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210 1,783
211 1,761
212 1,705
213 1,632
214 1,624
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260 1,359
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264 1,327
265 1,325
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268 1,319
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309 1,162
310 1,147
311 1,140
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315 1,133
316 1,132
317 1,132
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707 46
708 27
709 24
710 8
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712 7
713 5
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173 total words

12:00 am

flip!

12:00 am

three y's!

12:00 am

flip

12:01 am

hi all

12:01 am

hello again

12:02 am

there have been too many of the same letters in the grid this week! First all those E's; then the S's, now the Y's

12:02 am

there

flip hi all; hi cos mlf nef, jili ... looks tough

12:03 am

there are plenty of e's here. grrr

12:03 am

hi dee

fllip

12:03 am

btuthe E's can be used thats the good news about them:)

12:04 am

hi dee hi and hi all -- and yes, it does look tough

12:04 am

we 6

12:04 am

sp 7

le 6 x 2

12:05 am

thanks nan.. i used to have one :(

12:05 am

lots of babblets

sp 6

12:06 am

cyber should we know that SP 7 word?

12:06 am

flip

12:07 am

hi flosey

12:07 am

NEVER MIND got it

12:07 am

hi jilli

12:08 am

2 short from nbt and need an 8 lol

en 6 and en 7 past tense

12:09 am

en 6

12:09 am

what are the stats for the 2nd Y first column?

12:09 am

lol found them too dee :)

12:09 am

NEVER MIND

wtg

12:10 am

now for that A in 5th column....

12:11 am

we 6 x 2

12:11 am

aw4/10, cos

12:11 am

cl8

12:11 am

cl 7/8 combo

12:11 am

2nd column bottom E stats please?

ty jili

12:12 am

ty Nef! NBS...

12:12 am

thanks jill.. nnt/nbs

12:12 am

yw. :-)

12:12 am

yw and wtg cos

12:12 am

nbs

12:12 am

wtg flosey

wtg

12:13 am

that aw was a fish wasnt it lol

12:13 am

tks jilli

12:13 am

nbs and nbt! woo to the hoo!

12:13 am

wtg mag and flsoey

12:13 am

wtg mm

12:13 am

everyone found the dolphin, right?

12:13 am

ty

12:14 am

tks jilli

12:14 am

ugh i always forget what the dolphin is lol

nbt

12:14 am

in4/4, cos

12:14 am

ah eys i have it then thanks jill :)

12:15 am

wtg dee

ty

12:15 am

thats one of the first words i always try lol

12:15 am

I need the stats for the bottom 2 Es please?

12:15 am

en6/7 for the first E in bottom row

nbt and nbs

12:16 am

wtg dee

12:16 am

el4 fir the other E

12:16 am

wtg dee

ty

ty nef for the cl's

12:17 am

is the EN 6/7 something i should know?

12:17 am

2nd row e stats, please?

12:17 am

yes -- we've had it before

12:17 am

which E cyber?

12:18 am

bottom row 2nd column

12:18 am

el 4 nan

12:18 am

i thought that was EN 6/7?

12:18 am

no sorrt thats en6/7

12:18 am

ty cos

12:18 am

el4 is for the 2nd E in bottom row. sorry

ye 6/27

12:19 am

thanks dee got it

in 4/4 lol last word I typed yesterday

12:19 am

lol haha...

12:19 am

i always try dane but it never works

12:20 am

same here cos

wtg cos

12:20 am

ditto

12:20 am

me too cos

not sure why dane is not good, but swiss is okay...

12:20 am

cos are you sur eabout the bottm E being Ei?

12:20 am

it should work! if sp7 is good.. then dane should e too :)

12:20 am

lots of puzzles like that, dee

12:20 am

eL4, mlf :)

12:20 am

nbt, nbs

12:21 am

wtg nan

bottom e in the 2nd col is the en 6 and 7 mlf; bottom e in the last column is el 4

12:21 am

cod 2nd column

wtg nan

12:21 am

thanks cos

12:21 am

thanks dee

12:21 am

2nd col is en6 and 7

12:21 am

4th column is el 4

yw

12:21 am

short one D ugh

12:22 am

and two W's

12:22 am

cannot see the en6 & 7

12:22 am

en + land in the ocean

12:22 am

tx cos!!!!

12:22 am

thanks cos

12:22 am

yw!

sounds like what a bride and her father walk down :) (at the end of the word)

12:22 am

da 4 x2, de 4 x3

12:23 am

thanks cos

12:23 am

thanks nan looking

12:23 am

nbt at last

12:23 am

5th column A stats please?

12:23 am

wtg jill! D's done thanks nan.

12:23 am

aw4

12:24 am

ty for that en6 & 7 dee

12:24 am

70 to go -- gnite all *poof*

12:24 am

one more W....

3 more w's here yw jili

12:25 am

cos help me with that please?

12:25 am

at last! nbt

12:25 am

no. go aw4

12:25 am

:)

wtg flosey

12:25 am

oh duhh

12:25 am

what do the 8s begin with?

12:26 am

wtg flosey

12:26 am

cl is one mlf

12:26 am

thanks Dee and jilli

yw

12:27 am

CL 6/7

12:27 am

nbs now

12:27 am

and 8 mlf

12:27 am

cl8 x2

12:27 am

CL 7/8

12:28 am

nbt and nbs

12:28 am

yes

12:28 am

wtg mlf

12:28 am

thanks flosey

wtg mlf

12:28 am

thanks dee

12:29 am

yay mlf!

12:29 am

oh i didnt have the cl5/6//7 thanks

yw

12:29 am

thanks magazine

12:29 am

now the cl8 too.. 8's done thanks all

12:29 am

what's the other 8 please?

12:30 am

cl 8 x 2

12:30 am

cl8 x 2 jill

12:30 am

oh -- ty cos

ty for the 8's

one 7 short :(

12:31 am

im 2 7's short

12:31 am

Me too Dee

12:32 am

cl, cl7, en7, sp7

my 7's: cl x 3; en; sp

12:32 am

sp 7 x 2

12:33 am

duh i had the cl8 pt not the cl7 thanks dee

ty anike looking

yw cos

12:33 am

are the cl8s related?

12:33 am

nope one think art room maybe

12:34 am

thanks anike 7's done

the first cl 7 is a compound word (and its pl cl 8)... what pots are often made of - often terra cotta in color + another word for pot...

12:34 am

ty cos...thinking

cl 7/32 and its past tense cl8 think of Ajax or Comet

drove across a cl7 only a week ago, just made it across

12:35 am

thanks, got the cl7 and 8

12:35 am

one W short ugh... i have we6x2 any other w6s?

the other cl 7 is past tense of cl 5... tidy up or tidied up... I cl.... my house on Fridays

12:35 am

ty for the potty cl8, lol -- had the Ajax

yw

I am 3 w's short cos... I have 9 wa's and 5 we's so far (only 2 we 6's so far)

12:37 am

I have 12 wa and 5 we

don't miss et 5/16 long ago was a kind of gas you could buy

ty looking

12:38 am

I have 13 wa

12:38 am

ok its a wa then thanks!

12:38 am

do you have any wa6?

do you have wa 5/24 at the very end of wa's?

no wa 6's

12:38 am

yep..

12:39 am

i also have wa 5/22

12:39 am

signing off -- early tee time tomorrow, so the last 45 will have to wait. It's been a fun grid so far

12:39 am

enjoy nan!

w's are: wa 4, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 4, 5 we 4, 4, 6, 5, 6

have fun nan

12:40 am

thanks, W whipped!

12:40 am

ok its a wa5 im missing then thanks

wtg and hi rb!

12:40 am

bye nan -- glad you've enjoyed it and will enjoy your tee-off

12:41 am

probably the wa5/22 I had for my last one, cos?

12:41 am

lame word, lol!

be sure you pluraled and past tensed everything you can

12:41 am

no i have wa5/22

12:42 am

hd on opening notepad

anyone have all the a's?

12:44 am

Missing 1 C. I have 1 ca ; 2 ce 12 cl. WHat am I missing?

3 ce's

12:45 am

thx

c's are: ca 4 ce 5, 6, 4 cl 4, 5, 4, 7, 8, 5, 7, 6, 7, 8, 4, 5 yw arb

12:46 am

oh no its a wa4 im missing

12:46 am

The c's are clobbered.

wtg

12:46 am

just over halfway and quittin' time -- goodnight all and ...*poof

do you have wa 4/10?

12:46 am

need the top left E for nbt

dee to the rescue thx for the w's now for my last c's

gn jili rest well

glad I could help this time :)

12:47 am

its a wa4 from the 4 wa4 group...

et 5/16 and ey 4/6 I think rb

wa 4/8 crumpled up clumps of paper

12:48 am

wa 4/10 it was. W's done

wtg cos

12:48 am

aha, now I see, thanks!

do you have a's done cos missing one

wtg

12:49 am

lemm esee

12:49 am

no im missing alot lol

here are my a's one short: ai 4 al 4, 4, 5, an 4, 4, 5, ap 4 aw 4, ay 4, 4, 5

ai4, al4,4,5 an4,4,5, ap5,4 aw4 ay4,4,5

12:51 am

I have the same, dEE

ty van missing an ap 5

sleepless nights

awww the sleep prob

or snoring

yep

ty vm

14 left for later hagd

ty van see you later ty for help

12:55 am

Clues are up

ty mrp!!

12:55 am

ty mrp

I haven't seen dart or ru the last 2 days wonder if I missed them

12:58 am

ru was here earlier

missed him

12:58 am

i haven't seen dart either :)

12:58 am

ru's missing too

12:58 am

3 left...trying to not list

12:59 am

and watching hockey that just ended

hi guys! You were missed. Also trying not to list, but have 35 left LOL... was watching Rockford reruns :)

1:01 am

trying to garner something volley?

1:01 am

made it to 100, whee! (back into the endless P's...)

LOL or jimmy something into my brain

wtg rb

1:02 am

are there any ph words?

1:02 am

oh, wait, I think I see one...

1:03 am

are there more than one ph word, lol?

I don't have any yet

ty for that one

fyi for h's I have 4 hy's

1:04 am

looking for phalic

2 l's I think

1:05 am

lol.. no wonder

2 ph's

1:05 am

still think it should take sayeth etc

me, too, it takes saith

1:06 am

or payeth.. like payeth the irs

1:06 am

swayeth spayeth lol

3 ph's

1:06 am

layeth

1:07 am

It's been a bit since I've seen layeth

yes, it doesn't make senseth

1:07 am

have to get the knee fixed before that one

1:07 am

lol volley

:)

dart, we decided to refi our house, in case we decide to rent it... pymts on remaining bal will be puny in case we find another house we want... we will probably relist the end of Feb

1:09 am

sounds like a good idea to keep your options open

hubby decided last week - wanted to expand our options - I have been watching 2 houses that have floor plan we want

1:11 am

Thank you mrp.

We finished seating chart for wedding reception today.

hi gapeach!

1:12 am

t - about 2 weeks now

can't believe it is sooooo darn close

1:13 am

cl8

Hi ruru.

x 2 ru

And Volleymom, dart, et al.

1:14 am

*picturing Volley sneaking a little Babble during the reception party* ;p

1:14 am

hey neil.. how ya been.. you've been showing up on milk cartons around here

1:14 am

hey neil

LOL sure might rb especially after a few glasses of wine

hi neil!!

1:15 am

you better not dee

1:15 am

hey.. why don't you invite dart to the wedding?

1:15 am

my work is way too busy now ruru

or invite both of you and wives...

lol dart

1:16 am

<-- still searching for that last hy word, lol

hy 4, 4, 4, 4 rb

1:17 am

have 3 x hy4 so far

1:17 am

okay then...

1:18 am

got it, yay! H hammered.

hy + abbrev for Louisiana

wtg rb!

1:18 am

(back to endless P's)

1:18 am

(and S's)

still have 3 more p's and I swear I have tried every combo... grrr didn't want to list

1:18 am

morning all from thcouther

1:19 am

think ph volley

1:19 am

fireworks list free

more than 3 ph's dart?

wtg wtg!!

1:19 am

nope only 3

1:20 am

yay, dart! :)

hi scous or thc

got em

1:20 am

pa 5,14/pa 6,24?

any ps's

just found those

1:20 am

py 4

nope looking

1:21 am

pe 6,21?

1:21 am

pi 5,16?

have those

probably an obvious one hmmm

like yesterday when my last word was in4

1:22 am

pi 4,5/pi 5,12?

yep

1:22 am

Hey there, Dee.

1:23 am

pa 4 X 5?

how are you ga?

yep

1:23 am

all the plurals?

checking now

1:24 am

10 plurals using the s

1:24 am

have you got the one that sounds like a spoon?

1:24 am

spaw

1:24 am

spiny

1:24 am

spine

1:24 am

ugh sorry

1:25 am

i was away and forgot my cursor was in the chat field

1:25 am

ignore my last message please

1:25 am

actually 13 if you count all the already pluraled 4 letter words

this is ticking me off ... k... looking at esses for a bit then I'll come back to those

bottom e I have the el 4/5 other one please?

nm found it es 4

Scouser!

where have you been neil - long time no see

I was kind of here saying hi to people... got busy in a conversation. Haven't even started the grid yet.

Busy, Volleymom.

hope it's a "good" busy

1:32 am

you must have es4ied it :)

yep finally did that one... down to my elusive eleven lol

7 left

list or not to list that is the question

1:35 am

not not

LOL

1:36 am

just p's?

9 pa's or more?

2 p's 2 l's and 3 esses

1:36 am

11 pa's

great... missing ones are both pa's cool ty

1:37 am

fireworks, with the aid of mrp's list

1:37 am

wtg flos

wtg flosey hip hip hoooray

1:37 am

thanks dart and dee

1:38 am

do you have pa 5/6....like a pa--- van?

yi4 fish slap my missing p's were pa 5/12 and plural... like wooden pa s on van yep

5 left

Well mostly yes, Volleymom.

only 2 la's?

