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12:00 am

flipAmazon river dolphins, Inia geoffrensis, aka boutu, boto and bufeo, are one of the few species of fresh water dolphins and the most well-known river dolphin. They are a medium size dolphin with long beaks, a stocky body, and prominent forehead. They have long beaks with 24-34 conical and molar-like teeth. The conical teeth in the front of the mouth are used for holding prey, the molars in the rear of the mouth are used to grind food before swallowing. A characteristic unique to the Amazon river dolphin is stiff hairs on the beak; the hairs are a sensory organ that help sense prey in muddy river bottoms. Another interesting characteristic is that Amazon river dolphins are able to move their neck unlike other dolphin species that have fused vertebrae. Neck mobility enables the Amazon river dolphin to look to the side or down. They are also known for their keen eyesight and hearing. Amazon river dolphins are often found singly or in pairs. They are a gregarious species unafraid of boats. Like other dolphin species, they are equipped with audible sonar, which is used for echolocating prey. South American Indian folklore hails the Amazon river dolphin as sacred, leading to the belief that hunting and killing them would bring bad luck, therefore the dolphins were somewhat protected. The arrival of new settlers ended that protection as numerous Amazon river dolphins were killed for their skin for leather and fat for cooking. Several hundred of this species have been captured for live display in aquariums, including at least 100 taken by the US. Unfortunately, few were able to adapt to captivity. They are threatened by various activities, among them are incidental catches in fisheries, damming of rivers associated with hydroelectric development, deforestation, and pollution from mercury mining operations. Despite these problems, these beautiful creatures are still abundant in many parts of their range.

להעיף

flip way out

12:01 am

flippity doo

12:01 am

hello

12:01 am

Well, now you know all about my icon, lol!

12:01 am

Anybody home?

sh7,32

12:01 am

SH6

th9,66

Clues are up

12:02 am

thanks, Lickety

Thanks Lickety.

12:02 am

Thank you, Lickety!!!!!!!!!!

si7

12:03 am

good grief -- lotsa poop in this grid!! LOL

12:03 am

Si6

Yep, Une. Gas masks are needed.

12:08 am

:-D

12:08 am

Citroen

12:08 am

can i have the stats for the first A please?

12:09 am

= auto maker

12:09 am

ai 4/5

12:09 am

ao6/21, mlf

6/21 grem

I mean MLF

12:09 am

tx jilli

12:10 am

A what though Teal?

12:10 am

anyone get the 9 yet?

12:10 am

oh oops thanks jill

sorry!

12:10 am

yw

12:11 am

grem I think neil called it a wile ago

12:11 am

ah

12:11 am

yep -- th9/66

12:12 am

and I just got it, hooray!

12:12 am

not seeing that th9

got it! thanks!

12:13 am

got it thanks

12:13 am

me either peri

12:14 am

stats for the R on the first column please?

NBT

12:14 am

you mean the R on the left, or on the west?

12:14 am

wtg T!

12:14 am

re5/10

12:14 am

there are 2 Rs in the first column

12:15 am

bottom

12:15 am

corner

12:15 am

I want my money back for the last two grids

peri gave it to you, then

12:15 am

sorry i got the other one on my own:)

Me too, grem.

This one was much too small and easy. I keep hoping for a big 400-500 word grid with lots of long words.

And email doesn't work on that Yahoo ID you played in last night, gremlinn. Tried to send you something.

12:18 am

neil i dont know if that is even possible lol

I'm told it's happened, MLFAN.

12:21 am

sorry neil, I don't give out my email

12:21 am

yeah, I've seen a couple 500+ since I've played here

12:21 am

it has but how long the words are i dont remember lol

12:21 am

Why don't you go back in Archives and play one ( or more) of them, Neil. You don't have to look at the word list.

12:22 am

TH 9 woohooo

12:22 am

once I had an idea that Babble Expert should let you play one of the archived ones, or just randomly generate one if you wanted to practice

12:22 am

most of the programming would be already in place, I'm sure

Actually I do use the stats, broll.

12:23 am

TH9 is a common word in case anyone wants to know

12:23 am

fireworks and hi all! :o)

12:23 am

nbt

Congrats, dfmchfhf!

WTG, jilli.

12:23 am

(that was a quick one... *sigh*)

12:24 am

cant be too common since I don't see it

Sure was.

12:24 am

congrats dfm

12:24 am

you would know it though:)

I got and called the th9 near the beginning.

12:25 am

and I guess congrats are in order for neil

Yep, everyone would know it.

12:25 am

peri use the first T on the third column

12:25 am

that R has me stumped

Then go left and up, then down and right.

12:26 am

got the th9 ty

12:26 am

yw

12:26 am

mlf, think old-fashioned, sort of

A while ago, jilli.

12:26 am

neil i didnt see it sorry

12:27 am

can someone help me with that R in the corner please so i can gdet nbt

Think 60's style, MLFAN. Cars, home decor, anything like that.

re5,10

12:27 am

yes, I figured that when you complained that it was too small and easy, neil.

And stay left.

12:27 am

Oh DUHHH i was making it harder then it actually was

12:27 am

thanks

Yeah, probably. ;)

12:28 am

gotnbt and the 9 but no 7s

12:28 am

See 12:26, mlf, for my attempt at helping

12:28 am

wd mlf

12:28 am

i got iit thanks

What photo is showing up in the chog as my icon? I changed it and not sure if the change shows yet?

12:30 am

fireworks

Congrats anike.

12:30 am

I see your one eye, neil

12:31 am

wd anile

12:31 am

*anike

1/4 of my head you mean? Thanks. Or as my stepmom says, I'm "half a Neilroy" in this picture.

12:31 am

yes

12:31 am

TY. And hello to everyone - have been away for 4 months nearly

Wow. That long without Babble?

12:32 am

where were you, anike? Missed you!

12:32 am

Been in UK and Europe - driving around in a motorhome

Oh cool. Bet that was a fun adventure?

12:33 am

Oh, lovely!

12:33 am

Funnily I didn't really miss babble - didn't have time I suppose

No. You were doing better things. :)

I'd take sightseeing over this... I think. ;)

I'd have serious withdrawal a long time before the 4 months was up though.

12:35 am

lotsa poop here but no pooper, I see. Go figure.

Haha, jilli.

No scooper either, damn.

So watch where you step.

12:36 am

The weather wasn't that kind to us but we saw lots and had fun. I have to go - hubby on his way back from visiting his mother who is critically ill (she had a fall the day we got back)

12:36 am

Happy babbling

12:37 am

hopoe she's ok, anike!

12:38 am

We have to wait and see. Bye for now

Oh no, hope she'll be ok!

Take care.

12:42 am

nbs

12:44 am

neil -- have you read E.L. Doctorow's "World's Fair"?

12:48 am

kia ora all the kiwi is in da house for a change :)

12:48 am

Hi kiwi!

12:49 am

not many here now, I think :-(

12:49 am

thats ok its nightime i forgive them

12:50 am

night time and a small grid and a lot didn't show up

12:51 am

they should know im back and come visit lol

12:52 am

where were you?

12:53 am

enjoying real life too much was some of it but the other was just a really awesome job that i enjoyed so much but sometimes i did majorly long hours or the days were that intense that i was just too pooped to do much

12:53 am

at night online

12:54 am

what job?

12:54 am

HI everyone.. late arrival for me

12:54 am

i do project work coordinating rennovations for our government based social housing

12:54 am

hi jilli and HI Kiwi

12:54 am

ruru baby xxxxxxx hugs and hi

12:54 am

hi ruru -- not many of us here

12:54 am

how is your son kiwi.. ?

12:55 am

so they give us houses and we have to rennovate them inside from top to bottom but they still have ppl living in them

12:55 am

that sound so worthwhile, kiwi!

12:55 am

taking each day as it comes ru. back at the neurologist on 5th oct

12:56 am

I've been thinking about you.. glad you showed up

12:56 am

it is an it isnt jilly most of them are pretty much the scum of the earth and think that they are special and should get special treatment and they treat us and our contractors like crap

12:56 am

and then you get like the old age pensioners who want to bake for you everday and spend the day making tea and talking and you have to try to talk your way out of it so you can work lol

12:57 am

awww thats nice ru.

12:58 am

no wild cocktail parties tonight jilli?

12:58 am

I see it's almost "Talk Like a Pirate Day" ruru!

12:59 am

thought I'd get ahead of the curve jilli..lol

12:59 am

its been talk like a pirate day all day here and my fav radio station did their whole 4 hour breakfast show with that twang lol

12:59 am

no, lol -- just library work -- had to miss the local Fall Fair.

1:00 am

Of course, kiwi -- you're a day ahead of us

1:00 am

did anyone gwet the 9??????

1:01 am

not yet mkg dont even know what it is yet lol

1:01 am

are you talking like elmer fudd mkg?

1:01 am

tho i am over halfway

1:01 am

yes, mlf -- it's a real word -- th9/66

1:01 am

kiwi, you always were a fast woman, lol

1:02 am

i havent lost my touch its amazing how many of those silly words ive remembered lol

1:03 am

I have 31 to go and am in no hurry

1:04 am

23 here

1:04 am

im 4 behind u lol

1:07 am

i'm stuck though now

1:07 am

jilli is the th9 a compound word?

1:09 am

Not compound ..

1:09 am

thanks tor

1:09 am

that doesnt help but ill get there lol

1:10 am

It might describe a kind of physics ..

1:10 am

that does help a bit cheers

1:11 am

wow the re's were nice and easy - that makes a change

1:12 am

Yup ..

1:13 am

sorry kiwi -- I wasn't here for a bit

1:13 am

morning all. I am not impressed that yesterday's fiasco has spoilt my run of 28 completed puzzles. Ah well on with the game. The th9/66 is very apposite to programming.

1:14 am

hi scouser

1:14 am

i got the 9 woohooo

1:14 am

hey scouser good luck to you

1:15 am

hi jillibus. very interesting stuff on the dolphins. I went into the log to see if there had been a mssg abt yesterday and got sidetracked by your info.

1:16 am

Hi Groovy I must be hooked on this game, eh?

1:16 am

have you read about the bottle nose dolphins killing harbor porpoises here in California

1:17 am

Mind you without Lickety I'd probably not finish nearly as many.

1:17 am

i used to be the worlds worst babble addict until i saw the light - ask Ru lol

1:18 am

don't ask me.. I'm an addict

1:18 am

i must be returning to my old life cause i missed you too much lol

1:19 am

you are always welcome here kiwi.. its great to have you pop in

1:20 am

Hi ruru - there must be some strong reason for dolphins to fight thus; I hope that it is not a trait that increased "intelligence" leads to internecine strife. I like woodlice: we kept them for kids to look at in school and I never saw them fight or even spar off. When they meet they just wave feelers at one another and then trundle on by.

1:21 am

they are studying it.. but there are porpoises showing up dead on beaches everywhere

1:22 am

glad you enjoyed, scouser. I like learning about stuff in the icon themes

1:22 am

they think it is young rogue males fighting for territory..

1:23 am

Perhaps they are affected by all our additives. I expect that some of those sweetener molecules are tough long-lived and could preferentially affect mammals and larger animals in the water.

1:23 am

It could be the the porpoise "flippered" them off?

1:23 am

fyi, si7 is an unword with no def

1:24 am

we had a 15m long baleen whale found beach up and dead on a south island beach this morning :(

1:24 am

and with that i have fireworks :)

1:24 am

Sorry: I got on my soapbox again. I am concerned about our "sugar-free" everything culture: cannot even get medicines without aspartame now. I loathe aspartame and know instantly if it is my food.

1:25 am

Well done Groovy.

1:27 am

anyone need a hand?

1:27 am

no thanks kiwi.. I already have two

1:27 am

:D

1:28 am

I had better limp off to bed and call it a day.. HUGS kiwi.. please keep stopping by.. great to see you.. night jilli and scouser

1:28 am

i could give you a finger or two instead ru if you really wanted

1:29 am

fingers I can always use..lol

1:29 am

si7 presume it means "since th4/5 " in some obscure text where the author is replicating dialect. I suspect Enable of reading Priestley, Thomas Hardy, etc.

1:29 am

I am usually all thumbs anyway

1:30 am

night all.. see you another day

1:31 am

Isn't funny that the thumb is most important to our way of life and yet we moan about it when we cannot coordinate? We should say we are 'all fingers' instead.

1:32 am

ok i must dash dinner is ready and i didnt even have to cook it - hugs all see ya another day

1:33 am

FW -- and bye ruru and kiwi!

1:33 am

scouser, that si7 minus the last letter is from Chaucer, I see.

1:35 am

Ah Enable hasn't got to Hardy yet th4/5 !

1:36 am

I'll stay a bit if anyone needs clues but it's bedtime...

1:37 am

And what about th5/12 a very suspect "plural" I think is like the end of si7/32. Cheers jillibus

1:38 am

By all for the mo.

1:38 am

Enable uses lots of suspect "words", right?

1:39 am

And fare well all -- I'm off to bed...*poof

afternoon all :)

2:35 am

well, hello, empty chat... :)

hi rbud... empty house tonight

2:39 am

they've all gone off, and I just woke up, middle of the night - fell asleep too early.

