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12:00 am

flip

Clues are up

12:02 am

Thanks, Lickety!!!

12:02 am

phant apatites

12:02 am

hi lickety, thanks

12:06 am

my goodness, where is everyone tonight!

12:06 am

they got annoyed by me giving so many clues

12:06 am

lol

12:07 am

don't let that deter you

12:08 am

no I didn't grem!

12:08 am

I was just kidding, hehe

12:08 am

* whew *

12:09 am

My word list is showing words from yesterday's grid. I was entering them as the flip happened

12:09 am

refresh, douglas

12:09 am

they too shall pass

12:12 am

flip

12:14 am

hello

12:14 am

hi mlf

12:14 am

wb andree

12:15 am

Hi pinik

12:17 am

fireworks

12:18 am

TR 8/40

12:18 am

Still there after the refresh, but I'll deal with it. (I have a choice?)

12:18 am

tr 8/40 x 2

12:18 am

wtg grem

12:18 am

grem are they similar?

12:18 am

i just found one of them

12:18 am

yes, very similar

12:18 am

Bowing to grem's unspeakable excellence

12:19 am

they're anagrams

12:19 am

ty, grem

12:19 am

hello :)

12:19 am

hi dc

12:19 am

hi dc

12:19 am

One of them is one of the words in the title of a Blue Oyster Cult album

12:20 am

not familiar with their albums but thanks Douglas

12:20 am

one is a plural noun, the other is a singular noun

hi NBT

12:21 am

I seem to recall that it's the album with the song "Dominance and Submission" on it. That doesn't help, does it?

12:22 am

hi dc

12:22 am

douglas no but i have the plural

12:22 am

thx for the 8's folks

12:22 am

hi, andree, lovely photo of the grandkids

12:22 am

welcome, melon

12:22 am

hope you're well, flosey

12:23 am

GOT IT

12:24 am

glad you like it d.c, its really not the best but try to get 7 kids from 3 up to smile and sit still all together

12:24 am

considering the number and age range, i think it's lovely :)

12:27 am

fr6.33 is weird to me

12:28 am

very

12:29 am

Thanks dc, that helped me get that fr6/33

12:31 am

CO 7 if not called

12:32 am

Wondering if there are sc5s in the PB...nom

12:33 am

2nd COLUMN O I have ON 4/5 can anyone give me the stats for the other O word from there please?

12:33 am

LOL Douglas

12:33 am

a blueberry one would be nice

12:34 am

on4/4 and its a fish

12:34 am

thanks Andree and Hello

12:39 am

hello all - what are the stats for the middle e please

12:40 am

sorry, burried in the grid, yes, thanks DC

12:40 am

i think its a ET 5/12

12:41 am

ty mlfan

12:41 am

yw ursh hope its the right one lol

12:41 am

yes thanks got it

12:42 am

yw glad you got it

12:43 am

4th colum E I have EA 4/5 and EA 5/12 what am i missing?

12:43 am

et4

12:43 am

thanks dc

12:44 am

duhh got it

12:45 am

the et4 is from a different e that the e mlf is looking for

12:47 am

et4 from upper right, et5 from center one.

12:48 am

anyhoo.. i'm off to sleep :)

12:48 am

happy babbling, yall! {poof}

12:50 am

good night dc

12:50 am

okay i have 102 left i am out poof

12:50 am

goodnight mlf

hi and nbt

1:00 am

hi josh

1:02 am

NY Mets third baseman Fernando Tatis is in the grid

1:04 am

I don't have to like this grid, do I?

1:05 am

lol, I'm with you there Douglas, not finding it very friendly

just started and chipping away

1:06 am

And my word count is inaccurate, because some of the words in my word list are from the previous grid, but some of the words I entered before the flip are words in this grid. Got that?

1:07 am

very strange Douglas

1:07 am

what happens when you send the words to lickety's clues

sounds like you're due for a good old fashioned hard refresh

1:08 am

but first copy and paste the words you have

1:09 am

just to be sure you don't lose everything

phant areic

1:10 am

I logged out, closed the tab, opened a new tab, and my non-word words are still there. But I'm pretty close to halfway, so I'm going to quit. Good night all

1:10 am

ah, sorry Douglas, but good night

1:13 am

Hi all -- just got here.

1:14 am

hi jilli, how did you do at bridge?

1:14 am

Hard to tell, flosey, but not very well, I think.

1:15 am

ah, Geo felt the same

1:15 am

You know -- you make a tough contract and find someone else made a bit more.

1:15 am

frightening monster you have there

1:16 am

yes, that is sooo annoying

1:16 am

Yes, lol -- the Google Images for "Monsters" were all cutesy-poo.

1:17 am

ah, didn't have time today

1:17 am

I bet! All packed now?

1:18 am

played boggle bash with pougmama earlier.. she is goooooood

1:18 am

yes - what didn't get packed I'll do without or must mean I need new!!

1:18 am

pugmama

1:18 am

hi s'mom

1:18 am

hey babblers, what's boggle bash sam?

1:19 am

hi gort

1:19 am

a wordf game on pogo gort

1:19 am

hi all!

1:19 am

hi

1:19 am

hiya flosey, *wreathed in ignorance* what's pogo?

1:20 am

another game site

1:20 am

flosey -- how's this grid? First glance isn't pleasant.

1:20 am

can an ignoramus like me join?

1:20 am

yup

1:20 am

www.pogo.com?

1:20 am

i only do the free games- too cheap to pay to play-lol

1:20 am

this is the only site i have eer paid for-lol

1:21 am

me too

1:21 am

your first glance told you the whole story jilli

1:21 am

took a while to break through!

1:21 am

Oh dear.

1:21 am

back after i've checked out pogo...

1:22 am

unless it's just that I'm quite tired

1:22 am

I've been trying to hurry through, not chatting much

1:22 am

very few babblers in earlier

1:23 am

gosh, hubby came in, said didn't think they did well, and off to bed!

1:25 am

hmf, that was abrupt!

1:26 am

We didn't encounter him and Paul.

1:27 am

J called, looking for a partner but guess P decided to go after all

evening all..just a quick look then off to bed

1:28 am

hi Barb

1:28 am

Hi Barb.

1:28 am

doesn't appear friendly at first Barb, but after a while, things clilck

1:29 am

J? One J played with Gisela.

well will have to do most tomorrow

1:30 am

jeff

1:31 am

Oh -- yes, J & P were there.

1:34 am

still 2 bt, the I and the E in the middle column

1:35 am

io4/4 and pl

1:36 am

et5/12

1:37 am

ty. flosey

1:37 am

yw

1:37 am

nbt :)

1:38 am

wtg jilli

okay 35 words for now..the rest have to wait till tomorrow...night all (hugs)

1:43 am

night Barb, hugs

1:43 am

night barb -- hope it was an easier day today!

actually I did way more than I planned...tired and sore still but feel good at what got done...including transplanting a really large lilac. night

1:45 am

wow, good job Barb

1:46 am

I hope you had help, barb!

I did my husband, my son and my neighbour too..it will be a lovely bush/tree if it can take to it's new home...it should since it isn't being strangled by black berries

1:48 am

good job, barb!

1:48 am

I'm down to my last word and I cannot get it!

1:48 am

can't even find it in morewords

thanks ...must try to sleep now. night again

1:48 am

wtg flosey!!!

you can do it flosey I am sure

1:49 am

night again too, barb!

1:49 am

I know how that is, flosey. What word is it?

1:49 am

tks for vote of convidence! still looking

1:51 am

ah, finally! te5/10 - second last te word

1:51 am

fireworks

1:51 am

YAY flosey!!!

1:51 am

**confidence

1:52 am

and it's a word that's been in before

1:52 am

I forget the l is over there in the corner

1:53 am

have never seen so few babblers in here

1:53 am

right from flip!

1:53 am

I wonder why!

1:53 am

has been very quiet

1:54 am

105 online! some who would normally be in the chat

1:54 am

just got that word, flosey -- thx for the mention of the L :)

1:55 am

thought that might help when you got there jilli

1:55 am

well, they may be online but not actually playing. Some said they were going to look at pogo.

1:55 am

do you want any clues?

1:56 am

Not ready for clues yet, flosey, thanks. I think you should be going to bed, right?

1:56 am

yes, although will sleep on the plane

1:57 am

I think Paul and George are touring the nursaries again after dropping me off

1:57 am

But you have to catch that ferry.

1:57 am

yes, the 9:50

1:58 am

I guess that's not too difficult for you -- would be for me!

1:59 am

I'm always up by 7 - 8 at latest

2:01 am

sleep better with these pills, has also given me pills for pain which really help

2:02 am

I try, but can't get up before 10!

2:03 am

Glad to hear it, flosey. Have the aquafit classes been helping?

2:05 am

am sure they are jill, but am always tired after - come home and sleep!

2:06 am

that's really why I've given up bridge for a while - I was falling sleep there

2:06 am

Well, you'll have a holiday from them.

2:06 am

That's a shame.

2:06 am

yes, going to be a busy one

2:06 am

I mean about giving up bridge.

2:06 am

Wy busy?

2:07 am

*why

2:07 am

yes, I hate to do that but also feel so badly if I blow hands

2:07 am

just getting around to see everyone

2:08 am

Gord's in Etobicoke, Dave's in Scarborough, friend in Aurura

2:08 am

I thought of going to Mtl and Tadoussac in early August but was shocked at the cost!

2:08 am

oh! do you fly West Jet?

2:09 am

Do you rent a coar or does someone take you around?

2:09 am

I am on their mailing list and they send bargain rates quite regularly

2:09 am

I can't drive in Toronto anymore jill, traffic is frightening

2:09 am

I haven't flown anything for years. The only flight to Bagotville (near Tad) is Air Canada.

2:10 am

Oh yes, I remember the 401.

2:11 am

401, 400, 404, then through the city!! ugly

2:11 am

you really have to know when you start, exactly where you're going

2:12 am

Well, does someone drive you, then?

2:12 am

but you also have to keep up with the pace - which is generally well over the limit

2:12 am

yes, there's always someone to drive me

2:12 am

Gord, Dave, Don (brother)

2:12 am

that's great.

2:13 am

Nice to have family.

2:13 am

also hoping to meet up with another old friend (actually an old bf of one of the girls) but we've remained friends, he use to come visit me in Aurora

2:14 am

sounds as if you'll have a great time.

2:14 am

yes, always do, jill

2:15 am

also have to meet sister and b-i-l - Don drives me to meet them - usually at David Duncan House, convenient and great food

2:16 am

sister comes over from Waterloo

2:16 am

well, I'm rattling on, should let you get at this grid

2:17 am

as I said, nice to have family!

2:17 am

Oh, I'm getting words as we chat.

2:17 am

oh, was Jacquie out tonight

2:18 am

no -- nor Boodie, but there were 6 full tables.

2:19 am

she had asked about Sandra's Dr. &. Ob/Gyn

2:19 am

The couple who spend the winters in Mexico were there, and Terry is back

2:19 am

can't think who winters in Mexico

2:20 am

George P and Judy B

2:21 am

guess I'd recognize them, just can't remember

2:21 am

You would recognise them, I'm sure.

2:22 am

oh, Boell and Pen.........(?)

2:22 am

yes

2:22 am

yes

2:23 am

well, I better get off to bed, try to wake refreshed

2:23 am

may not see you tomorrow night, remember, we'll be 3 hours later

2:24 am

morning all

2:24 am

but I'll likely be on inthe morning

2:24 am

hi sprite, and bye

2:24 am

yes -- we'll miss you! I know you'll have a great time, though.

2:24 am

bye flosey

2:24 am

yes, goodnight now

2:24 am

Hi sprite!

2:24 am

hi jilli :)

2:25 am

good monster, jilli, and great writeup!

2:27 am

Thanks! Yours is sweet! I still see your previous icon here though, but don't know what it is -- can you tell me?

2:28 am

it is a lily of the valley

2:28 am

Ah -- a close-up. I love them.

2:29 am

Oh -- just got over halfway (late start)

2:29 am

so do I. They are magic, made by poetic gnomes while we weren't looking, was my writeup yesterday :)

2:29 am

gratz!

2:31 am

Oh, lovely! We had lots at our other house (back east near Montreal) but here I'm having trouble growing them -- can't think why! All conditions seem right, but maybe the soil is too acid or something.

2:31 am

ty

2:32 am

when they do grow, they are like weeds, they pop up everywhere. I am not familiar with which conditions they need though :(

2:33 am

I have leaves popping up but they don't bloom!

2:33 am

that is odd.

2:33 am

yes!

2:36 am

googled a bit for you. It seems the soil must be poor for them to bloom. The richer the soil, the worse they bloom.

2:37 am

Ha! Maybe that's the trouble! Thanks!

2:38 am

my pleasure :)

2:38 am

I must tell my gardener -- we should move them, and I know where to.

2:39 am

perfect! They are so beautiful, it would be great if you could get the flowers back.

2:39 am

tyvm!

2:40 am

?

2:40 am

and always in shadow, but I think you already knew that

2:40 am

!

2:40 am

yes, that I knew.

2:40 am

?

2:40 am

hi lyn :)

2:40 am

Hello

2:41 am

hi lynxxx :)

2:41 am

hi evrybdy

2:41 am

hi evrybdy

2:41 am

hello malik

2:41 am

hello Malik

2:41 am

hi malik

2:42 am

thnx for replyn

2:42 am

sprite -- I sent you some icon ideas today -- did you see them?

2:42 am

np

2:42 am

today? No not yet, let me check my email, brb

2:42 am

can u help me sprite

2:43 am

my english is so weak. i hav ielts test on saturday

2:44 am

good ones, jilli! Will put them in today.

2:44 am

sorry malik, you've come to the wrong place. I suggest you ask a teacher.

2:44 am

Hope they will attract some participants!

2:44 am

tell me hw can i improv my speaking power

2:45 am

just chat to me

2:45 am

lol jilli, or not. We have a faithful crowd, some participants and some enthusiastic readers who don't chat much. Am fully willing to do it for the ones who are finding it fun.

2:48 am

oh btw, something I intended to ask you. I put in an icon theme about the numerals on houses. Do you call them house numbers, or house numerals, or something else?

2:49 am

house numbers

2:49 am

Morning/evening all House numbers spritey sprite.

2:49 am

hi FM :)

2:49 am

Good evening jilli!

2:49 am

thanks :) Hi FM!

2:49 am

Except in the UK they sometimes just have names -- or is that no longer the case, FM?

2:50 am

goodmorning FM

2:50 am

well, 47 left and I must head to bed.

2:50 am

No tis still the case jilli although here is always a number attached to the property even if not displayed.

2:51 am

HI there lynxxx :)

2:51 am

good job, jilli, and sleep well!

2:51 am

I am fascinated that England generally doesn't seem to have letterboxes - just slits in their doors

2:52 am

lol but yes that is the case lynxxx.

2:52 am

same way here in the Netherlands, lyn

2:52 am

and all over Europe too.

2:53 am

letterboxes are found in apartment buildings and flats, and in places where it is a long way to the door or where the door cannot be easily reached.

2:53 am

Good -- I like the names. I had to laugh at Coronation Street a while ago when Jack and his wife (too tired to remember her name just now) called their ghastly place The Old Rectory. We really did live in The Old Rectory, Twineham, and it was a real one.

2:54 am

They have letter boxes in France - good morning/evening all.

2:54 am

otherwise... it is just a slit in the door! Well, with a lid.

2:54 am

I suppose because the house lots are larger here and we dont have houses right on the street. Generalizing a lot. We would need a lot more posties

2:54 am

WE don't even have door to door mail delivery now.

2:54 am

Vera Duckworth.

2:54 am

We think of the free standing letterbox as a US thing.

2:54 am

hi Haz

2:54 am

heavens jilli - our postman comes every day.

2:54 am

of course, Vera. Royalty, too!

2:55 am

Hello Haz

2:55 am

Good morning Haz!

2:55 am

Hello! Vera had ideas above her station, that's for sure.

2:55 am

FM: the free standing one we only have where the house is far from the street or where the door cannot be easily reached. In those cases, as befits the Netherlands, it is mandatory to have a freestanding one...

2:55 am

We have groups of letterboxes every few blocks. Pain in the neck. Mine is up a hill.

2:56 am

We have no delivery on Saturdays or Sundays or any holidays.

2:57 am

My parents had the same thing when they lived on an island Jilli. Very exciting for visiting gran children to go and get the mail

2:57 am

Facinating what you can learn from babble!

2:57 am

no delivery on Sundays, and no collecting mail from mailboxes on Sundays either, so on Mondays there is hardly any mail.

2:57 am

What I'm describing is all over Canada.

2:58 am

No Sunday deliveries here either.

2:58 am

Our deliveries are like Canadas

2:58 am

true FM... especially that there isn't one true way :)

2:58 am

Do you still get delivery twice a day in the UK? It's only once here.

2:59 am

Just one daily delivery here as well.

2:59 am

only one here too

2:59 am

No only one a day now and the cost of postage has sky rocketed.

2:59 am

I know. Over 8 shillings for a first class stamp (old money!)

3:00 am

a 1st class stamp now costs £0.39 LOL Haz

3:00 am

I wonder how long before mail delivery and letters generally become defunct. I read that the UK is getting rid of cheques by 2012??

3:00 am

Is it not 41p, FM?

3:00 am

Big kerfuffle about that lynxxx but that is what 'they' are planning.

3:01 am

what do you mean by first class? 0 - 20 grams?

3:01 am

Our postage costs make little sense. It costs about the same to mail my book to Istanbul as to the USA. For the former it goes as a Small Packet, but to the US it doesn't and the rate is higher.

3:01 am

what is a second class stamp

3:01 am

They're talking about getting rid of cheques by 2018, I think, but there have been protests. Lots of shops no longer take cheques.

3:01 am

oh you are right Haz.

3:01 am

A second class is 32p I think, just means that your letter might take longer to get there.

3:02 am

I have written 1 cheque a year for about the last 4 years

3:02 am

Very interesting but I must head for bed -- zzzzzzzzzz.

3:02 am

First class stamp means that they will treat the letter as priority, second class less haste, no speed.

3:02 am

night Jilli

3:02 am

Nighty night jilli.

3:02 am

we don't have that choice. One kind of delivery only. If you want it faster, you need DHL or another delivery service.

3:02 am

sweet dreams, jilli

3:03 am

1st class is supposed to mean next day delivery withink the UK

3:03 am

Good day/evening/whatever, all! *poof*

3:03 am

We pay extra for Priority/Overnight delivery (you buy special envelope) otherwise no 1st/2nd class

3:03 am

Good night, jillibus.

3:03 am

our mail service says: post in time today, and it is delivered tomorrow. But we do not give any guarantee.

3:04 am

We have 1st and second class and also special delivery which guarantees next day delivery. You have to pay a fortune for that one.

3:05 am

I think all the online purchasing is going to be the savoir of our Post Office - and of couriers generally. Deliveries for those purchases seem more frequent than ordinary mail. Are at our house and neighbours anyway!

