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202 2,540
203 2,538
204 2,532
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207 2,498
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209 2,485
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211 2,427
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214 2,396
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216 2,392
217 2,387
218 2,383
219 2,361
220 2,357
221 2,355
222 2,339
223 2,333
224 2,332
225 2,322
226 2,318
227 2,318
228 2,305
229 2,301
230 2,299
231 2,292
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233 2,285
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235 2,268
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240 2,241
241 2,229
242 2,209
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244 2,201
245 2,194
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248 2,173
249 2,171
250 2,152
251 2,145
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255 2,116
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259 2,088
260 2,087
261 2,078
262 2,076
263 2,076
264 2,069
265 2,068
266 2,065
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268 2,058
269 2,053
270 2,045
271 2,035
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273 2,024
274 2,017
275 2,010
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280 1,965
281 1,965
282 1,950
283 1,947
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285 1,902
286 1,901
287 1,895
288 1,895
289 1,891
290 1,884
291 1,884
292 1,874
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294 1,868
295 1,859
296 1,858
297 1,844
298 1,830
299 1,829
300 1,798
301 1,791
302 1,791
303 1,787
304 1,781
305 1,777
306 1,777
307 1,772
308 1,771
309 1,769
310 1,767
311 1,759
312 1,758
313 1,756
314 1,748
315 1,738
316 1,734
317 1,723
318 1,717
319 1,714
320 1,709
321 1,706
322 1,698
323 1,696
324 1,692
325 1,681
326 1,681
327 1,669
328 1,668
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331 1,658
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338 1,631
339 1,629
340 1,619
341 1,614
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343 1,604
344 1,597
345 1,591
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347 1,589
348 1,583
349 1,572
350 1,571
351 1,570
352 1,558
353 1,551
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355 1,531
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357 1,525
358 1,522
359 1,517
360 1,514
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362 1,512
363 1,500
364 1,497
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366 1,489
367 1,489
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369 1,475
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373 1,466
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379 1,409
380 1,406
381 1,406
382 1,406
383 1,406
384 1,396
385 1,391
386 1,387
387 1,380
388 1,378
389 1,366
390 1,361
391 1,350
392 1,348
393 1,347
394 1,345
395 1,343
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398 1,338
399 1,334
400 1,327
401 1,322
402 1,322
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404 1,320
405 1,317
406 1,307
407 1,301
408 1,299
409 1,296
410 1,291
411 1,290
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413 1,285
414 1,284
415 1,278
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419 1,262
420 1,257
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422 1,248
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424 1,219
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427 1,209
428 1,203
429 1,200
430 1,193
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438 1,157
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flip

12:00 am

TE6

12:00 am

flip

12:00 am

flip!

12:00 am

Hi6

12:01 am

DE6

en7

12:01 am

JO6 x2

12:02 am

de 7/8

12:02 am

HA6

flip and hi all!

12:02 am

wow theres a 11

Flip!

12:02 am

DO6

12:03 am

sh 7

Yep, there sure is.

12:03 am

Ei

12:04 am

SH6 x2

ec7

en7, en8

12:04 am

di7/8

di7, di8

12:04 am

RE6

[both pairs are related]

Oh, didn't see you post that too, Franmag.

endnotes

FranMag, even. Sorry! ;)

oops

Gee vanillaslice... thanks for spelling it out. ;)

12:05 am

we must have found them simultaneously. lol

I gave stats for that one. :P lol

Yep. :)

Hey FranMag? I added you on GoodReads.

12:05 am

thanks for the Di 7/8

So log in there when you get a chance?

Or have you accepted already? I haven't logged in there for a while myself... good one to talk huh? lol

12:06 am

oh, let me go see, neil.

12:06 am

thank you vanilla

12:07 am

RO6

e10/11

12:07 am

AR6

12:08 am

Si6

12:08 am

vanilla E what?

12:08 am

YO6

mmm shoud I? Ok ec

12:10 am

NBT/NBS

12:10 am

EC6

wd cos

12:10 am

ty for the 10/11

12:10 am

oh wow...found the ec 10/11...thanks vanilla

twister

12:12 am

okay, neil! accepted your friend request. loling at your message too. now i have to go fix something for dinner (7:00 pm here)...be back in a bit!

12:13 am

not seeing the ec's

12:13 am

i only found a 5 and a 6 cyber

ec7 is prickly

we have them in our backyard at times

12:15 am

4th column O stats please?

12:15 am

i have an mythological creature ec7

12:15 am

or5 mlf

Oh ok Fran. :) I posted a book review on there recently, after reading The Hunger Games. I should get on there and add the book I've just started.

12:15 am

ah i see.. the ec7 could also be prickly animal

12:17 am

cos is the Or 5 something i should know?

12:18 am

Hi all!!! NBT NBS

try od5/6 mlf

hi diz congrats

12:19 am

ty

12:20 am

nbt

12:20 am

edin

12:21 am

Os: od5,6,4 or 5 4 5 ot 5 5

12:24 am

still don't see the prickly ec, but crashing... good night

12:24 am

anyone haveall the 8s?

12:25 am

have di and en 8

12:25 am

thts whati have.. thanks

have same as you

oh... add de 7/8

12:26 am

when did u get in dee

a few secs after the flip :)

12:27 am

ah missed ya then lol hi..and diz as well

ty hi cos!

12:27 am

didnt see dee either

12:27 am

hello dee

12:28 am

still not finding the EC either

12:28 am

i keep trying dethrone

Hi Dee. :)

de????

And cos, MLFAN, et al.

12:28 am

DE6

12:28 am

hi neil

12:29 am

Hi neil

hi neil

12:29 am

de7/8 u say?

can't be

12:30 am

<---goes quietly to PB

di

vash called it at 12:02

12:30 am

ah yes he did

ar7/8

so ar di and en8

12:31 am

ty 8's done!

12:33 am

nbt and nbs

12:33 am

yo6 yo4 and?

help with the de 7/8 cos... not seeing it at all

12:34 am

another yo4

12:34 am

theres no de7/8

there is no de7/8 dee

12:34 am

its ar7/8

12:34 am

ty erda

aww ty nowonder I couldn't find it lol

12:35 am

ar7/8 close to di7/8 in spelling

12:36 am

100 words done.

12:37 am

and another ar 7/36...totally unrelated

12:37 am

ty found it

yo4,4,6

12:38 am

i listed the O's earlier if anyone needs it

12:39 am

herin is in the grid

12:40 am

add another vowel to herin for he6

nbt

12:46 am

wtg

ty

200 done bbl happy babbling

12:48 am

how do you spell hinderace ?

anyone have all the h's?

hindrance

12:48 am

ah thanks

12:52 am

frodo's home.

:)

nbt and nbs

12:52 am

can someone list the i's? i need 2 more and wtg dee

sorry don't have all the i's :(

12:53 am

np ty

12:54 am

have in 6,4 it 4

12:54 am

oopie it5 not 4

I have an ir4 as well

12:54 am

in 6, 7, 4, ir 4, it 5

ir 4/5

12:55 am

tyvm was missing in6/7

hi ru

12:56 am

missing one h

12:56 am

hi dee

missing 2 h's

12:58 am

I have ha 4,6, 4, 7, he 4,4, 6, 4, 6, 6,4, 5, 4, hi, 4, 5, 4,4, 6, 4, 5,

12:59 am

wow a 10 and 11............

same as you now, still missing one from right hand h...

12:59 am

he 6

hi dart

1:00 am

halfway. and i'm off.

1:00 am

hi volley ru all

1:00 am

hey darty

anyone have all the e's... 2 short here

1:02 am

i have only 4s 5 and 6s. no 7, 8 20 or 11

1:03 am

ch**ette is so a word!

1:03 am

hi all! :)

1:04 am

I don't see the missing he 6

1:04 am

now I do

1:04 am

never mind

ar 7/36

1:07 am

fireworks

1:08 am

woo hoo MD!

1:08 am

well done Mitch

1:08 am

nj mitch

a's one short: ac 4, 5, 4, 5, 5, ae 5, 6 ai 4, 5, 5 an 5 ar 4, 6, 7, 5, 5, 6, 4, 4, 7, 8,4 missing?

wtg mitch!!

1:08 am

ac 6

1:08 am

yay, Mitch!!

ty looking

found it ty

1:12 am

List on profile

tyvm mitch!

Oh, after I was working on one to post on Babble Anon. Guess I don't have to then?

1:12 am

thanks Mitch, really need it today

1:12 am

thanks, mitch!

Won't bother doing that then, if it's not needed.

1:13 am

thanks anyway Neil

I always used to, but seems to be no point anymore.

1:13 am

always appreciated your efforts

Well clearly they're not needed.

Which is fine... just wish I'd known this before I sat here for the last little while fixing it all up ready for posting.

[which is work, with a list this size]

1:17 am

what does the 10 and 11 begin with?

Hi to you too, ru?

ec 10/98 and its plural

1:17 am

hi neil

1:19 am

got it..

wtg

1:19 am

omg.. my old marine biology days

1:19 am

sea urchins

1:19 am

as opposed to street urchins

1:22 am

I hAVE di 8 what are the other two 8's?

1:23 am

en8 is another ruru, but i only have two.

falling asleep so off til the morrow

1:24 am

bye dee

1:24 am

night, dee!

1:24 am

bye volley

1:26 am

finally nbt!

1:27 am

How many words today

1:27 am

273, gran

1:27 am

Thanks

1:32 am

ru, the other 8 is ar

1:33 am

ar8/40

Even though it's not needed... didn't want the time I put into it to be totally wasted: Babble Stats for April 02, 2012: http://tinyurl.com/Stats-0402201 2

1:33 am

thanks, flosey!

1:33 am

thanks, neil!

1:33 am

thanks neil

1:33 am

I'll use them

1:34 am

babblers who come in a few hours from now will look for it

Oh? Ok, well good to know.

It's on profile anyway... the link to it.

You welcome, ruru.

And FranMag, sorry! ;)

1:37 am

Got all my 8's now.. 66 to go.. I should go to sleep

1:37 am

:-)

1:38 am

wtg, ruru, just over half he4

1:38 am

well.. I might just peek at neil's list for a bit

1:39 am

is the ar8 a compound word?

1:39 am

no fran - ends the same as the di8

1:39 am

thanks, ursh!

1:40 am

yay, done with 8s

1:40 am

funny how I feel much better once I have the biggies

1:41 am

very true!

Hey Fran... sent you another message. [On GoodReads, that is.]

Uh oh... a peeking ruru. :P

1:49 am

one more to get to 50

1:50 am

sent a reply, neil.

1:50 am

Just remembered Babble! It's much too big for me this time anyway -- busy day tomorrow. And flosey -- sorry, but your pretty flower is much too big too -- jerky chog!

Ok Fran, thanks... I'll check.

Hi jilli. :)

1:51 am

hi, jilli!

I have a list on Babble Anon. Link to it on profile.

1:51 am

Hi neil -- your list is appreciated anyway.

1:51 am

jerks in the chog.. you mean me? jilli?

1:52 am

never, ruru

1:52 am

:D

1:53 am

yes, jilli is much too polite to point it out, ruru. ;-)

1:55 am

that's odd jilli, it's small in my bio

1:56 am

it's huge when I click on it flosey...but I don't notice any jerkiness.

1:56 am

I had purposely made it small

1:56 am

very odd, flosey -- it's huge when I click on your icon

1:57 am

well, isn't that really strange, it's too big which I click on it

1:57 am

am sure I've used it before - maybe clicked on the wrong one

1:58 am

the jerkiness must be in that Expert thing you use, Jilli. I'm on the main site and the chog isn't jerky at all.

1:59 am

funny, fran -- when I came in I scrolled a bit and it was jerky so I suspected a big photo somewhere, and found it

1:59 am

flosey's icon is huge when i click on the profile, too

1:59 am

just changed it

1:59 am

hi, flo, jilli, fran, et al

1:59 am

hi dc!

2:00 am

it's fine now, flosey!

Ok Fran... replied to your last message on GR.

Hi Seain.

2:00 am

hi dc

2:00 am

Thanks, flosey -- and it's lovely

2:00 am

Hi dc

2:01 am

evening, neil

2:02 am

thanks jilli for letting me know, and this is Mom's rose

The chog is jerky and seems to be lagging to me, actually... you say a photo somewhere is causing this, jilli? Something o someone's profile?

The chog is jerky and seems to be lagging to me, actually... you say a photo somewhere is causing this, jilli? Something on someone's profile?

2:02 am

network problem came up on my computer again, so made appointment at Apple store. They recognized me and gave me a brand new 13 inch MacBook Pro instead of trying again to fix my old MacBook.

2:03 am

beautiful roses, flosey. they look like the should smell lovely

2:03 am

it was the time of day that was causing it this time neil - always happens 12: pm pacific time

2:03 am

yes dc, they do

2:03 am

We just had the nightly hiccup, neil

2:04 am

my great-aunt Ruth Ann has a vining white rose of similar shape -- cuttings from her mother/my great-grandmother's vine. I plan to get a cutting to root for myself next i visit her. The smell SO nice.

2:05 am

oh cool, dc...new computer!

2:05 am

what a lovely idea dc

2:05 am

yes, crisper display, HD camera, and backlit keyboard are the big differences i've noticed thus far.

2:05 am

Hey, I didn't have to reload the page. Must have been because I was off the page for a bit.

2:06 am

and someday, i know my nephew will want to start his own vine, too, flosey :) Great-grandma's vine was grown from her mother's vine.

2:06 am

so they replaced your MacBook with a MacBook Pro? What a sweet deal!

2:06 am

wow dc, that is a real treasure

2:06 am

well, same memory, slightly larger hard drive, slightly faster processor.

2:07 am

flosey, yes, very antique, and such lovely scent.

2:07 am

a family rose vine, that's even cooler than the computer. :-)

2:09 am

two sweet deals, then, dc!

2:09 am

heh. At my mom's is her father's mother's mother's doll, which she carried with her from Wales, in the original 19th century gingham dress. Mom also has a wall clock that was a wedding gift to her mother's mother's parents when they married in 1897 in Bratislava.

2:09 am

such treasures dc

2:10 am

we're good at keeping things on both sides of the family.

2:11 am

well, the J was easy today.

2:11 am

nice thaqt those things have been treasured for so long, dc.

2:12 am

my parents, maternal grandparents and great-grandma used to tell me about my 1st Xmas -- we stayed with great-grandma and my playpen was in the room with the clock. Apparently i giggled every time the clock chimed all night. :)

2:13 am

how cute!

2:14 am

awww!