2:42 am

hello all

2:42 am

here just to get nbt/nbs

2:43 am

wont take you long then Cos...hello :)

2:43 am

was at a friends house for a dinner party then played rummy til 1am.. was fun

2:44 am

love playingcards with friends

2:44 am

I'm actually trying to kind of do this one a single tile at a time, you know, finish each one and go to the next? going pretty well until I hit the z, haha.

2:44 am

i did that once rbud.. was fun!

2:45 am

that's how I do it rbud...except that I move tiles once I get stuck

2:45 am

lol kal

2:45 am

that works too

2:46 am

yay i put in a naughty word.. or two :P

2:46 am

hate going all over the place

2:46 am

glant wathe grid at the same time, but I cant do it the way she does and found it most distracting lols her yesterday and we were doing

2:47 am

wow i monkeyed the top row A on my first try

2:47 am

goodness lol...can anyone make sense of that?

2:47 am

lol no i cant btut i thought it was the wine and valium

2:48 am

it's not 9 am here COs lol

2:48 am

NBT! now for nbs..

2:48 am

lol i meant i had valium and wine

2:48 am

so my typing may be messed up :P

2:48 am

was saying that Glant was here yesterday, and distracted me because she jumps all over the place (doing the grid I mean!)

2:48 am

ahh makes sense now :)

2:49 am

ahhhhhhhhhh ok

2:49 am

good morning! Are we functioning today???

2:49 am

well that's be for now...

2:49 am

hello Ruby I am just off for now

2:50 am

have 26 left

2:50 am

Cos the nine is a TH btw

2:50 am

i need the 9 for nbs...

2:50 am

ok thanks u answered my next question :)

2:50 am

I don't have it though

2:51 am

th9,66

2:51 am

th 9 -- an unproven hypothesis

2:52 am

ty BR and rbud....I:) have it now

2:53 am

anyway mustdash....bye

2:53 am

thanks got it!

2:53 am

ty for starting me with a nine!

2:53 am

nbt/nbs... now bed!

3:57 am

yay, FW for me, nite folks! :D

5:36 am

Th9. Can I beg the third letter pls

5:37 am

Got it!

5:39 am

hi everyone

5:39 am

long time since i babbled

5:57 am

Hi again, Andree. I'm not here much anymore either. Welcome back

5:58 am

hi gramma

5:58 am

Good day kids.

5:58 am

brb

5:58 am

hi scrabbler

5:59 am

How are you Andree? I haven't seen you in a long time.

6:00 am

ages, how is the job and the rabbits

6:01 am

Job is wonderful. I work with great people. I lost 9 yr old Bunny Sebastian on June 8. He was very old. I miss him so much. I have 3 other bunnies.

6:01 am

Are you doing well?

6:03 am

i am really well, have spent the last year buying this place and then a big renovation, now i have come up for air

6:03 am

Last I recall you were selling a business. I love being a DIY at home, although it is challenging. Websites help a lot.

6:05 am

morning, all!

6:06 am

Hi Sue!

6:06 am

Howdy!

6:06 am

hi, scrabs and gramma!

6:06 am

Hi Gramma

6:07 am

Hi there. Has everyone had a good summer?

6:07 am

am in the process of selling, should be all over by years end which was my goal

6:07 am

Phantom = heretic

6:07 am

hi usue

6:07 am

I had a GREAT summer and am sad to see it end.

6:07 am

You must have done a good job

6:08 am

and ours is just starting a lovely warm spring so far

6:08 am

hi, andree!

6:08 am

3 great vacations, lots of kayaking and hiking, gardening and landscaping, and I met Sue and her son.

6:08 am

Sorry that didn't make sense. It was a comment for Andree. I'm glad you had a great summer, Scrabbler

6:09 am

My summer had its ups and downs, but I didn't realize how nice it was to be off until the semester started again!

6:09 am

Of course. How are the students so far?

6:09 am

and of course it was great to meet scrabs! we were on the way back to IL after visiting my dad in NJ.

6:10 am

It is always exciting to meet Babblers.

6:10 am

They are ok, and much less numerous than they were in the spring - I had about 350 then and more like 75 now.

6:10 am

We'll be at the lake a few more weeks. Th** home for the duration

6:10 am

TY for clue, gramma, just when Babble Blindness Syndrome set in.

6:11 am

yw. It's easy to end up in the pb w/th** grid.

6:12 am

cant get on

6:12 am

You're on the chat, Wood.

6:12 am

Woodhood, what do you mean?

6:13 am

good morning, babblers

6:13 am

any clue for the z's not related to 0

6:13 am

c

6:13 am

hello again

6:13 am

zo4/9 biology word

6:13 am

Hi Ruby

6:14 am

ah, ty scrab

6:14 am

But I am monkeying for the 3rd Z word.

6:14 am

don't have any yet sorry

6:14 am

hi scrabs

6:14 am

ok, time to get on with my day - hi to ruby, wood, kje, and annie!

6:14 am

plural, scrab

6:14 am

and other is plural of 0

6:14 am

{{sue}}

6:14 am

hi ruby and kje

ze4,9 -- nothing, zilch ze6,33 -- plural of ze4,9

Hi Sue and ruby!

6:15 am

hi ruby, neil, scrabbs, kje, uusue etal

6:15 am

hi, neil! *fades off into the distance*

Ugh. Went to be early because I've managed to get a cold and felt lousy... now up at 4am.

Hopefully not for long though.

6:16 am

Iam struggling with that plural. Hi Neil

hi Scrabbler.

Which plural?

6:16 am

zo4

6:16 am

0 vowel, plural

6:16 am

the plural has an extra vowel

Oh that one, yes.

6:17 am

think of da quail and the whole potatos/potatoes debacle

6:17 am

NM, I was trying to pluralize the wrong word.

6:17 am

dan

It's working today!

Like the digits on your feet, Scrabbler.

6:17 am

Hi Kap

Oh, ok.

Hi Kaplan!

6:18 am

I have yet to gain full consciousness.

6:18 am

Alright, I must get ready for work. Enjoy the day!

6:18 am

hi kaplan and neil

6:18 am

bad lag, can't see what I'm typing!

I haven't gained full consciousness and hope not to. Having a mug of tea then returning to bed... and hopefully sleep.

Whoa- anyone have their rankings messed up uyesterday?

messed up? What happened to yours Kap?

Have a good day at work, Scrabbler.

I don't do rankings- not my thing- but it wasn't working for people and they were concerned about it

Oh? I don't know... I rarely look at them.

6:20 am

bye scrabbler

different strikes...

strokes.

6:21 am

hello andree

for different folks.

6:21 am

rankings!!! i havent played for so long mine must be in the toilet by now

flush.....

((((andree)))) !!!! well if I wasn't living and breathing!! how are you darling??

6:21 am

hi herin

6:22 am

i am great mrp

mrp! :)

6:22 am

bottom r for nbt anyone?

6:22 am

{{mrp}}

Hey mrp... see G+. boatierra's there now.

brb... tea.

6:22 am

{{herin}} haven't seen you in a while

Hi hi and hi

ah, phantom attic.

6:22 am

finished renovation, place looks great, you must bring the kids up sometime

I got your letter Andree, and am so sorry I haven't contacted you.

6:23 am

my new year letter?

hi ruby, neil, infern, kap et al :)

6:23 am

i think we have spoken since

yes! and before I know it, it is almost new year again!!

hello to all and sundry.

6:24 am

what does the 9 start with?

6:24 am

hi mrp., andree, herin and Kaplan

so so much has been going on sweetie, we will be moving soon

6:24 am

th9/66

hi annie! :)

6:24 am

too true mrp

6:24 am

where to

You're going to move, mrp?

6:24 am

ty for your letter annie

Because of the prick?

6:24 am

hi annie

i have your letter here next to my bed... with pic of your darling dog

6:25 am

((ruby))

yes neil, and it is a really really bad time to move... there is just nothing on the market that suits us

6:25 am

thats what was happening last time we spoke, the awful neighbour thing was going on

Thanks for the 9

6:25 am

ty!

6:26 am

temp dropped 20 degrees between Sat nd Sun! Autumn is here!

Oh man. You're actually having to move because of him? I know I said maybe you should do that... but it's too bad it's gotten so bad you have to. :(

yeah, he stalked me and drove me mental. so we are leaving before mid november

6:26 am

lucky you, ruby

It seems to get worse and worse all the time... he just doesn't give up does he?!

then court at end of november... and he won't know where I am hopefully

I hope you find somewhere nice and very suitable, mrp.

6:27 am

it is really cold and wet, and snowing in the mountains

no neil, he is an obsessed sociopath

Well make damn sure your new location and phone number is all unlisted, of course... goes without saying!

6:27 am

is it still raining in TX?

He needs to be locked up in an institution.

Seriously.

we looked at a beautiful new home today... just gorgeous, but don't feel right about it

Well keep looking... I'm sure you'll find one that does.

Or one you feel right about, sorry.

6:28 am

bottom r (she asked plaintively)

It's 4:28 am and I'm half awake, half asleep.

6:28 am

are you looking in the same area

Rubyno idea

6:29 am

ruby, re 5/10

re5,10 -- something of a former fashion/style, trending again. Think 60's perhaps? Decor, etc.

And keep left. ;)

yes andree, for the kids school.

6:29 am

ty neil

6:29 am

and look up

And it's easier than you think, ruby.

6:29 am

missing 2 s's for FW

6:29 am

I deserve a fish for that!

Hey thanks

That's obvious, Anniebrook -- that R is at the bottom. Only way to go is up. ;)

6:30 am

*gently whacks ruby with a flounder*

[and I'm the one who's not awake?]

6:30 am

up with a zig!

6:30 am

does anybody else have lag?

6:30 am

neil, I meant as opposed to going to the right

I'd already told her to keep left. ;)

6:31 am

crap, guess I must list

6:31 am

then I need more coffee, didnt see that one

How many left, kje?

has your mobile number changed andree??

6:32 am

no mrp,its probably still in your phone

I had a four hour nap. opps

Hi everyone I missed

6:32 am

61 wors and back to bed; it's just too cold in here!

yes, it is, and I will use it! will call you this weekend

6:32 am

great

6:32 am

and the lage is annoying!

need to get my kids to bed.. brb

6:33 am

obviously can't see what I'm typing

I'll be back in bed soon myself.

There's a cold virus going around here -- at this time of year? And didn't I just have to catch it.

6:34 am

*poof*

Later Ruby

6:36 am

FW!!!

WTG kje!

6:36 am

easy grid, listed for the last 2 (should have seen at least 1 of them without the list)

6:36 am

congrats, kje !!!!

It was, yes.

Did it at flip.

6:37 am

hagd all... time to get ready for work

Later Kje

6:37 am

you too, kje

6:37 am

bye kje

Andree... guess what... my darling daughter

she is as tall as me now and absolutely stunning... and she has a BOYFRIEND!!! when the F did she grow up?? *sob*

Just looking at your Flickr album, mrp. Yeah, she sure is a pretty girl.

Takes after her mom. :)

:) thanks neil

Your son is a good looking boy too.

I think my kids are gorgeous! LOL! mummy proud

They are!

Have you seen me as a little boy?

Haha, I was cute... once.

i will have to check it out neil... most kids are cute as before the interesting teen years anyway :)

http://tinyurl.com/6d2wxrb

There you are... I'm the little guy in red.

ok, thanks

awwww, that is too cute!!

6:52 am

mrp's kids are gorgeous.

that needs to go on your profile pic!!

thanks andree! and I just told maddie we would be visiting you soon and she is all happy and can't wait to see you!

6:53 am

I was off reading your book oops profile, what a lot hs been happening

And here we are a little older, with our parents and our first family dog: http://tinyurl.com/5vrhdl9

yes andree, is just like a tv drama, only you can't make this crap up

6:54 am

my kids passed cute stage many years ago, my grandchildren are cute though

lovely family pic neil!

you girls are gorgeous andree

And another one of my brother and me: http://tinyurl.com/3vvl7hd

your *

You'll see them all if you ever go through my Flickr album, mrp... lots more in there.

6:55 am

i am off now, will be babbling more often now, i have missed it

And thanks. :)

nite andree! looking forward to chatting to you soon sweetie!

6:56 am

Hi all

i will go look neil.

hi boo :)

6:56 am

fireworks

brb, kids need me again :)

6:57 am

hi boo :)

Congrats, Anniebrook. :)

6:58 am

How's the grid today

Small and easy, Boo.

great pics neil! luv the ginger pics of adam! cutie

mrp, are you on messenger?

If not can you hop on for a few minutes?

hang on neil... lickety just needs me for a little while... bbs

I'm just heading back to bed then mrp... I've got a cold and need more sleep. Please check your email. Just sent you an important message. Take care and talk to you soon. :)

second column gray...

7:43 am

Good Morning everyone - 5 words left

7:44 am

good morning River (hugs)

7:44 am

good morning Kap

7:44 am

((Mom)) how are you

7:44 am

morning, all :-)

7:44 am

River, thanks for starting the words with friend game

7:44 am

good morning Une

HI Mom and UNi and River

7:44 am

just fine, River and you?

