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12:00 am

FLIP !

12:00 am

flip

12:00 am

butterflies, dc

12:00 am

flip

12:00 am

hello

12:01 am

hi mlf

12:01 am

so i saw in ur profile, jilli, ty. and flop

12:01 am

so i saw in ur profile, jilli, ty. and flop DA7

12:01 am

DI7 rather :">

12:02 am

I wondered, dc!

12:02 am

Okay dc then i will call it...DA 7

12:02 am

Di 6/7

12:02 am

oh, I'm just going to try for nbt and never mind the biggies I never see at first

12:03 am

am 6

12:03 am

hello everyone. a little bigger is a little better

12:03 am

jill Di 6/7 is easy

12:03 am

co 6

12:04 am

maybe for you, mlf

12:04 am

co6 X 3

12:04 am

ha 6/7

12:04 am

i just got it too vash

12:04 am

got the da7

12:04 am

sorry jill:(

Clues are up

12:05 am

Thanks Lickety!

12:05 am

huh, found the DA7 now, too

12:05 am

thank you

12:05 am

ty, lickety

12:05 am

ty lickety

12:05 am

ty lickety

12:06 am

Thank you, Lickety!!

12:06 am

got the da7- ty

12:12 am

evening

12:13 am

hi jes

12:16 am

i'm wiped. g'night and happy babbling, yall!

12:17 am

g'night dc

12:17 am

night dc :)

12:17 am

g'night, dc

12:17 am

{poof}

12:17 am

bye dc sleep well

12:19 am

did anyone find the 8 yet?

12:19 am

not me

12:19 am

hello everyone :)

12:19 am

didn't even realize there was an 8

12:19 am

hi nan

12:20 am

i looked at stats on lickety adn scrolled down the list

12:20 am

hi nan

12:20 am

hi nan :)

12:20 am

i tried Morewords and i cant find it

12:20 am

I'm just not being very observant

12:20 am

the 8 letter word that is

12:20 am

what does it begin with ML?

12:21 am

RA

12:22 am

thanks

12:22 am

ra 8/40

12:22 am

ty ml

12:22 am

yw vash did you find it?

12:23 am

it sounds like a dried fruit

12:23 am

I found it!

12:23 am

got it, thanks

12:24 am

is it a compound?

12:24 am

no, sorta French sounding

12:24 am

gj all you finders

12:24 am

no

12:25 am

It's a word that often follows the word "catalogue" in exhibitions

12:25 am

yay me..found it too ty rbud

12:26 am

good evening, all. Late flip...so apologies if this was called (didn't see it): RO7

12:26 am

one of dart's faves is here

12:26 am

hi freep

12:27 am

I saw that good ol' dartie

12:27 am

i think i'm off to bed. g'night ya'll

jilli, look up "pink cattleheart" for the butterly you mentioned in your profile.

12:27 am

ty freep

12:27 am

bye jes happy sleep

12:27 am

or he7?

12:28 am

ty bigfoot -- will do -- but pink?

12:28 am

thanks freep, for he7

12:29 am

thanks from me too

Let's see if this link works.

http://www.hickerphoto.com/data/media/ 164/pink-cattleheart-butterfly_10295.j pg

12:29 am

need the y for nbt

12:29 am

ya 5/16

12:30 am

i only have 50 words cant think anymore i am out poof

12:30 am

ty vash

12:30 am

he7

12:30 am

nope, bigfoot -- much more white, and the red wingtips were on the upper wings

12:30 am

thanks, vash

12:30 am

good night ML tomorrow is another day

Sorry, I tried. The description intrigued me.

12:31 am

nbt now

12:31 am

bye mlf -- I think this one is hard

12:31 am

wtg west

12:31 am

wtg west!

12:31 am

thanks flosey and jilli

12:31 am

yay, west!

12:31 am

ty ruru...missed the he 4/7 to begin with

12:31 am

thanks rbud

12:32 am

(I need the 3 singletons in the 4th row, working on them)

one is "hippy' rbud

12:32 am

il 4/4 il 5/12

12:33 am

and oi 6/18

12:33 am

hi ruru -- finished yet?

tx fir the il5 vash

12:34 am

yw

12:34 am

ah, ty, got them now, nbt

the o is a common word

12:34 am

gosh no jilli I just got her

12:34 am

here

i need the Y for NBT. Is it a babblet?

12:35 am

well, ruru, you're so fast these days . . .

12:35 am

no melon

12:35 am

ya + not girls

12:35 am

not sure, melon, but it ends like a prayer

will I smack myself on the head once I find it?

12:35 am

ty ruru!

12:36 am

nbt and half way

12:36 am

gj nan!!

12:36 am

yay, nan!!

12:36 am

wtg nan!

12:36 am

wtg nan

taDah nan!

12:36 am

hi melon

hi jilli

NBT - are you sure the Y isn't a babblet?

12:40 am

half way but still 2 blank tiles

12:40 am

100 found but still need lone i - clues?

12:40 am

ruru and rbud clued it at 12:35 melon

12:40 am

think Homer

off to bed nite all poof

12:41 am

nbt now

12:41 am

night melo

12:41 am

mali

12:41 am

oops

12:41 am

no, anike, doesn

12:41 am

didn't work anike lol

12:41 am

't work

12:42 am

I know - just trying anything now

12:42 am

ma 6

12:42 am

ursh did you get my amazing clue for the lone i?

12:43 am

thanks vash great word

12:43 am

i did ty west

12:43 am

ty west -- saw the clue but didn't know what it referred to -- now I do :)

12:43 am

good !!

12:43 am

100 and crashing -- don't know if I'll get back tomorrow -- daughter flying in for a visit tomorrow morning. :)

12:44 am

and NBT :)

12:44 am

Clue for that lone i, west?

12:44 am

that will be fun nan

12:44 am

have fun nan

12:44 am

Don't worry got it b4- going silly now

12:44 am

yes anike

12:44 am

enjoy, nan

12:44 am

babble is a silly game lol

12:45 am

I now have news..

12:45 am

ooh ooh ooh

12:45 am

I'm so excited !!

12:45 am

yes ruru????

12:46 am

two pups so far.. one boy and one girl

12:46 am

jumping up and down

12:46 am

aww

12:46 am

Oh YAY!!!!!

12:46 am

lovely ru

12:46 am

20 oz and 22 oz..

12:46 am

awesome ruru

12:47 am

puppies!!! :D

12:47 am

what kind of dog?

12:47 am

so exciting!

12:47 am

those are big pups

12:47 am

our litter was 13 oz -15 oz

12:47 am

golden retreiver vash

12:48 am

awwww...my favorite type of dog

12:48 am

big puppies

12:48 am

si 6/33

12:50 am

thanks vash

12:50 am

that SI has to mean something other than what it looks like at first glance, don't you think vash?

12:51 am

i think it does mean something else...but it worked with the puppy theme

12:51 am

I always look for sensible words lol my downfall

12:51 am

it did !!

12:52 am

so happy for you ruru!!

12:52 am

*trying to work out si and puppies*

12:52 am

thank you westie.

12:52 am

I am sooo happy

12:53 am

hy 7

12:53 am

are they video taping the birth?

12:53 am

so am I, ruru (hug)

12:53 am

jilli...think big

12:53 am

thanks again vash

12:54 am

yw

12:54 am

*thinking*

12:54 am

i still have 4 7's to find

12:55 am

aa 5/6

12:55 am

got it, can't imagine using it

12:55 am

doing very well vash

12:57 am

jilli use the high point letter

12:57 am

ai 6/24...those not girls words are slowly being found

12:57 am

and nbt btw

12:57 am

wtg flosey

12:57 am

wtg flosey

12:57 am

wtg flo

12:57 am

thanks vash

12:58 am

and ty vash

12:58 am

brb

12:58 am

for the ai6

12:58 am

tarzan types don't work

12:58 am

and there is an ai 5/10 that is one of those weird ones

1:00 am

phantom -- aileron

1:01 am

my husband's phantom had ailerons

1:02 am

ar 7/28

1:03 am

can you clue it vash?

1:04 am

ar 7/28 - is + facial feature

1:05 am

tyty

1:05 am

a's are done

1:05 am

ty vash

1:06 am

ty from me as well

1:07 am

ty more words for ma 7/32

1:08 am

ma 7/32 m + girl's name

1:09 am

aha, thanks vash, daughter's name

1:10 am

36 left now that m's are done

1:10 am

oh no flosey the one I know doesn't work

1:10 am

the older one west, you're thinking of William's mommy

1:11 am

I know lol

1:11 am

Just over halfway now

1:11 am

wtg jilli, I just hit exactly half way

1:12 am

brb -- getting cough medicine

1:12 am

hmmmmm i had the he 7/40, take off the last letter and you have an he 6

1:12 am

2 girls and 1 boy...

1:13 am

thanks vash

1:13 am

how's mom doing?

1:13 am

wow ru, lovely

1:13 am

thanks vash

1:13 am

she is smiling and happy according to the breeder

1:13 am

the girls are winning

1:14 am

how many were in your dog's litter ruru?

1:14 am

7

1:14 am

wow

1:15 am

good size but there can be much more yes?

1:15 am

3 or 4 at the max.. (they used frozen semen)

1:16 am

that's a pb word, ru - se5

1:16 am

I see will they be called pupsicles?

1:16 am

thanks for the se went right by me

1:16 am

ooops .. didn't see that

1:17 am

33 left ...i need to go for the list...long day tomorrow

1:17 am

"pupsicles..." *giggle*

1:17 am

I have frozen things on my mind lol

1:18 am

just got to 100 here

1:18 am

it's 61 here and after 2:00 a.m. so shouldn't be thinking cold

1:19 am

100? where are you rbud?

1:20 am

100 words, not temp! it's about 34 deg F here

1:20 am

*shiver*

1:20 am

120 here

1:20 am

we should get your weather in a couple of days then

1:21 am

but I am fading

1:21 am

still trying to guess flosey's daughter's name

1:21 am

patricia?

1:21 am

you can't leave ruru you have to pace the floor

1:21 am

think comic strip *****Oop

1:21 am

I am exhausted though

1:21 am

west: think girl from wonderland

1:22 am

alley?

1:22 am

ooh thanks flosey now I remember

1:22 am

that's the name shortened ru

1:22 am

tell her hello !!

1:22 am

ma + untruth - E + not daughter

1:22 am

the em 4/8 is definitely a babblet

1:23 am

thanks all got it!!

1:23 am

ty west, I will

1:24 am

morning all. Lovely butterfly, flosey!

1:24 am

hymp seems like a normal word to me

1:24 am

and hympier

1:25 am

ty Sprite, and yours, very colourful

1:26 am

hello sprite ruru has news!!

1:26 am

do tell ruru

1:26 am

phantom: remedy

1:26 am

my puppy was born tonight

1:27 am

ohhhhhhh! How wonderful. Is it a boy or a girl, what does it weigh and is it alright and is mum ok?

Wonderful, ruru - when do you get to see it?

1:28 am

it is a boy. he is 20 oz and mom is doing really well

1:28 am

Friday.

1:28 am

congratulations, ruru.

1:28 am

the two other pups (girls) are bigger than the boy.

1:28 am

Hooray for Puppy! I am very happy for you Ruru!

1:28 am

Hello all

Say hi to his mum for me, and if she'll let you, kiss the little guy on the nose.

1:29 am

hi lyn

1:29 am

thank you... i won't be able to sleep tonight

1:29 am

hi lyn and helen

1:29 am

you'll be lying on their doorstep, lol

I'll bet his mum won't either!

1:30 am

Why is it ... when I click in Jillibus's icon, I see it (with a definition), but when I click on Sprite's, I see something different ???

1:30 am

lol, true

1:30 am

what do you mean, Christine?

1:31 am

why oh why didn't i see the li 7 earlier? it means get together

1:31 am

is that your last 7 vash?

1:32 am

yes

Giving up for the night - I'm starting to get ei and ie mixed up! Good night all.

1:32 am

bye helen

1:32 am

Oh wierd --- I clicked on your profile ans saw a rainbow and flowers ... cue the eerie music and/or the men in white jackets.

1:32 am

weird

1:33 am

good night helen sleep well

1:33 am

roflol... that is my icon from yesterday. It sometimes happens. Control + refresh often solves it.

1:33 am

goodnight Helen

1:33 am

the i before e rule doesn't work with weird..that's weird lol

1:34 am

i have never seen the li 6/18 - adding to my list

1:34 am

english is weird, spelling-wise, lol

1:35 am

very true sprite

1:35 am

hank the Lord ... I was about to give-up Pepsi

1:35 am

no need, Christine, it isn't you :)

1:35 am

THANK !!!

1:36 am

night all.. I am crashing..

1:36 am

*catches ruru before he hits the floor* Sleep well, dear, and dream of naughty puppies. One in particular.

1:36 am

goodnight ru, happy dreams

1:36 am

good night ruru happy puppy dreams

1:36 am

goodnight Ruru

1:38 am

ne 6/21

1:38 am

nite ruru

1:39 am

ty vash

1:40 am

back later

1:41 am

take care sprite

1:45 am

50 to go, off to bed, goodnight all, be back in the morning

1:46 am

gj flosey sleep well

1:47 am

just picked up 4 hy words, down to 46! and am leaving without taking another look!

1:47 am

wow that's great

hi and nbt

predicting browser crash in 5, 4, 3 ...

1:48 am

hello josh

1:49 am

hang on josh

so far so good - my browser usually crashes when i try to chat

1:50 am

maybe now that it knows you are wise to it it won't happen any more

spoke too soon- there it was, just a bit slow this time

1:51 am

oh well at least you're back

i've got the routine of bringing the browser back up down pat by now, unfortunately

1:52 am

could it be your faster than lightning nbt finds?

i think it's probably a lot less interesting than that

something to do with firefox extensions

1:54 am

probably so

1:54 am

I'm still using safari don't ever have a problem with it ( knock on wood )

1:55 am

but then I move at a snail's pace

safari is pretty stable, but i need those specific little tweaks that i can get with firefox

1:55 am

I'm sure I only use about 10 percent of my computer

well, few people do any better than that with their own brain so you're doing alright, i say

1:56 am

I was just thinking that lol

it always takes me a slow, careful type to get the ai5/6 right

1:58 am

slippery little word lol

1:59 am

getting worried about jilli

why's that?

2:01 am

she left awhile ago to get some cough medicine and don't think she's back

she may have taken it

2:03 am

or she's cleaning the kitchen

2:04 am

I'm going now too say hello if she comes back

byebye, will do

2:32 am

Just got back -- was sidelined trying to set up Windows Live Messenger

2:34 am

dang, just missed west, I guess!

2:34 am

hi josh

2:39 am

well, I'm off to bed -- nobody here now, I guess.

3:05 am

Morning Babble land, am I here by myself?

3:06 am

No, there are others.

3:06 am

Okay, there's me.

3:06 am

Good morning Haz, how nice to see you :)

3:07 am

And you! Is the weather behaving itself?

3:07 am

It is so mild this morning I have the patio doors open.

3:07 am

It's so strange, isn't it? First frosts and now this!

3:08 am

Mind you, it's not as mild as that here, but the sun is shining.

3:08 am

Had a handyman come round at 8.30 to quote me on a c ouple of jobs that need to be done like rebuilding my office desk and moving the sitting room around so was up with the lark this morning.

3:08 am

And were his quotes okay?

3:09 am

The weather is just sxo out of kilter right now.

3:09 am

£40 for 2 hours work sounds fine to me and saves me a great deal of effort.

3:10 am

That sounds pretty good. It's always nice to find reliable tradesmen, isn't it?

3:11 am

yes indeed and the next trade coming in is the ariel man - I might have a working TV by the end of today! Strange not to have had one for a week.

3:11 am

You'll have missed 300 episodes of Cash in the Attic.

3:12 am

I really missed the TV for the first couple of days but now I don't apart from the news. LOL re yr comment.

3:12 am

I know, it does tend to be a habit to turn it on even if there's nothing that you particularly want to see.

3:13 am

Will you get the shopping channels now? You don't want to miss last minute bargains for Christmas.

3:13 am

very true, and listening to local radio stations has been much fun and informative.

3:14 am

Urgh don't mention Christmas am so not ready for that yet.

3:14 am

3 weeks today.

3:14 am

You have another of your Christmas demos coming up soon dont you?

3:15 am

Next Wednesday. Gulp.

3:15 am

I will be doing all my xmas shopping on line this year. You will be great HAz!

3:16 am

I haven't done any shopping at all yet, not so much as a Christmas card. I do this every year, I think I just like to frighten myself.

3:17 am

xmas demo?? hello FM & Haz

3:17 am

It's probably me rebelling against the shops putting out their Christmas stuff in August, I refuse to join in.

3:17 am

LOL, I have bought the cards and had every intention of getting them done whilst at the hotel but time just ran away.

3:18 am

I suppose writing cards in the jacuzzi might have been tempting fate a tad.

3:18 am

Hello, lynxxx!

3:18 am

Just listening to the pair of ring doves cooing to eachother in next doors garden.

3:19 am

Well guess I had better get on and do some more sorting and organising, lovely to see you and speak anon.

3:19 am

Lynxxx, I feel as though I've been doing this same Christmas demo for years. All about table settings, flowers, napkins etc.

3:19 am

bye FM

3:19 am

See you later, FM.

3:19 am

Oh and hello lynxxx sorry almost missed you there

3:20 am

TTFN

3:20 am

I've done it in various Woman's Institutes and church groups, this next one is a fundraiser for the school hockey club, which, given my history in the game, is deeply ironic.

3:20 am

What was that movie about village with perfect housewives?

3:20 am

Calendar Girls?

3:21 am

Or are you thinking of the Stepford Wives?

3:21 am

I'm very impressed! and so must be everyone else of they keep asking you to do it

3:21 am

Stepford Wives, not that I ever saw it.

3:22 am

It seems to go down well, I keep thinking 'That's the last time' and then I get another phone call....

3:22 am

My whole thing is not that you have to go over the top, just simple ideas on how to dress the table, starters etc.

3:23 am

I had to laugh at a newspaper report for a recent WI meeting. They had a visitor from the local environmental health department who gave, apparently, a very informative talk on what and what not to put in the various recycling bins that the council provides.

3:23 am

Compared to that, I suppose the odd Christmas bauble must seem like light relief.

3:25 am

Certainly would - they should have saved the other talk for after Xmas when people want to recycle unwanted Xmas presents

3:26 am

I know - or else had a kind of swap shop.

3:27 am

Is there an equivalent organisation in Australia for the Woman's Insitute? A monthly meeting for women, lots of them do incredible handicrafts, they have demos, take part in competitions etc. It's a very good social network for lots of women.

3:28 am

Oh yes - a very very active Country Women's Association

3:29 am

Nothing similar on the main cities - that I am aware of anyway

3:29 am

That's good - I've never been a member but any time I've visited, I'm always impressed by the friendships and the levels of activity. You can be as involved as you want to be, some enter competitions all the time, others just turn up for the monthly meeting.

3:33 am

What about your Christmas preparations, lynxxx? Are you further along than either FM or me?

3:33 am

I was always very impressed by my mother who retired down 'the bush' and got into all the traditional womens crafts later in life. She organised a large and active quilters group on the island where she lived and appeared to involve nearly every woman on the island as far as I could see

3:34 am

I'd have been the one in the kitchen making the tea while the others quilted.

3:34 am

Christmas?! its at least 3 weeks away isn't it. I've worked out who we are having for a small lunch, that's about it

3:35 am

Yes, three weeks - there's ages.

3:35 am

3 weeks and a day. LIke I said, ages.

3:37 am

I always laugh at the magazines which interview various women on their countdown to Christmas. Uppermost on their mind is what they're going to wear on Christmas Day while they waft around looking gorgeous. That's the least of my thoughts, I can tell you.

3:39 am

Do you do the tradional Xmas dinner? I still like it but my husband always pushes for seafood which given our weather is probably sensible

3:40 am

We always have turkey etc but I usually have a light starter and not Christmas pudding, since nobody here is that keen on it.

3:41 am

I love the Xmas pudding! I think everyone just likes the sixpences - even if they can't keep them

3:41 am

And not a brussel sprout in sight, again not many of us are fond of them so the mountains of them in the supermarket are quietly ignored.

3:42 am

don't forget the nutmeg with the brussel sprouts

3:43 am

I think brussel sprouts get a bad press over here because lots of women used to kill them with boiling rather than leaving them with a bit of bite.

3:44 am

I made a recipe for turkey stuffing last year which was truly delicious - sage, walnut and dried fig

3:45 am

It sounds good! I do mine with lemon and orange zest and grated apple to keep it moist. There are probably infinite variations.

3:46 am

Maybe I could do a talk on stuffings.....

3:46 am

http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/0 01520.html

3:46 am

http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/0 01520.html

3:46 am

here's the link if you would like to look at it

3:48 am

I've got it up now. I'd have to adapt it for a walnut hating husband.

3:49 am

The figs and cranberries sound good - very complimentary to the turkey.

3:49 am

lol - I forgot. Did you ever make that apple cake with the baking soda. I gave a recipe to a cake making friend and she os not allowed to stop making it - everyone loves it!

3:50 am

*flop*

3:50 am

No, I never did, although I do have the recipe copied down. Thanks for reminding me, I must try it.

3:50 am

That soap powder is in the grid again

3:51 am

hi Ata! how are you feeling

3:51 am

However, I've realised the time - must go as RDA is on this morning and I'm going to be late unless I get a move on.

3:51 am

Ata, you'll get a complex, every time you appear, I head off. It's not deliberate, honestly!

3:51 am

sure ....... :)

3:51 am

Bye Haz

3:51 am

(Darn, she can read lying through my teeth font)

3:52 am

bye dear!

3:52 am

and hi lyn!

3:52 am

Bye! Nice to see you lynxx and only for a minute Ata.

3:59 am

oh no, the pseudo alveoli word is in the grid

4:01 am

tough grid - but have that one at least

4:02 am

if only there was an N by the IO

4:07 am

greek epic poems

4:07 am

that one is soooo tenuous

4:09 am

wish I could stop seeing eversion

4:10 am

oh yay! my favourite polychaete

4:13 am

geekgeekgeekgeekgeekgeekgeek

4:14 am

who are you calling names Hursh?

4:14 am

ata :)

4:15 am

it is one thing to know what a polychaete is, it is a whole other story to have a favourite!

4:17 am

:):):) *happy*

4:17 am

lol

4:18 am

why are you awake?

4:18 am

dunno. stupid brain.

4:19 am

i try to babble myself back to sleep.

4:19 am

how annoying!

4:19 am

i took another pill so hopefully that will help.

4:20 am

you need a trio of purring kitties to lull you

4:20 am

but this is their stalking about time :(

4:21 am

that's cats for you!

4:21 am

yep

4:22 am

giving up for now, 60 left for later. Bye Ata & Hursh

4:22 am

Good

4:22 am

4:22 am

4:22 am

4:22 am

4:22 am

4:23 am

you need a nice loyal dog

4:23 am

bye lyn!

4:23 am

and welcome zooz :)

4:23 am

good morning all.

4:23 am

oh not sure what happened there..lol

4:23 am

hiccups ??

4:23 am

quite an entrance :)

4:25 am

*been pondering* the ne6 is my joint fav polychaete actually, along with _Arenicola_

4:26 am

you're so smug.

