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Total score 0 pts.
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260 1,395
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262 1,388
263 1,374
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310 1,089
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169 total words

12:00 am

* flip *

12:00 am

flippity do dah

12:01 am

flip

12:01 am

flip

12:01 am

flip & good morning to all

12:01 am

HA6

Clues are up

flip hi all; hugs jili

he 6 x 2; ho 6

12:02 am

thx lickety

ty lickety

12:02 am

Thanks so much, Lickety!

12:02 am

sq6

12:02 am

*flip* and co7

12:02 am

Hi dee hi

12:04 am

co8

12:05 am

in10

12:05 am

nicely done, df!

he7

12:07 am

qu8

12:08 am

got a qu 6/7 combo but no 8

12:08 am

qu8 is probably not part of any combination

12:09 am

(awesome word, too, though not overly useful.)

12:09 am

welcome to babble. ;)

12:10 am

I did want arigato, but enable didn't

12:11 am

*shakes fist at enable*

12:11 am

he7 he7

12:11 am

enable is thankless then, I guess?

12:12 am

he8

12:13 am

i'm also sad it doesn't take "niner"

12:13 am

you betcha, dfm ;-)

12:13 am

it doesn't like "variadic" either. (not this grid) :o(

12:14 am

ha8, and that's 8+s done

12:14 am

ooh got that one thanks df

12:15 am

Q's sQuashed

12:16 am

oops, busy with emails, missed flip!!

12:16 am

that's ok, we'll still let you play flosey

12:16 am

lol, thanks Leslie

12:17 am

no, go back to your e-mails and don't come back! ;oP

12:17 am

T's Toppled

12:17 am

nbt

12:17 am

wow, wtg jilli

12:17 am

hi flosey

12:19 am

easy Q today :o) (again)

12:20 am

hi jilli, dfm, everyone

12:20 am

hi flosey! :o)

12:22 am

mo7, probably already called

12:23 am

but, i'm halfway. so all done until the morning. night all!

12:23 am

wow Leslie, well done, probably see you tomorrow

12:23 am

night leslie! :o)

12:25 am

oh how nice, I see Lickety is up

from which i does the in 10 originate?

12:26 am

I@(1,2)

ty

12:26 am

it's easier to spot if you've found some of the other words ;o)

ty found it

12:28 am

what does the I@ mean?

12:28 am

don't ask me how, but... phantom corticosteroid.

i in the 1st column 2nd row / position

12:28 am

I, located on [co-ordinate]

ma 7/36

12:37 am

ma7/44

ma 7 x 2

12:38 am

thanks Dee, found the first one

yw

12:38 am

can't find the ma7/36 yet\

12:38 am

erst

think of a Lodge...

12:39 am

kind of lodge dfm

12:39 am

oh oops missed the adjectival >.< thanks dee, beth :o)

yw

12:40 am

: )

help with top e 4th column

12:41 am

eq6, dee

12:41 am

horselike ?

12:41 am

Am I the only one who has tried "corticosteroid" multiple times by now, by the way? >.<

awww ty nbt

12:42 am

wtg Dee

ty

12:43 am

with nbt, and 47 left for romorrow, i must go to sleep . see you all tomorrow

12:43 am

I'm slow with nbt-ing :o( still have 5 left

12:44 am

night beth!

12:46 am

ah, got that 10

wtg

12:46 am

wtg jilli

12:47 am

wd beth -- I've just gone over the halfway mark

12:49 am

A wee hint on the 10, jilli?

12:50 am

it's hard to understand, erda

12:51 am

out of it is the in 10

12:51 am

Gee -- I'll work on that...

12:51 am

wow, thanks jilli

12:51 am

got it, flosey?

12:52 am

yes

12:52 am

:-)

12:52 am

great clue

12:53 am

and ru

anyone have the as 7? not seeing it...

12:55 am

nbt - had to go out and back in, one word was not registering!

weird... wtg flosey

12:55 am

not here Dee

12:55 am

as7 , a + half close eyes to see properly

12:55 am

as +sq 6

12:55 am

as +sq 6

12:56 am

great clue granny, thanks

12:56 am

oopsie...LOL

ty diz... have never heard that before!!

12:56 am

yw

12:56 am

don't blink then dee

ty granny

12:56 am

or maybe a+sq6 ;o)

12:56 am

ty diz

12:56 am

yw

12:57 am

thanks dfm, got the as but missed the second one from it

hi 7/36

1:00 am

hello all, how many words today please?

1:00 am

169 words sami

1:01 am

thanks flosey

1:01 am

hi sami

1:01 am

yw

hi and nbt

1:03 am

wtg josh

1:03 am

hi and wtg josh

hi and wtg josh

os 7/32

1:06 am

hi and nbt

1:06 am

hi m9 and wtg

hi wtg

1:07 am

stats for the 10??

in 10/84

1:09 am

thanks. looking

fireworks

1:10 am

wtg Dee

1:11 am

whee for dee!

ty may I help anyone?

1:13 am

congrats dee!

1:13 am

yes please dee

1:13 am

i've got the double twins and all their variants, but i'm 2 qs short - clues pls?

1:13 am

wtg dee

1:13 am

sorry one q short

1:13 am

I still have 52 left and need toothpicks for my eyelids, but thanks anyway, dee

1:14 am

qu8 = oaken?

1:15 am

nbs!

sleep well jili... I am off, too

hugs to all... *poofing*

1:16 am

anopther qu8 clue would be nice -- have a vague idea about the oa5 one but memory isn't working

1:17 am

and PB for dfm ;-)

1:18 am

PB? whe?

1:18 am

*when?

1:18 am

oh no -- sorry, dfm

1:18 am

:oP

1:18 am

sorry dfm not getting oaken clue - best i can come up with is quwooden ;0

1:19 am

too sleepy to think straight

1:20 am

me too jilli, and a bit of running around tomorrow before and after bridge

1:20 am

I think I have the first 5 letters...

1:21 am

think of "like a pig" (po7)

1:21 am

going to google -- then bed!

1:21 am

GOT IT! ty dfm

1:21 am

thanks jilli that did it, not bad for a gal who can't think straight!

1:22 am

didn't need google

1:22 am

oh sorry, wrong gal, thanks dfm

1:22 am

hey gort, jilli, dfm

1:22 am

hi granny

1:22 am

hey granny r

1:22 am

i got it too

1:22 am

1/2 way! rest for tomorrow

1:23 am

how did you go yesterday?

1:23 am

as you can see, i'm still alive

1:23 am

did you get persecuted?

1:23 am

or just shoved around a bit

1:23 am

50 left now, and so to bed...*poof

1:23 am

went rsther well. several of the congregation thanked me after

1:24 am

nighty night jilli

1:24 am

thought so granny, prayed along those lines

1:24 am

only one heckler, thank goodness....

1:24 am

g'night jilli

1:24 am

nite jilli

1:24 am

you got a heckler??? what kind of church is this?

1:24 am

what happened granny?

1:25 am

and can i join?

1:25 am

see you at bridge, flosey

1:25 am

i love a good heckling :)

1:25 am

yes, jilli

1:25 am

lol, it's ok....i think she wasn't used to going any deeper than skin deep...i made them think and work hard on those questions

1:26 am

ata-girl granny

1:26 am

so did you go the full monty and bare your soul?

1:27 am

made sure there was a severely depressed person in each group, and encouraged them to speak up...

1:27 am

lol granny, how on earth did you do that... "put your hand up if you're severely depressed"??\

1:28 am

"if you're depressed and you know it clap your hands..."

1:28 am

made a few eyes pop...lol....and then i threw a curly one at them...the DVD was set in a maze...and i asked what the significance of the maze was in the DVD

1:28 am

gort, i'm pastoral care co-ordinator...i know who they are.

1:29 am

fair enough, then what happened?

1:31 am

well, that was when the heckler started...she was dying for a coffee...but the rest wanted to discuss the topic...so let her lie there and bleed...not reaslly, i did acknowledge her words, but moved onto what everyone else wanted to do

1:31 am

sounds like you handled it well

1:32 am

hi all

1:32 am

hi jmc

1:32 am

granny are you talking about your sermon on gratitude?

1:32 am

hey again jmc, getting the low-down on granny's sermon

1:33 am

i discussed that the maze was symbolic of life...shadowing our perceptions and blocking our view of what is good. the lookouts in the maze represented when a light goes on and you can actually see what is good

1:33 am

oh hey there flos didn't see you there

1:33 am

hey jmc

1:33 am

ooh apt analogy

1:33 am

hi gort

1:33 am

wd granny i thought of you in Meeting for Worship today

1:34 am

thanx jmc, i survived..and no tar and feathers either *grin*

1:34 am

a woman gave a message about gratitude today!

1:34 am

sounds like you had it well under control granny

1:35 am

well there you go...must be in the water, so to speak

1:35 am

well it is way past my bedtime--just wanted to peek in before i collapsed

1:35 am

goodnight all!

1:35 am

nighty night then jmc

1:35 am

nite jmc, sleep well, hun

1:36 am

g'night jmc

1:38 am

so in conclusion, God used your message for the betterment of its hearers?

1:39 am

yes, gort. quite a few said how much they enjoyed it, and how much they had learnt

1:40 am

well swizzle my martini and marinate my feta, that's cause for celebration!

1:40 am

i tend to use my preaching time as teaching time, don't hand anything to them on a platter, they have to nut it out

1:41 am

jolly good

1:41 am

*giggle* my last sermon was on "thanks" when i researched for it, i found seven different words for thanks in the bible..each very different

1:42 am

what are they?

1:42 am

learn me granny, learn me good

1:43 am

not fair... will have to look the actual words up again...but they are different ways of giving thanks.

1:43 am

oh well you can give me the readers digest version

1:44 am

or you can just put your feet up and have a breather if you want

1:45 am

i gotta go brew up dinner for the assorted offspring and spouse, cheerio for now

1:45 am

well, you can thank in words/prayer, thank in song, thank in humility, on your knees, thank in music,

1:46 am

give thanks in dance, thank as a group and thank by doing any combo of them all

1:48 am

lol, and i must get off my soapbox and let others chat, thanx to all for allowing me the time and space. see you all at the flip...and no sermon, i promise

1:49 am

quite inspirational granny

evening babblers! happy new year! xox

1:53 am

hi mrp, and happy new year to you and family

:) flosey xox

I am certainly out of practice!! But my new year resolution is to get back on babble more often!

1:59 am

will be glad to see you more often mrp

thanks flosey. need to kick the brain back into focus with the grid... I can't even see basic words!

i have been rooting around for the sq for too long... and it took me to sq6 to see it!

2:04 am

lol, and there's an as7

thanks flosey

2:05 am

for the first hour tonight I wasn't seeing much, then kicked into gear

2:05 am

yw mpr

so there is maybe hope for me!

2:05 am

if for me, then by all means

it has been so long since I have played, I feel seasick looking at the letters!

2:07 am

I do understand that feeling

how have you been flosey? and are the other babblers all good?

2:07 am

blah

2:08 am

me, fine, thanks, and most seem to be well - little hitches here and there

2:08 am

but many of them talk things out

hitches? the chat is usually friendly, but hope they sort it

2:09 am

hi Flosey and MRP

hi lynxx! happy new year luvy!

2:10 am

oh yes, mrp

2:10 am

hi again lyn

2:10 am

and to you too MRP - hope this year is a great uneventful one for your family

2:11 am

I'm still plodding on! - should have gone to bed an hour ago when I was tired, seem to have aquired a second wind

bloody better be!! adios to 2010... looking to the future

no bed for you flosey! it is new year holiday after all!

2:12 am

but of running around to do tomorrow, as well as bridge in the afternoon

2:13 am

**bit of

never played bridge! I really should get someone to teach me

2:14 am

it's a great game, had to learn when I married hubby - think he cut his teeth on a deck of cards - but we learned bridge together

there are social clubs around in country towns here... i haven't seen any in our area though

2:16 am

good morning everybody

2:16 am

hello ruby

2:16 am

morning Ruby

2:16 am

happy new year flosey!

2:16 am

{{lynxx}}

2:17 am

I used to love bridge, but haven't played in more than 40 years

2:17 am

ty ruby, and to you

hi ruby! happy new year :)

2:17 am

is everybody all recovered from the big weekend?

2:18 am

hello mr. p and good riddance 2010! Let's hope this is a banner year for everybody, especially healthwise!!!

2:18 am

and no more "teaser" q's hahah

2:18 am

you'll laugh ruby - we were in bed, exhausted, by 10:30 pm! on new year's eve

we can only look forward to it ruby!

2:19 am

makes sense to me! husband was asleep by 11; I had to stay up to comfort dogs because of fireworks in the village and idiots tooting their car horns

2:20 am

well ruby, I guess we all did our share of in our younger years

we were outside until 1.30am with the kids having a water fight... it was very hot

2:21 am

a water fight in the heat! unimaginable in this climate but a very nice image!

I heard that Europe was going through a hell winter

2:22 am

my all-time best NYE was spent with one other couple, playing cards and eating...AFTER 1st husband and before 2nd (hahah)

2:22 am

we are lucky in these mountains; we had a lot of snow, but it's all gone and the temps are slightly above normal. It almost feels like spring

how did you manage that ruby??

2:24 am

just lucky, I guess. Also, living in the country, aside from being snowed in for two days, it is less of a big deal than living in a big city and having to go to work.

2:24 am

Paris and London (and NY) were all terrible

I think I will be doing that when the kids move out!

2:25 am

because of the lake, I think our climate is more temperate than some other parts of France

2:25 am

ruby, we played bridge quietly, with a couple of great friends when we were no longer up for an evening of dancing, but even that was over 15 years ago

2:26 am

How far were you from the flooding, Mr. P?

the flooding is the size of France and Germany put together!!

2:26 am

we played poker, hahah, but rarely get to dance any more

2:26 am

playing bridge on New Year's sounds absolutely perfect!

we are south of the flooding, it has pretty much destroyed Queensland... and the flooding is as close as 400km away

2:27 am

I had no idea it was so large, mr.p! That is astonishing

2:27 am

it was, quiet, and sometimes still didn't make it to midnight!

2:27 am

we haven't had a newspaper since last week

if you go to www.smh.com.au

that will give you our news at the very least on the floods

2:28 am

I'm down to 16 words and starting to fade fast, will say goodnight all, be back sometime tomorrow to pick up these 16 words

hello

bye bye flosey! lovely to see you darling

2:28 am

I'm writing it down. My friend in Hervey Bay said that house iinsurance in Australia doesn't cover floods

happy new year infern! :) xox

Back at you

2:29 am

Happy New Year herin!!

2:29 am

Good morning Mr President and Happy New Year greetings from Liverpool. Those floods looked awful on the news. Our thoughts go to all the victims.

2:29 am

sweet dreams fast-fading flosey!

it does cover floods, just not in flood prone areas

2:29 am

hello to Liverpool!

Ruby that depends on the company. Most insurance companies are not nice and do try to weasel out of claims

2:29 am

that makes sense

hi scouser... happy new year to you! The flooding is only going to get worse over the next few days too. 22 shires are under water

Hi Scouser

I have a question please

2:31 am

all ears.....

Is it rude to ask someone to bring something to a dinner or lunch say like a desert then make them pay a fee for the food.

2:32 am

I guess it depends on the intimacy of the friendship

yes infern.... if it is in your home... but if it is a planned party, that is fine

2:33 am

if the ground rules are laid out in advance

Ok let me rephrase.

i planned a party for my brother, asked people to pay for room hire ($5 each) and to bring a finger food dish... it was all on the invite

Ok let me restart my brain spaz

qu8?? don't see it!

At Christmas we were invited to a family function. I asked if I was to supply a plate of something like desert. So I did. I made a fruit and cheese platter as requested. We spent about $50 and then were asked to pay $25 for the pair of us as a contribution to lunch. I think this is just rude as some people bought nothing. I understand $5 room fee and such and a small dish

2:37 am

I agree with you, herin, that is not fair and somewhat deceptive

that is very rude infern... if you were not told, you were duped

I would have packed up my cheese platter for starters....

2:38 am

how could they do that?

In the past we had paid but we didn't bring anything. I think it is rude to ask.

2:39 am

I do, too. Did they expect to make a profit?

then make someone pay. I am of the mind to say next Christmas stuff everyone and spend a fortune at a nice hotel and pig out

2:39 am

into

2:39 am

whoops, having herin's cheese in the PB!

2:39 am

que8 I think has something to do with oak trees

don't bring anything again... did you offer to bring food? or did they ask you to

I said to a friend that I would rather work at a Christmas lunch kitchen and be appreciated. I said would you like me to bring something.

I tend to try and bring a house gift

2:40 am

that is just rude rude rude!

2:40 am

your idea for next year sounds grand!

2:41 am

BTW, herin, you are almost in the grid -- phantom herin

I would rather donate my time and help a needy cause and be appricated. As for the QU 8 looking now

found two with that ruby

2:42 am

qu8 word has similar form to the hi7/36 word

Scouser do you have a kitty?

2:43 am

I did, too, mrp. Do I have to go to the PB again?

aircon should so be a word!

no ruby! it was a good find

2:44 am

we have a little brown fluffy mouse living in the sunflower seed bag in the garage. Husband is afraid of it, but it's very cute and I will not set a trap!

2:44 am

Yes herin: a large one a scaredy-cat agoraphobic - but no matter as I live in an upstairs flat.

Awww.

little fluffy mice = huge deadly venomous snakes here :)

We took our cats outside on their leads today. They loved it

2:45 am

that is so cute, herin

2:45 am

do you have a photo?

2:46 am

our only bad snakes are little vipers, not so cute!

Some were Ruby but I don't think onhere

2:47 am

what kind of snakes, mrp? Were they a nasty problem in the flooding?

yep... all the snakes are trying to find high ground

2:48 am

that is a very scary idea

2:49 am

I still don't have the hi7 or the que8!

http://tinyurl.com/393eug4

This is Pandora.

neither do i ruby

2:50 am

qu8 rear end of word is for films front end for oak

2:51 am

hi7 is all goat

2:52 am

got the q, ty scouser

will look into that scouser! :) thanks

Thanks got it too

2:52 am

and the hi! yay

2:52 am

any clues for qu7/36 please?

2:52 am

I had better get dressed now

plural of qu6

2:53 am

sorry I mean qu7/40

2:53 am

qu7, like 5 + vowel, then plural

2:53 am

first vowel

2:58 am

Thanks ruby and mr p

Ok I am going for a while. Take care everyone

3:00 am

What are the customs regarding the penalty box? I fell into it a couple of days ago. I presume I am allowed out now?

bye infern

Loves

scouser, you go in... you provide goodies... you get out after jumping in the hot tub.

3:01 am

Hmm...... no hot tubs in top-floor flats! Box of biccies here though.

if you find mamabear in the hot tub... you will wanna stay for a few days!

didn't you know about the hot tub in the PB??

3:03 am

no - I am only new to Babble's chatterbox. Babble is just wonderfully addictive. I love it and Scrabble equally though Babble beats everything hands down on the computer.

next time you are in the PB, find the hot tub and pour some champagne... people will join

3:07 am

OK, thanks. meanwhile, on with the words.

ah, the japanese car is back

3:43 am

arso

3:43 am

darst

3:45 am

ONE AGAIN, MAY i APOLOGISE FOR MY CAT WHO WAS RUNNING ABOUT ON THE KEYBOARD . Please send her to the sinbin, she's being horrid today.

3:46 am

The cat didn't put the letters in but she somehow managed to move the cursor over. Is it a funny time for cats as the other cat, who usually likes me is also not speaking to me?

3:47 am

The keyboard cat looks exactly like scouser!

3:48 am

on hold with nespresso

3:55 am

I remember when I first joined Babble that anyone was welcome in the Chat Log but not anymore. I have noticed how you freeze out those you do not want to join in. Don't worry I very very rarely come on to chat and then only for a minute so you can resume your 'so very private conversations'

3:56 am

Morning Pat, if you look at the time on the right hand side of the chat log you will se it was quiet for 1/2 an hour before you came in.

3:57 am

I know bout the quiet periods and I have also noticed how some people are frozen out, which will upset some people. I'm bulletproof!

3:58 am

here

3:58 am

lol good for you.

3:59 am

Morning UK. It has changed this last year Pat - there is simply not as much chat - I know I feel less inclined to chat as some people are unwelcoming

3:59 am

Morning all.....and I agree with Pat entirely.......am very often a victim of it!!

3:59 am

Evening Lynxx and morning Flask.

4:00 am

Iron Sudoku wouldn't even answer a query about the game, not chat.

4:00 am

I need to get myself a bullet-proof jacket!

4:01 am

da4, 10am already. I must be away. Back later.

4:01 am

Morning.

4:02 am

bye Mitch!

4:02 am

bye FM

4:02 am

hi Hydra HNY

4:02 am

I'm rarely deliberately rude and I do care about people in trouble but I acept we are all different.

4:02 am

morning Hydra!

4:02 am

HNY to you, too, lynxxx!

4:03 am

Hello Pat. I got in a nasty situation through the chat log, so I didn't come on for a while. But I'm back now.

4:03 am

Scouser, you still there?

4:04 am

Its very easy to get into trouble on here......and justlike Hydra....I disappear now and again.....

4:04 am

its the easiest way to deal with it!!

4:05 am

When it happens for the first time, it is really upsetting. Like you, I just disappeared and babbled with the chog hidden.

4:06 am

I play Babble every day, right through the day and have done for years. Love it but I don't get time to chat as well and often can't get back to finish the grid.

4:06 am

I think Pat has the right attitude. I am not a rude person and always try to be polite, but some folks are really snippy.

4:06 am

Well then, it's very nice to meet you here, Pat.

4:08 am

However, some people need you to be rude to them......cos' they are so full of their own importance, and nee to be brought down a peg or two!

4:09 am

Thank Hydra and Flash. Nice to hear from you and it might give some confidence to some of the quiet ones to now that there are all types of folk here. Mostly nice.

4:10 am

I can vouch for scouser. She is my oldest friend in the whole world.

4:11 am

However, I think she has left us now!

4:12 am

I have to put some slap on now and go visiting. Be back babbling as soon as I get in again. Can't resist. Scouser's cat looks exactly like my keyboard cat, who even now is glaring at me because she wants to play on it. When I turn off I have to turn it upsidedown and cover it. Bye for now,

4:12 am

Have a lovely day, Pat. You can see my cat in my icon.