1:39 am

one of the s's i was missing was a suit in cards

1:39 am

those were the last pa's I just got, too! elusive fish

have that one

1:39 am

you down to just 4's 5's and 6's?

aww ty rb don't feel so badly then

1:40 am

I am

yep

nope

just 4's and 5's

1:40 am

sp4 ....type of new house?

missed that ty

down to 3 lol

1 l and 2 esses

1:41 am

sn 4 X 4?

1:42 am

se 5 like a type of car?

have those

1:43 am

sa 4 X 2?

1:43 am

throw up?

1:43 am

sp4

1:43 am

didn't mean to heave that out at ya dee

1:44 am

lol!!

lol caught it in the basin

Hi again ruru.

1:44 am

well what to you expectorate from me anyway

Got sidetracked earlier.

1:44 am

hey again neil

1:44 am

sp4/7 and its Scots sound-alike sp4/5

1:44 am

how ya been?

Punny as usual I see.

1:45 am

who me?

1:45 am

neil has a huge lag tonight lol

1:45 am

sp6/21 mineral

yep grr must be another fish

Oh, busy... broke and still job hunting would you believe? Not as easy as I thought it would be. Temp assignments here and there but that's it.

Moved the g/f in a little while ago though.

1:45 am

I hear you have a relationship going?

1:46 am

that's nice.. good for you..

It's not lag, dart... it's just being busy elsewhere too and not paying total attention.

1:46 am

i know...that was why i smiled at the end :)

more than 4 sw's?

1:47 am

guess i loled....just looked back

Yeah, ru. Well it's someone I met a couple of years back in S. Korea... we were teaching at a school there for a while. She ended up here eventually, ahead of my move down here.

1:47 am

4 sw's

Yeah I see, dart. ;)

It often happens when I'm on here.

1:47 am

sa 4 X 2?

2 se?

yep

People wait til then to phone me or talk to me.

1:48 am

LA's a tough City without connections to things

Or IM me... you know how it goes.

1:48 am

se 5,5,4

1:48 am

so is wichita lol

missing an se 5

Yeah. Well I had family here already too of course.

So is anywhere, probably.

k one l... a 5 left

1:49 am

you'll find something.. you're too talented

1:49 am

at least you have some family...that's good

Except Santa Cruz... but that's just a beautiful area and by the time I got an apartment there I had friends from college.

totally agree with ru, but I bet you are so frustrated you can't see straight

1:49 am

bottom or top L?

Haha, well I don't know what kind of job a talent for snarkiness and sarcasm and ragging on the GOP might land me? But hey, if you know I'm all ears? ;)

1:49 am

se5 chair

where are you located now neil?

1:49 am

le 5,10...not the signed doc.

Behind the In-N-Out Burger joint at Sunset & Orange, Dee... since you asked. :P And no, I'm NOT applying to work there.

looks like a male part yep

1:50 am

ly 5?

LOL neil... have several friends in similar situation... know how tough it is

1:51 am

bet that's it

yep have that damn

1:51 am

what looks like a male part dee?

1:51 am

la 5,16?

fireworks

1:51 am

le5, ru, rhymes with the male part

1:51 am

nj volley

was missing la 5/16 adjective as in a la bride dress dumboo

1:52 am

yay, Dee!!!!

that was fun... thanks for patience love to do it sans list

You guys wanna see where I live? Hang on.

always have 10 to 20 that I struggle with

1:52 am

like to do it that way...just in case the list doesn't show

ty dart ru rb nice assistance

1:53 am

wtg VolleymomDee

1:53 am

I like to avoid the list, too, more fun to suss it out en mass, ya know.

1:53 am

like to have it...but don't want to totally depend on it....nice to have when your time is short though

I think so, too rb

ty scous

agree dart

1:53 am

and pa5/14 and pa6/24 not in dictionary either

1:53 am

Babblets ho

1:53 am

gosh, I'm down to 28 after all that, cool!

1:54 am

but morewords still helps a lot

had a great evening - finished reception seating; picked out wallpaper for hubby's office; signed papers for refi on house; and finished here sans list... what more could you ask out of life LOL

I'll be glad to help you rb

1:54 am

i'm off.. take care all.. congrats dee

1:54 am

a RURU vacation off the grid!!

Ok... the white apartment building on the street in behind: http://tinyurl.com/NL-AptBldg

1:55 am

great to see you neil..

Is that your deepest desire, dart? :P lol

You too ru.

ty ru rest well how's your knee ru?

1:55 am

<---- dart's meds finally kicked in

1:55 am

i think it is ruru's for me lol

Haha!

looking neil

Yep dart... I get that impression. I really do.

1:56 am

bad for the last couple of days dee.. but I'm coping

Before you go, ru?

1:56 am

is that the famous burger joint where you had the run-in, neil?

1:56 am

twining palms

And the rest of you if you want... read this:

1:56 am

yes neil?

http://bit.ly/uHpJjL

nice building.. have never eaten an in n out burger

[or bookmark it]

1:56 am

think ruru needs the meds

You're not missing much, Dee... but it's a cheap meal when you're broke like me.

1:57 am

got it

1:57 am

I read it before, that's why I asked.

have a young friend living on ramen noodles right now, and she has her doctorate in counseling nutso

1:57 am

you do write well, neil. :)

1:57 am

I cannot wait until I pass you dart...lol

And then this, ru: http://tinyurl.com/NL-CLad

Yep. I actually did that.

Thanks, rbud.

1:58 am

unfortunately...you have to lol

Oh yeah, Dee... ramen and rice and beans are staples here now. Gourmet fine dining. Oh and let's not forget Kraft Dinner.

1:59 am

I like ramen with soy sauce and garlic, makes them taste sorta oriental

1:59 am

I've never had ramen

1:59 am

don't know how many cans of soup...grilled cheese sandwiches and hot dogs in the microwave i ate in the 70's/80's

I haven't either, but daughter ate tons of em in college (not sure where are food $ went) lol

boiled hot dogs here at first didn't have a microwave

2:00 am

pizza was like a once a month luxury and it was only 5 bucks

Yep, dart... all of that too.

Oatmeal or eggs and toast for breakfast. That's pretty cheap.

Oatmeal or eggs and toast for breakfast. That's pretty cheap.

2:02 am

woooweeee. buncha gourmands here tonight

2:02 am

..

2:02 am

and bologna sandwiches

oh, and scrambled eggs... hang on reading...

fried bologna

Wow. Dunno what happened but the chog was stuck. I refreshed the website and it's fine now.

define word "grok" please

Perogies! Love those. College food was often ramen, Kraft Dinner or peanut butter sandwiches or hot dogs, etc. How did we ever survive?

"Grok" is a sound some lizards make. At least I had one go "grok, grok" at me once. :P

Or it might've been a lizard. I dunno. I was a little kid and we were at the zoo and I kept hearing that sound when we were looking at some... but maybe it was something nearby. I'll see if Mom knows.

perfect! I am sharing this with several friends - great writing Neil. Great word!

Haha, thanks Dee... just don't mind my language in some of it. :P

But then my Babble profile alone should come with a language warning.

I swear those kind of people are on steroids.

Extremely comical and entertaining.

Thanks for sharing!

My dad was a marine... I have to be very careful not to let naughty words fly :)

Neil is this your blog? Can I subscribe to it?

Uhhh, I'll have it in my Google blog soon, when I get around to reposting all of my older blogs there first, in chronological order.

let me know, so I can subscribe

Then you'll be able to subscribe to that. It will have more in it... all of my blogs, from the first one in 2007. That one is already reposted on Blogger. I think you follow it already?

Well how would I let you know when they're posted? Just see you here I guess... if I'm on. Don't find that much time lately.

Haha @ on steroids. I think Crazy Face is on something alright. But what is anybody's guess.

You can see from that photo I shared why I drove around to lose him before going home?

I just put the story on my pinterest with the photo of the car.

Yeah, when you are here, just give me the addy sometime.

Well I won't post it in this chog, Dee.

So if you have somewhere I can send it to you, that would work better.

Actually, Dee?

Email me... the address on profile.

yes?

Then I'll know where to send the links.

okey dokey

But replace "playername" with my online nick, of course... the one I use here and everywhere.

brb

If you send one now I'll let you know if I got it ok.

sending now

Ok thanks. Watching for it.

Check your email, Dee.

Like my siggy? lol

lol got it!

Oh silly me... I'll send you the link to my first blog now, haha!

Ok, stand by.

I also sent it to my brother, hubby, daughter and her fiance; they have great senses of humor.

2:25 am

down to 12...

go rb go!!!! May I help in some way?

2:27 am

wellllll.... I need a coupla Y's, have ya 4 x 2, ye 4,6,5,4,4,4, and yi 4 x 3

Ok, check email again, Dee.

But I must warn you... I'm very given to peppering my writing with strong expletives. I drop the f-bomb a LOT. Open my "Frak" entry in that blog with particular caution, lol. :P

ye 4, 4 at the beginning rb

2:30 am

thanks! :)

4 ye 4's after the ye 6

gotcha neil; ty for the warning; I'm sure I'll survive. I'll just be selective with whom I share the humor. My family will just enjoy the story :)

yw rb

2:32 am

got 'em! why do all words I take forever to find in this one seem fishy once found, sigh...

That is totally what happened to me with this grid, rb, so you are not alone.

Haha! Fortunately my family aren't bothered by it... if you saw my dad? lol Great role model and influence. If you saw what he posts, you wouldn't be surprised at what I write. :P

I was razzing him pretty badly last week about some poetry he was tweeting... it's just my job to, you know. So he told me "f___ you. Get a JOB." only he typed the full word, of course. Right there for all the public to see... nice! :P

Funny. Some of my friends get offended, but as I said, I grew up with a marine. Actually the only swear word that really offends me is taking the Lord's name in vain; otherwise, I am cool with it when it is used in context, and not just used because someone does not have a vocabulary.

LOL too funny

Well yeah. I only use it if it's in context... otherwise what's the point? It's just not clever then.

You plainly have a vocabulary!

Totally agree.

I'm rumored to. May just be a rumor though. ;)

LOL. How are you doing keeping up your spirits? I know you must be incredibly frustrated.

Uhhh, I manage somehow I guess? Catch up with my updates on profile.

Thanks for the link; I'll read some tomorrow.

How are you doing rb? How many left?

You're welcome. Instructions are there but you won't need those, since you also have a blog on Blogger. I followed yours btw, I think?

Do your folks also live in CA, Neil?

Yes. They moved out here [to San Diego] from Indiana a couple of years before I was born. They're from Vermont originally though.

They divorced in 2002. Mom lives here in L.A. and Dad's still in San Diego.

Where did they live in IN? I'm glad they are not terribly far away.

Indianapolis. Moved there because of Dad's work, but he applied to be transferred out here.

We are about 2.5 hours north of Indy.

Oh wow. :) I didn't know that.

My brother was born there. He was a baby when they moved across the country... close to a year old.

Our daughter is getting married in Indy the 21st of this month :)

I see.

Congrats to her. :)

Probably why I am so conservative - we live in rural IN.

We cannot wait.. in the final countdown.

Oh. I only look conservative... well dorky, I guess.

LOL

Is unemployment in your area high, or just in your profession?

Very high around here, unfortunately.

In my g/f's profession too. She's a teacher.

She's also been unemployed for a while, other than temporary substitute teaching jobs, when she can get them.

2:46 am

well, poo. down to 6 - one P and 5 S's. One 6-letter word left, 2 5's.

This is the worst we have seen since 1983. Orthopaedics here has been hit hard, and it is just now showing.

So we're having a tough time.

That is too bad.

one 6 letter p?

Yep. Our economy sucks.

It's really bad for teachers now. So many cuts.

This time it seems to be hitting the middle class more than any other group (at least here that is true). Our unemployed are conscientious, hard-working, educated professionals, which actually makes it harder.

Here, too.

Hey, I'll send you something else... hang on again.

rb, do you have pa 6/24 plural; pa 6/21 plural; pe 6/21; ph 6/30 latin ending

Ok, check email again Dee.

k

Yes, Dee. It's hitting a lot of people very hard.

2:54 am

yep, have those.

Ty, I'll enjoy reading. I think the worst part is not knowing what to do. When our daughter graduated from college in 2004 (or 5), they were told they would have an average of 7 different professions (not jobs, but total changes)... pretty scary.

Those are my only p 6's rb

2:55 am

must be an S6, then. That helps.

So far, she and her fiance are employed, but they are the lucky ones. They have friends who moved back home.

Yep. I've had a few already. Well, I do different things.

Yeah. I used to work at a shitty job I just hated... but now? I'm realizing how lucky I was to have it. I'd take it again if it was being offered.

It does change perspective, and in the long run, will probably make us more creative.

Large corps are no longer loyal to employees, so folks will have to go back to a mom and pop mentality - finding services they can perform and make a living.

2:59 am

an

Sorry, was just tweeting.

Not that I was gone that long. :P

no prob at all

No. There's no loyalty to employees whatsoever.

rb do you need anymore help; I probably need to get going

I have a friend who was 3 years from retirement (had been at same orthopaedic co. 35+ years... they discontinued her job 6 mos. ago... absurd.

Oh man. :(

3:03 am

oh, go on, Dee, I got the S6, and will just keep morewording along. Thanks so much for the help! :)

yqw

She is smart and never had a bad review, so it was not performance related. They will rename her job and hire someone at half her salary. She will be scrambling for insurance, until she can apply for medicare and supplement... it's nuts.

Yeah, that's really awful of them to do that to her. They just don't care whose life they wreck, do they?

After all she's given them over the years.

What's sad is the decisions are supposedly based on "profit", but here is the idiocy - she received a year's severance and total insurance during that time. That would make her only 2 years short... that is almost criminal. Okay, enough for my soap box.

I didn't realize your brother was on American Idol. What is he up to now?

Dee, shh please.

3:12 am

oh, I knew that already... ;p

oops crud so sorry.... k... mum's the word

Email.

Just finished 2nd album. "Trespassing". Out soon.

