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12:00 am

Flip!

12:00 am

flip !!

12:00 am

Flip flip hooray!

12:00 am

flip-- nice size

12:01 am

Happy Thanksgiving to all Babble players in the US

12:01 am

I agree, a decent size for us to do today

12:01 am

happy thanksgiving to US friends!

12:02 am

I am diving into this grid. I will be back halfway finished.

12:02 am

biodegrading is my phantom!! LOL

12:02 am

Happy Thanksgiving to everybody; no matter where you are. We all have lots to be thankful for

12:03 am

amen nef!

12:03 am

Hear hear nef

12:04 am

BA 6

12:04 am

hello everyone :)

12:04 am

mrp -- repeating my question -- how do you know what clues to post?

12:04 am

br6

12:07 am

hi nan

12:08 am

br 7

12:08 am

diz BR 7/40?

12:09 am

yes

12:09 am

thanks i got it too

12:09 am

after you though:)

12:10 am

I am stopping at 75 words and 705 points. Goodnight!

12:11 am

br 7 x2

12:11 am

Goodbye to my fellow babblers! I'll see you later today

12:11 am

Nighters, Min! Have a good Thanksgiving

12:11 am

wtg min -- Happy Thanksgiving Day to you and yours

12:12 am

jilli; when you asked mrp about what clues to post; what did you mean?

12:13 am

I just wondered how she finds out how many words will be in the grid for the day -- does DrG let her know or what?

12:13 am

i guess it is time for the clues... bbs

12:14 am

ty mrp

12:14 am

jilli...there are programs out there that solve these grids....probably has to wait for the puzzle to drop...and then run the program

12:14 am

no; I would guess that Lickety has a computer program that they can enter the grid into and the computer will figure out the possible words

12:14 am

stats for the bottom T please?

12:15 am

but they must know what the grid will be

12:15 am

te 5

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te 6

12:15 am

Nef they are random

12:15 am

they have even rn out of grids

12:15 am

sorry -- te 6

12:16 am

I know the grid id random, but to get the clues they must know what to do.

12:16 am

DR_God once told me the grids are random and he never chooses them. Even the very small or very large' once they change; *that* is the grid

12:16 am

thanks for the T

12:17 am

late flip!

12:17 am

the program is intricate and not flawless... sometimes it finds several more words than what Babble does, so has to be adjusted etc... it looks for words up to 25 letters long, and it 'grabs' the grid from dr.g and solves for the clues. you don't get a list of the solved words due to the way the program was developed

12:17 am

My question is not about the grid, but about how mrp and Lickety know what clues to post to match the grid of the day.

12:18 am

in tanglewords...some of the "cheaters" downloaded the programs that would see the grid...and then auto enter all the possible words

12:18 am

dart... they are dicks

12:18 am

ok, thyvm mrp -- the bit I was looking of is that "it 'grabs' the grid from dr.g"

12:18 am

4th column O stats please?>

12:19 am

blanking on the o's

12:19 am

they would kill everyone ratings....you would score 250...and they would score 1200

12:19 am

oh 4 for 4th col

12:19 am

dart -- is that what killed tanglewords, do you think?

12:20 am

ob 4 for 3rd col

12:20 am

Jilli - the program lickety wrote finds the possible combinations of letters, and compares them to a database of words, then it extracts the matches, and pulls the clues from the list of words.

12:20 am

ah -- that babblet hasn't been around for a while -- ty diz

12:20 am

And I don't give a hoot about ratings or speed or competition -- just enjoy finding words and chatting

12:20 am

or6 and re8

12:20 am

lol yw Nan

12:20 am

Clues are up

12:20 am

ty diz

12:20 am

nbt

12:20 am

broll, I understand

12:21 am

nbt

12:21 am

Thank you, MrP !!

12:21 am

ty mrp

12:21 am

Thanks yet again, mrp xoxoxoxoxxo

12:21 am

My son is a computer programmer, and he did the same, but he won't give the program to me!

12:21 am

tanglewords was at playsite.com....they dropped it..was picked up by iwin.com..then they dropped it too...dont think that killed it...but when those people would come in I think that generated a lot of complaints that they had to answer

12:22 am

oh the gh8 is bullshit! excuse my french, but that is a word you have to go to morewords for!!

12:23 am

thanks for the arning, mrp!

12:24 am

*warning

12:24 am

mrp i was just looking at morewords for it

12:24 am

re 8...NBT NBS

12:25 am

is it a word we should know?

12:25 am

he 7

12:26 am

re8 comes in from the or6

12:26 am

put back on track??

12:26 am

the gh8 is not a word i have ever seen, or will ever want to see again!

12:27 am

and it has no dictionary results!LOL

12:27 am

i've seen the gh6 before...and it is the pt is guess

12:28 am

this grid looks mean, with words like the gh8 and no S

12:29 am

gh 6 -"to coerce by physical means" (Scrabble dictionary)

12:29 am

Got it thanks to Morewords as well

12:29 am

gr 7 -- 7's done

12:29 am

sorry; falling asleep heere. Good Night all and Happy THanksgiving to all

12:29 am

omg -- just for fun enetered the first name of a local activist and it worked! br6/30

12:29 am

jill i tw as ver slow starting for me i almost gave up when i got stuck at 13 lol

12:30 am

nbt and nbs

12:30 am

Gnight nef and have a lovely Thanksgiving dinner out !

12:30 am

wtg mlf

12:30 am

thanks jill

12:30 am

enjoy jill

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:)

12:30 am

i am out too poof

12:30 am

good night

12:31 am

is the re 8 a repeater word?

12:33 am

anyone have stats for the y?

12:33 am

yo4/6

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yo 4

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yo4

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thanks

12:34 am

I have to go -- alarm set for 7 am, about 3 hours earlier than my usual waking time -- bye all, and have fun!

12:34 am

hi everyone, late flip

12:34 am

is that a repeater clue?

12:34 am

hi and bye, jilli

12:34 am

hi flosey

12:34 am

hi, flosey

12:34 am

no -- was wondering if it is an "do again" word

12:35 am

nbt

12:35 am

bo 6/30 - eeeewwwww

12:35 am

:-D

12:36 am

lol, thanks broll

12:36 am

my 3rd word

12:36 am

well stop picking at it broll

12:37 am

you can pick your friends. And you can pick your nose... but you can't pick your friend's nose.

12:37 am

that's snot funny

12:38 am

ohoh -- he4 come the gr 7's

12:38 am

catarrh laugh out of me!

12:39 am

thanks nan

12:40 am

nbs

12:40 am

m9 -- is the re 8 a "do again" word and what is the other 8?

12:41 am

I only have the crazy gh8

12:42 am

have no idea on that one!

12:42 am

yeah.. it has 3 vowels in a row before the end!

12:43 am

and seems to be a pt.

12:44 am

he 7

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thank you m9

12:45 am

7s done

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oo5

12:45 am

thanks ru

12:45 am

br7

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br7 x 2

12:47 am

66 to go and off to bed for moi -- Happy Turkey Day to all! :-) *poof*

12:47 am

phantom hygiene

12:47 am

whew.. I thought une was going to bed with a turkey

12:48 am

(snort)

12:48 am

55 for tomorrow -- good night all :)

12:48 am

watch out for the giblets une!!!

12:49 am

night nan.. night une

12:52 am

hi again all

12:52 am

wb shady

12:52 am

ty ruru

12:53 am

hi shdy

12:53 am

hi flosey, how goes it?

12:54 am

pretty good thanks, and with you?

12:54 am

not too bad, been a rough week

12:54 am

sorry to hear that

12:55 am

had to put down the shady part of my name on Monday, sad, sad, sad

12:55 am

found the re 8 -- nbs *poof*

12:55 am

oh.. sorry shdy

12:55 am

ah, understand, we had to do that a few years back, still haven't been able to replace her

12:56 am

i made a very nice tribute to her, but can't figure out how to share it other than email. it's just a little powerpoint show

12:57 am

I'd like to see it, will put email address in bio

12:57 am

I found it cathartic to write about mine and let everyone know via email

12:57 am

ty, then if you know how to pass it on?

12:58 am

i think the burying was helpful, but I really want everyone to see her

12:58 am

ok, won't leave it there for long, so please get it quickly

12:58 am

follow your heart shdy..

12:58 am

done !

12:58 am

*covers eyes to not see flosey's email*

12:59 am

hey shady - I'm sorry to hear this news. Would like to see your tribute too - you know where to reach me.

1:00 am

lol ru, but am sure you understand

1:01 am

have had one nasty experience - that was enough

1:01 am

just kidding flosey

1:01 am

sorry, griff, but i've gotten really dumb lately, between br having a stroke and shdy having cancer, oh and work and stuff, not very functional

1:01 am

I don't blame you at all..

1:01 am

I know, you silly

1:02 am

think of all the bad jokes you'd have to put up from me alone

1:02 am

lol, that we might enjoy

1:02 am

Ihad Jacula laughing this afternoon

1:02 am

flosey, if you can make a link for e1 somehow? yo no se

1:03 am

sounds like a rough one all the way around.

1:04 am

don't know how to do that shdy

1:04 am

wtg ru

1:04 am

me either, flosey

1:05 am

will ask Jilli if she can help

1:06 am

there ya go griiff.... she

1:06 am

....is beautiful

1:07 am

received shdy, will deal with it later, ok?

1:07 am

sure, only takes about a minute or 2

1:08 am

oops, cannot open it?

1:08 am

let's all move on, huh?

1:08 am

would someone clue the re8 please

1:09 am

wish I could ru

I would like to see the tribute, to shdy - lost our elderly car last week, too. I'll put my email on my profile.

1:10 am

hi. I wish everyone celbrating Thanksgiving in the US a blessed and bountiful holiday. Remember, counting your blessings makes them multiply.

1:12 am

counting blessings makes you keep track of them

1:13 am

but that's nice Angel..same to you

1:15 am

I am giving thanks that a lot of our military will be coming home and staying home

1:15 am

that is a wonderful thanks, ruru

1:16 am

I think I have forgotten how to play this game. *yawn* will try again in the morning. babble on ya'll

1:16 am

night griff.. sleep on it

1:16 am

nite griffie, **big hug**

1:17 am

*hugs* back....and poof

1:17 am

and amen to that ru, great news

1:17 am

sent it, helen, btw

1:20 am

I am spending mosdt of today in the kitchen; we will have our Thanksgivng open house on Friday.

1:21 am

open house?

1:22 am

yes, for family and friends to come share with us.

1:22 am

we always do an open house. it is so much fun!

1:22 am

oh.. thought you were inviting the neighborhood

1:23 am

eek, sounds scary, i did all the chopping today, and steamed the rice and broccoli, less tomorrow?

1:23 am

ruru, lol...we pretty much are.

1:23 am

Sounds nice angel..

1:24 am

my daughter, her family and some of their friends, my parents, my brother, others. When all is said and done, we will have fed around 22 people.

1:25 am

wow.. that's a ton of work

1:26 am

we are having a quiet meal for two..

1:26 am

nope. not as much as you might think.

1:26 am

we have it down fairly welll.

1:26 am

helen, did you get the tribute?

1:27 am

I'm doing make ahead recipes today, then we will do the turkey and stuffing tomorrow.

1:27 am

that's the great thing about thanksgiving you can do a lot of things a day or two ahead

1:27 am

yes!

1:27 am

you just need a monster fridge

1:28 am

I have a recipe for make ahead mashed potatoes, for example.

1:28 am

kinda what i did tonight, angel, chopped all the carrots, onions, celery, garlic (darn forgot to chop the parsley), cooked the rice and broccoli, cut the potatoes and stored them in water

1:28 am

I will make them today, and heat them in the crockpot tomorrow while the turkey is in the oven

1:30 am

shdy, we are neighbors. I am in Texas

1:31 am

where in tx?

1:31 am

free dinner shdy.. she's inviting everyone

1:31 am

you all sound so organised, I'm like that at Christmas time. Have a great day xx

1:32 am

night diz

1:32 am

well, ru, kinda busy here, lol

1:32 am

about an hour north of Austin, shdy

1:32 am

<----likes austin

1:33 am

i was raised mostly in houston, angel, found my way back south via san diego and durango, colorado

1:33 am

<--- was born and raised in Austin

1:33 am

i love austin, also love baton rouge, now

1:34 am

<---raised by a pack of wolves

1:34 am

and that was a problem because?...?

1:35 am

I've only been to Shreveport/Bossier

1:35 am

speaking of baton rouge, who's watching college ball on friday?

1:36 am

i have never been to either, lol, what kind of local am I? I work for wildlife and fisheries here, but haven't been to most places

1:36 am

'm off for a bit. sleep is needed.

1:36 am

nite angel

1:37 am

have fun tomorrow angel.. hope it all goes well

1:38 am

ruru, looks like we're the only ones left, think i'm gonna bail too

1:39 am

okay..night shdy. have a nice get together too.. I hope it all goes well

1:40 am

I'm sorry about your friend.. it is so hard..

1:50 am

had to take a kitchen break, has everyone left for the night?

1:52 am

nope. I'm here still plugging away

1:52 am

ah, hi again

1:53 am

wb .. where's jilli tonight?

1:54 am

hello flosey and ruru

1:54 am

jilli was in earlier, has to be up very early tomorrow - she is not usually an early riser

1:54 am

taking a break

1:54 am

hi west. hi

1:54 am

hi west

1:54 am

just got my final g

1:54 am

morning all

1:54 am

hi sprite

1:55 am

hey west!

1:55 am

hello sprite, this is early for you?

1:55 am

hi flosey :) Yes, it is.

1:56 am

beautifiul Thanksgiving icon, sprite

1:56 am

hi princess

1:56 am

thank you :) Yours looks tasty.

1:56 am

hi ruru *hug* :)

1:57 am

thanks, just haven't updated

1:58 am

flosey.. your email is still in your profile

1:58 am

if you say it is a turkey, I will believe you

1:59 am

thanks ru

1:59 am

hey ruru, you are in the grid today!

1:59 am

(ho5/16)

1:59 am

darn, I did delete it but neglected to "update"

2:00 am

I am?

2:00 am

yep

2:00 am

hmmm, I don't see punster, sprite

2:00 am

I thought Br6 suits me first

2:00 am

lol

2:02 am

ah, see it sprite, and it counts

2:02 am

hmz ok, maybe I am projecting. It is quite possible.

2:03 am

well think about it sprite.. you have to be br6 to think about being ho5 a lot

2:03 am

ain't that a fact :D

2:04 am

always knew being br6 would come in handy one day

2:04 am

<---always plotting his next move.

2:05 am

you're unbeatable, ruru :)

2:05 am

he is indeed, sprite

2:06 am

lovely to be on at this time for once - am enjoying the company!

2:08 am

but ru, that isn't the nicest icon you've had - a rather mean looking animal

2:08 am

nice to have you here too sprite.. I'm not as much a nite owl as I used to be.. when I started this game years ago

2:09 am

sleep is definitely less overrated than I always thought, lol. I can sympathise there.

2:10 am

I think he's kinda cute flosey

2:10 am

no kidding

2:10 am

yeah he is... I feel like cuddling him under the chinnychinchin. *counts fingers*

2:13 am

every once in a while my love gets itchy and goes moving the furniture around in the livingroom... usually entails making news bookshelves and cutting up existing cupboards (he used to be a carpenter). Usually drives me bananas. But this time... the room seems twice as big, it is roomy, it is neat and very pleasant! Yay for my love.

2:14 am

would you be willing to loan him out sprite?

2:14 am

wow sprite, sounds like positive changes then, lucky you

2:14 am

as long as we stick to moving furniture around and carpenting, I wouldn't mind :)

2:15 am

yes, very positive, flosey. Worth living in a chaos for a week or two.

2:15 am

he's definitely a keeper

2:15 am

he'd be a keeper even if he didn't do this. I love him to pieces.

2:15 am

mroe room to wrestle .. huh sprite?

2:15 am

you got it, ruru!

2:16 am

well, our unfinished 'powder room' stayed that was, even though plumbing was all in - just became a storage room until a couple of years ago now guests don't have to use the ensuite

2:17 am

some take longer than others but they always come through flosey

2:17 am

I noticed that ho5/16 goes together with br5/16, ge4/6, gr5/14-7/36, gr5/14 and yo4/6. I am fully willing to give thanks to that.

2:18 am

I'll bet it's nice to have that guest bathroom

2:18 am

it is so lovely when things like that get finished at last.

2:19 am

absolutely - had to laugh at one lady, she informed me that she always peeks behind closed shower curtains to see why

2:19 am

lol! That is cute.

2:19 am

I'd jump out at her !!

2:19 am

but ruru... orgy is a phantom!

2:20 am

you really would get a giggle out of this old dear - has a good heart but never stops telling people how things SHOULD be done

2:20 am

*pictures west jumping out from behind the curtains*

2:21 am

I'd have to have a few cocktails first I think

2:21 am

ah, I know people like that. They have a very strict notion of how the world should be. But when you have a problem, they are the first to come to your aid.