4:12 am

Bye Pat!

4:12 am

bye Pat

4:13 am

I shall be back later, too. Happy Babbling!

4:13 am

see ya Hydra!

4:22 am

very happy! I just fixed the coffee machine with telephone instructions -- in French! yay

4:22 am

I thought it was dying

4:23 am

well done Ruby

4:23 am

ty lynxx! I thought we needed a new machine; we drink A LOT of coffee

4:24 am

it is so hard to get anything done here; we have been almost 5 weeks without cable TV

4:32 am

{{lynxx}} haven't reached half but nbt at least!

4:33 am

Good girl...sorry was concentrating on getting down to 40

4:34 am

Well done rubyfoo. Hydra: see you later too when you log back on. And Hallo to Flask up there in border-land. I have friends who live in the debatable-land at Gretna and one who was at Tundergarth (not sure if she has moved now).

4:38 am

And Patxxx welcome back. AS a newcome, I have found the multi-input nature of the chatlog can make it look as if people are being rude: but really it is just the intermix of several conversations. It's like knitting.

4:39 am

and there is my 40...bye Ruby & Scouser

4:41 am

bye lynxxx

4:42 am

Hello anyone. any clues for the mo 6/24 and mo7 please?

4:44 am

mo + what is on your head

4:45 am

and the pl

4:45 am

Ah a furry clue thanks

4:46 am

yw

4:53 am

i nto

Good morning all.

And ty Frances - my first word :-)

phone

Back.

5:13 am

Back too. Just finished the Q words.

Only have two Q words so far :-(

5:17 am

Do you need a clue?

I have 3, but I have to head to that thing called work in about oh 4 minutes.

5:17 am

Must be a time for cat-persons just now.

Not yet, only just started hydra, but thanks!

Grand total of 24 words so far.

5:17 am

Morning, scouser. I should be working...

Hallo scouser, haven't seen you before in the chat log I think, but my times on here are a bit varied atm.

and me. I am a sauna pant person...

5:18 am

Hmm ...... I have lost my voice and the o2 transmitter locally for the phone is on the blink so I am incommunicado except e-mail and this.

5:19 am

That conjures up strange images, red! All I wear in the sauna is a towel.

5:19 am

Thanks for telling me, scouser. I shan't ring you then!

see my Ic** hydra for some worse images!!!

5:20 am

Hello Sally-c-l I am a newcomer.

lol red at the ic** and welcome scouser.

OK I am off. see you all later much later!

5:20 am

Oh, OH! I need some, red! The thighs could do with shrinking a size.

5:21 am

Well Hydra you could ring me on the landline and I could croak simple replies - make a change from the usual large chunks of advice ! But I don't want to move from this comfy chair to the landline. Later.

5:22 am

Yes, later. And email will do just as well. Defo not going ahead with that flat. Will go and see other one, as yo suggested. Sorry for the private conversation, folks!

5:23 am

75 words left. Sally, scouser, how many do you have?

I have 30 - but haven't been on long. I don't usually chat until I'm half way, or have 100, or something, but just felt like it today.

5:24 am

I got 25. searching for the st- words at the min. It's these little ones that are the n*******

Should say, I /have/ 30, 139 left - not the other way round.

5:25 am

I meant I got 25 left to do.

5:25 am

I have all the st's, so if you need a clue...

5:27 am

I got one animal one vapour one hole and two porches. What is left?

5:27 am

Has anyone got a clue for the AS7, please?

5:28 am

wonky look

5:28 am

Thanks. Got it. Didn't know that was a word.

5:29 am

what about the st- ones?

5:29 am

There is a preponderance of black and white creatures here at the mo!

5:29 am

Do you have any at all, scouser?

5:30 am

There's a male deer, something you walk up, something that comes out of a kettle...

5:31 am

Hydra: Got those: see below re animal etc. there are two missing still.

5:32 am

morning all! I have 7 STs... how many are there?

5:32 am

Do you have the Greek colonnaded walk?

5:32 am

There are 8, lilmonkey.

5:33 am

OK thanks, hydra... and YES i have the greek colonnaded walk

5:33 am

Hydra: yes I do that's the porches. Just one to go now.

5:33 am

And the walk's plural. And the final st5/10 is a small opening or bodily aperture.

5:33 am

yes i have both of those too

5:34 am

hmm what am i missing

5:34 am

The 5/14 is a tricky one. It's the male deer with an added vowel.

5:34 am

have that one

5:35 am

Hydra: the walk up cannot be plural only one s. Got the aperture. Aha: the scots are in on it. got them all now.

5:35 am

i must be missing a fish

5:36 am

lil, it's st4/6, st5/14, 5/10,5/12, 4/4, 5/10, 5/10 and 5/12, if that helps.

5:36 am

scouser, it's pluralised in the Greek way.

5:36 am

got it! it was the other st5,10 that ends with a vowel

5:36 am

Sorry, not the walk up, the porch.

5:36 am

thanks hydra

5:37 am

They're always tricky, monkey!

5:37 am

scouser, the porch ends with a vowel, and the next one ends with a different vowel

5:37 am

Morning all. Great clueing going on! Stumped on as7,40 pls

5:38 am

scouser gave a great clue for that at 5.28

5:39 am

what does wonky mean?

5:39 am

askew. Putting it another way, it's the 5/16 with a consonant prefix.

5:39 am

Ah - will look with that in mind

5:40 am

Must go now. Faced with all those co words, I'm going to start work! Laters. *poof*

5:40 am

OK thanks

5:40 am

wonky must be a north-of-England word.

5:40 am

For me this morning wonky = thick!

5:41 am

Hydra: you will need to be some of the longer co- words in order to acquire some of the smaller co- words. Byee

5:44 am

it's a no for the as7 for me. will return later!

5:45 am

smaandmea : try peering at the word

5:47 am

Scouser You are a Gem. Good clue.....thank you

Good clue scouser, ty

5:52 am

as 7 is a word that means scrunching your eyes up to see something better.

5:54 am

any clue for ho5/14 please

5:55 am

type of car

5:57 am

demouse thanks no wonder I could not get it I thought that was a trade-name.

How many words today please

5:59 am

169

Thanks

5:59 am

hello everyone including sandrafrances

6:00 am

hello diann

Hello diann. I thought you were going out

I am playing on the ipod

6:01 am

not yet, doing the word. Forgot to ask, what time 2night??

8 unless you want supper here

6:02 am

Thanks, but we will arrive just before 8

6:03 am

hi folks......any clues please for co7/32 please??

You don't want my germs then!!!!

6:04 am

I have enough germs of my own thank you. Will no doubt see you late with the shopping.

Ok

6:04 am

how many words have you got??

55 and you?

6:05 am

89

6:06 am

91

I have just got an 8 letter word

6:07 am

Flask - co7/32 = a pirate ship.

6:08 am

Good morning Jacula, happy new year and thanx for the clue!

6:08 am

HNY to you, too, Flask.

6:41 am

FIREWORKS!:-) Time for a bacon sandwich.

6:41 am

Happy Babbling, all. x

6:41 am

well done Jac

6:42 am

enjoy your bacon sandwich!!

6:47 am

hi all

Yay. I found the 10 all by myself.

6:50 am

good job

6:54 am

Hi Boo!...and Kaplan too...well done!!

6:55 am

Hi Flask

6:59 am

back from my jog outside... it is freezing! It's one of those days that no matter what direction I run, the ice-cold wind blows in my face

7:00 am

its snowing here

7:00 am

*Hands Lil a cup of hot chocolate*

7:00 am

oh poor kazzer.... i shouldn't complain. At least it is sunny here! Thanks Molly! *slurp slurp*

7:01 am

clue for as 7 please

7:01 am

as + the word for 5 babies

7:02 am

hi booboo

7:02 am

breakfast of champions...slab of chocolate cake and coffee

7:02 am

Good clue Lil.

7:02 am

Kazzer is it you that lives in Chard?

7:02 am

thanks Mol :)

7:03 am

{{yawn...stretch...}} Good morning!

7:03 am

yes flask it is

7:04 am

passing car.ee a mug of coffee.

7:04 am

hi lilmonkey

7:04 am

Thanks carlee!

7:04 am

Greetings all. It's been trying to snow here this morning but not settling happy to say.

7:04 am

I just wanted to know how close the snow was, thanks!

7:04 am

its still snowing!

7:04 am

booboo, just read your profile... do you ever quilt?

7:04 am

would you like a slab of cake to go with..sure fire way to get the engine running

7:05 am

Molly, did I see a post yesterday saying the cat had been found?

7:05 am

no

7:05 am

the cat was found???????

7:05 am

i did a pillow once but never finished

7:06 am

Thank you Molly!

7:06 am

boo, i am close to finishing a quilt that i have been working on for 10 years lol

7:06 am

good for u

7:07 am

wow lil monkey was that cos you dont have time or like me just like to do little bits now and them when the mood takes you

7:07 am

i'm going to post a pic when i have finally finished... it is a block quilt made entirely of old Hawaiian shirts

7:07 am

kaz, it took so long because i was collecting the shirts for all that time

7:07 am

that sounds fun lil

7:08 am

Yep, my son and his wife found their cat after she was missing 23 days. They are VERY happy.

7:08 am

that sounds like real dedication

7:08 am

i was very picky about the fabric... i wanted it to be hawaiian shirts that are actually from Hawaii. One of the shirts I used was my father's

7:08 am

Oh lil*monkey! How cooooooooolllllll!

7:08 am

Molly I am very happy for them!

7:08 am

oh good news about the cat, molly!

7:08 am

YAYAYAYAY..that is sooo cool..she went on a christmas vacation...

7:09 am

now..if only the cat could tell of the things she saw whilst out and about

7:09 am

Great news Molly, do they know where it was for all that time? so pleased for a happy ending.

7:09 am

It was a nice way for the family to start the New Year. Lil, can't wait to see a picture of your quilt. That will be a family heirloom.

7:09 am

did the cat send postcards? lol

7:10 am

Nope, they don't know where she was. But probably not being fed by anyone as she is way thin.

7:10 am

lol lil'm

7:10 am

im embarrassed to say i can't find the ni4,4

7:11 am

eight * ten

7:11 am

don't be embarrassed! It's SO obvious and it was one of the last ones i found

7:11 am

ARRRRRRRRRRRRGH

7:11 am

ROFL

7:11 am

OK on that note, I'm going to shower & get going on my errands! Obviously I don't belong here LOL

7:12 am

It's always the little ones that get me too.

7:12 am

laters lil

7:12 am

Bye lil*monkey! Enjoy your day!

7:12 am

*poof*

7:13 am

phone, brb.

7:13 am

May I please have a clue for the top N?

7:14 am

the light up gas

7:14 am

TY carlee!

7:15 am

welcome hun

7:15 am

Car - think numbers

7:17 am

Got it!

7:24 am

wow ..we are a chatty lot this am...

7:24 am

sorry...very sleepy!

7:25 am

me too...my eyes are feeling fried...

Fried eyes?

7:26 am

i just finished the book the lost symbol...all about free ma%...and the ma7 temples

incost

7:26 am

ma5 even...they feel dry and crispy kap...

OOps.

7:27 am

I liked that book!

7:27 am

and thank you for the ma5!

7:27 am

I loved "The Lost Symbol". I've read it three times. Can't wait for the movie.

7:27 am

it was typical dan brown..a roller coaster....

7:28 am

i read 6 books in 4 days...( no net...over the holidays)

7:28 am

Once I start his books, it is very hard for me to put them down. I remember being up until 3AM reading "The Davinci Code".

7:28 am

Me too! I think that is why I don't read more...I start a book and can't put it down!

7:29 am

i like his rollercoaster but i wish he did more character development...

7:29 am

i did all of my daughters vapire diaries ( all 4), the lost symbol and hush hush...another of my daughter's books...

7:30 am

not that that says much... but keeping track of all the diff characters....a bit of a whirlwind

7:31 am

funny that - didnt like the lost symbol much. my favorite was Angels and Demons

7:32 am

i am not a big dan brown fan at all...was something brain dead to read

7:33 am

i like clive Cussler for thosetype of books best

7:34 am

a clue for in10 please?

7:35 am

i'm working on it...

7:36 am

ok thanx!

7:36 am

in 10 like a drunk person going on and on without making sense.

7:36 am

when you are drunk an dunable to communicate flask

7:36 am

TY!

7:36 am

Snap, Carlee :-)

7:37 am

got it, thanx!!!

7:37 am

Hi zooz!

7:37 am

BBL!

7:37 am

later car.ee

7:37 am

good clue Carlee!

7:37 am

Hello, Flask :-)

7:41 am

there are some mornings when coffee is just mehg..and other mornings it rocks your world..today good ole maxwell is rocking my world

7:46 am

i think it is still snowing

7:46 am

it might have turned to rain

7:48 am

we are due for a bit of snow ourselves today..i want another wallop of a storm :)

7:51 am

we dont have that much usually but this is the third lot this winter

7:51 am

Dan Brown is a little heavy for those who prefer light reading.

7:56 am

Hello

7:57 am

Hello, Sadie :-)

7:58 am

hiya zoozzoom :)

7:59 am

i found him the opposite...but to each his own molls :) i find him fluffy...

8:00 am

Hiya Sadie!

8:01 am

hiya Flask :)

8:13 am

any clues for ma6/24 please?

8:13 am

type of sweater flask

8:13 am

or fibre... for yarn making

8:16 am

thanx Carlee...

8:16 am

for some reason i am not getting that clue.

8:17 am

mass concentration

8:17 am

although did get a ma7 while looking..so thanks anyway..lol

8:17 am

hello everyone

8:18 am

Hey Annie....

8:18 am

Hello, Annie :-)

8:18 am

Hi Flask, zooz

8:19 am

Zooz.....have u got the 5/12 after the 6/24?

8:19 am

flask, a bricklayer

8:19 am

I thought the mo6 was the sweater

8:20 am

Not got many to be honest, Flask as i am watching the darts ..lol..i do have two ma/12 though.

8:20 am

ma5/12 that should read.

8:21 am

i just realized this game is not blocked at work. i'm in trouble now.

8:21 am

lol..Hello, Hoyamd.

8:21 am

it's addictive, hoya

8:21 am

Sorry ladies, am confusing you.....I was trying establish what zooz had to help him get the jumper clue!

8:22 am

Hiya Hoya!!

8:22 am

does anyone have the ga 6/27?

8:23 am

ga6 petrol + not for

8:23 am

Not me, Kazzer..sorry.

8:23 am

Kazzer thats the one G I don't have!!!

8:24 am

Kazzer...ga6/27... french waiter

8:24 am

and hello and Happy New Year to all x

8:24 am

karys, that would be "garcon"

8:24 am

ga6 refers to an area in France

8:24 am

:-D

8:25 am

oh yes.... and I am suposed to have finished !!!!

8:25 am

Thanks Une, that's what I thought.

8:25 am

ecouter

8:25 am

good morning all

8:25 am

yes, zoom? . . .

8:26 am

praps I've gone dys.. whatever it is !

8:26 am

morning, teach

8:26 am

off to grab a bowl of cereal -- BBL *poof*

8:26 am

fireworks

8:26 am

I best go before I confuse everyone any further

8:27 am

(congrats, annie)

8:27 am

Yay for Annie!

8:27 am

WTG Annie!

8:27 am

good going annie

8:27 am

congrats Annie

8:28 am

Une, who is that cartoon character in your icon?

8:28 am

thanks everyone

8:28 am

morning teach

8:28 am

it's my Mad Men avatar :-)

8:28 am

ok, really poofing now :-)

8:28 am

ah thanks

8:28 am

'morning, folks

8:28 am

morning, welki

8:29 am

*~*~*POMPOM TOSS*~*~*for annie...woot woot

8:29 am

Sorry, Une..was just trying to work out how to get ecouter into a GA6.

8:29 am

ok..i need to go shower and get my ass in gear...time to tear down xmas decoarations

8:29 am

carlee, hope 2011 treats you wonderfully

8:30 am

so what is the ga6....do we know yet?

8:30 am

Morning all...congrats to Annie!

8:30 am

Take care, Carlee.

8:30 am

Hello, Champ.

8:30 am

Well i have not worked it out yet, Flask..but thats not saying much..hahaha

8:30 am

ga6---petrol, prefix for against (3 letters)

8:30 am

hi Champ

8:33 am

Oh duh ..thanks, Annie :-)

8:33 am

got it!!

8:33 am

Morning folks

8:33 am

goody

8:34 am

Hello, Habes

8:34 am

hello habes

8:34 am

anyone like a clue before I leave?

8:35 am

i will struggle on, but thanks, Annie :-)

8:35 am

have a great day Annie!

8:35 am

mate

8:35 am

Sorry!!!

8:35 am

Have a good day Annie.

8:35 am

you too, champ...bye dear babblers

8:36 am

Morning all

8:36 am

got that already, Champ.

8:36 am

and you too, Molly

8:36 am

*poof*

8:36 am

Hello, Mr Bob :-)

8:36 am

Morning Bob!!

8:36 am

Breakfast buffet in the PB Champ. : D

8:37 am

morning Mr Bob

8:37 am

Beautiful icon, Molly..is it a book cover?

8:37 am

Oooh...lovely! Just back from the gym and ready to munch...*happily skulking off*

8:37 am

hehe

8:39 am

thanks for the ga 6

8:40 am

*munching bacon* why can't I get that word from her clue? Gah....!

8:41 am

Nope Zoom, just a photograph I found. I have a bond with trees and light.

8:41 am

champ .. think of what you'd put petrol into if you ran out of it while on the road (one letter changed)

8:42 am

out of all the weird words that is excepted in the grids, Arrgh, is not allowed..lol

8:42 am

Champ...the stuff that runs your car + ***an The Barbarian

8:42 am

GOT IT! Thanks welki...you woke my brain up...

8:42 am

TY Molly!

8:44 am

oops PB to me for saying the ic4 word.

8:45 am

I left you plenty zooz...enjoy!

8:45 am

lol..many thanks, champ :-)

8:51 am

I'm getting dizzy with all the bendy words in this grid.

8:52 am

yes a very twisty one today, Molly.

8:52 am

I feel like I'm in a labyrinth. I'm waiting for David Bowie to show up.

8:53 am

lol

8:53 am

hello babble friends. wow, barely managed nbt today!

8:53 am

it took me ages and i am watching love actua;;y

8:53 am

molly, I spend good portions of every one of my days waiting for David Bowie to show up.....

8:53 am

Trif! I was just talking about your boyfriend.

8:53 am

someone said bacon....

8:54 am

i'm still missing the o on the left side for nbt

8:54 am

good morning everyone;)

8:54 am

and secondo smells it, crossy.....

8:54 am

Hi crossy, another day another grid

8:54 am

she does indeed;)

8:55 am

or4 , Champ.

8:55 am

I am at rather loose ends today. The house is fairly tidy still, after the new year's fete, and I am still recovering from the flu, but dont want to spend another day just sitting around either.

8:55 am

thanks zooz!

8:56 am

yw :-)

8:56 am

mornin babblers! got the tea steeping -- gotta warm up the hands!

8:56 am

so many nice folks here this morning!! very cheering!

8:57 am

finally got NBT !

8:57 am

well done wv!!

8:57 am

wtg!

8:58 am

BBL...gotta recharge the laptop...good luck all!

8:58 am

hmmm. enable has no love for carmen ghias, it seems

8:59 am

clue for mo6/24 please?

9:00 am

goats fur flask

9:00 am

hello all

9:00 am

type of soft wool from a goat flask

9:01 am

Excellent clues thanks ,Kallia & Bichon :-)

9:01 am

Hi Kallia and thanx! Hi to Bichon and thanx to you too!

9:02 am

ugh - "right" is such a phantom today! anything with the phoneme, actually - might, sight, tight, etc

9:03 am

anyone know what the 10 starts with please?

9:03 am

in

9:04 am

thanks Kaz...will go search

9:04 am

phantom "hostage"

9:04 am

oh, good one crossy! excellent

9:05 am

it means not being able to speak clearly - with rage or drunkeness

9:05 am

coherent

9:05 am

lol ty trif;)

9:06 am

flip....lol

9:06 am

oops Kallia off to the PB

9:06 am

very nice kallia

9:06 am

dammit kallia!

9:06 am

but i do not like grids where all the great words are phantoms

9:06 am

yep. what's in there?

9:07 am

means the thing is full of babblets

9:07 am

too many i's for me....I have really come to dread that letter

9:08 am

oh, crossy, btw - would it be okay for me to ask you yet another handyman question?

9:08 am

whenever i get stuck,i look for words that start with vowels,cause that seems to be what i always miss

9:08 am

fire away trif

9:09 am

Trif, you did start with your "always missed word" today right? Because it's a go.

9:09 am

I think I need to put some sort of stuff around the edges of my front door, and definitely the door to the garage. weatherstripping, I think it is called.

9:09 am

Molly! You are the sweetest thing! I did remember to enter it, yes, thank you!

9:09 am

it is indeed

9:10 am

many hardware stores sell good weatherstripping

9:10 am

you can get "soft" or hard stripping

9:10 am

anyway, the door to the garage is metal, and so is the frame, so how do I put it on there? I think adhesive woudl just fall off, right? is this something you staple on, or what?

9:11 am

not staples,for metal on metal aplications,they sell stripping with a thin metal spine attached to it and you just use self tapping metal screws to apply it

9:12 am

hmm. so it is up there forever then? not some seasonal thing I have to take on and off?

9:12 am

trif -- if you only need it on the bottom of the door, i highly recommend the Twin Draft Guard. we have them in our house, and they work great! nothing to attach to the door. (i also had a metal door and had issues with the weatherstripping)

9:12 am

measure you door and give those dimentions to the hardware store guy and tell them where you wish to apply it

9:12 am

why take it off?

9:12 am

I was wondering about those, eva.

9:13 am

they can be a little annoying, as sometimes they move (since they arent attached to the door) and you have to readjust them to shut the door... but overall, we have found them invaluable.

9:13 am

thanks crossy. there is a new, smaller hardware store the next town over, and the manager is a PET - so eager to advise, and I would love to get to know them and give them as much business as possible, rather than just visit the huge orange store

9:13 am

no need to take of weatherstripping once applied

9:14 am

a good hardware store guy can be a great friend indeed

9:14 am

you have to readjust them every time, eva? that sounds like a big pain actually

9:14 am

not every time, no. just occasionally.

