds like exciting stuff mrp! Glad no-one actually had a coronary though.

all our boys are through to the quarter finals... makes it great!

Could I have a clue for the u please?

5:02 am

un4/6 - on its way to being beneath

Thank you Haz

5:03 am

And then double the vowel at the end

5:03 am

dee deen

Thank you Haz. Any idea what it means? Or is it an abbreviation for grunters?

5:05 am

I don't know - dictionary.com yields no results.

Useless dictionary.

5:06 am

Or perhaps it really does mean' on its way to being beneath'

5:06 am

ds

Perhaps it does, Haz.

5:08 am

Or a mixed up pile of sand?

LOL! Took me a while to get that one.

And of course, then I tried to enter the pile of sand.

5:09 am

There's also the naked possibilty.

Naked sand on its way to being beneath.

5:10 am

You've cracked it!

5:10 am

You should apply for a part time job at dictionay.com. If they won't give words meanings, you will.

I'm now wondering what kind of clothes sand would wear.

5:10 am

*dictionary

Sandals, perhaps?

5:11 am

d

5:11 am

Dune is not in the grid but it was on TV on Sunday, interesting film.

5:11 am

Sandals and perhaps a towel.

5:12 am

Hello FM - it's also one of my favourite sc6/21.

Hello FM

5:13 am

oooh a sc - have a lot of those still to find. Hi Becca

5:14 am

da

5:14 am

G'd Morning Babblers! So close to deodar, yet so far away.....

Good morning Lori

5:15 am

Good morning Lori. You mean we won't get backwards deer dancing with Old Camelot King?

5:15 am

clues for the 9s plz

5:15 am

It was the first time I have been able to watch the film the whole way though, still not sure.

5:15 am

Nay, much to my great disappointment.

I think Dune is a very weird film. Haven't seen it for ages though.

5:16 am

You are late on parade LoriP!!

5:16 am

I don't have them all, movieman, two I have relate to public criticism? de9/78 and de9/72

5:16 am

MM, there's 2 de 9's that make a public claim that condemn

5:17 am

dtto Becca, but was interesting, would like to see it on a cinema screen to see the effect that the director was going for.

5:17 am

dtto Becca, but was interesting, would like to see it on a cinema screen to see the effect that the director was going for.

5:17 am

Oops, sorry. Cross postulation. :) That's all I got so far. :p

oh, just watched the episode of Dr Who where Rose and the Doctor get separated. Sad.

5:17 am

And two re9s with similar structure.

5:17 am

I may be late, but at least I don't repeat myself!

5:17 am

Repeat myself repeat myself repeat myself

If you can de8 someone, why can't you no**** them?

5:18 am

Hazaurus is frisky today....

5:18 am

***ignores Haz and Lori*** THat is one sad episode MrP

5:18 am

When you get that job in dictionary.com you can put that right, Becca.

5:18 am

***ignores FM ignoring me***

5:19 am

re9s think of Edward VIII's abdication

5:19 am

*giggle* and *superduperwatercanonatLori*

ac8 please?

5:19 am

The nu 6/7/7 is gonna' make me giggle all day. ***waits with baited breath***

5:19 am

There's a lot of ignorance around here.....

5:19 am

I tend to ignore it, naturally.

5:20 am

Kind of a mission impossible for those nu, don't you think?

5:20 am

OJK I'm going for fireworks so watch out whilst I dive into the grid pool.... you have been warned :)

5:21 am

Umbrella up.

he didn't get to say he loves her!!!

Thanks FM, the splash from that dive has cooled me down nicely.

***sobbing ***!!

5:21 am

lori, clue me those nu words plz

5:21 am

Sorry forward, haven't got many a's yet.

5:22 am

yw Beca, LoriP has a grat line in water cannons and balloons and squirt guns

catherine tate!! Brilliant!!

5:22 am

MM, nu 7 the 6 meaning very subtle, slight change perhaps

5:23 am

***needs a mop and wet Vac to clean up the mess from FM's dive***

5:23 am

ta lori

5:23 am

Y V W

Could I have a clue for hte first e please?

5:23 am

ac8 - combine a high scoring card with a pleasing aroma

5:23 am

And then plural for ac9

Lori could you clean up my hallway while you're at it - floded with all the rain last night :o(

5:24 am

Or ac9/66 - the sort of perfume Mr Ventura would wear.

denty Haz

"thank you*

*flooded

5:24 am

You're welcome.

was that episode the last of the season (2)??

5:25 am

***pops by Becca's place and leaves Wet-Vac for her to use, but sorry, I don't clean***

5:26 am

Okay, I have to depart to do my chauffeur act - daughter's car is in the garage and she refuses to walk five miles home. Honestly, I've raised one lazy girl.

I don't want to have to do it myself Lori - I'm far too busy for that!

5:26 am

lol HAz and TTFN :)

5:26 am

Can you get Wet-Vac operators on e-bay?

In this heat, 5 miles is a loooong way.

5:26 am

This generation is pampered Hazaurus. 'Yer too soft for their own good. Laters.

5:27 am

Off we go! Bye for now.

Bye Haz.

5:27 am

Bye Becca - and chin up!

:o)

5:28 am

Clearly, that chin has been Botox-ed

Hey, are you saying my chin looks fake?

5:29 am

I'm just sayin' it's a bit too perfect is all..... :p

5:29 am

Nah, just rub the fake tan line in a bit better :)

LOL!

5:30 am

now, now - no bullying in the playground

I think Sol's waking up. His toes are waving!

5:31 am

lol, there you are. G'd evening to ya' Lynx.

5:31 am

Bloody hell, it's like the Mediterranean over here!!!!

5:31 am

***installs air conditioning in MM's room***

5:31 am

LOL just found the na4/5 think I will be taking one of them soon been up for way to long today! Hi lynxxx

5:31 am

How hot is it in the UK, all this moaning

Time for me to go . Bye all.

5:32 am

90 degresss here in Berkshire

5:32 am

bye Becca

lynxx, only 90 degrees! LOL

5:33 am

pffft OK but tht is pretty high for the UK!

5:33 am

Good grief - what a carry on

5:34 am

80 degrees F in Littleport

5:34 am

Are you watching Apparitions MRP?

5:34 am

and they are forecasting it to stay that way for the week - which is very unusual.

weather whingers!

is it on??

5:34 am

Straight after Dr Who

love it!! just turned it on

5:35 am

Laters Becca.

this one looks good!! I love this actor!

5:37 am

Shades of Sean Connery

5:56 am

hey - I cleared the 9's - once they started, they just went.

5:56 am

hi all

5:57 am

MRP!!! how is everything?

6:00 am

Nice job Wolvie. Mornin ardilla, Wolvie

6:00 am

hi lorip

6:00 am

hey lori. :-)

6:01 am

wd wolvie

6:01 am

those ou's are great today

6:01 am

Lori you still here? thought you had gone off to do toer things!

6:01 am

hi ardilla

6:02 am

I am still here but not spelling well.

6:05 am

Still here, sending mail and stuff, you know Multi tasking. ***cough***

6:05 am

*grin*

6:05 am

*sigh*

6:05 am

And elave my toes out of it if you please!

6:05 am

lori - you can email some words to me. ;-)

6:06 am

Ata Hari! Mornin' sigh to you too!

6:06 am

ata?,?

6:06 am

lol Wolvie

6:06 am

My pup is at the vets :(

6:06 am

sorry to hear that ata

6:07 am

what's happened!!

6:07 am

Oh heck whats up Ata dear?

6:08 am

I'm trying not to laugh, but its actually very funny ... she swallowed a Mini Milk - whole. Stick included.

6:08 am

oh my - gotta ask tho - what is a mini milk? an ice cream bar?

6:08 am

so they will keep her until it passes?

6:08 am

what is a mini milk?

6:08 am

Oh for heavens sake, funny but not!

6:09 am

An ice lolly

6:09 am

dera hobbit!!

6:10 am

dear even!

6:10 am

That is such a Hobbit thing to do. Silly Hobbit

6:10 am

ah. it is an ice cream bar.

6:10 am

passes? nooooo. she's too small for a stick to go through. so! x-rays followed by endoscope to try and get it out. If they can, great, if they can't, she'll need an op to get it out

6:10 am

oh a popsicle

6:10 am

oh - I hope they can get it out without surgery.

6:11 am

so do I! endoscopy is bad enough!

6:11 am

oh that sounds awful, poor baby

6:11 am

*se4s healing thoughts to hobbit

6:12 am

so she's down there being doped up for x-rays / endo

6:12 am

I bet you do ata, and I agree - one of my kitties had to have surgery to remove a swallowed object a few years ago - not fun

6:12 am

I'm having an incredibly inappropriate response type day. I can totally picture Hobbit doing that, but the ensuing drama, not so fun until it's all a nice story in the archives.

6:12 am

good luck to you and the pup, ata

Morning...

6:12 am

lol Lori

6:12 am

me too, lori. I keep giggling about it. and then feeling worried. and then giggling

6:13 am

FM asks if I'm here, then flocks off. She's prob'ally wasting time reading mail or working. ***cough***

6:13 am

Ata hope it all goes well

6:13 am

Mornin' red

6:13 am

g'morning red

6:13 am

How'd Hobbit get ahold of the lolly dare I ask?

6:14 am

I'm sure it will. the amount I'm actually not *that* worried just reminds me how much I trust my vets

6:14 am

Good day to all!

6:14 am

Poor Hobbit!

6:14 am

she often has lollies to cool her down after a long run. she just doesn't normally try and eat them in 1 gulp!

6:14 am

The vet is indeed the key, and I know you have complete faith in yours. Mornin' Scrabbler!

6:14 am

hi red, hi scrabs!

6:14 am

does anyone have all the f's ? I am missing 6. was wondering the counts for types

6:15 am

Sure Lori - am working or babbling, whchever ....

6:15 am

5 now ;-)

6:15 am

Sorry Wolvie, I am picketing the f's, demanding fairer treatment and a raise.

6:15 am

;-0

6:16 am

***whaps FM with an envelope***

6:16 am

I've got all the f/s but not sure where to got to clue you Wovie.

6:16 am

but lynx! down on the beach was a year old lurcher. Never seen sooo much joy in running madly, circles, circles, mum! hi! woof! bark! another dog! play! play! run!

6:16 am

not a clue per se , just how many fe's, etc

6:16 am

***Drowns Lori in ince water****

6:17 am

I haven't broken down to the list yet

6:17 am

8 x fe

is ince water a special water?

6:17 am

*treats Lori for hypothermia*

6:17 am

10 x fa

6:17 am

ty FM

6:18 am

Hi Scrabs!!

6:18 am

Hi FM

6:18 am

***Appreciates having a trained medical professional available***

6:18 am

I think you should change John Lennon to Noriega LOL

6:18 am

hi scrabbler

6:18 am

How about your morning medication, Lori? Did you take it yet?

6:18 am

gorgeous. One of my vets has a one yo Irish Wolfhound...he was taking the young assistant for a lovely romp the other day (she looked very out of control, lol)

6:19 am

Hi Wolvie

hi Scrabbs

6:19 am

Hi Red

6:19 am

hi Scrabbs & Red

6:19 am

RTH! SCRABBS!

Ardilla! How are things?

6:20 am

No Scrabbler, something mellow if you please, that causes me to drool but not too much. Will it be by injection or tablet form this morn? :)

6:20 am

Hi Ardilla

6:20 am

hi Ardilla. How are you?

6:20 am

Lori, if I do an IV dose there will be more rapid onset of action.

6:20 am

this lady looked rather out of control too, she was apologising madly to everyone that the pup was being a psycho. everyone was just enjoying watching it!

6:20 am

Hi Lynxxx

6:21 am

hi lynxx ata Fm

6:21 am

i'm okay

6:22 am

Just OK, Ardilla? Or better than OK?

6:22 am

That sounds rather reserved Ardilla. Are you back at work yet?

6:22 am

ortho put me in a robo-boot since one of my incisions hasn't healed yet so i'm bummed about not being able to drive

6:22 am

You had surgery AGAIN?

6:22 am

cent

6:22 am

sent

6:22 am

yet i still have to go to work

6:23 am

Yikes! *sprinting off to PB*

6:23 am

got those scrab.

6:23 am

yes, ma'am, on 10 Jun - same procedure...

6:23 am

I am using the office laptop as I had to enter on call notes into electronic medical records.

6:24 am

so i had roughly 2 weeks of freedom before being restricted again...grrr

6:24 am

I have qu4, 5, 6, 6--what am I missing?

6:25 am

This has been going on for how long now? Over a year, right?

6:25 am

I just hope this heals properly for you Ardilla...it has gone on long enough!

6:25 am

Hi herin

6:25 am

hi fern

Hhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiii

6:25 am

Scrabs - another 5

6:25 am

total time since initial injury: 4 years

6:26 am

hi herin

6:26 am

TY--looking now, Lynxxx

Awww Ardilla

6:26 am

hi Infernal

6:26 am

who's fern?

6:26 am

Aaaaahhh, Ardilla, you are permitted to lose your mind.

Me I am the ferny one

6:26 am

herin ardilla, just my name for her. :-)

6:27 am

Q is grey. Yippee.

6:27 am

poop scrabbler - i need the 2 6's - le sigh

6:27 am

so far so good...already in pt to prevent scar tissue regrowth

6:28 am

Add different vowel to qu5 for those

6:28 am

cafe

6:28 am

Sorry again. Let's go for coffee.

thanks Scrabbler

6:28 am

ty scrabbler

6:29 am

for the q's - i had the c. ;-)

6:29 am

ty scrabbs didn't have the coffee shop

6:30 am

yah q's are quitted

6:30 am

I have to get ready for work. Waaaaah. But when I am done at 2:30 I will spend the afternoon with Mary's kids. Yay!

Yah How is the kids?

6:30 am

Go Ardilla go!

6:31 am

Doing well. Tomorrow the family will begin a 2 wk vacation in a home they are renting on the Canadian shore of Lake Erie--fun, fun!

6:32 am

I will visit a couple of times.

6:32 am

how many squ's are there?

6:32 am

I never thought of sq words---will return tonight!

6:33 am

yah, got a nu7

6:33 am

i have one, wolvie...the shape

6:34 am

i have 2....the shape and police sq***

6:34 am

i have that and the group

6:34 am

I'll have to break out the list soon i think

6:34 am

just got the group

There is sonmething wrong with a grid when you just put what ever words in

6:36 am

funny...the shape + to move to music = a country move to music...lol

6:37 am

i cleared the 9's in record time, fern, those ou's are great, the ac was cute

I only got the 9's by making up words which they werent

6:38 am

some of them were words. ;-)

6:38 am

I've got 4 left al from the bottom t :(

6:39 am

good going FM

6:39 am

oh mitch, i am no help there - haven't got to them yet except the ones that just plopped out

Lynxx is that your lovely pup?

6:40 am

it is

good photo

6:41 am

it is - I can say that 'cause I didn't take it

6:42 am

just talked to the vet, they took an x-ray and can't see the lolly stick - so it's either right up against the stomach lining, or *somehow* she managed to spit it out or keep it in her oesophagus. I'm going to feel really really stupid if it turns out not to be there, but I would *swear* I saw her swallow it

awww he is all legs

6:42 am

oh boy ata - pins and needles time

6:42 am

morning all

6:43 am

what happens now Ata...they keep her for a bit?

6:43 am

hi carlee

Ata did your dog eat the stick? have you checked her poop?

Hi Carlee

6:43 am

hi Carlee

6:43 am

i come in on dog poop..how..."refreshing"

6:43 am

they'll do the endoscope anyway, it's not worth the risk that maybe she didn't swallow it. Apparently these things are often impossible to see on x-ray

6:44 am

hey - it's in the grid carlee

6:44 am

it won't make it to her poop, that's the problem!

6:44 am

if she chewed it up it might ata

Um can they get her to poop some how? I mean seriously

6:44 am

thanks wolvie..I hadn't gotten THAT far yet

6:45 am

lol - couldn't resist

6:45 am

apparently... :op

6:46 am

it just sort of...popped out

6:46 am

popped..or pooped

6:46 am

ok..so is ANYONe liking THIS grid?

6:46 am

oh man back to the grid - i was going to type pooped carlee, but i went for the laugh

6:46 am

NO!!!

well excuse me sorry

6:47 am

I've reached my magic 60

6:47 am

cool lynx - you are well ahead of me

6:49 am

good morning all, Zoe-Anne came up the steps from the basement!! she stayed for a few minutes and then went back down. I know she will come up soon to eat her breakfast. she has never been on steps before

6:50 am

hi peri - is zoe a new pet?

6:50 am

hi Soodle & Peri

6:50 am

morning peri

6:51 am

welcome to the poop zone

6:51 am

no she is an old pet, 13 years old

6:51 am

and living in a new place with another cat

6:51 am

I don't want to put her food down unless she is near me, cause the other cat will eat it :(

6:52 am

ahh - ty

6:52 am

clues for the right column n plz

6:52 am

she could poo all she wanted, and it wouldn't come out - it's in her stomach

6:53 am

oh - good luck ata

6:53 am

MM ne** lights and a variation

6:53 am

ty lyn

Oh Peri

6:56 am

oh..the bird with the fruit loopy beak is in here today

6:56 am

well - bbl, must be off for a bit

6:57 am

bye Wolvie

6:57 am

later wolvie...

Ata was Hobbit eating an ice block?

6:58 am

yep

aww silly puppyu

gods I was just looking at how much tax to pay vrs private health insurance. Its cheaper to pay the tax

7:04 am

ah..give hobbit a hug from carlee..( carlee can relate to hobbit)

7:05 am

I will when I get her back!

awww.

7:10 am

well..time to get ready to go filter wine....coming home with new zealand pinot noir today

7:10 am

the en7/36 plz

7:10 am

byebye *poof*

7:10 am

seeya Carlee

7:11 am

en 7, finish + we used to pass tehse back and forth in class while in school :)

Later Carlee

7:12 am

that's the en7/32 lori

7:12 am

TY Lori

7:13 am

sorry! the re 9's, lose the r.... :)

7:13 am

ta lori

7:14 am

32/36 pretty close... lol, sorry 'bout that MM

7:15 am

TY again Lori, seem pretty useless words

7:16 am

They certainly had a workout in this grid, eh Lynx? :)

7:17 am

yah got a re8/9 combo

no more de words woot woot

missing one of the de6,24

7:52 am

Ata, you still here?

7:52 am

Just reading back about Hobbit's misadventures.

7:53 am

yes! just talking to the vet!

7:53 am

Any news?

