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Total score 0 pts.
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60 5,205
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69 5,205
70 5,205
71 5,205
72 5,205
73 5,205
74 5,205
75 5,205
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78 5,205
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80 5,205
81 5,205
82 5,205
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87 5,205
88 5,205
89 5,205
90 5,205
91 5,205
92 5,205
93 5,205
94 5,205
95 5,205
96 5,205
97 5,205
98 5,205
99 5,205
100 5,205
101 5,205
102 5,205
103 5,205
104 5,205
105 5,205
106 5,205
107 5,205
108 5,205
109 5,205
110 5,205
111 5,205
112 5,205
113 5,205
114 5,205
115 5,205
116 5,205
117 5,205
118 5,205
119 5,205
120 5,205
121 5,205
122 5,205
123 5,205
124 5,205
125 5,205
126 5,205
127 5,205
128 5,205
129 5,205
130 5,205
131 5,205
132 5,158
133 5,107
134 4,965
135 4,696
136 4,521
137 4,480
138 4,422
139 4,339
140 4,269
141 4,190
142 3,936
143 3,902
144 3,896
145 3,864
146 3,809
147 3,785
148 3,752
149 3,599
150 3,571
151 3,557
152 3,556
153 3,539
154 3,502
155 3,499
156 3,496
157 3,489
158 3,449
159 3,395
160 3,361
161 3,320
162 3,310
163 3,262
164 3,189
165 3,154
166 3,119
167 3,111
168 3,098
169 3,046
170 3,036
171 3,031
172 3,025
173 3,007
174 3,005
175 2,996
176 2,983
177 2,958
178 2,948
179 2,908
180 2,901
181 2,884
182 2,877
183 2,844
184 2,831
185 2,826
186 2,823
187 2,809
188 2,801
189 2,799
190 2,773
191 2,771
192 2,768
193 2,762
194 2,758
195 2,753
196 2,748
197 2,745
198 2,728
199 2,726
200 2,723
201 2,706
202 2,689
203 2,673
204 2,670
205 2,663
206 2,661
207 2,659
208 2,653
209 2,652
210 2,652
211 2,623
212 2,618
213 2,613
214 2,611
215 2,611
216 2,592
217 2,583
218 2,582
219 2,582
220 2,563
221 2,553
222 2,547
223 2,537
224 2,527
225 2,525
226 2,525
227 2,515
228 2,515
229 2,515
230 2,513
231 2,490
232 2,486
233 2,484
234 2,472
235 2,460
236 2,456
237 2,455
238 2,451
239 2,442
240 2,428
241 2,421
242 2,416
243 2,375
244 2,373
245 2,340
246 2,339
247 2,334
248 2,331
249 2,330
250 2,328
251 2,323
252 2,323
253 2,320
254 2,317
255 2,297
256 2,294
257 2,286
258 2,277
259 2,273
260 2,267
261 2,264
262 2,257
263 2,252
264 2,251
265 2,251
266 2,248
267 2,234
268 2,227
269 2,226
270 2,216
271 2,192
272 2,186
273 2,182
274 2,174
275 2,171
276 2,145
277 2,142
278 2,137
279 2,136
280 2,133
281 2,132
282 2,115
283 2,115
284 2,102
285 2,100
286 2,099
287 2,098
288 2,098
289 2,073
290 2,067
291 2,058
292 2,052
293 2,046
294 2,044
295 2,042
296 2,032
297 2,031
298 2,021
299 2,015
300 2,013
301 1,994
302 1,993
303 1,992
304 1,988
305 1,986
306 1,983
307 1,976
308 1,975
309 1,974
310 1,970
311 1,969
312 1,968
313 1,964
314 1,957
315 1,942
316 1,937
317 1,926
318 1,916
319 1,909
320 1,906
321 1,900
322 1,897
323 1,888
324 1,886
325 1,879
326 1,874
327 1,873
328 1,868
329 1,866
330 1,856
331 1,854
332 1,847
333 1,845
334 1,842
335 1,807
336 1,800
337 1,784
338 1,781
339 1,760
340 1,760
341 1,751
342 1,742
343 1,741
344 1,736
345 1,733
346 1,726
347 1,724
348 1,721
349 1,719
350 1,716
351 1,712
352 1,705
353 1,704
354 1,702
355 1,700
356 1,694
357 1,690
358 1,676
359 1,675
360 1,668
361 1,661
362 1,658
363 1,653
364 1,651
365 1,642
366 1,640
367 1,634
368 1,632
369 1,629
370 1,607
371 1,603
372 1,592
373 1,582
374 1,581
375 1,577
376 1,568
377 1,568
378 1,549
379 1,540
380 1,536
381 1,530
382 1,530
383 1,527
384 1,520
385 1,517
386 1,516
387 1,508
388 1,507
389 1,504
390 1,494
391 1,494
392 1,490
393 1,485
394 1,481
395 1,475
396 1,466
397 1,463
398 1,455
399 1,454
400 1,450
401 1,450
402 1,446
403 1,439
404 1,437
405 1,436
406 1,433
407 1,432
408 1,430
409 1,427
410 1,426
411 1,424
412 1,423
413 1,421
414 1,416
415 1,413
416 1,411
417 1,409
418 1,406
419 1,402
420 1,394
421 1,388
422 1,377
423 1,374
424 1,368
425 1,363
426 1,350
427 1,349
428 1,345
429 1,342
430 1,337
431 1,337
432 1,336
433 1,335
434 1,325
435 1,324
436 1,323
437 1,306
438 1,303
439 1,296
440 1,291
441 1,273
442 1,272
443 1,270
444 1,267
445 1,264
446 1,263
447 1,261
448 1,257
449 1,253
450 1,244
451 1,241
452 1,224
453 1,211
454 1,208
455 1,205
456 1,204
457 1,200
458 1,198
459 1,192
460 1,190
461 1,189
462 1,182
463 1,176
464 1,172
465 1,169
466 1,165
467 1,161
468 1,141
469 1,138
470 1,135
471 1,124
472 1,123
473 1,120
474 1,113
475 1,113
476 1,110
477 1,110
478 1,103
479 1,102
480 1,102
481 1,098
482 1,095
483 1,093
484 1,080
485 1,073
486 1,072
487 1,060
488 1,059
489 1,051
490 1,044
491 1,043
492 1,040
493 1,039
494 1,035
495 1,032
496 1,029
497 1,027
498 1,024
499 1,021
500 1,019
501 1,017
502 1,014
503 1,010
504 1,009
505 1,009
506 1,008
507 1,003
508 1,001
509 995
510 992
511 991
512 981
513 980
514 980
515 980
516 974
517 967
518 965
519 964
520 961
521 953
522 952
523 950
524 948
525 947
526 942
527 920
528 916
529 910
530 902
531 902
532 901
533 891
534 881
535 877
536 875
537 864
538 862
539 852
540 850
541 830
542 829
543 826
544 824
545 821
546 821
547 811
548 804
549 800
550 798
551 794
552 792
553 780
554 771
555 770
556 766
557 761
558 737
559 733
560 732
561 726
562 720
563 718
564 712
565 709
566 700
567 687
568 685
569 681
570 673
571 670
572 670
573 669
574 656
575 652
576 650
577 633
578 633
579 633
580 631
581 631
582 626
583 621
584 615
585 608
586 605
587 593
588 593
589 591
590 564
591 559
592 557
593 547
594 543
595 543
596 526
597 523
598 520
599 510
600 499
601 498
602 491
603 491
604 485
605 483
606 478
607 476
608 473
609 468
610 454
611 454
612 448
613 444
614 438
615 437
616 436
617 429
618 429
619 415
620 414
621 413
622 409
623 393
624 384
625 377
626 372
627 369
628 368
629 366
630 364
631 361
632 355
633 345
634 342
635 341
636 340
637 340
638 329
639 324
640 320
641 316
642 311
643 307
644 306
645 295
646 291
647 267
648 258
649 256
650 251
651 249
652 228
653 222
654 216
655 209
656 183
657 179
658 176
659 165
660 159
661 155
662 145
663 142
664 141
665 140
666 130
667 125
668 122
669 119
670 118
671 116
672 92
673 90
674 86
675 72
676 66
677 52
678 40
679 34
680 27
681 27
682 9
683 8
684 5
685 4
686 4

336 total words

12:00 am

flip

12:00 am

flop -- much too big

12:00 am

sizeable

o flip o 336

12:00 am

and lots of oos

Flip!

Clues are up

A nice meaty one.

Thanks lickety!

12:02 am

you're quick, lickety!

liofesaver lickety thx

12:03 am

hello

12:04 am

c

12:05 am

Too big for me. I like the little ones.

te8

12:06 am

C6

12:06 am

ch

late flip; hi all

12:08 am

CH 6 X2

The bigger puzzles net you more points for completion, Faux.

st 7 & 8

le8 x 2

You're in this one Faux.

And a plural of your kind.

12:10 am

ST 7/44

at7 & at8, I'm referring to.

12:12 am

why is "atchoo" not a word?

Good question?

12:12 am

i tried it too but its achoo i htik

12:12 am

think

12:12 am

ah, so it is.

12:12 am

nell is that at 7/32 and 8/45?

12:13 am

Not seeing it Neil. I must be blind.

12:13 am

good lord... first words I saw were ho7 and le8 LOL!

12:14 am

faux it goes in a zig zag pattern sort of

12:14 am

HO 6/7

12:15 am

CH 6/7

12:15 am

got 1/3 of them. sleepy. sadly, this is probably too big for me to finish tomorrow, as i have to work late.

12:15 am

good luck, all

12:17 am

ae4 is a babblet

Sorry, was just doing some tweeting.

Yes it is, jesdraggon.

12:17 am

scrolling back -- I think achoo IS a word in enable

ch 6 x 3

Sorry, MLFAN that question.

12:18 am

ch8 if not called

12:18 am

no problem nell

12:19 am

and neil -- some of us don't give a hoot about scores and rankings, lol!

I think you are right gili

jili

12:19 am

hi dee hi (can't forget to do that, lol)

12:19 am

*gently puts jill in PB with lovely russian choclits and croatian plum brandy*

st 7 x 3 so far

hi stid hi jili

12:20 am

uh oh -- what did I say?

huh jilli? Why are you saying that to me there? when did I mention scores and rankings? #confused

12:20 am

oh, I see -- ho4

12:21 am

I thought you said the big grids gave more points, neil

Oh you're right, yes.. I did say that. They do though!

12:21 am

<-- removes foot from mouth

so it' s kinda nice to finish one if it's doable.

But I'm not saying I care that much about scores and rankings.

12:22 am

well, yes, but getting points doesn't matter to moi.

12:22 am

I see.

12:23 am

THIRD COLUMN 2ND O stats please?

ol5

12:24 am

ol5

12:24 am

thanks rasta

12:24 am

and une

help with bottom a in the 1st column please

12:25 am

ho 6/7: prostitutes

12:25 am

at 7/8

12:25 am

dee

12:25 am

Dee at 7/8

ty looking

12:26 am

any 9s??????????

no 9s

12:26 am

no

Good Jewish word in the grid. :)

finally nbt nbs

12:27 am

wtg Dee

12:27 am

wtg dee

12:27 am

hi flosey

ty ty

how many le 8's are there please?

12:28 am

hi jilli

12:29 am

I have 2 le 8

ty diz!

12:30 am

stats for the S in the 5th column please?

12:30 am

ch7 x 3

ty une missing one then

12:32 am

okay, NBT, NBS, halfway and time to sleep. sweet dream all! *poof*

12:32 am

wtg stid and gnight

wtg stid nite nite

ch 7 x 4 and ch 8/50

12:35 am

go, dee!!

12:35 am

was EC 6/7 called?

12:36 am

i think so

lol ty une... you set me on the path

12:36 am

5th column S stats anyone?

ch 7 x 5

12:37 am

good grief!!

12:37 am

nbt

the ch 7/8 combo think cigars

wtg jili

12:37 am

are you okay une?

12:37 am

that's the first one i found :-)

12:38 am

si5/10, mlf

12:38 am

thanks jill

12:39 am

nbs now -- ty dee for the cigars

12:39 am

yw mlf

12:39 am

jill is it a word i should know?

yw wtg

12:39 am

yes, mlf

12:39 am

nbt & nbs

12:40 am

wtg flosey

12:40 am

thanks again jill

wtg flosey

12:40 am

thanks jilli and Dee

12:40 am

mlf, if you haven't found it, that S is a pl

12:41 am

halfway and off to bed -- nite, all *poof*

12:41 am

wow, une!

12:42 am

got it geez thought i tried that

12:42 am

thansk again jill

wtg une nite

12:42 am

yw again, lol!

12:42 am

nbt i am out of here poof

12:43 am

bye mlf

good morning all, can I have a clue for the O in the 2nd row please for nbs and nbt

et 7/36

12:44 am

hello everyone -- evening's guests just left, so late start for me

Hi Jivingjenny and cybernan.

12:45 am

oo 4/5, jenny -- exclamations

hi neil

12:45 am

hi nan -- and it's a biggie

thanks jilli

12:46 am

yw jenny

all these vowels are tough

an 7/32 an 8/45 x 2

12:55 am

oh boy. a biggie

12:55 am

nbt, nbs

Yep. Not bad though.

wtg nan and hi ru

12:56 am

hi ru

12:57 am

ty for the an's dee

yqw still one 8 short here

12:58 am

hi guys

12:58 am

hi ruru

le 7 x 3 so far; le 8 x 2

It seems like I've hit a wall now.

1:03 am

have one le 8, but don't see the other

both start exactly the same nan, just change the last letter to another consonant

1:04 am

Stick a N at the end, Nan

1:04 am

nan just change the last letter

The other is very similar, nan.

la 7/32

1:05 am

ty

yw

anyone have the last 8?

1:07 am

i need the middle O for nbt please

1:07 am

i need the middle O for nbt please

1:08 am

ol5/16

I think ol 5/16 and hi cos

1:08 am

ty and hi

1:08 am

hi cos

al 7 x 2... al 7/32 new word for me a valved instrument

1:10 am

ah duh i see it now.. nbt

1:10 am

wtg cos

1:11 am

past half way

1:11 am

phantom aerosol

wtg cos wtg flosey

1:11 am

thanks Dee

yw

1:14 am

found both al7s

wtg

1:14 am

good for you cos, don't have those yet

1:17 am

found one of the al 7's, ty

one is a woman's name and pl... long ago... woman dr. on Days of Our Lives

1:18 am

that's the one I found

al + prickly ouchy thing on roses

1:19 am

thanks Dee

1:20 am

never watched or listened to Days of Our Lives :-(

1:20 am

ty dee

yw

1:20 am

neither have I jilli, but knew a girl by that name

1:20 am

but thanks for the other al7

the other is the rose of Sharon

1:21 am

good morning

1:21 am

hi ruby

hi ruby

1:21 am

hello ruby

1:22 am

{{jilli}} {{flosey}}

1:22 am

it was wild last evening, peeps were experiencing the earthquake while playing and then getting reports from all over the place

1:23 am

I haven't seen the news this AM; were there aftershocks

1:23 am

there was a 4.x aftershock I heard about

1:23 am

v's done

was that the one in Pennsylvania?

1:24 am

I called my sister in NY and she felt it but didn't know what had happened. She thought her house was falling down

wtg nan... still have 2 more v's to go and 5 k's that I cannot begin to imagine what they are...

1:24 am

don't know where

my friend in eastern PA said it was really odd ruby

1:25 am

the last I knew, at 9PM Fr time, was that it was a 6.0, epicenter in VA and felt from Ontario to N. Carolina

1:25 am

it was evidently of very long duration, like a minute

wow... I need to check out the news

1:25 am

JBV was the first one who felt it who was on line

1:25 am

I heard 5.6 or something, not 6.0

1:26 am

I had no idea that the East coast was vulnerable

1:26 am

I saw two revisions last night, so maybe they down-graded since I saw the news

I think the whole earth is vulnerable to earthquakes...

1:26 am

It hardly ever is at that magnitude.

1:27 am

It was shallow, so felt worse.

1:27 am

even here, we're on a fault but, fortunately, it's very old and not so active; so far, they've only had tiny ones, the last one just before we moved here

1:27 am

aah, that explains why it was felt so widely

Indiana had a tiny one last year close to Indianapolis...very strange

1:28 am

I've experienced 5ish quakes in Montreal and in Memphis.

1:29 am

200 down -- enough for me for tonight :)

wtg nan

1:29 am

well done nan, good night

1:29 am

good night nan

1:30 am

good for you, dee, gnight

1:30 am

is it true that they evacuated the Pentagon and some museums in NY?

lo 7/44

not sure ruby haven't seen the news today

isn't there also a hurricane in that VA, Carolina area...and up the east coast?

1:31 am

yes, ruby

1:32 am

the hurricane hasn't reached there yet

1:32 am

hurricane Irene was in Puerto Rico heading west day before yesterday

1:32 am

sook

when is that supposed to hit jii, do you know?

1:32 am

sorry

1:32 am

not for a few days, I think, dee

ty ruby :)

I have family in NC and that is where we usually go for vacation

1:35 am

it was interesting being on line while it was happening; people were all writing what they were experiencing....

1:35 am

I hear people are battening the hatches in Florida too

en 7/28... think system under the ground for nourishing plans...

1:36 am

ty dee

yw

still haven't found that last 8 ...it's probably an re since I hate those lol

1:38 am

phant -- sketch

1:38 am

R's are finished and NO 8

1:38 am

over halfway

whew ty diz great!

1:39 am

lol yw

1:40 am

wtg jilli

1:40 am

*sarks

1:41 am

no more talking for bad ruby! woofing off to the pb for more coffee...

1:41 am

ty ruby

1:42 am

I still wish you'd get Expert, ruby!

1:45 am

when you come to Fr and visit, jilli, you can help me install it!

1:45 am

and I'll ply you with white peach preserves

1:46 am

You just download it, ruby!

1:46 am

nothing complicated

1:47 am

the link is in my profile if you scroll down.

er 7/40 has to do with the wearing away of the ground and rocks...

1:49 am

I get the first 4 letters of that, dee, but then can't see the rest

1:50 am

OK, jilli, I've written it down and will do it after I take a break

think of a sifter without one of the e's

It describes the 'quality' that causes that to happen [wearing away of rocks].

ty neil!! perfect!

1:51 am

ah, gotcha dee and neil -- thanks!

You're welcome, Volleymom.

is 6 and is 7/32 pl line on a weather map

1:53 am

ruby -- I'm falling alseep. The file is a zip and you'll hae to unzip it, then run it.