7:45 am

(((Herin))) good evening

7:45 am

It is so slow moving for me, I get bored with it...but it is good you can continue playing day after day

7:46 am

it is slow and so much extra garbage everytime you get on. Do you play Lexulous?

7:46 am

I have never played lexulous

7:46 am

I can set up a game for us if you would like. It is the same principle except you don't have all that garbage to contend with

7:47 am

cant do it here at work unfortunately. FB really clogs up my computer and harder to hide my screens like I can with babble..we will have to get together in the evening sometime

7:48 am

that's fine. we don't have to play at the same time.

7:48 am

to

7:48 am

guten morgen Inge

7:49 am

hello inge

7:49 am

Lil*Monkey got me started on Lexulous. Shame on the monkey

7:51 am

so you dont have to play at the same time?

7:51 am

or no, if I start a game, then you play at your convenience

HI Inge

7:52 am

I play with Mlfan, Lil*Monkey, Littlebit and Dorens

7:52 am

stuck in st5, si7 & 1st th6 for fireworks. any clues?

7:52 am

hi chris, I'll help you look

7:53 am

I am working on the th6 right now - havent found it yet.

7:53 am

only got a couple of mins before have to go back to work, but thks mom

7:53 am

st5 means to stump

7:54 am

s+ go w*** God + h*** are female chickens

7:54 am

thks river - new spelling!

7:54 am

oh goodie another bitty grid

7:54 am

si7 - continue the 4 before it - its a plural

7:54 am

tx molly!

7:54 am

thks molly

7:54 am

just the th to go!

7:55 am

still looking too

7:55 am

morning ((Carlee))

7:55 am

that darn th6 is my only word left

7:56 am

ohhhh, add a vowel to th4/5

7:56 am

{{mom}} how are you this am

7:56 am

(for the th5/12)

7:56 am

I am just fine. ow are you

7:56 am

th + fish eggs

7:56 am

I need the first th6

7:56 am

am good....

7:56 am

oh, sorry LOL!!

7:56 am

thats the second one Une but thanks anyway

7:56 am

how was the first week?

7:57 am

and hello

7:57 am

first week was excellent..i LOVE my classes

7:57 am

I am so glad to hear that.

7:58 am

so excited -- this afternoon I'm picking up a service dog for pet detective Karin Tarqwin -- has been on Animal Planet -- she's adopting "Amos" and taking him back home to Nebraska

7:58 am

the profs are excellent... the subjects are engaging... the material is interesting...LOVE IT

7:58 am

that is excellent carlee

7:59 am

how wonderful, Une. Do you have to travel far to get Amos

7:59 am

wow Une...a celebrity dog

7:59 am

great, Carlee

7:59 am

th6 is what you write to get your Masters Degree

7:59 am

right now she's here in Nashville looking for a cancer patient's lost dog -- getting Amos n Bowling Green and bringing him here :-)

7:59 am

it feels like a million lightbulbs went off in my head...

7:59 am

*in

7:59 am

very cool une :)

8:00 am

this is her website: http://www.k9pi.com

8:00 am

thank you Molly

8:00 am

not Bowling Green Ky, though

8:00 am

yes, why, mom?

8:01 am

really! Bowling Green is about 4 or 5 hours from me

8:01 am

The Corvette Company is there

8:01 am

:-)

8:02 am

should only be an hour each way at most :-)

8:02 am

that's not bad.

8:02 am

no, that's the usual size of a transport leg . . .

8:03 am

I know when the boys went to Bonnaroo, it was about 6.5 to 7 hours drive

8:03 am

he's starting out in Indianapolis this morning

8:03 am

Bonnaroo -- that's a WHOLE different drive LOL

8:03 am

that must be so rewarding to do that

8:03 am

that is what they said and they also said they would never go back

8:03 am

he's a 60 pound Tree Walker -- BIG boy :-)

8:04 am

mom, I love it!!!

8:04 am

OMG just found that th6....and it was amost a fish word...thats fireworks

8:04 am

yay..nbt/nbs in 24

8:05 am

clue, river? and congrats!!

8:05 am

congrats River. You must not have seen Molly's clue :-)

8:05 am

congrats River. You must not have seen Molly's clue :-)

8:05 am

is Chris still here.

8:05 am

sorry for the double post

8:05 am

I did not....lol

8:05 am

*~*~*POMPOM TOSS*~*~*for river

8:05 am

time for breakfast....have a great day everyone

8:05 am

paper you write for your master's degree

8:05 am

oohhh, THANKS!

8:06 am

take care, ((River))

8:06 am

bon appetit, river! :-)

8:06 am

you're welcome

8:06 am

several words for caca and boobs today

8:07 am

its a poopy booby grid today

8:07 am

snap mom

8:07 am

:-)

8:07 am

ok..tims is So a word... enable has never been to canada

Too busy giggling my butt off at craig ferguson

8:08 am

I tried that as well

8:10 am

I have hit a wall, time to start my day. (((hugs))) to all of you

8:10 am

hagd mom{{hugs}} have alovely day

8:10 am

later, mom :-)

8:11 am

(((Carlee))) you as well

Later Mom

8:11 am

(((Une))) have a safe trip

8:11 am

(((Herin))) pleasant dreams

Chhers

8:12 am

thanks, mom! :-)

8:13 am

you're welcome.

8:14 am

Morning all

8:14 am

hey, mr bob :-)

8:14 am

hi bob

8:14 am

back for just a se .....

8:15 am

this wife whispers to her husband, "talk dirty to me"

8:15 am

he whispers back "living room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom"

8:16 am

:-D

8:16 am

hahaha....and he said...the car needs a bath????

8:16 am

now, off to start my day.

8:16 am

ugh//my bathroom is gross... i must gather the strength

8:17 am

enjoy mom

8:17 am

I will Carlee, you as well

Wht is the 7's please

8:18 am

one is "more not long"

8:18 am

si7: si* (not stand) = female chickens

Thanks yous

8:19 am

thanks une

8:19 am

firewords for moi -- HAGD everyone! *poof*

8:19 am

(yw)

8:19 am

*~*~*POMPOM TOSS*~*~*for une

Yah Une

8:23 am

i need breakfast..just not sure what to have

8:24 am

I realize this question is not germaine to the type of chatter that goes on on this site, but for some reason my cursor goes off in the word box after every word I add and I have to click on the empty box to get the cursor blinking again. It never did that in the past. Does anyone know how to get the cursor back into the box on a more permanent basis?

8:25 am

hit enter instead of add box

8:25 am

good morning everyone

8:25 am

i would clear cookies...sign out...sign in...and do the reboot thing too ( not in that order..sign out...clear cookies...reboot and sign in...

HI ALC and Cross

8:25 am

... and to you crossy

8:25 am

howdy herin

8:25 am

hi crossy

8:26 am

howdy dose

8:26 am

hi dose

8:26 am

... morning all

8:26 am

howdy carlee

8:26 am

I got a new puter in my office and it did the same thing...I had to click on compatibility mode and it fixed the problem but don't recall how I did it

8:27 am

if that makes any sense

8:27 am

i love playing babble on my tablet,but think a flashing cursor is bad??.when i enter a word on the tablet,the entire keyboard vanishes after each word entered lol

8:28 am

oh my crossy I wouldn't know where to begin on that one lol

8:29 am

yist

8:29 am

oops

8:29 am

nor i,i am still in the learning curve with the nifty but interesting android os

Hi Sea

8:30 am

is that your tablet? the android? Hi herin and everyone

8:31 am

one thing i do like is being able to load full games in under 30 seconds,its you tube set up and other multi media apps and its built in bppk readers

8:31 am

i bought the asus transformer tablet which uses the android os

8:31 am

very cool crossy

8:31 am

book

NIce Cross. Is it good?

8:32 am

sounds very interesting

8:32 am

very good herin and unlike i-pad it has flash,usb ports,sd cards and you can attach a keyboard and a mouse to it

8:33 am

i do not care what steve jobs says,without flash you have a lot of empty spots on web pages lol'

8:33 am

and i can load 3rd party apps,i am not chained to the andriod app store

8:34 am

stevie is full of crap,but if i want something sold,i shall call him lol

8:34 am

I also play on my tablet but cannot scroll through the word list so i have to try to remember what i have already got!

8:34 am

i can scroll just fine

Asus does it have any ports?

USB

8:35 am

What version of android do you have cross?

8:35 am

usb and micro and red sd ports

8:35 am

reg

8:36 am

2.2 i believe witchy

8:36 am

twin 1 gig cpus and 16 gig digital hdd

8:37 am

but the small hdd does not matter since the tab has micro sd,i can just jack in a 32 gig micro card

8:37 am

I wonder if ALC got the cursor problem fixed?

8:38 am

actually i prefer a small onboard hdd,that was the os runs faster

Nice. DO yuou ahve a link

8:38 am

sec...

8:39 am

here you go,the exact model i bought

8:39 am

http://www.asus.com/Eee/Eee_Pad/Eee_Pa d_Transformer_TF101/

8:40 am

$399.00 for the tablet and $150.oo for the keyboard docking station.but the docking station is not mandatory

8:41 am

but i tell you boys and girls,with my docking station,i get 16!! hours of battery life!

Thanks Himself is wanting one

8:42 am

he will love it

8:42 am

hello again

8:43 am

but remember the android os does have a learning curve

8:43 am

((RUBY))

8:43 am

Hi ruby

Thanks that is nice

8:43 am

it is actually easier than windows,you have to train yourself to stop trying to do everything the hard way lol

I am having a learning curb with Windows 7

8:44 am

mrs loves 7,i am still using xp on my old desktop

8:45 am

reading over this chog, I feel like I'm 100 years old!

8:45 am

my eventual goal is for everyone to have a tablet,since it does everything and have a single tower unit in the corner for everyone to use for heavy duty gaming

8:45 am

Windows 7 is driving me crazy, seems like with every version things become more difficult

8:46 am

I don't even use a laptop, have a big computer with a lovely ASAU monitor and a much-used and much-loved old keyboard that allows me to type very fast

8:46 am

asus*

8:47 am

the tab has 2 cameras for facetime talking,a mic,does pictures and has full video camera

8:47 am

mrs loves taking nature video with it

8:48 am

she takes some nice video,loads it into a micro sd card so she can send it to her mum,who has one of those digital photo frames we bought for her last x-mass and she can watch it all

8:49 am

how nice

8:49 am

it is

8:50 am

there is a running joke about windows 7 seaspray.."how much space does win 7 use?" answer..all it can find!!

Sea I loike it but that is not true Crossie. I had vista and it was gutsy

8:51 am

i rather like win 7

8:51 am

but that is just me

8:51 am

I do believe that crossy

8:51 am

( hate vista and xp)

8:51 am

vista?? ewwwww

Vista is a hog

8:51 am

I did like xp

8:51 am

my best os,es are xp and back in the day 98se

8:52 am

<--- needs breaky...but no idea what to have....big hole in tummy but nothing breakfasty is appealing

8:52 am

I could go back to 98...no problem

8:52 am

i loved 98

8:52 am

i m doing brunch carlee.common over

Poor Ruby

8:52 am

98se rocked

8:53 am

old ruby!

8:53 am

you are not old ruby,you are experienced

8:53 am

crossy, are you able to get into GofT on FB? mine just hangs...

8:53 am

beginning to feel the same way ruby so you are not alone

8:53 am

nothing is appealing..i am obviously entering my food funk where nothing anywhere appeals..and i live on peanut butter or cheese for a couple weeks

8:53 am

i am in there now

8:54 am

hrmph. mine just wont work. and FarmVille was super-slow too...

8:54 am

I get like that carlee, just cook for others and lose interest myself

8:54 am

well,you are back in school,you can live on craft dinner and ramen noodles once again!

Hi Eva. I just had to spend my savings ongetting my pc fixed

8:54 am

experienced, but not with computers

8:55 am

close and restart facebook,see if that helps

8:55 am

i hate kraft dinner... and i dont like stinky noodles

8:55 am

oooh, I miss Kraft dinner....

8:55 am

wish i had nbeen there for you herin

8:56 am

uh oh, speaking of which, have to go and start it....{{everybody}}

8:56 am

the library at brescia u can eat in ( all girls school...and the library is CLEANCLEANCLEAN!!!! ) but i am NOT in there from 11:30 - 2....reeks of stinky noodles

We have continental packet meals. They were the best now they taste like ass

8:56 am

i never thought of noodles as stinky before

Cross there was nothing anyone could do to fix the pc. The HD was dead and dead

8:56 am

they STINK

8:56 am

clue for the bottom r pls

8:57 am

lol herin,i swap hard drives and do clean os installs in less than an hour

8:57 am

fish eggs jeff

I had to buy a new one

8:57 am

that's the side r methinks

Jeff the 1960's seem RE??? these days

8:57 am

ok....funky old fashiones

8:57 am

40 dollars for new hard drive,50 dollars for oem builders copy of win 7 and 1 hour of time

8:58 am

dat's it! ty

Not here. $80 for hard drive $150 for windows (or the standard price is $300)

8:58 am

sounds like it would pay to ship the ailing puter to crossy

8:59 am

you can order the builders copy if you ask a computer shop guy nicely

I did that is why I paid $150

8:59 am

still too much

9:00 am

or i can toss xp pro on a friends rig for free

9:01 am

if it is a low power rig,i always reccomend xp

9:02 am

how did you become so computer savy crossy?