4:27 am

*smug*

4:29 am

how#'s husband? has he got his test results backyet?

4:29 am

he doesn't even get to go see the kidney specialist til the 21st

4:30 am

urf, I thought he was getting something earlier than that. what a lovely christmas present for him

4:30 am

he just had the CT in which they said it was not a cyst, nothing since.

4:31 am

it likely means another surgery but he should be fine in the end at any rate.

4:33 am

yay :)

4:33 am

did they find a way to do the thing for your sister that they couldn't do before cause her veins were too flat?

4:34 am

nooooo *facepalm*

4:35 am

so what's her overall status at this point?

4:35 am

deteriorating! her blood counts keep dropping, in a week or so she's going to have to be readmitted as an emergency

4:36 am

:(

4:36 am

and what will they do for her then?

4:36 am

I wrote a VERY snotty letter to her surgeon yesterday, so we'll see if that helps

4:37 am

oh yes, snotty letters always help

4:37 am

what they should have done all along, get her on the op table and find a way to transfuse her. But now they'll be bound to do it cos it'll be an emergency whereas it was just urgent before

4:37 am

writing letters to drs is where I rejoice at being able to sign myself Dr Becky

4:38 am

but what if they still CAN'T? or do you think they really were just that bad the first time?

4:39 am

they *will* be able to do it, somehow. the problem is that the ways they *could* get a line into her are quite likely to kill her on the op table

4:39 am

so obviously they don't want to do that

4:39 am

but soon, they'll be forced into it

4:39 am

obviously!

4:40 am

so how is she handling it and how are you handling it?

4:40 am

she's unamused in the extreme!

4:40 am

how very british of her.

4:41 am

what else can she do?!

4:42 am

nothing, i guess, i just wondered if she's scared, depressed, resigned...

4:43 am

all of those ...

4:43 am

she's very stoic

4:43 am

*sympathy*

4:44 am

meant to be seeing her at the weekend

4:44 am

well i hope you will be at least a temporary cheering influence

4:45 am

not really sure I should go up. if my body can't cope with an hour and a half's dog walk, how will it fare with 6 hours driving and looking after a demanding patient!

4:46 am

mmm... good point. i didn't realize it was so far.

4:46 am

well, 3 hours each way :)

4:46 am

ah, right.

4:47 am

more like 4 with a stop halfway

4:47 am

maybe you can go next weekend.

4:48 am

next weekend I'm being a geek all weekend and cataloguing seaweed :P

4:48 am

just like in sanditon

4:49 am

could go the weekend after

4:49 am

well, what about christmas?

4:51 am

I think this weekend will be fine, as long as I take it easy

4:51 am

and if I just chill out today

4:52 am

perhaps

4:53 am

I'll just wait and see tomorrow :)

4:53 am

sounds like a plan

4:54 am

if in doubt, procrastinate

4:54 am

indeed

4:57 am

Any clues for the O above the Z ? It's oi6/18, and it's haunting me ...

4:57 am

more greasy

4:58 am

Got it ... looking in the wrong direction. As soon as you ask for a clue, the bloomin' thing pops up.

4:58 am

yes, that's called pulling a peri.

4:59 am

Does it happen to her?

4:59 am

a lot :)

4:59 am

always

5:02 am

Goodnight all/ I'm awa' to ma wee bed.

5:03 am

byeee

5:03 am

niters

5:06 am

think the sleepies are coming back. take care ata dear.

5:07 am

sleep well!! *hugs*

5:35 am

Good morning/day to my Babble buddies. Is anybody here? Hello lurkers.

5:41 am

good morning scrabbler

5:44 am

Hi Eva

6:06 am

hey all

6:09 am

Hi Chellie

6:13 am

Just logged on, diving in.. see you soon

6:15 am

hey Scrabbler

6:17 am

is it just me who has noticed that a few of the puzzles have all contained 'lies' recently?

6:17 am

versa is too a word!!

6:21 am

In Latin, Sue

6:21 am

hi would someone mind telling me how many words there are for todays puzzle?

6:21 am

176 words

6:21 am

thank you =]

6:23 am

hi all

6:24 am

just stopping in before i go to bed

6:24 am

good morning babble friends - hello ardilla!

6:24 am

Hi Ardilla

6:24 am

Hi trif

6:24 am

hi ardilla + Trifioso

6:26 am

At 76/100 I must shower and get to work. Enjoy the day everyone!

6:27 am

tc Scrabbler

6:27 am

bye scrabbler

6:27 am

hi all

6:27 am

hey aslindy

6:28 am

and fireworks for me.

6:28 am

woot zooz

6:28 am

lol, wd

6:28 am

now time for a nice cup of hot tea :-)

6:29 am

does anyone need any clues before i go?

6:29 am

clue for the z pls?

6:30 am

well, I only have 16 words so far....

6:30 am

probly too early to ask for clues. =)

6:30 am

I'd like to ask

6:30 am

zo4 just go in a clock direction and you will get it.

6:30 am

dk where to start

6:32 am

tyvm zooz

6:32 am

yw Ardilla :-)

6:32 am

thanks, zooz

6:33 am

np Aslindy

6:34 am

Hey Babblers !

6:34 am

I think it will take me more than 24 minutes to do todays grid !

6:34 am

Hello, Aussie

6:35 am

hiya Aussie

6:35 am

hello everyone!

6:35 am

Hey Zooz...

6:35 am

took me a few hours, but got there in the end..lol

6:35 am

Hey Chelli. Nice to meet you :)

6:35 am

Hello, annie

6:35 am

ANNIEEEEEEEEEEE !!

6:35 am

and Annie

6:35 am

you too Aussie!

6:36 am

{{{{Aussie}}}} How is dear little Georgia?

6:36 am

Hey, i did not get a welcome like that *pouting my face now*

6:36 am

Hi zooz, chelli

6:36 am

{{{{zooz}}}}}

6:36 am

She is fine Annie..... So lovely to see you......

6:36 am

Ok.... ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOZ !!!!

6:36 am

I am cybergrandma to Georgia

6:36 am

Thanks Annie :-)

6:37 am

wow, that was loud...lol..ok,.

6:37 am

i feel better now..hahaha

6:37 am

:)

POUNCE

6:38 am

Hi herin!

6:38 am

Yay..hello herin!

6:38 am

I was just dropping in to see how big the grid was... I cannot stay alas.... I have to go get ready for work :( Will be here after midnight my time...... Oh pooh... Here's Herin, and I have to go...... **gets up again** Hugs you Herin Lady.....

6:38 am

hi herin annie aussie

6:38 am

lol, tc Aus

have a good day Aussie.

6:39 am

{{{{herin}}}} I misses you........

6:39 am

Work always gets in the way of babble, i find..take care aussie

6:39 am

hi ardilla

Hi Zoom Zoom and Annie and Chelli

6:39 am

I will.... Will you be on FB after midnight my time ?? Herin ??

6:39 am

great seeing you aussie, till later

clue on the Z plzz

6:39 am

hi cheli and thx again zooz

6:40 am

heya herin

6:40 am

Later guys xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox **poof**

6:40 am

zo4, go in a clock direction Team Edward and you will get it.

tx zoo

6:41 am

yw

I also found this fantastic site could lamebook.

Hi there Ardilla

6:43 am

lamebook? what is it about?

6:43 am

ok, got to go for now... you all have fun!

6:44 am

bye, Aslindy..take care

ITs when idiots post things on facebook that aer lame and silly

6:44 am

I'm off too

6:44 am

bye all!!

6:45 am

ahh yes just googled it..lol

6:45 am

bye, Chelli

6:45 am

bye aslidy chelli

yes it is rude but it can be very funny. Like the man that posted his new awesome tattoo complete with a typo

6:49 am

just watched a couple getting married..and they were typing it into facebook..oh dear.

6:49 am

ardilla, are we at odds? it seems you are most pointedly not speaking to me these days....have I offended in some way?

6:51 am

Hi Everybody. What an enthusiastic group today!

6:51 am

oh no ma'am...i'm a rather space case as of late

6:51 am

how have you been?

6:51 am

Hi hego!

6:51 am

whew, that's a relief! I hate to think I have stuck my foot in it unknowingly....how is your godson doing, dear?

6:51 am

Hello, Hego & Trif

6:51 am

morning hego

6:52 am

morning zoo, and herin, and everyone else out there!

6:52 am

sorry...i meant to type i've been a rather space case as of late

6:52 am

he's getting big and so handsome...and boy can he yell

6:52 am

interesting - we have the al4 and its ve4 counterpart today!

Yes hi i is there

6:52 am

hi hego

6:52 am

ah, that's a boy for you! good to hear he is doing so well!!!

I really should be in bed

6:53 am

Hi Ardilla,honey.

6:53 am

ooh, ty for ve4 clue

6:53 am

lol herin - and I really should get out of mine!

6:53 am

i have one BT left...then i can go to mine

and i really should stop playing Fall Out 3

6:54 am

one of the irish cousins is here for a conference, and, although the kids and I had dinner with him on Sunday, he is INSISTING that he and I meet for breakfast this morning, which, I must admit, is making me suspicious

6:54 am

herin, i'm visiting Sydney and NZ in about 2 weeks on a tour

6:54 am

any tips on things to see?

Pitty you are not visiting Melbourne.

No idea on Sydney sorry

6:55 am

:(

6:55 am

the opera house?

6:55 am

thx though :)

Oh Harbour Bridge walk is fairly awesome. The Rocks is really nice, um Opera house Muesum

6:55 am

definitely

http://www.sydney.com.au/ one on sydney

6:56 am

i heard that in NZ you can take tours of the Lord of the RIngs sets - if you are into that sort of thing....

If you google Sydney you will find heaps of sites. Ask Mr Pres or Andree about that or Kiwi if you see her about for NZ.

6:57 am

cool, tyvm

If you were going to Melbourne I could have shown u about

6:57 am

could someone give me a clue for the bottom o pls?

6:57 am

i will keep that in mind, herin :)

6:57 am

ardilla, greasier

6:58 am

speaking of opera - name that proper noun: famous verdi opera

http://www.tourism.australia.com/ this is the Aus tourism site

6:58 am

tysm annie

6:58 am

Aida

6:58 am

good afternoon all

6:58 am

ding ding ding points to annie!

OH that is playing here at the moment. My friend is working on the lighting

6:58 am

ooooh sprite, lovely icon!

6:58 am

ooooh sprite, lovely icon!

6:58 am

Hi Sprite

6:58 am

Hello, spritey

6:59 am

Hi Spritey

6:59 am

thanks :)

SPriteee

6:59 am

i concur, very lovely

7:00 am

guess what?

7:00 am

eveyone on the bus and it is going to be sunny and 60F

7:00 am

you got promoted?

7:00 am

i'm dating a sailor, and my icon is me at the Navy Ball

7:00 am

LOVE the Navy! they def have the best, best uniforms!

7:00 am

no, not that...doesn't look very favorable

7:01 am

we have fun picking at each other's service on which is better :)

7:01 am

Hiya everyone

7:01 am

hi movie my man

7:02 am

hi sue and sprite and mm

7:02 am

hey there movie man! wow, full house today!

7:02 am

Hi mm!

7:02 am

MAN it is windy here!

7:02 am

*closes mouth and looks sheepish at Trif*

7:02 am

Clue for the 8 plz

7:03 am

here too, i hear the wind howling outside

7:03 am

there's an 8???

7:03 am

why so, sprite?

7:03 am

baaa!

7:03 am

*giggles* Because of that wind of course, Trif

no comment on cute sailor boys. Love it when the USA boys pull into shore at Melbourne which happens so little

7:04 am

I think if I launched a paper airplane, it would blow right over to you, ardilla! I am very, very glad I had those trees taken down in the spring, or they would be in my living room right about now!

7:04 am

i'm glad that i live on the second floor

7:05 am

at least it's raining - don't have to shovel rain!

7:05 am

Clue for the 8 plz

Trifs that is what boys are for snow shovelling

7:05 am

I don't think anyone has it yet movie

7:05 am

boy is at school, herin!

7:05 am

ok

7:06 am

ra 8/40

7:06 am

let's get back to ardilla - what is new love like, how did you meet, etc - we all have to live vicariously through you, at this point....

7:06 am

ta kate

7:08 am

well, we had been friends for a couple of months, met at a friend's house (he works with her hubby) and apparently we both liked the other but didn't know it (everyone did)

night all

7:09 am

so i was taken back when he asked me to go the Navy Ball with him (didn't know whether it was a date or not)

have a good day and Ardilla you do look lovely in that pic

7:09 am

bye lady *hug*

7:09 am

Bye herin

7:09 am

he was as nervous as i was about disappointing the other

7:10 am

bye and ty herin

7:11 am

once we realize that we liked each other and was scared about messing up the friendship, we laughed and became a couple that night

hugs

7:12 am

nice start, ardilla

7:12 am

he is very sweet to me and makes me very happy; he helps me clean my apt and we talk about everything

7:12 am

thanks Kateq, found it

7:12 am

ardilla, he's a keeper

7:13 am

he wants to take me to Tennessee to see a football game with him and buy the jersey of the team

7:13 am

i maybe meeting his dad and brother this summer

7:13 am

i concur

7:14 am

sigh....I love a good romantic "how we met" story, and yours sound so promising, ardilla! well done!

my son graduated from TN GO VOLS

7:14 am

we plan to climb Mt Fuji this summer

7:14 am

congratz EJean!

7:14 am

hi EJ...that's his team

They are INSANE about their football in Tennessee :-)

7:15 am

Hi Jean

hi annie, everyone

7:15 am

i agree...i giggle at how excited he gets about a game

7:16 am

titmen but no lipmen?

before my son started school there, he was neverous because he wouldn't understand them (the southern accent)

and now he has been living in China for 2-1/2 years....funny and ironic

7:17 am

he loves to just cuddle until i fall asleep and wants to cook for me (he is the first person I have cooked a meal for...it was breakfast

7:17 am

that is very ironic :)

Knoxville is a nice city and the smoky mts very beautiful

7:17 am

he teases me when my Georgia accent comes out

7:18 am

no haymen either, sigh... hi all

7:18 am

i've only visited Nashville

7:18 am

this is so sweet, ardilla! I am so happy for you!

7:18 am

tyvm trif

7:18 am

hi Aloy, it isn't fair, is it :)

7:18 am

Hi Aloy!

7:18 am

not to interrupt, but any clue on the Y?

7:18 am

hmmmm- "perve" is a word around these parts!

7:19 am

titmen, lipmen, haymen???

7:19 am

Hi Aloy

7:19 am

I know a few of those, alas, Trif

7:19 am

hi aloy

7:19 am

maybe he will take you to graceland!

7:19 am

Jayk, ofcourse you can interrupt! But I don't know yet.

it's a word in scrabble too trif

7:19 am

there are a number of "men" tho (-:

7:19 am

oh good! haven't found any, will look again.

7:20 am

don't have it either sorry Jayk

7:20 am

ya 5/16

7:20 am

ty ardilla, looking

7:20 am

oh there it is, ya + guys

7:20 am

lol Aloy, the first one for me!

7:20 am

ah, got it..

7:21 am

I have the single i to the left, but not to the right - can anyone nudge me in the right direction? (I DREAD the letter I in the grid!)

7:21 am

well. time to go to bed

7:21 am

Ty Sprite. Awesome.

7:21 am

crazy men too sprite

7:21 am

tomorrow is our 2 month anniversary :)

7:21 am

G'nite Ardilla.

7:21 am

yvw :)

7:21 am

with all that cuddling ahead, I am surprised you aren't there already! LOL

7:21 am

Thx!!

7:21 am

and Wall St. types too

7:22 am

sleep well, ardilla

7:22 am

thanks Aloy!

7:22 am

unfortunately he works nights and has every other weekend off

7:22 am

ty aloy

7:22 am

bummer - sleep well enough anyway, and sweet dreams seem a surety!

7:22 am

(-: end of prayer

7:23 am

but no G-men

7:23 am

so, no clue for the other i then?

7:23 am

hahaha oh I did have that one... just didn't count it as a guys word!

7:23 am

Trif, am looking, I have the same you have.

7:24 am

Wait, was there a clue for one of the i s?

7:24 am

think greek epic book il 5/12

7:24 am

don't have it yet but will look Trif

7:24 am

thanks ardilla! that did it!

7:24 am

i think homer wrote it

7:24 am

i + he who doesn't tell the truth, change last cons

7:24 am

{yawn, stretch} mornin'...

7:24 am

yay, ty ardilla

7:24 am

hiya car.ee

7:24 am

Whoa, Ardilla. Go girl.

7:25 am

CAR CAR CAR!!!! Where have you BEEN??????

7:25 am

hi car! brb.. coffee refill time

7:25 am

I have been here, there and everywhere...and you...

7:25 am

Hi car.

7:25 am

hi car!

7:25 am

can I call you or is he home?

7:25 am

wow lots of earlybirds here

7:25 am

I found the homer, but what is the other I?

7:25 am

okay, bedtime for real...gn all

7:25 am

also need the z for nbt

7:26 am

It would drastically cut into your Babble time, but yes, you can call...

7:26 am

good morning everyone

7:26 am

And dawg too. Hiya!

7:26 am

same word minus last letter, sue

7:26 am

hip bone I think, sue frad

7:26 am

Hi dawg and car.

7:26 am

morning all

7:26 am

zo4/10 go clockwise

7:26 am

and the Z is zo + frozen water, drop last letter

7:26 am

hi dawg

7:26 am

ty

7:26 am

hi hega, hi sprite! lovely icon there, sprite

7:26 am

hip bone? what are the stats

7:27 am

hi annie!

7:27 am

see my clue, sue

7:27 am

great clue ardilla

7:27 am

brb

7:27 am

thanks dawg!

7:27 am

ty sprite

7:28 am

my pleasure!

7:28 am

NBT, ta da

7:28 am

I am waiting on my new computer to arrive

7:28 am

and going to meet my sister in columbia SC, very exciting day

7:29 am

and, wait for it......I PASSED MATH, YAHOOOOOOOO

7:29 am

Congrats, sue!

7:29 am

sue, woweeeeeeeeeeeee!

7:29 am

well done, sue!!

7:30 am

my teacher made it so easy

7:30 am

maybe so, but you are the one that did it, sue

7:30 am

the Z word helps for one of the E words too

7:31 am

good math teachers are rare! but you had to take the tests, so good on you!

7:31 am

well, we are winding down. I passed math and Operating systems so far.

7:32 am

what is the stat on that E word?

7:32 am

47 left, going to list

7:32 am

ep7/56

7:32 am

holly crap

7:33 am

wow, I got it, great clue spr

7:33 am

yvw :)

7:33 am

Can anyone clue the ra8?

7:34 am

me too, thanks sprite!

7:36 am

ra8: dried grape, change last vowel, and add 1 minus first vowel

7:36 am

Okay, tx Sprite. Hmmm....

7:37 am

great going sprite

7:37 am

Sprite, good clue, thanks

7:37 am

or: ra + vowel + male child + **ver again.

7:38 am

can I get a clue for the first li 6/18?

7:38 am

Excellent, tx sprite

7:38 am

the greek story by Homer

7:39 am

the only one I have read by the way

7:39 am

No, Sue li

7:39 am

oh

7:39 am

lol

7:39 am

li + a flower d***y + vowel. The word after it is the same but ending in male child.

7:39 am

sue, that il5...

7:41 am

Great clues, Sue. ty

7:42 am

got the li, thx

7:42 am

sprite, working on it

7:42 am

I mean Sprite

7:42 am

li, is a go between

7:43 am

(it is a very common flower, Annie)

7:43 am

yes, the first is a go between and the second is an affair.

7:43 am

I got it Spritey, thanks!!

7:43 am

wtg Annie!

7:43 am

Spritey's awesome!

7:44 am

absolutely

7:44 am

lol, I am a moderate cluer... nothing like BabbleRabble and Haz. But glad it is working!

7:45 am

sprite, you are definitely in their league.

7:45 am

got it, ty

7:45 am

:D It is fun to do.

7:46 am

and english is not your primary language. I am in awe.

7:46 am

babble taught me so much about english. Both the game and the chat!

7:47 am

anything else I might clue before I go? I see fireflies :)

7:48 am

YAY for sprite!

7:50 am

ok, I am off, thanks all and have fun!

7:50 am

bye sprite

7:50 am

Bye Sprite and tx again.

7:51 am

Morning all. Any help with that bottom row A? I need it for NBT's so I can get to work/

7:52 am

Stuff you put on burns, nef

7:52 am

and plural

7:52 am

Nef---French friends

7:53 am

a plant al4

7:53 am

Thanks hego! NBTs and off to work! Have a good day, everyone! :-)

7:53 am

Nef, never mind--wrong A

7:53 am

bye Nef

7:54 am

tx for the friends Annie. Didn't have that one.

8:07 am

does the ra8 build off the ra5?

8:08 am

nope

8:09 am

ok thanks

8:09 am

DR, first 4 letters are the same

8:09 am

thanks- Looking

8:11 am

DR, want a clue?

8:11 am

um- yes please.. I was trying to monkey it, but no coffee yet.

8:12 am

ra, vowel, and Shakespeare's *****ts

8:12 am

ty Annie! got it

8:13 am

goody. and with that I am out...things to do. bye dear babblers

8:13 am

bye Annie- enjoy your day

8:13 am

Bye Annie

8:14 am

I have NBT and am going to start my day as well- bye everyone

8:14 am

see you all after work

8:15 am

Bye dr

8:15 am

What is NBT?

8:15 am

epizia

8:15 am

Sorry gang

8:16 am

Jay, nbt means no blank tiles

8:16 am

Oh. But there weren't any...?

8:17 am

That means you have a word for every letter in the grid.

8:17 am

hego, at least put in a word i need!

8:18 am

Ah! No I see. Thx

8:18 am

Or put in a word period. Sorry thekeys got loose.

8:18 am

... back, was called away for a bit..

8:18 am

like your word, hego.. should be one

8:18 am

monkeys

8:18 am

21 left, and must go take a shower and get motating. bbs

8:18 am

just struggling for the ep6.

8:19 am

wtg, lbd

8:19 am

Bye dawg

8:20 am

h'mm found an ep7, looking for the ep6 (not on list yet)

8:20 am

I have the 7 also

8:21 am

got it.. ends with little animals,

8:21 am

like proto***

8:21 am

tx Aloy!

8:21 am

yvw, ty for leading me to two ep words

8:22 am

and yw too

8:28 am

Time to go. Good day all.

8:28 am

bye, hego.. hagd

8:47 am

la

8:47 am

oops, sorry

8:48 am

hi pab

8:48 am

hi Aloy

how many words today, please?

8:52 am

176, steve

8:53 am

176 steve

Tks aloy

and pab

8:54 am

yw

8:54 am

steve, do you have any stats at all?

8:55 am

I mean, how do you know when you have found all the words from a certain letter in the grid?

Aloy, would you mind elaborating on those two ep please? My coffee hasn't kicked in yet.

8:58 am

.. guess steve is occupied.. mighty quiet in the chog

8:58 am

hi bunny, sure

8:58 am

*tap dancing in* Hubba Hubba Hubba!

8:59 am

ep6: prefix for "on the surface" and then microscopic critters, prot***

8:59 am

ep7 : same start, adjectival ending

8:59 am

Judi, do you have fireworks? If so, congrats! (-:

9:00 am

No, I just started. I was just making noise because you said it was so quiet.