What's this?

Some kind of software?

Nothing to installing: just open and let it run and do its thing. That's it.

1:54 am

hi neil

1:54 am

I'm talking about Babble Expert -- a great think Lickety made -- for PCs only, unfortunately.

What is that?

1:55 am

*thing

What does it do?

1:56 am

BabbleExpert is a wonderful thing Lickety made for PCs, where everything is on one page and there is a "Lickety Add" box where if you type one word it goes to both lists, and if you type more than one it goes to the chat. There are other goodies too, like a link to morewords above the grid in the Resources tab. It's free -- just email Lickety and ask for it.

1:56 am

But it doesn't work for Macs.

What do you mean by both lists?

1:57 am

I just tried and it wouldn't accept the link....hopeless

1:58 am

The "My Word List" in Babble and Lickety's list.

1:58 am

Wouldn't accept the link???

That's ok, I use a PC laptop for this. I have a Macbook, but it's strictly for running my music studio/recording software... it lives on my Yamaha CP-5 (piano). You can see it on a little stand on the back of the piano.

1:59 am

it said only for pc's;p now here's the stupid question: is my big old computer a pc?

2:00 am

I noticed it in your photo, neil -- thought you were a Mac person.

I am, but a lot of the word games I enjoy online don't work very well (or at all) on a Mac.

And some other things, too.

So I have both.

2:00 am

ruby, does it run Windows? If so, it's a PC.

2:02 am

yes, ok, I'll try again

sh 7 and sh 8 like the ch cigars

2:02 am

Neil, if you're mre awake and techie than I am maybe you can help ruby.

2:02 am

yes, ok, I'll try again

2:03 am

ty again, dee

yqw

2:03 am

What version of Windows are you using, ruby?

2:04 am

tried again and got a different error message

2:04 am

windows XP

Is there a way to talk off here if so, rather than do all this in the chat log?

2:04 am

what did the error message say?

When did you get the error message?

2:05 am

sorry

2:05 am

no way to talk, neil

2:05 am

I'll stop

Ok I took a guess jilli, since you're on Google.

2:05 am

don't stop, ruby!

No need to stop.

2:06 am

I'm embarrassed to be such a computer dope

2:06 am

I don't chat on Foofle.

Foofle? Haha!

2:06 am

v's vanquished

2:07 am

Lol! I meant Google! But foofle is cute.

I don't know. I do fine without whatever that program is.

It is!

2:07 am

I vote for foofle

2:07 am

jilli was just trying to keep me from making my usual mistake.....

2:08 am

Yes, neil you do fine indeed.

2:08 am

without Expert it's so easy to put words in the chat.

My age[26] left to find.

2:09 am

So ruby, what did the error message say?

2:10 am

the first one said the site wasn't available. the second one referred me to a "gator" site

Oh, so you did get it installed ok?

2:10 am

off to bed for me, goodnight everyone

hi and bye [goodnight] flosey.

2:11 am

sweet dreams, flosey (which, of course, I typed in the word space!)

Haha!

I'm always careful to definitely click my cursor in here or there, depending where I want to type.

2:11 am

gnight flosey, sleep tight

2:12 am

neil, have you any idea what those error messages mean?

2:12 am

I'm trying to be careful, too, neil, but when I get caught up in the chog, I often make that mistake

2:13 am

thanks all, lots of work for tomorrow, may not get back to this, 135 go go

2:13 am

believe it or not, my son is a computer expert! but he lives in TX

2:13 am

**to go

2:13 am

well done, flosey. I have a busy day coming up too.

2:15 am

Ruby, are there no young techie-wise kids in your town? I'm sure your French is adequate...

18 left now.

2:16 am

there's one, but last I heard, he was in Canada, looking for a job!

2:16 am

Holy smoke, neil!

17

Yes, I do that... bad habit.

16

2:17 am

Oh, there must be others -- all kids are techie-wise enough to get you Expert.

2:18 am

Quit, neil! You can do it...

15

Quit? Oh, smoking. Thought you meant this.

2:18 am

I mean quit smoking, not finding words!

Haha! No. Not gonna quit when I'm this close to the end.

2:19 am

Keep on babbling, neil...

14

2:20 am

gogogo

12

2:21 am

I have to gogogo to bed! Congrats in advance, neil, and...*poof

2:21 am

Go Neazle!

2:21 am

sleep well jilli, I'll work on expert later

Haha!

Ummm, none of you saw that... riiight?

2:22 am

Good night Jill.

2:23 am

Night faux

2:23 am

I bet they didn't Neazle. They've all gone to bed.

2:23 am

Night ruby

2:23 am

what did you do, neil?

2:23 am

Wrong, faux!

2:23 am

haha faux

2:24 am

Haha!

2:24 am

He got called Neazle

2:24 am

sweet?

2:24 am

sounds like one of the 7 dwarfs

2:24 am

*repoof

Haha! Well it's fitting for a dork like me.

2:25 am

You are not a dork.

I am so a dork. And proud of it.

2:26 am

Umm, no.

Ummm, yes.

We're having our first Babble chog argument? Wow. Jerry Springer will be next.

2:28 am

omg

2:28 am

*throws chair at Neazle*

2:29 am

haha faux

owwwwch!

2:29 am

Awww.

2:35 am

break now, see you later. Did you finish, neil?

5 left.

2:36 am

Good night ruby.

4

Goodnight Ruby.

3

2

And that's a wrap.

2:39 am

Congratulations Neil!

Thanks, Laura!

2:41 am

You're welcome. :o)

2:59 am

hi all

4:03 am

good morning all

4:05 am

Hello all hugs to sprite has anyone see mrp la rely?

4:05 am

hiya chic, talked to her in babble 2 days ago. *hugs* right back at ye :)

4:05 am

Lately

4:07 am

she was here a few hours ago . . .

4:07 am

Thanks I need them I got an open wound going on my he'll of bad leg.

4:07 am

hi Une

4:07 am

hey, sprite :-)

4:07 am

ouch chic, that is awful. Perhaps you can send her an email?

4:11 am

Actually it was quite painful as it was rubbing inside the boot

4:11 am

sounds very painful

4:13 am

Sorry have to go folks

4:13 am

all the best, chic, and I can help you send an email to mrP, if you like

4:14 am

Ks dead :D

5:03 am

fireflies. Bye all.

little bloody *&^(%#@ can't go out to dinner without the kids getting into it... had to bale out half way through

5:11 am

grrrr, bloody kids...LOL

5:11 am

**FIREWORDS**

on ya diz :)

5:14 am

THANX MRP

5:15 am

wasn't too bad of a grid....listed with around 100 to go

has been ok really

some weirdo words

5:54 am

hello again, back from lunch

5:56 am

anybody here?

some of us lurkers!!

5:58 am

uh oh, scary lurkers!

lol

how was lunch ruby?

5:59 am

local (bad) Italian restaurant. But anything is better than making lunch in this heat! Also, I'm in love with their dog (and I think it's mutual)

6:00 am

... just those of us having tea and toast for breakfast ... au liew de une omelette des champignons pour le dejeuner ...

6:00 am

is it hot there, lady?

6:00 am

hahah dose!

6:00 am

and hello

6:00 am

... avec un peu de vin?

6:00 am

je bois le grappa aux italiens

not too bad this morning but it will get worse as the day goes on - at least the hurricane will miss us

6:01 am

but did you get the earthquake?

no, thank god

6:01 am

it was wild on here last evening as it happened while people were online

6:01 am

... it's always good .... especially when you don't have to drive into the city ... and some humungous truck with a load of gravel has flipped on our version of an interstate highway and they've closed the highway

i bet

6:03 am

my sister, in NYC, felt it and didn't know what it was

that had to be very freaky esp. with what they've been through

6:04 am

she lives in an old neighborhood and this year has had a tornado, huge snowstorms and, now, an earthquake. It is definitely freaky

mother earth is not happy!

6:05 am

is a little ch***let a small household task?

6:05 am

I agree, lady

6:07 am

... it is very unnerving to experience an earthquake ... especially one at 5.9 on the Richter scale ... but it doesn't seem that there was much noticeable damage ... ... and the one in Japan was 40 times as powerful ...

6:07 am

we live on a minor fault line, but the last one here was about 15 yrs ago and very small

6:08 am

... we should just be thankful that this one wasn't any stronger than it was ...

6:12 am

yay, half at last!

all right .... 23 K's .... geesh

6:13 am

... the monkeys will be busy today ...

you are right!

6:13 am

not possible, lady, I have 18 and had to squeeze those out.....

LOL I'm at 7 and lost already!

6:15 am

plenty of bananas at hand.....

ooo 13, i'm on a roll!

6:22 am

i dont think i KNOW 23 k words..lol

6:23 am

so ill make them up as i normally do

rofl

6:24 am

hi rolin

6:25 am

hey ruby

6:26 am

big lag!

6:31 am

60 S words! Are you kidding me!

6:38 am

200 words and taking a break!

6:38 am

*poof*

bye ruby

6:41 am

does anyone have the fourth ko 4/8..plz

not there yet, sorry

6:43 am

... haven't listed ... and too far away to know if my fourth is the fourth

6:43 am

np... i iwll just grind my teeth lol

6:47 am

morning, all! dropping in quickly before getting my day started...

6:49 am

ooooo! just noticed all the o's in the upper right...

ivey, i think the 4th ko 4/8 is like the one before it but with a different last letter

6:50 am

... agreed

6:59 am

like the designer, Michael Ko**?

7:00 am

or like he middle of the apple?

7:02 am

ty all got it

7:03 am

will ask all to say a prayer , as my son goes for a job interview today.. first one since he has been clean and sober!

7:03 am

best of luck to him, ivesy!!

7:04 am

(((Ivesy))) good vibes out for your son. I lit a candle for him.

7:04 am

ty. they know he is a recovering addict, and said they are willing to take a chance..tk god for people like that

7:05 am

ty molly.

7:05 am

Amen Ivesy. Everyone deserves a second chance.

7:09 am

yes, good luck to your son, ivesy, and bravo to him!

7:13 am

ty sue. big big step

7:16 am

My best wishes and Prayers to you,I know what youre going trough,mine never made it.

7:18 am

(((Yvo)))

7:20 am

GMA

7:20 am

GMA= good morning all :)

7:21 am

I will not accept that there are 23 K words. I protest!!

7:22 am

i agree it is bizarre. i have only 5.

7:22 am

7 here

7:22 am

kool

7:23 am

i have 4 and struggling

7:24 am

10

7:24 am

sorry forgot to move curser

7:24 am

7 here and good morning everyone

7:25 am

10 k's now

7:25 am

show off.....lol

7:25 am

i have 3 k with double vowel and diff last letter

7:25 am

well,I am very pleased with myself, monkeys are helping

7:26 am

any 8 letter clues?

7:26 am

there is a ka4 with double vowell in the middle

7:26 am

actually there are 3 with double vowels in the middle

7:27 am

ty mkg

7:27 am

yes and just got a k word with double vowel that is diff vowel. so sorry but clue not so good

7:27 am

ke 4s are what i clued.

7:28 am

o8'shere

7:28 am

Them's fightin' words - 14

7:28 am

no 8's here is what I meant

7:28 am

well i cant get half way even. can you clue the o 8>

7:29 am

sorry, can you clue the o 8 please?

I have 13 ks. Yikes.

7:29 am

up to 12 ks'

7:29 am

I have one 8 - st8/60 its a plural

7:30 am

ty River

7:30 am

river that is the one i have too. but need all others. what ones begin wtih O please?

7:30 am

she meant no not o

7:30 am

that was a mistake, see my post at 7:28

7:31 am

help with i words pls

7:31 am

mornin babblers!

7:31 am

hi Eva

7:31 am

I gave up on k's for now - trying to get NBT with too many tiles left

7:31 am

hello Eva

7:31 am

i see. ty.

7:31 am

ks words? yipes. dont have any

7:34 am

made ti half way! yeah. that is my goal nowadays.

7:34 am

by all. enjoy.

7:35 am

I am half way but still have 3 blank tiles - ugh

7:36 am

me too River do you have any i words

7:36 am

but I am not half way

7:36 am

3 blank tiles

7:37 am

one is4/4

7:37 am

I need the 2 single o's

7:37 am

isle

7:37 am

thats it peri - very good

7:37 am

ty *blushing*, going back to my corner

7:38 am

2 blank tiles - just the o's left

7:38 am

s in right column?

7:38 am

what you put grain in

7:38 am

the plural

7:39 am

duh, ty

7:39 am

I need the lone O's now

7:39 am

got one of the o's - just need the middle column o

7:39 am

one is OO4

7:40 am

oo4/5

7:40 am

that is the one I need too :)

7:40 am

got it - what you put in a martini

7:40 am

tyvm

7:40 am

whoohooo - nbt and nbs

7:40 am

going now, bbl

7:41 am

same here, cu later

7:41 am

have a good day peri

7:42 am

if anyone needs a couple of 7's and 8's: ch7 and 8 cigars, at7 and 8 nonbelievers

7:43 am

le7 and 8, tanned hides

7:43 am

and good morning!

7:43 am

just got that one - but thanks Une and good morning

7:43 am

:-D

7:43 am

never been a cigar smoker - looking for that ch

7:44 am

me either but, for some reason, that jumped out at me right away! LOL

7:44 am

ends in part of plant under ground

7:45 am

rats . . . sooo close to aerosol

7:45 am

thanks for the clue - got it

7:45 am

cool!

7:45 am

thats your phantom

7:46 am

indeed . . .

7:47 am

morning again all!

7:47 am

hi une and river!

7:47 am

hey, sue :-)

7:47 am

good morning sue

7:49 am

<--- does not like days that begin at 5 am and end at 11 pm

7:49 am

that is a long day for sure

good morning all; how many words today and thanks

7:49 am

336 steve

too many; thanks

7:49 am

and good morning to you

7:50 am

the first 100 go fast

7:50 am

112 to go . . . back in a mo . . . need coffee!

7:50 am

its those 23 K's that will kill you

just sent the baby off to middle school. oy, what a week.

7:55 am

hello GE - school started already?

7:56 am

my baby starts high school next week and my first born leaves for college this friday...

7:56 am

I have two freshman in the family...lol

this is after sending my eldest to college over the weekend!

7:57 am

my granddaughter is off to kindergarten this morning

such an emotional time isn't it river!

7:57 am

aw...how cute

7:57 am

it sure is GE - already feeling the empty nest without having one yet

7:58 am

its going to be very different without my daughter slamming around the house...too quiet I am afraid

i keep trying to look on the bright side (less fights, less laundry) but i'm not there yet.

7:58 am

and my son is so active in sports, he wont be home much - soccer every day

7:59 am

me either

7:59 am

its time for my breakfast - will be back in a bit

my youngest says she's having trouble getting to sleep bc the eldest isnt there playing her music in the room next door.

8:00 am

ho

'scuse me?

ok, i'm off to the first dr appt since my mom's cancer came back. whew, what a day! bbl

8:10 am

ok, I am back and in my office after small kerfuffle with son and car...

8:11 am

i am off to start my day - BBL

8:12 am

bye, teach!

8:22 am

Good morning, dahlings.

Hi Judi

8:23 am

hi, herin!

8:23 am

and hi, Judi!

HOw you all goin?

8:25 am

S'all good.

8:25 am

busy, grading at the moment, then will post grades, then will look at today's lecture so I am sure I know what I am doing :-)

8:25 am

then meetings on and off all day, ending some time after 10 pm :-(

I have been munching on nibbles

8:26 am

Wow. Long day, uusue.

8:27 am

no kidding. I am telling my student group (which meets Monday and Wednesday evenings at 9) that I can't go on being their advisor.

wow

8:31 am

Absolutely, uusue. You have to carve out a chunk for your own life.

8:32 am

Morning folks

8:32 am

Hiya, Bob!

hi bob

8:36 am

hi, mr bob!

8:37 am

Eesh. Down to 180 and only blacked out one O box and the V box. I can't remember the last time I finished a grid.

125 left. sheesh.

8:41 am

Ah ha. Just realized "Elvis" is in the grid.

8:42 am

good morning everyone:)

8:46 am

sixty s words?!!..omg

Cross the first 200 is fairly easy

8:54 am

Eyes going buggy. Need to take a break. 134 left. GRRRR. BBL *POOF*

later Judi

9:01 am

fairly easy grid except for the large number of words I had trouble finding

hi BR

9:02 am

Hello, herin

9:02 am

i try to get the ones i cannot find out of the way first,and the rest is easy

9:18 am

did something to my mouse and can't get the cursor to go back to "normal" -- it's a dot with arrow above and below

9:20 am

thought I did this before and all I had to do was double click or something but nothing's making it change :-(

9:22 am

anyone?

9:22 am

http://tinyurl.com/3gcnzm5 How to change your cursor in Windows

9:23 am

ok, will try but all the solutions I find are for if you intentionally changed the "look" of the cursor, which I didn't do

Une,you are in the PB!

9:25 am

The dot with the arrow above and below is the scrolling cursor. Try double clicking your scroll roller.

Lo4.

9:26 am

I tried that, Molly -- went to control panel . . . somehow the box "enable pointer shadow" was checked so I unchecked it . . . whew!

9:26 am

Glad you got it fixed.

9:26 am

the PB I can deal with! LOL

9:27 am

ok . . . BBL . . . *poof*

9:32 am

anyone have the last le 4/8 plz..the bugger is driving me nuts

9:34 am

Woweee! Big honking grid today! Is it Saturday already?!?!?

9:34 am

one is a vegetable ... national vegetable of Wales ... it's like a really big green onion

9:35 am

ok have that one. this is the one after the hawiian necklace

9:36 am

.. a later one has only one vowel and is plural

9:37 am

... oops ... it didn't mean what I thought it meant ... oh well ... I can spell it ... just not describe what it means

9:37 am

une,just left click on an empty space in the window and that will vanish

9:39 am

np dose ty for trying..

9:39 am

sigh..crossy not breathing well today,cats are already shedding the summer coats..:((

9:40 am

Oh Crossy... I am sorry.

9:41 am

it is the pennance i pay for smoking for 25 years but next year it will be 10 years smoke free!

9:41 am

Well done! Congratulations!

9:43 am

and now for crossy,s tidbit of the day!

9:44 am

Built in 1889, the Eiffel Tower was lambasted by Parisians for its industrial ugliness. The only thing that saved it from being demolished in 1909 was its potential use as a radio tower during World War I. Luckily, by the end of the War, it had won over enough hearts to stay.