7:54 am

lolly stick removed :)

7:54 am

Excellent!

7:54 am

it was sitting half in her oesophagus and half in her stomach, they just whipped it out using the endoscope

7:54 am

whew!

7:54 am

Poor Hobbit. She's not realise for a while that that was her last lolly.

7:54 am

That's great that they avoided having to do a laporoscopy.

7:54 am

and no operation, even better.

7:55 am

nooooooo! I'll need to find a stick-free alternative for her

7:55 am

Laportomy even. Cutting her up!

7:55 am

oh gosh, yes. didn't really want her opened up! yes, that. lap thing. lol

7:56 am

You probably saved her from having that by reacting so quickly.

7:56 am

dear husband of course informs me that it's all my fault and I'm not looking after pup properly! *facepalm*

7:56 am

You can't make some milky iceblocks for her?

7:56 am

Was it a bit like the budgie flying into the cat's cage sort of moment?

7:56 am

yes ... they were very glad I brought her straight in rather than waiting till she was in pain in a few days time

7:57 am

yes! it was really rather funny. I passed the lolly to her, holding onto the stick, and she just *hoovered* it

7:57 am

Wait a few days and you'd have had a very sick dog.

7:57 am

You don't suppose Oscar has had a bad influence on her?

7:59 am

I actually left a message on Lizs facebook page telling her that her dog was a bad influence ;P

8:00 am

hello all..just coming out of lurking for a sce..to ask how the dog is after ..drinking the wine..i think the dog was called spangle?.

8:00 am

I hope she feels suitably guilty. Maybe she'll pay the bill!

8:00 am

he's had a bad influence on all the babble dogs!

8:01 am

thank goodness for pet insurance, that's all I'm saying today!

8:02 am

Hello zooz. Spangle is my dog <--------. She wouldn't do anything so silly! The dog you mean was a patient, my husband's a vet and I get to answer emergency calls at night and weekends.

8:02 am

Spangle's far too decorous

8:03 am

ohh..lol..sorry..totally misunderstood that day then..sorry about that. :-)

8:03 am

I haven't heard any more about it, I'm assuming vet on call either admitted it for a drip or advised letting dog sleep it off. She wasn't convinced it could have drunk enough wine to make it that ill, more llikely a carelessly dropped tablet of some sort.

8:03 am

*sitting here just sooo relieved lolly stick is out* vets are the best

8:03 am

No problem, zooz.

8:03 am

*smug* - I'm married to the best.

8:04 am

you are!

8:04 am

ok..diving back in. *Splash*

8:05 am

that's very sweet Haz

8:06 am

Well, I have to keep on the right side of him. He possesses several different methods of doing away with me if the fancy took him.

8:06 am

But seriously, he is a wonderful husband!

8:06 am

It's strange, thinking about it, there are a lot of bad doctors and dentists, but very few bad vets

8:07 am

I've come across a few unfortunately

8:07 am

There are bound to be some. There's no point being married to the best vet if they're all brilliant.

Good morning Babblers :)

8:08 am

hi Nono

8:08 am

Good morning Nono.

Ata was reading about Hobbits adventure. How long will she stay at the vets? Can you bring her home today?

8:09 am

ok... the T on the left... I have the russian leader... anyone care to clue the others???

8:09 am

Actually, on reflection, the bad ones have al been quite young. Perhaps another instance where experience is preferable

I have come accross one vet who is only in it for the money I'm afraid and not for the good of the animals

8:10 am

ts5.12 & 6.21 hebrew letter

8:10 am

ok... thanks.

8:10 am

Have to go again - car to be picked up. Back later. Glad Hobbit's okay.

bye bye Haz

8:11 am

bye Haz

8:11 am

bye dear! ty!

8:12 am

yes, Nono, I can go and get her later :)

oh good, Ata

8:13 am

she's in the "recovery room" now for a few hours just to wake up and chill out a bit

she will think twice about swallowing anything whole after this

8:14 am

for about a day ;)

lol my guess is a bit longer than that, maybe two days

8:18 am

maybe, if we're lucky :D

8:19 am

Wow, I got past 50. Goodnight all. Give Hobbit some special fussing for me Ata, so pleased it worked out OK

8:19 am

hello

8:19 am

I will do! :):) night dear

nite nite Lynxxx, hi Jane

8:23 am

hi harp

8:23 am

help with the en's?

remove the d from some of the larger de's

8:25 am

and some help with the larger de's, please.......

8:26 am

ata, so glad Hobbit's gonna be OK :-)

de8 to condemn

8:26 am

me tooooo :) silly dog! I can see the highly amusing side in it now!

8:28 am

poor baby

8:28 am

hi all, can i have a clue please for the last te 6 21

8:29 am

i understand -- my beagle mix is a furry vacuum cleaner with a tail!

8:29 am

she'll get much extra love for a few days!

8:29 am

i can imagine! :-)

8:30 am

my only te6/21 is a number + high card

hi Cherl

8:31 am

have that one ty une, hi nono

thats the only one i have too

8:31 am

God kids gave me the crud so am home sick today

8:31 am

sorry, cherly :-(

8:32 am

hi all

8:32 am

ok, another te6/21: te + vowel + what you use to cook something

hi Boo

8:32 am

howdy, boo

8:32 am

well at least its only a 24 hr thing

ty une

8:32 am

yw :-)

8:35 am

ty une,thats the one

8:35 am

cool!

8:36 am

doing puzzle backwords, one letter at a time (except for the obvious ones)

8:36 am

oops off to pb

8:36 am

Good morning, Babblettas!

morning Judi

8:36 am

back atcha, judi!

thanks Cherl, believe it or not Thats a word I did not have

8:37 am

ok, 66 to go -- BBL -- wanna take out the pups before it gets too sizzing hot!

later Une

8:38 am

glad to help

HI all, I am wondering iff my house will actually close today or thursday. No news today which is odd, but...

8:50 am

I would hope they would give you more than a day's notice, Red.

It was supposed to close today, then there had to be one more inspection, so they were trying to push the inspector to do it yesterday, I dont know if they got it done. I dont have to be there so...

8:51 am

Ah. Patience, grasshopper.

When she said it might be pushed back, this huge heavy weight returned to my body....I really need it to be done with apparently.

Oh and I need to change my icon, the poulter is old from Friday!

8:53 am

Pffth. My icon is about three months old. I should just have an icon that says, "why bother?".

hi Red. What time today was it supposed to close?

8:54 am

LOL... I have never changed my icon.

I have no idea, I thought 10 am, but I never heard what happened with the inspection, soooo.

well if there were something drastic found in the inspection you certainly would have heard about it

8:55 am

Probably no worries, Red. Unless termites, carpenters or plumbers show up at your door - wanting you to sign a repair contract.

I like to change the icon.

All of the mess of repairs and such have been taken care of over the past month, it was very very messy, complicated and difficult, so I am very worried that more complications will come up, until that line is signed, I wont feel really good about it.

I can certainly understand that Red

Especially after the Septic...

ewwwe definitely messy

So, Hopefully I will get a call around 11 or so...

9:00 am

Ewwww. I remember having septic at our first house. It backed up. We had it pumped out. It immediately filled with water again. We ended up having to have most of our back yard dug up to install about 300 feet of drainage tile. Nightmare.

keeping my fingers crossed for you Red

I think all is well, there was a crack discovered in the tank, so I am replacing the tank, but I never had any issues with the septic doing any of those things that seem to be the biggies, yuck Judi.

9:02 am

de

finally found a nine!

9:02 am

It was hell. Financially more than anything. Plus, it was the middle of winter (December - right at Christmas time. Joy!). Then in the spring, we had to have grading and re-se4ing done. I cried more than once.

Septic can be very bad. I some how managed to get out of re-landscaping the mess, probably cause the tank was a little pricy.

4 of the 5 9's much alike red

9:04 am

I finally found 2 of them... yay!

I have the re 9.

9:05 am

We are very thankful for having municipal water and sewer now. I happily pay the small bills.

ok 2 re9's one past tense one pl. the other 2 are de9

I am also thanksful not to be doing septic any more, its always a bit of a liabiliuty.

9:05 am

Okay - I'm off to do some real work. BBL.

9:05 am

ok... now Ihave 4 of them 2 re's and 2 de's... what does the other one start with?

bye Judi

thanks Nono and see you later Judi!

ac 9/66

9:07 am

thanks nan

yw

brb gotta give hubby his meds

9:09 am

bye nan

9:11 am

clue for ac 8 pls

9:12 am

sorry boo... working on it myself.

ac8 high card + a smell

pl for the 9

9:14 am

ty

yw

9:14 am

red inspired me I changed my icon

9:14 am

oh good lord... never would have gotten that one.

CHerly is that a poodle, a spanial or a furry cat!

9:15 am

the big blob is my 9 yr old poodle

I was right the first time then!!!! Very furry!

9:15 am

doesnt matter to her the couch is a catch all

9:16 am

yep

9:16 am

about time for grooming but bills come first , but we do keep it brushed, and she definetly is an inside dog

9:21 am

clue please for sp 7 8 combo?

9:23 am

spareton

9:23 am

oops

9:25 am

sorry.. don't have them. I will have to ride on your coattails when someone clues them, LOL.

9:25 am

ty anyway mom

9:25 am

don't have it cheryl

9:25 am

thought I ran everyone off

9:26 am

s + tiny lake + 2 vowels and pl

9:26 am

good morning everyone, will be in and out today

9:26 am

people come and go, I think... even when they are signed on. I know I do.

9:26 am

thanks FM... I have seen that one before.

9:26 am

any news of the new arrival flosey?

9:27 am

thanks FM for those s words

9:27 am

ty fm

9:27 am

hi flosey

9:27 am

not yet FM

9:27 am

ty mitch

9:28 am

fingers crossed still then :)

9:28 am

tytyty

9:29 am

gosh, looks like quite a few babblers were looking for those sp words! :D

hi Flosey and FM

9:29 am

Me too... forgot to say TY... walked away for a sec.

9:31 am

lol no probs mom, and Hi Nono. can clue for a bit if anyone needs a push in the right direction.

9:32 am

actually I am coming back later... my kid is at swim team for the next hour... so I am going to "invade" her room and try to make some sense of what the heck is going on in there, LOL.

9:32 am

they have a big July 1st picnic bash in his Mom's backyard - her hubby has been doing this prob. about 25 years, so lots of running around to get this ready and hoping baby will be at least a few days old by then - this year will be celebrated Saturday July 4th - fortunately!!

9:32 am

hi nono

9:32 am

bye all... see ya later.

9:33 am

bfn mom, see you later

9:34 am

by mom

9:34 am

is baby overdue now flosey or just on time :)

9:34 am

is the ad6 a normal word please?

9:35 am

not normal flosey

9:35 am

ty mitch

9:36 am

got it!!

9:36 am

need coffee, brb

9:38 am

thank goodness as was not sure how to clue that one!

9:41 am

lol, strange one

Well, I have finally grayed one box, other than the C and V.

9:41 am

ok, just arrived on time, and I do wish you would please figure out how to clue it fm

9:41 am

Clue for ac 8 & 9 , please?

9:42 am

i've greyed the e on the right side!

9:42 am

high card and smell

9:42 am

Thank you, cheryl. I think I tried every other variation of those letters. Oy!

9:43 am

could use a clue for the ad but working with monkeys still too, ty

9:44 am

ad6,24 when cluing you say not plural but

9:44 am

Don't know. That's a sticky one.

9:44 am

odd one cherly, ad + part of speach

9:45 am

break down a sentence

9:45 am

thanks flosey, fine clue

9:45 am

wow ty flosey

9:45 am

thought I had tried that one

9:46 am

tks dorens

9:46 am

yw

9:47 am

flosey you expecting a grandchild?

9:47 am

crossy waves to the clue flying over his head;) morning everyone:)

9:48 am

Yeah, that one's over my head too. Hiya, Crossy.

9:48 am

morning crossy

Morning Cross, Whishes she could get near Crossys Bacon today.

9:48 am

yes Dorens, still waiting

9:49 am

ad + not a verb.

9:49 am

ad and person place or thing

9:49 am

morning crossy. Me too flosey, ours is due date july5, you?

9:49 am

believe it or not im acually out of bacon today!! gasr!!..the horror!

9:49 am

damn typos

OMG Cross, will you be alright? I have a veg sausage if that will help...

9:50 am

ty cheryl:)

9:50 am

due date was June 25

9:50 am

yw

9:50 am

so we're just getting a bit anxious

9:50 am

oh my, so you are really waiting... best of luck

9:50 am

Veggie sausage! Are you trying to kill Crossy!

9:51 am

thanks Dorens, everything has gone well so far

9:51 am

they waited for my wife to go the full 2 week over before they induced

its all I have!

9:51 am

My middle son arrived three weeks late - and I actually knew date of conception on him, so you never can tell!

9:51 am

babies can be stubborn!

9:51 am

I just bought 3 lbs. of wonderful bacon - no trigliserides & such (spelling??)

9:51 am

veggie saussage...shudder...

9:52 am

indeed rbud, they come when they're good and ready

9:52 am

chicken sausage can be truly deliciious

9:52 am

mine oldest was 2 weeks late, and came out looking like an old man with dry peeling skin

9:52 am

Popping in at random... no triglycerides? Is it even really bacon??

9:53 am

absolutely real, you wouldn't taste any difference, it's still pork, etc

9:53 am

crossy had NEVER read the ingedients of a pound of bacon...its all good;)

9:53 am

mine had normal skin at 3 wks. late... fat and sassy

9:53 am

we had not eaten bacon for prob. 10 or more years so was thrilled to find this one

9:54 am

as long as its pork;0

9:54 am

cook it right and it tastes good and is safe

9:54 am

Hmmm. Bacon is all bad. That's why we love it. Must be the fat, nitrates and msg.

9:54 am

that's the way we're thinking Dorens, a few extra days can help really

9:54 am

crossy.. you need to know about the grateful palate

9:55 am

no nitrates in this either

9:55 am

ill pick up 4 or 5 poinds of maple and hickory smoekd bacon goodness on my way home tonight;)

9:55 am

he sells gourmet bacon from around the world.

9:55 am

mmmm, bacon weave coming on?

9:55 am

damn typos!!

9:55 am

I love bacon dipped in real maple syrup. I think I gained a po5/16 just saying that.

9:55 am

(breaks out bread and tomatoes and lettuce

9:56 am

hope mine doesn't come too late... i will be on vacation with Ken's family on the 11th... now that i realize this one could be late, I am beginning to worry

9:56 am

nothing beats fine canadian bacon..we dont need it gorumet;)))

9:56 am

we found this at the Whole Foods store - they carry a lot of organics - you can google it and find locations

9:57 am

your bacon and our bacon are two different things crossy

Oh lordy, Lots of food talk.

9:58 am

course I love both

9:58 am

oh soprry for you americans,when i say bacon im talking bout bacon cut in long strips that are hicory smoked with a hint of mapel..our peameal is a lean log of back bacon rolled on corn meal

9:58 am

I found that what the Americans call "Canadian bacon" is not something I would eat,

9:58 am

damn typos!!!

9:58 am

I love peameal bacon

9:59 am

Never heard of peameal. Sounds good though.

9:59 am

remember my american friend,all canadian bacon is not peameal

9:59 am

( I am bacon knowledge challenged apparently)

9:59 am

yeah, canadian bacon down here reminds me of a little round slice of ham and I only encounter it on pizzas

9:59 am

sounds good

I have not actually eaten bacon in soooo long....

10:00 am

true but it is good on pizza wth pineapple too

10:00 am

you have been sadly deprived of real bacon then rbud;(

10:00 am

that's the one I think I had rbud, it was round and very salty

10:01 am

ours is usually hickory or misquite smoked and sliced then fried in a cast iron skillet or on a griddle till brown

10:01 am

ad 6 anyone?

10:01 am

ad + part of speach (break down a sentence)

10:02 am

ad and part of speech

10:02 am

just changed my icon to reflect today's icon theme

10:03 am

great one nono

Nice nono. I changed mine and have to say I am not fond of our famous man.

10:04 am

hello

10:04 am

I have read some of Koontz' books, red, they all seem much the same so I tend to agree about his writing skills

10:04 am

oops, misspelled twice!!! **speech**

10:04 am

hi Jane

It's a bit embarassing Nono when I meet big Dean Koontz fans, because i think hes such a hack, though he has sure made a good living on being a hack.

10:06 am

what has he written? i'm always looking for books i can take backpacking---and burn the pages as i finish them!

99 left whooo Hoooo!

10:06 am

he has written many books that made best seller list but as I said many of the seem the same

10:06 am

179

10:06 am

thank you got the ad finally

10:06 am

62 left here

10:06 am

clue for the en's?

10:06 am

to each his own red, obviously some people like him - and they're reading!

harp, he writes thrillers of lesser quality than steeven King, and I think they are trash.

10:07 am

I agree red, they lack in a lot of areas

10:07 am

Yah, Koontz always writes the same-old-same-old. Each book is just a re-tread. I read about three of his books and couldn't stand the deja vu.

10:08 am

so i wouldn't break anyone's heart if i burned it one page at a time?

10:08 am

red, did your house close?

10:08 am

not at all jane

10:08 am

have never read him - can't judge

10:08 am

well red, heard anything yet

10:08 am

Better to recycle, Harpjane. Less of a carbon footprint and all that p.c. crappola.

10:08 am

I agree.. all his books follow the same path

No Nothing...

10:09 am

it's a question of weight when you are backpacking....

Mixi, its supposed to close today or thursday. there was a reinspection.

Nothing, so I assuem its going to happen on Thursday.

10:09 am

somewhere a cow just farted and belched near you judi

10:10 am

sounds good.

10:10 am

No doubt, ruru. Some day, cow farts may fuel the world.

10:10 am

no kidding old farts rule our senate

I am a little nervous mixi, but I think I am almost done.

10:11 am

Uh oh, ruru. Dangerously close to veering into politcal debate. Abort! Abort!

10:12 am

back to bacon

10:12 am

yeah, always nervous until they sign on the dotted line.

10:12 am

my dad used to tell us he could heat the house for the winter with cow farts if he could only figure out what to do with the smell lol

Lunch time. No politics here....

If you drive by Mixi, they are diggin up the yard because the septic is being replaced.

10:13 am

my tank was fine, I have a new septic field.

10:14 am

Stupid Q's. Just finished them. Patooie!

My tank was cracked.

10:15 am

en 7 -- a blurb at the end of a chapter rather than at the foot of the page

10:15 am

ty br

10:16 am

en 7 -- add, 1/16th of a pound and past tense and pl

10:16 am

I have that one, I need the other en7

10:16 am

PB, BR!