9:00 am

tap dancing in with an icon that says "Bah Humbug" , lol

9:00 am

Well, I have to draw the line somewhere.

9:00 am

but thanks for the noise! (-:

9:00 am

ep7 ep+letter +zo4

9:01 am

wb, zooz!

Ahh, thank you very much!

9:01 am

Thanks..just uploading photos to flickr..and thought i would pop in and see what the babble gang were upto..lol

9:02 am

I monkied the ep7, but can't get the ep6. Oy.

9:02 am

very quiet on the babble front lately, zooz..

9:02 am

but Judi has livened things up

9:02 am

*juggling while cartwheeling*

9:03 am

oops, phone.. brb

9:06 am

good morning everyone

9:07 am

beautiful big moon is still shining in my office window

9:08 am

7:08 am

Having trouble finding the second aa5/16

Sorry, 6/18

aaliis

Sorry

9:09 am

aha, you got it

9:09 am

THANKS, RUMP!!!

9:09 am

To the Penalty Bin. Do not pass "Go".

So sorry, give me a whack! Anyway, you know I got it.

9:09 am

hi flosey and rumple

9:10 am

hi Aloy

Hi Aloyisius, will try not to do that again. 60 to go.

9:13 am

aha.. lovely fireworks - clues needed before I go?

9:13 am

wtg Aloy

9:13 am

YAY, Aloy!!!

9:14 am

stilll need 36, will keep plodding

hello friends

9:14 am

Happy Babbling all.. see you next grid. (-: time to poof.. byee

9:14 am

yes, first li6 please?

9:14 am

morning Pinny

9:14 am

oh.. ok, flosey..

9:15 am

aha, ty for not leaving so quickly Aloy

9:15 am

I'll ask for the Li7, please.

9:15 am

li +"R**** high the Roofbeams"

9:16 am

or li + she asked the boss for a r**** because she worked so hard

9:16 am

tyty, got it

9:17 am

li7: li + same two vowels + male progeny

9:17 am

and the 7 - actually came naturally following the 6

9:18 am

yippee, wtg

9:18 am

Ty. Shoulda knowed that. Derrr.

9:18 am

y Aloy, enjoy your day

9:19 am

ty flosey, sun is out now.. you too (-:

9:20 am

lovely Aloy, am still enjoying this huge moon, slowly sliding down behind the trees

i have all the hy words except the hy7 - am i missing something painfully obvious???

9:22 am

hi5 + not off

9:22 am

sorry, hy5 +

thanks - i clearly WAS missing something obvious ;)

9:22 am

yw pinny

9:28 am

greetings! i swore i would not do another puzzle this week but... here i am.

9:29 am

welcome back jmb - babble seems to do that to all of us

9:29 am

good morning all

does anyone have the final la5?

9:29 am

good morning Pini - can you still see that beautiful moon in the west?

9:30 am

it's too foggy here, flosey :(

9:30 am

ah, it's still shining into my office window, clear as a bell

9:31 am

ohhhh, and looking east, see a beautiful red sky

9:31 am

I've been listening to the radio this morning and the fog has contributed to a number of accidents this morning (or at least the drivers are blaming the weather for their driving shortcomings)

pink - i hate that no one is ever responsible for their own actions

9:32 am

You'd think fog was a new weather condition...

9:32 am

...but if the temp is below 35F and visibility is reduced...you

9:32 am

right sg and pini, you'd think they could slow down just a bit - perhaps arrive no more than 5 minutes later!

9:32 am

you'd think people would adjust

9:33 am

I use to think that when drivers just had to pass each other on the highway down into Toronto - don't believe they gained more than 5 minutes if that

9:35 am

it's rather frustrating, especially for those of us who tend to be better drivers and adjust as needed...getting there in one piece is incentive enough for me!

9:35 am

hello

9:35 am

for sure pini - and less stressed

9:35 am

morning phaeton

9:35 am

hi phae

9:36 am

oh, dobie...speaking of getting places on time (work); still have a job?

9:36 am

so far as i know...

9:36 am

I found if I left the house 5 minutes earlier, I could beat the rush and arrive in time to sit and enjoy a second cuppa coffee before work

9:36 am

(at least I think it was you who remembered you were working yesterday)

9:37 am

(or maybe it was "jim")

9:37 am

the western sky is now turning pink, so beautiful this morning

9:37 am

Yep - i work 5 days... i babble 4 - 5 days

9:37 am

Wish I could enjoy with you, flosey...but it's dark, grey, and cold

9:38 am

you're catching up with the rest of us, dobie!

9:38 am

(oh, and congrats on going pro)

9:39 am

pini - going pro??

9:39 am

i'm doing badly with the biggies. :( what does the 8 start with?

9:40 am

nevermind, dobie...I'm behind times...

9:40 am

ra8

9:40 am

ra8/40

9:40 am

thanks, got it!

9:41 am

wtg hursh

9:41 am

and for 7's, i've got di, ha, and he - any guidance towards any others would be most appreciated :)

9:41 am

having trouble with ma6, any clues, please?

9:41 am

I gather its a common word?

9:41 am

no, it's not a common word, i just was trying the simpler version of it earlier and so i thought maybe... it's french.

9:42 am

ma6 insane males

9:42 am

ma6 = angry + big boys

9:43 am

hy7 hurshy

9:43 am

tyty Pini - was starting with wrong M

9:43 am

li7x2

9:44 am

clue for the Y?

9:44 am

have all the l words, phae, only one li7

9:45 am

ty flosey, thought two had been clued, but it must have been the 6

9:45 am

ya + big boys

9:45 am

Good morning, folks.

9:45 am

ty flosey

9:45 am

good morning Merk

9:45 am

yw

9:45 am

I above the L?

9:45 am

hi Merk

9:45 am

hi merk

9:46 am

il4/4 and il5/12

9:46 am

thx...got it

9:47 am

and that makes NBT! :)

9:47 am

wtg pini

9:47 am

wtg pini

9:47 am

thx (only took 73 words to get it)! LOL

i just got NBT on my 94th word...

9:48 am

well done, pinny!

oh no - i take that back - not NBT yet

9:48 am

i'm at 61 and need an A and the IL5 for nbt

9:48 am

which do you need, pinny?

9:49 am

il5 = the il*** and the odyssy

the A on the bottom row

9:49 am

(and so much for spelling)

9:49 am

ty

9:49 am

al4 and al5 (a healing plant)

thanks Pini!

9:49 am

there are 2 x aa - aa5/10 and 6/18

9:50 am

NBT!

now, at 96 words, I am NBT

9:50 am

well done, ladies...

9:50 am

oops, sorry, wrong a there

9:50 am

looking for flosey's aa...

9:50 am

twice double vowels

thanks pini - are you not a lady pini?

9:51 am

I am a lady, yes ;)

9:51 am

thx flosey!

9:51 am

yw Lady Pini

9:51 am

* giggle *

(i meant lady as opposed to gentleman, not lady as opposed to scruffy commoner)

9:52 am

Last two - he 7/40 and he 5/20 - clues please

9:53 am

* wink * Pinny...cute...I stayed on the positive side! :)

9:53 am

he7 is just more so

phew - didn't want to insult accidentaly

9:53 am

he5 - same word + sometimes vowel

9:54 am

trust me, it would take more than that! LOL

9:55 am

Good morning everyone. How are you feeling Pini?

9:55 am

good morning Bugsy

9:55 am

hi Bug

9:55 am

morning, bugs...a bit better but still going to stay home to make sure ;)

9:56 am

Sounds like a beautiful sunrise flosey. I am surrounded by trees so I miss them. And moonrises. they are so stunning

9:56 am

hi phaeton. Are you in a good location weatherwise today?

9:57 am

yep, going to be 66 today

Lucky you, 19 here this morning.

10:01 am

13 °F (-11 °C) Wind Chill: -1 °F (-18 °C)

10:01 am

Hi BR!

10:02 am

happy babbling. I am off to work (but wishing I were Pini and could stay home, only without the sickness......)

10:02 am

yea, hopefully the only snow I see is my icon :)

10:02 am

Hello

10:02 am

morning BR

10:04 am

does anyone have a clue for ve6, have been struggling with this one far too long

10:05 am

ve + prominent durante feature

10:06 am

lol BR, tyty

10:06 am

I loved Jimmy D

10:07 am

Mrs Calabash wherever you are

10:08 am

(back...had to call in)

10:09 am

I'm sad I missed the big meeting they had in the office yesterday! apparently there were some "fireworks"!

10:10 am

did i miss any 7 clues?

10:10 am

hope they cleared the air pini

10:10 am

Uh oh, Pini. Probably best that you missed it.

10:11 am

pamper(s)

10:12 am

ty br

10:12 am

ep 7 sounds like a geological period

10:12 am

well, the instigator sat smuggly while the intended victim responded a little more than should have...

10:12 am

ma7, li7, hy7, he7, ha7, he, ep, di, ar, and I'm missing 1

10:13 am

hy 7

10:14 am

there's a ro7, that's the one I'm missing

10:14 am

Hy + argentina's juan and eva

10:15 am

just got it

10:15 am

Is the Ra7 an extension of the ra5?

10:15 am

can any 1 help with da/7 please

10:15 am

measles I think?

10:15 am

apes

10:16 am

Ra8 - rather.

10:16 am

we have da7 (its a plural) newspaper

10:16 am

taking your time Rho

10:17 am

almost

10:17 am

i sit corrected

10:17 am

adim

10:17 am

any clues for so6? please

10:18 am

Thamks jmbdobie, your so right

10:18 am

In all of that exchange, was a clue given for the ra 8?

10:18 am

ra8 sounds like a small dried fruit

10:18 am

Thank you , Merk. I was wondering myself.

10:19 am

with a french ending

10:19 am

merci....

10:19 am

what + so 6

10:19 am

I'm trying to monkey it out ... french sp.

10:19 am

Ah. Ty, Flosey.

10:20 am

ok so i need ma and ar... and was something saying there were two he7?

10:20 am

ty BR

10:21 am

ar 8 -- part to be and facial feature

10:21 am

thx BR :)

10:21 am

I have only one he 7 and it's a plural

10:21 am

doh! i know that babblet.

10:21 am

thx again BR :)

10:22 am

flosey listed 2 he - was that a typo?

10:22 am

hey, i monkeyed the ma!

10:22 am

ma 7 - -road ragers, for eg

10:22 am

yes hurshy, only 1 he7 and it isn't a plural, it's a more so!

10:22 am

ha and he

10:22 am

There is only one he 7.

10:22 am

sorry about that typo

10:23 am

There is a hy 7, too.

10:23 am

aha, it's ro7, you mentioned later, that's the last 7 i need

10:23 am

BR....is that road ragers ma6?

10:23 am

And a ha 7

10:23 am

yes

10:24 am

is there an ma7?

10:24 am

sorry, Pini had my mittons on

10:24 am

m + my sister!

10:24 am

* giggle *

10:24 am

trying to think of a famous person with that name...

10:24 am

dr. cameron on house...

10:25 am

I am still fiddling with that ra 8 dried fruit with french ending. I've had my coffee ... just dense, I guess.

10:25 am

merk...use the number less than two with a stutter

10:25 am

elvis costello had a song about a girl with this name apparently

10:26 am

M + (SOUNDS LIKE) _____ __ wonderland

10:27 am

James Stewart and June

10:27 am

got it!

10:27 am

mm, yes, wasn't thinking about last names

10:27 am

so what's this ro7?

10:28 am

ro7 I think it's measles

10:28 am

German measls

10:29 am

rubella?

10:29 am

Das cooties!

10:29 am

flower and oil of

10:29 am

finally monkeyed out the ra8 ... thanks to you all.

10:30 am

ah thanks

10:32 am

28 to go. Stomach growling. To early for lunch. *Ponders eating stapler*

10:32 am

merk...did the stutter help??? ;)

10:32 am

Ar7?

10:33 am

that's why i always eat a pb & banana sandwich for breakfast. i never get too hungry before lunch.

10:33 am

ar + vowel + what's in the center of your face

10:33 am

Ty, rbud!

10:34 am

I had oatmeal, cantalope and coffee. You'd think I wouldn't be hungry. Habit, I guess.

10:34 am

pb + banana sandwich for breakfast ... hmmm ... an intersting alternative to my usual oatmeal.

10:34 am

yw!

10:34 am

Oatmeal stays with me until lunch, too, but I'm always intersted in new ideas.

10:34 am

right now, PB&J sounds really good!!!

10:34 am

I like honey on my pb sammies

10:35 am

You are feeling better, Pini

10:35 am

i like to make it with martin's potato rolls - the hotdog shape - so that i can just stick the banana in whole.

10:35 am

I'm sure Crossy puts bacon on his pbs.

10:35 am

It sounds good...just hope the rest of me thinks so, too ;)

10:35 am

Like Elvis.

10:37 am

Martin's potato rolls ... that is a new one to me. Never heard of them.

10:38 am

Have any snow, Merk?

10:38 am

*stomach growls more*

10:39 am

Yes, it is snowing right now ... and blowing ... nice to be inside babbling with y'all.

10:39 am

ok ok, judi...I'm going to make something...brb ;)

10:39 am

Hursh, what are Martin's potato rolls?

10:40 am

they are potato rolls made by a company called Martin's.

10:41 am

borborygmi

10:41 am

A company that is not in the midwest US. I understand.

10:41 am

I remember people making bread with the potato water

10:42 am

Merk, check out: http://potatoroll.com/pages/products.a sp#

10:42 am

What would I do without all of you here to educate me.

10:42 am

Pooh on potato rolls. Bland. Boring.

10:43 am

do they come in 12-grain?

10:43 am

And you sent me that web site to make my stomach growl, too. They look good.

10:44 am

lol, rbud. They come in potato flavor. White bread with a slight yellow tinge.

10:44 am

Martin's Famous Whole WheatPotato Bread

10:44 am

they're based in PA - write to them and tell them you want distribution in your area :)

10:44 am

sun's up, beautiful day ahead, heavy frost last night

10:45 am

we are supposed to have snow tomorrow. a rarity for Houston

10:45 am

i love potato bread/rolls because if you like soft squishy bread, you don't want to eat the non-nutritious white bread, and potato bread actually has a lot of nutrition - as much or more in some ways than whole wheat!

10:46 am

potatoes in general are really surprisingly packed with nutritious stuff.

10:49 am

And their whole wheat potato rolls would be the best of both worlds.

10:49 am

But if they are from central Pennsylvania, how do you get them where you live, Hurshy?

10:50 am

i'm only a poser brit :) i actually live in NEW england.

10:51 am

done

10:51 am

And they deliver them way up there?

10:51 am

well, they at least deliver them in CT RI and MA, i haven't checked the northern states

10:51 am

congrats, phaeton

10:51 am

What's the name of that CT grocery chain that carries everything and then some ... Stewart or something or other.

10:52 am

WTG, Phaeton

10:52 am

yay, phae!!!

10:52 am

Hi babble buddies!

10:52 am

ty...happy babbling everyone!

10:52 am

42 left - taking a break from babble to work lol

10:52 am

there's a stew leonards, is that what you mean? i get them at walmart, stop & shop, wherever.

10:53 am

Stew Leonards ... that's it. I've shopped there passing through CT and what tempting stuff. So now I have to go to a Walmart here and see if by some fluke, they have Martin's potato rolls.

10:54 am

and if they don't find the manager and ask him to look into stocking them! or your grocery store! that's how things happen!

10:54 am

Well, back to the grid or I'll be here until lunch time when I really will be hungry.

10:57 am

my mission is to get the world eating pb & banana on a roll for breakfast! :) oh and use the smart balance peanut butter, it's a healthier choice!

10:58 am

gotcha

11:03 am

where are all the L's? trying and trying but still only have 10 of them

11:07 am

they are very vowelly

11:07 am

3 la, 3 lo, the rest Li

11:08 am

and most of the Li's have another vowel as the third letter.

does anyone have the la5?

11:09 am

insert vowel in fourth position of la4 (dalai ____)

ty

11:10 am

it is so crazy, the last couple of days were reasonably cold, and then today it's like it's may 3 instead of december 3!

11:11 am

i've got my window wide open to enjoy the fresh air

11:12 am

any other clues wanted?

11:12 am

brr,here its about 3 degrees c and a cold,cold rain:/

i've got 62 left to find so will just pulg away for a while - finding today's board kinda tough

11:13 am

Hello all - hurshy we are mid summer here - i'm wearing warm slippers - track pants and light sweater has been drizzling for weeks

11:13 am

clue requests going once...

11:13 am

ty for the L help, hursh

11:13 am

np rbud :)

11:14 am

clue requests going twice...

11:15 am

*bangs gavel* i'm off to sudoku then! *poof*

11:21 am

the italian greeting gets me every time

11:21 am

howdy ursh;))

11:21 am

hello crosshair

11:21 am

Hey crossy

11:22 am

howdy cassi

11:22 am

howdy? Where are you at again?

11:23 am

I am in Texas, so I saw the Canadian flag and got confused.

11:23 am

lol cassi,im not some american cowboy,its just something im in the habit of saying

11:24 am

im a lo ng,long way north of texas;0

11:24 am

well I am an American Cowgirl... I am even wearing my boots at work today

11:25 am

right now its just a degree or 2 above freezing with an ugly cold rain;(

11:26 am

yikes, sunny but 37F here

11:31 am

cassi where are you? im in houston

11:35 am

Austin

11:35 am

nice

11:35 am

love it there

11:35 am

hi all

11:35 am

you know we are getting snow tomorrow....

11:37 am

70% chance...

11:37 am

at least OUR version of snow.

11:39 am

thye predict 3-4 inches

11:40 am

hi, everyone

11:40 am

I bet the whole town freaks!

11:40 am

Hi boobear!

11:41 am

Hi Cassie

11:41 am

acck!! -6c and snow tommorow;( though by this time last year we already had 2 feet of the crud

11:41 am

newer photo on my profile is of all three of my grandangels.

11:42 am

Cassi, I am a native Austinite :)

11:43 am

haha, yeah! We are going to get a group of Texans going!

11:43 am

boobear: you put an E on my name, do you know someone named Cassie?

11:44 am

crossy i have an outdoor show this weekend and probably will need a propane heater!

11:44 am

Loved the new photo of your grandkids, Angel.

11:46 am

Good evening all..........

11:47 am

poor science..i can send you a touque...

11:49 am

Hello, caitlyn

11:49 am

my brother tried san antonio for 2 years and had to leave as he could not stand the heat

11:50 am

Hi Br I thought I had cleared the room :)

11:50 am

Yes it can get quite toasty. I think the worst recorded in Texas was 121F

11:50 am

good afternoon cait;0

11:51 am

lol,and we melt when it gets over 80f

11:51 am

Hi cross

11:51 am

My mother's family is from Denton. I was born in Texas when the parents were visiting there. Ghastly weather, whatever the time of year.

11:52 am

I think it's 78 in my office right now!

11:52 am

if you don't like the weather in Texas, wait ten minutes, it might change!

11:53 am

Sorry y'all. I didn't mean to intrude. Austinite are peeps and Austonian is a building. Just voting with y' all!

11:53 am

Hi M!M!

11:54 am

hi caitlyn

11:57 am

I dont like this grid today!

11:57 am

me either!

11:57 am

hmmm if we are talking about Texas is suppose I should chime it

11:58 am

Texans always do

11:58 am

as long as you aren't going to insult it, then by all means chime in!

11:58 am

:-p

11:58 am

its like a law

11:58 am

I have every right to insult Texas as a native Texan

11:59 am

we are always there for each other

11:59 am

only the weather

12:00 pm

Where you are JMC?

12:00 pm

in Washington, DC

12:00 pm

crossy turns up the heaters amother notch:(

12:00 pm

where from TX?

12:00 pm

But will be coming to Austin in a couple of weeks to probate my mother's estate

12:01 pm

I am from Houston.

12:01 pm

Oh, I can understand why you moved!

12:02 pm

Its amazing how it is all the same state but soooo different!

12:02 pm

shoot i like Houston a lot more than Austin

12:02 pm

too funny Cassi

12:02 pm

why is that?

12:03 pm

Austin is all hat

12:03 pm

ya notice? Texans say "shoot"

12:03 pm

Austin is awesome!

12:03 pm

we follow through with our actions too, MM!

12:03 pm

well that is what makes horse races cassi

12:03 pm

yup

12:04 pm

but we can both agree that Dallas sucks ;-)

12:04 pm

How did you know that I race?! ;-P

12:05 pm

we can def both agree on that! I was born and raised in DFW

12:05 pm

Hi all....clue please for ma7/32 please?

12:06 pm

ma7 m + girls name

12:06 pm

clue for os5 please?

12:06 pm

ty flo

12:06 pm

nm, got it, fireworks

12:06 pm

whoo hoo flosey!

12:07 pm

congrats flo!

12:07 pm

yw crossy, now off to appt. be back tonight at flip

12:07 pm

I was born in dallas, so i guess by default i love it.

12:07 pm

Dallas proper, or DFW?

12:07 pm

Methodist Hospital

12:08 pm

see I was raised in suburbia of Dallas

12:08 pm

I can't find the girls name

12:08 pm

I am still not getting Ma7/32 m+girls name... I don't see it!

12:08 pm

any other clues for ma7 please?

12:09 pm

i lived in garland

12:09 pm

bye flosey

12:09 pm

m plus Miss Steadman the actress or Miss Moyet the singer.

12:09 pm

nice area

12:09 pm

I lived in Bedford.

12:09 pm

thanx Haz!

12:10 pm

i will be honest

12:10 pm

Or m plus three letters for the greatest boxer, finish with male child.

12:10 pm

ty haz

12:10 pm

thx haz!

12:10 pm

i have not lived there in a long time

12:10 pm

You're welcome, Flask. Congratulations on becoming a granny!

12:10 pm

bbl

12:11 pm

Oh thankyou....he's getting home on Mon/Tues next week

12:11 pm

I'm sure you can't wait - no chance that he's not the best child ever to be born?

12:15 pm

I must go - food to be made etc, Enjoy the grid. Bye for now!

12:16 pm

y'all have a nice evening/morning. I am just gunna work the grid now. thanks

12:25 pm

Has Haz gone?

12:26 pm

I believe so, Haz is not in the "who's online" list

12:27 pm

ok...thanx!

12:39 pm

Clue for the last am4,5?

12:47 pm

am4/5.....french word for friend plus extra vowel

12:48 pm

thanks!

12:48 pm

yw

12:51 pm

gotta get back to work, bbl

12:51 pm

ok...see ya!

12:56 pm

me6 pls?

1:07 pm

me + Disney's High *chool Mus*c**

1:18 pm

Wow. Thx!

1:20 pm

i've been playing for a couple of years and this is the first time i've seen my name in the grid :)

1:21 pm

The ve6? I have GOT to do some work!!

1:21 pm

mn Well done IMJ

1:22 pm

Lisa :)

1:24 pm

clue for the first AA word please

1:24 pm

aa + consonant + 2 more vowels!

1:25 pm

think Forty Thieves with an extra at each end

1:25 pm

sounds like the famous boxer.....AA5/10

1:25 pm

ty

1:25 pm

Indeed it is

1:26 pm

ve6 ve & its as plain as the **** on your face

1:26 pm

Goodness! this is ruining my life!

1:34 pm

ai 5&6

1:34 pm

not ruining...look at it as enhancing your vocabulary!