2:15 am

oh, on Saturday i met up with some friends and walked through the largest stand of bluebells in the Eastern US -- in Bull Run Regional Park in Centreville, Virginia. It was magical.

Yeah. I figured that was happening when I tried to enter my post a second time and it still didn't work... so I left for a little to make some tea anyway.

Cute story, Seain. :)

It's funny what babies will giggle at.

2:16 am

tea.... a hot toddy would be nice. maybe with breakfast.

2:16 am

it is indeed, neil :)

2:16 am

I had my own personal blip just now. lol

2:16 am

had to reload the page.

Oh yeah?

2:17 am

i hate when that happens, fran.

Nice of the Apple store to give you a brand new Macbook, Seain... wow.

2:17 am

last st 7 anyone?

2:18 am

well, considering how much time they'd spent on repairas, the time i'd been without computer, and the fact that half the store knows me on site and by name, it makes sense that they did LOL

2:18 am

don't have it ru

2:19 am

i have one st7, past of an st4, and it's at the end of the STs that i have

2:19 am

an st4-5-7

2:19 am

thanks, dc, i needed that one

2:20 am

morning all - can anyone clue me an o in the bottom row for nbt please

Just replied to you again Fran.

2:20 am

i even ran into a friend at the Apple store and had some time to catch up, which was a nice bonus.

2:20 am

hi kazzer!

2:20 am

never mind.

2:20 am

I found it

2:20 am

is there one after the one i clued, ru?

Aroma, Kazzer... fragrance, smell.

Oh that was a nice bonus, Seain.

2:21 am

I have that one - comes out the o above

2:21 am

yes

2:21 am

bottom O: or5.12, a plural

2:22 am

thanks dc - nbt

Oh, ok. Then you need the od5,23/od6,21 combo?

Oh sorry... what Seain said.

2:23 am

nbt here too (hi Kazz) and bedtime...goodnight all...*poof

2:23 am

g'night jilli

2:23 am

nite jilli

2:24 am

We were out all day today and I'm pooped. I'll see you all later! Will get neil's list out tomorrow.

2:24 am

night, jilli!

Oh ru? Check my updates for March 31. Ouch! That iPod Touch was a recently acquired gift, too. Expensive mistake... one I don't care to repeat!

Glad someone's using it Fran. ;) Take care.

2:24 am

done.. thanks to you neil

2:24 am

g'night fran

2:25 am

congrats, ruru

Glad to be good for something, ru. lol

And congrats!

2:25 am

woo hoo, ruru! *poof*

But it's thanks to your own brain and vocabulary too, of course.

2:26 am

it's amazing how they appear once you have the first two letters

Yep.

2:26 am

glad I wrapped this one up.. maybe dart will have a power outage for a couple of days

Haha! You're ever hopeful huh?

2:27 am

or at least one :D

Did you see what I said further down the chog?

2:27 am

I lost out on a day in LA.. too busy

Too funny.

You and dart make me laugh.

2:28 am

I was thinking about getting an ipad

Oh yeah? I love it, but it's much better unbroken.

2:28 am

maybe after taxes

You can do a lot of things on them... read books, play games, etc. but there's something I learned just isn't a good idea to do on those. :P haha.

2:29 am

ipad is your friend

I think it's my enemy now.

Probably hates me, lol.

2:30 am

what shouldn't you do on an ipad

2:30 am

chop vegetables

2:30 am

LOL

Ummm, well... a favorite activity of yours too I'm guessing? lol

Chop vegetables... well yeah. That too!

2:31 am

oh my goodness

2:31 am

would have loved to see that email

2:31 am

ererha

2:31 am

eherer ahaaaaa

2:32 am

eeererhererehatheatherareharahhhhhaaaa aaa

I had been sitting up in bed reading on it that morning, while waiting for Elisse to finish in the bathroom... I kind of just put it down when I got up and it was under the covers... totally forgot about it for hours. Was busy all day. Then when we went to bed that night, rolled over a little and "CRACK!" Ugh. :( Not the kind of sound you expect or want to hear.

Shattered the screen... repair kit: $90. But new iPod Touch? $300.

2:33 am

oh, that sucks. Hope you have Apple Care

2:33 am

Oh. I thought you meant something else..lol

Huh, ruru?

Something else... like what?

2:34 am

ties

2:34 am

one of my favorite activities

2:34 am

:D

2:35 am

I think everyone has that one DC

That is what I meant.

I just didn't want to type it that explicitly. :P

And yeah... so no PB for Seain. This time.

2:36 am

whoppee

2:36 am

talk about an I touch...lol

Haha. uhhh, yeah.

Ru: http://tinyurl.com/NJL-ELM

2:38 am

bet it threw you when you heard the crack

Oh man. You're not kidding.

2:39 am

she looks really nice.. very pretty

2:40 am

nice smile

Because right away, I knew what it was too... talk about killing the mood.

Sure sure is. :) Thanks.

2:40 am

she's very smart too I bet

http://tinyurl.com/NJL-ELM-01

Yep. Teacher.

2:41 am

maybe you were thinking Iprod?

And even as silly as me too: http://tinyurl.com/NJL-ELM-02

Haha! Geez, you're bad. :P

2:42 am

ha.. you have no idea

Keep changing the number on the end of that URL I gave you. Goes up to 7, lol.

Or "07" I should say.

2:42 am

crossy hates insomnia:(

Just the last digit though.

Well I think I have some idea by now, ru. :P

Crossy!

2:42 am

i'm off for bed.. i'll check them out before i do.. night neil.. thank you for your help

Aww. Yeah... sorry about that but it's nice to see you of course.

You're welcome ru. Take care.

2:43 am

howdy neil

2:43 am

night crossie

2:43 am

gn ru

2:48 am

hi crossy

2:49 am

howdy kaz

2:50 am

wow,just noticed there is an 11

2:50 am

not sleeping is not good for you. I have been up for a few nights now - not real insomnia but i used to have it when i ws in my late teens early 20s - used to sleep about 3 or 4 hours most night but only about 3 from Friday morning to monday evening

2:51 am

its was like I couldn't switch my brain off - then i had my son and it all changed

2:52 am

with my insomnia,asthma kicking up dickens cause it is spring and my sleep apnea,i get long streches of 2-4 hours a night

2:52 am

do you have a breathing mask for the sleep apnea

2:52 am

i do and it is a true p.i.t.a

You're not on MSN, crossy?

2:53 am

i have never spent 1400 dollars on anything i loathe more in my life

Yeah. I get it's hard to sleep with a mask like that on your face?

2:53 am

no neil,i am not atm

2:53 am

tell me about it - I had to give mine up because i sleep on my front

2:54 am

it is an adjustment indeed neil

Ugh. Yeah, that would make it pretty much impossible to use, Kazzer. But just feeling something on my face like that would probably keep me awake, never mind any noise the machine makes.

2:54 am

here with the National Health Service - they give you on e but it sounded like running water all night so you can imagine the rst

2:54 am

imagine a shop vac blowing in reverse down your throat and sinuses all night neil and you are close

Ugh, Kazzer. Yeah... figured there'd be noise.

Oh wow. :(

2:55 am

you wake up dryer than a popcorn fart,even with the built in humidifier

Who could ever sleep like that?!

I bet... if you even sleep at all?

2:56 am

and no matter how good the mask fit,you get small leaks blowing air into your eyes and on your cheeks

I never knew popcorn farted though.

Makes me rethink eating any in future. :P

2:56 am

mine is not nearly as bad - we invested in some very good pillows and I lost some weight - so it only kicks in once or twice a night at most

Oh man. I could never sleep like that.

2:56 am

just never get over 200 pounds neil and you will be fine

I'm scrawny, crossy. So that's kinda doubtful. But who knows, in decades to come?

2:57 am

weight is not always a factor in apnea,but in most cases yes it is

2:59 am

sometimes its caused a a flabby soft palate which can be fixed - but mine was done to weight and I am now struggling to lose any more at all - just got to keep going

I wonder how weight could cause it?

Oh if you need a list btw, I posted one on BabbleAnon. The link to that is on profile.

3:04 am

here neil,give this a quick read...

3:04 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_apn ea

3:04 am

however, I now have 100 left so I must go and sort out my very poorly husband and get some more washing on the go - was supposed to go back to work today but i can't leave him as he has a raging temperature

3:04 am

poor hubby

Thanks crossy... will do that now.

Oh no, Kazzer... hope your hubby is on the mend very soon.

3:08 am

off to bed, goodnight folks, 86 for tomorrow, if there's time

3:08 am

gn flosey

Oh I see, crossy.

Good night flosey. Take care.

Didn't know smokers were more commonly affected by this, crossy. Another good reason to quit.

3:12 am

yes indeed neil.i am lucky in that respect.i did smoke for 25 years but have been off them for ten years now

How did you manage to quit?

3:13 am

but my asthma is my legacy on that old habit

Ugh. I have that too... was born with it.

3:13 am

i asked the dr for a zyban rx

Clues are up

And yes... even so I started smoking in my teens.

3:13 am

aka welbutrin(sp)

3:13 am

((MRP))

Oh, ok. And that worked well?

Hi mrp! :)

I did post a list on Babble Anon.

3:14 am

it did,you can smoke for the first 30 days while on it

Oh yeah, crossy... I've heard good things about that drug. It's supposed to have less side effects than Chantix.

mrp? Are you still here?

3:16 am

when the mrs and i quit neil,smokes were $7.50 a pack and we pretty much smoked a pack each a day.when we quit,i had a tin on the book shelf and each day the mrs and i took the $7.50 we would of spent on smokes and put it in that tin..i left it for exactly 2 years and sat down in may of 2004 and added it up...

Wow, yeah. That would really add up.

3:17 am

it came to $12,160.00 and i walked down to the toyota dealership and bought us a new car a nice new toyota echo as there was only 100 dollars difference tween the car price and the wad of cigarette money we saved..i am still driving that car today

Holy crap! Wow. Just... wowww.

They're nice little cars.

3:18 am

they are awsome cars

3:18 am

in 8 years,i have done the front brakes once and changed a tail light bulb

Yeah. Better than the old pickup truck I have.

Wow.

And they're really good on gas too.

3:19 am

Hi, after 3 months of not smoking my hub and I went on a holiday to Barcelona for a week with the money we'd saved...and that included spendies!!!!

3:20 am

when you are ready to quit,you give yourself a prize to shoot for,something to save that smoke money for

3:20 am

howdy liz

Wow, lizmac. Ok, I"m getting more and more anxious to quit smoking.

3:20 am

indeed,a nie trip also works

After only three months of not smoking, Liz?

3:20 am

think of what you would buy neil with an extra 6 grand a year

3:20 am

Had to put my tuppence worth in there...back to grid.

3:21 am

or more,our cheap cigs are 9 dollars now

3:21 am

more like 7 grand a year

Yeah, crossy.

Thankfully I'm the only one of us that smokes.

I hate to think of the cost if we both did.

Double that.

3:22 am

you realize in 7 years of not smoking,you could trott down to the dealership and get yerself a nice bmw

3:22 am

Yes, Neil. 3 packs/day between us, £5.50 a pack at the time. That's a lot of money to set fire to.

Uhhh yeah, Liz. And that's literally what you're doing when you smoke too. :/

3:23 am

sorry,should not preach lol

3:23 am

hazard of dealing with an ex smoker neil

No, it's all good crossy.

I hope to be one of those soon myself.

Tell me this though... do you ever totally lose the craving? I mean if you're around it now, do you still feel any urge to light one up, or not at all now?

3:26 am

neil,i would like to say yes,but every once in a while(about once a month,i get a craving

Oh wow. Even after that long?

I just wondered about that.

3:26 am

I certainly have moments of really fancying a cig, but it passes quite quickly. That's 2 years in.

Thanks Liz... good to know.

That's not too bad at all for only 2 years smoke free.

3:27 am

it is like being an alcoholic,or a drug addict,you will always be an addict..you just choose not to do it..today..and you just do it day by day

3:27 am

but like liz says,the cravings pass fast

Yeah. I've been wondering about that.

3:28 am

once you are over the 6 month hump,thats when in my opinion,you are home free

I see.

3:28 am

Gotta go, good luck Neil. A worthwhile project, for sure.

Thanks Liz... take care.

3:29 am

and when you quit,all ashtrays must go and NOBODY in your house can smoke

Of course, crossy. But I don't smoke in the apartment anyway... I step out on the balcony.

3:29 am

and avoid all social situations where smoking happens for the first little bit

Nobody smokes in our home now.

It's too gross... gets all over everything if you do.

3:30 am

you may also consider an E-cigarette for the first year

3:31 am

but many consider that trading one crutch for annother,but it can be handy for weaning you down to 2 or 3 real smokes a day before you go right off them

3:40 am

morning babble friends

Yeah. I've been thinking about that crossy.

Gotta get to bed though... 1:43 am already.

Didn't intent to be up this late.

Intend, even. Geez. :P

So hope you manage to get some sleep soon yourself... take care and talk to you later.

3:46 am

((sprite))

3:46 am

tc neil

3:46 am

hey crossy :) *hugs*

3:47 am

looks like a fun grid today!

3:47 am

good morning!

3:47 am

{{sprite}}

3:48 am

((ruby))

3:48 am

{{crossy}} are you up (really) early or partying late?

3:48 am

insomnia it is 04:48 and i have been up for 2 hours:(

3:49 am

lhi ruby :)

3:49 am

aww crossy... want me to sing you a lullaby?

3:49 am

lol

3:50 am

no ty,30 more minutes of trying to hunt down this 11 letter word should do it

3:50 am

hehehe... I guess the man heard me sing before...

3:50 am

my husband says he craved cigs for 2 yrs after he quit, long before I knew him, though

3:50 am

could be worse, sprite, I could have sung along -- 2 cats howling on a fence!

3:51 am

it is a tough thing to do,but giving yourself a present at then end helps

3:51 am

some people keep on craving. Less and less often though.

3:51 am

roflol ruby! That would chase in into Elegance's arms straight away!

3:51 am

remember ladies,been married 19 years,i am used to "howling on a fence"

3:51 am

saving up the money you used to spend on cigs... it is incredible.

3:52 am

yup,2 years $12,160.00

3:52 am

I think I am the worst singer in the world, can even hear how "off" I am when I sing in the car

3:52 am

ouch!!!!!

3:52 am

and cigs used to be cheap

3:52 am

if you can hear it, you can't be that bad, ruby

3:52 am

husband quit the day the surgeon general's report came out

3:53 am

It's funny because I can "hear" music very well.....

3:53 am

we quit the day our son was diagnosed as "pre-asthmatic" due to our smog fallout in the house

3:53 am

we are going to sing in the kitchen together, ruby, when I come and visit

3:54 am

YES!