2:21 am

lol and that might make it more interesting, west

2:22 am

anyone have a re 6/24? I sure don't see it

2:22 am

I want to be a fly on the wall then

2:22 am

most likely I'd fall asleep waiting

2:22 am

not me yet Will help look.

2:22 am

well, for goodness sake, just typed the name of a gal who ran for political office here and it took!

2:23 am

nor I and I'm looking for the br 5/16

2:23 am

aw... now I see west cuddled up in a too short, too hard, too cold bathtub, sleeping. *throws a blanket and a pillow*

2:23 am

that goes with the ho 5/16

2:23 am

thanks sprite lol

2:23 am

not narrow, west, or one like us

2:23 am

br 5 goes with my salty humor west

2:23 am

ah thanks

2:24 am

oops wrong

2:24 am

ir 5/14 describes your humor too ruru

2:25 am

<---- loves ir5

2:27 am

I can say for certain that re6 isn't a whole series of again words. I just tried.

2:27 am

br5/16 - to worry persistently, perhaps about your young.

2:27 am

Good morning/evening all.

2:28 am

hi Haz..

2:28 am

hi Haz :) Good to see you.

2:28 am

like a chicken?

2:28 am

good morning haz

2:28 am

now don't egg her on... ;)

2:28 am

Like a chicken, exactly.

2:28 am

I am so sorry for your loss.. you must be heartbroken..

2:28 am

and thank you

2:29 am

Thanks, ruru. It's not completely sunk in yet.

2:30 am

oh no haz I have no words

2:30 am

I know the feeling.. its eery it's like a total disconnect from everything

2:30 am

that is the sweetest pic, Haz

2:30 am

It all happened so quickly in the end but she was so ill, there was no alternative.

2:31 am

It's a lovely picture - my son-in-law took it and we have it framed.

2:31 am

you did what was best for her.

2:32 am

It's just going to take a while to get used to not having her around, pottering after me and generally being part of our family life.

2:32 am

I am just crushed to hear it though. I'm so sorry for both of you

2:32 am

I know, ruru, and I said before that I felt as though I had shared Spangle with lots of babble friends. Husband was devastated, just so upset.

2:34 am

sorry Haz, she looks like a loving pet

2:34 am

I was speaking to Jacula about it earlier.. that once in a lifetime a dog becomes your "heart" dog and reaches into your very innermost being.. I can tell Spangle was that for you. I do so understand

2:35 am

I know, ruru. I will have another dog when the time is right - I just love the companionship they bring - but it's too soon for now.

2:35 am

it is losing a part of your family.

2:35 am

I hope your friends and family are trying to do things to help and comfort you

2:36 am

They've been very good and everyone's been very sympathetic.

2:37 am

and babble itself can be a distraction for an hour or so, I hope

2:37 am

yes .. you will need some time.. I had a Vet tell me to not wait long ...and that the greatest tribute to a great dog is to say that was so wonderful I can't wait to experience it again... it took me a long time to recover from Monty and get Dylan..

2:38 am

nearly 12 mths since we lost our beloved dog (Chrissy @ 14 yrs)...dtr has taken us to find another pet at the animal welfare places but the only one that caught my eye was a large crossbreed which is unsuitable as we wouldn't be able to exercise her properly.

2:38 am

it depends, ruru. Some 'pets' are so much more than just pets. They really become part of your family. Those cannot be 'replaced' any time soon.

2:38 am

I would start to think about having another dog in the springtime, edging towards summer. I'm heavily involved in the town festival which is February/March and after that there would be more time.

2:38 am

that is so true sprite

2:39 am

you will find the right one at the right time, dizgrannie.

2:39 am

I didn't take that vet's advice.. but thought it was sweet of him to say it

2:39 am

I think there's always the fear that the new dog wouldn't live up to the old one, but the fact is that a new dog will be different and just as loved.

2:40 am

It's a different experience for sure.

2:40 am

I know my grandmother had one favorite cat... Monty. They had many cats after Monty, but those were 'just' beloved pets. Monty was something else. He lived on forever in her heart.

2:40 am

I wish I lived near you to cook you some meals haz

2:41 am

That's sweet of you, ruru.

2:41 am

Haz, I know that will be true for you. You are able to accept a new dog will be a whole other being than Spangle. Some people want to find a copy and they are always disappointed.

2:42 am

flosey, was it you who entered a name that was valid? Was it also a flower/herb?

2:43 am

the right dog will find you Haz.. good people and great dogs find each other.. they seek that spirit.

2:43 am

one can NEVER find a carbon copy of a beloved pet (or child)...we are thinking more of a 'lapdog' type, now that we are older

2:43 am

did I, I didn't notice, and no one called me on it

2:43 am

so sorry Haz ,losing a pet is losing a famely membe r we lost both ,and it hurts,

2:44 am

I can vouch for a king charles cavalier spaniel, dizgrannie. Lapdog sized but still fully dog. Sweet as can be. But find a great breader, that has the dogs tested.

2:44 am

Thanks, Yvo, you're so right.

2:44 am

so true, Yvo

2:44 am

I love those dogs. the king charles. so silly and so sweet

2:45 am

nm flosey, was just wondering if I had found the right one.

2:45 am

oh yes, I do remember Br6/30 is the name of a gal to ran for public office

2:45 am

I cannot find the re 8 or 6..Any gentle pointers?

2:45 am

ah, yes! Then I found the same one, flosey, thanks.

2:45 am

now I found the 6

2:45 am

still looking, ruru. They're hiding from me.

2:46 am

I got it sprite a woman's name

2:46 am

interesting sprite, I'd never heard the name before

2:46 am

ah thanks ruru, found her!

2:47 am

I've heard the name but I don't know anybody with the name, if that makes sense.

2:47 am

yes, of course it does Haz

2:47 am

IT's Italian

2:47 am

In the Kushiel books by Jacqueline Carey there is a Br6 house, I think. It is a flower.

2:48 am

well, perhaps she was named after the flower

2:48 am

I know a re6 but not a br6. As name, I mean.

2:48 am

probably, flowey

2:48 am

I mean flosey, sorry

2:48 am

flowery flosey :)

2:49 am

one of my uncles wrote to me when he was overseas, WWII, and spelled it Flowerence!

2:50 am

found it

2:50 am

wtg ru

2:50 am

awwww that is sweet, flosey!

2:50 am

jeez. that was tough.. re + asia

2:50 am

you found the re8, ruru? Could you pls clue it?

2:50 am

thanks :D

2:51 am

lol, it was innocence on his part, he just didn't know

2:51 am

yeah, but the result was sweet. Nicer than when I am misspelt as spite ;)

2:52 am

yes sprite, hope that isn't means to be nasty

2:53 am

no, just typos, not a problem at all :)

2:53 am

I really must get to bed, am starting to get hungry and that's bad

2:53 am

yeah, that is a sure sign. Sleep well, flosey, and dream even better.

2:53 am

Beware the midnight munchies!

2:53 am

55 to try to get tomorrow, goodnight all

2:53 am

good night flosey and don't look behind that curtain

2:54 am

Goodnight, flosey, sleep well.

2:54 am

i'm going to go read. Haz.. I am so glad you showed up.. I'll be thinking of you and hope that it gets easier for you over the next few days. Please pass on my condolences to Mr Haz as well.. good nite all

2:54 am

lol, west is still waiting to jump out?

2:54 am

night ruru, enjoy the re4. *hugs*

2:54 am

lol, bye now

2:54 am

you never know sprite

2:55 am

Thanks, ruru. Enjoy your book and I'll see you again.

2:55 am

good night ruru nice to see you again

2:56 am

Haz please know my heart is breaking for you and your family. That is an unconditional love that Spangle gave to all of you.

2:56 am

if you jump out here, west, I will scream. But you will be welcome anyway.

2:57 am

I hope you can remember the happiest times with her.

2:57 am

oh that is so true. Dogs are great teachers of unconditional love.

2:57 am

Thank you, westford. She brought so much joy to us and we remember her so fondly.

2:58 am

You made her one of 'our' dogs and I thank you for that.

2:59 am

I'll be back later. Hugs all around.

2:59 am

I still have the icon with Spangle in George's arms, Haz. A rare moment of cuddling peace.

2:59 am

bye west. *hugs* right back at you.

2:59 am

Bye, westford.

3:00 am

I know, I have that pic still, sprite. And of course, Spangle features in FM's PB picture. She got around!

3:00 am

she sure did! And those pictures show how much she enjoyed it all.

3:02 am

the celestial hunter is not valid, I see.

3:03 am

Enable being fussy again.

3:04 am

not nice at all. It is my favorite star constellation. Maybe because it was the first I learned to recognise.

3:05 am

Do you get clear enough skies to see the stars clearly? Husband always complains about light pollution making it more difficult - much easier out in the countryside.

3:06 am

The other problem we have is cloud. Somehow, every promised wonderment in the skies is hidden with cloud cover.

3:07 am

yes, we can usually see Orion, and the big dipper, Ursa major and minor, Cassiopeia. But of course we'd see much more detail if we could get rid of the light. I think you have more countryside than we do.

3:07 am

argh yes, cloudy here as well. Usually with eclipses. Very frustrating.

3:08 am

I think he notices the difference because he was brought up in the country and would have seen stars much more easily. I think the clearest skies I've ever seen were in Kenya - just magical.

3:09 am

I have never been to a tropical place, but I have heard the stars seem to be much closer there.

3:10 am

There were just so many of them! It really was beautiful.

3:11 am

we went to france to see the total solar eclipse. It was overcast. But we could see the shadow racing over the earth and that was worth the whole trip in itself. Such speed, it was so impressive to be part of that.

3:12 am

It must have been. Sometimes nature puts on marvellous displays and all for free.

3:14 am

Hi Haz (and everyone)... so sorry to read your news, poor Mr Haz must have been torn apart. Josie picked up a serious infection after being speyed a fortnight ago and even though we have only had for 10 months the hole left would have been enormous especially for hubby. Glad you contemplate another, Haz without a dog just doesn't seem right, you sort of came as a pair !!!

3:14 am

hehehe yes indeed. My father started his career as a sailor and he once witnessed the eruption of a volcano. I think it is one of the most powerful memories in his life.

3:15 am

hi Karys, how is Josie now?

3:15 am

Hello, Karys, nice to see you!

3:15 am

Absolutely fine thanks sprite, but she was so poorly !

3:16 am

I'm glad to hear she's recovered, Karys.

3:16 am

quite a scare, Karys. Very glad she is fine now :)

3:16 am

It's hard when they're ill and you can't explain to them why they're feeling rotten.

3:17 am

Thought about you a lot at the time Haz, with Mr Haz being a vet. We were at our vets daily.

3:19 am

It's not good when she was perfectly fine and you are the person that took her to have this dreadful deed done !

3:20 am

we humans often feel guilty about things we couldn't have prevented... guilt is slightly less tough to bear than feeling powerless.

3:20 am

Ah yes, the old guilt thing does kick in. Still, as long as she's fine now, that's great. I hope it doesn't give her a fear of going to the surgery from now on.

3:21 am

She wasn't too bad on the last visit when she was feeling well again.

3:22 am

It's the 'spaniel eyes' with Josie sprite, she has that down to a fine art !

3:23 am

argh, those are killers, those eyes. Terra does the same thing.

Haz, much condolance on your loss of Spangle - I don't chat much, but I've enjoyed reading about her over the years.

3:24 am

Thanks, City.

3:25 am

Spaniels and their eyes are something else. They've got 'the look' down to a fine art.

3:25 am

oh yes, and they know exactly when to use it. Cuts straight to the quick.

3:26 am

They must have been taught with their mothers milk.

3:26 am

Visions of spaniel puppies lined up at a mirror practising.

3:27 am

:) Indeed. Mum behind them, correcting.

3:27 am

'Now listen baby, this is how to get your own way, come on, let me see you do it now'

3:27 am

"the frown! Do not leave out the frown!"

3:28 am

Absolutely. And the laying of the head on the lap. And the paw when the owner stops stroking.

3:29 am

yes. And the sigh to go with the laying of the head on lap or knee.

3:29 am

Oh, I forgot the paw, thats another thing. Anyone would think it's poorly the amount of time it spends not on the floor !

3:29 am

:)

3:30 am

Always the same one with Josie, is it always so ?

3:31 am

no... for Terra it is the paw that is nearest.

3:31 am

I guess poor Haz is sitting here with an enormous box of tissues.

3:31 am

No, I'm actually smiling at the memories.

3:31 am

Thats good

3:32 am

filling a little bit of the emptiness with great memories

3:32 am

I was laughing to myself at the memory of Spangle lurking at the top of the stairs (where she was not supposed to be) and HURTLING down them when she saw a cat go past. She would just about get stopped before the front door.

3:33 am

that is something else about spaniels... they can be so adorably clumsy one moment and all proud bearing the next.

3:34 am

I have to do 'things' now, I won't sully the chat with naming the 'things'. That presents a happy picture Haz,

3:34 am

back later

3:34 am

Do the things beging with H?

3:34 am

they do !

3:35 am

Bye, Karys, nice to see you.

3:35 am

I knew it! Sprite, she's going to do housework. Named and shamed.

3:35 am

Lol..gone

3:35 am

Bye!

3:37 am

I'm going to excuse myself to get ready to go out. Thanks for the chat, sprite and I'll see you again. Bye for now!

3:38 am

bye Haz, I'll be thinking of you and your husband

3:39 am

and bye Karys. I better follow these examples. Fireflies... and bye all :)

4:23 am

So Sorry to hear about Spangle, Haz.

5:00 am

oh Haz I'm so sorry about Spangle {{hugs}}

spangle is in doggy heaven... doing all the wonderful doggy things she does.... and smiling down at all of us, those that remember her know what a wonderful companion she was. I could not imagine the loss and am just numbed for you Haz... have enjoyed spangle stories and my memories of her are so so fond! How sad it is to lose a loved one on four paws... so sorry for the family.

at times like this... thanksgiving is a spiritual holiday we don't have her (to celebrate), but can feel it for my friends... i am thankful for our pets and the delight they bring us; the love, the devotion and unconditional love... i am looking at Vixie now, she is looking at me. I just cry to think she would not be with us. Blessed be to all pets and thank you for the amazing love and devotion you show us mere mortals. xox

5:41 am

Morning all.......Haz am so sorry to hear about Spangle....am sure you will enjoy lots of wonderful memories of her!

6:07 am

Good morning all. Gobble gobble.

6:13 am

morning chris happy thanksgiving to you

6:15 am

gm

6:25 am

Good morning and Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

6:26 am

gm car

6:26 am

Hi kje!

hi kje and car et al :))

6:26 am

Hello MRP!

6:26 am

Happy Thanksgiving Car. Thanks for the great idea. I bought my great niece an Elf On The Shelf for Christmas.

happy thanksgiving to you in the USA!

6:26 am

And hello to Flask and Christini!

6:27 am

THank you! Many things to be thankful for today!

indeed car!! many many thanks to everyone today

6:28 am

I'm thankful for a few quiet hours of babble this morning before the cooking begins.

6:28 am

That IS a blessing!

6:29 am

I'm thankful for so much more, of course, but that's what immediately came to mind!

i am thankful for the surprise badge of honour I got today :)

6:30 am

THat sounds cool! What is it?

today, i got a badge for best referee of the month in summer football reffing.... never ever thought i would get it! was a lovely thing to get as the teams voted for me.

6:32 am

Oh! That is wonderful! Congrats!

thank you!!!

6:34 am

brb

see you soon car... i think i need to sleep. wish my headache would go away. we have had temp differences of 20 degrees!! that is enormous and my implant gives me grief (hurts like heck) when the temps change

6:49 am

is it just me or is this grid challenging

6:49 am

and btw... has anyone seen BR lately. Haven't seen him in awhile and wondered if his vision has just gotten too bad

6:51 am

And we are back! Cinnamon rolls are in the oven!

6:51 am

Ugh. Hang in there MRP. And get some rest.

6:51 am

Have not seen him in a week or two.

hi kje :) i haven't seen BR for about 2 weeks

6:52 am

Kje...I agree..it is a bit of stinker!

6:52 am

o second row?

this is a hard grid for sure

6:52 am

What a row boat is oa 5/12

6:53 am

sheesh

6:53 am

ty

6:53 am

hi all

i just had to take my children's phone away from them... at 11.30pm. i feel like a shite parent

6:53 am

(((carlee)))

6:53 am

CAR. MRP...KJE!!! Morning {{{HUGS}}}

6:53 am

According to the archives, BabbleRabble played yesterday. Not sure when he chatted last.