1:34 pm

hello again - back for 25

1:35 pm

That y is ruining my life ..

1:35 pm

ya5 = ya + big boys

1:35 pm

hi Ursh & Tor

1:36 pm

Like the noodle

1:36 pm

Thanks Pini .. I was all around it ..

1:36 pm

ai & h***er than thou

1:36 pm

Pini-- it's enhancing my vocabulary at the cost of my heretofore sterling professional life!

1:36 pm

ai5/6 is the garlicky mayo

yummy

1:38 pm

my stellar professional life has been enhanced slightly due to vocabulary increase...

1:38 pm

So tell me, when do you find TIME to work??

1:39 pm

I'm at home sick today! :)

1:39 pm

i'm back with 42 left

1:39 pm

Ah well--at this rate I will be too pretty soon.

1:39 pm

otherwise, I babble in the evenings after work :)

1:44 pm

Very grateful for Morewords today

1:45 pm

wb dobie...

1:45 pm

i don't get the garlicky mayo

1:45 pm

hi lynxxx

1:46 pm

did you see my clue Pini?

1:46 pm

thanks pini - i just found a bunch of easy 4 letter words that i just couldn't see before - jeez

1:47 pm

lieve

1:47 pm

scrolling back

1:47 pm

meant believe i am going crazy!

1:49 pm

not getting that one either, lynxxx ;(

hi all, glad to be back after long fruitless software battle that wiped out Babble Expert! (I reloaded it easy)

1:50 pm

oh no, gwen!!! glad you're back !

1:50 pm

hi Gwen

1:52 pm

i already hate this grid.. i have already locked myself out of the house today.. had to go to my daughter's school and get her key, LOL... she LOVED that! Anyway, thought I would come here and relax... not so much!

1:52 pm

ai & ***ve oil

1:52 pm

here I was, home sick for the day, lying down in peace and quiet, and babbling between catnaps...but NOOOOO, some neighbor is banging on something and the noise level is extremely annoying :(

1:52 pm

hi mom!

1:52 pm

thx lynxxx!

1:53 pm

Isn't that like the sauce they use for calamari appetizers?

1:53 pm

hi Mom

1:53 pm

Hi Pini... and yes it is.

1:53 pm

Hi lynx

1:53 pm

Funny Gwen I also lost expert today - antivirus said it had a trojan

you are having a worse day than me, mom2han8!!

1:54 pm

OK.. so my daughter just texted me. I am never going to live down locking myself out of the house, LOL...

ursh, yup, Avast is ruining everyone's day

1:54 pm

oh right Avast it was

1:54 pm

She forgets her keys all the time and I am forever yelling at her... so I guess I deserve it, LOL.

i always keep a copy of the installation software when I get software, so if it hiccups or whatever, I can re-install it without too much fuss

1:55 pm

I keep a spare hidden in my car now ;)

Major Avast bug. A tech sent me a link about a bulletin board where they're talking about it

1:55 pm

I actually left them at work... I take the bus, so I could not easily go back and retrieve them. Stupid.

1:56 pm

Tx Gwen now I know

estimate i wasted 8 hours yest and today on thei stinking avast bug. OY

1:58 pm

so sorry to hear, gwen

1:58 pm

I think I am going to come back later... I taped Rudolph last night.. I just might watch it all by my lonesome!... happy babbling all.

1:58 pm

BBL need some breakfast

1:58 pm

enjoy, mom!!

1:58 pm

I will... *poof*

1:59 pm

hb lynxxx

thanks, pini. i run an online biz so it's *almost* par for the course

1:59 pm

It's amazing how technologically dependent we've become? ;)

2:00 pm

er...isn't it

i prefer to think of the net as a really big telephone. phones have never been without faults and bugs

2:00 pm

good point, gwen ;)

2:03 pm

jmc - did you finish?

2:04 pm

It's like phones except every line is a party line ..

so, who here is using wifi? i'm not and i keep hearing how hard it is to get a connectin using wifi. might have to switch to sifi though

2:06 pm

I use wifi occasionally...

2:07 pm

...it depends on where I am and if I want to get "online."

assuming you're at home and you want to be online all day. is it as reliable as a hard line?

2:09 pm

It depends on if you're piggy backing off an unsecure line (like a neighbor) or if you've established your own secured network.

2:09 pm

Assumi9ng you are talking about your own wifi router and not some municpal wiMax scheme, it works very good.

okay, so assume i'm paying an ISP and all that. then it's pretty reliable?

ah, ty brandy

2:10 pm

yes, gwen...you just need to set up your own wifi (i.e., with the router that BJ suggested)

2:10 pm

The only exception is in older houses with plaster and lathe walls. Some plasterers use a wire mesh as the top layer and it kills wifi and 2.8Ghz wireless phones

i need to shop for a new ISP. my current ISP is evil incorporated. in fact they slammed my ISP !!

2:10 pm

really, BJ? Didn't know that...

brandy, i should be okay there, not in an old house

2:11 pm

Oh, Gwen, I love the Dalek icon.

2:11 pm

places like comcast, qwest, etc., will work

ty gail.

pini, i refuse to give one penny to any of the big telecoms if i can absolutely avoid it. purely on principle

2:12 pm

We watched Dr. Who last weekend for hours.

2:12 pm

I found out the hard way, my house was built in 58 and the main loadbearing wall upstairs is done that way. On the other hand it works out well because it kills the wifi signal about 5 feet from the house. Daughter can go outside and eat a weed and still stay online.

1958? oh, hell, i thought when you said old you menat *old* lol

2:13 pm

But someone sitting at the road gets nothing. I should really secure the connection, but too lazy.

Doctor Who is the greatest tv show every made. don't try to argue me out of that. (smug smile) LOL

2:14 pm

1960 up here is when they switched to rocklathe/gyproc construction.

2:14 pm

We discovered our next door neighbors were using our network for quite a while. And yes, Dr. Who rocks.

2:15 pm

Can hardly wait till March for the new season...... Although Waters of Mars did setup good tfor the Xmas special which in turn is supposed to setup for Matt Smith's entrance.....

Anyone who sees the new doctor before I do, do not tell me one word! thanks in advance 8-)

2:16 pm

We watched the most recent special that aired on BBC two weeks ago.

2:16 pm

no worries here...don't watch it

2:16 pm

I monitor my connection as I do have lowlifes liiving next door. But I think they may be too stoopid for a computer. Or too drunk...

ACK!! (please tell me nothing. not kidding.)

2:16 pm

I keep an eye on the Dr. Who BBC website all the time. There are some great games to play there, too.

2:17 pm

I would tell nothing. I can't remember that long ago anyway :)

2:17 pm

They block us Canadians.... At least from all the clips and such.... So i get around it by checking the newsgroups.

(sigh of relief) lol

2:19 pm

BJ...can you find it on hulu.com or fancast.com?

2:19 pm

You're watching it as broadcast here in North America? 1 Year behind?

2:20 pm

really? I thought those two sites were only a few weeks behind actual air time.

2:21 pm

Never looked at hulu or fancast. I have a subscription to a usenet-news server. It was the precursor to the peer-to-peer networks, excpet no one is looking over your shoulder....

brandy, is that a question for me?

2:21 pm

ahhhhh...

2:21 pm

It broadcasts in UK, and 6-7 hours later it's available for me to watch....

2:21 pm

oh, even better, BJ....then you're already on it...

2:23 pm

Yes Gwen, it was. Just rying to figure out if you've seen the 4rd (and last) season with David Tenant. Matt Smith takes over in Year 5. Which I hope isn't a spoiler for you since it's been quite widely spread.

2:23 pm

How is it today?

2:23 pm

*3rd

2:24 pm

it's...doable? I think, Gadget...

2:24 pm

I still have 80 words to find...

brandy, it would have been a spoiler, but it's not. if you really want to know, i can't afford cable, so i watch tv at a friend's house, and where and when he gets the show i have no idea

2:24 pm

70 here . . . groan

2:25 pm

I've got 111 left and mis-firing on all cylinders....

2:25 pm

gwen, check out hulu.com or fancast.com sometimes...

also, i very much enjoy how much the show can be surprising, so i avoid learning about future episodes, or cast, or stories, or any of that. otherwise the show is not so much fun

2:26 pm

I miss Chris Ecclestone.....

2:28 pm

ugh, dentistry words.....

mee too. (but the doctor is dead, long live the doctor!)

2:31 pm

27 left but i've gotta get a grip. no way i'm going to find those 27. maybe tomorrow...

2:31 pm

they won't be there tomorrow, jayk

2:31 pm

long does it take to get fast at this? (clearly more than 3 days!)

2:32 pm

Pini--

2:32 pm

it's gets easier, jayk...

2:32 pm

I know. I meant maybe tomorrow is another day!

2:32 pm

...have you been using Lickety's Babble Clues (at the bottome of the grid)?

2:33 pm

the only ones who are fast at this usually are involved with the language as a job. the rest of us are just here to learn new words......

2:33 pm

very good summary, BJ!

jayk, the secret is to be born with a brain that can read upside down and backward, and see words inside random letter strings, and can remember obscure words and how to spell them 8-)

2:34 pm

ROFL

2:34 pm

Yes. Big help--but no substitute for an actual brain. Words ARE my language, sadly, brandyjack. I write. But apparently not today.

i'm struggling with 66 to go. this is not a "easy" grid

2:35 pm

hi. no, gwen, this is a challenging grid, indeed

2:35 pm

gads, found foreign goodbye! ci4 (been using it the past few days)

2:35 pm

Morewords is my best friend today

2:35 pm

pini, i'll look at and respond your email this evening

2:35 pm

and remember that English is not always English. Like the Ai/5 garlic infused mayo (French) that the europeans like to douse their french fries with....

2:35 pm

see you guys tomorrow. unless i get hold of myself or there's an Intervention

2:35 pm

the same sauce used for calamari, right, BJ?

2:35 pm

hi BJ & DC

2:35 pm

Right, Jayk...we'll see you tomorrow!!! LOL

2:36 pm

no prob, dc ;)

2:36 pm

looking forward to hearing your thoughts...

2:36 pm

bye Jayk

2:36 pm

I would never mistreat Calamari that way...... Horseradish/ketchup sauce for me....

(should we tell jayk there'll be a new grid tomorrow?) hee hee

2:36 pm

Crossy would love ebay's deal of the day: http://tinyurl.com/yzc9dof

oy, finally found the lone i in the 3rd column

2:37 pm

Actually a good seafood sauce is more complicated than that, but when desparate.....

2:37 pm

Actually a good seafood sauce is more complicated than that, but when desparate.....

2:37 pm

true, bj...true

2:37 pm

I KNOW there'll be a new grid. Thank heaven.

2:38 pm

when i was in France, ai*** was served on toast with Bouillabaisse :-)

2:38 pm

my spelling is horrid today......

oh no, then french food chat has started again!

2:38 pm

new does not = better Jayk. Here, it almost always means more follicular punishment....

2:38 pm

no LOL!!

2:39 pm

just commenting LOL

i'm off to eat some very bad processed food with locally-produced BGH-free milk on it. BBL

2:39 pm

later, gwen :-)

2:40 pm

njoy, gwen

2:40 pm

and i'm off to feed the birds -- somebody told them about the big cold front coming thru! :-)

2:40 pm

cool, une :)

2:41 pm

hello all

2:41 pm

hi Peri

2:41 pm

help with da7 please\

2:42 pm

NM found it

2:42 pm

:)

2:42 pm

da7 what they call newspapers which come out each 24 hours

2:44 pm

ty, lyn

2:46 pm

hi all....clue for so6/21 please?

2:47 pm

compound Flask, probably preceded by whom

2:47 pm

sorry...6/27

2:48 pm

thanx lynxx

2:48 pm

yw

2:49 pm

ty, lyn

2:52 pm

help with ma6 pls

2:52 pm

plodding alone and still 46 left

2:52 pm

compound, crazy guys

2:53 pm

thanks lyn

2:53 pm

bbl

2:53 pm

what do you mean by compound?

2:54 pm

si6/21 and si6/33 please?

2:54 pm

compund - made up of 2 normal words - like hotrod

2:55 pm

aaah, I was thinking compound subjects or compound science experiments or something. I make this a lot harder than if has to be sometiems

2:55 pm

si6 si & put * *** on that saucepan thats boiling over

2:55 pm

*sometimes

2:57 pm

si6 of a different thickness, I'll try and think of a diff clue

2:58 pm

more windy is bree****, si & that ending

3:00 pm

ro 7 please

3:00 pm

ro7 flower and c*** drink

3:01 pm

ty lynxx, i am feeling stupid....

3:01 pm

nah, tough grid

3:02 pm

btw lynxxx, i live in Melbourne, fl, your sister city

3:03 pm

what a coincidence, I think they are the only Melbournes

3:06 pm

our city was named after yours

3:06 pm

am5,12?

3:06 pm

that is probably the closest I will ever get to Melbourne, Australia

3:07 pm

Really? do you know why?

3:07 pm

am5.12 french friends

3:07 pm

can't remember at the moment but will look it up and tell you when I see you on Babble next time

3:08 pm

thanks lynxx!

3:09 pm

Melbourne here was named after the Queens Victoiria's first Prime Minister

3:13 pm

Mebourne Florida was named for its first Postmaster who had spent much of his life in Melbourne Victoria...better than being called Hector (which was his surname). Thankyou Google

3:13 pm

ironic, my birthday is the same as Queen Vicoria, May 24

3:14 pm

thanks for looking it up, I am supposed to be hard at work.....;)

3:15 pm

Lynxxx, thanx for clues...was called away for a moment, sorry!

3:16 pm

and you are near Cape Canaveral, that must be exciting

3:17 pm

I must away, bye everyone

3:17 pm

yes, have seen almost all launches since 1984 and it never fails to be gorgeous...especially at night.

3:17 pm

bye for now lynxxx

3:25 pm

any clues please for my last word si5/16 please?

3:25 pm

press it or drain it through a si5

3:25 pm

thanx DC

3:26 pm

yvw, flask

3:26 pm

Fireworks for flask!!!

3:26 pm

congrats, Flask :)

3:26 pm

Any clues needed before I go??

3:28 pm

Ok...G'nite all.....

3:37 pm

sweet dreams, Flask

3:40 pm

Can I get help with am6,24

3:40 pm

hi Cassi and hi babblers - am 6 - electrical unit

3:42 pm

haha, that took me a minute, thanks!

3:42 pm

i'm babbling furiously to finish (25 more) so I can get ready for an evening out on the town! (just a play, but it's not too often I get to have a real social life)

3:42 pm

what are you seeing tonight, jbv? (and hi all)

3:43 pm

hi, ch - it's a new play at the George St. Playhouse in New Brunswick - "A Moon to Dance By" based on the life of the wife of DH Lawrence

3:44 pm

Jane Alexander is in the lead

3:44 pm

Sounds interesting, and Jane A. is a superb actress. We will await your review :)

3:44 pm

ok, tune in tomorrow.. :)

3:46 pm

can I please have some clues for the R - all I have is one ra, one re, and two ro

3:46 pm

I just started, so not there :(

two of the ra words sound alike, the if you have the 5/10 remove a vowel, if you have the 4/4 add a vowel

3:48 pm

thanks, Luv - now I just need 3 more r's

yw, I don't have them all but I'll try to clue what I do have

re 6/24 to reimburse, re 4/7 to make an engine roar, re 4/4

3:50 pm

ro7 is an extension of ro4

re 4/4 re + what ** the problem?

3:52 pm

oh sorry Jbv..just saw you have both ro`s

3:53 pm

re6,24 to reimburse... still drawing blanks?!

3:54 pm

re + wages

past tense

never

3:54 pm

i was looking present tense, THANKS!

oops! pb for me

3:54 pm

re+ what day to you get

3:54 pm

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3:54 pm

3:54 pm

3:54 pm

3:54 pm

3:54 pm

3:54 pm

3:54 pm

3:55 pm

thats the second time my computer has done that...sorry everyone

3:55 pm

help with pe6 pls

3:56 pm

no worries :)

3:56 pm

people or as a single pe****

3:56 pm

I have a pe6 that is you, me, or anyone who is human is a pe*

3:56 pm

have we met in pe6 yet, peri?

3:56 pm

oooh, good one dc

3:57 pm

sheesh, thanks sceain

3:58 pm

:)

3:58 pm

how about ap5,12?

3:59 pm

it's a plural, cassi

plural the ap 4/5

4:00 pm

we haven't sceain, but I would like to some day soon

4:00 pm

thanks, luv... I forget to add plurals

4:00 pm

lol Peri, yes eventually we shall

yw Cassi

4:01 pm

;)

4:01 pm

GETTING TIRED OF THIS GRID, HELP WITH RA8 PLS

4:02 pm

so sorry for the caps

I thought you were yelling!

4:03 pm

ra8 = most of a sundried grape + number less than 2 with a stutter ;)

4:03 pm

hi all...here between naps...

thanks PIni

4:03 pm

merci, Pini, yet another French word in Babbleland

4:04 pm

;)

4:04 pm

very pretty flower, Luv

thanks peri, yours too

4:06 pm

help with the i words- i have no clue!

4:06 pm

please

4:07 pm

il5 = the Il*** and the Odyssey

4:07 pm

then remove the last letter for the il4

4:08 pm

pini!

4:08 pm

Thanks so much!

4:08 pm

you still home sick?

4:08 pm

yup...

4:08 pm

better than yesterday, but not as good as tomorrow

4:08 pm

did you eat the chicken soup and get plenty of rest?

4:09 pm

Are you going to watch the game tonight, Pini?

4:09 pm

they say it's not going to be aired here, BR :(

4:09 pm

I made some chicken soup yesterday...it helped...I've been getting quite a bit of sleep... ;)

4:10 pm

I should be able to hear it though...since I live about 1/4 mile from the stadium :(

4:10 pm

yikes pini!

4:10 pm

not even on the radio, pini?

4:11 pm

it never fails, jmc...it happens most games (especially when there's a TD), but this is our annual Civil War game and fight for the Rose Bowl berth

4:11 pm

oh, probably on the radio, dc...but most here would give anything to see it!

4:11 pm

As Reilly would say, "What a revolting development this is!"

4:11 pm

they're expecting an over-capacity crowd; close to 60,000

4:11 pm

Hope you feel better soon, Pini

4:12 pm

hi there, BR, how are you doing today?

4:12 pm

thx peri ;)

4:12 pm

13 left

4:12 pm

Doing okay, peri. Thanks for asking. Hope you are too.

4:12 pm

I am too, BR

4:13 pm

Civil War -- didn't think you guys were part of that!

4:13 pm

got snow yet?

4:13 pm

hi BR

4:13 pm

well, we really weren't, jmc...we are a bit too far west :)

4:13 pm

in fact hi all!

4:13 pm

going to forage for food in the kitchen, bbs to finish

4:13 pm

Yes, the ground is covered in white.

4:13 pm

Hello, jmc

4:13 pm

oh, how I wish, BR!

4:14 pm

The wind was howling and the snow was swirling last night

4:14 pm

really? envious...

4:16 pm

The windchill temp was in the minus this AM

4:17 pm

Although I'm not sure I'd want it all the time, I sure do miss times like that ;)

4:18 pm

Only four more months before spring brings about revitalization anew

4:19 pm

should be really pretty then, too ;)

4:21 pm

Cole will see snow for the first time.

4:22 pm

He will, but not sure he'll really notice 'cuz he's only 4 months old... :(

4:27 pm

It'll be tough to wait until next year when he'll be walking and his eyes will pop in awe at it! :)

4:35 pm

co 6/21 and co 5/22?

4:35 pm

co6,21 It's not smooth, but co****

4:35 pm

ext or variation of the first co5

4:37 pm

thanks, pini & cassi. got the co6. Now struggling with the co 5/22...

4:37 pm

use the high point tile in the middle

4:37 pm

Nevermind...duh!

4:41 pm

Finished, thank goodness and morewords!

4:42 pm

yay, jilli!!!

4:42 pm

wtg jilli!

4:43 pm

ar6?

4:43 pm

ar6 -- what's around a nipple

4:44 pm

thx jilli

4:44 pm

yw

4:46 pm

ver pretty butterfly, jilli

4:46 pm

back to find 11 words, hello all

4:47 pm

thx, peri -- no idea what is is (or isn't)

4:47 pm

can i have help with the so6/27 please and thanks

4:47 pm

very, even :)

4:47 pm

I got my H1N1 shot today. I am a happy camper. I'm asthmatic and have diabetes.

4:47 pm

hi peri -- I can clue for a bit

4:47 pm

good for you bichon

4:47 pm

ok, jilli will ask if I need help

4:48 pm

so6/27 usually starts with what

4:48 pm

thanks got it

4:48 pm

good for you, speed!

4:48 pm

jilli, it starts with what?

4:49 pm

usually, bichon -- whatso****

4:49 pm

ty jilli

4:50 pm

crazy word, like many here

4:50 pm

ty jilli, stupid word

4:52 pm

ep?

4:53 pm

ep -- ep*pen for allergics + where animals are kept for us to see, but change last vowel

4:54 pm

thx! :)

4:54 pm

that's the 6 -- the 7 has a diff ending like **e cream

4:54 pm

bingo...got 'em! :)

4:54 pm

help with ve6 pls

4:55 pm

hard to clue!

4:55 pm

ve6 -- ve + what sticks out of your face

4:56 pm

(the hard to clue was the ep)

4:56 pm

u did fab jill

4:57 pm

thanks, joanne!

4:57 pm

thanks jilli, that was my last word!

4:57 pm

no ty

4:57 pm

you did excellent!! :)

4:57 pm

now going to play scramble

4:57 pm

YAY peri!!!

4:57 pm

bye peri!

4:57 pm

ty jilli, see you next grid

4:57 pm

wtg peri congrats

4:59 pm

whoo hoo jill

4:59 pm

oops whoo hoo peri and bye

5:00 pm

hey jmc

5:00 pm

lol

5:00 pm

i need coffee or something

5:00 pm

hi joanne

5:00 pm

hi jmc ;)

5:01 pm

:-D

5:04 pm

i can not figure out the ai's

5:05 pm

calamari dipping sauce?

5:05 pm

the ai words are the garlicky mayonnaise -- ai + ***ve oil

5:06 pm

ty

5:07 pm

hi jilli and jmc

5:08 pm

he5/20 after more pot-like?

5:08 pm

oh, dhuh...nm got it

5:09 pm

good! the 20 gives a hint

5:09 pm

hi boobear

5:10 pm

sure did, jilli ;)

5:10 pm

clue pini??

5:10 pm

cute icon, boo!

5:10 pm

he4 + sometimes vowel

5:10 pm

ty jilli

5:10 pm

got it

5:10 pm

ty

5:11 pm

jill first ai6 related to the other 2?

5:11 pm

no

5:11 pm

hi boo

5:12 pm

think medical EMTs

5:12 pm

lol shoot had it ty tho

5:13 pm

i thought i did the one without the second vowel

5:14 pm

np

5:14 pm

i don't have it

5:15 pm

don't have what?

5:15 pm

no, first ai is not related -- helpful big boys

5:15 pm

ty jill now i do

5:15 pm

amerse

5:15 pm

oops sorry

5:16 pm

monkies got loose

5:16 pm

too bad it wasn't a good word! :(

5:16 pm

i no

5:16 pm

ar 6 or 7??

