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flip-dee-doodle

12:00 am

flip!

12:00 am

flip

flip; hi all; hi flosey, sue, gwen

12:02 am

HA 7

12:02 am

hi

12:02 am

hi

Clues are up

12:02 am

flip, Hello Everyone

12:02 am

thank you lickety!!

12:02 am

ty lickety

hi pug smom, rows, ru

12:04 am

Hi, dee,flosey,ru,rows,rose and smom

12:04 am

FO7

wh 7

12:06 am

hi everyone

fortran, proper name, not in the dictionary either

12:07 am

thanks Dee, that wh7 always sounds odd to me

to me, also

12:08 am

like he6

12:08 am

ra

12:09 am

sorry

12:09 am

RE8

qy 6

oops meant qu 7

12:14 am

THAT'S ODD DEE

12:14 am

more strange

:)

anyone have the o and e in the 2nd col?

nm found the o oo 5

12:18 am

<---thinks rerant should be a word.. we have a lot of that around here :D

totally agree

ec 6

12:19 am

ec 6

nbt nbs!

ty arb

12:23 am

missing one h

12:23 am

got it

wtg

12:29 am

y's are ya 4, 5, 4, ye 4, 4, 5

12:31 am

u's are un5 and un 4

12:36 am

I have all the a's

I think we have lickety...

12:37 am

oh.. never mind.. sorry

no problem at all, just didn't want to make you type :)

12:38 am

would someone hint that ec?

12:38 am

ec 6/21 Go east young man

begins and ends with same letter - in middle is a rectangular object with wheels

brb need water

12:40 am

thank you

12:55 am

ugh want to go to bed but some idiot in my neighborhood is having a super loud party :(

12:55 am

like, karaoke or something

12:55 am

done

12:55 am

I have the same problem lately rows

12:55 am

Yay ruru

12:56 am

w2g Ru

12:56 am

WTG RURU!!!

12:56 am

i just don't get it, it's inconsiderate

12:56 am

one of my neighbors is an aspiring rock star

12:56 am

it's midnight on a Sunday, we have work in the morning

12:56 am

Do earplugs help?

12:57 am

emphasis on aspiring

12:57 am

i was disappointed to learn that the noise wasn't from the bar down the road where my friend works... i called her and she said it's some people having a birthday party

12:57 am

i'd prefer expiring rock star personally

12:57 am

if i wear earplugs, i won't wake up when my alarm goes off

12:57 am

oh, oh, oh....apologies for butting in, but i wanted to wish all our canadian babblers a belated happy thanksgiving.

12:57 am

this is Hondurans singing loudly to their Honduran music...

12:58 am

night all.. i have to get up early

12:58 am

sleep well, mate.

12:58 am

me too :(

12:58 am

night Ru

12:59 am

night Rows

12:59 am

i'm not logging off yet

12:59 am

this music is ridiculously loud

12:59 am

i might go see which house it is and complain

1:00 am

rows, are you quite comfortable with that? is there alcohol involved do you think?

1:01 am

yeah, that sounds kind of scarey to do by yourself

1:03 am

Hi Mrs Rose, how was your monday

1:04 am

quiet, thanx, miz pugs. how was your sunday? *giggle*

1:05 am

quiet too--football afternoon

1:06 am

i think the sedatives are beginning to work well. it's taken nearly 2 weeks, but i have slept right through to about 7am for the last 2 mornings.

1:06 am

I did bathe two of my dogs

1:06 am

thats good, and I bet it makes you feel better too

1:07 am

ugh it went about as expected

1:07 am

Hows the pain in the leg?

1:07 am

they didn't fucking care, were assholes about it

1:07 am

said they have a permit to do this until 2 am

1:08 am

i have to work at 7 in the morning

1:08 am

that's Honduras for you, stupid police chief was probably bribed to let them do it

1:09 am

awww rows. sorry that your neighbours are so uncaring.

1:09 am

think I'd still call the police and check it out

1:10 am

flosey, hows the cold?

1:10 am

ask if they do, in fact, issue such

1:10 am

i can't call the police, i don't have their number... and i wouldn't trust that they would help

1:10 am

the police here are very corrupt, and the chief of police is a creepy guy who i've met before

1:10 am

Make a lot of noise Early in the am rows

1:10 am

not much better, had to decline another invite for Thanksgiving dinner

1:11 am

pugs, knee a tad swollen today and yesterday, which is why i have had a pyjama day. i did shower, but the jammies went straight back on. it's the only way i can make myself take it quietly.

1:11 am

ahh, sorry to hear that Flosey

1:11 am

the kids skyped us though, was fun

1:11 am

i tried asking them nicely and explaining i had to work at 7 in the morning, they didn't care

1:11 am

ah Rows, that is very poor neighbourliness (wow, is there such a word)

1:11 am

whoot, ruru, has it rows. as you leave for work, sit in your car, blasting the horn for a full minute.

1:12 am

were you on it too much Rose--going shopping and out with friends?

1:12 am

i don't have a car

1:13 am

i walk to work like 2 blocks, away from my house and theirs

1:13 am

don't think so pugs...i took it very easy, for me.

1:13 am

fall down and scream for help

1:13 am

dpm

1:13 am

Kick some cans around or bang a drum

1:13 am

don't really fall

1:13 am

rows, would they see you if you crept up to the house and pulled a pwoer fuse?

1:14 am

Took what easy Rose?

1:14 am

i don't know, i don't know how to do that, and i'm sure they wouldn't even notice

1:14 am

the power goes out here all the time

1:14 am

go to work and leave your radio blasting

1:15 am

but rows, you pull out a fuse their power goes off...

1:15 am

haha i don't have a car flosey

1:15 am

i live in rural Honduras

1:15 am

and power goes out here all the time

1:15 am

I mean your house radio

1:15 am

don't have one

1:16 am

i have a computer with quiet speakers

1:16 am

anyway, in reality it actually does sound like the music has gotten lower...

1:16 am

rows. do you havea mobile /cellphone?

1:16 am

so i might lay down and attempt to sleep

1:16 am

maybe by the time i was shouting at them they realized i was serious

1:16 am

I knew a minister's wife who turned church music on the next morning after neighbours were partying very late on a Saturday night

1:16 am

i have a cell phone yes

1:17 am

was going to sugeest you set the alarm on it to vibrate, and put it under your pillow.

1:17 am

oh, i'd probably move it

1:17 am

in my sleep

1:17 am

then you could put the earplugs in

1:17 am

Whew. Glad I read that carefully rose

1:18 am

I knew Ru would come on on that--lol

1:18 am

roflol. ruru!!!! phone, dear, phone

1:19 am

i think i'm just going to try going to sleep

1:20 am

sweet dreams, rows

1:20 am

good luck Rows, sweet sleep

1:20 am

thanks

1:20 am

i might get 6 hours or so if i'm lucky

1:20 am

Good vibrations rose

1:21 am

LOLOLOL

1:21 am

pugs, ruru has a one track mind....

1:21 am

Do you remember the song, ruru

1:21 am

and helloooo peach

1:21 am

Hey there, Rose, dear.

1:22 am

I do

1:22 am

Hi all :)

1:22 am

hey liz

1:22 am

I think I was born 30 years too soon.

1:22 am

Hey there, Liz.

1:23 am

I'd be a dildo to not remember the Beach Boys

1:23 am

hi Peach and Liz

1:23 am

Hi there, flosey.

1:23 am

i was born 20 ye4s too late. love swing music....

1:23 am

When are you off to Toronto Flosey?

1:24 am

October 23rd

1:24 am

yor said it ruru...

1:24 am

Yes, swing is nice.

1:24 am

Exciting!

1:24 am

yes, also going to meet joso

1:25 am

so does my ca6. hislittle head bobs up and down, and he has learned to whistle some parts of the tunes.

1:25 am

That's really exciting - glad you could fix that up.

1:25 am

Actually, I saw them in concert when we moved to GA in '77.

1:25 am

he has both sons' numbers

1:25 am

take photos, please, flosey

1:25 am

c

1:26 am

My thoughts too, Rose

1:26 am

ah Peach, that would have been great

1:26 am

I saw the Kingston Trio when they came to TO

1:26 am

Yes, it was nice.

1:26 am

Tom Dooley.....

1:27 am

no, didn't see him

1:27 am

oh, lol, the song

1:27 am

sorry went for coffee--Hi peach and Liz

1:27 am

wow, am I out of it

1:27 am

Hi Pugs :)

1:28 am

No, hon, that was the song, "Hang down your head, Tom Dooley, poor boy, your bound to die"....etc.

1:28 am

yes, I remember it well, hubby still listens to them

1:28 am

That was a good retort tho, flosey.

1:29 am

he has a few of the old groups on cd

1:29 am

Hey, puglet.

1:29 am

phew, i thought i was losing it. thought it was a song...then flosey said....

1:29 am

you girls are playing with my head tonight...

1:29 am

lol granny, and I'm much older than you

1:31 am

Most of the young singers are unknown to me.

1:31 am

I even know that song! It was in our song books at school

1:31 am

brb

1:31 am

I haven't a clue what song you're talking about!!!!

1:32 am

that would have been the 50s Liz I think

1:33 am

Well, I was born in the 50s - but obviously that song passed me by!

1:33 am

I once in a while watch the fuse station to get some of the up dates on today singers so I know what the kids are talking about. And I do like some of the today artist

1:34 am

oh, liz, hang your head in shame..lol..google it and listen to it, i'm sure you know it.

1:34 am

:( reprimanded!!!

1:34 am

it should be on youtube

1:35 am

lolol, liz....as if.

1:35 am

Only joking!

1:35 am

that song may be older then the 50's cause my grandma sung that too I remember

1:35 am

liz, google tom dooley, you'll find it

1:36 am

Confused! I've lost track now of which song!!! Duh!

1:36 am

I just love youtube....they've got the original Rat Pack in Vegas....with a "young" johnny Carson on with them in one of the shows.

1:36 am

sing it for us Rose--lol

1:37 am

I havent never tried you tube

1:37 am

are you feeling better Peach

1:38 am

liz, the first site for tom dooley, has a sound track

1:38 am

Found it - listening! No, don't know it!

1:39 am

Confusion - thought Tom Dooley was the artist!!!! Please don't stop talking to me!

1:39 am

Yes, thanks, puglet. Today has been an ok day...and I'm very thankful.

1:39 am

awww, liz. your education is sadly lacking. just consider you have been educated

1:40 am

Never too late to be educated. Guess I'm more into Rock music!

1:40 am

Oh, dear Liz. We would never do that. I stay in a state of mild confusion it seems....LOL

1:40 am

glad for you Peach

1:40 am

Confusion reigns!! Great!

1:41 am

Iam so sick of hearing about that Milley girl!

1:41 am

Liz, go to youtube and type in Elvis Presley in Vegas doing "Polk salad Annie". You won't be sorry.

1:41 am

liz, tom dooley the song, best version by the kingston trio

1:42 am

Yes - that was the one I found.

1:42 am

Me too, pug. Her father upholds her awful behavoir.

1:43 am

Listening now, Peach.

1:43 am

Another good one by the Kingston Trio is MT

1:43 am

I know! Peach----are you an Elvis fan Peach

1:44 am

rather MTA..(the Mass. Transit Authority) I know you will remember it.

1:44 am

let's just say i love music...except for the theme music for alfred hitchcock presents...if i he4 that one more time..i will probably have a blazing row with DH. he has been watching dvds all day.

1:44 am

lol--poor Rose

1:45 am

Yes, I do like his music. I saw his home in Memphis, years ago....took a couple of pictures....he was out of town tho.

1:45 am

well didnt you buy those for him Rose

1:45 am

Another song I don't really know - but I think I've heard this. I also love music but my taste tends to start around the era of the Beatles and on from there but not particularly fond of much modern stuff, though do like some.

1:45 am

lol...peach....he was out of town...??

1:46 am

Yes, darn it, Rose.

1:47 am

liz, i was so lucky. my dad loved swing...he used to dance around the kitchen with mum, humming the tunes. i guess that's why i like swing so much.

1:48 am

happy memories.

1:48 am

My parents listened to a lot of classical - also Gilbert & Sullivan and Herb Alpert, Louis Armstrong!

1:49 am

Elton John was here last year at the big arena. I do like him but I didn't go. Billy Joel was in CT when I was there.....he filled the house for 8 nights straight. Now if he ever comes here, I will try to go.

1:49 am

oh, dear..tiajuana brass?? i have the original record...how sad...

1:49 am

am listening to the Romantic Guitar of Liona Boyd

1:49 am

a they were in TO, we went to see them

1:50 am

I like alot of music from different areas, but my folks were mostly into country

1:50 am

the tiajuana brass, I mean

1:50 am

Remember that!

1:50 am

lucky flosey...i so loved tiajuana brass

1:51 am

So if I say I went to see The Stones, The Who -- ! But I also saw Leonard Cohen - loved the misery!! Still do!

1:51 am

and a lot of the classics i danced to...as a ballerina...*sigh* those were the ye4s

1:51 am

I love that song "In the Mood" from the big band era

1:51 am

Puglet, do you like Bluegrass?

1:52 am

some of it Peach

1:52 am

Time for shower - back from the gym. See you later, I hope. If not to them that do, sleep well :)

1:52 am

isn't that a Glen Miller song?

1:52 am

yes Flosey

1:52 am

I know that one!!!!!!!!!!

1:52 am

bye Liz

1:52 am

loved that movie

1:53 am

Think so, flosey.

1:53 am

was sad of course, his plane crashed returning to US during the war

1:54 am

Yes, that was sad.

1:54 am

the movie about the dorsey brothers is good too

1:54 am

What is to title, Puglet?

1:54 am

Hi all -- had a very happy pre-Thanksgiving, so late here. But just had to say the Glenn Miller era was mine, and then there was Sinatra, and I was one of the ecstatic throng of bobby-soxers to see him at the Paramount in NYC. Oh how we swooned!

1:55 am

I think that is the title--The Dorsey Brothers

1:55 am

listening to leonard cohen...amazing

1:55 am

Thanks, I would like to see that.

1:55 am

and we all wore bobby sox

1:55 am

Hi Jilli

1:55 am

bbl

1:56 am

lol, jilli. ....and how was your thanks-giving?