6:53 am

hi carlee

6:53 am

You did the right thing MRP

6:54 am

(((Molly))))

hi carlee!!! ((((hugs))))

6:54 am

oh good... glad he is ok

6:54 am

Molls {{hugs}} too

6:55 am

hows things in babble world/

6:55 am

Are you enjoying a "day off" carlee?

6:56 am

ummmmm...am at school....

6:56 am

why would i have a day off???

6:56 am

WHAT?!?!?!

6:56 am

No Thanksgiving for you in Canada?

6:56 am

1 1/2 months ago

thanks giveing was last month car

6:57 am

{hangs head in embarassment}

6:57 am

is the 2nd sunday of october

6:57 am

Happy thanksgivving tho car.

6:57 am

sheepishly smiles...thank you!

6:58 am

I am hating this grid... do not feel I should have to work this hard on a holiday

6:58 am

( b/c is colder in canada... or growing season shorter...our thanksgiving/ harvest etc..is a month or so earlier )

6:58 am

our*

6:58 am

I always like a big one on the holidays....300+ is good.

this grid is nasty... agree kje!

6:58 am

and on thischeerful note...gotta go grab the bus to get across campus

6:59 am

stats please for the A in the center row?

6:59 am

back in about 20 mins

6:59 am

Bye sweetie! Have a great day!

ai4 ??

7:00 am

NM! Got one! NBT!

7:00 am

TY MRP...although that one came from the upper right corner, I needed it!

7:01 am

an5/10, car...

ok, i need to sleep as it is Friday... luv to my friends and happy thanksgiving to my US friends :) I am thankful for our friendship and luv you for it

nite my friends :)

7:04 am

And ah4 Car

7:05 am

gn mrp

7:06 am

Cinnamon rolls are ready! {places plates and napkins in PB for all to share...2 kinds: Cinnabon or orange}

7:06 am

Ty Molly and kje!

7:09 am

*Happily takes a Cinnabon*

7:10 am

good morning all! *sniffs air...grabs cinnabon* ty, car!

7:10 am

Hello Dawg! Happy Thanksgiving!

7:11 am

hi car! happy thanksgiving to you too!

7:12 am

*Adds pumpkin bread to goodie platter*

7:12 am

<--- quickly scoops up a slice....

7:13 am

Hi all, I brought pumpkin spice pancakes to the PB

7:14 am

clue for the T in the lower left corner for nbt?

7:14 am

Good morning Suefrad! Happy Thanksgiving!

7:14 am

te4.4 rip

7:14 am

ty car

7:15 am

and to all the US happy TG

7:15 am

actually it might be the P/T of that word te 6/21

7:15 am

morning sue. ty, but that's from the top t.

7:15 am

oh! pt that one!

7:15 am

ty, car.

7:15 am

i was close

7:16 am

;-)

7:16 am

nbt! need one more for 3/4's

7:16 am

The second column of vowels is an5-ing me!

7:17 am

Happy Thanksgiving! (((Hugs)))

7:17 am

{{{mom!}}} Happy Thanksgiving!

7:17 am

(((Car.))) thank you

7:17 am

yea, thos are tough! (((MOM))) happy turkey gobble day to you too!

7:17 am

I have just a few minutes to play and then I need to get started on the day

7:18 am

Thanks (((LBD)))

7:18 am

Hello Herin!!!!

7:18 am

(((Herin))) hello

7:18 am

hi herin

HGowdy and is it still Thanksgiving?

7:20 am

it sure is

7:20 am

it's just the beginning of thanksgiving here, herin

7:20 am

Thanksgiving morning here! Waiting for the big parade to start!

it is just beginning. i was actually headed to the mall but got up a bit too late

7:21 am

(((TO))) good morning, Happy Thanksgiving

7:21 am

Morning TO! Happy Thanksgiving!

7:21 am

morning TO

So no one is turkeyed over yet?

(((((mom))))

7:22 am

nah, not yet. We will eat at 4 p.m.

hi car! hi dawg! hi herein!

7:22 am

another 6 hours or so, herin til the first feasts begin

7:22 am

How many words today?

7:23 am

167

7:23 am

Hi Blouie, 167

7:23 am

Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving to all

7:23 am

Happy Thanksgiving ALL!....is there a list up anywhere?

7:23 am

Happy Thanksgiving BLouie!

7:23 am

and to you as well, BLouie

7:23 am

Happy Thanksgiving aebmusica

7:23 am

Happy Thanksgiving aebmusica!

OMG tomorrow night I need to find my pennies

7:24 am

hi aeb. lickety is up

7:24 am

why is that, Herin?

7:24 am

Pennies?

7:24 am

my favorite chore is in the grid today. ir 4/4

Big gig is on tomorrow night but O crap he has to work in the morning :/

7:25 am

hi again

7:26 am

Hello again! Carlee, the cinnamon rolls are ready and in the PB box....

Hi Carlee

7:26 am

(((Carlee))) good morning

got to run! good holida to all

7:26 am

oh..cool...so..mom u like to iron :P?????

7:26 am

Bye TO! Have a great day!

7:26 am

very much so

7:26 am

<toddles off for a cinnamon rolls >

Who in their right mind likes ironing????

7:27 am

bye bye ((TO))

7:27 am

my aunt LOVES to iron... i dont even own an iron

7:27 am

<------------ no one ever said I was in my right mind

7:27 am

LOL! That is why I didn't comment right away!!!!

Lol Mom no comment

7:28 am

my family will tell you, I am not!

7:28 am

how's the PB, carlee?

7:28 am

hehehe... and we wouldnt have it any other way mom :)

7:29 am

neither would I

Speaking of not in right mind. THis morning himself feeds the cats. I get up later and Pandora is looking at a half of her food and me because HE touched it.

7:29 am

whoops

7:29 am

And that is why I LOVE cats!

7:29 am

:-) Herin

7:29 am

your cats are so funny, herin

7:30 am

yes Lickety might be up..but i/m still getting the Malwarewarning on my MAC, Ibd

Pandora is nuts. She was looking at me going BUT I can't eat it. Where did it come from? I mean seriously mental

Yet my mother feed her twice last week and I wasn't even in the room. Go figure

7:30 am

Pick up the dish, stir the food around with a spoon, and put it back down. Then she will eat it.

7:30 am

I had better be off, lots to do. (((Hugs))) to all of you

7:30 am

check in babanon, aeb. i don't know if anyone has posted a list there yet.

7:30 am

Bye Mom! Have a wonderful day!

Have fun Mom

7:31 am

bye bye Car. I will

7:31 am

no one has as of yet

7:31 am

(((MOM))) don't work too hard. enjoy the day!

7:31 am

have a great turkey day mom{{hugs}}

7:31 am

Pleasant dreams Herin. Thanks

7:31 am

give me a moment, i'll post it in my profile for you aeb

7:31 am

LBD, I did that yesterday. ((hugs)) Enjoy your day

7:32 am

((Carlee)) it will be a great day, I'll see to that

7:32 am

I am absolutely at a stand still....

7:32 am

many, many THANKS , Ibd!

7:32 am

i am waiting for lecture...usually the classroom is unlocked..not today

7:33 am

I hope you are inside?

7:33 am

yes... just setting in the lounge

7:34 am

OK.

7:34 am

okay, aeb. it should be there now.

7:34 am

are you sure there are classes today, carlee?

7:34 am

Alrighty...I must do a bit of cleaning and laundry. Then Dylan insists on teaching me a game on the Wii. And I think I will have to do some work today...got a lot last night.

7:34 am

ty againand

7:35 am

thank u again, Ibd... how do u get the lists?

7:35 am

yvw, aeb

7:35 am

I am thankful today for each and every one of you and the joy you bring to my life each day. I wish you all a wonderful day filled with whatever it is that makes you feel blessed.

Aeb the link should be fine

7:35 am

i have babble expert.

7:35 am

hied

7:35 am

oops sorry

7:36 am

{{ car}} have a great day...love u hun

hi all from the state that's ablaze. Thirty homes and chalets destroyed including an historic house. Four other fires out of control, two of them fairly close here. Its summer in australia

7:36 am

You too [[carlee}}

7:36 am

Oh Vanilla! So sorry to hear that. are you safe?

7:37 am

holy crap slice

yes we are, just got in touch with three family friends, it was close but theyre safe too

Vanilla that was a fubar control burn?

7:37 am

omg, vanilla! wet everything down and stay safe! are you being evacuated?

two were controlled burns that got out of hand

no we're ok here and the wind is dying down so theyre getting optimistec that the worst is over

7:39 am

fingers crossed is so slice

stupid to do control burns in century heat

the govt is going to have to cough up lots of compensation

7:40 am

is only 2 c here right now :(

no lives lost as far as we know so thats a blessing

the worst fire is in a wine growing area so heres hoping the wine wont have a smoley taste

Vanilla I hope the get it under control

yes so do we

7:42 am

i bet whom ever had the bright idea to burn has severe butt pucker right about now.

7:42 am

smokey???? they store in smoked oak barrels especially to achieve a smokey flavour

the blame game will start soon no doubt

7:42 am

hmmm....wildfire shiraz...

so maybe they can make a killing on that drop

anyway on with babble, 23 to go

Carlee the smoke and soot can kill the poor plants

7:44 am

i cant remember the last grid i did...another week... 1 more week..then i can indulge.

true Herin, I must ring my friend in MArgaret river tomorrow he has a large winery there

7:45 am

i am going to go read over my essay....have a great day all...

you too carlee

Take care Carlee

7:46 am

alas, nbt AND nbs!! only 13 left

7:46 am

hagd, carlee

wtg lbd

7:48 am

the first ro6.21 is stoopid!

7:49 am

gotta get brekkies. bbl to finish

7:52 am

agreed, lbd!! Hi and bye!!

later LB

7:53 am

'morning folks

they hit the ro4 with their geegees ldb

hi welki

7:54 am

hey, vanilla and welki :-)

hello Uneai

good morning.

7:55 am

hey, kaplan! :-)

hi there kaplan

7:55 am

hi une, kap ... sorry to read about those fires, vanilla

HI Une and Kap

And Welk

7:56 am

and herin :)

7:56 am

howdy, herin! :-)

Howdy

I am wondering if I will actually have a bed to sleep on tonight since I can't find either cat

You sleep on your cats?

8:00 am

:-D

No but they do

More like they sleep on my head

8:00 am

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

back at you Deb

We don't let my cat sleep with us anymore because she meows too much.

ger

Excuse me.

We have no choice. Lucius bangs on doors till you open them

We shut the two doors. She took over the couch when our other cat died anyway.

8:03 am

off to nuke coffee -- back in a bit *poof*

She bangs on the window in the summer. She has her own door but she prefers butler service.

Can't Lucius is major pain

Poor Lucius.

No I mean he is a major pain in my butt

sorry tired missed a letter

Oh, yeah. Bebe too.

I see clients in my studio back of the house and she sits outside the door and miaows loudly the whole session.

Makes me seem like a really caring therapist.

I swear she is trying to wreck my practice.

Can you see sitting with your therapist whose cat is miaowing piteously for the whole hour?

Awwwww. You should let the cat in. Maybe the patient would like it

8:08 am

Kaplan, if you can't beat 'em, why not join 'em? If possible, work your cat into your therapy sessions.

I sometimes do, but then she miaows to get out.

8:08 am

slow chat...lol

You need a cat door

Oh, she gets worked in, believe it.

(ctm)

that is "chuckling to myself."

We HAVE a cat door.

Is that you?

Every other cat in the neighborhood has used the cat door, but like I said, ours prefers valet service.

hehehe Smart kitty

8:11 am

hi. I am well and truly stuck on my last word: RE8. clues, please?

8:11 am

nm

8:11 am

no match found

HI Angel

8:11 am

never mind

good morning again.

8:12 am

re + or6 express

8:12 am

whoops -- too late

Thanks I needed that

8:12 am

found t. thanks. and Happy Thanksgiving. I'm off to start preparing.

8:23 am

Happy Day! to all.

8:24 am

Whee! The place smells good and the turkey isn't even in yet. Something about adding a little white wine to the simmering giblets. : ) Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating.

Back at you

8:26 am

Can someone clue the re6 for me please?

8:26 am

salve re6

8:26 am

herein, when you refered to your cat as a pain in the butt, I thought of our long gone friend named Pita. (pain in the ass)

8:27 am

ro6 is like the western cowboy competition spelled incorrectly.

8:27 am

thanks!

8:28 am

oops. You said re. I don't have it. :(

re6 is the queen

8:29 am

bottom T ?

8:29 am

How about a clue for the last ab6, please?

going overseas??

8:29 am

hurshy, which one?

8:29 am

either one :)

grnadma

8:30 am

there's the past tense of rip

8:30 am

ah thanks!

Ok I am going. Have a great day. Best luck Vanilla

8:31 am

Then there' the ship worm. Makes me think of a city in Ohio.

thx herin sleep well

8:31 am

ship... worm...

8:31 am

g'nite, herin. Sweet dreams

take care

8:32 am

oh! i didn't know that's what that word meant! thanks.

8:32 am

what do the 8s start with?

8:32 am

Ok. Now back to me and all my needs. Ab6, please?

8:33 am

someone clued it - going overseas is going ab6

8:33 am

gh8

gh8

8:33 am

Doh! ty

8:33 am

gh! ugh

build on gh6

lol

8:34 am

thanks got em

8:34 am

re8 to find ones center again

8:34 am

ty again!

8:34 am

I don't have gh6

8:35 am

well... it sounds sort of like a cat might sound if a cat sound started with a gh

8:36 am

it is hard to clue. hmmm.

sterts with first four of pickles

then two vowels

8:37 am

mmm......ty? I'll work on that.

8:37 am

got them.ty

its an indian industrial action where the workers imprison the bosses

stupid word

8:38 am

name that proper noun! star trek's most scary villains

8:38 am

I like it. Maybe I'll try that at work

yeah lock em up

8:38 am

Oh wait, my husband is the boss. Well why not?

thats bondage

8:40 am

Too old and traditional for that route

lol never too old

8:41 am

I couldn't untie him after, arthritis in my hands. I wouldn't want to make that call for help.

I can picture it!!!

8:42 am

3 left. Enough of this nonsense. Give me my missing words!

you'd get a mention in the local paper for sure

8:42 am

I was talking to myself

I have one to go

8:43 am

Go, man, go!

fireworks

8:44 am

WTG!

8:45 am

Ge 5/16? anyone, please?

ty twas a nice size but there were a few curly words

8:45 am

I would give thanks today for a clue for the go5/16

the kind of books

8:45 am

waiting for go***

thats ge5

8:46 am

Ah! Thanks.

8:46 am

Really?

go 5 is the man upstairs and alliens

8:47 am

ge 5/16. is a kind of book?

westerns or science fiction ge

8:47 am

ge 5/16, ge + a hurray word

8:47 am

ge5/14 is French for type, ge5/16 is g plus a backwards animal which raced the tortoise.

8:48 am

morning, all! Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends and to everyone else who celebrates!

8:48 am

ty, ty, ty.

hi uusue

yvw

8:48 am

And good morning/afternoon all.

8:48 am

Done!

8:48 am

hi gramma, vanilla, haz!

8:48 am

Happy Thanksgiving Sue.

hello Haz

8:49 am

Congratulations, gramma!

8:49 am

Hi Sue

8:49 am

hi, molly! same to you!

8:49 am

Done!

8:49 am

how many words today?

8:49 am

Did I mention I was done?

congrats gramma

167

8:49 am

167

8:49 am

congrats, gramma! Hi all (-:

8:49 am

yay, gramma!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

8:49 am

167 words and gramma has found them all.

8:49 am

thanks gramma

8:49 am

hi, aloy!

hi aloy

8:50 am

gramma, what beautiful granddaughters.

8:50 am

hi sue.. was thinking kje can't use her usual greeting to me without going to the PB (ah4.7).. Happy Thanksgiving to all

8:51 am

*strutting into Babble Land* *gobble*gobble*

8:51 am

ah, thx, had missed that one!

8:51 am

hi, scrabs!

8:51 am

hi Scrabbs!

g'day scrabbler

8:51 am

good morning everyone, and Happy Thanksgiving Day to one and all. Who is cooking today?

8:52 am

This turkey is wondering what to have for breakfast.

8:52 am

Not I.

ok time for bed here have a great thanksgiving all

8:52 am

not me, snags, we are going to the zoo

8:52 am

Sleep well.

8:52 am

sounds good Sue

8:52 am

we are doing the turkey, stuffing and gravy.. taking it to our neighbor's and they are doing the rest - nice!

8:53 am

sweet dreams, vanilla

8:53 am

how nice aloy.

8:53 am

night, vanilla!

8:53 am

my daughter is cooking today

8:54 am

that is nice too, snags

8:54 am

Are you in Florida now, Aloy?

8:54 am

yes, since Nov. 6th Scrabs

8:55 am

I'm cooking, and having a fine time doing it.

8:56 am

Going to a friend's house. Doing nuthin'.

