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12:00 am

don't know about you, but I've had enough of these stinky little grids!

Clues are up

12:01 am

thank you lickety!

12:05 am

hi Sue! I hope you are both well.

12:05 am

whit

12:05 am

oops

12:05 am

hiya bugs!

12:05 am

hi bugs! I'm fine; Frank has his last chemo on Tuesday and is eager to be done with it.

12:06 am

hi saanich. I am not usually here on time

12:06 am

last one. I am so pleased for you both!

12:06 am

nice to see you; I'll send email

12:08 am

Iw ill check for it saanich. thanks

12:09 am

nbt

12:09 am

wh6

12:10 am

un7; it7

12:10 am

woohoo! Ru, did you see? Rafa's back! Just took out Youzhny in straight sets in under 2 hours!! :-)

12:10 am

no.. I missed that une

12:10 am

tx sue :-)

12:11 am

hello and thanks ru

12:11 am

hi saan

12:11 am

hi uu.. Temple owl was asking about you today

12:12 am

hi ruru! That was sweet of her :-)

12:12 am

un7

12:12 am

hi ruru et al

12:12 am

hi bugs

12:13 am

ag6

it 7

12:14 am

at 7

12:16 am

nbs, nbs, more than half way, must be bedtime - see you all tomorrow!

12:16 am

well done Sue

12:17 am

argo

nite sue, wtg, sleep well

12:17 am

*bugs is a ben Affleck fan*

12:18 am

oops again. I am not seeing clearly tonight. And NO that Argo movie was a farce

12:19 am

ty 6

12:20 am

not seeing that at 7 yet

12:21 am

put your mind at ease and be in peaceful state

12:21 am

at 7/56

12:24 am

un 7

12:24 am

60 down - enough for tonight - see you tomorrow

12:25 am

night nan

ya 6

12:28 am

FWs

very nice, Diz!!

12:29 am

un 6/39

12:29 am

ty

12:29 am

excellent three cheers diz!

12:29 am

need any help?

12:29 am

holy smoles diz! I must be off in shame....

down to 2, but think I need to try to find them on my own. Thanks for the offer!

12:30 am

congrats, diz

12:30 am

me too bugs...

12:31 am

Hi all :)

12:31 am

cooee and g'day from me

12:31 am

ao5 for my last a.. I found the at .. by dumb luck

12:31 am

{{hugs}} liz girl

12:32 am

hi everyone, late again

12:32 am

Hi and hugs Rose - hope all's well with you

12:32 am

hi flosey

12:32 am

Hi Flosey

12:32 am

good for you ru, three cheers for you too!

12:32 am

all's well liz. how are you both?

12:32 am

never saw that word before

12:32 am

Good - but so hot and humid here.

12:33 am

please pray that the rain holds off. don has started cleaning out the garage today. there is stuff all over the back deck.

12:34 am

Fingers crossed for you - we've got heavy rain forecast here.

12:34 am

<--praying for world peace first GR

12:34 am

how were the visitors? did you have lots of good times?

12:35 am

It was good - quiet and relaxing - what they wanted. Their flight home was cancelled on Saturday though, so they didn't leave til yesterday.

12:35 am

keep praying ruru, cos wwiii is about to erupt here if all his things aren't undercover before the rain.

12:36 am

bad in one way, but good in another...

12:36 am

it was no problem for us - they're good company.

12:38 am

i have the funniest story to tell. the other night a wood-beetle found it's way into our sitting ar4 and climbed up onto the little table where i have my laptop. i screamed, and pushed the table away from me. when i looked over at don, he was sitting, pedalling his feet in the air....saying what, what?

12:38 am

so much for protecting me....i still get the giggles when i remember it.

12:38 am

lol - must've been a sight!

2:24 am

Gooooooooood morning fellow Babblers xx

2:25 am

good grief!! it's a worzel. {{hugs}} son

2:26 am

Good morning Mum (((hugs))) how are you? xx

2:26 am

doing okay dear. how are you and dianne

2:27 am

We are both fine. She usually sleeps in until around 10am but we are off out for the day so I've gotten her up early - she isn't happy lmao!!!!

2:27 am

are you going to be here a while? dad's getting dinner ready.

2:27 am

on and off for about 45 minutes or so xx

2:27 am

where are you going?

2:28 am

We're going to a town called Southport about 15 miles from us. We haven't done much interesting lately and what with one thing and another felt we needed a little day out - retail therapy lol. I need a new DVD player and Di probably "needs" clothes lol

2:29 am

nice...i hope the weather is kind to you.

2:29 am

phantom twit - that'll be me lol

2:30 am

nice weather lol it's been below freezing here for about a month now but we'll wrap up warm. What's Dad cooking? xx

2:30 am

not sure.....i think curried snags and vegs....yup....he's nodding.

2:31 am

what are snags?

2:31 am

i see your point about the weather....but it's either that or go stir-crazy, right?

2:31 am

sausages

2:32 am

OMG I just had a flashback to the mid 80s then! When you said sausages I remember watching Neighbours in the mid 80s and they talked about snags and as soon as I saw sausages I remembered lol. Haven't watched Neighbours for about 25 years!!

2:33 am

would you prefer bangers then?....lol

2:34 am

haha - over here bangers is another word for a woman's cushions!!