OK Cross this is how fing stupid it is here: $199 US for 7 green pack or we pay $299

9:03 am

hello

9:03 am

then git rid of norton and install avg,then get rid of win media player and install vlc,then just add win zip,win rar and ad-aware and c-cleaner and yer good to go

9:03 am

howdy crystalle

9:03 am

and that is stoopid herin

9:03 am

ummmm cross are u talking english

Yes it is

HI Cross

9:04 am

sorry crystalle,i went into geek speak for a moment

Cross we flicked off Norton and got Kaspersky

9:04 am

I'll say loll

9:04 am

norton is a resource pig

9:04 am

sorry darlin:)

9:05 am

nice pic of sun dogs crystalle..we see them all the time in winter here when it drops below minus 20

Cross: This is USa: http://tinyurl.com/435zplf THis is what we pay: http://tinyurl.com/2325m4s

9:05 am

I have been very lazy and havent changed my icon for ages

9:06 am

who said they hate windows 7?

9:06 am

98% of the population crystalle;)

9:07 am

but it does have the benefit of being a nanny os

9:07 am

ahh okk. I had an older laptop which didnt have it but just got a new laptop over the weekend and i am finding 7 just annoying

9:08 am

only reason i bought this builders copy of win 7 pro for 80 bux including tax is the wife likes it and she has just a hacked copy of it on her rig atm and she wishes a legit copy

Cross everything is double here

9:08 am

on the plus side....i now have a laptop without keys missing and one where all the letters work the first time you press them

NIceCrystall

9:09 am

there u go:)

9:09 am

lol typing was starting to get annoying

9:10 am

you are up late herin

9:11 am

what time is it in canada?

9:11 am

10:11 am

9:11 am

est

9:11 am

10 am here crys... but in Nova scotia is 11 am...and in BC is 8 am

9:11 am

about that but in pm cross

9:11 am

we have 7 or 8 times zones,but that is mine:)

9:11 am

here that is

9:12 am

i think herin is a few hours ahead of me

I am

9:12 am

9 we EDT atm crossy..not est

9:12 am

( we*...... )

9:13 am

i call it eastern standard time carlee

9:13 am

but lets not spit hairs

9:14 am

in a few weeks... back to the time i prefer for winter :)

9:14 am

ugh..not daylight till 9 am and dark before 5 pm:( thats whats coming carlee;(

9:14 am

winter in canada must be lovely....the snow must be heaps of fun

9:14 am

those super shot january days..ugh

9:15 am

oh yea...heaps of fun..right carlee? lol

9:15 am

well i guess you guys are over it seeing as you live with it...... I on the other hand have never seen snow so..

9:15 am

minus 40 and your car will not start cause the oil in the crankcase is now thicket than grammys oatmeal....

9:16 am

being able to spit and having it freeze before it hits the ground...

9:16 am

paying 5 grand for the season to have your lot plowed...

I hate snow

9:16 am

what a boy description

9:16 am

being able to actually hear your car rust from all the salt they put on the road

9:17 am

the spitting thing that is

No tthanks

9:17 am

love winter <sigh> well it could be dark from 10 am to 6 pm crossy...

9:18 am

ok so i can see your point but i still wanna go to the snow

9:18 am

... daughter has a new boy friend ... from Whitehorse ... ... sun sets early December and comes up again mid January

9:19 am

just one holiday in the snow..hopefully before the kids are grown

9:19 am

... and it's tougher farther north than that

9:19 am

snow...is COLD.. its pretty to look at from inside...when u have your fire roaring..you are sipping mulled wine..curled up with a good book and you dont HAVE to go ANYWHERE for a few days

Thanks but no

9:20 am

Good Morning Everybody! How are you all today? Snf Cryrtsalle; isn't there anywhere in Australia that gets snow in the winter?

9:20 am

how many words please

9:20 am

but if you have to shovel it..drive in it.. scrape it...

9:20 am

... 98

Nef snow only in the alps here

98 nwords

9:20 am

ty

9:20 am

( they had some in Kiwi land a few weeks ago )

9:20 am

yes we get snow but not in the state i live in

9:21 am

( 15 stinky words left)

9:21 am

you all are talking snow and I am hoping it warms up enough to go to the beach today lol

9:21 am

I love western australia but sometimes i just feel ripped off

We get snow in Vic

It was lovely beach weather today followed by storm

9:22 am

its raining here

9:22 am

I see I need to brush up on my geography: herin, are you saying that Australia has alps also?

YEs

9:22 am

was cold ad rainy and windy here today herin

The Alpine areas

9:22 am

we may bitch and moan crystalle,but we would be lost i think without the full change of seasons.there is also much that is good about winter..skiing,snowmobiling,toboggonin g etc etc

Nope sunshine all day got so much laundry done

9:23 am

ok..seriously.i am hungry.. but NOTHIGN is appealing ( i actually feel slightly morning sickness like even tho THAT is IMPOSSIBLE )

9:23 am

those things are good crossy?

9:23 am

dont forget the snowman building and the snowball fights...the kids and i plan on doing that as soon as we get to the snow

9:24 am

I would be ok with 3 seasons and forget the winter one

9:24 am

I agree with crossy; I'd be lost without our beautiful 4 seasons here even thoug I complain about the highs and lows

9:24 am

only thing good about winter...is curling up by the fire with a good book... and everything looks SOOo clean before the plows get out

Crystalle the reason I am awake is I had a nap at 4pm

9:24 am

am with sea...3 seasons would be good

9:25 am

gone to make...something..maybe an omelette???? not sure...

Carlee I favour egg in bread when I can't decide

9:26 am

my other half works away and he left today for his next roster so I cant fall asleep . The first night he is away drives me nuts.

Crystalle Truckie or Miner?

9:26 am

crystalle, you can only build snowmen and snowballs when the weather is right with just enough humidity and not too cold. That's only about 10% of the winter here (which is a good thing because those same conditions make shovelling the snow harder!

9:28 am

He works in construction. Perth seems to be slowing down where the building industry is concerned but the country areas are booming. Kalgoolie, port hedland, geraldton and such

Ahh that would explain it. Those towns are the Big in mining and shipping yes?

9:30 am

Yes very big. the mining companies are expanding at a rapid pace over here. He earns twice as much doing the same work in the country towns as he does in the city

Ok well I must be off and going

9:31 am

He is 4 weeks on and 1 weeks off. since the start of year. It does mean we dont see him as much but the financial benefits are helping us tremendously.

9:32 am

bye, herin. HAGD

9:32 am

goodnight herin. Take care

9:32 am

(or maybe I should say HAGN?)

9:33 am

basic 2 egg western omelette made with smoked turley in lieu of ham...

Thanks guys

Best luck Crystal

9:34 am

:-)

whee- got the 9!

9:38 am

crossy just did one of those for the mrs,but with mushrooms,onion and thin sliced farmer sausage dollars and a dash of shredded extra old cheese on top

9:38 am

just the stat for the 9 please kaplan

9:39 am

this omelette is not cutting it..scraping it into the dog dish and breaking up the toast for him too

th9/66

very twisty word.

9:41 am

yeap..carlee is officially in a food funk

9:42 am

no food appeals...

9:43 am

just wait 3 days then..you will be hungry enough to eat wall paper paste:)

9:43 am

well...off i go to get ready for school...go to the bank... and then head to school for class at 2... will take lappy and come on if i have time

9:43 am

i wonder what sausage dollars are and more importantly is it tasty

9:43 am

its not that crossy...i will eat...

9:44 am

its just nothing tastes good....nothing is "right" or inspiring

9:44 am

then in a few days i will make some kitchen intensive dish and all will be good again

9:45 am

ok..well..off i go... enjoy the day all

9:45 am

bye carlee

9:45 am

thanks Kap; I got the 9!

9:46 am

bye carlee, HAGD

9:47 am

lol crystalle,it is nothing more than fry up fodder just last nights leftover honey garlic farmer saussages cut into thin dollars and fried with mushrooms and onions

9:47 am

and eggs added

9:48 am

but tasty neverless

9:49 am

I better go to bed cos its getting late here

9:49 am

goodnight all take care happy bbbling and see u all next time

9:49 am

slide some crispy chopped up leftover taters with that and you are good for the day

9:50 am

gn crystalle

9:50 am

ps are u a chef crossy cos u always seem to be making something scrumptious sounding

9:50 am

lol

9:50 am

so does Jacula

9:51 am

i actuall turn carlee a bit green,cause she hates any meat from the pig

9:51 am

she described a sandwich and i couldnt stop thinking about that sandwich for days

9:51 am

i like bacon and ham but not big on pork

9:52 am

i like bacon,ham sausages,but am not big on pork roasts

9:52 am

but like pork roast if it has chicken gravy. everything tastes yummy with chicken gravy

9:54 am

now i am thinking bout that sandwich Jacula described.

9:55 am

i better go to bread where i will prolly dream about a delicious toasted sandwich with scrumptious sounding fillings

9:55 am

how can amish not be a word

9:55 am

bed i mean go to bed

9:56 am

common over for lunch and ill whip you up a blt,we layers high with light rye bread,romaine lettuce,plum tomnato,tons of applewood smoked bacon,miracle whip and sweet onion mustard

9:56 am

Amish is a word, but it's a proper noun.

9:56 am

three

9:56 am

no more food or i will have dreams that make homer simpsons pale in comparison

9:58 am

ok i am going all.......its been a pleasure as always...goodnight and take care

9:59 am

gn crystalle

10:00 am

sure you do not wish to hear what is for supper? lol

10:03 am

"sigh..good food,good sex,a kid or two to make you imortal and the rest can come when it comes :)

10:10 am

sorry; was on a phone call for a bit there. Niters crystalle. Crossy, if we could only manage to live on just good food and sex; life would be good. Unfortunately, most of us have to work too. And only a small number of people really enjoy their work (I was surprised to find that out!)

10:11 am

find a job you love and you will never work a day in your life

10:12 am

lol,i can think of 3000 things off the top of my head that i would rather be doing than running a service station as well nef

10:12 am

Yep! That is what I believe too! I fully enjoyed my work for almost all of my work life. I wouldn't have retired if my family didn't need me more.

10:14 am

nothing more fun than selling a over priced product that people hate to buy lol

10:15 am

i feel like a drug dealer at times hehe

10:15 am

we hate/love the pusher man:)

10:17 am

back for a couple of mins shile dinner is cooking

10:17 am

BUT, it pays the bills, right? I never realized that my DH didn't like his last 10 years of work til after he retired. There were changes in the job that were quite gradual; and he never mentioned that he didn't like it anymore. We worked opposite shifts so I didn't see him when he came home. By the time I'd come home he'd decompressed and was either asleep or in a good mood. I felt really stupid when I found out he didn't like the job...

10:17 am

wb ((RUBY))

10:18 am

hi ruby

10:18 am

indeed nef,some of us need to grind away till that perfect thing comes along

10:19 am

for example this winter,i shall be finally getting a brand new service station that is self serve.it will be a wonder for me as i have not worked inside in winter once in the last 22 years..dry winter feet will be a blessing

10:20 am

that chicken gravy idea sounds good. I am making pork chops with peas and rice and apple sauce for DH but with mashed potatoes for me. I think I have a package of chicken gravy in the pantry

10:20 am

it's important to keep looking for theright fit. If I would have known how he felt; I would have encouraged him to find another job. On the other hand; if he worked somewhere else, we might not be able to be where we are now

10:21 am

you do not like rice ruby?

10:21 am

I secretly weigh 300 lbs! hahah

10:21 am

I'd go for the rice myself (but I like mashed potatoes too!)

10:21 am

I eat rice as my late-night snack with lumpfish roe, a raw quail egg yok and soy sauce with wasabi, sort of a poor man's sushi

10:22 am

I had a left over boiled potato from my lunch

10:22 am

can't get seaweed here

10:22 am

(or sushi)

10:22 am

here we use sturgeon roe,but at present if we catch any in the river they must be released unharmed

10:23 am

the one time I was fishing in Alaska and caught salmon, I tried eating the roe fresh, but it was too squshy!

10:23 am

how big are your sturgeon, crossy

10:24 am

anywhere for 30-40 punds to 165 pounds on one caught a few years ago

10:24 am

BBL, gotta fix breakfast for Aunty again

10:24 am

wow! I've never caught anything nearly that big

10:25 am

it is like bringing up a water infused log

10:25 am

it is wonderful that you have sturgeon growing wild there

10:25 am

they do ruby and as i say,they are protected for now

10:25 am

I used to deepsea fish for mackerel and the mate would strap me into a chair to reel them in, afraid as he was that I'd get pulled over

10:26 am

in Alaska, it was just fly fishing and none of the fish were big

10:26 am

i have seen you pic ruby and there is not much to you,i would strap you in as well

10:26 am

(but I caught a 23" rainbow trout with a fly called a fluffy bunny

10:27 am

we only killed what we would eat for lunch, otherwise all catch and release

10:27 am

our sturgeon would pull you off shore and drag you right to the bottom lol

10:27 am

hahah

10:28 am

the worst thing I ever caught was a disgusting large eel and, I am ashamed to say, I cut my line rather than bring it in

10:28 am

catch and release is the way to go ruby.we used to file all the barbs off our tackle to make it less traumatic for the fish

10:28 am

I've also caught nurse sharks and barracuda, but carefully (!!!) released them, too.