9:45 am

so,if not for ww1,there would be no eiffel tower

9:46 am

Ivesy, le + I will give you five buc** for that old book.

9:46 am

TY crossy! I do enjoy your tidbits of the day!

9:46 am

Hi Molly!

9:46 am

ty molly!

9:46 am

lol,np at all car:) i enjoy digging them up

9:47 am

May I please have the stats for the center O?

9:48 am

ol5/16 and hello everyone

9:48 am

Hi River! TY!

9:48 am

ol5/16

9:48 am

Got it!

9:48 am

howdy riverdance

I have 18 k's!!

9:48 am

And TY BzznBea!

9:48 am

Wow! good for you Kaplan...with a K1

9:48 am

show off Kap

9:48 am

*K1

9:48 am

K!

9:48 am

My typing is less than subpar this morning! Sorry!

9:48 am

There arent 18 k's in the world!!! I HATE k's!!

9:49 am

I think I have mistyped more words this morning than I actuall have!

Gotta go...

9:50 am

Bye Kaplan! Have a great day!

9:50 am

bye Kap

9:52 am

phantom: cheetah

9:55 am

anyone have clues for the an7 and 8's?

9:55 am

I have 122 words left that are hiding quite well

9:55 am

on the first cl6 please?

9:56 am

didnt even though was was an an7 and 8...lol

9:56 am

I don't have any cl's yet!

9:57 am

I havent listed yet so sorry cant help - have one cl6 and is c + what a robber ends up with plural

9:57 am

my only cl's: cl5 and 6 (sing and plural) -- rhymes with the sound an owl makes

9:58 am

oh, snap, river :-)

9:58 am

those are the 2 I just found as well.

9:58 am

Thanks -- I have that one

those are the only two I have as well

9:59 am

c + brand of jeans

9:59 am

tx bea

9:59 am

ty bzzz

thanks bzzn

9:59 am

Tu!

9:59 am

*TY!

9:59 am

thanks bea

9:59 am

yw

10:00 am

of for crying out loud -- Thank you!!

10:03 am

Exactly halfway! Time to work!

10:03 am

Have a great day everyone!

10:03 am

bye call - you too

10:04 am

*car

10:04 am

is7?

10:04 am

hi all

10:05 am

hi JMC - did you make it through unharmed yesterday

10:05 am

*sneaking in during start up of class*

10:05 am

yes river i was in harrisonburg va yesterday--i felt it but it was not as bad as in DC

10:06 am

glad to hear you are safe and sound

10:06 am

we felt it here in NH - it was strange

10:06 am

Got the is7.

10:06 am

clue please bea

10:08 am

is + vowel + where the devil lives plural

10:08 am

ty bzz

10:08 am

The singular is the is6

10:09 am

Not the best clue.

10:09 am

thanks bea - closed out that tile

10:10 am

it was strange

10:11 am

Laundry beckons...At least today if my house starts shaking, it COULD be the washing machine off balance...*poof*

10:11 am

el6/30?

10:11 am

nm

10:12 am

dont have it sorry pigeon

10:12 am

hi again all, just out of class...

10:12 am

an8?

10:12 am

how did your first day go

10:12 am

dont have that one either

10:12 am

just in class uu

10:12 am

howdy sue

10:13 am

<==behaves no better as a student as did as a conference attender

10:13 am

well the earthquake was an added attraction uu

10:13 am

jmc the trouble maker - who would believe it

10:13 am

what are you taking jmc

10:13 am

:-)

10:14 am

el6 like one of santa's helpers

10:14 am

morning, jmc :-)

10:14 am

(very twisty)

10:15 am

thanks Une

10:15 am

i register on friday but understanding conflict; skills for peacebuilding and and international development

10:15 am

yw ;-)

10:15 am

the king is in the building

10:15 am

wow - you are ambitious

10:15 am

hi river, things are going well except I am already exhausted

10:16 am

yah - too bad it doesnt work jmc

10:16 am

How was that astronomy class sue?

10:16 am

an8 an + vowel + th5/12

10:16 am

that is only 9 credit hours--i hope to take 12

10:16 am

well we have to start somewhere river

10:16 am

really good, river, it is nice to have a class full of students who really want to be there!

10:17 am

thanks again Une

10:17 am

and I have told my student group that I can't be their advisor any more - my plate is way too full

10:17 am

bbl

10:17 am

thanks Une

10:17 am

thats great Sue

10:17 am

bye jmc

10:18 am

yw

10:18 am

105 to go . . . taking a break . . . BBL *poof*

10:18 am

in fact Une - I got 3 words out of that - whoohoooo

10:19 am

103 left here

10:19 am

al6/21? I know it's going to be a fish slap.

10:19 am

dont have it yet

10:21 am

where are 200 words hiding???

10:21 am

took forever but found the an 7 and 8

10:22 am

hello ruru and crossy

10:22 am

tough grid for being a biggie - first 100 came easy then slam....

10:22 am

al + definite article + first vowel

10:23 am

thanks Erda

10:23 am

You're welcome!

10:24 am

down to a nice round 99 - giving it a break for a while....happy babbling everyone

10:24 am

thanks SOOOO much

10:24 am

YW pidgie

10:25 am

ch6/7? The very last ones.

10:26 am

ch + there are two of them, North and South C****

10:27 am

make it K****

10:28 am

?

10:29 am

... Kxxxx is a country in Asia

10:29 am

divided in 2 parts after a long war

10:30 am

... and don't miss the plural

10:30 am

got it. thanks

10:32 am

you guys lost me on that one

10:32 am

ko6?

10:36 am

Huntington's ch**** is a wretched disease, ruru

10:36 am

(and hi!)

10:37 am

ty erda

10:37 am

and pl

10:41 am

I must be really out of it today.. jeez

10:41 am

I need two and I can take a break. Any one have a clue for the ko6 or the last le7?

10:42 am

don't have them yet

10:42 am

I have a total of 51 words, will be lucky if I get to 100 on this one (busy day)

10:43 am

sliv

10:43 am

doesn't work, joansie :-(

10:44 am

... one le7 is plural of a dirty old man (le6) ... builds off an le4

10:45 am

Have that one Dos. Need the last one

10:45 am

... haven't listed yet ... ... but should ...

hi all, what a biggun eh

10:46 am

and tough (imho), gwen!

oh, i see the li4 itself is in the grid, how many are in the penalty box already?

10:47 am

... thousands

(tosses some leftovers into the PB)

10:48 am

... le 7/32 ... to rent + male pronoun + article

slightly over 1/3 finished, woot

10:55 am

ae 6 anyone?

ae6 is a medical gas. same as et5, but with an a on the front

10:55 am

thanks Dos

10:55 am

thanks

8-D

10:56 am

... and there is a plural

10:59 am

anyone have the ko6/7 combo?

11:00 am

... arg .... Jewish food must be koxxxx ... took long enough

11:00 am

jewish people eat ko**** food

i need the middle O -- any one know what that is?

11:01 am

... they go in martinis

11:01 am

AWW. Too simple. Was thinking it would be an odd work. TY

ODH! ty dos

11:02 am

... I agree ... took half a seconed after someone clued it earlier

11:03 am

Good Morning Everybody. How are you all today?

DOH! i mean DOH!

hiya nef

gonna go hunt down some water to take allergy pill, back in a tick

11:05 am

good morning -- back to solve the last half of this monster

11:05 am

good morning all -- bright, sunny day and I am lazing around again. And trying to NOT look at the books that desperately need organizing...

11:06 am

hi stid; I'm doing the same as you. enjoying the day (from inside) and ignoring housework

in despair over cl6/30 - what obvious, simple word am I missing here?

11:07 am

c + jeans

11:08 am

not an obvious and simple word!! LOL

11:08 am

phantom "cholrea"

11:09 am

jeans? as in persons or pants? *confused mama appearance*

11:09 am

brand name, stid

11:09 am

plural of the brand name :-)

11:09 am

oh, pants LOL

11:09 am

ah! thanks! got it! down to 157...

i have c + a pile of money you just stole, and plural

11:09 am

brb phone

As in the brand! no, not obvious or simple. I can't recall using that word more than ah - well, never!

11:10 am

that's not the cl6/30, gwen

11:10 am

only reason i got it is that someone clued it earlier!!

not getting the pants, i admit! but then again i never buy retail clothes these days . . .

11:10 am

just passing thru -- BBL *poof*

11:11 am

gwen, what's one of the most famous brands of jeans? been around for decades . . .

11:11 am

you have never bought a pair of jeans?

yeah, at a rummage sale . . .

11:12 am

jeans were first made by this company too

11:12 am

**** strauss

oh, THAT brand. again i say DOH! (and ty)

11:12 am

lol

(misunderstood the clue, thought it started with a c, i mean the brand name)

gotta unload the car, back in another tick

11:13 am

re 6/24 plz

11:13 am

2 left for NBT. Could someone please clue the 2nd row, 4th column O and the far right S please? Everything I try is for a different O or S

11:15 am

sorry ivesy, I'm just starting and don't have it in my first 60 words yet. (But am looking!

11:15 am

s, pl of grain storage

11:16 am

tks nef,, just got it.. a sound that repeats

11:16 am

o, pl awe

11:17 am

thanks amel

11:17 am

there,first 100 done:(

11:17 am

gonna be a long road i fear

11:18 am

al 6/21 anyone

11:19 am

womans name, babblet..

11:19 am

I love these huge grids even though I rarely finish them these days

11:19 am

okay, it was the personnel cooperative, calling me back about an issue I was having with the online system. *sigh* Now I just have to wait (and wait) until all my reference folks submit the forms.

11:20 am

thank you ame

11:20 am

Nef: Oo 4/5 babblet, oo** and a** of delight at seeing fireworks

11:21 am

sk5/18? The very last one?

11:21 am

oh, I see amelu clued it already! LOL oh well. *shuffles back to getting ready to head out*

11:21 am

thanks stid. I did get it and have NBTs; am now working on NBS's now! :-)

11:21 am

from the bottom e I have ev 4-5 -- anyone know what the other one is?

11:21 am

thx for the o and s clues, now I have nbt!

11:22 am

go sue go!

11:22 am

and go nef go!

11:22 am

and hi, nan, nef, stid, pigeon, ruru, mab, amelu, crossy...

11:22 am

hi sue

11:23 am

el6/30 like one of santas workers

11:23 am

thanks River! ***squeeze hugs River*** how are you?

11:23 am

hi to everyone now! Beautiful picture sue!

11:24 am

hello stid - hasnt seen you in a long time - ready for school?

11:24 am

only here for a few minutes - trying to get a couple more words

11:25 am

will be when my references finish putting in their end of the paperwork... subbing this year at least to start and will apply for things as they come up starting in Dec-Jan. AND flogging the final high school student in the house to get the summer assignment complete... how about you?

11:26 am

my daughter is off to college on Friday so been busy dorm shopping with her. My son is already playing soccer - school starts next week - he will be a high schooler...whoohooo

11:26 am

sk 5: type of shooting (clay pigeons maybe?)

11:26 am

thx, nef! I've seen clouds like that but not so bright

11:27 am

I got to go - darn work is getting in the way of my babbling....have a great day folks

11:27 am

River, just having you say he is playing soccer... that is marvelous! and how much fun to get ready to head to college. You must be feeling so proud! My elder is still trying to get re-admitted to the community college (long story) but eventually he will figure it all out.

11:27 am

later River!

11:28 am

bye river

11:28 am

Nope Cyber. There's one after that.

11:28 am

thanks stid - its a very exciting year for both my children - got to go - poof

11:29 am

sk 5: s + sounds like word for enthusiastic or eager

11:30 am

so5/18?

11:30 am

plural the so 4/8

11:31 am

It's the first so5/18 that I need

11:31 am

not using a li 4 yet pigeon

11:32 am

found it.

11:32 am

did you find you missing sk?

11:34 am

finally got the last V... two grey corners! LOL

11:34 am

time to read my mail, and get going. sewing at Mother's today!!!

11:36 am

*poof*

11:37 am

was trying to down to 100 before li4ing, but stalled with 111 to go

11:38 am

I go at 2/3, nan, so you're ok by my self imposed rules...

well that took longer than i thought, hi again

11:39 am

ak 5, please?

11:40 am

oh -- found the one that sounds like the brownie leader

11:40 am

and the last one -- yay!

11:40 am

at7 anyone

2 more and i'l be 1/2 done, woot

11:41 am

nm

11:41 am

just getting there ruru

11:41 am

a's are done.. yeahhhhhhhh

halfway, at last. brains are drying up

and nbt at last. OY

11:43 am

ar 5/10 (2nd one) please?

11:43 am

a stadium nan

11:44 am

duh -- ty - just didn't get twisted around far enough

11:44 am

and the at 7?

11:45 am

person who doesn't belive in god

11:46 am

ty again

11:47 am

I have 5 left. Can I get a clue for the te8 sand the 2 te7's?

11:48 am

not there yet pigeon.. sorry I'm stuck in the e's

11:49 am

sorry, pigeon; I don't have them yet (but am looking)

11:49 am

el 6 anyone?

11:50 am

2nd ch 7/36, please?

11:50 am

a cigar, nan

11:50 am

the one before the cigar, please?

11:51 am

the first te7 is part of the boob tube + fr*** on the pumpkin

11:51 am

don't have it ruru

11:51 am

sh 7/32 plz

11:52 am

Plural that 7 for the 8

11:52 am

ch7,36 The **** Mr Guevera. But reverse the order of the parts.

11:52 am

el, as a keebler worker?

11:52 am

oh that other ch is a chemistry word...

11:53 am

And the last te7 is same start as previous 7 + participated in a foot race

11:54 am

el 5-6, please?

11:54 am

Bea. I know I'm slow, but I can't get that clue for the pumpkin.

11:55 am

Cold weather brings fr*** in the mornings.

the pumpkin one stumped me, too, for a sec, but it is a word meaning cold white wisps of ice

11:56 am

aha thanks much

11:56 am

ruru did you get my el clue?

11:57 am

Nan the 5 is when we choose a president

11:57 am

the el6 is like a keebler worker

11:58 am

got it.

11:58 am

have the first 4 letters of the keebler workers and santa's helpers, but can't find the last 3

11:59 am

like one

11:59 am

suffix meaning like, nan

11:59 am

oh -- missed that ending -- ty!

12:00 pm

oh i do not like k words, not at all

12:01 pm

e's done :) -- coffee time!

12:03 pm

More laundry...*poof*

12:05 pm

any clues for the 2nd row O please

12:05 pm

verbal awe...

12:06 pm

thnx amelu - thought i had tried that

2/3 done, gotta stop for now. BBL and poink

12:12 pm

oo4 - exclamations

12:15 pm

is 6, please?

12:17 pm

is + vowell plus not heaven

12:17 pm

re 6/24 please

12:17 pm

ty ruru

12:29 pm

re 6: reverberate again

12:31 pm

or how you are connected to your famiky

12:34 pm

VJ

12:35 pm

sh 7, please?

12:38 pm

sh7: female pronoun + a carrot is a ****

12:39 pm

ty erda

12:39 pm

yw Nan

12:44 pm

halfway, NBT and NBS - time for lunch

12:47 pm

last te 7, please?

12:49 pm

nbt and nbs for crossy:)

12:49 pm

wtg crossy

12:51 pm

stuck on the th 6-7 combos -- any clues?

12:53 pm

Nan: definite article + ***cotic

12:54 pm

ty erda - do you have a clue for the other set?

12:54 pm

not yet, Nan

12:56 pm

believer(s) in god nan

12:56 pm

ty kate

12:57 pm

*!* ta da *!* -- thanks for all the help, everyone :)

12:57 pm

yw

12:57 pm

brava Nan

12:58 pm

nan can you clue the re 6/24 please?

1:02 pm

ruru: reverberate again

1:03 pm

thank you erda

1:03 pm

yw and I'm finally outta here

1:04 pm

on my way unless anyone wants clues?

1:05 pm

last th 5/12?

1:05 pm

bye all :)

1:06 pm

nm

1:06 pm

th 5: the bull with an h stuck in

1:06 pm

got it.. thanks nan.. congrats

1:06 pm

ty ruru

1:07 pm

*poof*

1:21 pm

M

1:21 pm

M

1:39 pm

can anyone help me with a clue for the middle O for NBT?

rose ol5/16

small, round cocktail nibble

1:42 pm

still no idea - is it a common word?

yes :) ... type of oil, also

green or black

1:43 pm

OMG how did I miss that? Thank you!

1:44 pm

hints for the bottom E?

1:44 pm

oh, NM. im a dummy

I know it's probably more difficult to figure this one out, but I'm missing the word from that o in the top right corner... any ideas?

1:45 pm

instead, hints for the O directly underneath the triple Os?

1:45 pm

city -- there arent any words from the corner O.

I mean the one you do, eva, from the only one in the top right cluster that has a word ...

1:46 pm

well, the left-most one in the cluster has a word too...heh

oo 4/4 I think - you wear b**** on your feet in the winter

1:47 pm

nope, not that. thats the top O.

*sigh* ... it's a sigh ;)

1:49 pm

its OK4

1:49 pm

oo4/5 + aahs

1:49 pm

oh, wait. nope. thats the top too...

it's also the noise I made on finding it!

1:49 pm

and hi, all!

1:49 pm

thats it -- thanks sue!

1:49 pm

back

1:49 pm

hey jmc, hi all

1:49 pm

hi, jmc!

1:50 pm

hi, peri!

1:52 pm

di any one of you ever go into a shop or store and not feel quite welcome? that happened to me to day. I drove 45 to a cosignment store cause they were having a sale. But noone said hello or asked if they could help me. and when I asked for the ladies room they said it was being used as a dressing room. some one was in it. the woman said: Sorry about that. Feh, not going baack there any time soon

1:52 pm

45 minutes

1:52 pm

and I did not find anything I liked either!

1:53 pm

whenever I go to fancy stores I tend to feel out of place - I am not a fancy person

1:54 pm

I am not really a fancy person either but I dressed nicely aqnd thought I fit in. The last time I went another woman was there and she was very nice

1:54 pm

i went to a store many years ago to buy a headdress for my wedding

1:54 pm

i was wearing a fedora and blue jeans and they hurried me into a dressing room out of sight to try on a head band

1:54 pm

there is a nice consignment store much closer to me and some good thrift stores too, so there :)

1:55 pm

neat look jmc

1:55 pm

:-)

1:56 pm

if wearing a fedora is not dressing up, I dont know what is!'

1:56 pm

I am assuming you were wearing a shirt and/or jacket as well, jmc?