3:06 am

savoir! how do you spell that, mental blank

3:06 am

Yes, delivery for any online purchase seems to be very efficient, especially Amazon.

3:06 am

saviour

3:07 am

Back in a mo, need to go opens some more windows.

3:07 am

Or savior if you're American.

3:07 am

exactly like you do, if you mean knowledge, lol. If you mean the thing to save them, it is saviour.

3:07 am

TY better get myself back Sunday school

3:07 am

Poor FM is going to run out of windows to open soon.

3:08 am

helllooooo

3:08 am

Helloooooooooo. And how are you?

3:08 am

adap5, arteries, Seoul. Thanks, I had to get that off my chest.

3:09 am

hi Ata

3:09 am

Hello Ata & Sily & Hobbit (who hardly ever gets her picture on anymore)

3:09 am

Yes, if I were Hobbit, I'd be miffed.

3:09 am

awww poor Hobbit! Let me find one!

3:10 am

may I remind you that it is Monster Icon Day... your pets might get really miffed if they are put up today!

3:10 am

She'll be weeping into her bonios. 'No purple collar! No pics! She doesn't love me any more! Waaaaaah!'

3:11 am

I'm an enthusiastic non-participant in the ic4 themes.

3:11 am

and not even any decent walks - all she wants to do is sit around with a strange boot on

3:12 am

I know. Hobbit might apply to be adopted.

3:12 am

I took some really really cute pics of her the other day. And yes, she has an *awful* life at the moment!

3:12 am

She can send her CV into the paper. 'New home needed. One which pays attention.'

3:13 am

did you get any instant feedback on the MRI Ata?

3:13 am

it was just a friendly joke, actually

3:14 am

no, I was meant to go into physio today, but I ache soo badly from marching around Canterbury yesterdya that I might ask if I can have a day off and go in on Wednesday instead

3:14 am

we know, Sprite :P

3:14 am

thanks Ata :)

3:14 am

I know, sprite, didn't mean to annoy you at all.

3:15 am

thanks Haz :)

3:15 am

Morning Ata, sorry you are so achy :(

3:15 am

Ata, I knew you'd be overdoing things as soon as you could. Good idea to give it a day of rest first.

3:18 am

She's obviously furiously searching through for the cutest photo of Hobbit she can find.

3:18 am

she should :)

3:18 am

We've pricked her conscience.

3:19 am

I have some lovely pics of Hobbit cavorting and gamboling.

3:20 am

She is a well photographed little dog!

3:20 am

soon there will be pics from Hobbit sitting on your creamy couch ;)

3:20 am

She had better have clean paws that day :)

3:21 am

am sure Ata will take care of that

3:21 am

:)

3:21 am

bath tub before the door!

3:21 am

lol

3:22 am

Hobbit has always been pristine when visiting with me.

3:22 am

thought as much. Pets with good owners are a delight to have around.

3:22 am

she just covers me in black hairs which is totally acceptable.

3:23 am

lollll Terra would never do that. Not in black hairs.

3:23 am

(Glancing round to see if Spangle is pristine)

3:23 am

and sproings around the place and give great kisses and wags a lot.

3:23 am

Spangle is, no doubt.

3:23 am

there, finally!

3:23 am

though perhaps she would be even more pristine when you would visit FM and her creamy couch ;)

3:24 am

At last! We thought you'd run off with the postman. Or lumbered off.

3:24 am

hobbit? pristine? I suppose it happens occasionally :D

3:24 am

awwww sweet!

3:24 am

Ah, but Spangle wouldn't go onto the creamy couch. She's a stay on the floor dog.

3:24 am

Am sure that Spangle is pristne too esp in the paw area as she spend much time with the arranging and sorting out and so forth.

3:24 am

new laptop ... no photo editing software on here yet ...

3:25 am

good job, Haz

3:25 am

Indeed, as we speak, the Arranging Of The Paws (morning) ceremony is taking place.

3:25 am

Can I change my icon then Ata to a bouncy Hobbit?

3:25 am

of course!

3:25 am

OK brb

3:26 am

We're being awfully forebearing in not sending certain people to the PB for continued misdemeanours with ic4....

3:27 am

Or is it forbearing? I'll have to check.

3:27 am

Forbearing, I was right - or wrong.

3:28 am

My father was fond of saying that two bears should live in any married household. Bear and forbear.

3:28 am

very wise

3:28 am

what a nice saying

3:29 am

Wasn't it? I didn't really understand it so much when I was younger but after 28 years of marriage, it's clearer now.

3:29 am

oh I went off to the PB all by myself right away. Can I come out then? After I finish my coffee and croissant?

3:29 am

As long as you promise to be good, sprite.

3:31 am

OK ic4 changed.

3:31 am

That's a great pic!

3:31 am

I can promise to do my very best

3:32 am

FM that is lovely! Sproinging and flapping those ears and amidst all those flowers!

3:32 am

yay sproingy!!

3:32 am

:)

3:33 am

There was a better pic of Hobbit on the beach but the PC didn't want to play :(

3:34 am

A lovely pic FM. Are those wildflowers?

3:35 am

you would have to ask that of Ata lynxxx as I was not there unfotunately.

3:35 am

yes, a local field

3:35 am

They look like poppies from here.

3:35 am

but I would guess they were.

3:35 am

And cornflowers?

3:36 am

amazing...England is quite beautiful for its trees and flowers

3:36 am

yep!

3:37 am

It's not a sight you see so much any more because of intensive farming methods. We have walks near here which are specially planted with wildflowers, it looks wonderful when they're in bloom.

3:38 am

England will always be my home despite economic times etc it is such a wonderful lush and leafy island.

3:38 am

this one is completely natural, a local farmer is very good with his crop rotation and leaving fields fallow

3:38 am

Well done to the farmer!

3:39 am

The ancient history of the land is amazing

3:40 am

fireflies. Leaving you ladies to it, have fun, and Ata, all the best! Try not to overdo it? ;)

3:40 am

I was meant to go to the hospital today for physio, but I'm sooo tired and achy after getting there and back yesterday that I just managed to reschedule it for Thursday morning. Very grateful

3:40 am

I'm actually watching a gardening show planting out a new garden. All mulch, rocks, grasses and drought tolerant shrubs/trees. Very nice but not the same

3:40 am

Good morning, just popping in before doing two trips to Tescos!

3:41 am

Bye Sprite.

3:41 am

Bye Sprite, congrats!

3:41 am

for example, England is the only place (I think) where wild bluebells grow still and they only grow in ancient woodland areas.

3:41 am

hi Caitlyn

3:41 am

Ata how is your leg?

3:41 am

Two trips to Tescos? What awful thing have you done that condemns you to two trips to Tescos?

3:41 am

Good morning cait!!

3:41 am

We've got wild bluebells!

3:41 am

hi and bye caitlyn!

3:42 am

yay for bluebells!

3:42 am

Congrats spritey sprite.

3:42 am

Congrats sprite, hi and bye

3:42 am

I bought my mother 1,000 bluebell bulbs. Rotten english immigrants (rabbits) ate them all

3:43 am

Oh dear lynxxx !

3:43 am

Honestly, you can't trust a rabbit, can you?

3:43 am

I love all the spring flowers especially bluebells

3:43 am

With apologies to all rabbit lovers.

3:43 am

cue crossy coming in with a rabbit recepie.

3:44 am

just hope Scrabs does come in soon.

3:44 am

I am copying Atas smugness,I have now lost 3stone 9 lbs! Smugness is good lol

3:45 am

Oh, well done, caitlyn!

3:45 am

Gah typing has gone again, apologies.

3:45 am

wonderful, Cait!!

3:45 am

OH WTG cait that is brilliant!!!!!!!

3:45 am

VERY well done Caitlyn. Is that it or do you want to lose more?

3:46 am

I will carry on with heathy eating and see where I end up

3:46 am

Not like Posh Spice, is my profound hope.

3:46 am

You will now be our new pin-up girl

3:47 am

LOL never to both those statements

3:47 am

Ata how is your leg now?

3:47 am

BBS Stew wants a bounce

3:47 am

aching!!

3:48 am

has Fergie managed to extricate herself from her latest mess yet?

3:48 am

Yes, if you get to a weight that you can maintain and where you feel comfortable, then that's great. It's probably as much to do with how you feel in yourself as any target set.

3:48 am

((((Ata))))) hope you feel better soon

3:48 am

I don't know how she's going to extricate herself from this one. She hasn't got much sense, has she?

3:49 am

not a lot, no ....

3:49 am

I have finally managed to loose the weight I gained after my daughters birth...........39 years ago

3:49 am

Fergie is her own worst enemy, I have always liked her though

3:50 am

Slow but steady wins the race, caitlyn. A marathon rather than a sprint, for sure!

3:50 am

me too, cait

3:52 am

I think she's one of these people for whom there would never be enough money. She spends without thinking of the consequences.

3:53 am

Is she from a monied background?

3:53 am

HAve to love and leave you all. TTFN.

3:53 am

hello and bye FM

3:53 am

Bye FM see you soon, take care

3:53 am

And the moral of the story is, if you find yourself in a hotel room with a man offering bucketloads of cash, start looking for hidden cameras.

3:54 am

Bye, FM.

3:54 am

just had a terrible haircut in a new place; I'll be lucky if I don't get bugs! I am shaking!

3:54 am

Hi ruby, what made it so bad?

3:55 am

1. Go and wash your hair and use plenty of conditioner. 2. Style it the way you like. 3. Remember it will grow again. 4. You can buy cheap wigs.

3:55 am

she kept me waiting more than 1/2 an hour and the place was diry!

3:55 am

the cut isn't that bad, but the place gave me the creeps!

3:56 am

I hope you didnt leave a tip

3:56 am

I didn't!

3:56 am

ata: how was your MRI?

3:57 am

anybody: how was ata's MRI?

3:58 am

fine fine!

Good morning everyone. Glad to see grid is a more manageable size today :-)

3:58 am

Ata's being very slow in replying these days. She hasn't got results back yet.

3:58 am

oh, I can't believe that li** is in the puzzle

3:58 am

Hi Sally

3:58 am

Good morning, Sally!

3:58 am

hello sally

3:58 am

how is your leg?

3:58 am

sorry, I was making tea!

3:58 am

you have certainly mae my husband happy

3:58 am

I must go and do the dreaded shop.see you later, bye for now

It is? Haven't started grid.

3:59 am

bye caitlyn

lol ruby, you should be careful how you word that remark!

3:59 am

Bye caitlyn, hope it's not too terrible.

3:59 am

it's ok, ruby. achy after a long hike to hospital!

3:59 am

sally, I'm not worried!!!

3:59 am

Do they not have out-patient ambulances for you, Ata?

4:00 am

I wish!

When I had regular hospital treatment (hydrotherapy) once Ata, I got a hospital car. Just asked my doctor.

4:00 am

It just occurred to me the other day that it was strange that you'd have to make your own way to the hospital.

4:01 am

if I lived in CAnterbury, I probably could, but I don't. I even live in a different borough!

4:01 am

They sometimes have volunteer drivers to take people for dialysis/regular treatments. I think it's through the Red Cross, although they do charge a fee.

Might be worth asking your doctor though. I asked and got! Couldn't walk more than a few steps at the time so couldn't drive, and husband at work.

4:02 am

good point!

4:03 am

Absolutely - sometimes if you don't ask, you don't get and they're not always good at giving information unless you go enquiring.

4:04 am

It's terrible that you had to walk so far. The way the new hospital in Annecy is laid out, one has to walk great distances from department to department. It's all horizontal and on only 3 levels, rather than vertical like a (normal) hospital

4:04 am

Pretend to be a traveller! You'll get whisked to the front of the queue.

Helo

4:05 am

Hello, herin.

4:05 am

hello herin

4:05 am

or, here, an Arab

Ata how did it go?

4:06 am

i booked my physio for 9am. Am going to see if husband offers to take me ...... what do you reckon?

NM I read back

Tell him to take you and not be a bourke. The back seat is awesome for sprawling out

4:06 am

Can you perfect a pleading look, a la Hobbit wanting a walk? That might do the trick.

4:07 am

what's a bourke?

4:07 am

can Hobbit drive?

A person that is a Twit (I probably spelt it wrong)

4:07 am

She's been banned for speeding.

tell him it is doctor's orders that you get taken!

I think I would spell it burk (or burke?)

4:08 am

even with that pleasing look? It used to work with highway patrolmen when I was younger....

4:08 am

ha not even a hint of an offer

Or berk?

4:08 am

Burke & Wills (Australian explorers ) - a dill. Rhyming slang

4:08 am

how about bjerk -- sort of a portmanteau word

4:08 am

hi lynxxxx

4:09 am

Or Burke and Hare, the Edinburgh grave robbers.

Is that an Icelandic singer who looks an idiot?

4:09 am

Hi Sally & Ruby & Infernal

Hello.

4:09 am

hahah

4:09 am

That's Bjork. And the volcano has apparently stopped erupting.

Well all in all it is Cockney

hi lynxxx, herin everyone

4:10 am

the lighting was so bad in the hair salon that I looked like I'd been dead a long time, just didn't have the courtesy to fall over!

4:10 am

hoorah for the volcano

Hello back

I know that's Bjork, Haz, was a play on words that sadly fell down a black hole.

4:10 am

Me: I have a 9am appt! him: that's nice!

4:10 am

Although they say it could go again, but for now it's just producing steam.

4:11 am

jbourke, jberk, etc. to him.

No Ata, that's the wrong technique. Just tell him you have been told not to use public transport again because of the strain on your leg.

4:11 am

You - sn will you please take me, it's very hard to manage by myself. Him - Of course! Anything for Einstein's granddaughter.

4:11 am

Meanwhile, Hobbit nods in approval and Sily grins.

Dear Mr Ata tell him that he is a dick and demand he drive you OR take the keys and say ''see you later'' and see what happens. If he lets you go take the keys and call a cab

4:12 am

that would actually be You - sn will you please take me, it's very hard to manage by myself. Him - take a taxi!. Me: *takes a taxi*. Him: OMG! You spent money! WHINE ANGST!

4:12 am

how about: If I'm too tired after the appt, you will have to do the grocery shopping and cooking yourself AND we might have to go out for lunch!

and also take all the batteries in the house so he has no remote

4:13 am

You're very keen on not letting people have remotes.

4:13 am

the remote thing is a good idea, see Sally's "hemote" of yesterday

Yes. It is really irritating trying to turn a channel or play a dvd with out a remote.And take the car keys so he can't go any were.

4:14 am

On Thursday morning just ask him to call you a cab. When he protests ask how else you are going to get there

4:14 am

also good idea about the keys AND taking a taxi, wouldn't have thought of that one!

4:14 am

Honestly, if he doesn't want to take you, there's no point in racking up the tension. Just accept that it's not going to happen and order a limo.

I could also say take his bank cards so he doesn't have access to money ether

4:14 am

A stretch one.

4:14 am

with a pool boy along

4:14 am

So you can stretch your leg.

4:15 am

and get a massage at the same time!

4:15 am

what a nice idea!

4:15 am

I think I'm becoming my own evil twin!

I spent 3 years with someone that was a right arse i think I have learnt enough not to put up with that sort of behaviour

4:17 am

unfortunately I need his private medical insurance for a month or so at least!

I agree with Haz about not racking up tension. My suggestion would be to ask him what he suggests. Put the ball in his court. Say you cannot manage on the bus, should you get a taxi?

4:17 am

you are definitely a good soul, sally.

4:18 am

he thinks I should get taxis. Which would be £50 a return journey. Then he will whine even more afterwards, not worth the later stress!

4:18 am

too tired to cook usually works around here!

I am just generally a peace-maker ruby, and I've learnt that hate, tension, confrontation basically hurts the person doing the confrontation as much as the person receiving it.

4:18 am

But if he knows already how much it is going to be, and he thinks that is the method you should take, then he can't moan, not really.

See I was the one that charged my ex $40 for a $20 fan that he took with him when we split up

4:19 am

I know he can't. But he would! He moans when I buy 4 cookies that I don't need!

4:20 am

Then smile sweetly and ignore him. A fight fizzles out if there's only one person fighting.

Agreed Haz.

I still think it's worth asking the doctor about hospital volunteer transport.

4:21 am

I do normally. I just don't have the energy to even ignore hi at the moment!!

4:21 am

Should we set up a business? Wise Advice Dispenser Service, nicely shortened to Wads. We'll make a mint.

4:22 am

good acronym, too

4:22 am

rata

O that is a great Idea sally

Splutter. Unfortunately that sounds like a dispensing machine in the ladies' loo.

4:22 am

whoops

4:22 am

Yes, throw yourself on the mercy of the doctor/health service.

4:23 am

Wise Advice Given? No, that would make us Wags...

4:23 am

aren't we, at least a bit?

Sage Advice Given? :-)

4:24 am

no, that's awful! people will thing we're old!

4:24 am

Sag...

4:25 am

Screen Actors Guild...can't have SAG its already taken

Hence the smiley ...

4:25 am

Darn.

4:25 am

People Advising Wisely

4:25 am

missed the smiley :(

lol, keeping the pet theme then.

4:25 am

getting advice from our animals!

4:26 am

Sound Advice Given Expertly. Sage.

4:26 am

WAGs is cute - specially as you two have spaniels

4:26 am

I like that one!

4:26 am

I know, it's an accounting programme, but even so.

4:26 am

let's vote: paws 1

Prompt Advice Dispensed - PAD.

4:27 am

Help, we need ruru to keep score. He had to referee the pea soup vote the other day.

4:27 am

I missed that!

aww PAWs is cute

4:27 am

Or DAIS. Do As I Say!

4:27 am

paws 2

4:28 am

The split pea soup vote revealed that huge numbers of people like the stuff. I was amazed.

Prompt Advice Wisely Spoken.

4:28 am

I like that one. PAWS.

4:28 am

thats a good one Sally

Or DAISY! Do As I Say You!!

4:28 am

As in Paws for thought....

4:28 am

paws 3

4:29 am

(I keep trying to think of a JAW....) would be nice and scary

ruby, you are only allowed one vote.

4:29 am

Daisy has got me doubting Paws

4:29 am

no, I'm keeping score lol

Joint Advice Wisely Spoken

4:29 am

uh oh, 3 - 1 for paws

Sally I like that

4:29 am

perfect! paws - 2

4:29 am

We had postal votes and proxy votes the other day. It got very complicated especially when proportional representation was touted.

Pea and Ham soup not your thing Haz?

4:30 am

Not really, herin.

Babblers Advice Department - BAD

4:30 am

I like jaws, advice to be followed -- or else!!!

4:30 am

hi everyone

Ooh I missed the vote. I love my own home-made pea and ham soup.

4:30 am

hi Andree

4:31 am

I like pea and ham soup, but have only had it a few times chez English friends, don't know how to make it

4:31 am

Hello Andree.

4:31 am

hello andree

4:31 am

i am a pea soup lover too

4:31 am

The pea soup lovers held sway, much to my amazement.