10:28 am

ms

10:28 am

howdy rosa

10:29 am

nurse sharks are amazing, sweet creatures

10:29 am

hi rosa

10:29 am

and about 4 ft long

10:29 am

I really miss fishing living here

10:30 am

comma

10:30 am

(eats shoots and leaves)

10:31 am

closest we get to sharks here with our freshwater lakes is the muskie(muskellunge) they are long and about the girth of a salmon and can be 20-75 pounds or more and have many rows of jagged sharp teeth.when you hook one and bring it to the side of the boat,you do not know wether to try and net the thing or beat it to death with an oar

10:31 am

there is a similar fish in "our" lake, ugly as sin with big jagged teeth and the French eat them! Yuck

10:32 am

I'm not so keen on fresh-water fish

10:32 am

french eat all kinds of horrible stuff,guss that is why they are all bitter and unfriendly..present company excluded

10:33 am

they are surprisingly nice to me, limping along in my heavily-accented French

10:33 am

ruby i could do you a shore lunch of battered speckled trout fillets done in butter with crispy home fries that would have you singing

10:33 am

I really feel like part of my village

10:34 am

you could probably batter my shoe and I would like it! anything fried....

10:34 am

lol

10:34 am

and now, dinner! {{crossy}}

10:35 am

i did some stuffed,battered mushroom caps the other day,you should of been here

10:35 am

((RUBY))

10:36 am

did them in an english beer batter,things were almost the size of peaches when i was done hehe

10:37 am

served them with a spicy dipping sauce and a simple salad

11:01 am

for those that wish to have a go with it,i use the jumbo white shrooms you can buy loose by the pound,i cut strongly smoked ham slices into 1 inch wide by 3 inch long strips and rolld these into a tube and stuff in the home in the mushroom,now take some nice soft provalone or swiss cheese and lightly roll in finely diced dill weed and place in the remaining space of the cavity pressing firmly batter wel and drain for 30 seconds and pop them into nice hot peanut oil for 2-3 min

11:01 am

hole

11:02 am

swiss or provalone balls*

11:03 am

i must learn to stop talking to myself

11:50 am

crossy, did you kill the chog again??

12:03 pm

all that food talk everyone probably ran to eat lunch

12:08 pm

ok...safely down the 402 and waiting for my 2:30 class

12:23 pm

Hello kiddos!

12:24 pm

Yay Kat. Plenty of time to spare.

12:25 pm

Top row is grey. Whoop-dee-doo.

12:26 pm

Nice Scrabbler

12:27 pm

Phew, I thought I was alone, talking to myself.

12:28 pm

wow, this isnt easy

12:28 pm

No..just looking for words. Some strange ones today

12:28 pm

Bottom left corner R clue please?

12:29 pm

No I agree

12:30 pm

Re plus to do again

12:30 pm

These small grids tend to be nasty and with many odd words.

12:31 pm

1st th6 pls

12:31 pm

yes indeed Scrabbs. I like the bigger ones

12:33 pm

Hi Peri

12:33 pm

Clue for am 5 please

12:33 pm

And hi piper

12:33 pm

Boo, that clue is too hard for my post-lunch comatose brain.

12:33 pm

No th6 or am5 for me.

12:33 pm

Ty..found it

12:33 pm

am*** ville horror

12:33 pm

re..what's old is new again

12:34 pm

TY westford

12:34 pm

th he finished his masters' th****

12:34 pm

you're welcome

12:35 pm

hello scrabb, boo, peri, and all

12:35 pm

Hi Westford

12:36 pm

TY westford

12:36 pm

that th6 is my last word and don't see in=it in morewords

12:36 pm

ty west, fw for me, now time for a nap

12:36 pm

not listing peri..that wasn't it?

12:36 pm

Anybody have all 3 Y words? I have ye4 and the pl for ye5.

12:37 pm

sweet potatoes scrab

12:37 pm

abomniable snowman, Scrabbs

12:37 pm

I know I did not spell that right

12:37 pm

Ye4 not now

12:38 pm

bye

12:38 pm

there's another y

12:38 pm

TY for the one Y and I see I need one more from the right y

12:38 pm

Yw

12:39 pm

Hello Everyone :)

12:39 pm

hi sadie

12:39 pm

Hi sadie

12:39 pm

hi Westford and Scrabbler

12:40 pm

4o to go

12:40 pm

one ye is a pl

12:40 pm

Hi Sadie

12:41 pm

hi Boobear

12:42 pm

the y on the right is sweet potatoes

12:42 pm

hello everybody

12:43 pm

hi ((ruby))

12:43 pm

Hi Ruby

12:43 pm

ma 5/6 pls

12:43 pm

hi Ruby

12:44 pm

your belt goes around this..switch the w for an m and pl

12:44 pm

got em

12:44 pm

ty

12:45 pm

were you peeking over my shoulder while I was typing jeff?

12:45 pm

great clues in the chog! ty westford et al

12:45 pm

Hi jeff and ruby

12:45 pm

only have 27 left hahah

12:45 pm

you're welcome ruby

12:45 pm

still have 14 to go

12:45 pm

(no chance)

12:46 pm

almost quit yesterday

12:46 pm

38 to go

12:46 pm

I prefer the big, juicy grids, too

12:46 pm

scrab do you have all your y's now?

12:46 pm

so do I ruby

12:46 pm

phantom: zithern

12:47 pm

I want schism

12:47 pm

Clue for cy4

12:48 pm

cy and pa's wife

12:48 pm

hi sadie and boo and jeff

12:48 pm

I only have 2 y's

12:48 pm

Ty

12:49 pm

yw

12:49 pm

aah, y's done

12:49 pm

hi Ruby

12:49 pm

24 left

12:49 pm

Hi All

12:49 pm

good job ruby !!

12:49 pm

hi hego

12:49 pm

{{hego}} nice to see you!

12:50 pm

you too Ruby

12:50 pm

I think enable should accept sitz!

12:50 pm

hi hego

12:51 pm

lovely clues in the chog. ty

12:51 pm

today is talk like a pirate day if you want to know your pirate name..http://www.piratequiz.com/

12:51 pm

I remember sitz baths

12:51 pm

i do also

12:52 pm

today I be Mad Jenny Flint

12:52 pm

when did that start? I must have been gone by then....

12:52 pm

Aarrghhhh.....

12:52 pm

happens every year ruby

12:53 pm

shiver me timbers hego

12:53 pm

Aye and blighty

12:53 pm

lol

12:53 pm

since when?

12:53 pm

we could walk the plank instead of going to the PB

12:53 pm

since we roamed the seven seas matey

12:54 pm

I say we plunder and pillage

12:55 pm

okay : {

12:55 pm

me mother was a mermaid

12:55 pm

Westie is into it!

12:55 pm

aye

12:56 pm

does anyone have the 9?

12:56 pm

no

12:57 pm

I should say, not me.

12:57 pm

not I got a seven no nine though lol

12:58 pm

I need another 7 too

12:58 pm

I have not taller

12:58 pm

more reduced in height...is a seven

12:59 pm

no clue the other one i was proud to find that one lol

12:59 pm

we have the same one

1:00 pm

th 9/66: Pythagorean ******m + involuntary facial movement

1:00 pm

thank you buff !!

1:00 pm

YW!

1:00 pm

OOoooo! I'm impressed buff.

1:00 pm

ty

1:00 pm

that's how long it took to get my pirate name: Dread Pirate Kidd! aaaarghhhh

1:00 pm

finally nbs with 12 to go

1:01 pm

avast Dread that's a bonnie parrot there on yer shoulder

1:02 pm

im also impressed buff ty

1:03 pm

when we had our 1st chow, Rosie, friends who had parrots used to dog-sit her. One of the parrots, sitting on its perch would say "Rosie!" and she would run over and he would peck her, every time

1:03 pm

What's impressive is that I remembered enough about high school geometry that I knew Pythagorus had some kind of ******m - but I have absolutely no clue what it was or even what it had to do with! :o)

1:03 pm

lol Ruby. i guess parrots are smarter than dogs.

1:03 pm

of course you're only 19, buff! hohohoh

1:03 pm

i didnt either i hadda google it to get that lol

1:04 pm

chows, at least

1:04 pm

the hypotenuse of a right trianngle

1:04 pm

cute ruby..she could have swallowed the parrot

1:04 pm

uh triangle

1:04 pm

I have clothes older than 19! :o)

1:04 pm

I give up, lubbers, with 24 words to go

1:04 pm

That was the th*****

1:04 pm

Speaking of The Dread Pirate Roberts...

1:04 pm

(me, too, buff!)

1:05 pm

yea I do also buff lol

1:05 pm

hi and bye molly

1:05 pm

ive two kids past nineteen by a bit

1:05 pm

good night everybody

1:06 pm

night ruby

1:06 pm

sleep well

1:06 pm

g'nite Ruby.

1:06 pm

my "kid" is 47!

1:06 pm

Have a good one

1:06 pm

aaarghhh

1:06 pm

mine are 28 and 37

1:10 pm

It just came back in a flash of memory! A sq pllus b sq = X sq. Good old Pythagoras. : )

1:10 pm

I hope I never see him again.

1:10 pm

Wow - now I'm very impressed!!

1:11 pm

me too actually

1:11 pm

I don't know where that was lurking

1:21 pm

yaa got the 9!! th*******ally speaking of course

1:22 pm

LOL hi Crossy

1:22 pm

And good for you!

1:22 pm

howdy hego

1:28 pm

clue for y in second column please

1:29 pm

the abominable guy

1:29 pm

ty hego and fish me

1:29 pm

big fish!!

1:31 pm

lets see play babble or do the wash decisions decisions lol

1:31 pm

put a load in and come back!

1:32 pm

yea thats what im thinkin and toss cake in oven problem is i get to playin and forget everything else lolol

1:32 pm

brb

1:33 pm

: )

1:42 pm

ooooo. lots of naughty words today.

1:48 pm

Yes, the 12-year-old boys who design these grids outdid themselves on this one. : P

1:48 pm

Hi Molly

1:48 pm

And it had to be boys, right?

1:49 pm

Hey Hego. Yes, women and adult males do not use words like ti5 and boobies. : )

1:53 pm

And I am done. Have a good day all.

1:54 pm

ok wash in machine cake in oven dishes done now i canplay and not feel guilty and hopefully not forget cake in oven ...

1:54 pm

Did someone say cake?

1:55 pm

yea chocolate chip and ill drizzle melted choco on it when it comes out

1:55 pm

Okay really going now. lol.

1:55 pm

Mmm, sounds good Sadie.

1:55 pm

cya hego

1:55 pm

Even tho the cake sounds really good.

1:55 pm

ill save ya some

1:55 pm

Poof

2:05 pm

im missing a s*6 - i have 2 sh6, si6 and sm6 - what am i missing?

2:08 pm

se6

2:08 pm

ty : )

2:09 pm

Hi everyone, help please. One left, the first th6,21

2:10 pm

What you write to get your Master's Degree.

2:11 pm

Thank you so very much MollyL

2:11 pm

: )

2:12 pm

ty Molly :)

2:21 pm

se6 - any hints?

2:23 pm

Mojo - think mexican gent with an extra consonant.

2:23 pm

ty spellcheck

2:23 pm

yw

2:24 pm

ty spellcheck - done!

2:25 pm

yaa for mojo

2:31 pm

Hello again kids.

2:31 pm

35 well-hidden words remain.

2:32 pm

howdy scwabby

2:32 pm

wb Scrabbler

2:32 pm

did you send me your wish list scwabby?

2:32 pm

congrats mojo

2:32 pm

I will send you my e-book requests later tonight, Crossy.

2:33 pm

hi crosshair

2:33 pm

I had been doing stuff on my work laptop and decided I shouldn't do that.

2:33 pm

howdy sadie

2:33 pm

I will want Grisham books but must remember which I have already read.

2:33 pm

Hi sadie

2:33 pm

thats where a nice 3 g tablet comes in handy scrabby:)

2:34 pm

just keep it in the drawer at the office and you can leave your work rig for work!:)

2:34 pm

Oh, to connect my Nook to? I have a desktop and a netbook.

2:34 pm

ahh cool then

2:35 pm

i am thoroughly enjoying jack londons sea wolf saga atm

2:38 pm

I would love to read the Horatio Hornblower books, as I enjoyed every movie, but other books take priority. Geez, SO many books and not enough time. When I think about that I almost have a panic attack!

2:39 pm

I just had my flu shot here at work. My last patient has arrived so I will be done soon.

2:39 pm

there is never enough time,scrabbs i did the math once and we are all roughly good for ten thousand books before we kick off..that is it:(

2:40 pm

horatio hornblower..is that not cpt marryat?

2:40 pm

if so,i have some amazing books of his

2:40 pm

I don't know.

2:41 pm

perter simple and other tales..think so

2:41 pm

midshiman easy

2:41 pm

midshipman

2:41 pm

Author = O'Brian, or maybe that is author of Master & Commander, another naval story.