2:34 am

if you know what i mean . . .

2:34 am

roflol

2:39 am

dinner ready. will be back in about 15 minutes. xoxox

2:39 am

ok xx enjoy

2:54 am

wipe your mouth and get back here, rose :)

2:54 am

good morning all!

2:54 am

and back

2:54 am

{{hugs}} sprite..

2:54 am

hehehe good gal! *hugs*

2:55 am

how was your night, dear?

2:55 am

pretty good, and yours? And how was your day? No time for email, I take it :)

2:57 am

just took it very quietly. still paying for last friday/saturday combo. i did sleep better though.

2:57 am

Back again! Howdy Sprite xx

2:57 am

hey worzel

2:58 am

ah, progress was made, rose :) Glad you slept better. That is where the healing starts. And yeah, it takes a couple of days to bounce back from overtaxing and overstressing like that. Alas.

2:58 am

how've you been, worzel?

2:58 am

Not too bad thanx and yourself?

2:59 am

spent a couple of weeks with flu, first my hubby's, then my own. Otherwise, all good here.

3:00 am

aww glad you're better

3:00 am

yeah me too, lol. Just tired. But that is normal after a bad flu.

3:02 am

sprite, sorry to interrupt. did you see my post at 12:38?

3:03 am

*giggles* No I had not, but have now. Your knight in shining armour, huh...

3:04 am

sprite, it was so funny. i don't know if you have wood-beetles over there. just think of a cockroach on steroids. this bug was a big as my thumb.

3:04 am

oh jeezzz for real... un7/52? Is that the same thing as blacken??

3:05 am

*giggle* wait until you find the at7....i nearly fainted.

3:07 am

we do have wood beetles. They are big, indeed, and they make so much noise too.

3:07 am

not as much as me screaming...lol

3:08 am

hehehehe. Am checking images now... wondering if it is the beetle we call 'flying deer' here. Or the normal 'houtkever'

3:11 am

ok, my biology knowledge is not enough to know for sure. But yeah, BIG beetles. Not really scary but if you don't see them coming, they make you jump :)

3:12 am

sorry, googling frantically....cannot find a pic of this particular beetle. don calls them wood beetles...

3:14 am

rose, this is the 'flying deer' : http://tinyurl.com/mq9m28d

3:17 am

flat footed wood runner...don just found it

3:18 am

i looked at your link...that is what we call a stag horn beetle

3:18 am

found at7... a state of freedom from emotional disturbance and anxiety; tranquillity... I knew that word.

3:18 am

ok checking

3:19 am

how could you know that would....seeing as we both spend a major part of our nights/days in an opposite state...lol

3:20 am

lol yes... something to wish for, grin

3:21 am

nope, totally different species, but about as big and noisy. I don't blame you for jumping a mile high. Nor Don for being scared of your reaction ;)

3:21 am

aha....they ARE a part of the cockroach family.....yuck, yuck, yuck

3:21 am

in New Zealand they call it the Gisborne cockroach.

3:23 am

okay....have definitely decided....no more bug pictures

3:24 am

hahahahaha especially not just before bed. You'll dream of a 2-hands long cockroach tickling you with its feelers...

3:26 am

omdg no... construction work going on in the house next to ours... we share a wall with them. Such noise.

3:26 am

DON'T!!!!! my brain just went into overdrive...

3:27 am

*giggles* sowwy. Couldn't resist.

3:27 am

poor sprite....is there somewhere you can go? like a library?

3:28 am

yeah but not for a whole day. Can't sit that long. Ugh. And it looks like they will work on more houses in our block too. They are getting new windows and ummm whaddayacallums... the things into which the windows fit.

3:29 am

window frames?

3:30 am

rrrrright! Window frames. There is a whole bunch of them sitting on our parking ar4. More than would fit in one house.

3:30 am

ah well. What cannot be helped, should be complained about, right?

3:31 am

lolol....ummmm....

3:31 am

I thing twyx should be a word. Just because.

3:32 am

like....betwyx them both they licked the platter clean....

3:33 am

lolllll nice one.

3:35 am

don's bro gave us a large boxful of low-sugar sweets for christmas. we are sampling some tonight. don is checking each packet to see how much we can eat....

3:35 am

oh rose, I didn't tell you yet... we found a very very cheap dish washer in the thriftshop where we got the microwave. We decided to take it home and give it a good place to live. Our kids are over the moon.

3:36 am

aw good man Don!

3:37 am

yay, sprite....what tremendous news. now the kids have something new to fight about...like whose turn it is to load the wretched thing, and whose turn it is to empty it...

3:38 am

how do i know this? i watched my god-daughters squabbling like anything over their dishwasher...

3:38 am

oh no, no fighting. We have a schedule here. They used to do the dishes by hand, on alternating days. And I did it on the Mondays.

3:39 am

now, they load it on alternating days, and I empty it daily.

3:40 am

wise woman.

3:42 am

I try to be, lol. Managing our household to the best of my abilities.

3:43 am

new word for the dictionary, if you like it: ewwy - rather yucky

3:44 am

i once suggested to my friend she should get the girls to hand-wash a few sinkful of dirty dishes and let them find out how lucky they were to have a dishwasher.