1:56 am

bobby socks and those black and white shoes!

1:56 am

saddle shoes

1:56 am

bye Peach

1:56 am

sometimes blue and white

1:56 am

later dearest peach

1:57 am

I remember wearing those shoes to school!

1:58 am

Hi rose -- had all my family here -- they left this afternoon, and then I got a surprise invitation from a friend I only knew slightly to dinner at her place with a group of great people -- and great cusine! Very heppyu !

1:58 am

*happy!

1:58 am

how nice Jilli

1:58 am

So happy I couldn't type right, lol!

1:59 am

lucky jilli - I had to stay home nursing a cold - first one I've had in years

1:59 am

Oh no, flosey!! May it go away FAST!

1:59 am

but the kids skyped us

1:59 am

won't be out tomorrow night

1:59 am

Aww, grat!

2:00 am

have to get rid of it before going east

2:00 am

jilli, glen miller was my parents era...then rock and roll was mine, then heavy metal and head banging belonged to my sons....that's 3 generations...plus the older music belonging to the royal courts of england, which i studied as part of ballet. i guess i was a very fortunate person. exposed to all kinds of music.

2:00 am

Is turkey the main thanksgiving meat in canada

2:00 am

Yikes -- great, not grat. I think I'd better go to bed!

2:00 am

yes, but the kids had a ham - their Daddy doesn't care for turkey

2:01 am

sounds like great sounds to live with, rose

2:03 am

i love music. it is a part of me...and now i have a piano...sooo looking forward to playing it.

2:03 am

I must tell you about brussels sprouts done with bits of bacon and fried onion -- OOh, yum!

2:03 am

And yams with orange juice and thyme...

2:03 am

BRUSSEL SPROUTS!!! they are a threat over he4.

2:03 am

I use to listen to those old thick 78 records on my dad's crank up record player

2:04 am

now yams are a different situation altogether...all for yams...

2:04 am

that sounds good Jilli, I like sprouts

2:04 am

and yams too

2:05 am

brussels sprouts are best if picked after a light frost, they say.

2:05 am

yes jilli

2:05 am

acckk, pugs...there's something wrong with your taste-buds..have it seen to straight away.

2:06 am

same to you, rose!

2:06 am

I think they kind of taste like cabbage

2:06 am

lolol

2:06 am

Cabbage is good do, if done properly.

2:06 am

bout the only veggie I dont like is homoney

2:07 am

I like cabbage fixed about anyway and even raw

2:07 am

and what on earth is homoney? Anything like hominy grits?

2:07 am

hubby made me creamy cabbage sould - it felt good going down my sore throat

2:08 am

lolol...just ran the bacon and fried onion with brussel sprouts past DH. he said fine...just leave out the brussel sprouts.

2:08 am

its made from corn, Jilli

2:08 am

well, raw cabbage is cole slaw, and that depends on the dressing.

2:08 am

homeny grits - have never had them

2:08 am

flosey, they're like cream of wheat.

2:08 am

I make a cole slaw using chinese cabbage- it's lighter, crispier

2:09 am

chinese cabbage? You mean bok choy?

2:09 am

I like raw sweet corn too

2:09 am

but they're served with a meal, aren't they

2:10 am

George grows it, looks like a long cabbage - thinner, and keeps the crunch better

2:10 am

I think hominy grits are mostly breakfast, but honey chile, ah'm no suthunuh.

2:10 am

gag on cream of wheat

2:11 am

Glad to hear it, flosey -- I think I used to have it in Shanghai, never found any here.

2:11 am

I like grits but the homeny Iam talking about is like puff corn kernals and you can get it in white or yellow

2:11 am

put maple sugar bits on cream of wheat and it becomes edible.

2:12 am

yes, hominy is round white fat corn kernels, I believe they're made by soaking dry corn in lye or lime water? like it.

2:12 am

hi rbud

2:12 am

was one of my favorites when I was little, don't know why.

2:12 am

Never seen that kind of hominy -- hmmm. Where does it exist?

2:12 am

I like cream of wheat and the cocoa wheats too

2:13 am

hello rbud

2:13 am

hi all! you're talking food I like, love brussels sprouts, been eating a lot of them lately, as they seem reasonably priced right now.

2:14 am

we steam almost all our veggies. yum!

2:14 am

Jilli, I think you can get them in the can--not sure since I never buy them

2:14 am

*pats rbub, gently* there, there dear it will pass. lol

2:14 am

we had them at home and I hated them

2:15 am

not here,pug!

2:15 am

*rbud*

2:15 am

Hi again

2:15 am

hi liz

2:15 am

Hi again Liz

2:15 am

we also love something called "hudsapote" (sp?) - it's potato, cabbage, ham, and onions cooked down until it's like thick potato soup - very tasty.

2:15 am

hey again, liz

2:15 am

Has anyone been doing this grid? I haven't -- it's just been nice to chat.

2:16 am

oooohhh, rbud. sounds yummy.

2:16 am

I still don't have either of the 8's, both re-words?

2:16 am

somewhat Jilli but Ive been talking too

2:17 am

jilli, a couple of curly ones, but all in all it's quite good.

2:17 am

I've still got a lot of words left!

2:17 am

Well, I really am going to head for bed -- and a happy Columbus DAy to you in the usa

2:17 am

Sleep well Jilli :)

2:17 am

yeah Rose has them all---she only talks when she has her fws-lol

2:17 am

(oops -- hit the wrong key there!)

2:18 am

ty, jilli, and good night.

2:18 am

night Jilli

2:19 am

re8, cowardly, craven. re + ****te, make, as in how god didi, + Northern Territory

2:19 am

re8, re + horse's gait

2:20 am

but before I go, have you seen this? http://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_\nday

2:20 am

Wow! That gave me a whole lot of words!!! Thanks.

2:20 am

thanks! got them...now I'm content. "mediocrity achieved", you know. :)

2:21 am

fo7, fo5, search for things needed + ** um i don't know

2:21 am

over half, nbt, nbs... life is good.

2:21 am

fo7, fo47 + not walk

2:22 am

Like it Jilli!

2:22 am

ha7, something who ha5s, like a ghost

2:23 am

goodnight/evening/whatever, all......*poof

2:23 am

qu7, more qu5/16, strange

2:23 am

Ha! Had the qu 5 but not the 7! Thanks again.

2:24 am

wh7, wh + vowel + hook letter + era

2:25 am

sleep well, jilli.

2:30 am

phooey, 13 to get and too tired, goodnight all

2:31 am

Yay! Just found the French exercise book - well remembered that it's accepted.

2:31 am

night flosey

2:31 am

Good night Flosey. Sleep well :)

2:32 am

thaks pugs and liz

2:32 am

Rose, can you please clue the fo 7 / 48 again - not getting that one!

2:37 am

fo + word that rhymes with sooth s****

2:38 am

ty Dianne - didn't have the fo 5 - but your clue helped.

2:39 am

glad you got it

2:40 am

yay, dianne. thanx for stepping up to the mark

2:40 am

hi rose - glad to see that you are sleeping better.

2:41 am

And now I understand your clue Rose. Sorry for being slow!

2:41 am

awww, thanx dianne. sleep is so important to our well-being.

2:45 am

have been having problems with eyes all day...can't seem to focus properly. maybe this virus....it seems to be a problem ...muscle control bad.

2:45 am

Oh Rose! :(

2:45 am

Don't leave that if it continues tomorrow.

2:46 am

liz, np's. and thanx for your sympathy.

2:46 am

Sorry - I know you're sensible about medical things.

2:47 am

liz, have appointment with doctor tomorrow. she is pretty concerned with DH and myself...this virus seems to go on for ever.

2:47 am

I hope the doc comes up with something useful.

2:48 am

It's about time you had some good health!

2:48 am

so do i,hun. so do i. and mother mac is STILL on i.v. antibiotics.

2:49 am

That's tough but it's still respite for you.

2:49 am

She sounds like she's a strong one.

2:50 am

yeah...liz....for which we are truly grateful.

2:50 am

How old is she?

2:50 am

mother mac? 94. my mother is 87..

2:51 am

That's fantastic. You're lucky to still have your mothers.

2:51 am

How is your mother now - she wasn't too well last week.

2:52 am

her he5 is strong. my mother is back in the nursing home. she expects to have her cataract operation next friday.

2:52 am

Cataract op will revolutionise her life!

2:53 am

yeah, liz...after mother mac's surgery she was amazed at how bright colours were.

2:54 am

I guess you don't realise that colours are fading until it's too late.

2:55 am

yeah. mother mac thought her rug was a brown colour. she came home after her surgery and was amazed to see it was green with a rose pattern in it.

2:57 am

I was looking at the trees today and remembering how someone said that they hadn't seen individual leaves before they got glasses. Much the same thing.

2:58 am

Rose, did you hear from Sprite yesterday? I wrote her twice and she never answered

2:59 am

hmm. pugs?? i saw her on babble, but that's all.

2:59 am

hi all

2:59 am

Hi Joso

2:59 am

Hi ya Joso

3:00 am

how is the world treating you all

3:01 am

Good as ever he4 - bet you're all getting sick of me saying that!

3:01 am

And you?

3:01 am

Im doing fine and you?

3:01 am

I don't mind liz, boring but preferable

3:02 am

I have a very lucky life living here.

3:02 am

Rose has all the drama-lol

3:02 am

glad you are good pug, I am well but one of my brothers has a grief, his companion died yesterday

3:03 am

Oh! That's really sad - was it expected?

3:03 am

I have all the q words but q520--could I have a clue please

3:04 am

sad to hear that Joso

3:04 am

qu 5 / 20 - a question

3:04 am

yes, knew that some time this year, barring miracle, he would pass

3:04 am

Poor guy! Your brother must be in an awful state.

3:05 am

Has he got a good supportive group around him?

3:05 am

Change the last letter of the last qu5/16

3:06 am

when I spoke to him he seemed in shock. there was a dinner party he was hosting and was continuing with that.

3:06 am

ty Maisie - gave me the missing qu 5 / 16

3:06 am

condolences to him - not that he knows me. Doesn't matter if you expect death, it's still so hard when it happens.

3:08 am

tyvm guys

3:08 am

I think it helps, but still not the best of things

3:08 am

I guess his partner had been ill for a while - so possibly the dinner party was the most supportive thing he could do in the circumstances and probably his partner would've wanted that.

3:10 am

It seemed to me he was just in robot mode, but said the couple coming over where good friends, so it seemed best to let it be, I'm sure they will understand if the taters are burned or raw. and company is sounded like a good thing

3:11 am

Being around friends helps.

3:12 am

Got to go - early dinner. Hubby off to a meeting tonight. tough time for you too I guess ,Joso, so special hugs :)

3:13 am

Might see you later - hugs to all :)

3:13 am

yea, Wish I could be there, he is about 8 hours away

3:13 am

hey joso. sorry to he4 the news of your brother.too sad.

3:13 am

bye liz, enjoy

3:14 am

after the flip, liz. xoxox

3:14 am

bye Liz

3:14 am

tnx rose, was expected but still sad, hope he weathers it well.

3:14 am

so do i, dear

3:15 am

How long were they together

3:16 am

7 years,also sad, bro finally found someone

3:17 am

so pug says you have drama too rose

3:19 am

yeah joso. knee playing up..surprise, surprise. i think that's what she is alluding to.

3:20 am

Joso, does your brother live in canada too

3:20 am

No, I am refuring to that Rose has drama ALL the time! lol

3:20 am

swelled up even more, are you afraid a little baby alien will pop out?

3:21 am

Rose are you still wearing the brace

3:21 am

yes pug, he lives in kingston, other end of lake ontario but still on the Canada side

3:22 am

Its more than the knee with her Joso--they got some kind of virus too

3:23 am

and besides the knee and virus she is having eye problems too

3:23 am

oh, did the DH's med test results come back

3:24 am

and the way it sounds shes not far from being bed ridden

3:25 am

I'll red back a bit

3:25 am

*read

3:36 am

knee not comfy in snug cloths. well moving away from well rather than towards it, but doesn't sound dire, of course rose could be just stiff upperlipping it.

3:37 am

You think?

3:39 am

sounds painful, and a bother, worth going to doc about but as she has doc appointment anyway...

3:40 am

she must of fell asleep over the keyboard

3:41 am

or someone phoned, it's around 2 in the afternoon there

3:41 am

aww you two...so amazing to have friends like you. sorry, was away inhaling dinner. am waiting to he4 from workcover people. supposed to see an independent ortho surgeon on the 22nd.

3:42 am

was wondering what happen to you. Missed you

3:42 am

Back from dinner. Hubby out. Time to babble.

3:42 am

dinner is the mid day meal in oz

3:43 am

wb Liz

3:43 am

I thought it was evening there

3:43 am

18.43 here. An hour later in Melbourne.

3:43 am

Ty pugs

3:43 am

went over to see second son and wife and grandkiddies yesterday. no joso...dinner evening meal.

3:43 am

Dinner def my evening meal.

3:43 am

ah, add two hours, don't deduct

3:43 am

what is 18:43

3:44 am

The time

3:44 am

6:43 pm, military time

3:44 am

pugs, 24 hour clock. equivalent to 6:43pm.

3:44 am

6.43 in the evening

3:45 am

its 4:44 am monday here and I figure its about 5pm there monday

3:45 am

Nearly 7 in the evening here pugs and nearly 8 wh5 Rose is.

3:46 am

pugs add 16 hours.

3:46 am

Yes on Monday

3:46 am

that's for my time, add 15 hours for liz's time

3:47 am

they are living in the future, refuse to give and stock tips

3:48 am

Would if I could!

3:48 am

guess they are--lol

3:48 am

*chuckling* joso.

3:49 am

wouldn't even warn us if we were going to be hit by a bus

3:49 am

our temps are to drop into the 30's this coming week end

3:50 am

Keep warm pugs

3:50 am

It would have to be a school bus for me

3:50 am

might have to turn on the furnace :(

3:51 am

Un5 pls

3:51 am

it's about time things cooled off, I love sleeping under a pile of blankets. Haven't had the need to turn on the heat yet.

3:52 am

yeah me either. I wait until the last minute

3:52 am

And I had the fan on last night!