2:42 pm

all good stuff

2:42 pm

My father was in the US Navy and my mother the US Marine Corps, both after college.

2:42 pm

i also have sea salt in the gene pile

2:43 pm

I loved all of those naval movies, but I also like historical fiction.

2:43 pm

BRB

2:44 pm

thats why i love the victorian and the turn of the century sea stories by the big authors.you can almost hear the creak of the ropes and the crack of the canvas and feel the deck tilt under your feet as you go round the horn under a full press of sails with a bone in the ships teeth

2:45 pm

crossy, you sound like a budding author with that discriptive discription. wd

2:46 pm

lots of buds over the years but no flowers...

2:47 pm

HELLO CLUE FOR TY5/16 PLEASE

2:48 pm

well, if you ever had the desire to write, good luck to you.

2:49 pm

hello abd

2:50 pm

hi abd

2:50 pm

I don't have that one or I would help.l

2:50 pm

hello

Is ABD all-but-dissertation?

If so I've been there.

2:51 pm

hello all, abd- like you give to the church with a different vowel

2:51 pm

no my initials..i am not that clever

2:53 pm

thanks so much

2:53 pm

ty for ty 5 and 6 laura

2:54 pm

you are most welcome , I am trying to find the sh6, have the obvious one...

what you call a person who is sh5.

13!

2:58 pm

thanks, I guess I was blind!

But now you see!

2:58 pm

praiseeeeee jayyyysus!

stam

2:58 pm

yep, now for the last ti6, have the church one

ahem

3:01 pm

oh, good grief! I got it...2 left the th9 and the si7! first time I have come close to finishing in a long time

need help?

i have the th9 not the si7

3:03 pm

always appreciated, now my brain seems to be on slow down

3:04 pm

the 9 is an easy clue if you need it laura

3:04 pm

that would be great!

3:04 pm

th******ally i am a good writer but have not sold a book yet

3:05 pm

fireworks..best feeling...thanks for the help

3:05 pm

yaa for abd!

3:06 pm

the si7 looks like a compound word, have never seen this before, sort of like a musical instrument that starts with a z and also a different const. before the plural. I am lousy at clues

3:07 pm

Yea! Fireworks, thanks for all the help.

3:07 pm

congrats laura

3:07 pm

the si 7 eludes me still

3:08 pm

si plus th5

3:08 pm

yaa for laura!

3:09 pm

great clue, thanks laura

3:09 pm

ty laura

Flounder me si4!

3:09 pm

yw

11!

3:09 pm

0_o

3:11 pm

well,when it becomes my last word i shall worry bout it then:/

th4 fish!

5...

se6 clue?

3:14 pm

Alt spelling of Spanish Mr.

3:14 pm

a mexican gent with diff cons

3:14 pm

mm too slow

Sehor???

3:15 pm

porotugese

oh.

3:15 pm

(additional consonant. and sorry for the extra o in portugese)

3:16 pm

Close Kap

3:16 pm

and that would make it a 5 and not a 5:)))

3:16 pm

darn

3:16 pm

* stoopd keyboard and hands the size of frying pans

3:16 pm

Dorens, I rarely spell that nationality right. : )

i have th9- is the 6 related?

3:17 pm

in its own language, it is portugese.. and it sounds so pretty. I love the language. I learned to sing the girl from ipanema in portugese... love it

3:17 pm

No

3:18 pm

kap i think you must have had to write a th6 at some point in your educational journey

first mi5/12?

3:18 pm

know what i love listening to dorens,the 50,s big hits in itallian.do not know why but it works for me

3:18 pm

♪ Tall and tan and dark and lovely ♪

Ipanema?

3:19 pm

my first mi5 is a plural

fishy fishy fishy

3:20 pm

My kids used to laugh and laugh at that Burt and Ernie bit.

si7 and th6

3:21 pm

olla, que coisa mazh linda mazhaya di graçia ayy la manina qui vim y qui passa num dossey balanço

3:21 pm

quay yo ja vi passa

3:22 pm

(that is sort of phonetic)

3:22 pm

sii7 comes off the si4 before it

3:23 pm

ends in rhyme with british author who wrote one of my favorite opening sentences , " It was the best of times, it was the worst of times....."

3:23 pm

Lovely Dorens. : )

don't have it

3:23 pm

dond't have what... the si7?

3:24 pm

the si4?

si7

3:24 pm

sounds much lovelier than it looks, molly... remind me to sing it for you if we ever meet

got it. th6?

3:24 pm

kap.. if you have the si4... extend it

3:24 pm

what you must have written to get one of your degrees?

FW!!!! Thanks for the help

3:26 pm

and yay, kap!

3:26 pm

congrats Kaplan

3:26 pm

*Throws confetti at Kap*

3:27 pm

know who i have not seen in forever? FMmitch

3:28 pm

haven't seen a lot of haz either. and atalante has totally disappeared

3:29 pm

saw haz last week i think but not ata

3:32 pm

clue for ne 5/10 please

3:32 pm

nm

3:32 pm

got it

3:46 pm

fw :)

3:58 pm

Hello...

4:03 pm

hi Jellen

4:05 pm

Hello, sadie! How are you?

4:12 pm

nbt

4:17 pm

hey all

4:24 pm

Hey, m9!

4:26 pm

Hey Jellen! Got stats for the corner R and the z?

4:27 pm

i have two z words - absolute ze** and plural

4:28 pm

oh doh! thanks!

4:29 pm

yw. don't have the corner r though.

4:30 pm

re 5/10

m9 a fifties diner would be re***

4:30 pm

Hi, LA!

4:30 pm

thanks!

4:30 pm

nbt!LOL

aims

oops sorry

Hi Mary... if you're still here?

And Jellen!

4:52 pm

Hi, Neil!

Oh hi, Jellen.

Just working on something. Guess no one's really here?

5:17 pm

howdy all:) back for a few more(i hope)

5:23 pm

NBT and NBS for crossy:)

Hi crossy... unless you're gone now too?

Haha, I keep missing everybody while I'm working here.

5:28 pm

Still here?

5:31 pm

i am here

5:32 pm

howdy jellen and neil

morning all :)

5:44 pm

morning mrpresident

5:45 pm

Good evening, all

hi sadie and pida :)

5:54 pm

this grid makes me feel dumb

5:54 pm

20 minutes to get the first 93 words, and now 34 additional minutes to get 2 more so far

5:55 pm

and those 2 were four letter words!

5:57 pm

howdy gremlinn (((MRP))) pida et al

5:57 pm

how appropriate that one of the ones I missed so long is st5...

5:57 pm

hi cross

5:58 pm

do not feel bad gren,i have been on and off with it all day in 15 minute spurts and still have 20 or so to go

5:58 pm

grem*

5:58 pm

I feel like it is my worst performance on any grid though

5:58 pm

compared to how long it should have taken...

5:59 pm

the 9 is easy to clue or i can just toss the stat out if anyone wishes

5:59 pm

down to 1 now, just missing a s6

6:00 pm

i have a single s6 but have not listed so do not know if there are more

6:00 pm

oops 3 s 6,s now

6:01 pm

I have 4, there's 5 total

6:01 pm

then i am still missing 2

6:02 pm

and i know there is a si7 that has been driving me bonkers for hours

6:02 pm

this grid stinks more than a stithy schism

6:02 pm

I got that pretty quickly - it looks like a plural (ends in "s") but what looks like it would be the singular isn't a word

6:04 pm

ty gremlinn

6:05 pm

great to have that one greyed out:)

6:05 pm

yay, fireworks - 65 minutes

6:05 pm

yaaa for grem!!

(((crossy))) !!!

6:06 pm

I thought I was just about ready to fall in behind the people who were finishing after 20-30 minutes last night

hi grem and on ya! :)

6:06 pm

hey mrp

6:06 pm

there she is!

:) **hugs**

i have about an hour before I have to be good and get up... is this one a bit of a bugger?

6:09 pm

has a tad of a bite,but you should get 3/4 of it without too much of a problem

6:09 pm

in an hour*

oh good, then back just before flip! seeing my surgeon today :) getting off these meds too! (that is a little difficult at times)

6:11 pm

yes,too long on the pain killers is hard on a body

i start at the z and work my way up to a... it tends to be my 'play way' so maybe get half done!

it is crossy, i am not enjoying them cause i am not having chronic pain ATM so don't need them

6:12 pm

it leads to a dull lifeless mrp:(

BUT, narcotics are a biyaitch to fight after 10 years being on and off them

6:12 pm

need to see that gleam back in yer eyes

6:12 pm

i was on oxycontins for a while and understand fully

i am gleaming!! have dropped my intake by half in 1 week!

6:13 pm

good girl!!

oxycontin is a really nasty one to come off... i refused it this time

6:13 pm

oxys,the poor mans heroin:(

crossy, do you know how much they send me home on?? after my operations? (oxycontin that is)

6:14 pm

?

remembering my body is 'used' to the crap

240mg a day... try coming off that in a reasonable time!!! ha!

6:14 pm

i do not remember the mg of mine,but 2 pills and i was zoning and sinking into the couch

6:15 pm

240!!!!!

6:15 pm

omg

6:15 pm

i think my were 60mg tabs

I just said, 'don't you dare give me oxy' and after my operation, they gave me 100mg of pethadine

you were on 120mg a day... I was twice that and it was a blinding time... don't remember much

6:16 pm

but i can eat codine like it is kiddy aspirin

6:16 pm

i guess so!

Hi mrp! :) And crossy, again.

same crossy, our body is used to pain meds

Did you get my email, mrp?

6:16 pm

240mg a day..nice to get out from under that i bet!

hi neil! :)

it took a while crossy, the last 40 mg was the hardest as my body was 'demanding' it and I was fighting a lot of pain from withdrawl

Sorry you have to suffer so much pain. :(

codeine is somewhat effective, helps me come off the oxycodene

Did you get my email mrp?

oh neil... chronic pain is terrible, but the pain meds are worse imho

6:19 pm

speaking of crutches,i must head out a min and get some fermented grain spirits..brb

Worse than the pain? Do they alleviate much of it though?

i was on g+... i will look there or in yahoo?

Email, mrp.

Your Gmail or Yahoo mail? I sent it to both.

yes neil, they do, but when the pain is gone, the tablets are still there and that is when the withdrawl is hard.

ok, thanks neil

Oh yes, I guess that would be.

i can't for the life of me understand why people take oxycontin as a recreational drug!?? it is crazy!

it makes you feel.... nothing! like nothing!

6:21 pm

I'm on Word Racer if you want to play 5s or something, neil

6:25 pm

for about another half hour

crossy, i had a 'person I knew' ask me for my meds, offered to pay $50 for an 80mg tablet... well, not only did she get a lecture from the devil herself, she got fired too

neil, got the email... no problem and sorry if I made any prob there

oooh, got the 9

6:48 pm

good evening all

6:53 pm

Hey, teach.

6:54 pm

haha, just got uraemic on Word Racer...deja vu

6:55 pm

Hi Bea, how is the vacation going? Good weather?

fireworks! crikey that was good timing!

6:56 pm

congrats mr p

6:57 pm

Thanks for asking, Molly. Perfect weather today - sunny and 85. got a bit of a blush after being on the sand today.

6:58 pm

Ah, sounds heavenly. Hope the weather stays that wonderful.

6:59 pm

I think we are supposed to be about the same all week.

7:00 pm

rainy and turning cooler all week

7:02 pm

Here too Teach. This is not my favorite time of year, weather wise.

7:02 pm

is there an a7?

7:03 pm

negative

7:03 pm

ty

7:04 pm

t7?

7:05 pm

only 7 i have is an sh

7:05 pm

No t7.

7:06 pm

ty

7:08 pm

indeed mrp,i also had oxy moochers.but here it is not as pricey in the underground market..bout 10 dollars per 20mg

No problem, mrp. And thanks. :)

[sorry had to do a few things for a while there]

7:26 pm

so I guess it's an s7 I"m missing

7:27 pm

si 7 and sh 7

7:27 pm

si7

7:29 pm

yes I want a clue please

si 7,32 -- what you do on a chair + female chickens.

7:31 pm

ty

7:37 pm

st pls?

7:38 pm

st 5/16 is s + Tiny *** plus sometimes vowel JerzeeGirl

7:38 pm

oh wait, i had that one, i meant se6

7:39 pm

se 6 -- Portuguese mister

7:39 pm

se 6:another way to spell mister in Spanish JerzeeGirl

7:40 pm

fireworks ty!

7:40 pm

th9?

7:40 pm

Congrats, JerzeeGirl

7:41 pm

th9 - not actual, but...

7:41 pm

Congratulations JerzeeGirl on fireworks!Good for you

7:41 pm

th 9 - an unproved hypothesis

7:41 pm

th9/66: Th 9/66, if you are left handed you are smart

7:41 pm

thx for the th9

7:42 pm

*pokes nose in* hey all, I need to get supper going, but wanted to say hello just in case BR was here (and he IS!) *happy mama look*

7:42 pm

yw

7:42 pm

Hello, stid

7:42 pm

hey BR! (((hugs))) I miss seeing you!

7:43 pm

hope you are well?

7:43 pm

Min, how is school going for you?