3:44 am

like it...put her in....

3:45 am

our dishwasher died about a year and a half ago. I think our kids know exactly how blessed they are :D

3:46 am

in it goes :D

3:46 am

i have to admit, i have NEVER had a dishwasher. but there is going to be room for one in the new kitchen

3:48 am

I have to say, I enjoy having one again. In stead of having dishes stacking up during the day, I have this nice looking empty sink and kitchen. Also, I very much enjoy how the kids love it.

3:50 am

as you do, sprite.

3:52 am

:D

3:54 am

how is your pain today?

3:54 am

lol the very first thing Tim said when we brought the thing home: "Yayyyyy and I am gonna be good with it... I will rinse everything becore putting it in... I will treasure it!"

3:55 am

bearable, darling. Breathing into it, trying not to tense up, will be ok.

3:55 am

i'm surprised he didn't get down and kiss it...lol

3:55 am

he almost did, lol.

3:58 am

like i said to a friend at church...there are two people who dirty dishes, dirty clothes, dirty the bathroom, dirty the floor....but only one who remembers to get off their arse and do something about it all.

3:59 am

and he has the gall to glibly tell all and sundry he looked after his kids for 10 years, his mother for 10 years, and now he is taking care of me. sometimes i could really hit him hard.

4:00 am

ain't that the truth! And it is 3 for 1 here. I mean, really! They drop their stuff and let it lie there, and when I complain about having to pick up after them they are all innocent and claim they never TOLD me I had to pick it up...

4:00 am

well in his way, he is taking care of you. But you have to mastermind the whole thing or nothing gets done.

4:01 am

do like i did to mine many years ago...i wrote them a note which said...everything i have picked up of yours is under your pillow.

4:01 am

and my love actually complains about having no free space on the table and hating the clutter. And when we make stacks of the stuff, guess who has the biggest stack by far?

4:02 am

oh I am worse. I put it in a garbage bag and tell them they have 1 week to empty it, or it goes out.

4:03 am

not only mastermind, sprite. i have to do a lot of the everyday chores myself. he simply does not see the need for cleaning up each day.

4:04 am

it is passive manipulation in all it's glory.

4:04 am

you should set him tasks, I think. Not ask him, but simply dividing the chores and telling him what you need him to do.

4:05 am

lol....i wish you could see his face when i do that....and then the guilt is loaded straight back on my shoulders as he claims he wants to get something else done, like mow the lawn.

4:07 am

hehehe simply tell him: "You will have to do that after this."

4:08 am

ahhhh and I see you use the word guilt! That means that in your heart you still feel like you should do all the chores, as the woman of the house!

4:10 am

are you two still here?

4:10 am

no, I am hiding behind my keyboard

4:11 am

Since my tegeraria gigantea (and I'm emphasizing GIGANTEA) appeared I my sink amidst the soaking pots, |I now clean the whole kitchen before going upstairs.

4:12 am

And a pre-wash all that goes into the dishwasher as scraping off dried-on crud does not appeal.....

4:12 am

omg that is bigger than my hand!

4:13 am

I am not afraid of spiders, but this one was trying to get me and I was afraid to do anything but spray it with the sink hose. The whole kitchen (and I) was wet but at least I got him down the drain.

4:14 am

ugh and they have a nasty bite too. Am not usually scared of spiders either, but this one, I would want out of my house stat.

4:14 am

I felt guilty (the Buddhist in me? lol), butgroundhimup I the ggrinding thingie

4:14 am

hey ya ruby...

4:15 am

(my hands are too cold to type properly)

4:15 am

You have sasll hands, sprite!

4:15 am

small*

4:16 am

don't really blame you. Especially if he was trying to bite you. I think I would have given him the same ultimatum I give flies: "Either you leave my house NOW or you'll become a very very flat fly. Or wasp. Or spider!"

4:16 am

aw poor ruby. Is the weather so nasty there too? It is so cold and wet here. Rain and mist and hail, and just around the freezing point.

4:17 am

As the Scottish would say, it's murring. Nasty and cold but very little snow so far this year

4:18 am

no snow here so far, thank God.

4:18 am

The spider (I think it was a female, was trying to climb out of the sink and there were still pots in it. I certainly learned my lesson

4:20 am

what happened with our rose? Squirrel?

4:20 am

ROSIE!!!!

4:20 am

nope, still here, watching with interest, and nothing to contribute.

4:21 am

yes you have. Come on, girl, you live in Australia! You have more scary poisonous animals than all of Europe together.

4:21 am

You probably have much worse spiders in Australia, but probably not in the house.

4:22 am

like the beetles, spiders do not increase my calm.

4:22 am

funnel spiders, etc

4:22 am

not in my house....lol

4:23 am

hm ok. Calm is good. Calm is nice before bed. Let's talk about little lambs. You know, with those insanely wiggling tails whenever they nurse. Like they have to keep the engine going that way.

4:23 am

col.....love it.

4:25 am

i have had huntsmen spiders run up my arm, run across the interior roof of my car, across the dashboard of my car, make venetian blinds in my baby's nursery rattle..nope don't like spiders at all.