1:56 pm

haha yes

1:56 pm

and shoes

1:56 pm

:-O

1:56 pm

only have 15 of the stupid k words

1:57 pm

back again. I shop at friendly consignment stores close to home; I doubt if I'd ever go to a high class one though

1:57 pm

S

1:57 pm

that is 15 more than i have

1:57 pm

hey money is money and store personnel need to be nice to everyone

1:57 pm

i am still sulking that it doesn't take koot

1:58 pm

hah ha jmc

1:58 pm

(I'm really trying to get up the courage to clean out the car my dtr has been driving for a while. I'm lending it to our D-I-L while her car is repaired)

1:58 pm

hahaha peri, I have four of the k words and one of them I got from the chog and another one I monkeyed

1:58 pm

it does not take kool either

1:58 pm

your daughter can't clean it out?

1:59 pm

i now have a k word the one like a piece of corn ke4

1:59 pm

yay, jmc!

1:59 pm

ah, the letters fitting together...

1:59 pm

ah and the black stuff for eyelids

1:59 pm

She's at work right now and son and D-I-L will be over this evening. I just thought it would help the visit go better if I helped

2:00 pm

no doubt nef--you are so nice

2:01 pm

Not really, jmc. I want to play with my grandson tonight and having this job started will help us have fun

2:01 pm

:-)

2:01 pm

jmc, change the vowel for another k word

2:02 pm

so how goes the day all?

2:02 pm

ty peri for that i won't even send you to the pb for 1:55

2:02 pm

hi carlee

2:03 pm

hi jmc

2:03 pm

and don't forget the jewish food prep word for KO

2:03 pm

you are too kind, jmc

2:03 pm

ty nef

2:04 pm

kohers

2:04 pm

T

2:04 pm

thank heavens i can't type!

2:04 pm

very true, jmc! ;-)

2:05 pm

:-)

2:05 pm

200 left and from the noise in the garage (where DH is) I THINK I'D BETTER GET OFF MY DUFF AND DO SOMETHING!

2:06 pm

Ooops; sorry for yelling. BBL

2:07 pm

hmmm..i dont miss that...the feeling that b/c he is working i HAVE to be doing something....didnt matter i got up at 6 am and did stuff and he slept until noon on the weekend...

Haha! I've never been thankful for typos before... but that's one reason to be I guess.

2:08 pm

neil, I was playing letterblox yesterday but did not see you

Oh yes? Well I'm not always on there. If it was evening, I was working..

2:08 pm

( so... i have gotten 2 batches of dilly beans done and 2 batches of grape jelly and i have a btch of flapjacks in the oven... )

2:09 pm

I was better than everyone else so only played a few rounds

If you send me a message on there, I shoudl get an email notice and can sign in there, if I'm around.

2:09 pm

wow! carlee

I know that feeling. People leave my matches.

2:09 pm

I don;t play often, mostly play babble and scramble. do you play scramble on FB?

2:10 pm

i am canning nothing as my kitchen is MIA

No. I hate and don't do anything on FB. I emptied out my page after learning what a security hazard that site is and don't use it. I only joined in the first place because my college alumni were all on there and wanted me to connect... that's the only way I had to stay in touch with some of them I didn't know really well. I'm trying to get them all moved over onto G+ now. I just leave that FB account there to receive messages from them.

Once I get them all on G+, I can't wait to delete that FB account.

2:12 pm

well..i had a crap load of beans....and they were not getting eaten... and then i discovered i have a bumper crop of concord grapes...i spent 5 mins picking enough for 2 batches of grape jelly

2:12 pm

G+ ?

2:12 pm

I have a G+ and i dont like it much

I only ever connected with them there... used it strictly for that. Still do.

2:12 pm

i wish carlee

Google+. How can you not like it? It's fantastic. You mustn't be making good use of it.

2:12 pm

my beans got killed by the mini-drought in DC

2:12 pm

anyway....i could pick enough grapes out there for probably 6 mmore batches of grape jelly easily...but how much grape jelly does a body need????

The privacy is so much better... and actually works.

2:12 pm

i have a lot of grapes but not a lot of time

2:12 pm

different strokes neil

2:12 pm

i find it not at all user friendly

It's very much so actually. I wonder if we know anyone in common on there? I figured out where I've seen your name before.. Yahoo.

Sure, jmc.

2:13 pm

maybe you could make grape juice? I was served homemade grape juice in Utah

I love grape juice. And grapes.

2:14 pm

ah...i deleted that account....dxh had password... and spoke to everyone i knew on there...

dxh?

2:14 pm

dear ex husband

Oh, ok!

2:15 pm

neil u must be friends with Jc then?

He did that? Geez.

2:15 pm

( sorry was taking flapjacks out of oven....have to cool for about 10 mins before i cut them into squares)

2:15 pm

oh yes....a a few peeps he sent scathing emails too...

Man, that's horrible.

2:16 pm

you make flapjacks differently than I carlee

2:16 pm

so...that email is gone.. or rather i simply do NOT access it at all...

Who? Oh, yes. We're connected... he's a good friend of a friend of my brother's.

2:17 pm

( british flapjacks jmc a completely different beast )

2:17 pm

bbl

2:17 pm

that is how u found me in yahoo then i suppose :) I miss JC tell him hello

Don't blame you there, carleekat. That's one sure way to prevent him doing that again!

I just saw your name on there in someone's contacts. Probably his I guess?

2:18 pm

oh they are the same as pancakes here

He's on G+ with us. How can you be found there?

Same username?

2:18 pm

i know... its....more like a granola bar in UK..a granola bar cookie

2:18 pm

some one help me with the top A please for nbt?

You can email it to me if you want. Email in profile.

2:18 pm

my nic @gmail

Ok, watch for an invite.

2:19 pm

ar4,8

2:19 pm

ty carlee

Sent, check gmail.

2:20 pm

( gee...that means i need to log in...i sent out a bazillion invites.....the only person i actually have is the one person who invited me

2:20 pm

oh sorry i meant the top A in the first column

2:20 pm

( i ALMOST clued it JMC,....)

2:20 pm

an 5, 10

Aww. Maybe you'll find other people you know in my circles, once you connect?

2:20 pm

haha you are brighter than me today carlee

There are some Babblers there.

2:21 pm

perhaps... but I have alot of old school mates on fb..scattered across teh globe...

2:21 pm

okie kokie nn

Maybe you can get them to move onto G+. Never know. I'm slowly getting some of my FB contacts moved over... onto my 'buisness' account. I have 2 on there.

One for less personal contacts like them... one for family, personal friends and closer online friends.

2:22 pm

we play games on there...share pics... i post my food porn

I actually just invited you to the latter... feel honored, haha!

2:22 pm

i need a clue for dummies carlee

2:22 pm

hahaha...ok..will scoot over there later tonight..:)

There are games on G+ too. Some of the same ones, like Bejeweled Blitz.

And there's even Sudoku there now.

Sorry... clues needed?

2:23 pm

a+ sounds like NN's name

2:24 pm

ty i needed to transpose to letters

2:24 pm

nbt

2:24 pm

:)

2:24 pm

no no neil dont let me interfere! ;-)

2:24 pm

I still dont have nbt..i wont finish this one... too big..not intersted....

You wouldn't be. That's finished, I think?

2:25 pm

just popping in to say good afternoon + goodbye, all! time to head home. :)

2:27 pm

hi evan

Hi.

2:27 pm

hi bye evan...

2:27 pm

can i help with nbt carlee? i don't mind not finishing if i at least get that

Clues needed while I'm here?

2:28 pm

nah..its ok... i just took a break from my kitchen..i am in a kitchen mood...and am nw trying to figure out what else to make...

2:28 pm

how about a stat or two for the 8s and that will give me nbs

2:29 pm

i make mississippi eggplant cassarole and tomato sauce to freeze but no freezer either :-(

8s? Ok... an8,45 x 2.

at8,45

2:30 pm

i plan on canning some chili sauce on the weekend......not sure what else i want to can... I might make some peach jam ???

ch8,50

2:31 pm

make peach chutney if you have peaches

le8,45 x 2

st8,60

2:31 pm

i wouldnt use it jmc....the jam i would..

2:32 pm

the chili sauce...i puree it and use instead of ketchup on fries ;) or cook cheap cuts of steak in it

2:32 pm

oh i would use all the chutney and none of the jam lol

2:32 pm

ha! found the st8 ty neil

You're making me hungry.

2:33 pm

yum carlee

2:33 pm

i bake with the jam... make thumbprint cookies at xmas...or fruit squares ( oatmeal cookie base, jam in middle then a crumble on top)

you're so welcome, jmc.

2:33 pm

( food porn nn)

2:33 pm

i must go buy some meat before i go home today

2:33 pm

nbs!

2:33 pm

well, I've managed to set off the car alarm system 3 times and can't figure out how to stop that from happening. The remote on the key that I have doesn't work and everytime I try something, the alarm goes off. :-(

2:34 pm

( now i jsut need to figure out what pot luck dish i will make for saturday's potluck dinner after iftar )

2:34 pm

oh dear nef!

Man. I'm not sure what to do about that either?

Sounds like something wrong with the remote?

2:35 pm

you could pull the wire from the alarm--that is what i did when i had one of those

Oh yes, silly me. You said it doesn't work.

2:35 pm

and DH is in a grumpy mood because he ordered a little cart carrier that doesn't flod and he doesn't want to pay to ship it back (even though it's HIS error!

2:35 pm

doesn't flod?

2:36 pm

(the carrier won't FOLD up against the back of the car

2:36 pm

http://www.getprepared.gc.ca/knw/kt/ba s-eng.aspx

2:36 pm

for all those who felt the earthquake and who will get nailed by the hurricane

2:36 pm

(sorry, Not typing well due to frayed nerves

Aww. :(

I felt it. I'm in NC... Raleigh yesterday and we're in Charlotte today.

2:38 pm

so is Charlotte in the path of the hurricane?

2:38 pm

moving north? I am in harrisonberg VA and we felt it here

Some teenage girl tweeted me on Twitter about how 'scary' it was, because she was sitting on the couch and it was shaking a little. I've lived in California my whole life, give me a break!

2:39 pm

Oh, we are all stocked up on batteries, water, charcoal for the grill, propane for the propane cooker, battery operated fans, flashlights and canned food.

2:39 pm

i have spent many years sitting through hurricanes but if it is the first time for it, it is scary

We only felt it slightly here, not much at all.

2:39 pm

is the hurricane coming to DC?

2:39 pm

a hurricane would scare me........ but tornados are something else.........

If I hadn't been sitting down at the time and had maybe been walking around, I don't think I would've noticed it.

2:40 pm

We are supposed to get hurricane effect weather, like we did with Isabel.

2:40 pm

tornados scare me

I agree. Tornados terrify me.

2:40 pm

damn then i am screwed since my basement has flooded twice since they took the back of my house off

2:40 pm

Neil, they explained the difference between west coast earth quakes and east coast ones: the west coast has all of these faults and fault lines where earthquakes happen whereas the whole east coast is on one solid plate

2:41 pm

that's scary Nef

2:41 pm

we are under a tornado watch atm...my sis in law had one touch down this afternoon about 1 hur away from her..and the one that hit goderich was 2 hours from me

2:41 pm

when is it suppose to hit molly?

Goderich? Where are you, carleekat?

2:42 pm

http://www.getprepared.gc.ca/knw/kt/au to-eng.aspx

2:42 pm

and this is the emergency car kit

No Goderich in Egypt, that I know of?

2:43 pm

I am in sarnia ON... goderich ON is 2 hour north of me..i am 3 hour west of Toronto

2:43 pm

tornadoes are scary, but they only last a minute or 2 and they are very narrow. Hurricanes and earthquakes scare me! (Glad I live in MN!)

don't think tornados hit there either? ;)

Why does your profile say you're in Egypt then? With a Union Jack avatar? Talk about confusing.

2:43 pm

i put up the egypt flag to support my friends in egypt for jan 25 and the revolution..

2:43 pm

the earthquake was over in minutes. but there are still federal office buildings closed for inspection

2:44 pm

she's WANTING to be elsewhere, neil

Yep, Nef. Hurricanes are terrifying too.

2:44 pm

the union jack was due to the riots there...

Oh, ok?

I've been to Ontario (Toronto) and it seemed nice.

2:44 pm

yeapp.... ANYWHERE but here... courtesy of crap DXH keeps dishing out...

2:44 pm

carlee is a very supportive person ;-)

Oh man, carlee. He sounds like a prize.

2:44 pm

carlee is just lazy about changing things around...

A prize what, I won't say in polite company.

2:45 pm

haha!

2:45 pm

i am so tired but if i leave i will be internetless :-(

Why is that jmc?

2:45 pm

who said we were polite? *confused look*

2:46 pm

there..the purple feet are back in place

Ummm, aren't you?

2:46 pm

where are you jmc?

2:46 pm

i'll leave egypt up tho...just to keep people confuzzled

It does a good job of that, carlee.

2:47 pm

i am staying at my sisters place in the mountains of Ft. Valley VA and there is no internet there so to play babble I have to stay at the University where i will be taking classes

No Babble? That's... rough.

2:47 pm

but i will get a modem on friday and after that i will be able to play babble at the house

2:48 pm

no babble in unindurable

Yes. I am an addict. [holds hand up]

2:48 pm

*is

2:48 pm

my name is jmcnrick and i am a babbleholic

2:48 pm

ok..i need 5 words for nbt/nbs....

Ok, which ones are you missing?

2:49 pm

a couple o's and a bottom e

2:49 pm

the lone o's

Ok, which letter pairs?

Oh, ok.

Let me check!

2:49 pm

oo4

2:50 pm

and the gumbo vegetable

ok4,4 and the ok4,8 plural?

2:50 pm

no..i have that o

2:50 pm

and the green fruit that you make oil from

Then there's ok4,9 and ok5,20 plural... think CANADIAN for those endings. ;)

2:51 pm

you have oo** and aahs?

2:51 pm

now..the other loan o

2:51 pm

oo4 is oo** and aahs

2:51 pm

that...got it jmc

2:51 pm

bottom e?

2:52 pm

satan is the prince of ev**

2:52 pm

great clues for those Ok's neil. Thanks

Bottom E is really bad, nasty, etc.

And plural.

2:52 pm

thanks... u mean a synonym for dxh :p

2:52 pm

and rather sort of like Santa's helpers

2:52 pm

not to mention the king of rock and roll!

And then an el6,30... like Santa's helpers?

Oh, Nef beat me to that one.

2:53 pm

that one doesn't work jmc

Haha, yes jmc... kind of!

2:53 pm

the right s?

2:54 pm

i have yet to get santa's little helpers :-(

To do something to a fire?

2:54 pm

pl teh giant grain storage units, carlee

And one who does that.

And plural...

2:54 pm

yeap..i JUSt saw that one nef

2:54 pm

jmc, it's "sort of like" them

I think? Or do those come off that S?

2:54 pm

pl tall seat

I'm still trying to figure out how that workd.

Works even, geez.

2:55 pm

you lost me on that set of clues, neil

2:55 pm

ok...now an 8

Lost? What do you do to a fire, with a poker?

To make it burn better?

2:56 pm

what are the stats for the helpers nef?

2:56 pm

oh; NOW I get it!

That and adding more fuel, I think? you st*** the fire.

2:56 pm

el 6/30 jmc

Thank G-d. ;)

2:57 pm

at 8/45 those who don't believe in God, carlee

Haha!

2:57 pm

thanks nef....

2:57 pm

there..nbt/nbs in 77 hahaha pathetic

I don't really either. But shhh, don't tell my grandparents that, oy vey!

2:58 pm

wtg carlee

2:59 pm

I'm old enough to believe there is a God, neil (34 years in CV-ICU can convince a person about that!

3:00 pm

after all i have gone through..yuppers..i believe in God

3:00 pm

checking to see if my flapjacks are cool enough to take out of the pan

3:00 pm

the older i get the more i believe

3:01 pm

okay i need a clue for dummies for the helpers

Well I'm not convinced. I'm not a total antheist, but I guess I'd say I'm agnostic.

3:01 pm

add the suffix that means like to the helpers

3:01 pm

it isn't an el*; jmc; it's a behavior of the el*

3:02 pm

okay how did the universe begin neil?

3:02 pm

ty nef that was where i was going wrong

3:02 pm

:-)

How does anyone know that? I sure don't. Did it begin? When I was a kid my parents would tell us it has no beginning and no end, and has always existed. That has always boggled my mind.

3:03 pm

(mr presley with loose dentures)

3:03 pm

well what ever set it into motion or created the thing without beginning or end is God

3:03 pm

I think that that is wonderful, neil! :-)

3:03 pm

haha welki

3:04 pm

love that clue, welki! How are you?

3:04 pm

air pressure is doing the funky chicken here atm

welki, that is about the funniest and most descriptive clue for that word I've seen yet.

3:04 pm

sneaking in some babble-time ... building's been closed for a couple of hours due to falling glass

3:05 pm

???? welki?

3:05 pm

falling glass? did our earthquake get over that far??

3:05 pm

ty for the clue compliments :)

Falling glass from what?

3:05 pm

nah, it's a new building (opened three years ago) and is still settling .. glass from the 20th floor, a big plate of glass, the building is mostly glass and steel

3:06 pm

yikes!

3:06 pm

and i hear that they've just allowed people in, so it'll be back to work in just a few

Oh, ok... but what's making it fall?

3:06 pm

what did they build it on...an old landfill sie?

3:06 pm

when the building settles, the girders move and the glass pops out ... why this wasn't considered in the design stage is beyond me

3:07 pm

would seem it was not very well designed if glass keeps falling out of it

3:08 pm

clue please for the last ch 6/24 and 7/36 combo ?

3:08 pm

ahhh...my shisha is in the grid..and its a word :)....dble apple

Jesus christ... that's really poor design!

Not to mention dangerous.

3:08 pm

shisha? dble apple? *confused look*

3:08 pm

*singing* show me the way to the next shisha bar....

I'd be scared to walk anywhere close to that building, geez. Hardhats should be mandatory there!

3:09 pm

later, folks .. back to work

3:10 pm

shisha is a water pipe....dble apple is the flavour of the tobacco i like...and there is a word in here that is a water pipe

3:10 pm

a hard hat wouldn't help you that much if a whole plate of glass fell from any height!

3:10 pm

oh i never smoked anything legal in those

3:10 pm

my son does and he likes dble apple too now that you mention it

3:11 pm

(yes carlee .. they have shisha bars here in town)

3:11 pm

i have only smoked legal in those :p

Uhhh, well not if the entire plate of glass fell, no!