Well, congrats on that; hope you can rest well tonight. Will be praying for your job situations.

Thanks. Something's gotta come up soon.

Or I'll have to apply at In-N-Out, I guess. Watch... my first customer at the drive-thru window: Crazy Face. That would be just my luck. I'd squirt mustard in his eye and get fired. Great blog material if nothing else. :P

3:17 am

heeheehee! (down to 2!)

I still think he is crazy (really crazy, unstable, on something). I would keep my eyes peeled for him. Maybe he will be so embarrassed afterwords that he will stay out of the neighborhood.

WOWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE rb!!

He's manic, psychotic, or something like that.

Has to be.

I somehow doubt he's capable of embarrassment. Or he wouldn't go around acting like such a nutbag.

Depends on how much he cared for the girl.

I finished a while ago... finally. Took longer than usual in between doing other things on here.

Haha, yeah. That was the best part. Priceless!

Made my day.

and too much chatting lol... couldn't have been funnier if you had written their script

At least she had some sense anyway.

Sure did.

Bet it's not his first adult temper tantrum.

Aww, thanks. Yeah, maybe I should heed the "comedy" calling after all. Who knows.

Sure seems like something to seriously consider... I was impressed, as were several others.

Well, I'm off til the morrow... need to answer a few emails.

Read my update for January 29. I got to tell my story at an improv at a comedy club. Best birthday ever!

cool sounds like a blast

Yeah, I'm dragging myself off to bed now. Too much to do tomorrow.

I mean December 29, geez.

I'll be ok. Can't tell I"m overtired, can you?

LOL I knew what you meant. Hope to see you soon.

January 29 is my brother's birthday. Mine is December 29, lol. No kidding... wasn't that timed well?

I think I was mixing that up with New Year's or something... who knows. At this hour on how little sleep I've had, anything's possible.

my hubby and all of his family were born on the 2nd of the month (Dec, Jan, April) pretty comical

Oh yeah?

But both of us on the 29, one month apart. Well he's 2 years and 11 months older than me, to the day.

yep

well, I am off Hugs and best wishes!~

Anyway... over and out. Take care!

3:24 am

nite, you too, sleep well! :)

3:26 am

er, you two...

3:28 am

fireworks! whew! off I go! :p

3:35 am

morning all

4:06 am

back later, can't keep my ***s open=[

4:40 am

good morning

4:41 am

Morning Ruby how are you?

4:42 am

hello deeha! It is snowing and cold here (again); we've had snow and/or rain every day for more than a week.

4:43 am

how is the weather in the UK?

4:43 am

an dhow were your holidays?

4:44 am

It isnt too cold here, not really January-y but terrific gales- force 11 in the Channel for at least two days and I am only about a mile from the coast- and loads of rain

4:44 am

gm

4:44 am

Christmas was good but I am never sorry when its all over - what A SCROOGE!!

4:45 am

for about 15 minutes last night, we had huge winds. It is terrifying to hear them and poor old Ruby runs outside and hides in the shrubbery

4:45 am

Happy Belated Birthday, KJE! I hope you had a wonderful day

4:45 am

I feel the same way, deeha. The holidays are to stressful to suit me

4:46 am

ty ruby!

4:46 am

too*

4:55 am

left corner e?

4:55 am

not yet, sorry

4:56 am

lower, btw

4:56 am

but only have 59 words, no nbt or nbs

4:56 am

pease

4:56 am

i have 40 to go

4:56 am

whoops, sorry

4:57 am

bottom e: en6: en + one of an archipellago. Past tense for the 7.

4:58 am

ty!

4:58 am

i miss that every time

4:58 am

ty, dach

4:59 am

no worries.

5:00 am

Good morning all.....

5:00 am

gm flask!

5:02 am

see you later, lunch now

morning all. how many words today please

5:10 am

173

ty

5:11 am

np

5:11 am

bbiab

6:46 am

sspiel

6:51 am

hi everyone clues 4 the 8s pleaser

6:52 am

cl8/50 ... to have washed ... ... one of 5 which build from cl5

6:53 am

ty do you have the other one

6:53 am

... not yet

6:53 am

cl8/60...what Gumby is made of + what you cook in, plural

6:54 am

... there ya go ... ... thanks Molly

6:54 am

: )

6:55 am

You're welcome Dos, thanks for not saying "I don't know what Gumby is, must be some American thing"

6:56 am

... I always preferred Pokey myself ... didn't like the green colour

6:56 am

he once was a little green slab of cl** u should see what gumby can do today

6:57 am

sorry dont get the clue could you give me a different one please

6:58 am

... Must wait for grandchildren before I get back into Gumby ... and I've got at least three years I figure for that ...

6:59 am

... compund 4+4 ... a type of very dense earth ... plus two of something you cook in

6:59 am

ty

6:59 am

... must drive wife to work ... see y'all later ...

7:04 am

Good morning!

7:16 am

If anyone is here....may I have the stats for the upper row E?

7:16 am

ex2

7:17 am

ey4/6

7:17 am

hey, car :-)

7:17 am

Hi Une

7:17 am

TY!

7:17 am

yw!

7:17 am

Stats please for the A on the right?

7:18 am

aw4/10 "Far and Aw**"

7:18 am

<slap> TY again!

7:18 am

how are you this chilly morning?

7:18 am

no prob! :-)

7:19 am

tired . . . ongoing insomnia but glad to have made it past yesterday, the one-year anniversary of my mom's passing

7:19 am

{{hugs}}

7:19 am

I can't believe it has been a year already.

7:19 am

thanks . . . worked on positive thoughts all day . . . and happy memories! :-)

7:20 am

Good for you! That is the way to honor and remember her!

7:20 am

i know -- doesn't seem like a year to me either

7:21 am

gotta run for now -- BBL -- HAGD! :-) *poof*

7:22 am

Bye Une! Ty and have a good day.

7:26 am

hi all,help with a under the c pls

7:27 am

Hi Peri! Une just clued it for me at 7:18 below.

7:27 am

aw 4/10

7:27 am

duh, ty

7:28 am

and the bottom e pls for nbt

7:28 am

Which one?

7:28 am

one next to the a pls

7:29 am

try en 6/18 and the plural....to send someone to a piece of land surrounded by ocean

7:30 am

ty ty car

7:30 am

yvw

7:30 am

bbl

7:30 am

Bye!

7:35 am

I am off. Have a good day!

7:46 am

good morning

Good morning

I can't seem to wake up

7:47 am

morning Kap

7:53 am

seeing sw** in the grid made me think of the "New" series, celebrity wife sw**, did anyone watch that?

7:58 am

clue for bottom e in the 4th column

7:59 am

nm got it

8:02 am

hi all

8:02 am

*pours Kap a cup of coffee*

8:04 am

Hi all and happy babbling

8:05 am

hi chris

8:12 am

are there any ph words?

8:13 am

ph5,18; ph6,30; ph5,18

8:14 am

thanks!

8:14 am

is there just one py, or are there more?

8:14 am

just the one

8:15 am

great, cool

8:15 am

and no ps, i think?

8:16 am

Correct!

8:17 am

Hanging my head and revealing that I've gone to the list so early.

8:18 am

how early?

8:21 am

hi hurhsy - how's the throat?

8:21 am

left side is 100% healed, right side is coming along. got reasonable amount of sleep last night! did yoga this morning!

8:22 am

good day all

8:22 am

good to hear, is it unusual to heal unevenly like that?

8:22 am

can someone clue the ph's pls

8:22 am

my monkeys are still sleeping

8:22 am

how about ph?

8:22 am

hi sue, ph related to genera and species (I can never remember the order)

8:22 am

i have no idea. i don't know if it just depends on how hard it was to get each tonsil out, how good a job he did on each side...?

8:22 am

i found the 5,18

8:22 am

oops, that was not meant to be a pun

8:22 am

ah, nm, just saw sue's post... will hunt

8:23 am

kingdom, ph----, class, order, family, genus, species

8:23 am

found both 5,18

8:23 am

they never taught us that in school, i just remember my mom saying it a lot

8:23 am

the ph6 is latin pl of something i thought was already a latin pl. :)

8:24 am

does it build off the 5

8:24 am

yes

8:24 am

that is weird, hursh... i thought it was already a plural too

8:24 am

ty

8:24 am

now the py pls

8:25 am

Good morning, people of Earth.

8:25 am

what are the stats

8:25 am

well the py is a 4 so monkeys should help there

8:25 am

good morning judi of... ?

8:25 am

py4/7

8:25 am

ty

8:27 am

1/2 way

8:27 am

i have cl8, what's the other 8?

8:27 am

no nbt but do have nbs

8:28 am

that's what i have too hursh

8:28 am

There are two Cl8's, hurshy.

8:28 am

There are 2 x cl8.

8:28 am

ooh just guessed it!

8:28 am

only one i have is the cl too

8:28 am

two cl8

8:28 am

one compound

8:29 am

got it - ty

8:29 am

I guessed it too. A gift from the Babble gods.

8:29 am

so then for 7's we have cl x3, en, sp, and...?

8:29 am

interesting, hursh... I had the compound one, but your clue gave me my last 2 c's

8:30 am

:)

8:30 am

missing same one, hursh

8:30 am

i got the cl7, to wash

8:31 am

to not getting the other 8

8:31 am

if I wanted to cook in a natural pot, I might use this pa7 with plural too, sue

8:31 am

it is a vessel for working with playdough?

8:32 am

cl8/60....what Gumby is made of + what you cook in, plural

8:32 am

i have that one, is there a second cl8

8:33 am

Extension of the to wash word

8:33 am

Morning all

8:33 am

molly that got me to the 7

8:33 am

it goes to the 8 also?

8:34 am

there are two kinds of root word for wash, one 5 and one 6 letters

8:34 am

sorry, 5 and 7

8:34 am

that isnt fair

8:34 am

they start the same 5 letters

8:34 am

Morning, Mr. Bob.

8:35 am

Try this...when I wash my body, I cl5 myself but when I "wash" my soul, I cl7 it.

8:35 am

got it

8:35 am

ty all

8:36 am

i need a clue for any a in the 4th column for nbt pls

8:36 am

licorice flavor herb

8:37 am

that is it!! off to the shrink I go

8:37 am

bbl

8:37 am

Morning All

8:38 am

hi hego.. hi Babblers

8:38 am

Hi Aloy!

8:38 am

good cluing today.

8:39 am

hi all...a clue for the last le5/10....please

8:39 am

t-riff, am on my first sweep of the grid

8:40 am

just started, oh musical one.

8:41 am

... le5/10 ... mans name + to be

8:41 am

ty...never heard of that one, dose

8:42 am

good clue Dose. ty

8:42 am

ooh, have that but not listed, so couldn't i.d. it as the last le5.10

8:42 am

... me neither ... monkeyed it

8:43 am

how many hy?

8:43 am

u monkey around better than i...i tried for about 10 minutes, Dose

8:43 am

... what makes you think it didn't take me 10 minutes back around 6:30

8:44 am

i should have gotten it, i have bronchial asthma(LOL)

8:44 am

lawdy miss clawdy

8:45 am

lawdy what you do to me

8:45 am

ahoy aloy!

8:45 am

Aloy is singing!!

8:45 am

hi there kje, ready to join a fri morn sing a long?

8:46 am

me may maw mow mu...... sure

8:46 am

forget who sang lawdy miss clawdy

8:46 am

Shucks, I would have done a "sounds like" clue for le 5/10. Because, as you know, I am naughty.

8:46 am

mi mi mi

8:46 am

lol Molly

8:46 am

yep, kje..me and my friend Gladys Friday(LOL)

8:46 am

I was waiting for that Molly

8:47 am

Lloyd Price did Lawdy Miss Clawdy

8:47 am

ty Molly (-:

8:47 am

I woke up with J. Geils playing in my head. "There aint no life on monkey island..." Don't know where the hell that came from.

8:48 am

monkey - babble -

8:48 am

However, it's been covered by everyone from Elvis to Little Richard.

8:48 am

I woke up from a dream with Hugh Laurie in it (don't tell my husband!).

8:48 am

ooh, hope he was nice to you, Krysten

8:48 am

oooo lucky

8:48 am

Hugh's okay, Krysten. I do wish he'd shave more though.

8:48 am

Yep, he was!

8:49 am

Was he singing?

8:49 am

big blue eyes

8:49 am

I never thought of him like that until my dream.

8:49 am

*Analyzes Judi's dream*

8:49 am

Playing piano.

8:49 am

Good morning, friends.

8:49 am

hursh? there are 2 sp7... that is the other one

8:49 am

Even better

8:49 am

*reclines on couch - awaiting analysis*

8:49 am

Hi Scrabs

8:49 am

hi scrabs

8:49 am

howdy Scrabbler

8:51 am

(Said in Sigmund Freud voice) You veel isolated, zee island signifies that. You veel misunderstood, except by monkeys. Monkeys are sexually significant you know.

8:51 am

very sexy

8:51 am

LOL

8:51 am

Oh, hell no, Siggy.

8:51 am

vedddddddy interesting.. facial hair, Hugh Laurie, monkey..

8:52 am

disgusting, but true.

8:52 am

You shrinks are smoking the wallpaper.

8:52 am

wow! This is getting deep.

8:52 am

It's the glue that gets 'em every time.

8:52 am

And very reudian. lol

8:52 am

Hugh Laurie, House, doctor, play doctor

8:53 am

uh Freudian

8:53 am

keep going...

8:53 am

oh oh, childhood, play doctor?

8:53 am

Oh, that Molly!

8:54 am

Is there another kind of play doctor?

8:55 am

Well Krysten, if Laurie was playing a baby grand, I think we know what the piano signifies. : P

8:56 am

I want Scrabbs. Y'all are a bunch of quacks.

8:57 am

I have been observing and taking notes.

8:57 am

*Leaves chog, rejected and scorned*

8:57 am

Actually, he was a perfect gentlemen. Nothing at all like his character. I'm not really sure why my head makes up such nonsense!