3:54 am

crossy ill probably be able to hear it from his house!

3:54 am

wow crossy. I never smoked more than 5 a day, so I never really had to quit. But my husband stopped smoking in the house as soon as I was pregnant, and he quit when the kids arrived.

3:54 am

hehehe and he will admire us

3:55 am

ahh,you were just a "social" smoker then sprite.wife and i were 3/4 of a pack a day each roughly

3:55 am

can you imagine at today's prices, crssy?

3:56 am

and young people are still starting....it's hard to imagine

3:56 am

crossy, when I smoked my very first cigarette, I loved it like crazy. That is when I knew: if I go and smoke 'normal' amounts, I will be hooked for life. So I limited myself. I still can go for a heavy tabacco cig if somebody is around who has them.

3:56 am

here they are 11.00 dollars a pack for the ones we used to smoke

3:56 am

oh my, I belong in the pb!

3:56 am

my &*&#%* son was stupid enough to start. We handled it pretty ok, I think, and he stopped. Completely.

3:56 am

actually, I like the smell of a good cigar.....

3:57 am

I hate cigar smoke. But I love the smell of a good pipe tabacco.

3:57 am

11 dollars? Wowwww.

3:57 am

mmm,a nice colts mild cigar...

3:58 am

indeed sprite,when we quit,they were 7.50

3:59 am

crazy prices. But with all the additives they are so bad for our health, I don't mind they are expensive.

3:59 am

when I was a kid and we sold them in our store, cigs were 22-25 cents a pack, about $2 a carton

3:59 am

i hope the things go to 20.00 a pack

4:00 am

yes. It certainly helps to motivate people to quit. Not in itself, but combined with ot5 reasons it helps.

4:01 am

I love this grid!

4:01 am

i found,it took a health scare to quit.i do not think price alone would of done it at the time

4:01 am

same! Very enjoyable.

4:02 am

no, that is what I said, crossy. It helps, but not in itself.

4:02 am

indeed:)

4:02 am

and the cuckoo is back! spring is he**

4:03 am

I love cuckoos.

4:03 am

our robins have been back a while our winter ended a month and a half early

4:04 am

my girl and me sowed some veggie seeds yesterday... and now they predict night frost in this week!

4:04 am

even our wild turkeys are moving around

4:05 am

our wildlife isn't that exiting he4. But I love the magpies and .... darn I forgot the names. Those little impish brown common birdies, and the black ones that sing so beautifully.

4:06 am

sparrows and merles, black with yellow beaks, seem to have the most beautiful voices

4:06 am

ride

4:06 am

yes, that is it :D thanks!

4:06 am

whoops, bad nel

4:07 am

mrs and i were out for a drive on the hill and had to stop the car as a group of about 15 turkeys crossed the road,there was a wire fence and all were able to pass through the space except for one big fat girl who must of been 40 pounds..she got stuck in the fence;) i had to park the car,get out and walk over and give her a shove;))

4:07 am

ohhhh that is a great story, crossy :D I can picture it.

4:07 am

that is a great sorty, crossy!

4:07 am

snap, sprite

4:08 am

snap, ruby :D

4:08 am

she was wedged like a cork in a bottle;))

4:08 am

why did the turkey cross the road?

4:08 am

the poor thing. I bet she was pretty indignant about your shove :)

4:08 am

to get from the right to the left of course

4:08 am

to get petted by crossy!

4:08 am

she sure squaked

4:10 am

took me a while to connet the C to the H. It helps!

4:11 am

up till about 20 years ago,wild turkey had almost vanished in this area,but we make a deal with kentucky,we traded 50 breeding pair of our white tailed deer for 50 breeding pair of Kentucky wild turkeys and the rest as they say is history.they estimate now that on blue mtn alone we have a population avaraging 10,000 turkeys

4:11 am

that is wonderful. I love that.

4:11 am

was a good trade

4:11 am

and there are probably enugh deer in Kentucky to feed the wqhole state!

4:12 am

we are fortunate in that we have always been hip deep in deer

4:12 am

are they that small?

4:13 am

except for your garden.....

4:13 am

lol white tailed deer average 165-285 pounds for a large male

4:13 am

the only deer he** are roe deer; I've never seen one but one ate all my neighbor's roses

4:13 am

that is what I thought, lol

4:13 am

that was a roe with good taste in flowers

4:14 am

a male with a full antler rack can be quite impressive

4:14 am

so... is the 11 the plural of the 10? Or are they not related?

4:14 am

stats for both please

4:15 am

I have neither, sweetheart, or I wouldn't have to ask.

4:15 am

I thought I was doing well, no 10, n0 11, no idea!

4:15 am

:(

4:15 am

the way you said it,thought you had the 10

4:15 am

so now ruby got us searching for No10 and No11...

4:15 am

nah, if I had had it, I would have pluraled it, simply ;)

4:15 am

lol

4:17 am

go easy on poor befuddled crossy sprite,i am working on a hour and a half sleep here

4:17 am

was just wondering if I was looking for a combo or a single word.

4:17 am

*hugs crossy* Sorry dear. You know me, quick with the sharp tongue, but buttersoft on the inside...

4:17 am

sharp tngue, nah!

4:18 am

all good, inside and out!

4:18 am

used to sharp tongues..remember?..19 years lol

4:18 am

and nellie can't type this AM

4:18 am

good morning everyone :)

4:18 am

howdy deb

4:18 am

oh I can be sharp, even sarcastic, ruby. But I mean well... most of the time ;)

4:18 am

uh oh, gotta get himself a campari!

4:18 am

morning deb!

4:18 am

hi and bye deb

4:18 am

already? Grin, I just had my breakfast!

4:18 am

bye ruby

4:19 am

don't try it with me or I'll sing to you, sprite!

4:19 am

hi everyone its my birthday and ive got to go into work in an hour

4:19 am

Happy Birthday!!!!!

4:19 am

happy b-day cool girl

4:19 am

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, GIRL, BUT WE'RE NOT SINGING!

4:19 am

crossy, lol... but it has its charm, doesn't it... a quick wit and good, sharp exchanges of teases can be so much fun.

4:19 am

do not get them singing coolgirl!!

4:19 am

happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear coolgirl.... happy birthday to you!

4:19 am

lol

4:20 am

accck!

4:20 am

oh no there singing

4:20 am

nah nah it wasn't that bad.

4:20 am

not to worry sprite,the mrs and i sharpen ourselves on each other all the time;)

4:20 am

<-- plugging ears!

4:20 am

ty all

4:20 am

cool, did you get hugs and songs and gifts already?

4:21 am

I thought as much, crossy :) Good marriages show.

4:21 am

and maybe they'll make a party at work....

4:21 am

not really my daughter spoilt me but my three sons i havent seen yet

4:22 am

hm they must come later then. Wtg for your daughter!

4:22 am

i think the cook at work has made me a cake

4:22 am

aw that is so sweet!

4:22 am

ok my friends,think i shall try and grab an hour or 2 of sleep

4:22 am

sweet dreams

4:22 am

sleep well crossy

4:23 am

tc all and happy babbling...poink!

4:23 am

sounds like a plan, crossy. I will send a convoi of sweet angels to sing you to sleep.

4:23 am

i need some clues for the bottom row o, please :)

4:24 am

od5 and 6

4:24 am

od + a very long time, and plural

4:24 am

thank you !!

4:25 am

yvw :)

4:25 am

stats for the 10, 11??

4:26 am

still looking for those!

4:29 am

ec10 ec11

4:30 am

hi Yvo, thank you

4:30 am

found them straight away, thanks again

4:30 am

good morning and you very welcomre

4:31 am

starfishes and such!

4:32 am

hmmm....... not getting them

4:33 am

E + bottom part of face + vowel + 4 letters related to skin.

4:34 am

wow, thank you so much. don't think i ever would have gotten them :)

4:34 am

yvw :) I must have seen them before in puzzles or I wouldn't have seen them either

4:34 am

*sigh... off to the sin bin*

4:35 am

that's ok, i needed that :)

4:35 am

*grin*

4:40 am

half way. Need help with the 8's, please

4:41 am

I have only one so far. di8, plural to the 7.

4:42 am

thank you again !!

4:42 am

my pleasure :)

4:48 am

gotta go, thanks for all the clues, sprite!

4:49 am

bye deb, it was nice to see you!

5:42 am

fireflies. Sweet and fun. Bye all!

5:51 am

Greetings Babblers. I'm here for just 10 minutes or so for my Babble fix.

5:52 am

... then you had better work quickly ... doesn't seem to hard to get a bunch

5:53 am

I am typing away --no system, just typing whatever I see now.

5:54 am

... got about 80 in half an hour ... but I'm sure to hit a wall around 180 ... ... if I've got the time to get there

5:54 am

Go, go, go.

6:10 am

morning all

6:15 am

hi kat

6:19 am

135 left to find later. Off to work now. Enjoy the day.

6:19 am

... you too ...

6:19 am

hello and good-bye scrabs, have a great day.

6:19 am

hi and bye scrabs

6:21 am

Spring break for Carlee?

6:22 am

morning all!

6:22 am

Hi Sue

6:22 am

hi Molly!

6:23 am

no...slack week/reading week was 5 weeks ago molls...home stretch now...last essays and finals this month right around the corner

6:24 am

Man, how soon I have forgotten. Y'all do Winter Break up there, not an Easter break.

6:36 am

yay, me, down to 13 to go, s's and t's

6:37 am

Take my s's and t's. I have plenty and can spare 13 of them

6:38 am

lol, gramma

OOh, an 11. Haven't seen that in a while.

morn everyone - I'm afraid of this one! LOL

6:40 am

if you need a ha4, let me know, down to s's and t's

I wish ot6 and ha4 were one word.

6:41 am

*Pats Sugar on the back* There, there.

aw shucks, feeling safer molly

6:49 am

hello again, just had my 20 minutes of direct vitaminD

6:50 am

now down to 6 to go, all t's

6:50 am

hey ruby, how are things, hun?

6:51 am

47 on a Saturday, 273 on a Monday. : (

6:52 am

the weather is famulous, so can't complain (except about Saturday's tiny grid :( )

6:52 am

ah, well, mollyk, that's the way the cookie crumbles....* grin * ( i have tomorrow off, so np's he4 )

6:52 am

is famulous a portmanteau word?

6:52 am

only for you, dear friend, only for you

6:54 am

looking for those big ec's

6:57 am

and i am do4....lovely grid...not too many nasties

6:57 am

node

6:58 am

oops, sorry. hope th5 are goodies in the pb.

Ibd = sugra snuck some wine in for you

6:59 am

a tad early for alcoholic libations...only 6 am he4

aaaaah, but ibd, it's 5:00 somewhere!

7:00 am

has anyone please got any clues for the 10 and 11 letter word

7:01 am

<---Likes the way Sugrr thinks

7:01 am

maybe breakfast smoothies with a little rum

7:02 am

<---Likes the way Ruby thinks too

7:02 am

e + bottom of face + vowel + prefix for skin and plural = ec10/11

7:02 am

aaron ec 10, ec + short hello + opposite of yes + another word for skin

7:03 am

then ec11 is plural

7:03 am

thank you ibd

7:03 am

should have known that one

7:03 am

thank you

7:03 am

chin

7:04 am

sorry

7:04 am

Wow! that was the most straight forward clue. Just follow the bouncing ball and you get 10 and 11. ty

7:05 am

Phantom: sthenic

7:05 am

okey, dokey, outta he4. it's after 10pm....see you all at the flip, maybe....ruby, please take ca4 of you, hun

7:06 am

{{rose}}

7:06 am

bye, grannyrose. nice to see you

Hi everyone!

7:06 am

Howdy!

this looks like a nice hefty grid!

7:08 am

hello red!

7:08 am

It seems pretty smooth to me. We'll see later on how I feel.

well so far I have 36 whole words, but I started just now.

7:11 am

this grid is nice and chewy

so far so good, but I think I am about to slow way down now. there is an 11 letter!!

7:16 am

marine animal, like a starfish

neat!

7:16 am

sea urchin

7:16 am

all of them are divided into 5 parts

7:16 am

morning, red and ruby et al! :-)

7:16 am

sand dollar

7:17 am

bonjour, une

7:17 am

how's your new little 4-legged buddy??

7:17 am

the cutest, ever!

7:18 am

hello everyone

7:18 am

{{annie}}

7:18 am

morning, annie!

7:18 am

Hi Une, ((Ruby))

7:19 am

Annie, was looking at the NYT article about the new Judy Garland show opening at the Belasco -- looks goooood

7:19 am

Yes, It does

7:20 am

dorens was saying she's thinking about getting tix to The Best Man -- did you hear NPR's segment about it over the weekend?

7:21 am

No, did they like it?

7:21 am

I drool over the reviews in the New Yorker

7:21 am

:-D

7:21 am

yes, they gave it a thumbs up!

7:22 am

I have 2 weeks of The New Yorker which I havent got it yet. I'm way behind.

7:23 am

Since I was sick in November I havent been able to get to the city as much I would like.

7:23 am

feeling better now??

7:23 am

I feel better but do not have much stamina. (sigh)

7:24 am

does the sea air make you feel better, annie?

7:24 am

hope that gets better and better . . .

7:24 am

sitting on the boardwalk?

7:24 am

reading old New Yorkers LOL

7:24 am

:-D

7:25 am

ruby, I'm a native here so I do not take advantage of the boardwalk as much as I should. All the Russians are up on the boardwalk early, early in the AM. They now call Brighton Beach "Odessa by the Sea".

7:25 am

LOL :-)

7:26 am

I've seen several movies on TV about Russdian gangsters in Brighton Beach and always think of Annie!

7:27 am

***wonders if Annie is a russian gangster...***

7:28 am

ruby, I think some of them live in my building. I really would not be surprised. They pour big money into the apartments which they really do now own. Im talking hundreds of thousands. hi dawg, I'm a Russian grandma gangsta moll.

7:28 am

the restaurants must be wonderful!

7:29 am

Ive been to a couple of them. I am not a fan of russian food but the nightclubs are way over the top.

7:29 am

lol, morning annie, ruby, unea, molly, et. al

7:29 am

that is funny. My sister says that the Russian women in her neighborhood in Queens wear huge amounts of makeup and gold jewelry in the supermarket

7:29 am

<-- loves Russian food

7:30 am

and Manola (sp) Blahniks to buy butter and eggs.

7:30 am

(my wedding shows were Manolos! LOL)

7:30 am

shoes*

7:31 am

well, then they were appropiate. They are gorgeous.

7:31 am

they were!