5:17 pm

am6 = electrical term

5:17 pm

if you're looking for the am6, it's am + French father

5:17 pm

has that

5:17 pm

ar

5:17 pm

ar7 = to be + smelling organ

5:18 pm

ar7 -- ar + I am, you ***, he is + smeller

5:18 pm

ty

5:18 pm

ar6 -- same first three letters + Coca C***

5:19 pm

ty ty

5:20 pm

ty

5:20 pm

yw

5:21 pm

sorry about the ar7 clue -- superfluous ar at the beginning

5:24 pm

going foraging...back shortly

5:24 pm

getting it is all that counts

5:26 pm

first co6??

5:27 pm

hb pini

5:27 pm

first co6 -- not fine but co****

5:27 pm

omg ty

5:28 pm

OR -- co + brit backside ;)

I started late- have 61 left, but have to go to a school meeting so I won't be seeing any fireworks tonite

5:28 pm

hi kap :)

5:29 pm

this is a stinker anyway, imho

5:30 pm

no kidding

5:32 pm

well i give tonight so have great nite all and congrats to all

5:32 pm

it is!

5:32 pm

byeeee

5:33 pm

night jo

5:33 pm

bye joanne! *waves*

5:33 pm

nite nite

5:33 pm

kap -- don't you want your flag etc?

5:33 pm

li6/18?

5:34 pm

li6/18 -- to connect with, and the 7 is the noun

5:34 pm

li + Pr**** the Lord

5:35 pm

thx!

5:35 pm

or, if you prefer, li + r**** hell ;)

5:35 pm

choices choices

5:35 pm

apparently the 7 is not a plural

5:35 pm

hehe

5:36 pm

no -- as I saaid, it's the noun. Ends in daddy's little boy

5:36 pm

oh sorry

5:38 pm

li7...the man in the middle ;)

5:38 pm

yep

5:38 pm

I should be addressing Xmas cards . . .

5:40 pm

that would be very dedicated of you jill

5:40 pm

how about the li5 after falsehoods?

5:44 pm

li5 -- start at the bottom and go straight up

5:44 pm

excellent clue! :)

5:44 pm

lol good clue!

5:45 pm

diagonal right for the 6

5:45 pm

deducted that one, jilli :)

5:46 pm

i am not sure that is deductible

5:47 pm

actually, it's "deduced", isn't it?

5:47 pm

;)

5:47 pm

yes it is deduced

5:47 pm

you're right...my bad!

5:48 pm

does anyone need a clue for the ma7?

5:49 pm

sure jill

5:49 pm

m + Cassius Clay's little boy

5:49 pm

very cute jill

5:49 pm

ty

5:50 pm

ooh, very clever, jilli (had it...but that's a cool clue)!

5:50 pm

:)

5:50 pm

i would have clued bad boy

5:50 pm

what about the i?

5:51 pm

i thought that was included in the bad part

5:51 pm

but ai see your point

5:51 pm

il5 = Il*** and Odyssey

5:51 pm

yours is a much better clue

5:52 pm

no no pini she meant the i in the ma7! lol

5:52 pm

yeah, I see that now!!!! LOL

5:52 pm

well, bad in French is just mal

5:53 pm

in latin it is mali

5:54 pm

malignant

5:54 pm

OK -- could also say West African offspring

5:54 pm

no no i think the clue is perfect!

5:55 pm

help with the Y

5:55 pm

Well, I thought it was fun ;)

5:56 pm

it was fun to play with the clue

y+ r**** noodles

5:56 pm

hi fuqua! and ty

hi jmc!

5:57 pm

BTW, my Chamers Latin Dictionary says bad = malus

5:59 pm

* Chambers's

6:00 pm

hmmm well then i stand corrected!

6:00 pm

hi fuquay!

hi jilli!

6:01 pm

pretty bird, fuquay -- what is it?

mountain bluebird, from our vacation in CO this summer

6:02 pm

lovely! Lucky to get a picture!

yes, they were all around on the ranch where we were staying, so got lots of good looks at them

6:04 pm

help with the bottom A

Any clue on the ve6/27?

6:05 pm

I'm going to call you FV, if that's ok with you. Saves possible typos ;)

no prob, jilli

6:05 pm

hi rumps

6:05 pm

ve + what you smell with

bottom A= plant you rub on burns

6:06 pm

have you finished, FV?

6:06 pm

ty fuqua

6:06 pm

what are the stats on the Z?

nowhere near, jilli. still have 59 to go and not making much progress

6:06 pm

no clue yet though

TY Jilli, 9 left

zo4/10

6:07 pm

zo4/10

6:07 pm

go rumps go

6:07 pm

gogogo rumps!

6:07 pm

ty

How about the re6/24

gave back the money you borrowed, rumple

6:08 pm

re6/24 -- you borrowed, then you re****

6:08 pm

nbt

TY TY TY

6:09 pm

wtg jmc!

yay jmc!

6:09 pm

well done, jmc!

6:10 pm

does everyone have the 8?

6:11 pm

oui

6:11 pm

yes

6:11 pm

bon

not me! clue?

6:12 pm

I see there's no def

6:12 pm

versa is not a word ?????

6:12 pm

ra + vowel + Shakespeare wrote *****ts (poems)

that's a word in English??

6:13 pm

I guess it's Latin, jmc, but try a diff last vowel

6:13 pm

no, FV!

ty for 8

6:14 pm

have that one! ty

6:15 pm

the 8 is French and should have an accent aigue on the last letter.

yes, I see

6:16 pm

and it means?

6:16 pm

to reason - hi!

evidently a catalogue ra8 is an art term meaning a monograph containing a complete listing of an artist's works

6:17 pm

catslogued, sort of (I followed the ?)

6:17 pm

hi eno!

6:17 pm

hi eno :)

6:18 pm

nice grid? Just starting it and got a clue for the 8 (he he)

6:18 pm

how many, jmc?

6:18 pm

an er ending would be to reason. Tis would be reasoned.

6:18 pm

yeah, good luck on the rest, eno! LOL

6:18 pm

Horrible grid, eno!

6:18 pm

oh no!

6:18 pm

hi all. h ope it's a nice grid..

6:18 pm

hi dorens ;)

6:18 pm

nope it is not dorens

6:18 pm

hi dorens

6:18 pm

Hi dorens. It isn't imho.

6:18 pm

nice is not a word in the grid tonight

6:18 pm

oh no! .. and hi pini, enomis, jilli and jmc

6:19 pm

what's going on? seems there have been a lot like this lately..

6:19 pm

Hi everyone. It looks like a lot of us just got home from work right now.

6:19 pm

yesterday's smaller grid was easier than this one!!!

6:20 pm

just random, I guess. At least this one has one S.

6:20 pm

I had a busy busy day and didn't get to do more than about 30 during my lunch break

6:20 pm

Hi bugs!

6:20 pm

hi bugs

6:20 pm

I've been in/out between naps...still have 15 to find...

6:20 pm

dorens, did you try Expert at work?

6:20 pm

pini and I skipped the work part

6:20 pm

96 left

6:21 pm

lunch break is a euphemism.... was on phone, checking emails (work-related), counseling a crying kid who doesn't ever want to come back to school (well, now she does) in between the 8 meetings we had with parents of kids with problems

6:21 pm

yeah, jmc...but I'm not sure it helped today!

6:21 pm

naps, pini? You ailing?

6:21 pm

sorry I am behind on my icon jilli. I have been so tired at night lately

6:21 pm

poor kid

6:21 pm

been home sick since yesterday (better today, but not as good as tomorrow) :)

6:21 pm

no, not yeet jilli... maybe will have time next week... still haven't asked lickety to mail it to my work email address.. but i will

6:22 pm

no prob, bugs! It's cheery!

6:22 pm

poor pini

6:22 pm

then you get the weekend off

6:22 pm

are you a school counsellor Dorens? That is a tough job

6:22 pm

well, tmw is friday...and may go in tmw

6:23 pm

sometimes it's tough bugs, but i sure am happy i'm not in the classroom anymore

6:23 pm

I've been feeling like crap lately -- no sniffles but a cough, chills, no fever, achy, no appetite.

6:23 pm

don't go in if you feel bad pini --ata keeps makng that mistake

6:23 pm

poor jill

6:24 pm

yep...still playing it by ear...

6:24 pm

...and Koda's getting into the garbage can...brb

6:24 pm

poor jili and poor pini. hope you feel better soon

6:24 pm

sometime kids just wnat to skip class so they go to the counsellor but others are in terrible situations and there is so little anyone can realy do.

6:24 pm

this too shall pass

6:24 pm

did you get your flu shots jilli?

6:24 pm

wish we could have parents pass licensing exam before they have kids

6:25 pm

got the seasonal shot, bugs, not the H1N1 yet.

6:25 pm

ME TOO Dorens

6:25 pm

my school life was a living hell but i ne5 went to the counselor because they all knew my mother

6:25 pm

I am sure you are safe then jilli.

6:26 pm

i don't tell parents everything... some i don't tell anything

6:26 pm

I was in the same boat jmc because my mother was the problem but everyone knew how wonderful my Dad was. He just wasn't home a lot

6:26 pm

and this is hardly the time to get the H1N1, when I'm feeling crappy, right?

6:26 pm

mother taught at the jr until the year before i started there and at the hs the whole time i was there

6:27 pm

my mother wasn't the problem

6:27 pm

in fact i had her as an english teacher for 2 1/2 years

6:27 pm

I really should go and do those Xmas cards . . .

6:27 pm

:-(

6:27 pm

Yes they wont let you get it if you are already sick. It is not nearly as serious as most people think, unless you have serious health issues to begin with

6:28 pm

I need to take a break for jeopardy

6:28 pm

bbl

6:28 pm

do mine while you're at it, jilli! :)

6:28 pm

well, there's less need for us ancients to get it anyway. I had all kinds of flu as a kid in China.

6:29 pm

Ha ha, pini!

6:29 pm

my mom was school nurse at a different school in my district. The one time as a senior I cut school and went to the shore with my friends, my school nurse, of course, called my mom and asked what ws wrong

6:29 pm

can't blame me for asking!

6:29 pm

jili, it seems they are recommending it for younger folks, not us over 50 folks

6:29 pm

exactement, dorens

6:29 pm

that is exactly what they told me when i had my shots. Apparently there was a flu in 1958 that is quite similar and protects us to a better extent

6:30 pm

so there are some advantages to being aged!

6:30 pm

I had the seasonal flu shot about a month ago. My rather odd bridge partner says that's why I feel bad now. She refuses to get any shots.

6:31 pm

But I was 12 in 1958, why wouldn't I have had protection. I got mine today because I have two underlying health coditions

6:31 pm

i don't think that's why you feel bad jilli... there are so many germs... so many things to make you feel bad.

6:31 pm

good thing, bichon!

6:31 pm

I was a -2 in 1958 (heck, my parents weren't even married...)

6:32 pm

i was 8 in 58 and i have COPD and work in a school where kids are coming down with flus all the time, but my dr. said all i need was my seasonal, which I got a month ago

6:32 pm

I haven't had any shots this season and yesterday was my "hit by a bus" day...

6:32 pm

aper

6:32 pm

SORRY

6:32 pm

aper

6:32 pm

hit by a bus?

6:32 pm

dorens, I'm quite sure it has NOTHNG to do with the flu shot I had! That woman has all sorts of weird ideas about diet and medicine.

6:32 pm

the button doesn't work

6:33 pm

nm, bugs!

6:33 pm

yeah...feeling sick, dorens

6:34 pm

i made a turkey chili with chipotle peppers in adobo and it is so good... i just ate a whole bowl full, and i know i don't really need any more, but i just want the taste in my mouth. someone give me some willpower, I am trying to lose a couple of pounds

6:34 pm

sorry pini, and i sure hope it isn't flu

6:35 pm

oh, I think it will be, dorens...

6:35 pm

I even have the huge box open that you told me about but I keep going to the chog by habit... It will take soon jilli. Have faith

6:36 pm

i keep trying to enter "mayhem" :)

6:37 pm

ok, no one gave me any will power.. i'm off for my second bowl

6:38 pm

enjoy some for me...

6:38 pm

chicken soup is getting old!

we're all too jealous, dorens

6:38 pm

oh bugs, use Lickety Add!!!!!

6:39 pm

bugs, scroll the chog so that the square for your chat is hidden. That'll larn ya.

6:39 pm

mmmmm.. fresh cilantro too

6:40 pm

(passing on the cilantro)

6:40 pm

well fuquay, you might beat the pants off me in lexulous, but at least i am eating well

6:40 pm

I prefer parsley to cilantro

6:40 pm

BTW: did you know dislike for cilantro is something you're born with

6:40 pm

i think it's one of those things you either love or hate

6:40 pm

interesting, pini!

6:41 pm

i know i thought it tasted like soap at first, but somehow acquired the taste (or so i thought! maybe i really always liked it but didn't reallize??)

i'm not wild about cilantro either -- tastes soapy to me

6:41 pm

FV beats the pants off dorens in Lex? Wow!

she's exaggerating, jilli

6:42 pm

guess I should "pre-disposition"

6:42 pm

oh please!! fuquay does it all the time!!

6:42 pm

I think it tastes like dirt

6:42 pm

well, dorens beats the pants off me.

6:42 pm

dorens slaughters me!

6:42 pm

pini, I'm with you. Just don't like it.

6:42 pm

jili it seems to me to be largely luck

6:43 pm

baloney, dorens -- you win consistently

6:43 pm

see fuquay, I'm not totally pitiful... just against you (and sometimes ata)

luck is most of it, but I don't know why my luck against nrkii is so often so terrible....

6:43 pm

... and Fireworks!

ata beats me on a regular basis too

6:44 pm

nrkii beats me too, but not always (at first she did, but i managed to win once or twice)

6:44 pm

YAY merk!!!

6:44 pm

wtg merk

6:44 pm

I hope you can stay to clue, merk -- I have those Xmas cards summoning me.

6:44 pm

yay merk. what was the trick? this is killing me and i still have 93 left!

6:44 pm

ty, it only took me a whole day of coming and going to finally stick with it long enough to finish.

6:44 pm

see you tomorrow

6:45 pm

I couldn't have finished without Lickety and morewords

6:46 pm

and the odd clue in the chog

6:46 pm

+

6:46 pm

+.

6:46 pm

Good evening to my fellow babblers!How is everyone?

6:46 pm

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

6:46 pm

sorry...that was Koda's buttocks on the keyboard! :)

6:46 pm

i'm so tempted jili, but I can't remember ever going to lickety this early... not even halfway yet!

6:46 pm

Hi minveryork!

6:46 pm

Hi all. I have a few minutes after dinner. 35 to go.

6:47 pm

hi min, wht

6:47 pm

Hello wht! How are you doing? Welcome to the puzzle

6:47 pm

dorens, I think going to Lickety when you have Expert is quite different from when you don't. No need to Bulk Add -- everyhting goes there automatically

6:48 pm

hi wht

6:48 pm

how fantastic.

6:49 pm

Yes!

6:49 pm

i have a feeling once i've tried it i'll have a strong urge to run out and buy a pc, just exclusively for babble

6:50 pm

You might get a second-hand laptop, dorens!

6:50 pm

i might do that!

6:51 pm

Hi! Can anyone help me with ma7? I need a clue.

6:51 pm

I really must go . . . back when my conscience is clearer.

6:51 pm

ma7 -- ma + Cassius Clay's little boy

6:51 pm

what's wrong with your conscience jilli?

6:52 pm

I should have been addressing Xmas cards

6:52 pm

jili- I don't know ali's son's name!

6:52 pm

don't forget mine! :)

6:53 pm

oh goodness... we need you here to clue far more than your xmas cards need addressing... you can't mail them tonight anyway

6:53 pm

jae...use what you just wrote to get the ma7

6:53 pm

jae -- remove the apostrophe s from the middle of that

6:53 pm

hello everyone

6:54 pm

hi annie

6:54 pm

hi annie... have you done this monster?

6:54 pm

hi annie!

6:54 pm

ty for the ma

6:54 pm

jilli---there was a great clue in that answer

6:54 pm

Hey Babblers :)

6:54 pm

I have 35 left in this monster

6:54 pm

Hi Aussie!!

6:54 pm

hey aussieeeee

6:55 pm

Annie, did you see the original at 6:51?

6:55 pm

hi aussie

6:55 pm

Hi Aussie!

6:55 pm

I still do not get it...I must be dumb today- removing the ' just makes a six-letter word...

6:55 pm

Yes, I did, jilli but your reply to jaleigh gave it to me

6:55 pm

Hey Annie :) Piniiiii :) Jilli :) Dorens :)

6:56 pm

m + girl's name that combines Muhammad's last name and boy child

6:56 pm

jae -- it starts with m, then the boxer, then the kid

6:56 pm

m + al**** is a popular girl's name lately

6:57 pm

Slap me with a fish! I forgot the "M"!!!!

6:57 pm

LOL!!!

6:57 pm

ROFL.... **have a whale Jae**

6:58 pm

Just call me Jonah! LOL!

6:58 pm

brb

6:58 pm

mi5/12? the first (unless it's a fish)

6:59 pm

Hurry back Jilli, we miss you already :)

6:59 pm

ar 7 please?

6:59 pm

ar7 = to be + smeller

6:59 pm

like the little wiggly things on a cell Mi+ "el" + two vowels

7:00 pm

thx jae!

7:00 pm

yw!

7:01 pm

ty pini

7:02 pm

hello, babblers!

7:02 pm

hi welki

7:03 pm

Hey welki :)

7:03 pm

enough cluers here for a while?

7:04 pm

wow...the news is on...

7:04 pm

and >>>

7:04 pm

and...?

7:04 pm

The news is always on at 5 Pini

7:04 pm

...they're saying that in addition to the normal number of cars that show up for a college game; tonight's game is expecting an addition 15,000 vehicles!

7:04 pm

Hi DR. are you here to play or clue?

7:05 pm

Thats a lot of cars extra Pini !

7:05 pm

(and it's about 1/4-1/2 mile from my house

7:05 pm

huh! (and i don't even know what college game she's talking about)

7:05 pm

Hi Bugs- I am searching for words

7:05 pm

thx DR! :O

Woo Hoo. I've got fireworks @#$%^&*()_ Bye all. Time for Survivor.

7:05 pm

WOW Pini- stay home!

7:05 pm

night rumple...well done

7:05 pm

YAY Rumple..... Nice to see you again xoxox

7:05 pm

yay rumple! good job

7:05 pm

HUrray Rumple. well done

7:05 pm

Don't plan on it, DR...

7:05 pm

YAY rumps!!!

7:05 pm

...it's too cold to go out and sit in the cold!

7:06 pm

...and it's not being televised locally!

7:06 pm

UGH!!!

7:06 pm

I hope they get rid of that wierd Russell guy tonight but I think they all might be as dumb as he says they are.

7:06 pm

might have to see if I get the ESPN channel they noted.

7:06 pm

getting cold here, too. -15c this morning (wind chill -25c) ... blizzard conditions tomorrow

7:06 pm

oh no- that is bad Pini- such decisions

Hi and Bye Aussieme. Missed you earlier.

7:07 pm

heck, i hope russell wins ... he's got the outwit, outplay so far

7:07 pm

DR...I wouldn't go anyway, I've been home sick since yesterday

7:07 pm

that IS cold, welki

7:07 pm

cold here too -- +5C

7:07 pm

uhm, that's balmy, jilli *lol*

7:07 pm

I don't watch Survivor

7:07 pm

everyone has that cold Pini- people all over my office are sneezing and sniffling

7:07 pm

welki - dumping out your team mates water is not outwitting anyone!

7:07 pm

Just bragging, welki ;)

7:08 pm

it's 2C here...

7:08 pm

I had to host a conference call for my boss yesterday because she was sick

7:08 pm

that was a long time ago ... i

7:08 pm

si^?

7:08 pm

no sneezing or sniffling, DR...just some on/off fever and sinus headache

7:08 pm

which is where, pini? Not in your profile.

7:08 pm

* avoiding the weather convo

7:08 pm

si6?

7:08 pm

Oregon

7:08 pm

i'd be inclined to forgive him that one time ... i think he's the most clever player, but heck, maybe the blond girl will win .. appears clueless, but maybe foxy

7:09 pm

brb

7:09 pm

Hmf! South of here!

7:09 pm

jillli, you're up around VBC, right?

7:10 pm

Well, I'm going to do some of those cards. See you later -- happy babbling

7:10 pm

Yes, pini

7:10 pm

I need si 6/21...any clues for this fish would be helpful...

7:10 pm

enjoy hjilli

7:10 pm

I'm about 4 hours south of Stid ;)

7:10 pm

I don't have it, yet, jae

7:11 pm

si6 ... more of how you pick clothes from a rack in a store .. not by color, not by style, but by what fits ..

7:11 pm

I am not finding it as interesting as I used to welki. It has gone on long enough that they chose players to fit the formula but I am a student of human behaviour so I like to see how easily some people can be manipulated. I also like to watch the leaders and how they motivate people. Trouble is, now anyone who is a leader gets voted out first and only the creeps are left.

7:11 pm

si + indefinite article + cover for jar

7:11 pm

oh, shoot...I do have that si6

7:12 pm

but not that one!, thx jilli

7:12 pm

the clothing si6 is 6/33

7:12 pm

It's interesting being a "fly on the wall" watching those programs...but, you're right, it is becoming "staged" imho...

7:12 pm

oops .. only saw jae's request for si6

7:13 pm

TY for both si6 clues

7:13 pm

there's si6 x 2

7:13 pm

indefinite article???

7:13 pm

hi scrabs!

7:13 pm

'evening, scrabbs

7:13 pm

first letter of the alphabet, jae

7:13 pm

hiya scrabs

7:13 pm

hi scrabs

7:13 pm

Hi kids!

7:14 pm

Hi Scrabbs

7:14 pm

I was thinking of "an" and going "Huh?" Pass me another whale....

7:14 pm

I can't resist clueing

7:14 pm

How is everyone?

7:14 pm

da7? (i am not going to be shy about asking for clues... this is a tough tough grid)

7:14 pm

blue? or humpback?

7:15 pm

da7 = yearlies, monthlies, weeklies, da7

7:15 pm

you're good at it, jilli!

7:15 pm

newspapers printed each day are called this

7:15 pm

da 7 -- the morning newspapers

7:15 pm

evening peeps -- is there a clue for the Y?

7:15 pm

ty pini. and jili

7:15 pm

ya + big boys

7:15 pm

thx pini

7:15 pm

and jae (those things I have piled up on top of eavh other cause i have no time to read them any more? the new york times?)

7:15 pm

me5/14?

7:16 pm

y + word for "so be it"

7:16 pm

oh ty i have been trying every possible combo

7:16 pm

Does anyone have a clue for the two ne6's

7:16 pm

not me, wht

7:16 pm

one ne6 = pl of ne5 = body's network that send impulses

7:16 pm

ne + about + not ego

7:17 pm

ne + about + I am, you are, he **

7:17 pm

then change the last letter for the other ne6

7:17 pm

Hi gang- I'm back

7:17 pm

Welcome

7:17 pm

Hi DR

7:18 pm

hi DR

7:18 pm

this is a hard grid tonight -- grr

7:18 pm

Hi Scrabs and Annie and Jilli and Knit and Pini and Wht and Dorens

7:18 pm

ok, as I said, lots of cluers, so bfn

7:18 pm

Can you believe that my last word was the beginning of that really addictive drug that is the star of a movie??????