8:57 am

quack, duck, rubber ducky, you're the one.. you make bathtime lots of fun

8:57 am

A fellow nurse once told us that she had a dream of a certain doctor. He was coming toward her and as he did so his feet kept getting bigger an bigger.

8:58 am

any sph words?

8:58 am

Now tell me that isn't perfectly clear. lol

8:58 am

rubber ducky i'm awfully fond of youuuuu

8:58 am

I love Ernie

8:59 am

have big orange oven mittens I call Bert and Ernie

9:00 am

cute, Aloy

9:01 am

1st column is grey.

9:01 am

wtg Scrabbs

9:01 am

go scrab!

9:02 am

i am down to 5 and must list... have to get going

9:02 am

Wow, Scrabs!

9:02 am

kje, that is great..

9:02 am

I'm aiming for halfway then I must get ready for a snowshoeing trek.

9:02 am

you have snow?

9:03 am

At least a foot. I snowshoed on Monday and Wednesday and it was wonderful! Tough workout. Maybe I'll lose some weight.

9:04 am

sounds hard

9:04 am

60% more calories used than walking.

9:05 am

Thanks for coming to my rescue, Scrabbler. This place is a malpractice suit waiting to happen.

9:05 am

I should think so.

9:05 am

FW!

9:05 am

I am always the voice of reason.

9:05 am

Yay kje!

9:06 am

wahoo, congrats kje!!!!

9:06 am

Yay! KJE!

9:06 am

any cues needed before i run?

9:06 am

anyone know when 3 kings day is?

9:07 am

today

9:07 am

Down to 30. Off for a break. Catch you kids later. *POOF*

9:07 am

bye Judi

9:07 am

Yesterday, Aloy, I believe, and today is Epiphany.

9:07 am

oh, ty hego...

9:07 am

... not sure ... but isn't it the same as Epiphany

9:07 am

Jan 6. Very big in Italy

9:07 am

hagd all... I'm off

9:07 am

bye, kje.. have a fab day

9:07 am

bye judi

9:08 am

celebrated on Sunday in RC church

9:08 am

Our newspaper had many photos of Three Kings celebrations in Buffalo yesterday, so I got confused.

9:08 am

yes, 3 kings day is more or less the same thing as epiphany

9:08 am

Hi Harp

9:08 am

Hi Jane. Bye Judi and kje.

9:08 am

in Puerto Rico, it was the day the kids rec'd gifts

9:08 am

Italy also

9:08 am

hi all

9:09 am

Probably spain too.

9:09 am

the kids would leave hay for the camels at the foot of their beds

9:09 am

Hi Carlee

9:09 am

and the 3 kings would come bearing gifts

9:09 am

hi hego

9:09 am

Hi Kat

9:09 am

hi carlee

9:09 am

hi scrabs :)

9:09 am

hi aloy

hi I snuck in to finish the last 14, didn't want to interrupt the deep discussions (too deep for me lol) and got fireworks insrtead

9:10 am

Yay Vanilla

9:10 am

wtg, vanilla.. congrats!

9:10 am

*~*~*POMPOM TOSS*~*~*for van

9:10 am

Celebration of the visit of the magi to the creche, which was the first Gentile acknowledgement of the baby Jesus, and a foreshadowing of the idea that all could become followers, not just Jews.

9:10 am

hi harp

9:10 am

stimulating conversation hastens fireworks, methinks

tyty

9:11 am

(looks like Sunday School stuck in my head. I can't believe I could type a complete sentence before my coffee>)

saw Freud slipping again

9:11 am

In Buffalo it is on the West Side, the Puerto Rican community, where 3 Kings Day is a huge celebration.

9:11 am

Yay Loy

9:11 am

And Aloy too

9:11 am

lol, no fw here.. still 37 to find

you will you will

9:12 am

Isn't today also when the Middle Eastern Christians celebrate Christmas?

9:12 am

Oh, I was confused.

9:12 am

173 to go here, lol

you look a little confused there

9:12 am

Eastern Orthodox Church has a different calendar.

173 is a good number

9:13 am

I am recovering from my own nightmare from overnight. I was in a mental hospital and I wasn't the doctor.

the nurse, the cleaner

9:14 am

h,mm Scrabbs... something out of your control..

9:14 am

Nope, I was a patient and was being forced to take medication that made me very sedated.

I visited one once, getting in was no problem, they wouldn't let me out

9:15 am

Too much, Aloy.

oohaah tell us more

9:15 am

shoves couch over for Scrabbs

9:15 am

That is what I feared, Vanilla. How did I get there? How could I get out?

they do all kinds of things while youre sedated

9:16 am

sounds awful, Scrabs

no you cant they have the keys to hell

9:16 am

"I don't belong here. YOu don't understand!"

9:16 am

Heavy!!

9:16 am

egads, that would have woken me up.. scary

would make me wet the bed

9:17 am

lol vanilla

9:17 am

even though I know it wasn't real I am still in that emotional state--scared, helpless.

9:17 am

at least

9:17 am

*checking pajamas for urine*

still remember as a kid how nice that felt on a winter morning

9:18 am

maybe a good snowshoe trek will erase those feelings

9:18 am

eexercise will help

but go on scrab

9:18 am

yes, we all prescribe a nice outing for you

9:18 am

vent, vent, vent.. let it all out

9:19 am

Didn't happen, nilla.

9:19 am

*primal scream*

twas a thrill anyway

9:19 am

ahhh, that is better, Scrabbs..

is that really all?

I think scrab is hiding something

9:22 am

Ah, the challenges of life.

9:23 am

newbie for me = pa5.14, up the creek without a ***d**

you've got something to munch anyway

strange word hey

9:24 am

ty VS

9:24 am

TY Aloy

9:24 am

Aloy, I mean.

9:24 am

no idea.. yw

its a hoe according to the scrab dict

9:26 am

interesting, ty nilla

9:26 am

88/85. Time to get ready to snowshoe. Must pack lunch, water, snacks, and a book to read in the hut next to the wood stove.

9:27 am

Bye Scrabs. hagd

9:27 am

ah, snowshoeing! i wish i had snowshoes.

I often look up these silly words thinking I'll remember them

9:27 am

howdy hurshy

9:27 am

Hurshy, how are you feeling?

9:28 am

well my left side is all better. my right side is still working on it.

interesting. hagtime Scrabbler

9:28 am

Hurshy--go to Sierra Trading Post or Campmor. Not expensive.

9:28 am

ok thanks :)

9:29 am

Get trekking poles--then arms get a workout too, just like when hiking.

9:29 am

hello Babble friends, back for the last 1/3

9:29 am

oh for heaven's sake.. missed the cocker sp7

9:29 am

Hi & bye Sprite.

9:29 am

hi sprite!

hello sprite are they having some high water in your country!

9:30 am

Aloy go wash your mouth. It is a King Charles Cavalier one ;)

9:30 am

ty Aloy again

9:30 am

Hi Sprite!

9:30 am

(-: ok

9:30 am

they sure do, vanilla! Awesome lot of rain all at once.

friends up in Groningen may have to evacuate

9:31 am

hope Santa was good to Terra

9:32 am

yes, Groningen has been hit the hardest. I have friends there too. Usually we can deal with water in the netherlands, but this was SO much more than normal!

9:32 am

Aloy, Santa left Terra with me, so couldn't be better :D

hope they are all well

ok must go have agreat day everyone its been most educational

9:33 am

bye vanilla, be well and have fun

9:33 am

ttfn, nilla.. you hagd too

9:35 am

I have used all the words I know at least once and I still have 54 grid words to find... how come?

9:36 am

some of the words you know are hiding?

9:37 am

and why isn't the pirate's visual aid not valid?

9:37 am

it is possible, Aloy. But I think this grid boasts 54 words I never heard of.

9:37 am

have bumped into some of that description, sprite

9:38 am

(either that or sleeping only one or two hours a night for about a month is bad for the little grey cells)

9:38 am

Bye for now. bbl

9:38 am

oh, hope you don't have sleep ap5, sprite

9:38 am

bye hego

9:38 am

bye hego

9:39 am

thanks :D

9:40 am

yw (-:

9:40 am

just found that slippery we6, caught it !

9:41 am

thanks again! *loves Aloy*

9:41 am

ooh.. that one was fun!

9:41 am

*mumble mumble grumble and my favorite word is a phantom today!*

9:42 am

it starts with an l today, Sprite

9:42 am

fw for me and I have to get out of my pjs! feeling guilty..

9:42 am

but enjoyed the grid

9:43 am

Aloy, don't feel guilty, enjoy the freedom :) *hugs* and have a good time.

9:43 am

so ciao for now.. scratch Terra behind the ears for me, sprite.. (( )) back, poof

9:43 am

will do!

9:44 am

hi all

9:44 am

sorry i missed snuffy

9:45 am

hi jmc :)

9:45 am

Your favorite word starts with L today Sprite, it's just the whack-a-doodle Enable way.

9:45 am

hi sprite

9:45 am

hey molls

9:46 am

i thought i would try for nbt before i go off to home depot today

9:46 am

ye4 I got that one... and the l4/9 that is at least related in meaning to my favorite one.

9:46 am

hello, everyone! clue for the ly5?

9:46 am

and hiya Molly :)

9:46 am

hi lbd

9:47 am

hiya dawg, ly + v*** in which you put flowers

9:47 am

hi jmc! how goes the construction?

9:47 am

ty, sprite!

9:47 am

yvw!

9:47 am

i should be able to sleep in my big new beautiful bedroom in a little more than a week

9:48 am

my kitchen will take a little longer

9:48 am

tada!! finito!! fun little grid today.

9:48 am

oh how lovely! You must be looking forward to that...

9:48 am

wtg dawg!

9:48 am

march 10 i am having a big party!

9:48 am

sounds great, JMC

9:48 am

oh i am sprite i really have hated living in half a house

9:49 am

march 10: official opening of the new home and we are all invited to your bedroom?

9:49 am

hubz decided he wanted to repaint the kitchen cabinets last weekend. it's not a big project but sure is a pain. i can only imagine what you've been through

9:50 am

absolutely--some of you may have to sleep on the floor but maybe molls will let some of you stay with her

9:50 am

lord you have to take everything out of the cabinets to paint them--it is such a pain

9:50 am

well all right, in that case I'll go with molly if she'll have me. But only after the bedroom party is over!

9:51 am

well i wouldn't want you just to fly in for the party and then leave!

9:51 am

a sleep in! everyone has to wear jammies!

9:51 am

painting kitchen cabinets = turning downstairs floor into disaster area

9:51 am

haha after the neighbors leave we will have jammie party!

9:52 am

i have a little spot on the dining table where we can eat. everything else is covered with dishes and spices and such

9:52 am

oh dear and I sleep nekkid... *makes note to buy jammies*

9:52 am

i haven't sat at a table in my house since june

9:52 am

i can lend you a nightgown sprite

9:53 am

Should be in DC March 10 as well!!!!

9:53 am

tsk dawg, you make it sound like a big thing... you need spices and dishes to eat anyway, so it can't be that bad :D

9:53 am

in the summer i sleep nekkid too but not this last summer with scaffolding up to my bedroom window

9:53 am

size HUGE, jmc?

9:53 am

hi witchy

9:53 am

great witchy you really should come then!

9:53 am

argh jmc, you must be ready to spit fire by now

9:54 am

i is no skinny-winny

9:54 am

Hi sprite and everyone else

9:54 am

lol sprite. for only two people living here, you'd think i regularly fed the 7th fleet! i have more dishes than i know what to do with and spices,...well, i do like to experiment

9:54 am

hi Withcy

9:54 am

or witchy

9:54 am

*sighs contentedly* then it will be ok, jmc :)

9:55 am

spit fire? why? my contractor was going through chemo for the whole job--i had teh easy part

9:55 am

you can never have too many spices, experimenting is fun. As for the dishes, you can always go Greek.

9:55 am

jeezzz jmc! That is awful... how is she/he doing?

9:55 am

i have been tossing an amazing amount of stuff lbd--here is your chance

9:55 am

??? go greek?

9:56 am

don't you know what the Greek do with their dishes?

9:56 am

he is cancer free so we are happy

9:56 am

uh no sprite what do the greeks do? *wary look*

9:56 am

praise the Big Guy for that

9:56 am

they break their dishes, jmc, when they party

9:57 am

haha no don't break my dishes sprite!!

9:57 am

gotta love it when they dance, sing, call 'ELLA" and break the dishes! Great way to avoid the washing up.

9:58 am

don't think i want to break the dishes.

9:58 am

hoopla i think

9:58 am

hmm, has anyone told them about paper plates?

9:58 am

stats for any of the vowels on the bottom row but the A please

9:59 am

haha lbd

9:59 am

.... ah well, I tried. Here goes another attempt to make people throw away their stuff :)

9:59 am

for the i, think land surrounded by sea, and the hairy-nosed dolphin

9:59 am

i have been giving and throwing and recycling like made

10:00 am

for the e, build on the land surrounded by sea

10:00 am

over the christmas break i made the boy come and get most of his stuff so i could rent out the guest room to a student for a semester (in lieu of a job)

10:00 am

dawg! Paper plates... heresy! That wouldn't make that great sound!

10:00 am

sorry, for the LEFT e.

10:01 am

duh! ty sprite

10:01 am

for the righthand E, I have only one, EL4/5.

10:01 am

phone

10:02 am

well... no not really a phone. But it kinda rhymes with handh*** phones.

10:02 am

The other from that e is es4

10:03 am

ah great, thank you Molly

10:03 am

And I think JMC meant she had a phone call

10:04 am

woot, down to 40. Among which are 3 7s and all the 8s. I am braindead.

10:04 am

*giggles* Really, Molly?

10:04 am

go sprite!

10:04 am

I couldn't tell if you were making a joke. 2D communication is lacking

10:05 am

<---Is the Babble Whipping Girl Today

10:05 am

very true. I was pulling jmc's leg. Was under the the illusion I was being amusing ;)

10:06 am

*bends over and pants*

10:08 am

back

10:09 am

wb jmc. Scroll down for clues... and a cute misunderstanding. And rowdy words from me of course.