10:16 am

ty br

10:17 am

ty br!!!!

10:17 am

thanks BR

10:17 am

EN7 - sort of like what you would do over a loud speaker?

10:17 am

woo, made some cookies earlier in there br, enjoy

10:19 am

left column greyed

good morning - back for my last 40

10:25 am

Thanks for the en clues. Those are wacky. Still don't have the en5, though.

10:27 am

final, past tense.

10:27 am

the other car rear en5 me on the hiway

10:28 am

*fish smack in progress*

10:29 am

add an s in front of it then tell me why enable thinks thats a word?

10:30 am

thanks cherly, would never have tried that

10:30 am

Yes, but... if it's not a word, why did you type it???

10:30 am

monkeying I guess

10:30 am

still, hmmm

10:31 am

Just another mystery in the life of Babble.

10:32 am

fe 6/33 # 2?

10:33 am

fe6/33: made due for oneself.

10:33 am

made do, rather.

10:34 am

I have that one.. is there one before then?

10:34 am

There is an fe6/36.

a type of grass.

10:35 am

thanks red

10:35 am

ty red

10:36 am

ty red

89 left, I think this grid is fairly nice, eh?

10:41 am

could I please have a clue for po7, po8

10:42 am

don't have it flosey

10:42 am

po7/36 refers to the strength of something

10:42 am

pl for the 9

10:42 am

po 7 -- add, a subject and verb are part of a a sen*****; pl

10:42 am

Po7/8: like medicine strength.

10:43 am

32 left, and yes I do too red. sorry flosey, have two po

10:43 am

thanks nono and BR

10:43 am

FIREWORKS here!

10:43 am

WTG Nono

10:43 am

ty br!

there is also a past tense of a small body of water that is a po 7.

10:43 am

congrats, Nanette

10:43 am

should have read have 2 po 6's but not that one... thanks babrab and judi. yay nono

Yaaaay NONO!!!!!!!!!!

10:44 am

friendly grid, lots of plurals and past tense words

10:45 am

wtg nono

10:45 am

going to go lay back down for awhile bbl

10:45 am

just in time to fix lunch... happy babbling everyone

10:46 am

Congrats, nono!

10:49 am

Good morning/afternoon all.

10:55 am

Hiya, Haz!

10:55 am

Hi

10:55 am

Hi Haz!

10:56 am

Hello there!

10:57 am

am about to go out to the poast office but thought I would say hello first.

10:57 am

Oh - prepare yourself for the heat!

10:58 am

I'm sure the US and Aussie people think we're terrible wimps. What sort of temp do you have at the minute, Judi?

10:58 am

fireworks

10:59 am

Congratulations mixi.

10:59 am

Hellishly hot here, 87 acording to my office thermometer.

11:00 am

Much fanning required, I' m sure.

11:00 am

yup.

11:00 am

105 here

11:01 am

Oh good grief. We'd better stop moaning, FM.

11:01 am

do you have humidity though?

11:01 am

we don't

11:01 am

If you mean, are our cheeks glowing and our clothes wet - YES!

11:01 am

Do need to go to the local post box, so TTFN.

11:02 am

See you later, FM.

11:03 am

happy stamping FM

11:06 am

lovely cool day here, nice break after the hot and humid last week

11:07 am

ro 5/10?

11:08 am

nm

11:08 am

jeez....

11:08 am

kept looking up

11:09 am

r+oa4

11:11 am

ru you sounded so desperate!

11:18 am

Oh, happy day. Fireworks!

11:18 am

yay, Judi!!!

11:19 am

Mmm. Temp here is about 85-ish at the moment. Standard fare for June.

11:19 am

thanks joan.. i found it right away

11:19 am

Same yesterday, although it cooled off blissfully last night.

11:20 am

Cat was belly up on the deck. Didn't want to come in.

11:21 am

Time to poof. Work work work!

11:22 am

Bye Judi.

11:32 am

Hi Everybody. I need help with that right N so I can have NBT for now. DH wants me to go buy some paint so we (I) can start our bedroom, but I want NBT before I leave. Could someone help please?

11:32 am

Hawiian goose

11:33 am

ne4/4 - light

11:33 am

Or nu6/24 - slight variation in meaning

11:33 am

nope the *other* RIGHT N please (I'm a lefty and do that all the time!) :-)

11:34 am

u clue w/ur other left as well...lol

11:34 am

ne+ not bottom

11:34 am

the nu6/24 came from the middle N (working on the ne4 now

11:35 am

The very far right n? no4/4 musical or written

11:35 am

no4/5 - not an adjective nor a verb

11:35 am

Thanks Haz! I got it! Love you guys! Happy babbling! BBL!

11:36 am

Bye Nef!

11:36 am

the only word I found so far was the light ne4/4 Haz; I had all of those other words clued and that was the only one that gave me NBT

11:37 am

Yes, sorry I didn't check which n gave which word.

11:39 am

BYE now (found 1 or 2 more; DH now hunching over me trying to pull me out of the chair! ;-)

11:39 am

Hi Babblers can anyone clue the de7 please .. either of them I don't have either ;-)

11:39 am

I have my pup back!

11:39 am

de7 - go down

11:40 am

de7 - to condemn (incorporate the imperian weight)

11:40 am

Hooray, Ata - is she a bit dopy?

11:40 am

Sorry, that de7 is a de8.

11:41 am

Thanks Haz got all three from that ;-)

11:41 am

de7/40 - to go down , de7/36 the going down.

11:41 am

You're welcome, Norma - the mistake paid off.

11:41 am

It did indeed tyvm

11:42 am

very dopy!

11:42 am

she's on my bed, with a fan nearby. she can sleep it off for a while

11:43 am

That sounds ideal. Had she had any food before she was seen this morning?

11:43 am

luckily, no. or maybe a mouthful at the most. very convenient

11:44 am

sa 6/21? please

11:44 am

That was good! A dopy pup is one thing, a sick dopy pup is another.

11:45 am

sa6/21 - sa plus a mixed up verse producer

11:45 am

Or to tree liquid add mixed up foot digit.

11:45 am

thank you haz

11:45 am

You're welcome.

11:45 am

oh yes :) she'll be fine. she had the vets and nurses amazed though - she was literally running around and bouncing with this stick stuck in her oesophagus. no gagging, coughing, nothing. if I hadnt' seen her swallow it, no-one would have known from her behaviour

11:47 am

That's strange - I'm always schooled, when people say, 'I think the dog has something stuck in its throat' - it will be going completely daft, not just coughing a little.

11:48 am

but "I've got a stick stuck in my throat" daft, not "omg! I love you! people! bounce! wiggle! wiggle more!" daft

11:48 am

Yes, frantic 'get this thing out of my throat' daft.

11:49 am

yes! nope. nada. not a sign.

11:50 am

Your Pollyanna moment for the day was that you were there to see it go down, otherwise it would have been a different story in a few days time.

11:50 am

se 6/27?

11:50 am

I am so so grateful for that!

11:50 am

se6/27 - same structure as the fertile fe6/36

11:51 am

though I really didn't realise how serious it was. I did learn that today

11:52 am

yeah!!!!!!!

11:52 am

thanks haz

11:52 am

You're welcome, ruru.

11:57 am

I've met 7 cocker spaniels, 1 Welsh springer, and 1 English springer today between beaches and vets

11:58 am

also a standard poodle with a pompom for a head, rotties, dobermans, an 8 week collie pup

11:58 am

Does the ac8 build on the ac4 above it?

11:58 am

It does, DR - add a coin.

11:58 am

and! oh, poor pup, a staffie who did *not* want to see the vet. Eventually the vet and his owner had to physically pick him up and carry him - rigid as a board - over to the consulting room

11:58 am

You've had a doggy day, indeed!

11:58 am

ty Haz!

11:58 am

You're welcome, DR.

11:59 am

I now have all the 9's. : )

11:59 am

Poor staffie. I wonder why he was so much against being there?

11:59 am

TY!

11:59 am

I have! It's been lovely in a way! I have *no* idea. But he left claw drag lines in the flooring

12:00 pm

You're welcome, car.

12:00 pm

It would make a good cartoon, Ata.

12:00 pm

ok... back to work .. bb in a bit... I have 111 left

12:01 pm

BYe DR.

12:01 pm

it really would have done! It was classic James Herriot material

12:01 pm

sp7?

12:02 pm

sp7 - to do with poetry. One vowel short of what the dish ran away with, add the ending of Volleymom's name.

12:02 pm

hello all, the cats are getting along!

12:02 pm

Good news,peri!

12:03 pm

hi peri great news

12:03 pm

yay peri!

12:03 pm

now Zoe-Anne needs to come up to eat. she did come up the stairs for the first time last night and half way this am.

12:03 pm

weird ... thanks haz

12:03 pm

I have left water at the bottom of the steps tho.

12:03 pm

she will

12:04 pm

I was sure that she would die behind the old oil heater. she was without food for 3 days. She seems fine tho

12:04 pm

No problem, ruru.

12:04 pm

she had never done steps before

12:04 pm

are the 8's and 9's normal words?

12:05 pm

4 are

12:05 pm

Normalish - or at least 4 out of the five nines are normal.

12:05 pm

of the 9s

12:05 pm

Ummm...who is Volleymom and what is at the end of her name?

12:05 pm

hmmm, only 4, well I will try and find them,. turned in my keys to the old apt this am :(

12:05 pm

She has the fourth letter in the alphabet...

12:05 pm

are they comound words, the long ones?

12:06 pm

TY!

12:06 pm

ac8/50 - add a coin to high scoring cards

12:06 pm

found a tr8 by myself

12:07 pm

thanks Haz, odd word

12:07 pm

There are 2 of them peri!

12:07 pm

No, peri, not compounds - the four normal ones all include an imperial unit of weight within the word.

12:07 pm

what is an imperial unit of weight?

12:07 pm

ton?

12:07 pm

And then plural for ac9.

12:08 pm

or the ou5?

12:08 pm

No, less than a po5/16

12:08 pm

ou5

12:08 pm

duh, did not think to pluralize thanks Haz

12:08 pm

Metric units of weight are kilos, imperial are things like po5 and ou5.

12:08 pm

the tr8 I found has the ou5 in it

12:08 pm

May I please have a clue for the second column E....need it for NBT. Thanks!

12:08 pm

thanks Haz, did not know that

12:09 pm

16 ou5s in a po5

12:09 pm

en7 - is one, or en7 - en plus the unit of weight.

12:10 pm

peri, 2 tr8s like that

12:10 pm

en7/32 - the last melody played?

12:10 pm

thanks Haz,

12:10 pm

dc, will look again, thanks

12:10 pm

thanks Haz

12:11 pm

You're welcome.

12:11 pm

have both tr8, thanks

12:11 pm

I must head off to get some food ready. Happy babbling!

12:11 pm

hey haz, just came back on to finish up - those clues were timely. ty

12:12 pm

TY for your help Haz.

12:12 pm

You're welcome -Byeeee!

12:12 pm

hello all - second fe 6/33 - any help please!

12:12 pm

byeee!

12:13 pm

dipp - type of grass

12:13 pm

Don't be ofFE**** if I don't say hi!

12:13 pm

Whoops...that was the first! sorry!

12:14 pm

aargh - fish please!!

12:14 pm

salmon today. that's what i had

12:16 pm

I need one of the last te6/21 and I have the one with the cooking utensil.. what is the othe?

12:17 pm

number + tennis score?

12:17 pm

oh thanks ruru, i needed both

12:17 pm

hello everyone

12:17 pm

Scoop!

12:17 pm

and thanks ata as well,,hello sec

12:18 pm

car!

12:18 pm

that is the first te 6 ata

12:18 pm

Hey Scoop...any chance you are free thursday afternoon for a couple of hours

12:19 pm

1 sec i have to check...

12:20 pm

te 6 -- add not streets but ave****

12:20 pm

Hello BR! And TY!

12:20 pm

hello, car

12:20 pm

ty bab

12:21 pm

ty babble

12:21 pm

i think i can but i have to check with kad when she gets home

12:21 pm

afternoon, babblerabble, an ty

12:21 pm

Hello, seain

12:21 pm

K. Let me know!

12:21 pm

k!

12:22 pm

hello everyone!

12:22 pm

hi annie

12:22 pm

hello, Annie

12:22 pm

hello

12:22 pm

Hi!

12:23 pm

hi annie

12:23 pm

I read back in the chat and I see peri's cat emerged from behind the oil tank. Good news.

12:24 pm

hello hello

12:24 pm

oh yes, that is good. it was sort of inevitable, yes? when cats are moved, it takes them time to come out, but they always do

12:24 pm

hi lisa

12:24 pm

hi doren

12:25 pm

moving is a big adjustment for a cat. sometimes for a human too.

12:25 pm

dorens, are you planning any trips this summer?

12:27 pm

Well, I shut down the chat. :(

12:28 pm

no annie. i'm here.. just was on phone sorry

12:29 pm

*smiles a smile of relief*

12:29 pm

gloucester mass this friday for three days... then martha's vineyard for a week in july with ken's family, then back up again for a week in august with mine. lots of trips to mass... and a new grandchild sometime in the next week

12:29 pm

lisa... your turn on lex

12:30 pm

busy, busy, it all sounds great

12:30 pm

k

12:30 pm

wake up little susie

12:30 pm

annie, how is your daughter doing? owl said we might not be able to meet up with you this summer as we had planned

12:30 pm

everly bros

12:32 pm

dorens, she is fine but I am in a soft cast for a couple of weeks. I am embarrassed to say I fell down a flight of stairs in her house. I can get around but not the way I would like to.

12:32 pm

sorry about than, Annie .. hope you are better soon

12:33 pm

thanks, BR

12:33 pm

oh so sorry... friend of mine fell down a flight of stairs and broke his neck... in hospital for months, when he left he was wearing this halo contraption to keep his head aligned properly. so, even tho you have certainly suffered, I'm glad you are still around and babbling! heal well

12:34 pm

Oh my goodness. Yes, I was very lucky. I just sprained my ankle badly.

12:35 pm

He is just getting back to work this month. executive director of a very successful nonprofit and his work is his life... they need him and he needs them. so glad he survived it all. and your ankle will heal quickly with all our good wishes -- babblers are a powerful group

12:35 pm

k i have to go everyone my goal was to get all the 8's and 9's before i had to go and i did :) so ill be back on later tonight bye

12:36 pm

thanks for the ankle support. yes, babblers have awesome powers. I feel it.

12:36 pm

bye, sec!

12:36 pm

be praying for you annie

12:36 pm

hi all, back for a bit

12:37 pm

thanks, cherly and hi

12:37 pm

bye sec. Annie, did you read Bel Canto by Ann Patchett?

12:37 pm

sprained my ankle earlier this year and so know what you mean about getting along

12:37 pm

hi cherlyq

12:37 pm

No I did not, dorens. Should I get it out of the library?

12:38 pm

hi dorens

12:38 pm

it was really good... i am now reading another, earlier book of hers and enjoying it too, but bel canto was excellent. Also, particularly since you're a new yorker, The Alienist by Caleb Carr.. some historical fiction/detective stuff... even has Teddy Roosevelt in there

12:39 pm

the Iroquois is back in the grid

12:40 pm

The Iroquois? babble you get more and more enigmatic

12:40 pm

oh! i just realized what you mean, sorry

12:40 pm

dorens, thanks for the suggestions. will do. I am reading short stories now. Nothing Right by Antonya Nelson is excellent and am reading short stories by Joyce Carol Oates

12:42 pm

hi all! Dorens, would you play me a game of lex?

12:42 pm

very good short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri... she has had several published in The New Yorker.. she wrote The Namesake... but her last collection of stories, Unaccustomed Earth is particularly good. and now i'm done with recommendations

12:42 pm

oh chic of course i would!

12:43 pm

yay I'll start one ; my is carol btw.

12:43 pm

what's your facebook name? (i'm terrible at remembering these things these days)

12:43 pm

Yes, I read The Namesake and I subscribe to The New Yorker and I believe a read a story by Lahiri.

12:44 pm

carol ashton, dorens

12:44 pm

thought so annie... so unaccustomed earth will have one or two familiar stories... the last three are all related and at least one of them had been published, but it seems different in this context. She is a breathakingly good writer

12:44 pm

i think we need to "friend" each other then

12:45 pm

I agree, dorens about lahiri.

12:47 pm

morning every one, Lahiri gets better with each book, The Namesake as a movie , i thought was better than the book

12:47 pm

as a matter of fact.. i only have twenty words left, and I think I am going to take my book down to the lake and finish it. it's the kind of book I've gotten into sufficiently that I care about characters and want to know what's happening with them! then I need to go into the city.. meeting my daughter for dinner

12:47 pm

bye, dorens, enjoy your day

12:48 pm

sounds wonderful dorens

12:48 pm

funny onyx, i felt the total opposite.. maybe cause my kids live in cambridge, so I had good visuals while reading the book, and they changed that for the movie. I just really enjoy her use of language, she does so much with only a few words.

12:48 pm

I'm having trouble getting it started; says you are not on my friends list

12:48 pm

ok, that's it... bye everyone, happy babbling

12:48 pm

by dorens

12:48 pm

bye dor

12:48 pm

Bye dorens

12:53 pm

how long have u lived in tucson chic?

12:55 pm

Clue for the second DE 6/24 please?

1:00 pm

seems like a de6 guy

1:00 pm

TY! No wonder I couldn't get it!

1:01 pm

yw

1:01 pm

tricky having 2 d's huh

1:02 pm

huh. the past tense of sc5/12 isnt in the dictionary

1:03 pm

i know i will need fish, but ... clue for the ad 6 please?

1:04 pm

ad and part of speech

1:04 pm

Guten Tag, fellow babblrs! I am trying to get a hold of Westford. Does anyone have her email address to send to me at igoff@wideopenwest.com?

1:04 pm

yep - fish it is. ;-) ty cherly

1:04 pm

88 left

1:04 pm

yw

1:05 pm

no email but have her friended on fb ... could send her a msg there

1:07 pm

please ask her to contact me at my email, which is also in my profile. No hurry, just need some info from her

1:07 pm

sure

1:07 pm

can anyone clue me in on the lower left t's?

1:08 pm

ts4 - russian king

1:08 pm

that's the one i have

1:09 pm

ts and lemon*** is good in hot weather

1:09 pm

and plural

1:09 pm

ts 5: ts + unhappy + vowel, the ts 6 is a plural

1:09 pm

myrd, t + s 4/5 and plural

1:09 pm

ty, cherly

1:10 pm

huh. what's the definition of those?