7:44 pm

Hello stidmama.School is going well so far. Still testing and screening kids to see if they need ESL services.I hope that school is going greatfor you also stidmama.

7:45 pm

Well, I am still waiting to be put into the sub pool, but making good use (I hope) of my time to get the house a little bit more in order.

7:46 pm

Thought that you were already subbing for a teacher

7:47 pm

no, I had a teacher who wanted to use me, but the sub service is a lot slower than any of us realized. It'll happen. Just not for that teacher.

7:49 pm

ah, NBT. I am glad I got that far, my eyes are tired already. I think I will turn in. Good luck on the grid, everyone! *poof*

7:49 pm

Th 9/66ally, small puzzles don't need a story of clues, but si 4/5 I have ze4/9 words left to find,here is one anyway. I used to have a sh 6/27 job in the ci 4/7 of Yonkers. I was quite mi4/5rable there. My boss, Mr. Sm 5/14, always se 4/4 me nasty memos. Or he would sh 5/12 me for doing something wrong. He criticized me for everything from my job performance to sh4/5 I wore. He had a very sh5/12 temper and was always yelling. Everytime he yelled at me, I would ti6/18 out of nervousness.I wanted to find a job elsewhere, but people always told me "the grass isn't always greener on the other side". Always thought that was a my4/8 and I do not believe in any my5/18.In re5/10spect, I probably should've left the job sooner than I did. But all of that is hi4/5ory.Now I have a job I love. Sh4/5! Husband would like to he 4/5 the computer.Now I am going to go watch the horror film Am5/15ville. Th4/5 I am going play with my dog Mi 5/16. I will re 5/14 an entrance into Babbleland later if husband lets me. By the way, th4/5 story is totally untrue. Be back later.

7:53 pm

th6 after the 9?

7:54 pm

The th 6/21 is a piece of writing one writes in college

7:55 pm

thx min

7:55 pm

firewords

7:55 pm

Congratulations wildcat17 on your fireworks! Hooray

7:55 pm

yw

Hi Minveryork and contgrats, wildcat.

8:24 pm

Hello Neil. Stepped away for a bit. How are you doing?

Haha, I keep stepping away and doing other things. So I've probably missed you now, Min?

I could be better... caught a miserable cold somewhow. Must be something going around here because I'm not the only one. Otherwise ok thanks... and you?

8:31 pm

ty 5/6?

8:33 pm

ty5/16 is ti5/12 word spelled differently and ty 6/27 word is plural of the ty 5/16 word LeslieAnn and hello.

8:33 pm

thanks min and hello to you too

8:33 pm

I am well Neil. Saving my last word for later on tonite.

8:35 pm

Dolores Hope died, 102! (Bob Hope's wife)

8:37 pm

yep, ibd, she did

8:37 pm

Hi Jen, hi everyone.

8:38 pm

Wow,they both lived long lives.How old was Bob when he died? Well now Doris is reunited with her husband.

8:38 pm

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

8:38 pm

i believe Bob was 90

8:39 pm

Hi Min. I'm doing well. just got home from teaching.

8:39 pm

102 - very nice. I wonder, is anyone who was born in the 19th century still alive? (age 111+)

8:40 pm

pardon me, bob was 100

8:40 pm

Or maybe 110+, if I got that border case year wrong, heh

8:40 pm

1903-2003

8:40 pm

probably someone in Japan or China, Grem.

8:40 pm

I will check!

8:41 pm

we have a lady in our church who will be 102 next month

8:41 pm

Hmm, one site informs me: Besse Cooper, born Wednesday, August 26, 1896 (age 115)

8:42 pm

(Oldest living person)

8:42 pm

Our grasp on the 19th century is tenuous now.

8:44 pm

Only one in a thousand people who reach 100 go on to reach 110!

8:44 pm

Wow, the record is 122.

8:45 pm

hi all

8:46 pm

Where does the 122 year old person live gremlinn?I'm not sure I would want to live that long. All of my close relatives would be already gone.Plus what kind of life can you lead from 100-122? But God bless that person

8:46 pm

Hello jesdraggon!How are you doing? Welcome to grid

8:46 pm

(((jes))) *relurk*

8:48 pm

I am done! I have fireworks! ca6/24 was my last word

8:48 pm

I'll be here off and on to clue for the rest of the night

8:48 pm

YAY min!!!!

8:48 pm

i'm okay, min. had the (not so) lovely experience of giving notice to an employee that i will not be renewing her contract today.

8:48 pm

(((stid)))

8:48 pm

yay min!

8:52 pm

whooo hooooo MIN

8:52 pm

hi jes, hi (((STIDDY)))

8:53 pm

hi dawg

8:53 pm

Oh dear!Too bad for that employee.How did she take it? My story was totally made up. I've always liked my job. I have both good and bad days, but who doesn't?

8:53 pm

*(((LBD))))

8:54 pm

she took it stoically, i guess. looked a bit more surprised than i think she should have been, considering the duration of unresolved issues.

8:54 pm

then again, she asked why, which i had expected would be pretty obvious, so *shrug*

8:57 pm

top row grey :)

8:57 pm

I am sorry you had to do that, jes. Letting people go for any reason isn't fun.

8:58 pm

I am down to 20. About to get my act together and print a few more resources for subbing. Which I expect will be in place by the end of the week. At least, I hope it will be!

8:58 pm

yah; first time i've had to do it, too. (i'm relatively new at the boss thing.) but seriously, she has a couple particular issues. and i calmly and nicely explained why these things are issues for the clinic, and should be changed.

8:59 pm

then a month later, i explained again, and gave specific suggestions. and a month after that, i gave orders instead of suggestions.

8:59 pm

Good for you.

8:59 pm

and a couple weeks after that, I gave ultimatums (and by this time I was considerably less polite and niceynice).

8:59 pm

and it wasn't until after ultimatum point that things improved.

9:00 pm

that was July. Things have improved, but have not resolved.

9:00 pm

Personally, I think i should never have to get to the ultimatum point.

9:01 pm

Did you put things in writing? For some people, written correction is more "sticky" than verbal.

9:01 pm

no, i probably should have.

9:02 pm

That's something for next time, then.

9:02 pm

oops. *sits in PB*

9:02 pm

but i repeatedly asked her for suggestions on what would help her learn to do things better, and she never had a single request or suggestion.

9:02 pm

still, you gave many occasions for correction, so it's clear she wasn't really focused on improvement.

9:03 pm

yah. and yet she still looked surprised and asked why.

9:03 pm

i don't get it.

9:03 pm

I think the point is jes, she didn't get it!

9:03 pm

stid, you get double PB time for "sits" !

9:04 pm

It's really hard for some people to see that they need to improve. I know that is something I struggle with. Even when SITting in the PB! (((gremlinn)))

9:04 pm

heh. i guess you've got it in one line, dawg :)

9:04 pm

heheh

9:04 pm

*sneaks a cookie into pb for stid*

9:05 pm

cookie? what cookie? *innocent mama look*

9:05 pm

Watch out - there's a three strike law now.

9:07 pm

oh man, if that's true, i'm in big trouble!

9:07 pm

what happens if I do that gremlinn?

9:07 pm

You have to eat a cookie every day, for the rest of your life!

9:08 pm

oh! SITS in PB again hopefully....

9:08 pm

the punishment is only one cookie?

9:08 pm

No, not the same cookie. A new one every day.

9:08 pm

and if I get six strikes, it's two cookies, and if I get nine strikes it's THREE cookies and... *hopeful look*

9:09 pm

JES! did you read LBD's maxine for today???? Do you think that employee was doing THAT???

9:09 pm

roflmao

9:10 pm

heh. no, i think she just honestly didn't get the concept of "you should do what the person writing your paycheck wants done with her business"

9:11 pm

she's not malicious (well, that i know of...guess we'll see what happens in the next little bit between giving notice and her moving on...)

9:11 pm

is she a tech or a non-medical person?

9:12 pm

no, an associate veterinarian

9:13 pm

oh, this means you will be short handed then, on top of everything else.

9:14 pm

means i have to hire again. though turns out that one of the people who applied the beginning of this year is still looking, so i've already got at least one option.

9:14 pm

that's good.

9:15 pm

I thought I had a whole stack of resumes, but i can't find them... bad me

9:15 pm

I looked at the website for hiring teachers today and in the area I would like to be in there are fewer and fewer openings. Which is normal this time of year, there will be more mid-year.

9:15 pm

nbt

9:15 pm

hey stid, I thought your icon was a close-up of a hamburger - I had to click to see the big version

9:16 pm

and even then, looks tempting

9:16 pm

maybe it's snack time, gremlinn?

9:16 pm

It's a lovely pic full-size.

9:17 pm

nah, maybe later

9:17 pm

Maybe my monitor's too dark - hard to make out anything in the middle.

9:17 pm

Mother's home is lovely. Not cluttered and land-locked like my little double-wide. *sigh* But I have what I can afford, so that is important.

9:18 pm

It was taken at sunrise, so it's mostly a silhouette

9:24 pm

th9?

9:25 pm

"should work, on paper" - as opposed to practical

9:25 pm

th9ally speaking...

9:25 pm

at least, that's one use of the word...

9:25 pm

i didn't know that word worked without an "al" on the end. thanks, grm

9:25 pm

Yeah, without -al would be a lot more common

9:26 pm

I mean, with -al

9:27 pm

is the 6 related to the 9?

9:27 pm

I don't think so

9:27 pm

Maybe really indirectly

9:28 pm

It's another intellectual-type word

9:28 pm

got it

9:28 pm

si7?

9:29 pm

not stand + not roosters

9:29 pm

weird word. thanks :)

9:30 pm

that's fireworks

9:30 pm

YAY jes!

9:30 pm

and dictionary doesn't know it

9:30 pm

it means "since" - guess it's archaic

9:30 pm

ah. thanks

9:31 pm

in return, a quote from npr: "They threw dozens of pretend fighters in non-pretend prisons."

9:31 pm

Discussing Iran's ban on squirt guns.

9:31 pm

But that's all I could find, so I don't know which definition of "since" that is

9:31 pm

and on that cheery thought, i'm off to paint ponies :)

9:31 pm

eek

9:32 pm

I thought painted ponies happened naturally...

9:32 pm

have fun, jes!

9:33 pm

whoooo hoooo Jes, and have fun painting ponies!

9:34 pm

Hi all. si7 and the singular form si6 (which isn't allowed in the grid) is an old English word from the 14th century.

9:34 pm

btw, i thought stiddy's avatar was a chocolate layer cake! lol

9:37 pm

That sounds better than my idea.

9:37 pm

I thought it was a hamburger with onion layers.

9:37 pm

***hugs Jac on the way to grab phone***

9:38 pm

Hugs Stid back. Falls over from the dash past. LOL

9:41 pm

evening all!

9:41 pm

In fact, there are quite a few old words in this small, compared to most in the past week or so, grid.

9:41 pm

Hi dan!

9:51 pm

need a clue for the st word to finish

9:54 pm

st + vowel + me and ** shadow

9:54 pm

whoooo hooooo DAN!! (i'm off to my pillows now.)

9:56 pm

ty lbd gnight

9:57 pm

I'm back now. Any more clues needed?

9:59 pm

Yes, please si7-32...thanks

10:00 pm

si* (not stand) + female birds who are not roosters.

10:01 pm

Thanks much, Jacula.

10:01 pm

y/w gapeach.

10:05 pm

Everyone done with the grid?

10:09 pm

Off now then. Goodnight lurkers.

10:29 pm

May I please have a clue for se6-21? Thanks.

10:31 pm

Portugese "Mr."

10:36 pm

Thanks much, torgone. That was the last for this grid. See you at the flip.

10:38 pm

Hi again. I suppose everybody is gone now

No I am still her

I never get to this till about 10 pm

10:39 pm

HI sew. I don't think I've met you before! :-)

So I never quite finish...

I was on babble awhile ago

I don't always chat

10:40 pm

I have made it a point not to finish for a while; I was quite addicted to this game for quite a while

10:41 pm

Ahhh! Well, welcome to the chog then

I am not surprised to hear that

I will look for you

10:42 pm

(I still chat way too much; even if I don't finish!)

10:43 pm

is your icon a quilt block you've made? It's beautiful (I thought it was a stained glass window at first)

Yes that is another reason I dont finish!

10:46 pm

:-) I just retired last week and will now have time to do some hobbys

10:47 pm

but quilting isn't something I've ever tried before

Stopped quilting so I could finish my baby girls wedding dress. Now i am trying to mellow out playing games

10:49 pm

Well congrats on the wedding! How many kids do you have? (I have 2; and 1 2 yr old grandson)

No grand kids yet but I am now hopeful...we do have 5 kids two are now married

10:52 pm

my dtr. says she will never have kids; my son (who's older) -- his wife says no more kids (and it's probably a good thing for her)

10:53 pm

good morning all... should be possible to finish this before flip time, shouldn't it?

10:54 pm

Hi sprite! I still have 48 words to find; but haven't been here since the AM

10:55 pm

didn't play yesterday and just got up, it is 5.55 am here. Ah well, I just dive in and see how far I get :) How are you all?