10:09 am

*pulls out whip*

10:09 am

yayyyyy :D

10:09 am

bwahahaha

10:10 am

lol

10:11 am

well I give in. Lickety to the rescue for me today. Can't believe I am totally stuck with 32 to go, but it is the cruel truth.

10:12 am

i used to have a list of all these babblets but i lost it on some computer

10:13 am

oh that is a shame! I know somebody has them in her profile... don't remember who... welki? Seem to remember someone with a W...

10:13 am

the dolphin is en4/4 right?

10:13 am

no, the dolphin is in4

10:14 am

uu has the science ones

10:14 am

oh yes! That double u, lol.

10:14 am

jilli maybe?

10:15 am

what about the E on the left1?

10:15 am

To make sea surrounded

10:16 am

no, jilli has the irregularities between morewords and dictionary.com

10:16 am

hmmmm

10:16 am

make into land surrounded by sea

10:16 am

weird ty molls

10:16 am

ty too sprite

10:17 am

Weird, see, I am the Babble Whipping Girl. First called a quack, now weird.

10:17 am

yvw... sorry to echo Molly, my chat is kinda slow today

10:17 am

no i was calling the word weird

10:17 am

*Goes to the stockade*

10:17 am

boy somebody took her miss sensitivity pill this morning

10:17 am

hello dear friends

10:18 am

hi trif

10:18 am

lol Moll! You are a sweet ducky saying quack, but further than that I wouldn't go.

10:18 am

Triffles! *huggles*

10:18 am

Joking, just joking...it's a joke, see?

10:18 am

haha!

10:18 am

Hi Trif

10:18 am

hello ladies

10:18 am

*sends Molly some ;) ;) and :) :)

10:19 am

stats for the second row A please

10:19 am

Molly!!!!

10:19 am

aw4, jmc

10:19 am

ak4/5

10:19 am

hi trif

10:19 am

Thanks girls, I'm fine. Just trying (and failing) to be funny

10:19 am

jeezzz I cannot even type anymore. AL4/5

10:19 am

ak???

10:20 am

pssst, sprite there isn't a K in the grid today.

10:20 am

sprite you are a big fat liar!

10:20 am

you need more emoticons molls!

10:20 am

and better ignore me completely, and go with dawg.

10:20 am

hi ya harp!

10:20 am

also that's not it

10:20 am

hi lbd

10:20 am

lollllll hi jane! Too true!

10:20 am

al4/5 is another a

10:21 am

yep, the man's name is not the A you asked. I apologise. Humbly. Blame it on the sleepless brain. I am the zombie that is hiding behind the garbage bags under my e**s.

10:21 am

hi harp

10:21 am

aw4.10, jmc. like aw** in the manger

10:22 am

See, now Sprite is a big fat liar. It's vicious in here today. Proceed with caution. : O

10:22 am

liar liar, pants on fiar!

10:22 am

duh!

10:22 am

ty lbd

10:22 am

nbt

10:23 am

ouch! Now I have to sit on the blisters. Cruel, you guys. And I TOLD you, go with dawg!

10:23 am

good use of emoticons, Molls ;)

10:23 am

duh, nbt. I have nbt. 24 words left. I want nwt.

10:24 am

pants on friar? i would hope so!

10:24 am

*hands sprite some aloe* put it one yourself

10:24 am

really most priests these days have their pants off

10:25 am

I would usually prefer pants on friar. Unless it is a very sexy friar... but since my favorite word is a phantom, chances are slim.

10:25 am

you are confusing that with their flies being open ru

10:25 am

*pours aloe on chair and sits down in it* Ruru! I thought it was part of the job description, yes.

10:25 am

lol jmc

10:25 am

okay i will bite what is your favorite word sprite

10:26 am

exactly sprite.. say Friar Tuck ten times pretty quickly

10:26 am

don't bite, jmc, too kinky for babble

10:26 am

friar untucked

10:26 am

:)

10:26 am

you know, jmc. It's penis. Very favorite thing. And no, it is not envy. I love it the way it is... attached to my love.

10:26 am

hi sprite

10:26 am

hey JBV :)

10:27 am

hi jbv

10:27 am

gee too bad you can't take it on a walk with the dog sprite? :)

10:27 am

reminds me of a joke... but I guess it is untranslatable.

10:27 am

Everyone knows that friars hang loose under their robes.

10:27 am

oh of course -- short term memory loss

10:28 am

I don't leash it, ruru. I love the way it jumps up freely to me :)

10:28 am

you are confusing friars with scots molls

10:28 am

at least you have it trained well then sprite

10:28 am

Oh man, Freud would have had a field day with Sprite. Penis adoration.

10:29 am

JMC obviously knows little about monks.

10:29 am

well Molly, it can be heaven in a tube... not many things you can say that about

10:29 am

ROFL

10:29 am

and as Freud never said: Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

10:30 am

scots? friars? Aren't that briars?

10:30 am

haha a friend just sent me a holiday power point!

10:31 am

woot, people are so creative nowadays

10:31 am

how enable applies pt to nouns amazes me

10:31 am

I hesitate to add to the enormous affection men already have for their little friends. : P

10:31 am

enable is amazing

10:32 am

<---respectfully declines to make comment

10:32 am

<----not getting involved in penis discussion

10:32 am

lol Molly... since I am the once that can make his friend deliriously happy, my love knows it is my personal slave.

10:33 am

exactly jm.. dont' let Molly prod you on

10:33 am

<---Bowing out of conversation, this is getting icky

10:33 am

don't blame Molls for the prodding, ruru. You know you are just happy to see us.

10:33 am

<---wishes he knew sprite in high school

10:33 am

ok ok, don't go Molly, I can behave myself. *shuts up*

10:34 am

<---Bets Ruru knew girls just like her when he was in high school

10:34 am

and vice versa, ruru ;)

10:34 am

now be kind to sprite, she's sleep deprived not sex deprived.

10:34 am

LoL

10:35 am

*changing topic to keep Molly with us* I submit a new word: cawel. It is an upside down camel.

10:35 am

*Cough* I don't think anyone thought she was sex deprived

10:35 am

very true, dawg :)

10:35 am

where do the humps go then sprite?

10:36 am

haha

10:36 am

ruru, don't be dense (another phantom)! Look at a W. The humps are what the camel is lying on.

10:36 am

Changing topic...humps...riiiight

10:36 am

hahahahaha

10:36 am

:D

10:36 am

*wipes tears from eyes*

10:37 am

*drags Molly's mind out of the gutter*

10:37 am

Hey, I am not the self admitted penis lover

10:37 am

i must go read my syllabi to get ready for school next week bbl

10:38 am

I will admit to loving the humps too, but that is different.

10:38 am

bye jmc, have a good time studying.

10:38 am

later, jmc

10:38 am

I have only found ten more words..bah

10:38 am

While looking at the PH words, I came across a doozy, and wondered why Dr. God didn't use it: PHPHT...I mean, really!

10:39 am

hello Erda. That would be a nice one.

10:39 am

probably not in enable, erda

10:39 am

Yes, sprite!

10:39 am

i have two ph are there more of them?

10:40 am

three, ph's

10:40 am

let's face it, psst and tsks and such are accepted.

10:40 am

beans

10:40 am

3 in total, ruru

10:40 am

It's in the Scrabble dictionary. And yes, there are three PH words

10:40 am

agree, sprite, but you know how psycho enable is.

10:41 am

lol... my love and I were watching a Mr. Bean movie last week. That was him laughing until he cried, and me looking at him in utter amazement.

10:42 am

enable is suffering from severe multiple personality disorder. Don't know the current correct name... DIS?

10:42 am

schitzoid

10:43 am

that's not pc nor the dmv term

No, it is not schizoid.

It is dissociative disorder.

10:43 am

(joke:) you know the fastest way to cure someone from schizophrenia?

Schizoid is something else entire;y.

10:43 am

Isn't schitzoid one of those little yappy dogs?

10:43 am

how, sprite

10:44 am

DIS, I think, or DID... dissociative Identity Syndrome/Disorder

And schizophrenia is not "split personality."

10:44 am

you send him 2 bills, dawg

10:44 am

lol

10:44 am

i think my sister has one of those, harp

10:44 am

I know, Kaplan. It is a joke.

10:45 am

shih tsu

I know you know. I mean it is one of my peeves in common lingo

10:45 am

oh lol, yes, those dogs.

And in journalism.

10:46 am

"yappy" describes them perfectly!

10:46 am

i must be off for a while. bbl/ get some sleep, sprite!

It is a good joke, Sprite.

10:46 am

Hi there, speaking of little dogs

10:47 am

I understand, Kaplan. The popular image of schizophrenia is totally wrong. But to people on the outside, somebody reacting to things only he/she can see or hear or feel is apparently not so different from somebody with a split identity.

10:47 am

LOL bichon

10:47 am

will do, dawg! Have a good time, you.

10:47 am

hi bichon :) Yours is cute! Mine is too.

10:47 am

do you have a shi tzu Sprite?

It used to be called dementia praecox.

10:48 am

My fluffs don't usually look as neat as the photo

10:48 am

no, I have a cavalier sp7, bichon.

I don't have a schizoid shitzu.

10:48 am

aw they shouldn't, bichon. It is great you let them be dogs.

It is good to believe in dog.

10:49 am

great personalities those Cavs

10:49 am

i have a schizoid remote for fios

10:49 am

Kaplan, we have a dutch poem that goes is called Spleen, and it goes something like: "I am sitting on the window sill, being unspeakable bored. I wish I were two dogs, so I could play together."

10:49 am

Mine like to tear through the woods. Afterwards, they need a major clean up

:)

10:50 am

oh yes, Cavs are fun. Problemless dogs (provided they are bred well and healthy).

10:50 am

so does Terra, bichon. He loves to get down and dirty, lol. Always have to wash at least his pa4, and the water is utterly black then.

10:51 am

heyyyy renfield :)

10:51 am

<--Knows the difference between split and disassociated

10:51 am

They only get groomed every two months. In between they need to be brushed often

10:51 am

I can be totally disensplittiated at times.

10:52 am

The United States Of Sprite

10:52 am

Can I have a clue for the last hy/4?

10:53 am

sounds like how tall you are

10:53 am

hy + most of not coffee

10:53 am

(btw, enable cannot spell properly. I mean, come on, pa5/14-6/24??)

10:54 am

more like ununited, Molly, but ye4, that is close ;)

10:54 am

hi Kenny and marpocky

10:54 am

Like the hy4 report...and back to sex we go!

10:55 am

my puppster in a golden retriever.chow mix and she allows me to sleep at the head of her bed - my bed has developed dissociation

10:55 am

you mean you left, Molly?

10:55 am

hint for the pa 5/6?

10:55 am

hahahaha renfield

10:55 am

Sprite, The United States Of Tara is a TV show about a woman with split personality.

10:55 am

bichon: think of what you need to propel a canoe... and don't spell it correctly.

10:55 am

up the creek without one bichon

10:56 am

no double consonant

10:56 am

tyvm ruru

10:56 am

and sprite

10:56 am

ah, I didn't know that, Molly. Was thinking United States of Sprite... USSR a mess :)

10:56 am

Tanks I was not looking at the y under the t. Shame!

10:56 am

<---wins best clue award

10:57 am

must go, dinner is served here. Back later for last 16. Bye all, thanks for the laughs and help!

10:57 am

Sorry it is thanks no tanks.

10:57 am

say hi to the pe5 sprite

10:57 am

later sprite

10:58 am

Said in Pacino voice: Say hello to Sprite's little friend

10:58 am

lol

10:59 am

anyone have the stats on the e on the second row on the bottom?

11:00 am

en6/7 combo

11:02 am

thnx molly - needed that for NBT and also have NBS

11:02 am

got them.. thanks molly

11:02 am

bottom row grey now

11:03 am

what are the stats for the a in the right corner?

11:04 am

aw4/4

11:04 am

The A under the C? aw4/10

11:05 am

oh boy.. I am really dumb

11:05 am

thanks NBT now finally

11:05 am

So am I, it eluded me for a while too

it eluded me for quite a while. I have 39 left.

11:09 am

My brain adamantly refuses to go up and to the left

11:11 am

i was sitting under a biggo honking tree at a stop lite this a.m. after leaving work it was quite cool and foggy - and a snake fell out of a tree onto my roof... he was kinda sluggish - i took some back roads and threw him off scary - snakues

He was sluggish? That's hard for a snake. Sometimes slugs are snakish though.

I am missing an h.

And what is a honking tree?

11:14 am

ir was close to a bar and grill - he nay have been a snookered snakie

Gooseberries?

11:15 am

ha, I love how I sometimes don't see the words that are sitting there all in a row, nice and easy

11:15 am

Ooo Ren, snake is a heavy magic totem.

11:15 am

it's a tree that collects honks when people don't go on green

I understand each word individually, but put together as a sentence, you lose me.

11:18 am

Green lights Kap

tree collects honks?

11:19 am

Poetic license

11:20 am

yes - it's like there are so many honks at that intersection - they have to go somewhere - so the trees collect them -

Now you need a license to write poetry?

I have had my poetic license suspended.

Anyway, the point was- a snake fell on your car. It is hard to follow this conversation, no thanks to me.

11:26 am

under a biggie honking tree - i was thinking (dangerous mission) - we talk to plants and they grow - we honk near trees, play loud music, and the trees grow really big - and that's not counting the spanish moss - that's a totally different misuse of words

11:28 am

*Tries to collect the fragments of this conversation that have spun off kilter*

11:32 am

so k molly - i'm the only one that understands my beanie weenie brain waves - except nutter butter

11:41 am

afternoon all ... looking for some C clues please. CL 7/44 and the 8 (which I am assuming is the plural of the 7).

11:43 am

What Gumby is made of + what you cook in

11:45 am

TYVM Molly.