3:11 pm

ty

3:11 pm

anyway, off to the races :)

3:11 pm

well i think you are a tad younger my dear

3:11 pm

bye welki

3:11 pm

the city i will be at school in has a few shisha bars <grinning ear to ear>

People probably just need to stay away from that building.

[can't tell I'm overtired can you?]

3:12 pm

not at all neil

3:12 pm

;-)

When I fall asleep and start snoring you'll know.

3:13 pm

I really can't imagine a building being allowed to stay in such a bad state

no kidding.

3:14 pm

*gives neil an no snore strip for his nose*

3:15 pm

We have a lot of large panelled glass and steel buildings here and none of them have glass popping out like she explained

Haha! I can't fall asleep now. Gotta grab an early dinner soon and then work this evening.

3:15 pm

yeah in the 70's all sorts of building were built with big glass windows and this is the first i heard of this problem

3:16 pm

musician?

Nope.

3:16 pm

must i guess now?

Well amateur... I play piano just for my own amusement. Nobody else's. Which is good because it probably wouldn't amuse other people that much.

You could... or you could read my bio.

3:17 pm

i see photographer and journalist but don't see how that translates into traveling and working nights

It's a photography assignment I'm doing for this month.

3:17 pm

oh? what are you photographing?

Because I'm on the road with Anthony Hamilton and Jill Scott for this month, doing concert photography... replaceing their regular guy.

3:18 pm

nice

Replacing, even. Yes, I can spell. Typing's sometimes another matter.

3:18 pm

argh! this computers right button doesn't work so lickety is a bust

Yes, not a bad gig. At least the music's good and the fans aren't batshit.

3:19 pm

well i can't spell or type which is what makes babble such a challenge

3:19 pm

of course sometimes that actually pays off big time

Haha! I can do both quite well... but not when I'm this overtired.

3:19 pm

i hate to admit it nn...but.. i agree on john huntsman 9 and i am a staunch liberal )

How does not being able to spell or type pay off? I'd be out of a job if I couldn't do either/both.

3:20 pm

( not 9

Thankfully there's spell-check... to catch those pesky typos.

3:20 pm

there used to be quite a few sa** republicans

I'm a democratic voter, carleekat.

3:21 pm

can't use spell check with no right hand button

But I can still appreciate apparent sanity and reason in anyone.

3:21 pm

alas there was a time that mccain was one of them

3:21 pm

*weeps a quiet tear for the end of sanity*

Yes. Once upon a time... sigh.

3:22 pm

buckley too in his own way

I'm sure most people have their moments of sanity and reason. Except Michele Bachmann... but please, let's just not even go there.

3:23 pm

no it only gets ugly if we go down that trail

Exactly.

3:24 pm

*sigh*

My brother posted a clip of her being interviewed in the stream on G+. Unreal. Looking for the link.

3:25 pm

I wonder if I can log in on this school network with two computers

3:25 pm

nope

3:25 pm

brb

3:26 pm

A

3:26 pm

does anyone have a corn relish recipe?..i have abunch of corn on the cob that is jsut NOT getting eaten

http://t.co/1CXHENe

Google that, carleekat. You'll find tons.

I always use google when I need any kind of info.

3:28 pm

oh..i know nn... i just like to use a tried and true recipe

Do you know Laura, carlee? She has a good recipe blog on Google Blogspot/Blogger. She keeps adding to it.

Sorry. She is Fauxmage on here.

3:29 pm

i have found a few recipes...that can go to..i just thought if someone had a really good one...( or i might make a tomatoe black bean and corn salsa...hmmm )

3:29 pm

hmm let me see carlee i am away from home but if i find a recipe i could tell you if it were the one i use

3:29 pm

tomato* even...

That sounds tasty.

3:29 pm

o make the salsa!

I wish I had one but I don't [corn relish recipe].

3:29 pm

jmc, are you back yet? Are you all right in the aftermath of the quake? probably you wouldn't be playing word games if you weren't, but still, you could had a book case fall over or something.

Hi, mab!

3:30 pm

i have to buy more jars...

3:30 pm

hello neil, carlee, jmc and all

3:30 pm

hi mab

3:30 pm

i am in harrisonberg va mab so only got a bit of earthquake

I saw your monologue on Iron Sudoku the other night. ;) Emailed you about it.

3:31 pm

my catsitter emailed me that the quake had torn off the back of my house ;-)

3:31 pm

I don't even know where that is - far west? I felt it all the way up here in mass.

It did, jmc?

3:32 pm

your house! really? That's awful!

Haha!

3:32 pm

far western Virginia (not west virginia)

That has to be a joke, right?

3:32 pm

no no read my profile mab it was a joke!

Mab? Did you see what I said... about your monologue on Iron Sudoku and me emailing you about it? Check your gmail.

3:33 pm

i am remodeling my kitchen

I see that, jmc.

3:34 pm

oh, ok. I will in a minute. my computer is behaving oddly and won't even bring up profiles at the moment.

3:34 pm

well thank goodness.

Oh, ok.

3:35 pm

sorry to have startled you with my joke

3:35 pm

Sudoku is a good place to talk to one's self because there is virtually no chat.

3:35 pm

i updated my profile to make it clear

3:35 pm

ok..i htink i am going to go start some tuna macaroni salad and make my fried garlic sweet banana peppers..( just smuch those drippingin ol5 oil into fresh crust bread and mmmmmmmm)

3:36 pm

back in a few mins

Oh man. Now I'm getting hungrier.

3:36 pm

Oh that's ok. Let's go to Carlees for dinner tonight.

very clear now jmc.

Yes, good idea. If I didn't have to work.

3:38 pm

One of my cats got the impression that my other cat made the quake happen because she strolled into the room just as it was happening. He got rather fluffed about it.

Haha! Was he mad at the other cat?

3:42 pm

*imagines mabs gigantic cat stomping around the room*

3:43 pm

a friend of mine had a male cat named woodrow who i think could shake the floor boards

3:43 pm

he's a bit younger than she and more prone to surprise. She is unfazed by anything. He adores her.

Aww, sweet.

3:44 pm

Well Miep Gies, my female cat is rather zaftig.

3:44 pm

Pinky has yet to grow to his full size.

Oh yes, too well fed?

3:45 pm

woodrow was definately zaftig!

Did you see your Gmail yet mab? Couldn't resist. ;)

3:46 pm

I did get Pinky for her, and she does get lots of exercise, but is still biggish.

Cut the food back.

3:47 pm

woodrow had male hormones contributing

3:48 pm

There's nothing there from you. How would you know my email address?

3:49 pm

beginning to think neil is fbi

3:49 pm

but not very good fbi because got email wrong

3:50 pm

neil doesn't do fb i think

3:50 pm

homeland security?

3:50 pm

he wouldn't know my proper name even if he did go to facebook

3:51 pm

haha i was thinking facebook

3:51 pm

haha you meant the justice department

3:52 pm

*sigh* just realized that I don't have open office on this silly netbook :-(

3:52 pm

i have no idea where he lives, but there are agents all over the place.

3:52 pm

why are you in harrisberg? potential job?

3:52 pm

evening all

3:52 pm

haha i don't think so mab. they rarely do undercover on things like this

3:53 pm

Any clues forthe ar 6 after the location for games etc

3:53 pm

hi

3:53 pm

no potential school eastern mennonite university's congfict transformation masters program

3:53 pm

hi kazz

3:53 pm

doh - got it - brain dead again this evening

3:53 pm

pl?

3:53 pm

You in Harrisburg jmc?

3:54 pm

yes sea i am

3:54 pm

I though you were in Harrisonbug VA

3:54 pm

so i missed most of the earthquake excitement -- not too bad here

Beginning to think I'm FBI? Huh?

[shakes head]

3:54 pm

not really

3:54 pm

harrisonburg va sorry did i say harrsburg?

3:54 pm

geesh, you DO get around lol

where I live is in my bio... and what I do.

3:55 pm

oh, i think i got mixed up on the town name.

3:55 pm

i do indeed get around

3:55 pm

round round i get round ooooooooo

And where I am right now, is Charlotte, NC. Doing a photography job... nothing nearly that exciting.

3:56 pm

uh, no someone else did I think...but anyway everytime I have gone through Harrisonburg the weather is always crappy, storms, monsoons, etc. lol

3:56 pm

you're a nut, neil. I can tell without reading your profile. and i mean than in the most positive sense.

3:56 pm

haha it was a beautiful day today sea

mab Profile but not very good fbi because got email wrong I just copied and pasted the email address you had on display in your Iron Sudoku profile, mab.

3:57 pm

Charlotte...you're not shooting Nascar are you neil?

A nut? Oh, I guess I have my moments.

3:57 pm

oh. i didn't realize i put it there.

3:57 pm

gettiup gettiup 409

Well you did... so if it was wrong, you typed it wrong.

3:58 pm

little deuce coupe

3:58 pm

now now neil don't be negative ;-p

3:58 pm

rolf

No, SeaSpray. I'm on the road with and doing photography for Anthony Hamilton and Jill Scott, all this month. Next month I don't know yet... looking for a new assignment.

4:00 pm

sorry i am tired now and have to wait until the silly open office downloads

4:00 pm

1/3 done

4:00 pm

sorry, that's an old address or I must have been delirious or something. perhaps I have more than one personality.

Oh well.

I can paste what I said to you here I guess. It wasn't long.

4:01 pm

that an a homicidal streak?

4:01 pm

*and

I happened to wake up again and glance at the Iron Sudoku site. You don't talk to yourself much, do you, Mab? ;)

That was the email.

4:01 pm

oh I wrote that so long ago. It's a line from an old movie

4:02 pm

actually its a couple of lines sort of jammed together

4:02 pm

i updated my sudoku thing.

4:03 pm

ok..pasta salad done...and peppers still gently frying

So. About this "mild homicidal streak"...

4:03 pm

something depressing about getting to 200 words and still having 136 to go

4:03 pm

there there jeff

4:03 pm

*hands jeff some lavendar*

4:04 pm

that's precisely where i am as well, jeff

4:04 pm

lavendar cures all

Need any clues, Jeff?

4:04 pm

i am not even 1/2 way

And smells good too.

4:04 pm

tell me about it jeff - i am really cheesed off with this grid

4:04 pm

true neil

4:05 pm

*gives neil some lavendar too*

4:05 pm

which is why i am now ignoring the grid really

4:05 pm

the homicidal thing is barely worth mentioning.

aww thanks!

So you say mab, so you say.

4:06 pm

lavender has antisceptic qualities

4:06 pm

antiseptic

Yes, the essential oil can be used for cleaning.

Several drops in a bucket of hot water.

4:06 pm

why does jeff like it jmc? i'm a bit confused this afternoon.

4:07 pm

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4:07 pm

+-----------------------------------

4:07 pm

oops! the cat did it lol

[looks right... looks left]

4:07 pm

seaspray is trying to tell us something!

Oh, ok. thought you were pointing to something?

4:08 pm

seasprays cat is trying to tell us something!

I thought so too?

4:08 pm

he is still dazed from the quake I think

4:09 pm

by the way, your cat looks quite a bit like a dog. you must get that all the time.

Maybe. "See this little dog here? Annoying!"

4:09 pm

lavendar is soothing -- the only aroma therapy i believe in

Indeed, mab.

4:09 pm

lol

4:09 pm

I love it too. it has a rather sordid history.

4:10 pm

do tell

4:10 pm

diving back into the grid "swoosh"!

4:11 pm

well not sordid... it was used in ancient times for corpses, and during wwI it was used as an antiseptic, and lots of older people find it noisome.

4:13 pm

oh, i see. you were soothing jeff with the lavender.

4:13 pm

noisome?

4:14 pm

irritating, unpleasant?

You know what you said about "nut", mab?

4:14 pm

yeah, what? (she says challengingly)

4:15 pm

don't get me mad. I'm 110 lbs of solid steel

4:15 pm

well, that's an exaggeration. but i'm tough and can be surly.

4:15 pm

oh i see i never heard that word ty

Not exactly one of my more normal moments: http://tinyurl.com/NJL-BM

4:16 pm

i read too much. its pathological

4:17 pm

breast plates seem a little low

4:18 pm

you look like you should be holding a kaloshnikov

4:19 pm

and you look about 12 in that picture

Haha! Uhhh, the attire wasn't my idea.

4:19 pm

which is a good thing

No, 3 years ago... I was 23 there. In the NV desert at the Burning Man festival.

4:20 pm

too much 5 o'clock shadow to be 12

Thanks, jmc.

4:21 pm

do they actually burn a man?

4:21 pm

it looks like the middle east.

4:21 pm

ahem i suggest the title means something else

4:21 pm

so you are about my son's age neil

4:22 pm

and I'm old enough to be your mother as well

They do at the end of the festival, yes... a big effigy of one. Up in flames.

No, it actually means just that.

4:22 pm

cool

4:23 pm

i'm sorry. what does the festival signify?

I'll show you my mom.

4:23 pm

oh boy

4:23 pm

is she Charo?

4:23 pm

haha

4:24 pm

sorry - non sequitur

4:24 pm

charo is too old!

Nothing really, aside from 'brotherhood' I guess. It's about having fun and meeting other people.

Why would she be Charo?

4:24 pm

is it a man thing?

4:24 pm

lots of drums and so on?

4:25 pm

maybe a sphitz?

4:25 pm

schfitz?

4:25 pm

The Burning Man Festival is a spin off from the Druid Wicker Man ritual.

4:26 pm

ah...

4:26 pm

a wiccan sort of affair?

Kind of I guess, Molly.

4:27 pm

Schvitz

Ok, here's Mom and me, with my aunt and grandpa. Mom's on my right (left of photo). I don't look like her son much, do I? http://tinyurl.com/LL-NJL

4:27 pm

mazl tov!

4:28 pm

kazontite

4:29 pm

yeah most people have children younger than i did

4:29 pm

a very handsome family

4:29 pm

Back again after much frustration.... neil, you have your Mom's mouth and smile

4:30 pm

did you deal with the alarm?

4:30 pm

hi nef

Another of my Mom and me with some women we were talking to with the time: http://tinyurl.com/LL-NJL-CBSB2

Thanks mab.

4:32 pm

I couldn't get the alarm to silence when I touched the car. I gave up on the car; there isn't too much in it anyway (dirty sneakers, St. Patrick's day novelties and a 12-pack of Linnies in the trunk-- which I didn't take out

I know, Nef... I'm like a younger, male version of her.

I look nothing like my dad though... nothing!

4:34 pm

this picture made me gasp! http://tinyurl.com/3r5vc3z

4:36 pm

But while dealing with that; the Comcast guy came around and hooked up the cable for the TV for Aunt Jean. Mind you; he didn't hook up the TV; JUST the cable! We have Direct TV for ourselves; but Aunty likes some shows we don't get so we're having her Comcast set up just for her. I need to have someone else do the remote control setup though.

Famly photo... see what I mean?

http://tinyurl.com/LF-HL-01

Oh wow, jmc! That's awful.

4:38 pm

jmc, i got the national cathedral all crumbled (so sad).

4:38 pm

Holy cats; jmc! I didn't see those pictures before!

[Mom had her hair lightened in that last photo of course.]

4:39 pm

It is very sad what happened to the Cathedral. I'm so glad no one was hit by that falling stone.

4:39 pm

some of the carvers are no longer alive. it's a dying art..

I know, that's what's so upsetting about seeing that damage done to the building.

4:41 pm

I miss D.C. terribly.

4:41 pm

i was surprised myself

4:42 pm

okay i must be going if i am to get to the store and then home before dark

4:42 pm

see you all tomorrow i hope

4:42 pm

bye jmc, drive very carefully.

I was there briefly the other week, mab.

4:45 pm

oh, good.

Take care, jmc.

4:46 pm

Nef, you're an angel.

4:49 pm

not anywhere near that, mab.

4:49 pm

is nef the kind of angel who can cure headaches?

4:49 pm

hi hurshy. You have a headache?

4:49 pm

maybe if you ask her real sweetly...

4:49 pm

Aw Hursh, it's still bothering you?

4:49 pm

YES

4:50 pm

Did you talk to your doctor again?

4:50 pm

have you taken anything for it?

4:50 pm

have you tried essential lavender oil on your temples?

4:50 pm

I like excedrin.

Essential oil of peppermint is supposed to be very effective for headaches.

4:51 pm

i went to the doctor this morning. she gave me tylenol with codeine. she said it would work in 1 hour and might make me drowsy. it did make me drowsy but headache is not gone. sucks to have side effects but no effect.

4:51 pm

but naproxen sodium is good too.

4:51 pm

how long have you had the headache? (Sounds like others have talked to you about it; what's going on?)

4:51 pm

i don't even know where to get essential oils

4:51 pm

How's your blood pressure, hursh?

4:51 pm

my BP was normal

4:51 pm

my temp is normal

4:51 pm

Blood sugar?

4:51 pm

oh no. that's worrisome...

When rubbed on the temples... and inhaling from the open bottle is supposed to help too, I'm told.

4:52 pm

have had the headache since monday

Any good health food store.

4:52 pm

good. How long have you had this headache?

4:53 pm

the thing about narcotics is that they can cause headache....

4:53 pm

yes, neil, peppermint oild helps too. I prefer the lavender oil myself

4:53 pm

it's a conundrum...

4:53 pm

well that is dopey!

Weird. They're supposed to relieve pain and they cause it? Never heard of that before.

4:53 pm

(I can't use drugs; I'm too sensitive and they knock me out

4:54 pm

maybe it's just me...

4:54 pm

I take them sometimes for sever pain and usually get a migraine.

4:54 pm

severe

Having something severed usually is painful.

4:54 pm

Hursh, have they ruled out sinus infection?

Haha! Caught yourself. ;)

4:55 pm

it's really getting annoying. i can't even exercise because holding still is ok, moving is NOT. yes molly she said it did not seem like sinusitis.

4:55 pm

what part of your head is the headache in, Hurshy?

4:56 pm

front

4:56 pm

i have never had a headache anywhere but in front

4:56 pm

above your eyes or around them (above and below)

4:56 pm

See, front of the head and hurts when moving around sounds like sinus infection to me. But then I'm no doctor.

4:57 pm

above eyes, maybe right at eyes, but not below. i guess she thought not sinus cause she pressed on all my sinus places and that didn't make it hurt more.

4:58 pm

Do you feel better if in a hot, steamy shower?

4:58 pm

if you tip your head forward, does that make it worse?

4:58 pm

yes nef!

4:58 pm

i told her that. i was so excited to say yes to one of the questions to give a clue!