3:52 am

Cooler tonight though.

3:52 am

I run my fan all year around

3:53 am

sorry liz, don't have it yet

3:53 am

un5, u + ****, nothing, not a one

3:53 am

Ty rose

3:53 am

ty rose

3:54 am

Ta also for the 4 letter word

3:54 am

I'm going back to the grid for a bit

3:55 am

yahoo, liz and joso

3:55 am

bye Joso

3:55 am

Enjoy joso

4:03 am

pugs...re fan??? so do i.... my skin burns...and you?

4:03 am

I need fresh air

4:03 am

My feet burns, cant stand them covered

4:05 am

even if I got to sit with coat and hat and gloves, I got to have fresh air--lol

4:06 am

In the winter, my dogs wont come in my bedroom because its so cold

4:07 am

lol...me too pugs...my father always slept with his feet out of the covers. used to make my mum laugh...

4:08 am

we have so much in common its funny

4:09 am

nah...sisters under the skin are we....

4:09 am

if I get cold, its my upper arms--just below the shoulders

4:11 am

my back and tummy get so hot....i have to strip off the jammies...DH says, so near and yet so far.. he can feel the heat radiating from me.

4:12 am

lol--You are a hot woman!

4:13 am

*chuckling* oh yeah....

4:14 am

Have you always been like that

4:15 am

I cant stand wearing heavy clothes going anywhere cause I get too hot in most places

4:16 am

nope. started about 30 years ago. well the hot feet have always been there...but the overheated of the rest of me...yeah. heavy clothes...too much for me...

4:21 am

everybody gripes about how cool the house is in the winter but we dont hardly have any colds here. The coolness keeps germs down quite a bit

4:24 am

rose could you please clue the oo word

4:27 am

pugs, oo5, oo + **s*, go upwards

4:28 am

ty grannyrose

4:28 am

ty rose

4:40 am

going to take a break from this so hugs Rose and hope you feel better by morning. And hugs to you Joso as well--Hope to see you at the flip---bye to all

4:45 am

jack, you still he4?

4:47 am

night/mornin' pugs. see you at the flip

4:48 am

i'm outta he4. happy babbling to all who follow.

5:16 am

bonjour a tous!

5:50 am

hi ruby

5:50 am

re 8/45 - clue please

5:51 am

re8-45 #1 reverse testimony

5:53 am

re8-45 #2 coward

6:04 am

Still cannot see re 8/45 - any further clues please

the first one is the person who does the re6/21

6:08 am

we

6:09 am

re8/45 to take wine out of a bottle into another vessel is to de***** replace the de with RE

6:11 am

TY Joso. Hello everyone

6:11 am

Hello, Lynxxx :-)

6:13 am

hi Zooz

6:14 am

hi all, joso I do not get the coward clue for one of the re8

6:15 am

re8-45 #2, re + wood box; ***ate + picnic pest

6:16 am

wood box?

6:17 am

Hello, Peri & Joso :-)

6:17 am

re8-45 #2, re + make, esp art, music; ***ate + picnic pest

6:17 am

wood box wrong

6:17 am

hi zooz

6:17 am

ty got it

6:29 am

nbt and nbs. yay me

6:29 am

bbl

6:47 am

And done..Happy babbling everyone...Byee!

6:48 am

*poof*

6:57 am

Phantom: hellzapoppin

7:02 am

lol.good morning everyone.reading back on your comments granny & puglet.it is same with me.i keep the house at 60f in the winter because i overheat so badly.for me most of the winter it is a t-shirt and light jacket unless it is really howling with a blizzard then i will add a sweater and a thin windbreaker.my beloved spends her entire winter complaining at me,but i buy her lots of nice sweaters fleece jammies.herating pad and whatnot

7:03 am

her best part about the new jeep i think is that it has heated seats:)

7:05 am

Heated seats are the best!

7:06 am

duct tape a heating pad around your posterior

7:06 am

she loves them.they can be set individually and there is a low and high setting for each.will be good for me as well.no longer will i roast on long trips.i will just turn her seat to high and let her cook

7:09 am

Our temps have dipped to high 50's in morning so I'm back in long pants and a jacket to take Rufus to the dog park on the golf cart, but the snowbirds love it.

7:09 am

she dreams of roasting on some tropical beach and i dream of those arctic cruises where they crawl all over icebergs

7:09 am

we are 5-10c now or high 30,s low 40s in american

7:11 am

had a few hard frosts already and all the cider presses are going full steam:)))

7:11 am

I was raised in Alaska so I was adapted like you to the cold. But then we moved to Arizona and my blood got thinned out, now I don't deal so well with being cold.

7:11 am

my brother is like that now, mubner.he now lives in Nevada and he dies if it drops below 70f

7:12 am

Yup

7:13 am

one thing he is still stunned over even after 3 years is how they almost give handguns away with very little checking or training.you think with everyone armed that way they would not have shut the us government down to avoid working on health care for all would you? lol

7:14 am

lol.he now has 3 handguns

7:14 am

The shutdown, what an embarrassment.

7:15 am

canada loves you ,mubner but omg what were they thinking?

7:15 am

it was not even full universal health care.the preez was just trying to bring you half way.kind of like how our old OHIP system used to be

7:16 am

Both sides are so deeply entrenched that I wonder if they will ever be able to agree. I don't understand why everyone hates the health care program

7:17 am

for examole i had two dr appts last week and am scheduled for a ct scan this week.no long wait.i do not have to pour over insurance doccuments to see if i am covered.i do not have to rent a room in my house to pay for it

7:17 am

it boggles the rest of us who have it

7:17 am

help with ha7 pls

7:17 am

I'm past needing health coverage but if I was younger, with a family I would probably be more involved

7:17 am

Thinking? Very difficult to find an association representatives

7:17 am

How much do you pay for health care, crossy?

7:18 am

an association with ...

7:18 am

i do not pay as you guys pay, bzz. EVERYONE is covered and everyone working and paying taxes,pays for health care at tax time

7:18 am

gm, everyone. stats for the lone O first row?

7:19 am

My brother has a close Canadian friend (Edmonton) that says your system isn't so great, like he has very long waits for regular health care, so he says we are headed down into the darkness with Obamacare. lol

7:19 am

oo 5/10

7:19 am

i do not wait.

7:19 am

ty, o-o

7:20 am

it is far from perfect but when we need something looked at we get it done

7:20 am

When I was younger with a family I would have loved to have that kind of health care

7:20 am

we just all pay at tax time because everyone is going to need health care at some point.right?

7:21 am

And there's the rub...The insurance companies are going to make sure they make a huge profit on this. Hubs is covered under medicare + retirement health plan. It will cost over $500. a month to cover me.

7:21 am

True. I prefer alternative health care, don't have alot of respect for doctors and the "system"

7:21 am

we do not have insurance companies or emplyers in the loop.unless it is an added thing over and above the basic universal care

7:22 am

And because of the changes to health coverage, my husband's great health coverage is becoming mediocre.

7:22 am

we pay the govt,they give us health care.scary eh? lol

7:22 am

Mubner, I was married to a Canadian and he said the same thing about their health care as your friend did.

7:23 am

Oh, Molly, maybe it's different for Crossy because he is on the eastern side and John was in Alberta??

7:24 am

Don't know, my husband lived in Ontario.

7:24 am

and our govt is open for business:P when we heard of universal health care coming,you would of got ruined in the rush of all of us signing up

7:24 am

Thanks for the oo5, o-o.

7:24 am

my brother says they are overloading the system in NV to sign up even though i think it does not actually take effect till new year

7:26 am

I don't think they are overloading the system to sign up. I think they are overloading the system trying to figure out how the changes will effect them.

7:26 am

My guess is that there are very few people signing up yet.

7:26 am

well.it is interesting as heck watching it all unfold that is for sure.

7:26 am

I think the bigger picture is the black president that is trying to help poor people and those with money and power don't like that one little bit.

7:26 am

Yes Bea, not many people understand how it will work.

7:27 am

they still play the race/colour card,mubner. odd

7:27 am

Or what it will cost or how it will affect the quality of our health care.

7:27 am

i would not care if my prez was green with yellow stripes as lonmg as he gets us good health care

7:27 am

But do you think it is because he is black? Isn't he following the Democratic platform?

7:28 am

Yes Bea, it's more of a Democrat vs Republican thing.

7:28 am

I believe so too, Molly.

7:28 am

well,molly,so far they nays have closed your government so that is not working too well anyways.

7:29 am

The "nays" are not the only ones responsible for the government shut down.

7:29 am

it is so wild.rest of the world is still trying to figure it out along with you

7:30 am

If Congress were not getting paid or benefits through this shut down, things would get settled a lot quicker.

7:30 am

the top movers and shakers will always get paid.they write the rules

7:30 am

need help with 7's.I have ha, qu and wh.

7:31 am

Joe The Plumber: 'Wanting A White Republican President Doesn't Make You Racist,' It 'Makes You American'

7:31 am

I agree, Congress is where the program is and its all wrapped up in money. The ideal would be that Congress worked for free and did not receive health care or life time pensions

7:31 am

so to be american you must have a white prez?

7:32 am

oops, meant "Problem"

7:32 am

The true cost and impact of a big plan such as this, can only be realized after it goes into effect. I am leery of the government being in control of anything, especially my health care options.

7:33 am

you can rest assured that before they shut it all down that they rammed throuhg a CYA bill to keep them getting paid,along with the military budget

7:33 am

Peri - I also have fo7

7:33 am

ty Chris, looking

7:33 am

Well said Molly, look at the post office, Ibelieve 16 billiondollarsin debt.

7:34 am

i hear that a lot molly.are the insurance companies running it preferrable to having the govt run it?

7:34 am

post office is not a government entity

7:34 am

if you cannot trust them to run it,then you better clean house

7:34 am

ty Chris for fo7, I already had the base word too :(

7:35 am

ddIt certainly is. Fedex is private, UPSisprivate, Postofficeis run and subsidized by the US government.

7:35 am

Gee, I guess if we all lived in a perfect country like Canada we would all be happy and healthy.

7:35 am

we hare not perfect.do not descent to that level.i see that a lot as well

7:36 am

either you trust them to run it,or get a govt that can and get everyone covered

7:37 am

First N stats please?

7:37 am

The USPS has not directly received taxpayer-dollars since the early 1980s with the minor exception of subsidies for costs associated with the disabled and overseas voters.

7:37 am

i have to may friends in the us waiting for a condition to become serious enough to meet some sort of criteria.that is wrong. but we can go to puppies and kitties of you wish,molly

7:38 am

good morning mlfan:) i best hunt for words for a bit

7:38 am

no4/4

7:38 am

good morning cross i havent gotten ver y far but just started a bit ago. Only 36 words found so far

7:38 am

just getting rolling myself:)

7:39 am

good morning all

7:39 am

oh got it ty phae and good morning

7:39 am

good morning teach

7:40 am

good morning wv

7:40 am

yw

7:43 am

is the 2nd column O supposed to be OR?

7:43 am

is the eagle nest hiding in here today? it almost seems it should be or some variant spelling

that one is oo5

7:44 am

it is crossy, ae5

7:44 am

and ae4

7:44 am

it's here twice...different spellings

7:44 am

Nono clue please?

7:45 am

ty,peri i could not see the forest for the eee,s

7:45 am

the volcano is here too

7:47 am

ty

7:47 am

clue for the oo5 please?

oo + **s* up and be heard

7:49 am

i dont understand your clue nono

sorry trying to think of something else

ummm its like the ee 5 if you have that

7:50 am

no problem i am trying to get nbt so working on other letters as well

7:50 am

**s* and shine!

7:51 am

ty phae

7:51 am

got i

7:51 am

it

7:51 am

yw

7:52 am

stats for the second column E?v please

7:52 am

Also on the 2nd column is the E supposed to be ER?

7:52 am

phae thats one that i need as well and just asked:)

think that one is ec 6/21

7:54 am

:)

7:54 am

ty Nan

7:55 am

ty morewords

7:55 am

nbt but need an 8 for nbs

7:55 am

phae is the u suppoed to be UN?

7:56 am

un4/5

7:56 am

the one I have is un4

7:56 am

Good day to all.

morning Scrabs

7:57 am

duhh got it never mind

7:57 am

un5/16

7:57 am

hello scrabs

7:57 am

bbl

7:57 am

I am waiting for a patient to show up. So far the 8 and 8:30 appts have "no-showed."

7:58 am

hi scrabbler

7:58 am

Somehow I will cope with the help of Babble.

Scrabs, what is the office policy on no-shows?

7:59 am

stats for the A on the 4th column please?

7:59 am

au4/5

8:00 am

re6.18?

8:00 am

We call the parents of "no-shows." And if they arrive 15 or more minutes late we typically reschedule the appt UNLESS it is a sick/injured kid. We cannot punish a kid for a parent's lack of responsibility.

8:00 am

bzz i have one au 4/5 already

extend that for a 5/16 MLF

8:01 am

In our private office we dismiss chronic no-showers. Here at the Indian Reservation Health Ctr we do not dismiss anyone.

8:01 am

af5/16

8:01 am

i have that as well nonon

8:01 am

nono oops

8:01 am

still comes from the 2nd column A - need 4th column A

af5/16 maybe

8:02 am

ac5/12

8:02 am

TY for clues.

8:03 am

bzz clue the af 5 please?

8:03 am

af 5 worked - thnx

8:03 am

never mind got it

8:04 am

nbt

8:05 am

no help for the re6.18?

8:06 am

i dot have it dawg

dawger i've been searching for that one for ages :(

8:07 am

*looking with you*

8:07 am

re6...to make money again

8:07 am

Yay

ty molly!!!

8:07 am

wonder if it's some obscure foreign coinage.

8:07 am

is bit the person that does the re before it

8:08 am

xxooxx, Molly

8:12 am

hi all. any clues for the 8s?

8:12 am

I have no 7's or 8's, mkg

8:13 am

ty anyway.

8:13 am

re + ca6

8:13 am

good morning ,scrabby:)

8:14 am

Hey Crossy Boy

8:14 am

flosey dont have the ca 6. need clue for that polease

8:14 am

:)

8:14 am

How were your hikes and the cruise?