8:56 am

ok, I am off to shower and breakfast (my fingers are freezing here). bbl.

8:56 am

bye for now, sue..

8:58 am

just took bourbon pecan pie out of the oven

8:58 am

my only other cooking thing is a salad... easy peasy

8:58 am

Traveling, huh, kje?

8:58 am

happy turkey everyone!

8:58 am

ooh, sounds yummy.. have never had it.. hi kje

8:58 am

Hi Shir

8:59 am

and hi to Shirlock too

8:59 am

no, but I have a big family - everyone brings different things and since it is at my sister's she gets to do th eturkey

8:59 am

i haven't started cooking yet -- planning to do some desserts for a friend's din din

9:00 am

listing with 47 left... just can't see words today

9:00 am

I am doing the dressing. It is slowly cooking in the crockpot as we speak.

9:01 am

anyone have a secret as to how to chop onions without crying?

9:03 am

holy cow, I missed the volcano

9:03 am

lol aloy so had I :0

9:03 am

TY, Aloy

9:04 am

it was hiding

9:04 am

No idea, snags

9:04 am

try dipping the knife in water before you slice the onion

9:04 am

you can cut onions without crying by cutting them under water

9:04 am

some onions are kinder than others

9:05 am

Fascinating, Ou.

9:06 am

good tip

9:06 am

I am going to grab breakfast. ANybody want something? I have oatmeal, yogurt, eggs, bread, Cheerios...

9:07 am

Good Morning Everyone. Happy Thanksgiving!

9:07 am

Hi Nef

9:07 am

I missed snot

9:07 am

think I'll go do the same.. tummy rumbling.. hi Nef! brb

9:08 am

TY, kje

9:08 am

h'mm... mucus?

9:08 am

snot???

9:08 am

the kind of snot you pick, nef - lol

9:09 am

what do you eat before the big dinner? i'm having a problem deciding -- don't wan to eat too much but don't wanna faint before turkey

9:09 am

oatmeal, Shirl

9:09 am

oh, lol.. had that.. ok, bagel, here I come

9:10 am

Solution to chopping an onion. Get someone else to do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hehe

9:10 am

i do have oatmeal hmmm

9:10 am

<still trying to figure out if kje is giving clues or something else? I need some coffee to understand>

9:11 am

kids pick them and wipe them untold places, nef

9:11 am

I'm still trying to figure out KJE's location.

9:12 am

AHHH! It's a clue! Thanks, kje! :-)

9:12 am

I got the snot clue, I have three boys. : )

9:12 am

do6?

9:13 am

do6/27 - crumpled canine listener

9:13 am

Great clue, as expected, Haz. How are you? I haven't seen you in so long.

9:14 am

ty haz!

9:14 am

i was trying to get crumpled dog out of that, haha

9:14 am

Hello, Scrabbler. I'm fine, thanks. How are you?

9:14 am

You're welcome, kje.

9:14 am

Doing well.

9:15 am

That's good. Leaving George in peace?

9:15 am

could I have a clue for the bottom left T for NBT please? (I fell asleep trying to play after the flip; didn't last even 30 minutes.

9:15 am

te6 - brought moisture to the eye

9:16 am

thanks Haz!

9:16 am

And the other is te6 - te plus perform an action again.

9:16 am

You're welcome, Nef.

9:17 am

thanks again! :-)

9:17 am

gh5/16?

9:18 am

There's a ge5/16, is that what you need?

9:19 am

oops. yep

9:19 am

g plus a backward tortoise racer.

9:20 am

great clue, ty

9:20 am

You're welcome.

9:21 am

i read that clue as backwater tortoise racer - silly me

9:22 am

There are bound to be speedy tortoises in the backwaters, I just know it.

9:22 am

and hello all from a really miserable Durban - now on day 14 of constant rain and this is sunny Durban!!!??

9:22 am

Constant rain isn't very cheery.

9:23 am

Haz so sorry for you over your loss of spangle. Our pets are so dear to us, our furry little best friends.

9:23 am

We have beautiful sun here; sending some your way!

9:23 am

Hi Ursh

9:23 am

Hi Ursh

9:23 am

Thank you, chic, much appreciated.

9:24 am

.. back, passing hot toasted onion bagels..

9:24 am

Hi Chic

9:24 am

around.. lol, didn't sound quite right

9:24 am

Ty Nef only problem is when the sun does finally shine it will be terribly humid - so much wet earth about

9:25 am

Hi scrabs have we still got a game going? I'll start one if we don't.

9:25 am

lolololo Aloy

9:25 am

there were two hearts in the cavity bag

9:26 am

Cute, Aloy; I actually read the "around" in your entry even though it wasn't there!

9:26 am

consider yourself lucky, Aloy!

9:27 am

clue for re 6/24 please

9:27 am

yay, ok.. maybe a good luck charm? saving them and the liver for the neighbor's pooch, cutting up giblets for the gravy

9:28 am

Oh, no! Spangle is gone? Babble pets are beloved to all of us.

9:28 am

re6/24 - Latin for queen

9:28 am

Yes, Scrabbler, I'm afraid so.

9:28 am

ty Haz

9:28 am

You're welcome, Aloy.

9:28 am

What happened, Haz?

9:29 am

Aloy, we always use them in the gravy! Everyone would fight for the heart and giblets before I started doing that

9:29 am

but you leave the liver out, right?

9:30 am

I'm sorry for your loss, Haz. Is that Spangle's picture? He/she looks so gentle

9:30 am

She had been slowing up a bit but on Saturday she became terribly lethargic, refused her meal and just looked disoriented. She was no better on Sunday, we had her seen at the surgery. She was anaemic and a urine test revealed that she was in kidney failure.

9:30 am

tyy haz got it

9:31 am

We had her put to sleep on Monday morning. She went very gently, there was no struggle as she had become a shadow of herself.

9:31 am

no, the liver gets chopped up too (it basically dissolves in the gravy if cut up and cooked

9:31 am

You're welcome, Matches.

9:31 am

I just reviewed your profile, Haz. You will miss her.

9:32 am

Hi Matches

9:32 am

forever.. still miss my silly Lab so much

9:32 am

so, they live on in our hearts

9:32 am

We all miss her, she was such good company.

9:32 am

I miss my old bunnies!

9:34 am

weirdest gh8 I've ever seen

9:35 am

over the past 15 years, we've had to put down 3 different pets: the aunty's cat; our first dog; and then Tommy the cat. My daughter and I have been the 2 to do it. We hold the pet and comfort it out. I just couldn't do it any other way.

9:37 am

Time for me to go. Bye for now!

9:37 am

Bye Haz.

9:37 am

bye, Haz (( ))

9:37 am

bye Haz.

9:38 am

Bye haz nice to see you it has been awhile.

9:38 am

back again - hugs and love to Haz!!! So tough to lose a companion...

9:38 am

I like your icon, chic

9:39 am

Hugs

9:40 am

phantom: geode. I think I've entered that 3 times already

9:40 am

Keep trying, Nef.

9:43 am

good morning everyone:)

9:43 am

is there a word there? I'm trying...

9:43 am

Hi Crossy!

9:43 am

crossy is so happy,there is a new bacon product!

9:43 am

Oops, I was joking, Nef. I tend to keep trying phantoms and I make myself laugh.

9:44 am

What, Crossy?

9:44 am

new bacon product?

9:44 am

hi crossy.. tell us about it!

9:44 am

J+D foods has created the perfect postal accesory they are called "mmmmvelopes" so now when you seal a letter,you to not get ichy paste on yer tongue,you get the taste of bacon!

9:44 am

send

9:45 am

are you serious? (I tend to be gullible)

9:45 am

So silly.

9:45 am

mmmvelopes:) you heard it here first!

9:45 am

it is true aloy

9:45 am

you can go to the site and order them now

9:45 am

No problem, Scrabs. I started looking for several other geo words and they didn't exist. Maybe I got it out of my system now.

9:45 am

I am stuck on last word, can someone please clue re6?

9:46 am

did you try ge + a football cheer for ge5.16, Nef?

9:46 am

latin queen, flosey

9:46 am

thanks Aloy, looking

9:46 am

that's hysterical crossy

9:46 am

thanks Aloy. I hadn't tried that yet

9:46 am

re + **** lollabridgida

9:47 am

messed up her last name, lol

9:47 am

http://mmmvelopes.com/

9:47 am

brb.. checking on Mr. Turkey in the overn

9:48 am

oven even

9:48 am

oh yes,happy turkey day to my southern friends!:)

9:49 am

anyone thinking of trying the midnight sales?

9:49 am

thanks Aloy, got it with your second clue

9:50 am

also a town in Saskatchewan

9:52 am

I stay away from stores and malls on Black Friday. In fact I typically do all of my Xmas shopping on-line.

9:53 am

so far, so good.. put a foil tent over it as it is browning nicely.. NO.. I'm allergic to shopping in crowds!

9:53 am

i'd go only if someone paid me

9:54 am

Amazon.com is my friend, my shopping friend

9:54 am

we do all our x-mass ordering from sears.no driving,no walking for miles in some mega mall,your order the stuff and in 3 days it is delivered right to yer door

9:54 am

I hate shopping and avoid black Friday as much as I can. My daughter will be out there the minute any stores opens, though. (Don't know how she is such a polar opposite of me; but I blame a neighbor who would trade toddlers with me because hers hated shopping too!

9:54 am

now that i have a virtual concierge for deliveries, amazon is my friend too :)

9:55 am

no kidding crossy, Sears still delivers? or do you mean by mail?

9:55 am

neighbors must have a new puppy.. yapping fills the air

9:55 am

they deliver with a cube van to our local sears dept then from there right to our door..anything

9:56 am

okay, crossy; it it's between a Kindle and an Nook; which would you get someone who forgets how to operate things?

9:56 am

the nook!

9:56 am

the nook is more..adaptable

9:56 am

wow, that's great Crossy

9:56 am

kindle fire

9:57 am

i'm going for that one

9:57 am

the nook touch or the nook colour

9:57 am

going to try to read myself back to sleep, be back at flip

9:57 am

really? I'm definitely thinking of getting one for DH; but his memory for new things is short and/or unreliable

9:57 am

Bye flosey

9:57 am

i still find the kindles too,proprietary

9:58 am

(he's now LOST his keys AND the 2nd set of house keys too!)

9:58 am

i must have multiple file formats and be able to go in any library and download e-pub book files

9:58 am

What do you mean, Crossy? (And you know I have a Nook Color)

9:58 am

aargh, missed the red-breasted birdie with the lilting song.. it goes bob bob bobbin along

9:59 am

i will not be limited to amazon and free sites for my books

9:59 am

thanks Aloy

9:59 am

(-: yw

10:00 am

with the nook,i can load many formats anywhere and go into any library here and borrow an e-book

10:00 am

what version would be easiest to use?

10:00 am

both have roughly the same ease of use,but with more fileformats the coice is clear

10:00 am

fw.. any clues needed before I go back to the kitchen?

10:01 am

choice

10:01 am

do the books go away when you "borrow" them; or do they stay and you get charged more?

10:01 am

5 th column, 4th row N clue please?

10:01 am

i see your point crossy, but i think with the availability of kindle online trading libraries and my local library doing kindle books, i'll have my choice

10:01 am

and with my nook,the batter is consumer replacable

10:01 am

they stay for 17 days then the file degrades

10:01 am

ok, ..

10:01 am

battery

10:02 am

almost black as ****t

10:02 am

in the states,you have that choice,travel with the kindle then it is a whole new ball game

10:02 am

TY, Aloy

10:02 am

then extend it

10:02 am

that is why all of us outside the grand ole us of a use nooks,kobo,s or sony readers

10:02 am

with a comparative ending

10:03 am

Watching the Thanksgiving Day Parade; anyone else doing so?

10:03 am

it's the thing i don't like about the home country, crossy, the cap on internet access and weird things like that

10:03 am

forgot about it.. will put it on, ty Nef

10:03 am

Yes Nef, I love it. : )

10:03 am

I need the 2nd and 3rd row O's for NBT.

10:04 am

our data caps are horrid!!

10:04 am

better to watch it on TV than be there :)

10:04 am

o + ***r John Letter

10:04 am

way too crowded and can't see anything unless you get a good spot

10:04 am

we have 3 mega corps with a stranglehold on the entire market

10:04 am

That is from the top O.

10:04 am

sometimes there are caps on what we in the US can access in other countries too. I've been unable to enter several UK sites in the past; not sure why

10:05 am

o + the smallest great lake with a different vowel to start

10:05 am

i forgot last year and stuck my parent's with extra usage bill :(

10:05 am

oops

10:05 am

o + **noculars to watch * bird

10:06 am

ty aloy

10:06 am

or how about the Or****al rug? Did I hit it yet?

10:07 am

ty again

10:07 am

I need the lone O.

10:07 am

h'mm, maybe you need the past tense of what you row a boat with?

10:08 am

oh... sorry.. that one is the State I'm from up north with a different vowel ending

10:08 am

Got it now. oh4!

10:08 am

Scrab, a state with a diff. vowel ending

10:09 am

good Scrabble word

10:09 am

I need a break--Babble Blindness has set in.

10:09 am

i'm missing an o still, the one on the top row

10:10 am

hi, folks - happy thanksgiving!

10:10 am

have the o +***r john

10:10 am

that one is.. Shirlock clued it

10:10 am

oo 5/10?

10:11 am

oo + I t***d to pass halfwaym and I did.

10:11 am

hi welki, same to you! and off I go to check the turkey.. have a great day, everyone..

10:11 am

aha, got it, thx

10:11 am

scrabbs, thanks for your fb message :)

10:11 am

Hi welki. I sent a FB msg. It's hard to be patient when ill, isn't it?

10:12 am

ty all,the o,s are history!

10:12 am

incredibly difficult ... tired of sitting, laying down

10:12 am

hi crossy

10:13 am

howdy wlki

10:13 am

welki*

10:13 am

last go6?

10:13 am

more messy, like a horror flick

10:14 am

do you have "more mushy"?

10:14 am

Hi Une

10:14 am

ty! welk

10:14 am

yes, une, but ty

10:14 am

hey, scrabs :-)

10:14 am

the pecan pie i made is go6, une

10:15 am

welki, what's wrong?

10:15 am

hi again all, leaving for the zoo shortly

10:15 am

hi nef - whining about some pneumonia

10:15 am

hey, sue!

10:15 am

Oh, fun, Sue. Do you mean the college campus though?

10:15 am

have fun, sue!

10:15 am

Clues for the 8's?

10:16 am

oh, yuk! I hope it won't interfere with your fishing! (I was worried about that)

10:16 am

nope, Brookfield Zoo near Chicago

10:17 am

only 8 i have so far is the gh8 which is PT of the gh6

10:17 am

re8/40 and gh8/60

10:17 am

gh8 past tense of gh6/27

10:17 am

gh6 is g + female pronoun + two vowels

10:17 am

re 8 is something you do with confused people; the gh 8 is pt of a stupid gh 6/27

10:17 am

Clue for gh6?

10:17 am

oh, it already has, nef. i was ill the first two weeks of the month (doc said, 'just a cold), went back to work the third and off again

10:18 am

what kje said :-)

10:18 am

TY. Odd words.

10:18 am

very! LOL

10:18 am

yes, really weird grid today

10:18 am

(((welki))) get well before ice fishing season sets in!

10:18 am

thanks, nef :)

10:19 am

BRB Kingsport TN marching band performing!! *poof*

10:19 am

g + superman's a super ***extra vowel*

10:19 am

I found re8.

10:19 am

I can't imagine ice fishing (either in a cabin or outside) with a lingering bronchitis

10:19 am

ty for the re8

10:20 am

it's more fundamental than that, nef ... can't imagine going ANYWHERE with this cough *lol*

10:20 am

reiron

10:20 am

is not a word

10:21 am

yw

mullein is the goto herbal for cough. It's naturalized most everywhere - any by you?

10:21 am

I do hear you, welki. I was thinking about being outside with it. Home (with humidity) is best

10:22 am

i need to cough, rasta, to clear out my lungs - but thanks :)

mullein is the goto remedy for all lung ailments. It doesn't just suppress the cough.

10:23 am

I've never heard of it before, rasta. Am checking it out

10:23 am

scrabbs? did you get the gh6 from my crazy clue?

10:24 am

uno

10:24 am

FW!

10:25 am

OK, off to shower and get dressed before making the salad... have a great day all

10:25 am

did someone say there is a gh8?

10:26 am

YAY, kje!!! WTG!!!

10:26 am

ooo, just got the gh8

10:26 am

yes, Shirl : g+ pronoun for female + 3 diff vowels +d

10:27 am

bye, kje! Happy Thanksgivine!

10:27 am

Thanksgiving, even

10:27 am

Yes, I got the gh words.