7:31 am

but killer on the feet

7:32 am

I bet you looked tall and fab.

7:32 am

I'm afraid it would take stilts!

7:33 am

steth

7:33 am

whoops

7:34 am

remove the first letter

7:34 am

the grid dances around a lot of th's, sh's esth's

7:35 am

Im still on the top row and have 57 words but got the 10 and 11 from clues

7:35 am

and what purim queen is in the grid?

7:35 am

What a lovely morning to babble. Hello everyone

7:35 am

Esther

7:35 am

hello mom

7:35 am

Hi Mom, YAY for Kentucky!

7:36 am

take out the "s" :-)

7:36 am

and I've learned to make prune hamantoshen [sp???]

7:36 am

((Ruby and Annie))

7:36 am

Yes, Annie, I hope they can pull it off tonight

7:36 am

finally, nbt and nbs and just barely 3/4's thru the grid.

7:36 am

using Fr prepared dough

7:36 am

yay for dawg

7:36 am

Alex has them winning on his bracket sheet

7:36 am

my bracket is at 96% correct, i was very lucky this year!

7:36 am

hello and congrats ((LBD))

7:36 am

Good mornin'

7:37 am

my bracket was shot to he** when Duke lost

7:37 am

good morning Bichon

7:37 am

{{bichon}}

7:37 am

morning bichon :)

7:38 am

It's April We went to go see "Hunger Games" yesterday. It was good

7:38 am

good morning all

7:38 am

same with my sister, mom, she's a duke fan.

7:38 am

good morning wvteach

7:38 am

Hi teach

7:38 am

hello WV!

7:38 am

oh well there is always next year

7:39 am

UConn lost to Notre Daame in OT

7:39 am

I don't follow it like I did when Alex lived at home but I still do a bracket with him

7:39 am

had you read the book first, bichon? I've been reading the reviews

7:39 am

have you read about the race issues that have arisen around the hunger games? it's so sad.

7:39 am

hello hurshy

7:40 am

We read all three books. We liked this one the best. didn't care for the second. The third is again great. But there's going to be 4 movies

7:40 am

hello :)

7:40 am

really Hurshy? I have not read the books so don't know what you all are talking about

7:40 am

No, there are race issues?

7:40 am

I've only read reviews

7:41 am

well apparently when the author describes some of the characters she specifies they have brown skin or whatnot, and so they cast black kids in those roles, and people (who had read the books but managed not to notice this) were tweeting horrid things like that it wasn't as sad when this girl died because she was black, and so forth.

7:42 am

that's awful

7:42 am

wow

7:42 am

Yes, that is awful

7:42 am

that is so mean-spirited

7:42 am

Some people see race issues in everything.

7:43 am

time for breakfast

7:43 am

bbl

7:43 am

i feel like most of the time i think that we're doing ok on race (easy for me to say i guess as a white person) and then this comes up, and trayvon martin, and other things, and i realize, not so much.

7:43 am

Not to start a storm, but if Treyvon Martin were white, I believe he would be alive today

7:43 am

can you imagine that there are radical muslims here who are criticizing the police for shooting that monster in Toulouse?

7:44 am

of course he would, annie. it's hard to doubt that.

7:44 am

for sure

7:44 am

they pretend to be color-blind he**, but it's not true

7:46 am

i read an interesting piece about french anti-semitism the other day. it seems like france has a different problem than the US in that they figure your first loyalty should be to france and not a religion

7:46 am

morning all

7:46 am

good morning ((Peri))

7:46 am

help with 8,9 and 10 pla

7:46 am

my eyes are blurry after 174 words so I'll bid you adieu!!

7:46 am

reminds me of the roman empire that way

7:46 am

(((Ruby)))) good to see you

7:46 am

I have heard that before,hurshy about the French

7:46 am

as long a humans can hate, they will. they will fear differences and not be tolerant of those differences. they will avoid change at all costs including killing those who do not think or look like the image in the mirrors.

7:46 am

adieu ruby

7:46 am

I think French anti-semitism is very deeply entrenched, just not spoken about much

7:47 am

hi there Mom, need to get to the food pantry in a bit.but my car is blocked in :( need to get bil to move his car

7:47 am

sweet restful eyeballs, ruby

7:47 am

nbt

7:47 am

{{hugs to all my babble friends}}

7:48 am

go peri!

7:48 am

only 169 left

7:49 am

you are on a roll Peri. 242 left here

7:50 am

201 left he4

7:51 am

git'r dun, annie!

7:51 am

Im having my breakfast at the computer and babbling away

7:51 am

I do that most mornings Annie

7:52 am

Multitasking, we are.

7:52 am

Was that English? LOL

7:52 am

:-)

Any clue for ar7/28?

7:53 am

sure it was Annie

7:53 am

don't have it yet, kenny

7:53 am

morning Kenny. I don't have it but will help you look

Thanks Mom

7:54 am

sort of looks like it could be a girl's name

7:54 am

ar7/8 Mr Onassis with a small french end

7:54 am

Hello all

7:54 am

hello Lynxxx

7:54 am

Hi lynxxxxie, and thanks

7:55 am

ty, lynxxx

7:55 am

ty

7:55 am

plural that ar 7 for the ar8

7:55 am

off to food pantry

7:55 am

oh sure, don't thank me just because my clue was inferior

7:55 am

(i joke)

7:56 am

time to send hubz off to work. bbl to finish and chat.

7:56 am

bye bye Peri see you later

7:56 am

bye bye LBD

7:56 am

your clue just zipped by..but thanks!

7:56 am

bye Dawg

7:56 am

bye peri and dawg

7:57 am

thanks everyone for the ar words

7:57 am

wow - Fiji has been dumped on

thanks lynxxx, took me a while

7:58 am

did everyone get the cute little spiny anteater ec7 :)

7:58 am

gulp - ummm - no - thanks Hursh

7:58 am

not yet .... off to look

7:58 am

i think i only know about that animal because one of my college friends randomly gave me a stuffed one.

7:59 am

i think my stuffed one is significantly cuter than the real thing.

7:59 am

no the real ones are very very cute

7:59 am

time to start my day. ((Hugs))) to all of you

8:00 am

bye ((Mom)) have a great day

8:00 am

bye Mom

8:00 am

bye bye (((Annie and Lynxxx)))

8:00 am

I will Annie, you too

8:02 am

Hello kids.

8:03 am

time to leave to take care of my grandson for the day - BBL this evening

8:04 am

Have fun, wv

8:05 am

hi Scrabs

8:06 am

Hi lynxxx. How have you been doing?

8:06 am

name that proper noun! forest moon from return of the jedi

8:07 am

Endor!

8:07 am

Very well Scrabs - enjoyed our mild Summer.

8:07 am

ding ding ding!

8:07 am

hi Scrabbs

8:07 am

My fantasy, since 1986 when episode 6 came out, has been to live on Endor in the forest.

Stuck with en/7 and en/8. Any help?

8:08 am

Lynxxx, we had a very mild winter. Hi hurshy + annie

8:08 am

:) as long as the ewoks decide you're a queen and not a sacrifice

8:08 am

They will obviously see that I deserve to live among them, H.

8:08 am

citations can be foot----- or en7/8

8:09 am

Good morning!

8:09 am

morning, car. :)

8:09 am

name the mother on Bewitched even

8:09 am

TY, H. Hi Car--how is the new phone?

8:09 am

endora

8:09 am

Endora

8:09 am

Hi ivesy

8:09 am

hi again all!

8:10 am

Hi Sue. Counting down the days til retirement?

8:10 am

Hi Car, Ivesy & Sue

8:10 am

hi scrab, hi everyone. just waiting to get ready for work..

8:10 am

I am indeed, scrabs!

8:11 am

first day i retired i had a panic attack lol.. then i was fine

8:11 am

I would panic about not having an income.

8:12 am

well i have my pension, not much, which is why i work part time at library

8:12 am

I'll have an income (unless the state takes it away, but retirement benefits are guaranteed in the state constitution so not likely)

8:12 am

do miss the paid holidays though.

8:12 am

Sorry...was changing my icon...now I am back! Good morning!!!!

8:12 am

My other fantasy residence is the Sh5 in MIddle earth.

8:13 am

but now I am gulping down my tea, classes at 9, 12, and 1, meeting at 10, then I'll have time to eat lunch at 2

8:13 am

mine is on a beach, warm weather, solitude. peace

8:13 am

hi car!

8:13 am

Hello you retiring beauty you!

8:13 am

Long day, Sue

8:14 am

i anticipate being destitute in my old age

8:14 am

yes, my MWF are all pretty much like that this semester

8:14 am

Pack a snack for in between so you don't gorge at 2!!!

8:14 am

well, off to take care of the rugrats.. easter vacation.. ugh we should be busy hagd all

8:14 am

Why, H?

8:14 am

Why, H?

8:14 am

they'll have coffee and cookies at the 10:00 meeting (although I will skip the cookies)

8:15 am

and I am generally ok until 2; don't want to eat just before lecturing anyway

8:15 am

name that proper noun! actress anne who did that plane crash movie with harrison ford

8:15 am

By the time you get to the age of not working and reduced income - you don't want for much and your spending falls away - a lot

8:15 am

Heche

8:15 am

Heche!

8:15 am

Carole Repellant!

8:16 am

What, Car?

8:17 am

Besides, sometimes the joy of not working is worth the lack of money

8:17 am

Anne Heche is one of my least favorite actresses of all time.

8:17 am

Right up there with Melanie Griffith.

8:17 am

and kim basinger

8:17 am

ding ding ding! sorry late with the dings

8:17 am

I agree, Car.

8:17 am

i don't like meryl streep.

8:17 am

Yes!

8:17 am

<---Agrees with Car

8:18 am

Molly! Good morning! Beautiful basket!

8:18 am

ok, gotta run, see you all later!!

8:18 am

I'm almost afraid to say I don't mind either of them

8:18 am

Bye Sue!

8:18 am

And Julia Roberts + Bette Midler

8:18 am

bye Sue

8:18 am

glenn close

8:18 am

Although I do like Meryl, I do know several others that do not.

8:18 am

Bye Sue

8:18 am

<--Agrees about Kim Basinger too

8:19 am

Bette Midler is great

8:19 am

I like Bette Midler as a performer vs. an actress.

8:20 am

Although I do sometimes feel Julia Roberts to be a little annoying, I think she and I would be great friends if we knew each other. Just something about her.

8:20 am

i want to be friends with ashley, the scottish girl who was ditched from america's next top model last week. she was adorable.

8:21 am

Hurshy, do you watch Britain's got talent?

8:21 am

I would love to be friends with Ellen DeGeneres--funny, authentic.

8:21 am

no, i am really in the US, i'm only a wannabe brit.

8:21 am

Ohhhhhhh!

8:21 am

As long as she didn't try to be "on" all the time, I agree Scrabs!

8:22 am

Me too, H. I just finished the BBC series "MI-5", called "Spooks" in the UK, and started watching the BBC series "Touching Evil."

8:23 am

Anybody have stats for the 10 and 11? And the 8s other than en8?

8:24 am

ar8

8:24 am

which is a pl

8:24 am

di8, same deal

8:24 am

get di7/8, they are easy, then make ar7/8 end same way

8:24 am

I found ar7 and ar8, TY

8:25 am

or that way, you know, whatever

8:25 am

The di7-8 was easy once I tried diester and diether first.

8:25 am

:)

8:26 am

Go ahead, somebody, send me to the PB.

8:26 am

And thr-- words?

8:27 am

*any

8:27 am

i am missing four T's but haven't found any yet.

I am still lost with the en 8. Help!

8:30 am

Not the beginning but the en*, then add no4/4, and extend

8:30 am

en8: final + memo plural

8:30 am

en8 compound, finish & very sort 'letter'

8:30 am

EN the last musical sound and pl

8:30 am

sort/short

8:30 am

TY!

8:30 am

hi Kenny! Hi gramma!

8:30 am

Hi Jeff!

8:31 am

mornin'

8:31 am

Red Bud, Illinois...population 3,700 is the home of one of the big lottery winners this weekend

8:31 am

That's almost like someone from Mayberry winning. : )

8:32 am

<---- does not live in Red Bud :(

8:32 am

nice

8:32 am

Thomas the Tank Engine's place of residence is in the grid

8:33 am

I forget the name, Jeff.

8:33 am

Yes! It is!

8:33 am

the isle of -----

8:33 am

Sodor!

8:33 am

Mann, Firth....

8:34 am

I just read a TTTE book to the boys last night at bedtime!

8:34 am

Name one of the swans in Swan Lake, the ballet

8:34 am

Dr Google told me Isle of Sodor.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I was going the wrong way.

8:34 am

odette!

8:34 am

ding ding ding!!

8:35 am

got all the top S's but the lower ones are hard!!!!

8:36 am

110 to go and I am seeing nuffin'

8:36 am

Wow! Well done Hurshy!

8:36 am

Way to go Scrabs!

8:36 am

people keep asking for clues for the 10 and 11 but i guess none of us have them!!

8:36 am

you probably just need a sudoku break, sc

8:36 am

we'll find them someday

8:37 am

I still have 2 letters at 0 :(

8:37 am

I have to go see a baby in a minute

8:37 am

don't have them either.

8:37 am

Whee! Now just 1

8:37 am

ec10 and 11 -- starfish!

8:37 am

ends in skin word

8:37 am

ec 10----ec, lower part of face, vowel, 4 letter word for skin....forget who gave this clue

8:37 am

oops. PB for me.

8:38 am

woot, thanks une and annie!

8:38 am

yw :-)

8:38 am

youre welcome

8:38 am

plural it

8:38 am

i find it odd that you would look at a starfish and decide to give it a name based on its skin.

8:38 am

or an elephant, for that matter.

8:39 am

Ty! What a great word!

8:39 am

ty annie.

8:40 am

Stats please for the bottom O?

8:40 am

youre welcome

8:40 am

i only have one of those, or5/12, a plural.

8:41 am

Got it! TY! Finally NBT!

8:41 am

ooh just got the others od5 and 6

8:41 am

or 4/5

8:41 am

good morning all

8:42 am

Hello viajes!

8:42 am

hi viajes

8:42 am

it's a bunch of people I don't know! I must be up early today.

8:42 am

aah Movie theatres - thanks H

8:42 am

We're pretty friendly and we don't bite, so come on in!

8:43 am

hi Viajes

8:43 am

Very twisty words!

8:43 am

te

8:43 am

Hi TC!

8:44 am

So the chat log just did something really weird -- I went to bed around 1:30am and when I opened my computer a couple of minutes ago, instead of snapping to the current chat log, it went through a bunch, so I saw a group of chats from around 4:30, 5:30, 6:30, 7:30... strange but kind of cool

8:46 am

hello babbleonia from martha's vineyard

8:47 am

hi Dorens...nice!