8:15 am

oh i got it flosey. ty ty. need other 8 now please

8:15 am

sorry, don't have the other

8:15 am

tadone!! finito!! and Happy Thanksgiving to all our Canadian friends.

8:16 am

I am looking for ca6 too

8:16 am

thanks lbd

8:16 am

ENjoy your day now, dawg.

8:16 am

Morning, everyone...yawn.

8:16 am

hi all :)

8:16 am

Hi Cat and smores

8:16 am

any clues for the u words?

8:16 am

Grrrr, the past tense of ea4 (with a t) isn't accepted...

8:16 am

and happy thanksfiving to all in canada.

8:16 am

((smores)) Wow--2 days in a row!

8:17 am

cruise was great,scrabby you can see pics and three short vid clips if you go to my picture site: crossy.smugmug.com then select browse then click on picture of boat and you can scroll through the picutres.click on last three vid clip slide to avtivate them

8:17 am

Hubz is off today (Columbus day...what a farce), anyway, he wants to stain the deck. not my idea of fun, but what the heck.

8:17 am

:D Mimi

8:17 am

Hi, Scrab!!

8:17 am

<----hates Columbus Day ....grrr...

8:17 am

I will do that later, Cross.

8:17 am

cool

8:18 am

((crossy))...a cruise! Nice.

8:18 am

have a great day/evening everyone. grid isn't too bad, not like yesterday's

8:18 am

threw in a nice picture of mr and mrs crossy:)

8:18 am

tc lbd

8:18 am

((mimi))

8:18 am

bye dawg :)

8:18 am

I think Columbus Day should no longer be a holiday. It shows such disrespect for Native Americans.

8:19 am

agree completely Scrab

8:19 am

we took all your land and now we will party to celebrate it?

8:19 am

we all share the blame

8:19 am

if we really want to be there for the native americans let give them back land! i dont see anyone doing that.

8:20 am

And I am at the Indian Reservation Health Ctr now, as I am every Monday.

8:20 am

my godmother is first nations.they are a beautiful people

8:21 am

how can someone get lost, land on already inhabited land and get credit for discovering it???? beyond ridiculous

8:21 am

Agreed, Smores.

8:22 am

spain and portugal spend hundreds of years dividing up the planet

8:22 am

smores, you must write that up somewhere and get it out to all.

8:22 am

Morning all.

8:22 am

howdy glant

8:22 am

Hi Glantarell

8:22 am

<----spent several Columbus Days in the principals office

8:23 am

Schools here are always closed on Columbus Day.

8:23 am

really?? not here

8:23 am

it is our thanksgiving so our schools are closed

8:23 am

Actually, both the vikings and the Welsh landed in what iis now north america 6 or 7 hundred years before it was 'discovered' by the spanish LOL

8:23 am

our schools are open in DC area. the govt is closed. what a joke that is now.

8:24 am

this is quite true.glant

8:24 am

Some schools also get the Friday before off too, for a 4-day weekend.

8:24 am

yep

8:24 am

Yes, Glant

8:24 am

my husband is "essential" so it at the hospital anyway. he works and doesnt get paid while most employees dont work and will get paid. stupid stuff. curse congress. wake up guys. obama care passed and let it lie.

8:25 am

I "protested" every year in school...lol

8:25 am

Our politicians should be ashamed.

8:25 am

i wasnt for it but it is there so give it up and get the govt going.

8:25 am

Yes, they should be very ashamed. They should also be the ones not getting paid

8:26 am

i started a war this morning so i will not get into how they shut the govt down to avoid health care for all:)

8:26 am

boggles the mind

8:26 am

congress should not be paid! hey, lets try that one on. lets lead a protest to take away the congresses wages if they cant come to an agreement. how about it?

8:26 am

Yup

8:26 am

I don't understand your politicians at all. Surely there are times when the governance of the country should be put before party politics?

8:27 am

Isn't that what they were eleceted for?

8:27 am

one would think so Giant

8:27 am

what bothers me the most is the thought that anyone in congress can add to a bill what they dont like so they close the govt down.

8:27 am

Egos get in the way of reason.

8:27 am

well said ,glant

8:28 am

also it bothers me all who say obama care with bankrupt the country. who pays for these uninsured now? we all do! they go to ER's and must be taken. and so we all pay more for our care because of it. so i dont get the whole objection to obama care.

8:28 am

agree mkg

8:28 am

any clues for the o word top row?

8:29 am

oo5/10

8:29 am

seems last time you had to restart your govt when this happened in the early 90,s it cost 7 billion dollars..should of stayed open and put that money to health care

8:29 am

I wish it wasn't called ObamaCare. Call it something else.

8:29 am

Yes, Cross.

8:29 am

call it the ACA

8:30 am

Living in a country where we pay compulsory health insurance to the government, deducted from pur salary, i don't get the objection either. At least i know that if i am sick i can get treated without worrying about whether i can afford to get treated.

8:30 am

Yippee, a patient finally showed up. I will have to leave soon.

8:30 am

affordable care is best. did you see the you tubes where they ask people which is best, obama care or affordable care and they all say affordable care? so many stupid people.

8:30 am

it is same here,glant.we pay our tax and get treat.period everyone is covered.period

8:30 am

morning all, could I get a clue for the second RE8 please

8:31 am

Hi Buttonman

8:31 am

hi Scrabbler

8:31 am

Re & run if you're a harse

8:31 am

Not sur if that's first or second re8

8:31 am

horse

8:31 am

Darn ipad

8:32 am

as a DR scrabby would you not prefer a single payor vs fighting tooth and nail with dozens of insurance companies?

8:32 am

re+ All men are ***ted equal + pincic pest

8:32 am

I have been researching tablets. How are they for playing timed word games? Anybody know?

8:33 am

i have a asus transformer tablet and i love it scrabby

8:33 am

Yes, Crossy, IF the government could manage it well. Medicare and Medicaid are not well run.

8:33 am

thanks smores, got it

8:33 am

left out a letter...hope you got it

8:33 am

The Transformer Prime? Infinity?

8:33 am

lol..yw

8:33 am

play babble very well and other word games.so so for Fb but a well made machine it is

8:34 am

my wife has the prime,i have the infinity

8:34 am

her prime has the detachable keyboard

8:34 am

7 inch or 10 inch?

8:34 am

10 inch

8:35 am

when docked you can get up to 14 hours useage time

8:35 am

the tabby itself has 8-12 hours

8:35 am

help with the second column E please

8:35 am

Voters have no high ground in the current circumstances:

8:36 am

mouse and kb compatable,usb 2.0 sd and micro sd

8:36 am

In our country effective representative government is crucial. To keep reelecting congressional incumbents that nearly always deserve to be fired is unpatriotic, subversive and antithetical to the ideals of our constitutional republic. This year ten Senators and 42 Representatives are not running for reelection. Odds are that far fewer incumbents will be voted out of office, if historic trends continue. For House elections from 1982 to 2008 only one in three voters did not vote for a winning House representative and 73 percent of House races were won by landslide margins of at least 20 percentage points. The power of incumbency reduces much needed political competition which a healthy democracy requires. If the royalty of incumbency does not stop there is no hope whatsoever of putting the nation on a much better track. It does not matter who is elected president. In the end, if the fractured Congress we have witnessed for years perseveres the US is doomed to join the list of once great global powers that went down the toilet. Flush congressional incumbents out. Now. Or be complicit in the death of American democracy. Stop making excuses, rationalizing. Throw incumbent turds out of office. Even more important than not voting for the challenger or incumbent from the “other” party is not voting for the incumbent of your party, even if it threatens party control of the House or Senate. If you do not help fire Congress, then you deserve to suffer personally from what the federal government does or does not do. Make you voice really heard this year.

8:36 am

TY for advice, Crossy. I have a Nook Color but it just doesn't work well at all with some word games

8:36 am

never mind

8:36 am

now,the infinity is still a tad expensive but the prime and the one before it are both fine machines

8:37 am

Agreed, o-o. We need to critically think about who to elect and re-elect.

8:38 am

Well said o-o, complete agree...get rid of them

8:38 am

ec6-21, e +2 wheel vehicle + repeat start vwl

8:38 am

and remember o-o...how many dead people voyed, how many people were paid to vote more than once, and many precincts had more voters than they had people......off w/ their heads

8:38 am

Crossy, I wish my Nook were more versatile, but it isn't primarily a tablet, rather, is an e-reader.

8:39 am

Hi Renny.

8:39 am

i have a nook HD and it can surf as well but like yours excells as a reader

8:39 am

lol...ec6...online shopping ??

8:39 am

hi scrabs

8:39 am

I was so mad last week I wrote to both senator and rep and told them not to expect to be reelected next time as the American people are fed up and will certainly be throwing out all incumbents. Probably didn't do any good but made me feel better!

8:40 am

they do not care.before they shut down you can be sure they rammed through a cover your ass bills so they continue to get paid

8:40 am

I'd like to see term limits shortened so that we can keep throwing people out until we get some in there who actually will do the job.

8:40 am

if you go to er here, and dont have ins.. u will be taken care of and billed... and do you really think that bill gets paid??

8:40 am

BBS

8:41 am

sad set up it is,ivesy

8:42 am

but i get to pay a $50 co pay up front becuz i have ins.. which i pay for every month.

8:42 am

i have the exact same coverage as the man who has been living on the street for ten years.all workers pay at tax time. our demographic is older we know the value of health care for all

8:43 am

party members are like shareholders ... party leaders seek to maximize profits for their members ... the best interests of the people is never the goal ... maintaining power for members the party prizes trumps all. Expediency is the key. If somehow constituents benefits .... it is through inadvertence

8:43 am

that is why we live with $5.20 a gallon gas as 12 dollar smokes etc etc.need the tax revenues

8:44 am

ding everyone on the sin taxes

8:44 am

reading back into chat - was curious what sort of war you started, crossy. want to let you know that here, in alberta, there is a seven month wait for an mri. and for those who are not familiar with our plan, the social medical coverage does not cover things like insulin, eyeglasses, medications, prostheses, cpap machines, those things that are considered 'incidentals' - they system is far from perfect. and, in victoria, bc, it took 18 months of waiting before my father in law received surgery for an aortic aneurysm - i swear the govt was hoping he'd just die before the surgery

8:44 am

That's one reason I'd like to see shorter terms so perhaps we could keep shaking up the status quo.

8:45 am

I would gladly pay that to prevent people from having to choose between food and their medicine..

8:45 am

it is far from perfect.i wait a few days for CT and 2 weeks for MRI

8:46 am

but we get treated

8:46 am

and, as we've talked of before when you bring up gun control, each state has different rules and regs. it's pretty easy to get a gun up here, too, same as the states, if you know the "right" people - and please don't forget the gazillion dollar failed federal gun registry program up here

8:46 am

that's in ontario - the health care systems are provincial. you can praise ontario's system to the heavens, but folks in alberta and bc are dying

8:47 am

My congressional delegation will not respond to my inquiries .... the largest daily in my state will not publish my letters to the editor .... Those who control communications control the agenda

8:47 am

four months for my girlfriend to get diagnosed with breast cancer - shameful.

8:47 am

eeek..didn't know that welki

8:48 am

meanwhile, there are politicians and their families jumping the queue to access medical care faster than us 'regular' folks - another shameful practice

8:48 am

yea, we have some minor flaws in our system welkie, but nobody looses their house here when someone gets sick, a major illness in the family is the leading cause of bankruptcy in the states.

8:49 am

not sure what the Health care bill will be like here....just upsetting that congress is continuing to be paid during the shutdown

8:49 am

so crossy, my friend, when you speak in generalizations, you're misinforming people about what happens in other parts of canada and the united states. your brother might have three handguns, but in another state, someone might have to show proof of a safety course and waiting period

8:49 am

Perhaps narcissists and psychopaths do not appreciate being told they do not have the capacity to manage a box of rocks.

8:49 am

lol :D

8:50 am

people lose their houses to sickness related debt in alberta, joso

8:50 am

how

8:51 am

halfway, NBT and NBS - time to go run some errands

8:52 am

My time is unfortunately up....wonderful "seeing" you all. Happy to be back babbling. Have a great day everyone.

8:52 am

when they can't afford their expensive medications or medical equipment, houses get re-mortgaged, but the expenses don't stop, they just keep mounting and, eventually, you lose your home

8:52 am

good to have u back again smores

8:52 am

Bye, smores...big hug.

8:53 am

The US is past the tipping point ... I am embarrassed to be an American .... The Americans who care do not know what to do ... the majority try to ignore what is going on and hope it goes away

8:53 am

does your provincial health program cover things like heart medication, insulin or anti-rejection drugs?

8:53 am

maybe that happens once or twice, is it the leading cause of bankruptcy

8:54 am

no one said it was the leading cause of bankruptcy, just that people lose their homes here, just like in the states, due to medical related debt

8:54 am

my point is, simply, that there is no earthly paradise.

8:55 am

covers insulin and other diabetes medication, don't know about the rest

8:55 am

not in alberta, joso

8:55 am

Letterman said of the shutdown .... how does one tell the difference?

8:55 am

you need blue cross/blue shield or another supplementary coverage for medications, even ones that your life depends on

8:57 am

no, our system has flaws, said that already, but we don't have insurance companies withholding payment because they figure the client will die before their claim crawls through the courts.

8:58 am

apparently now china is calling for a "new world order" because congress has imperilled the global economy

8:58 am

well that's just great

8:58 am

except when you keep an 80 year old man waiting a year and a half for a critical cardiac surgery. it's the generalizations that are killing me - there are ALWAYS exeptions - and to say that "we don't have insurance companies...." speaks volumes. what do you think bc health care is? not only a provider, but an insurer.

8:59 am

and really, does it matter who keeps someone who requires surgery from the procedure on which their life depends? insurer/health care provider - dead is dead.

8:59 am

do you really think it is better in the states welki?

9:00 am

as a dual citizen, who has participated on both sides, i'd say it's a toss up.

9:00 am

i would agree - we both have good points and bad points

9:00 am

and i'm not joking - there are pros and cons to both

9:02 am

but the thing about health care is - as you said earlier - no such thing as an earthly paradise - there are always going to be limitations. you can't provide ALL the care for ALL the people ALL the time, esp as technology keeps advancing and we pour so much money into that. and do we really want it to be that what determines who gets it is how rich you are? i'm more ok with it being that if i'm 80 i may not get something, you know, having already lived a good long life, if it means like 50 children are getting nutrition or preventative care instead. hard as it is, there will always have to be resources directed somewhere instead of somewhere else.