4:59 pm

i don't know if i feel better in a hot steamy shower, it's august, i've kept my showers warm at most.

5:00 pm

what are you thinking, Nef?

5:00 pm

Does it hurt if you stand on your head, hold your nose while sucking on your big toe? LOL!

5:00 pm

i am sure it would, bzz :)

5:01 pm

DH had a headache in his ethnoid sinuses (way way back) and that only showed up on CT scan.

5:01 pm

is that the sort of thing that will eventually go away on its own, or must be treated?

5:01 pm

and what did he do for it?

http://www.bettermedicine.com/article/ forehead-pain

http://health.discovery.com/centers/he adaches/assessment/assessment.html

http://symptoms.wrongdiagnosis.com/cos ymptoms/forehead-pain.htm

5:03 pm

my, nell, for someone negative, you are positively helpful

Haha, hope it helps?

Good old google.

5:03 pm

name a subject, any subject. neil has a link for it

5:04 pm

Hurshy, can you take decongestants?

No mab... google does.

All that and I do dishes, too.

5:06 pm

oh, yes, yes, I know. you just cite them so often that I thought it mildly funny.

5:06 pm

i could but i'm not congested

5:06 pm

should i take the anyway?

5:06 pm

any nausea?

5:07 pm

no

5:07 pm

have you tried taking any since the headache started?

5:07 pm

no

5:07 pm

it didn't occur to me to take decongestants when not congested.

No. I wouldn't take any drug unnecessarily.

5:08 pm

neither would i, but i might be willing to try an otc thing if it might help.

5:09 pm

I'm not going to tell you to take or not take it; I just hate the idea that you've had the headache for 2 days and the Tyl. 3 didn't help

Yes, maybe an analgesic... but a decongestant when there's no congestion? Don't know about that.

5:09 pm

it says you can get headaches from consuming nitrates, aspartame, or MSG. well the latter two are in ingredient lists, i think, so i would know if i had them, but how do i know if i have had nitrates. the only thing i know they are in is deli meat.

5:10 pm

ooh i should have got HEAD ON, maybe.

I know you can from aspartame, yeah. I had a friend who used to use it and she got wicked headaches, until she stopped using it.

5:11 pm

and you should be careful of taking something that might be a bad mix with what you've already taken.

5:11 pm

that has helped some people too (Head ON). BRB; my ice pack just broke

5:11 pm

poor hurshy. I'm sorry you're in pain.

Nitrates should be avoided anyway... they're carcinogenic.

5:12 pm

Head ON is homeopathic, so it won't hurt but it's unlikely to do more than rubbing your forehead with anything else

5:12 pm

yes but what i want to know is, how do i know what things have nitrates in them besides deli meat which i don't eat

5:12 pm

(the scientist in me chimes in)

5:12 pm

and never eat pastrami?

5:13 pm

i'm mostly vegetarian.

5:13 pm

should be on the ingredient list, hurshy - Frank is sensitive to nitrates so we avoid them

5:13 pm

so it just says, "nitrates"?

5:13 pm

Hursh, if you do a Google search on "what foods contain nitrates" you will get an idea.

I don't eat deli meat either.

5:14 pm

oh right, duh, thanks molly

5:14 pm

but I don't think they're in vegetables although if you have things with long ingredient lists there could be anything in there (Frank also avoids things with long ingredient lists)

Exactly, Molly. Google is the greatest online resource for finding anything.

5:14 pm

maybe it is cause i went to CA and that disrupted my sleep patterns.

5:14 pm

although i didn't think it had been too bad.

5:14 pm

a testimonial!

5:15 pm

i have been eating a lot of chicken soup, because of my throat, but i just checked the ingredients and it is all natural stuff.

I'm from there, on the east coast now. I've been back and forth between the coasts twice this month now. Yeah, I know something about disrupted sleep patterns.

5:15 pm

anyway if it is a sinus infection (getting back to what nef said) probably you would need antibiotics to cure it

5:15 pm

ok i can't identify carageenan and maltodextrin.

Your doctor can't find what's causing it?

5:16 pm

so it would seem you should call the doctor tomorrow.

5:16 pm

carageenan comes from seaweed

5:16 pm

There are nitrates in some vegetables.

5:16 pm

maltodextrin is a sugar

5:17 pm

back. I was sitting on an ice pack (for my hip) and the darn thing broke along the seam; that gel is all over my chair and my shorts now. :-(

5:17 pm

we're a regular think tank.

What, naturally occurring, Molly?

Yuck, Nef.

5:18 pm

that would feel good here, nef, we are having wretched hot and humid weather again

5:18 pm

So Hursh, you have a sore throat too. That makes me think sinus too. Perhaps the lack of a runny nose is because you have drainage down the back of your throat.

5:18 pm

my doctor seemed to think it will go away in a few days but if i get fever or weakness on one side or blurred or double vision, i have to have a spinal tap.

5:18 pm

although the gel is nasty

5:18 pm

it doesn't FEEL like it's draining down my throat and the throat pain feels more like, in my tonsils.

Oh man.

I'm surprised you're not being sent for tests?

5:18 pm

well hopefully i won't get fever or any of that.

5:19 pm

well it's only a 3 day headache...

Oh, ok.

5:19 pm

so the doc says. HE isn't the one with the headache!

5:19 pm

well, ask the doctor about your ethnoid synuses.

That's 3 days too long to be feeling like that though.

5:19 pm

right now there were no signs of it being meningitis or anything so she just gave me the medicine to try to take the pain away. only it didn't so much work.

Can you sleep ok?

5:20 pm

let her know that tomorrow, hurshy

5:20 pm

Spinach, beets, radishes, celery, and cabbages are among the vegetables that generally contain very high concentrations of nitrates

5:20 pm

i eat a lot of spinach

5:20 pm

don't tell me i can't have my spinach!

Really, uusue? Never knew that.

5:20 pm

might try cutting it out and see if that helps

5:21 pm

i would be lost without spinach.

5:21 pm

well, I did what molly said and googled nitrites in foods :-)

5:21 pm

i have spinach salad every day for lunch.

5:21 pm

maybe substitute a different green for a few days?

5:21 pm

aha!

5:21 pm

Hursh, I would ask for a blood test and/or a CT scan before I let them do a spinal tap. Just my take on it.

5:21 pm

but what's weird is that i did NOT have spinach for like... a week and a half before the headache.

I love spinach.

5:21 pm

so actually i doubt it is that.

5:22 pm

MAYBE it is spinach withdrawal!

5:22 pm

lol

Doesn't sound like it is.

5:22 pm

ah. Never mind, then.

5:22 pm

is reading difficult?

5:23 pm

no, it's not a pounding type headache and the screens and books don't seem to make it worse.

5:23 pm

a spinal tap is an invasive test which can give a person a headache too. consider even an x-ray first

5:23 pm

ok this is funny. one of the websites nell posted lets you put in all your symptoms and one of the options is "death related symptoms"! what on earth!

5:23 pm

having one, that is

5:23 pm

how odd. I think you should rest and call the doctor in the morning.

5:24 pm

lol!

5:24 pm

just there to put things in perspective, hurshy! :-)

Don't let that worry you, hurshy... worst case scenarios.

5:24 pm

ha!

5:24 pm

i have symptoms due to dying yesterday.

Most causes of headaches are not life-threatening.

5:24 pm

LOL!

5:24 pm

they are: lack of pulse, lack of breathing...

Wow, she's come back to life!

Lack of pulse is a pretty good indication that you're dead, yes. If you have one, you're probably not. ;)

5:25 pm

yeah. if you have those symptoms you should go to the ER.

Haha, mab.

5:26 pm

i like my spinach withdrawal theory.

5:26 pm

it has no basis in anything, but i like it.

5:27 pm

it does have an appeal. popeye syndrome

5:27 pm

I prefer the spinach withdrawal theory too, hurshy. Did you cut out coffee too for a bit (caffeine withdrawal can cause a headache too

5:28 pm

Ahahaha! Did Hursh cut out coffee!

5:29 pm

hi all, clue for the ae6?

5:29 pm

I've had my share of nasty caffeine withdrawal headaches

5:29 pm

i have never had coffee in my life, ever.

Wow. Never?

5:29 pm

tea? chocolate?

I drink more tea than coffee these days but I do enjoy my coffee when I have it.

5:30 pm

i drink decaf tea.

Can't be a caffeine problem then.

5:31 pm

don't take exedrin then - it's aspirin, tylenol, and caffeine.

5:31 pm

i do consume chocolate, but don't think i have had a ton lately.

Gotta leave... much as I feel like sleeping instead. Oh well. I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go.

Good luck, hope you find an answer!

5:31 pm

bye nell, thanks for the links

5:31 pm

bye neil

5:32 pm

i doubt i'll find an answer, i think i'll just outlive the headache after a few more days.

5:33 pm

I think bed rest is in order, accompanied by plenty of novel reading and naps.

5:33 pm

well that is pretty much what i did this afternoon mab, except it was gilmore girls on DVD, not novels.

5:34 pm

but i took 6 vacation days followed by two sick days for the cold, and then worked only two days before being out again today. i'm feeling pretty ridiculous about that.

5:34 pm

i think your headache is a case for Miss Marple.

5:35 pm

somehow i don't think this would make a gripping tale

5:35 pm

unless you just mean i should read miss marple, which i'm open to, lol

5:35 pm

well, you'd need a murdered person.

5:35 pm

at the moment i'm in a wodehouse.

5:36 pm

i could murder a brother-in-law or two, i suppose.

5:36 pm

I do love wodehouse. I dream of having a jeeves of my own.

5:36 pm

hi, babblers

5:37 pm

hi welki.

5:38 pm

by the way mab, so nice to see you here again! does this mean you are doing better?

5:38 pm

and hi welki

5:39 pm

yes, i think so. thanks. did you get a different job?

5:40 pm

not exactly, but it changed slightly and got me mostly away from the horrid carol, so it's a pretty good improvement.

5:40 pm

oh good.

5:40 pm

how are your cats?

5:42 pm

I have two relatively new cats, as my old ones died of old age. I have the sweetest little boy cat, and a fearless female cat.

5:42 pm

and yours?

5:43 pm

oh, i'm sorry to hear about your old cats' passing. but glad you have got new ones. mine are all well except for some fur loss on cinder's ears which we're having checked out on friday.

5:43 pm

i'm a little scared about that.

5:44 pm

I think I feel toward my Pinky (the male), the way you do toward marty.

5:44 pm

clue for the ae6/7 combo?

5:44 pm

marty is lying on my chest at the moment. :)

5:45 pm

sleeping gas, dawg

5:45 pm

ae6 alt sp of et5

5:45 pm

it is always scary. oh yes, I have a crush on pinky.

5:45 pm

ty, Hurshy

5:45 pm

i was telling him today, he's too good. he's going to make other cats mad by being so obedient. people might expect them to do that too.

5:46 pm

ah. food for thought.

5:46 pm

well, hurshy, I certainly hope you feel better soon!!! heading home now, will see you all later...

5:46 pm

thank you sue, ttfn

5:46 pm

bye sue.

5:47 pm

i need atalante... unless there are any other dr who fans around...?

5:48 pm

I'm dr. who ignorant.

5:48 pm

dr who?

5:48 pm

british sci fi

5:49 pm

see what the headache has done to me? i don't even have the energy to react with scorn. or skorn.

Hi All, I am also not a Dr Who fan, but I do know Dr Who.

5:52 pm

i need someone who Knows it. for a NTPN.

5:53 pm

I know who dr who is...just being a smartass

How are you KJE.

5:54 pm

hi Babblers! .. this has been a grueling grid for me..

5:54 pm

doing well

5:54 pm

i find it grueling also

5:54 pm

at7?

Hi Aloy, I also am finding it unsatisfactory, I just started it recently. and wish I had skipped.

5:55 pm

not a churchgoer, rje

5:55 pm

hi red.. well, maybe it is just not me.. have had a hard time seeing these words

5:55 pm

KJE... sorry for the typo, that was your clue

I also made use of the clue thanks Aloy.

5:56 pm

(-: yw

5:57 pm

ty!

5:58 pm

all those o's, like google eyes staring at me.. oh oh

5:59 pm

and how they make us feel

i may need to stop at half way. My ear is full of fluid and is making me crabby/impatient and deaf.

5:59 pm

aaack, red bar of doom

uh oh...

6:00 pm

red.. I have the same problem in my left ear!

Mine is my right, I am trying Pseudophed, but it seems to not be working.

6:00 pm

name that proper noun! greek warrior goddess

I want to put an ice pick in my ear!!!

6:01 pm

oh dear, don't do that red

athena

6:01 pm

almost a week now

6:01 pm

2nd el6?

6:01 pm

ding ding ding!

I only have the happy one kje.

6:02 pm

I don't know Red. I could be going out on a limb here, but I think that might make it worse.

I know molly. If It is no better by Sat I will see what the MD recommends

6:03 pm

you have a happy el6? i only have a happy 5.

6:03 pm

someone told me to put a hairdryer up to it, on low.. didn't want to tell her I don't have a hairdryer, so I just nodded and thanked her

I DO have a hair dryer somewhere, and I may try it.

6:03 pm

oops, en6 i meant!

6:03 pm

i have one el6. like galadriel.

6:03 pm

en + what holds a plant in the ground

6:04 pm

red, whats wrong? missed

6:04 pm

TY!

6:04 pm

hi all,cl6/30 pls

Aloy and I have fluid filled ears. Pseudophed is not helping. I want to put an ice pick in the ear.

6:05 pm

i do not recommend that

6:05 pm

no fever?

I was SO embarassed just purchasing the Pseudophed, its like a battle these days...

none.

6:06 pm

no fever, itching.. pressure

the PA looked and said it was yellow fluid.?

6:06 pm

at walmart it's a battle just to buy certain thermometers, or electric toothbrush heads!

6:06 pm

use psedophed 12 hour BID + afrin topical x 3 days... should ope it up

6:06 pm

sorry, don't have it yet peri

6:06 pm

cl 6/30 is c + anagram of The King

6:07 pm

ooh great clue molly

6:07 pm

cl6 and butthead?

I have not gotten the afrin, btu so far two days of Pseudo phed are not working. I want a pin, I want I want...

6:07 pm

ty Molly

6:07 pm

lol, got it, ty kje

6:08 pm

do double duty... topical and ssystemic. if that does't work, you may eed steroids. this is almost always allergy related fluid build up and will clear with decreasig the swelling

6:08 pm

it feels like a clinic in here. hurshy has a headache that won't go away, red has sick ears - anyone else?

6:08 pm

I believe Aloy has sick ears too.

6:08 pm

yup, i'm with red, mab.. fluid in the ear

6:09 pm

so annoying

6:09 pm

struggling with this grid even with the list

6:09 pm

we're a sad bunch

6:09 pm

el6 pls

sorry, it is irritating me. more than any other ache and pain that I have at the moment. I want to pop the ear. and Yes, Aloy and I have opposite ears that are driving us mad.

6:09 pm

What's with the nasty summer cold and cold symtoms going around. Seems like the worst bout of it ever.

I just hit half way in the Grid, thanks to some good clues!

6:09 pm

thank goodness we have kje.

6:09 pm

er7?

6:09 pm

el6 - like galadriel.

6:09 pm

molds, pollen, something.. yuck

6:09 pm

red... do as i said and stop whining!

6:09 pm

galadriel?

6:09 pm

er7 having tendency to wear away

6:10 pm

like a keebler tiny guy

6:10 pm

oh dear, a LOTR virgin

Stops whining now.

6:10 pm

g one, welki, ty

6:10 pm

ty!

6:10 pm

:)

6:11 pm

Red, it sounds like you need antibiotics.

6:11 pm

I know of LOTR but none of the characters

6:11 pm

no you do not

6:11 pm

OM without a fever in an adult is rare unless a diabetic, which she is not

6:11 pm

Oh Galadriel is my favorite. The Lady Of The Light.

6:12 pm

peri - like one of santas helpers

6:12 pm

got it ty

6:12 pm

still102 to find

165 here, I may get li** or quit...

6:14 pm

76 here

go go kje go!

6:14 pm

lol red

6:14 pm

puzzle is a grunt for sure ... 50 here, went to the list at 130

you can do it yes you can.

6:15 pm

i think i'll get one or two more, then li4

I find the Li** makes this like work, but I need to do it or not.

6:16 pm

i agree red. i've gotten sane enough that i let myself not if i feel too horrid.

6:16 pm

feelin dumb, can't find the last ch5.22, has to be there

6:16 pm

is that c + fish catching device?

6:16 pm

c+ fishing lure

6:17 pm

ah, monkeyed it.. ty hurshy and kje

6:17 pm

just needed to ask (-:

6:17 pm

is6?

6:17 pm

i hear thunder!!!!

6:18 pm

start like get really off by oneself, end like the devil's home

6:19 pm

ty, hurshy.. great clue!

6:19 pm

great clue, ty

6:19 pm

ty hursh

6:20 pm

ok i got to 250, that's a reasonable amount of words, though not my usual min of 80%... getting li4

6:21 pm

last ka6?

clues for the an7/8 pls?

6:21 pm

anagram of the word above it kje

6:22 pm

ends in sewer of the American Flag

6:22 pm

ty peri

6:23 pm

ty

6:23 pm

your are both welcome

6:24 pm

a7 - an + souds like freds wife on i love lucy

6:24 pm

an + first 3 letters of old stinky anesthesia + ending of isopropyl alcoh**

ty

6:25 pm

i am confused. those two clues worked but you got it from peri's clue which i can't make head nor tail of? betsy ross doesn't seem to come into it?

6:25 pm

ohhh that was for the ka nvm

at7/8 pls? ty

6:27 pm

people who don't go to church, TO

6:27 pm

lol

6:28 pm

The ka nvm, new western deity.

6:28 pm

lol

6:29 pm

mmm this veggie pizza is better the second day.

ty

6:30 pm

last al7?

6:31 pm

al and what roses have

6:31 pm

al + what was stuck in the lion's paw

6:31 pm

ty t

6:31 pm

y

6:31 pm

those A's were Awful

6:32 pm

And I didn't get the anagram clue because it's an "almost anagram"

6:32 pm

you have to think like a peri

6:32 pm

:)

6:33 pm

I'm a Peri, he's a Peri, she's a Peri, you're a Peri, wouldn't you like to be a Peri too. Be a Peri! Think like a Peri!

6:33 pm

55 left, break time, bbs

6:34 pm

:-)

er 7 pls?

6:35 pm

having a tendency to wear away

6:35 pm

er7 - corrodes, like an er7 liquid

6:36 pm

hallelujah, killed the k's

6:36 pm

yay!