9:15 am

a little nudge with the foot is all it takes.

9:15 am

i put new weather stripping on once every 3-4 years

9:15 am

around entry door and patio doors

9:15 am

occasionally I could live with. There is a HUGE gap between the bottom of the garage door and the floor of the kitchen, and I have one of those draft dog things there, but the real dogs keep stealing it to chew on....

9:15 am

but they only address drafts at the bottom of doors ... not the drafts around the edges (or the garage)

9:15 am

why so often crossy? does it wear out?

9:16 am

trif,for large bottom door gaps there is a weather stripping for that as well it is a kick plate with a rubber edging

9:16 am

i tried the weather stripping crossy was talking about, but once attached to the bottom of my door, it wasnt long enough to fill the entire gap. thankfully, under the door was our only issue.

9:16 am

up here it does trif

9:17 am

it compresses over time, trif

9:17 am

it can indeed

9:17 am

sigh. the thrills of home ownership never end, do they? it's funny, I didn't realize how much I didn't know until I was left in charge of all it, suddenly

9:18 am

To be fair, if I suddenly vanished from the earth and mr hate had to take on all I did (ahem - rear the children) he would be in the same predicament

9:18 am

and if the bottom gap is huge,remove the door and shim the bottom out with 1x2 strips till the gap is no more that 1/2 inch

9:18 am

its a metal door, crossy, so I wouldn't know how. I think I would go at it with my glue gun and make bob vila weep

9:19 am

clue for oc7/32 please?

9:19 am

so if it is metal,it is a fire rated door,and is of no use with a monster gap on the bottom

9:20 am

they have 2 part epoxy,s that will stick anything to anything else lol

9:20 am

the mega millions jackpot was HUGE last week - something like 242 million, so I bought a ticket, for the second time in my life....I LOVED thinking of all the good I could have done with that money, and one of the first things on my list was some sort of divorce center for women that would offer classes in just these very things.

9:21 am

hey, maybe I should ask the new hardware store guy to offer classes.....

9:21 am

untill then ,i will help as i can

9:21 am

you really are a prince, lord melbourne!

9:21 am

home depot has classes for beginners .. why make classes separate for one group of homeowners?

9:22 am

crossy bows and tips his cap

9:22 am

the vendor (home depot or local hardware guy) would make more money opening classes to everyone, that way no one feels left out or as if they can't attend

9:23 am

i was in construction for 10 years..picked up a few bits and pieces lol

9:23 am

seriously, I have so many good ideas! A performing arts center for my town, with music, drama, painting rooms, dance classrooms....a town pool, with diving end....a daycare center, teen hangout, artsy movie cinema (there are NO screens of art within 20 miles of me) and money for churches....and then of course, the divorce center, and college tuition for all my kids, nieces, nephews...oh, the good I could do!

9:23 am

i just watched and listened

9:23 am

I agree welki, but I think niche marketing is always good too.

9:23 am

as a beginner to hardware-type things, id prefer to take classes meant for beginners. but as a non-beginner in many other things, i would feel frustrated having to hear what i already know -- id want to hurry up and move on!

9:24 am

I wasn't allowed to touch the tools. Mr hate was VERY controlling that way

9:24 am

lol trif,there is a football player who made a fortune in the nfl,he bought everyone in his small home town a house lol

9:25 am

he would get so mad if I made a mistake, it allowed for no learning curve at all. Definitely not my style of teaching, thank god

9:25 am

l;

9:25 am

I think that is lovely crossy!

9:25 am

gaet

9:25 am

d'oh

9:25 am

lol .. wrong letter anyway

9:26 am

close welki! Just change up your consonant

9:26 am

it is,it has a cascade effect,they all owned the house or had their mortgage paid off,they had more discretionary income,they bought more locally and the town prospered

9:26 am

habit .. i always try it

9:26 am

indy is chewing on a noisemaker he rooted out from under a couch. i should scold him, but it's too cute - the sparkly blue streamers look nice against his black fur

9:27 am

Trif, you and I would make EXCELLENT lottery winners.

9:27 am

i believe ireland had a similar effect after the colleges waived fees for local students - all the money parents had been saving up for their kids educations went to fixing up their houses, cars, etc. and the celtic tiger roared there, for a bit

9:28 am

i just watched Extreme Makeover: Home Edition last night + was almost in happy tears. the main family had a little boy in a wheelchair with spina bifida. their house was perfectly fine, just unsuitable for someone in a wheelchair. so they got their new house made, but the little boy had a friend in his class whose parents were from kosovo. there were 6 people living in a 2-bedroom apartment, so the little boy wanted the show to GIVE his old house to them -- and they DID! picked it up, and moved it right on down the road.

9:28 am

let's hope we get to find that out, molly! Maybe I could buy a dinner with david bowie!

9:28 am

I saw the end of that eva, but not the beginning. how sweet is that?

9:29 am

It's up to 290 million this week. Let the philanthropic women have their go at it. PLEASE.

9:29 am

I will say, the end of that show confused me, though. apparently the mom and dad run an organization for kids in wheelchairs, right? so who's grand idea was it to put the office downSTAIRS?

9:29 am

trif -- i was welling up!

9:30 am

that show should be sponsored by kleenex. It makes me lose my sh**, every single time.

9:30 am

trif -- from seeing that show before, even though they didnt show it, i feel fairly confident there was an elevator in there somewhere. there usually is, so that no section of the house is off-limits to the person in the wheelchair.

9:30 am

speaking of things that make me lose it - he5 -- nasty ass things that eat my goldfish out of my pond every summer, cruel beasts!

9:31 am

sorry about that trif!!!

9:31 am

LOLOLOLOL

9:32 am

just looking for munchies:)

9:32 am

all apologies to present company, my DEAR friend!

9:32 am

ha ha

9:32 am

Happy new year!!

9:32 am

crossy, do you think I need to bring measurements to the hardware store, so they can figure out how much weather stuff I need?

9:32 am

maybe you should stick to goldfish of the cracker variety. ;)

9:33 am

i would bring measurements

9:33 am

trif, from my experience, bring ALL the info you can. too much is better than not enough.

9:33 am

and thell them exactly where you wish to apply it and the size of the gaps

9:33 am

yes, that is a great idea Eva:) But the one's in the pond smelll so good!

9:33 am

with respect to blue's kin, those fat flying pigs will eat anything, so not even goldfish crackers are safe. and they are RUDE - kick over my plants, make a mess, cause fear and trembling amongst the rabbits.

9:34 am

I remain, as ever, so in love with you crossy....in a completely appropriate way, of course

9:34 am

Wow! I had no idea Trif.

9:35 am

and forgive me, gloria steinem, but there actually are times I miss having a man around. they just have some handy dandy skill sets.

9:35 am

but of course ((trif))

9:35 am

heh, i am usually the one teaching darling hubby how to work the tools. ;)

9:35 am

Wow, I love he5s. Didn't realize there were people who don't.

9:35 am

WELL eva!!!!

9:36 am

I don't mind looking at a pretty he5 by the side of the north river at sunset, or whenever. just wish they would leave my poor fish alone

9:36 am

we are all unique,and we help each according to our gifts:)

9:36 am

same here trif:)

9:36 am

i dont know MUCH, but im still pretty sure i know more than he does. i just dont tell him that. ;)

9:36 am

thank you, mr marx!

9:37 am

((((biting my tongue to avoid saying something possibly a little too naughty to our young bride....))))

9:37 am

Trif, do you have Mr. Handyman in your area?

9:37 am

he still thinks that the reason the pilot light keeps going out in the fireplace (despite maintenance having already "fixed" it!) is because once in a while we have the window cracked -- he thinks the wind is blowing it out. nevermind that it goes out when the window isnt open or that there is a wall between the window + the fireplace.

9:37 am

probably molly. what I don't have is mr. Moneybags

9:38 am

trif, i have the mind of a teenage boy. there is nothing too naughty for my ears...lol

9:38 am

in that case, eva....nope, nope, can't do it. I have to remember, the chog is eternal

9:38 am

of course another was to kill the gaps on entryway doors into you living spaces is to apply nice hard wood flooring throughout;))

9:38 am

and I just checked. a certain member of the clergy is on right now. I am saying NOTHING

9:39 am

clergy??

9:39 am

hang on, crossy - I do have hardwood. how would that help?

9:39 am

my pastor babbles, eva....

9:40 am

too late, the cat's out of the bag, he/she knows you're thinking naughty thoughts *lol*

9:40 am

if you did not have it,then applied it,it would raise the floor level of course lol

9:40 am

its taking me ages today to do the words - even with the list

9:40 am

thinking naughty thoughts is one thing - typing them in the eternal chog is another....besides, now it's very edgar allen poe, isn't it? you are all thinking your own naughties

9:40 am

lol trif,you have been caught,the tought is the same as the deed lol

9:41 am

makes sense to YOU crossy!

9:41 am

thought

9:41 am

no it isn't! I can think of assassinating someone, but that is not the same as doing it!

9:42 am

We need to go back to the barter system. In which a single Dad would fix your weatherstripping and you could make a dinner for him an his kids.

9:42 am

phone....

9:43 am

**it's the preacher** calling Trif Good morning everyone

9:43 am

lol molly,i cook better than my mrs lol

9:43 am

Yes Cross, but most men don't.

9:43 am

Good Morning Mom

9:43 am

acck a preacher??!! crossy hides his tree worship manuals...

9:44 am

morning ((molly))

9:44 am

'morning mom ... funny :)

9:44 am

Morning ((Crossy))

9:44 am

Morning ((Welki))

9:44 am

giving "impure thoughts" a second go-round

9:44 am

((mom))

9:49 am

everyone must be googling

9:50 am

i think i fell asleep in my tea...

9:50 am

na,was just orginizing the kitchen

9:51 am

crossy -- i wish my hubs cooked as well as you. he made dinner the other night -- pasta that, well, lets say it went right through us. and packed me a lunch today -- PBJ sammiches. :) bless his heart.

9:51 am

at least he tries:)

9:52 am

he does. and for that, i love him. :)

9:52 am

true enough, crossy

9:53 am

urrgh - my internet is playing up now - still have 15 to get

9:53 am

Good Lord Eva, what did he do to the pasta?

9:53 am

tonights dinner will be of my making -- cornmeal-dusted, pan-fried ravioli.

9:53 am

he just needs to learn the shortcuts,in 15 minutes i can make fettuchini al simone,penne ala vodka or a nice chicken cordon bleu with a nice salad

9:53 am

molly, i think it was the sauce. we are lazy + mostly use jarred sauce, but he always tries to dress it up. methinks he put a few too many extras in this time around...

9:54 am

jarred sauce??!!..acck! the horror!

9:55 am

::fans crossy:: i know, dear. *hangs head in shame*

9:55 am

lol

9:55 am

Either that or the expiration date on the jar was past. Making your own red sauce is not that hard. However most people use canned things to make it, so it's not really "from scratch".

9:55 am

i do many cream sauces these days(the red sauces burn crossy,s tummy now)

9:56 am

hubby doesnt eat anything that is, and i quote, "white and creamy" the few exceptions: ice cream and whipped cream.

9:56 am

lol

9:56 am

well he has a young stomach for now

9:57 am

i will sometimes sneak stuff he doesnt like into dishes i know he does. i will thicken the red sauce with a little cream or slip some extra veggies into meatloaf...

9:57 am

wait 10 or 20 years when every bups sends battery acid up to dissolve yout tongue

9:57 am

Go Eva. Didn't he say he was allergic to something and then you snuck it into his food to prove he wasn't?

9:57 am

burp

9:57 am

he claims to be allergic to carrots, yet he is more than willing to eat CANNED carrots. i try to explain they all originate from the same place...

9:59 am

heh, probably, molly. i wouldnt normally mess around with allergies, only i know hes not really allergic. he just dislikes things to an extent that if he KNOWS its in there, he will psychosomatically make himself FEEL ill. its rather sad, actually...

9:59 am

rheostat and irrigate .. welki's phantoms of the day

9:59 am

lol eva,when you peel and boil the regular carrots,just add a spoon of sugar or some chicken stock to the water,he will eat them

9:59 am

Why am I thinking he was fed solid food way too young as an infant. It's a Freudian thing.

10:00 am

he misses the boob? lol

10:00 am

im inclined to just save the packaging from certain foods i know he likes, then make it from scratch and leave the package on the counter so he thinks its pre-prepared...heh

10:00 am

he IS rather obsessed with them...lmao

10:00 am

lol good idea eva

10:01 am

Nope Cross. That texture dislike thing can come from introducing solids too early. Freud was right about some things. People who were toilet trained to early generally have "bathroom issues".

10:01 am

lol,we start our life attached to a young firm boob and spend the rest of our lives torying to go back there lol

10:01 am

trying

10:01 am

Uh...only you y-chromos do that.

10:01 am

speak for yourself, crossy

10:02 am

i know molly my son has a thing with the lables on clothing rubbing on his skin

10:02 am

and his cousin is even worse than he is! i swear, all the kid eats is: pepperoni or sausage pizza turkey sandwiches (plain turkey on bread, nothing else) mountain dew hot dogs kid doesnt even eat burgers.

10:02 am

good lord!

10:03 am

Eva, that's hysterical about the food packaging. It's like the commercial where the guy tries to blame the pizza delivery guy for the mess when they really had frozen pizza.

10:03 am

and hes 18 years old, crossy.

10:03 am

hi all. Today was weigh in, I have lost 9.5lbs. yip, yip, yahooo

10:03 am

they have a heart attavk waiting for them at 30

10:03 am

congrats sue!!

10:03 am

wtg sue!! how're you doing it?

10:04 am

when his cousin was staying with us, i kept joking that we should take him out for thai, chinese, sushi, pho...

10:04 am

I have a problem with parents who tolerate that kind of picky eating. There are clever ways to introduce new foods to kids. Um...the cousin HAS to have digestive problems.

10:04 am

i may make a lot of noise about bacon,but in reality i eat it sensibly...fresh breads and buns are my true weakness

10:04 am

yaa for sue!!

10:04 am

what's a fresh bread or bun?

10:05 am

i was a picky eater growing up. my poor parents tried everything, but in the end, if i didnt like it, i just wouldnt eat at all. finally, though, i got bored of the foods i liked, and i started branching out. i still dont go TOO far from my comfort zone, but i will try most things... i was so ecstatic when i finally got hubby to like thai food!

10:07 am

you do not know what bread is sue?? lol

10:07 am

and buns are those round things used for sammiches lol

10:09 am

we make our own with a bread machine - no time for all the bashing and thumping to make completely from scratch

10:09 am

i love rice stir fry dishes

10:09 am

me too Ksazzer. We make pizza dough too

10:09 am

if i had a bead machine,i would be 400 pounds in no time

10:10 am

the only thing i wont eat is aubergines but i am waiting to be educated but havent found any recipes that uses them that i can tolerate

10:10 am

thing would be pumping out 4 loaves a day lol

10:10 am

i received a few bread recipes with my Kitchenaid, so i was thinking of trying some out at home... dont have a bread machine, though...

10:11 am

kazzer -- im not really a fan either. hubby loves them and squash + zucchini -- the whole family. i never took to them, though.

10:11 am

its great - you tip all the stuff in the tin in the machine select the program and let it get on with it. You can do one using flour yeast etc or using a commercial mix - which only takes a couple of hours so is very good if you forgot to buy one and the shops are shut

10:12 am

oh, but this is something i thought crossy would appreciate... there is a new burger joint near our house that supposedly serves... *wait for it* sweet potato tater tots!!

10:12 am

rumor has it you can order them bacon-wrapped.

10:12 am

lol eva,many of our fast food joints now offer sweet potato fries

10:12 am

i want a food processor thats the next thing on my list

10:13 am

but not like i make my sweet tater frittes;)

10:13 am

we can get sweet potato fries, but tots? heavenly!!

10:13 am

wish you were closer, kaz .. i have a cuisinart dc10 i don't use anymore

10:13 am

i do not know these "tots"

10:14 am

same for the kitchenaid .. i just don't cook as much as i used to

10:14 am

::faints::

10:14 am

mccain's tasty taters, crossy

10:16 am

i do my frittes in a hot wok with one tbs of virgin olive oil and cook on high heat till crispy,let sit on paper towell for a min then serve with spiced ketchup and sprinkle with coarse mediterranian(sp) sea salt

10:17 am

http://tinyurl.com/37y39m2

10:18 am

ahh those thing ty welki,i do not bother with them,though i do make a similar home made thing with valencia onion bits in batter

10:18 am

mmmmm..... tots.

10:18 am

i once had SUCH a craving for tots that i went out + bought a bag + had the whole thing for dinner.

10:18 am

Eva, I found a great recipe for sweet potato rolls that I want to try.

10:18 am

lol!

10:18 am

rolls?

10:19 am

Yep, dinner rolls.

10:19 am

interesting. sounds tasty!

10:19 am

I also have a recipe somewhere that calls for you to "put a buttload of tater tots" over the top of it. : P

10:19 am

you must have been hot to tot

10:19 am

lol

10:20 am

Good morning, fair babbling friends.

10:20 am

i believe the Duggar family (from that TV show) has a recipe for Tater Tot Casserole

10:20 am

Hi Judi

10:20 am

howdy judi:)

10:21 am

Yes, I think I saw it on their web site. Of course, since I am not cooking for three dozen people, I don't use their quantities.

10:21 am

who are the duggar family?

10:22 am

also, there is a chili place around here (Molly -- Hard Times, if youre ever interested) where you can get tots covered in your choice of chili, sour cream, onions, cheese + toppings

10:22 am

ruru -- thats the family with like 19 kids and a tv show

10:22 am

19 kids.. what?

10:23 am

google them. :)

10:24 am

"Arrgh" is so a word. We use it here all the time.

10:24 am

gah is too judi.. you use that one a lot too

10:25 am

So true.

10:26 am

<----knows judi

10:27 am

phantom: rigatoni

10:28 am

dont want any clues yet but what does the 10 start with pls?

10:28 am

in

10:29 am

ta

10:29 am

which i?

10:29 am

I haven't been to Hard Times in a while. My son went with his friends recently.

10:30 am

top left i

10:30 am

ta

10:31 am

Hello everybody. Moll, I see I am in today's grid.....cr 5/12... LOL

10:31 am

molly, we used to live walking distance to the one in bethesda and went fairly often. dont go as often now, but they have really tasty wings!

10:36 am

<convinced that there are not 17 c's

10:38 am

Hardy har Soodle. : D

10:39 am

watching the duggars makes me cringe..i mean having your own t.v slot just because you have litters of kids are are not ashamed to use the props..err i mean children to make a buck

10:40 am

I have similar feelings about The Duggars Cross.

10:42 am

still, id rather be a Duggar than a Gosslin.

10:43 am

are they adopted kids?

10:44 am

The Duggars creep me out.

10:44 am

nope. ALL theirs. i do think there are 2 sets of twins in there somewhere...

10:45 am

omg..have they heard of birth control?

10:45 am

They don't believe in it. Religious beliefs, etc.

10:45 am

actually, if you read their website, they used to use it, until they conceived while on the pill and it caused the miscarriage of one of their children. between that + a serious religious background, they stopped using any form o fit.

10:46 am

that's really horrible

10:46 am

so they are going to keep puming out kids while she gets older and all the perils of late in life childbirth fill up the Er?...ugh!

10:47 am

hooray = fireworks for me - off to find my hubby who has bu**ered off in a huff

10:47 am

YAY, KAZZER!!!!

10:47 am

must be off

10:47 am

yaa for kazz!

Cross: Their last girl had lots of issues, she was really premature. Had to live in a bubble for a while. Have you heard about that new show with the identical quads? I think that must be pretty nightmarish.

10:47 am

while i have no kida of my own, i actually have no issue with them. they seem to be raising some really good kids, and they arent on any sort of welfare of government aid. in fact, they are completely debt-free. they may not be the norm, but it seems they are doing something right...

Eva-Ya, but if it weren't for the show, chances are they wouldn't be in as great a spot as they are now.

10:48 am

oh, im sure they have made a pretty penny from the show. but it seemed they were doing ok for themselves even before that.

10:48 am

they pimp their kids

10:49 am

sorry i will just hunt for words for a bit..makes crossy angry...sploosh!

10:50 am

i guess i just dont feel that the Duggars pimp their kids the way the Gosselins do. same concept of show, yet so entirely different.

10:50 am

ga6 anyone?

I just think it's creepy that with the Duggars, the eldest kids are having kids that will be older than their youngest siblings.

10:51 am

yes. i DO find that part creepy. very much so.

10:51 am

The Duggars are like a cult to me, that's why I find them creepy.

Eva-I can see how you feel that way. Kate used her kids. Jon just used the celebrity that came from Kate using the kids.

10:51 am

Oh.....they are pumping them out too?

Ru- Not quite the same way, though who knows in the future?

The Duggar kids, although I'm sure they love all their siblings, probably see the problems in having so many kids and won't be as quick to have their own armies.

10:53 am

someone should neuter the whole family

10:53 am

with the Gosselins, i get the feeling they are showing off, dragging the camera around with them. with the Duggars, i get more of a feeling that they are more or less just living their lives, and the camera happened to show up. (grants, i DO understand they get some perks from the show) i feel like the duggar family is, for the most part, just doing what they would be doing even if the camera wasnt there.

10:53 am

I agree, Molly. The mother is facing serious health if they continue to breed. Also - the health of future children is at stake. I think it's time for daddy to have a vasectomy.

10:55 am

the gosselins I know.. they are both really creepy

Either way, reality shows are so stressful, that it has have some sort of effect on the children. Eventually, if they haven't already (I don't watch either show), the kids will start to resent the fact that every minute of their lives has the potential for being aired to the country.

has to have*

10:56 am

"Little People, Big World" is a good show.

10:56 am

i agree, leigh.

10:56 am

well,i have some real life crap to do and will be beack.the show that really,really bugs me is 'toddlers and tiaras" i would sue them if i could! taking 6 year old girls and dressing them up as hookers to win a prize?? i mean what the hell!!! but i better not get started.will be back...poof!

10:57 am

Mom Duggar has been cranking out a baby a year for 22 years. A woman's body was not built to do that.

Cross- Agreed! When you are spending tens of thousands a year to parade your child around in a fancy dress and ten pounds of makeup, you've got serious issues.