8:47 am

Hi Dorens! How is the Vineyard this morning!

8:47 am

d

8:47 am

well, not quite as nice as during the summer, and grey, grey grey today. but yesterday was beautiful... didn't even need a sweatshirt in the afternoon

8:48 am

Nice!

8:48 am

<---- looking up ferry schedule....

8:49 am

come on down car... don't even need a reservation for the ferry (there was plenty of room on ours saturday). but we're leaving tomorrow 4;15

8:49 am

Arrrgh! Figures!

8:49 am

What a nice getaway for you though! :)

8:50 am

*Pours Doren a mimosa*

8:50 am

have this week off, and have always wondered what it looks like here without leaves on the trees. still beautiful (we're in a house in the middle of woods on a nice big pond... lovely views)

8:50 am

Goodnight all

8:50 am

<---- slides champagne flute over to Molly for filling...

8:51 am

wow . . . sounds amazing

8:51 am

Good night Lynxxx!

8:51 am

*Pours Car a mimosa too*

8:51 am

today in NashVegas: humid and recordbreaking 87 degrees

8:51 am

Sounds beautiful Dorens! I forget there are ponds th5!

8:51 am

hi

8:51 am

UNE?!?!?! You are in NashVegas?!?!?!?!? Why did I not know this?!?!?!

8:52 am

big big ponds., and thanks molly

8:52 am

Sounds Walden-esque. Lovely.

8:52 am

dunno, car, it's been in my profile since 2005 :-)

8:52 am

I really need to read people's bios more. I have ALWAYS wanted to go to Nashville!

8:52 am

morning

8:52 am

Hello Harp!!!!

8:52 am

morning jane

8:52 am

{making coffee...anyone need some?}

8:53 am

where do you live, car?

8:53 am

une, aren't you overdue for a visit to ny?

8:54 am

waaaay overdue :-)

8:54 am

South of Boston, MA. But I have lived in a few different places...Honolulu, Hilton Head, Amherst....

8:54 am

why not come some time this summer?

8:54 am

dorens, I heard NPR's segment on Best Man this weekend -- did you get tix?

8:55 am

dorens, i don't want to come in the hot summertime . . . maybe late fall?

8:55 am

no, and my friend is supposed to get them at the theater, but now that they did that it might be harder o get

8:55 am

well, i was going to say that if you come in the summer when i'm around and not working, you could stay here . the bus isn't far from my house, and I lie to drive in myself (45 mnutes)

8:56 am

didn't hear the whole segment but glommed on immediately since you had mentioned it awhile back (was transporting rescue puppies)

8:56 am

Doren, I wish I were there with you. we could go kayaking.

8:57 am

oohhh, that's very kind, Dorens! BTW what is your work situation these days?

8:57 am

Quite a few animals in the grid today!

8:57 am

read an interview with candice bergen this weekend, making it even more interesting

8:57 am

sounds like a wonderful cast

8:57 am

scrabbs, it's still a might chilly for kayaking, but you would probably do it anyway, and i would join you!

8:58 am

we should have a babbler meetup up here some time - (une, i plan on working for another two years or so)

8:58 am

nice icon pic, dorens!

8:59 am

I need 1 more Y...I have yo 4/7 and 6/27...what am I missing please?

8:59 am

yo4/6

8:59 am

thanks une... liz and the kids last september

8:59 am

sounds like the singer

8:59 am

Ty! Got it!

8:59 am

yw :-)

8:59 am

r

9:00 am

help with the bottom o please?

9:00 am

od5 and 5 movie theaters

9:00 am

place in paris jane, od _ long long time

9:00 am

od4 and 5, sorry

9:01 am

off to eat my Cheerios and fruit -- back in a bit -- great to see everyone!! *poof*

9:01 am

Bye Une!

9:01 am

cheerio, une!

9:02 am

thanks

9:02 am

nbt yay

9:02 am

Hooray!

9:03 am

yay for jane. i just got there too

9:03 am

Let's go Babblers! We wil not be intimidated by a big grid.

9:03 am

I love big grids!

9:04 am

it is somewhat intimidating, actually. i checked and was happy to see that there is a list

9:04 am

yup, car

9:04 am

(i don't love big grids while on vacation)

9:04 am

Me too, not to finish but to type away with reckless abandon.

9:05 am

Hi all.

9:05 am

Hi mixi!

9:05 am

hey mixi

9:05 am

morning mix

9:06 am

Hi dorens, I was planning to be in NJ in May, but it looks like it's fallen through.

9:06 am

that's too bad.. why nj, you have family there? and where?

9:06 am

I am not seeing any more words, so I think it may be time for a break.....

9:06 am

Good morning/afternoon all.

9:07 am

later car

9:07 am

Morristown. Family plot in Hamburg.

9:07 am

Hello Haz!

9:07 am

hazmataz!

9:07 am

hello haz mix, i am ten minutes from morristown!

9:07 am

Hello! Nice to see you all.

9:08 am

I was born there.

9:08 am

and nice to see you as well

9:08 am

i live in mountain lakes. just up 287

9:08 am

There's some shindig for my uncle in early may, but he won't be there.

9:09 am

Hi Haz--I was thinking of you (and our UK buddies)this weekend when watching BBC TV series--Spooks, and Touching EVil.

9:09 am

well if you decide to come up, i'll come down for a cup of coffee or glass of wine

9:09 am

They took the apartment (barn) we lied in to make the entrance to 287.

9:10 am

Hello, Scrabbler. I haven't watched either of those programmes so can't comment - did you enjoy them?

9:10 am

And I'm off to the PB with ei6.

9:11 am

LOVE both. Spooks (Called MI-5 here) lasted 10 seasons. I am on the first season of T.E.--a dark crime show.

9:11 am

i will put in some lobster rolls for you, if you're not allergic to seafood haz

9:11 am

no no, far too common a word to go to the PB over!

9:11 am

nobody would ever have noticed

9:12 am

I'm pretty allergic to prawns so I've never dared try other seafood. But thanks for the offer, Dorens!

9:12 am

And ei6 is rather obvious.

9:12 am

I did, 'cuz i did it earlier. lol

9:12 am

This is true. I didn't notice. But then again, although I had many words with that ending, I had missed that, so it helped.

9:12 am

Ah well, I'll hover about to pretend penance.

9:12 am

All right haz, I will eat them myself. And bake you some brownies ?

9:13 am

Brownies I can have.

9:13 am

with nuts I hope?

9:13 am

why spoil brownies with nuts?

9:13 am

Yes, nuts are no problem ei6.

9:13 am

Because they taste infinitely better!

9:14 am

i disagree.

9:14 am

but hey, since they are only imaginary i guess it really really doesn't matter!!! :)

9:14 am

L like nuts. Then again I am nuts.

9:14 am

You may. We all have our own opinions. I will bake you some without (had to do that with my silly children, who agreed wih you when they were younger)

9:15 am

sweets for the sweet. have a nut. lol

9:15 am

I like nuts in everything. Bread, pancakes, rice, vegetables, salad. Certain dishes call for walnuts, others need almonds, sometimes pecans.

9:16 am

i like them in some things. in fact i have them in my salad all the time. and i like them plain sometimes. but not in brownies or fudge or ... mostly like, chocolate dessert things, i guess.

9:17 am

even though i will happily eat chocolate-peanut BUTTER fudge.

9:17 am

Hm... and I really find brownies san nuts to be like naked

9:17 am

sanS, sorry

9:19 am

so7 like a squished fish, and so7 change last letter of that one

9:20 am

now that is interesting.. squished fish. this is making my brain work. squished fish.

9:21 am

squished, crowded

9:21 am

thanks got it

9:21 am

i was thinking like flattened, pounded, which made no sense of course

9:21 am

lol, my last word was if, th4.

9:22 am

TY for those so7's

9:22 am

and why not?

9:22 am

Yay Hurshy.

9:22 am

I need the last so7.

9:22 am

scrabs, do you go out in the kayak when it is in the 40's?

9:22 am

in the manner of a drunk, mixi

9:22 am

ttfn all!!!

9:23 am

bye hursh

9:23 am

Bye, hurshy, enjoy your day.

9:24 am

mixi my flag less a constenant :)

9:25 am

ty mari and hurshy

9:26 am

good morning L(

9:26 am

spelling - need coffee lol

9:26 am

Good morning, cybernan.

9:26 am

good morning nan

9:26 am

meant to give you a smile :) -- but working on a miniscule keyboard in the dark

9:27 am

oh, I was wondering about that!

9:27 am

Doren, we have paddled in low-50's temps, but that is cold for our wet feet. We don't have Neoprene boots.

9:27 am

I figured you were still asleep nan. lol

9:27 am

Great clue, Mari!

9:28 am

Well that's good Scrab. I was wondering just how hearty you were! It did get into the 50's yesterday, and if I were in the house that I've had previously with canoe right on the water in front of the house, I probably would have given it a whirl. But too much effort to rent something with this iffy weather. Nice for walking along the beach and in the woods, however

9:29 am

doubt I'll finish this one as I still have 158 to go, hubby will be awake soon, and we are stopping overnight with friends near Seattle today

9:30 am

this does seem to be a grid that requires a bit of effort. down to 104 and think i might need a break soon.

9:30 am

So many proper nouns as well.

9:30 am

11 left.

9:31 am

Or maybe names more than nouns.

9:31 am

Yes, Haz. I seem to be finding more of them right now than not

9:32 am

Go mixi. 103 remain unfound for me.

9:32 am

Stats for the 10 and 11?

9:32 am

ec 10/98 + plural

9:32 am

ec10/98 and ec11/120

9:32 am

ec10,98, + splural.

9:32 am

*looking* TY

9:33 am

e + part of face + vowel + skin

9:33 am

echolocation doesn't work, lol

9:33 am

And it's not echinacea

9:34 am

no, it doesn't

9:34 am

t's tumbled!

9:34 am

terrific, dawg

9:34 am

Got it! I learned about those critters during my Biology days.

9:34 am

Go dawg

9:35 am

hi dorens! hi scrabs, hi everyone! 18 remaining...these e's are driving me nuts

9:36 am

hi lbd

9:37 am

hiya, Mixi!

9:38 am

great ec clue mixi - ty

9:39 am

stole it from someone else. can

9:39 am

And at 175/98 I have had enough of this grid. Enjoy the day!

9:39 am

7 left.

9:39 am

Bye,Scrabbler.

9:41 am

hagd, scrabs

9:45 am

go mixi!

9:46 am

tadone!! finito

9:46 am

Congratulations!

9:46 am

congrats lbd.

9:47 am

grats, dawger

9:47 am

stuck at 150

9:47 am

ty! some new and odd words today.

9:48 am

clue for en7?

9:48 am

starfish!

9:48 am

en7 - compound word

9:49 am

en7 not beginning + musical notation

9:49 am

ty lbd.

9:50 am

and haz.

9:51 am

I'm wondering if Minveryork will get the te5/10, the ar4/4 and the en7 worked into her story of clues.

9:52 am

I hope so!

9:54 am

Thanks haz. I had missed the first two of those. If you keep it up I might not have to list.

9:55 am

fireworks.

9:55 am

Well done, mixi!

9:55 am

yay mix!

9:57 am

back to sh5,14 old tax forms.

9:58 am

good morning everyone

9:59 am

Good morning, flosey.

9:59 am

good morning flosey

9:59 am

hola

9:59 am

time to get a move on -- 99 to go

10:00 am

better hurry! only 14 hours left! :P

10:00 am

nope - we

10:00 am

we're travelling, so I'm done for the day

10:01 am

Have a safe journey, cybernan.

10:01 am

are you touring around now nan? or on your way home?

10:01 am

safe journeys, nan

10:02 am

tomorrow we will be in Vancouver, and I will be spending time with the grandchildren (can't wait to hold those new grandbabies!) - so it may be a few days

10:02 am

hey all -- how's the grid today? I have a "free" day but don't want to spend the entire span of it here!

10:02 am

ty stid -- will wave to you as we drive by today

10:03 am

ah, fully understand, enjoy nan

10:03 am

home, flosey

10:03 am

it's fun and quick (so far) stid

10:03 am

will wave to you too, Nan -- holler if you stop near here for lunch!

10:03 am

thanks harp -- will start it!

10:04 am

quick in the sense that it is easy to find words because there are so many -- maybe not quick to finish ;)

10:04 am

I have Mitchdick's list in my profile if you want to use it nan

10:04 am

anyone have a clue for the ne6?

10:04 am

it's okay viajes, my goal most days is halfway. :-) sometimes I get a little further.

10:04 am

also lickety is up

10:05 am

ah, with lickety sometimes I do try for the whole shebang

10:05 am

ne6 - ne plus an anagram of what you do on a horse

10:05 am

ne6 is a worm

10:06 am

thanks viajes, didn't realize, lickety is so much easier to follow

10:06 am

I generally don't do anything on a horse...

10:06 am

yeah, it was down for a bit, and then one day it wasn't up until about 10pm, but most days it's been back lately, which is a lot easier than the list

10:07 am

thanks mixi and Haz!

10:07 am

You're welcome, stidmama.

10:07 am

got it too -- thanks!

10:07 am

Ns are nixed

10:12 am

go viajes go!

10:16 am

NBT...

10:20 am

halfway!

10:23 am

and will wait for later to do more. have a lovely day, all! *poof*

10:24 am

whoa, where'd he go! he just vanished like magic!

10:24 am

*she

10:24 am

(?)

10:24 am

do we have lickety?

10:24 am

She, the clue is in the 'mama'

10:25 am

Yes, Lickety's list is available.

10:25 am

yeah, I figured that out after I said it... I was just looking at the "stid" part :P

10:25 am

Yahoo!

10:32 am

can anyone clue the ec7?

10:33 am

ec7/40 - a spiny anteater

10:33 am

EC + a 2-letter Freud concept + **ture

10:33 am

an 11 letter word?

10:34 am

haha, got it thanks

10:35 am

the 11 is another ec, pickles

10:36 am

okay, I must be off -- later babblers

10:46 am

acer is the botanical word for maple!

10:47 am

interesting Pickles, please pass the acer syrup

10:49 am

My husband is a horticulturist and I'm very proud of the 10 botanical names that i know

10:49 am

and that knowledge comes in handy with when doing word puzzles

Ah. My favorite Dorthy Parker line.

You can bring a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

10:50 am

what Kap?

10:50 am

?