9:03 am

americans are particularly bad about facing hard truths like that - and particularly susceptible to panic over "death panels".

9:03 am

I'm amazed. remember i have said a few times our system is not flawless, but we may have a bankruptcy or 2, verses the leading cause for bankruptcy, costing 50% more and covering 25% less, these are huge differences

9:03 am

agreed, hurshy - that makes sense from one perspective. the other being, let's say i'm 80 and waiting for that surgery. i've paid into the system (yes, some provinces charge(d) premiums - so the notion that it's not 'insurance' fails there) for over 60 years - this is my first major surgery - aren't i entitled to value/product for my money?

9:04 am

Americans have become habituated with political corruption and greed. Gun-related deaths (86 a day) is now considered unfortunate collateral damage necessary to ensure the right to bear arms. Yet, there is less outrage over the gutting of fourth amendment by the NSA with the support of the Administration and Congress. The oath of office of our purported representatives gets violated daily with impunity.

9:05 am

remain amazed, joso. i'm not arguing about the leading cause of bankruptcy, i understood what you were saying and was not directing my comments towards you, but rather to crossy (we do this on a regular basis).

9:05 am

were you entitled to the luck that meant you grew up in a stable secure family with plenty of food and a safe neighborhood? were you entitled to be white? were you entitled to the luck that meant you didn't have a health crisis before you were 80? entitled is a hard concept.

9:06 am

when i think of the 20% Americans who will not be approved for healthcare coverage under the new tax law....i think "soylent green"

9:06 am

devil's advocate would tell you that i'm a two war veteran who did not enjoy the sensation of feeling safe for most of my adult years (that would be my father in law) - but i get your point, hursh.

9:06 am

hey renny!! soylent green - ohhh, not so yummy

9:07 am

when i said "you" of course i didn't literally mean you i meant this hypothetical 80 year old :)

9:07 am

i know :)

9:08 am

i know welki...youse guys gets us chemo filled pellets for grub

9:08 am

any clues for the u words?

9:08 am

Whose numbers are those, ren? "tax law" is quite telling.

9:09 am

un5, u + nil, nothing, none

9:09 am

un4, un + 2

9:10 am

ty got both

9:11 am

anyways, said what i thought needed saying, let's be thankful that columbus made a wrong turn and for this canadian thanksgiving

9:11 am

reem

9:11 am

sorry

9:12 am

a town hall meeting o-o discussing the tax law

9:12 am

mm soylent green:)) and yes i do generalize a tad over the hand guns

9:12 am

As I have said before ... I do not care about labels ... those who put party politics ahead of the best interests of constituents in my view should be voted out of office. The Federalist Papers were concerned about political parties for the reasons that have come to pass.

9:13 am

i think, sometimes crossy, that you're just a wee bit of a $hit disturber :)

9:13 am

If it comes from a town hall meeting than talking points are on the agenda. Is there an independent group that concurs?

9:14 am

during the inquisition, my ancestors left spain - some sailed w/ columbus....that is how he was willingly given a crew and ships - to get us Jews outta spain

9:14 am

well my brother syas they amost give them away in texas.i am sure other states are much tighter in their requirements

9:15 am

yes o-o, it was open forum, stats were presented - we all participated

9:15 am

HI All. heavy subjects today.

9:15 am

i thought you said he's in arizona or nevada

9:15 am

And Renny's here!

9:15 am

they are all so different down there you can marry you cannot,load up on hand guns,no hand guns.it is tough

9:16 am

And don't mess with Welki!

9:16 am

health care and hand guns.hego.i think we will let religion be or the chat will explode

9:16 am

right Crossy.

9:17 am

anyways,i am trying rooster worship a la J.D Sallanger anyways:))

9:17 am

the eary mornings are a pain though

9:17 am

I have no faith in our representatives

9:17 am

early

everyone talks about huner and poverty and lack of education. i worked for what i have and i am proud yet well aware of my obligation to help others come up. i think each person who has should be asking herself what can i do to help?

9:18 am

oh crossy and here i mentioned the inquisition...strike that

9:18 am

i'm w/ ya on that o-o

9:18 am

lol

9:18 am

well said TO

9:18 am

I didn't expect the Spanish inquisition!

as opposed to:what can the government do?

NOBODY expects the spanish inquisition! :D

9:19 am

Very true TO

9:19 am

hego - i said it....going back a wee bit

9:19 am

get over the old"i am ok,why should i pay for him with my taxes?" and you are on your way

9:19 am

lol somebody got it.

9:19 am

Renny, it's an old monty Python routine.

9:20 am

one of monty's bet bits

9:20 am

lol,the inqusition was dissagreeable.cut the supply of good whiskey for months!

one of my fellow dancers had that t shirt on last week

9:20 am

and mel brooks 'history of the world'

9:20 am

really!

9:21 am

whenever i think of monty all i can hear in my mind is the song every sperm is sacred that one where they are all singing while nailed to the cross

9:22 am

Life of Brian, i think.

9:22 am

hego/renny, have you been introduced? hego, renny is probably one of the funniest, upbeat babblers you'll ever run into - raucous, especially when she teams up with nut (who hasn't been around for a long time) - renny, hego is a beautiful person, inside and out, who has a wickedly dry (and sometimes naughty) sense of humor

9:23 am

lol ty welki, we have met here and there.

9:23 am

Well, I am quite dim and concrete ... even during a cement shortage ... I truly am moved that your outhouse has not.

9:23 am

there we go. monty python.nice safe topic:)) well their idea of organ donation isd not safe but you get the idea

9:23 am

i think of nudge nudge, know what i mean, know what i mean

9:23 am

I remember enjoying watching the show, but having so much more fun talking about it with friends the next day

9:23 am

say no more

wink wink

9:23 am

my out house o-o is still standing

9:23 am

wink wink nudge nudge

9:24 am

the cheese shop with john cleese

9:24 am

minister of silly walks

9:24 am

classic

9:24 am

Hi Une

9:24 am

and the dead parrot

9:24 am

i love the cheese shop

9:24 am

he's a lumberjack and the parrot's not dead :)

9:24 am

hey ya une

9:24 am

howdy hego :-)

9:24 am

he's pining for the fiords

9:24 am

and renny!

9:24 am

hey une

9:25 am

he is not PINING!.he is deaD!.HIS BLOODY FEET ARE NAILED TO THE PERCH!

9:25 am

the gay lumberjack! loved him.

9:25 am

hey welki :-)

9:25 am

He is no more! This parrot is DECEASED!

9:25 am

just passing by -- must take pups for a walk -- hi and bye! :-) *poof*

9:25 am

hehe

you mean eh eh

9:26 am

he is an EX-parrot

9:26 am

hahahaha!

9:26 am

onlu with bacon TO

9:26 am

morning, owl

9:26 am

or stubby bottle of labbats 50 ale

morning, welk. my trip to cowtown today was cancelled.

9:27 am

too bad

9:27 am

3rd row e?

boot shopping trip.

9:27 am

what? i didn't know you were planning a trip!! what what! tell me!

9:27 am

lol,breathe

cowtown rodeo. not canada, unfortunately. and not SW LA

9:27 am

you were really coming up here to shop for boots? has your trip been cancelled or just delayed?

9:27 am

common over to crossys.brunch is in an hour

9:27 am

My preference would be for congress and the administration to conduct future negotiations while clearing bombs in Afghanistan

9:27 am

ohhh, you're a tease.

9:28 am

*breathing*

9:28 am

good plan.o-o saves on the sniffer dogs

9:28 am

He's torturing us again.

9:28 am

3rd row e?

not in winter. brrr.

9:29 am

Good morning friends

9:29 am

almost requiem

9:29 am

not winter yet TO get on over here

although i just looked at a train trip through the cancdian rockies.

9:29 am

it's not nearly winter yet, owl - let's talk february

9:29 am

ec6/21, hurshy

9:29 am

Hi Bob

9:29 am

EC 6/21

9:29 am

ty haz!

9:29 am

ea4, make wages

9:29 am

and wv!

9:29 am

and Hi haz!

9:29 am

speaking of clearing bombs - has anyone else seen the poopourri ad on youtube?

yes, i will be in AZ or FL or CA then.

9:30 am

hi, haz

9:30 am

You're welcome and hello all.

9:30 am

yes.january ,february but even those have been soft last 3 years

hiya haz!

9:30 am

and teach

9:30 am

hey haz

9:30 am

howdy haz!

9:30 am

Hello, haz.

9:30 am

Hello!

9:31 am

safe topics for the day,haz are monty python,TO shopping for boots and everyone comming to crossys for brunch

9:31 am

We're inundating Haz.

9:31 am

The ghost teacher was showing her class how to walk through walls. "Now did all of you understand that?" she asked. "If not, I'll just go through it again."

9:31 am

I'll just give general greetings and salutations to everyone.

welk, my rommmate for last week's trip had a pair of gorgeous tony lama s

9:32 am

oh pooh, crossy. we had a good back and forth before - no one got their panties in a knot, no one picked up their ball and quit the game

9:32 am

groan..that was bad o-o

9:32 am

yuck yuck o-o

9:32 am

Health care and gun control out of bounds?

9:32 am

i giggled o-o

9:32 am

lol,welki.molly did

9:32 am

that's what we were discussing, haz

9:32 am

was a nice chat though

i typed in many things - then erased them. sometimes that is what it takes.

9:33 am

I know, I was reading back. Chances are you'll be having the same discussions this time next year.

9:33 am

tony lama makes beautiful boots, top notch

9:33 am

if any of you do come over for brunch,get a two week blue cross out of country plan.we can get you all fixed up before you go back:)

9:33 am

why wait until next year? probably next week :)

9:33 am

Very true, welki.

i am sure she paid a pretty penny for them. i went to her house and she gave me the tour, omg

9:34 am

her boots were a featured item on the tour? LOL

9:34 am

wow.must have been quite the pair of boot!

yes. yes they were. we're dancers lol

and they are. all emboridered and fancy. i found a pair of tony lama s in thrift for over a hundred and they would need at least heels proto

9:35 am

i think you'd like these: http://tinyurl.com/lw5xtwd

9:36 am

bacon must go on brb

did not see the price. look narrow in the calf.

9:38 am

no prices on that site - check out this one: http://tinyurl.com/mvwjp2y

ty. there are three retailers near me, o ne of which is where i got my current boots. oha nd did i tell you they were RED?!

9:39 am

oooooo

they might have been the santa fe style. but those are relatively cheap, the exotics are way more.

9:41 am

red boots - my favorite :)

9:41 am

uncontroversial me saying hello. Did I miss some brouhahah

*sigh*

9:41 am

This type of boot is the one I use the most: http://tinyurl.com/k36snc8

9:41 am

TO you would like my red-orange crocodile platforms!

9:41 am

hi Ruby

lol but a bit hard to dance in, no?

9:42 am

{{hego}}

9:42 am

No, just a serious discussion.

you GO, ruby girl! Whoo- hoo!

9:42 am

the heart and scroll boots are on that site, $630!

9:42 am

I can (or, at last, could) dance in anything!

9:42 am

me too Ruby

9:42 am

not so difficult when doing the wallflower shuffle

aw

9:43 am

at 5', platforms are necessary

and we have driven poor haz away come back, haz, come back!

9:44 am

time to eat - be back in a little

9:44 am

who does the wallflower shuffle?

9:44 am

owl - are you going for the roper style and roper heel? or the regular cowboy boot w/ a walking heel or riding heel????

9:44 am

I wish I could walk in those things. Then I could have those long legs I always wanted. lol

9:44 am

I'm still here but not for much longer. Walk time soon.

i et the styles mixed up. i like that cuban style heel

9:45 am

Glad you have a pup again Haz.

9:45 am

a clue for an 5/12 please

aw, how is your pup? he sure is a handsome boy

9:45 am

my platforms give me an extra 4"

9:45 am

that is the riding heel owl

9:46 am

Hi Mag. don't have.

9:46 am

So am I, hego. He's great fun.

cowgirl boots make all legs look good, it's amazing.

9:46 am

too busy chatting.

ren, fl has lots of great boot shops.

9:47 am

isn't the problem with boots having someone around to pullthem off?

9:47 am

bacon is on.world is once again safe ((ruby))

9:47 am

{{crossy}}

well that would be nice but no necessary. they are so comfy

9:48 am

I used to have a boot jack, but lost it somewhere along the line

9:48 am

an 5,12 anyone for Mag.

9:48 am

you just say "let me put my boot on your butt and make a wish'

9:48 am

crossy has a very bad case of flat feet.no cowboy boots for me:((

hahaha ow i must go gather up laundry

later all and happy babbling.

9:48 am

must go. bbl. hagd All.

9:49 am

too many years pounding the concrete with improper foot wear

9:49 am

tc, hego

9:49 am

i don't see an an 5/12

9:49 am

There isn't an an5/12 - ar5/12 maybe?

9:49 am

I'm lucky, all the years in very high heels didn't hurt my feet

9:49 am

ar5/12 a plus a mixed up land measurement

9:50 am

Or a plus a backwards maple.

ar5/12 is the palm plant

9:51 am

or a word like is and the abbreviation for a west cost state

9:51 am

dinner, see you later

9:51 am

tc ruby

9:52 am

*woof*

9:52 am

aroooo!

9:52 am

i have frozen oj i'm trying to break down w/ a straw

9:53 am

oj from my orange tr 4/4 s that be

9:54 am

a orange tree would be nice:))

9:55 am

Okay, time to go for a walk. Enjoy the rest of the day. Bye all!

9:56 am

later haz

9:56 am

Toodles (just discovered that the dog has been quietly shredding a tissue under the desk....)

9:57 am

Never leave a tissue or a pair of socks in his path.

9:57 am

I'm off!

9:57 am

tc haz

10:00 am

on a side not here of something calm to chat about.our local hospital is raising funds for some new incubator equipment and a local jeweller has donated an 9 thousand dollar rolex to the cause.1200 tickets will be sold at 20 dollars each.crossy has his ticket

10:01 am

hello again, does anyone anyone have a clue for the second re8 please?