4:31 am

love pea soup

4:31 am

Husband makes a nice pea and ham soup too. I only can make minestrone

4:32 am

we've formed a new organization and I think the name will be JAWS, joint advice wisely spoken

4:32 am

I make a good minestrone, too

Think I am definitely leaning towards Babblers Advice Department, BAD, then we can say we've all gone to the bad.

4:32 am

Yes, but if the advice is different, can it be joint?

4:32 am

I can make chicken, lemon adn tarragon soup

4:32 am

and now I have to make a Campari for DH who is taking me out for lunch in exchange for my giving him a haircut!

Haz it isn't my thing either

HI Andree

OK, Haz - Mixed Advice Department - MAD.

4:33 am

hahah

4:33 am

MAD is great!

4:33 am

You should ask Ata's husband to give him a haircut. He's an expert.

4:33 am

Mixed Advice Department - I like!

4:33 am

loooool yes

4:33 am

how about Concensus Advice Department (since the advice is usually about bad guys)

He is? What have I missed?

4:34 am

see you later!

4:34 am

72 painless words!

4:34 am

this was a while ago ... he tried to cut his own hair

4:34 am

Sally, he's such an expert (and such a skinflint) that he once tried to cut his own hair with disastrous results.

4:34 am

Bye ruby.

Oh, no! Even professionals wouldn't do that.

bye ruby

4:35 am

it was quite hilarius

Bye Ruby

Grocery delivery. brb

4:35 am

He looked as if he'd had a run-in with a sheep shearer.

4:37 am

a half blind, half drunk one

lo.

4:37 am

Indeed!

4:38 am

Okay, time to get on with the day - this isn't getting the wallpaper on the walls.

4:38 am

bye Wonder Woman

4:38 am

Oh, I don't know, I don't think I'd suit that costume too well!

4:39 am

I'd fill it out in all the wrong places.

4:39 am

you'd look lovely!

4:39 am

On a cheery note, the paper is very nice to work with and there's no matching needed so it's fast.

4:39 am

Back later -have a good day!

Latger

Crap I have a fashion crises I have a do on Friday night

4:44 am

bye haz, hanging paper does this woman's talents have no end

PS Any one on FB check your settings again

4:48 am

BBL

4:49 am

Clue please for co 7/32

4:51 am

sorry gran , thats my missing c

4:52 am

co + vowel + place

4:53 am

thx ata

4:53 am

Thanks, but just found it

sorry don't have it

5:05 am

bbs

5:11 am

bratling dog. bbs!

5:25 am

good morning everyone

5:26 am

morning carlee

5:26 am

hi there chris

5:26 am

how are you doing?

5:27 am

waking up...but all the pieces and parts seem to be in place...so i guess is a good day..andu?

5:27 am

not bad - just watching the state opening of parliament, as I babble

5:28 am

i am watching morning Joe ( MSNBC...they blathering on about sarah palin and of course the BP oil spill)

5:34 am

wow... killed the chog

morning Babblers

5:35 am

morning nono

Back from putting groceries away, but must get on for now, so be back later all.

pabye Sally

5:36 am

hi... bye... sally have a good one

good morning!!!

hi ed

5:38 am

hi rth

geesh, hi red just saw that i messed up when typing your name

that is fine nono. I knew you wanted to greet me.

5:40 am

words are twisting wrong way for me

5:40 am

not liking this grid

5:40 am

rth..u should like it

my lickety "add" box is messed up, its typing backwards

5:42 am

that is rather odd....

yes and if i watch it, it messes with my head

Why would I like it? I have not finished a grid in days.

and God knows my head is messed up enough

5:43 am

cus its not twisting my way... when they twist my way...u hate the grid

I thnk ever since we had that really enormous one My mind has been on vacation.

5:45 am

i didnt fiish that one...i got half way....again..twisting wrong way fo rme

Red did the Magic win?

they did. a financial boon for Orlando.

I'm sure

stupid J, it's all that keeps me from nbt

j plus monkey i think.

ah found one

nbt now

hehee yes thats the one my monkeys found

5:51 am

hi and good morning

hi Bichon

5:52 am

I need the center e, lower one, for NBT

e + ta4/5

5:54 am

tyvm NoNo

yw

6:12 am

help with center i please?

io 4 & 5

6:14 am

egads. I always miss that one! thanks for the breakfast fish!

hi Trif and lady

lol...morning

6:15 am

good morning. I am gonna be late for work today, me thinks, but I am just sloooooow out of the gate today

my mind keeps wandering this morning

too much crap going thru it i guess

need a cranial colonic nan

Hi Jean. No I just need to get thru today

something going on?

today is my husband's funeral

6:46 am

Oh I am so very sorry, Nono..my very sincere condolences to you and your family

I had no idea Nan, I am so sorry

had he been ill?

thank you. Once I get thru today I guess I'll just take it one day at a time

6:47 am

nanette, deepest sympathies to you

6:47 am

oh Nono - no wonder your head is elsewhere. I wish I could be there with you ((hugs))

sometimes you will only take it an hour at a time

yes he has had health problems for several years. Starting with a severely weakened heart

6:48 am

((( Nono))))

he got pneumonia and just didn't have the strength to fight it off

I'm verym very sorry. I am a widow myself

use every sort of support you can get

Hi Dorens and Annie and thank you all

Hy lynxx didn't see you there

6:50 am

Nono, We are all here for you.

My heart hurts for you ((((Nan)))

I appreciate the support you all have given me and look forward to spending some time here each day

6:52 am

Make sure you do Nonocece

6:52 am

It will ease your heart somewhat in the days ahead.

The Good Lord willing, I will lynxx

if there is a good grief support group in your area, I know that is something that was very helpful to me (in a couple of months, not right away)

a group that is for spousal loss only

6:54 am

oh, nono, I'm so very sorry to hear about your husband -- much love to you . . .

ty Une

Jean I will look into that after the dust settles some

6:57 am

Do your sons live near you Nono?

Yes lyn, in fact one lives with me

6:59 am

That is just great, nothing like immediate family

So true, and while he is grieving also, he as been a great help these last few days

7:06 am

I must leave for the night. Bye Nono, I will be thinking of you and your boys

ty lynx have a good night

7:08 am

good night, lynxxx

think i'll go get some breakfast. Maybe see you later

7:09 am

((((((((NoNo)))))))))) so sorry to hear about your husband. My thoughts are with you and your family.

7:09 am

My thoughts and prayers will be with you and your boys today, Nono

7:10 am

hi Annie

7:10 am

hello all

7:11 am

hi peri, sad day today

7:15 am

indeed, Annie

7:15 am

help with E above the U pls

7:17 am

good morning everyone

7:19 am

good morning ((Mom))---sad news today..Nono's husband passed away. The funeral is today.

7:24 am

Good Morning Everyone

7:24 am

{{Annie}} good morning. It is a sad day indeed.

7:25 am

Good morning {{Momn}}

7:25 am

hello, momneeds

7:26 am

Poor Nono - I was just catching up on the chog

7:26 am

Momn, your daughter is lovely

7:27 am

thank you - picture kind of squished but that was taken Saturday - prom day

7:27 am

her dress is very pretty. Did she have a good time?

7:28 am

she had a great time - the girls were all so beautiful. We all met at the gazebo in the center of our town - must have been 20 kids for a big group shot.

7:28 am

sounds delightful

7:36 am

sigh, I hate vowel words.

7:36 am

plus it is hard to see words through watery eyes

7:36 am

Whats wrong Mom

7:36 am

Keep thinking about Nono

7:37 am

I know

7:38 am

Well I need to dive into my work so will save the rest for later - will probably catch you later - have a great day all

7:38 am

(((MOM)))

7:38 am

have a good day {{Momn}}

7:45 am

the parents curse works,my son is evil and he is me;(

7:46 am

Hi {{Crossy}}.

7:46 am

My mom always wished each of us one just like us

7:46 am

((MOM))

7:46 am

why does this curse always work? lol

7:47 am

it seems too. I can't imagine you ever giving your parents one bit of trouble

7:49 am

lol,you do not know me well enough mom:) i was a rotten little bugger

7:49 am

how many wds to day?

7:49 am

well I didn't know you when you were a wee lad.

7:49 am

Hi Grant, 169

7:49 am

a parents greatest gift to their children i have found is to let them live long enough to vote

7:50 am

Thanks mom

7:50 am

phantom "science"

7:50 am

hello everybody

7:50 am

howdy ruby

7:51 am

lies

7:51 am

oops penalty box for me

7:52 am

Hi {{Ruby}}

7:52 am

and no bacon in there,cause i am cut off;((

7:52 am

hi ruby, crossy

7:52 am

howdy annie;))

7:52 am

Crossy, mine have lived long past voting age

7:52 am

hi mom and crossy and annie and grant

7:52 am

mine may not make it

7:53 am

reading over the chog, that is sad news about NO No's husband. Was it unexpected?

7:53 am

what happened?

7:53 am

when we were all talking about names yesterday, she didn't mention that he was ill!

7:53 am

Crossy, Ruby and Grant, please join Annie, Peri and I in a kind thought for Nono for the loss of her husband

7:54 am

she said he had a weakened heart and had gotten pneumonia

7:54 am

yes, mom, we will send her a group hug by telepathy!

7:54 am

married 42 years, they were

7:54 am

Yes, a sad day indeed

7:54 am

so sad!

7:55 am

good lord i had no idea! nono if you are in the chog,my prayers and love go out to you and your family in this time of loss

7:55 am

here i am bitching about my snotty kid;(

7:57 am

they can be exasperating at times Crossy

7:59 am

so this was sudden,or did they know that the pneumonia was going to be too much for his heart?

8:00 am

he just couldn't fight it off

8:00 am

damn..

8:01 am

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

8:01 am

one of my favorite Mark Twain quotes

8:01 am

Good morning all. Oh, just reading back in the chog. Poor Nono. How sad.

Please give Nono my love. (I think I am friends with her on FB)

8:01 am

good morning Judi

8:01 am

and so true

8:01 am

lol,good mark twain quote

8:02 am

hi judi and herin

8:02 am

{{Herin}} good day! How was the test?

8:02 am

nice quote, thank you. we have to appreciate every day!

Good praise the stars that the majority of it was astuff I knew. PS I really shouldn't be here> I have too much to do

8:02 am

Mom, Who is that handsome young man in your icon?

8:03 am

Wonderful news Herin

8:03 am

herin, we won't tell!

8:03 am

Annie, that is our oldest.

mOM am I with you on FB?

8:03 am

brb phone

8:04 am

ah, yes definitely a handsome young man

8:05 am

I thought you were Herin, I will double check

8:05 am

I will never reach half!

8:06 am

Yes, Herin we are friends

hello fellow babblers

8:06 am

Thank you Annie, he is 25

8:07 am

hello studmuffin

8:07 am

hi studmuffin2

8:07 am

hello stud

8:08 am

I will be back in a bit, gotta scoot my sweetie out the door. :-)

8:08 am

any hints for the 8's?

8:08 am

tr8 ---an agreement between countries

8:09 am

Tr8 x2. Same word spelt differently.

8:09 am

the other 8 is also tr---a narrative usually very detailed

8:09 am

ty annie, I had other parts of that

8:10 am

youre welcome rubyfoo

MOM can you send me a message on FB as to whom Nono Is. Sorry brain study work bad. Stomach yucky

8:10 am

thank you , too, judi, now I have more than half. phew!

hey all! I have to clean out my office today - scared to go in!

8:18 am

Screw 'em, Science. Walk in like you own the joint. And then, put everything in the box like you own it.

They have been gossiping about me and I am tired of their mess

8:23 am

Just walk in and wave your lottery ticket around.

8:24 am

dp

8:25 am

Hi all. How are the babblers this morning.

8:25 am

Hiya, inge!

I am fr 6 today

Science tell them you have evolved

I sent them an email last night telling them to stop their discussions of me

8:26 am

hi all.

8:27 am

ty science

Science tell them mind your own bis

8:27 am

Can I get a clue for the singleton e in the center column for nbt?

that's essentially what I did. Anyway, I am taking my son with me so maybe they will leave me be

8:28 am

hello mkg

8:28 am

wht, greek letters

8:29 am

That comes from the upper right e, or am I missing another greek letter?

8:29 am

wht, wrong clue that E is et5---a warehouse

bbl off to shower and then get this over with!

8:30 am

e and to bind with adhesive

Tell them that is why you are leaving it is not highschool anymore

8:30 am

cant get any of the a words on top right a of grid. any clues out there?

8:30 am

Hmm. Thinking about warehouses....

8:31 am

wht, gave another clue at 8:30

lol herin - the adults are worse than the kids!

Is the TR 8 relate?

8:31 am

herin, the first 5 letters are the same

8:32 am

good luck science. none of those people matter. that is all to say.

8:32 am

ahh ty Annie. Clearly that is the electronic version of duct ****.

Thanks

8:33 am

clue for tr 8 is countries make these agreements. plural

8:33 am

science..once you leave those people are a thing of the past...go in with head held high

8:33 am

any clues for the other 8? dont have lickety yet so dont know what it is.

8:33 am

It is an anagram of the other.

8:34 am

It is a scholarly tome.

8:34 am

nm got the other tr 8 too. change last letters around.

8:34 am

see you later, dh is back

8:34 am

any clues for those a words top right a of grid plz?

8:35 am

ar4 - general place

8:35 am

and pl

8:36 am

what is a general place? confused.

HI any one I missed. Bye Ruby

8:36 am

oh got it. ty ty

8:36 am

ar 5/10 ---mountain ridge and plural

8:36 am

and plural. ty.

8:36 am

need 3 more.

8:38 am

can I get a clue for co 5/16?

8:39 am

never mind, monkeyed it

NIght All I need to sleep

8:39 am

Night, herin. Sleep well.

8:39 am

night, herin

Have a great day

8:43 am

good morning all

8:44 am

Heya, Mr. Bob.

8:44 am

hello bob

8:50 am

Nuh. Time for a break. BBL.

8:51 am

I must work. bbl

8:51 am

Good morning everyone.

8:51 am

Sweetie is off to work .... let's see what I can find

8:51 am

Morning {{Scrabbler}}

8:51 am

ohh la la, got the 8's

8:52 am

We are having a hot week here--will be in 80s all week.

8:52 am

us too Scrabbler.

8:52 am

Hi Scrabbs, Here too

8:52 am

Scrabbs, Sad news today...Nono's husband passed away and the funeral is today

Hi fellow babblers....

8:53 am

Hi Beachboggle

8:53 am

Oh, my, he had been chronically ill. I know she always cared for him. Sad.

8:53 am

Hi bb

8:53 am

Hi beach

8:53 am

Morning, all. Is Nono on FB?

8:54 am

Hi CJ

8:54 am

Hi Judy

8:54 am

Hi Judy

8:54 am

Hi Scrabs, Mom, Beachy, Annie

8:56 am

Scrabbler, Nono said he had a weakened heart and he got pneumonia

8:57 am

I need that lone E in the middle column for NBT

8:57 am

Judy, I don't know if she is on Facebook or not

8:57 am

Poor Nono. :(

8:57 am

anyone like a clue before I leave?

8:57 am

Aw, it will be so tough for her. Do they have children?

8:57 am

Judy ---E plus bind with adhesive

8:57 am

Judy e + scotch **** (used to seal wrapping paper

8:57 am

she has boys and one lives with her

8:58 am

I guess I should say sons

8:58 am

Damn--thx Annie and Mom. A fish no less. *slaps self*

8:58 am

Annie, did you finish while I was pushing sweetie out the door?

8:58 am

you're welcome Judy

8:58 am

Judy, I hope you did not hurt yourself. Heard that sl 4 over the way over here

8:59 am

Mom, I did happy to say.

8:59 am

belated congratulations

8:59 am

hahahaha Annie. I seem to be ok

8:59 am

TY for sl4

8:59 am

YAY Annie!!

9:00 am

Good work, Annie. You must have had an early start.

9:00 am

I did and for the really monstrous words i had to resort to morewords.

9:01 am

there were not a lot of monster words just that my mind was not grabbing them.

9:02 am

have a peaceful day everyone, bye dear babblers

9:02 am

Bye Annie

9:02 am

i keep wanting to type cloudy but there is no L there

9:03 am

have a lovely day {{Annie}}

9:03 am

And I want to type "could".

9:03 am

bye Annie!

9:04 am

co ---et*** (musical piece)

9:04 am

TY, Annie. New word for me.

9:05 am

*poof*

9:10 am

Past halfway so time for a break.

9:10 am

gotta grab some coffee

9:10 am

bye for now Scrabbler

9:19 am

halfway for me... time to get out of the pj's. {{Hugs}} to all of you

9:21 am

co 7?

9:22 am

hello all,

9:22 am

co7 vowel + si4

9:23 am

thank you.

9:23 am

yw

9:23 am

didn't remember, I finished this last night

9:24 am

missed you, there werent many of the usual babblers in last night

9:24 am

I was there for a while .. but pooped out early.

9:25 am

ah, I was hurrying so wasn't watching the chat too closely

9:25 am

catching the 9_50 ferry to airport, flying to Toronto today

9:25 am

9:50

9:26 am

oh...you are on a trip

9:26 am

to see sons and other family (what's left of them)

9:27 am

and first grandson, who is there

9:27 am

you will have a good time..wow.. have a nice visit

9:27 am

tyty, for sure

9:28 am

really .. just now the first.. have you met him yet?

9:28 am

will be babbling while there - at different times though - won't be starting at night

9:28 am

Eastern Time, starts at 1: am

9:29 am

ugh.. no you won't..

9:33 am

oh yes, know this grandson well, was also at the hospital with them when he was born, he is now 12

9:33 am

second is in Vancouver - see a little more of him

9:34 am

oh .. thought you were visitng a newborn..

9:34 am

does this mean that jilli will win at bridge now?

9:36 am

she was second last week, ru - I haven't been playing for a while

9:37 am

hi flosey, BON VOYAGE! and hello ruru

9:37 am

gm

9:37 am

ty for the co7 clue, it was nifty

9:37 am

I can't find that last pa 6/21

it looks and sounds french ruru

9:38 am

that is my favorite word in the grid, ruru, pa+Fr familiar form of you + snake letter

9:40 am

thanks

9:40 am

hi ruby and josh

9:41 am

see you later, cokctail time in Dixie and only 78 words to go :((

hi again flosey

9:41 am

have a great time flosey!

9:42 am

thanks ruby, this is my first grandson - when he received his blackbelt i-with his proud papa

9:43 am

tai quan do

9:45 am

great pic flosey. Hd to smile at yr mention in yr bi about irises - I had a mystery plant growing in the hottest part of the garden and it turns out to be a flag iris deep blue in colour.

9:47 am

pa 7 is eluding me too

9:47 am

Hey ruru, can't help yo uwith clues today as haven't started the gird.

9:47 am

oh, lucky you FM, I love them

pa 7/36 = pa 4/5 + if you told an untruth you l***

9:48 am

I thought they were boggy loving plants.