1:10 pm

yw

1:10 pm

ty though.

1:10 pm

the ts5 and 6 are letters in the hebrew alphabet

1:10 pm

done inge

1:11 pm

ts and lemon*** and plural.........

1:12 pm

evening all x

1:12 pm

Hi Katie

1:12 pm

hi katie

1:13 pm

congrats judi

1:13 pm

hi katie

1:14 pm

thanks Wildcat. I just came back from looking up that ts 5 word. It has been in the grid before.

1:18 pm

going to leave for a while, bye dear babblers

1:20 pm

bye annie

1:21 pm

by annie

1:23 pm

<sneaking back after buying paint to find a few more words> Phantom: fence I tried it before going to the hardware store and now again!

1:23 pm

yeah got the re's out of the way

1:24 pm

hi nef

1:24 pm

go cherly!

1:26 pm

how are you doing withthis grid, cherly? It isn't too tough so far for me; but I'm not supposed to be here either! ;-)

1:26 pm

good afternoon all

1:26 pm

Hi Boo

1:26 pm

yep nicer than yesterdays

1:26 pm

I think I have left my brain at work!

1:27 pm

lol Katie..

1:27 pm

don't work so hard Katie;

1:27 pm

on the bright side at least I bothered to take it to work!!

1:28 pm

:)

1:28 pm

we are in the middle of a big bidding process, and then Gordon Brown gives us another £1.5 billion!!

1:29 pm

clue for ap 7

1:29 pm

past tense of ap5

1:29 pm

that helps. My brother told me about a new "incentive program" at his workplace. Someone put up a sign saying "work or get Fired"

1:29 pm

past tense of what you wear to keep clean when cooking

1:29 pm

ty

1:29 pm

lol nef

1:30 pm

wow nef, that might get them going

1:30 pm

we have had to 'map' our holidays for the next 3 months, you should have se** the rush to get them booked Monday morning

1:31 pm

where I used to work, we'd have to put in for vacations 6 months in advance. There were a lot of times people didn't get vacations because of that

1:32 pm

wow i would not be pleased with that. We get loads of holidays (7 weeks) so have to try and spread them across the year or we have to take December off

1:33 pm

that's one of the big differences between Europe and the US. Here we *might* get 2 weeks off

1:34 pm

it was funny on honeymoon we worked out that they were all being snotty about us having a 'small' wedding (90 people is large over here) so we got our own back about the amount of holiday we got

1:36 pm

We haven't had a vacation in about 4 years; hubby retired in 2006 but I've had an injury and then 2 job changes; so we are at the point of being stir crazy here

1:38 pm

we get 6 holidays at work and 2 weeks vacation once you worked a year

1:38 pm

hello everyone

1:38 pm

hi west

1:39 pm

I think everyone has to get 25 days here

1:39 pm

hi west

1:39 pm

In Canada the law says you must have 2 weeks holiday each year. After 5 years at the same place it goes up to 3. I think you get 4 after 10 years but by that time I have already burned out and moved on.

1:39 pm

got a message on FB that Inge is trying to get in touch is she here?

1:39 pm

hi nef

1:39 pm

and katie and cherl

1:39 pm

hi bugs too

1:39 pm

I get 35 days plus another 1 1/2 at Christmas and then bank holidays as well so that is another 7 days

1:39 pm

was on earlier, west, she wants to ask you a question for info she said

1:39 pm

Hi Westford

1:40 pm

I think she left, west.

1:40 pm

okay I can email her

1:41 pm

mine is exceptionally good though. with the new company I will be going down to 30 days, 3 days at christmas and 7 bank holidays but will also be able to take 6 'flex' days a year if I put in the hours (which I do anyway) so should end up with more not less

1:41 pm

Yay .. Just 263 to go ..Whee ..

1:42 pm

go tor go

1:42 pm

anyone seen oodles recently

1:42 pm

hi tor

1:42 pm

Hello, westford! :)

1:42 pm

65 left here

1:43 pm

hi JC it's been months !!

1:43 pm

or seems like it

1:43 pm

Erm . . . months must be very short where you are then, westford? :P

1:43 pm

the older you get the faster time flies lol

1:43 pm

Hmmm . . . well yes, that's certainly true. ;)

1:44 pm

hello, have ac9, help with other nines pls

1:44 pm

today we have sun a rare occurence around these parts lately

1:44 pm

Oh, is it ?

1:45 pm

we have had a lovely day here but I need to go to London tomorrow and the tube will be hell in this heat.

1:45 pm

hi peri think of what a ball does and use that ending for the rest of the 9's

1:45 pm

peri, the only 9 I have is re9/72

1:45 pm

We have sun intermittently - it went dull for a while, clouding over a couple of times, but not for too long.

1:45 pm

we've had more rain since 1903

1:45 pm

Yes, it's muggy!

1:46 pm

you can keep 'muggy'

1:46 pm

It's not actually the heat, it's more the stickiness that's making it feel so uncomfortable - without that, it wouldn't be too bad.

1:46 pm

oh please no 6/18 is a word? ;-) new one for me

1:46 pm

thanks nef, that got me re9x2

1:46 pm

we had a massive storm last night, put out the tv and everything, luckily just sunny today

1:46 pm

yes, I am grousing

1:46 pm

de 9 xs 2 what you might do to a leader you want to get rid of

1:46 pm

Warmer than usual though, yes . . .

1:46 pm

and past tense

1:47 pm

Yes, the weather's been 'fun' around here lately!

1:47 pm

hi again all :) I thought I'd go with the icon theme. I have Julian Clary!

1:47 pm

DUH! Thanks for the other re9 peri!

1:47 pm

hi ata

1:47 pm

thanks cherly, have all the 9/'s now. yw Nef

1:47 pm

thank goodness for airconditioned cars

1:47 pm

what's the theme?

1:47 pm

See what I mean, westford?

1:47 pm

{{{{{{ATA}}}}}}}}

1:47 pm

hey there Ata, read about your doggie earlier, is she ok now?

1:48 pm

we put a ceiling fan in the TV room and it really helps

1:48 pm

she's fine! A bit dopey, but fine :)

1:48 pm

good to hear, Ata

1:48 pm

good news ata

1:48 pm

hi west ... inge was looking for you earlier

1:49 pm

and yay for Zoe-Anne! :)

1:49 pm

I saw your FB message and came on here looking for her..she's gone so I emailed her do you know what she wanted?

1:49 pm

thanks Ata

1:49 pm

she didn't say

1:50 pm

peri - good news too

1:50 pm

'tis a puzzlement

1:50 pm

she just wanted to make sure you knew she was looking for you

1:50 pm

:)

1:50 pm

okay, peri, what does that ac 9 build off of?

1:51 pm

highest playing cards, Nef

1:51 pm

doggy, poorly - big frown

1:51 pm

compound word, Nef

1:51 pm

add a coin for the ac8 and then pl for the ac9

1:51 pm

thanks

1:52 pm

strange word

1:52 pm

new one for me

1:52 pm

as if my brain needs any more new words

1:52 pm

not listing yet how many re words please?

1:53 pm

it is strange; I'll have to look that one up

1:54 pm

a whole icelolly with stick????

1:54 pm

3 -re words, 1 - 8 & 2 - 9

1:54 pm

as 8"Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid"

1:54 pm

thanks I have them

1:54 pm

yes! a mini milk

1:54 pm

better go, hubby home

1:55 pm

bye katie

1:55 pm

not getting the clue for the as8

1:55 pm

bye Katie

1:55 pm

bye katie tc

1:56 pm

Pl high card, then add a penny

1:56 pm

high card and smell peri

1:56 pm

peri - high cards plus aroma, then a plural

1:56 pm

that is the ac word, which I have

1:56 pm

oh - sorry - i was doing the ac

1:56 pm

is there also an as8?

1:56 pm

no

1:57 pm

no as 8

1:57 pm

oops! Sorry. I didn't see the as 8 clue, will have to scroll back

1:57 pm

help with U words pls

1:57 pm

nm

1:57 pm

nlot using the list yet

1:57 pm

*not*

1:57 pm

un 4 and 5

1:58 pm

got the un4 ty

1:58 pm

I have 40 left and I just went to the list. le sigh.

1:58 pm

look un**r the bed to get a suprise, add a vowel

1:59 pm

thanks cherly, all I see under the bed are dust bunnies :)

1:59 pm

thanks from me too cherl

1:59 pm

like panties

2:00 pm

if you were a cat that would be the suprise

2:00 pm

not in my house, ;-)

2:01 pm

I often ask my kitties where they have gotten all that dust on their little heads

2:02 pm

mine would just look at me like wouldnt you like to know and wander away

2:03 pm

'bought what i get. ;-)

2:03 pm

I am missing a q word. have shape and unit of liquid measure spelled 3 diff ways

2:03 pm

NM found the missing q

2:05 pm

need help with T in left column, have russian rular

2:05 pm

lol - I have to stop doing that - sorry. I play too much

2:05 pm

t + marquis and plural

2:06 pm

thanks west

2:06 pm

yw

2:07 pm

Westford, I wrote to you on email. Thanks

2:09 pm

the other ts is the 18th Hebrew letter: ts + opp of happy + vowel, and plural

2:10 pm

ty Inge, found them, 92 left, break, laundry and then list time, bbs

2:13 pm

There is alot of big words in this grid

2:13 pm

peri just looked at your profile. my massage is very much energy based - chakras and chi.

2:13 pm

and hi all

2:14 pm

hi dinok

2:14 pm

boo - a lot of them very similar to each other.

2:14 pm

hi dinok

2:14 pm

hi dinok

2:15 pm

yes i see that Wolvie

2:15 pm

any clues please for ce 6 21

2:16 pm

hi inge I was just replying to your email

2:16 pm

OK, going to read up now

2:16 pm

sounds like a dollar figure cherly

2:16 pm

or slang for one

2:17 pm

ty wolvie

2:17 pm

dinok. when you give massages, do you absorb negative energy?

2:17 pm

sorry boo - i thought you were asking. :-)

2:18 pm

not really, u use the person's own energy to heal them. but you have to take care and protect urself...

2:20 pm

bigger problem is empathy. sometimes I can 'take on' the pain of a client if i really want to heal them.

2:20 pm

bbs

2:20 pm

bye westford

2:21 pm

ok. My DIL just graduated (before having the baby) and said that she absorbs negative energy so can't do too many massages because of this. I thought she was nuts because I've given a lot of massages (as a nurse, wife and mom) and never felt I was absorbing negative energywas

2:21 pm

(sorry, don't know where that "was" came from

2:22 pm

I've even done thera peutic touch and never felt like I absorbed negative energy; wondered if that was true or not

2:22 pm

different therapists react differently. Early on I was more affected by negative energy. when u first work, if you are an open person, u use your energy to heal, which is draining

2:23 pm

now THAT I agree with!

2:23 pm

Westford, I left the ball in his court. Thanks for responding.

2:24 pm

the secret is to use their energy. unblock and move it around. I just figured out DIL!...

2:25 pm

The news of the shooting in Detroit? The Lutheran HS our kids attended was near there. We moved to the suburbs 15 years ago.

2:25 pm

LOL! Dinok; I thought that was a common abbreviation! :-)

2:26 pm

She should take a few drops of frankincense in her palm before a client, breathe it in, and then cover her solar plexus for a few moments, taking deep breathes

2:27 pm

I'll suggest that to her. Thanks

2:28 pm

yvw. I hav to go do kiddie things. bbl

2:28 pm

bye! (I suppose I should go paint now too.) :-/

2:30 pm

clue for the first fa 6/30

2:31 pm

don't have that one Boo. I have 2 fe 6's though

2:32 pm

3, that is

2:32 pm

I only have one fa 6/30 - flora and fa***, plural

2:32 pm

I have an fa 6/33 if you want it

2:32 pm

pl of flora and...

2:32 pm

yes

2:33 pm

hi aloy - we think alike

2:33 pm

d9Darn PL!

Hi all, Apparently my house is in the closing process as I babble...

2:33 pm

boo the 6/33 is similar to a spigot - just a different ending instead of the t

2:33 pm

(-: hi Wolvie, I'm just leaving.. have been lurking, fun grid today.. yay, red, vg news!

2:33 pm

hi red - hope that is a good thing. :-)

2:34 pm

good, then your ordeal will be over, H

2:34 pm

that was supposed to be "darn Pl's" I'm forgetting them today

2:34 pm

did you finish aloy? I have 10 left- congrats if you did

2:34 pm

yup, all done.. howdy BR

THis is a very good thing, as long as everything goes OK.

2:34 pm

ty

2:34 pm

woo hoo red! Fingers crossed for you!

2:35 pm

starting to pour like crazy.. gotta scoot.. til next time. poof

2:35 pm

best to you then red. :-)

2:35 pm

bye aloy

I suppose in about one to two hours, I shall be feeling quite giddy.

2:36 pm

just don't hold your breath that long and you won't be too light-headed! ;-)

LOL Nef. I was initiallyrunning at the gym today, so I am thoroughly exhausted, I just spent the last hour running about faxing last minute detail stuff

2:38 pm

Goodmorning all

Hi Lynnx

2:38 pm

hi lynxxx

2:39 pm

hello, lyn

2:39 pm

At looong last Red, the end is in sight

2:39 pm

hi lynxx

BR how are you?

And Yes, Lynnx, I am awaiting the final call.

2:40 pm

doing okay, H .. nothing memorable just going along

2:40 pm

fantastic red,waiting is hard I know

thats great BR, the way I like my life....

the waiting was bad, but its so close to being resolved, cherly, I think I am alright.

2:43 pm

been on the other side of it, waited almost 2 1/2 years for my house due to habitat and city having funding issues

2:44 pm

was so happy when finally got to close on my house

2:46 pm

back again hello everyone

2:46 pm

hi West

2:46 pm

wb west

2:46 pm

hi lyn

2:47 pm

thanks cherl

2:47 pm

good to be here

2:48 pm

hi westford

2:48 pm

hi wolvie

2:49 pm

clue for ce 4/6

2:49 pm

un

2:49 pm

ce & drive a **r

2:50 pm

ty

2:51 pm

okay - sp 7 and 8 - i have no idea what that means - just got them by typing around. jeez

2:52 pm

your monkeys got them for you

2:52 pm

tg for monkeys. ;-)

2:53 pm

has something to do with poetry wolvie

2:53 pm

lol you said it

2:53 pm

oh - that would do it then cherly - not much of that in me!

2:54 pm

ad6?

ad plus a pa** of speech.

2:54 pm

ad and part of speech

2:55 pm

ty

2:55 pm

oops off to pb again

2:58 pm

I just got over the half way point; so I'm off to paint now. BBL.

2:58 pm

bye nef

2:59 pm

have fun nef

3:01 pm

W00t ..Halfway ..

3:01 pm

hi, everyone - I am having a mini-celebration here all by myself - just got home from work, don't have to go back until Monday the 6th YAY!!

3:01 pm

wtg tor

3:01 pm

44 left here

3:01 pm

:-) JBV

3:02 pm

wtg jbv

3:02 pm

the last 4 are killing me here

3:02 pm

Yay jbv!

Yaay for JBV.

3:02 pm

have some sparklers JB

3:02 pm

hi JBV & Tor

3:03 pm

can't believe the 4th is upon us

3:03 pm

hi lynxxx and red and west and tor, cherly, wolvie

3:03 pm

I have no plans except to relax, read, and of course, catch up on all the piles of everything that have not been getting done

3:04 pm

et al, eh? ;-)

3:04 pm

Al? is he here, too? :)

3:04 pm

sure - has to be. ;-)

3:05 pm

west, that bridge in your photo looks very familiar - is it in NYC by chance???

3:07 pm

it's in Sydney JB

3:08 pm

the Friday word was quey and that's part of the Circular Quey never been there just thought it was pretty

3:08 pm

it does look NY ish doesn't it?

3:11 pm

finally! fireworks.

3:11 pm

Yay wolvie!!

3:11 pm

Congrats Wolvie!

3:12 pm

a few four letter words just took me forever - brain overload

3:12 pm

were they normal words?

3:12 pm

for the most part, yes! LOL

3:12 pm

that's what makes it so bad

3:13 pm

i get the hard stuff and then just go blank

3:13 pm

any clues before i head into the evening?

3:13 pm

well done then

3:14 pm

clue for fe 6/36

3:14 pm

fertile, boo

3:14 pm

I am definitely well done, west. fried, in fact

3:15 pm

that lonesome e in the middle column would be helpful

3:15 pm

under the s

3:15 pm

Hi, westford, after all our work, my Foxboro friend wants to wait for his Providence IT man. His computers are with Comcast.

3:15 pm

lol wolvie

3:15 pm

thanks, west - I was away for a few minutes. Did I say I was going to relax? I can't believe they just called me from work with a crisis that MUST BE RESOLVED right now (not really, but some people have no sense of proportion)

3:15 pm

okay inge sounds like a cable connection problem then

3:15 pm

finaled, west, I think that was it

3:15 pm

West - finished

3:16 pm

oh good - lynxx remembers it was that one

3:16 pm

oh no JB

3:16 pm

thanks lyn

3:16 pm

oh yes

3:16 pm

too bad jbv

3:16 pm

talk about brain dead ( e word )

3:17 pm

well, anyway, i'm back to babble which is more important right now

3:17 pm

okay - if no one wants any clues, I will see you tomorrow

3:17 pm

it's nice to be ne**ed JB

3:17 pm

bye wolvie tc

3:18 pm

true, except when you're on vacation !

3:18 pm

bye wolvie

3:19 pm

my boss once tracked me down on the CA/OR border to ask where she put a file

3:19 pm

she was notorious for losing things

3:20 pm

that was BC before computers

3:21 pm

I was with someone at a meeting whose boss called (from about 100 miles away) to ask her to call Human Resources - p.s. the boss and human resources were in the same building, one floor apart!

3:22 pm

the peter principle at work lol

3:26 pm

I'm going to make sausage and peppers for dinner tonight Frank Sinatra's special recipe

3:26 pm

that's amazing, west! I have the very same dinner menu!!

3:26 pm

(don't know about Frank Sinatra - I use my mother's recipe)

3:27 pm

it's been so cold and rainy I thought that would be a good thing to make

3:27 pm

now it's warm and sunny but I'm going to make it anyway

3:27 pm

Frank probably got his from his mother too

3:28 pm

cold and rainy here too, just hearing thunder

3:33 pm

summer is having a hard time getting here for good

3:36 pm

thats cause we have had it for about a month already west

3:37 pm

though got to admit today its nice

3:37 pm

would be nice if we could tr*** for a few days cherl

3:37 pm

only 72

3:38 pm

that is nice !!