4:26 am

looking up huntsmen spiders

4:26 am

I am googling them

4:27 am

Usually, the outdoor spiders are lovely, like the Argiope (named Caliope) to whom \I used to give flies

4:27 am

O.M.G. I am so not coming to Aussie ever.

4:27 am

don hates the golden orb spiders. their webs are quite strong and sticky.

4:28 am

not afraid of dutch spiders at all. But this size, and then hunting... actively running towards you? Noooo that is scary.

4:28 am

roflol, sprite.

4:28 am

The huntsmen is similar to "my" spider, but much bigger

4:30 am

It's the "running toward" that gets to me. I don't mind spiders when they are quiet and in their webs.

4:30 am

the one which crawled over the 'ceiling' of my car was while i was driving in peak hour traffic. i stopped the car and got out of it. and left the car right where it was...in the middle of a solid stream of traffic.

4:30 am

And we have beautiful tiny wh*** ones in the garden from time to time. Lovely little things

4:31 am

I would have done the same thing, Rose

4:32 am

So would I.

4:32 am

and where there is one, there is always another. they mate for life....like birds. if you kill one, you have to spray everywhere for the other.

4:33 am

I thought they ate their mates....

4:33 am

some spiders do, but not all

4:33 am

seems like a good idea to me

4:34 am

i remember just after MIL moved in, we had a terrible time with the spiders. when don rang one day, to see if we were both okay. i told him we are okay, but our 8 legged boarder was not to good. he drowned.....in a tinful of mortein..

4:34 am

what is mortein?

4:35 am

lol ruby! Quite the meal, honey

4:35 am

When we were kids, my sister usd to spray they with hair spray and then yell "Daddy"

4:35 am

an insect spray....one version is for only crawling things...like spiders

4:36 am

ah ok. Thanks rose.

4:36 am

hair-spray is good...but neither the MIL or i used it.

4:36 am

have to go now. It was lovely to "see" you two. XX

4:36 am

It only slows them down, doesn't kill them

4:36 am

bye ruby, have a lovely day

4:37 am

enjoy your day, ruby. xoxox

4:37 am

*woof*

4:37 am

meds time...sprite will you be here when i get back?

4:38 am

no sweetie, I don't think so. I have 3 left.

4:38 am

okay, darlng. i do so hope your day treats you well. xoxox

4:39 am

sleep well, dear friend. *hugs*

4:41 am

fireflies. May you all have a blessed day and a peaceful night.

5:13 am

Good morning.

5:39 am

good morning everyone

fW - easy grid today, I thought

6:24 am

Congrats Marty!

6:24 am

Congrats Marty!

I thought I had the top I with ixnay but no such luck

6:25 am

Matty, I.e. Doggone autocorrect

6:26 am

I like ixnay

6:28 am

Have that I, but not the one on the right

it7/28

6:29 am

Ty joseph

6:31 am

Brb, switching to pc for final 10

6:41 am

tadone! finito! a few tricky twists, but overall a fun grid.

6:42 am

and good morning, everyone!

6:42 am

wtg, lbd! down to 7 here

6:42 am

gm, aloy! here to clue if needed

6:44 am

ty, 6 .. will holler if I spin wheels

6:44 am

k

6:44 am

had to list to find at7, newbie for me

6:45 am

new for me too -- cool word :-)

6:46 am

hi Une (-:

6:46 am

howdy :-)

6:48 am

hi unea!

6:48 am

at7 is a new one for me too. Great word!

6:48 am

it's fun to find new words, however i never remember their definition

6:48 am

hey dawg :-)

6:51 am

I think I'll just stick with serenity. : D

6:51 am

at7 sounds like something you take Xanex for

6:53 am

last word is a newbie too, ya6.24.. fw hi Molly

6:56 am

congrats aloy!

6:59 am

whooo hoooo aloy!

7:27 am

good morning dear friends

7:28 am

hello trif

7:30 am

I love when babble is funky - like today we can enter both ways to spell the lighter shade of black....

7:30 am

I am SUCH a word nerd

7:35 am

:)

7:35 am

also ty, i hadn't seen either one of those yet

7:35 am

gross phantom:earwax

7:36 am

ewwww

7:38 am

Lighter Shade Of Black...is that a new Procol Harum album?

7:39 am

hey, at least it wasn't a fifty shades clue

7:43 am

good morning all. help with the R above the O pls

7:43 am

and the U too pls

7:43 am

hi peri

7:43 am

ra4/4 not common

7:43 am

peri,. the r above the o is a re5

7:43 am

the R is to apply ear substance again

7:44 am

Hello kids.

7:44 am

wait, which O? middle or left edge?

7:44 am

I dont have the u, or the i in the right column....

7:44 am

hi scrabs

7:44 am

ty pip and Trif

7:44 am

both R's are above O's

7:44 am

hello scrabbler!

7:44 am

oh, good point phae!

7:44 am

it7 for right i

7:44 am

hi Scrabbs

7:44 am

it7/28...right side i

7:45 am

MY sister from New Jeresy arrived Fri for our snowshoeing vacation here. MY body hurts all over.

7:45 am

thank phae, monkeying....

7:45 am

yawn

7:45 am

oh dear scrab! but I am sure it was fun....

7:45 am

Sorry, I am not bored with you.

7:46 am

ha! got it, thanks so much phaeton!