9:48 am

pa 7 is pt of a man who was sick of the pa7 was healed (biblical)

9:49 am

perhaps FM but there's a chap here on the island who has a wonderful display of them

9:49 am

thanks

9:50 am

yw

9:50 am

must get ready now

9:50 am

Have a great trip flosey, was just reading back in the chat.

9:50 am

oh jeez.. I haven't gotten to where the 8's are..wheeeeeeeeeee

9:50 am

will probably be babbling around this time of day while in TO

9:50 am

thanks FM

9:54 am

do you want clues RU?

9:55 am

get tr5/10 and the next 3 words will come easily

9:57 am

Sun has gone off the garden so now I must go water the pots. TTFN.

10:07 am

back

10:10 am

ta 6/21 # 1 please

10:13 am

ta 6-21 more sour

10:14 am

that's the second one pea

10:14 am

ta + "hoist on his own ****rd"

10:16 am

thanks.. finally figured that out

10:27 am

hello all

10:27 am

help with 8's pls

10:33 am

is today, ignore perwinkle day?

10:34 am

Good afternoon, babbletopia! Is this grid tricky, or just for me?

10:34 am

Hey peri!

10:38 am

hi all

10:39 am

Hey Boo

10:42 am

Round 2. 80 left. Hello all.

10:42 am

Uni, I passed halfway rather easily. Next half will likely be tough.

10:44 am

Hey Scrabs! Good to know...I'm up to 74 and feeling a little better about it

10:44 am

And I am still staring at the grid with 80 to go.

10:46 am

I miss the simplest words...

10:46 am

Babble Blindness Syndrome

10:46 am

Good to know there's a name for my syndrome :)

10:47 am

tr8/40 - and tr8/40 - if you were to write a scholarly work about the sort of surrender agreements reached between countries, then it would be a tr8/40 about tr8/40. (Words are anagrams of each other). And hello to all.

10:47 am

Time for the list.

10:48 am

TY, Haz!

10:48 am

Lovely clue, Haz. Nice to see you!

10:48 am

You're welcome! Hello to you as well!

10:49 am

And how are you doing after all the excitement of graduation, Uni?

10:49 am

Lovely. And the people next door have gone back to drilling holes in their house.

10:49 am

Is this drilling holes for a purpose or just to annoy you?

10:50 am

How is your mother, Uni? I haven't seen her here in ages.

10:50 am

I'm doing well! I need to get my diploma redone as they spelled my name wrong, but I am still enjoying relaxation and applying for the odd job. How have you been? Busy, I'm sure.

10:50 am

I'm sure there is a purpose. They are renovating the whole house (I am dog sitting at a friend's house). It's maddening.

10:50 am

That's bad, them spelling your name wrong.

10:51 am

Lori pops on *very* occasionally, Scrabs. She seems well enough though!

10:51 am

I'm busy, yes. Redecorating younger daughter's bedroom - I'm a frustrated interior designer.

10:51 am

Big decisions, Haz.

10:51 am

Have you de-papered everything yet?

10:52 am

I have depapered (nearly killed myself in the process!), I have painted and I am not repapering (my favourite bit)

10:52 am

Sorry, now repapering, not not. Big difference.

10:52 am

Oh, that's news. I thought you were doing paper again, only without a pattern? I vastly prefer painting, but that's just me.

10:53 am

co7 clue please?

10:53 am

co, a vowel, plus a place where you might build a house.

10:53 am

Ah, there we go. I don't know that I've ever put paper up. Maybe once. Taken it down plenty though.

10:53 am

I love painting--must decide on colors and get to work in my house.

10:53 am

No, I'm papering, the paper has a pattern, but not one that needs matched (wavy stripes).

10:53 am

Now I'm over half. Thanks!

10:54 am

TY, Haz. Odd word.

10:54 am

You're welcome.

10:54 am

Go Uni go!

10:54 am

It's a funny grid - normal words and strange ones all mixed in together.

10:54 am

Ah, painting. I can't do my apartment walls so now I make little canvases of colour to put up.

10:55 am

last do 6 please?

10:56 am

do6 - take the comparitive vowel out of the do7 (the dalmatian word)

10:56 am

comparative, that should be.

10:56 am

I ne4 do7 too--assumed it was plural of do6 before it

10:57 am

Or do6/21 - to rhyme with what you doodle in.

10:57 am

NM, I get it now. TY

10:57 am

do7/32 - one dalmatian may be do7 than another.

10:58 am

clue for al 5 please

10:58 am

An extraterrestrial

10:58 am

al5 - strange, foreign.

10:58 am

nm got it

10:59 am

first fe5 please

10:59 am

fe5/16 - to rhyme with green round vegetables.

11:00 am

TY, Haz

11:00 am

You're welcome.

11:03 am

Any more clues needed before I go back to my pasting brush?

11:03 am

ot5 + pa7 please?

11:04 am

pa7 - looks like a past tense of a Biblical complaint.

11:04 am

ot5 - a river creature.

11:04 am

And first pa5 (being greedy here)

11:04 am

How to clue it?

11:04 am

Grr, ot5 was an easy one.

11:05 am

Thinking about that pa7

11:05 am

pa5 - like a paean, but minus the r.

11:05 am

Does that make sense?

11:05 am

To the friends (pa4/5) add the letters of 'to pass away'

11:06 am

Not to me, haz.

11:06 am

When you give someone a pat on the back, you are giving them pr****. Take out the r.

11:06 am

Aha, like a facial nerve pal**

11:06 am

Now, pa5 is eluding me

11:07 am

See clue below.

11:07 am

I'll get it. Morph into an interior designer now.

11:08 am

pa plus when you get up in the morning, you r*** and shine.

11:08 am

crossy pops up for air;)

11:08 am

Getting on my apron as we speak.... (an apron with deep pockets is handy for holding tools)

11:08 am

hello

11:09 am

Hello harpjane and crossy. I'm just about to leave - enjoy the grid!

11:09 am

howdy haz,harp

11:09 am

*gone*

11:09 am

Hi Crossy

11:10 am

I looked up pa5.

11:10 am

howdy scwabbs

11:11 am

28 left for tonight. I must get moving.

11:11 am

now crossy is angry

11:12 am

it will not take 'apease'

11:12 am

ahh 2 p,s;(

11:12 am

Crossy needs more Ps to appease the enable gods so they will take apease.

11:13 am

how many letters in the J words, please?

11:14 am

Uniiiii :)

11:14 am

oh god..j words;((

11:14 am

Ata! Have you been good and watched Supernatural instead of working? :)

11:15 am

I have a 4/5 combo. Middle english for joking or laughing.

11:15 am

watched disc 1 of series 2. but but but JOhn dies!!

11:15 am

Still missing the third J though.

11:16 am

Sadly, he does. But Dean lives!

11:16 am

I'm watching season two finale right now. If I remember correctly, JDM returns briefly in this episode.

11:16 am

sadness! I thought he was in ffor longer :(

11:17 am

No, only a touch of John :(

11:17 am

:(

11:18 am

HA! He's *here*! Jdm, jdm, la la.

11:19 am

oh well. he was gorgeous while he lasted!

11:19 am

But I have he with me constantly cos I have Wathmen on my ipod :)

11:19 am

He returns though!

11:19 am

Ah, Watchmen!

11:20 am

how can he return if he's dead!

11:20 am

Through the magic of television about supernatural things. Think about how many times Sam and Dean die...

11:21 am

lol true. I was sad when they burned him though. That's fairly final usually!

11:24 am

Nope!

11:24 am

Hurray!

11:24 am

That was just preventative measures. The thing is, JDM still wants to do more John, so the writers keep him slightly open in case they need him later.

11:25 am

We see him once more, and he does a voice thing later on as well. Really hoping to see him in season six.

11:25 am

excellent!!! wheeeeeeeeeee!!

11:25 am

Dean is nice, but JOhn is just so much nicer

11:26 am

I love Dean. Sam drives me nuts, but Dean is fab. As time goes on he just gets so much better, just as John would if they hadn't been so annoying and killed him.

11:27 am

so when does it start getting complicated with Sam knowing he's a half-demon or whatever he is? Series 1 has absolutely no real continued plot line apart from finding their father

11:28 am

That's all season one was about. Season two is about the yellow eyed demon...mostly. Can't tell you what three is about as that would ruin two for you :)

11:29 am

lol ok

11:29 am

The show has a lot of 'monster of the week' episodes. I love it. The storyline never really overshadows the complicated nature of their lives and relationship.

11:30 am

it's funny cos I see trailers for season 5 about the end of the world and Lucifer and stuff and think how the hell do you get from no storyline to season 1 to *that*? LOL

11:31 am

Apocalypse! The best part is that the whole thing was planned out before they ever aired it, so whatever storyline is there is there for that purpose.

11:32 am

excellent! it's good when the whole thing is planned. I'm sure they made Lost up as they were going along

11:32 am

I never watched Lost, but now that it's over I think I might.

11:33 am

its fun

11:35 am

I think you'd like it

11:35 am

Hah, watching season two gag reel.

11:37 am

I love gag reels

11:42 am

The guy who plays Sam just messed up the same thing over and over. They called him impotent for it...

11:43 am

LMAO

11:45 am

when does Castiel turn up?

11:46 am

Season four! Lovely times!

11:46 am

I've got to get to season 4! Urf!! LOL

11:47 am

And season five! And season three! :)

11:49 am

I need season five to come out on DVD soon, and then get much cheaper.

11:49 am

am going to try and watch a disc a day while I'm laid up

11:49 am

I watched a disc today and I'm not laid up at all! I tend to just have tv on in background sometimes though.

11:50 am

me too

11:50 am

Do you have a 6 disc season?

11:50 am

yep

11:51 am

So many of these episodes are just excellent on their own. The next one for you really deals with Sam's mental stuff some more.

11:52 am

I rly liked the one where John died, with Sam going to get a ouija board and Dean facepalming

11:53 am

Hiya kids. I need one more to finish. Any clue for the 2nd to last te5/10? A2Z is no help.

11:54 am

nooo idea, sorry. I forgot there was a grid

11:54 am

I'm definitely lacking it, sorry. I've got 42 left even with the list.

11:54 am

How's the leg, Ata?

11:56 am

annoying today. I'm official annoyed with it today!

11:56 am

Are you still immobilized, or can you hobble around some?

11:57 am

I can walk pretty well, with a brace on, thank goodness!

11:57 am

Judi do you have the te5/10 scientific unit?

11:58 am

Well, that's a plus. If you have a skateboard, the dog could take you for a drag.

11:58 am

loooool yes!!

11:59 am

I suppose a wheelchair would be more appropriate.

12:00 pm

then would be nice! Hobbit could train up as a dog sled dog

12:00 pm

wildcat - I don't think so. Clue?

12:00 pm

it's a unit of energy or momentum or something like that - named after a guy

12:00 pm

Poor Hobbit must be so bored without her mum to take her for walkies.

12:01 pm

she is :( husband does take her for short walks in the mornings though, and we go out into the garden and play with her ball-on-a-rope during the dat

12:01 pm

day

12:03 pm

Uh, could you be more specific, wildcat. I need a real clue for dummies on that one.

12:03 pm

te + ***lom is a skiing discipline

12:04 pm

a unit of magnetic induction; also the name of a US physicist

12:04 pm

Ty! Fireworks!!

12:04 pm

yay!

12:04 pm

:)

12:07 pm

Anyone need clues before I vanish?

12:11 pm

don't think so ty!

12:17 pm

I am sure I could use one or two but I just walked in the chog

12:30 pm

Hi all. Dropping in for a quick Babble fix.

12:30 pm

Does anyone have a clue for the co7?

12:32 pm

co + vowel + place

12:33 pm

ty ata. Another weird word

12:34 pm

hello again everybody

12:34 pm

75 left and will try to eke out a few more before I crash and burn!

12:34 pm

Hello Everyone

12:35 pm

hi jmc

12:35 pm

hello wildcat!

12:35 pm

{{mom}}

12:35 pm

((ruby))

12:35 pm

Im just stopping in on the few minutes I have left from lunch

12:36 pm

it is so beautiful here at last with roses everywhere!

12:36 pm

Our flowers are just stopping to pop - columbine, daisies, rhodo

12:37 pm

ruby - check out my daughter in her prom dress - picture kind of squished when I downloaded it

12:37 pm

I think our soil is wrong for rhododendrons [sp?]

12:37 pm

that should have said starting to pop - I must be feeling guilty about playing again

12:38 pm

she is so pretty! Do you lock her up at night?

12:38 pm

they get leaves but no flowers. Roses, however, will grow anywhere I think

12:39 pm

We have never had luck with roses other than the wild rosa ragusa (sp)

12:40 pm

of the so-called perennials I planted the first couple of years, the following have disappeared: loosestrife, foxgloves, lupines, hollyhocks and more!

12:40 pm

the stars of the garden are roses and peonies

12:41 pm

us too - we have replanted lupines. Gave up on purple loostrife. We had some beautiful black hollyhocks at one time but winter kill got them. My peonies wont open for another week maybe.

12:42 pm

my hollyhocks were almost black, too, fabulous, but for only two years. From what the books say about loosestrife, it's an invasive weed. Not here! It was really lovely and a few even came up in the fishpond but now have left a big hole in the border

12:43 pm

I think flowering times are different every year. Last year, I had roses in April and peonies by now but the roses only started this past weekend.

12:44 pm

And I think there won't be much fruit

12:44 pm

WE have alot of different varieties of day lilies - just starting to bud up. Its nice to have something different every month

12:44 pm

There was too much rain when the fruit needed to set

12:44 pm

I remember your photo. I think mine have disappeared....

12:45 pm

are there any pt words in the grid?

12:45 pm

Those were road side type tiger lilies - we have so many other types and colors of day lilies in other gardens. I will need to take more photos.

12:46 pm

yes quite a few

12:46 pm

I love lilies of all kinds but only had the simplest orange ones, now gone

12:46 pm

our stella dora yellow ones will be the first to open

12:47 pm

are they fragrant?

12:48 pm

no not really - the peonies are our only real fragrance flower other than our autumn olive tree and lilacs

12:49 pm

my poor little lilac, planted in April, has really suffered with this weather. I'd be surprised if it pulls through.

12:49 pm

what is an autumn olive?

12:49 pm

they are pretty hardy

12:50 pm

retoe

12:50 pm

you can see my brilliant monkeys at work! lol

12:51 pm

its supposed to be more shrub but ours grew into a tree - small fuzzy white flowers all over it in late spring and then red berries in the fall. the birds eat the berries all winter.

12:51 pm

lucky for you its not a real word

12:51 pm

I'll look it up in one of my US plant books

12:52 pm

I only have 94 words and can't find any of the ptempting ones

12:54 pm

teaties

12:54 pm

almost ruby

12:55 pm

I give up!

12:55 pm

This is the hardest grid I've encountered in a long time!

12:55 pm

no, I got those, was just fooling around

12:55 pm

add a cons and you got your 8

12:56 pm

I have the 8's, it's the rest I can't get!

12:57 pm

like the middle a!

12:57 pm

or the right-hand a!

12:57 pm

hopeless

12:58 pm

that must be an as4

12:58 pm

aa4/4

12:59 pm

I always have a hard time figuring out where they come from

12:59 pm

you are tormenting me! :(

1:00 pm

go left

1:00 pm

ty for the aa

1:05 pm

gd night mom and ata (and any lurkers)

1:06 pm

sweet dreams ((ruby))

1:06 pm

How are you doing today ata?

1:07 pm

good! achy

1:07 pm

did you get the result of the mri

1:08 pm

not yet, I'm not actually quite sure how to get hold of them lol

1:08 pm

top right a: at 4/5; ar 5/10; ar 6/18

1:08 pm

hopefully your referring doctor will call you

1:09 pm

Hello BR do you need clues for those

1:09 pm

no

1:09 pm

ok just checking

1:12 pm

Thanks

1:12 pm

hopefully!

1:18 pm

hi

1:19 pm

hello again

1:21 pm

my timing seems off today

1:21 pm

and why is that

1:21 pm

afternoon all!

1:22 pm

hello dan

1:22 pm

I came to the chog several times and see it all active and say hi and you are the first to reply

1:22 pm

hi dan

1:23 pm

ack and now I have to go *sigh*

1:23 pm

can anybody clue the bottom E for NBT?

1:23 pm

hi jmc sorry for not saying hi, Crumble on lap and typing difficult

1:24 pm

thats happened to me often- or I get here any everyone leave - hmmm - could get a complex if I worried about such things. i always found it a good way to catch up on my words.

1:24 pm

et5/12 e + adhesive

1:25 pm

ty jess

1:25 pm

she is fast

1:25 pm

yw

1:26 pm

late morning to you all!

1:27 pm

Hello Miz

1:27 pm

back again, evening everyone, Crumble has been out of sorts so she was getting mummy cuddles but has now decided to move so I can type again!!

1:27 pm

looking for do 6/21 (I have even more do*)

1:28 pm

do6 - someone who adds a lot of periods?

1:28 pm

that's the only one I have at the mo

1:28 pm

well duh! thanks dan!

1:29 pm

np

back again for a little bit - the deed is done!

1:30 pm

don't duh Miz I have only just got the one that you had thanks to your post

1:30 pm

Hi science - how are ya

decompressing

1:31 pm

what deed you do today - Im afraid to ask

cleaned out my stuff at school and then found out that he is not cutting everyone's salary the same amount! I hate liars

1:32 pm

oh boy - you need to get out of there - this will all work out for the best in the long run - youll see

I hope so...

I had a melt down last night

1:33 pm

thats OK - everyone is deserving of a meltdown now and then - get it out of your system and move on

1:33 pm

thanks for making me feel better, katie!

1:35 pm

my monkeys were hot today - **FIREWORKS**

1:35 pm

congrats mom, yw Miz

1:35 pm

wtg mom!

yay mom

1:36 pm

Thankyou all - anyone need any clues before I jump back into work

1:37 pm

my lunch break lasted a little longer than it should - shhh...

1:38 pm

we won't tell on you lol

1:39 pm

okey dokey then - have a great afternoon (morning or evening) everyone whever you are - see you all tomorrow

1:44 pm

Hi mom

1:50 pm

clue for the second ar 5

1:51 pm

pa 6/21 pleas

1:52 pm

ar5 - babblet, mountain ridge

1:55 pm

need that pa6 too mizH, also pa7 and co7

1:56 pm

co + vowel + web**** (what babble and google are)

1:56 pm

don't have the pa 7 either

1:57 pm

pa6,21 is a local language, often a mixture of others

1:58 pm

switch the last letters of the pa5,12 and make it plural.

1:58 pm

pa7 describes someone who has the shakes.

1:58 pm

thanks wht!

1:58 pm

tx wht and MizH!

1:59 pm

yw dan

1:59 pm

yw

2:00 pm

that's firewords! thanks all cluers

2:00 pm

wtg dan

2:01 pm

evening, all. :)

2:01 pm

hey NB

2:01 pm

hey NB

2:01 pm

Hi Nancy ..Congrats dan

2:02 pm

anybody needs clues?

2:03 pm

only about 125 of 'em Dan ;) think I'll get some wine..