10:58 am

does she still walk>?

10:59 am

Personally, I think it should be illegal for anyone to be in a pageant until they are 18.

10:59 am

having found the hi7,36, my eye fell on HOACTZIN and I wondered how come that one was not included to delight us players...

10:59 am

welp, having started this fun conversation, ive got to run... lunchtime for me!

Ciao Eva

11:01 am

She still walks, Ruru... but you could drive a stroller between her legs. *sorry*

11:03 am

The youngest Duggar just turned a year old, so expect the announcement of number 20 any day now.

11:04 am

Erm... My dad was the eldest of 15! But that was back in the '20's and 30's in 'Holy Catholic Ireland'... (i.e., no TV - lol)

11:05 am

Soodle, the difference is, back then, families needed lots of kids to help work the land.

11:06 am

And, my mother had 10 siblings. I have over 100 first cousins, many of whom I have never met!

11:06 am

And, there was no such thing as birth control - until condoms came along.

Soodle- In HRC Ireland, you were an outcast to have less than 10! ;)

11:09 am

Also - people used to have more children because the infant mortality rate was so much higher. Plus, children died frequently from infection and diseases.

For Catholics especially, the church always teaches you that its your job on this earth to just procreate. Marriage is not for love, its for procreation and making little Catholic babies.

11:10 am

You would have had the parish priest at the door, demanding an explanation!!! (Just don't get me started about the clergy, please..... !)

11:12 am

why don't people boycott their show?

Ru- Because for every person you have that thinks what they're doing is incredibly wrong, you have five more out there who either agree with their non-contraceptive religious ways, or love the family.

11:13 am

Following recent revealations, the catholic church have been remarkably quiet on the whole sex thing. And rightly so!

Soodle- To an extent. Benedict, the ugliest pope known to man, agreed that gay men can use condoms to help stop the spread of AIDS. They not only gave the okay for gay men to have sex, but it also goes back to proving that Catholics are here to make Catholic babies.

11:14 am

that is so terribly wrong and sad.

11:14 am

this picture is in somewhat bad taste, but it still makes me laugh: http://tinyurl.com/2z8qgy and this is from when they only had 14 kids!

Men can't use condoms with women, but they can use them with other men.

11:17 am

well that's because a large percentage of the Catholic church already has sex with their own gender

11:17 am

Oh, please. Let's not get started on the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church.

11:17 am

Leigh... it certainly didn't start with Benedict. Paul V! and the second vatican council made some horrific proclamations. The real scandal is how this country was 'Priest-ridden' (sic) for so long.

11:17 am

er.. the priests I mean

We're not getting into this!

11:18 am

Ruru, I have no problem with consenting adults doing whatever. Its when they start on young kids is when it gets sickening

11:18 am

I totally agree

Soodle- Indeed, it's always been that way, but I was just referring to your comment about being recently quiet and then referencing my earlier point about baby factory Catholicism.

Anywho, I agree with all sides. Yes, Catholics are hypocrites. It's why I'm a picky cafeteria Catholic. Yes, preying on the young is incredibly wrong.

But if we go any further, it's just like debating between Democrats/Republicans/Tea Party/Glenn Beck/Right-Wing/Left-Wing/Liberal/Cons ervative/and all that crap.

It'd get nasty.

11:22 am

I'd have to think the milliions the church is paying out in lawsuits is resulting in changes in the clergy

Ru- It's secretly why almost every week in my mother's church there is a second collection for the Archdiocese.

11:23 am

Politics and religeon.......... dangerous subjects to be discussing. LOL In my local bar, both topics are barred. BTW, Eva, that photo and caption are hysterical!

And barred from most every pub in Ireland.

11:26 am

my trial ended - how many words in this puzzle please?

169

11:27 am

thx

11:27 am

ahh paperwork all done:) crossy loves open office programme;) when i ran my bar Politics and religeon were also verboten.you could talk about sex all you wanted though;))

11:27 am

sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll, right crossy?

11:28 am

suff of life;))\

11:28 am

anyone able to clue the ga 6? please

11:28 am

GA6 -- petrol + weighing the pros and ***s

11:28 am

darn,store run now...biab semi-poof!

11:29 am

ga 6 somebody from oart of France

11:29 am

thank you both

11:29 am

oart=part

Well, I can't say I haven't been entertained this afternoon, but I can tell you I've got things to do and people to see, and to do both I need to get my butt out of bed and ready to go.

11:30 am

Eva, I've seen that picture before and I think it's funny. What's not funny is what little clones all those children are.

11:30 am

(((((leigh))))) I am so glad I stopped by before starting my day. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

11:30 am

hey all.

11:32 am

afternoon stid!

11:32 am

Good afternoon all Happy New Year to you all

11:33 am

(((caitlyn too!)))

11:33 am

hey EvaN!

11:34 am

(((stid))) How are you?

11:34 am

*reads chog* seems I have stumbled onto an uncomfortable conversation, so will sit this one out

11:34 am

oh, I am well enough caitlyn, and yourself?

11:36 am

stid, i think that convo has finally ended. started out lighthearted enough, but as such discussions go, it got deeper than intended. whats on the menu for tonights dinner, everyone??

11:36 am

dinner? i havent decided on lunch yet. dinner planning starts around 545p.

11:36 am

leftovers again I think -- I didn't even cook New Year's Day because we had so much in the fridge! LOL

11:37 am

Ok thanks stid

11:37 am

methinks i have been requested to make my cornmeal-dusted, pan-friend ravioli for dinner tonight.

11:37 am

Eva I have made a fish pie fancy some?

11:37 am

Greetings Babble buddies. My last patient has gone and lunch break has begun. Yay.

11:37 am

excellent, scrabs! happy Monday!

11:38 am

Hi Scrabbler how are you?

11:38 am

scrab - i am waiting for my last to leave, then i can go home!

11:38 am

ok,was about to leave and someone said fish pie....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

11:38 am

Doing well.

11:38 am

LOL cross! *whispers* (with bacon)

11:38 am

crossy I will dish some up for you

11:38 am

I wondered if you were a Georgetown MD. Do you work in DC?

11:38 am

and i see you are welsh,so it will be lime my mum used to make...mmm

11:38 am

loudoun cty

11:38 am

like

11:38 am

good morning folks - stopped in to say hi, taking a break from my "work" -

11:39 am

Thats good scrabbler Happy New Year

11:39 am

Hi JBV, how are you doing?

11:39 am

rocs

11:39 am

howdy scwabby:)

11:39 am

howdy jbv

11:39 am

Hi JBV

11:39 am

*sprinting off to PB, hoping for dark chocolate*

11:39 am

hi scrabbler, OK, I think I may need a push today - have been putting off one important phone call - to the lawyer, but it must be done

11:39 am

(((JBV))) Happy New Year

11:40 am

hi everyone

11:40 am

thanks for that one scrabs! LOL

11:40 am

For probate/estate stuff?

11:40 am

Look in the cupboard by the side of the fridge Scrabbler

11:40 am

yes, for that, scrabs - I've been doing a lot on my own, but I will need a lawyer, just can't seem to make that call

11:41 am

*filling pockets with dark chocolate...checking fridge for chocolate mousse*

11:41 am

sorry i already ate it.

11:41 am

*gentle nudge to JBV* would it help if we wait while you do this task? and then you can come back and be proud of your bravery.

11:41 am

never had fish pie, though generally not a huge fish fan. i DO like sushi, and i do like some shellfish -- crabs and shrimp///

11:41 am

Hoya, you ate the mousse?

11:41 am

LOL hoy I thought I had hidden that well

11:41 am

fish pie,done correctly is heaven in a shell

11:41 am

no i found some special dark in there.

11:41 am

maybe that's all I need, stid - thank you - I'll be back soon...

11:42 am

JBV, just get it done so you can move on.

11:42 am

*waits for JBV*

11:42 am

Where do you work, hoya? And which field? I am a pediatrician in a rural area 35 miles south of Buffalo.

11:42 am

what sort of fish goes into fish pie??

11:42 am

crossy will save some fish pie and bass pale ale for jbv....

11:43 am

Dead fish, I hope.

11:43 am

LOL

11:43 am

Eva I asked that yesterday but didn't get an answer.

11:43 am

in a GI office doing gas for his procedures. 'tis the sweet (albeit boring) life.

11:43 am

would like NBT today. the E in the top row, fourth column over please?

11:43 am

er**while

11:43 am

Oops, nope, horse adjective

11:44 am

I like cobbler and salmon but you can put in any that you like

11:44 am

stid -- think horses.

11:44 am

thanks EvaN and Scrabs

11:44 am

NBT

11:45 am

ok my pt left - i am out of here! off to get oil changed!

11:45 am

I tried to like anesthesiology but was afraid of the terror filled moments, even if infrequent.

11:45 am

Bye hoya, nice to meet you. Welcome to Babble

11:45 am

Bye hoy Im glad you enjoyed the chocs

11:45 am

that's why i do this - i dont like being terrified.

11:45 am

ty see you around.

11:45 am

bye hoya

11:46 am

So, low risk procedures then--smart of you.

11:46 am

molly -- i think its a mystery fish pie conspiracy.

11:46 am

I like this quote from candice olson (HGTV designer) "I take my work seriously; I don't take myself seriously" -- an attitude I would like to adopt.

11:47 am

Eva I replied at 11.44 lol

11:47 am

Phantom = maestro

11:47 am

hi Babblers! more food in the chod

11:47 am

g

11:47 am

good phantom, scrabs.

11:47 am

And one of my favorite quotes is by Oscar Wilde: Life is far too important to be taken seriously.

11:47 am

ugh, can't type

11:47 am

my phantom is "drag"

11:48 am

hey Aloyisius!

11:48 am

Hi Aloy

11:48 am

Hi Aloy

11:48 am

oh, i like cobbler too, but i thought we were talking about fish. lol

11:48 am

hiya stiddy!

11:48 am

ah, that is a nice one, too!

11:48 am

hi guys, now i'm just slightly bewildered - ....

11:48 am

hi Scrabbs.. snow all gone?

11:48 am

yes JBV? ((hugs))

11:48 am

Yeah, when I typed in maestro I was feeling smug that I found a 7 ltr word by myself. How dare that be a phantom!

11:48 am

phone back in a mo

11:48 am

what do you make of a lawyer who, after talking to me for a few minutes about what I've done and what needs to be done, advised me that I can handle the probate process on my own! -

11:49 am

one of my favorites is by Mark Twain: Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.

11:49 am

JBV -- id say s/he is lazy and its best you dont hire them!

11:49 am

Perhaps honest then rather than saying come on in and I'll take care of everything for $2500.

11:49 am

that's why I said bewildered - not sure what to think

11:49 am

LOL obviously he recognizes your superior intellect, JBV! still, a meeting with you to be sure you have what you need is in order. A different lawyer (second opinion) might be good.

11:50 am

second opinion, good idea...

11:50 am

hello everybody

11:50 am

shall I wait while you call again?

11:50 am

hey ruby!

11:51 am

Been lurking for a bit. JBV...my friend lost her husband last month, and hired a lawyer for probate. It's well above $2500, according to her attorney. But she didn't want to handle it herself.

11:51 am

Yay me! Fireworks!

11:51 am

YAY Judi!

11:51 am

no, thanks, stid, I have to think about who to call now - we have some lawyer friends, but I don't want a friend handling this - but maybe they can give me a referral

11:51 am

congrats, Judi !!!! ... hi ruby

11:51 am

yay judi

11:51 am

hello aloy

11:51 am

hi jbv

11:51 am

Yay Judi!

11:51 am

{{stidmama}}

11:51 am

hi champ

11:52 am

yes, a referral from a friend sounds reasonable.

11:52 am

hey ruby!

11:52 am

I only found 81 words this AM

11:52 am

I've done a lot already, Champ, my husband was very smart about setting things up so mostly everything just transfers to me anyway, so it should be relatively easy - I did it after my mother died, went to court, filled out the forms, etc. ... it's definitely doable

11:53 am

this sounds very serious!

11:53 am

I know, but it's different when it's your spouse, right? I think that's my friend's point. Different for everyone, I'm sure!

11:53 am

my Granny did something similar, JBV; nearly all her assets were in a trust that is automatically distributed to the heirs. Very little for the executor to do once the process is started.

11:54 am

True, Champ, but even when a lawyer is "in charge" you still have to be involved - phone calls, forms to sign, meetings, etc. - so why pay someone if you can do it yourself? (talking myself into it...)

11:54 am

You need to do what you're comfortable with. So glad things are in order for you!

11:54 am

Hi Judi, Champ and Ruby.

11:54 am

Hi scrabs!

11:55 am

hello scrabbler!

11:55 am

but there was some paperwork -- there always is...

11:55 am

how are you ruby? thawed out yet?

11:55 am

yes, and if I can give a word of advice to anyone out there - check all your accounts and beneficiaries and make sure they're up to date - saves paperwork later

11:55 am

Stupid paperwork...I vote against it!

11:56 am

actually, it's above freezing here. No snow except on the mountains, so it's very pretty. I pretend that spring is starting.....

11:56 am

snow is melting here - it's beautiful today

11:56 am

good advice, JBV. I have been meaning to do that again. *sigh* always something more!

11:57 am

the only clouds today were dispersed jet trails from Geneva and from Lyon

11:57 am

it's going to be above freezing we are told -- no rain in more than a week and there is hoarfrost on everything. This morning it's overcast, which makes everything a lovely pearly grey.

11:57 am

drowning in paperwork, that's why I play babble

11:57 am

makes for a nice break!

morning / afternoon all

11:58 am

BBL peeps. Must feed children...good luck!

11:58 am

oh! past halfway. going to go read a little before my eyes give out again. back at some point... I hope. *hugs gwen on the way out* *poof*

11:58 am

hell Dr. Gwen

11:58 am

bye mama

11:59 am

that was "hello" sorry

11:59 am

bye, stid!

11:59 am

Hi Gwen, bye Stid.

hell ruby! LOL

11:59 am

bad ruby

12:00 pm

Back Bye stid see you soon, Hi all arrivers

12:00 pm

hi caitlyn

yep, just kidding ruby

12:00 pm

hahah

ooh, look at the lovely welsh flag, hi caitlyn!

12:00 pm

BBS, must get something done first.

12:01 pm

later, Scrabbs

12:01 pm

Its a long time since we chatted Gwen nice to see you again

12:01 pm

bye scrabs

yep, you too

12:01 pm

Bye Scrabbler see you soon

12:02 pm

Just going to feed the dog back in a mo

12:03 pm

half, phew!

12:03 pm

see you tomorrow

NBT yeah woot

12:05 pm

Good going Gwen

12:05 pm

so nice to have Lickety's list today (-:

12:05 pm

such a time saver

12:06 pm

Oh yes I agree but in his absence volleyball dee does well

12:06 pm

thank goodness for her and for jacula et al who post in Lickety's absence!

12:08 pm

I raise my (absent )glass to them all

12:08 pm

back after looking at website for Surrogate Court - feeling more confident now - thanks again everybody - have fun and see you later or tomorrow

12:08 pm

he4, he4 !

12:08 pm

Good luck JBV I wish you well

12:08 pm

bye, JBV.. good luck!

what ??

12:12 pm

I had better get a move on and do things!! See you soon Aloy my New Year resolution is to come back to chat as I have missed you all, so see you tomorrow bye

12:12 pm

bye, caitlyn (-:

12:12 pm

Bye Gwen also

bye bye caitlyn

12:20 pm

hello all

hi peri, join the exciting non-chat! lol

12:20 pm

hi peri

12:21 pm

I hear babble brains whirring away

12:21 pm

Hey Aloy, I will be making arugula and white bean later, it is a very, very easy resipe. will give/send it to you if you want

12:21 pm

SOUP!

12:21 pm

ooh, sounds wonderful, peri.. did you find the recipe on the net?

12:22 pm

whirring babble brains????

12:22 pm

no in the Jewish Exponent (newspaper)

12:22 pm

Hi folks. I made beetroot and cumin soup with a dash of lemon juice and it was glorious.

12:22 pm

I love arugula!!

12:22 pm

Good Afternoon, Everybody! Reading chat and getting NBT; wondering who's still he4/5?

12:22 pm

yummm.. now my tummy's grumbling

hi i'm he4

12:23 pm

Good evening, Nef. It's 6.25 pm here.

12:23 pm

leftover cold turkey sandwich here....and coffee with cinnamon

12:23 pm

used to grow arugula in Ohio.. wonderful when it is young

12:23 pm

the recipe is downstairs in prepr for my geting to the kitchen to make it. but just back from errand and need a break, may need a nap too

12:23 pm

leftover corn chowder soup here

12:23 pm

there we go back for the jewellery shoppe.had to get the mrs a bigger chain for her x-mass present http://www.lindaclifford.com/KJWindow. html got her item #4

12:23 pm

I have never heard of arugula. Is it a herb?

12:24 pm

hi crossy!

12:24 pm

well, Good Evening then, Hydra (I *just* showered and dressed for the day; I enjoyed being a lazy butt this AM! :-)

12:24 pm

Oh, it's rocket - my fave salad veg!

12:24 pm

i went back to bed this am and slept for 2 hours... all those up until 4 or 5 am with the teenagers playing games.. 6:30 am killed me

12:24 pm

it is a green vegetable. used in salads a lot, little bit of a spice/kick to it. I love it

12:24 pm

hydra, it is a salad green.. kind of a pungent taste, very aromatic

12:24 pm

I bet it did, carlee!

12:24 pm

hydra, do you play Scramble on FB?

12:24 pm

((Nef)) hey all. I read a bit, now listening to an audio of one of the other readings. ((carlee))

12:24 pm

Yes, we call it rocket. I grew some last year but caterpillars ate most of it.

12:25 pm

wb stid

12:25 pm

i had 2 cups of coffee and promptly went back to bed for 2 hours...

12:25 pm

Yes peri, I do! Fancy a game?

12:25 pm

{{stiddy}} how are you today hun?

12:25 pm

hi stid!

12:25 pm

howdy aloy:)))

12:25 pm

yes pls. but I do not think we are friends on FB

12:25 pm

Not right now as I'm cooking chicken.

12:25 pm

((stidmama))

12:25 pm

Oh dear. Do we know each other's names? Can't remember!

12:26 pm

I am Michele Alperin with the same icon, I think

12:26 pm

migraine is better, thanks. still not 100% but good enough to study some and go volunteer this afternoon in my friend's classroom.

12:26 pm

how are you carlee?

12:26 pm

Oh, poor stid. Migraine is a beast.

12:26 pm

yes peri...same icon :)

12:26 pm

what is your name, Hydra?

12:26 pm

I am Lorna Read. We will befriend each other.

12:26 pm

stay away, migraine!

12:26 pm

ty carlee

12:26 pm

ok

12:26 pm

(((Stid)))

12:27 pm

hydra, your last name is PERFECT for a babbler! LOL

12:27 pm

thanks aloyisius

12:27 pm

i am ok... thanks...i got up early...did a bit..went back to bed ....up..groceries..cleaned kitchen..de christmassed the kitchen ( not onto living room yet )..now having coffeew ith cinnamon

12:27 pm

And I'm a writer and book editor and used to live in a road called Booker Avenue!

12:28 pm

Peri, I can't find you. Unless you have brown curly hair!

12:28 pm

as7 pls

12:28 pm

rofl... too marvelous, hydra!

12:28 pm

( hydra sentyou one from me too )

booker, that's also perfect. you are an aptronym

12:28 pm

hydra..add me...peri in my friend list

12:28 pm

LOL, Hyrda! What a great tie in with everything in your life!

12:28 pm

mmmm. coffee. I am putting off coffee until tomorrow. Will need it to stay awake through the morning lecture.

12:28 pm

brb will check, no hair is short and blonde

12:28 pm

Very good, Gwen! On Facebook I am wearing a purple hat.

12:29 pm

as is stiddy...

12:29 pm

carlee, I think we are friends arleady, no?

12:29 pm

Not you then, peri. Perhaps you can find me.

12:29 pm

yes..that what just told hydra... if she friends me..she will find you :)

12:30 pm

If I suddenly vanish, it's because I have to put spuds in the oven and start the vegetables.

12:30 pm

just has to go through my friend list and you are there

12:30 pm

stid.. my daughter suffers from migraines.. she cut out coffee and said it helps.. has your doc suggested that ? I know, terrible sacrifice..

(i collect author aptronyms, and other weird stuff)

12:31 pm

and choclits am afraid bad for migraines

12:31 pm

Our original surname was Redhead but we all had red hair so my granddad changed it to Read. Carlee, I have friended thee!

12:32 pm

I have cut out almost everything, aloyisius. mine are generally triggered by my rapidly failing eyesight. wrinkled corneas fracture light strangely. when I don't use my eyes, the migraines all but disappear. choclit and coffee have not seemed to be either a trigger nor a deterrent

page of author aptronyns here : http://www.gwenfoss.com/info07.asp

12:32 pm

okie kokie hydra :)

12:32 pm

my elegants vision is but 20/400 and is the main cause of her migraines

12:32 pm

I've bookmarked that, Gwen!

top row finished -- and hope you like it, hydra!

12:33 pm

aww, ok.. is the cornea condition hereditary? sorry you are bothered with that.. (( ))

12:34 pm

yep. eyeballs are tricky things. mine seems to be a genetic problem. though my vision is technically 20/20 I now require LARGE print to read most of the time.

12:34 pm

go gwen go!

12:34 pm

i feel so lazy today... i need to get off my hoohoo and do SOMETHING...but nothing is appealing... am in one of those..'i'm so bored" moods that teenagers drive us nuts with....i have a million things i SHOULD be doing...but..."thats boring"

12:35 pm

post holiday blahs, carlee.. yup

12:35 pm

LOL carlee! you want to read and digest some boring texts for me? I am stalling working on my master's project...

12:35 pm

hydra, I am in Babblers Wordwide on FB. If you look for that group I am the first name. I did not see you in BAbblers Wordlwide. and carlee we are already friends :)

12:35 pm

Right at this fascinating moment, I have to attend to dinner. Back later. I have 30 words left. Stid, you really do have my sympathy. I used to get terrible ones, dreadfully sick, but they suddenly stopped and turned out to be hormone related. I get a very rare one now, maybe every year or so.

12:36 pm

i need to make the "example" for our craft tonight... at guides..i need to wrap my secret santa pressie...