7:46 am

Oh, yes, we trekked 2 hrs on each of the last 2 days. Beautiful in the woods.

7:47 am

TY, phaeton

7:47 am

I love the quiet of a snowy wood

7:47 am

yw

7:48 am

Yes! I love listening to the silence, or trees squeaking, birds...

7:48 am

Whose woods these are I think I know. / His house is in the village though; / He will not see me stopping here / To watch his woods fill up with snow.

7:48 am

sigh....lovely, jwr....

7:48 am

Robert Frost

7:49 am

Yeah, I was getting the Robert Frost channeling

7:49 am

found one of the u words....un6

7:49 am

Beautiful, jwr. We got a fresh layer of white overnight.

7:49 am

one of the earliest poems memorized as a child. Do kids memorize poetry anymore

7:49 am

I don't think so, jwr.

7:50 am

Are you kidding? Kids don't even have to write in cursive anymore.

7:50 am

*sigh*

7:50 am

some schools do - at one of the grammar schools in my town, the second graders perform a poetry recital every ye4. the other grammar school does not though - mores the pity

7:50 am

i know I did, but I'm an old fart these days, according to the 30 year olds I work with

7:50 am

"When I was a kid....."

7:50 am

you fly that old fart flag, pipping! Im proud to be one!

7:51 am

i kinda like it

7:51 am

I am a proud curmudgeon!

7:51 am

*Imagines Trif and Pip yelling at kids to get off their lawns*

7:51 am

definitely a curmudgeon

7:51 am

there you go, scrabbler! I decided long ago being a good example was no fun at all. I am going full tilt for "cautionary tale?

7:51 am

tale"

7:51 am

now i just need a lawn...

7:52 am

Haha.

7:52 am

molly, I live waaaaaay back in the woods. If a kid showed up on my lawn I would be out there helping the poor thing, which would CLEARLY be lost

7:52 am

un 5 was well

7:53 am

as well. can't type today, sorry

7:53 am

last one: un 7

7:53 am

thanks for clarifying, Tri - that was a conundrum

7:54 am

un 5.16 un 6.39 un 7.52

7:55 am

In my office I must not be judgmental with adolescents or I would not form an alliance with them. I encourage them to set goals. It is hard to not say, "You do what?" or "You don't use any birth control ever?" "Seven lifetime sex partners and you're 16?"

7:55 am

Kids today.....

7:55 am

I don't envy you Scrabs

7:56 am

my mom used to come up against that ALL the time, scrabbler. "are you sexually active?" "no, we have only done it a few times...."

7:56 am

or "Not exactly" and then I have to ask for details and educate them.

7:57 am

I am not looking forward to when my granddaughters become teens

7:57 am

I think my favorite was the 16 yo town pump who had sex constantly. She didn't use protection - ever - because when she was four she fell down a flight of stairs, and her little old grandmother, from some old country somewhere, told her she could never have children because of it.

7:57 am

wrongo, grammy

7:57 am

the Harm reduction method seems to work best with adolescents, I found.

7:58 am

There was one teen that told me about all of the drugs she was using: weed, LSD, Ecstasy, opiates, but when I asked about alcohol she said, "No way, that stuff is nasty."

7:58 am

Harm reduction?

7:58 am

Now, there's a start!

7:59 am

but my favorite "mom tale from the office" of ALL TIME was the morbidly obese lady who came in complaining of sharp pains down her left leg. A quick exam discovered the cause - a plastic dinosaur wedged in the crack of her ass on the left side. Oh my gawd, we ROARED

7:59 am

It's used for modifying addictive behavior

7:59 am

I teach responsibility to avoid bad consequences.

7:59 am

That's kind of sad, actually Trif

7:59 am

Hahahahaha

8:00 am

apparently there were a bunch of them on her bed, she sat on the bed to put on panty hose, and poor t rex got trapped

8:00 am

it still cracks me up

8:00 am

They make panty hose for the morbidly obese?

8:01 am

LOL Trif, good pun

8:03 am

bichon - I made a tiny url for Harm Reduction - it's a combination social, medical, psychological process that works beautifully for the user but takes tons of training for the teacher/counselor: http://tinyurl.com/lfbmras

8:04 am

I have so much respect for the level of caring you show your patients, scrabbler. You obviously are the best kind of doctor

8:04 am

I try, jwr, I do try, but ignorance and denial lead to bad consequences.

8:05 am

but at least you do try - and I think that really sets you apart

8:05 am

Sounds impressive jwr

8:06 am

Trif, I love my patients and their parents even if I don't like some of them. But my heart aches for so many of them. I want to adopt hundreds of kids.

8:07 am

me too, but at school. only some of them though....some of them, i have to admit, I just want the earth to spin faster so they will go to high school

8:07 am

oh Scrabs, nothing towards you! It's a long term practice that would go into play AFTER you got past the ignorance and denial. A way of life - like ccompletely changing diet & exercise behavior permanently to fight obesity instead of quick fixes.

8:08 am

Trif, I feel that way with some kids....please get to the age where we can tell you to move on to an internist.

8:08 am

The heartache is always a part of it, so is the patience to deal with the recidivism.