10:50 am

clever kap

10:50 am

You can lead a horticulture, but you cannot make her think

10:51 am

sorry had to read that twice now i get it

OK, that's my drop in for today- must go to work.

10:51 am

have a good day Kap

10:52 am

Don't go to work nothing good can come of that

10:52 am

except a pay cheque at the end of the week

10:57 am

My brain clicked shut -- clue for en7 please?

10:59 am

a final reference

11:00 am

that gives me the first 3 letters, I think...

11:00 am

ummm... a final memo?

11:01 am

Yes!!!

11:01 am

amelu, are you cluing en8?

11:01 am

Thank you, amelu

11:02 am

en7/8

11:02 am

yvw :o)

11:02 am

After a while on this game, you stop seeing the simple ones...

11:02 am

Hi, kids. Clues for the ec10 & 11?

11:02 am

I have the 8 but can't make a 7 from that

11:03 am

? The singular ?

11:03 am

??

11:04 am

*blinking in confusion*

11:04 am

sorry, was trying to make a 6!!!

11:04 am

up too early\

11:05 am

~:o)

11:07 am

*Jumping up and down, waving arms* Ec10 & 11? Anyone? Anyone?

11:08 am

can't help you Judi

11:08 am

ec10 - e plus the bottom part of the face, a vowel, skin (and then plural)

11:09 am

Thank you, Haz. I had the spiney creature. Wondered if it was something similar.

11:10 am

I think the ec 10 and 11 are aquatic.

11:11 am

Indeed they are. Sea urchins, etc.

11:13 am

EC + ***terland + Keats wrote ***s + suit of a**or

11:14 am

***terland?

11:14 am

Now, if I can get a clue for the Ar8, I'll go away a happy camper.

11:15 am

ar8 - plural of ar7 - a little opera song. Think ar4/4 with a French ending.

11:15 am

hinterland

11:15 am

Smashing! Ty again, Haz.

11:15 am

tyvm erda

11:16 am

You're welcome.

11:16 am

YW bichon -- that's not an easy one to clue...

11:16 am

ty Haz for the ar 8

11:17 am

You're welcome, bichon.

11:20 am

are there any words which begin with esth?

11:20 am

No, there aren't.

11:21 am

no bichon

11:21 am

ty flosey, keep trying to make esthete

11:21 am

there's a delay in the chog

11:21 am

However, take off the e at the front and you have the start of another word.

11:21 am

st7/32

11:22 am

tyvm Haz, wouldn't have gotten that on my own

11:22 am

Glad to help, bichon.

11:34 am

well, my single slice of pizza was super-yummy. im SURE my carrot sticks will be equally as satisfying...

11:35 am

Of course they will.

11:35 am

Is that some kind of self-hypnosis Eva?

11:36 am

something like that, molls. after gaining a pound last week + missing my 50-mark, im determined to get it this week. alas, i sort of threw myself off friday night, but im hoping to make up for it!

11:37 am

Whoa! 50-mark meaning 50 pounds? Good for you!

11:38 am

yeah. SHOULD have been there last week, but i slipped. this week or next, i will be there! then just another 15 or so after that.

11:38 am

Way to go Eva. You should be very proud of yourself.

11:39 am

i am. :)

11:39 am

That's a lot of weight! Well done.

11:40 am

TY haz. ive been working very hard at it! still have work to go, so i try not to congratulate myself TOO much.

11:41 am

*Waits for Eva to take Jennifer Hudson's place*

11:41 am

Still, you can give youself a pat on the back.

11:42 am

i do now + then, yes. and dear hubby does a good job of cheering me on as well.

11:45 am

this is a nifty grid. I keep thinking I'm found all I could and then find another couple

11:46 am

Hello, ruby.

11:46 am

hello haz

11:46 am

is it Spring over there?

11:46 am

It thought it was summer for a couple of days last week but it's getting colder again.

11:47 am

are you having the same drought?

11:47 am

No, we have water enough and to spare!

11:48 am

For some curious reason the dry parts of Britain have been drier than usual, the wetter parts have been wetter. We've had a mild and wet winter.

11:48 am

they've had only 25% of a normal year in France

11:49 am

PHone.

11:50 am

And back, just my daughter reporting that she's on the train for home.

12:00 pm

good afternoon

12:00 pm

Hello, Good Enough.

12:03 pm

how's life haz?

12:04 pm

It's fine, thanks. What about you?

12:05 pm

eh. my mom's wake is later today :(

12:05 pm

is this the newlywed daughter, haz? hows post-wedding life treating the lovely couple?

12:06 pm

I'm sorry. Losing your mother is extremely difficult.

12:06 pm

oh, GE. im so sorry.

12:07 pm

How are you coping?

12:07 pm

it has been hard but she passed two weeks ago so i think it will be relieved to get past these next two days

12:07 pm

Good Enough, gentle hugs to you. Losing a parent is such a difficult time, especially for daughters and moms.

12:07 pm

who ever heard of waiting two weeks?!

12:08 pm

We tend to have our funerals very quickly over here (Northern Ireland), usually within a couple of days. I think that's too fast but two weeks is a long time.

12:08 pm

yes, she was my best friend. but she lasted 7 months with a reoccurance of cancer in her liver so she is better off now

12:09 pm

eva, i just read back...50 pounds great!!!

12:09 pm

::blushes:: TY GE

12:09 pm

I'm glad she is at peace. {and Eva, good for you.}

12:09 pm

Hi everyone!!

12:10 pm

i was just getting started when all this came upon us so i am going to have to rededicate myself soon!

12:10 pm

i am sorry for your loss GE:(

12:10 pm

Note to Eva: Good job!! Don't be like me, though, and gain it back. Once you do all of that hard work - don't let it go!! Rah!! Rah!! Rah!!

12:11 pm

thank you all. you are very kind.

12:11 pm

'soon' will come, GE. Maybe for now, just cradling yourself with love and gentleness is enough.

12:11 pm

i dont plan on it. it took 10+ years to put it all on, and now i know what to do to lose it/keep it off. GE, dont even worry about that right now. you take care of what needs your attention.

12:11 pm

love and gentleness would be great. i just hope i don't translate that to chips and dip, if you know what i mean

12:12 pm

Some of us speak through experience, GE, losing a beloved mother makes the world a different, stranger place.

12:12 pm

Sorry, GE. Know what it's like to lose your mother. Mine was my best friend, too. I lost her at the very "too young" age of 52.

12:12 pm

I was 26 (30 years ago) and have thought of her every day.

12:12 pm

Glad to hear that, Eva!! I am about halfway to a 40 lb. weight loss goal and so determined to keep it off this time.

12:13 pm

i also lost my mother to cancer in 1991:( and it is a hard thing

12:13 pm

Me, too, ch! It was 31 years ago this summer and I was 24.

12:14 pm

::fingers crossed and knock on wood:: i still have my mommy and she turns 73 this month. doesnt look a day over 55.

12:15 pm

horray on the wight loss ladies!!! soon crossy will be surrounds by slim hotties:)

12:15 pm

you already are, crossy. soon we will just be even slimmer, which will make room for even more of us to be near you. ;)

12:15 pm

enjoy her eva. i was lucky. my mother was 85! now we need to watch out for dad who just turned 88!

12:16 pm

lol yaa !!!

12:16 pm

I am blessed to have known an abundance of remarkable, true-hearted women in my life, who inspire and guide by their example. I sometimes suspect my mom has helped put them in my path :)

12:16 pm

my dad is the one we need to look out for.

12:17 pm

mom just joined WW and takes pretty good care of herself. but dad has been in the hospital a few times over the last few years. just doesnt take good enough care of himself.

12:17 pm

okay i only have 31 words but i think it is time to get on with preparations. I will take all your thoughts with me today. ((HUGS)) for all.

12:18 pm

(((GE)))

12:18 pm

((ge))

12:19 pm

((( GE )))

12:19 pm

st 7/32??

12:20 pm

st7/32 - st plus an egg-laying bird, finish with two vowels

12:21 pm

ahh,thats better,a nice big plate of scrambelled eggies and toasted bagels..a colesterol level of 96 is a beautiful thing for a big guy like me:))

12:22 pm

ty haz

12:24 pm

thanks haz- have that one.. need the other

12:24 pm

st7/32 - past tense word using as many t as you can fit in.

12:25 pm

great clue !!.. thanks

12:25 pm

You're welcome.

12:27 pm

ty again haz

12:28 pm

You're welcome.

12:30 pm

Kitchen time. Enjoy the grid!

12:49 pm

hi all, help with 10 and 11 pls

1:00 pm

e + name for pants + skin, then pl

1:05 pm

ty gemini!

1:20 pm

yw

1:23 pm

I haven't heard someone use the word ch6 for pants in years. : )

I keep wanting to type tornado

2:34 pm

rind

2:34 pm

sorry :()

2:35 pm

still missing the bottom O and corner i for nbt

sugra just put some special goodies in the PB for Harry

2:35 pm

as long as it has caffiene, I should be ok

2:35 pm

ty, got the 10 and 11

2:36 pm

... for the i ... look at the ot5/12 and replace the o with an i

2:36 pm

ty dos

2:41 pm

the bottom o and hi and good afternoon

2:43 pm

hi bichon - looking for it myself

another word for smell

2:43 pm

ty, sug

2:43 pm

that's not bottom :)

2:46 pm

or5 - or + spanish for 2

2:46 pm

ty rbus

2:46 pm

rbud even

2:46 pm

tyvm rbud

2:47 pm

yw! only one I have from th5 so far.

2:48 pm

119 yet to go

2:48 pm

toer

2:48 pm

ugh sorry again

2:48 pm

I am having trouble with the left column s. Have only 3 words

2:48 pm

I only h ave 5

2:48 pm

Harry, try to slip in real words please lol

2:49 pm

Harry, we are so needy.

2:49 pm

heh

2:49 pm

well I'm outta here in a sec - kids are coming home.

2:49 pm

perhaps bbl

2:51 pm

phantom: cashmere

Clue for he6/24, please?

he 6/24-pt of the he 4/5 above it

Still can't get it. Stupid me.

he 4/5 is someone you leave money to in your will, then past tense for the 6

3:08 pm

ty for the 10 and 11,never would have found them

3:09 pm

I have ar8 and di8 both pl.help with last 8 pls

3:09 pm

peri, what is the di 8, don't have it?

3:09 pm

en8. Not the beginning + what you write to yourself to remember something

3:10 pm

is pl of the di7 furniture use to eat meals at home

3:10 pm

thank you Molls

3:10 pm

tyvm peri

3:10 pm

95 left

3:11 pm

nice grid so far

3:11 pm

yvw bichon

3:11 pm

I'm having trouble with the left column s, only have 3 words

3:16 pm

i have 4

3:17 pm

I just got 1 more

3:18 pm

5 now

3:19 pm

I am finally half way.

3:21 pm

bbl

I am not even half way, but getting close...

Ok, 144/129 with the 129 left.... maybe I can take amoment.

4:13 pm

did chat die?

4:14 pm

... just struggling to get to 200 before begging for help from lickety ...

4:14 pm

It took a nap ..

4:15 pm

chat always naps at this time

4:15 pm

irritates me sometimes when i need clues lol

4:16 pm

... ask away ... often a request for a clue will get it going again

4:17 pm

ah good point.. no clues needed yet though ty

4:17 pm

... deth

4:17 pm

... that's good ... cause i'm probably missing it

4:18 pm

i dont see how the first ch4 is possible though. ive tried every combo

4:18 pm

ah found it lol

4:19 pm

Cos = Peri : P

4:19 pm

yes lol im her mentee

4:20 pm

molly my pain is back and its worse this time

4:20 pm

I'm sorry to hear that Cos. Have you found a doctor yet?

4:21 pm

no. i finally was able to make an appointment with a patient advocate for next monday. if the pain persists i will just go to the walk in clinic

4:22 pm

I guess that is all you can do, and that sucks. I hope it gets better.

4:22 pm

thanks. the weird thing is.. this is weird....

4:22 pm

if i smoke a cig.. the pain goes away.

4:23 pm

That is strange. I wonder if it has anything to do with expanding and contracting your abdomen when you smoke.

4:24 pm

hm.. thats a good theory.

4:24 pm

They checked you for a hernia last time, right?

4:24 pm

they did an ultrasound said all was ok

4:25 pm

Very odd. I hope you can find a doctor who can figure it out.

4:26 pm

thanks me too! :)

4:26 pm

the last ch5/14 please?

4:26 pm

... a big country with lots of people in asia ... ... or the bottom of a boat

4:27 pm

... last one I've got is changing the vowel on the end of the country with lots of people

4:27 pm

Is h. pylori a recurring thing? I don't know much about it.

4:27 pm

thats the first ch5/14?

4:27 pm

neither do i. im gonna be doing some research in a bit

4:27 pm

... that's the country ... now change the final vowel ...

4:28 pm

ah thanks.. 3 of them similar then.

4:28 pm

... haven't checked yet ... so can't promise that's the last

4:28 pm

hi all

4:29 pm

95 left here

4:29 pm

not listed as yet but soon

4:29 pm

... listing with 72

4:29 pm

yes its the last.. theres a ch5/16 after that

4:29 pm

hi peri! we were just talking about you. you're my mentor :)

4:29 pm

I saw that, coss :)

4:31 pm

C's done!

4:31 pm

I hate c words

4:32 pm

me too. they were annoyinh

4:32 pm

missing 7 c words

4:32 pm

three ch5/14 all the same except for last vowel

4:33 pm

ty have them

4:33 pm

ah ok. they were my difficult ones lol

4:39 pm

80 left, bbl

4:49 pm

ei5/12 the 2nd?

4:50 pm

never mind

4:52 pm

257 left:)

4:52 pm

82 left. and ur in the grid!

4:53 pm

wlell. kinda

4:55 pm

yes I am!!

5:01 pm

ne6 anyone?

5:03 pm

someone said it was a worm

5:03 pm

ne and Senator Harry

5:04 pm

thanks.. awful maj. leader though.. needs to durbin or schumer

5:04 pm

yes

5:05 pm

durbin was my first boss so im biased lol

5:06 pm

like to see a big shake up

5:06 pm

i bet we will in Jan

5:06 pm

my husband and I were just talking about Dean..you worked for him too didn't you?

5:06 pm

i think cantor's gonna be speaker :( he's been shaking up his staff and hiring high profile assistants

5:07 pm

no kidding

5:07 pm

and he and cry baby john dont get along. cantor will be worse than newt.

5:07 pm

all in all though John is a nice man

5:08 pm

he's in over his head.

5:08 pm

i kinda feel bad for him. he has to try tio please moderates, estbishment and tea party members

5:10 pm

what was it Lincoln said? about pleasing some of the people...