12:36 pm

's actually as i have the one for pathfinders tomorrow too

12:36 pm

i need to de christmas my living room...<sigh>

12:36 pm

have a lovely evening, hydra!

12:37 pm

enjoy your evening hydra :)

12:37 pm

as7 pls

12:37 pm

a + scrunch up your eyes, peri

12:38 pm

a+ what you do with your eyes if having trouble seeing

12:38 pm

snap aloy

12:38 pm

(-: carlee

12:38 pm

ok..making my stupid little bell snowmen

12:38 pm

ty carlee and aloy

12:39 pm

bbs

12:39 pm

LOL people accuse me of being grumpy when I am just trying to see *sigh* (no joke, actually have had the people who are evaluating me grade me down because of it -- stupid people)

12:39 pm

dumbos, stid

12:40 pm

yep. I have reached the point that if they do it again I will complain to the disabilities office at the school.

12:40 pm

used to hate it when a certain principal couldn't understand the lesson.. (cell metabolism) .. and criticized bc of it.. the kids were fine.. he was a former band leader and knew nada about cells

12:41 pm

http://crafts.kaboose.com/jingle-bell- snowman.html

12:41 pm

stid, maybe get some of those silly coke bottle gag glasses and whip those out and wear them when people call you grumpy. It might shake them up!@

12:41 pm

*grin* that is funny, nef!

12:42 pm

oh gee aloyisius, what a shame

12:43 pm

I think it might embarrass them if you did it. I hate people who say stupid things like that

12:43 pm

saving grace.. the kids did fine on their ap test

ah, the joys of being smarter than your own boss, or teacher, or whatever. OY

12:43 pm

good for them! (and you)

12:43 pm

.. sigh of relief!

12:45 pm

.. and done.. any clues needed before I go make grapefruit juice?

12:45 pm

well, down to 60 and need to take a real eyeball break. (((hugs all))) thanks for letting me whinge on (again). I am nervous about this coming quarter...

12:45 pm

YAY aloyisius!!!

care to clue the 10?

12:45 pm

*poof*

12:45 pm

*waits for 10 clue*

12:45 pm

WTG, Aloy!!! YAY!!!

12:46 pm

not making any sense, stid.. the drunk was in10 before the officer

12:46 pm

PERFECT clue! thanks Aloysius! *re-poof*

12:46 pm

very twisty word!

12:47 pm

yay, stid.. rest them eyeballs!

12:47 pm

NICE! Thanks Aloy!

oh, sorry, belated WTG aloy !!! ~~~ !!!

and great clue, got it, TX

12:48 pm

yvw.. ty all, enjoyed chatting, need to pull myself up and git a goin.. see you next grid! poof

39 to go, opening the list . . .

12:59 pm

50 words down; off to face the busy day now. Happy Babbling All!

1:06 pm

in 10/84 plz

buzzing off, laters all (oh, in10: the officer found the drunk to be in10)

1:07 pm

ty, great clue!

1:09 pm

yay just got the 10!!!

1:14 pm

don't get the 10 - can I have a simpler clue please!

1:15 pm

If you are rambling and hysterical someone might say you are in10. It means "not understandable".

1:20 pm

brilliant! thnx so much!

1:33 pm

TY for in10 and that got me co8!!

1:34 pm

Am I alone with the lurkers? *waving to lurkers*

1:38 pm

::waves::

1:38 pm

whew. not lurking, cleaning kitchen. break time :)

1:38 pm

Hi kids!

1:39 pm

I was about to talk to myself.

1:39 pm

always in good company then :)

1:40 pm

i usually go streaking through the chog when its just me...

1:41 pm

Yes, I've noticed, Eva. Hilarious.

1:41 pm

*nudges scrab* she's lost a bit of weight

1:41 pm

it does tend to get the attention of the lurkers, at least...heh

1:43 pm

Don't forget sunscreen.

1:44 pm

hi all

1:44 pm

hey, jm

1:44 pm

ill be sure to apply it to all of the *erm* necessary areas. ;)

1:45 pm

i usually spread the chog with crumpled paper so i can hear people walk in

1:45 pm

flippin' allergies. hate 'em.

1:48 pm

NOT lurking! Just arrived. Happy New Year

1:49 pm

*hoot hoot* hi, owl

1:49 pm

Eva - I found a recipe for Pho for you but it sounds like it would be easier to buy a gallon and freeze it!

1:49 pm

hi all -- happy new year :)

1:50 pm

hi, nan

1:50 pm

hi nan

1:50 pm

Does anyone besides me think some of these words are preposterous?

1:51 pm

like the ha8 and the he 8

1:52 pm

<-- is/was totally not lurking! *continues not to lurk*

1:53 pm

hoot -- i finally got to go to a local pho place with some friends this weekend and indulged. just what i needed!

1:54 pm

Yes Hoot, preposterous.

1:55 pm

well the link is in my profile if you want to know whats supposed to be in it. Love Thai myself but haven't tried it here in Memphis. Watching the Chinese places use peas instead of snow peas makes me very, very sceptical!

1:56 pm

ty Molly

1:57 pm

the Chinese restaurants up here use green peas, too. i'm originally from nyc ... i guess you use what you have

1:58 pm

ex-NYer myself.

1:59 pm

If they couldn't get them I'd understand, but they can! I've got some in my fridge right now

1:59 pm

and there is at least 3 international markets too

2:00 pm

Probably because it's more expensive ;o)

2:00 pm

get this .. here, if you order an egg roll, it comes rolled with dough and fried again!

2:00 pm

actually cheaper

2:01 pm

omg - want some recipes?

2:01 pm

i am not lurking just keep getting called away to work :-(

2:01 pm

even in the high end restaurants here, dfm. no fresh specials, either. mostly fried, refried stuff (ugh)

2:02 pm

hate how much fried stuff (and salt/MSG) there is in Western Chinese restaurants :o(

2:02 pm

i'm lucky to have known a gal whose dad owned a chinese restaurant. she's a great cook and i've been given lots of their recipes

2:02 pm

i was SO super craving thai garden rolls the other night.

2:02 pm

<-- makes a wicked hot and sour soup

2:02 pm

ooh, welki, im headed to your house for some of that!

2:03 pm

Well in NY they have mostly stopped using the MSG. And good restaurants are easy on the oil & salt

2:03 pm

oh! and if i go into a resaurant and ask for chow fun, everyone laughs .. they say i have to make my own, that they don't have fresh rice noodles (so i do)

2:03 pm

i make hot and sour soup all winter long

2:03 pm

you just reminded me ... I have all the ingredients, just haven't had the time

2:03 pm

would you like the recipe, eva? it makes a lot

2:04 pm

evan you can get some egg/summer rolls skins at Rodmans and sometimes things at Trader Joes

2:04 pm

i think we should just meet up at jm's :)

2:04 pm

eh. darling hubby doesnt like soup in general, so i definitely dont need to know how to make a large batch.

2:06 pm

hi all again

2:06 pm

i LOVE some hot + sour soup on a cold day when im feeling rather snuffly

2:07 pm

If you can get hold of a copy of The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook by Gloria Bley Miller, you will find recipes for just about everthing Chinese. Then modify ti suit yourself. My cooking teacher used it for class recipes already to match american supplies. Now you can get most of the ingredients in supermarkets or international stores

2:08 pm

oo i have that one it is great!

2:08 pm

you know welki i have invited you any number of times!

2:08 pm

wow - that's a first!

2:09 pm

what's a first? *looks around*

2:09 pm

Eva - tell him it's a stew

2:09 pm

someone having a cookbook I have

2:10 pm

actually this whole conversation. Most people just go to restaurants

2:10 pm

Okay, I just looked up a recipe for hot and sour soup and it calls for fungus. That is just not right.

2:10 pm

grandbaby is up from her nap, so bye for now :)

2:11 pm

i love fungus :p

2:11 pm

it's just another type mushroom!

2:11 pm

fungi?

2:11 pm

I bought centuries ago and love it. Wonder if it is still on my shelf. I tend to make chinese food from thin air now

2:11 pm

bad translation of mushrooms molly

2:11 pm

yeah - mushrooms ARE fungi you know

2:12 pm

yum .. wood ear :)

2:12 pm

you can get great dried cloud ears at safeway and trader joes and sometimes at rodmans

2:12 pm

me too. Once you have the basic metheod you can wing it

2:12 pm

afraid darling hubby probably wouldnt eat stew either. chili, maybe, but thats pushing it.

2:13 pm

It is basically a mushroom stew

2:13 pm

ooh wood ear :oD

2:13 pm

i know what you mean, eva .. i have one of those, too

2:13 pm

but there is this TERRIFIC restaurant near my office --banana leaves--so i get tempted regularly

2:13 pm

my kids are the same evaN...its annoying..i love soup..only soup my daughter does is cream of cheddar and broccoli

2:13 pm

well start out with a stir fry evan

2:13 pm

<-- puts tiger lily buds in her hot and sour soup, too

2:13 pm

There isn't one restaurant around here - of any kind - that tempts me

2:13 pm

another dish that doesn't need a recipe

2:14 pm

<-- sadly can't handle the "hot" part of hot-and-sour soup :o(

2:14 pm

oh i love tiger lily buds but seldom see them

2:14 pm

yes

2:14 pm

i put tiger lily buds in salad

2:14 pm

maybe when you are older dfm

2:14 pm

oriental or international market is where I get mine

2:14 pm

my hubby couldn't stand hot until being with me for 3 years

2:15 pm

oh, he would definitely do stir-fry. actually, we havent done that in a while... thats for the mental note!

2:15 pm

rodmans doesn't have them and i ha** trader joes

2:15 pm

*note to self* if dfm is coming for dinner, leave out hot sesame oil

2:16 pm

mine is just starting to use little drops of frank's louisiana

2:16 pm

mmmm hot sesame oil *note to self: find some next time at store*

2:16 pm

now u all making me hungry...

2:16 pm

(and yes, you have invited me to your home many times .. careful what you wish for :)

2:16 pm

i did stir fry in kenya when i couldn't stand another day of white rice and nothing

2:16 pm

we LOVE hot stuff in our house. unfortunately, our bellies dont like it as much as we do...

2:16 pm

can't find hot sesame oil up here either

2:16 pm

when *don't* we, carlee?

2:17 pm

i make my buffalo wings using 1/2 bottle of franks/ batch ( the big 750mL bottle)

2:17 pm

me too - but hot is relative. I'm not partial to it but use enough to just know it's there

2:17 pm

then gradually make the stir fry soupier

2:17 pm

welki - we may have to send you a care package

2:17 pm

hot sesame oil I can get easily i just ran out and forgot to get more

2:18 pm

i have eaten a few things that were to spicy for me

2:18 pm

i suppose i could make my own

2:18 pm

there is a chili restaurant in Austin that has a chili that actually gave me heartburn for the first time in my life

2:18 pm

i love jerk chicken (scotch bonnets!)

2:19 pm

Guten Tag babblers. I need only 2 more words. One of them is the in10. I need some guidance please.

2:19 pm

in+ co8

2:19 pm

someone suffering a high fever, inge, babbling and mumbling, would be in10

2:19 pm

in10= talking so rambling that you cannot be understood

2:19 pm

hi inge

2:19 pm

hahahaha .. babbling!

2:20 pm

I used to go to a Thai restaurant and one day they got my order mixed up with a fire freaks. You could not taste the food it was so hot! Whats the point then?

2:20 pm

oooh...back just in time...thanks jm!

2:20 pm

Babbling and mumbling, welki? I do that a lot!

2:20 pm

danke, danke

2:20 pm

ah but if you get used to the fire you can taste the food

2:20 pm

my husband says i should just bypass the hot stuff and hit my tongue with a hammer

2:20 pm

bitte (i think)

2:20 pm

i think he just wants me to hit my tongue with a hammer.

2:20 pm

hi champ and yw

2:21 pm

lol welki

2:21 pm

:)

2:21 pm

i love getting drunken noodles, but sometimes they made it to hot all i taste is tears and snot... lmao

2:21 pm

Not my idea of fun

2:21 pm

hello! back to pick at it some more...

2:22 pm

<-- doesn't get the point of killing one's taste buds with capsaicin

2:22 pm

Morning everyone. You paint such a pretty picture Eva

2:22 pm

morning lynxxx hows trix

2:22 pm

ugly, yet accurate. :)

2:22 pm

i love drunken noodles to there is a great thai restaurant near my office too

2:22 pm

hi lyn! :o)

2:22 pm

Fireworks here. Thanks.

2:22 pm

Trixie is very well thanks Carlee

2:22 pm

it is soooo hard to keep on a budget in this neighborhood

2:22 pm

whoo hoo inge!

2:23 pm

If you tell them to tone it down they should.

2:23 pm

Congrats Inge!

2:23 pm

any stats for N@(1,1)? for nbt and fireworks?

2:23 pm

*~*~*~POMPOM TOSS~*~*~* for inge woot woot

2:23 pm

hi lynxxx

2:23 pm

yay inge!

2:24 pm

I can't taste the food for the heat either Hoot. A little hot is okay but fire breathing? No thanks.

2:24 pm

have never heard of drunken noodles (and can't find a thai restaurant that makes lard nah (or na, whatever)

2:24 pm

ne** lights or ne5.10 bit like compter ne***

2:24 pm

it's elemental, dmf

2:25 pm

thai is one type of i just have not acquired a taste for...

2:25 pm

thanks lyn, welki :o) yay, nbt. yay, fireworks!

2:26 pm

whooo hoo dfm

2:26 pm

yay df!!!

2:26 pm

Hooray for dfm!

2:26 pm

*~*~*POMPOM TOSS*~*~*for dfm

2:28 pm

bbl - washer & dryer just went off!

2:28 pm

yay dfm

2:29 pm

nbt

2:34 pm

turkey..mashed potatoes....stuffing..gravy and LOTs of cranberry sauce with grandmarnier in it

2:35 pm

on a diet then Carlee?

2:35 pm

christmas dinner leftovers... we did dinner new years day

2:35 pm

here, left over ribs, rice with vegies

2:37 pm

I am vey glad that all our leftovers are gone now and can get back to normal lighter food (plus we are now into hotter days and who needs all that heavy food)

Hotter days?

2:38 pm

i've always wanted some le creuset pots, but could never justify the expense (although i really do believe they're worth the price). i just found a half-price enameled cast iron KitchenAid pot for $45 .. and feel like i've gotten the bargain of the century!

2:38 pm

its summer in lynxxx`s neck of the woods kap

2:39 pm

Australia Kap, other side of the world.

I know. It just sounds so funny. January heat.

2:39 pm

my mum has one of their BIG roasting pots...amazing...

2:40 pm

Good investment Welki - they do last 20-30 years

2:40 pm

i bought a set for my mother years ago, she only uses one pot :(

2:41 pm

i had beautiful black cast iron skillets and griddle ... they got left behind during my last move. so seasoned, you didn't need to grease the pan to fry an egg or turn a pancake

2:42 pm

how sad welki

2:42 pm

nbt finally... .need a 7 for nbs

2:42 pm

it is on a couple of levels, jm, but that's for when we're cryin'in our beers :)

2:42 pm

i got a teflon wok at the dump the last time i went to dump some stuff--complete with lid

2:42 pm

hi Cos

2:42 pm

i loved niles crane's guide to seasoning pans: "saucepans in summer, crepe pans in fall; when winter's upon us, there's food for us all"

2:43 pm

hi all

2:43 pm

Cos, ma7...temples that are built by ma5/12s are said to be ma&/36

2:43 pm

Cos - my father-n-law belonged to a ma****** lodge

2:43 pm

hi, hurshy

2:43 pm

h'lo

2:44 pm

ok that helped tyvm

2:44 pm

ok..i am losing patience here..my nieghbours are gettign 3 trees taken down ( ash trees..emerald ash borers killed them ) and i have been listening to chainsaws and chippers for 3 days now...

2:44 pm

HNY Hursh

2:44 pm

nbs! yay

2:44 pm

2nd co7 ?

2:44 pm

ash is great firewood, burns hot like the dickens

2:44 pm

what did he eat in the spring

2:45 pm

i was a rainbow girl myself

2:45 pm

not allowed to move it tho cus of the emerald ash borers... cant take to camp sites etc...

2:45 pm

a pirate ship, hurshy

2:46 pm

you can burn it in your fireplace you just can't move it more that a mile or something

2:46 pm

if i had a fireplace....which i dont...very few houses up here do anymore...higher insurance rates

2:46 pm

i didn't know that was a pirate ship, but somehow that helped me get it anyway. thanks welki!

2:47 pm

TY Welki

2:47 pm

are wood stoves also associated with higher insurance rates, or just fireplaces?

2:47 pm

i have a loverly gas fireplace

2:47 pm

economic mercenary carriers for the french :)

2:47 pm

me too, jm ... didn't think i'd like it, but i do

2:48 pm

if it involves fire....its higher...almost dble in ont

2:48 pm

i sat in front of one at a ho**'s house when i was on a speaking tour and fell in love. so I put one in my house

2:49 pm

my only regret was that i didn't get one with an adjustable dial

2:49 pm

i love them too..my next house will have one..no idea what else i want...but i KNOW i want a fireplaceé stove..soomething

2:49 pm

oh i stayed at a b&b with a gas fireplace in my room once, it smelled to high heaven

2:49 pm

really? mine doesn't smell

2:50 pm

if you use it for heat, the adjustable dial is helpful, but if you use it mostly for beauty, you'd end up turning the dial up anyway to get decent flame

2:50 pm

my mums is on a thermostat....it comes on if is cool

2:50 pm

then you will just have to come in the summer--but be warned i have no AC

2:50 pm

smelled? like propane? hope you hightailed it out of there fast

2:50 pm

i don't know if it was defective or if my nose is particularly sensitive or what.

2:50 pm

i would like to have it on at a lower level

2:51 pm

you can probably have one put in, jm ... do you turn it on with a switch on the wall?

2:51 pm

no i just checked into it and i can't do it with this style

2:51 pm

it uses a remote! lol

2:52 pm

just asked mr welki ... he says there should already be an adjustment on the gas valve (if you only want to turn it down and leave it down for a good while)

2:52 pm

oh that;s funny ... clap on, clap off!

2:53 pm

a regulator ... would hve been used when installing the fireplace

2:54 pm

there should be a door in your fireplace that give you access to the gas valve/piping/electrical .. that's where you can regulate the amount of gas coming thru

2:54 pm

he's right I can do that but i have to reach into the stove area which requires being on my hands and knees!

2:55 pm

get the boy to do it :)

2:55 pm

he doesn't live with me anymore

2:55 pm

farmboy, fetch me that pitcher!

2:55 pm

no i need to adjust it down some permenantly

2:55 pm

as you wish

2:56 pm

(im reading the book now)

2:56 pm

*rrrrring, rrrrrrring* hello, my boy? i need your help for a few minutes. there's some hot and sour soup in it for you

2:56 pm

lol

2:56 pm

If it is permanent you could get the installers to come back?

2:56 pm

UGH....buzz saws.....so freaking annoying...

2:56 pm

pssst .. if it bothered her that much, it'd already be done, carlee *lolol*

2:56 pm

his girl friend the Republican is highly allergic to cats so he avoids coming over and getting car hairs on hisself

2:57 pm

i mean, lynxxx

2:57 pm

ryan was allgeric to cats but after living with one for 3 months he got over the allergy it went away

2:57 pm

no lynxx that is what i just tried. i will have to find a setting that is the right compromise and leave it there

2:57 pm

because his shower doesn't work and the cat dander will stay on him forever? wow, i wonder how he got the cat stuff off him when he took your car up north! (kids.)

2:58 pm

sad - do you keep a pair of overalls on the front verandah for him to change into?

2:58 pm

well lets just say, cosdem that my son doesn't want his girl friend to suffer *ahem*

2:58 pm

well the cat doesn't drive

2:58 pm

see thats why i m gay :) lol

2:58 pm

hehehehe

2:59 pm

do you want her to suffer? ;)

2:59 pm

but you sit in the car, you have dander on your clothes ... probably, if you're like me, you might even have one or two cat hairs stuck to the seat of your pants :)

2:59 pm

tell her to take a contac c and suck it up....sheesh

2:59 pm

to be fair when his gf is out of town he comes over and spends hours petting the cat

2:59 pm

if anyone doesnt wanna make sacrifices for an adorble cat then yes let them suffer :)

2:59 pm

i didn't say that hursh! lol

2:59 pm

my usband was very allergic to cats in his 20s but it seemed to pass as well

3:00 pm

my husband was allergic but i had had the cat before him so he sucked it up and move in with me and my cat

3:00 pm

he did seem to get over it

3:00 pm

i was reading online you can become immune to cat allergies after being around them for a while

3:00 pm

unless it is a deadly allergy... suck it up;;;

3:00 pm

but it is not for me to say she should suck it up

3:01 pm

i'm horribly allergic to most animals, takes me about 6 months to calm down. then, i only have to be careful about petting them and then rubbing my eyes

3:01 pm

oooo give me that url cosd!

3:01 pm

interesting Cos

3:01 pm

ok i will look for it today and send it to you

3:01 pm

she does appear to be really allergic and not just sensitive

3:01 pm

brb

3:02 pm

case in point: ryan was so allergic to cats. he could not breath and would get massive asthma attacks. he still wanted a cat. 3 months later we now have 4 and he breaths just fine

3:02 pm

wow

3:02 pm

egads. he has medicine nearby if he suffers an attack, right?

3:03 pm

yes definitely

3:03 pm

but its been 4 years since his last cat allergy attack

3:03 pm

i think alot has to do with the food you feed a cat...i get really high grade no meat by product stuff for my cats...and even tho i know people with cat allergies...they are not allergic to mine...if i cheap out ( or my reg store is closed ) and i get low grade food..my cats' fur feels filthy in about 2-3 days

3:04 pm

dander is after all ....dry saliva residue on the fur...

3:06 pm

laundry time .. bbl

3:06 pm

oooh good point!

3:09 pm

uh i don't spit in my hair

3:09 pm

and everyone comments on how nice my cats fur is

3:09 pm

cosd do you have a url?

3:11 pm

how can argh not be a word? not enough Rs? arrrgh!