2:05 pm

clue for co 5 /16

2:05 pm

co + you el*** someone when you are hiding from them

2:08 pm

or n*** is when you are naked

2:08 pm

co + that

2:09 pm

ty Miz

2:10 pm

yw!

2:10 pm

taking a lunch break...be back later

2:16 pm

clue for co 7

2:20 pm

co7 clue at 1:56 by MizHoffle

2:30 pm

hey everyone, just up from a 2 hour nap

2:32 pm

*jealous* - no napping around here, too much noise

2:32 pm

well you can come over here and nap anytime, rbud

2:32 pm

oooh, tempting!

2:32 pm

ohhh, nap sounds good to me, Peri..

2:33 pm

nice pic, NB

2:33 pm

lovely icon, rbud

2:33 pm

ty :)

2:33 pm

rbud, I love the saying in your profile wbout what a ride

2:34 pm

tr 8/40

2:34 pm

one of my favorites. :)

2:34 pm

pleas

2:35 pm

mine too, rbud

2:35 pm

feel free to borrow it if you like!

2:35 pm

don't have any 8's

2:35 pm

ty

2:35 pm

LOL - just read the quote, Rbud, and agree whole-heartedly ;)

2:35 pm

tr 8/40agreements between political entities

2:35 pm

tr8 are pacts between countries

2:35 pm

hi all :)

2:35 pm

ty bonkler, found it just as you clued it

2:36 pm

I have that one

2:36 pm

ty Harry

2:36 pm

ty, HH! :)

2:36 pm

and bonkler. :)

2:36 pm

it's the other that is eluding me

2:36 pm

g'day all

2:36 pm

Haven't listed yet, so don't know the other

2:37 pm

shift the last two letters for a learned document

2:37 pm

aah! ty bonkler

2:38 pm

cheers

2:38 pm

thanks bonkler!

2:39 pm

77 left...bbl to list

2:40 pm

help with de5 pls

2:40 pm

help with de5 pls

2:41 pm

ty cluers for those fine tr 8,s;)

2:41 pm

try and prevent someone from doing something

2:41 pm

ty Miz H

2:41 pm

would if I had it, Peri. Here's a hint...no matter how many times you enter it, it's not "deity" ;)

2:41 pm

yw

2:41 pm

de5 prevent or dissuade

2:42 pm

hey there crossy, how is the diet coming along?

2:42 pm

afternoon all

2:42 pm

ty bonkler

2:42 pm

oh, and hi, Crossy :)

2:42 pm

howdy nb

2:42 pm

howdy peri

2:42 pm

to 6/21 please

2:43 pm

hi Pini

2:43 pm

the diet is rough,i never knew they could make sliced meat with zero fat..till now

2:43 pm

hi peri, NB, crossy, bonkler, miz, et al

2:43 pm

with Crossy off bacon and me off cigarettes, this chat could become quite a tense place ;)

2:43 pm

i mean what the hell is genetically modified meat based product??

2:43 pm

maybe not with all these women around! :)

2:44 pm

hi, Pini!

2:44 pm

You CAN do it crossy.

2:44 pm

You CAN do it crossy.

2:44 pm

You CAN do it crossy.

2:44 pm

hey pini!

2:44 pm

im trying....

2:44 pm

11 days till first weigh in

2:44 pm

you CAN do it, NB.

2:44 pm

you CAN do it, NB.

2:44 pm

gooo nb!!

2:45 pm

you can do it!! better to quit at 19 than 49

2:45 pm

I agree! my dad had lung cancer from smoking...and it is just a nasty habit.

2:46 pm

MizH: I have to6/21 as = past tense of to4 (the get around to** to4)

2:46 pm

thx rbud ;)

2:46 pm

LOL Peri. Thanks, both of you, and good luck to you, Crossy! For the first time, I'm glad that you can't smoke in clubs anymore - at least it's not waved around in front of me at work!

2:46 pm

thanks rbud...I didn't think that could have a past tense

2:46 pm

nb,every day you do not smoke,take the price of a pack and put it in a jar and at the end of the year buy a present for yourself

2:47 pm

i told you what the wife and i did when we quit nb?

2:47 pm

j's?

2:48 pm

didn't you go on a trip or something, crossy?

2:49 pm

nope we quit in jan of 2002,every day we each put the price of a pack of smokes in a big jar we had,we did it for 2 years and in jan of 2004 we added it all up..it was $12,160.00 and we bought a new car with it..cash

2:49 pm

Oh Crossy, I could never save up for a year ;) there are clothes that would look good on me NOW! :)

2:49 pm

dang!

2:49 pm

hey hey ya'll...

2:49 pm

that was when smokes were 7.50

2:49 pm

wow, crossy

2:49 pm

howdy mp

2:50 pm

hi MP

2:50 pm

hey mp

2:50 pm

we still have that car;0

2:50 pm

been working on the grid and lurking a bit...30 left for me

2:51 pm

I've hit 1/2-way, but need 3 more for NBT before I'll list

2:51 pm

any clues for the center A and E; and last column A?

2:51 pm

oh man! that's pretty awesome...too bad I hate driving and live in the city. Holiday instead maybe :)

2:51 pm

well done, MP ;)

2:51 pm

there you go,save for a month in hawaii

2:53 pm

go first class

2:53 pm

ty pini

2:53 pm

* sigh * Hawaii...that's 1 of 7 states I've not been to yet...

2:53 pm

center A: I have aa4, I think, guess it's a plural

2:54 pm

thx rbud!

2:54 pm

it is beautiful! Well, Oahu and Kauai are

2:54 pm

center E: e5, e + sticky Scotch stuff

2:54 pm

That was my honeymoon

2:54 pm

HA is on my list for "someday"

2:54 pm

yiks, I have only been to a handful of states. on my bucket list is a trip arcross the US in an RV,I cold visit Babblers along the way !

2:54 pm

thx again, rbud!

2:54 pm

would love to visit Hawaii

2:54 pm

when does your trip start, peri???? :)

2:54 pm

i also have a bucket list

2:55 pm

<-- former military brat...we traveled alot

2:55 pm

on the east coast since that is where I am :)

2:55 pm

crossy...first class isn't what it used to be...at least on american airlines...unless you're flying international it's just so-so...went Baltimore to Calif first class and it was kinda cramped and they paraded everyone thru first class...felt like a cattle drive!

2:55 pm

you will have to come up and see me peri

2:55 pm

I would crossy

2:55 pm

last column A = ar5, someone clued it as a mountain range and babblet?

2:55 pm

bbs

2:55 pm

LOL Crossy :) I have difficulty believing places like that really exist...they sound too much like paradise ;)

2:56 pm

* looking rbud *

2:56 pm

s'better than British Airways MP. Sit in whatever class you want...the plane still won't go anywhere :P

2:57 pm

ar sounds like a french stop

2:57 pm

LOL NB...

2:57 pm

I flew KLM to Europe...wasn't too bad except for the mom and her 3 youngin's and 1 infant...

2:57 pm

...was worse on the return flight...

2:57 pm

...the same "family" was right across the aisle ... again! :(

2:58 pm

nb,right now i could take you on the mtn and show you rare and protected ferns,a 1400 year old jack pine and a old indian cave that has ice in it till the end of june and wild turkeyas in the fields and deer eating clover at dawn and the salmon run as they jump high into the air taking the sun and turning it into a water drop rainbow as the snap flies out of the air;)

2:59 pm

that sounds awesome, crossy!

2:59 pm

wife says i have the verbal trotts;/

2:59 pm

Hawai was paradise when I lived there for 3 1/2 years....but I was a kid but have vivid memories of it all...my folks took and showed us everything there...I hate to go back because it would never be the same I'd rather remember it as it was

2:59 pm

LOL, Pini! I have endured also ;)

2:59 pm

If NB were to visit Oregon...I'd take him to Crater Lake...a place where colors are truely breathtaking, true, and vibrant!

2:59 pm

that is so poetic, crossy, paints a lovely picture!

3:00 pm

why ty rbud;)

3:00 pm

While he's in Oregon, he could swing by me too

3:00 pm

oh joy oh JOY. Apparently my medial ligament is fine, the anterior cruciate, on the other hand .....

3:01 pm

there you go nb,just come and visit all of us;))

3:01 pm

I am so lucky to have been so many places in this country and canada and have started to see some of the islands on cruises...we truly live in a beautiful world...

3:01 pm

Portland is close the gorge, which has amazing waterfalls and hiking trails

3:01 pm

uh oh ata;(

3:01 pm

glad to hear, ata...not so good to hear...hope you heal soon!

3:01 pm

Miz...are you going to the meet-up in August????

3:01 pm

I don't think so...

3:01 pm

that sounds amazing, Crossy...so amazing. If you were to come here, I could show you the drunk people on the street and, erm...English pavements.

3:02 pm

My own backyard is a paradise full of critters, birds, flora and fauna!

3:02 pm

Cannon Beach isn't bad either! or whale watching! or sealion caves! or Redwood Forrest! etc...

3:02 pm

where and when is it?

3:02 pm

oh and you must go on the 30,000 islands sunset cruise,we have a old steam ship built at the turn of the century call the chi-chimon

3:02 pm

the sea lion caves are just a tourist trap!

3:02 pm

I may be biased, by Oregon the perfect state

3:02 pm

Check Stid's profile...I think we've planned it for Aug 28? in Olympia...

3:02 pm

plenty of sealions hanging round in Astoria to watch for free ;)

3:03 pm

...yes, I've driven my car through a sequoia...they're huge!!!!

3:03 pm

good point, Ata!

3:03 pm

LOL. This is starting to sound like a very expensive trip for me ;)

3:03 pm

I wish I could, but I am throwing my husband a 35th birthday party that day, but it sounds like fun!

3:03 pm

You'd be surprised, NB...just the airfare would cost you...lots of babblers for room/board!

3:03 pm

and we shall have to take you up the cn tower nb

3:04 pm

well, if plans change, miz...you're more than welcome!!!

3:04 pm

whew, 99 words and finally nbt!

3:04 pm

you have not lived till you take an elevator where your ears pop lol

3:04 pm

thank you, I will definitely keep that in mind

3:04 pm

Pini do they still let you drive thru the sequoias...I did that as a child but I heard they don;t do it anymore as it harms the trees...pollution etc

3:04 pm

yeah, rbud! (still working on that ar5)

3:04 pm

yaa for rbud

3:05 pm

it's funny, I went on a huge trip with a group of friends after we all finished school...I'm sure I went to some of these places but I have no recollection :P that was done on the cheap. There was lots of sleeping on beaches ;)

3:05 pm

I think there may still be a very select few trees (2-3 maybe) that have been being driven through for 50+/- years...

3:06 pm

and a ride in a old bi-plane over Georgian bay in those great open cockpits;0

3:06 pm

(*nudge* can I get another clue for that upper right A?)

3:06 pm

as I remember our main expense was booze ;)

3:07 pm

poor NB

3:07 pm

trying to think of a clue... ar + book/movie title, "From Here to ***rnity"

3:07 pm

lol,come over here nb,you will only have time for a night cap and its off again;) i have 3/4 done my bucket list

3:08 pm

thx rub! NBT!!!

3:08 pm

famous scene of Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr smooching on the beach as waves wash over them

3:08 pm

yay, Pini!

3:08 pm

...sadly now back to work! :(

3:09 pm

please reserve some of the travel discussion for later...it's been most enjoyable!!!

3:09 pm

well, you'll have that, darn work, anyway! ;p

3:09 pm

cya after work...* poof *

3:09 pm

(no kidding, rbud)

3:09 pm

not poor at all, we had an awesome time! there was a very funny night where we dramatically overslept...woke up drifting slowly down the beach in our sleeping bags ;)

3:10 pm

I actually flew a cessna when I was a teenager....my uncle took it up and landed but he let me fly it and said I did a fantastic job....my parents had a fit when we told them when we got back on the ground..he was a nutty uncle so I guess that explains it!

3:12 pm

the first ta 5/10 please

3:13 pm

i have hot air balooned,i have bungee jumped,ive done cliff diving,i have flown a small plane,i have ridden a bi-plane,i have hitch hiked across canada,now i just need to co to moose factory on the polar bear express,do the big train trip through the mtns out west,my bro is to take me through the costa rican jungles,i have already seen polar bears and whales..lol mp arn,t those little cessna,s a riot to fly??

3:14 pm

ta5/10.....ta + black road surface

3:14 pm

ty karys

3:14 pm

omg, I'd be terrified to go up in a hot air balloon. Ever since reading Enduring Love!

3:14 pm

thanks karys

3:15 pm

yw :)

3:15 pm

never worry bout the hot air balloon nb,if he messes up,the pilot dies too!

3:16 pm

I've flown a helicopter and a fast jet :)

3:16 pm

i never worry bout death,i was dead millions of years before i was born and was never inconvenienced by the experience;0

3:16 pm

enduring Love is SO amazing

3:17 pm

hot air balloon I did was wonderful, so much to look at !

3:17 pm

ohh,a jet..now that would be wild indeed

3:17 pm

haha, Crossy - sounds familiar ;)

3:17 pm

Wow, you guys. I've flown a kite.

3:17 pm

it does cause i stole that

3:17 pm

sounds pretty amazing Ata

3:17 pm

fireworks!

3:18 pm

yaa for miz!!

3:18 pm

air cadets for 6 years :)

3:18 pm

Congrats Miz

3:18 pm

still sounds pretty amazing !

3:18 pm

ty!

3:18 pm

see ya all later!

3:18 pm

I had a *ball*!

3:19 pm

id love to be in a jet,blasting through the ozone at m1 with your bod jammed back into the seat;)

3:19 pm

Bet no one could touch you for weeks Ata

3:19 pm

and I'd love to be on the ground with a G&T, watching ;)

3:20 pm

Sounds more like it NB

3:20 pm

common nb,now is the time to do all this stuff!

3:20 pm

very sensible NB!

3:21 pm

ill warn you nb,come here this summer and the first thing ill do is pop you in the back cockpit of a bi-plane that a friend of mine has lol

3:21 pm

I dunno. I've bungee-jumped, but coming out to my parents was scarier...with more risk of serious injury ;)

3:22 pm

I can't face the idea of bungee jumping, it's the one thing that terrifies me!

3:22 pm

That would be nice Crossy, I would enjoy that

3:22 pm

it is amazing karys!! they cruise at 65 mph,it feels like your going no faster than a walk!

3:23 pm

Yes, that sounds just what I would like, time to see around you.

3:23 pm

the wind ijn the hair,goggles on your face and bugs in yer teeth;0

3:23 pm

LOL Crossy. Maybe you can come here and I'll take you to the kind of clubs I frequent. You'll know true fear then ;)

3:24 pm

bugs in yer teeth eh? sorry, vegan ;)

3:24 pm

lol im a big boy nb,they can try lol

3:25 pm

i have bar hopped in timmins,nothing scares me anymore lol

3:26 pm

and you do not have to eat the bugs lol

3:26 pm

LOL Crossy. Well, even I was intimidated when I landed on the London scene...and I'm supposed to belong here ;)

3:26 pm

try fighting with a bunch of drunk french canadian loggers for a week lol

3:27 pm

I am the world's biggest wimp though. Have now settled in and am dancing on tables with the best of them ;)

3:27 pm

london's a great place to be

3:27 pm

up here they use crates by the tables to dance on,too many girls in heels were slipping on the beer spills on the tables lol

3:27 pm

I have only visited two or three times, enjoyed what I saw though

3:28 pm

you in london nb??

3:29 pm

LOL Crossy! And yeah, I live in London now. In a typical London flat...a cupboard ;)

3:29 pm

do you know where the big kodak camera factory is?

3:29 pm

I remember living in those cupboards ...

3:31 pm

ooops....phone, see you all again !

3:31 pm

errr, the one in Harrow, Crossy? I've lived here less than sixth months...still get lost in this city ;)

3:31 pm

my uncle runs that place still

3:32 pm

are you kidding? I should drop in ;)

3:32 pm

yup ian Melbourne

3:32 pm

if he has not retired that is

3:33 pm

I tend to avoid going to Harrow, because generally there is some genius who will remember I'm Asian and say..."Harrroww?" ;)

3:33 pm

mm must be a inside joke

3:34 pm

oh i get it...sad try at a joke indeed

3:35 pm

just tell the guy that trys anything on you that you are a level 9 black belt and would he like his spleen removed? lol

3:35 pm

LOL, quite. Actually, I found it quite funny (the FIRST time) because my accent is completely English, unless I'm really tired. Then I lapse a little ;)

3:37 pm

Haha! Nah, times like that, I just pretend I don't speak English. I string the few Korean words I know together, in different orders, until they give up and go away..

3:40 pm

hmmm...I've killed chat so will now flee from the scene of the crime. Later, all :)

3:41 pm

evening everyone

3:42 pm

bye NB! hi Katie!

3:42 pm

Hi Ata, how's the leg

3:42 pm

oh. that.

3:42 pm

apparently have ripped the anterior cruciate, not the medial as we thought initially. Joy

3:43 pm

how are haz, fm and liz I haven't been on at the same time as them for ages

3:43 pm

is that worse?

3:43 pm

Liz is fine! Haz and FM are fine too, FM had an abcess in a tooth, Haz is busy wallpapering

3:43 pm

generally, yes :(

3:44 pm

actually, Liz isn't fine, she has a bad shoulder. We are all falling apart!

3:44 pm

Ok so only Haz is well! I hope you all get better soon

3:45 pm

hopefully! how are you and Bry adn the kitlings?

3:46 pm

Bry has a bad back and is going to get is sorted tomorrow at a pain clinic, I'm frazzled at work having a new starter, everything up in the air and my boss on holiday!!

3:46 pm

but at least I am healthy lol

3:46 pm

oh noo!

3:48 pm

don't let them tell you that working in the public sector is easy!!

3:49 pm

how arethe cutbacks going to affect you lot?

3:50 pm

I can't talk about it unfortunately but we are working very very hard lol. At the moment there will be no redundancies. We have also changed a lot as an organisation to meet the new agenda over the last couple of years so I am hoping we won't be abolished

3:50 pm

*fingers crossed*

3:51 pm

The Regional planning system has been abolished and we don't know what will replace it, however a change is as good as a rest

3:52 pm

I have my second emergency meeting at 10-30 tomorrow *sigh*

3:52 pm

oh dear *sigh*. THat sounds - fun -

3:54 pm

in fairness we knew that cutbacks in the public sector were coming and whom ever got in would need to do it as some point so I have been prepared, it will be great when we have more certainty but they need time to make sure they are doing the right things and you can't argue with that

3:55 pm

can you tell I'm truley

3:55 pm

can you tell I'm truley

3:56 pm

truly enthusiastic???!

3:56 pm

sorry about that....can you tell that I am truely apolitical as a good civil servant should be

3:56 pm

lol yes, absolutely!

3:58 pm

in the assignment I'm doing at the moment, I'm debating whether to tell them what they want to hear, or what really goes on in the world lol

3:58 pm

hello all, how's the grid?