5:11 pm

things don't change much do they?

5:11 pm

nope. its a shame

5:12 pm

CO is lucky to have you

5:13 pm

ty! im excited for the state convention in two weeks.

5:13 pm

rumors have it Biden will be there

5:13 pm

he's outstanding

5:14 pm

not a media favorite though

5:16 pm

oh i love him. hes the crazy uncle we all have!

5:16 pm

me too

5:17 pm

brb dog needs put

5:38 pm

Poor dog, I hope he putted okay : P

5:39 pm

hi all. would love a clue for the 10 and 11. and dont have any 8s or 7s yet.

5:42 pm

hah plays golf

5:42 pm

di7/32, cheapo table and chair set (and plural for the 8)

5:42 pm

and hi molly, mkg, west!

5:42 pm

ty got them.

5:42 pm

ty uusue.

5:43 pm

hi mkg, molly and sue

5:43 pm

how about the lower o? (fish I am sure but I can't see them)

5:43 pm

10 and 11 are e casual slacks and skin. add s for the 11

5:43 pm

back! lol i meant out obviously

5:44 pm

thanks, west, got them!

5:44 pm

dont see jeans or pants in grid. hmmmmm.

5:45 pm

the last sh5 anyone?

5:45 pm

akin? is there a synonym?

5:45 pm

I think it may be local..try the bottom of your face and a vowel

5:45 pm

stepped on one of those once (a sea urchin), wound up with a foot full of spines

5:46 pm

sh 5 to tear up

5:46 pm

ah thanks gem

5:46 pm

that put our son-in-law in the hospital sue..granddaughter was 2 at the time and told everyone her daddy stepped on a surgeon

5:47 pm

i meant skin, is there a synonym. sorry for typo

5:47 pm

that o might be 'waiter where's my or***?'

5:47 pm

Wow! I got them taken out, eventually (the Greek doctor who looked at them said, "Oh, all the tourists want those removed!") but they didn't cause me significant trouble

5:47 pm

Latin term meaning skin, west

5:47 pm

have that, west, comes from the left o

5:48 pm

looking

5:48 pm

or and spanish for 2

5:48 pm

ha, thanks west!

5:48 pm

nbs and nbt!

5:48 pm

and the singular

5:48 pm

kewl beans !!

5:49 pm

Past half way now too (barely)

5:50 pm

mkg some people have de**abrasion

5:50 pm

help with any of the 3 so7?

5:50 pm

have none cos hope they're plurals

5:51 pm

don't have any, cos, will look

5:51 pm

guess not

5:51 pm

hi folks (new laptop, not liking the keyboard)

5:51 pm

one may be

5:51 pm

hi welki!

5:51 pm

s7 = sounds like a tiny fish in a tin can

5:52 pm

so + consonant + eat finely

5:52 pm

and then with a different vowel at the end

5:52 pm

always take getting used to welki and hi

5:52 pm

ok thanks got that

5:52 pm

thanks for the tiny fish

5:52 pm

ready to toss it out the window\

5:52 pm

change last vowel for the 2nd so7

5:52 pm

ty cos

5:53 pm

is it removable?

5:53 pm

did anyone clue the ten or eleven????????

5:53 pm

bummer, welki!

5:54 pm

the keyboard, no - except if i pull the keys out one by one\

5:54 pm

yes

5:54 pm

e plus bottom of your face and latin term for skin..add s for the plural

5:55 pm

and put a vowel after that part of your face

5:55 pm

you can get an external keyboard but it makes the laptop pretty bulky

5:56 pm

last so7 sounds like someone from scotland

5:56 pm

hmm

5:57 pm

tried that before i purchased this one - i think i just need to spend a LOT of time on it - keys are so different - sizewise - and because there's a number pad, the letter keys are skewed to the left

5:57 pm

got it thanks cos

5:57 pm

I didn't get it cos

5:57 pm

might describe a person who drinks a lot peri

5:57 pm

hi peri

5:57 pm

someone from scotland minus the c

5:57 pm

if u were from scotland u would be sc******

5:58 pm

my granddaughter is there as we speak

5:58 pm

hope she's having nice weather

5:59 pm

still not getting it :(

5:59 pm

still not getting it :(

5:59 pm

not getting the word: e, bottom of face starting with ch that is 4 letters, then skin word (4 letters), then plural. comes to 9 and plural makes 10. missing something

5:59 pm

dog.. sc****** terrier?

5:59 pm

add a vowel after the face bottom word, mkg

5:59 pm

oh got it. add a vowel between bottom of face and skin word.

6:00 pm

wtg mkg !!

6:00 pm

finally got it ty, did not see the ish ending

6:00 pm

and how you have a 5-letter c word that is also in the grid :-)

6:00 pm

wtg :)

6:00 pm

how about some3 more 8s? i have one: the kitchen table set.

6:01 pm

en7/8 can find it in the back f resrarch papers/books

6:01 pm

en7/32, compound word, as cos said

6:01 pm

en 7/8 opposite of beginning and musical symbol

6:02 pm

ty got the musical one. but back or research papers not getting.

6:02 pm

ar7 a little art song and ar8 its plural

6:02 pm

it's the same word, mkg

6:02 pm

back of book is the same word..

6:02 pm

sounds french

6:02 pm

ok got it.

6:03 pm

thanks, turqaz!

6:03 pm

yw!

6:03 pm

ty ogt the ar as a 4. now what?

6:04 pm

ok got it.

6:04 pm

ty

6:04 pm

12 to go; 934 points; no more time to spend on this; c u tomorrow *poof*

6:04 pm

17 to go

6:04 pm

bye turq good job !!

6:05 pm

42 left for me..dinner is easy tonight..leftovers

6:05 pm

just had kraft mac and cheese.. added a can of tuna in it.

6:05 pm

I still need the 3rd o from the bottom of the 4th column please

6:06 pm

oe5/6 and or 5

6:06 pm

sounds good and filling cos

6:06 pm

the or5 is a plural of or4 from another O

6:06 pm

cheap too. only cost 1.50 to make :)

6:06 pm

that would be the 2nd column but thanks don't have that one yet

6:07 pm

oh ur right.. sorry.. or5 for sure though

6:07 pm

and od5/6 :) there is no oe5/6 sorry

6:08 pm

whew..I was a bit confused lol

6:08 pm

sorry abt that

6:08 pm

always grateful for clues...

6:11 pm

fireworks

6:12 pm

yay cos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

6:12 pm

Yay cos !!!

6:12 pm

ty all for ur help

6:13 pm

thank you too cos

6:13 pm

imagine a game where no one helped?

6:14 pm

good news. that zimmerman jerk is going to turn himself in and be charged. looks like murder int he first charge.

6:14 pm

wow

6:15 pm

about time.

6:15 pm

think he must be mentally unstable

6:15 pm

finally! I don't want to prejudge but certainly there should be charges and a trial

6:15 pm

jerk...really? maybe we should let a judge and jury decide instead of the media, cosdem. what do you say?

6:16 pm

im entitled to my opinion.

6:17 pm

time for WWF :) see you all later. unless u need any clues?

6:19 pm

see you cos..I'll struggle through

6:19 pm

How many words please?

6:20 pm

who is zimmerman? what did he do supposedly? the media not only judges who is innocent and who not, but they twist us on international stuff and on those running for office. they destroy or elect. terrible power they have.

6:20 pm

sss1 273 words, so keep going.

6:20 pm

Thanks Much

6:21 pm

rhino

6:21 pm

he's the guy who shot the unarmed teenager in Florida (he's admitted to doing it, so no question there)

6:23 pm

they only have as much power as you give them...

which media? The corporate media, FOX? NPR? Many mediums, some well done.

And now the weather.

Is the plural of tedium tedia?

6:31 pm

made me look

redia

oops. Nothing.

Oh dear- it was a word. Off to prison.

6:32 pm

up here we like to turn on CNN for news chuckles.everything they do is in 20 point type and each bit of news is dissected from 5000 different angles and wolf blitzer is so into what he is doing you can almose see the vein pulsing in the centre of his forehead and feel his breath spatter hit yer cheeks:)

6:32 pm

you may have amnesty

Steven Colbert.

6:33 pm

hi Kap and Crossy

6:34 pm

howdy westford:)

WE HAVE FOR YOU A LIFE REPORT FROM THE TOWN OF SAUGUS WHERE PARENTS ARE GATHERRED OUTSIDE THE LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL WAITING FOR THEIR CHILDREN

fFilm at 11.

6:35 pm

Hi all. Just back after a family day - my daughter's home from Translyvania and hass brought her b/f to meet us. 47 words left to find.... *heads for depths of grid*.

6:36 pm

hey jac

6:36 pm

"all they need is those funky csi miami camera angles and cnn would be epic,maybe some cecil b.demille sound tracks in the bg

6:36 pm

howdy jacula

Eyewitnesses report that several mothers anxiously stomped out their cigarettes as the dismissal bell rang

We will update you as the story unfolds.

Hi jac. Gotta run.

6:37 pm

*waves* from grid.

6:37 pm

flash! a one armed man was arrested in central park,he was in the pond rowing a boat around in a circle and annoying people

6:38 pm

too funny crossy

6:39 pm

LOL, Crossy.

6:39 pm

2000 fleas died today in a house fire,all the dogs were rescued but the fleas were overcome by fur...

6:40 pm

LOL again. :-)

6:40 pm

cnn has nothing on crossy news

6:43 pm

and it is now time for the much requested crossy,s tidbit of the day!!!

6:43 pm

Quod licet Iovi non licet bovi. (What Jove may do, is not permitted to a cow.)

6:44 pm

not sure what it all means,but is sounds nice and deep ,plus a cow is in it;))

6:44 pm

where do you get these crossy?

6:45 pm

sorry,crossy does not reveal his sources:)

6:45 pm

well keep 'em coming

6:45 pm

here,let me grab you a bonus one....

6:46 pm

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

6:46 pm

Crossy - the saying is about double standards, i.e. what is permitted for one group (probably considered a 'higher' group) is not permitted for others.

6:47 pm

ahh ty jacula,sometimes i just pop them out there and do not give them the pondering they deserve

6:48 pm

y/w Crossy.

6:48 pm

that second one is really nice

6:48 pm

14 words left to find...

6:50 pm

Crossy - or to quote George Orwell, 'All animals are equal but some are more equal than others'.

6:50 pm

Like the Ingersoll quote. Very true.

6:50 pm

parallels the human condition,does it not?

6:51 pm

Yup!

6:52 pm

11 to go...

6:52 pm

goJacula

6:52 pm

63 here

6:54 pm

9...

6:55 pm

6...

6:55 pm

I've been waiting for this to happen. Lots of people play the lottery in a pool at work. Everyone chips in 5 bucks or whatever and a bunch of tickets are bought. The winners agree to split whatever is won.

6:56 pm

Hi Molly. Are they all disagreeing now?

6:56 pm

Apparently, that was the case with the big Mega Millions win in Maryland. But the woman who bought the ticket claims it's all hers, because the winner was a "separate ticket" she bought for herself.

6:57 pm

Yea, right...

6:57 pm

we avoid work pools like the plague around here,too many big wins gets contested and everyone has to wait and hope the lawyers do not eat up too much of it before it is paid out

6:57 pm

not suprised

6:57 pm

Needless to say, the people she works with are furious. This is why I don't play the lottery in work pools and I never buy tickets for other people.

6:57 pm

doubtful but not reall way to prove it

6:58 pm

ahh..the old "seperate ticket " ploy....been done here as well

6:58 pm

good idea Molly

6:59 pm

It can be proved by showing copies of each ticket and the lotto machines know when (exact time) and where each ticket was purchased.

6:59 pm

well, they she will be in trouble

6:59 pm

indeed jacula..but the lawyers have a big appetite

6:59 pm

in the mean time she has aliented all her coworkers

6:59 pm

Yeah, but who is to say which twenty she bought for the pool and which three she bought for herself.

7:00 pm

we had one here,that was fought over for 2 years

7:00 pm

with 200million in her pocket do you think she Cares????

7:00 pm

I was just going to say, I seriously doubt she's still working.

7:00 pm

lol,brandy,nothing is released if the win is officially contested

7:00 pm

at least here it is not

7:01 pm

Camelot, the company that oversees the lottery in the UK, is sh*t hot on knowing who bought what, where and when. A couple who owned a local shop in UK found that out only last week when they tried to cheat a customer who'd got his ticket elsewhere.

7:01 pm

true. and it won't be releaseed there either, but still, even if she loses she'll still have 20 million. She doesn't care....

7:01 pm

Hi BJ! How are you?

7:01 pm

but as molly says,these days best to play alone

7:01 pm

hey there BJ,how are you?

7:01 pm

I'm not sure how that can be contested. Work pools are pretty much a "gentleman's agreement".

7:01 pm

Just great Jacs, You?

7:02 pm

there are ways to play together. None of them involve last minute 'lets buy a ticket together'. That's for fools.

7:02 pm

Not so bad, BJ. Jobs for us all would be nice, though. They help to pay the bills.:-/

7:02 pm

not here molly,there are olc lotty group forms

7:02 pm

4 to go now...

7:03 pm

Here you can use a subscription, or everyone gets together and chooses numbers which are then recorded and played. There is no arguing over it. Its documented nine ways from sunday.

7:04 pm

bj - sounds like the Canadian lottery is run somewhat like the UK one.

7:04 pm

Of course, you don't HAVE to do it that way. You CAN do it the hard way and feed them lawyer varmints....

7:05 pm

2 to go...

7:05 pm

Not at all Jacs, its simply pssobile to avoid the headaches if one puts the least smidgeon of effort into it.

7:05 pm

I've never worked anywhere where pools were done by subscription or by choosing numbers. However much went into the pool bought that amount of random tickets.

7:05 pm

only one i go in with is my brother..he plays u.s tickets for me and i play canadian one for him

7:06 pm

FIREWORKS! *~*~*~*~*~*~ :-)

7:06 pm

yay Jacs

7:06 pm

Well done Jac.

7:07 pm

Thanks!

7:07 pm

yaa for jacula!

7:07 pm

bbs

7:07 pm

Well Molly, that makes it play time for the lawyers.

7:09 pm

And if she bought them all in the same transaction, the best she can hope for is to count her 'own' tickets as multiple shares of the pool.

7:14 pm

how many are in this disputed pool?

7:15 pm

It's a McDonalds, so not likely more than 10-15.

7:15 pm

I'm going to wander off now. It's been a long day. Happy Babbling all. x

7:15 pm

15 people..200 million..get over it and share it all out i say

7:16 pm

tc jacula

7:17 pm

Just read usatoday. So far the woman hasn't even produced the ticket.... ROFL....