3:12 pm

http://www.wisegeek.com/why-can-people -grow-out-of-a-cat-allergy.htm

3:12 pm

ty cosd

3:13 pm

try two

3:13 pm

maybe an h too

3:14 pm

nope two Rs didn't help

3:14 pm

hi jmb

3:14 pm

there are 2 ar4.5 jmc

3:16 pm

and done

3:16 pm

i have them ty for letting me know lynxxx

3:16 pm

Congrats Carlee!

3:16 pm

whoo hooo carlee!

3:18 pm

thanks ladies

3:18 pm

gird

3:18 pm

ugh..i dont want to go to guides tonight... one leader is pulling a total BEEYACH on me... and i am so sick of it...i feel like i need to walk on eggshells with her...when am volunteering

3:19 pm

ooppssssss

3:21 pm

Silly person! ask her if there is a problem and would she prefer for you not to come - perhaps that will clear the air

3:21 pm

good advice lynxxx

3:22 pm

perhaps...i may

3:22 pm

*opens the pb door for jmb*

3:22 pm

thought i might slide by... darn

3:23 pm

not likely no jmb

3:23 pm

nope

3:23 pm

morning jmb

3:23 pm

and extra time for da**

3:23 pm

lol

3:23 pm

<snort>

3:24 pm

hi all... end of my workday here... ad thanks for the clue jmc

3:24 pm

lol

3:24 pm

i wish it was the end of mine i am sitting waiting for phones calls

3:24 pm

anyway...this woman is a total PITA and I get to go camping with her not once..but twice this spring with 20 girls..how much fun is that?

3:24 pm

lynxxx... i can not imagine Tuesday morning yet

3:25 pm

It is quite lovely jmb - clear blue skies, no rain, expecting 26 today

3:26 pm

i woke up at 5 am on sunday with idea for talk i was giving that day and the evening I got squashed with a shelf falling in my office and i was up until 2 fixing and putting back

3:26 pm

*YAWN*

3:26 pm

personally I am hoping that i can coerce another guider who is a friend of mine to come too... and we can just do our thing..and she can follow what we do...and be all PO'd with us...:)

3:27 pm

i wonder it there is coffee in the office

3:27 pm

*wanders off in a haze*

3:28 pm

dare i ask what a guider is?

3:28 pm

girl guides

3:28 pm

hey

3:29 pm

hi Mc

3:29 pm

like troop leader jmb

3:29 pm

he soap, you clean or something?

3:29 pm

like girl scouts here in US

3:29 pm

ellie stfu or gtfo JEEZ GIRL

3:29 pm

i sense some hostility

3:29 pm

lots of it you have no idea

3:30 pm

our lives, am i right?

3:30 pm

yes... i have a troop of 25 girl guides ( juniors there)...and another troop of 16 of pathfinders ( age group older then juniors)

3:30 pm

red alert..

3:30 pm

nice... can you take the cranky one out in the woods & leave her there?

3:31 pm

cute jmb

3:31 pm

love to...thankfully after this year she is done...her daughter will come up to me in pathfinders but the woman i work with and i work amazing together...and we DO NOT mess with the chemistry we have... so she will not be welcome as a leader nor does she have interest in ontinuing

3:32 pm

good to hear carleekat

3:32 pm

huh?

3:33 pm

jmc find coffee?

3:33 pm

huh what jmc?

3:33 pm

think she is still in a daze -probably didn't

3:33 pm

no coffee but made black tea

3:34 pm

huh i didn't understand the grey headed conversation and huh i didn't follow who you have good chemistry but is not continuing

3:35 pm

but then as lynxx points out--no coffee

3:35 pm

so nm

3:35 pm

83 left bbl

3:35 pm

oh..i have one leader who is a major BEEYach... and enjoys getting her nose out of joint whenever i suggest something..especiaslly when it works nicely

3:35 pm

bye jmb

3:35 pm

and i get to go camping with her this spring...2ce....

3:36 pm

later jmb

3:36 pm

but for ratio we will need a 3rd leader

3:37 pm

hoping i can talk another leader into coming

3:38 pm

i got that far but then there was something about someone with good chemistry who wasn't going to continue and i gots lots

3:38 pm

*lost

3:39 pm

the first co6?

3:39 pm

re 6/27 plz

3:41 pm

never mind

3:42 pm

re & 1 of 5

3:42 pm

oh..ok...well..she is with girl guides ( juniors).. her daughter moving up next year...but the leader i work with htere... she and i work fab together... and we are not messing with a good system by introducing new leaders in to much up what we have working...so...this mom?leader 9 she a leader who concerned only about hwat her daughter gets out of this..as opposed to a leader who is not "mom" at a meeting) and will not be welcomed into our unit ( the mom..not the kid..i love the kid

3:43 pm

i have 2 units / troops... her daughter in the younger one now...with her mum....and her mum not welcome at the older one where the daughter will be next year

3:44 pm

tyvm lynxxx

3:46 pm

ok i c

3:48 pm

uh oh another fire across the street

3:48 pm

make her think everything is her idea and she will be fine lol

3:48 pm

Hi everyone

3:49 pm

hi SeaSpray

3:50 pm

hi sea

3:51 pm

fire across the street???

3:51 pm

she is just a beeyach....and soon to be out of my life... i rather not...

3:52 pm

there are times when i will play nice with the other kids..but when it is to the detriment of the girls...i will not

3:52 pm

Hello jmcnrick: I note your earlier tale of shelf falling down. I remember the same happening to my study shelf: after the thunderous rumbling had died away, flapping open upon the top of the heap of books were J E Gordon's "Structures: or why things don't fall down" and "The new science of strong materials: why you don't fall through the floor" !

3:54 pm

2 books you obviously hadn't read Scouser!

3:54 pm

Hi lynxxx - yes I had: this was the perils of breeze-block walls.

3:55 pm

Anyone want clues?

3:56 pm

cute story scouser

3:56 pm

i knew why mine fell -- it was balance on 3 instead of 4 pins

3:56 pm

ta jmcnrick

3:57 pm

aha - 25% cut in support, eh?

3:57 pm

bbl i must convince my web page to work *grumble grumble 4 years of college and 2 1/2 years of law school and no computer webpage education in the 70s*

3:58 pm

lol just like my org in these hard financial times scous

3:58 pm

bye jmc, good luck

3:59 pm

jmc what are you having trouble with?

3:59 pm

jmc: I just retired from the education world: got out just in time I think

4:00 pm

Bye everyone

4:00 pm

have a great day lynxxx

4:01 pm

2nd st5/12 pls

4:02 pm

i haven't listed yet, but probably just a different vowel on the end from the other, peri?

st 5/12 if you eat too many chocolates in the PB you may get a *****ch ache

4:02 pm

2nd st5 small hole to see inside you

4:02 pm

no Leslile but ty

4:02 pm

got it Luv, ty

4:02 pm

ahh

yw peri

4:07 pm

bye all

4:07 pm

bye scouser

4:21 pm

hi everybody

4:21 pm

co 7/32

4:22 pm

hello bichon

4:22 pm

those who collect pennies?

4:22 pm

sorry, second co 7/32

4:23 pm

oh well i don't have that one either :)

4:23 pm

how about as7

as 7 a + you do this with your eyes if you have trouble seeing

4:25 pm

thanks luv

4:25 pm

tyvm Luv

yw

4:26 pm

hi all

4:26 pm

what does the 10 start with?

4:27 pm

in

4:27 pm

in, sue

4:27 pm

and it's actually a normal word

4:28 pm

builds on the co8, got it, ty

4:30 pm

co 7/32, second one, please

co 7/32 co + rodents are *at* + what we breathe

4:41 pm

ty luv and sue.

4:42 pm

c's crumpled.

4:42 pm

tysvm Luv got it

yw mixi

4:42 pm

hi peeps

yw bichon

4:42 pm

i still need 7 Cs dammit

4:42 pm

clue for co8?

4:42 pm

making sense, lil (as opposed to in10, not making sense)

ga 6/27 please?

4:43 pm

oil + against, luv

4:44 pm

ga6/27?

thanks Leslie!

4:44 pm

ty again luv.

4:44 pm

yw. down to 12 left and struggling myself!

5 left here

4:45 pm

48 to go.

4:45 pm

oooh got the co8 and the in10, thank u

4:46 pm

never mind

4:48 pm

hi7?

I need that one too, Leslie

need to go make dinner, guess I'll have the find the 3 I'm missing later

4:50 pm

thanks for the clues luv!

yw Leslie, thank you too

4:51 pm

hi + letter + a motion-picture theater.

4:52 pm

ah thank you zoom!

4:52 pm

yw :-)

4:54 pm

os7 is my last one?

4:55 pm

most of my last ones involved the qu tile in the middle of them, as i'm used to working around that tile

4:56 pm

can only clue the DEF of OS7:a benign tumor composed of osseous tissue.

4:56 pm

ok thanks will ponder that.

4:57 pm

the first in 5/12?

4:57 pm

not moving cos

4:58 pm

got it ty

5:00 pm

any other push for the os7?

5:00 pm

i need that too

5:02 pm

os + 20,5,15,13,1

5:03 pm

numbers being the alphabet.

5:03 pm

ty!

5:04 pm

really sorry..just could not think of how to clue it any other way.

5:04 pm

bless you zoom! fireworks!

5:04 pm

WTG Leslie :-)

5:07 pm

any clues needed before i go?

5:07 pm

Not for me thanks, just popped in to see who was about..lol...i am off too.

5:08 pm

mo 6/24?

5:09 pm

Goat hair, Cos.

5:09 pm

wow how did i miss that.. ty vm

5:09 pm

very good clue zoom... ha!

5:09 pm

geez i must be tired just gave most of it out..lol

5:10 pm

and to think i kept trying motair lol

5:10 pm

lol

5:12 pm

ok, im outta here, take care..*poof*

5:14 pm

i'm out as well, bye all

5:20 pm

bye zooz!

5:21 pm

bye leslie!

5:24 pm

anyone else creeped out by the thought of massive bird and fish deaths in Arkansas?

5:25 pm

me me me!

5:25 pm

if this were a movie it'd be the sign of the devil coming or something lol

5:28 pm

re 6.27?

5:29 pm

never mind...

5:29 pm

re and one of 5

5:29 pm

fireworks

5:30 pm

i'll take up the offer of that clue please - re6.27 lol

5:30 pm

re + qu4

5:30 pm

Way to go Cos!!

5:30 pm

ooo got it ty

5:31 pm

I thought one of five was a qu5/16.

5:32 pm

anyone need clues b4 i go?

5:41 pm

*kickin' back and relaxing in the quiet chog*

5:41 pm

hi welk

5:42 pm

hey kje .. chores are all done, tired of finding busy work, finished with the grid .. so hanging out :)

5:43 pm

sweet - I am eatig ad hanging out... 70 to go

5:44 pm

i have supper in the oven, slow-cooking some left-over ribs

5:44 pm

mmmmm, sounds good

5:44 pm

spaghetti with olive oil, garlic, anchovy, parsley and red pepper flakes here

5:44 pm

they are .. has anyone ever had a bad rib?

5:45 pm

ohhhh, that sounds good, too! i've been preparing some recipes for the kids and found a "real" caesar salad recipe that uses anchovies

5:46 pm

it uses a "real" raw egg, too ... tells you how old the recipe is

5:46 pm

yes, the original caesar has achovies

5:46 pm

and raw egg

5:46 pm

developed in mexico

5:47 pm

qu 8?

5:47 pm

it's delicious, but not sure about the egg these days

5:47 pm

it will be fine

5:48 pm

buy organic

5:48 pm

don't have yet bichon

5:48 pm

qu+ a hestitation sound + the movies

hello all

5:48 pm

hey, owl

5:49 pm

and bichon

5:49 pm

ty

5:50 pm

hi to

5:50 pm

organic is no proof against salmonella

5:50 pm

but would you eat the salad anyway, jm?

5:50 pm

ty welki

5:50 pm

true - but decreases likelihood of cross coatmiation... less likely

5:51 pm

maybe but a friend of mine who runs a dinner made his own mayo with organic eggs and sent 6 clients to the hospital

5:51 pm

whoa-boy ... that's rough

5:51 pm

but i have eaten many insects and things intentionally because i don't worry too much

5:51 pm

I make aioli all the time ad have never had a problem

5:52 pm

so it is up to you whether you want the risk

5:52 pm

he went to the hospital and apologized and paid their bills, but he is never making fresh mayo again

5:53 pm

the easy out, is to by the pasteurized eggs or pasteurized egg whites in cartons - then there is no worry

5:53 pm

when something calls for raw egg i use eggbeaters as they have been pasturized

5:53 pm

snap

5:53 pm

well there ya go ... will add this note to the recipe for the kids

5:54 pm

but i personally never had a bad rib but then they only served me back bones of cabrita in kenya--bet if they had served ribs i would not have liked it

5:55 pm

i gets paid today i is soooo excited

5:56 pm

$$$ ka-ching $$$

5:57 pm

off i go to get the rice and vegies ready ... later, friends

bye welk.

5:57 pm

i got paid today - pisses me off... U of T holds the money if payday is on a holiday or any weekend day.... Hopkins paid you the day before ad would never have held it

5:58 pm

seems they should have to pay me interest for holding it for 3 days

5:58 pm

more bank interest in their account then i guess

5:58 pm

yep

5:59 pm

swines

gee and i was unhapy that me creit ard had its due date on sunday.

6:00 pm

true, TO... when payig bills, we do not get to hold it for three days...

so i never got the full grace period. just so happend that date kept falling on the weekend

6:03 pm

any clue for the qu8?

6:03 pm

qu+ a hestitation sound + the movies

6:03 pm

to quote welk

6:04 pm

nm, found it

6:05 pm

finito! must go burn dinner. bbl

bye dawg.

6:06 pm

yayay lbd!

6:06 pm

39 here

71 to go

kje, i have been wondering why i have been craving chinese food the last few days. going out to get the mail tonight, i realized i could smell my new neighbors'cooking. they are chinese.

6:10 pm

mmmmm - make friends!

:D

6:11 pm

any clue for the as7/40 ? last one I need

i had steak. was feeling guilty until i realized how little i ate aftercutting out every last sliver of fat

6:12 pm

yuck

steak is yuck?

i have it about every six months

6:13 pm

no cutting out the fat is yuck

6:13 pm

I like steak TO. I have a few times a year too.

6:13 pm

have a good filet and don't worry about it

6:14 pm

Ouw...as7 is as+ scrunch up your eyes

6:14 pm

I made pizza bagles with the new Thin Bagels. ONly 100 cal. It was wonderful

well i don't like it, never have. you are right, tha is usually what i have.

6:14 pm

thanks molly

hi ouwa

6:15 pm

clue for last ar

6:15 pm

ar5

ouwa, did i mention i saw a kid wearing a t shirt with your name on it? i wanted to ask, but didn't

6:16 pm

ar - fire setter

oh no, enable - ma7 is a proper noun! :/

6:16 pm

ty

6:17 pm

yw

6:17 pm

25 - bbiab

bye kje

6:21 pm

a-c crushed

6:21 pm

and the d, lo

go sue!

break time bbl

6:25 pm

see ya to

6:26 pm

g's grounded

6:37 pm

hi7 clue?

6:45 pm

hi7...sounds like the opposite of him, with a different vowel + polio vac****

6:46 pm

ty molly

6:46 pm

h's hammered!

6:48 pm

hey all

6:48 pm

2nco7 pls

6:48 pm

hi peri

6:48 pm

what?

6:48 pm

2nd co7 pls

6:49 pm

oh

6:49 pm

co+2 con+what we breath

6:49 pm

first 3 lettters of co4,5+con+what we breath

6:51 pm

ty

6:51 pm

yw

6:52 pm

any clues for as 7? dont have the 4 either but working on it

6:52 pm

got the 4 just now. so need the 7.

6:53 pm

a+and what you do when you squeeze your eyes shut

6:53 pm

as4/5 is a babblet

6:54 pm

a+and what you do when you squeeze your eyes to see better

6:54 pm

a blink?????????dont see a b in grid

6:54 pm

think about when you look directly into the sun

6:54 pm

got it. ty ty ty

6:54 pm

how about co 6 first one on lickety?

6:54 pm

yvw

6:55 pm

co+he4,5

6:57 pm

ty got it. ty sue

6:57 pm

yw

6:59 pm

i love that he 8! super word

6:59 pm

Is there a list of bablets somewhere? I don't think that kind of clue means anything to a lot of people.

7:00 pm

lol, it is just a weird word. If someone says it's a babblet, think crazy spelling

7:02 pm

Yeah "I" know that Sue. But I was thinking of people new to the game.

7:02 pm

i,m,n Nixed

7:02 pm

any clue for the 10?

7:02 pm

it is probably part of the learning curve.

7:03 pm

in + co8

7:03 pm

got it. ty

7:03 pm

i thought i tried that when i got the co but guess i did something wrong.

7:03 pm

co8 builds on the clue given 6:55 for co6,24

7:06 pm

ga 6 please?

7:06 pm

put ga* in the car+negitive

7:07 pm

put ga* in the car+ not a vowel

7:08 pm

ty got it.

7:08 pm

yw

7:08 pm

need he 6 21 the second one please after the 8.

7:09 pm

just change the last vowel of the 6 before it

7:09 pm

nm got it. sorry

7:10 pm

need he 6 24 please.

there is a list of babblets on angelsong's babble page

7:11 pm

Thanks TO. I'll suggest that next time a new person is stumped.

7:11 pm

someone who is a he4,5

7:13 pm

clue for the first co 5/12

7:14 pm

co + the number after 8 is ***e

7:14 pm

hi peeps!

7:14 pm

qu8?

7:15 pm

ty lil monkey

7:15 pm

plural the qu 7.

7:15 pm

yw booboo

7:17 pm

how mtg?

7:18 pm

sue, it's qu + french for thank you is m**** + birds build a **st

7:18 pm

mkg are u on crack? haha

7:18 pm

add snake letter.

7:18 pm

ty lil monkey

7:19 pm

ty mkt & monkey

7:19 pm

oh my so so sorry. the 7 is plural of the 6. i got confused. so sorry. yes i am on something for sure.

7:20 pm

lol

7:20 pm

YAY finally Cs are done...

part of a styx song title is in the grid

7:20 pm

yahoooo monkey

7:20 pm

mkg, i hope i didn't offend :)

hello babblers. How goes it?

7:21 pm

life is too short to be offended. it is so funny. laugh and the world laughs with you. nothing to be offended by. i am rushing to get somewhere and trying to finish. by for now. enjoy the grid.

7:21 pm

hi red

hi red

7:22 pm

bye mkg

7:22 pm

Hi red.

7:22 pm

hi red, byeeeeeeeeeee mkg

bye mkg

how are "we" all?

7:23 pm

red how was work today? were u busy?

work rather stank. we are sooo crazy.

7:24 pm

ugh i'm sure my clinic will be crazy tomorrow

7:25 pm

Heyas kids ..

7:25 pm

TOR!

7:25 pm

GA! LISH! OUS! NESS!

Hi tor.

7:26 pm

It was very Monday today ..

7:26 pm

i had a great day off :)

7:27 pm

Fireworks!

7:27 pm

:p

yay mix!

7:27 pm

yahooooo mix

7:27 pm

Yay mixi!

7:28 pm

They drew blood today.

7:28 pm

no bruise, amazing!

7:28 pm

woo hooooooo mixi lish ous ness!

7:29 pm

yay no bruise!

7:29 pm

os6?

7:29 pm

OMG i just listed and I have none of the HOs!

7:31 pm

os + por**** is for piggies

add ci4/5

7:31 pm

Lil is not a Ho. : P

7:31 pm

ha! don't be so sure, Molly

well it will soon be bedtime for me if i don't stop eating

7:31 pm

Trying not to OFFEND anyone Lil. ; )

I have to do another cholesterol check...so...No good eating tonight

7:32 pm

LOL molly!

wekk i just wasted calories on chocolate i didn't want

7:32 pm

i hate it when that happens, TO

7:33 pm

will one night make that a big a difference red?

7:33 pm

not getting it mix

now i can't swtich to the other kind. just won't work.

7:33 pm

another clue pls

I discovered that apparently it can make some what of a difference, In other words, I am not eating Pizza tonight, like I did during my last cholesterol test...

7:33 pm

os + ci4

my mom used to give up saugar for a week when she was due to be tested.

7:34 pm

that was much easier

7:34 pm

and it is FIREWORKS for me!

yay sue!

7:34 pm

woo hoooooooooo Sueeeeeeeeeeee

congrats SueF.

wow TO, that is extreme. I wonder if I should have done that...

7:35 pm

Yay sue!

7:35 pm

ty all, anyone need a clue?

7:35 pm

too late for this year, since they already got my blood today, but I will think about it for future.

7:35 pm

i need all the HOs

7:35 pm

haha

7:36 pm

one is a maker of a car

well he was harly getting a true picture of her illness, was he?

7:36 pm

Lil needs Hos.

i really do not think it makes a big difference, but, my cholesterol shot up waaay up after eating that pizza apparently, and I really had not changed anything.

don't forget mr bucholz the actor

7:36 pm

have i ever heard of this car maker?

7:37 pm

one is to sharpen

7:37 pm

mr bucholz?

7:37 pm

yes. ho5,14

this is trye TO. WHy was she avoiding sugar in particular?

7:37 pm

very common car.

7:37 pm

one is the person to ho

you sure have, it's sitting there for the taking as if rasing a flag

diabetic

7:37 pm

Think Civic Lil.

7:37 pm

OH! thank u

So she actually should not have been eating sugar actually at all...

how many ho words are there?

7:38 pm

who is mr bucholz/?

7:38 pm

the pl the ho

7:38 pm

lol

ho5/12

7:38 pm

no i mean, who is that person?

7:38 pm

hi7?

7:38 pm

I have no clue about the Bucholz thing. Think of the opposite of best only make it an ho word.

7:39 pm

OK got the ho5,12

German actor, best remembered by Americans for his part in The Magnificent Seven.

7:39 pm

i believe there are 11 HOs

7:39 pm

hi to begin employment is to hi** + os****

o RLY?

7:40 pm

His first name is ho 5/12? Trippy.

7:40 pm

hi 7...opposite of him, spelled differently + polio vac****

7:40 pm

a good nickname for him would be Liverho5

7:41 pm

ty

7:41 pm

ha!

hmm, shall i go make some cornbread?

Do you want some?

7:42 pm

TO! I made cornbread yesterday. Go for it.