11:45 am

: )

11:47 am

Last one for fireworks SP7/36

11:50 am

thanks molly

11:55 am

past tense

11:55 am

pt of sp 5/12

11:55 am

ok - thanks Dorens and WV

11:57 am

Like anyone knows what sp5 means. : O

11:57 am

haha

11:57 am

Oh I know. It's a hybrid vegetable. A mix of green leafy and what grows on a pole.

11:59 am

♪ I'm strong and I'm lean, cause I eat my sp5s, I'm Popeye The Sailor Man, toot-toot ♫

11:59 am

I actually got it from that clue, Molly

11:59 am

sp 5 - a verb, to we4, from middle English dialect

12:00 pm

like your version better molly

12:00 pm

before the song

Here's what I want to know: did carole King EVER write a clever lyric?

12:02 pm

she stole from Hemingway.

Did she ever write a line that was not a hackneyed phrase?

12:03 pm

What? You don't think "Smakwater Jack he bought a shotgun" is a clever lyric? : P

12:03 pm

Um, I'm thinking.......

"Mellow as the month of May." Really?

12:04 pm

she's no cole Porter.

My life has been a tapestry...

Winter Spring summer or fall, all you got to do is call.

12:04 pm

only a few geniuses in pop music

I guess pop is not the genre where clever lyrics are to be found

12:07 pm

rarely, there weere a few.

12:07 pm

Paul Simon, Lennon-McCartney,

12:09 pm

There is a direct ratio between how under the influence one is and how clever their lyrics are perceived to be.

12:10 pm

That could be true, but some pop music lyrics are very thoughtful and even profound in a simple way.

12:10 pm

Life is what happens to you when yo're busy making other plans.

12:10 pm

♪ I am the egg man, you are the walrus, coo coo ca choo ♪

12:40 pm

back... hello Babble friends :)

12:42 pm

I agree, hego... right now I a thinking of the alan parsons project... Some other time... Old and wise... turn of a friendly card...

12:45 pm

lol... just realised you guys stopped talking half an hour before I came back... God I need to sleep!

12:46 pm

Hello Sprite :-). I used to love the Alan Parson Project... haven't heard any of that stuff in years.

12:47 pm

heyyy Soodle :) Nice to see you! I have some oldies that never grow old for me... sing them when I am driving. If I am alone in the car, of course

12:48 pm

How you doing, Sprite? Oh, and Happy New Year to you and yours :-)

12:48 pm

to you too. May your blessings multiply like rabbits and your sorrows diminish as chocolate in my son's view.

12:49 pm

What a lovely sentiment!! Scrabbler would approve :-)

12:49 pm

:)

12:53 pm

The Alan Parson's Project had some amazing song lyrics.

12:53 pm

fireflies. Took me ages and a lot of 'cheating' today. Used Lickety... well, his list anyway, and a2z, and still needed a LOT of clues.

12:53 pm

hey Molly, wb :) Yes they did.

12:53 pm

*Sigh* There is no cheating

12:54 pm

hence the apostrophes...

12:54 pm

I love to do the grid without external help. But I don't mind if I can't and I enjoy playing anyway.

12:54 pm

Okay. People can get absolutely nun-like making up rules for this game

12:55 pm

lol yes. Me too. But only if their rules spoil my game. Like calling biggies and smallies from the start. But for the rest... it is a game, and if you enjoy it, you are doing the right thing.

12:56 pm

Molly!! Happy Nollaig na mBan. (Women's Christmas). It seems that in the olden days, women were given this day off after the rigors of Christmas, and the men-folk in the homes did all the housework. So, Happy Nollaig Na mBan, to you & Sprite.

12:56 pm

Atalante told me, when I just started to play: Looking up the actual words is cheating. Everything else is... research!

12:57 pm

thanks Soodle :) I better take my leave now, finish some other stuff and go to bed early... with sleeping pills. Need to break this cycle or I will go crazy.

12:57 pm

Bye Sprite. Sleep well.

1:01 pm

What a nice tradition Soodle.

1:02 pm

Too bad such respect for women and their hard work has been all but lost.

1:03 pm

Yeah, but the implication is that the poor women did everything for the preceding 12 days..(if not 12 months). Anyway, in the man-free zone I live in, we are celebrating by getting a Chinese takeaway!!

1:05 pm

Well then, you ladies enjoy your Chinese food.

1:07 pm

wish all of ya'll a very blessed 2012 ;D

any clue for the ap5?

1:38 pm

dont have yet, will look

1:38 pm

sleep disorder

ty

1:40 pm

are both top e

1:40 pm

are both top e's ey? and what are the stats

1:41 pm

No, one is an et5

1:41 pm

et5,?

1:41 pm

et5/16

1:48 pm

my last word is a pa5/12 not the piece of board, help?

window pa***

1:49 pm

Never mind, got it!!!

1:49 pm

Thank you sugrraleona

2:28 pm

Hi Soodle, Molly, Holly

2:35 pm

ph 5/18

2:35 pm

ph 6/30

ph5/18 - differenct spelling than FILE - LOL

2:39 pm

yes,, have that one

2:39 pm

thanks

crappers, there's another? the p's are killing me

2:40 pm

yes,, there are 3 ~ ph5/18 ~ 2 of those,, and ph6/30

2:41 pm

must be a foreign word...

2:41 pm

or medical

2:45 pm

ok the 2 eS from the bottom row,, left side, en6/18 and en 7/32

2:45 pm

I know them as biology terms.

35 left I quit

35 left I quit

3:28 pm

pe 6 anyone? It's my last word!

3:29 pm

nm got it. Fireworks

4:18 pm

help with si 4/5 it making me nuts

4:20 pm

there is no si4/5

4:21 pm

no wonder its sl thanks

4:21 pm

sled

4:21 pm

oops wrong box sorry

4:22 pm

lol that would be it

4:30 pm

ty cubs

4:30 pm

hi all

4:44 pm

evening all!

4:47 pm

can I have stats for the lower left E?

4:50 pm

perhaps no one is here?

4:54 pm

en6/18 and en 7/32 Hi 2Bit

4:54 pm

Hey Dan. You are not alone.

4:55 pm

(Sings like Michael Jackson) ♪ You are not alone, we are here with you ♪

4:55 pm

Dan... I live on an island. I am en*****

4:55 pm

Soodle, I ran out of time to make spaghetti sauce so it turned out to be Chinese take out at our house too.

4:56 pm

Patting Molly on head, and saying 'there there'....

4:57 pm

Hey, I got my oldest the Gaelic Guinness t-shirt for Christmas and he practically groveled at my feet in thanksgiving.

4:58 pm

Woo hoo Molls! Chinese takeouts are the bizz!! No cooking, very little plates or cutlery needed. You and I celebrated Nollaig na mBan, Molls, intentionally or otherwise!!

4:59 pm

Well, I can't eat it because I'm on a mega low sodium thing. But boy-o is grazing happily.

4:59 pm

Seriously, though, Molly, If there was anything particularly Oirish that the Boy, (or indeed yourself) required from here, I would be very happy and honoured to be the conduit! Honest offer!!

5:00 pm

thanks Soodle, Molly

5:00 pm

Thanks Soodle, I will keep that in mind. Although the shipping will probably be prohibitive.

5:02 pm

Aha Molls... Remember you were so impressed with the whole phone thing in my office?........ well, the postal arrangements could be equally ....flexible?....

5:04 pm

Again, you are my hero.

5:04 pm

<Am not prepared to commit myself on an open forum. but, ahem.... things could be arranged. Nod nod wink wnk...

5:06 pm

<----- Absolutely LOVES being a hero. Preparing to put red underpants over my blue tights.....

5:07 pm

hello everyone :) 44 to the finish line

5:08 pm

Hi Nan. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's SUPER SOODLE!!!

5:08 pm

Hello Nan :-)

5:08 pm

can i get some help with the ly 5/14 and the et 5/16

5:09 pm

ly + b***ball is America's past time

5:10 pm

et5/16 is Lucy's friend Mrs. Mertz, spelled differently

5:10 pm

thanks mollyl ive been looking at that for far too long

5:11 pm

You're welcome.

5:12 pm

ooh great clue for et

5:12 pm

http://tinyurl.com/444d7o

5:13 pm

Oh much better. Indiana Soodle.

5:13 pm

down to 6 ... ph's , en's and an l

5:14 pm

Pass me my battered hat, my whip, and keep the snakes away from me!!

5:16 pm

*Says a prayer to St. Padraic*

5:18 pm

Molls, does the low sodium diet restrict you an awful lot? i take my hat off to you for not partaking of the chinese takeout.

5:18 pm

al 5/14

5:19 pm

, please?

5:20 pm

Oh hell yes. There is salt in everything. I just try to stay away from the uber salty stuff, which is pretty much anything you order that passes for fast food.

5:21 pm

Your heart will thank you, Molls. and sorry Nan, not got it yet.

5:23 pm

nan... Al and a big african/ indian animal *le**ant

5:24 pm

al5/14 sounds like the first part of an animal with a trunk.

5:25 pm

ty molly

5:26 pm

If I stick to salads and food I make myself, I'm fine. The sodium in processed foods and restaurant food is insane.

5:27 pm

You stick to salads and foods you make yourself, then, girl. Babble Needs MollyL.

5:39 pm

*!* ta da *!* - thanks for the help :)

5:40 pm

Well done Nan.

5:40 pm

Yay Nan!!! Pom pom twirls, a lá Carlee!!

5:40 pm

any clues wanted, or have you both finished?

5:41 pm

Nan, I was young the last time I finished. Now I am old. I only come on Babble for the chat and the fun!!

5:42 pm

But, thank you anyway. :-)

5:43 pm

ok -- but you realize you are young enough to be my daughter!

5:44 pm

bye all -- back at the flip if I'm still awake then

5:44 pm

<<<<<((((((((((((((((Huge Hugs going to Nan))))))))))))))!! Thank you, my dear. :-)

5:47 pm

Young and a super hero. What a life.

6:07 pm

NFL Playoffs this weekend. GO DENVER!!!!!!

6:13 pm

i only know about MLB the yankees and rays

6:16 pm

Then you can obliviously munch your peanuts and Cracker Jack, Ren. : )

6:17 pm

friday nite - either at temple or out doing the polka - soooo some may be dining out, or dating

6:17 pm

i can molly and sing

6:18 pm

The polka is a wonderful dance. I bow to anyone who can do it well.

6:22 pm

i think the polka is a happy dance, kinda like the cotton eyed joseph (hora)

Need clue for pi5/16. help please

6:33 pm

smelling of trees

Tx. Leslie

6:39 pm

yw

6:42 pm

i love to polka! especially mexican polka!

6:42 pm

brb

has anyone found the 2 8 letter words on this board ? : )

6:44 pm

there are two cl8 words, whoop

70 words in and struggling ,,grrrrrrr lol

6:45 pm

now is time to open Lickety's List whoopy

how do u do that

6:47 pm

sorry....

6:48 pm

down at the bottom of the grid are some green coloured words . The top of the second column is Lickety' Babble Clues

6:48 pm

<---Wants to see JMC polka

6:49 pm

you can highlight all the words you have found, carry them to the bottom of Lickety's list where it says Bulk Add and drop them in that box. It will automatically drop your words in their correct spot so you can see what you are missing

6:51 pm

In a polka skirt...after a few Jacks

awww thanks

6:52 pm

OMG, Bugs! That's great with Lickety's List!!!

6:52 pm

yes it helps immensely :)

6:53 pm

I am so glad to have helped. I would never be able to finish ever if it weren't for LIckety. He is wonderful

6:54 pm

hi all

6:55 pm

jmc,what the heck is mexican polka?

thanks bugsaw xx

6:56 pm

I hope you enjoy the game enough to go pro and join the chat more whoopy. you only pay once and it lasts forever

6:56 pm

now you can ask for clues when you know what you need, also :)

6:57 pm

exactly. for instance I would never have even looked for a 5 letter ly word without the list

6:57 pm

now I understand what the clues mean. LOL

cool x

6:57 pm

Peri, I think it's doing the polka after Tequila. : )

6:58 pm

haha, ok, that sounds good, Molly

6:59 pm

suz01 when I first learned about the list I didn't know what the Bulk Add box meant so I was trying to drop words I had but I kept putting them in the wrong place and going nuts when people wud ask for clues for the 4th word etc

7:00 pm

jmc's drink of choice is bourbon, neat. I tried it and lost my voice! lol

7:03 pm

I'm pretty sure JMC would not turn down some good Tequila.

7:04 pm

is jmc still here

7:04 pm

No, she BRB's a while ago.

7:05 pm

she came and left almost immediately

7:05 pm

ok

7:05 pm

Bugs are you looking forward to retirement?

7:05 pm

don't like this grid but I am plodding along

7:06 pm

Am I ever!!!!! I am counting the days to the next break at the beginning of April. It is so hard to wait

7:06 pm

sorry, Bugs. didn't respond to you cuz I'm having too much fun with the Lickety thingy!

7:06 pm

:)

7:06 pm

I was ready to retire last year but the govt wasnt ready to give me a pension and I am not independently wealthy

7:07 pm

17 left,biab

7:07 pm

no response needed suz. just glad you are back to having fun

7:08 pm

I have 68 and am using the list now

7:08 pm

these grids were sooo frustrating and then you all would give clues and I couldn't decipher the clues.

7:09 pm

so glad I was checking the chog tonite.

7:09 pm

if you get confused, just ask suz. everyone here is friendly and helpful

7:09 pm

thanks!! I'm still kinda new at this

7:10 pm

there are more clues in the Help section just above the chog. It explains how we can use the point value to search for letters

the fifth element has to be one of the stupidest movies of all time... hi all

7:16 pm

hi TO

7:17 pm

I'm calling it a nite. Have to get up super early in the morning. Hope to be back tomorrow. nite all!

7:17 pm

we will look for you now so speak up and join the reat of the fun suz01. Nice to meet you

7:18 pm

Nice from here too and thanks for the info.

hello bugs. hello and goodbye suz

7:22 pm

taking a break for food

7:27 pm

Evening all. May I please have a clue for le5-10 the 3rd? Thanks

7:27 pm

hey all! (((hugs)))

7:27 pm

should I start this grid?