3:38 pm

saturday it was 04

3:38 pm

yuck lol

3:38 pm

oops 104

3:39 pm

I knew that lol

3:39 pm

has it ever been 4 ?

3:39 pm

no we get in the 20's now and then

3:40 pm

that's pretty cold

3:40 pm

how's your car doing? did you get another one?

3:40 pm

nope, I am on foot or bus now

3:41 pm

have to wait till tax time to buy a car

3:41 pm

saves on gas anyway

3:41 pm

yes, that is true

3:41 pm

prices going up again

3:42 pm

bus pass is only 30 a month

3:42 pm

15 for dd

3:42 pm

that's really good

3:42 pm

sp7?

3:43 pm

don't have it yet kje hi kje

3:44 pm

sounds like the end of one who answers back or resp*****

3:44 pm

it is a poetry word

3:45 pm

ty, found it - weird

3:45 pm

yep

3:45 pm

have 31 words left and still not nbt

3:46 pm

what are you missing?

3:46 pm

n in middle right column

3:47 pm

ne** lights

3:47 pm

ty lyn

3:47 pm

nbt finally

3:48 pm

wtg cherl !!

3:48 pm

I just saw on TV that May 18th is visit your relatives day

3:48 pm

quiet chog today

3:49 pm

I'm hiding from chores

3:49 pm

I'm hiding in the grid

3:50 pm

Clue for no 6/18

3:50 pm

well, more like drowning in the grid, but same effect

3:50 pm

ty for the sp7 cherl finally got it

3:50 pm

no 6 == without carney or linkletter

3:50 pm

was trying to use the c

3:51 pm

LOL - good clue BR

3:51 pm

ty bab and hello

3:51 pm

howdy

3:51 pm

ty br

3:58 pm

hey there

3:58 pm

in for maybe only seconds

3:59 pm

looks like things are happening

3:59 pm

still monkeying ty br

4:01 pm

goody goody !!

4:01 pm

how exciting flosey

4:02 pm

sounds good flosey

4:02 pm

go well

4:02 pm

hope things go well, darn chat sticking again

4:02 pm

happy birthday flosey!!!

4:04 pm

clue for the second no 5/10

4:05 pm

thanks kj, and if lthe baby holds out for 10 hours he'll be my bestest bd gift

4:05 pm

he will be anyway

4:06 pm

i dont want no**** of that, or plural of no 44

4:09 pm

oops second no 44

4:13 pm

only in Tennessee: A Hendersonville woman faces felony charges after an officer discovered her driving through a parking lot with two children on the hood of her car.

4:16 pm

aha, and fireworks, just in time!

4:16 pm

yay, flosey!!!!!!!!!!!!

4:16 pm

time to go, hope I'll have news at flip time tonight

4:17 pm

exciting time for you, flosey! :-)

4:17 pm

hate to say it but we had a similar case in texas, she killed her 14 yr old then said it was his fault for falling off the hood

4:17 pm

sure is Une, our other grandson is 11

4:17 pm

first one one the west coast too

4:17 pm

evening all = how are tonight and what a nasty little grid tonight - i am really struggling atthe minute

4:17 pm

ohmygosh, cherly, that's even worse

4:18 pm

yeah flosey

4:18 pm

hope all goes great, flosey!!

4:18 pm

bye flosey will keep you all in my prayers

4:18 pm

bfn folks and thanks west, much appreciated

4:20 pm

lack of common sense seems to run world wide amongst some people I guess

4:21 pm

i'm just glad someone reported it to the police!

4:21 pm

my theory is its always been that way we just here it more often now because of more media access

4:21 pm

so true

4:22 pm

hear it

4:23 pm

and I wanna strangle the idiots who leave their small children in a sweltering car

4:23 pm

cherly whats in you pic

4:23 pm

my poodle, shes tera and 9

4:24 pm

she needs a hair cut bad

4:24 pm

there was a case here a few years ago where the baby boiled and died the paramedics that tried to save it said the car probably got to over 100

4:25 pm

she is cute - is she one of the naughty ones - we had one years ago - looked like butter would melt but she was a little bugger

4:25 pm

oops wouldnt

4:25 pm

our police do a safety case every year in summer as it gets soo hot down here

4:26 pm

she sometimes forgets she's old and acts like a puppy

4:26 pm

and she can get into things if you turn your back for sure

4:26 pm

we have warnings and everything but people still ignore them and leave babies and doggies in their cars

4:27 pm

when its 104 like saturday the inside of a car can be close to 200 degrees

4:27 pm

our learnt to nudge the fridge door open and we had booby tr** it

4:27 pm

she and the cat conspire sometimes to get into the dog food

4:28 pm

it does make you wonder - the ones that really get me are the ones who go on holiday and leave the kds at home

4:28 pm

have to keep up high

4:29 pm

yep, remember hereing a story in ky about a family that left a child behind, she was in the bathroom

4:29 pm

went a hundred miles before they relised it

4:30 pm

course they had 6 kids

4:30 pm

just had to refresh i am on 57 and taking it easy. here some have just left them at home with food in fridge - 3 t o5 year olds!!

4:30 pm

this seems t obe deliberate

4:30 pm

man now that is neglect

4:32 pm

if I leave my 14 at home for the day I make sure she has phone, food and someone to ck on her, thats just for when I am at work

4:33 pm

people need to learn to slow down and enjoy their kids they only get one chance to raise them

4:34 pm

my son is 30 now and lives with my mum but he has lived with my folks since he was 9 as i had to move away for work and it wasnt feasible for him to come with me

4:35 pm

man in Dallas left son in back of car at train station, he was running late for work and forgot his son was in car, asleep

4:36 pm

by the time his wife realized it and found child he was dead

4:36 pm

it's amazing to me to hear about bus drivers who close down for the nite, leaving a child inside

4:36 pm

somebody here had their car stolen with baby in the back - she was dropping of something and they just grabbed it - or else they accosted her when she was at the lights

4:36 pm

cherly, that's horrible!

4:36 pm

dallas wants to put car alarms in cars for that reason

4:36 pm

that's happened here to, cherly

4:36 pm

he was on suicide watch for days

4:37 pm

poor bugger - its must be a terrible thing to live with

4:38 pm

right now they tell people if they put baby in car leave your breafcase or bags in back too, so when you open the back to get them out you see the baby

4:38 pm

but back to the grid and the lovely ss and rs

4:38 pm

and ps

4:44 pm

any clue please for ra 5 10?

4:46 pm

indian princess

4:48 pm

hm,. thinking

4:48 pm

ty

4:51 pm

ty very much got it

4:56 pm

i found the re8 and re9's all by myself.... *pats self on back*

4:56 pm

wtg python

5:02 pm

Don't hurt yourself ..

5:02 pm

hi tor

5:02 pm

i'll be carefull

5:03 pm

Hiya cherly

5:08 pm

17 words

5:09 pm

go, cherly, go

5:09 pm

15 left now - 1 u and 14 ts

5:10 pm

42 to go for me..lol

5:10 pm

102 for me =}

5:11 pm

31

5:12 pm

99 for me and i must go. happy babbling.

5:13 pm

97 ..

5:14 pm

How many un words?

5:14 pm

2

5:14 pm

Thanks K

5:15 pm

yw bgh

5:15 pm

Aha ..

5:16 pm

96 .. lol

5:17 pm

20 : )

5:17 pm

I want this evil thing done!

5:18 pm

I pity the grid ..

Shall i start this monster?

5:20 pm

I ouldn't lindy - or if you do, just list right away

oh my! is it that bad!

5:20 pm

Finished - Hooray! a tough one

Yahoo lynx

5:21 pm

wtg lynxx!!!!

5:21 pm

hoorah it was worth persevering - got me fireworks

5:21 pm

well done lynxxx :-)

Yahoo Kazzer!

5:22 pm

Congrats Kazz!

5:22 pm

hello everyone congrats lynxxx!! and sc7/40?

5:22 pm

Yeah..good going Kazzer

5:22 pm

congrats kazzer!!

5:22 pm

add past tense to sc5 before it

5:23 pm

sc5 then plz?

5:23 pm

hello secooper.

5:23 pm

hey zoozzoom

5:23 pm

do you have sc 5 for beautiful view- change last letter to one before in alphabet

5:24 pm

thnx kazzer got it!

5:25 pm

i am off t obed - if i can sleep in the heat see you all tomorrow

5:25 pm

bye Kazzer

5:25 pm

bye Kazz

5:25 pm

night kazzer

5:26 pm

I must get an early start to my day...bye everyone

5:27 pm

bye lynxxx

5:27 pm

bye lynxxx

5:27 pm

clue for the grid - uses ou5 ending a lot (1/16 of a lb) in weird ways

5:27 pm

thnx kje

5:29 pm

and done - our speedy babbler, da4, was my last word... of course, ended on a fish

5:29 pm

WTG Kje

5:29 pm

congrats!!!!

5:30 pm

must run - good luck to all who enter here - LOL

5:31 pm

byeee

5:31 pm

Take care Kje :-)

5:43 pm

And fireworks for me..phew

5:44 pm

bye who ever is here. :-)

5:46 pm

yay

5:47 pm

scan

5:47 pm

oops

5:48 pm

no ones here....hee hee no PB for me!!

5:53 pm

i am here

5:56 pm

ok....I'l go....

5:56 pm

hello all, back to find my last 84 words

5:56 pm

that's ok you can stay out

5:56 pm

hi peri and all

5:57 pm

thank you !!!

5:57 pm

there's no good munchies in here anyways

5:57 pm

need to make some cookies or something

5:57 pm

clue for un 5

5:58 pm

un and volley mom

5:59 pm

do you know who I mean Boo?

5:59 pm

no

6:00 pm

un5 - panties singlar

6:00 pm

singular

6:00 pm

sorry guess you don't play when she's on

6:01 pm

that's ok

6:01 pm

un and spell the 4th letter

6:01 pm

got it ty

6:02 pm

good !

6:03 pm

clue for the third pa 5/12

6:03 pm

help with de5/20 pls

6:04 pm

don't have that one yet

6:04 pm

Add a vowel to the end of the prev pa4

6:04 pm

NM

6:04 pm

or that

6:04 pm

nm

6:04 pm

de5 - a type of coffee

6:05 pm

ty bea

6:06 pm

de6/21 pla

6:06 pm

de + short letter

6:07 pm

thanks, ch1212

6:07 pm

getting tired of this grid, 74 left

6:07 pm

you're doing better than I am, peri -- I've 111 left :)

6:07 pm

:(

6:09 pm

135 here lol

6:09 pm

trade

6:09 pm

went to list with 65 left . . .

6:10 pm

back in the box.....

6:10 pm

cookies should be about done

6:10 pm

smell delish

6:11 pm

I'll be in soon

6:12 pm

peanut butter with cream cheese frosting.....done !!!

6:12 pm

60 to go and I have to go to the store save me some

6:12 pm

sure thing

6:13 pm

thanks !!

6:13 pm

help with either ne6/21 pls

6:13 pm

past tense of bright light, peri

6:13 pm

plural of ne5/12

6:14 pm

thanks, just found that one, Une

6:14 pm

(ne + not bottom)

6:14 pm

netop

6:14 pm

netops

6:14 pm

thanks Une

6:14 pm

oops

6:14 pm

oops

6:14 pm

:(

6:14 pm

yw :-)

6:14 pm

mouse moved all by itself :)

6:15 pm

:-D

6:15 pm

cookies are ready for all !!!!

6:16 pm

tx liz!!

6:16 pm

I like cookies, what kind are they?

6:17 pm

hey, apart from the qu5/16, can anyone hint me on the other 4?

6:17 pm

PB appropriately...with cream cheese frosting

6:18 pm

add vowel to qu5/16 (two different ones)

6:18 pm

ok, I would like one of the cookies pls.

6:18 pm

cream cheese frosting . . . yum!!!

6:18 pm

domo.

6:18 pm

If I eat it standing up there are no calories :-)

6:19 pm

lol

6:19 pm

56 left now

6:19 pm

that's what gets me by in my world too

6:19 pm

douitashimashite

6:19 pm

that's what i've always heard, peri :-)

6:20 pm

what Une???

6:20 pm

hello :)

6:20 pm

yahoo says that Japanese for you're welcome :-)

6:20 pm

Hi, Aussie

6:20 pm

aussieme!!!!!!!! it's been FOREVER!!

6:21 pm

ok, thought you were talking gibberish, Une

6:21 pm

how are ya??

6:21 pm

Hey Peri :)

6:21 pm

UNEEEEEEE !!!!!!!! I know it's been forever....

6:21 pm

that's always a possibility, peri!

6:21 pm

I am fine.....

6:21 pm

I thought her fingers got tangled

6:21 pm

:-D

6:22 pm

no, domo is short for domo-arigato.

6:22 pm

that's not "thank you"?

6:22 pm

Been a busy bunny :) Smurf was poorly, and then been on holiday, and then back to working :)

6:22 pm

yes it is.

6:23 pm

that's why i was trying to say "you're welcome" :-)

6:23 pm

is Smurf ok now?

6:23 pm

fun holiday, aussieme??

6:23 pm

Smurf is fine Peri :) She had Chicken Pox, and then a severe water infection, then she was stung by a jellyfish when we were on holiday....

6:24 pm

yikes!!!

6:24 pm

poor baby!!

6:24 pm

oh dear, Aussie, glad; she is ok now

6:24 pm

how old is your little Smurf now?

6:25 pm

We had a lovely holiday Une.... Wales for 5 days, home for 2 days (including my birthday), and then Blackpool for 5 days :) She was stung in Blackpool.... It was a baby jellyfish, and it got caught in the leg of her swim nappy.. In a rockpool of all places :)

6:25 pm

Smurf is 3 years old now Peri :)

6:28 pm

fe6/33, have warded off someone

6:28 pm

POOR SMURF!

6:29 pm

I am just home from gettingJake- he stepped on a bee...

6:29 pm

probably nota painful as a jellyfish

6:29 pm

Is Jake ok DR ??

6:30 pm

YEs, he is ok.

6:30 pm

he is acting it up .. but I am letting him

6:32 pm

It was only a baby jellyfish DR, and it had one little tail wiggler..... It got caught in the leg of her swim nappy, and coulodn't get out..... She got it in the groin of her leg.... It was over and gone in 2 days.... I gave her liquid anti-histamine, and presto, done :)

6:33 pm

good it was a baby.. sounds like she has had her fill now. Hope she stays healthy now!

Just popping in to say Hello to some of my favourite Babblers! (0:

6:38 pm

Hi Lindy!

glad Jake is ok DR, sad he was stung though!

6:40 pm

yes.. He got in trouble at camp and kicked the grass. A bee got stuck in his sandal and he stepped on it.

6:40 pm

he isfine.. home soaking the foot and watching tv.

oh yuck, poor thing! I was stung for the first time last year, between my toes, it isn't nice

6:41 pm

Good evening to my fellow babblers!How is everyone?

6:41 pm

Me too DR... (sorry, was sidetracked by the ac8/9 combo)

6:41 pm

LINDYPOOS !!!!!

6:41 pm

By the way, congratulations to all the finishers! YAY!

oh summer camp? I am jealous, the city is on strike here so no camps )0:

AUSSIE!!!!!

6:41 pm

Hi Min!

hi Min (0:

6:42 pm

Min !! Lovely to see you :)

6:42 pm

Big bummer Lindy!

too right DR, I am lumbered with 3 boys instead of just 1 !! )0:

6:42 pm

he has 2 weeks at one run by th eschools then 4 weeks at the YMCA

6:43 pm

clue for sa 6/24

6:43 pm

The sa 6/24 is past tense of the sa 4/5 word Boobear

6:43 pm

past tense of the sa4/5

6:44 pm

ty

6:44 pm

OR more than one sa5/14

6:44 pm

How are you Min ?

6:45 pm

I am well, but I am about to give up on this hard grid.

6:46 pm

I been here about half an hour, and managed to get all the AC words :)

6:46 pm

Go AUssie! You Rock!

I'm going to go find some dinner and read my book, have a great Canada Day tomorrow, hugs xxx

6:47 pm

lol :) It will take me forever to get the rest of them though...

6:47 pm

Bye Lindy- Take Care

6:47 pm

Night night Lindy xoxox

6:47 pm

Goodbye Lindrickway! I'll see you tomorrow in the log

6:48 pm

I am stopping at 162 words and 1996 points.Bye to all

6:48 pm

I might check back in a little later to see who is here

6:48 pm

Bye Min!

6:48 pm

I have 19 left so I am trudging onward

6:49 pm

GO DR GO GO GO GO GO !!!

6:50 pm

: )

6:51 pm

lol- there is a country singer in the grid... the one with the big chest

6:52 pm

Good ol' Dolly :)

6:52 pm

yes. she is hiding in the lower corner

6:53 pm

sa6/21 pls

6:53 pm

Just bits of her :)

6:54 pm

SA6- sticky tree stuff + mixed up foot digit

6:54 pm

8-letter phantom.... Squander :)

6:55 pm

good one

7:00 pm

Quashed the QU words :)

7:00 pm

go Aussie go!

7:05 pm

Aussie what part of L/Shire are you.

7:10 pm

hello, I am missing a fe6/33, have past tense of fe4/8

7:11 pm

fe6/33 american water taps less the `T`peri

7:12 pm

thanks Silver but that is the fa6/33 and I have it

7:13 pm

whoops sorry peri

7:13 pm

s'ok

7:14 pm

fe6/33 sounds like being saved from danger

7:14 pm

there are 2 fe6/33, I think I have the one you just clued

7:16 pm

right ok !! to be upset and insulted is to be of******

7:17 pm

that is the one I have

7:17 pm

saved from danger?

7:18 pm

bad cuts can ***ter + snooker pole lol

7:19 pm

thanks so much Silver, got the fe6, new word for me

7:19 pm

i think its a type of grass,glad we got there lol

7:22 pm

clue for se 6/27

7:24 pm

card suit without the snake but with a `D`

7:24 pm

sorry Boo I`m not with it tonight I`m giving up cluing.Tonight.Bye

7:25 pm

that's ok

7:34 pm

Boo it sounds like not first but se****. just change the vowel

7:36 pm

Did that clue work for you?

7:36 pm

worked for me, thanks!!

me, too!

thank you

7:37 pm

ok

7:37 pm

Waaah, it didn't work fo rme.

hi, scrab

7:38 pm

Hi TNC--how have you been?