7:42 pm

Mmmm cornbread with honey drizzled on it

inhave marie calendar's mix

yes , i crave baked goods

7:42 pm

I prefer Jiffy mix

i like jiffy. i liked all of the jiffy mixes esp the frosting

7:43 pm

Cornbread and honey is the best. I made mine to go with the leftover black-eyed peas from New years. I make mine from scratch. And I add maple syrup. My Mom's secret ingredient.

I like the Jiffy mix too. There was another kind, Martha White...and the Martha White was not as sweet and did not stick together.

7:43 pm

Hi, just been working on the grid today. Nice to see my friends chatting and about to make cornbread. I made apple fritters for the boys' teatime. We now need dinner. Going to rustle up some grub.

7:44 pm

*Running to Gran Mere's for leftover fritters*

granmere is taunting us again

7:45 pm

Putting on tea water for MollyL. We should have a babble fest when the land unfreezes, don't you think? Let me know what you want to eat--I'll enjoy having good friends around the table.

she sure is. Yummers.

7:46 pm

FINISHED!! VERY EXCELLENT!!!

7:46 pm

I think cornbread with TO is a great idea and the honey over the buttered bread is best there is.

7:46 pm

yay I finished the HOs!

my cousin in vancouver invited me again

good job Godtha!!!!!!

yes, honey is the way to go. on biscuits, also

yay god!

7:46 pm

No mo HOs?

7:47 pm

I am leaving 36 words including one ho and lots of he words oh well. You think about the NW TO it is not far from Vancouver to the center of my universe.

7:47 pm

Yay godthaab!

7:47 pm

Thanks.

7:47 pm

Good night now.

7:47 pm

tor, there are always more HOs... lol

night gmere

7:48 pm

here a ho, there a ho, everywhere a ho ho

ha!

7:49 pm

LOL

7:50 pm

Ho ho!

7:50 pm

ho ho ho

7:51 pm

that was a lot of HOs!

7:51 pm

just finished the INs

that's not funny...

7:53 pm

Hint for the in10? Is it fishy?

7:53 pm

tor when u drink u begin to babble in10 ly

7:54 pm

I do .. Thanks!

7:54 pm

actually I meant me, haha, but I'm sure you do too

7:54 pm

torg when you speak you are often in10

7:54 pm

lol jmc

7:55 pm

;- )

7:55 pm

please clue the ho5,14

7:55 pm

*hic*

7:55 pm

what the hell is ma5,14

7:55 pm

great clue guys, once i figured out that it was the *other* in

7:56 pm

Also true, jmc ..

7:56 pm

<3

7:56 pm

ma + garden tool

7:56 pm

ho 5/14 is a brand of car

7:56 pm

ho5,14 is a car, ho5 civic

does anyone else think ma7 is a proper adjective opnly?

7:57 pm

mahoe

7:57 pm

oppsie

7:57 pm

LOL! thanks nrkii... omg another HO

7:57 pm

Oh my God. I'm just imagining a Babble Fest around Gran Mere's table. We dream of such things.

7:57 pm

oh good grief blind thank you

7:57 pm

takes glass into pb

7:58 pm

I only have one 8... the co8 that goes with the 10

7:58 pm

How does Regis Philbin have time to babble?

7:58 pm

what are the first 2 for the other 8s please?

7:58 pm

what do you think he does when he's not on tv?

7:58 pm

ha8, one who ha6s

7:58 pm

ha8, he8, qu8

7:58 pm

qu8/60

7:58 pm

I'm guessing they are all H's

7:58 pm

i don't know, jmc

7:59 pm

ooh, qu8... that gives me hope

7:59 pm

thanks

7:59 pm

i figure he must be sleeping in his hyperbaric chamber

7:59 pm

Funny HO story. A friend's kid is in elementary school. His class was studying the period of American history dealing with the Conestoga wagons moving west. They did a billboard with the phrase WESTWARD HO! on it. Parents complained.

7:59 pm

and TO, if you use the def. of ma5 as one who lays bricks, then the adj form is not a proper noun

7:59 pm

he looks at himself in a mirror

7:59 pm

im sorry i was answering nirkii

7:59 pm

they thought it was about hookers?

7:59 pm

MOlly! that's hysterical

8:00 pm

what about the 7 dwarves.. hi ho hi ho??

8:00 pm

hi ru

8:00 pm

hi jm, lil, and nrkii

8:01 pm

hi wuwu

8:01 pm

hi ru

8:01 pm

*looks up name a speech therapist for lil*

8:01 pm

ma6,30?

8:01 pm

It always amazes me when people have no clue about the derivation of words. And the bastardization of words. Kids today crack me up saying they are sigh-ced about things. It's psyched and it always has been.

probably can't sing that one anymore

8:02 pm

ma6 30 = like a french costume ball

8:02 pm

what the french wear on halloween monkey

8:02 pm

oh thank u!

8:02 pm

JMC, Lil is the great granddaughter of Elmer Fudd. Didn't you know?

8:02 pm

hi dorens

ma6/24pls?

8:02 pm

sorry i missed telling you hb yesterday

8:03 pm

i know the true story of elmer fudd

8:03 pm

ma + the brits eat clotted cream on their ****es

8:03 pm

Enable...some foreign words we allow...some we do not...YOU FIGURE IT OUT.

8:03 pm

hi doren

8:04 pm

I found the ha8, but no luck on qu8 or he8

8:04 pm

i heard chuck jones the animator and director of most of the cartoons

ty and hi doren

8:04 pm

did you ever look at the label to see the producer?

8:04 pm

i am falling asleep here.. someone please wake me up

8:04 pm

DORENS!

8:04 pm

I have pulled up my chair to the fireplace JMC. Tell the story.

8:04 pm

DOWENS!

8:04 pm

frederick wildman?

8:04 pm

doren... dore.... WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE up

8:04 pm

tha would be an importer, though, yes?

8:05 pm

he's the importer.. who was the producer?

8:05 pm

talking about the wine did it... will go look at the pretty label

8:05 pm

he said there was a producer who lisped and that chuck jones and mel blanc decided to make a cartoon making fun of him just for jollies

8:05 pm

happy new year to those who were not here when I signed in earlier :)

8:05 pm

domaine armand rousseau pere & fils

8:06 pm

ty nan and to you too

8:06 pm

they were rolling it and laughing until the producer came in and then they froze

8:06 pm

and to you cybernan

8:07 pm

oh jesus.. no wonder

8:07 pm

And from there, history was made. One of my favorite twisted tunes is Ozzy Fudd singing "Kiwll Da Wabbit!"

8:07 pm

liquid gold!

8:07 pm

hi 7, please?

8:07 pm

Hey Nanners, happy new year.

8:07 pm

after the cartoon was over the house light went up and they turned to him to face the music and he said it (in elmer fudds voice which was his own) was the funniest thing i ever saw how did you come up with that silly voice?

8:07 pm

learned all my classical/opera music from Chuck

8:07 pm

so what does this mean ru?

8:08 pm

That siwwy voice. Great story JMC.

8:08 pm

My favorite elmer fudd is RObin WIlliam's impersonation singing the Pointer SIsters song. Fire

8:08 pm

FIIIII WAH

8:08 pm

me too, wuwu!

8:08 pm

Oh yeah Ruru. That Robin Williams thing is very funny.

8:08 pm

thought it was bruce springsteen's fire

8:08 pm

hi + town in Wisconsin that was one of the teams in A League of Their Own (how's that for obscure) - minus the a

8:08 pm

Armand Rousseau is a very very very great producer was it a village wine or was it a premier cru?

8:09 pm

Pointer sisters did it first

8:09 pm

premier, mais oui

8:09 pm

it was chuck jones story his interview was the funniest interview i ever heard

8:09 pm

lil monkey, did you just do fireworks like the impressive clergyman in the Princess Bride?

8:09 pm

very obscure nrkii -- have no idea what you are talking about

8:09 pm

Nelly, that was obscure, but I would have gotten it had I not had the word.

8:09 pm

what, nrkii?

8:10 pm

oh no, i was singing fire like Elmer fudd

8:10 pm

so that really was the best bottle of wine i ever had?

8:10 pm

No, Lil was singing "Fire" like Elmer Fudd.

8:10 pm

oh I can just imagine doren.. lucky you

8:10 pm

Fiiiiiiii WAH

8:10 pm

maiwwage....

8:10 pm

lil*monkey was singing

8:10 pm

Im dwiving in my car...

8:10 pm

Snap Lil.

8:10 pm

hey all!!! (((hugs everyone I haven't said happy new year to yet)))

8:10 pm

??? feathery?

8:10 pm

I turned on the wadio

8:10 pm

snap MOL

8:10 pm

he has more in the cellar too i think. guess i'll email him and tell him how much i appreciated it

8:10 pm

WEEEDIE!!!!!!

8:10 pm

you turn on the wadio

8:10 pm

mawwaige is what bwings us together...today.

8:10 pm

hi 7, please?

8:11 pm

*Placing a soothing, migraine relieving head wrap on Stid*

8:11 pm

lol, hi ruru! i heard you missed me! i've been trying to be better about coming in and actually chatting, rather than lurking.

8:11 pm

you're pulling me close

8:11 pm

hi + cheap cola brand (2 letters) + cross the l***

8:11 pm

oh! *gasp, chortle*

8:11 pm

thanks Molly -- that's betterer.

8:11 pm

hi 7 note bye + consonant + the begining of movvie theater

8:11 pm

not bye

8:11 pm

You're puwwing me cwose

8:11 pm

that bwessed awwangement....that dweam within a dweam!

8:11 pm

hey I like that cola!

8:11 pm

ok, i'm done.

8:11 pm

help with qu8 please?

8:12 pm

dweam within a dweam... awesome

or 5 ls and hi feather

8:12 pm

qu (odd) less an e + the beginning of movie theater

8:12 pm

ooh! got that hi 7 (finally)!

8:12 pm

ty -- all -- found it

8:12 pm

or + start of movie theater

8:12 pm

gays are sometimes called qu*e*+the last for letters of a long work for piggy

8:12 pm

The Princess Bride is a classic. I'm pretty sure I know the entire script after all the times I've watched it. Inconceivable!

8:12 pm

thanks ruru!

8:12 pm

*four

8:13 pm

thanks jmc for the qu word

isn;t that the os ^/

8:13 pm

*never seen princess bride*

8:13 pm

yw

8:13 pm

help with he8 please?

8:13 pm

drop the e TO

8:13 pm

he4 + in 4

8:13 pm

lol molly, i know for a fact that i know all of the script. in high school, i held up a tape recorder to the tv, and recorded the whole show. i would recite the movie to myself at night when i couldn't fall asleep. ok, perhaps that's too much sharing of how much of a nerd i was/am.

8:13 pm

and use 4

8:13 pm

use r

8:13 pm

ru you should watch it -- it appeals to man and woman alike

8:14 pm

GASP! ruru! you must watch!

8:14 pm

he8 is he6 + not from

ty

8:14 pm

thanks ru...

8:14 pm

I married a jewish american princess bride.. I don't need more than that

8:14 pm

trust me you will like it anyway

8:14 pm

*grumbles..chick flick*

8:14 pm

many of my coworkers haven't seen it, and I am going to have to bring it into work so they can watch it now

8:15 pm

ruru, it's not a chick flick

8:15 pm

NOT a chick flick.

8:15 pm

ruru, it's not a chick flick

8:15 pm

and you spoil her still, ruru. good man

8:15 pm

is that the movie where the kid is in bed and his grandpa is telling the story?

8:15 pm

even though the title sounds like one

8:15 pm

Feather, if you had to get fixated on a movie, that is the one to get fixated on. My kids were at that "watch it every other night" stage when it got popular, so it was a regular in our house.

8:15 pm

it is a chick flick simultaneously it is a giy film

8:15 pm

*guy

8:15 pm

lil monkey, yes, but that's just to set up the story

8:15 pm

ruru, it has everything a movie needs: action! adventure! saccharine love scenes! evil prince! doddering old monarchs! giants! intrigue! scandal! magic! swamps! ROUSes!!!

8:15 pm

OK i've seen it

8:15 pm

the main movie is mostly just an adventure comedy

8:15 pm

accent on the comedy

8:15 pm

with a little romance

8:16 pm

yes lil peter faulk

8:16 pm

Grandson: A book? Grandfather: That's right, when I was your age, television was called books, and this is a special book. It was the book my father used to read to me when I was sick, and I used to read it to your father...and today, I'm going read it to you. Grandson: Does it got any sports in it? Grandfather: Are you kidding? Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, Giants, Monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles... Grandson: It doesn't sound too bad. I'll try and stay awake. Grandfather: Oh, well, thank you very much. That's very nice of you. Your vote of confidence is overwhelming.

8:16 pm

i cheated on that one

8:16 pm

it really is hysterical.. ruru if you haven't seen it, try it

8:16 pm

shrieking eels

8:16 pm

Feather, I assume you've read the book.

8:16 pm

*shamefaced at leaving out the shrieking eels*

8:16 pm

yep

8:16 pm

there's a book?

8:16 pm

"your vote of confidence is overwhelming"... perfect

8:16 pm

that is my absolute all-time favorite book

8:16 pm

v. funny movie and book is good too

8:16 pm

there's really a book

8:16 pm

the book is even better than the movie

8:17 pm

I was amazed the movie was almost as good

8:17 pm

that's my favorite movie of all time

8:17 pm

and yes, the book is great.

8:17 pm

re6,27 please?

8:17 pm

it's one of my top 5, definitely

8:17 pm

*shocked look at the concept*

8:17 pm

I like you bridgie

8:17 pm

but it's not my favorite book of all time

8:17 pm

also cary elwes is sooo easy on the eyes

8:17 pm

i think i own THREE copies of the movie

8:17 pm

which seems silly.

8:17 pm

right?

8:17 pm

i just read a great book

8:17 pm

hey brid!

8:17 pm

I own 2 copies of the book, and one is upside down

8:18 pm

vhs, dvd, and special release?

8:18 pm

you have a back up (or two) - not silly

8:18 pm

and just one copy of the book. which is upside right.

8:18 pm

turn it right side up nrkii! lol

8:18 pm

I want the book

8:18 pm

yeah, how is a book upside down?

8:18 pm

me too wild

8:18 pm

the cover is one way, the inside is the other

8:19 pm

billy crystal as miracle max and carol kane as his wife are awesome

8:19 pm

we must get it jmc

8:19 pm

I'm not a witch! I'm your wife!

8:19 pm

oh, haha

ga6/27?

8:19 pm

anyone have re6,27?

8:19 pm

there's a part2. to the book. like...a little bit more than the movie does.

8:19 pm

Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist.

8:19 pm

and after what you just said, i don't know if i wanna be that anymore!

8:19 pm

re + Dionne ****tuplets

8:19 pm

down to 49. taking a break and back soonish. *minipoof*

8:20 pm

thank you nerky!

i need help

ty

8:20 pm

but my ice cream is melting....sooo....

on anything

8:20 pm

cya!

8:20 pm

hi granfieldgroup, what do you need help with?

8:20 pm

click on my blue B icon for a beginner's guide

8:20 pm

ga6, petrol + not pro

hmm, the letters i have left to find are H-O-G

8:20 pm

sorry, TO, don't have that one yet

any word

8:20 pm

Miracle Max...Sonny, true love is the greatest thing, in the world-except for a nice MLT - mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe.

8:21 pm

are you trying to tell us something TO

need os 7

8:21 pm

gran try the help above or click on featherbee's icon for help

8:22 pm

ga 6 = kind of like the french word for restaurant host, but switch the 3rd letter

granfield, it helps to start with four letter words, especially those that are a consonant + a vowel + a consonant + e.

8:22 pm

it is a benign tumor TO

ty

thanks

8:23 pm

ga6= car fuel + against

ty, i ahve fireworks

8:23 pm

yay TO!

8:23 pm

whoo hooo TO!

8:23 pm

yay TO!

yay TO!!

8:23 pm

whoooo hoooooo TO!!

(oh and I meant to say "hi" right after I posted to granfield. whoops! Hello everyone!)

is doren still he4?

8:24 pm

FIAH WOIKS

yay monk!

8:24 pm

hi all, help with first re5/10 pls

8:24 pm

yay lil monkey!

8:24 pm

yay monkey!

8:24 pm

Yay monkey!

8:24 pm

os 6, please

8:24 pm

whoo hoo monkey

8:25 pm

whoooo hoooo LIL!!

8:25 pm

a benign tumor cyber

peri, re + what a ***compoop! what a maroon! (elmer fudd joke)

8:25 pm

thank u all my peeps, thank u so much for excellent clueage

8:25 pm

os + ****matography

8:26 pm

ty ballet

8:26 pm

what a maroon LOL

8:26 pm

fireeworks too

8:26 pm

whooo hoooo PERI!

8:26 pm

woo hooooooooooo peri!

8:26 pm

whoo hooo peri!

wooo peri!!!

8:26 pm

tyty now off to play scramble

8:27 pm

must get ready for bed now.... it's back to work tomorrow

i recently got a word scramble game on my cell phone.... addiction.

8:27 pm

12 to go and that feels enough like fireworks to me

night night monkey :)

8:27 pm

night everyone!

8:27 pm

night nrkii

night nrk!

8:27 pm

Niters nerky

8:27 pm

i'm going to sidle out of here too. bye!

night nrkii!

8:27 pm

night nrkii

8:28 pm

Niters monkey

8:28 pm

bye feather

night all

8:28 pm

night, lil, night, nrkii, night feather, night jonboy

8:28 pm

bye lil

8:28 pm

and i'm pulling the plug too. night y'all

8:28 pm

hi lbd

8:28 pm

bye lbd :-(

8:28 pm

i barely knew ye

night everyone who is leaving!!!!!!!

wow... mass exodus.

8:29 pm

i am still he**

hi jmc!

8:29 pm

me 2!

8:30 pm

hi ballet

hi shirlock!

8:30 pm

not getting that tumor -- don't know many medical terms

jmc, that's the word that's going to land me in the penalty box for sure!

8:30 pm

bye all

cyber, just add ****ma (movie theater)

but goodnight, if you wish :)

8:31 pm

bye cyber i was trying to think of a way to clue it :-(

8:31 pm

os + **a not coffee + c*** when you don't wake up

8:31 pm

ty ballet

8:31 pm

as7?

oh! oops, wrong one from me!

8:31 pm

ty shirl good clue

8:32 pm

ty ballet i didn't have that one

8:33 pm

Help Please. I need the last co7/32 and the as7/40.

a + squeezing shut your eyes and peeking through so the sun doesn't make you blind!

8:33 pm

a+squeeze you eyes together in the sun

8:33 pm

hi again, everybody.

8:33 pm

Thanks jmcnrick

8:34 pm

hi nef

8:34 pm

Thanks balletslippers also

8:34 pm

has BR been around lately?

8:34 pm

I keep seeing phantoms today.

the last ma 6??

8:35 pm

qu 8, please?

8:35 pm

a ma6 ball is where you dress up

i've got that one, jmc. but thanks!

8:35 pm

married maid of honor

8:36 pm

yay...4-1 for canada :)

8:36 pm

qu*e* is gay+ trig term misspekked

thanks wild... i'll work on that

8:36 pm

er misspelled

oh! got it!

8:36 pm

what is it ballet

8:36 pm

I haven't seen him lately, jmc; but then again, I haven't been playing on the computer much the past month

8:37 pm

ty jmc

8:37 pm

so hi all

8:37 pm

yw cyber

it was wild's clue.... a woman is oft called a ma6 when she is married, but performing the duties of a bridesmaid.

8:37 pm

there is probably a better clue

that's a good clue for a hard to clue word, jmc

8:37 pm

ah ty ballet

8:37 pm

hi car

8:38 pm

hows it going tonight jmc?

8:38 pm

i keep thinking pig or por**** but it never jells

8:38 pm

pretty well we go beacoup checks in today

8:39 pm

so it looks like last year will be flat with the year before and that, my dear, is the new up

8:39 pm

great clue

8:40 pm

<===didn't lose money last year for center

8:40 pm

i suppose...that would be up :P

8:40 pm

that's good news for you, jmc.

ma 6/24 before the bricklayer? please. :)

8:40 pm

( i gathered )

8:40 pm

hey you take what you can get in my business

what business, jmc?

8:41 pm

add a cons in the middle car

8:41 pm

or ballet

thanks wild

8:41 pm

nonprofit world ballet-- I run a peace organization

8:41 pm

yw

8:41 pm

*!* ta da *!* - thanks for the help :)

8:41 pm

yay nan!

8:41 pm

well.. i am just watching semi final hockey game....its up for can..not so up for usa

yeah... i've been trying especially hard to give to charity this season. I know how hard it's gotten for everyone, and I'm actually doing alright.

8:42 pm

*~*~*POMPOM TOSS*~*~*for cyber

8:42 pm

whooo hoooo cyber!

8:42 pm

we actually received some very nice anonymous checks this past month and can restore some of our hours that were cut for buget reasons

8:42 pm

that is great nef!

yay cyber!!

8:42 pm

i cant give to many charities..but i can give my time...so that is what i do

8:42 pm

Do any of you folks who have been around here longer than I have know about this "anonymous donor" thing?

8:43 pm

baby has gone down for the night, so time for me to get supper ready for the rest of us -- back when I can

that's so great, nef!! Wow! it seems people are inspired to help lately.

8:43 pm

bye cyber

molly, I would love to know as well. I've benefited from it...

8:44 pm

different people do it at different times molly

8:44 pm

dont know anything about it molls..sorry

8:44 pm

mostly it is people paying forward

8:45 pm

So if you are a member here, how do you find out about it? I've been a member for a while, and never seen anything about it.

8:45 pm

back again...

8:45 pm

there is nothing to see molly

8:46 pm

one thing I've noticed about anonymous donors is that they are very nice and don't want others to know who they are. But I've discovered a way to figure out who they *might* be

8:46 pm

1 min left

8:46 pm

dr g sometimes sends an email out to people, molly -- about once a year

8:46 pm

Then how do people know how to become anonymous donors?

8:46 pm

people see individuals who are clearly enjoying the game and because they are young or broke some send dr god and email and offers to pay for a pro membership for someone

8:46 pm

Evening all. May I please have a clue for in5-10 the 2nd? Thanks

8:46 pm

hey peach!