7:27 pm

Hey there, stidmama.

7:28 pm

oh -- hetty's last name is in the grid today! *missing hetty*

7:29 pm

LOL and "hetty" is in the grid too -- but doesn't count as a word *sigh* I wish she babbled more often...

hi peachy and stid

7:31 pm

Hi there, TO.

7:31 pm

how's the new year going for you, peach and TO?

7:32 pm

Just plodding along.

ok and you?

7:35 pm

I am well, TO -- after struggling for so long while I was in school, and feeling as if it would never come together last year, suddenly this month I am feeling as if I have things partly figured out... was prescheduled for 7 days this month, and grabbed an extra day for a friend when she got sick suddenly. So I am getting in some time actually teaching (which I love) for a change!

7:38 pm

oooh. and past halfway with no hints today! :-D

7:39 pm

OH! and tomorrow I am going to the MLA conference in Seattle (a friend is attending the whole thing) -- to one of the free sessions. Very excited. Mother is going to come, too!

very nice, stid

7:46 pm

Good evening Babblonia.

7:46 pm

Hey there, wht.

7:49 pm

hey wht!

7:50 pm

May I please have a clue for et5-16? Thanks.

7:50 pm

Think gasoline, ga

7:51 pm

et - type of alcohol / gas

7:51 pm

Thanks so much, wht and teach.

7:52 pm

yvw

7:53 pm

Glad to oblige, ga

7:54 pm

hey teach!

7:54 pm

down to 64 now.

7:56 pm

Hi all. Hey Peach, how are you feeling tonight?

7:56 pm

clue for the en6, please

7:56 pm

Hi Molly

7:56 pm

en + short for where Gilligan lived

7:57 pm

Hi there, Molly. I'm doing OK tonight....and you?

7:57 pm

i'm trying to convince my husband to pay for me to go p;ro

7:57 pm

ty Molly, got three from that.

7:58 pm

Lucky number three! Would the gentleman care to roll the dice again? : )

7:59 pm

hey molly and pickles

7:59 pm

hi, stid

7:59 pm

I would like to roll 3 7's because I only have 21 left.

7:59 pm

cale

8:00 pm

Go Wht go!

8:00 pm

hey teach! I get to be a K-2 resource room teacher on Monday and Tuesday! I am really looking forward to it. Met with the teacher briefly today and she gave me a quick intro. I think it's going to be fun...

8:00 pm

go pickles! (did it work?)

8:00 pm

well its not a word....

8:00 pm

That starts with a k, pickles.

8:01 pm

rofl... epic "phale" pickles? LOL (phale doesn't work, but I tried it anyway)

8:02 pm

Was Babble out for a few hours?

8:03 pm

Not that I know of Bich

8:08 pm

Well high school biology certainly helped with the ph's

8:09 pm

Fireworks

8:10 pm

Congrats, wht!!!!!

8:10 pm

good 4 u wht!

where the heck did gilligan live? lmao

omg, nevermind, got it

8:11 pm

I had no Babble for hours and have 80 left. Oh well.

8:11 pm

A three hour tour.....

31 left

8:11 pm

That has absolutely nothing to do with the answer.....I just heard the song in my head.

1 c missing lol

8:12 pm

phale should be a word lol

8:12 pm

I don't know if it is just my computer but the response time seems slow even now.

8:12 pm

Oops Peach, missed your response. I'm doing fine, thanks.

8:13 pm

Great, Molly. Glad to know that.

8:13 pm

Sugrr, do you know what one you are missing, maybe we can give you a cl4,9

i think cl6/21

8:14 pm

Stiddy there?

8:14 pm

It is a plural of cl5,12.

omg, dunno how I missed that one, ty

8:15 pm

Oops....night!

8:15 pm

Stid is not still showing on line.

8:17 pm

I couldn't get Babble to load nohow for hours

8:17 pm

I couldn't get Babble to load nohow for hours

8:17 pm

I wonder why Bich, that's odd.

8:18 pm

Well, it's not like I didn't have anything else to do

8:18 pm

bichon, do you have AT&T? I have been having a lot of trouble with my computer and they are not the greatest when it comes to helping.

8:19 pm

May I please have a clue for any ph's? Thanks

8:19 pm

yes, I do, but I had other things running on my computer, like ITunes radio

8:21 pm

ph+ sometimes vowel + **st but not least, then use a Latin plural, then another 5 like the first one, with a different last vowel. Did that make sense?

8:22 pm

ph5,18. pl of major taxanomic groups of living things.

8:23 pm

Thanks much, Molly.

8:24 pm

Thanks, wht. Is that the first ph5-18?

8:25 pm

Oh Wht, you just wanted to show off and use a ten dollar word like taxonomic. : P

8:25 pm

Yes it is ga.

8:26 pm

Thanks so much, wht.

8:26 pm

I think taxanomics are what all the candidates are talking about.

8:26 pm

<---Thinks she could listen to Wht and Seain have a conversation and not understand a word they said. : P

8:27 pm

evening everyone:) real life was being a pain today,so just starting the grid:)

8:28 pm

Don't know Wht. When the so called candidates talk, I stick my fingers in my ears and say LA LA LA.

8:29 pm

hi, cross, my work was crisis city

8:29 pm

Hi crossy.

8:30 pm

Molly, I am so glad we have a DVR so I don't have to listen to the political ads.

8:30 pm

A's axed & C's crushed

8:32 pm

Especially, since the New Hampshire candidates all buy ads on the Boston TV stations.

8:32 pm

wtg dan.

8:32 pm

Nice work 2Bit. It's the p's, s's and w's that make your brain want to explode.

8:33 pm

noted

8:33 pm

I almost fainted when I read that The Globe endorsed Huntsman.

8:33 pm

lol wht,i am so glad my television has an off button,so i do not have to listen to any of it:)

8:33 pm

Well, look who they had to pick from.

8:35 pm

wht, are you familiar with the Worcester, MA area?

8:36 pm

A little bit. I used to work in Westboro.

8:37 pm

My youngest daughter worked at the Worcester Art Museum for quite a few years.....I love their Museum. Was kind of sad when they moved.

8:38 pm

<---Is only familiar with areas of Massachusetts that used to be decent and are now junk towns. : (

8:38 pm

When my son was in Cub Scouts we had an overnight at the Higgins Armory. That was pretty neat.

8:39 pm

I'm sure it was.

8:40 pm

Yes, Molly, it is sad when the towns start dying out.

8:40 pm

The armor was really fascinating. I hadn't realized that the plate armor that I had thought of as really mideval was invented because of the use of guns.

8:41 pm

and now for crossy,s quote of the day!!

8:41 pm

"There is nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don't know yet." -Ambrose Bierce

8:41 pm

I moved to Augusta, GA in 1977 and downtown was the "place" to be.....now, I don't drive down there after dark and most of the business and restaurants have moved outside of the city proper.

8:42 pm

Crossy, that's going in my quote book

8:42 pm

firewordsl pop goes the we6 was my last

8:42 pm

glad you liked it pickles

8:42 pm

thanks all cluers

8:42 pm

wtg dan

8:42 pm

Gosh, wht, I never thought of that!

8:43 pm

Congrats, dan!!!!!

8:43 pm

Chain mail worked much better against swords.

8:44 pm

is the chain e-mail?

8:44 pm

Peach, that has happened here too. A lot of the suburbs close to DC have become places you don't want to be after dark.

8:44 pm

And all the pieces of plate armor had these dents in it where the armorer fired a gun at it to prove that it would stop the ball.

8:45 pm

I saw chain mail for the first time when I took my daughter to the Louvre in 1980....gee, that sounds like a lifetime ago.

8:46 pm

Mr Higgins owned a steel mill in Worcester, and he became a collector of mideval armor and weapons because he was interested in steel.

8:46 pm

I get pretty grossed out when I think about what men who went to war in that stuff must have smelled like when they came home from battle.

8:46 pm

The ones there were very small, I thought. But then I guess they used young boys and men to do the fighting.

8:48 pm

People back then were a lot smaller anyway. Something about nutrition.

8:49 pm

Molly, it is said that is why the French invented perfume.

8:49 pm

people were smaller and no one much bathed so war smell didn't matter

8:49 pm

hi all

8:49 pm

phantom:hyphen

8:49 pm

Hi jmc

8:49 pm

Hi there, jmc

8:49 pm

bathing more than once a week was a 20th century thing for most people

8:49 pm

ades

8:50 pm

I've noticed that when I have visited historical dwellings. You should see the house they took Lincoln to after he was shot. And the tiny little short bed they put that very tall man in.

8:50 pm

also not a word though it works in crosswords

8:50 pm

along with indoor plumbing

8:50 pm

That was why being a Knight of the Bath was such a big thing. You actually got a bath.

8:51 pm

Yes, Pickles, it does work in crosswords.

8:52 pm

I guess his Lady was very glad.

8:54 pm

Molly, in Warm Springs, GA, there is the Little White House, where FDR died. In touring it, I noticed the bed was so short and he was a very tall man....maybe they used extension boards or something.

8:55 pm

wow they killed Mitch Lawrence again!

8:55 pm

Or maybe he slept curled up.

8:57 pm

When my kids were younger, and we toured a colonial house, they didn't understand the step stools next to the beds. Nor did they understand the concept of a chamber pot. : )

8:59 pm

There is nothing like sleeping in a house with only a wood stove in the winter to understand the appeal of a chamber pot.

8:59 pm

I think most young people today don't know just how far we've come from what....a hundred years or less.

9:00 pm

LOL, wht. I really hated going to grandma's house for that very reason.

9:01 pm

The appeal of not having to go outside to do your business, yes. The appeal of your business sitting in a pot next to your bed, not so much.

9:02 pm

Touche, Molly.

9:05 pm

there is some sense in keeping that mess outside your house

9:05 pm

brb

9:06 pm

Good night all. Happy Babbling.

9:07 pm

nite wht

9:14 pm

bye wht

9:15 pm

i have some friends in michigan who only have an out house--i don't mind visiting them in the summer but the winter forgetaboutit

9:17 pm

al 5/14 anyone?

9:18 pm

1st letter of the Hebrew alaphabet, cos.

9:18 pm

thanks jac

9:18 pm

pe 6/21 pls

9:18 pm

y/w, cos.

9:19 pm

big red - p + leisure word + a consonant.

9:19 pm

thanks jac

9:20 pm

y/w, red.

9:20 pm

sext

9:20 pm

psext

9:20 pm

oh.. leisure.. not pleasure

9:21 pm

:D

9:21 pm

Hi ruru. Isn't leisure a pleasure?

9:22 pm

Maybe not for me right now, in need a paid work to pay the bills... but normally...

9:23 pm

working alot isn't all that it is cracked up to be jac..

9:23 pm

My cousin's wife posted a story on FB earlier about a German woman who hasn't used money for 15 years. However, she lives a nomad life and goes from house to house seeking shelter in return for food or work.

9:24 pm

Wouldn't suit me not to have a proper home of my own.

9:24 pm

sounds like my mother in law

9:25 pm

the first hy4? :)

9:25 pm

ruru - I know! I've been there. However, the bills have to be paid somehow and writing doesn't pay fast enough or well enough unless your name is JK Rowling.

9:25 pm

i have a friend like that--she is a perpetual house-sitter

9:26 pm

i don't think i would last more than a month--i love to travel because i can come home

9:26 pm

cos - hy + French female form, not 'le'.

9:27 pm

ruru - LOL. Oh dear! Poor woman.

9:27 pm

thanks again jac :)

9:27 pm

y/w again, cos.

9:28 pm

jmc - yes, that's the whole point about travelling or working - you can come home to your own fireside or whatever.

9:29 pm

People without roots or a 'fireside' are still searching for that, whatever they may say.

9:29 pm

That's my humble opinion, anyway.

9:30 pm

i cannot be a floating feather upon the wind,crossy needs a fire to come home to

9:31 pm

Even if a person has no desire to find someone special to spend their life with, they still need to feel grounded in some place on earth.

9:31 pm

Good evening to my fellow babblers!How is everyone doing

9:31 pm

By the way, congratulations to all the finishers! Way to go!

9:31 pm

Hi crossy. That would have been a good quote for one of the Ice Road Truckers to have come out with.

9:32 pm

dn.do not watch ice road truckers

9:32 pm

Hello Min. I'm all done with the grid, almost done with the 2nd cold in a month my stepdaughter brought home from school for me and still seeking paid employment.

9:33 pm

Congratulations on finishing the grid early Jacula! Hooray!

9:33 pm

good luck with the job search jac -- we are sharing that search

9:33 pm

crossy - you should give it a look, especially when they went to India. The new series starts next week in the Andes.

9:33 pm

so am i jac :( good luck to all of you

9:33 pm

Min - I didn't finish it early her in UK, but thanks anyway.

9:34 pm

many unemployed in babble land :-(

9:34 pm

i used to watch that one with buffalo airways and their fleet of ww2 aircraft up north..that was interesting

9:34 pm

cos - getting over the 2nd cold or seeking work, or both? Whichever, good luck to you, too.x

9:35 pm

seeking work .. im entering my 3rd year not having a job and i'm on the edge now of insanity :(

9:35 pm

i am trying to find the place where i can sell text books online--i knew what it was once

9:36 pm

yikes cosd I am going nuts after 6 months!

9:36 pm

jmc - good luck with that.

9:36 pm

jmc -- i th ought you could do that on amazon?

9:36 pm

no there is a place that gives you a much better deal than amazon

9:36 pm

ah okay -- that would be better then.

9:37 pm

btw i just posted on babble fb https://www.betterworldbooks.com/ as a great place to buy books

9:37 pm

jmc,try epubbud.com,i hear they pay for some things

9:37 pm

Other half, who was also made redundant a month after I was, had work up to Christmas. However, it's all gone quiet for now. (He's a trucker.)