3:59 pm

depends if you want a good mark, maybe i'm cynical but they want to hear what they have told you rather than having free thought!

3:59 pm

difficult!

3:59 pm

Hi stid, it's good today

3:59 pm

I just spent half an hour with a classmate working on HER project for tomorrow... will have to do some work on mine soon.

3:59 pm

that was my conclusion, which is annoying!

4:00 pm

good. then I have something to look forward to. Another classmate just came up to talk. (((hugs all))) toodle-oo! *Poof*

4:00 pm

but hopefully the good deed will be returned some day :-)

4:01 pm

p.s. go for the grade, and tell them what you think after... *repoof*

4:01 pm

ah but is the grade at graduate level repetition or free thinking??!

4:01 pm

yes crossy the cessna was a blast...my uncle was doing stalls and drops--a bit scarry but I had all the confidence in the world in him...he was a DC motorcycle cop so I thought he was invincible..silly young me!!! But I was also a child of the 60's and 70's and I managed to survive that, still kept a few of my more radical outfits...and a few items I can't mention ha, ha, ha...not sure why but perhaps when I'm a gray haired old lady I'll dig them out and have a flashback to my youth that should give me something to laugh out loud about and even dance!

4:02 pm

I think you should save the free thinking for the project at the end

4:02 pm

Oh god next door are fighting again....shalll I tell them I have had a bad night and they should just bloody shut up?

4:03 pm

*sigh*

4:03 pm

*day not night

4:03 pm

why do people put up with it?

4:03 pm

gah!! do you get to hear every word?

4:04 pm

just the general screaming and slamming of doors, it happens so regularly that I have stopped muting the telly lol

4:05 pm

ick!

4:05 pm

set your ever so fierce cats on them LOL

4:06 pm

lmao

4:07 pm

muted the tell but can only make out the 'f' word

4:08 pm

*telly

4:09 pm

they could at least provide audible eavesdropping!

if it were me (and i'm eternally grateful that it's not),i'd start recording their fights and then posting the tapes anonymously through their front door when you know they're out...

4:10 pm

i know where you are coming from pinny but to be honest I'm a little bit scared of him and just keep out of both of their ways

i understand that too

4:13 pm

just call the police the day it gets worse than normal or interrupts an important tv prog!

4:15 pm

I don't think they actually hurt each other otherwise I would there is just a lot of shouting. It's calmed down again now

4:17 pm

changing the subject I have just signed up to twitter :-)

4:19 pm

ooo fun

4:20 pm

17 left...go monkeys go!

4:21 pm

go MP go

4:23 pm

go go go!

4:27 pm

this is not a nice grid

4:28 pm

Oh I'm quite liking it but i did list at half way

4:30 pm

that woul probably help :)

hi all, 109 to go and gettin' stuck already 8-(

4:34 pm

that sounds more familiar :)

wow, made it to halfway at last

4:39 pm

yay gwen!

goinf straight to the list. no scruples there. lol

4:42 pm

I should probably do the same

75 to go, zip zip

Evening Babblers!

I have 99 left... no list, but headed there soon.

hiya turtle

4:44 pm

hi red - go Celtics! :)

4:45 pm

61 left and thinking about listing

4:45 pm

Hi red and boj & gwen

hi Bo, the Celtics will take it, but I am glad for the funds raised by having one more game in Orlando...

4:45 pm

Good morning all

4:45 pm

hi Katie, Ata Gwen

4:46 pm

hi lyn, hi stew, hi bo

4:46 pm

morning lynxxx

4:46 pm

good morning lynxx - it's Miller Time here

hiya lynn, bo, ata, katie and all

4:46 pm

hi Bo, first coffe of the day here

hiya Lynxxx, and everyone else and all lurking babblers.

4:46 pm

red - i hope you get 2 more game!

4:46 pm

it's 'got to go to bed soon' time here

4:47 pm

*games

I would like 2, maybe three....

last night was good Basket ball, unlike the other games where the Magic lost their minds...

4:49 pm

not much on NBA but have been a Celtic fan for a long time

I support the home team, but not a fan of Redick.

4:50 pm

your reason?

Redick is a short little dude from Duke, he wasnt that great a college player and he really isnt the cats meow now.

4:51 pm

LOL

finally found a 7 woot

I have no 7's yet! congratulations BDG.

8--D

4:53 pm

31 left but need sleep, see you all tomorrow

4:53 pm

goodnight Katie

4:53 pm

night night!

4:56 pm

g'night, katie

4:56 pm

hello, lyn, ata, gwen, red, bo, et al

good night katie, good afternoon Dcs.

4:57 pm

hi DC!

4:57 pm

i've spent the afternoon blowing up buildings at physicsgames.net :)

4:57 pm

hi dc - nite Katie, wonderful dreams!

you naughty thing, dc!! LOL

wow DC, I wish I could say I did that!

4:58 pm

there are some things i'd love to blow-up :)

4:58 pm

so, i saw tell that there are some 7s in this grid

I have 0 7's.

i have only one 7 so far

4:59 pm

got lucky - monkeys found 3 7's

4:59 pm

clues available if wanted

4:59 pm

i'm at 0 of 7 myself on those

5:00 pm

pa7 is what you are when you have a shaking disease

yes please to clue the 7s ty

ooh, i just found another 7

5:00 pm

ty

5:00 pm

co7/32 - co + vow + s4/4

5:00 pm

ty lynxx

and both 8s, woot

5:01 pm

wow Gwen

5:01 pm

the 8s are a cool pair, no?

the 8s are nearly the same as each other. one is a long scholarly paper tr8

5:02 pm

do7/32 - do + sometimes dewcriptive of older people?

5:02 pm

do7 if you have the maeslies or are crazy you would be this

5:02 pm

yes - the 8's are interesting

5:02 pm

(measles)

5:03 pm

of, fishy that one

still missing pa7 help!

5:03 pm

when your hands sake without control

5:03 pm

shake

ooh, just found it. descriptive of someone with parkinson's

5:03 pm

is the other 8 a tr word?

5:03 pm

pa7 - some one with MS?

5:03 pm

yes - tr8 for both

5:04 pm

pa7 is based on pa**y, the shaking disease

other tr8 is nearly the same. rearrange the last 3 letters, a bunch of international agreements

5:04 pm

good clue Gwen

5:05 pm

got both 8,they are cool together

5:05 pm

hi all

5:05 pm

howdy jmc

i've got the intern. agreements one, but not the other, please help?

5:05 pm

hi jmc

5:05 pm

hi jmc

16 to go, brain getting too soft, ty for all de klooz, POINK

5:06 pm

you migth need one tr8 to go with the tr8 of international agreements

5:06 pm

move the s back Gardner

5:07 pm

ar 5, the 2nd one please?

thank you

5:07 pm

can one tr8 the tr8?

5:07 pm

ar & B**t* Davis

5:08 pm

why not, dc?

5:08 pm

arete

5:08 pm

tyvm lynxxx

5:08 pm

darn staff person distracted me

5:08 pm

bingo, jmc :)

5:08 pm

great clue jmc! direct approach!

5:09 pm

Greetings All.

5:09 pm

that's me always trying to be helpful *shouts from pb*

5:09 pm

As long as we are discussing the 7s....

5:09 pm

hi Minski

5:10 pm

*takes a bottle of merlot to pb*

5:10 pm

I have a CO7, a DO7 and a PA7 which one am I missing? Hint please?

5:10 pm

yeah i only got one of them from that . . . the hand shacking

5:10 pm

shaking shaking shaking

5:11 pm

tr7

5:11 pm

this grid is giving me the shakes...

5:11 pm

lol - hi crossy

5:11 pm

Is the TR7 relaated to the 2 8s?

5:11 pm

By the way thanks for hte hints on the 8s.

5:11 pm

howdy bojazz

5:12 pm

Has the same start but is what a doctor might do to you

5:12 pm

ah a pt!

5:13 pm

pt!!

5:13 pm

oh past tense! not a pt word!

5:13 pm

yes past tense

5:13 pm

I have just listed at 40 - I have missed sooo many PT words

5:15 pm

Got it thanks. I now have all the 7s and 8s. Gotta take a break for din din. Later Gaters. TTFN.

5:15 pm

bye minski

5:15 pm

hasta, minski

5:15 pm

listing at 31

5:16 pm

din - din great idea bbl

5:16 pm

127 left and going out tonight to a fundraiser

5:16 pm

njoy, bo

5:18 pm

fr6.33 is a stretch

5:21 pm

yay, got the background books for the new RPG :)

5:21 pm

now to read and create a character

5:21 pm

how did your job interview go?

5:21 pm

yay! what are you going to be playing?

5:21 pm

sunday was weird.

5:21 pm

?RPG

5:21 pm

today's was moved to Thursday

5:21 pm

Role Playing Game

5:21 pm

TE 5/10 ?

5:21 pm

a group of us are going to try out The Dresden Files

5:22 pm

THERE ARE TWO AT THE END OF THE LIST- I HAVE THE FISH BUT CAN T FIND THE OTHER ONE

5:22 pm

oh fab! that sounds a fun one

5:22 pm

a one who and a plural, sammys

5:22 pm

gotta go bbl

5:22 pm

will you report back in a few weeks?

5:22 pm

indeed, though we start next month :)

5:22 pm

right now, we're trying to choose a city.

5:23 pm

Sammysmom--I only have the fish, too. :/

5:23 pm

well, whenever :P always looking for new worlds to play in

5:23 pm

in the running are DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Ocean City, Maryland.

5:23 pm

te & I'll ***p you accross your face

5:23 pm

my monkies are so tired , they quit.....

5:23 pm

oh, down at the bottom :">

5:24 pm

Baltimore sounds good

5:24 pm

ty for the fish

5:24 pm

even tried alt ending on the fish, din and no hep

5:24 pm

hi! another meet-up? If it's Philly I would definitely try to be there

5:24 pm

Yes, Philly coming up on July or Aug. More soon.

5:25 pm

and then a Sunday meet-up in October, date TBD as yet also.

5:25 pm

Sunday in DC in October

5:25 pm

more morewords said tesia , bit it won t take it'

5:26 pm

penultimate letter is wrong

5:26 pm

substitute a consonant for the i, sam

5:26 pm

Sammy - I clued @ 5.23

5:26 pm

not it doesn t- i have been staring at this thing for so long, i can t even see the damned letters

5:27 pm

the man who invented the spark gap light coil

oooh sammy, time for a break...just a short one.

5:27 pm

thanks lynn\xxx, thought i had it and didn t.

hello Mr Hair. How is life without bacon going?

5:28 pm

it is hell;(

5:28 pm

my first weigh in is not till the 6th

5:28 pm

firebirds!

sorry Cross. the 6th is coming, how do your clothes feel?

5:28 pm

but you must be losing weight, right crossy?

5:28 pm

yaa for ata!!

5:29 pm

Congrats Ata!!

WHooo Hoooo Atalante, get your smug on!

5:29 pm

dn,i only did a weigh in at the start

5:29 pm

*smug*!

5:30 pm

congrats, ata

5:31 pm

it'll be worth it, crossy, really it will :) and you'll adjust

5:31 pm

i have a free food day once a month,so ill hit the scales before i start cooking those 2 pounds of bacon lol

5:31 pm

evenin' all. again :)

As long as you dont go whole hog back to your old diet when this one is over, you'll be golden!

hi NB

5:31 pm

indeed

5:31 pm

long way to go

5:32 pm

hi, NB

5:33 pm

Hello Babblers! I suddenly remembered that I've still got 20 words to find from this morning. I'd better get looking!

5:33 pm

howdy jacula;)

5:33 pm

:) you'll find'em jac

5:33 pm

hi jac!

5:34 pm

19 now.:-)

5:34 pm

How is everyone? I saw the sad news about Nono's husband earlier.

5:34 pm

oh, i'm so very sorry to hear :(

5:35 pm

Hi Jac

5:35 pm

It was his funeral today.

5:35 pm

*puts some TimTams in the PB*

5:36 pm

what are tim tams?

hi all

5:37 pm

YOU don't want to know Crossy. Evil DC tempting you

5:37 pm

howdy guernsey

5:37 pm

hi Guernseygirl

5:38 pm

they're a yummy chocolate covered chocolate cookie with chocolate creme in the center.

5:38 pm

Hi Gg.

5:38 pm

hi, guernsey

5:38 pm

(i like the caramel ones, but Tom only buys the chocolate)

5:38 pm

crossy cannot have chocolate..or cookies...sniff...

5:38 pm

also sickeningly available in white chocolate now!

keep those away from me. i'm on a diet

5:39 pm

yuck. if i see them, i'll get them for Tom,though. He likes white choc

5:39 pm

welcome to my nightmare guernsey

5:39 pm

Poor crossy! It'll be worth it in the end, though.

ate too much at my birthday party

chocolate?

5:40 pm

I'm away, looks like a clear day here. Bye all

bye lynxxx

5:41 pm

'Bye lynxxx. Enjoy the day.

5:42 pm

12 left to find...

5:43 pm

have fun, lyn

5:43 pm

chocolate! :D

5:44 pm

please stop saying chocolate..whine....

5:44 pm

Can we say bacon instead?

5:44 pm

tonights desert choices are a mango or some dry plain popcorn

5:44 pm

Mo's Bacon Bar

5:45 pm

think ill have the mango

5:45 pm

mango is nice

mango! much nicer than bacon...

5:45 pm

I like mango.

5:45 pm

i eat so much fiber,i almost fart dust!

how odd. i was just thinking of mangos

its good for you cross. really, it isnt that tortorous.

5:46 pm

Did we really need to know that, crossy? *Holds nose*

5:46 pm

PB for me. I typed a grid word.

which one???

5:47 pm

*goes into PB and scoffs timtams*

5:47 pm

Not telling, red.:-D

you just wanted tim tams

5:48 pm

she typed a homophone

oooh

and i did not have it...

5:49 pm

Tee, hee Red. You found me out.

5:50 pm

9 words to go...

79 for me!

5:50 pm

Race you, Red! *grins*

5:52 pm

7

could anyone clue me the second ta6/21 for fireworks, please - i'd like to finish before midnight

5:53 pm

only one i have is past tense of a fruit pie

5:53 pm

its a past tense :)

5:53 pm

ta6 like fabric ta6

5:53 pm

I'm just getting to the t's Gg.

5:53 pm

oops, yes what ata sid

5:53 pm

said

that's the one, una. ty

5:53 pm

hello friends

5:53 pm

yw :-)

5:54 pm

hi, trif

5:54 pm

hey, trif et al :-)

5:54 pm

howdy, une

i've six minutes before pumpkin time. anyone need clues?

5:55 pm

Hi trif & Une.

5:55 pm

Congrats, Gg.

5:55 pm

have no 7's

ty Jac

5:55 pm

i'm good for now, guernsey, sweet dreams

pa7 - a shaking condition.

5:56 pm

tx GG!

yw

5:56 pm

sa6 - a weave of cotton, common in bedding

5:56 pm

4 to go...

5:57 pm

tx seain :-)

tr7 what the doctor did for the pa7 man

5:58 pm

tx again :-)

5:58 pm

do7 more crazy

5:58 pm

woohoo, tx for all the 7's!

5:59 pm

there's one more though... which i don't have either...

pa6/21 a locally spoken variant of a language

Bedtime. Night all. enjoy your evenings

5:59 pm

tx again and again, GG!

6:00 pm

nite, GG

6:00 pm

that french/cajun one?

6:00 pm

'Nigh Gg. Dormez bien.

6:01 pm

does anyone know what that other 7 is?

6:01 pm

I have a co, do and tr for the 7's

6:01 pm

evening all

6:02 pm

co7 - it's a mineral

6:02 pm

Hi Mom.

6:02 pm

Hi Jacula

6:02 pm

Ata - I've been enjoying your pics on FB.

6:02 pm

ty ata

6:02 pm

oh good, Jac! It's nice to know people actualy look :D

6:02 pm

Hi all, just in the nick of time for all those clues. I don't get the more crazy? I have a 6 that's more crazy; but, not a 7.

6:03 pm

FIREWORKS!:-)

6:03 pm

Hi Gramma

6:03 pm

yay Jac!

6:03 pm

Congrats, Jacula.

6:03 pm

Hi, Mom.

6:03 pm

yay, jac!!!

6:04 pm

congrats Jacula

6:04 pm

Thanks.

6:04 pm

Ata - of course I look. They're always well worth seeing.

6:05 pm

ty :) I have some lovely ones of Sily to put up tomorrow

6:05 pm

got it

6:05 pm

not getting the shaking condition for the PA 7

DC are you still here?

6:05 pm

hey, mom, it's a past tense

6:05 pm

go left for the pa

6:05 pm

cerebral pa***

6:05 pm

Hi Une

6:06 pm

ugh, was not paying attention to that A to the left. Thank you Une

6:07 pm

Ata - I'll look forward to seeing them. I'm going to nip off to FB for a while now to see if my daughter's se4 the pic of an old note of hers I found in the Scrabble box earlier and posted on there.

6:07 pm

yw :-)

6:07 pm

bye bye Jacula

6:08 pm

buh bye

6:08 pm

{{Red}} how is the new job?

6:08 pm

bye jac

so far, its good...have not really worked yet, just doing all of the regulatory stuff.

6:09 pm

I do hope it will be all that you hope it would be

6:10 pm

55 to go -- BBL to finish -- bye, all :-) *poof*

6:10 pm

how long does the regulatory stuff last?

6:10 pm

bye Une

6:14 pm

114 down, think I'll call it a night. I hope to see everyone tomorrow. {{Hugs}} to all of you

6:17 pm

hello all,

6:17 pm

help pls, cannot see the next to last te5/10

6:18 pm

nm

6:20 pm

peri, what is it?

6:21 pm

ens in tra ** **

6:22 pm

huh?

6:22 pm

tra la la

6:22 pm

not sure how to clue it

6:23 pm

ends in one of those

6:23 pm

that's ok

6:33 pm

arrgghhhh, my cat dust threw up on the carpet, looks like a whole days' worth of food :(

6:40 pm

nicolai te5

Co 7 help?

6:51 pm

co, vowel , s word

6:52 pm

Hi DC and Red

6:52 pm

hi, dr

hmmm noe foil, or epee...

6:53 pm

ty DC

6:53 pm

co + vowel + a word starting with S

6:54 pm

it's a mineral

OK, officially I feel a little stupid, but pleased to have that one down thanks!!!!

6:54 pm

:)

6:54 pm

good job Red

6:54 pm

good to know, ty, jacq

6:55 pm

yw and hello

6:56 pm

how are you this evening?

6:57 pm

i'm good thanks getting tired now and thinking bed might be good

6:57 pm

how are you?

6:57 pm

pretty well, ty. cooking dinner as i babble.

6:57 pm

it's almost 1 am and my grand-daughter thinks grannies room is always the best place to be at 6 am

6:57 pm

are you having something nice?

6:58 pm

just some noodles and broccoli in a cheese sauce.