10:27 am

Yay, kje!

google "mullein bronchitis" for a bunch of sites. Here's a good one: "Like coughs, colds and sore throats, the mucilage and saponins contained in mullein may also help to ease your symptoms if you're suffering from bronchitis or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD. Mullein can help to treat bronchitis and COPD by assisting the discharge of mucus from the lungs and reducing inflammation in the respiratory tract, says the University of Michigan Health System. http://www.livestrong.com/arti cle/133404-mullein-herbal-benefits/#ix zz1edoye4nG

10:33 am

re 8 >?

10:34 am

help for the second bo5,16 please?

10:35 am

not yeahed

10:36 am

yeahed???

10:36 am

re+ asia

10:36 am

not YAYED?

10:36 am

what ghosts do past tense erda

10:37 am

Thank you, ruru!!!

10:37 am

yw

10:39 am

thanks ru

10:41 am

yw

10:45 am

hi all

10:46 am

happy thanksgiving

10:48 am

hapy day to all

10:48 am

re 5/12?

10:49 am

sorry

10:49 am

happy thanksgiving all

10:49 am

How many before i go eat :)

10:50 am

hi sammy and arach

10:50 am

never mind- got the re 5/12

10:50 am

167 words

10:50 am

hi jm

10:50 am

Hey jm...thanks

10:50 am

hi arac

10:50 am

yw enjoy your feast

10:51 am

stats for the lower T please?

10:51 am

t= 4/4 and 6/21

10:51 am

ty *looking*

10:52 am

Hey sammysmom

10:52 am

seems tough today

10:52 am

Happy Thanksgiving everyone

10:53 am

plus i am being told to "get ready"

10:53 am

trying to finish before the gang arrives

10:53 am

happy Thanksgiving Sea

10:53 am

hi sea

10:53 am

get ready to eat? i often have wondered how you do that

10:53 am

Hi jmc Happy Pizza day to you

10:54 am

go sammy go!

10:54 am

haha i need to find a pizza place open today

10:54 am

I think its a mental thing jm

10:54 am

i forgot to get it last night

10:54 am

do you ordered your salivary glands to start their engines?

10:55 am

I'm sure there's one open somewhere

10:55 am

I do folding at home too through my playstation jm

10:55 am

i suspect--i am going to go for a walk shortly and there are two close by

10:55 am

yay! arach

10:56 am

and i wouldnt say "order" my salivary glands :)

10:56 am

didn't know you could do it through a playstation

10:56 am

there's a te 4? an happy Holiay to all who love turnkey

10:56 am

love it bichon!

10:57 am

*Turkey

10:57 am

hi all!! just in for a sec.. cooking... cooking..cooking..

10:57 am

hi bichon and happy thanksgiving again all around

10:57 am

hi m9

10:57 am

This is my favorite holiday

10:57 am

its a bird bichon

10:57 am

is there a te 4/4 from the bottom t?

10:57 am

re: e-reader talk earlier.the kobo vox has some build issues as well as a pile of software issues.i would avoid the kobo vox for my my top pics for e-reader remin the nook touch for that e-ink experience or the nook colour for more of a tablet read/wifi experience

10:57 am

one of my least favorite sea but i am glad others like it

10:58 am

remain

10:58 am

stats for the bottom A please

10:58 am

an 5/14

10:59 am

ty bichon

10:59 am

an 4/4

10:59 am

np, but could you tell me if theire's a te 4/4 from the bottom t?

10:59 am

wow that an5 was sooooo easy to find i should just quit babbling!

11:00 am

that is what i was told bichon but i have yet to find it

11:00 am

i found the te6

11:00 am

share, jmc, please

11:01 am

wept

11:01 am

hi all.. weird.. I tried to say hi a moment ago and it never showed up!

11:01 am

Hi m9

11:01 am

i saw it and said hi back m9

11:01 am

howdy m9

11:02 am

Santa Claus has come to town! My favorite part of the parade. Macy's does it up right. : )

11:02 am

ah.. I see.. I just refreshed and all of a sudden there's a BUNCH of new stuff!LOL

11:02 am

stats for the 3rd column o please

11:02 am

haha well welcome welcome m9 and santa

11:02 am

hey molls

11:02 am

hi crossy

11:03 am

oh4/5

11:03 am

I am not seeing Santa yet...I dvr'ed the parade and still have another hour to go lol

11:03 am

flu shots all done for another year:)

11:03 am

ah the not quite the state one ty molls nbt

11:04 am

tsk molly you spoiled the surprise for sea! ;)

11:04 am

*Hangs head in shame*

11:04 am

haha

11:04 am

<---pouting

11:05 am

you would never guess the surprise i had this morning at 8

11:05 am

actually I saw Santa at the mall last Saturday...can you believe it? here already!

11:06 am

people working on you house jmc?

11:06 am

oh well then molly is off the hook

11:06 am

ding ding ding!

11:07 am

lol luck guess....but they are remodeling our Chic filet here and they were working on it this morning so took a wild guess

11:07 am

you guessed it sea--i guess thanksgiving is not so important to the argentine construction boss and his el salvadorean workers

11:07 am

uhhh...apparently not

11:07 am

hi folks, is there a list somewhere (other than Lickety - I am afraid to go there!) would love to finish this, have 9 more to go!

11:08 am

only christmas and new years do pretty much everyone take off

11:08 am

have you looked at babanon jbv?

11:08 am

yes, jmc, but the list is from yesterday

11:08 am

hmmm brb

11:12 am

can't find one jbv

11:12 am

tried all the usual suspects

11:12 am

what letters do you need help on? you never know

11:12 am

volleymom?

11:12 am

ty jmc for the te 6

11:12 am

thanks, jmc, I did the same, checked rankings, I guess everyone's busy eating/cooking turkey :)

11:13 am

if you have Beta V12, the current list is there

11:13 am

I'm making meatloaf and mashed potatoes today - my son and I are home alone and that's his favorite meal, we will go to my sister's on Saturday and have leftovers, fine with me

11:13 am

I'll put a list on my profile in a minute

11:13 am

ty griff!

11:14 am

I need two more B's - can't find them, even with morewords are there any really weird ones/

11:14 am

I also need one more 6 and one more 7-letter word

11:15 am

maybe b's or H's - those are the only two letters missing

11:15 am

...maybe a couple of minutes, I only know how to do it the old fashioned way ;)

11:15 am

thanks a lot Griffums!

11:17 am

found the 7 - he 7

11:17 am

wtg jbv

11:17 am

me too

11:17 am

Ladies if you send a note to me ,ill send the letters to you

11:17 am

it's the pt of th 5/12

11:18 am

hi yvo

11:18 am

th??

11:18 am

hello

11:19 am

are you celebrating with family today yvo?

11:19 am

just grandaughter and son inlaw

11:20 am

I think she meant THE he5/12

11:21 am

oh, of course, MOlly - just babble blind, at this point

11:21 am

internet explorer is safe for list

11:22 am

i have used chrome with list with no problem--i just tell chrome i want to use it anyway

11:23 am

now I canNOT believe I did not see the ho4 - my ALMA MATER!

11:23 am

but if others feel uncomfortable it is good for there to be other options

11:23 am

list is at the end of my profile - I think!

11:23 am

I have always put aluminum foil tent and a cup of water in turkey pan...butterball says not to do either..I can't believe I have been doing it wrong all these years lol

11:23 am

well done griff!

11:24 am

has your turkey turned out alright sea?

11:24 am

it always has before

11:24 am

there you go then sea

11:25 am

although my husband will eat anything lol

11:25 am

sounds like Spa-Turkey

11:25 am

hahaha there is that!

11:25 am

lol ru

11:25 am

a smooth and svelt turkey

11:25 am

hey ru

11:25 am

YAY for Griffums! I now have allt he B's - just two H's to find now

11:26 am

go jbv go

11:26 am

gm Jm

11:26 am

that way it is self basting

11:26 am

go go go !

11:26 am

self basting like Charlie Sheen?

11:27 am

I overheard a woman telling her daughter on the phone this morning to rinse the turkey cavity...not with soap though....the woman with her said its my sisters first time fixing a turkey

11:28 am

<---rinses turkey

11:28 am

i remember a baby sitter of my boy not knowing to put water in the pot to cook frozen hot dogs--always good to be specific

11:29 am

Finally! Thanks again Griffums!

11:29 am

wow. jm

11:29 am

whoo hoo jbv!

11:29 am

or my less than intelligent sister in law baking a ham with the plastic wrap on

11:29 am

my ex-husband tried to make a mac-n-cheese dinner and didn't drain the pasta. that isn't why I divorced him tho. yw JBV!

11:29 am

and you trusted your kid with her?

11:30 am

cooking ability was not known about in advance

11:30 am

she is a doctor now

11:30 am

Sadly, people also have to be told to remove the giblets before roasting.

11:30 am

my ex sister in law used to leave the plastic wrap on cheese-single sandwiches. yes we got rid of her too.

11:30 am

thank goodness she is not a chef

11:30 am

how do you get the stuffing in if the cavity is filled with giblets?

11:31 am

uhhh, you remove them

11:31 am

haha obviously it was a cooking challenge family

11:31 am

Believe it or not, some people don't stuff. Sacrilege.

11:31 am

WHAT!?!?!?!?!!?!? no stuffing

11:31 am

yes we could have just let them starve themselves and saved a lot on divorces

11:31 am

*faints*

11:32 am

She told her daughter to do that as well Molly

11:32 am

hi, babblers

11:32 am

Daughter said she couldn't find any lol

11:32 am

I have a turkey question - why is it that when they process them they put the giblet pack where the head used to be, and the neck where the giblets used to be?

11:32 am

It must be a terrorist plot molly

11:32 am

i have always wondered that myself griff

11:33 am

i did a honey ham..no pig necks to deal with:)))

11:33 am

she should look again--they can be stuck way back

11:33 am

do pigs have giblets?

11:33 am

and how can you make giblet gravy without taking the giblets out?

11:34 am

good question jm

11:34 am

yes but we call the guts

11:34 am

these and other deep thoughts stagger the cosmos:)

11:35 am

ham is good but not thankgiviny

11:35 am

She probably just glanced in and didn't see them...I doubt a newbie would stick her hand in there

11:35 am

that's intestinal fortitude for you jm

11:35 am

ru, that's just offal....

11:35 am

i try other things than turkey last 5 years or so,got soo tired of turkey twice a year growing up,the levfovers lasted from christmas to easter:(

11:35 am

she couldn't stomach it?

11:36 am

sorry.. I didn't mean to bladder on

11:36 am

Love leftovers....one Thanksgiving I fixed Cavitini...was not the same

11:36 am

np ruru.i always mean to blabber on

11:36 am

i make turkey at christmas because my sister and i never have decent corn bread stuffing on thanksgiving since she is with yankees and i am usually at a hotel

11:37 am

well you have always had heart ru

11:37 am

but the gall telling jokes! tsk

11:37 am

when we do have a bird,we do sausage meat stuffing

11:37 am

lol crossy

11:38 am

oh no! I missed a punfest?

11:38 am

cornbread stuffing is a southern tradition

11:38 am

punapaloza

11:38 am

you can still jump in m9

11:38 am

are you from the south jmc?

11:38 am

yes m9 you can bowel us over with your puns

11:38 am

there are still lots of giblets available

11:39 am

sixth (or more) generation southerner

11:39 am

the day i get good cornbread up here is the day i stop the world so i can get off.here it is very dry and tasteless and the sole property of steak house chains

11:39 am

ru you're such a potty mouth

11:39 am

uh you could make your own crossy it is not difficult

11:40 am

yes jmc,i will have to give it a go one day

11:40 am

my father in law is from the south...love to hear him say white

11:40 am

ruru you bolus over with your wit!

11:40 am

waaayht?

11:41 am

1 cup flour 1 cup corn meal 1/4 cup oil 1 cup milk an eff and a teaspoon of baking powder

11:41 am

yep

11:41 am

you curse while you make cornbread?

11:41 am

who doesn't?

11:41 am

yes is a 3 syllable word in my family

11:41 am

lol

11:41 am

lol on cursing the cornbread

11:42 am

sorry not eff but egg

11:42 am

hi leslie

11:42 am

hallo

11:42 am

now that is funny jmc

11:42 am

mix the dry then add the wet (i usually use the same oil to grease the castiron skillet i cook it in

11:43 am

I stuff. with an apple walnut stuffing.

11:43 am

NO SUGAR in cornbread -- my grandmother called that yankee cornbread

11:43 am

and for god's sake don't think you have to put any sugar in it!

11:43 am

ohh.. I hate that cakey cornbread that restaurants make

11:43 am

lol you still fighting the north?

11:43 am

...or, what jmc just said

11:44 am

til the day i die crossy lol

11:44 am

we watched gone with the wind last night on amc

11:44 am

love the way scarlett blew the guys face off on the stairs

11:44 am

we will be watching The Hogfather to get the season going...

11:45 am

then your bake it in a 350 oven and it comes out hot and crispy edged and . . . . .*sob* . . . . I want a kitchen

11:45 am

mmmm

11:45 am

real cornbread...mmm

11:45 am

mm.. crispy edges!!

11:46 am

what if you roll the dough in fat shoestrings..then it will all be crispy edges;))))

11:46 am

*sniff* oiling up the cast ir** skillet and a real hot oven are the trick

11:46 am

or you can make hush puppies and drop them in hot oil crossy

11:46 am

my large cast iron is full of link sausage at the moment.. I'd have to use one of my other ones..

11:47 am

ohhh...

11:47 am

crossy wants

11:47 am

*call Peta asap*

11:47 am

i get so lazy when there's a bunch of words starting with vowels, i just type in all the babblets i can think of and hope for the best

11:47 am

i have one just for cornbread really

11:47 am

mmm,,deep fried puppies...

11:47 am

haha leslie did that work for you?

11:47 am

*wants to watch Leslie play darts*

11:47 am

helped with the o's :)

11:48 am

ok, santa has arrived Molly

11:48 am

or 6.. asia

11:48 am

i am only good at darts when intoxicated. not sure what that says about me, but there you have it.

11:49 am

Mrs Santa is wearing a green dress

11:49 am

good for you leslie.. I can't be trusted with sharp pointy things while intoxicated.

11:49 am

then cornbread dressing is two pans of cornbread, a loaf of bread, celery, tons of sage, a couple of cups of chicken broth and eggs til mushy. squish with your fingers and put in a turkey with extra outside to catch the fat

11:49 am

Hooray for Santa! I thought Mrs. Santa looked especially festive.

11:50 am

indeed ruru,i even buy my booze in plastic containers just so i do not have glass handy

11:50 am

yay for santa and mrs claus

11:50 am

I've got another ten minutes before the parade even starts.....

11:50 am

she really does

11:50 am

i don't think they sale jack in plastic

11:50 am

I do the New England herb stuffing with celery and onion. And giblet juice. Yum.

11:50 am

oh dear i forgot the onions in the dressing ty molls!

11:51 am

or you gould get a friend to put your JD into a plastic juice container

11:51 am

I have to go deliver wine to friends for their holiday.. later everyone.. have a great festive day

11:51 am

wine in a bag in a box?

11:51 am

bye ru

11:51 am

bye ru!!

11:51 am

bye ru

11:51 am

bye ru

11:51 am

crossy does not do wine..all my booze must produce a flame when lit:))

11:51 am

bahaha

11:51 am

"could be anything" -- PLEASE help on re6,24 !! Please.

11:52 am

now i have made myself hungry so i am going to go find a pizza place

11:52 am

a lady's name, erda

11:52 am

Any clue for ar5?

11:52 am

erda.. think queen

11:52 am

bye jmc have a great day

11:52 am

bye all

11:53 am

I SAID it could be anything -- thank you LeslieAnn and m9

11:54 am

ar5 - have'nt *** a clue

11:54 am

Found it!

11:59 am

.

12:00 pm

lol,teaching my lil brother who now resides in LV how to do the old family recipie for yorkie puds;)

12:02 pm

*yawn* Parade is starting, 'nother cup of coffee and a quilt and seven dogs on the couch and it's a happy thanksgiving. There's a list on my profile if anyone needs. See you at the flip tonight!

12:02 pm

when a old yorkshire favorite makes it to the las vegas strip,it is a keeper :)

12:02 pm

good morning, everyone :)

12:02 pm

tc griffums

12:02 pm

howdy cybernan

12:03 pm

you must be way out west cybernan..1 pm here

12:04 pm

yes -- in BC

12:04 pm

very nice:)

12:04 pm

found the o I couldn't find last night for nbs

12:04 pm

so now to the list!

12:06 pm

how is this for timing?

12:06 pm

howdy sammysmom

12:06 pm

just got fireworks and heard the voices of the clan in the drive-... have a great day everyone............ poof

12:06 pm

nice work sammysmom

12:07 pm

wd sammysmom

12:11 pm

Are the 8s fishy?