7:38 pm

How old are your kids now?

pretty good - crazy busy, but school is out so I should have some time

Crackers will be 4 in two weeks and Tea will be 6 in 7 weeks

Getting big!

7:39 pm

Big kids and very fun ages!

I cannot wait until Crackers hit four - the threes have been terrible

terrible horrible!

7:40 pm

Be tough. Draw the line. Be calm and in control. Have memorable consequences.

I think I have more gray hair from the last year than from ever before!

thank you though - we are trying!

7:41 pm

Scrabbler - in the Olympics you come in first, se**** or third. Just change the vowel. That should work for you

7:41 pm

Make sure the yknow that you are in control.

7:42 pm

Aha, I was trying the 2nd vowel and didn't see the last vowel

7:42 pm

hi, all

7:42 pm

wow, hi T&C!

7:43 pm

Hi Pam!

7:43 pm

howdy, pam!

7:43 pm

scrabs!

7:43 pm

howdy une.... rafa today?

hi, pam - how are you!

7:43 pm

well, T&C, you?

doing well, thank you!

7:44 pm

what? no, Roger Federer -- Rafa's not competing at Wimbledon

7:44 pm

Hello all! Was wondering if there are any dog owners here. I have a dog question. Took my dog to get his hair cut and was wondering if it is customary to tip.

7:44 pm

I didn't look closely'; I guessed, wrongly!

7:44 pm

tending to him bum knees

7:44 pm

Hi, min!

7:44 pm

Yes, tipping is customary

7:44 pm

Hi Min

7:44 pm

oh, i've never tipped, min . . .

7:44 pm

Tendonitis in both--ouch!

7:44 pm

hi Pam

7:45 pm

I know you tip for people,but do you tip for dogs too?

7:45 pm

LOL, une, guess she has both opinions! hi, sue

7:45 pm

I do, min. Not vets, but grooming

7:45 pm

never occurred to me to tip at the vet's office . . .

7:45 pm

oh, ok, groomer separate from vet's office . . . makes sense

7:45 pm

I don't tip vet or techs. I have tipped for grooming, when not done at the vet's

7:46 pm

my ex is a hairstylist who gets BIG human tips :-)

7:47 pm

It never occurred to me to tip at vets either since I don't even tip my own doctor.I tipped $5.00 to get a dog haircut today. Was that too much or too cheap.

7:47 pm

sounds right, min

7:47 pm

I think any tip is appreciated, especially these days!

7:47 pm

true, pam!

Good evening all just got over half 130 to go. Could I have a clue for ac9 please? I have all the other nines except that one.

7:49 pm

I hate tipping the car mechanics!I do not think they deserve it since they're a rip off & try to rip you off.

7:49 pm

hi, marc

7:49 pm

plural of ac8, marc . . . top card + aroma

7:49 pm

Hi Marc Freeman! How are you? Welcome to the grid!

7:50 pm

I think that rewarding friendly and excellent service is always good.

7:50 pm

Hi Sue and Marc

Hi pam and min. I am fine. thanks I will try

Hi Scrabbler

7:50 pm

I am generous to the goddess who cuts my hair... in that I always tip 20% and somewhat more around the december holidays. I don't go often--10-12 weeks between cuts, but I love what she does.

Une is the aroma part a word of its own?

7:51 pm

yes

Got it thanks

7:52 pm

yw ;-)

any hints on the E's in the second row second column I cannot seem to get one of them?

7:53 pm

30 to go . . . BBL to finish *poof*

7:53 pm

I have no4 of those either, Marc

7:54 pm

en7/32 is citations at the back of a book

There are 4 of them but can't seem to even monkey any of them

7:54 pm

en 7- blurb at the end of the chapter rather than at teh foot of the page

7:54 pm

couldn't find the others :-(

7:54 pm

hey, BR :-)

7:55 pm

en 7 -- add 1/16th of a lbs and pl and pt

7:55 pm

hello, Une

7:55 pm

Hi all - for the E's take the de8/55 and leave off the d

7:55 pm

bless you, BR!!!!

Thanks got that one and all the rest thanks again

7:56 pm

I went to a website that claims Michael Jackson's IQ is (was) 110. I wonder how they came up with that #?

7:56 pm

good evening babble friends!

7:57 pm

Hello Dianne!How are you doing? Welcome to the grid

7:57 pm

Hi Trifioso! How are you doing? Welcome to the grid!

7:57 pm

hello min

7:57 pm

Doing good Min. Have the day off so what can be bad?

7:58 pm

dianne, your profile is so cute - love the line about deli. tee hee!

7:58 pm

Hi Trif

7:59 pm

Trif - now you've made me hungry!

7:59 pm

hey there, my fave ped! how was it in the trenches today?

7:59 pm

btw, my girls have their fun-time visit to their doc tomorrow. both are due for shots....sigh.

8:03 pm

hey everyone back for my last 54 words

8:03 pm

secooper!!!! yay

8:03 pm

I have 123 left here :(

8:03 pm

trif booya!!!!

8:04 pm

Not bad--saw a kid that tested positive for H1N1--cough is worse so I ordered a chest X-ray--> pneumonia. I am hoping she does not worsen!

8:04 pm

Hello secooper! How are you doing? Welcome to grid!

8:04 pm

Hi cooper

8:04 pm

oh, dear scrabbler! did you have to report it to public health?

8:04 pm

hi, tri and diane and secoop... I keep wandering...

8:04 pm

UGH, sorry, scrabs!

8:04 pm

hello minveryork and scrabbler! dont worry the 8's and 9's are incredibly easy trif

8:04 pm

hi pam

8:05 pm

hey, that's AUNTIE trif to you, missy!

8:06 pm

okaayyyyyy AUNTIE trif! :)

8:06 pm

All positives are reported--she was tested at the children's hospital on Friday. 2 local kids have died at the children's hospital in the last 10 days, one 15, one 9--previously healthy kids. So everyone is anxious around here, parents and docs. There are 7 more very ill kids at the hospital.

8:07 pm

so scary; especially since it has kind of vanished in the news

8:08 pm

Because H1N1 is a novel virus we are only just learning its behavior.

8:08 pm

It's spreading quite a bit here and so far one child has died.

Could I get a clue for fa6/33, please?

8:10 pm

need that 1 too

8:11 pm

think of the sa 6/24 for pasta.

8:12 pm

thnx dianne

8:12 pm

Where do you live, Dianne?

8:13 pm

Hong Kong

8:13 pm

I just passed halfway! Finally.

hey Dianne how Lenny?

How are the boys?

8:13 pm

Wow, so what time is it there now? Have you always lived there?

8:13 pm

Hi Marc - he's great, thanks. How are things with you?

8:14 pm

"Boys" are great. One in LA and one in Australia.

Really good. Kids are great and Jonathan is out of Iraq and working at the Pentagon

8:14 pm

is anything proving helpful against the h1n1 scrabbler?

Mark written any great screenplays yet or is he still working for you guys?

Any way Dianne can't figure out your clue for fa6/33 any other hints?

8:16 pm

That's- it's great news Marc. Scrabbler - it's around 9:15 am Wednesday.

8:16 pm

try this, marc: water comes out of the fa6, but change the last letter

Thanks a liitle thick

8:17 pm

Good clue Trif.

8:17 pm

not at all! it's a strange word....

8:18 pm

ugh, I am so grid locked. just keeping typing the same stuff over and over....

8:19 pm

are you using the list?

Hello all, I am going to rudely interrupt Chat to announce that all my house selling papers were signed today and tomorro the Deed will be filed and I will finally be rid of that money pit!!!!!

8:19 pm

not yet, secooper.

8:20 pm

HOORAY FOR RED!!!!!

fe6/36, please

8:20 pm

its a lot easier with it and ya red!!!

I dont think its really sunk in yet...

8:21 pm

I was checking e-mail. Yippee Red! What a relief!

I am starting to feel really good, cautiously good.

8:22 pm

Congratulations, RED!!!!!

get a good nights sleep red you've earned it

8:22 pm

Glad you are allowing yourself to enjoy the moment!

Thanks all. I appreciate all the anxiety that Babblers put up with over the past months.

fe6/36?

8:23 pm

Trif---best prevention for any illness = live in air-filtered bubble. Realistically: avoid sick people, wash hands before bringing hands to face, get enough sleep, eat a healthy diet

washing hands and avoiding touching your face....amazing how often we stick our fingers in places after they were stuck in other places...

I noticed you are a pediatrician Scrabbler, my wife is a doula,

8:24 pm

where are you on the gardisil shot, scrabb, pro or con?

8:24 pm

Hi redturtlehead! How are you? Welcome to the grid!

8:25 pm

Good for her, Marc---new mothers need lots if support.

Hi Minver.

8:25 pm

Yay red!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

fe6/36?

Hi Torgone! and thanks..

8:25 pm

that is so true, red and scrabs! People think nothing of doing whatever then rubbing hteir eyes. And we wonder why so many contact lens wearers have issues

8:26 pm

ho, torgone

8:26 pm

Hi torgone! How are you doing? Welcome to the grid!

8:26 pm

Marc - fe6/33 is hard to clue (for me anyway). It means fruitful.

8:26 pm

scrabbs did you see my gardisil query perchance?

I am sure I got my recent flu, which apparently I was supposed ot be tested for H1N1 but I didnt know, so I didnt, by not washing hands enough and rubbing my nose.

Marc, as your Doula a word for fertile!

err, ask. Sorry.

8:27 pm

Trif---there is a sure way to avoid infection. And the reality is that about 50% of people ages 15-35 are infected, so chances of acquiring it are high. Condoms cannot prevent transmission. Random, casual sex with multiple partners is a sure way to catch it.

8:27 pm

marc: f + s**ond place + not over but ***er

8:28 pm

thanks scrabbler

I am going to allow myself to list.

8:29 pm

clues for the nu's?

8:29 pm

nu + d**** the night away...

8:29 pm

And now HPV is recognized as a leading and increasing cause of oral/throat and anal cancer. Certain behaviors do have potentially terrible consquences.

8:30 pm

Help with the U words please?

8:30 pm

I agree, but I wonder if I should leave the choice up to secondo, when she is an adult....

Thanks got it, pam, I don't know Red what Doula means but maybe Scrabbler does. I have to go now. Thanks all ofr the clues

8:30 pm

I have to say, scrabs, I think gardisil makes sense...

8:30 pm

yw, marc!

8:30 pm

So, to summarize, Trif---educate your girls, encourage respect for themselves and their health, and get the vaccine.

8:30 pm

ty, Pam, got them

8:30 pm

well said, scrabs!

8:30 pm

Bye Marc

8:31 pm

yw, python

8:31 pm

I have heard a lot of conflicting info - it only prevents 3% of infection, it is mostly a victory for the pharm company, etc.

8:31 pm

I don't know what doula means, but I need one

8:31 pm

I think information enables young women to make empowered choices, including an affirmative no. I am so sick of information filtration that renders them incapable.

8:31 pm

i got the shots

8:31 pm

Goodbye Marc Freeman! I'll see you tomorrow maybe.

8:32 pm

Trif, the current vaccine covers 70% of current strains.

8:32 pm

isn't a doula a birthing assistant?

8:32 pm

primo

8:32 pm

Hi pythonx! How are you doing? Welcome to the grid!

8:32 pm

primo's gf's mom is a doula also, and she works like CRAZY - she is so so so busy!

8:32 pm

Hi python

8:32 pm

hi, minveryork, i'm good

8:33 pm

hi scrabs

8:33 pm

U word help please? That is my only blank tile.

think of the things you wear under your pants.

spelled wrong.

8:33 pm

un5 is slang for panties

8:34 pm

Ok, got that un5

8:34 pm

Like your kitten ambush icon. That is cute and funny

8:35 pm

i like the kitten's intense look

8:36 pm

OK, time for bed. 145/118 is not too bad, huh?

8:36 pm

Scrab - drop a vowel for the other one.

8:36 pm

nor at all bad! sleep well! ciao, scrabs

8:36 pm

scrabs, just posted my adk pics!

8:37 pm

about to go switch computers and catch up on scrabble games. (hi all!)

8:37 pm

night scrabbler

clue for the first AN 5 10?

8:37 pm

hi, feather!

8:37 pm

Hello featherbee! How are you? Welcome to the grid!

8:38 pm

Did you have fun, feather?

8:38 pm

hi min, thanks for the welcome! red, pam, any other FB friends, go see, go see!

8:38 pm

we had a blast. i'm exhausted though, lol!

No one havs the first an 5, 10?

8:39 pm

first one I have is the oxen

8:39 pm

an + first three letters for "come in".

8:39 pm

'evening, folks (don't know if mine is the first an5 .. haven't listed yet ... oh, what dianne said :)

8:39 pm

we spent a huge chunk of the morning into the afternoon at the adk museum at blue mountain lake. ever been there? it's wonderful.

8:39 pm

ty dianne

8:40 pm

Hi nan - yw.

8:41 pm

going to go catch up on scrabble games that i've missed since friday, lol! *poof*

8:41 pm

hello all, back to find my last 44 words

8:41 pm

I have been to the museum several times--always great. Is the one pic from the back of the museum looking out at Blue Mtn Lake with the islands?

8:41 pm

Zoe-Anne came upstairs to the kitchen 2x and ate all of her dinner!!

8:41 pm

Hi cybernan!How are you doing? Welcome to the grid

8:42 pm

Hello periwinkle! How are you? Welcome to the puzzle

8:42 pm

hi Min

8:42 pm

oh, peri, what a relief! delighted to know it all turned out okay for you both....

8:42 pm

was thinking about you all day sunday

8:43 pm

Out ..

8:43 pm

hi all back for last 12 (i hope)

8:43 pm

yes, Trif, I was sure she was going to die behind the old oil tank

8:43 pm

In....

8:44 pm

hello all

8:44 pm

feu

8:44 pm

na

8:45 pm

Clues for the last fe 5,18 please?

8:45 pm

Hello pugmama763!How are you? Welcome to the grid

8:45 pm

Hello Bugsaw!How are you doing?Welcome to the grid

8:46 pm

I wish I were in but alas I am out ..

8:46 pm

wait, careful to whom you say that in SF, tor!

8:46 pm

Hi Min. I seem to be typing in the same ones all the time but even Lickety doesn't have the last fe5,18

8:47 pm

I'm not in SF .. I'm in SD ..

8:47 pm

Don't have it also Bugsaw as well as 101 other words.

8:48 pm

Completely different ..

8:48 pm

oh, well then, be OUT all you want, pet!

8:49 pm

I have 45 left Min so sometimes I can help others as they help me

thanks all! I got it!

8:49 pm

Not that kind of out ..

8:49 pm

Hi all. The last fe5/18 is a Scottish law word. fe + textspeak for 'not me but ***' + first 2 letters of plural of 'I am'.

8:50 pm

Thanks Bugsaw, but I gave up on the grid at 6:46 P.M

8:50 pm

Hi everyone!

8:50 pm

(i.e. 'you ***')

8:50 pm

LOL Tor....oh, you do make me smile! and hey - hear you are a fan of the skinny dipping? big fan myself.

8:50 pm

Hi Jac - nice to see you.

8:50 pm

hello lbd.

8:50 pm

Hi lbdawger! How are you doing? Welcome to the grid

8:50 pm

Too hot to sleep here. No idea what the temp in the office is as the thermometer fell down the back of the desk a few weeks ago.:(

8:51 pm

and jac, and anyone else I missed whilst I was busy NOT finding words in the grid today

8:51 pm

l

8:51 pm

Hi Trif

8:51 pm

If you make allowances for age ..

mi marigold.

8:51 pm

Hi Dianne, Dawg, Trig, Torg and everyone.

8:52 pm

Hi Jac!

8:52 pm

As one gets older, one makes more allowances ..

8:52 pm

i wish i still got an allowance.

8:53 pm

I will if you will!

8:53 pm

It's 76 deg F in the kitchen. And that's at 2.52am!

8:53 pm

Yikes, Jac ..

8:53 pm

Thanks Juacula, FInally monkeyed it!

8:53 pm

Bugsaw - y/w

8:53 pm

ugh, Jac. you need to get a/c or at least a fan

8:53 pm

Deal, Trifs ..

sp7,36 please?

8:54 pm

We do have fans but I can't sleep with a fan going. Have left Other Half, who can, to it! Air Con isn't standard in houses here in UK.

8:54 pm

Hi forwardbyfaith! How are you? Welcome to the grid

8:54 pm

s + small water feature + double vowel

8:55 pm

I'm using the fan in the office sporadically, but have to remember to move the ashtray when I do switch it on. (Remember one summer a few years ago on here when I forgot and my sweaty fa4 got covered with ash??)

oh i love ac jacs i dont know how you do it, but then again, i like fans too...

8:56 pm

red - it's not often we need a/c in UK! LOL

8:56 pm

Central heating, yes. Air conditioning - not often.

as i was typing that i was thinking the uk climate is not really similar to me.

8:57 pm

dont know how much you miss ac till its 104 and electric off

8:57 pm

much the same here in MT, Jac. but i have window a/c units in my office and bedroom. ceiling fans in the living room and other bedroom

8:57 pm

I couldn't manage here without aircon. It 92F here with humidity over 65% - great stay inside and babble weather.

8:57 pm

We do have aircon in most cars now. My son goes out for a drive when it's too hot in the house. LOL

8:57 pm

cherly, i'd be crawling into the freezer!

with you cherly.

8:58 pm

Dianne that's more like what Red's used to. ugh!

8:59 pm

The heat here in UK is humid or 'wet'. Higher temps in 'dry' heat, i.e. on Crete, for instance are bearable and don't make you all sweaty.

9:00 pm

Our weather is a lot like Florida but with more humidity - I think.

9:00 pm

We've been having showers here and not even felt like we've had them 5 mins afterwards. A friend who lives in Russia, suggested we have a shower as hot as we can stand it so that the air then feels cooler when we get out. Hmmm.

9:01 pm

that actually does work jacula, but it works as well with warm water

9:01 pm

She reckons it works. (Does it ever get that hot in Russia??)

9:01 pm

I'm still trying to figure out how weather in Crete is "dry"...

9:02 pm

we have electric back now and its only 73 outside today, but humid go figure

9:02 pm

Dawg - if a place is mainly rain-free, the heat is a dry heat. If a place is green through higher rainfall, the heat is humid and wet.

9:03 pm

The water gets hot if you wait for it ..

9:04 pm

i was trying to wrap my head around both crete and UK being islands...all that water...moisture...humidity.