6:58 pm

mmmm still sounds nice

6:59 pm

visiting my grandparents, i know that grandma usually slept until 9. Grandpa, however, was up by 7 usually.

7:00 pm

I am catching up on Burn Notice and waiting for hubby to get home

7:00 pm

this granny would love to sleep late but between the baby and her parents and the racket they make when they get up at 8 or 9 ish it's impossible

I'm about to watch the nail biting NCIS...

but I have 50 left. Grrr.

7:00 pm

i haven't seen burn notice much, prefer ncis

7:00 pm

AH IT looks good... we are anxious to watch it

7:00 pm

38 left here and struggling badly

7:00 pm

bummer, jacq

7:01 pm

you are a season ahead of us please don't tell me anything

my prediction is that they black haired lawyer lady the withc is behind all this.

7:01 pm

My friend's son is the personal trainer on the set of Burn Notice so I watch

7:01 pm

I like NCIS as well

I forgot you are on a different time zone.

Its on now, so I am going into lurk mode and getting a bit fo ice cream.

7:02 pm

different country lol we here in the uk are way behind

7:02 pm

yes! It is only 5 here

7:02 pm

yes! It is only 5 here

7:02 pm

enjoy both

7:02 pm

Jake is on an overnight field trip so it is quiet

7:02 pm

njoy, red and DR

Well, that I know Jacq! but ...

7:02 pm

nice, DR

7:03 pm

: )

7:03 pm

i'm still trying to catch most of the season we have here, the parents aren't considerate about sharing the tv

7:03 pm

or the phone

7:03 pm

or the shower

7:03 pm

or the fridge

7:03 pm

sharing isn't a strong point of theirs lol

7:03 pm

night night everyone, have fun and fireworks and take care

7:03 pm

That is a bummer Jacq

congrats on Fireworks!

7:04 pm

WTG Jacq

7:04 pm

congrats and good night, jacq

7:07 pm

Good evening to my fellow babblers!How is everyone?

7:08 pm

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

7:08 pm

firewords :)

7:08 pm

well, ty min. Welcome! and you?

7:09 pm

Congratulations dcseain on fireworks!Hooray for you

7:09 pm

70 left. time to list

7:09 pm

howdy harry

7:10 pm

woohoo DC!

7:10 pm

thanks, yall :)

7:10 pm

Hello HarryHood! How are you? Welcome to the grid!

7:10 pm

hi hi

7:16 pm

Hey All !

7:16 pm

Hi all. I've come back for my last 12.

7:17 pm

Hi everyone, especially DR! I haven't been here when you have for a looooong time.

7:17 pm

congrats Seain

7:18 pm

**feels invisibible**

7:18 pm

Hey wht, hey Bugsaw

7:18 pm

Hi Aussie

7:19 pm

me too Aussieme. Lets meet in the PB and eat all the treats

7:19 pm

Is red here, I commend her on her icon.

7:19 pm

**sneaking into PB**

7:19 pm

you are doing well wht.

7:19 pm

Hi Everyone

7:19 pm

Hi Dr. How is your boy ?

7:19 pm

Hey DR !

7:20 pm

Hi Aussie

7:20 pm

I've been working on and off while I was supposed to be working on work.

7:20 pm

Hi Bugs! He is on an overnight field trip on a Tall ship sailing ship

7:21 pm

I am alittle nervous but he was excited so I hope it goes well

neat DR. hi wht....

7:21 pm

I get to go tomorrow morning for a 3 hour sail

7:21 pm

hi, bugs, aussie, nad wht

7:21 pm

Oh how exciting. They can all pretend to be real pirates

7:22 pm

They act out merchant sailors in 1774

7:22 pm

Well, not stopping, but just wanted to say to all my Babble Family, that my little Georgia-Grace turns 4 today. You were here when she came into the world, so I wanted to share her Birthday with you all...... **poofing after giving out hugs, and leaving chocolate in the PB**

7:22 pm

Hi Seain. I saw you finished. Would you care to clue the weirdest word for us, please?

7:22 pm

**today as in the 26th, which is what it is here now**

7:23 pm

happy birthday Grace!!

7:23 pm

**real poof**

7:23 pm

HAPPY HAPPY Birthday to the wonderful Georgia Grace

7:24 pm

DR is this a school related trip for Jake? His teacher should get a prize

7:25 pm

Yes, It is through the GATE program ans subsidized by the parents and the Maritime Museum. It is a wonderful program

7:25 pm

His teacher is amazing

7:26 pm

Last night Jacob said I love Mr Williams : )

7:27 pm

The kids will remember this forever and all the stuff they learn too I will bet.

7:27 pm

I think you are right

7:27 pm

Especially when they wake them up for night watch at 2am

7:28 pm

night watch is fun

7:28 pm

They are brave enough to do that? I am very impressed. Night watch is much harder to do than when you just imagine it.

7:28 pm

great for stargazing

7:29 pm

not to mention picking the black clouds coming from the black horizon :)

7:29 pm

ight watch is fun Seain. It is the waking up that gets me ;)

7:30 pm

that is so true Bugs

7:30 pm

There is the teacher 4 parents and the crew

7:31 pm

I think the kids will be fine... they have to check the ship then write in the logs

7:31 pm

They are up for 2 hours then they can go back to sleep

7:31 pm

HOw nice that you did not have to be one of the parents DR!

7:31 pm

I volunteered for the sail not the sleep over... I am no dummy

7:32 pm

I meant that Jacob was willing to go without you. At the beginning of the year he was having trouble feeling safe. He must have grown up a lot this year. Well done for him.

7:32 pm

how are you doing bugs with your teaching

7:33 pm

Looking forward to the end of the year along with everyone else.

7:33 pm

I was worried about this at the beginning of the year for sure but he was so excited, I am hoping it goes well.

7:34 pm

They placed him with a Mom he knows fairly well and is comfortable with instead of the Dad that is a cop

7:34 pm

It will I am sure

7:35 pm

HUbby and I are going to go to a nice dinner

7:35 pm

when he gets home in an hour

7:35 pm

Even better for you. Sending good wishes for a nice evening.

7:36 pm

thx

OMG, no spoiler here, but OH my what gunfire on NCIS, I think someone may have died, but I am not sure....

sorry DR. It was an outburst of Tourettes for me. I could not control it.

7:42 pm

remember it is just the end of the season red, not the end of the show

7:43 pm

REALLY??!?? I love Mark Harmon- Hope it Its ok! I have scene previews

7:43 pm

Deep breath now. Take a deep breath

I know, I know!

7:43 pm

* or seen even

someone, not necessarily Mark harmon, who I also adroe..

7:43 pm

I was so sad last night after Chuck

7:44 pm

I am a huge Scott Bakula fan

7:44 pm

NCIS IS jsut so well written

7:44 pm

they did kill of the girl before Zeva tho. I wonder if McGeek or DeNoso will go. I hope not since they have such a fun chemistry

7:44 pm

They are all adorable

7:45 pm

Did anyone else sacrifice Sunday night to LOST and still feel disappointed?

I am particularly fond of this team, not so much of kate. But you will all see it. I am busting with what I THINK I saw happen.

I have NEVER watched Lost and my Life still seems full!!!

7:45 pm

I am not a Lostie either

wait wait, the one I thought was dead is not dead, but....now I wonder if he was even there...

7:46 pm

Just like the 3 finalists from American Idol were at my hotel last week in Burbank and I had no clue who they were

7:46 pm

I liked it at the start and the end but in the middle it got way too complicated.

STOP - some of us are on a time zone where it is not on yet.

7:46 pm

She knows Deb

7:47 pm

I don't watch Idol or Dancing either DR.

7:47 pm

she apologized already

trust me, I am not giving anything away. if you even think you could figure any of it out from that, you wont be able to!

7:48 pm

Hi Deb. I am waiting for my time zone to play NCIS too.

7:48 pm

me too

Love the show!

7:49 pm

love the line, Shutting up now Boss

LOL!

7:49 pm

: )

oh oh, its getting better than I ever expected. I am getting warm fuzzies....

7:50 pm

4 left! any help on the co7?

7:51 pm

co vowel s word

7:51 pm

co + vowel + construction "area"

7:51 pm

hi all...

7:52 pm

Pini Dear!

7:52 pm

;)

hi pinik...

7:52 pm

ty pini and dr

7:52 pm

Hello Pinikula!How are you doing?Welcome to the grid

7:52 pm

A co 7/32 is co plus vowel plus si 4/4 word HarryHood

7:52 pm

doing' pretty good, min...long day at the office...glad to be home

7:53 pm

thy Pini

7:53 pm

ty min too :)

7:55 pm

Greetings All! Back again. Watching Idol finale and babbling.

7:56 pm

hi minski

7:56 pm

Hi Minski

7:56 pm

last word is ta5/10 at the end of the ta words. I have the fish food.

7:56 pm

Hello Minski! How are you doing? Welcome to the grid

7:57 pm

a's done :)

7:57 pm

Awesome Pinikula!

oh gosh, it really is a tear jerker and a nailbiter, but I am not so happy with the ending.....

7:58 pm

just another 61 more words to find!

7:58 pm

hi red....i agree

7:58 pm

what are you watching, red?

7:58 pm

Hi aknitter! How are you doing? Welcome to the grid!

7:59 pm

waving

7:59 pm

got it! done!

7:59 pm

YAY Harry

7:59 pm

I'm missing a TE5/10. It's one of the last 2 Te words. I have the one that is the name of a rock band. Does anyone have the other one.

8:00 pm

Hi aknitter

8:00 pm

wtg hh

8:00 pm

the other one is the fish food

8:00 pm

Congratulations HarryHood on fireworks! Way to go!

8:00 pm

te 5 a type of fish

8:00 pm

te5 think a video game which addicted half the usa in the late 80s

8:00 pm

rock band??

8:01 pm

ppl said it was a communist plot

8:01 pm

the rock band can also be a coil with electricity :)

8:01 pm

A te5/10 word is anagram of the ta 5/10 word Minski

8:01 pm

I think there used to be metal band with that name.

8:01 pm

ahhhh

8:02 pm

ahhhh

8:02 pm

got it

8:02 pm

gotta go make tomorrow's lunches....night

8:03 pm

Got it. Thanks.

8:07 pm

missing a j - i have the joke and the joker is there a clue for the other please

8:08 pm

ja 4/9 is the name of a karate move I think aknitter.

8:08 pm

ja 4/9 is ja plus I am going ** the store for some milk.

8:08 pm

i think that is the joke/ pun one

8:09 pm

oops that was the 4/10 you are right ty folks

8:10 pm

There are so many almost words in this grid it is driving me crazy. License. Science.

8:10 pm

ty Min

8:10 pm

yw

8:10 pm

jail pail

8:12 pm

the i words are impossible

8:13 pm

not too bad actually aknitter. They begin with io and ic

8:14 pm

lol bugsaw when i first read your post i thought you said they all begin with i -- i was going to yell at you ; )

8:14 pm

sounds like something ruru might do

8:15 pm

yup

8:16 pm

yuk 45 left even after using the list...

8:16 pm

R's Removed! 8 left

8:17 pm

i need something from the bottom O for NBT

8:17 pm

before twos

8:17 pm

on 4 x 2

8:18 pm

before twice

8:18 pm

Hi Une

8:18 pm

ty Bugs... down to 42

8:18 pm

I love your found photo

8:18 pm

hey, bug :-)

8:18 pm

Hi Une and Knit

8:18 pm

duh --- ty

8:18 pm

and MIn

8:18 pm

evening, DR :-)

8:18 pm

hello DR

8:18 pm

me too, tx, bug :-)

8:20 pm

Pa7? Please

8:21 pm

sorry DR

8:21 pm

cerebral pa*** -- make it past tense

8:21 pm

ty Une!

8:21 pm

ty Une

8:21 pm

yw :-)

8:28 pm

woot found an 8 by myself

8:28 pm

go, leslie!

8:28 pm

*victory dance*

8:30 pm

Does anyone have the 1st TA6/21?

8:31 pm

good job Leslie Ann

8:31 pm

not me Minski

8:31 pm

the first one i have is pt of a cherry ta** dessert, min, but i don't know if that's first

8:32 pm

The other one please LeslieAnne

hi all, here for a few minutes

8:32 pm

Ann sorry

8:32 pm

HI tea. How goes the potty battle?

8:32 pm

I have that one Leslie. There is one after the TA5 candle.

8:33 pm

ah bugger. have not listed yet. *goes to look*

8:33 pm

Hi back again, again. Daughter stopped by and we had wedding things to go over.

we had some success today - both in the toilet

thanks for asking

8:33 pm

Don't list just for us !!!!

8:33 pm

YEAH!!!!!

8:34 pm

oh no i meant i'd go look for another ta 6/21

8:34 pm

glad to hear, TNC...how's he taking it?

we had accidents, too, but he seemed to handle it well

8:34 pm

YAY Tea. It just takes setting the timer for every hour and being regular with that for a day or two

8:34 pm

HOORAY FOR POTTY TRAINING SUCCESS!!!

8:35 pm

Scrabbler had some good advice. Minimize the accidents and celebrate the successes

8:35 pm

"accidents will happen"...then, viola, all will be well!!! and everyone will be soooooo happy!

we were just noncholant about it today, so I think that helped. It is hard to not get all worked up about a poopy mess, though. I am learning to breathe. ;)

8:35 pm

like your icon TNC. we should have a literal avatar day. (would love to see what bugsaw comes up with! :)

8:36 pm

ROFL Leslie Ann

I keep forgetting that they are not mini adults, it is hard sometimes, as Tea is so advanced

8:36 pm

Some kids are more difficult to train than others. My 5 1/2 year old daughter has only been trained for about a year and it was a fight every step of the way.

thanks, LA - I like it, too!

you still beat me, Min - he will be five in July

8:36 pm

my gd (thankfully) was trained in 7 days! :)

8:37 pm

...and we never looked back!

8:37 pm

So noone has the 1st TA6/21?

8:37 pm

If he is that old he has the bladder control. He is just lazy

ta 6/21 = ta5/12 + *e*NCrackers

or mom and dad are lazy about being on the same page and working hard on it!

8:38 pm

that doesn't work 67

8:38 pm

67, should be ta4

8:39 pm

Got it. thanks.

8:39 pm

YAY I got it now Thanks to Pini and 67!

Sorry Pini is correct

8:39 pm

nothing like a little team cluing! :)

8:39 pm

I think it's an attention span thing also. Paige would have an accident because she just didn't feel like stopping playing long enough to go to the bathroom.

yes ty Pini

we went through that with Tea, a lot, sometimes we still do on that rare occasion

8:40 pm

It made me crazy she would sit in a puddle of pee and continue to play

8:41 pm

or take off poopy pants and undies, hide them somewhere, put on clean ones and continue with her game.

ew, min, so glad we never had to deal with that

8:42 pm

that is more work than just going to the bathroom minski!

well, hubby informs I must cook my portion of tonight's dinner - green beans - see you all later!

8:42 pm

bye tnc

8:42 pm

Thank goodness that is over with, for now at least. I have another year before #2 is interested.

8:45 pm

Fireworks

8:45 pm

hooray wht!

8:46 pm

YAY wht

8:46 pm

Congratulations wht on your fireworks! Good for you

8:47 pm

wtg wht

8:53 pm

clue for co 7

8:53 pm

co + vowel + construction "place"

8:54 pm

The co 7/32 is co plus vowel plus si 4/4 word Boobear

8:54 pm

te5/10 before the fish?

8:54 pm

ty Min and Pini

8:55 pm

yw

8:56 pm

The te 5/10 means to make fun of somebody Pinikula.

8:57 pm

Te5/10 is a hair metal band TE + cole ***W

8:59 pm

* still thinking *

8:59 pm

have Min's...working on Minski's

9:00 pm

A te 5/10 is anagram of Actor Christian *****r Pinikula

9:00 pm

don't know cole ***W

9:00 pm

Hey, y'all...though talking about poop?

9:00 pm

oh...wait...yes I do!

9:00 pm

*through

9:00 pm

hi jellen

9:00 pm

hi, babblers

9:00 pm

te5 is also the name of a physicist

9:00 pm

Hi, welki

9:01 pm

yeah pini i thought at first she meant a person, but just a fries alternative :)

9:01 pm

I believe "it has passed" Jellen

9:01 pm

it's a food. goes along with a bbq.

9:01 pm

ew pini

9:01 pm

amazingly enough, it happens to be an old family name (distant aunt)

9:01 pm

sorry LA :)

9:01 pm

lol, Pini

9:02 pm

I could never have housebroken, uh I mean potty-trained, a child!

9:02 pm

takes about the same effort, jellen! :)

9:03 pm

jellen i was going to jump in with my dog housebreaking stories but didn't want to offend anyone by the comparison

9:04 pm

although I think kids are easier!

9:04 pm

koda still has his moments

9:04 pm

I never got around to fully training my dog...

9:05 pm

I think Koda has given up on being trained...but I haven't!

9:05 pm

You go, Pini!

9:05 pm

or No go, Koda!

9:06 pm

JELLEN!!

9:06 pm

don't say that...he might hear you!!!

9:06 pm

sa6?

9:07 pm

clue for the second do 6/21

9:07 pm

a shiny fabric

9:07 pm

that is the sa6

9:07 pm

I meant no go in the house...:-)

9:07 pm

thx wht!

9:07 pm

nice save, jellen!

9:07 pm

do6, one who makes spots

9:08 pm

thx again, wht

9:08 pm

yw pini.

9:10 pm

ta 6/21, the first, please?

9:10 pm

adhesive + brit g'bye

9:11 pm

Thanks, Pini

9:11 pm

yw ;)

9:13 pm

sa 6/18 word is sa plus te 4/4 word Pinikula and wht.

9:14 pm

I need hugs...I'm probably going to have to euthanize my dog in a couple of days...

9:15 pm

oh no, jellen...so sorry to hear <<<HUGS>>>

9:15 pm

oh jellen i am so sorry

9:15 pm

{{jellen}}

9:15 pm

My dog also needs hugs, but she's at the vet's...

9:15 pm

T's Toppled! 4 left

9:15 pm

<<hugs>> Jellen's friend, too

9:16 pm

git'r dun, min

9:16 pm

go for in Min

9:16 pm

pa6?

9:16 pm

hello

9:16 pm

A mixed up language.

9:16 pm

128 left

9:17 pm

looked in your flickr feed, jellen... what a sweet looking pup

9:18 pm

language, eh?

9:18 pm

She's been too good for me...

9:18 pm

clue for fr 6/21

9:18 pm

Has had such a good attitude...survive cancer and strokes...

9:19 pm

help with the j's please?

9:19 pm

fr6 a little bit agitated

9:19 pm

oh my, how old is she?

9:19 pm

She's 16...it's time...

9:19 pm

But it is a fr6,33

9:20 pm

wow! well i know she appreciates all the love from you

9:20 pm

ja4,10 j+large primate

9:20 pm

ja5,22 add a consonant

9:21 pm

ja4,9 ja + not fro

9:22 pm

thanks wht

9:23 pm

yw

9:23 pm

pa6?