12:14 pm

hello? <echo> hello, hello, hello

12:14 pm

just have the re 8 and no it isn't

12:14 pm

hi monkey. i don't have either 8 yet. got 3/4 sevens and they are fairly normal

12:14 pm

OK thanks nan!

12:14 pm

it's a repeat action word

12:15 pm

and thanks LeslieAnn

12:15 pm

gh 8 is just weird

12:15 pm

gh8? hmmm yes that sounds weird

12:15 pm

gh 8 is pt of gh 6

12:17 pm

go 4 grief -- missed the volcano!

12:18 pm

got the gh words... WACK!

12:18 pm

wtg monkey -- a clue please?

12:19 pm

gh + abbrev for hospital "urgent" place + 2 vowels... then PT for the 8

12:20 pm

bizarre

12:20 pm

the definition is pretty amusing, actually :)

12:20 pm

a form of industrial action in India in which workers imprison their employers on the premises until their demands are met

12:20 pm

that's funny!

12:20 pm

Like a mutiny?

12:20 pm

that is one way to negotiate

12:20 pm

super-mutiny

12:21 pm

ty monkey

12:21 pm

yer welkie

12:22 pm

Hi Lil, happy turkey day. : )

12:22 pm

thanks Moll, you too! I'm going to go make my tacos soon

12:22 pm

No turkey for me! Too dry

12:23 pm

not dry if properly roasted

12:23 pm

Ah, but you have not had my brined, basted in butter and white wine turkey. Not dry at all. : )

12:24 pm

ge 5/14, please?

12:24 pm

type, category

12:25 pm

ty -- often miss that one!

12:25 pm

yw :-)

12:26 pm

mmmm -- sending that yummy go 5 to the pb

12:26 pm

*just in case ;)

12:27 pm

waiting for ride to friends' house for turkey . . . watching Godfather :-)

12:27 pm

leave the gun, take the cannoli

12:27 pm

Luca Brazzi sleeps with the fishes . . .

12:28 pm

it's a Sicilian message . . .

12:28 pm

ready to go to the mattresses . . .

12:28 pm

love this movie!! LOL

12:29 pm

Everyone says that I have yet to eat a properly cooked turkey, but HEY I"m 54, believe me I've tried it every which way and I'm telling you IT'S DRY

12:30 pm

On that note, I'm off to the kitchen to make my tacos :) ... and NO they are not tukey, they are ground beef

12:30 pm

yum, turkey's soooo good!! :-)

12:30 pm

monkey LOL!!

12:30 pm

monkey" my trick, after stuffing it with a very moist and buttery stuffing, is to cover it with cheesecloth slathered with more butter and paprika and seasoned salt, then cover with aluminum

12:30 pm

it is never dry and I've made MANY

12:31 pm

ooohhh, i remember my mom covering it with cheesecloth . . . hi, ruby :-)

12:31 pm

only uncover and baste for the last hour until golden

12:31 pm

bonjour une

12:32 pm

ok . . . BBL . . . HAGD!! *poof*

12:34 pm

*!* ta da *!* -- not bad at all with the list

12:35 pm

love all that butter, ruby :)

12:35 pm

it's the only way!

12:35 pm

and ta da to you, nan

12:35 pm

Some people just don't like turkey, no matter how you cook it.

12:35 pm

i'm stumbling along as usual, listlessly!

12:35 pm

dryer buzzer going -- brb

12:35 pm

hello molly

12:35 pm

I've made some converts over the years....

12:36 pm

Putting butter in between the skin and the meat makes it pretty moist.

12:36 pm

I even do that with regular roast chicken

12:36 pm

actually, if you put butter on your bedroom slippers, they would probably be delicious, too

12:36 pm

Pretty much, fowl roasted without some care will turn out dry.

12:37 pm

since it is so hard to get big American turkeys here, we eat capon now which is wonderful tho slightly different taste

12:39 pm

Ruby, I will never forget your Christmas capon that lived in your yard all those days. : )

12:40 pm

funny that you remember that, molly!

12:43 pm

It's a classic holiday story. : )

12:44 pm

(blushing)

12:44 pm

anyone want clues before I leave?

12:45 pm

I haven't even reached half as I started so late

12:45 pm

but thanks, nan

12:46 pm

If anyone likes extra dressing, like we do -- brown the neck in butter and put in a metal bowl full of dressing mix -- pop in the oven for the last hour or so

12:46 pm

Happy Thanksgiving to all the US players :)

12:47 pm

Happy Thanksgiving Nan!

12:47 pm

*cover the bowl with foil

12:47 pm

imagine explaining the holiday (in French) to French people. Pas possible!

12:47 pm

when is Canadian Thanksgiving, October, no?

12:49 pm

(((ruby)))

12:49 pm

yup

12:49 pm

{{crossy}}

12:49 pm

I made the appt for the 6th, was hoping to see you

12:50 pm

Brining is my solution. That, and cooking a whole bone-in turley breast when it's just a few of us. The biggest chalenge is getting the thigh and leg meat done without cooking the breast meat into extinction. I've tried bottom side up and then righting the bird for the last forty five minutes, cooking it wind side up and flipping evey half hour, cheesecloth, tinfoil, etc. And in the end, it's impossible to get both parts of the bird to the correct temperature unless you disassemble and cook the legs and breast separately, which deprives the guests of the "oooh...aahhh" Norman Rockwell presentation at the table.

12:50 pm

Brining is my solution. That, and cooking a whole bone-in turley breast when it's just a few of us. The biggest chalenge is getting the thigh and leg meat done without cooking the breast meat into extinction. I've tried bottom side up and then righting the bird for the last forty five minutes, cooking it wind side up and flipping evey half hour, cheesecloth, tinfoil, etc. And in the end, it's impossible to get both parts of the bird to the correct temperature unless you disassemble and cook the legs and breast separately, which deprives the guests of the "oooh...aahhh" Norman Rockwell presentation at the table.

12:51 pm

Also low and slow all night, a butter and herb run over and under the skin...

12:52 pm

(Sorry about the double post--my enter key is sticking on my netbook and I left my "good" computer at work!

12:52 pm

it's that gravy making the keys stick

12:53 pm

any clues for the y word please

12:53 pm

Or maybe cranberry sauce...

12:53 pm

hi ruby

12:53 pm

Indian word for female part

12:53 pm

{{bichon}}

12:53 pm

It's a yo/4 Hindi word for female genitalia

12:53 pm

yo4/6

12:54 pm

I guess we're part of the Kama Sutra generation.... lol

12:54 pm

ty ruby

12:54 pm

and now i must leave you all,but before i head to work,i give you by popular request crossy,s tidbit of the day!!!

12:54 pm

Yes, we speak of little else around our house. ;-)

12:55 pm

haha, jan

12:55 pm

Studies in space have shown that birds cannot survive in weightless environments, since they require gravity in order to swallow food.

12:55 pm

ruby, happy holiday

12:55 pm

So no turkey dinners on Mars, eh? Hardly worth planning a manned mission then.

12:55 pm

tc all and happy babbling!..poink!

12:55 pm

thank you bichon

12:56 pm

Bye crossy!

12:56 pm

how many peeps at your table, bichon?

12:56 pm

6 including one 4 y.o. who never eats much

12:57 pm

I am still in the cooking process. They are running late

12:57 pm

and marco and polo under the table, hoping something drops....

12:57 pm

they are getting the turkey liver

12:57 pm

I'm just getting started. Guests not arriving for about six hours.

12:57 pm

I used the liver in the stuffing

12:58 pm

also the gizzards

12:58 pm

I don't eat liver. Wouldn't make it in France. Mushrooms either

12:59 pm

I've stopped eating mushrooms since I once poisoned myself with some wild ones -- just mild digestive poison, but they make me queasy now

12:59 pm

No liver in my bird this time. It's weird but in the US chicken and turkeys seem to come with miscellaneous organs in a pouch. Sometimes no liver, sometimes no gizzard, once I got a chicken with three hearts in its pouch.

12:59 pm

<-- loves liver

1:00 pm

And there are so many lovely liver pates in France, with cognac or calvados.

1:00 pm

do you put chestnuts in the stuffing?

1:00 pm

Jan, the first year I tried brining, I wanted to kick myself for not trying it years before.

1:01 pm

pls tell me what brining is

1:01 pm

It really does keep the bird moist and seasons the meat as well. Try putting a few juniper berries in the brine!

1:01 pm

soaking the turkey in a brine mixture for 24 hours before putting it in the oven

1:01 pm

in the bathtub?

1:02 pm

Its an overnight soak in kosher salt, spices, onions and garlic. I put some maple syrup in mine as well. In a five gallon bucket.

1:02 pm

yes, I've heard about maple syrup molly

1:02 pm

I use a huge pot, but you can also use a picnic chest. Throw in a few of those frozen freezer packs to keep the brine cold and you don't have to take up the whole fridge

1:02 pm

I never heard of that before, but I've never made a dry turkey

1:03 pm

Works brilliantly for lean pork roasts too.

1:03 pm

my dear mother taught me well!

1:03 pm

what is a wet turkey ruby?

1:03 pm

moist, bichon

1:04 pm

everybody was complaining about dry turkeys earlier

1:04 pm

you don't mean braising?

1:04 pm

The other benefit of a brine is that you can subtly flavor the meat. Turkey breast in particular can be a little boring...

1:04 pm

No, brining is pre-cooking. There's a great extended discussion of braising a turkey in this month's Cooks Illustrated

1:05 pm

I don't find turkey meat as boring as chicken

1:05 pm

I miss American turkey

1:06 pm

but chickens here are better than American ones - stronger-tasting nad fat

1:06 pm

My chef friends say that chicken is for people who don't want any taste in their food. Unfair perhaps, but there's something to it

1:06 pm

People pay $16 per pound here for a free range organic turkey

1:06 pm

send them to my house if they want to try a tasty chicken!

1:07 pm

ruby you are right about American chickens. You have to go to a specialty store to get good tasting chicken

1:07 pm

the chickens here are wonderful; French turkeys weigh about 8 lbs and cost about $75

1:08 pm

we used to buy American ones in Geneva, but I thought it was insane to pay more than $100 for a turkey

1:08 pm

Raising your own chickens is a bit of a fad here in Seattle.

1:08 pm

when they give them away free at American supermarkets

1:10 pm

When I was first married )and broke) we used to buy the biggest turkey we could find on sale, roast it and divide all the meat up into little foil packets for casseroles and stews for weeks. Got a little tired of turkey fricassee, turkey cacciatore, turkey curry, turkey lasagna...

1:11 pm

I still can't see the 'what to do with turkey leftovers' features that run in the paper just after Thanksgiving without giving thanks that we don't have to live quite that frugally these days.

1:12 pm

that's one of the great things about having dogs, especially big ones!

1:12 pm

meat never goes to waste

1:12 pm

Bet that's true!

1:13 pm

hi all....clue please for go5/16?

1:14 pm

(timer has gone off--must rescue roasted pumpkin and puree for pumpkin custard later today...)

1:14 pm

hello flask, don't have it.....

1:14 pm

bye jan

1:14 pm

Me neither. Grid is taking a back seat to cooking...

1:15 pm

Bye all. It's back to the kitchen for me! Have a good Thanksgiving, for those who are celebrating, wherever in the world you be!

1:15 pm

go5/18, tho....

1:16 pm

add sometimes vowel to the go4/6

1:19 pm

The Go5/18s. Great movie.

1:19 pm

Is there a go5/16 also?

1:20 pm

yes

1:20 pm

Does anyone have it?

1:21 pm

not me.....

1:21 pm

not me

1:21 pm

go5/16 think of a female higher being

it's like "waiting for go*** only change the second vowel

1:22 pm

thanx!

1:22 pm

got it, thanks

1:23 pm

ok not getting the go 6 clue more help please

1:23 pm

thanks

1:24 pm

go6/24 like after the ice cream melts it's go****

1:24 pm

go6 more sticky

1:24 pm

thank

thanks bubba

1:26 pm

good night everybody

1:31 pm

bye ruby, hello all

1:31 pm

I am struggling with the Y today -- any help?

1:33 pm

y + first part of smelly vegetable

1:33 pm

oh teach, it HAD to be that one, didn't it?!?

1:33 pm

LOL thanks.

1:33 pm

that gives me NBT

1:33 pm

congrats

1:34 pm

how's your day going? we are about 45 minutes away from "the main event" -- I think.

1:35 pm

I decided to skip the cranberry sauce this year, though I might make a chutney with the berries later...

1:35 pm

we have about 1 hr and 30 m inutes - always make cranberry orange relish

1:36 pm

but need to go make last arrangements - BBL this evening when all is done and over - happy thanksgiving to all

1:36 pm

that would be a nice one, too. Later teach!

1:43 pm

halfway and some to spare. back later again... *poof*

1:45 pm

baking exp#1, wonton peanut butter cups

1:45 pm

not bad if i say so myself :)

1:46 pm

exp# 2 pumpkin chocolate mini cups in oven

ba5/18 is not in the dictionary when I clicked on "?"

and ba6/30 is stupid.

1:50 pm

does anyone have a list up?

1:51 pm

Need that single O word above the Y for NBT... clue, anyone?

Like a State, change last letter.

Why oh why oh why-o

Why did I ever leave oh**

now what is the y?

1:52 pm

help with re8 pls

1:52 pm

OK got it, dammit that's a fish

ystats?

1:52 pm

yo4.6 female part

1:57 pm

no one has a list up? still getting that alert message for lickety so rather not use it

1:57 pm

if you have IE Shirl, use it through there (IE not so fussy)

1:58 pm

peri, I need that re8 also

1:58 pm

good point, lynxx, i NEVER use IE so i'll just use it for this then

Did you know a ba6 is the domain of a ba5?

2:01 pm

yes

I thought it was a sandwich meat.

2:02 pm

lol

2:03 pm

What is that dang re8

I have been trying to find it.

2:03 pm

dammit

2:03 pm

monkey, do you have the or6/18?

2:04 pm

no i don't

2:04 pm

or6 China,Japan,etc

we looking.

2:04 pm

OH! thank u peri

2:04 pm

or to get your bearings

2:04 pm

yvw

2:04 pm

On this day, I am Thankful for Periwinkle :)

2:05 pm

TY for the 8 too Peri

2:05 pm

*blushing*

2:05 pm

She is AWESOME

Oh, I had it already. I need the stats on the other 8.

2:05 pm

oh Kap the other 8 is gh8

Oy.

2:05 pm

gh8/60

Clue it? I don't have any gh words.

2:05 pm

oy vey is right, you'll probably need a "spell it out" clue

2:06 pm

g + female pronoun and then 3 vowels

2:06 pm

gh + hospital "urgent" place + 2 vowels... then PT

Not one of those "crooked letter, first letter, sometimes vowel, 14th letter" type clues...

2:07 pm

I didn't say crooked letter, haha

Looking for the right vowels- gimme a minute

2:08 pm

br6 after the thorn patch?

2:08 pm

add a consonant to end, Shril

2:08 pm

Shirl

2:08 pm

thx peri

Ha-ha- looking for the vowels...

2:08 pm

you can call me anything you like if you clue me :)

2:09 pm

shirl if you need a list there's one on my profile

2:09 pm

bl

2:09 pm

br6 is WACK

thanks for the gh8.

2:10 pm

yw Kappy

You mean br6/30?

2:10 pm

no, br6/27

I don't have it yet.

2:11 pm

thx griff

2:11 pm

yw

2:11 pm

kap do you have br5/14 meaning a thorny bush... just add a consonant

Yeah, wack.

2:12 pm

i thought br6/30 was some whacked version of a name, didn't realize it was a real word

2:12 pm

WACK i'm telling ya

WACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2:13 pm

WACK!

this grid is a slow-go.

name that Treaty city.

2:13 pm

I might need a little nap action

2:13 pm

Versailles?

Gh word. No Versailles in the grid.

2:14 pm

lol I know, duh!

Who has already eated their meal?

eaten.

2:14 pm

ghent

2:14 pm

ME! I made tacos and had a brewsky

ding ding ding.

ding ding ding.

ding ding ding.

Cool, lil Monkey.

2:15 pm

Ghent is also a cool neighborhood in Norfolk, Virginia

I used to like it when we were first married to just have soup and go to the movies on Thanksgiving. I have good memories of it, and my husband told our kids we were pathetic.

2:16 pm

Boronia should be accepted here. Australian plant - and a suburb

I don't do well with this food & family stuff.

I never outgrew my 20-something dysfunction, I guess, when it comes to events like this.

2:17 pm

oh Kap I thought you were a man

2:17 pm

Your purse is blue

2:17 pm

go5/16?

2:17 pm

purse?!

My Babble just got really SLOOW

2:18 pm

Nexct to your name is your purse, then your flag

I could be a man, except I happen not to be.