8:09 am

amen

8:09 am

jwr, I live in a rural area and there is so much poverty and ignorance. We see "hillbilly" folks here. It is sad and alrming.

8:09 am

but some parents, omg.....

8:09 am

the stories I hear!

8:09 am

Yes! Oh, my!

8:10 am

Just watched Oranges and Sunshine - about the woman who uncovered the scandal of the 150,000 children deported from the UK up to 1970 - kids of poor parents or moms who were told they would be adopted in the US but were sent all over the world told their mothers had died and put into slave labor.

8:10 am

hi all

8:10 am

correction: adoped in the same country: UK, not US

8:11 am

that sounds heartbreaking

8:11 am

hi jmc

8:11 am

I try to explain it to my friends but they don't understand. We see truly simple people. IQ's probably 60-80, lack of education....

8:11 am

how was yesterday's nap?

8:11 am

Google Margaret Humphreys

8:12 am

Hi je

8:12 am

So sad, jwr

8:12 am

i know, scrabs, i can recall trying to explain to an orthodox woman in the ENT clinic that her son's hearing had nothing to do with his poor eyesight, and that if he didn't get tubes his infections would continue and possibly leave him deaf

8:12 am

Scrabs, m'dear - one step at a time works for you and me, too, remember?

8:13 am

but she was fixated on the eyesight and wouldn't hear of putting tubes in

8:14 am

the nap was lovely especially since i sent two emails before it and my legal research was done when i woke

8:14 am

It is so difficult to educate people that believe in myths and tales.

8:14 am

too bad, pippin. The health education in this country is so sex phobic that they've never even put in a good anatomy lesson.

8:14 am

best kind of work, jmc!

8:15 am

not only poor people scrabs. . . thus the renewal of measles. . .

8:15 am

Yes, so many people alow their emotions to overwhelm rational thinking and scientific evidence.

8:15 am

it's true, jwr and jmc, people believe some terrifying things and are so ignorant of what's actually going on in their bodies

8:16 am

I don't mean for teaching sex - just for letting kids know how their bodies work. The ignorance is appalling and lies (folk tales) rush in to filll the vacuum.

8:16 am

don't even get me started on the antivaxxers...

8:16 am

I see it everyday, pippin.

8:17 am

haha i remember when i was in high school in houston one of the other students said that the baby's big toe was in the mother's belly button. . .

8:18 am

at least telling girls to keep an aspirin between their knees had some practical purpose

8:18 am

Parents just say, "I don't believe in vaccines." What is there NOT to believe in? Look in old cemeteries and see how many babies and young kids died, in families, within days and weeks of one another.

8:18 am

good, pip. And "mad money" too

8:19 am

yup, mom taught me about mad money as well

8:19 am

Mad money?

8:19 am

*sigh* psuedo science has a lot to answer for. ..

8:19 am

one of my coworkers refuses to get the flu vaccine because she thinks it's a government conspiracy

8:20 am

this is someone studying to go into nursing who works in health care. i can't even

8:20 am

That was a coin for a phone call (back in the day!) or taxi fare in your shoe so you could walk away from a questionable situation.

8:20 am

I hear that too, pippin, although I do believe that the government does many covert things to harm Americans.

8:21 am

Ah, TY, jwr.

8:21 am

i don't disagree, but vaccines aren't one of them

8:21 am

i have perfect teeth at 63 because of the government conspiracy of fluoride in the water in houston

8:22 am

Good example, Je.

8:22 am

i sadly do not - three more fillings in the last 2 weeks. that's 6 this year alone

8:22 am

Pip, the person going into health care will not get very far -- there are mandatory vaccines for health care workers at every level. She's in for a surprise.

8:23 am

on the other hand, i lived on Camp Lejeune during my formative years and it's now reported that it's one of the worst public contaminations in the country, and went on for a good 30 years

8:24 am

OKAY, EVERYBODY UP AND SNILING

8:24 am

smiling?

8:24 am

sniling?

8:24 am

We're Babblers! We can take it!

8:25 am

*sniles*

8:25 am

you can snile all you like at me, i can take it indeed

8:25 am

I guess "sniling" is halfway from a snarl to a smile, huh?

8:25 am

*smirk*

8:25 am

snurk

8:26 am

who has a clue?

8:26 am

<==never has a clue

8:26 am

was gonna make the same joke, jmc

8:26 am

gr5 = president Ulysses

8:27 am

hehe great minds think alike

8:27 am

8 left and utterly stumped

8:27 am

she definitely doesn't have a clue if she's calling me a great mind...

8:27 am

ni4/11

8:27 am

ah, ty for the ni, Scrabs.

8:28 am

I forgot about those tricky little creatures.

8:28 am

I need a lot of clues here, the top i, second column a, lower one

8:28 am

my niece and i have decided to write a gr*** proposal to stay here and write

8:29 am

top I is in 5/10

8:29 am

Top I in5, runs down the side

8:29 am

ag5-phobia

8:29 am

lower A is greek market

8:29 am

and plural

8:29 am

ag6?

8:29 am

Lowers head in shame, ty Bea, pip, Scrabs

8:29 am

to stay there and write ... gr*** proposals to stay and write gr.... uh...