6:37 pm

i need ... um.. ch6 and 7 right before the thing one can smoke.

ty

6:37 pm

ch6 is a plural of the ch5 - latin plural

6:37 pm

like the breakfast cereal without the i in it, hursh

6:38 pm

ch7 - ch + make happy

kana

6:38 pm

Cute clue Aloy : )

6:38 pm

ah thank you kje

6:38 pm

whatever works (-:

6:38 pm

yw

6:45 pm

sk6?

6:47 pm

add a common vowel to the word before it, kje

6:47 pm

sigh

6:47 pm

ty

6:47 pm

may need a break

6:47 pm

yw

6:48 pm

first half of alphabet, done!

6:49 pm

yay hursh

6:49 pm

up to the s's... but just tired now!

6:49 pm

I was going to clue s + the band, but figured no one knows that band but me.

6:50 pm

ok i'm on s's now

re6/21 pls?

6:51 pm

what i did with my day old pizza for supper

6:51 pm

Hello Babblers, back for my last few.

6:51 pm

TO, if dinner gets cold..

6:52 pm

hi wht

ty

6:52 pm

use the microwave to re6 it

are the sh wrods really this hard?!

6:53 pm

All hail King Wht!

6:53 pm

yes, the block of 5s and 6s is making me dizzy

6:54 pm

Hello Molly, such a greeting.

break time

6:56 pm

14 left, brb.. think I could use a cold drink

6:57 pm

like a vodka tonic..

6:59 pm

Clue for the sh6 between the linen and the place for the dead?

6:59 pm

a place to get in out of the cold, in boston.

7:00 pm

ty Hurshy

7:00 pm

Great clue

7:00 pm

i'm good with clues involving boston accents.

7:01 pm

How about the sh7,32 after the place for the dead?

7:02 pm

alt sp of ch7

7:03 pm

tada

7:03 pm

ty Hurshy, Fireworks.

7:05 pm

congrats, wht!

7:06 pm

Let's throw a beeyah bash for Hursh's wicked good clue.

7:06 pm

We can have a wicked pissa kegga.

7:07 pm

With lobstahs

7:07 pm

haven't had lobstah in ages

7:08 pm

Well then get some Aloy, ya chowdah head

7:09 pm

lol, yes maa'm

7:09 pm

re6/24?

7:09 pm

finito!! finally!

7:09 pm

hello all...this is probably the 400th time some one has asked but are we having trouble with the game working properly?

7:09 pm

yahoo for lbdawger!

7:10 pm

re + little sir **** how do you do?

7:10 pm

WTG! DAWG!

7:10 pm

earlier I was having problems, reparteena, but, (knock wood), seems ok now

7:10 pm

ty bzz

7:10 pm

ty, aloy!

7:10 pm

wtg lbd

7:11 pm

(was hopin' aloy would share her lobsta), ty, wht

7:11 pm

after I type a word and hit enter, I have to click my cursor on the word box each time. Are you having that kind of problem or is that just my computer?

7:11 pm

Dawg, I have no idea what that clue means...

7:11 pm

I was having problems earlier, but Hurshy gave me some clues and I was able to finish.

7:11 pm

these large grids have a tendency to slow the site down.

7:11 pm

for a while, had a bad lag time..

7:11 pm

re + when you holler and it bounces back at you it is an ****

7:12 pm

yes that's what's happening - words not going on word list

7:12 pm

Got that! Thanks!

7:12 pm

yw

7:12 pm

Have you tried rebooting, reparteena?

7:13 pm

a few times. lickety add seems not to be working properly.

te7/28 pls?

7:14 pm

te - starts like the 4, ends instart of bone prefix

7:14 pm

boob tube + competed in a race, TO.

7:15 pm

other oe starts with the 4 and eds in hoofing it very fast

ty

sk5/6 pair pls?

7:16 pm

FW!

7:16 pm

wtg kje

7:16 pm

s + a brand of comfort shoes

hoory kje!

7:17 pm

yay for kje!!!

7:17 pm

whooo hoooo kje!!

7:17 pm

re6/21?

7:17 pm

Like a bunch of yarn but change the second vowel

7:17 pm

Good work, kje!

7:17 pm

cook again, bzz

7:17 pm

re + warm up

comfort sho4s? clogs? loafers? naturalizers?

7:18 pm

TY!

7:18 pm

I should do those re's when I'm fresh.

7:19 pm

sk + window glass is a p***

7:20 pm

ahh, fireworks..

1st sk 5 and subsequent sk6 pls?

7:20 pm

whooo hooooo aloy!!

7:21 pm

wtg aloy

7:21 pm

sk l*** on me! and plural

7:21 pm

nope not plural, add another vowel to the end

7:21 pm

TO, sk5,18. Bunch of yarn but change the last vowel. sk6, add a vowel to the end of the sk5

ty dawg

7:21 pm

this was one bear of a grid! must scoot now, see you all next time, poof

7 to go and i am beat, we went to the ballparkktoday and i think those hotdogs did me in

7:23 pm

Oh ouch. Ballpark dogs can do a number on you TO.

7:24 pm

don't eat hotdogs, ugh!

it was the dollar dog that did it, i ate too fast. they sell them first thing in the am, till 11:30

ka5/19 pls

7:28 pm

ka5/18 ... ka + kanga's little one

ty

el5/12pls?

7:29 pm

When you cast a vote, it is to el5 someone.

sheesh, tu

ty

i cannot beleive a four letter has me stumped

7:31 pm

go TO go!

7:31 pm

hey all, I have eyeballs for just a few minutes...

7:32 pm

oh dear, Steve Jobs has resigned. He must be feeling really ill. That makes me sad. He always seemed like the energizer bunny.

ty for the help, good night everyone

7:34 pm

night TO. Hi Stiddy! yeah, that's sad about Jobs. but the stress and the cancer just don't mix well.

7:35 pm

sweet dreams, TO

7:35 pm

hey LBD

7:35 pm

yes. cancer makes me grumpy.

what do you he4 about mr p?

7:36 pm

nothing today, TO but I haven't been on fb this afternoon

7:36 pm

uh oh, what's going on with MRP?

i don't know that is why i ask

7:40 pm

she has a lot going on right now is all I know -- seems stressed (for good reason). I wish things would get easier for them.

7:42 pm

<---Glad to he4 Stid has eyeballs

7:42 pm

not for long, Molly! LOL how are YOU???

7:44 pm

Taking it in stride Stid.

7:44 pm

ahhh, just read MRP's profile! geez, that gal has more than enough on her plate!

7:44 pm

hi Molly

7:44 pm

Hello LBD

7:54 pm

sorry, wandered off again. I think it's time to say bonne nuit. (((hugs))) **choclits** *poof*

7:59 pm

bye, stiddy

8:20 pm

OMG you have to watch this -- people all over the world performing Stand by Me -- solo, then all overlaid -- FABULOUS!! http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id =2539741

8:23 pm

hi, all. *sigh* I am totally captivatedby Sims Social on FB

8:25 pm

good grief,yet another tornado watch has been issued for our area.we have sky greenage and are buckling down,but we often get a pass on these things being right on the shoreline

8:26 pm

yikes, take care, crossy!

8:30 pm

2 days ago we lost most of downtown goderitch,1 hour from here..been a wild season

8:30 pm

what??

8:30 pm

anyone call the at9 that is missing from this dictionary yet?

8:31 pm

at9?

8:31 pm

gremlinn, long time no see!!

8:31 pm

atherosis

8:32 pm

An abnormal fatty deposit which develops within the walls of arteries

8:32 pm

hi Une

8:32 pm

sl5/12 pls

8:33 pm

sl5 = what you do through puddles when wearing boots

what you do in mud puddles

snap

8:33 pm

ty

8:33 pm

haha, and I almost erased what I was typing and changed it to refer to mud as well

8:37 pm

Wow, turbulent weather in so many places. Hope those in the path of the Canadian tornadoes stay safe.

8:38 pm

East coast of US is sure gonna get slammed by Irene . . .

8:38 pm

No kidding Une, the tracking patterns do not look good.

daughter, who has been in Brantford for the week, said there were tornado warnings for Hamilton... however her last FB post said "on my way home" !!

8:40 pm

Ooo, Diane. Hope she gets home safe and sound.

I'm sure she will :-) I don't think anything has happened down there yet, to delay flights.

8:41 pm

warning has been updated diane,it is heading east fast

It's the people in the path of Irene that I'm concerned about

8:42 pm

Last time a hurricane this size came up the East Coast, I lost power for 38 hours. I'm trying to cleverly use up as much frozen food as possible.

Joanne's flight is due here in Edmonton in about 45 minutes, so hope all is well.

8:42 pm

"Irene has the highest potential of any storm in the last 50 years to make it all the way to New England as a Category 3.”

ooooh Molly... I hope it doesn't happen again.

8:43 pm

where are you exactly, Molly?

8:44 pm

300 miles inland. We get what is called "hurricane effect" weather. Which means wicked rain, heavy winds and lots of downed trees and power lines.

8:44 pm

here is the last i have diane,issued at 9:27 EST...

8:44 pm

Scattered thunderstorms over Lake Huron has moved onshore and will rapidly move eastward. Some of these storms will contain large hail, damaging winds, and torrential downpours. There will also be the potential for isolated tornadoes. This is an alert to the potential development of severe thunderstorms capable of producing tornadoes..Monitor weather conditions and listen for updated bulletins.

I have friends in Raleigh N.C. , so am keeping an eye on that. Last time it was friends in florida and Louisiana... that's what happens when you get to know people online from across the continent ..you worry about them all :-(

8:45 pm

Isabel took down three 60 foot loblolly pines behind my place when she came through. Not to mention dozens of smaller trees in the neighborhood.

thanks Crossy.... I think she's ahead of the storm :-)

8:46 pm

Oh good Diane, ahead of the storm is the place to be.

8:46 pm

Isabel broke my window and flooded our street... that was a long night of mopping up water

I live in Raleigh and it looks like it's going to miss us. Maybe some bad rainstorms, but hopefully nothing else. Hello all!

weather, out of control, can be so devastating..... fire too. We lost most of a small city this year... due to a brush fire that was swept out of control by high winds

8:47 pm

will hope with you, ballet

I hope so, ballet !

thanks :)

8:49 pm

crossing fingers for you, ballet! Have lots of friends way inland in Boone and Blowing Rock . . .

we don't get hurricanes, being in the prairies, but we had a terrible tornado on July 31, 1987....missed us, but very close.... never want to see one again.

we get little twisters and funnel clouds, but the big ones are very rare.

8:51 pm

Tornadoes are very scary. They do so much damage so quickly.

tornadoes terrify me more since they're so much more sudden.

8:52 pm

howdy ballet,glad it passed you by.seem we are going to get a pass as well as it has all moved east of us now

many were killed... a whole trailer court wiped out... and you're right ballet.... we had no warning.

8:53 pm

Funny story...my son and I were discussing earthquake preparedness after yesterday's fiasco. Most of what you read says that you should get under a table or a desk. He said "Well Mom, I guess I'll have to stand in a doorway." He's 6'4" and goes about 220. There isn't a table or desk in our place he would fit under. : )

our weather stations DO NOW !!!

8:54 pm

When you're that big, the tables and desks get under you!

:-)) Molly... maybe he'll need to get a bigger table !

8:56 pm

*Mental note: Purchase larger dining table for earthquake preparedness* : )

lol molly!

8:57 pm

The problem with our dining table is that it sits on a center pedestal, so there isn't much room to "get under it".

ae 6/7 combo?

8:59 pm

alt spelling of type of gas

8:59 pm

ae6 was once believed to be an undetectable background substance in which all matter rested

of course! thanks :)

8:59 pm

(that was from memory so might be a bit inaccurate_

you have a good memory. That was plenty close enough for me to get it, grem.

9:02 pm

Greetings babblers

hi origami!

hi origami :-)

9:03 pm

clue for the ch 5/22 (after the ch 5/22 that means to squeeze tocut off breathing)

9:03 pm

c + pirate's hand substitute

was struggling to clue that, good one grem.

9:04 pm

thnax gremlinn

ko 6?

9:04 pm

jewish clean food

haha oh!!

I always miss obvious ones. :P

9:06 pm

there are quite a few non-obvious ones to miss this time too

the group I missed seeing for a long time was to do with old fashioned threshing of grain.... I even knew how to "do" it !!

just 8 left... all c's and a's! I usually don't do this well on a grid this large. I'm excited!

haha diane!

9:08 pm

can i get help on the "at" words please?

9:08 pm

go balletslippers!

9:09 pm

*Another mental note: Find Diane, if we are ever forced into survivalist mode, so she can teach me how to thresh grain*

unbeliever

non-religious people, jen

lol... I could only st 5/18 and not very well !

9:10 pm

that's what i thought diane, but i just couldn't see it! thanks!

cl 6??

9:10 pm

hi, folks

c + anagram of the king of R & R

9:11 pm

hi welki

thanks diane!

hi welki .. did you get that hailstorm last week ??

9:12 pm

read back in the chog ... diane, you had a bad one in 1987 .. pine lake (near red deer) had one 11 years ago. eleven fatalities

9:12 pm

I'm such a rube. I thought st5/8 was short for a word that starts with mis.

9:12 pm

we had crazy weather, we drove ahead of the storm (it didn't go as far south as our home, so we didn't have damage)

yes we did welki.... but not as bad as the one in 1987. Pine Lake, for some reason, has been hit with quite a few storms in my lifetime.

Douglasdale sure got it.... my daughter in law's flowers were torn to shreds.... geranium salad for supper !!

9:14 pm

yessss, that's right, you're from around the bowden area. i've seen lots of bad storms (and a few swirlers) over the last ten years. seems to be getting worse

9:14 pm

douglasdale? i'm only 5 minutes away!

now Molly, if you were a true rube, you would have known that word LOL

I know where you are :-) Hail is funny that way,... can cut a clean path down the middle of a grain field.

I grew up in Innisfail.... the hail belt of alberta !

apparently I was stuck in a hurricane as an infant. my parents put me in the carrier on the dryer so the rocking would keep me asleep as they held the front door closed. glad we came out of that storm alright!

I'm in Sherwood Park now though.... last 38 years. We did live in Willow Park before we moved up here.

one word left..... what shall it be?

9:16 pm

two weekends ago, we were at pine lake (we have a site at scotty's) and a BAD storm blew in, surrounded the lake completely. looked like armageddon

9:17 pm

willow park .. near me? or is there one up by you, too?

al 6?

9:17 pm

where was that, ballet? i grew up on the east coast and remember hurricanes, too

black black skies ! daughter and family were in Gull lake two summers ago and had major hail damage done to their 5th wheeler....

9:18 pm

al6 is a woman's name (and a flower)

it was Hugo and I think we were in Columbia SC at the time, welki

super sports female al**** gibson

9:18 pm

s

in tennis and in golf...

9:19 pm

foolhardy kids, we'd go down to the beach for hurricane parties

thanks for the clues welki/diane :)

the waves are great when a hurricane is near! I just wouldn't go in the water...

you're welcome ballet

2 more!!

9:20 pm

but every summer, right after a big one blows through, you read about someone who went too far into the surf :(

that's so sad...

done !!!

YAY Diane!!

9:22 pm

wtg, diane :)

giving in.... ak5 either one?

thanks all.... big grid today, and I still got lots accomplished !!

don't know how to clue them.... lol

9:24 pm

ak + reverse of an alcoholic beverage

one sounds like the big-wig in the shriners I think it is

understandable....... i'm having trouble monkeying so I imagine they're hard to clue

9:24 pm

both end in vowels

9:24 pm

a + barbie's boyfriend + vowel

9:24 pm

a + barbie's boyfriend + vowel

ak + good night Ir***

9:25 pm

oops, excuse the burp

9:25 pm

i'll seeeeee you in my dreeeeeeeeeams

alright... got the ken/ir clue

working on the other :)

9:26 pm

ak + r***x and take it easy

good one grem !

aha! Got it!! yay fireworks

way to go , ballet !!

Not sure I've ever finished a grid this large.

9:27 pm

Hi all, babbling on my phone while my student group meets

going to go watch some tv with hubby, IF he's not watching one of those CSI or similar shows.... I'm SO tired of them

hi sue :-)

alright... 2 minutes to "bedtime". I'm heading out darlings! Hugs for all!

see you all tomorrow.... night night everyone :-)

9:28 pm

Hi, diane!

9:28 pm

Ballet, I didn't know The Rolling Stones wrote that song about you. "I was born in a cross-fire hurricane And I howled at my ma in the driving rain."

9:29 pm

'night diane

9:29 pm

And bye....

9:29 pm

bye, ballet and hello, molly

9:29 pm

Hi, welki and Molly

lol molly! bye all!

9:31 pm

Hey Welki, you hurricane party girl you. Hi Sue.

9:32 pm

Hi, diane!

9:32 pm

Ok, I don't know why that posted again. Weird phone.

9:32 pm

hi uu ... thought you'd left earlier *can't keep up*

9:33 pm

I did but now I am back.

9:33 pm

How did today go Sue? Are you the thoroughly exhausted Dr. W?

9:33 pm

don't want to know about this hurricane... sitting here on martha's vineyard till sunday

9:34 pm

waves at friends. back soon, emailing a friend...

9:34 pm

Dorens, find the president and sit it out in style! ;-)

9:34 pm

I am, Molly, and at the moment I am sitting in the hall outside my student group meeting, which turned out to be very popular, so crowded

9:34 pm

i know where he is. hee hee

9:34 pm

Dorens, buy lots of wine and don't watch the weather channel.

9:35 pm

he's scheduled to leave on saturday though. and my son just arrived an hour ago with six lovely bottles

9:35 pm

Nice, doren! Send some over here...

9:35 pm

maybe share a bottle with the first lady...schmoozing with the first family can't be too bad.

9:36 pm

Emergency Management Ontario recommends that persons in the area described above IMMEDIATELY shelter. Everyone in this area should immediately move indoors, and away from doors and windows, preferably into a basement area if that is possible. Do not pick up family members from schools, daycares and institutions such as hospitals and nursing homes. Plans are in place to protect them. People currently outside this area are advised not to enter this area until further notice. If it is safe to do so, pets and livestock should be removed quickly from outside. Do not call 911 for information about this emergency. Remain tuned to this station for further information and instructions

9:36 pm

Environment Canada has issued a Tornado Warning in an area described as RODNEY - SHEDDEN - WESTERN ELGIN COUNTY ST. THOMAS - AYLMER - EASTERN ELGIN COUNTY - CITY OF HAMILTON - BURLINGTON - OAKVILLE - MISSISSAUGA - BRAMPTON WATFORD - PINERY PARK - EASTERN LAMBTON COUNTY STRATHROY - KOMOKA - WESTERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY LONDON - PARKHILL - EASTERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY WOODSTOCK - TILLSONBURG - OXFORD COUNTY BRANTFORD - COUNTY OF BRANT. KITCHENER - CAMBRIDGE - REGION OF WATERLOO

9:36 pm

in what area, crossy?