2:18 pm

think that is a person - not a purse

2:18 pm

Shirlock, variation of spelling for the play "Waiting for Go5"

2:19 pm

No lynxx that is a PURSE! lol

2:19 pm

TY Lil

2:19 pm

Women have pink and men have blue

2:19 pm

thx lil, that cleared the g's

Who has a blue purse?

2:19 pm

you do, Kap... next to your name and your flag

2:19 pm

ppffft - in your eyes only, lol

Those are not purses- they are little heads and shoulders.

Mine is gray.

2:19 pm

NO! They are purses!

They are NOT purses.

2:20 pm

YES

BET!

I'm a female, but KAPLAN is a male. Confused?

It's a PERSONA.

It allows me to be witty.

2:22 pm

As is mine... did u think I was REALLY a monkey?

Kinda.

2:22 pm

Maybe you haven't seen my pictures on Facebook?

I like lil monkeys.

Or is it monkies?

No I haven't...

2:23 pm

the plural is monkees, like the band

Why isn't it monkies anyway?

I am not connected with any babblers on FB. I have enough mishegos.

I have to go pretend to be helpful.

2:24 pm

Is mishego a mensch?

BBL.

2:27 pm

the opposite Lil, mishegos = crazy woman

2:29 pm

exp#2 out of oven -- pumpkin chocolate mini cups. waiting for it to cool so i can try it...waiting...waiting

2:34 pm

damn they're good, even if i say so myself

2:35 pm

clue for ar5/14 please?

2:36 pm

it's the wheat disease flask

2:37 pm

or ends like a gold bar - in***

2:37 pm

dunno what that is.....

2:37 pm

thankyou!

3:01 pm

bye all

3:05 pm

hello all, and happy thanksgiving

3:06 pm

(actually it looks lke I might be the only one on dchat from the States...)

3:06 pm

chat

3:08 pm

(oh great, I have confused and/or offended everyone..they are not talkiing to me!)

3:08 pm

never fear-harpjane-there are some stuffed turkeys who are lurking--from Tennessee

3:09 pm

i suspected as much....

3:10 pm

Does anyone know why Lickety's babble clues is blocked by firewalls?

3:11 pm

might just be your settings, scuba. I haven't tried to go there

3:13 pm

what are the stats for the 8's? please?

3:14 pm

gh8

3:14 pm

gh 8/60

3:15 pm

re 8/40

3:18 pm

anyone with a clue for the re8?

3:19 pm

it's probably to do something over again

3:19 pm

re+ asia

3:20 pm

thx rury

3:20 pm

oops ruru

3:21 pm

yw.. <--- back to football

3:21 pm

i hate it when when people add "ate" to that word. talk about redundant

Hi Everyone - Just returned from stuffing myself. Yummy - Snore.

3:34 pm

what are the stats on the lower T? please?

3:36 pm

just found one. it's a past tense

3:44 pm

need help with the re 8 clue pls

3:45 pm

scuba; my work computer blocks it with vengeance! Something about the r46.me domain being a known malware source.

3:49 pm

Just popping in to wish all my US Babble buddies the very happiest of Thanksgivings. Enjoy, eat, drink, and be merry!

3:57 pm

thanks soodle....i'm full of turkey and s-l-o-w-l-y working the grid

Thanks Soodle. I can't eat, drink or be any merrier or I will explode.

3:59 pm

Leaving soon for Thanksgiving dinner with friends.

Enjoy, enjoy!

3:59 pm

LOL JM & Vermont.

4:01 pm

Have a great dinner, Scrabbs. And I am so glad that so many of my friends have so much to be thankful for. (One sentence, with three 'so's..?)

4:02 pm

My friend is making some vegetarian dishes for me.

4:04 pm

Roasted ro4 veggies.

4:06 pm

45 left for later. Bye.

4:08 pm

what are the stats on the 7's?

The turkey is working. Have to take a name. Have fun everyone.

br7/40 gr7/36 - still need 2 more

4:27 pm

I have 2 br/7

4:27 pm

br 7/40 thT IS

I have the wider one, please do you have a clue for the other?

4:28 pm

THINK CHICKENS IN A ROOST oops about the caps

ty saan

4:30 pm

yw! Clue for the gr?

complainer

grumbler

4:31 pm

oh duh! Thanks!

4:39 pm

hi everyone any clues 4 the 2 8s please

4:43 pm

hi all

re + asia (ty to ruru below)

ty chrissie & ruru

gh + period of time + 3 t*** sloth - needed morewords for this one!!

4:46 pm

thanks Chrissie, never thought to extend the gh 6

4:47 pm

could i have another clue 4 the re8 dont get the asia bit

and thank you, didn't have the gh6 ;)

asia = the east

we 3 kings of ***** are...

4:48 pm

ty everyone

4:49 pm

thanks chrissie

4:50 pm

i have the 2br7s and the gr7 which one am i missing please

missing the same one

need the Y and the lone O above it for nbt

Y found

4:56 pm

hello all

hi jilli :)

4:57 pm

hi jillibus

4:57 pm

lone o is a babblet; like the state with different last letter

ty saan, will go to bed happy now

4:58 pm

hi Jilly, how's the wind out your way?

4:58 pm

Is jmitch still here? Just wanted to say the Lickety clues site is not malware and you can ignore the warning. Mrp is aware of it and says the site is clean and safe, and she would never send malware out.

4:58 pm

yw chrissie

4:59 pm

The wind is blowing a glae, saan -- for you too?

4:59 pm

*gale

5:00 pm

not at present but earlier knocked off shakes and my house is leaking. oh woe.

5:01 pm

oh dear! Well, my garage door opener's motor conked out a few days ago so it's left open and the garage is full of oak leaves and other blown-around stuff.

5:03 pm

wow. finally 1/2way

5:04 pm

"glae" is a nice word though Jilli

5:05 pm

does anyone have the re7 please

5:06 pm

jilli....I'm sure it's not mrp's malware...it's the domain of r46 that my work computer IT folks have blocked

5:07 pm

and jilli pull the release on your door and you should be able to close it

5:07 pm

hope not, I just went through and got the list!

5:10 pm

thanks, jmitch, but I've left the door open on purpose -- want shelter for my car and the convenience of access to it from the utility room. And anyway, I don't have the strength to pull it down -- I tried at one point.

5:11 pm

Thank you Jmitch. I've been saying that for days. It's clear from the Google details page that there is a problem with the r46 site.

5:12 pm

saan, the site is perfectly safe -- don't worry. I guess it's jmitch's work place that block it, as he says.

5:12 pm

Hello Molly, and the happiest of Thanksgivings to you and yours!

5:13 pm

Molly, would telling mrp that be of any help in getting rid of the warning?

5:13 pm

Doh! And of course to everybody else here!!

5:13 pm

Hi Soodle. It's my favorite part of Thanksgiving. All done! (Except making stock from the carcass)

5:13 pm

Hi soodle!

5:14 pm

Yep, Moll. theres always a sigh of relief when its all over, and you've done your bit!!

5:14 pm

If you click on the link to Lickety's list here, and see the warning, then click on "Why Was This Page Blocked". It explains why the site has problems.

5:14 pm

(((Jilli))) Lovely to see you. Happy Thanksgiving!

5:15 pm

Thanks, Soodle, but Canada's Thanksgiving was in early October

5:16 pm

It's all over for another year, whew

5:16 pm

Soodle, I'm reading a wonderful book about Ireland -- "The Speckled People" by Hugo Hamilton. Do you know it?

5:16 pm

Hi bichon.

5:17 pm

hi jili, Soodle

5:19 pm

Ooops, sorry, Jilly. Silly me. Nope, I haven't heard of that book, nor the author, but I will be sure to keep an eye out for it. Hi (((Bichon))))

5:22 pm

Soodle, the book was published in 2003 and it got rave reviews.

5:23 pm

While I missed having one of my sons and my daughter in law here today, I was happy to send home a veritable feast for them to have later, when he gets her home from the hospital.

5:23 pm

It's a very poignant memoir.

5:23 pm

How lovely, molly!

5:24 pm

Ah.. I just googled that book Jilli, and I recall hearing the author being interviewed on the radio. He came across as down to earth, intelligent, and very human. The book is on my wish list for Christmas...(offspring of Soodle...take note...)

5:24 pm

Is your d.i.l. sick molly?

5:24 pm

<-----What Bich said...

5:25 pm

That's great, soodle -- hope you get it -- if not, maybe a library has it?

5:25 pm

Oh, I'll get it by hook or by crook, Jilli!

5:29 pm

Molly, I hope all is well with your 'girlie-inl-law'.

5:33 pm

Coming up on midnight here, and time for bed. Once again, Happy Thanksgiving to all the US Babblers, and I pray that you all have loads to be grateful for. Night all.

5:34 pm

ttfn Soodle

5:36 pm

gnight soodle -- nice to have seen you

5:37 pm

I hope Molly re-emerges -- I'd like to know about her d-i-l too!

5:41 pm

any one have stats on that lone Y?

5:41 pm

Sorry, I was wrestling a turkey carcass for the rights to stock makings. Girlie in law has Crohn's and has been in the hospital due to a flare up. She is on the mend.

5:42 pm

yo4/6, JM

5:42 pm

Oh, poor girl -- that's a nasty thing.

5:42 pm

tahnks jilli

5:43 pm

It's been a tough couple of weeks for her and my son. I'm glad they have a nice dinner to come home to and some time to spend together.

5:43 pm

I wrestled a multiplicity of chicken carcasses the other day and made stock. I freeze the bones and things until I have several.

5:45 pm

I'm glad to hear she's getting better molly

5:45 pm

ooh, never expected to find a bo6/30 here!

5:46 pm

picky picky jilli!

5:46 pm

LOL saan!

5:46 pm

Thanks Bich. It's a nasty disease and she's trying very hard to get it under control so they can *YAY* start a family.

5:47 pm

I guess it would be very difficult to take care of a baby while you have Crohn's

5:48 pm

having Crohns myself I can attest to that.

5:49 pm

and a pregnancy could make it worse. And the drugs to control it, might be forbidden in pregnancy

5:50 pm

Didn't know that, saan -- poor you! But you have it under control?

5:51 pm

I also got early arthritis (severe) from it. Very exhausting to raise a family. Good luck to her and best wishes. I hear there are several new meds which "help"

5:51 pm

Good luck to her and to you, Saan

5:51 pm

it comes and goes Jilli. Infuruates me when I am not "up to" doing things. Like today.

5:52 pm

Thanks Jilli, that means a lot.

5:54 pm

One of our former library patrons here has a bad case of Crohn's. He looked like a skeleton at one time but did find some help. He's moved away now, to Vancouver.

5:54 pm

hi herin

Howdy. On that note. In Melbourne at the moment they are doing studies to help people with Crohns

5:55 pm

I hope they are successful.

5:56 pm

hi all, home from the zoo!

5:57 pm

Hi sue -- had a happy Thanksgiving?

Jill Aus does lead the way in research for things.

Sue is this the family zoo?

5:57 pm

Girlie is a pediatric ER nurse and is generally in very good health. She does get these occasional flare ups though.

5:57 pm

we did, jilli, although we did not celebrate in the traditional way

5:58 pm

no, herin, this was an actual zoo - Brookfield Zoo near Chicago

5:58 pm

it was free today so we went, figured it wouldn't be crowded

O Cool. Well with my family visiting them is like visiting a zoo

5:59 pm

yeah, I don't have much family, herin, and cooking a giant meal for the three of us didn't seem to make sense

5:59 pm

*Passes Sue a turkey and stuffing sandwich*

6:00 pm

thx, molly! actually the cafeteria at the zoo had a Thanksgiving dinner on the menu!

Sue the Zoo sounds fun

6:00 pm

ogrier doesn't work :(

6:00 pm

so I had that while Frank ate his chips, peanuts, and snack bar from home, with a cup of tea

6:01 pm

Shrek would not approve.

6:01 pm

it was, herin! we saw lions and tigers although no elephants

We went to a Zoo after dark music thing. It was Fabba. I don't like Abba too much but we got free tickets from the house mate as he and his partner at the time couldn't go

6:04 pm

it is actually quite a large zoo and we didn't have time to see it all (spent about 4.5 hours there)

Was it quiet?

6:07 pm

Sorry -- did an email check -- a friend sent a great video about pollination -- amazing photography: http://www.youtube.com/v/xHkq1edcbk4?v ersion=3

6:11 pm

Hello Harry

6:11 pm

it was pretty quiet, herin, and we had a really good time

hi harry

Sue that is great. That is what I was getting at. Everyone was too busy watching the show. I even got one on one with a Gorilla. It was great. Big beast behind glass looking at me

6:12 pm

here's its web site: http://www.czs.org/czs/

6:13 pm

I got some video of a leopard on the other side of the glass from me, very cool

6:13 pm

herin, I hear Melbourne has a really good zoo.

It is good. Melbourne Zoo and Werribee Open Range is great

hola

Melbourne Zoo, Healesville Sanctuary and Werribee Open Range Zoo All these are fantastic

6:14 pm

hi, science!

HI Overlass

Underlass, I am too full

6:15 pm

I wonder if my son and I will have time to get to Melbourne

6:16 pm

hi sci!

hi jill!

Naughty Science. May go to a friends for Polish food tonight. Because that is always a ''Your too skinny EAT more affair''

i am too fat lol

Well her mother is going to do the cooking so yes. Food food and food

this grid is hard

6:22 pm

finito!!

6:22 pm

hi everyone!

6:22 pm

yay, lbd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !

HI LB and you done?

6:23 pm

just finished, herin.

6:23 pm

hi lbd -- whoopee for you!

6:24 pm

hi Jilli!, UU and of course our lovely Herin!

6:24 pm

I'm not liking this grid -- have struggled to 100 words. Going to take a break which may turn out to last quite a while

Yah LB

6:24 pm

oh, and guess what else I saw at the zoo?

6:25 pm

what did you see at the zoo, UU?

6:25 pm

a hyrax!

A what?

6:25 pm

actually several hyraxes. They are very cute.

They are cute. Besides I thought you said a Lorax

6:26 pm

must go google hyrax

6:26 pm

they were, as I recall, in the grid the other day

6:26 pm

Hyrax was in the grid one Friday (icon clue day) and I posted a picture of one.

Jill must remember that

6:28 pm

I remember that, jilli, but it was fun to see them in the flesh, as it were

6:28 pm

oh, they are cute. kinda groundhog-ish

6:28 pm

oh yes, I bet, sue

6:29 pm

I'm uploading pictures to facebook

Sue am I your friend on FB?

6:33 pm

ob in

6:33 pm

Ooops, sorry. Slipped there.

6:33 pm

dunno, herin, I am Suzanne Willis there

6:34 pm

hello Gail

6:34 pm

Hi

No you aren't but I sent you a request. I am NS

6:37 pm

ok, I confirmed you (I see we have 27 mutual friends :-)

YEp All babble

6:38 pm

pictures are there (a couple of them are blurrier than they looked on the phone)

I love Meerkats

6:41 pm

they were SOOOO cute!!

The new Royal Childrens Hospital has a display of them to help the kids feel better

6:43 pm

they certainly made me feel better :-)

6:44 pm

also it was nice and warm in the building - pretty windy and chilly outside!

brr

6:46 pm

Saw your pix, sue -- thanks for posting them! Too bad Mr Gorilla (Mrs?) is a bit blurred but most of them are great!

6:47 pm

thx, jilli, it looked nice on the phone or I would have taken another one :-)

6:47 pm

wonderful zoo, though!

We haven't been to the zoo in ages

6:54 pm

wow -- last night I couldn't see any H words -- now whizzed through them all!

Did you put new eyes in Jill?

6:55 pm

must have, herin!

6:55 pm

30 left now -- maybe I can get this done after all!

I think you can do it Jill

7:03 pm

i KNOW you can jili. and hi sue and herin

HI Dorens. Long time no see

7:04 pm

i hide

7:04 pm

hi, dorens!

7:05 pm

just sneaking a few words now and then. bbl

Can anyone tell me what time it is in Florida at the moment is please is it the same as grid time?

7:10 pm

no, it's an hour later in Florida, herin

7:10 pm

so 8:10 pm in Florida

7:10 pm

it's 9"10 pm. and now i'm poofed

Ok cheers

BALLS I don't have itunes on my radio

7:20 pm

Hi doren (just got back from getting a preprandial vodka)

7:22 pm

hi jill. keep saying i'm leaving, but not leaving.

7:22 pm

can anyone clue re6/24 please?

7:22 pm

I did that earlier, doren, but here I am, lol!

7:22 pm

ok, also uploaded a video of the leopard

7:23 pm

not yet, doren, sorry

Hi Everyone. I'm back after my post-turkey nap. Now perhaps I can make some progress on this grid. Hope all USA folks had a great Thanksgiving - and got to hear Alice's Restaurant at noon. I did.

Meow to much turkey?

It the tryptophane. Gets me every time.