9:04 pm

As with most things in Russia, you have to wait ..

thanks for the sp clue dawger - sorry I got pulled away from the computer for a few minutes

9:04 pm

Dawg - I see, but the conditions surrounding each island differ.

9:04 pm

yw, faith

9:04 pm

Torg - LOL, re Russia. Yes, I've heard.

9:04 pm

yes, i can see that now, Jac

9:05 pm

This is so stupid of me...I could Not find the last word for the lomgest time...I had to have it po7/44rd into me!!! So I have firewords! LOL!

9:05 pm

whoooo hooooo jaianniah

9:05 pm

Congrats jai.

9:05 pm

Congratulations jaianniah on your fireworks! Hooray

9:06 pm

wtg jai

9:06 pm

brb

9:06 pm

I had to round up many of the past tense words towards the end. Don't know why they weren't obvious progressions, but they weren't.

9:06 pm

TY very much..this is the first puzzle I have finished in a while because I have been in and out of the hospital with a flash-eating bug in my right leg...ICK!

9:07 pm

oh no

9:07 pm

Yes, Jac, I had to check and re-check each word to make sure...

9:07 pm

flesh-eating bug. Oh, poor you! I thought it was only our filthy UK hospitals that gave you that.

9:07 pm

finally broke 100 -- may be listing soon!

9:07 pm

BRB.

9:08 pm

clue please for last fe 5

9:08 pm

Nope. Some people think it is pollution from Katrina, but I do not know about that one...

9:09 pm

last fe5 rhymes with less and less

9:09 pm

Sorry, homonym!

9:10 pm

Did you get it, Cherly?

9:10 pm

ac 8, please?

9:10 pm

no thinking

9:11 pm

"The man makes his as* up the mountain..."

9:11 pm

Now throw in an extra syllable to that clue

9:11 pm

ass?

9:11 pm

nan - top card plus aroma

9:11 pm

high card + odor

9:12 pm

Hello bethn! How are you doing? Welcome to the grid!

9:12 pm

beth - where in NJ?

9:13 pm

Pass the fish. That was a really bad clue.

9:13 pm

ty beth and dianne

9:13 pm

I'm back. Had brought kitchen thermometer into the office a while back. It's 78 deg F in here at 3.13am.

9:13 pm

Just put fan on again.

9:13 pm

very last TE6/21 clue please?

9:13 pm

hi Minveryork< Hanging in having a rough spring. Northern new jersey, in Rockaway near Morristown

9:14 pm

i moved to alberta from sussex county, beth (but am originally from nyc)

9:14 pm

I had a rough spring too with really bad allergies beth

9:14 pm

anagran foot digit+ cooking pot

9:14 pm

I use to live in West Orange

9:14 pm

Hello welki! How are you doing? Welcome to the grid!

9:14 pm

pug - te + vowel + something you cook in (not a pot but a ***).

9:14 pm

ty vm jaiann

9:14 pm

My daughter went to grad school at Seton Hall

9:14 pm

YW!

9:14 pm

& jac

9:15 pm

hi min (been here for a while, must not have 'seen' me before :)

9:15 pm

En7/32 please? last word....

9:15 pm

okay, this is really hateful, but these kids are UP MY A** today, and I am getting seriously wooly here.....

9:15 pm

Me, too. Min.

9:15 pm

I haven't been back to New Jersey in years.

biii

9:15 pm

how old, trif?

9:16 pm

and someone remind me that I said that, when I am all weepy because they have been in ireland for two weeks and I am lonely....arrrrrgh

9:16 pm

pug - en7 - last page after the end of a book? The last sound in a musical?

9:16 pm

en7 is not beginning + short message

9:16 pm

16, 13, and 10 welki.

9:16 pm

like the little words at the bottom of the page that you hate to read... en7

9:16 pm

ohhh ... my condolences

opps Boo. Ok Trifs get the kids on yard duty

9:16 pm

It has been a really wet and cool spring. wettest june ever

9:17 pm

herin, it's 10 at night....little late for yard work, unless I send them out for fireflies...which I might, if they don't SHUT IT

9:17 pm

my 3 girls were 3 years apart, too ... certainly not paradise sometimes

9:17 pm

ty vm guys & fishy fireworks

9:17 pm

It has been unbearbly hot and dry here...I'd be glad to trade!

9:17 pm

indeed, welki. two cats in a bag, more like!

9:17 pm

LOL, Trif!

9:17 pm

whoooo hooooo PUGMAMA!!!

9:17 pm

Hooray, Pug!

9:17 pm

woot Pug!

9:18 pm

you're being diplomatic, trif ... it's a snakepit

9:18 pm

Well done, pug.

Right tell them to shut it or they will be doing yard work till the cows come home

9:18 pm

geesh, don't remind me welki! was working in the garden today and saw a BIG ol snake...ugh.

9:19 pm

I got bit by a copperhead two springs ago

Trifs I would be worried about said snake if this was australia

9:19 pm

seriously, jai!!! how are you still here? (and by the way, I am glad you are okay!!)

9:19 pm

right now hot and dry is looking good. I think we have had rain every day for the last month except for maybe 3 or 4 days

9:19 pm

OMG!! Jai!!

snake is delicious.. over a fire..mmmm

9:20 pm

thank you all & happy babbling! off to keel over now,Poof!

9:20 pm

taipans, funnel web spiders - Oz has all manner of deadly creatures. I'd be scared to go out in my garden!

9:20 pm

night night, Pug

yep

9:20 pm

Seriously! I dropped my car keys down my front steps, reached down to get them, and got nasiled right on the arm. You should see the chunkhe took out of my arm.

9:20 pm

*plants soft pillows for Pug to keel over onto, lest she injure herself.*

9:20 pm

eww, I did get a spider bite last summer that had me in the hosp for 2 days...fun times

9:21 pm

----> remind me not to drop my keys at jai's all

when my brother was a kid.. spiders crwled in his bed and bit him all over his legs

9:21 pm

Okay, Trif. LOL

9:21 pm

need to don hazmat gear to visit jai

9:21 pm

I learned a hard leson!

Jai that is frightening.

9:21 pm

i'm getting the creepy crawlies from this conversation

Great Sugy I am not getting into bed again

9:22 pm

well, goodness, jai, if you drop something....

9:22 pm

Yes, it was scary, but I madee it thru w/o antivenom, thank you, God. You can only have that once in your life.

9:22 pm

help with the en 7/32 please

9:23 pm

the anti venom? why? is it because another bite puts you over the top or something?

9:23 pm

stumped on the en biggies

9:23 pm

You can only have anitvenom once in your life?

9:23 pm

not beginning + short message, Kaz

9:23 pm

the last part+ short letter

9:23 pm

ty jai

9:23 pm

ty lbd..and jai

9:23 pm

Kaz - last sound of a song or musical? Last bit after the end of a book or essay?

9:24 pm

That's what they told me, Jac. It really scared and scarred me!

9:24 pm

were you able to eradicate the snake?

9:24 pm

yw

9:24 pm

jai - I didn't know that!

9:24 pm

e + pro****** your words clearly

9:25 pm

S/he took off...I was very lucky- I called the National Poison Control Hotline and they orchstrated the whole "rescue".

9:25 pm

Maybe, after having the antivenom, your body makes its own antibodies? I assume they meant that particular antivenom?

9:25 pm

Jai, I would be so freaked by that fact that I would be moving to a new place fast

9:25 pm

I am not sure.

9:25 pm

ty dawger

9:25 pm

ugh - hate knowing it is still out there. ugh ugh ugh

9:26 pm

i'm amazed you were able to stay calm and collected to call the poison control hotline.

9:26 pm

yw, nan

9:26 pm

Venom varies, so - if you get bitten by a snake and then stung by, say. a box jelly fish, surely you'd need a different one?

9:26 pm

It happened so fast thaT i THOUGHT i HAD BEEN SHOT BY SOMEONE...BUT THERE WAS NO SOUND

9:26 pm

Sorry about the caps

Live in Australia and even the plants have it in for you

9:27 pm

Mind you, if you managed both in a lifetime, you were either Steve Irwin or very unlucky. Actually, thinking how he died - he was both.

9:27 pm

the only sound you'd hear from me would be screaming then me hitting ground in a faint.

9:27 pm

I'm just going tostay inside (with my aircon).

9:27 pm

Yes, I have Venus Fly Traps in my forest

9:27 pm

good thinking, dianne

No spikey plants that bite

9:28 pm

sp 7/36 help pretty please!!

9:28 pm

2 to go

9:28 pm

Herin - even those cuddly looking koalas and cute-looking 'kanagas' aren't, are they?!

9:28 pm

s+ small water feature + double vowel

hello everyone :)

9:29 pm

hi mrp

9:29 pm

(((MRP)))

9:29 pm

hi mrp

9:29 pm

Speaking of baby roos, what happened with the one MrP's friend had in the house?

9:29 pm

Hi mrp - how's everything?

9:29 pm

vg clue ty ..that got me the 8 and fireworks :)

9:29 pm

Hi, MrP. What a timely entrance! You can answer my question now.

9:29 pm

yay Kaz

Mr Pres. Koalas bite and scratch and pee on you and Kangaroos can do serious damage with back legs.

9:30 pm

lbd do you have such a good clue for the sc 7 word?

9:30 pm

Hi, Mr. P. I just was telling everyone about my snakebite and my flesh-eating bacteria....Now no one will come to my house ever :(((

9:30 pm

Well done Kazozz.

Sorry I was eating bread

holy heck! the animals are biting??

Jai did yo get the bacteria after the bite?

9:30 pm

sc7 is pt of the one above it, Bugs

Mr Pres I am also winding them up

9:30 pm

sc+not begun

9:30 pm

or, sc + pt of not beginning

9:31 pm

hi mrp -- missed your entrance

9:31 pm

No- two years between..I just got my first skin graft about three weeks ago for my leg.

Mr Pres all sorted here. What can we do.

infern, you aren't! Kangaroos are killers!

9:31 pm

whooooo hhooooooo KAZ!!!

9:31 pm

It sure is. I must have typed it too fast for it to register. Thanks

ouch jai

Drop bears :D

koalas are disease ridden and will kill you too!

go out in the backyard in australia and prepare to die!

9:32 pm

You should see my med bills...what a house I could have bought!

lol Mr Pres

Oh shit! The drop bears are the worse!!

9:32 pm

uhm, not very good tourist adverts, Mrp and Herin

9:32 pm

MrP - I was asking about that baby 'roo' your friends were raising in their house... what happened in the end?

grrr argh grrrr drop bear

dawg, you don't want to come here... it is aweful!!

9:32 pm

Jai, just think of the houses you bought for the docs.

they all died jac :(

LB its Aussie humour. OH MG Mr Pres that is too sad

9:33 pm

More like boats for their NEW houses on stilts after Katrina....

9:33 pm

any clue please for ne 5 12, please

9:33 pm

but then how will i get to visit you Mrp?

9:33 pm

Dawg - I think Herin and MrP are lacing their posts with irony, to put it politely. LOL

who has a spider bite that is eating them away???!

9:33 pm

ne+ not bottom

9:33 pm

ne+ not bottom

9:34 pm

not old, drop the "w", then add opp. of bottom

9:34 pm

MrP - oh dear! Your friends all died? What did the baby roo do to them??

What is the most favourite thing i do with white tail spiders

9:34 pm

snap, beth

9:34 pm

ty

9:34 pm

*Note irony key.*

9:34 pm

fireworks

white tails are terrible!!!

9:34 pm

Jac, I'm on to them.

9:34 pm

whoooo hoooooo CHERLY!!

I hit them with flyspray and a lighter

9:35 pm

ne 5?

9:35 pm

Mr. P, I was bit by a copperhead two years ago. This year, I have developed a flesh-eating bacteria in my right leg.

9:35 pm

just clued, nan

9:35 pm

Well done cherly.

9:35 pm

ah, i see that a drop bear is like a snipe in the US :-)

a copperhead?? !! found one of those in the bath... cut it's head off with a shovel

9:35 pm

wish I could develop a flesh-eating bacteria in my ass

Oh Jai not good. You done the hypo chamber thingy?

was the bacteria caused by a spider jai??

9:36 pm

ty

9:36 pm

Yup. omplete with fangs.

9:36 pm

MrP - didn't that damage the bath?

9:36 pm

Hi Unea!!

LOL trif!!

Jac, I so don't care!!

9:36 pm

hey, dawg!

9:36 pm

No, no spider bite. They think the bursa sac behind my knee got infected somehow.

hi Une!! big night tonight with the tennis!!!

9:36 pm

phone call, snap back at you Ibd :)

9:37 pm

hey, mrp -- for me it's very early in the morn :-)

9:37 pm

Well, I cannot sit any longer. Great grid! Thanks, Mr. P.!

9:37 pm

how in the world do you get an infection in your bursa?

Mr Pres that is a no no. OH and got to love the fact that funnel web spiders live in water.

9:37 pm

night night, Jai

9:38 pm

MrP - if you so don't care that you can afford a new bathroom suite at the drop of a hat, please will you buy us one? Ours is 27 years old and way past it's prime. Also, it's avocado coloured.

9:38 pm

jac, i still have an avocado stove :-)

at the bottom of the pool infern!! kids have to tiptoe through the water looking for funnelwebs before they are allowed to swim

9:38 pm

Is this Babble's first begging letter? LOL!

9:38 pm

well going to take a shower and let ds on computer,ty all and goodnight

Jac you still stuck with the Avocado colour? I thought you fixed that? OH UNe that was you with the stove

avocado colour?? is that like 'kermit the frog' colour??

9:38 pm

It could have come from any of the bacteria that just live naturally on our skin. Other than that, I do not know. It happened so very fast!

9:39 pm

Hi Une - my stove is 'hunter green'.

9:39 pm

night, cherly

9:39 pm

stove still works :-)

Mr Pres we had that problem when we lived in Sydney.

9:39 pm

Bye*poof*

9:39 pm

MrP - not quite so bright green as that.

Loves Jai

9:39 pm

mine's from 1975 :-)

sydney is worst for funnel webs

I can splash out on a new bath!! LOL

I lived in the blue mountains

9:41 pm

just googled funnel web spider...OMG!!! they look like something from some horror movie!

9:41 pm

me too, dawg!!! ohmygod

dawg, you gotta google the trapdoor spider too! I got bit by one of them not long ago!

9:42 pm

Herin - no, other more important things overtook the need for a new bathroom suite. However, I found a crack in the tob of the toilet rim a few weeks ago. Accusations about which fat ar** cracked it flew around the house. In the end, even though my bum is probably the widest, science proved that a more narrow bottom + more weight would have caused the crack. A wider bum distributes the wight more evenly. LOL. Culprit? Other Half!

9:42 pm

says some have fangs that can penetrate fingernails! ack!!

Mr Pres I had a dream last night that I won that $100 000 mill and I bought you a house and sent the kids were they wanted and every thing. And then I visited all the various babblers and did random acts of kindness. THen i worried what would I do about the kitties

oh infern! that is beautiful!!

It was really odd. I think the fact that they said if you lived on the interest alone it would be about 3mil a year

9:44 pm

Une - I'd hang on to your 1970s appliances for as long as you can! New appliances have guarantee of 5 years, but an 'expected life' of 3 years. How stupid is that? Money-making, of course, not built to last. But, with today's climate of recycle/save etc?

girls, I am in and out of here today... can't get off the bloody toilet, hope I don't crack it!

9:44 pm

the flu, mrp?

awww Mr P

9:45 pm

laptop to the loo, mrp

9:45 pm

jac, i know -- that's what the guy said who replaced my old avocado washer several years ago -- twas made of steel

some stomach bug! ... can't shake it at all

9:45 pm

Well, if you do Michelle, you can always buy another one, aftr you've bought one for us. :-D

9:45 pm

break out the imodium!

Jac I have a 1970's Sunbeam burnt orange fry pan

9:46 pm

now i'm afraid to go to sleep tonite and dream of snakes and spiders!!!

no problems jac!

I think I will cybernan... had enough of this! bbs

Une I cat hold your hand its OK

9:46 pm

burnt orange and brown -- sooooo '70s!

9:46 pm

tx herin :-)

9:47 pm

Une - you're obviously a 'green' girl and you'd love my house and most of the stuff I like.

I love the burnt orange fry pan its a casserole thingie to.

9:47 pm

Herin - burnt orange is another of my fave colours, as it chocolate brown and 'burnt umber'.

9:47 pm

i'm sure, jac! Love greens and dark reds

9:48 pm

trapdoor spider, apparently they also exist in California. related to the tarantula...looks more like chtlhulu

9:48 pm

burnt umber . . . a flash from the past!

9:48 pm

sa 6/21?

I love love love love this fry pan.

9:48 pm

i have my original avocado green blender. still works too.

Tarantula the red kneed variety?

9:48 pm

cool, dawg!

9:48 pm

there was burnt sienna, too ... another crayola favorite :) ... and periwinkle blue and magenta!

9:49 pm

The artist in you, Une? I'm going to rediscoveer my lost artist soon, I hope. Whether or not I get paid again when I do, I don't know.

9:49 pm

sa + anagram of one who writes rhyming verse

9:49 pm

burnt sienna was my fave crayon color!

9:49 pm

ty dawger

OH my we had a kitchen that was all burnt orange in one of our rental houses complete with wood panneling. That house gave me the creeps

9:50 pm

Une - do you still paint or draw? My fave medium was indian ink and charcoal.

9:50 pm

supper time!

9:50 pm

not an artist but appreciate art, jac -- worked closely with artists re covers and illustrations when I worked in book publishing

9:51 pm

I made a bob or two as a schoolgirl doing drawings of pop and rock stars, MJ included, God rest his soul.

9:51 pm

how cool, jac!

9:51 pm

blech, i'm done with this grid .. giving me a headache. g'night good babblers (and those who don't stay between the lines :)

9:51 pm

did you title it "Jacko?"

9:51 pm

The went on to illustrate books/covers etc for small presses.

9:51 pm

nite, welki :-)

9:52 pm

night, welki

9:52 pm

Night Welki.

9:53 pm

ruru - no. It was a pic when he was about 11.

9:53 pm

He wasn't 'Jacko' then.

9:53 pm

when he still looked like himself . . .

9:53 pm

jacklito?

9:53 pm

bad, ruru

9:54 pm

time to head for the pillows. ruru's jokes are starting to make sense! LOL see you all tomorrow

9:54 pm

lol...

9:54 pm

nite, dawg!

9:54 pm

gimmee a break lb

9:55 pm

Une - yes. Mind you, I thought he looked nice after the first nose job. After that, it all went down hill. He obviously had body dysmorphic disorder, but no one seemed to stop him. Lots of other issues, too, from his father's treatment of him.