9:24 pm

pa6 a mixed up language. Also the pa5 with the last letters switched and then plural

9:24 pm

working on it now

9:25 pm

just got it

9:25 pm

that did it, wht ;)

9:25 pm

why isn't freted a word

9:25 pm

needs 2 t's

9:26 pm

2 t's

9:26 pm

ty

9:26 pm

I have been away for a bit. Has the sc been clued or my I ask for it wht, please

9:27 pm

yummy breakfast food (british), bug

9:27 pm

sc5 = something you might eat as you drink tea

9:28 pm

got it. thanks Pini, good clue for me

9:28 pm

my boss makes some incredibly good ones!

9:28 pm

(she makes extra for our annual office tea so I can take some home with me)

9:29 pm

pe5 after the shampoo?

9:29 pm

nm...got it

9:29 pm

pe 5/16 to harp on the little things

9:30 pm

the one before that, LA = last part of Pinnochio's maker

9:31 pm

oh i did not have that yet. thanks

9:31 pm

yvw ;)

9:32 pm

How did it get to be so late. Need any clues before I go?

9:33 pm

I'm on my last word now, wht...but have time to monkey it...so, I'm good ;)

9:33 pm

(as far as clues go)

9:33 pm

thanks tho...and have a great evening!

9:33 pm

Heyas kids ..

9:33 pm

hiya tor

9:33 pm

I am just plugging along

9:33 pm

no problem. Tosses some bananas to Pini's monkeys

9:33 pm

this grid is so tough today

9:34 pm

oooh, thx, wht!

9:34 pm

* sparklers *

9:34 pm

wtg Pini

9:34 pm

...and my monkeys thank you, too! :)

9:35 pm

sparklers for me too. thanks all. off to find a new icon

9:35 pm

Your are welcome. I have enjoyed the fruit of your monkey's labor many times.

9:35 pm

wtg bugs

9:36 pm

wtg Bugs

9:36 pm

* giggle *

9:36 pm

nice job ladies! only little sparklers tonight, no fireworks?

9:36 pm

Yay pini and bugs!!

9:36 pm

needed MOre words a lot so just sparklers

9:36 pm

ahh

9:37 pm

thank you al for the applause. taking a deep bow and exits, stage left

9:37 pm

*clap clap clap*

9:37 pm

(_.-* firewords *-._)

9:37 pm

whoo hoo pini

9:37 pm

cya soon, bugs

9:38 pm

Congratulations Pinikula on fireworks!Hooray for you

9:38 pm

...and Koda bekons for a trip outdoors...back momentarily...

9:39 pm

Bed beckons so see you babblers in the am.

9:39 pm

Heyas jmc and Min

9:39 pm

good night wht, thanks for the clues

9:40 pm

Hi torgone!How are ya?Sorry I missed your entrance.

9:41 pm

howdy friends

9:41 pm

hey trif

9:41 pm

Happily Babbling from my room in a nicer motel ..

9:41 pm

Heya Trifs

9:41 pm

Hello Trifioso!How are you doing?Welcome to the grid

9:42 pm

glad to hear you upgraded torg

9:42 pm

i am flummoxed by the co 5/16...

9:43 pm

what a good word: flummoxed

9:43 pm

that would be worth a lot of points

9:43 pm

Yeah, I have this picky little quirk - I like to have clean towels so I can shower

9:44 pm

min didn't welcome me to the grid :-( *snff*

9:44 pm

oh make way for the diva tor!

9:44 pm

didn't youbring them from the last hotel?

9:44 pm

Hello jmcnrick! How are you? Welcome to the puzzle!

9:44 pm

hi trif

9:44 pm

did you learn NOTHING from Douglas Adams?

9:45 pm

*dries eyes*

9:45 pm

hello jmc, min, leslieann, et al

9:45 pm

ty min I am fine

9:45 pm

clue for pa 7

9:45 pm

I know .. I know ..

9:45 pm

DON'T PANIC tor

9:45 pm

i need to read that book

9:45 pm

they actually sell towels that say that, isn't that a grand idea?

9:45 pm

A pa 7/36 is past tense of somebody with MS Boobear

9:46 pm

how people celebrated towel day: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=t owelday&w=all

9:46 pm

neat I should get some for my son when i kick him the f^&*( out of my house

9:47 pm

he can take up with secondo, jmc. she has been up my formerly bony a** all day.

9:47 pm

I swear we nearly came to cuffs in the car today!

9:47 pm

seriously though does anyone have the co 5/16?

9:48 pm

I think he is too old for secondo

9:48 pm

Travel tip from a seasoned veteran who should have known better: Don't skimp on your accommodations ..

9:48 pm

Does anyoen have hte PA6/21

9:48 pm

same here, jmc. big peace worker ME, screamed like a shrew all day

9:48 pm

back

9:49 pm

pa 6/21 is a local language, often a mixture of others

9:49 pm

pa6/21 is what they speak in Haiti not so much French as pa6/12

9:49 pm

pa + anagram of the last 3 letters of the pa5 + pl

9:49 pm

but this was fun: was at work today, working with a little guy who tries SO HARD to get all the words right....he misread the word "count"......I seriously had to bite my tongue in HALF not to roll on the floor. oh, he is SO CUTE

9:49 pm

fireworks!

9:50 pm

huzzah for leslieann!

9:50 pm

whoo hooo leslie

9:50 pm

lol trif!!

9:50 pm

wtg LA

9:50 pm

Congratulations LeslieAnn on fireworks! Good for you

9:50 pm

:)

9:50 pm

I trust you let him know kindly so he did not make THAT mistake again

9:51 pm

Yay Les!

9:51 pm

I let him know he didn't read the word correctly, but didn't go NEAR what he had done wrong

9:51 pm

Does anyone have the 1st PA5/12? It is the 1st P word.

9:51 pm

And LOL Trif!

9:52 pm

pa5 = sounds like "worship" - r

9:52 pm

It pains me that you cannot hear how cute he is...oh, and he is so eager to do well, and wants to be a good student. he is ADORABLE

9:53 pm

not getting it, sorry

9:53 pm

pa + ** it my turn yet? + vowel

9:53 pm

think of prince's recording studio, and take off the last 2 letters....

9:53 pm

or p + mayon****

9:53 pm

pa5/12 is pa plus to r*** out of a chair (get up) Minski

9:54 pm

tor, other than the manky towels, how is the vacay going?

9:54 pm

thanks. got it.

9:54 pm

stuck on pa 7

9:54 pm

if you don't mind me asking....?

9:54 pm

pa7 = cerebral pa**** (pt)

9:54 pm

look at pini's clues

9:54 pm

thanks pini

9:55 pm

co 5/16 word is co + you el*** someone when you are hiding from them if anybody still needs that co5 word

9:55 pm

* blink * why me???

9:56 pm

Not bad actually .. Cable car riding, sushi eating, Golden Gate walking .. Lots of touristy stuff ..

9:56 pm

C's Completed! 2 left

9:57 pm

did you go to the top of the mark? Muir woods?

9:57 pm

go min go!!!

9:57 pm

Go Minny!

9:57 pm

brb - gotta look something up for my dau

9:58 pm

I am done! I have fireworks!pe6/21 was my last word

9:58 pm

huzzah for min!!!!!!! Emerson would be proud!

9:59 pm

Thanks Trifioso!

9:59 pm

Not yet .. Trying not to squeeze too much in .. Mostly trying to relax .. Lost most of today with hotel & Expedia bullcrap ..

9:59 pm

whooo hooo min

10:00 pm

my greyed out letters are making a little pyramid...it's kinda cool

10:00 pm

help with the middle i's?

10:00 pm

ugh, sorry tor!

10:00 pm

An ic4/5 is picture that represents us in the chat log

10:00 pm

to bad -- I enjoyed SF when I was there last month -- went to the mission area and saw some great grafitti

10:00 pm

hiharp

10:01 pm

middle i words are a tiny bit and plural

10:01 pm

ic 6/21 is i plus co 5/12 word and io4/4 is io plus half of a british goodbye and plural it for io5/10 harpjane

10:02 pm

Tor, I am LOVING the poem in your profile. I really needed that today....:)

10:03 pm

i am hitting the hay I think bye all

10:04 pm

I got that from a Babbler called mab whom I have not seen in a very long time ..

10:04 pm

((((tapping foot waiting whilst everyone clicks off to read poem)))))

10:04 pm

Niters jmc ..

10:04 pm

sleep well, our friend

10:04 pm

and better the hay than your boy, eh?

10:04 pm

lol

10:04 pm

It really is a good one ..

10:05 pm

*pound pillow s few times for good measure*

10:05 pm

*poof*

10:06 pm

The Good Wife is sort of lame, but of interest to the voyeur in me!

back again for a bit

10:06 pm

(lol, try to diagram THAT sentence!)

10:06 pm

so, what is on your itinerary tomorrow, tor? and are the kiddos with you?

10:06 pm

harpjane, NICE fsm!!!

10:07 pm

we are big fans in this home

10:07 pm

well the theme was monsters, a couple of days ago, the noodly tentacle always makes me feel better!

10:08 pm

there are some great cakes out there on the theme

10:08 pm

No kiddos, just me .. I think I'll drive over the Golden Gate and explore the other side a bit ..

10:09 pm

I can highly recommend Muir Woods. it's AMAZING

10:09 pm

my mom bought some seeds from there, back when you could do that, and grew a sequoia in her bedroom. isn't that a riot?

10:11 pm

I went to Muir Woods last fall, it was great!

10:11 pm

TRIF!!!!

10:12 pm

CAR!!!! OMG< haven't seen you on here in AGES!!!

10:12 pm

I am a daytime girl mostly now!

10:12 pm

whereas I remain a vampire

10:13 pm

any news of the cas?

10:13 pm

Just got home from work...and now I have more work to do here at home!

10:13 pm

How is my little girl feeling this evening?

10:14 pm

better....I think. she did ask if she must go tomorrow

10:15 pm

got primos' car home for hospice. tow truck driver was stoned out of his head. loooooovely

10:15 pm

WHAT?!?!?!?

10:15 pm

No, no news yet.

10:17 pm

do not like. did he have an incident, or just not feeling well?

10:17 pm

No one seems to know. Just that he is in the hospital.

10:18 pm

I really have to type some work now. Call me in the morning, OK?

10:18 pm

yop. type well! love you

10:18 pm

U2

10:21 pm

I just discovered podcasts. What a great new world!

10:22 pm

!!!!!FIREWORKS!!!!!

10:22 pm

how do those work, harp? do you buy them?

10:22 pm

good for you minski!

10:22 pm

well done, minski!!!! huzzah!

10:22 pm

Yay Minski!

10:23 pm

any hints needed before I turn into a pumpkin?

10:24 pm

OK. Last chance.

10:24 pm

falling asleep.....nytol. have a safe and fun day tomorrow, tor dear.

10:25 pm

Pumpkin time. See y'all on the flipside. nighty night

10:26 pm

there's tons of free podcasts available, so far I haven't bought anything

10:28 pm

Niters Trifs .. X ..

10:32 pm

Well, it's highly appropriate AND ironic that I changed hotels on National Towel Day .. because of towels ..

10:33 pm

is there a story there, torgone? waiting to get out?

10:36 pm

co5/16?

10:37 pm

I got fed up with the DUMP I was staying in because I had no clean towels, and I moved to another place, a place with towels .. And then I find out it's National Towel Day in honor of Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" ..

10:37 pm

fluffy white thing in sky, minus second letter, add a vowel at end

10:37 pm

And yay for the FSM!

10:37 pm

thanks

10:38 pm

co 7 please, and hello everyone

10:38 pm

There was a great Douglas Adams quote on my google page yesterday, i'll try to find it

10:38 pm

co + vowel + Babble is a web ****

10:39 pm

thank you

10:39 pm

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."

10:40 pm

cool - never heard that quote

10:40 pm

Then there's always "Go, and never darken my towels again"--groucho

10:41 pm

phantoms: adapter, diptera, diopter, dioptre - all sort of similar

10:41 pm

LOL

10:41 pm

and apterias, too

10:41 pm

oh, just apteria - maybe that's a plural already

10:42 pm

do 6/21 please the first one

10:42 pm

do7, minus one of the doubled letters

10:43 pm

fish me, thank you

10:43 pm

thanks

10:50 pm

you know it's bad when you cancel your housekeeper because your house is too messy.....

10:57 pm

pa 7 please

10:57 pm

cerebral pa**** (pt)

10:57 pm

back for a few...

10:58 pm

thank you, been messing with that for a while

10:58 pm

Hiyas Pini =)

10:58 pm

yvw

10:58 pm

hiyas meli

10:58 pm

(was out finding a new icon)

10:58 pm

(couldn't resist my gs)

10:59 pm

28 to go

10:59 pm

you can do it, harp

11:00 pm

stuck need clue for first re 6/18 please

11:01 pm

plural of re5/10 preceding

11:01 pm

pl the re5

11:01 pm

oh, sorry, grem...did'nt see you hiding out there!

11:01 pm

hi pini

11:01 pm

ty

11:02 pm

guess what, grem!? ;)

11:02 pm

fireworks?

11:03 pm

yeah...about 2 hrs ago ;)

11:03 pm

cool

11:03 pm

I promise I won't ask you for any clues tonight!! :)

11:03 pm

hehe

11:03 pm

need clue for first re 6/18

11:03 pm

<-- was a good girl!

11:04 pm

just clued it MP

11:04 pm

re5/10 = re + preposition + article

11:04 pm

re6 is pl of what grem just clued

11:05 pm

I figure maybe she didn't have the re5 yet

11:05 pm

good thinking, grem ;)

11:06 pm

ta 6/21 please

11:07 pm

I am having trouble with my babble...sorry...I had only 1 left and somehow now it says 13 left, harumpf!

11:07 pm

Scotch **** + first two letters repeated

11:07 pm

adhesive + brit g'bye

11:07 pm

yooo

11:07 pm

yoo

11:08 pm

how is everone

11:08 pm

hi spark...doing well, yourself?

11:08 pm

Heya spark .. I'm in yer area ..

11:08 pm

Heya spark .. I'm in yer area ..

11:09 pm

how do you know

11:10 pm

Your profile says San Francisco which is where I am at the moment ..

11:10 pm

2 left

11:10 pm

git'r dun, harp!

11:11 pm

Go harp!

11:11 pm

TA DAH!

11:11 pm

wtg harp ;)

11:11 pm

Yay harp!

11:12 pm

congrats, noodly one

11:12 pm

ok...brb (koda needs his last "outing")

11:12 pm

off to contemplate the tentacle......

11:14 pm

Guess I've chased off another one .. Story of my life ..

11:15 pm

well, tomorrow's theme is "overly sweet" so I could leave the FSM up, I suppose!

11:22 pm

~ Firewords ~

11:23 pm

my icon will match once again, if its overly sweet tommorow, lol

11:41 pm

back

11:41 pm

is it flip time yet?

11:42 pm

guess not :(

11:42 pm

any clues needed?

11:42 pm

anyone home?

11:43 pm

still here

11:44 pm

not much going on, eh?

11:44 pm

I'm here...just got fireworks...

11:44 pm

wtg jellen ;)

11:46 pm

Oh happy feet!!! Fireworks ya hoo!

11:46 pm

Thank you!

11:46 pm

shhhh everyone is sleeping, lol

11:47 pm

grats all you finishers

11:47 pm

Yay, MPitt!

11:48 pm

I need to go to sleep too..gotta drive my brother to Richmond in the am to check on his leg...

11:49 pm

hope it's getting better

11:49 pm

oh and wtg MP

11:50 pm

Gotta go...happy flip!

11:51 pm

Oooh! I have to go! 5 words to find and I'm having trouble!

11:51 pm

1184 words today

11:51 pm

it is...they did a marvelous job on putting it back together again and we are pretty sure they have saved his leg...I call him Humpty Dumpty these days...we found out that he fell more like 20 feet...lucky he isn't dead or a paraplegic...it could have been so much worse...they do miracles at the VCU medical center!

11:52 pm

jilli do you need any clues?

11:53 pm

Grem you have lost your mind lol

11:53 pm

crazily optimistic!

11:53 pm

can we help, jilli?

11:54 pm

I would love to see a 600 word one, have we ever had one that was that big? I dont think so

11:54 pm

glad to hear, MP...isn't it amazing what can be done nowadays?

11:54 pm

I'm ashamed to say I need a to4 after the t + not seldom

11:55 pm

let's get down to ** and finish

11:55 pm

to+ tag you are **

11:55 pm

yes pini

11:55 pm

and PT for the 6 following that one

11:55 pm

better get to**

11:55 pm

Evening peoples! Has anyone else had trouble with lightning? Missed finishing twice this month because of it and it's supposed to be that way for the rest of the week!!!!

11:56 pm

hiya hoot

11:56 pm

hello all -- any computer true geeks available to help me out?

11:56 pm

hi Pini

11:56 pm

we had thunder and lightning here earlier today but has been calm this evening

11:56 pm

not that I'm a pro...but what's up, stid?

11:56 pm

whats up Stiddy?

11:56 pm

I am trying to get back to finishing the work that I have due tomorrow, and spent an hour already dealing with a STUPID stidkid trick while Tom is out of town.

11:57 pm

more info please!

11:57 pm

A hacker managed to get hold of Tom's computer (I think) and sent a program that made it appear Gmail was reporting an attempted hack on his account.

11:57 pm

hoot you sure have been having some weather in TN lately!

11:57 pm

hi stid and fellow babblers

11:57 pm

What did he do? move it, delete it what?

11:57 pm

It directed him a reset password page of some sort (he didn't tell me so I don't even know if it look legit, to be honest)

11:57 pm

yep sure am!

11:58 pm

ta5/10 after the pastry pt?

11:58 pm

what kind of virus protection do you use?

11:58 pm

So now the stidkid doesn't have access to his Gmail -- he did notice on the reset password page that it apparently was going to send info to a yahoo (secondary) account that Matthew didn't own... for me that would have been a RED flag, but he just went ahead anyway.

11:58 pm

plaque build-up on teeth, minus third letter

11:58 pm

Lordy stid - all I can think of is going back to a back-up. But you'll still have lost your work

11:58 pm

ta+ black gooey stuff you put on your roof

11:59 pm

sort of like what the dentist scrapes off teeth

11:59 pm

SO.... I have filled out a request with the online Google reset thing, and can't get online real-time help this time of day.

11:59 pm

ta + asphalt

11:59 pm

FIREWORKS!!! Thanks, mel and pini

11:59 pm

yeah jilli!!!!!

11:59 pm

I shut down Tom's computer immediately, and Matthew's access on that computer doesn't have main control, so hoping any keystroke logger didn't catch my logging in as Tom...

11:59 pm

nick of time

11:59 pm

Now to get the new icon...

11:59 pm

wtg jilli ;)

12:00 am

*sigh* I am SO not in the mood for this manure pile!

12:00 am

yikes stiddy I am not sure how to fix that, other than e-mailing gmail from another account and telling them what happened

12:00 am

I have HOURS of homework still to do...

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