8:46 pm

because it is a topic of conversation from time to time

8:46 pm

contact dr.g and ask him how to do it

8:46 pm

go carlee go!

8:47 pm

Hey there, stidmama!!!!

8:47 pm

i never got such and email myself but some did buy my pro membership for me

8:47 pm

15 sec to go in 3rd..woohoo canada

well i think it's just wonderful. babble is such a vibrant community of caring people! I love it.

8:47 pm

how do you figure it out nef?

8:47 pm

in5/10duce yourself please

8:48 pm

hiya stiddy!!!!!!!!!!

8:48 pm

ty wild

8:48 pm

go canada!

8:48 pm

Ah, yes...Thanks much wildcat17.

8:48 pm

check the dates when people join; I think there is a clue there

8:48 pm

can plays russia for finals :)

8:48 pm

how so nef?

8:49 pm

this is good, carlee?

8:49 pm

check balletslippers member date....

8:50 pm

2006, yes?

8:50 pm

playing in buffalo ny..and the stands are full of red for canada

8:50 pm

playing in buffalo ny..and the stands are full of red for canada so funny..the crowd is 80% can in USA

8:50 pm

playing in buffalo ny..and the stands are full of red for canada

my member date? hmm?

8:50 pm

I hear you Nef.

oh a clue...

i don't want to know... so don't tell me. I prefer it to be a sweet anonymous gift.

8:50 pm

can playing russia for gold medal....

8:51 pm

that's all I'll say since I don't want to ruin an anonymous gift....

8:51 pm

can national anthem...liftng the rafter s:)

thanks, nef. Sorry molly!

glad you're happy, carlee :)

8:52 pm

I think I will have a chat with Dr. God about this. Thanks for the input folks. Night all.

8:52 pm

sweet dreams molly

8:52 pm

well i am 1/2 way

8:52 pm

sorry my net was burping

8:52 pm

*happy mama at happy carlee*

8:52 pm

bye molly

8:52 pm

May I please have a clue for mo6-24? Thanks.

8:52 pm

down to 40!

8:52 pm

go jmc go!

8:52 pm

mo + the stuff on top of your head

8:53 pm

goat fur makes a nice sweater gapeach

8:53 pm

thanks for those wild

8:53 pm

its hockey.... hockey IS canada

8:53 pm

lol hockey is canada

8:53 pm

no way am i gonna finish, just trying to get the 10-er. any help?

8:53 pm

Thanks again, wildcat17. I wish I had mo7 on my head.

haste

8:53 pm

hehe

8:53 pm

even alex trebeck likes hockey

whoops sorry!

(jumps into the pb)

8:54 pm

when you are drunk you mumble and are in10

8:54 pm

one h6 stands between me and bliss

8:54 pm

jmc, goat hair, for real?

8:54 pm

makes waste ballet! lol

8:54 pm

alex trebek wants to become canada's govenor general after he done jeopardy...even tho he is now us citizen

:)

8:54 pm

yes you didn't know that?

8:55 pm

hoyadoc, in10/84 is someone babbling in********ly

8:55 pm

really car? i think that is funny

8:55 pm

ty! i was looking from the wrong in!

8:55 pm

wtg hoya

8:55 pm

i think its absurd...gives up his citizenship..but then wants the perks of all that govenor general....idiot

8:55 pm

are you kin to hoyamd?

8:56 pm

yep

8:56 pm

it was probably the income tax did it

8:56 pm

well nice to meet you

8:56 pm

ditto

8:56 pm

can i help you wild?

8:56 pm

hoyadoc, are you hoyamd?

8:57 pm

sure but i don't know which one it is - not listing

8:57 pm

maybe. ;)

8:57 pm

what m6s do you have?

8:57 pm

i think he can afford it with his salary...i find it incredibly insulting that he wants to represent a country he no longer assosciates his name to... to the queen

8:57 pm

sneaky hoya

8:57 pm

trying to get around that 2 week cutoff, huh?

8:58 pm

hehe - those stats rock!

8:58 pm

so how do you know this? there is no reason to think he is retiring

8:58 pm

i admit nothing.

8:58 pm

4 he6, 1 ho6

8:59 pm

really considering the co** you might pony up especially if you are a doc

8:59 pm

ha6

8:59 pm

hoya, it only costs the price of joining once and you can play forever after that. I think it's around $15 US these days

8:59 pm

no it's from the top H

less than $15, nef!

9:00 pm

i am sorry then i am noooo help

9:00 pm

i probably will - and for the record, my student loans are in the 6 figures! GU is esspensif!

9:00 pm

thx for trying

9:01 pm

*zipping mouth shut*

9:01 pm

it was just $11 when I joined over 5 years ago. Best $$$ I ever sapent online!

9:01 pm

there's at least 2 ho5's from the top H

9:01 pm

6 letters

9:01 pm

hi gwen

9:02 pm

hey gwenski!

9:02 pm

hello

9:02 pm

I paid $14.95 and I agree with nef

9:02 pm

wild is looking for an H6

9:02 pm

I'm trying to play more frequently!

worst money I ever spent online: zune. I canceled my subscription when they put blocks on all the music i had before i began using zune. But apparently they have been charging me monthly for the year since then! I just found out yesterday! grrr...

9:02 pm

Guess i should pay more attention to the chat before trying to help :)

9:02 pm

May I please have a clue for re5-10 the 1st? Thanks

hi gwen

9:03 pm

4/4 plus repeat vowel

9:04 pm

ok gotta hit the hay...nite all

9:04 pm

nite hoya

9:04 pm

bye hoya

first sc5?

9:04 pm

down to 30!!!!

night hoya!

9:04 pm

taking another eyeball break. *micro poof*

9:05 pm

oh no ballet too bad!

9:05 pm

bye hoya

9:05 pm

that is why it is important to keep track of accounts

thanks jmc, I spent about two hours today trying to sort it out. I'll finish up with another call to my bank tomorrow. But they're good, that shouldn't take so long.

9:06 pm

anyone know the name of the movie with the blue headed guy played i think by will ferrel?

yes! I wish I had checked up on mine more... I just assumed my mommy would do it for me, like a child. Since she is listed on my account as well and I was still in school at the time.

will ferrell as a blue-headed guy.... nope can't say i do

9:07 pm

well if you learned the lesson it was not too big a price

9:07 pm

maybe not will ferrell but a blue fish for a head maybe?

9:08 pm

a tiny blue head in a big clear bowl of a helmet?

huh... i'm not sure about that :P

9:08 pm

am i making this up? did I have a bad dream? lol

9:08 pm

jmc, have you been hallucinating long? ;-)

the fish head i mean :P

9:08 pm

i guess nef

9:08 pm

jmc - it's

Megamind ?

9:08 pm

mastermind

ho 5/14 *beats head on imaginary desk*

9:08 pm

hi clarkie its?

clue pls?

9:09 pm

megamind

9:09 pm

THATS it ty ty ty ty clarkie

9:09 pm

anyone with either A.) a blue head or B.) a blue fish head just *HAS* to be a wild dream!

9:09 pm

megamind yes!

9:09 pm

ho 5/14: a car maker

9:09 pm

think car brand ballet

hahahahaha the cartoon with the character that had a blue head... gotcha! haven't seen it though.

*bang* *bang* *bang* THAT ho 5/14.....

9:10 pm

andit is well ferrell!

9:10 pm

evening all

9:10 pm

hi dan

hi dan

9:10 pm

okay, I admit it: I don't go to movies or pay attention to cartoons

fw for moi! :)

9:10 pm

oooo a 2bit elf

9:11 pm

whoo hooo ballet

9:11 pm

np nef

9:11 pm

YAY, ballet! WTG!!!

9:11 pm

woo hoo ballet

gracias

9:12 pm

{{herin}}

9:12 pm

hi herin i was just about to head out

Hugs

i just looked at your profile, dan. baby2bit is absolutely adorable!!

9:12 pm

baby2bit is just adorable, dan!

9:12 pm

sorry to run but exhausted

9:12 pm

Hi herin!

9:12 pm

hugs back atcha

9:12 pm

thanks! we rather think so too :-)

HI Jm have a good sleep.

9:12 pm

bye all

Hi Nef

9:13 pm

bye, jmc.

Ballet you are very lucky

for what, herin? (I mean in particular... because I am SO lucky!)

Getting the Pro Babble Girft

Gift. Sorry Fail at spelling today

ah yes! That was such a fantastic surprise.... :)

9:15 pm

and fireflies

I was shocked since I didn't know people did that. At first, I thought the stats had appeared from some glitch. I said something about it once and no one could tell me what was up.

Yah Wild

9:15 pm

YAY, wildcat!!! WTG!!!

9:15 pm

woo hoo wildcat!

yay wild!!!!

9:16 pm

May I please have a clue for co7-32 the 2nd? Thanks

9:16 pm

tyvm

9:16 pm

there's also a cute picture of baby2bit on my FB profile at the moment - I may send it in to Caps PR staff :-)

9:17 pm

old model of chevy or airplane

co 7/32 sounds like you have ha** on your head that is very thick and textured.

Ballet we do gift babble prodom to people :D

so i heard last night, herin. I was delighted! I hadn't even realized the stats appearing randomly was me being pro. But I'm very happy.

I haven't been here much lately I have a new computer game to entertain me.

9:20 pm

oh-oh herin. what's your new game?

ooh, what game?

Fall Out New Vegas. It was a gift from himself at Christmas and he bought me Iron Sudoku Pro

and a couple of find them style games as they were on special

9:21 pm

wild and ballet....my mind is somewhere sitting in neutral.....but the clues are great....still looking.

9:21 pm

(BTW, herin, I like your trees icon)

oh Boy wants that game!

keep trying, gapeach. Or move on to a different word and come back later. That always helps me. :)

Nef the tree is from Vista pics. Ballet do it and you may not see him for weeks

9:23 pm

Thanks, m'dear.

9:23 pm

ga, not fine but co** + what you breathe

(or here is a simpler clue: co + his and he** + what you breathe.)

9:23 pm

Thanks so much, balletslippers.

haha, that's why we sit on the couch together. I work (work from home) or play babble or mess around on facebook. He plays countless video games. Currently it's "Persona".

that was a better clue, nef. You said it much simpler. :)

Steam had Mass Effect one and two on sale. He has been driving me spare with that one

9:26 pm

OMG, thanks so much, Nef.

steam?

Steam is an online store for games

9:26 pm

it's also in the grid - PB for you two

oh i hadn't heard of it. i'll check it out sometime.

9:27 pm

It also lands you in the PB ..

http://store.steampowered.com/ Here. It is really good and has awesome deals. Beats the store prices too.

haha both of us to the PB! *skips joyously*

Yah

Didn't have that word

9:27 pm

me neither

ooh it looks like something Boy would like. And I like good prices... games can get so expensive.

Ballet there was a special there the other week and all our friends bought the same game so they can play together if they like (head desk)

i've currently been tasked with "learning how to play games" by playing Little Big Planet. I don't think it will work. I've never been good at video games.

That is on Playstation 3 right?

yes i think

9:30 pm

I'm bailing. 33 left, but no more energy. Nite all!

night gwen!! you can conquer the new grid tomorrow!

Night Gwen.

So yes between that and this and not really feeling chatty I have been absent

understandable. I usually don't feel chatty. It's a lot for my brain to handle switching from the grid to lickety to chat to the Boy... hehe :P

9:33 pm

May I please have a clue for in5-12? Thanks

I don't have it sorry

in 5/12: in + sounds like when you get the water off your hands using a towel.

9:35 pm

in5/12 in + wipe the dishes with diff last vowel

9:35 pm

Thanks once again, ballet and Mary

of course... I got tons of help earlier.

9:36 pm

I'm down to 1 re5-10 the 1st and ar5-10 the 2nd.....please.....thanks

9:37 pm

No, Im down to two.

ar 5/10 is when someone lights a house on fire.

Can I have a clue for the 10 please

9:37 pm

Thanks much ballet.

re 5/10: re + What a ***compoop! What a maroon! (Elmer Fudd)

9:38 pm

herin, I'm in 1/84 when I get too tired (for others it's when they are drunk)

the ten is when you are getting very tired and your words get muddled and in10 (not understandable)

9:39 pm

hey look, a new Pro! *poke*

9:39 pm

Thanks so very much, ballet.....I'll rest my eyes for a while...see you at the fliip.

Thanks

(poked) it was a gift, dfm :)

night gapeach! if only for a few minutes...

I'm headed to bed as well. Goodnight all. I'll hopefully be round tomorrow!

9:42 pm

<-- got his Prodom as a gift as well ;o)

And on that note I am going to go and annoy some more characters on Fall out. laters

9:48 pm

good evening all; anyone have the he 8? I can't figure it out for the life of me. I know it starts with the he 4/5...

9:51 pm

female he4 phandmd

9:51 pm

I got it

9:51 pm

oh nm that's he7

9:51 pm

he4/5 + preposition

9:51 pm

I needed to go the otherway with that he 4//5

9:59 pm

hi all

10:00 pm

hi Pini. How are you and how were your holidays?

10:00 pm

hi pini! :o)

10:00 pm

(and I'm still stuck on tha he8, btw)

10:01 pm

I'm doing ok...the holidays were pretty good...spent time with dau, SIL, gson and dogs (in the snow)

10:01 pm

try the he4 w/2 preps

10:01 pm

your's?

10:01 pm

it's one of todays more preposterous words

10:01 pm

ha 4 5 6 8 (all go together)

10:01 pm

Happy New Year all

10:02 pm

stick another 4 after a he4.

10:03 pm

he4/5_in4/4

10:03 pm

++++

10:03 pm

1) whereHA** thee gone 2) make HA*** (move quickly) 3) he4 + **ter thru the in door 4) the ha6 person

10:04 pm

thanks. I had to let the dog out right after I'd said that!

10:06 pm

need a drink

10:06 pm

We had a lovely Christmas and New Years, Pini. Spent it with the family.

10:07 pm

glad to hear, nef...it's nice when we can spend time with family, isn't it?

10:09 pm

yes it is. Especially when those with mental health issues are doing okay.... :-)

10:10 pm

;)

10:11 pm

bbl

10:12 pm

bye, hootowl

10:20 pm

* sparklers *

10:22 pm

off to check email...back soon

10:22 pm

YAY, Pini!!! WTG!!!

10:33 pm

YAY pini!!!!

10:33 pm

wondering if I should list and try to finish

10:33 pm

how're you doing, stid?

10:33 pm

better Nef, thanks. how are you? how is dh?

10:34 pm

he went to bed at 8:30 tonight; he's pulled something in his back again

10:35 pm

oh oh. *stern mama look* MEN!

10:35 pm

hi, all! - and say, stiddy! wondering if you or someone knows what happened to Babblers's Anonymous? just curious...

10:35 pm

hey rbud!

10:36 pm

you've been having way too many migraines lately; sending you blessings of health and improved eyesight

10:36 pm

BabAnon is still up, but the URL is different from the one posted here. hold on a sec.

10:36 pm

http://babblersanonymous.yuku.com/

10:37 pm

yuku took over the old site, rbud

10:37 pm

thanks Nef. I am hopeful things will get better. In about 6 months when I am done with school -- sooner if I don't do well

10:37 pm

cute ic4, rbud...

10:37 pm

ooh, neat, thanks!

10:37 pm

I was off for too long, missed out on the info...

10:38 pm

for a while after the changeover the old URL still worked.

10:38 pm

glad you're he4 now, though!

10:39 pm

glad it's still around. :)

10:40 pm

I once had a different name and password for that site (for a different BB) but I have no clue what they are now and I can't get in there anymore...

10:40 pm

It's possible I could help Nef if you are interested. I have admin privileges.

10:40 pm

(if I can remember my own password, that is!)

10:41 pm

yes, I thought you were a "honcho" at BabAnon, stid, that's why I asked when I saw you on.

10:42 pm

that would be great, stid; but not tonight. I'm having trouble staying awake again and wopuldn't remember it

10:42 pm

rofl... *proudly wearing honcho hat*

10:42 pm

that's fine nef -- holler at me some time to remind me and we'll see what is possible.

10:42 pm

LOL!

10:43 pm

thanks, stid.

10:43 pm

okay, now down to 27. me going to list!

10:46 pm

DDang! 40 leeft he4/4 aND I can't stay awake!!!!

10:47 pm

(((Nef))) sweet dreams -- take care of yourself and then you can take care of the grid tomorrow.

10:48 pm

good nite, stid

10:48 pm

10:48 pm

Happy Babbling ALL

10:48 pm

ma6/30?

10:48 pm

22 now! :-D

10:49 pm

still working on that one shirlock

10:52 pm

15... finding everything else!

10:52 pm

oh! like a face cover that has a face on it. the phantom of the opera wears one!

10:53 pm

o! using the high letter! duh! thx stid

10:54 pm

yes, it's deceptive. and the 7 adds one letter at the end

10:54 pm

that's FW! need any clues stid?

10:55 pm

congrats, Shirl! :)

10:55 pm

YAY shirlock!!!

10:55 pm

yes please. there is a fishy ma 5/14 before m + oxygen?

10:55 pm

ma + gardening implement

10:56 pm

thanks! (not as fishy as I feared) -- those hawaiian words tend to stump me

10:57 pm

was an earlier clue from someone otherwise i would prolly be asking myself

10:57 pm

anyone else?

10:58 pm

:-D

10:58 pm

well then... one more M to reach 10... the MA 6/24 before the bricklayer?

10:59 pm

add a consonant before the last vowel

11:00 pm

thanks shirlock!

11:00 pm

got it! down to 9!

11:00 pm

go stid go! :D

11:02 pm

LOL 8... like pulling teeth

11:04 pm

stumped by the OS 7 too...

11:06 pm

which is now my last word... *thinking*

11:09 pm

os 7 is a cancer, bone i think

11:09 pm

bone-related, ends in not your "pa"

11:09 pm

os + **a not coffee + c*** when you don't wake up

11:10 pm

os + **a not coffee + c*** when you don

11:10 pm

YAY!!!! firewords!!!!

11:10 pm

shirlock, these belong to you!!!! *showers flower petals*

11:10 pm

woohoo, stid! :)

11:11 pm

thanks so much. I will retire now, not ready for tomorrow, but feeling a real sense of accomplishment. **Hugs and choclits for all**

11:11 pm

Happy first monday/tuesday of the new year!!!! *poof*

11:12 pm

nite, stiddy! sleep well! :)

11:13 pm

<-- plodding along at 90 words so far...

11:18 pm

clue for he 6 24 please?

11:20 pm

nm just got it.

11:21 pm

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

11:22 pm

my children woke me 4 diff times since i went to bed...now..freakin WIDE awake

11:22 pm

help@ need clues for in 5 12 first one and ho 5 14 first one. any clues out there?

11:22 pm

terrible carlee

11:23 pm

in + not wet but ***ed

11:24 pm

and ho5 acure, civic etc

11:24 pm

not wet but damp??????

11:24 pm

acura* even

11:25 pm

carlee not getting those clues. ouch.

11:25 pm

civic as an enema?? or what?

11:25 pm

japanese car manufacturer

11:26 pm

got it une. ty.

11:26 pm

yw

11:26 pm

still need in 5 12 first one. damp..........hmmm

11:26 pm

throw ur wet clothes into a **yer to get ***ed

11:27 pm

got it carlee. ty ty

11:27 pm

never saw word before except grid.

11:27 pm

i am SOOO **$$ed off at my new internet provider..it freaking SUCKS

11:28 pm

i get dc every 30 sec

11:28 pm

same modem...same rpou

11:28 pm

same modem same router

11:28 pm

os 6 please? thought of osteo but wont take it.

11:28 pm

sorry carlee

11:29 pm

os+ go to a ****ma to see a movie

11:29 pm

ty for that os6

11:29 pm

got it. ty carlee.

11:29 pm

is the seven fromit?

11:30 pm

debating....coffee and stay up all night...

11:30 pm

need ma 5 14 first one please.

11:30 pm

the 7 is in thethe direction you were headed before

11:30 pm

os 7 clued at 11:09 by several, mkg

11:31 pm

ma+ *** your garden...or weeds

11:31 pm

ty got the os 7. great clue.

11:31 pm

is a garden tool

11:31 pm

got it. ty for great clues.

11:31 pm

ma 6 24 needed please.

11:32 pm

sounds like the ga6

11:33 pm

got it. ty

11:33 pm

now need ma 6 30. almost done.

11:34 pm

alternate spelling of a thing that covers ur face as a disguise..use high point tile

11:34 pm

and the 7 builds off it

11:35 pm

ty! got it. 6 left

11:35 pm

ty got 7.

11:36 pm

ne 5 needed next. 5 to go

11:37 pm

plural of tidy... and plural of an in**** gas ( incredibly stable gas chemically speaking )

11:37 pm

ne5 to you, lol! ;p

11:38 pm

sorry need second ne 5 10. apologies.

11:39 pm

i gave u both

11:39 pm

sorry. will look back.

11:39 pm

sort of a babblet, no singular version, pl only.

11:39 pm

got it ty carlee

11:40 pm

2 left.

11:40 pm

done.

11:40 pm

whew.

11:40 pm

ty ty for all the super clues.

11:40 pm

yay, mkg!!!

11:40 pm

i hope you can get back to sleep carlee.

11:40 pm

ty rbud.

11:40 pm

*~*~*POMPOM TOSS*~*~*FOR MKG

11:41 pm

well..if i dont by 1:30 i will make a pot of coffee

11:41 pm

and just stay up sll night...i will feel worse if i sleep 2 or 3 hours then if i dont sleep at all

11:52 pm

***kaboom***

11:53 pm

(just in time)

11:53 pm

wtg jilli

11:53 pm

yay, jilli!

11:55 pm

ty -- 'twas another busy day so I had to resort to morewords. Some day I'll be able to longer here longer and enjoy the clues.

11:56 pm

*linger

11:56 pm

hint for he8? my last 8 (not trying to finish)

11:57 pm

he8 -- add the opp of from to the previous word

11:57 pm

cute Snoopy, rbud!

11:58 pm

ty! (didn't have the other he's, either, do now.) 110, happy with that.

11:58 pm

hello

11:58 pm

he + thing for handling a horse + opp. of from

11:58 pm

cr6??

11:59 pm

nm

11:59 pm

firewords! LOL

11:59 pm

cr6 -- cr + the number before two

11:59 pm

*panting*

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