7:26 pm

Nice napping, meow!

Yup, it sure was, Jill!

7:27 pm

West coat USA is still at the pre-dinner hour...

Oh, we usually do Thanksgiving mid-afternoon. Today it was at 2:00.

Four little girls and one little boy in a house you can run around in a circle in. Poor little boy. Those girls were merciless! And squeals - yikes!

7:31 pm

We've been having a stupendous wind and rainstorm -- ferries cancelled all over the place. My next-door neighbours were supposedly heading for Vancouver today because they have ticket$ for Saturday's big Grey Cup pro football final -- maybe they'll go tomorrow after this storm is over. Then there's getting back, and another one is on the way...

7:33 pm

Oh Meow, that sounds like fun for the little ones -- even the tormented little boy!

7:33 pm

hi vermont!

7:33 pm

The clipper had tonturn back to victoria today... Hey all

I would have had to leave. I hate girl squeels. Drives me on edge

7:33 pm

and jilli, sorry to hear about the wind and rain, hope you have a nice fireplace to snuggle up to!

7:33 pm

Not really here, just watching tv

7:33 pm

HI, stid!

7:34 pm

Not really seeing you, stid -- you blew away?

Poke the Stid

Hi unsue. Jill, I hope you have no damage from that storm. Well, I must say he was the most accommodating little boy. Whenever they were told not to run, they kept going around the house - walking fast. LOL! The meal was delicious.

7:35 pm

thanks, sue -- no problem for me, snug as a bug in a rug with electric heat and a propane fireplace if the power goes out, which it hasn't and now the wind is abating.

7:36 pm

Poke lady...

Just seeing if you are there

7:41 pm

she's not, herin -- she said she wasn't

well I just need more coffee then

7:44 pm

re6,24 any clues?

It is Queen in Latin. A female name

7:48 pm

re6/24 -- Latin queen

7:48 pm

(psst -- rhymes with female part)

7:49 pm

also city in Saskatchewan

7:49 pm

tx got it

7:49 pm

7

7:50 pm

oared

7:50 pm

re6, Saskatchewan :)

7:50 pm

evening, jilli, ty

7:50 pm

now HOW did I miss that one, majmom?

Hi Dc

7:51 pm

hi, herin, sue, majmom, et al

7:51 pm

hi, dc!

7:51 pm

happy thanksgiving, US people

7:52 pm

3

7:52 pm

hi dc!

Back at you DC and Hi Maj

7:53 pm

2

7:54 pm

1

7:54 pm

go Jilli!

hehee. I just sent in my answer to a question and it has stumped the US host :D

7:54 pm

hi DC, happy gobble day to you too

7:54 pm

hi, dawg

7:55 pm

Happy T'giving all!

7:55 pm

what was the question, herin?

Hi Lil

7:55 pm

hi, lil!

7:55 pm

(also want to know your answer)

7:55 pm

hi Lil!

7:55 pm

DONE

7:55 pm

popping in to find the last 51 words

7:56 pm

yay, jilli!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

7:56 pm

whooooo hooooo JILLI!!

WTG, Jill! Con grats!

Ok they asked What is your fav movie munchie. I answered Pop Corn and Choc top (ice cream in a cone with hard chocolate on the top). I believe they had to flick to my profile live on air to figure out were I resided

7:56 pm

congrats, jilli

Yah Jill

7:57 pm

we call chocolate tops drumsticks.

See we don't as Drumsticks are different to that here

7:57 pm

brb, need some tea

7:57 pm

last word, te6/21, a shipworm, yuk!

But up North Choc TOps are Choc bombs

7:59 pm

Nutty Buddy is what that kind of ice cream is called here, and is topped with peanuts

Drumsticks are more like Ice cream cone sundays

I so forget sometimes to Americanise my Aussisms

O Im such a goose. I can run my podcast through my stereo. ONe hour in and I just remember

8:00 pm

drumstick is a sensible name for the confection

8:00 pm

ok, I want to go put my feet up soon but need the lower left t, the e near the lower left, and the o to the right of center for nbt. Shamelessly asking for clues :-)

8:01 pm

et4 mountain

8:01 pm

er4

8:01 pm

the O is oh4, sounds like the Cleveland state but not quite

8:01 pm

et4.4 and er4.4

8:01 pm

*sigh* thanks, dc

8:01 pm

and thanks, lil!

Brb need more coffee. or something

8:02 pm

the te6 was just clued... shipworm

8:03 pm

thx, lil, had to look it up (and now that I did I remember it from before but it doesn't look like a shipworm kind of word to me)

Um isn't that what goes in Absinth?

8:03 pm

Yes I hear ya... sounds more like the bullfighter word

8:03 pm

and now I have nbt, yay chat!

8:04 pm

yay sue!

Ok I know what I mean. Caffien time

8:05 pm

wormwood goes into Absinthe

8:06 pm

ha finally found a 7 so now I have nbs as well

8:06 pm

I have br7, br7 and gr7... what am I missing?

That is the herb. I have no idea why my brain thinks they are the same thing. I am going to go get coffee and have a streetch

8:07 pm

beats me, lil, the one I have is a br7

8:09 pm

br7x2, gr7, he7

8:10 pm

thanks lbd... I need the he7

Thanks

8:10 pm

past of red dye

8:10 pm

pt of a type of hair dye

8:11 pm

thanks dc & lbd

That is not a word :/

8:13 pm

i've he7 my hair in the past

8:13 pm

common use at least here in NE US

8:13 pm

you have??

8:14 pm

i have

I mean the Talking horse ending not the word.

8:15 pm

talking horse ending?

8:15 pm

yes, i'm saying that that ending is commonly used with that word here

I don't think i have heard it in that context.

8:16 pm

"did you color your hair?" Yes, i he7 it with a purple

8:17 pm

back from the kitchen -- any clues needed?

8:17 pm

purple he5?

8:18 pm

just what I was thinking - thought it was always red (brownish red)

8:18 pm

me too sue

8:18 pm

yes, reds, purples, greens, and chestnuts

8:18 pm

good grief!

8:19 pm

surely the natural ones are the reddish chestnut ones?

kitchen time

8:21 pm

I hear the ferries (or some of them) are running again.

8:23 pm

and kitchen time for me agin -- see y'all after the flip if no clues are needed

8:31 pm

any clue for the re8 ?

8:32 pm

nm...got it

coffee has been found

8:38 pm

gr7,36 anybody?

More grumbling

8:41 pm

Hi all. Just wondering if Lickety still works.

8:42 pm

yes, it gives warnings but seems actually to be fine

8:42 pm

yes but some won't use it because chrome and foxfire give malware warnings

Skoo it does

8:42 pm

skooj, yes, lickety still works.

8:42 pm

hi all

8:42 pm

hi, jmc!

8:42 pm

hi jmc!

8:43 pm

I still get a red box and warning. Is there a new way to link to it?

8:43 pm

click on the ignore warning button (or wording to that effect). the warning is from google not the site.

I just ignore the worning

warning. It isn't as if you are entering credit card details

8:44 pm

or, if you are a pc user, email lickety and get babble expert

8:45 pm

i just told it to click through anyway and my computer seems fine after a week

8:45 pm

Thanks, all. I don't get the option to ignore, so I will email lickety for babble expert. thanks everyone.

8:46 pm

I have the link to expert in my profile

8:46 pm

it says something like a green button that says continue

8:46 pm

Thanks uusue!

8:46 pm

skoo, the list is in my profile

8:46 pm

(you have to scroll past the astronomy to get to the link)

8:47 pm

Thanks so much all.

8:47 pm

proceed anyway is the button skooj

8:47 pm

it is a zip file that you have to unzip and then run

8:47 pm

Ok, will do. Thanks. Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving.

8:48 pm

couldn't you say "Watson the game is ab4/6!"?

8:48 pm

you too, skoo! --i've got the nibblies!

I just ran out of coffee

8:48 pm

Holmes always said afoot

8:48 pm

that is a sad tale herin

8:49 pm

i know lbd i am just saying. . .

Yes I know last cup

re8/40 clue, please. Thanks.

8:49 pm

re + asia

Good thing it wasn't a bear or I'd been bit.

8:50 pm

glad you aren't a bear!

8:50 pm

that is why i always wear protection when i babble VT

8:51 pm

lol, jmc. the tinfoil hat is such a fashion statement!

8:51 pm

well the feathers help

8:52 pm

*makes a tinfoil hat for VT*

8:52 pm

do you have a preference for the color of feathers VT?

8:52 pm

clue for re 6/24 please

8:52 pm

<--- finally got the re + asia clue

8:53 pm

latin for queen, wv

8:53 pm

thnk sue

8:53 pm

re 6/24 word is actress Re**** King or a Latin queen.

8:54 pm

hi, min!

8:54 pm

Good evening to my fellow babblers! How is everyone?

8:54 pm

hi min

8:54 pm

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

8:54 pm

ok, I am off for a while, see you all later!

Hi Mini

8:54 pm

bye uu

8:54 pm

hi min.

Oh, green, jmcnrick

8:55 pm

bye uu

Thanks!

Hi Min

8:55 pm

Goodbye uusue2! I will see you later on in the chat log

Bye U

8:55 pm

*adds green feathers to tin foil hat and gives to VT*

8:55 pm

I hope that everybody had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

8:55 pm

now you are fashonable and protected from biting words in the grid

8:56 pm

i did i ate chicken and drank wine and re** romance novels--it was wonderful

Woooo Hooo! Thanks jmcnrick! This is the best hat! Does it protect me from evil too, or just bear bites?

8:57 pm

from all evil in the grid and from aliens

8:57 pm

T's trounced

8:57 pm

it is a scientific fact

8:57 pm

Terrific dan2bit!

8:57 pm

and it keeps thoughts from leaking in from the chat.

Well I am just going to enjoy this last cup of coffee

8:57 pm

Hello dan2bit!How are you doing? Welcome to the grid

8:57 pm

go Dan!

I knew it! I could feel the difference as soon as I put it on. Now I can relax and play.

8:58 pm

only evil thoughts--good thoughts get through

8:58 pm

back in a mo

8:58 pm

hi dan

8:58 pm

I am stuffed, and grateful :-)

Hi Dan

Yeah, I got that right away.

8:58 pm

and how is babby2bit? turkey enzymes put her to sleep?

9:00 pm

yes just now. she had fun with her passel of cousins today

9:00 pm

that is nice

awww

9:01 pm

yes, my sister and brother each have kids, so there are 5 cousins within 6 years, and one more on the way

9:02 pm

nice to have cousins about the same age

9:04 pm

it really is

9:04 pm

not so much competition as siblings but still built in playmates

9:06 pm

R's rocked

9:06 pm

Rock on dan2bit!

I am the youngest in my imediate family

9:09 pm

me too

It was handy when you can cry on command and get your older male cousins in hell trouble

9:11 pm

me three

9:13 pm

70 left should i continue or go re** a book

9:14 pm

help with go 5 / 16 - my last word - too tired to see it

9:15 pm

I still have 88 left - hello folks...happy thanksgiving to all

Hi River

9:15 pm

hi river

9:15 pm

hello to all - happy thanksgiving day

Hi River

9:15 pm

blew through the first 70 and now slow to go

9:15 pm

hi wv i am looking for the word for you

9:16 pm

two pairs of eyes are better ....

go 5/16 deity + "** phone home"

9:17 pm

ty luv

9:17 pm

thanks luv

Hi Luv. Cute pup

9:17 pm

whoo hoo wv!!

9:17 pm

so now 86 to go...

9:17 pm

thnx Luv - that does it for me - good night all

9:17 pm

hello (herin)

hi herin, thanks, she's a real sweetie too!

WTG wv!

9:18 pm

yay teach...good night

9:19 pm

whoooo hooooo WV!! sweet dreams

9:21 pm

okay going to re** with a glass of wine with 60 left

9:21 pm

cu all tomorrow and enjoy the last minutes of your thanksgiving

9:21 pm

relax jmc....enjoy

9:21 pm

*poof*

nite jmc, have a glass for me

later JMC

9:21 pm

nori

9:21 pm

a

9:22 pm

oops sorry

9:26 pm

sweet dreams, jmc

Night JM

9:30 pm

anybody left to clue the gh words?

gh 6/27 gh + a period of time + vowel

don't have the gh 8 yet tho

9:32 pm

add pt to the 6 LWG

9:32 pm

and thanks!

thanks dan!

9:33 pm

g + not him + two vowels

a form of industrial action in India in which workers imprison their employers on the premises until their demands are met

I played a game called "Balderdash" tonight with family and I think it's a game that Babbler's would enjoy. You make up definitions for odd words

9:35 pm

clue for the gi please?

gi sounds like a girls name, ends in sometimes vowel

9:36 pm

ty luv...thought I tried that earlier...fingers not listening to brain again lol

9:37 pm

and that is my Aunts name

I know there's times I swear I've put a word in and then it's not there later

9:38 pm

Evening Babblers

hi wht

just finished, any clues needed before I go?

9:39 pm

Hi wht

9:39 pm

I hope those in the US had a happy Thanksgiving.

Hi Sea no I am right Luv and Hi Wht

9:39 pm

clue for the secong bo5,16 please.

9:39 pm

I think my br5,14 is turning to mush

9:39 pm

family, football, and turky...it has been great

9:39 pm

turkey

bo 5/16-what a ghost said

9:40 pm

2nd one is the opposite of cheered

9:40 pm

can you clue the first one?

9:40 pm

The first one is a plank.

9:41 pm

ty luv and dan

9:41 pm

oh duh slap me with a fish

9:42 pm

No fish here. How about a drumstick?

well, goodnight all

Night Luv

9:44 pm

Night Luv

9:47 pm

night, luv

9:53 pm

and i'm he4ing off to the pillows too. see you all tomorrow

night Lb

10:02 pm

I am off as well. I started too late to finish tonight.

Night Wht

10:05 pm

Bye wht

10:05 pm

hello all, I REALLY need help on the go 5/16 Pleeaaese?

10:08 pm

go + abbrev for private eye

10:10 pm

go5/16 is supreme being plus friendly alien who called home saanichcat and hello there! How are you doing?

10:10 pm

ty min

10:11 pm

harrumph

10:11 pm

yw

10:11 pm

THANK YOU uni and Min! And how are you min?

10:12 pm

:-D

10:13 pm

out of here now and to bed. We've been having noisy storms at night. See you all anon...

10:13 pm

bye, saanichcat!

10:14 pm

Goodbye saanichcat!I'll see you tomorrow in the chog

10:18 pm

Fireworks.

10:19 pm

congrats, vermont!!!

10:19 pm

Thanks. I

10:19 pm

Congratulations VermontMeow on fireworks! Hooray!

10:20 pm

Thanks! I'm outta here. See you tomorrow or maybe after the flip.

10:20 pm

Goodbye VermontMeow! I'll see you tomorrow maybe.

10:24 pm

hello all..and happy thanksgiving. can someone tell me how to get to the mrp clues because the old site seems contaminated. thanks. i haven't been in for a while.

10:24 pm

it's not contaminated, helenary -- mrp's working on getting the "virus red flag message' removed

10:25 pm

Hi helenary! How are you doing? Welcome to the grid.

10:25 pm

so what should i do? just ignore that warning and proceed?

10:25 pm

yep

10:26 pm

am doing well thanks minveryork

10:30 pm

that's FW for moi -- see you at the flip -- byeee!! *poof*

10:30 pm

Happy Thanksgiving everybody. I got 55 words in before getting ready for our Thanksgiving dinner; the Grandson is here and just fell asleep so now I have time to play! :-)

10:32 pm

YAY, Une!! WTG!!!

10:34 pm

Congratulations Uneaixoise on fireworks! Way to go!

10:35 pm

Hello Nef! How are you doing? Welcome to the puzzle.

11:23 pm

clue for re 6, 24 please for firworks

11:24 pm

re 6/ 24 girls name

11:24 pm

hi all.. don't think I'll make it on this one!

11:24 pm

witchy.. think queen

11:25 pm

An re6/24 word is actress Re**** King or a latin queen

11:25 pm

Hello m9f9l! How are you doing? Welcome to the grid.

11:25 pm

thanks ffor the clues got it and fireworks

re6,24 -- re + word for a queen, which is a very common Italian female name.

Oops, too late with that one.

11:26 pm

Congratulations witchy on fireworks! Hooray for you

11:26 pm

Hello Neil! How are you doing?Welcome to the chat log

Hi Min.

11:29 pm

A's Absconded! 5 left

11:32 pm

B's Buckled! 3 left

11:35 pm

G's Gobbled! 2 left

11:36 pm

H's Hacked! 1 left

11:42 pm

I am done! I have fireworks! do6/27 was my last word

11:42 pm

I'll be here until the flip to help with last minute clues.

11:56 pm

hello

11:57 pm

Hi MLFAN17! How are you doing? Welcome to the grid

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