9:37 pm

with apologies to book doctor

9:37 pm

there is a new book storee here that opened the other week.. every book is 2.00.

9:37 pm

its called "2.00 books"

9:38 pm

1222222222

9:38 pm

good lord,not much rom for margin there;(

9:38 pm

sorry the cat is typing and doesnt spell as well as the monkey

9:38 pm

LOL jmc.

9:38 pm

but theyre all used but they have good stuff nonetheless

9:39 pm

i love used book!

9:39 pm

the last time i sold books to a used book store (2008) i was delighted when they paid me $5 a box so they will do okay with the $2 books

Hi crossy and cosdem!

9:39 pm

and its right next to target and safeway so i can go during myweekly grocery shoping trips lol

And jmc!

9:39 pm

I am finished! I have fireworks! A cl 7/32 was my last word

9:39 pm

hey neil how ru

9:40 pm

hi neil

And Min!

9:40 pm

wtg min

Just peachy, cos... just confirmed my guest for tomorrow evening's GOP debate livestream... can't wait!

9:40 pm

I'm wondering if we should both try to find the air fare etc., to Canada and he can drive the ice roads whilst I work in a truckers' cafe as a cook up there somewhere. Maybe we could earn enough to live for another year, but we need to earn enough to pay the bills for whilst we are away, as well as for the air fare etc.

9:40 pm

becareful the low prices don't waste too much money--buy only really long books

9:40 pm

Well done, Min! *~*~*~*~*

And how are you, cos? And jmc? And crossy, et al?

9:40 pm

i only buy epics anyway :)

9:41 pm

im good neil... surviving

9:41 pm

whoo hoo min!

9:41 pm

bemoaning lack of employment

9:42 pm

fireworks

9:42 pm

whoo hoo cosd

9:42 pm

my last word was a plural that i spent 15 mins trying to figure out til i saw it was a plural :)

9:42 pm

Congratulations cosdem on your fireworks! Hooray for you!

9:42 pm

Well done, cos. *~*~*~*~*

9:42 pm

got a story min?

Good to hear, cos. Or read, as the case may be.

9:43 pm

thanks.. anyone need help before i go start a movie?

9:44 pm

damn cat took over the computer table--my lap top is actually a lap top!

9:44 pm

ni5/12?

Cats rule... or like to think they do.

9:44 pm

Looks like Min needs to write a clue story. I used to do that once. Glad it's not me tonight!

9:45 pm

Pickles - ni5.12 is the plural of ni4/5 (the first).

9:46 pm

ok whats ni5?

9:46 pm

ni4/5 (1st) = ni + not your ma.

9:46 pm

like jac said.. its a plural

9:46 pm

these plurals were tricky today

9:46 pm

ty

9:47 pm

y/w, pickles.

9:47 pm

I just finished Picklesny so I will work on doing a story now.

9:48 pm

Min - you're a saint! LOL

9:48 pm

oh for heavens sakes i need to rid of my cat bbl

9:48 pm

Or, I should say more correctlythat you are saintly.

9:50 pm

Dogs belong to God and cats are the servants of Satan. Or so history would have us believe.

9:51 pm

Cats are certainly more manipulative and demanding, but dogs can be the same, too. They just live quicker than cats and so can't drag the torture out for so long.

9:52 pm

I assume this is because dogs are pack animals who need a leader and cats more often operate alone.

9:53 pm

Oh, btw, that is one thing I got well paid for on the writing front - my stuff about cats and dogs, and other animals.

9:55 pm

jacula herriot:) i have read that entire series many times and still get a case of the warm fuzzies when i read it

9:55 pm

Why, thank you Mr. Crossy!

9:56 pm

you want to go out and kiss a sheep and hug the world lol

9:56 pm

Crossy - did you watch that young James Herriot tv prog. If so, what did you think? I was rather disappointed myself.

9:57 pm

actually ,the tv series dissapoints,i only read the books

9:58 pm

Crossy - the books are more often than not better than anything TV producers decide to turn it into.

9:58 pm

same with hitchhikers guide to the galaxy...t.v does a poor job

10:00 pm

Crossy - I think it's something to do with people who relish and appreciate words, and use their own imaginations... no one else, unless it is you producing the film of the book, will see it the same.

10:01 pm

hey all!

10:01 pm

tbh,if it were not for my mrs and the offspring,i would not have cable television in my house,just an lcd display and a dvd player to play select movies of my choice

10:01 pm

i am sure you are quite correct jacula

10:02 pm

I wonder if people who produce the film of the book actuaally canvas the readers of the book before trying to produce the film?

10:02 pm

Hi Jen.

10:02 pm

i find it works better to see movie then read book. the book tends to fill flesh out the movie

10:02 pm

hi jacula

10:03 pm

i find it best to read the book first,that way we do not have the director version on what all the characters should look like

10:03 pm

let the minds eye do it first

10:04 pm

Pickles - omg! That is such an arse about end way of looking at it! Sorry! I'm just so used to reading the book first and then seeing the film/tv series or whatever.

10:04 pm

hi crossy, you two the only ones in here?

10:04 pm

as am i jacula

10:04 pm

not sure jen

10:05 pm

However, if seeing a film or something on TV makes you read the book - I'm all for it! (As a writer, I'd not say anything else!)

10:05 pm

Good Evening Everyone. I find it better to read the book; movies aren't necessary at all to enjoy the book

10:05 pm

i do not wish anyones preconceived notions on what all the people in the story look like

10:05 pm

hi nef

10:06 pm

i'm here

10:06 pm

<----not sure I'm here or not

10:06 pm

I'm with crossy on his last post - though he does have the writer's preconceived notions to start with.

10:06 pm

i am a bibliophile first and foremost,everything else is a far second place

10:06 pm

Hello Nef! How are you doing today? Welcome to the chog.

10:06 pm

hi ruru!

10:07 pm

Hello JenMO16!How are you doing? Welcome to the puzzle

10:07 pm

hi, Jac, crossy, Jen, Pickles, and ruru and Min and everyone else

10:07 pm

hey min

10:07 pm

<---book reader first

10:07 pm

and notice..99.5% of babblers are readers/writers

10:07 pm

*Hands ruru a coffee*

10:07 pm

hi jenmo

10:07 pm

howdy nef

10:07 pm

howdy ru

10:07 pm

yum.. thanks jac

10:07 pm

hi crossy and minver

10:08 pm

hi, nef

10:08 pm

you missed a randy conversation this morning jac

10:09 pm

i good book will be hard to make a good movie. a poor movie often came from a great book

10:09 pm

ruru, y/w - but just remember to hand me a mug of tea if are situations are reversed. PG Tips please, none of that Tetley gnats' pee nonsense.

10:09 pm

got it

10:09 pm

i start a 4-day 10-hour week this Monday!

10:09 pm

Jac's a tea snob

10:09 pm

ugh.. jen.. long hours

10:10 pm

Jen - good for you! You've got work!

10:10 pm

I tend to agree.. not good tea isn't worth brewing

10:10 pm

and now i must leave you all,but here is a final crossy,s quote of the day!

10:10 pm

"Joy is wealth and love is the legal tender of the soul." -- Robert G. Ingersoll

10:10 pm

i wanted it ruru, it gives a day off during the week to do things instead of the weekend

10:10 pm

Pickles - not a tea snob - just a British tea drinker. Also, if you ask any of my British Indian friends, they won't disagree.

10:11 pm

poink!

10:11 pm

oh.. well good then

10:11 pm

actually my brother was allergic to milk so he drank a wide variety of tea

10:12 pm

I think crossy just feell headfirst into the hay. Can someone turn his head to one side so he doesn't suffocate in there?

10:12 pm

lol..

10:12 pm

I'm stumped as to what to make for dinner

10:13 pm

i had Long John Silver's fish and chicken!

10:13 pm

Pickles - in this house we have more varieties of tea than a tea shop. That's not a quote from me but from several people who have visited.

10:13 pm

.. but I'd best get going .. otherwise mrs ru might eat me for dinner

10:13 pm

take care all.

10:13 pm

bye ruru

10:14 pm

actually that doesn't sound too bad after all ;0

10:14 pm

*poof*

10:14 pm

ruru rump steak with fried onion rings, lightly fried mushrooms in butter, pan-flashed tomato slices and thick cut fries. YUM!!

10:15 pm

Jac, i'm coming for dinner

10:16 pm

Add a mix of petis pois (small peas) and sweetcorn pearls to that and it's perfect.

10:16 pm

Pickles - see you soon! LOL

10:18 pm

PB for me now for typing the pa4/5 word.

10:19 pm

pe4.5 word. LOL

10:19 pm

Picklesny, are you still here? I'm almost done with my story

10:20 pm

Looking forward to reading it, Min. x

10:21 pm

I am finished so here is a story of cl 5/20. My hubby has sleep ap5/12. I wish that husband would go aw 4/10 to a sleep clinic to see how bad it is. I wish he would use a C-PAP.The idea doesn't appe4/5 to him. I think he is hy 4/7 for not using one. Hubby thinks people at the sleep clinic would tell him that he has a sleep disorder just so he would get a C-PAP and the insurance company could make money. He thinks all th 4/7 care about is making money. Hubby thinks sleep ap5/12 does not really exist and it is all hy 4/8 so people can make money on the C-PAPS. My husband thinks there should be la 4/8 against people who try to make money off something that's not real. He does not realize he would be able to sleep with ea4/4 w/a machine and wouldn't have to take so many na 4/5 during the day due to lack of sleep. I've begged him to ple5/10 use a C-PAP.If not for his sake for mine. It would appe5/12 my mind knowing that he would live longer using a C-PAP. I goto bed on pi 4/5 and needles wondering if he's going to wake up the next morning. It really drives me insa4/4. Wish I could just ha 4/5 his fat ass to a sleep clinic. My husband is very unhealthy which contributes to his sleep disorder.Hubby needs to go on a diet and cl7/32 his body of all of the calories and fat he eats. I think if my husband cl 7/36 out his body and lost weight, he would be healthier. I do hope one day he sn 4/5s out of his high & mighty attitude & goes to a sleep clinic. Hope that this story le 4/5 you to find some more words. Now I am going to go le 4/5 into bed and watch Morgan Freeman in the film Le4/4 on Me. Goodbye all.

10:21 pm

If I don't see it today, I will check back in to read it later.

10:24 pm

Min's story re the man who snores looud enough to wake half a continent is mainly fictional. I love my other half but I wish he was mainly fictional when he's snoring for Britain.

10:27 pm

Tonight, not only has he, yet again, removed one of life's small pleasures from me (that of sinking in to fresh sheets and pillows) because he always goes to bed before I do AND uses all of the bed, but he is also invading my side now and grinding his teeth so loudly that I think my jaw may shatter any moment.

10:27 pm

just came back in time to read your story Minveryork. They are always very clever

10:28 pm

byt

10:28 pm

byt

10:28 pm

Hi Bugsaw! How are you doing? Welcome back to the grid.

10:29 pm

I have 46

10:29 pm

btw, in case anyone thinks I am lying in bed distrubing him by using a laptop/palmtop or whatever the hell else is now available in miniature form, I'm not. I'm sitting at a normal sized pc in the office and going upstairs to check every now and then.

10:30 pm

ty, min, does your hubby ever read your stories?

10:30 pm

to go so I shud not visit much

10:31 pm

but any clues wud be appreciated

10:32 pm

Bug - what clues do you still need?

10:33 pm

just the kind you slip up and put into the chog by mistake. i have too many to ask for clues, but thanks

10:33 pm

okay.

10:34 pm

whenever I go away and come back all kinds of words pop out at me that were camoflauged before. :)

10:34 pm

how about ay4/6 and 5/14?

10:35 pm

Well, I will be off to cuddle up to the tooth grinder then. I do love him, but I hate that habit!

10:36 pm

ay4/6 and plural 5 - 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

10:36 pm

Goodnight all. xxx

10:37 pm

Nite Jac

10:39 pm

la5/16?

10:43 pm

add the sometimes vowell to the word in front

10:45 pm

105 and i'm off to bed

10:50 pm

ws

11:19 pm

May I please have a clue for al5-14? Thanks

11:21 pm

I think it is a greek letter gapeach. Sounds like the start of our letters

11:21 pm

did that help or not

11:22 pm

Thanks, hon, I'm sneezing my head off and it's hard to concentrate....

11:23 pm

me too. did you get it or need more?

11:23 pm

Don't have it yet.

11:24 pm

alead

11:24 pm

Sorry. I can't even get to the right box.

11:24 pm

al = large animal *l**ant

11:27 pm

Thanks, hon.

11:28 pm

I have 9 more, Bugsaw. I just don't think I'll finish this one. Thank you for y our help.

11:29 pm

If this clears up, I will try the new one in 30 mins. Thanks once again.

11:54 pm

aleph

11:54 pm

lol, oops!

Hi people.

Good to see you know your Hebrew alphabet. ;)

11:56 pm

lol

11:56 pm

aright (covers for Harp)

11:56 pm

brb gonna have a shot of whipped cream vodka to egt ready for flip

Hi cos and ru!

11:56 pm

hi neil

Booze is neended?

It may be tomorrow night.

11:57 pm

what's neended?

needed, even

Geez... I just can't type today at all.

A typo, ru.

11:57 pm

Hello all! I just came back for the flip. Any guesses on next grid size? My guess is 399 words (but I hope not)

11:57 pm

whipped cream and vodka.. whew

11:57 pm

oh god minver!

I don't bother with guessing. I'd probably be way off anyway.

11:58 pm

i'll say 239

hi and 152

11:58 pm

I am usually way off too negativeneil but I don't care.

You should've shaven off that goatee, ru, before it grew so much it took over your entire face. :P

11:59 pm

345

11:59 pm

hello

11:59 pm

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

11:59 pm

Hello vanillaslice! How are you doing? Welcome to grid

Just "Neil" is fine, min.

11:59 pm

neil like most of us lol

11:59 pm

Oh, I forgot. Sorry Neil.

hello minver its all good

11:59 pm

flip

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