8:30 am

Plural, phaeton

8:30 am

ty

8:30 am

no shame, babble blindness happens to the best of us

8:33 am

quitting at 50. All of you givers out there: save some for yourselves. G'day, g'bye.

8:33 am

enjoy your day, jwr

8:34 am

going to sleep (work nights) but appreciate the thought just the same ... *poof*

8:34 am

Bye, jwr

8:34 am

15 left for me tonight if I return.

8:34 am

bye jwr have a good rest

8:35 am

bye scrabs. . .always good to see you

8:35 am

hagd scrabs

8:35 am

Be well, kids.

8:36 am

i have to go too. . . great niece duty calls

8:36 am

enjoy the beach

8:37 am

i've heard the definition for the at7 but it hasn't helped me. any other clues?

8:43 am

a + road goo + a gal*** far, far away.

8:43 am

great clue, bea!

8:43 am

ty bea, would not have gotten there

8:44 am

yw

8:44 am

last one is un7...

8:45 am

got it, fw!

8:45 am

yay pip!!

8:46 am

sigh. i was really hoping my migraine would be gone by the time i finished. time to throw more drugs at it i guess

8:47 am

i do wish the grid would at least some of the time show fireflies instead of fireworks, that would be lovely and charming

9:02 am

ya6 pls

9:03 am

don't have it peri

9:03 am

ok

9:04 am

rhymes with ma6 word that's a chant

9:04 am

merci Une

9:05 am

yw :-)

9:06 am

ty Une

9:06 am

:-)

9:06 am

FW!

9:07 am

wtg Une

9:07 am

Woot Woot Une

9:08 am

hint for un 6/7, pls

9:09 am

don't have them

9:10 am

UN 7 - not dark colored

9:10 am

ty wv, dumb word

9:10 am

FW!

9:11 am

ty teach

9:11 am

congrats peri

9:11 am

Woot peri

9:12 am

un 6?

9:12 am

not cautious = UN + WA 4

9:13 am

ty again teach

9:13 am

stats for the last U please

9:14 am

un + the lighest color

9:15 am

i haVE un 6 AND un 7 - what is the third U?

9:16 am

take one letter out of the un 6

9:16 am

Need a breat

9:18 am

thnx

9:50 am

hi all. i have the un 7. what are other two? ty.

9:50 am

other two 7 letter words plz.

9:52 am

at7 a + road goo + a gal*** far, far away.

9:52 am

copied from earlier clue

10:11 am

other 7 is un7 un+not black

10:12 am

other 7 is it - roman road + picnic pest

10:16 am

or pronoun + emergency room + picnic pest

11:29 am

uncracker

11:29 am

damn it

11:29 am

what?

11:30 am

that's what black people call white southerners

11:30 am

it's a joke

11:30 am

*looks for lead balloon shute*

11:33 am

looking for last word - it is an A 4 - off of the center A - have AE 4/4, AW 4/10, and AW 4/10 - what am i missing

11:34 am

*Injects the chat box with laughing gas*

11:34 am

probably another ae 4 teach

11:36 am

Probably

11:37 am

probably was AE 4/6 - ** finito **

12:46 pm

good morning/afternoon

12:49 pm

some great clues in the chat - ty

12:55 pm

*!* ta da *!*

12:56 pm

*slipping away - still under cloak of invisibility

1:00 pm

hello

1:01 pm

Hi Annie

1:02 pm

hi hego

1:02 pm

we had a snowstorm that lasted 2 minutes

1:02 pm

today?

1:02 pm

about 12 oclock

1:03 pm

It's 44 here.

1:03 pm

high 30's here

1:08 pm

Babble says I have one word left, a "y", but Lickety says I have wh 4/11 and yo/8. Anyone know

1:08 pm

Hi Annie, hego

1:09 pm

Hi bichon

1:09 pm

Hi Bichon, have not heard.

1:09 pm

I thin white southerner would call a black one an uncracker, ruru

1:09 pm

hi ruby

1:09 pm

hi ruby

1:10 pm

Hi Ruby

1:10 pm

hello, bichon, how is the retirement going?

1:10 pm

Hello Hego

1:10 pm

Is that an extra word?

1:10 pm

Lunch is just not the same. Have to share the table

1:10 pm

Hello little Annie

1:11 pm

Hahaha, not so little, not THAT big, not so little

1:11 pm

yay, finally got half!

1:11 pm

The wh must be an extra work. But that's it for me

1:12 pm

congrats, bichon!

1:12 pm

WTG Bichon!

1:15 pm

I need a clue for un 5/16, please

1:16 pm

leave a letter out of the 6

1:17 pm

thanks, hego...fireworks.

1:18 pm

yay! Annie!

1:18 pm

thanks, be back later

1:19 pm

bye

3:06 pm

Hi all

3:17 pm

Hi mkg. Quiet chog and small grid but challenging!

3:38 pm

Fireworks on this spring-like day in the great Northwest.

4:09 pm

hi all

4:12 pm

anyone have another te 5/14 I have the first

4:12 pm

not yet but i will look for you

4:13 pm

never mind found it!!!

4:13 pm

is the first one weepy?

4:13 pm

wtg speed!

4:13 pm

yes it is

4:15 pm

okay then i will have to find the second! haha

4:15 pm

okay then i will have to find the second! haha

4:16 pm

*hic*

4:20 pm

at7?