10:02 am

i onluy have one an re 8/45

10:02 am

if i said traitor would that help flosey?

10:03 am

re+ All men are ***ated equal + picnic pest

10:03 am

thats the one i have

10:03 am

rerelant

10:03 am

oops, sorry

10:03 am

Hi again :)

10:03 am

howdy,smores:))

10:04 am

there is another that extends frfom the re6/21

10:04 am

the other one means to change your story, take back your statement

10:04 am

ty, smores

10:04 am

a pismire that might make something anew

10:07 am

got it, thanks very much

10:08 am

a few weeks ago, my thumb was slammed in a door at work....my thumb nail is now starting to come off and the new nail growing out.....other than duct tape (which i may need to use) is there any other medical tape to try? i've used self adhesive, adhesive tape, paper tape, every band-aid made, and some kind of coach tape.....anyone, anyone???

10:09 am

yvw flosey, crossy

10:09 am

eekk...sorry ren no clue

10:09 am

what are you trying to do? is it catching on everything?

10:09 am

sure is crossy....little jagged edges

10:10 am

if it is still very sore,go to pharmacy and ask for some adaptec guaze,it is medicated gauze that goes under a bandage and it does not stick

10:11 am

you can cut the adaptec to size

10:11 am

then a light dressing

10:11 am

i have the gauze - tape will not hold it - i currently have a 2" piece of tape flapping in the breeze

10:12 am

sounds very painful ren - good idea crossy, I've never heard of adaptec

10:12 am

how about a finger cot? it's made of either gauze or synthetic - looks like a thimble

10:12 am

then get a metal finger split to wear as needed

10:12 am

Un5 pls

10:13 am

that makes good sense - protects it from being banged around, too, a splint

10:13 am

a ha! i have finger cots - thanks!

10:13 am

finger cots!! i love it:))

10:13 am

<-- is always cutting, breaking, spraining, tearing something

10:14 am

that is good as well

10:14 am

and i will get a metal splint to wear when i am not at work - will work great on the space bar

10:14 am

my wife had to have her big toenail removed-twice so we went all through that

10:14 am

type....click....type.....click

10:14 am

hehe

10:15 am

and it is real handy when you are slapping someone upside the head

10:15 am

gotta go again....down to 50... tc all :)

10:15 am

my smores - i'll try the slap to nutty buddy's head

10:16 am

un + yellow bird: can***

10:17 am

thanks o-o, needed that one also

10:18 am

i know it is a math term o-o; however, it remins me of piso :)

10:18 am

2nd re 8/45 plz

10:19 am

re + what rises to the top: ***am + pismire or emmet

10:19 am

clued at 10:03

10:21 am

ty

10:23 am

later old and new fiends....er i mean friends, gonna go fight my frozen oj - hope to see ya'll tomorrow

10:23 am

Good to see you again, Ren

rennie, i will email you, i need help with a halloween costume.

10:27 am

Good morning, everyone -- Happy Thanksgiving to all the Canucks on board :)

10:28 am

howdy cybernan and the best to you and yours this thanksgiving

10:28 am

fo 7/40 please

10:30 am

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving crossy

10:30 am

ty,bichon

10:32 am

fo7 - one who fo5/20

10:33 am

ty Bea

10:34 am

stats for bottome row a, pls

10:35 am

af5/16

10:35 am

ty Bea

10:36 am

yw

10:39 am

I think there another 7, 7/40

10:40 am

ty

10:41 am

golf alert would + the hunchback ***g the bells

10:41 am

alert word

10:42 am

ty o-o

10:45 am

nbt, nbs

10:45 am

time for a break :)

10:46 am

thanks o-o

10:46 am

fw and breakfast time

10:49 am

mm,just finished brunch and crossy is stuffed:)

11:25 am

Good day, fellow Babblonians!

11:26 am

hello judi

11:28 am

hello all....can i get stats for the second column o and the second column e please (top one)?....

11:29 am

I don't have any o's yet, penquis. Working on it.

11:30 am

OO 5/10

11:30 am

EC 6/21

11:30 am

ty teach

11:43 am

Mom hasnt been here for a while. Her Dad was in the hospital, he had suffered a stroke and now he is in a rehab facility for physical therapy.

11:57 am

Annie, please pass on my good thoughts and prayers to Mom for her Dad and her family.

11:58 am

I will, Molly, thanks.

12:00 pm

stuck on 2 a's: ac 5/12 and ar 5/12

12:00 pm

Huzzah! Fireworks!

12:00 pm

grats, judi

12:00 pm

congrats, Judi

12:01 pm

ah - found the palm tree

12:01 pm

congrats!

12:01 pm

Ar5/12: ar4 + an extra vowel at the end.

12:02 pm

Ac5: Latin for free living mites.

12:02 pm

no idea on the mites, though

12:02 pm

A + vehicle + vowel.

12:03 pm

Off I go to office drudgery! See you kids tomorrow! *POOF*

12:03 pm

ty judi

12:12 pm

2nd re 8, please?

12:14 pm

RE 8/45 - re + first three letters of what rises to the top + picnic pest

12:16 pm

ty teach

12:16 pm

yvw

12:19 pm

ro 5/16, please?

12:20 pm

ro + high point letter + two vowels

12:20 pm

reyeant

12:20 pm

sorry

12:22 pm

ty pen - was looking at the wrong ro!

12:22 pm

yw...

12:25 pm

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

12:25 pm

congrats nan

12:25 pm

congrats

12:27 pm

any clues wanted before I go back to my book?

12:28 pm

teach.....i didn't get "what rises to the top" in your clue for the re word...

12:29 pm

to the top of the milk bottle before it was homogenized?

12:29 pm

pen- milk product like ice *****

12:29 pm

the richest part of the milk rises to the top of bottle in unhomogenized milk

12:29 pm

ty

12:29 pm

ty

12:30 pm

what book are u reading nan?

12:30 pm

good evening all

12:30 pm

Driven by Robert Herjavec of Dragon's Den and Shark Tank fame.

12:30 pm

hello sprite

12:31 pm

evening, sprite

12:31 pm

down to 24....heading out...bbl....thanks all....

12:31 pm

hiya teach and Annie :)

12:31 pm

hey sprite

12:31 pm

hi magmom!

12:32 pm

*It's a good read --- wish it had been written when I was a lot younger, but then RH hadn't been born yet!

12:34 pm

bye all - hagd :)

12:35 pm

hagd nan

12:46 pm

I am missing a 7, help pls. I have fo, ha, qu and wh

12:47 pm

hi peri

12:47 pm

FO 7 x 2

12:47 pm

hey spritey, how are you today?

12:48 pm

ty wv. will look

12:48 pm

beat... whole day of therapy just behind me. But otherwise good. You yourself?

12:48 pm

hope everyone has a good day :)

12:48 pm

I am doing well. how is the therapy going this week?

12:48 pm

hi Enigma

12:49 pm

hey sprite

12:49 pm

fart

12:49 pm

I have the fo7 that extends the fo5/20. I do not see the 2nd fo7

12:49 pm

hello enigma

12:49 pm

it was ok this week. I could manage. Got a lot of positive feedback too, on my food registration... so that was nice.

12:49 pm

oops...my bad...i typed into the wrong box

12:49 pm

hello wvteach

12:50 pm

that is good, sprite

12:50 pm

the other FO extends from FO 4/7

12:50 pm

I hope there is only one fo4/7 will look

12:51 pm

no there are many - don't have a list but for me it is the first 4/7 after the first fo 7

12:51 pm

ok

12:52 pm

FO 4/7 x 4

12:53 pm

ok

12:53 pm

still looking

12:54 pm

FO 7 - golfers warnig shout + move quickly

12:54 pm

tyty wv

12:55 pm

42 left bbl

12:55 pm

hagd peri

12:56 pm

bye peri

1:03 pm

23 left - need a break - BBL to try to finish

1:17 pm

bye teach

1:27 pm

ac 5/12 please

1:28 pm

sprite - still here?

1:29 pm

ac5: A + a ****bou is a a N-Am deer

1:29 pm

hi welki, yes, last 5 words

1:30 pm

sprite, both dorens and i have recently read a book by the Dutch author, Hermann Koch - it's called "The Dinner" - have you read it?

1:30 pm

tyvm. that was driving me nuts

1:30 pm

red boxes of doom all the time, hrrrrrr

1:31 pm

ah, yes I know it, welki

1:32 pm

yvw magzel

1:32 pm

teenaged boys, familial struggles, tough decisions - all captured within an evening's dinner

1:33 pm

worth the read, if you haven't read it already

1:33 pm

yes, very well written. Based on a true story, I believe

1:33 pm

then it's sadder than i'd imagined

1:34 pm

an 5/10 please

1:34 pm

very sad indeed.

1:34 pm

antro

1:34 pm

antor

1:34 pm

whoops

1:34 pm

you're very close on the first one, mag

1:35 pm

there are two of those, magzel. An + let's go by raiway ***in. And same with other last vowel.

1:35 pm

railway*

1:36 pm

just checked, welki, and yes, based on a true crime, the murder of a homeless lady, María del Rosario Endrinal Petit in Barcelona, in december 2005.

1:36 pm

got them, thanks

1:36 pm

yw

1:39 pm

just for kicks - horrible, just horrible

1:40 pm

scary, isn't it. Something deeply wrong in kids that do such a crime.

1:40 pm

that's fireflies for me and I have to go. Am tired and need to sleep. *hugs*

1:41 pm

bye, sprite

1:55 pm

batten down the hatches! crossy is back!

hi crossy, hi welki !

1:56 pm

howdy, diane;)

1:58 pm

before i enlarged your icon picture, diane, i though i was looking at a real interesting corset:))

ha ha.... with boning and all !!!

2:02 pm

lol

2:03 pm

what can i tell you? it is the testoserone:)

I never did see that 3rd video crossy.... I can still see the photos, so did you remove the videos on the smugmug site ?

2:04 pm

they are the last 3 slides diane.if you look in the bottom left of each slide you will see where it is designated with either a picture or video icon

2:04 pm

let me verify it is all still up

thanks... I forgot that step. I'll also let you know

2:05 pm

yup they are all there

2:06 pm

and the vid clip still is slightly longer in length than the till shot

2:06 pm

stills

good video and your panning is just fine.... didn't make me dizzy at all !! I loved the sound of the water.

2:23 pm

i am glad you enjoyed it diane.they will be up for 8 more days or so for those who want to look..or print of a still of me for their dart board lol

haha.... already "snuck" your picture for my rogue's gallery..... no darts, I promise!

2:24 pm

that is well:)

2:27 pm

caroon

2:27 pm

i will be using this as a site to sell my prints in the future once i bring the good camera out.as it so happens there is interest for picture #4 to end up in a brochure next year

That's great !

2:28 pm

we may play with it and see

2:43 pm

one note on pic 4 re: the dock bumpers.at one time there was a fleet of 25 of these vessels doing mail service to the north and i see in a few of the old pics that they used to tie them in "nests or 3 or 4 boats at night or to do mail transfers and those large bumpers came in handy then.poor segwun. her sisters are long gone. the second last one burned at the pier in the late 60,s. Now we must keep the old lady company

I've always thought that ships had a soul :-)

2:45 pm

the Winona of course was not part of the original group and was built in the 20,s

2:45 pm

winona2*

2:46 pm

ship??oh yes.very much so

2:47 pm

this vessel was sailing for 25 years before the RMS titanic even was launched from her cradle.she has a real prescence

2:49 pm

she got 2 new engines in 1907 and 1911 lol

I'm seeing it as Wenonah.... ??? which to me sounds like a native word.

2:50 pm

yes,that is her newer sister ship the wenona 2

2:50 pm

but more like a cousin than any of the true sisters she lost

2:51 pm

i do not have a pic of her at that time but the Segwun was a side paddle wheeler till 1925

2:51 pm

she was known as the Nippissing at that time

2:53 pm

if you go here: http://tinyurl.com/mfq4bk2 you can see a pic of her in 1893 with her side wheel still on

2:54 pm

note the bumpers used now as then

I was just browsing google images ... some interesting pictures.

2:57 pm

she has come a long way

found the 1893 picture... interesting that they advise that the image is public domain and the reasons why :-)

3:04 pm

the mrd and i sent ourselves keepsake postcards from onboard since she is still a registered mail shipwih the canadian government and carries her own cancellation stamp

a nice keepsake of the day!

3:05 pm

indeed;)

3:09 pm

can you imagine?beingon one of those islands in the 1880,s or 90,s you meet the lail ship,get your supplies for the month,drop 2 letters on board for your sister who lives in barrie(2 hours away) the ship spends the weekdoing it,s route,offloads at gravenhurst,the mail train comes in and off it goes by steam train to your sister.spends a day or 3 in the sorting house in barrie then it is on to the stage coach mail serives and then your sister gets it..about a month later lol

3:09 pm

service

not unlike some of our modern service LOL

3:10 pm

lol

3:10 pm

now,now.canada post is not THAT bad

you know I was kidding !!.... just a tad.

3:11 pm

lol

and I am finished ! It's time to drain the turkey stock as it's been simmering most of the day.... smelling wonderful.

3:12 pm

i have my roast beast in oven as we speak:)

Talk to you soon, bye for now crossy.

3:13 pm

tc, diane

I won't be using this today... I cool and skim but this turkey was not too rich, so not too much fat to worry about. See you !!

3:28 pm

is anyone still here?

3:30 pm

Hi, pen.

3:37 pm

hi...

3:37 pm

i am down to one...

Just got back pen. Go! Go!

3:42 pm

i am done!

Yay! WTG Pen

3:43 pm

ty, ty!

3:59 pm

Congrats penquis!!

4:01 pm

ty!

hello gmere

4:05 pm

Hi TO. Just dipping into the grid. Doing my weekly loads of washing and all that.

4:05 pm

me6/24?

i just finished taking wash down. beautiful da, but not a good wash day.

4:05 pm

nm

4:05 pm

Ask and ye shall find.

4:06 pm

w

4:06 pm

me was my last word, lol....