7:19 pm

I am starting with Z instead of A tonight

7:19 pm

hi dr

7:19 pm

Hi aknitter

7:19 pm

good luck, DR

7:19 pm

star of a movie??

7:20 pm

ty Jili. I got the first one, still monkeying for the second

7:20 pm

ty Pini I am about 70 words in

7:20 pm

did I miss the me5/14 clue?

7:20 pm

The guy who beats the bad guys is a he**!!! And I missed it! Fireworks!

7:20 pm

wht, change the 2nd to a pl (remove last cons0

7:21 pm

Yay jae!

7:21 pm

pini, me 5/14---me and I hope that you are not sic* tomorrow

7:21 pm

WTG Jae

7:21 pm

oh, nice one, jae!

7:21 pm

This was a "whale" of a puzzle for me!!! LOL! ROFL!

7:21 pm

thx annie! :)

7:22 pm

ty pini.

7:22 pm

(great clue, annie...considering there's no K in the grid) * grin *

7:22 pm

how can there be 10 words that start with C - i just do not believe it

7:22 pm

DRAT----I did it. Instead of astericks I typed the letters. I hope there are goodies in the PB

7:22 pm

there are, AK...i found 'em!!! :)

7:22 pm

ty for applause...you are a good audience today....I feel like I should get a prize of a basket of fish!

7:22 pm

(among other players)

7:23 pm

i thought it was an excellent clue - straight and to the point

7:23 pm

chocolate for sure annie

7:23 pm

it was the 22 H's that threw me!

7:23 pm

thinks pini is hallucinating

7:23 pm

* giggel *

7:23 pm

* le

7:23 pm

yup hallucinating

7:23 pm

I broke out of double digits!!!!

7:24 pm

I have 5 H's and 5 C's- I am with Knitter

7:24 pm

Yep, Pini is on something

7:24 pm

still working on the 25 S's!

7:24 pm

i found the c's.... the l's and s's are hurting me

7:24 pm

* it must be the fever talking again *

7:24 pm

Exactly halfway!

7:24 pm

anyone neeed a fishy cliue? like hy&/44- a type of active kid+ not off

7:25 pm

TY, Jae

7:25 pm

*7

7:25 pm

C's please

7:25 pm

ty Jae

7:25 pm

wow...the game starts in 35 minutes and they're still standing in lines to get into the gates...

7:26 pm

Which game?

7:26 pm

You can get four words building off co+ the last letter of the alphabet!

7:26 pm

the last 5 co's (5 6 5 6 6) are variations/extensions of "snuggly"

7:26 pm

Pini- Is Mr Kilkenny there?

7:26 pm

QUack, quack

7:26 pm

* that's three- one substitutes an "S"

7:26 pm

Has anyone else noticed the connection between the hy5 and the se5 - although they can connect only once.

7:26 pm

hah wht!

7:26 pm

Don't know, DR...would he be among the estimated 60,000 attendees???

7:27 pm

Yes! I thought it very amusing!

7:27 pm

My computer suffered a major virus infection. Three days in the hospital, home today. I have lost my email lsit. Write me something Scrab

7:27 pm

WHo knows-

7:27 pm

those co's are lame

7:27 pm

hi everyone!

7:27 pm

oh no, ing!

7:27 pm

oh Inge! how awful-

7:27 pm

dawg!

7:27 pm

wow, i hit halfway thanks to annie

7:27 pm

Pini, are you feeling better today?

7:28 pm

also the area aro9nd the nipple.... a very bodily puzzle!

7:28 pm

this grid is tough. think i'll list now.

7:28 pm

Hi AK

7:28 pm

hi, everybody

7:28 pm

sorry inge, that sounds painful

7:28 pm

ar6

7:28 pm

hey DC

7:28 pm

ar = to be + smeller

7:28 pm

hey dawg

7:28 pm

hi, dawg

7:28 pm

hi lbd

7:28 pm

and hi seain too

7:28 pm

hi Dorens

7:29 pm

Hi Pini

7:29 pm

I was cluing ar6- the area around the nipple!

7:29 pm

hi dawg

7:29 pm

lbdddd !! Seain !!

7:29 pm

dinner came out way spice. Too much vindaloo powder in the stir-fry

7:29 pm

ty, jae

7:29 pm

a tassel? that could be around the nipple LOL

7:29 pm

hi Welki, hi AAAUUUSSSIIIEEE!!!

7:29 pm

hi, aussie

7:29 pm

bbl!

7:30 pm

ak ar6 is the area around a nipple

7:30 pm

very funny, ak!

7:30 pm

oh, sorry, lbd...missed your query...yes, feeling better than yesterd, but hopefully not as good as tomorrow :)

7:30 pm

i know just being an ar $

7:30 pm

4 even

7:30 pm

...or a pastie

7:30 pm

or nothing...

7:31 pm

well, don't push it, Pini. you need to rest and get well!

7:31 pm

thx...I'm taking it easy...I don't get sick often, so this has actually not been so bad...

7:33 pm

hi dawg and dc

7:33 pm

OK, Inge, I sent you an e-mail so that you know my e-mail address.

7:33 pm

Does anyone have the am6?

7:33 pm

hi annie!

7:33 pm

am + french father

7:33 pm

am6 - unit of electric current

7:33 pm

(I think)

7:34 pm

thanks dc and pini

7:34 pm

(good timing for me to arrive

7:34 pm

Hey Scrabs.... Sorry I missed saying hello to you...

7:34 pm

ty pini and dcs. I suppose it would have helped to be looking at the right A tostart.

7:35 pm

you're thinking faster than me, Pini!

7:35 pm

hi ru ;)

7:35 pm

hi, ru

7:35 pm

Hi scrabs! hi ru

7:35 pm

hi ruru

7:35 pm

hi ru

7:35 pm

is the baby here, ru?

7:35 pm

hi everyone...

7:35 pm

Hey ruru

7:35 pm

hey, ruru

7:35 pm

hi everyone

7:36 pm

hi Jen

7:36 pm

hi jen

7:36 pm

he arrived last night lbd..20 oz

7:36 pm

ohhh, it must be getting very close, ru!

7:36 pm

cool, ruru, mom and baby are well?

7:36 pm

congrats, ru!!!

7:36 pm

WOW! good sized!

7:36 pm

hold on, baby what ??

7:36 pm

mom and three babbles are fine

7:36 pm

wonderful!!! only a few weeks!

7:36 pm

furball, aussie

7:37 pm

have you seen him yet?

7:37 pm

what sort of furball ?

7:37 pm

just photos so far.. very nice looking

7:37 pm

three's a good number

7:37 pm

you'll have to post some photos, ru ... it's like we're all aunts and uncles here!

7:37 pm

and baxter, his distant cousin :)

7:38 pm

absolutely.. gotta figure out how to do it

7:38 pm

wait, what sort of furball ??

7:38 pm

dog of some strip, aussie, i'm guessing

7:38 pm

see ru's icon. that's the sire

7:38 pm

golden Ret aussie

7:38 pm

Ohhhhhh...... Cute !!

7:39 pm

How nice!

7:39 pm

I am thrilled..he was the first one out.. the first escapee

7:39 pm

(he doesn't look at it that way though)

7:39 pm

* giggle *

7:39 pm

brave little fella

7:40 pm

How happy I am for you ruru... **proud Aunt look**

7:40 pm

annie, your grandson was in here the other night. seemed like a nice fella

7:40 pm

You could put photos on flickr.com, it is free Ruru :-)

7:40 pm

thanks.. I am happy for the first time in a while

7:40 pm

I will try that zooz thanks

7:40 pm

he's going to bring you a lot of love and joy, ru. you deserve it!

7:40 pm

Annie's Grandson was here ? Oooh, who is he ?

7:41 pm

ar 7 anyone? I am lost on those first two ar's

7:41 pm

dawg, I bet that was Jack-the 11 year old

7:41 pm

ar7 = to be + smeller

7:41 pm

just found one of them

7:41 pm

ar7 to be + breather in the middle of your face

7:41 pm

ar7 ar+letter + not eyes or mouth

7:41 pm

pi6?

7:42 pm

a twisty one.. thank you

7:42 pm

I have too many to go.. ugh

7:42 pm

Annie, i wish my rememberer was better, i don't recall his name. he just asked if any of us knew his gramma anniebrook

7:42 pm

but you can do it, ru!

7:42 pm

pi6 pi+ i win you **** another word for lost

7:43 pm

pi + not win

7:43 pm

dawg, His name is Jack.

7:43 pm

thx lbd! :)

7:43 pm

Thanks, dawg

7:43 pm

Well, I hope jack comes back and plays the game again. he was quite the gentleman.

7:44 pm

dawg, He's a nice kid. He's 11.

7:44 pm

I'm impressed by his manners, annie. praise his parents and him!

7:44 pm

Ruru, are these puppies related to Monty?

7:44 pm

I'm sorry I missed him. Thanks for the kind words.

7:45 pm

yes.. the boy in the icon is monty's half brother

7:46 pm

have you chosen a name, ru?

7:46 pm

You will fall in love with the pups. Did you choose one already? a male?

7:46 pm

The last li5,14?

7:46 pm

nah.. not yet.. want to feel/see his personality.

7:47 pm

straight up the middle, wht ;)

7:47 pm

wht---fat in the blood

7:47 pm

then add a hook

7:47 pm

li + letter after O + freud's littlest friend

7:47 pm

2 Labs, long-time residents, have died in the last few weeks--I miss Cody + Hershey.

7:47 pm

ty annie

7:48 pm

i made food WAY too hot. it's giving me hiccoughs

7:48 pm

youre welcome

7:48 pm

3 to go.

7:48 pm

go wht!

7:48 pm

go wht go!!

7:48 pm

gonna need another cider, methinks

7:48 pm

**pats Seain on the back, then offers a drink of water**

7:48 pm

ep 6?

7:48 pm

oooh DC, try eating some bread.

7:49 pm

sal. salvador ... because he's your wee saviour :)

7:49 pm

no bread in house, so drinking it instead

7:49 pm

read my icon dc

7:49 pm

ep+ vowel + small critter as in proto***

7:50 pm

e + 3.14 + proto***

7:50 pm

thank you

7:51 pm

scrabs, i think your clinic needs to adopt another set of furballs.

7:51 pm

os5?

7:51 pm

ruru, you say read your icon, what do you mean ? because if you mean your rpofile, it just says BOOO !

7:51 pm

milk will help neutralize the spice, whereas alcohol only enhances it.

7:51 pm

*profile*

7:51 pm

yes, what aussie sad

7:51 pm

wanted to scare the hiccups outta DC

7:52 pm

My friend gave me some curried pumpkin soup that she promised was not very hot.....raging inferno in my esophagus + stomach!

7:52 pm

nm. I just got it.

7:52 pm

OHHHHHHH !! lol ruru !

7:52 pm

Haha, Ruru!

7:52 pm

wht, more OS***

7:52 pm

ti, pini

7:53 pm

ty.

7:53 pm

ti?

7:53 pm

bb in a bit. have to walk the dog

7:53 pm

see you in a while ruru :)

7:54 pm

hb

7:54 pm

enjoy the walk, ru

7:54 pm

njoy, ruru

7:54 pm

i'll be back in an hour. new bones is on in 6 minutes!

7:54 pm

hb

7:55 pm

enjoy the show, dawg...later

7:55 pm

see ya soon lbd...

7:55 pm

I only have the first mi5,12 and the re5,10 to go.

7:55 pm

ok, got to puddle off for a while myself.... see you all in a bit.... **poof**

7:55 pm

bye lbd

7:55 pm

cya aussie

7:55 pm

Bye Aussie

7:55 pm

bye Aussie, give Georgia a kiss and hug from me

7:56 pm

hasta, aussie

7:58 pm

sorry, got distracted by cleaning up the kitchen. back to finish now

7:58 pm

i am so having ice cream right after this meal

7:58 pm

hi dor hi e1

7:58 pm

wb, doren

7:59 pm

hi wild. and all others

7:59 pm

hi wild, dc, everyone

8:00 pm

hi welk

8:00 pm

hamer

8:01 pm

Can I have a clue for the first mi5,12 for fireworks?

8:02 pm

mi + stick + 2 vowels

8:02 pm

m + the odyssey and the ****d

8:02 pm

well, one of those b ooks by homer

8:03 pm

ty pini and dorens. And you had the book right.

8:03 pm

fireworks

8:03 pm

ty, doren

8:03 pm

so yay wht! i'll be there soon

8:03 pm

wtg wht!!

8:03 pm

congrats, wht

8:03 pm

ty to all who gave me clues.

8:03 pm

Congrats, wht!!

8:03 pm

wtg wht

8:04 pm

Need a clue dorens. I owe you a couple.

8:04 pm

Although mostly people tell me I don't have a clue :^)

8:05 pm

fireworks!! (weird last word.. whatso****)

8:05 pm

wtg dorens

8:05 pm

Yahoo Doren!

8:05 pm

thanks anyway wht... you don't owe me... i actually enjoy cluing.. thanks are plenty

8:05 pm

yay dorens!

8:05 pm

wtg dorens

8:06 pm

YAY for dorens!!!!

8:06 pm

It seems the last word is often a fish.

8:06 pm

well, the word was so6/27--- not really a fish, i'm not used to seeing that word

8:06 pm

I'm down to 2 words...

8:07 pm

Big lake effect snowstorm will start at 6 AM tomorrow and we should have 10 inches by the evening. I should be able to try out my new snowshoes this weekend.

8:07 pm

coolio, scrabbs

8:07 pm

winter wonderland, scrabbs.. i know you'll enjoy them

8:07 pm

Yeah, that one was odd. I was thinking of the ev4.

8:07 pm

go pini

8:07 pm

clue dor

8:07 pm

it's supposed to snow here tomorrow!!!

8:07 pm

experiencing the same weather here, scrabbs .. arctic clipper on the way

8:08 pm

The weather was very mild here today

8:08 pm

In Texas, Wildcat?

8:08 pm

it's 32F here now...but, being in the valley, we don't really get snow...nearly ev4

8:08 pm

yes!

8:08 pm

Scrabs, where in Western NY are you? When I was a kid we lived in Warsaw.

8:08 pm

1/2 tp 4 inches, 70% chance

8:08 pm

*to

8:09 pm

I am near Springville, wht!

8:09 pm

evening

8:09 pm

we're expecting rain/ice/snow tonight into tomorrow, supposedly, on't amt tom much

8:09 pm

Hi jes

8:09 pm

so 6/27.. i have no idea whatso**** how to clue it

8:09 pm

been in the 30s and 40s for days now ... clouds building tonight

8:09 pm

wht, when I go to kayak at Hemlock Lake I drive through Warsaw

8:09 pm

it's 18F here. too cold for snow

8:09 pm

well folks, i'm off to do my foot exercises ( wish i could babble and do them at the same time)... see you tomorrow

8:10 pm

Hi Jes!

8:10 pm

awww night dor

8:10 pm

bye, dorens

8:10 pm

night, dorens.

8:10 pm

g'night dorens

8:11 pm

When we moved there my father told me there were only two seasons. Winter and the 4'th of July.

8:12 pm

Or we call our 2 seasons winter + road reconstruction.

8:13 pm

I couldn't believe it the first time I woke up to find a foot of new snow on the ground and we still had school.

8:14 pm

ooo we have that season too

8:14 pm

Upstate New Yorkers can handle snow--we're tough.

8:14 pm

I going to read for a while, good night dear babblers

8:14 pm

Bye Annie

8:15 pm

bye ANnie

8:15 pm

triple chocolate ice cream topped with vanilla cognac, amaretto, and chocolate vodka. yummy!

8:15 pm

good night, annie

8:16 pm

are you sharing?

8:16 pm

Night Annie

8:16 pm

*offer DR a bowL*

8:16 pm

sounds like th eperfect thing to spoil my appetite for dinner

8:16 pm

Thanks !

8:16 pm

wow, dc. you're gonna get drunk on your ice cream!

8:17 pm

i'm eating due to too-spicy vindaloo stir-fry i made

8:17 pm

Thanks !

8:17 pm

dc .. i use dutch chocolate vodka in a concoction i call mochatinis

8:17 pm

piffle, jes. I'm not small, and am descended from generations of alchoholics

8:17 pm

hi jes .. and thanks again :)

8:17 pm

soudns yummy, welki.

8:18 pm

i hae gine, but haenae vermouth, no no martinis for me at home right now

8:18 pm

no worries, welki. your hubby get over the trauma and the dog enjoy the belly rubs?

8:19 pm

1 part each - absolut vanilla, van gogh dutch chocolate and van gogh espresso vodkas + 1.5 parts white creme de cocoa

8:19 pm

and this dessert is on top of a good dinner

8:19 pm

Well, time for me to go. Catch you all tomorrow.

8:19 pm

jes, it bled on and off for a day .. hard to keep a good dog down :) ... but he actually let us wrap bandaids around it and was pretty good about keeping them on

8:19 pm

we have three olives chocolate vodka, cafe de nuit liquore, and clear creme de cacao

8:19 pm

be well, wht

8:20 pm

clear = white creme de cacao

8:20 pm

'night wht

8:21 pm

back from my walk.. hi again

8:21 pm

Just now I emailed Lickety to get a new Babble Expert for my computer, I used the address in the licketysplitaus Clues. The message came back, tht taht account does not exist

8:22 pm

wish there was a lickety expert for mac (i know dorens does, too)

8:23 pm

even after ice cream, tongue and throat are numb. and belly warm. it's a nice night.

8:23 pm

firewords! tough little grid

8:23 pm

me too, welki

8:23 pm

coisr

8:23 pm

wtg Welki

8:23 pm

yay, welki!

8:24 pm

ciI messed up four babble grids ,since I could not finished without the expert

8:24 pm

congrats, welki

8:25 pm

i have a macbook and an old pc that i need to replace ... debating whether to break the bank on an iMac or just get another pc

8:25 pm

n'Abend, Inge, nice to see you.

8:25 pm

li 5/16?

8:25 pm

thanks, all

8:25 pm

like a strainer, ru

8:26 pm

li 5/16: I be**** in ghosts, but some people don't ruru.

8:26 pm

or .. excuse me, i have to go to the ladie's room to re***** myself (which i would never say .. more like, 'i gotta go take a whiz')

8:27 pm

<-- always the lady

8:27 pm

thank you

8:27 pm

yw

8:28 pm

Yahoo Welki

8:28 pm

thanks :)

8:29 pm

ugh .. my connection is slow. time to call it a night. g'night folks

8:29 pm

Bye welki

8:30 pm

me 6/21?

8:30 pm

anyone have a clue for the ha 6 & 7 please?

8:30 pm

movie time :) bye

8:30 pm

h 6/27: I put my dirty laundry in the ha**** and plural

8:30 pm

ha 6: where you put your dirty laudnry, and plural

8:31 pm

well fish me silly. Thanks. sorry to have bothered you for that

8:32 pm

Hi Bugsaw

8:33 pm

how heinous? worth starting this late or will i just be pissed off in an hour?

8:33 pm

sorry...dozed off...back now...had 2 words, now have 1

8:34 pm

hi kje...may want to avoid starting...

8:34 pm

Don't start if you want to finish. This is a very tough grid.

8:34 pm

pissy little grid

8:34 pm

I just jumped in! Join me.

8:34 pm

Hi gramma

8:34 pm

thanks for the honesty ru

8:34 pm

hi gram

8:34 pm

I think gramma is working on the "misery loves company" thinking ; )

8:34 pm

hody

8:35 pm

or howdy

8:36 pm

maybe I shouldn't have started?

8:36 pm

Haha, Gram

8:36 pm

will someone put me outta my misery...is the re5 a fish?

8:36 pm

ne 6/21?

8:37 pm

I'm actually Not miserable. I refuse to fall for that. Darn it, I'm having fun!

8:37 pm

ne + about + ego

8:37 pm

not to the r's yet pini

8:37 pm

ne 6 is ne + do ** mi (notes) + freud's bad boy

8:37 pm

ne + flag is **d, white and blue + not ego

8:37 pm

re + canola or vegetable

8:37 pm

not ego - ego's counterpoint

8:37 pm

thanks you guys

8:37 pm

and I haven't even started ru!

8:37 pm

LOLOLOL

8:38 pm

sorry - that was sm8 even for me

8:38 pm

thx scrabs!!! FIREWORDS!!!

8:38 pm

MA7? please.

8:38 pm

Yahoo Pini!

8:38 pm

yayayay pini!

8:38 pm

No, Pini, thank Gramma

8:38 pm

M + cachius clay's little boy (sorry about the mispelling)

8:39 pm

can someone explain what the tile stats mean? I am totally confused

8:39 pm

sorry scrabs...THX GRAMMA

8:39 pm

Zee, go up to the Help section

8:39 pm

good clue pini

8:39 pm

Casius Clay had a little boy?

8:39 pm

the first number = number of letter; the second = points

8:40 pm

Clue went past me

8:40 pm

zee - have you read the help section? little help icon above the chat box

8:40 pm

no, gramma...don't try to answer it...try "other words for"

8:41 pm

read it, the hlep was no help

8:41 pm

ok, i will heed the warnings... see you guys later... happy babbling!!!

8:41 pm

Ok, I get it now

8:41 pm

so if the 'I' says 0/0, that means i have no words left with I in it?

8:42 pm

hello babble friends! such an exciting day here today!!!

8:42 pm

that means there are no words that start with I

8:42 pm

Zee, read the chat log, find words, and you will be a pro in 3 days. Also, read Angelsong's Babble Page + Lickety's page--see links below

8:42 pm

Hi Trif

8:42 pm

Like the H...it says 0/22 on your screen...it means you have 22 to find

8:42 pm

hi, trif, what's up?

8:42 pm

hi trif...how so?

8:43 pm

Oh dear! I don't understand. Let me fix a little Gramma juice and maybe it will come clear.

8:43 pm

Took Primo to the dentist, and let him drive home, as he has his permit, and needs more driving hours....he decided to try to pull into the garage...all went well, until he tried to pull up "just a little closer" and his foot slipped off the brake and hit the gas....you can figure out the rest!

8:43 pm

then why are there three 'A''s listed??

8:43 pm

btw, if you guys see asgreen tomorrow, it is her b-day... be sure and wish her happies.. she turns 52!

8:43 pm

gramma...m + casius clay aka Mohammed *** + little boy (man's offspring)

8:43 pm

word start from upper-left-most letter they can start some, so some words start from each A

8:44 pm

She's not that old, kje!

8:44 pm

start from, not stasomert

8:44 pm

poor sacajawea!

8:44 pm

OH MY< TRIF!!! everyone OK?

8:44 pm

gah! cat

8:44 pm

Oh, man, Trif! what a story! Someday you will be able to laugh abut it

8:44 pm

Pini, ty. Now that's a clue this tired old bird can understand.

8:45 pm

yes, pini, but i really dodged a bullet - I had gotten out to guide him in, tell him when to stop...stepped out of the way JUST in time

8:45 pm

oh, trif, yall are okay, i gatheer?

8:45 pm

ohhhhh, it matches the placement in the puzzle....thank you!

8:45 pm

yikes!! glad it turned out well!

8:46 pm

poor primo is SO shaken! he kept saying "i almost killed you! I almost killed you!" poor thing!