9:55 pm

kiss kiss, ruru

9:55 pm

*poof*

9:55 pm

indeed, jac

9:55 pm

I think he wanted to look like Diana Ross

9:55 pm

I've no time for those who knock MJ without really lookinhg at what made him the person he became, and that's only the person we see through the media, not the one his friends and family knew.

9:57 pm

oh help me! clue for the po 7/8 combo please????

9:57 pm

Lots of kids have had abusive parents jac.. and haven't become freaks... I do feel sorry for him though.. I think it comes with mega-star fame... it is a sad life he led

9:57 pm

What I've always said, as a 'white caucasian' is that if MJ was my child, and I was black, I'd be worried that he seemed to want to eradicate all trace of his ancestry AND his physical likeness to his parents.

9:58 pm

Hi rururocks!I believe that Janet Jackson looked like Diana Ross at the BET awards. Did you see the show?

9:58 pm

It was a plastic surgery addiction and other issues?

9:59 pm

no.. I missed it Min.. I meant to watch it

9:59 pm

Trif - po7 and 8 refer to the power of something. If you 'can't get it up', you are impo7.

9:59 pm

I've always thought that La Toyah and Michael were one and the same. Seems now, they're not.

10:00 pm

whoa

10:00 pm

thank you jac....27 to go, and I am VERY stupid at this point

10:00 pm

I've never seen both in one place at the same time.

10:00 pm

I didn't see it either but I saw clips of her on AH & ET

10:01 pm

evening, yall

10:01 pm

She is as talented as Michael in many ways

10:01 pm

howdy, seain!

10:01 pm

Hi seain...

10:01 pm

HI seain.

10:02 pm

hi, une, ruru, jacula, trifioso :) long time

10:02 pm

we were out of town for about a week

10:02 pm

ruru - to be honest, I've never seen her, or rather watched her.

10:02 pm

Too bad your initials were INseain

10:02 pm

PB for me, I just typed an se4 word.

10:02 pm

weren't

10:03 pm

BSVG are my initials

10:03 pm

I saw her once on the MTV awards show and she brought down the house.. wow

Hi Scean

10:03 pm

dcs - Big Sod, Very Gross? LOL

10:03 pm

HIYA herin

10:03 pm

is that Tom Waits?

10:03 pm

Blessed Soul, Very Good?

10:04 pm

Big Scary Violent Gonads?

10:04 pm

whoa

me?

10:04 pm

LOL

10:04 pm

yes

10:04 pm

So, were MJ and LaTJ both super-talented or are they one?

Ru Hi and that is Nick Cave

10:04 pm

dollars to donuts, none of yall will ever guess the V - it's an Appalachian name

10:04 pm

LaToya, not JANET???

10:05 pm

hi, herin!

10:05 pm

oh.. don't know him

10:05 pm

La T has no talent at all

10:05 pm

Well, I have a southern friend named Marthavan, so don't count me out!!!

10:05 pm

fair enough, trifioso :)

10:05 pm

Hmm - just pomdering the prospect of 'violent gonads'. Wondering when and where they attack.LOL

10:06 pm

That would be a great name for a punk band.. the Violent Gonads

Ru Ausie Singer

10:06 pm

oh

10:07 pm

what a cuet lop, jac!

10:07 pm

Testicular Rock!

10:07 pm

I read a great article where all the bands and songs were named after famous movie lines. It was so funny!

10:07 pm

If Michael Jackson had not been so successful, Janet Jackson could have been the icon Michael was with a better life.I always liked Janet Jackson more anyway

10:08 pm

ask car.eeyore about the graffitti my mom endured at her summer cottage....gawd help us all

10:08 pm

I kind of did too minver...but man he was exciting to watch. I did like his voice too I must say

10:08 pm

He was no Stevie Wonder...but man the whole package

10:09 pm

I am more of a prince girl, myself....

10:09 pm

I like prince a lot.

Hi Mini

10:09 pm

or the ampersand formerly known as prince

10:10 pm

Virgin? Virgil?

10:10 pm

my money is on Vernon

10:10 pm

Velveeta

10:10 pm

Vitae

10:10 pm

lol tri

10:10 pm

Hello herinfernallady! How are you? Been here off&on

10:10 pm

hadn't known DC to be cheesy

10:11 pm

Beloved and me are due to watch Thriller on July 10th, the musical about MJ's life. Not starring him, fortunately, as it turns out.

10:11 pm

no to all 4 guesses so far , though Trifioso comes closest thus far

10:11 pm

velvet

10:11 pm

velveteen?

trying to finish grid

10:11 pm

velver

10:12 pm

veliver

10:12 pm

cheesy? i can hold my own sometimes.

10:12 pm

velman

10:12 pm

not yet. it's a monosyllable with a silent letter - though the silent letter is pronounced when the name is given to a female

10:12 pm

Vie

10:13 pm

Von

10:13 pm

Ex-hubs wife is now thinking she jinxed MJ. Back in the 80s, 2 weeks before she was due to see him in concert for the first time, her husband committed suicide and so she didn't get to the concert. Recently, now married to my ex, she bought up about 10 tickets for the MJ comeback concert, intended to sell all but 4 on e bay... 2 weeks before the concert, where she'd finally have got to see him live, he died.

10:13 pm

Vonne

10:13 pm

nope

10:13 pm

vyon

Jac people like her piss me off.

10:14 pm

vaughn

10:14 pm

nope

10:14 pm

verne

10:14 pm

ugh, jac, I would have gone anyway....feh on suicidal husbands

10:15 pm

great-grandma lost a pair of twins, one of which was named Vern, but no.

10:15 pm

oh..just a suicidal husband... who cares?

*trifs doesn't like wasteband

10:15 pm

we had a nice dinner with my grandparents and an aunt on Friday once we were done at the Cleveland Clinic.

10:16 pm

have to go cook dinner..later taters

10:16 pm

and Tom met Uncle Phil, and agrees that the Savant is rather a waste of carbon.

10:16 pm

hasta, ruru, njoy

Later Rur

10:16 pm

okay..but you have to tell me what the v stands for?

10:16 pm

lol waste of carbon....I also enjoy "oxygen thief"

10:17 pm

whisper it

10:17 pm

vladimir?

I loves you trifs

10:17 pm

no, name comes from the anglo-dutch-native american side of the family :)

10:17 pm

back at ya, herin

10:17 pm

vonto?

10:18 pm

lol

10:18 pm

vona, vonna

V - Vernan?

10:18 pm

"Runs with paint can and swing?"

10:18 pm

My ex PIL is called Vernon.

10:19 pm

when he has sex is he Mount Vernon?

10:19 pm

that's the closest I can come to an anglo-dutch-indian hybrid

10:19 pm

lol

10:19 pm

uh-uh :)

10:20 pm

Vincent?

SOme girls name ?

10:20 pm

ruru - he's in his late 70s, as is my ex MIL, and sex, apparently, is a dim and distant memory.:(

10:21 pm

oh..

10:21 pm

Herin - maybe it's Vivienne or Veronica?

10:21 pm

lots of people have sex in their 70;s

10:21 pm

name is monosyllable, and is given to boys and to girls - last letter is pronounced when a girl's name, but not when a boy's name. Everyone i've met with the name comes from West Virginia or SE Ohio or Western PA

That I don't need to think about Ru thank you

10:21 pm

varee?

10:22 pm

vair?

10:22 pm

ROFL

10:22 pm

vay?

10:22 pm

vera?

10:22 pm

*Makes note to self to ask son's g/f about this mysterious anglo/dutch name.

10:22 pm

LOL trifiosos

10:22 pm

i know not its origin, jac, just saying that i know the heritage of that side of family. OTOH, appalachia is full of Scots and Irish

10:23 pm

Van?

10:23 pm

Vaz?

10:23 pm

Velve

10:23 pm

Volvo?

10:23 pm

Vehr

10:24 pm

Veleh

10:24 pm

Vehr

10:24 pm

vy don't you just say already?

10:24 pm

Velm

10:24 pm

You're going to have to tell us, seain!

10:24 pm

fine. though this is fun :)

10:24 pm

verle

10:24 pm

Vihelm

10:24 pm

really?

10:24 pm

like Verle Griffin?

10:24 pm

vraiment

10:24 pm

lol

10:25 pm

Is it verle, or are yu just adding to the list for fun, ou sod?

10:25 pm

OOps, lost a keystroke or two there.

10:25 pm

no, really stands for Verle - rhymes with girl

10:25 pm

okay, I am giving up on this grid and going to bedfordshire. someone else can have the fun of finding my last 17...nite all!

10:26 pm

g'night trifioso

10:26 pm

Not qite like author La Vyrle Spencer, then?

10:26 pm

apparently rather similar, jac :)

10:28 pm

LOL dcs.

10:29 pm

I was just sniffing my arm. I'm sure you all wanted to know that! I was remembering what my daughter told me earlier today about the strange smell when she came out of a cool shower and then sweated again. 'The smell of lightly cooked porK?' I asked. 'Yes,' she said. Told you we were all cooking here!

10:30 pm

hi again

10:31 pm

Actually, it's lightly cooked pork with undertones of 'deodorant has given up the ghost'.

10:31 pm

Hi cybernan.

10:32 pm

hello, nan

10:34 pm

last te 6, please?

10:34 pm

it ends in a pot, nan

10:34 pm

te + vowel + cooking pot.

ewww Jac

10:34 pm

ty jacula

10:35 pm

and seain

10:35 pm

Herin - you know that smell! Cue Lyn Skyn's song 'What's That Smell?' maybe?

ewww. I hate cooking pork

can anyone help with ac8/9 pls...

High point card, plus smell.

10:36 pm

Our nearest genetic neighbour is the pig, so it's not surprising that we smell like pork cooking and, apparently, taste like pork when cooked.

SOrry lurking, Apparently I worked out too hard and now cant sleep because legs hurt.

awww Red

thanks red, shoulda found it...

10:37 pm

Stop! Children, what's that smell? Everybody look to see what the hell.

10:37 pm

ac8 = High card + perfume. ac 9 is the plural.

thanks Jacula!

10:38 pm

*!* ta da *!* - thanks for the help :)

10:38 pm

congrats, nan

10:39 pm

However, I asked a question around the dinner table, bbq table, the other night that seemed to surprise my family. What I wanted to know is why meat from different mammals and birds tastes different even if they eat the same diet...

10:39 pm

The meat looks and smells different, also.

10:39 pm

pablo - y/w.

10:40 pm

differing biochemical process in digestion, different flora in the digestive tract per species, different activities and degrees of activity to body type, differing fibre lengths in muscles, and an number of other things

See Ask DC the Bio Nerd

10:41 pm

Ah, got that, I think, DCS.

ANd in English. Thingies in the critters stomach does diffenerent thingies to the food taste process :D

10:42 pm

LOL - Herin.

10:42 pm

oh! the big news from the time away is that Tom will be having a myectomy in August or early September to treat his Hyotrophic Cardio Myopathy.

This sounds like a good thing DC

10:43 pm

That sounded like one of my explanations when I've got tired of giving the 'real' one.

10:43 pm

and as an aside, the SEs are not the easiest today.

I didn't say I spoke good enlish

10:44 pm

but u can haz cheezburger anyway, herin LOL

yah cheezeburger

Wowee DC.

Hope it works well..

10:45 pm

hi red :)

10:45 pm

Hope it works, dcs.

I'm trying to go to sleep, but...

10:45 pm

we have confidence it will. He researched and chose Cleveland Clinic due to the number of procedures they do - 150 last year alone.

10:46 pm

sleep be fleeting sometimes

10:46 pm

Herin, you're an Aussie - so how could you speaka da good Eeenglish?

Yep

10:46 pm

i see jacula is chanelling her inner Italian

10:47 pm

Most of us in UK don't speeka da good EEnglish. The Queen for the first - though her vowels are not so mangled as they once were.

I can speak proper English I just get lazy

10:48 pm

She would at least say 'My husband and I' now, rather than 'May Hussband end eye'.

10:49 pm

i can speak a clear American English or Castillian Castillian when i try. Mostly i don't bother.

10:49 pm

Though she will persist in pronouncing the word 'off' as 'orf'.

10:49 pm

how is I different vowel from eye? Here it's Eye St instead of I St.

10:51 pm

I! as in 'eye'. I got it wrong, should have said 'ay'.

10:52 pm

May hussband and ay.

well, I found 10 more words and now I will try again, post Motrin to sleep....

10:52 pm

ah, gotcha

10:52 pm

may you sleep well, red

10:53 pm

Other Half's just got up for work Came into the office to find a cigaratte and said 'Jesus!' as he came in. Hopefully, he was commenting on the heat and not on my appearance.

10:54 pm

:)

Maybe he thinks you are Jesus?

10:55 pm

his own personal jesus

Don't go all Depech Mode on me

10:58 pm

I bravely resisted going any further on that particular thread.

good

10:58 pm

hint for se6.21, pls?

10:59 pm

type of apple juice DC

DRRRRRRR

11:00 pm

Hi HERIN!!!

11:00 pm

it is also an indian tribe DC

hi. DC I manged to extract the songs of the Sims games (proud nerdie moment)

11:01 pm

Other Half just asked 'what's wrong?' I told him I'dd wait until our hol next week when we were more relaxed to tell him. He insisted he wanted to know know, when he's just woken up at 5am for work. So, I've told him.

11:01 pm

He really shouldn't have asked, ex-soldier that he is!

awww Jac. Is someone in a grump

11:02 pm

well done, herin

11:02 pm

* going back to read what Jac is talking about

11:02 pm

apple juice or indan tribe...

Got to love Sims wiki

11:03 pm

ty, dr!

You reminded me on the Depech Mode song

11:06 pm

se5.12, pls?

11:08 pm

yvw ruru

11:08 pm

a car with 4 doors DC

11:09 pm

or se+ my brother

11:09 pm

oy. ty again, dr

11:09 pm

saune

11:09 pm

LOL- YVW again!

11:09 pm

sauna

11:09 pm

oops

11:09 pm

brb- bedtime for jakester

11:10 pm

*wanders to PB with chocolate rugalach*

can't be fked doing this grid

11:12 pm

this one has been pretty nice so far

I think i broke my care factor

11:14 pm

:)

I don;t normally do this but I can'[t be bothered so I am going to go . Take care

sorry

11:18 pm

until later, herin

11:25 pm

I'm back but BBS, need loo.

11:28 pm

well, with 83 left something tells me it's a waste of time to try and finish ;)

11:29 pm

It started out nicely...

11:29 pm

you can get through it, jilli

11:29 pm

can't be bothered, dc -- like herin

11:30 pm

:) been a lot of that today

11:30 pm

just saw theme. had i seen earlier, i'd've posted Benita Fitzgerald, an Olympic gold medalist in track and field.

11:31 pm

I have too much else to do than to worry about these biggies and I'm not a speedster like d*** or anike or freep etc

11:31 pm

few of us are, but point taken :)

11:33 pm

next theme is "Bunny Day for Scrabbler, Counting Down To New Job" (chosen by FMitch and many others) but July 1 is also Canada Day

11:33 pm

so now I'll post my next icon...brb

11:34 pm

yay for Canadian bunnies!

11:37 pm

Jilli - I loved that last e mail you sent me.

11:38 pm

(On the subject of bing gruntled etc.)

11:38 pm

sp, I tried to access www.asseenontv.com, but the bloomin' computer sent it after ass ... and the message came back that I couldn't access porn (!!!) Do you think my parents came back from the dad and put a clamp on my laptop?

11:38 pm

*being

11:38 pm

thought you might like that, jac!

11:38 pm

I did, Jilli.

11:39 pm

ac 8 plz?

11:39 pm

High card in pack + perfume, mkg. as9 is the plural.

11:39 pm

high card + smell, mkg

11:40 pm

ty got it.

11:40 pm

Dang -- posted new icon, refreshed twice, not showing up

11:40 pm

going to shut down and try again...

11:40 pm

ad ?

11:41 pm

OK, there it is...

11:42 pm

http://tinyurl.com/lg4dow

11:43 pm

Link is carrying on from an earlier discussion about 'what's that smell?'

11:44 pm

jac, I'm afraid I don't share your taste in "music"

11:44 pm

ad6 is a no4 that acts as an adjective.

11:44 pm

Jilli - I know!.x

11:45 pm

dont recall the english stuff like that jac. sorry. adverb not in grid.

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or in perfume (patchouli makes me want to leave the room)

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oops just got it . never heard of it........funny.

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I know that, too, Jilli.x

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need first an 5 plz.

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mkg - now learn and remember, LOL.

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the little buffalo is here again, mkg

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an + canvas camping shelter without its first letter.

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but that's an4

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yup. how is it i dont ever recall learning that word?

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ty got it.

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en7, pls?

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ar 6 plz?

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en + bit of a pound (and pl etc)

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sorry, en7.32 pls

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haven't got that one, dc :(

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Hey, mkg, when I was suffering from lack of sleep/too much booze at all times of the day/ and havingleft school for too long, I once looked blankly at another writer at a writing conference who had starting talking to me about definite articles. I had no idea what she was on about at the time.

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ar6 -- ...over and under and down we go"

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jac i have heard of definite articles. just never heard of the ad word.

11:51 pm

Unless you've been to a writing conference, you might not know that they are more killing to the brain than music festivals with mud and tents.

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jac, your bunny with the woffley nose is appropriate for the next theme :)

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Is it,jilli? I'll keep it then.

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check mine for the theme, jac

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Writers' conferences are very noisy affairs because most writers write because they love communicating and words.

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They also love drinking, dancing, talking, staying up late, getting up early... the range is huge.

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hello

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Sounds like fun, jac

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k, i'm off to bed, 35 short of finishing

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Nite dc

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night dc, better luck next time

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i.e., smaller grid

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happy babbling, yall! ty, jilli, and hi/bye, mlf :)

11:56 pm

clue for AC 8 please

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And you can sometimes be misunderstood byy being taken at your word by other writers... I once could not understand why one woman in most of the classes I had chosen to join made a point of complaining loudly if I was 2 minutes late for a class (either as a pupil or a teacher). Until someone told me she was a 'dyke' (lesbian), fancied me like hell and thought I'd snubbed her.

11:57 pm

ac8 -- high card + odour

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Saywhaaat? LOL

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thanks jill

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yw -- and the pl is the 9

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hello all been hiding and trying to finish 3 left clue for the se 6/27 please and thank you

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i knew that:)

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hi west -- sorry, can't help (83 left here)

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like 2nd but diff 2nd vowel

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