4:21 pm

... from this morning the clue was .... a + road material + from a galxxx far far away

4:23 pm

ok, ty

4:28 pm

hi dose and kje

4:28 pm

... and done ... 20% of the praise be to lickety ... may I offer a clue for anyone ... ... and hello jmc

4:29 pm

whoo hoo dose

4:29 pm

don't get the end of that clue though

4:30 pm

... star wars opening ... ... or a chocolate bar is named after one

4:30 pm

a + road material + from a gal*** far far away might be a little closer

4:32 pm

... true ... I tend to use x rather than * ... here I wonder if * might send me to the pb? ....

Is there a ya6, if so could I get a clue for it?

4:41 pm

... y + picnic bug + the end of an old singer named Frank's last name

thanks

4:48 pm

firewords - tx all cluers. at5 was my last - drop a middle syllable from that at7

4:50 pm

... or what you hail when you want to go from Central Park to Times Square? ... .... gotta go ... barkeep! a good evening for everyone ... ... later days

78? so small and sad. diving in anyway . . .

and of course my silly phantom is unitarian

5:08 pm

hi all

hi harry

5:10 pm

hello gwen

5:15 pm

woohoo got a 7 and a lone i

(!)

just got nbt myself

5:18 pm

I'm quite a ways from nbt

What are the stats for the lone 'r' and the lone 'o' in column 3, please?

5:20 pm

re5/28

5:20 pm

still missing o

5:21 pm

oy 4/6...

will clue if you wants

Are you sure re5/28?

5:21 pm

ty for the o

5:22 pm

2 more tiles for nbt

5:22 pm

yes, marc.....re 5/ 28....worked for me...

Got it them both thanks

5:23 pm

just missing the top t - could I have a clue?

5:24 pm

tw 4...

5:24 pm

it's a babblet...

5:24 pm

ty. nbt

5:24 pm

yw....can someone give me STATS for the i in the fifth column?

5:25 pm

it7/28

5:25 pm

ty...

5:25 pm

got it...

5:27 pm

YA6?

5:28 pm

one I in the 5th

5:29 pm

sorry, don't have it yet...

5:30 pm

28 to go. this is my first game in many months - gonna ruin my perfect stats

stuck on the at7, help!

ya6 = ya + when you meditate you repeat your ma****

5:31 pm

a + gooey black stuff on street + gal ***

5:31 pm

ty for the y gwen. don't have but one 7

ty smoove, hunting

You do meditation Book Doctor?

5:32 pm

Thank you for the YA….

found the at7, new word on me! and that's fireworks. gotta run, bye

5:32 pm

gal*** as in starwars

no, i don't mediate, learned the word from a movie!

okay, now i'm running *poof*

ix-nay.

5:34 pm

what's the other 7? I have it and at

un7

5:35 pm

ty marc. will look

at7, it7 and un7 need a clue?

5:36 pm

got it ty

5:36 pm

do you think that's a verb or adj?

5:36 pm

at 7 was clued but i did not understand the last part...

5:36 pm

adjective.

don't know

5:37 pm

the last part was gal*** as in andromeda

5:37 pm

yup....that's the part i did not get...

5:38 pm

milky way is a gal***

5:38 pm

oh....duh...ty...

5:47 pm

I thought Milky Way was a candy bar : P

5:47 pm

un5?

5:47 pm

hi molly!

5:48 pm

Take the w out of the un6

5:48 pm

ty :) done!

5:48 pm

congrats!

5:49 pm

This place is getting like the 20 Minute Workout

5:50 pm

how is life here lately?

5:53 pm

hi all

5:53 pm

it was a cleaning day

5 left have to go and will come back later. have two 5

have two 5's left that are driving me crazy.

6:02 pm

Which ones? Maybe I have them.

6:13 pm

I'm missing the first aw and the last te 5. I could use a clue, please, as I am now babble blind!

6:14 pm

te + a computer chair that scientifically fits well to your body is ***onomic + vowel...

6:15 pm

don't have the first aw yet..

6:15 pm

Thanks, penquis. I was going around in circles. On the first aw left.

6:17 pm

aw + New York

6:17 pm

I found it!

6:17 pm

just found it, lol...

6:17 pm

Thanks, Scrabbler!

6:17 pm

i am done... :oD

6:18 pm

Fireworks for all!

6:18 pm

Good work, kids.

6:18 pm

Ty!

7:32 pm

gr6…clue please

nasty little beast.

7:40 pm

I have one left…AT5…clue please

7:57 pm

A+cab with a different last letter

8:03 pm

graxar

8:15 pm

graxar?

8:19 pm

,--trying to use graxar in a sentence

can anyone share the re5please?

8:21 pm

re + do the floors again

8:22 pm

or re + candle material

ty

8:22 pm

yw

Any hints for the un7? I have the 5 and the 6 but can't monkey the 7.

9:26 pm

naches, un + not black

Thanks granny!

9:29 pm

np's

10:41 pm

uncracker

10:41 pm

damn it

11:05 pm

ra 4/6 any hints?

11:06 pm

nm

11:07 pm

thank goodness....was completely stuck on how to clue it...lol

11:07 pm

:)

11:58 pm

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