8:46 pm

indeed so, zeecon :) howe to play is at help link above

8:46 pm

took me forever to calm him down....

8:46 pm

good lesson for him, and of all the places, it was one of teh safest for that to happen.

8:47 pm

he'll recover, and i hope be willing to get behind the wheel again soon

8:48 pm

well said seain. It is an upsetting story but such a good life lesson

8:49 pm

glad you are well Trif

8:49 pm

does the Help actually explain what I was confused about? I really do not see it there

8:50 pm

just looked, no it doesn't. good catch on your part, zee :)

8:51 pm

Zee...the Tile Stats simply replicate the game board and identify the number of words that you must find (i.e., A 0/3 = find 3 words starting with A, etc.)...to form a word, letters must be in consecutive order and each tile may only be used once in a word

8:51 pm

ok, just wanted to make sure I wasn't slow and blind, just slow ;-)

8:52 pm

Poor Primo! Scary event.

8:52 pm

Zee, it will take a bit to get this game and the lingo. I was intimidated initially and 3 days later I understood it.

8:52 pm

thanks, you guys....I think you are completely right DC.

8:53 pm

and now you can blame your white hairs on primo ;D

8:53 pm

Trif, although scary, it might even make him a better driver...he'll be more "aware"

8:54 pm

oooh, very good point, dc! LOL

8:54 pm

invaluable that when young (or old for that matter)

8:54 pm

At 112/64 I am ready for bed. Tennis in morning, then prepare for evening party for tennis ladies.

8:54 pm

have a great time, scrabs!!!

8:54 pm

be well scrabbs :)

8:56 pm

ZO4 makes me think of Shaggy from Scooby Doo

8:56 pm

Gute Nacht Scrabbler

8:57 pm

lovely photo of eerily flat land, Inge :)

8:57 pm

very close, dc ;)

8:57 pm

brb...taking koda out

8:58 pm

it is a field opf red poppies

8:58 pm

oh, how wonderful! :) I always try to get a poppy on veteran's day in honour of my great-grandpa

8:58 pm

er, veterans' day rather

9:00 pm

it was my icon for summers day

9:00 pm

ya5 noodles ;)

9:01 pm

ra8?

9:02 pm

is it a compound word?

9:03 pm

ra8 d'etre

9:03 pm

so no, not compound

9:04 pm

thank you

9:04 pm

thanks dc, I could not get the clue fo two hours ago

9:05 pm

orsic

9:05 pm

back...(to help clue if needed)

9:06 pm

oooh, just found The Game and we're ahead!!

9:06 pm

yall are most welcome :)

9:06 pm

re5 would be a great help

9:06 pm

(by 1 point)

9:06 pm

wb, pini, and good job on finding game

9:06 pm

get me outta these r's ugh

9:06 pm

....and I just lost the "game"....arrgh!

9:06 pm

that was my last word, ru: re + lubricate

9:07 pm

hi babblers

9:07 pm

hi, ping!

9:07 pm

HI ping

9:07 pm

hi ping

9:07 pm

thank you pni

9:07 pm

hey there ping!

9:07 pm

OH NO....FUMBLE!

9:07 pm

Heyas kids ..

9:08 pm

hi ruru, seain, and pinky

9:08 pm

tor me love! how are you today? still in the us?

9:08 pm

who's playing pini?

9:08 pm

seain, i loved your tooth story

9:08 pm

UO v OSU

9:08 pm

tooth story?

9:08 pm

which osu?

9:08 pm

it's our annual Civil War game...and the winner goes to the Rose Bowl

9:09 pm

Oregon, trif

9:09 pm

about throwing your tooth down a hill

9:09 pm

the HYs were easy this grid.

9:09 pm

ah, thanks pini....i went to ohio state....

9:09 pm

ah! that. LOL

9:09 pm

Pinik are you a Duck or a Beaver?

9:09 pm

i was five, august of that year, just after school storted

9:09 pm

nice SACK!

9:10 pm

PING!! hi dan

9:10 pm

hi DAWG!

9:10 pm

hi lbd, dcs, ping and all lurkers

9:10 pm

it's been forever! how ya doing?

9:11 pm

hi dan2

9:11 pm

hello dan!

9:11 pm

bbs

9:11 pm

i'm fine, dawg - you?

9:11 pm

is Zeecon still around? if so, how's s/he doing?

9:11 pm

doing well, pini

9:12 pm

I haven't seen you in ages pini

9:12 pm

ping I mean

9:12 pm

made me nervous there for a second, ru...thought I was lost!

9:12 pm

yeah, i haven't been here in way too long

9:12 pm

and now you are found!

9:13 pm

* sigh of relief *

9:13 pm

what's been keeping you from babbleland, ping?

9:13 pm

lotta life stuff, dawg - november was crazy for us - busy busy

9:14 pm

well, you've been missed.

9:14 pm

3 trips and a huge first-time event for the nonprofit i work for

9:14 pm

glad to see you back, Ping!

9:14 pm

thanks, pinky

9:15 pm

anyone have a clue for the am6 please and ty

9:15 pm

am + french father?

9:15 pm

evening knitter!

9:15 pm

One week till China ..

9:15 pm

hi ak

9:16 pm

all ready, tor?

9:16 pm

Gotta go, See you all tomorrow

9:16 pm

hi torg! how long are you going to be overseas?

9:16 pm

Hute Hacht, one and all

9:16 pm

howy doody

9:16 pm

night, inge ;)

9:16 pm

and how long will tor be gone?

9:16 pm

night night, Inge

9:16 pm

Mostly .. Shots today .. six ..

9:17 pm

oh my...arm so4?

9:17 pm

assuming he got them in the arm!

9:17 pm

I'm hoping to be there about 9-10 days .. But probably the job will go to crap and I'll be there longer ..

9:17 pm

well, I guess I could've asked if he was sitting! LOL

9:18 pm

lol

9:18 pm

can you babble from china?

9:18 pm

argh, you'll be there for christmas?

9:18 pm

TD!!!!

9:18 pm

Trif- I don't know .. lbd .. I hope not ..

9:19 pm

si 6?

9:19 pm

torg. make sure you take some of our email addresses incase you need us to bail you out.

9:19 pm

si + vowel + can top

9:20 pm

si4.4 + freud's little friend for the si6.21

9:20 pm

oh, geesh, I didn't even think of that! oh dear, I know you would hate to miss christmas with your kiddos

9:20 pm

one who decides how small or large a garment is, for the si6.33

9:21 pm

I've not only got 'flue (dunno if it's the swine version) but I have also been sideswiped by learning that Ren has cancer.

9:21 pm

It would suck .. I've tried to get them to wait till after the 1st but they need the plant running ASAP ..

9:21 pm

I need help on my last 5 please

9:21 pm

sorry to hear, jac!! (Ren?)

9:21 pm

Well, she wouldn't be having chemo for anything else,. would she?

9:22 pm

what do you need, ru?

9:22 pm

yes, i've know about rennie.

9:22 pm

ro7?

9:22 pm

* gasp * I didn't know!!!

9:22 pm

me too, jac

9:22 pm

ro7 = flower + last 2/3 of spanish hello

9:22 pm

flower + motor*** tv

9:22 pm

do you know more, dawg?

9:23 pm

wow..

9:23 pm

i'd rather not say. it's for ren to discuss in public.

9:23 pm

As for the Christmas stuff - I never put any decorations up beore 12th dEC AT EARLIEST.

9:23 pm

I agree lbd

9:23 pm

si5/16 I need too please

9:24 pm

another word for colander, ru

9:24 pm

si + the night before

9:24 pm

i've spent far too long stupefied by my Step daughter. Time I got back to my friends.

9:24 pm

Smacks head.. thank you

9:25 pm

either way, jac, your company is always welcome! :)

9:25 pm

Also must not forget that my ex-hub is huffing in the background because he does not like what has been going on and thinks I'm being used.

9:25 pm

so 6/27 too I can't find either..(beginning to extremely dislike this grid)

9:26 pm

whatSO****

9:26 pm

whatso****, now that's a run on sentence on it's own! lol

9:26 pm

so + eternal word.

9:26 pm

no wonder I couldn't find that

9:26 pm

two now..

9:27 pm

ve6/27?

9:27 pm

ve + smeller

9:27 pm

yeah, i've not seen it without the what.

9:27 pm

AR6/18?please.

9:27 pm

or the "whom"

9:27 pm

hi, back

9:27 pm

ar6 = nipple surround

9:27 pm

ve _ the thing in the middle of your faace that you breathe and smell through.

9:28 pm

god...save me

9:28 pm

wb, dc

9:28 pm

;)

9:28 pm

ugh...another td on their part...this is going to be a nail biter of a game

9:28 pm

Couldn't see it at all. Typed it in on blind faith. TY

9:29 pm

li 7 is my last

9:29 pm

yw gramma

9:29 pm

ruru - you have no idea the number of times that I've asked that in my life.

9:29 pm

li7 = the man in the middle

9:29 pm

a go between, usually between countries or big corporations.

9:30 pm

LI7 is the meeting of people in harmony or understanding.

9:30 pm

didn't know it was spelled that way...

9:30 pm

I think I have been misspelling it for years

9:30 pm

ty, pini and dog

9:30 pm

Thank you for your help on those

9:30 pm

;)

9:31 pm

ruru, think of it in French and it makes sense

9:31 pm

wtg ru!

9:31 pm

glad to be of assistance, ru

9:31 pm

soip

9:31 pm

ruru - don't star me on hw many people can't spell that word! It ended up being one of the first words both my children learned how to spell!

9:32 pm

and i assume you now have fireworks, ru?

9:32 pm

soip?

9:32 pm

typo, ruru

9:32 pm

I have fireworks.. I am going to let them run for a while .. hated this grid

9:33 pm

whooo hooooo ruru!!

9:33 pm

not to mention wrong laguage

9:33 pm

congrats, ruru

9:33 pm

I worked at a firm where there were many Client Li7/28 Officers. But not one of them, not ev4 the manager could spell the bloody word!

9:33 pm

that's sad, jac!!!

9:34 pm

how awful, jac

9:34 pm

That was one of my first words once I saw there were enough letters for it ..

9:34 pm

pretty bad when you can't spell your own job title

9:34 pm

congrats ruru

9:35 pm

LOLOL LBD

9:35 pm

And there I was, deprived of going for my nglish degree, 'cos parents thought a secretarial qualification mighy be bette.... GRRRR! AAARGH!

9:35 pm

I work with graduate students who don't even know the title of the program they're in...another sad state.

9:35 pm

that's sadly impressive on their part, pini

9:35 pm

PINI - THAT'S WORSE!

9:36 pm

that boggles my brain, pini. how can you not know what program you're in?

9:37 pm

Well, it the Creative Writing Program, not Creative Writing Department...a distinct difference at this uni

9:37 pm

i've wondered why i was in the program i did, but to not know which one?

9:37 pm

(so probably not as bad I made it seem, sorry)

9:37 pm

i'd expect that program to be part of the English Dept

9:38 pm

Does anyone have a clue for the ma 7/32 word please

9:38 pm

that's normally the case, dc...but not here...we are totally separate units (CRWR having ceceeded from ENG over 18 years ago)

9:39 pm

ma = m + casius clay's little boy

9:39 pm

seceded

9:39 pm

anagram of what you send thru the postal service + not daughter

9:39 pm

see, even I can't spell!!!

9:39 pm

(i have unfair advantage with that word, being from the South)

9:40 pm

ty dawg

9:40 pm

good point, dc...it's not one I use very often ;)

9:40 pm

sheesh. came here to peek at chat, saw the discussion about the spelling of the li7. have since been working on it, and am now going to bed with one word done in the grid! lol!

9:40 pm

LOL feather, and good night

9:40 pm

hiya weed!!! LOL sweet dreams!

9:40 pm

night night, feather

9:40 pm

:D night all!

9:42 pm

hello all -- may I clue?

9:42 pm

wb, jilli

9:42 pm

wb jilli ;)

9:42 pm

Hi Jilli!

9:43 pm

is ruru still here?

9:43 pm

Hello Jilli! Pleas DO clue. I'm all flued up and not that capable right now.

9:43 pm

yes jilli i just got back

9:43 pm

hoping you feel better, jac...

9:43 pm

We saw an old-schoo Sinclair Dino Gas pump in Leesburg, VA today.

9:43 pm

ah! How's your baby boy?

9:44 pm

(I'm home sick, but positive it's not the flu...just a cold)

9:44 pm

He is doing well... everyone is happy over there

9:44 pm

Plus I've got all annoyed about styudents not even knowing what course they are doing at Uni.

9:44 pm

I am going to try to post some pictures

9:44 pm

push the fluids, Pini and Jac

9:44 pm

(well, they know the course just not the unit name)

9:44 pm

Jac?

9:44 pm

I keep a jug-o-water by my bed, lbd :)

9:44 pm

Still just the three pups, ruru?

9:45 pm

only three... all chunkers 20 -22 oz

9:45 pm

rur - I've got a jug of water by my bed, too.

9:45 pm

they should put the puppies on a web cam, so you (and us) can watch the puppies

9:45 pm

oooh, that'd be fun, lbd!!!

9:46 pm

well, I guess they'll get even chunkier -- samll litter!

9:46 pm

like the last round of pups we got to watch!

9:46 pm

yup, and knowing that ru gets one of the pups would be even more fun!

9:46 pm

tutu - that's due to something pini just told me.

9:46 pm

I am glad the mom is fine and the puppies are healthy ...

9:47 pm

tutu? Hiya Desmond! I meant ruru.

9:47 pm

I was going to say I couldn't spell the li 7 I must be dumber than a 3rd grader..lol

9:48 pm

so am I, ruru *beaming from ear to ear*

9:48 pm

thanks jilli.. He was the first one out..

9:48 pm

I take that as a sign..

9:48 pm

rarin' to go, ru!

9:49 pm

Jilli - you should not be proud of the fact that you can't spell li7. Li7 is one of my words! LOL

9:49 pm

yes, ruru, and you said smaller than the girls -- but our big Am Can Ch was the runt of the litter but didn't stay that way.

9:49 pm

hurryin' to get to the left coast to be with poppa

9:49 pm

jac, I CAN spell li7!

9:50 pm

His father was a pretty large dog .. I don't think I am worried about size with him

9:50 pm

hint for ma6, pls?

9:50 pm

(er.. I can't apparently)

9:50 pm

Jilli - I thought that you just said you couldn't spell it?

9:50 pm

crazy guys dc

9:50 pm

I think that was ruru

9:50 pm

ru...is this new little one related to your other?

9:50 pm

crazy + not females

9:51 pm

thanks, dawg

9:51 pm

ma6/27 = the males who are not sane.

9:51 pm

this is how I clued those li words earlier:

9:51 pm

yes.. he is sort of a nephew to my dog that just left me

9:51 pm

hi guys! anyone have a clue for the he 6 and the he 7? gracias!

9:51 pm

li6/18 -- li + r**** hell

9:51 pm

that's cool, ru!

9:52 pm

more marijuana like is the he 7

9:52 pm

and li7 -- end with a little boy

9:52 pm

drop the last letter of the 7 for the 6

9:52 pm

he6 = skirt he* + not cake

9:52 pm

he6 is the word before it. LOL. Chill out man.

9:52 pm

I was misspelling it for about ten minutes jilli.. that is why jac is making fun of me..lol

9:52 pm

no Gs in the grid, though jilli

9:53 pm

got it, jilli, ty

9:53 pm

who needed a G?

9:53 pm

Sorry, ruru.

9:53 pm

I'll buy a vowell~!

9:53 pm

in my head, it makes no sense w/out a G as in -ing

9:54 pm

It's okay jac.. i deserved it

9:54 pm

hello friends, taking a break from cutting and pasting

9:54 pm

thanks! the words i learn here....

9:54 pm

hi, stid

9:54 pm

hi stid ;)

9:54 pm

it's almost down to the wire now, and my eyes are crossed, and my temper is a bit cross too... how's the grid?

9:54 pm

don't we all, luna!!!

9:54 pm

hi stiddy!

9:54 pm

if you haven't started, stid...don't ;)

9:54 pm

ah, but the li7 is a noun -- sorry forgot that part of the clue

9:54 pm

No you didn't really, ruru, I was just taking my 'flue and other stuff out on you.

9:55 pm

** temper? Stern ruru look *

9:55 pm

but you typed li6

9:55 pm

LOL ruru!!! (((hugs))) do we have a new puppy now?

9:55 pm

grid is tiresome and difficult, stid

9:55 pm

lol, ruru, you sound like stid

9:55 pm

sorry -- just realized i'm still missing one h! anyone have clue for hy 7?

9:55 pm

really pini? that bad?

9:55 pm

sorry you don't feel well jac..

9:55 pm

really

9:55 pm

okay kids, gotta hit the pillows. good luck with the grid, and see you all tomorrow!

9:55 pm

oh dear -- WORSE than a term paper? *really needing an excuse to check my brain out today*

9:56 pm

hy 5 + not off

9:56 pm

i agree w/pini, don't bother starting

9:56 pm

li6 -- li + Pr**** the Lord, if you like. The verb.

9:56 pm

night lbd!

9:56 pm

got it ruru -- thanks!

9:56 pm

oh, i got the li6 from the clue anyway

9:56 pm

*hands Jac tissues and cough medicine and backs away slowly* *from other side of room...* Would you like some chicken soup Jac?

9:56 pm

Actually, I'm too flued up to post now, only here because I'd had too much sleep and rest to sleep again yet. Not tired yet, but I should perhaps go now anyway.

9:56 pm

sweet dreams LBD ((((((Hugs)))))

9:57 pm

g'night dawg

9:57 pm

I do hope you feel better, jac!!!

9:57 pm

no..don't jac.. I laughed.. it's fine

9:57 pm

*poof* (blows kisses to everyone)

9:57 pm

CXhicken soup would be lovely, stid.

9:57 pm

li7 -- the noun -- substitute not off for the last letter of the li6

9:57 pm

nite lbd..

9:57 pm

Send some for breakfast!

9:57 pm

I think I need to start on dinner.. bbl thanks for the clues you guys...

9:57 pm

I could probably use another bowl, too..but not interested in getting up to get it.

9:58 pm

what's for dinner, rur?

9:58 pm

hb ru ;)

9:58 pm

okay, chicken soup on its way... *startles chicken into flying east and tosses rice and vegges into strong wind*

9:58 pm

oh oh pini -- are you under the weather??? *concerned mama look*

9:58 pm

pork chops with an apricot chutney.. wild rice salad and steamed veggies

9:58 pm

BTW, the grid's not that hard!

9:58 pm

wait ruru! PUPPY UPDATE!!!

9:58 pm

Pini is under the weather and so am I

9:58 pm

(speak for yourself jac)

9:59 pm

I'll be right down, ru!

9:59 pm

piffle, i say, jacula

9:59 pm

oh yum! I hope Mrs ruru appreciates you

9:59 pm

just a little, stid...better than yesterday, but not as good as tomorrow

9:59 pm

sometimes jilli.... sometimes...

9:59 pm

jac, you're alone in that opinion

9:59 pm

piffle away dcs, whilst I drink Stid's excellent chicken soup cure.

9:59 pm

stid?

10:00 pm

My puppy was born last night about 8:00 p.m.

10:00 pm

I hope you feel ALL better tomorrow pini so you can have a nice weekend. I shall be writing essay responses and trying to pull together all my notes and materials for the portfolio review.

10:00 pm

yes ruru...

10:00 pm

he is really cute

10:00 pm

jilli - I've always delighted in being an individual.

10:00 pm

almost finals week, stid? you'll do great!!! * proud older sis look *

10:00 pm

AH! *happy mama look* that's good ruru. did you figure out his name yet?

10:00 pm

one day old, cute?

10:01 pm

you are a very unique and fun person jac...IMHO

10:01 pm

thanks pini -- the essays are sort of a take-home final.

10:01 pm

one day old cute indeed

10:01 pm

of course, jac

10:01 pm

that was one of the first questions I asked, too, stid ;)

10:01 pm

hi everyone -- hoping to finish, but a long ways to go

10:01 pm

Jac is unique among uniques!

10:01 pm

hay nan! good to see you!

10:01 pm

oh, no...another TD on their part :(

10:01 pm

hi nan

10:01 pm

lots of cluers here

10:01 pm

hi nan -- clues available if you're not too proud

10:02 pm

I wasn't proud at all.. I begged for help

10:02 pm

...but I didn't whine much..

10:02 pm

I'l leave you all to geton with it. Adios until the next grid. *Kisses all hands*

10:02 pm

washes hands with anti-flu wipes..

10:02 pm

see you soon Jac, hope you feel better quickly!

10:03 pm

...and don't forget your self-slapping, ru! ;)

10:03 pm

night jac!!!

10:03 pm

be well, jac

10:03 pm

why "ways"? "a ... ways"? What's the matter with "a long way to go"? Drives me nuts.

10:03 pm

OOps! Shouln't have kissed all hands, should I? Since I have some form of 'flu.

10:03 pm

and me to pick up the stuff I just printed and start rearranging. And then to figure out a title that makes sense... *sigh* this stuff at the end is WAY harder than the initial content!

10:03 pm

It's ok, jac, we all have sanitizer

10:04 pm

*passes bleach around*

10:04 pm

gotta luv handi-wipes

10:04 pm

a ways to go in normal in the dialect here. i think a way to go is more standard, thouh

10:04 pm

clue for the ar 7,28 please

10:04 pm

I'm talking about Purelle and the like

10:04 pm

add the center of your face, team_e

10:05 pm

ar = to be + smeller

10:05 pm

ar + vowell + facial appendage

10:05 pm

COUGH, COUGH, COUGH! CHOKE! You might have waited until I'd goneto spray that stuff around.

10:05 pm

lololololol

10:05 pm

ROFL...cute jac...glad to see your sense of humor isn't sick! :)

10:05 pm

no, we just put a glob on our hands

10:05 pm

(so to speak) LOL

10:06 pm

(tucks jac back in bed)

10:06 pm

Does anyone have a clue for the da 7/32 word please

10:06 pm

Could someone please clue the 8?

10:06 pm

year****, month****, da*****

10:07 pm

thx

10:07 pm

ra8 = most of sun dried grape + number less than two with a stutter

10:07 pm

ra8 d'etre

10:07 pm

Thank you

10:07 pm

Cough, choke, erhmm! cHEST CONSTRICTED, almost dead, going to bed since her Babble friend seem to be trying to killl her.

10:07 pm

like the newspapers minver

10:07 pm

(the calendar clue was for min)

10:08 pm

hello, don't die on us, jac~

10:08 pm

hi harp ;)

10:08 pm

this grid is unreal....

10:08 pm

(takes a second flu shot)

10:08 pm

not quite, dc

10:08 pm

Thank you for the da7/32 clue.I just found the word.

10:08 pm

Tri...?

10:08 pm

yes, trif

10:08 pm

near enough to get people there, but yes, not quite

10:08 pm

talk to jac.. it was a piece of cake for her...

10:08 pm

it's really hard, ruru!

10:08 pm

harp, she says inher dying breath, I'l do my best not to die on you!

10:09 pm

lol...

10:09 pm

glad to hear it jac

10:09 pm

it is one of the hardest lately

10:09 pm

also, don't give it to me!

10:09 pm

That's what she said ..

10:09 pm

yeah, the 67 was easier than this one!

10:10 pm

With what might be her bying breath, Jac assures her fellow Babblers that the grid is doable.