4:07 pm

We have a gorgeous day here in the Northwest. Skies are baby blue with aimless white puffy clouds, calm winds, and gentle ripples on the water.

ditto. no wind = not a good wash day

4:09 pm

I agree TO but I was using the electric dryer.

4:10 pm

been a dark grey day here - misty rain this morning

4:11 pm

We're supposed to have dry weather through next weekend. Practically never happens this time of year so we are very appreciative!

4:16 pm

beautiful here today...very mild, sunny....and fall colors blazing...

must go make dinner, have someone coming over in am hour. happy babbling.

4:29 pm

bye

4:32 pm

** finito ** last word TO 6/18 which means a bullfighter

4:32 pm

** finito ** last word TO 6/18 which means a bullfighter

4:33 pm

sorry for the hiccup

4:34 pm

ty wvteach! and Congrats!!

4:34 pm

hi everyone :) happy Monday... or early Tuesday on the other side of the world

4:34 pm

and look! i have a flag! yay!

4:35 pm

thanks to dr. god for responding to my email

4:36 pm

Rows, nice to see you chatting and Babbling, flags flying.

4:40 pm

you inspired me to get a flag... :oD

4:40 pm

always good to see new flags to see how Babble is spreading

4:42 pm

yaa for rows!!

4:43 pm

we do not see many honduran flags.it is nice to see;))

4:44 pm

the ca6/27 plz

4:45 pm

small yellow bird in a cage

4:45 pm

ty teach

4:45 pm

second rec8/45

4:45 pm

yvw

4:46 pm

re + first three letters of what rises to the top + picnic pest

4:47 pm

off to finish up dinner - have a good evening / afternoon all

4:48 pm

picnic pest?

4:48 pm

Just popped in for a brief moment to tell crossy to download "The Evening Star" movie on Netflix...it's a masterpiece and will make you laugh and cry...one of my favorites..and it was just added back.

4:50 pm

meant just re8/45

4:51 pm

Got it ty

4:57 pm

ty,mimi ,i will look it up

4:59 pm

wv teach I didn't understand your cl**

4:59 pm

Crossy, wasn't sure you'd see the post here, so I sent you an email as well. You and the Mrs. will love watching this together....TRUST ME. Also, did you know Braveheart is also on streaming and another excellent movie I love "For Love of the Game." You will both love each of these.

5:00 pm

re + make ***ate + worker insect

5:00 pm

re + first three letters of whipped stuff you put on dessert + last three letters of big tall guy who lives atop a beanstalk

5:02 pm

we will watch it when we have dinner in 30 min.ty, mimi

5:02 pm

ty Molly and Jac for the great clues. Got in and FIREWORKS

5:03 pm

My local town's claim to fame is that a large chunk of Braveheart was filmed here. Trim Castle featured largely! (And, no. I didn't meet Mel Gibson even though he was here for almost 2 months).

5:03 pm

Soodle, dear...so glad I stayed a bit longer....have missed you!

5:06 pm

Hi Mimi. Just checked Netflix ..... The Evening Star hasn't made it this side of the pond yet.

5:08 pm

How are you, Mimi?

5:09 pm

Hope it gets there soon. Also, For Love of the Game" is excellent with a great soundtrack. One of the songs "Come Around" when Kevin Costner is looking up at Kelly Preston's window IN THE RAIN is a song I used to sing onstage. The score is wonderful.

5:09 pm

I'm doing very well, Soodle, thank you. Finally past most of the crises and just very grateful to have made it through and able to enjoy life again.

5:10 pm

ca 6/24, pls

5:11 pm

ca6.24 the person who takes your m oney at the supermarket less the s

5:11 pm

Wow! Thats an achievement! I truly envy you. I seem to lurch from one crisis to the next! Good for you. :-)

5:11 pm

morning all

5:11 pm

ty lynn

5:12 pm

Hey Lynn. :-)

5:12 pm

Hello, lynxxx!! So good to see you!

5:12 pm

hi Mimi - enjoying the cooler weather yet?

5:12 pm

Soodle, I think I'm just so stubborn that my personality kicks in and just says "Hey, I'll be damned if I'll let life beat me!"

5:13 pm

Loo

5:13 pm

Yes, lynx...finally lovely here. Mid 80s during the day and cool in the mornings and evenings. This is when everyone wants to be here.

5:14 pm

That was supposed to be LOL. Loo is a better word for me right now!!

5:14 pm

Won't hear me complain about weather again until April or May.......relief for all.

5:14 pm

sorry guys, I got distracted!

5:15 pm

and yes, babble is happening in Honduras... at least with me! But I tend to live in different countries every year, so it's not necessarily spreading as much as it's just going with me where i go :)

5:15 pm

hey mimi :)

5:15 pm

Rows! I just wrote my son an email about you yesterday. He wants to be an English professor and I told him about your adventures.

5:15 pm

ooh cool

5:16 pm

Hello Rows. Nice to meet you. :-)

5:16 pm

does he want to teach English literature/reading/writing to native speakers, or English as a Second Language / Foreign Language?

5:16 pm

hi soodle :)

5:16 pm

nice to meet you too

5:17 pm

My mother (who was really my grandmother) encouraged me to go and do and be adventurous and I DID....I'll always be grateful to her for that. So, I'm trying to do the same for my children.

5:17 pm

awesome, yes

5:17 pm

it is worth every second

5:18 pm

Rows, I think his first love is literature but I think the opportunity to experience different cultures and see how much language influences life experience would be invaluable to him.

5:18 pm

Whoa! Mother really grandmother???? Explain

5:18 pm

yeah, and he could get a job teaching English lit at an international school, if he has certification in the States

5:19 pm

there are tons of international schools abroad that would like to hire him i'm sure

5:19 pm

i.e. my school when the school year is over... though my school pays next to nothing since i'm in Honduras

5:19 pm

Ready for this, Soodle? My bio mother left when I was 5 and my paternal grandmother and her 4th husband raised me. I didn't know I was actually biologically related to her until I was 22...and she was already gone. Just another part of my book...honestly, my life reads like fiction but it's all true.

5:20 pm

wait, so you thought you were just adopted by random people?

5:20 pm

Oh, yeah, I was raised with my biological father as my brother...

5:21 pm

what!

5:21 pm

that's ridiculous

5:21 pm

Yikes!

5:21 pm

why wouldn't they just tell you?

5:21 pm

Yes, I was told I was picked out at the hospital. Get this...the bio father sort of made a pass at me when I was 16....he was so icky.

5:22 pm

omg

5:22 pm

mimi! that is insane and terrible

5:22 pm

Aaaarrrggghhh

5:22 pm

i'm so glad you still turned out okay

5:22 pm

Don't know why they didn't tell me but kind of glad they didn't. I was raised to feel I was princess of the world and my parents gave me everything a child could ask for, both emotionally and economically. I have an angel on my shoulder.

5:22 pm

i cannot even imagine growing up with that and then finding out later that it had all been a lie...

5:23 pm

well that's good at least

5:23 pm

Met my bio mother and 5 half-brothers and sisters at age 22.......soooo glad I was removed. You cannot even imagine.

5:24 pm

wow

5:24 pm

The amazing thing to me is that my adoptive father was one of 9 kids and my grandmother was one of 6 and everyone in the family knew the story and no one every told me.

5:25 pm

yeah, i mean.. it's great they made you feel loved and all, but i would have a really hard time with having been lied to by everyone my entire life

5:25 pm

I was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, and it's weird that my bio mother and 3 of my siblings now live here in Arizona about 30 minutes away from me. My life is weird.

5:25 pm

yeah, obviously

5:25 pm

then again so is mine, just in different ways

5:26 pm

Rows, I never held it against them. I knew they were only trying to make sure I was loved and cared for and I was---in spades.

5:26 pm

okay, well that's good

5:26 pm

Up until the fairly recent past in this country, young girls who fell pregnant were sent away to live with relations. They would return after the birth & their own mothers, spectacularly unpregnant in the preceding months would suddenly have a new baby! Confusing for all.

5:26 pm

Imagine my adoptive father who was not in any way biologically related to me but doted on me completely and loved me beyond belief.

5:27 pm

Nice they kept you in the family Mimi. My father was given away (no adoption)and taken to Australia as a small child and didn't find out until he was in his sixties - yes all the adoptive family knew but didn't let on. I think it is not about lying so much as just not telling. Times change

5:28 pm

Well, Soodle, my bio mother was married to my bio father (brother) but he was a total jerk and she was just 19 when she had me so I understand to a degree. But when I gave birth to my first child I no longer understood how she could have left me...it was difficult and we were reunited by then.

5:28 pm

T

5:30 pm

Honestly, my life reads like an unbelievable soap opera in so many ways. That is why when I finally get "the book" written they'll need to film it as a miniseries instead of a movie because there's just SO MUCH to portray.

5:30 pm

I think adoption is much more up-front these days. (I hope).

5:30 pm

It's fun to tell people I am my own sister and my own aunt...confuses them.

5:31 pm

Who is going to play YOU, Mimi?

5:31 pm

haha

5:31 pm

I was just so fortunate to be rescued and raised by people who were totally devoted to me...what a luxury.

5:32 pm

yeah definitely

5:32 pm

you never thought it was weird that your mom was "old" or that your brother was so much older than you?

5:32 pm

LOL, Soodle. Have actually thought about that! (What an ego I have.) I don't really know.

5:33 pm

Search Youtube for 'I'm my own Grandpa' . Quirky little ditty!

5:33 pm

Yes, Rows, I knew I was adopted so that explained it. The really weird part (in so may other weird parts) is that my adoptive father (grandfather) was 19 years younger than my mother/grandmother...he was her 4th husband. Anyone need a breather?!

5:33 pm

oh geez

5:34 pm

so he was basically around the same age as your "brother"?

5:34 pm

He was only 6 years older than her son.

5:34 pm

Who was my bio father.

5:35 pm

Have a search on youtube for Ray Stevens singing 'I'm my own grandpa'. Quirky!

5:35 pm

She was an amazing woman...way ahead of her time. She drove a taxi cab, ran a boarding house, taught school, and bootlegged on the Ohio River.

5:36 pm

I carried on the tradition of being a bit strange and very independent and am proud of it!

5:37 pm

I wear her wedding ring and "sweetheart" ring every day of my life and never take them off. Told my daughter if she wants them, she'll have to take them off my cold dead hands!

5:37 pm

that's awesome :)

5:38 pm

Sorry for the double post.... But, Mimi, with a heritage like that..... You couldn't be anything but strange!! Viva your strangeness!

5:38 pm

And on the other side of the family is Naomi who had a baby 10 years after her husband died...swore it was the longest pregnancy in history. We still don't know who my great-grandfather was.

5:39 pm

Thank you, Soodle...yes...I am strange by both heritage and nature...viva la strange! But it helps me feel compassion and empathy for EVERYONE...and I'm grateful for that...could have gone another direction entirely.

5:40 pm

Get writing on that book!

5:41 pm

As you can imagine, it is a daunting task. My life alone without all the history has been extra ordinary in and of itself...I think I need a ghostwriter to help!

5:42 pm

I had considered writing it as fiction but I think it's much more interesting to own up to it as the truth. After all, at my age, what do I care? Just makes me more colorful!

5:43 pm

I must go to bed now. Another emotionally & physically exhausting day. I can't wait to read it Mimi. G'night all.

5:44 pm

Have a good night, Soodle. So good to talk with you. Hope you will be better and will keep you in my prayers. Big Hug.

5:44 pm

night Soodle - sleep tight

5:45 pm

I'm going as well. Sorry to monopolize the chog. I so much value each of you...hugs all around.

5:52 pm

oh sorry, i was taking a break to write up a facebook event invitation for my swing dancing lesson

5:52 pm

sorry i missed you, mimi!

5:52 pm

and soodle

5:53 pm

Found a couple more words as I was leaving. Bye, Rows...so good you're back with us.

5:54 pm

bye Mimi - I'm going too. Bye Rows

5:54 pm

((lynxxx))

5:58 pm

mimi,would love to read your biography

Could I get the stats for the two 8's please?

6:01 pm

both re 8/45...

thanks got one now looking for the other?

I have the 8 about the one who rides a horse could I get a clue for the other 8, please?

6:06 pm

Crossy, will tell you all about it when I visit next year. Hope you like the movie. Now I'm gone.

6:21 pm

okay, done making that fb event :)

6:21 pm

hoping more people show up this week

6:27 pm

Marc, since you asked i've been looking to no avail. Sorry

No problem I am still looking as well.

un5, please?

still looking for that one Marc

OK now we have two

6:39 pm

u + ---- a soul was around meaning none or noone

ty gramma

ty gramma

6:41 pm

yw

6:45 pm

and now it is time for crossy,s quote of the day!!

6:45 pm

“The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.” ― Laura Ingalls Wilder

6:46 pm

Wait crossy! too late

6:46 pm

good one ty

6:46 pm

too late??

6:47 pm

I wanted to say I finished! and to tell Marc it was re8

6:47 pm

traitor or coward

thanks I will go look for it and congrats

do you have the stats for the 5 letter word after re?

6:49 pm

See you all tomorrow. Hopefully I'll finish before crossy's quote of the day ;)

6:52 pm

here is a powerful quote and i throw it in as an extra:

6:52 pm

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content” ― Helen Keller

6:55 pm

she was an amazing woman, crossy. not sure I could have handled life the way she did

6:55 pm

re6/18 pls

6:56 pm

peri, make money again

6:56 pm

ty Nancy, I NEVER see that word. FW

6:56 pm

byeeee

7:00 pm

she was unique, peri

7:04 pm

...talk about the blind leading the blind...

7:05 pm

*checks calendar.. yes this is a un PC day

Still stuck on that one re8. Any help would be helpful, please?

7:08 pm

sounds like a picnic pest on vacation :D

7:08 pm

re + the way a horse moves - a steady run - not a gallop

7:08 pm

Hi all :)

Yes I have that one it is the other re8 that I am looking for.

7:09 pm

Hello to my fellow babblers!How is everybody doing today?

7:09 pm

hi liz

7:09 pm

hi minver

7:09 pm

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

7:09 pm

Sorry Marc - haven't read back.