7:17 pm

sigh..too many greedy people in the world sometimes:(

7:17 pm

Actively refused to do so in fact.

7:18 pm

If she has half a brain, she'll get someone she can trust to claim it and split with her...

7:18 pm

well,i hope she like court rooms

7:19 pm

Yup. How many people with metal detectors hit the highway near Kirkland lake this week hoping to find missed rolls of Loonies and Toonies.....

7:20 pm

insane

7:20 pm

i would rather eat kraft dinner and a day old dollar bag of rolls,that grub on the highway hoping to sneak someone elses money away

7:24 pm

we seem to have similar levels of ambition....

7:26 pm

Of course, some wag is likely to pooint out that we would rather have our kraft dinner now than to get off our butts and grub in the snow for an extra few bucks to buy a burger....

7:26 pm

first ro6/18 pls

7:26 pm

Ohh, Canada....

7:28 pm

as a young teen,i was a book hound and lived in the library,one day i had a book from one of those stacks where they keep the town history,you could read it there but not take it out.was for a school project.anyways,i learned that the original town dump was shut down in 1900 and was actually under a artificial berm where now resided the town water tower on the highway.i knew that the antique shoppe was always hunting for old glassware,so i started digging up old blue and red glass,glass hot water bottles,poison bottles and the like..made a good allowance for 5 years or so..lol dad used to get tired of me soaking old bottles in the laundry sink and clogging up the works with dirt

7:29 pm

well,the burger would be bought with money that is not ours to begin with

7:30 pm

dn why i told that story,just popped into my head;)

7:30 pm

that's not work, that's fun. And if someone is going to pay you for it, thats a bonus...

7:31 pm

Peri, i only have ro6/21

I

7:32 pm

ro**** tomatoes?

ro 6/18 list of who's on a team

I've got ro 6/18---food goes ro**** and r + the sea creature

7:33 pm

Ty, luv

7:33 pm

ty lwg. guess it's time for me to list

yw :-)

7:34 pm

if you make a living out of your fun hobbies brandy,you will never work a day in your life.it is what we all aspire to

7:34 pm

how do we get paid to babble?

7:35 pm

i have been working on that very problem dorens...

7:35 pm

I have a theory that there are very few things that anyone would enjoy doing 40 hrs per week and still make a living at

7:36 pm

i could sell books or antique glass all day long:))

7:36 pm

part of that is that fewer people really want to work (imho)

7:37 pm

crossy: www.vosgeschocolate.com. just look

7:37 pm

lookin...

7:38 pm

My colleagues are tripping over themselves accepting retirement packages. Having had one company (Nortel) go bankrupt under me, I can understand it. But Avaya bought us out, and they are still buying me expensive servers and toys and paying me good money to play with them. I am not planning on retiring. I enjoy the challenge of working on prototype software and seeing just how the designers have screwed up, today.

7:38 pm

bacon and chocolate...beautiful....

7:39 pm

sounds ideal, bj

7:39 pm

And some of them are sheer geniuses. But then they say the line between genius and idicoy is quite fine...

7:39 pm

i thought of you when i saw that

7:39 pm

lol,brandy,i have been bought,traded,downsized moved to lateral locations and outsourced so mush over the years i should charge by the half hour

7:40 pm

ty mab,it looks delish

7:40 pm

Should try chocolate, peanuts, peppers and chicken...

7:40 pm

holy mole

7:41 pm

now,chocolate and peppers sounds interesting...

7:41 pm

Ah, someone who knows how to eat...

7:42 pm

<---knows how to eat..just a little too well

7:42 pm

lol crossy at 6 foot 2 and 250 pounds definatly knows how to eat;)

just finished, any clues needed before I go?

Hello all. I have 112 left, could use a clue for the 10 or 11.

ec 10/98 e + lower part of your face + vowel + word for skin and plural for 11

7:46 pm

a sea urchin is a ec10

7:46 pm

Are you guys talking about eating rodents again?

thanks!

7:47 pm

Good evening Babblers

7:47 pm

Oh.. I can't say anything molly..lol

7:48 pm

I'll take a clue for a 7 or 8

7:48 pm

Mexican food, not chinese food....

7:48 pm

95 - I think I'm ready to list. Is there lickety today? Dare I ask?

7:48 pm

You know, Guacamole, holy Mole, TEQUILA!!!!

7:48 pm

yes, lickety is up and running.

7:48 pm

woohoo!

en 7/32 = not the beginning + a short letter

7:49 pm

I Love Lickety!!

I love pickles for cluing.

I used to really love tequila, but I really can not stomach it now...sadly.

7:50 pm

ar7/8 Mr. Onasis + french feminine ending (diminuative)

ha 7/36 more of the ha 4/6 above it

in 7/36 pt of the in 6/21 above it

so 7/32 sounds like a small, oily fish and then change the last vowel for another 7

7:51 pm

di7,32 - kitchen furniture and pl for the 8

so 7/32 remove the 2nd letter of what a person from Scotland is

7:53 pm

Did I miss a clue for the ec7? Is it related to the 10?

7:54 pm

ha7, more skillful with tools.

7:54 pm

ec 7 is a marsupial hedgehog

7:55 pm

ty stid

7:55 pm

oh, not marsupial, monotreme! LOL hope it helped anyway wht

7:55 pm

down to an even 60 and taking a break. back later. *poof*

7:55 pm

I got it. One of my co-workers has computers named platypus, monotreme and ec7.

7:56 pm

cool!

7:58 pm

also at 60

7:58 pm

64

7:58 pm

Mine are redwagon, radioflyer and segway. Less obscure and more fun.

8:01 pm

clue for the ne6 please

8:01 pm

Ru, my dirty mind read your dirty mind. Super powers are cool.

8:02 pm

ne + misspelling of 50's TV Donna

8:02 pm

ty Molly

8:03 pm

I don't have names for my computers. I do call them names sometimes, but this is supposedly a PG board.

8:05 pm

first ro6/18 pls

8:06 pm

I used to work with someone who named a set of computers: Hindengerg, Thresher, and General Belgrano. Things that go down.

8:06 pm

ilst of names, peri

8:06 pm

used to take attendance the first day of classes

8:06 pm

First ro6/18 is the list of players on a team

8:07 pm

people name their computers?

8:08 pm

ty wht

8:08 pm

Fireworks. Last word was rh6. I was about to ask for a clue when I noticed the ot5 h.

8:09 pm

At least people who work in the computer business do, ruru.

8:09 pm

yay wht!

8:10 pm

I have 7 in my cubicle. Without names it would be hard to keep them straight.

8:10 pm

Some of my servers have 8-9 VM's running. Have to keep them straight somehow... IP Addresses just become alphabet soup...

8:11 pm

they probably number their children however

8:15 pm

I've been working in the computer business for over 30 years. Naming systems is long-standing tradition. There was always an appreciation for a clever name.

8:16 pm

But you are close, ruru, we name all our boys Darryl.

8:22 pm

10

8:23 pm

LOL

8:23 pm

pretty soon kids will just have bar codes

8:25 pm

.. which one are you ...come here ... I have to scan you

8:27 pm

Not just kids, ruru. everyone will have a chip implanted and it will be tied to your credit card. They will just scan you and your purchases at the checkout.

8:28 pm

wonder if we'll just scan for sex then?

8:29 pm

Depends what neighborhood you walk through, I guess.

8:29 pm

LOL..

8:29 pm

<---would love to see that receipt

8:30 pm

Definately wouldn't want my spouse to see it!

8:32 pm

hi all, have been lurking, trying to finish a grid after missing some for a great reason.. our daughter's wedding (-:

8:33 pm

Congratulations Aloy.

8:34 pm

ty, it was a beautiful occasion!

8:34 pm

Congrads Aloy but I'm not sure about your priorities, lol

8:34 pm

congrats aloyisi

8:34 pm

us

8:34 pm

lol, know what you mean, Pickles.. tuff!

8:34 pm

rh6?

8:35 pm

ty Harry.. good memories... special

8:36 pm

A speaker, I think, Harry.

8:36 pm

Congratulations Aloy.

8:36 pm

ty, wht.. needed that one

8:36 pm

and ty, Molly.. am still in the afterglow

8:37 pm

It took me a long time to find it because I kept looking at the other h.

8:37 pm

ty...used morewords to get it finally :)

8:37 pm

done!

8:38 pm

wtg harry

8:39 pm

wahoo, wtg, Harry!

8:39 pm

gonna get some food. bye!

8:39 pm

have a feast, Harry (-:

8:42 pm

Good night all. Happy Babbling.

8:43 pm

g'nite, wht.. sweet dreams

8:51 pm

(((aloyisius))) happy thoughts on your daughter's nuptials

8:52 pm

the second ch5.16 means "to chirp".. newbie for me!

8:53 pm

aw, ((stidmama)) ty so much.. it was just beyond wonderful to see our daughter so happy

8:54 pm

we have new family members now.. Danish!

8:55 pm

what fun! do they come from denmark recently?

8:56 pm

amazing how many family members of the groom came over for the wedding.. the groom has been here for quite a while, but all his family, except for an uncle in the U.S., are in Denmark

8:57 pm

oh, that is marvelous! so many families aren't able to maintain such close ti4 after immigration. Although I suppose nowadays it's easier.

8:59 pm

yes, it is... groom travels so much in his work that he has a lot of frequent flier miles, so he goes back to Denmark a couple of times a year to see his parents, and flies them over here on other times.. our daughter spent Christmas in Denmark with him and met the whole family.. wonderful people..

9:00 pm

and they DO know how to PARTY.. lol.. we had a blast

9:00 pm

It's nice when in-laws actually like each other

9:00 pm

evening all!

9:00 pm

I wouldn't actually know, pickles -- but I can imagine!

9:00 pm

hey dan!

9:00 pm

Pickles, it is easy when they are so sweet.. just like the groom..

9:01 pm

hi dan2

9:06 pm

jo6/33?

9:06 pm

got it

9:06 pm

feeling really dumb bc I can't see the no4.4

9:07 pm

like a memo

9:07 pm

no 4 as in musical?

9:07 pm

duh, that would be it.. lol.. ty stid!

9:08 pm

ty Pickles too

9:08 pm

:-)

9:08 pm

** fireworks ***

9:09 pm

YAY teach!

9:09 pm

woo hoo wvt!

9:09 pm

yay for wvt!!! 6 more to go here

9:09 pm

55 in this corner

9:10 pm

na5/10?

9:10 pm

go for it aloy

9:11 pm

n + anagram of opera song

9:11 pm

brb.. need something to help the cheese and crackers digest.. na5.10 = na + the group in Ireland that opposed British rule

9:11 pm

good babblet, tx dan

9:13 pm

and aloyisius

9:15 pm

ok, blackberry/acai juice is healthy, right.. even if it has a bit of vodka tossed in?

9:16 pm

a spoonful of liquor makes the medicine go down!

9:17 pm

sounds good to me, dan2.. if the spoon is the size of a ladle, lol

9:18 pm

99 left, good enough for me - night all!

9:19 pm

g'nite, dan2.. happy snoozes

9:24 pm

sweet dreams dan

9:24 pm

well, it was up before sunrise this morning for water testing and tomorrow it up before sunrise for my "condo cleaning lady" trip, so I'm glad to finish this one.. ch5 for now all.. see you next time.. poof

9:25 pm

sweet dreams aloyisius, too.

9:26 pm

tc, stid.. (( )), ty

9:26 pm

((hugs back))

9:32 pm

Good evening!

9:33 pm

hey car!

9:34 pm

How are you Stidmama?!?!?

9:34 pm

I am well car, hope you are too.

9:34 pm

Very well!

9:39 pm

Clue please for ca 6/24?

9:40 pm

wow.. are we hangin in da hood?

9:41 pm

Hi ruru!

9:41 pm

auto + again + mr freud's friend

9:41 pm

looks like lifted and moved an object, only one r in the middle though

9:41 pm

better this.. auto + vowell + mr freud's friend

9:41 pm

TY!

9:42 pm

yw

9:43 pm

My eyes are drooping! Good night everyone!

9:43 pm

so 7/32?

9:44 pm

sweet dreams car

9:44 pm

like a person from the land north of England, without the C

9:45 pm

hmm

9:46 pm

got it thanks

9:47 pm

go maggie go!

9:47 pm

6 more to get

9:49 pm

down to 40, I think I might list after a break. back later maybe *poof*

9:53 pm

Evening all. May I please have a clue for so5-12 the 1st? Thanks

9:56 pm

the definition link says it's a rocket or balloon used in testing the atmosphere ...

9:57 pm

Thanks, maggiej......don't know that one.

9:57 pm

I didn't either

9:58 pm

Like 007 agent James Xxxx and end with a vowel

10:01 pm

so5.12 not daughter + **ar John letter

10:02 pm

Thanks a bunch, lbdawger.

10:07 pm

bbl.

10:41 pm

any clues for the last st 7/32?

10:44 pm

finally got it

10:44 pm

evening all. how tough is this one?

10:48 pm

not too bad, jes

10:49 pm

any hints on the last two CHs?

Hi

Sorry Maggie I was looking fot that too

10:55 pm

np

10:56 pm

leprechiuns eat lucky ch5/16s

10:57 pm

hmm

11:00 pm

not getting it thanks anyway brid

11:01 pm

i typoed the little people. you should typo the cereal.

11:02 pm

never heard of it ... thanks

11:06 pm

May I please have a clue for ec7-40? Thanks

11:08 pm

peach, it's another name for a spiny anteater.

11:12 pm

good game, did anyone watch it?

11:12 pm

good game, did anyone watch it?

11:12 pm

Thanks much, Fran.

11:12 pm

it was on, but I wasn't paying attention. :-)

11:13 pm

yw, peach

11:32 pm

peach cobbler

11:37 pm

peach cobbler pie

11:38 pm

pot pie

11:38 pm

vhets

11:39 pm

vets

11:39 pm

veterans

11:42 pm

chatterbox

11:55 pm

hello all

11:56 pm

hi cos just finished

11:57 pm

hello

11:57 pm

hi ML

11:57 pm

hi west

hi babblers all

11:58 pm

second st 7,32 please

11:58 pm

hi van

11:58 pm

for fireworks

11:58 pm

st + chicken+ 2 vowels

11:58 pm

stetted

11:59 pm

change last vowel of first st7

11:59 pm

wait no that so7

11:59 pm

good clue erda but that's the first

11:59 pm

st + female chicken + two vowels

11:59 pm

sthenia

11:59 pm

that's almost what I said

Erda!!!

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