10:56 pm

i

10:56 pm

I'm fine sprite. And I'm loving that icon too! :-) Haven't seen that picture ever before

Having trouble catching the z word

10:57 pm

I've gotten too little sleep lately as well.

I think I need to go catch some zzzzz's

10:57 pm

sorry, still sleeping fingers, lol. Ah, that is my little angel for Periwinkle, theme of the day before. It was the birthday of her youngest sister, who died.

10:58 pm

lol sew

10:59 pm

the zo4/9 is a bunch of vowels

10:59 pm

And there's nothing that starts with Z, besides that. And plural.

Yeah I got it before your clue....tks anyway, gnite all

11:00 pm

night sew

11:00 pm

hi Gremlinn

11:00 pm

Hi Nef

11:01 pm

niters, sew. See you again sometime!

11:05 pm

aw my daughter's name is in the grid! (Caya)

11:06 pm

that's a neat name; I've never heard it before

11:06 pm

Damn! I saw Sprite and assumed a new grid was up. I forgot the Netherlands is an hor ahead of UKK right now. I've also no idea what all the USA times are. My Babble grid usually changes over at 6am UK time.

11:07 pm

Hi Jac. I'm in the CST; the same time zone as Babble; so it's 11:10PM here

11:07 pm

hey Jac! *hugs*

11:08 pm

Hi Sprite. *hugs back*

11:08 pm

**HUGS SPRITE** hey all! back for a few minutes...

11:08 pm

down to ten!

11:08 pm

lovely to see you! I am awfully late, didn't play yesterday and was awake very early now, so I thought I'd try to do this grid anyway... before flip.

11:09 pm

Stiddie! *hugs*

11:09 pm

I'm in a bit of a sleep one night but not the next phase at the moment. I can clue if you need, Sprite.

11:09 pm

you can probably do it, sprite. you have forty minutes!

11:09 pm

stid - 40 mins is ample to do ths grid.

11:10 pm

yeah should work, and thanks Jac :D That is funny, I have the same thing. Sleep reasonably one night, cannot sleep the next.

11:10 pm

hi stid!

11:10 pm

Hi Nef.

11:10 pm

hey Nef!

11:11 pm

41 left, it is pretty smooth

11:12 pm

go sprite go!

11:12 pm

sprite - it is - but when the rough bits arrive, I can clue.

11:12 pm

8 here...

11:12 pm

lovely, Jac, that will help. Go stiddie gooo!

11:13 pm

Most words in this grid are UK words, old, new and Scottish and Shakespearean.

11:14 pm

Only ci6 and hi6 are what I would call American words.

11:14 pm

that would have baffled me some years ago, but after a couple of years of Babble, it isn't too daunting, grin.

11:14 pm

ca6, I meant.

11:15 pm

the CA 6 is not used in the U.S.

11:15 pm

oh that ca6 is almost a dutch word. In dutch it would end -ool and mean the same thing.

11:16 pm

sprite - many of the words baffled me when I began. And I say that as a born in UK person. You are not alone.

11:17 pm

I am stuck on a C. I have CA 6,4 and Ci 4,5,4 what do I need?

11:17 pm

stid - it's Arabic version of the ch garment. Sorry!

11:17 pm

I still remember my first time when crwth was in the grid. Took me hours, WITH cluing. just couldn't get my brain to believe there were words without vowels. Babble broadened my horizon big time.

11:18 pm

cy4

11:18 pm

stid - cy4/8

11:18 pm

:-D I was so excited when that word was in the grid... at the time I was studying Welsh using the BBC website (which is no longer available to U.S. folks)

11:18 pm

thanks Jac and sprite

11:18 pm

babblet. *sigh*

11:18 pm

y/w, Stid.

11:18 pm

down to 5!

11:19 pm

hehehe... there are so many!

11:19 pm

go stiddie gooooo! 29 here.

11:20 pm

three... *wonders if I can beat sprite with such a small lead*

11:20 pm

go sprite go! :-D

11:20 pm

Welsh pronunciation is easy - you just have to learn the Welsh alphabet. However, speaking the language is not so easy and also varies from place to place. Just like anywher else, even in a tiny place like the UK.

11:21 pm

one of the things I'd love to do sometime... learning welsh and irish. I love those languages. As I love English.

11:22 pm

roflol stiddie! Silly gal.

11:22 pm

still three...

11:22 pm

okay, I am going to peek at lickety. Hold on...

11:22 pm

Isn't going to prepare fireworks etc., for sprite when she finishes. She's going to make toast and then let her put sprinkles on it.

11:23 pm

hahahaha! :D

11:23 pm

two.

11:23 pm

28 :P

11:24 pm

Honsestly, since my son's (now ex) Dutch girlfriend left the sprinkles her, none of us get that sprinkles on toast thing. But the girlfriend was lovely and is still a family friend.

11:24 pm

and once again, the person doing the poopoo isn't valid. Stupid enable.

11:24 pm

it was used as a word in "christmas vacation"

11:24 pm

"merry christmas. sh4ter was full!"

11:25 pm

ooh! ooh! ONE!!!!!

11:25 pm

yeah, see, it should be valid :) Hi cosdem.

11:25 pm

go sprite go!

11:25 pm

hey cos

11:25 pm

hi all :)

11:25 pm

Peeking a Lickety whilst in a race is surely cheating? unless your opponent was using the list before.

11:25 pm

67 left but i have nbt/nbs

11:26 pm

am stuck on the r. Probably a blind spot.

11:26 pm

let me know if you want assistance, spritely...

11:26 pm

Hi cosdem. I don't do the nbt/nbs thing. But well done anyway.

11:26 pm

ah there it is. Fishworthy.

11:26 pm

:-D with sprite I need ALL the help I can get! LOL

11:26 pm

still one....

11:27 pm

it's a fish, too. I am sure of it.

11:27 pm

No list for the last letter.

11:27 pm

me neither, Jac, I just play, grin. But gratz cos!

11:27 pm

go cos go!

11:27 pm

you can do it, stiddie, still 24 left here :P

11:28 pm

oh gee. it WAS fishy! and I thought I had entered it AGES ago. *sigh*

11:28 pm

darn, no seahorse

11:29 pm

fireflies for stiddie! Yayyyyyyy well done!

11:29 pm

*sparkly mama look*

11:29 pm

YAY, stiddy!!! WTG!!!

11:30 pm

Well done. stid!*~*~*~*~*~*~*

11:30 pm

so now... I should set up for tomorrow. I didn't iron today, so that's one of my goals tomorrow.

11:30 pm

thanks all!

11:31 pm

now spritely... where you at? *wicked grammar-bending mama look*

11:31 pm

sounds domestic, stiddie. Big *hug*! 19 left.

11:32 pm

go sprite go! Should I start holding my breath now?

11:32 pm

please don't hun, you'd turn blue.

11:33 pm

LOL

11:33 pm

Can you do my ironing, too please Stid? It's a smale pile for a change! I really need to get out into the garden later and I don't need ironing keeping me out.

11:34 pm

sure Jac, just send it on over. Use one of the spare cabana boys, please, mine got lost in the clutter when we were painting...

11:34 pm

I don't iron. I just don't. Hate it!

11:35 pm

I didn't iron much when I was being a mom, but trying to get a job I want to look a little more put-together with shirts and pants that button... LOL

11:35 pm

once I am teaching for real I won't iron as much

11:36 pm

I suspect that 4 of spirite's words are ti 5 and 6s and ty5 an 6s. All relate to one tenth of profit on crops etc., being paid to a landlord back in the middle ages.

11:36 pm

hmz yeah, that is different, lol

11:37 pm

has anyone ever googled Akiana??

11:37 pm

ooo nice Jac, that gave me some!

11:37 pm

hey snags

11:37 pm

hey yourself stid!! hello everyone!!

11:37 pm

don't forget the portuguese man, either, sprite... that was one of my last three

11:37 pm

hi snags

11:37 pm

Akiana? No never.

11:38 pm

11 left, all Ts and Ys.

11:38 pm

You are in for a treat. Please take the time.........

11:38 pm

I've got a chance at a job in school that would give me an 'in' if I wanted to be a teacher. Thing is, despite my old headmistress wanting me to become a teacher, thaat's never been my goal. Also, the job offfered seems to want an awful lot for minimum wage.

11:38 pm

hi smags

11:38 pm

will do after finishing, snags, just for the fun of it :D

11:38 pm

Hi Nef.

11:39 pm

go sprite go!

11:39 pm

maybe it could be a starting point, Jac? Always easier to find something from a secure place.

11:39 pm

sorry. hi SNags

11:39 pm

hi all

11:39 pm

hey jmc!

11:39 pm

hi jmc

11:39 pm

the Ys were all pretty obvious. abominable snowman, similar word and it's plural, and of course sweet potatoes.

11:39 pm

hey jmc!

11:39 pm

hijmc

11:39 pm

sprite - theat's a starting point if you want to become a teacher, I don't!

11:39 pm

sprite! how nice to see you

11:39 pm

I kept forgetting plurals today.

11:40 pm

you too nef, jac, stid etc

11:40 pm

hi snags

11:40 pm

and vice versa, jmc!

11:40 pm

should i start the grid?

11:40 pm

it was a loooooong day and my computer just got fixed for the evening

11:41 pm

yeah but not if you want to finish. Unless you want to play really fast.

11:41 pm

glad your computer is fixed, you can probably get about halfway with little trouble jmc

11:41 pm

awww jmc :( But glad it is fixed.

11:41 pm

stuck on your angle sprite? its a cutey

11:41 pm

sure why not i don't look at the scores anyway

11:42 pm

yeah didn't play yesterday and was up very early now, so using my time to play and not for the icon. Will change once I am finished though.

11:44 pm

fw

11:44 pm

grtz

11:44 pm

whoo hoo mp!

11:44 pm

bows and throws glitter all around the grid

11:45 pm

fireflies :) Sweet lil' grid.

11:45 pm

thanks for the help, Jac!

11:45 pm

whoo hooo sprite1

11:45 pm

YAY sprite!

11:45 pm

woot woot sprite

11:45 pm

okay, i am going to head out. (((Hugs and choclits for all))) see you again soon! *poof*

11:45 pm

7 left; all S's

11:45 pm

bye stiddy

11:46 pm

YAY, sprite!

11:46 pm

y/w sprite.

11:46 pm

nite stid washes down choclits with warm milk

11:46 pm

*HUGS* for stiddie. Have a grand day hun.

11:47 pm

puts on slippers and shuffles off to beddy bye...throws kisses to all and wishes all sweet dreams...nitey nite....

11:47 pm

bye mp sweet dreams

11:48 pm

poofy!

11:48 pm

night mp. sleep well.

11:48 pm

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

11:48 pm

back at 'cha

11:48 pm

haha

11:49 pm

nightnight, MPit

11:49 pm

stats for the r in the bottom corner please

11:49 pm

re5/10

11:50 pm

ty nef *looking*

11:50 pm

1950's style, jmc

11:50 pm

re5/14

11:50 pm

ty nef

11:51 pm

ty jac

11:51 pm

3 left and too tired to find them :-(

11:52 pm

stats for first column e please

11:52 pm

* mins to go - you must find them!

11:52 pm

*gives nef some ginseng gum*

11:52 pm

e _ twitch.

11:52 pm

et4/5

11:53 pm

we can help, nef

11:53 pm

ty

11:53 pm

stats for the top A for nbt and all i can hope for tonight

11:54 pm

a06/21

11:54 pm

I can't find the sh 4,5,and 5 all before the poop word

11:54 pm

ty nbt

11:55 pm

s + not her + consonant

11:55 pm

HUGE Blood vvessel

11:55 pm

a small piece of wood to stick under woobly chair legs

11:55 pm

she4/5 (1st) a type of butter that's good in body cream.

11:55 pm

got thst 1sprrite

11:55 pm

pl nef

11:56 pm

sh5/12 - her _ two consonants.

11:56 pm

got the 5/12?

11:56 pm

I predict the drought goes on - 83 words

11:56 pm

anagram of poops

11:56 pm

sheoa

hi all the flip is looming

11:56 pm

sh4.6 - s + not her but hi*

11:57 pm

drop the o, cos

11:57 pm

no i will have time if not a computer tomorrw :-(

11:57 pm

sh5/14 plural of the above.

11:57 pm

hi vanilla

11:57 pm

I got Rick Perry here with me. He's praying for a 420.

212

11:57 pm

grem lie down with dogs get up with fleas

11:57 pm

250

11:57 pm

sh5/12 - sh + the last 3 letters of the study of the past.

hi sprite I've been waiting to ask: I tried to do a boggle in dutch but found far fewer words than in English, is that my lack of Dutch?

11:58 pm

First 3 letters, I meant!

11:58 pm

got to go, bye all, have alovely day/night

11:58 pm

hello

11:59 pm

bye sprite !!!!

11:59 pm

depends on the boggle, vanilla. Some don't have too many words, others do.

11:59 pm

hi mlf

11:59 pm

'Bye Sprite. See you again soon.xxx

11:59 pm

FWWWWW!!!!!

11:59 pm

hi jmc

11:59 pm

thankkks

11:59 pm

whoo hooo nef!

11:59 pm

godd nite

11:59 pm

i am close to 1/2 way

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