7:10 pm

which one Marc.. I clued one

7:10 pm

think of RV"s and picnic pests

I have the one about riding on a horse it is the other one that is confounding me

7:11 pm

re + anagram of last 2 letters of your name + vowel + picnic pest

7:11 pm

what's an RV called

7:11 pm

it kind of spirals as a word

7:12 pm

i blundered upon it last night

got it thanks and sorry for being so thick

7:12 pm

no prob..weird word

7:12 pm

np

7:13 pm

Hi Min :)

7:14 pm

Fireworks - last word ya 5

7:14 pm

is that peanut butter pie Minver?

7:15 pm

nice going liz

7:15 pm

Congratulations on your fireworks display Lizlin!Way to go!

7:15 pm

ty

7:15 pm

Lemon meringue pie???

7:16 pm

Any clues before I go?

7:16 pm

I'll follow Lizlin's lead now and enter my last word for FWs.

7:16 pm

It's secret pie.

7:16 pm

I am finished! I have fireworks! me 6/24 was my final word

7:17 pm

And good morning to you Molly! Or good evening if you prefer!

7:17 pm

Congrats Min :)

7:17 pm

I couldn't eat secret pie :D

7:17 pm

I have to look out for nuts

7:18 pm

I'll be here off & on for rest of the nite if clues are needed.

7:18 pm

You could if it was your secret - But I'd also be wary of nuts!

7:18 pm

love the icon molly LOLOL

7:18 pm

Anyone who has seen "The Help" would not eat secret pie either.

7:19 pm

I'm def having a grid where I don't know what's being talked about. Last night it was country music!

7:19 pm

Min still won't give up what her icon is, so it must be secret pie.

7:20 pm

In that case I can make it whatever pie I like and I'll have lemon meringue!

7:20 pm

one never puts chocolate on Meringue pie

7:20 pm

Chocolate can go on anything

7:21 pm

Oh, I didn't know you guys were talking about my icon. It is Kahlua Cheesecake. Discovered it last weekend. So yummy

7:21 pm

not on lemons

7:21 pm

That also sounds good!

7:21 pm

mmmm chocolate asparagus

7:21 pm

Not on lemons but on lemon meringue pie - yummy.

7:21 pm

ugh

7:21 pm

Hi joso

7:22 pm

hi liz, ruru

7:22 pm

Also bye - time to get out into the sun. BBL :)

7:22 pm

bye liz

7:22 pm

Beach walk time.

7:22 pm

adios liz

7:23 pm

I have to run too.. to get more coffee for tomorrow. I'm out

7:23 pm

enjoy

7:23 pm

so long ruru

7:24 pm

Goodbye Lizlin! I will see you tomorrow in the chog maybe

7:24 pm

well, perhaps I should look into better deodorant, lol

7:24 pm

ac

7:24 pm

Goodbye rururocks! I will see you later in the chog maybe.

7:24 pm

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

7:25 pm

Hello pida 1! How are you doing? Welcome to the chat log.

7:25 pm

ac, a + motor vehicle + vwl

7:25 pm

hi min

7:32 pm

it's amazing how much of life we go through on automatic pilot. I decided to do my bit of exercise for the day with a bike ride. I go out and up to the bike and my conscious mind only kicks in when I can't find the spot to put the keys. unconscious mind has registered 'traveling' and reached into pocket, got keys, put in lock... put in lock... put i, get conscious mind, lol

7:32 pm

ha!

7:33 pm

sounds like your body really didn't want to exercise! ;)

7:34 pm

oh, that's always true, really have to make myself do it.

7:35 pm

Good evening Min. I didn't realize I had wrote in the erong box. Hi everyone.

7:36 pm

good looking dog leslie, and looking very patient about the headgear

7:36 pm

hi pida

7:38 pm

Hi joso, I was just lurking....Just started the grid

7:39 pm

haha i know that pic cracks me up. usually she would just shake it off but on that day she was being patient

hello all

7:46 pm

hi TO

does anyone bake monley bread?

7:53 pm

LA!!!!!

7:53 pm

hey alll...

7:54 pm

hey stiddy!

7:55 pm

*grin*

7:55 pm

almost to halfway. Was supposed to grade papers, but... not happening today.

7:56 pm

Hello stidmama!How are you doing today? Welcome to grid

7:57 pm

Hi 72 Temple Owl!How are you doing? Welcome to the grid

7:57 pm

Hello LeslieAnn!How are you doing today? Welcome to grid

7:57 pm

hello Min! welcome to the grid!

7:57 pm

it's almost 6 pm here and I am not going to stay awake much longer...

7:58 pm

wild weekend?

7:58 pm

not really, just couldn't sleep well last night and then an allergic reaction today that now the benadryl has worn off I am exhausted.

7:59 pm

you?

7:59 pm

i was actually very busy (unusual). Visited my sister to see her run the chicago marathon

7:59 pm

I hope she had a good time?

how is the house coming along, stid?

8:01 pm

yes! i assume you mean fun, but her course time was also decent - 4:12.

8:01 pm

:-) I have the FIRST pieces of wood on the house today! they bolted on the sill plates so they can start building walls... hoping tomorrow!

8:01 pm

thanks for asking, TO

8:02 pm

LOL that seems like a VERY good time for a marathon!

8:02 pm

leslie ann you live in springfield. so do I. Do you work with Vera H in dog rescue? Where are you in communications?

8:03 pm

hi roundbarn! i've just moved here recently, haven't updated my bio. i'm not fostering at the moment but am volunteering at the APL.

8:04 pm

well then you know a lot of my friends already.

8:05 pm

i was just there today cuddling some kittens

8:07 pm

wow. I really need to lie down. back later if I can. *poof*

8:07 pm

good night stiddy!

8:09 pm

what brought you to Spfld, L.A.?

8:10 pm

Bye stid...take care

8:11 pm

firts ca 6,24 please

8:12 pm

1st

8:15 pm

husband's job. i am still working for the company i worked for in the western chi suburbs

8:16 pm

pida, i only have one - the person who checks you out at the supermarket minus an "s"

8:16 pm

ty Leslie, that's it

8:42 pm

evening all!

8:53 pm

hi dan...

8:53 pm

lurking....finished this afternoon....

8:54 pm

evening pen & dan

8:55 pm

can anybody clue the 2nd column E?

8:56 pm

spooky

8:56 pm

nope, that comes from the top row

8:57 pm

there are four ey 4 letter words

8:57 pm

e + when you order separately it is ala....

8:58 pm

that was it Moll! thanks

9:01 pm

molly...i find it hard to look at your image....makes me feel like i have committed a faux pas....

9:04 pm

Don't look then Pen, hide from her!! : D

9:04 pm

lol....i will have to!

9:13 pm

hi everyone!

9:15 pm

hi

9:17 pm

how are you penquis?

9:19 pm

fine,thanks....in and out here....

9:20 pm

haven't played in a while

9:20 pm

The conundrums of usage ... a la is a preposition ... a lot, like "a little" is an adverb. The latter is said to be two words; the former apparently is one.

9:23 pm

Oh Pen, and you were the one worried about making a faux pas. At least you spelled it correctly. : D

9:23 pm

ty!....french canadian grandparents on both sides...ten years of french in school....parents spoke french and english at home....so no excuses!

9:27 pm

I'll let you in on a little secret. I'm not all that concerned about missing the space between a and la. : D

9:28 pm

on menus there is no space...

9:29 pm

i am not going to lose sleep over it... ;o)

9:30 pm

I was not being judgmental ... informative for those who might care.

9:30 pm

did you notice that i now have a flag?... :oD

9:31 pm

no problem, o-o....is your image from one of Dick's books?

9:32 pm

No that I am aware of.

9:32 pm

it's cool...

9:33 pm

And it matches up with the quote

9:33 pm

yes, interesting...

9:34 pm

i am too lazy to change my image....what i have now is going to stay... it's a pick of my plastic puppet, Kai....

9:44 pm

Solipsism

9:44 pm

um....ok

10:04 pm

FW's Nite all

10:04 pm

congrats....g'nite

10:08 pm

heading out also...g'nite...

10:12 pm

whoo pida

10:12 pm

hi all

10:14 pm

*taps the microphone*

10:19 pm

hi jmc

10:20 pm

*climbs into hot tub buck nekkid*

10:20 pm

oops. . . thought i was alone! haha

10:20 pm

hi joso

10:20 pm

nice view jmc

10:21 pm

well it was better a lot of ye**s ago! haha

10:22 pm

anyone know what the oo5 word means?

10:22 pm

maybe, but a lot of years ago I was offered a lot more to compare to.

10:23 pm

hehe

10:26 pm

oo5, pearl oyster, oo + no***ga; ex central american dictator

10:26 pm

ty i had found the word but enable had no definition

10:26 pm

nbt

10:27 pm

think it is related to ourie

10:27 pm

i try (and sometimes succeed) at learning a new word from the grid from time to time

10:27 pm

hi ru

10:27 pm

shabby

10:27 pm

hi jm

10:27 pm

*turns the bubbles up in the hot tub*

10:27 pm

but not shabby chic

10:28 pm

are those the jets are you just being frisky JM?

10:28 pm

my all time favorite word i have learned from the grid is zarf

10:28 pm

definitely jets

10:28 pm

LOL

10:28 pm

just checkin

10:29 pm

zarf has two definitions. . . one is the metal basket like thing that holds a glass cup especially on a ship. . .

10:29 pm

I like doit

10:29 pm

the other definition is an annoying male. . . .

10:30 pm

toit is good too :-)

10:31 pm

i had a secretary that kept a wooden round toit on her desk. ..

10:32 pm

did she have any tattoos?

10:32 pm

no . . .she had 10 children though. . . and it was like in all the books and movies and tv shows. . .

10:33 pm

she came to work for us after she got out of prison. . .

10:33 pm

oh.. I was hoping for toits for tats :D

10:33 pm

hehe

10:33 pm

ten children? jesus

10:34 pm

nope he had nothing to do with it. . .

10:34 pm

can't have spent too long in prison if she had 10 kids

10:34 pm

oh the 10 children were all long before the prison sentence. . .

10:34 pm

how can someone have that many kids.. it's ridiculous

10:35 pm

my hubby was her attorney for an embezzlement charge

10:35 pm

that's nothing, nowadays some have 10 with one birth

10:35 pm

oh .. I bet she embezzled

10:35 pm

well here youngest child was only about 10 years younger than me. . . it was a different time

10:36 pm

Well.. I occasionally see the octo "mom" on the TV and she's absolutely nutso

10:36 pm

technically she embezzled. . .but she actually was working at an relief agency and she just cut through red tape for people. . .

10:37 pm

she was basically a good woman. . . i was her first white friend ever. . .

10:38 pm

basically a good person can still land you in prison.. :D

10:39 pm

unfortunately true. . . i can think of a few cases wh*** i knew that had happened. . .

10:40 pm

well fun as this is i must wander off to bed. . . *grabs a towel*

10:41 pm

towel?

10:41 pm

well i don't want to have to blind yourself after seeing me in my sagging birthday suit. . .

10:42 pm

oh...

10:42 pm

btw happy thanksgiving joso. . . and all my canadian friends

10:42 pm

spoil sport

10:42 pm

nude babbling

10:42 pm

who knew

10:42 pm

tnx jmc ;)

10:42 pm

more like nude bubbling. . .

10:43 pm

bye all. . .see you soon. . .

10:43 pm

bye jm.. nice to say hi

10:50 pm

hey all -- andy help for the lone E in the middle row, or the A on the bottom row? feeling tired, but want to get NBT today (didn't manage it yesterday)

10:51 pm

ea4, make a wage

10:52 pm

af5/16, sooner than

10:52 pm

and hi stid! I'm still looking for that e myself

10:53 pm

ec6/21 is the 3rd row

10:54 pm

ah, thanks torgone! I almost had it but forgot the final vowel.

10:54 pm

ah, third row, not collum, sorry stid

10:55 pm

thats okay joso... *Thinking*

10:56 pm

ec6, e + 2 wheeled vehicle + ends as it beguins

10:56 pm

got the A, thanks. The EC is still mystifying...

10:57 pm

AHA! thanks again tor and joso! :-)

10:58 pm

hey sue! Today I TOTALLY rocked as a teacher... *modest teacher grin* I even got my most off-task class to focus so well they had an extra 20 minutes' at the end of our "required work" so I let them walk the track a couple times!

10:58 pm

awesome, stid!!! Yay!

11:00 pm

Let's see how it goes tomorrow... LOL

11:00 pm

and I am FINALLY NBT. this is a tougher grid than I expected.

11:01 pm

Too many Es and not enough Ss.

11:01 pm

I just got to nbt and nbs myself. Bedtime soon.

11:01 pm

also, sue... pics of the sill plate on my foundation -- went on today. Piles of lumber next to the house. I might get WALLS soon!!!!

11:02 pm

so glad to hear progress is being made, stid!

11:03 pm

anyway, off to write another problem or two before going to bed - see you all tomorrow!

11:04 pm

later sue -- have a wonderful week!

11:04 pm

it is way cool to walk through a framed house, first time you can imagine the house full scale

11:17 pm

hi all. any clues for the e words for the e that is in 5th column? there are two.

11:17 pm

also need clue for the o word for the o in top row. ty.

11:18 pm

et4 volcano

11:19 pm

oo5/10 babble regular

11:19 pm

ty got it. one more please.

11:19 pm

ty got the oo too.

11:20 pm

have ey4 x 3

11:20 pm

also have no a words for the a in second column.

11:21 pm

i have ey 4x2. hmmm.

11:21 pm

got the third ey 4. but not from that e in last column. still need second word for that e.

11:22 pm

ac5, rum brand with small bat on bottle, - first letter

11:23 pm

dont know it. too bad. sorry dont drink rum.

11:24 pm

got one: married to my uncle is my au**.

11:24 pm

so off to sleep. ty all.

11:24 pm

ac + sp**Ing, play boxing

11:25 pm

ac + sp***ng, play boxing

11:25 pm

2nd re 8/45? any hints

11:26 pm

re8 rhymes with mis9; someone who misbehaves or breaks the law

11:27 pm

tyvm

11:44 pm

Can't stay awake -- didn't do this one, won't do the next one. Better hopes in a couple of days. Enjoy, all!...*poof

11:44 pm

re 6/18?

11:48 pm

nm

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