9:36 pm

tc all must log off..poink!

9:36 pm

... basically London to Mississauga ... ... and up to Georgian Bay

9:36 pm

Kids are in school and daycare at 10:30 at night?

9:36 pm

take care, Crossy

9:37 pm

Be careful, cross!

9:37 pm

you may be right dawgy, but the secret service are kind of tough

9:37 pm

wow ... earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados. i should start drinking

9:37 pm

Probably canned text, Molly

9:37 pm

it must be a blank statement used for all emergencies

9:37 pm

Molly: it's the advanced track for gifted toddlers.

9:37 pm

or 24 hr daycare for shift workers

9:38 pm

with the babies in arms, who could turn you away, dorens?

9:38 pm

Dorens! I want a picture of you and Michelle yucking it up over a glass of wine.

9:38 pm

okay, here again! ((hugs everyone)) I am worried about my friends on the East Coast...

9:38 pm

HHi, stid!

9:38 pm

stiddy, we can only hope everyone is smart enough to seek shelter and not be stupid.

9:38 pm

Gremlinn! The advanced track for gifted toddlers. Hahaha.

9:38 pm

and NOW I am also worried about my friends in Ontario region... *worried mama look*

9:38 pm

Do not worry about what you cannot change!

9:39 pm

well you see... the thing is... if I could change these things I wouldn't worry!

9:39 pm

So no worries!

9:40 pm

<--- thinks it is quite ironic that the whole east coast is being threatened by Irene, which is my dad's wife's name

9:40 pm

*looks pointedly at Doren but speaks to LBD* and do you think they ARE smart enough to seek shelter and stay safe???

9:40 pm

Only for people like me who can change things but procrastinate.

9:40 pm

roflmao sue!

9:40 pm

figure out how i can get around the secret service molly... michelle and i would get along just fine

9:41 pm

i ain't scared of no stinkin' hurricane!

9:41 pm

Oh Sue, the jokes in your family have to be flowing fast and furious over that.

9:41 pm

His divorce court date is Sept 2

9:41 pm

LOL doren!

9:41 pm

Not yet, Molly, but I plan to start them :)

9:42 pm

... there's lots of thunder ... and lightning ... .... but it's not particularly hot ... 26C ... 79F ... that doesn't seem warm enough for much of a tornado ... ... windy sure ...

9:42 pm

stiddy, the secret service people? yeah, smart enough unless ordered to do something stupid.

9:42 pm

well, just as I figured 119 was the best I was going to get, suddenly I am at 17

9:42 pm

oh. um, 117!!!!

9:42 pm

Dorens, if the Bush girls could sneak out and party, I'll just bet Michelle could figure that out too.

9:42 pm

dos, it's not the particular temp that does it, right, but pressure and humidity differentials?

9:43 pm

221 left for me, busy day

9:43 pm

is6?

9:43 pm

how are the new crop, sue? bright-eyed and busy tailed, I hope?

9:43 pm

i + do re me fa ** la ti + how do you celebrate the ***idays?

9:43 pm

Heat provides a lot of the energy, stid, for the tornadoes, that is

9:44 pm

is6 = anagram of Greek sun god

9:44 pm

okay sue *glad to not have to know that!*

9:44 pm

And the students are not bad. My classes are smaller this semester, which helps.

9:44 pm

thanks for the is word!

9:45 pm

oops, not ***idays, try changing the o to another vowel. doh

9:45 pm

small is very good! glad you are in "not bad" territory

9:45 pm

plural for the 7, stid

9:45 pm

... they've changed it ... the worst thunderstorms are staying along the north shore of Lake Erie ... ... that means it's more likely to affect Scrabbler and the people in Buffalo and western New York than Crossy ...

9:45 pm

AHA!!! that greys out that tile. Thanks!

9:46 pm

thx for the is stid

9:46 pm

okay, this fumble head is going for the pillows. see you all tomorrow! stay dry and safe!

9:46 pm

sweet dreams LBD!

9:46 pm

Indeed. One class is about 13, next is 25, last is 40. Great!

9:46 pm

Night, lbd!

9:47 pm

drinking wine and discussing when and where this hurricane is supposed to hit

9:47 pm

my eyes are rebelling again. I think I will watch jeopardy and then go to sleep early. I have a big day planned for tomorrow -- cleaning and arranging for my friend to come for a quiet visit (I am sending my boys on their bikes to her house...)

9:47 pm

see you-all again soon. Stay safe! *poof*

9:47 pm

Scrabbler is out hiking in the adirondacks

9:47 pm

Night, stid!

9:47 pm

if your eyes are rebelling, why are you going to watch jeopardy?

9:48 pm

You are putting yourself...and all the passengers on this plane...IN JEOPARDY!

9:49 pm

... the weather radar around here doesn't show the severest storms going that far to the east ... ... she'll just get wet if she's in a tent ... ... but I wouldn't want to be in Buffalo this evening

9:50 pm

i trust her survival instincts and common sense

9:51 pm

Looking at the projected hurricane track on CNN it just might hit Tadoussac, Quebec, where my son is. But it might have dissipated somewhat by then. Tad is a bit west of Maine, for the geographically deprived.

9:51 pm

And they're talking tornadoes in Ontario...

9:52 pm

Hi, jilli! Cool galaxy!

9:53 pm

Thanks sue -- specially for you!

9:53 pm

:)

9:55 pm

... chances seem to be decreasing ... ... I'm just east of Toronto ... and Toronto is getting some heavy thunder ... ... but nothing unusual for a thunderstorm ... ... our weather radar is showing a very heavy line of severe thunderstorms tracking along the north shore of Lake Erie ... ... which would possibly track the storms into western New York ... say Buffalo, Jamestown ,,, but dissipating by Rochester

9:55 pm

funny, thopugh, that you suggested icon themes but don't follow them -- although you pictures of the day are great too. But SO FEW follow the themes.

9:55 pm

my icon is a picture of a galaxy too - it's just zoomed in REALLY CLOSE

9:56 pm

haha grem -- nice to see you again!

9:56 pm

like, by a factor of about 10^21

9:57 pm

Well, I do my own thing for my icons. But sprite was looking for ideas, so I gave her some (and to be honest, this week is so busy it's all I can do just to get on)

9:57 pm

hi jilli

9:57 pm

I found an at9 in this board but this dictionary doesn't like it - atherosis

9:57 pm

this "dictionary" is the pits

9:57 pm

i used to be better about them, jii.sorry i don'r anymore... have gotten out of the habit.. will try to get back into it

9:58 pm

it's not really a dictionary at all, is it? Just a word list.

9:58 pm

good observation gremlinn

10:00 pm

Oh it would have to be a word list, wouldn't it? All the definitions come from dictionary.com.

10:00 pm

Right, just a list of accepted words.

10:00 pm

Yep, that's an external reference.

10:01 pm

So, 57 schools still closed across our region, and one apartment complex condemned. Looks like 2 or 3 schools will be condemned too.

10:01 pm

I condemn them all! Ha!

10:01 pm

hi all clue for en6/30 please?

10:01 pm

lolo grem

10:01 pm

Sometimes I wonder why the two or three of us bother with the themes. It would be great to see what others choose. I hear it all the time -- that people are too rushed and busy -- but they do change icons anyway, just ignoring the themes. I post them in my bio because it's sprite, in the Netherlands and a different time zone, who takes the trouble to collect them for everyone's amusement and erudition, and lists them.

10:01 pm

hy, flask, molly, doren, grem, et al

10:02 pm

hi dc

10:02 pm

there is no en6/30 - el?

10:02 pm

Hello dc.

10:02 pm

Evenin' Seain.

10:02 pm

evening, jilli :)

10:02 pm

sorry el6/30

10:02 pm

<-- steps down from soapbox and goes to get a late supper.

10:03 pm

el6 is what many of Tolkien's creations speak

10:03 pm

it's especially nice when there's a color theme :)

10:03 pm

... el6/30 ... was clued earlier as ... like Santa's helpers ... ... although LOTR fans should have got it ... ... to my shame I missed it

10:04 pm

thanx!

10:04 pm

So, dc, send the suggestion to sprite!

10:04 pm

i want orks to be a word

10:04 pm

<---Tried orks

10:05 pm

Ok, meeting is over, time to go home

10:05 pm

elvist

10:05 pm

*Even though I know it's orcs*

10:05 pm

someone who speaks the King?

10:05 pm

The next theme, suggested by uusue, is Volcanoes.

10:05 pm

i think 92% of us did molly

10:06 pm

I don't know it at all

10:06 pm

I didn't try it - didn't see that combination

10:06 pm

there, in theme

10:07 pm

change last letter, flask

10:07 pm

sh7?

10:07 pm

female pronoun + what trees get nutrients with

10:07 pm

has an alternate spelling too, also in the grid

10:08 pm

hmmm, i thought that was spelt with a c

10:08 pm

it is!

10:08 pm

and that answers my Q

10:08 pm

ty DC

10:08 pm

thy SH is alt spelling

10:08 pm

last le7?

10:09 pm

well, either is an alternate of the other - that's what alternates are

10:09 pm

le5/12 + article

10:09 pm

I am very grateful for Peter Jackson's interpretation of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Every time I tried to read Tokein, I fell asleep at the long winded description and lineage passages.

10:09 pm

... le7 ... to rent + to use your ears but then change the last consonant

10:10 pm

good clue, thx

10:10 pm

same here, especially a lot of The Two Towers

10:11 pm

oh they were magic to me. i remember at 16 being grounded for three weeks and read the trilogy.... it was my salvation

10:11 pm

hmm, probably been fifteen or twenty years since I read any of them - I don't read nearly as much as I used to

10:11 pm

i've never tried to read Tolkein, and i'm not sure it's worth the bother at this point in my life

10:11 pm

Um...to be honest...having Viggo Mortensen play Aragorn probably held my interest as well. : P

10:11 pm

that is definitely perfect for adolescence

10:11 pm

video games are so addicting these days - no time for reading!

10:12 pm

i doubt that i could read them at this point in life

10:12 pm

er7?

10:12 pm

<---Wants to know what Dorens got grounded for.

10:13 pm

er7 = having a tendency to degrade, geographically speaking (I think)

10:13 pm

al7?

10:13 pm

noted, doren, and good to know

10:13 pm

Oh Gremlinn, I wish that were not the case. Reading has magic that you will never get from video games.

10:14 pm

thx grem

10:14 pm

well, some games have a lot of reading involved too

10:14 pm

correct, grem. My nephew, friend, and i climbed an er7 hill on Saturday, heavans help us.

10:14 pm

nm, got it

10:14 pm

and if they're text adventures, it *is* all reading (and typing)

10:15 pm

actually, I have done a fair amount of reading the last few words, but mainly textbooks (especially biology/anatomy/etc.) Dunno why I got interested in that for a while, but I did.

10:16 pm

*few years (strange typo)

10:16 pm

What I'm trying to describe is difficult. Reading the written word and using your imagination to follow the story is what is magic for me.

10:16 pm

molly.. i was a bad girl. had friends in nyc.. party , wanted to go, lied to my parents and said the girl's parents would be there.. which of course they weren't...and of course my parents called the house and figured it all out... drove into nyc and picked me up and grounded me (extreme i thought) for 3 weeks..

10:17 pm

and tonight, I am forced to read boring things (have to take a written driver's exam tomorrow)

10:18 pm

good luck with that gremlinn

10:18 pm

Oh Dorens, I'm not at all surprised at the bad girl story. And I'm not surprised that your creative mind figured out an awesome way to pass that time.

10:19 pm

an clues? i have the first one but not the others

10:19 pm

that and listening to the loving spoonful album over and over and over again.. almost wore through the grooves

10:19 pm

(lp's in those days. no cd's, no cassettes, i'm an old girl)

10:19 pm

at7?

10:19 pm

an7 + *****ogy is the study of...people?

10:20 pm

i don't believe in god doxy

10:20 pm

got it, thanks

10:20 pm

err, I meant an7 = an + *****ology (and it's the study of animal behavior, apparently)

10:20 pm

... at7 ... doesn't believe in a deity

10:20 pm

gah, *****ogy

10:22 pm

firewords

10:23 pm

hey, i got it with that clue gremlin

10:23 pm

nice - I wouldn't have got it from my own clue (since I had to look up what the *****ogy meant in the first place)

10:23 pm

♪ Do you believe in magic, in a young girl's heart, how the music can free her, whenever it starts ♪

10:24 pm

congrats, wild!

10:26 pm

ha, finally got a 9, now I have nbs :-)

10:27 pm

clue for he4/5 please...the FIRST one

10:27 pm

nice colliding galaxies, dc - I made a whole slideshow of them once

10:27 pm

... he4.5 ... as a doctor ... to make better

10:28 pm

<---Thinks it looks like a sperm fertilizing an egg.

10:28 pm

sorry...I meant the 2nd one!

10:28 pm

When galaxies collide, what fraction of the stars collide as a direct result?

10:28 pm

... the back end of the bottom of your shoe

10:28 pm

cl6, first one?

10:28 pm

almost none, gremlinn

10:28 pm

I'd imagine maybe none, actually

10:29 pm

but the colliding gases spark a lot of new star formation

10:29 pm

so Molly is not totally wrong :-)

10:29 pm

It'd be awesome if they collided center to center for a battle of supermassive black holes though.

10:29 pm

... cl6 ... c + a brand of jeans ...

10:29 pm

Aw, the birth of baby stars.

10:30 pm

ty dose

10:30 pm

that does sometimes happen, gremlinn, and it can be pretty spectacular

10:30 pm

if you look closely at dc's icon, the blue streaks coming out of the galaxies are where the new stars are

10:31 pm

neat

10:31 pm

oh, i should provide link, let me do that, much bigger image that way

10:32 pm

there, added URL for the photo

10:32 pm

have any galactic clusters in collision ever been seen?

10:32 pm

yes, grem

10:33 pm

So...hmm...astrological fertilization creates baby stars and black holes. Much like human fertilization creates people of the light and people of the darkness. I'm sensing some karma here.

10:33 pm

it's allowed us to update our modelling of such

10:33 pm

nice, dc! You can see a lot of background galaxies in the larger image as well

10:34 pm

yes you can :) very nice image complements of Nat'l Geographic

10:34 pm

Galactic collision is...astropornography?

10:34 pm

lizsa4 and plural :)

10:36 pm

So funny. The Weather Channel is promoting full scale panic for the entire East Coast region. I predict there will not be batteries, bottled water, flashlights or propane to be found by Saturday in any of our local stores.

10:37 pm

HURRICANE IRENE IS LARGE AND POWERFUL!!!

10:37 pm

as hurricanes are wont to be :)

10:37 pm

Astropropogation Grem.

Hi Seain.

10:38 pm

Your katamari must be 2750 km tall.

That is funny, Molly.

10:38 pm

howdy, neil

10:38 pm

no gremlinn.. no discussion of irene... she does not exist

10:39 pm

La, la, la...Dorens will he4 none of this panic. La, la, la. *Pours Dorens another glass of fine wine*

10:39 pm

well, she will be out of my dad's life soon - hopefully without destroying his house in the process :-)

10:40 pm

(I am going to have a good time with this...)

10:40 pm

it isn't all that fine molly... but it is definitely fun (had no wine for the last week and making up for it now)

10:42 pm

s

10:43 pm

yes, been very windy here today too

10:43 pm

that's right molly. lalala

10:45 pm

Well, if the weather predictions are correct, we are supposed to get ugly, nasty storms tomorrow that will make the ground all soaky and pre-disposed to flooding on the weekend. Got hip boots?

10:46 pm

well you live in somewhere and i don't know where that is. i'm in martha's vineyard and they're saying we'll get a direct hit at 2 pm on sunday

10:46 pm

Isn't that about the time you are supposed to leave, doren?

10:46 pm

i'm in Northern Virginia, about 20 miles W of DC

10:46 pm

yes sue. should be interesting

10:47 pm

i know where you are seain, that was directed at silly molly

10:47 pm

ah! :)

10:47 pm

Time for formulating a Plan B Dorens.

10:47 pm

I am not far from Seain, Dorens.

10:47 pm

9:30 am ferry????

10:47 pm

bbs

10:47 pm

Molly is in the same general area as dc, if I am not mistaken.

10:48 pm

and a very very long and hairy drive home

10:48 pm

at least the grandkids have their parents.. they arrived late tonight

10:49 pm

well, be sensible, doren (as I am sure you will be) - don't drive if it is not safe, and get off the vineyard in plenty of time

10:51 pm

had too much wine to be sensible sue... and this is wednesday, right? who knows what will happen by saturday?

10:52 pm

well, you don't have to be sensible NOW, doren, just be sensible on Sunday :-)

10:52 pm

oh i'm sure i will get some sense back in me before then.... I should hope!

10:53 pm

anyway it is late and I am going to bed - got nbs and nbt even if not half way

10:53 pm

see you all tomorrow!!

10:53 pm

won't be too far behind.. three words left

10:53 pm

night

11:05 pm

molly your profile says you are from somewhere. i guess that is true, but not very infomative

11:05 pm

re6, 1st one?

11:06 pm

hi all. any 9 clues out there? i have only one so far, the st 9.

11:06 pm

hear again, doxy?

11:06 pm

... to hear the sounds bouncing off the walls of the canyon ... again

11:06 pm

no 9's

11:06 pm

ty dose

11:06 pm

fireworks and good nite

11:07 pm

night dorens

11:33 pm

at

11:38 pm

... left it late tonight ... ... any clues for anyone? ...

11:40 pm

... well then ... g'night ...

Just awaiting the flip.

11:58 pm

Don'r fall asleep waiting neil. Anyone else here yet?

Oh I won't... too keen to see the new grid.

11:59 pm

No.

Not that I'm aware. Just Fauxmage I think?

Haha! Right on cue.

11:59 pm

I just hope it's smaller and more sensible. We are getting a lot of weird words lately!

You watch. Right at flip, they'll all come out of the woodwork. I bet they're lurking.

11:59 pm

I'm here...barely!

There's a lurker!

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