10:10 pm

LOLOL

10:10 pm

how many letters in the y word?

10:10 pm

we're sure it's doable, just saying it's difficult

10:10 pm

co 6, please?

10:10 pm

ya5

10:10 pm

ya5/16

10:10 pm

are you talking about the grid? doable?

10:11 pm

I found the grid doable with the help of Lickety, clues in the chog, and morewords.

10:11 pm

dying not bying. bloodyhell! It's hard to die in peace here, isn't it? I tell you the grid isnot a monster.

10:11 pm

ya + big boys

10:11 pm

i wonder if enable accepts "doable"

10:11 pm

That ya 5/16 word is ya plus males torgone.

10:11 pm

co6 = co + falsehoods

10:11 pm

thanks

10:11 pm

ty pini

10:12 pm

too many cluers here -- I'm going to get some soup (no appetite)

10:12 pm

yw nan

10:12 pm

nd I'll leave you with ini and her 'bog men'. LOL.

10:12 pm

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

10:12 pm

Does anyone have a clue for the ep 6/36 word please

10:13 pm

g'night, jac.

10:13 pm

ep + "eye" + prota***

10:13 pm

change ending of ep6

10:13 pm

ep6 -- ep*pen for allergics + place where animals are kept for us to see with diff last vowel

10:13 pm

Thank you for the ep6/36 clue. I just found the word

10:14 pm

change last vowel with vowel and cons for the 7

10:14 pm

I give up clueing -- everyone beats me to it

10:15 pm

sorry, jilli...

10:15 pm

...i'll type slower?

10:15 pm

I am stopping at 153 words and 1805 points.Bye to all

10:15 pm

or not clue?

10:15 pm

night min ;)

10:15 pm

Goodnight to my fellow babblers!I'll see you tomorrow

10:16 pm

goodnight min

10:16 pm

g'night, minver

10:16 pm

could i get help with the lone o?

10:16 pm

wow, another player is down (opposing team)

10:17 pm

oi6

10:17 pm

more petroleum-laden

10:17 pm

thanks

10:18 pm

TD!!!!

10:18 pm

i think I am calling this grid.....

10:19 pm

trif...here to help if you want it!

10:19 pm

thanks pini, but I have a TON to finish....

10:20 pm

I'm not really going anywhere...still working on getting better...

10:21 pm

...so, up to you...

10:21 pm

if not, have a great evening!

10:21 pm

is the 8 a compound word?

10:21 pm

no

10:21 pm

going to sleep....more than halfway to dreamland...good night all!

10:21 pm

sweet dremas, trif

10:22 pm

firewords at long last. quite the grid today

10:22 pm

hi all. with 75 words and 101 left i am totally stumped.

10:22 pm

wtg dc!

10:23 pm

good job seain

10:23 pm

thank you.

10:23 pm

join the club, mkg

10:23 pm

very hard grid today

10:23 pm

yay, seain!!!

10:24 pm

ty

10:24 pm

my dau is IMing me to see if I can hear the TD noise!

10:26 pm

told her it's too cold to stand outside...

10:26 pm

she thinks I could hear it from the livingroom; told her that was at the other end of the house

10:27 pm

she thinks I might be able to hear it from my room - it's that cold outside...(i'll mute the sound when we get another one)

10:27 pm

is it my imagination or do these grids just keep getting tougher?

10:28 pm

well, this one is a bit of hard one; that's for sure, nan

10:29 pm

first li 6?

10:29 pm

li + mayon****

10:30 pm

PINI_ You are still around??? I left, ran errands, ate tacos, went to the grocery store...

10:31 pm

Wow- you waited for me :)

10:31 pm

ty pini

10:31 pm

not going very far, DR...home sick...not much to do but let Koda out to do his business periodically

10:31 pm

I mean, I was waiting for you to return DR!!!

10:31 pm

LOL_ its ok. I know Koda is priority

10:32 pm

How is the game- did you find it on tv?

10:32 pm

I did...we're behind 5 oints...

10:32 pm

well all up to 86 words now. good clues flying around.

10:32 pm

WERE 5 points behind!

10:33 pm

Not anymore!

10:33 pm

keep thouse clues coming

10:33 pm

ok I will do some quacking

10:33 pm

now we're up by 1...quack away!!!

10:33 pm

need aa 5 plz.

10:34 pm

Mohammed A** (dbl vowels both ends)

10:34 pm

ty. weird one. how bout ai 6 24?

10:35 pm

think EMT

10:36 pm

emt? huh? must thing a lot here

10:36 pm

ooooh, we sacked their QB!...nice

10:36 pm

well got one. need other two. hummm

10:36 pm

EMT = emergency medical technicians = ai****

10:36 pm

ai* (help) + big boys

10:37 pm

ty got that one pini. what about next two?

10:37 pm

calamari dip

10:38 pm

ai + lubricant anagram

10:38 pm

rather than the big boys i tried the pe word........not in dict. isnt it politically correct to use pe**** rather than the grown boys??????

10:38 pm

probably, but I still consider the "men" term to be gender neutral when describing a group...must be old school

10:40 pm

DR...how are you coming along?

10:40 pm

25 to go

10:40 pm

on phone with my Mom

10:40 pm

woot woot

10:40 pm

ok...

10:40 pm

(hi mom)

10:40 pm

ty got it.

10:41 pm

she is talking about people who are clueless

10:41 pm

uh oh

10:42 pm

it is funny

10:42 pm

am 6 plz?

10:42 pm

am + each + vowel

10:43 pm

wanders in... Anyone want to help me decide on a title for this piece of claptrap I have just written?

10:43 pm

why isnt versa in dict?

10:43 pm

oh. hey again. *forgetting manners in anxiety over performance*

10:43 pm

maybe because it's dependent on the vice?

10:43 pm

well, sure, stid...shoot!

10:43 pm

*mistress of vice* I hoard all the versa!

10:43 pm

okay *takes careful aim...

10:44 pm

ok Stid

10:44 pm

darn pini trying all vowel combos. is any vowel repeated?

10:44 pm

What does "Inexorable and Deliberate: Schooling, Learning, and Teaching as Dynamic Interactions" make you think the paper will be about?

10:44 pm

am + hours *** week + 2nd vowel

10:44 pm

it's a measurement of electrical force I think, mkg

10:45 pm

gosh, if I knew what "inexorable" meant, I'd be able to answer! :)

10:45 pm

ty ty. gee i thougt it was all vowels. ty.

10:45 pm

ar 7 plz?

10:45 pm

inexorable: ongoing and unstoppable, like the lava flows in HAwaii

10:45 pm

ar = to be + smeller

10:46 pm

great clues, pini!

10:46 pm

I'm not sure I'm smart enough to give advice, stid...sorry

10:46 pm

ro 7?

10:46 pm

flower + motor***

10:47 pm

*sad look* okay pini, but this means when I see you later this month you have to read the WHOLE paper! *annoying little sister look*

10:47 pm

yikes!!!

10:47 pm

btw, stid...have you seen mel lately?

10:47 pm

ty! wow what a word.

10:47 pm

rofl... but only if I remember to bring it. I am a little punchy today!

10:48 pm

The inevitable li7 between each factor of learning, stid

10:48 pm

no pini, I haven't -- thought it was my weird hours. Do you think she's okay?

10:48 pm

ty

10:48 pm

I hope so...but then again I'm not used to seeing her in grid everyday...

10:49 pm

hm. I think if I had the Li I would be better prepared to interpret that, Jill! LOL

10:49 pm

she's probably fine then.

10:49 pm

now cant get ar 6 18...clues?

10:49 pm

li7 = the middle man

10:50 pm

ar6 = nipple surround

10:50 pm

AHA!!!! thanks, ladies!

10:50 pm

*gasp, giggle* nipple surround, indeed!

10:50 pm

ty. got it.

10:50 pm

* blush *

10:50 pm

stid -- li6 -- li + r**** hell -- li7, change last letter to not off

10:51 pm

oh, my...we're up by 4 now and poising ourselves for another TD!

10:51 pm

4th quarter; 9:18 to go...

10:52 pm

if we win...we're going to the Rose Bowl! (keep your fingers crossed)

10:52 pm

li7 is the noun

10:52 pm

what kind of hell jilli? real? royal? not sure what you mean

10:52 pm

okay, I am printing it now, one last draft. Will look at it once more tonight then put it away and look at it one last time before I print a final in the morning...

10:52 pm

oh, no....not our ball...

10:53 pm

li + mayon**se + not daughter

10:53 pm

rose bowl? that would be SO COOL! can I bring tom and the boys, or is it a trip just for us girls?

10:53 pm

ok, mkg -- li + Pr**** the Lord (and pass the ammunition)

10:53 pm

ty got it.

10:53 pm

you'll only need to reprint if you just happen to randomly come across something that you feel must absolutely be changed...

10:53 pm

Finally off the phone

10:54 pm

rofl, jilli...cute clue

10:54 pm

wb DR

10:54 pm

stid, I wish you could get my li7 clue so that you can tell me if I got the right idea

10:54 pm

sacked their QB...YES!!!!

10:55 pm

17 to go and stumped -- think maybe I should give up on this one

10:55 pm

oh! yes Jill -- I think so, your response is a little obscure. I am trying to make that "connection" the way li 7 works.

10:55 pm

you can do it, nan...you're so close!!!

10:55 pm

stid -- interaction?

10:55 pm

what do you need?

10:55 pm

da 7 plz?

10:56 pm

da7 = year****, month****, week****, da******

10:56 pm

monthlies, yearlies, da*****

10:56 pm

(add falsehoods to those)

10:56 pm

or what jilli said ;)

10:56 pm

si 6? missing both

10:56 pm

ty got it.

10:57 pm

si + vowel + can top

10:57 pm

SI6/21 - si + vowel + jar covers

10:57 pm

last si = more fittier

10:57 pm

ty pini and jar

10:58 pm

okay, I think I am done with the paper for tonight. I am still a bit punchy from the allergic reaction a couple days ago, and probably have reached my mental limit

10:58 pm

go nan go!!!

10:58 pm

stid, did I get the idea????

10:58 pm

stupid word!

10:58 pm

yes jill -- I think you did get the idea.

10:59 pm

good, thanks

10:59 pm

brb - phone

10:59 pm

well, my goal today is to get one from each tile. I shan't even try for halfway unless it happens by accident.

10:59 pm

ve 6?

10:59 pm

ve + smeller

11:00 pm

stid, this was a horrible grid -- good riddance

11:00 pm

missing many co words. have first 4 then need all 5 left.

11:00 pm

yes terrible grid. going to sleep soon.

11:01 pm

is the Y very peculiar?

11:01 pm

ya + adult males

11:01 pm

thanks pini

11:01 pm

got three of them! yeah!

11:02 pm

need clue for co 5 12 first one please.

11:03 pm

co + brit backside

11:03 pm

ooooh. found the aa 5 by myself!

11:03 pm

or not fine but co****

11:03 pm

ty jilly that is first co 6. need co 5 15 please.

11:04 pm

first co 5 12 = co + whose **d* are you on, anyways?

11:04 pm

and hi all

11:04 pm

I shall never be able to type that "rough" word again without thinking of british backsides... *sigh* my poor brain!

11:04 pm

hey NRK!!!!

11:04 pm

hehe stid ;)

11:04 pm

hi nrkii!!!

11:05 pm

mkg, all theother co words build on that co5, some with a changed consonant

11:05 pm

sorry nrkii not getting it.

11:06 pm

ty ! got it from that clue jilli.

11:07 pm

oh oh... the red screen of DEATH????

11:07 pm

ne 6/21?

11:07 pm

nrkii's clue was very clear

11:07 pm

*relieved look* okay, that one "took" LOL

11:07 pm

ne + about + not ego

11:07 pm

I think that one is like the water nymph nan

11:08 pm

and the next one ends with a diff cons

11:08 pm

ty jill

11:08 pm

help on the lowest A please? assume it's an AL, but ... my last blank tile

11:08 pm

yw :)

11:09 pm

al** vera gel

11:09 pm

or plant

11:09 pm

gah. thanks. *calls* here fishy fishy fishy

11:09 pm

so, I got to halfway AND NBT on exactly the same word! LOL

11:10 pm

wtg stid!!!

11:10 pm

11 left here

11:10 pm

my day is (almost) complete. Too bad I can't use my bathtub, a long hot soak would feel SO nice! LOL

11:10 pm

would someone clue the 8 plZ?

11:11 pm

gogogo nrk!

11:11 pm

but water supply, plants in tub and lack of desire to heat gallons of water on the stove interfere!

11:11 pm

go nrk go!

11:11 pm

ra8...

11:11 pm

ra8 = ra******* d'etre, I think

11:11 pm

ra + me + Shakespeare wrote *****ts (poems)

11:12 pm

ra**** d'etre + compass direction

11:12 pm

no, nrkii -- extra letters

11:12 pm

AHAH! and now I have the 8. you-all are the BEST! thanks!

11:12 pm

that's a better clue, nan

11:12 pm

sorry, I took Spanish

11:13 pm

to me, everything French has a double consonant and an E a the end :)

11:13 pm

ty got it.

11:13 pm

didn't anyone look at my Shakepeare clue?

11:13 pm

I depart, with joy and love and... a dog who really wants to play! *runs off with plastic artichoke the dog set in lap* see you-all tomorrow! *Poof*

11:13 pm

ma 7?

11:13 pm

french not english.

11:13 pm

bye stid!

11:13 pm

elle, ette...

11:14 pm

M + Cassius Clay's litte boy

11:14 pm

so why isnt maison a word? that is french too.........

11:14 pm

clay had a son????????never knew.

11:14 pm

ask enable, mkg

11:15 pm

have no idea jill

11:15 pm

no, mkg -- think

11:15 pm

little mohammed???????

11:15 pm

Clay = Muhammed *** + little boy

11:15 pm

cassie??????????wow the brain is dead. totally dead.

11:16 pm

m + mohammed *** + male kid

11:16 pm

alison not in dict.

11:16 pm

Hi everyone. I won't get done tonight (gotta go to bed and haven't been around all day) but I have a question for you guys.

11:16 pm

ty jill

11:16 pm

it starts with M

11:16 pm

first co 6/21 will put me out of my misery

11:16 pm

silly me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! got it.

11:17 pm

ask away, nef!

11:17 pm

er 5 plz?

11:18 pm

e + flower

11:18 pm

which one, mkg? both add a vowel to the previous word

11:18 pm

My computer screen is getting all wonky tonight: it flashes pink; the colors are all sort of neon and blink back to normal, etc. Is my computer screen dying; or is there another explanation?

11:19 pm

Sorry, don't know but it doesn't sound good, nef

11:19 pm

sorry have that one. apologies need first one. that is second one.

11:19 pm

ok got it. sorry

11:19 pm

see my clue, mkg -- add a vowel to word before, dammit

11:20 pm

well 40 left and i am too tired. gnight all.

11:20 pm

:-( I'm afraid it isn't good, huh?

11:20 pm

fireworks!

11:20 pm

goodnight, mkg

11:20 pm

YAY nrkii!!!

11:20 pm

and way way past my bedtime... night all!

11:20 pm

WTG, nrkii!!

11:20 pm

Nef, I really don't know.

11:21 pm

night nrk!!!

11:21 pm

just got he 6 and 7. so 38 to go. night all.

11:21 pm

night nrkii

11:22 pm

first co 6/21, please?

11:22 pm

co + brit butt

11:23 pm

duh -- ty jill

11:23 pm

or not fine, but co****

11:23 pm

lol, nan

11:23 pm

I was definitely too tired to be trying this grid -- don't even deserve fireworks!

11:23 pm

coarse

11:23 pm

tsk tsk nef ;)

11:24 pm

thanks for the help everyone

11:24 pm

did you get fireworks, nan? YAY!!!

11:24 pm

Hi nef: freakish color changes are usually one of the first signs of monitor death. :( If shutting your computer down and starting it back up doesn't fix the problem, it's days may be numbered. :(

11:24 pm

OOOPS! I guess I'm too tired to deal with this goofy screen tonight

11:24 pm

we won! we're going to the Rose Bowl!

11:24 pm

or, "its"

11:25 pm

Off the the PB (actually bed) for me. Sorry

11:25 pm

nice, pini!

11:25 pm

or even hard drive death -- I'd back everything up nef

11:25 pm

yes, House ;)

11:25 pm

hi/night Nef ;)

11:25 pm

Thanks for the info, House Of Cats

11:26 pm

Nef, is your machine an all-in-one or a separate monitor?

11:27 pm

np. :) night nef, hello everyone

11:28 pm

Hi House

11:28 pm

I have a newer hard drive, nan; my eMac died and I got a nearly new G5; but had to down-grade to an old monitor at the time (it was the only one sitting around here un-used). I do have a laptop PC that I can use, but I'm a Mac fan

11:28 pm

hi HOC

11:29 pm

well, you can get Expert on the PC, not the Mac ;)

11:29 pm

Hey Pini; are you better tonight?

11:30 pm

yes, nef ;) hopefully 'more better' tomorrow to go to work for awhile

11:31 pm

don't rush it, pini

11:31 pm

True, jilli; but I do like my Macs. We shall see what I can find our this weekend about this (my son is moving; wonder if he can fit in a visit with Mom to fix my 'puter too?)

11:31 pm

I did yesterday and paid for it today

11:31 pm

li clues please

11:31 pm

oops pa4

11:32 pm

fisrt li6/7

11:32 pm

li6/18 -- li + Pr**** the Lord and pass the ammunition

11:32 pm

I'm thinking that, too

11:32 pm

Pini, did it get noisy? Congrats on the win.

11:32 pm

Pini, stick with the chicken soup (loaded with lots of good veggies and herbs); and honey lemon tea. As jilli said; don't rush it.

11:32 pm

li7 = the man in the middle

11:33 pm

ty Jilli!

11:33 pm

li 7 is the noun -- use not off instead of the last letter of the li6

11:33 pm

I always spell that wrong LOL- Thanks!

11:33 pm

thx BR...not too noisy here at the house, but I can see the stadium lights if I stand outside! :)

11:33 pm

will do, nef! :)

11:34 pm

it's caused a lot of trouble today, dr!

11:34 pm

BR, I like that it was a close game, too...made the win all that much better ;)

11:34 pm

I bet!

11:35 pm

The way the second half started was ominous

11:35 pm

ma7 please

11:36 pm

scuse me, but what were the teams?

11:36 pm

ma = m + mohammed *** + not daughter

11:36 pm

Oregon State v. Uni of Oregon

11:36 pm

ty Pini

11:36 pm

ma + Cassius Clay's little boy

11:36 pm

and one broken leg, br...a close 2nd

11:37 pm

oh yes, pini's clue is more literal. Mine's more fun

11:37 pm

: ) Jilli

11:37 pm

Geez, all Oregon!

11:37 pm

I was using that one before, jilli, but it seemed it was being taken more literal than as an "alternate"

11:38 pm

it worked easily earlier today, pini

11:39 pm

then people started saying they didn't know he had a kid and didn't know its name

11:39 pm

it did...probably just getting late...

11:39 pm

well, he had a kid...but it was a daughter

11:39 pm

LOL!

11:40 pm

According to the Wikipedia, in Greek its name suggests that it's from France, whereas in French its name suggests that it's from India. Where do English speakers think this bird is from?

11:41 pm

what bird?

11:41 pm

Turkey -- In Greek it's called the gallopoula, French chicken. In French it's called la dinde, which is short for poulet d’inde, chicken from India. For the complete Wikipedia list, go here.

11:42 pm

Well, not from Turkey?

11:43 pm

http://tinyurl.com/ygf4cpj

11:43 pm

Do you believe everything you read in Wikipedia, babrab?

11:44 pm

gotta start somehwere, nan :)

11:45 pm

well gyday all

11:45 pm

I don't even bother with Wikipedia -- one never knows what the source is, seeing as how anyone can enter anything they want on any topic into it

11:45 pm

hey, granny

11:45 pm

If I have to provide confirmation from other web sites I doubt I will bother

11:46 pm

that's g'day, * groan * what a brilliant start to my conversation!!!!!

11:46 pm

so -- "a rafter of turkeys" -- hmmm

11:46 pm

pini!!!,how are you, hun?

11:46 pm

doing ok, granny...you?

11:46 pm

nope -- sounds good anyway, babrab -- I just have a beef with Wikipedia calling itself and encylopedia when the info in there is not necessarily verified.

11:47 pm

nan I believe there is some overseeing and more to come.

11:47 pm

ok, now. spot of bother over a new exercise this morning, but now everything good.

11:47 pm

hi granny!

11:47 pm

how's your foot?

11:48 pm

hey jilli, you ok, hun?

11:48 pm

feeling a bit under the weather, granny

11:49 pm

weeellll.... the new exercise used a muscle and tendon which hasn't been used for a loooong time, i'll leave the rest up to your imagination. * grin *

11:49 pm

oh, jilli, how bad?

11:49 pm

ouch!

11:50 pm

My daughter once entered a colleague as being a favourite son of whatever obscure little town he comes from, listing all his academic credits etc. as a practical joke. He spent 2 days blaming his mother for the entry, before he found out who had really done it.

11:50 pm

ah, well, pini, they say no pain, no gain, right?

11:50 pm

right, granny! :)

11:51 pm

not very, granny -- no sniffles but an annoying cough, no fever but chills, achy, very tired

11:51 pm

jilli, I think you got hit harder than me

11:51 pm

no appetite (lose a bit of weight, goody?)

11:51 pm

hope it goes away soon!

11:51 pm

yuck, you have had your H1N1 shot, haven't you?

11:51 pm

me too -- I overdid yesterday

11:52 pm

no, granny, but had the seasonal flu shot a month ago.

11:52 pm

thanx, pini. as i said, betterer now!!!!

11:53 pm

us ancient folk don't need H1N1 much

11:53 pm

sorry your new exercise was a bit of a strain, granny!

11:54 pm

jilli, please, as soon as you are well enough, have the shot.but it has been said, those of us who are over 50, have been through the massive flu epidemic 40 years ago, and have antibodies already.

11:54 pm

* Is it dangerous to swim on a full stomach? * Yes. It's better to swim in water.

11:54 pm

silly babrab!

11:55 pm

* giggle * BR....are you bored??? LOL

11:55 pm

trying to incite a riot

11:55 pm

jilli, the new exercise entailed being in knee deep water, hence more weight exerted through the joint.

11:55 pm

is it working??? :)

11:55 pm

granny, I did intend to have the shot but it wasn't available for our group yet and now I'll wait

11:56 pm

BR, like the question, have you stopped beating your wife/husband yet? there is no correct answer.

11:57 pm

pini, i MUST start sometime to put more weight through this ankle.

11:57 pm

granny, I have a guy who washes windows and clears gutters and inspects roofs. Last year he fell off a roof and broke both ankles. He is now full of plates and screws but functioning again, which he attributes to daily pool swims and exercises.

11:58 pm

The answer is the the question assumes facts not proven and is not appropriate

11:58 pm

oh, i believe in hydrotherapy, it's the doing that's getting to me. lol

11:59 pm

I know, granny, but just remember to take it just a little bit easy...don't want to hear you're going too fast and making it worse ;)

11:59 pm

* grin * i see my reputation precedes me

11:59 pm

brb

11:59 pm

jilli...do plaly lex with dorens, et al?

12:00 am

helllo

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