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12:01 am

FYI It's midnight. Central time. I just got fireworks for Monday. :)

12:01 am

Goodnight all!

12:01 am

good night!

12:01 am

Perfect, Sophie - sleep well

12:02 am

night mich I will

12:03 am

ca7

12:04 am

sc8

12:04 am

Ca8

12:04 am

sc 7, too

12:05 am

different sc words, cuz mine is a 6/8 combo, fwiw

12:05 am

good to know!

12:06 am

re8

12:11 am

nbt/nbs

12:12 am

What's the 9 please ?

12:13 am

stats I mean

12:13 am

oops sorry, my mistake, over excited LOL

12:15 am

it's ok, I'm still working on 8"s

12:15 am

cr7

12:15 am

tr7

Clues are up

12:20 am

thanks, lickety

12:21 am

thank you, Lickety!

12:21 am

to 8 and 9

12:21 am

nbt, nbs

12:25 am

hello everyone

12:25 am

Hi Nan

12:25 am

Hi Nan

12:47 am

goal for the first run met -- goodnight all :)

12:47 am

g'night nan

12:54 am

fe7

1:57 am

lo7

Another big fun grid!

5:37 am

amazing 106 so far and not a single 7 letter word!

5:56 am

I am not good at finding big words. I stop at 4 letters.

6:02 am

hello all

6:05 am

Hi aslindy

6:05 am

hi scrabs

6:12 am

Yikes, I need to get ready for work. All of a sudden it's 0711.

6:12 am

have a great day

7:03 am

why not rootbeer?

7:06 am

tra

7:17 am

Morning all......85 to go......

7:19 am

phantom: siren

7:20 am

and scatter

7:29 am

nice seasonal ca words

wow, just barely got half on the first tile. is that a bad sign?

7:48 am

Good morning, friends.

bea!

7:49 am

I struggled with that one and the o on the 2nd row

I'm struggling with all of them. need to finish my coffee I guess.

7:50 am

Did you get any snow, Carla?

we had some but nothing stuck. it was still 36 while it was snowing and it was almost 70 the day before. 27 this morning. brrr. did you get any?

we had a lot of heavy rain and wind before it turned to snow.

7:53 am

We had 3-4 inches. Tons of rain and wind. Still have snow on grassy areas.

wow

7:55 am

We are farther north than you.

yep

I just read I-95 in VA was shut down due to a 6 tractor trailer wreck. not sure if it's open now or not, they said drivers were stuck over 15 hours.

7:58 am

I saw that story come across my newsfeed.

8:03 am

24 hours. I just heard a lady who was stuck in it being interviewed and she was in a much more pleasant mood than I would be.

8:03 am

Where was she, Molly?

oh geez

8:04 am

Did you get much snow?

8:04 am

Imagine having to pee outside in 19 degree weather.

nope

8:04 am

We got a couple inches, enough to mess everything up and then freeze overnight.

8:05 am

She was around Lorton.

reminds me of my mom talking about not wanting to go out to the outhouse in cold weather

8:07 am

If people are foolish enough to venture out in weather like that they should keep an emergency box in their car. Water, food, blanket, etc.

ok, yes. the first O is a struggle too. only found 3.

8:11 am

'morning, babblers

8:11 am

Hello, welki.

hey welki

8:14 am

I found an 8 in that O

ugh, there are 6 8s?

is it OR bea?

8:15 am

How do you have words like that just floating around in your head, Bea?

I'm sure hurshy thinks it's a normal word 🤣

8:15 am

Yes, it is OR.

8:15 am

They just jump out at me, sometimes.

8:16 am

Hurshy's version of normal is way different than the rest of us.

well, I found an OR6 i'd missed.

8:16 am

extend it

8:17 am

thanks Bea!

8:18 am

yw

still not jumping out at me. have tried adding every 2 letters around it.

8:18 am

Nope, not every

8:19 am

still have to find the O to begin with lol

maybe I have a different O6

8:20 am

There is only one

finally. I definitely tried that

thanks, bea

8:21 am

yw

8:21 am

we'll all sing a song of praise carla!

8:21 am

Well if you definitely tried it you would definitely have had it : P

haha

8:24 am

I have a funny story. I got airpods for Christmas. Last night while fixing dinner, my right one feel out into the dishwater. I said "SH*T!" Siri said, "I figured as much." WTH!

so weird. I haha'd saan's post and just looked minutes later and saw molly's stuck in there.

that is funny, bea

8:25 am

laughing here bea!

8:25 am

by the way my post was a clue too

8:25 am

She knows me well.

8:33 am

Siri has a much better wit than Alexa, who we have changed to Ziggy

8:38 am

finally got the O -- you know, sira/alexa is kind of like that O in a way

8:39 am

the 0 6 that is

8:41 am

I've got to set up for a zoom meeting. Back later.

well, I have reached HOET but just barely. 84 left. moving on with my day for now. bye bea, bye everyone.

9:07 am

hi all!

9:08 am

hello there jmc!

9:09 am

taking a quick scan of the chat for clues! haha

9:10 am

you fall off the wagon and it's hard getting back on

9:14 am

have you been away?

9:15 am

haha I haven't been around much for years now. . . changes in the rhythm of my day . . . just would pop in once in a while.

9:17 am

welcome back! I do remember you from the before days.

9:18 am

I am shocked that lede is not recognized. It is a common journalist word and is "Don't bury the lede!"

9:18 am

same here

9:19 am

It would be but lede is not in the grid.

9:19 am

it is odd but every time I have dropped in over the years it is such a familiar place even though some of those I knew have died or left in other ways. But many of the same people show up after decades! Nice that

9:20 am

haha good point zooz but when I typed it the grid said it wasn't found in the dictionary

9:20 am

Ah! That is enable for you!

9:21 am

rather an inappropriate name -- 'enable'

9:24 am

yep ignorant and erudite simultaneously

9:24 am

hi, hi, hi!

9:24 am

hi welki!

9:26 am

Hello, Welki! I like the Winter poem you have as yuor icon haha!

9:27 am

your*

9:28 am

zooz, it's so frikkin' cold here!! going on three weeks of frigid temps - high of -25C today (and worse for the rest of the week)

9:28 am

me, too. it was an uncharacteristic (for this year) 25 degrees here. Cold enough for me.

9:29 am

Yikes! I would not survive that. I am moaning that it is 6.4°C here at the moment!

9:29 am

I could not live in Canada.

9:29 am

you can thank the Gulf Stream for that zooz

9:30 am

Yes very true, jmc! Hope it never switches back again.

9:30 am

haha so far so good!

9:31 am

there are parts of canada where both of you would be comfortable, temperate parts of British Columbia, for instance. This weather, however, is just plain horrible.

9:31 am

I was just about to write I would ro** up into a ball but caught myself in time.

9:32 am

worse these last couple of years because, even if you couldn't get outside to walk (without freezing your nose hairs), you used to be able to walk around inside in malls or stores

9:32 am

I have a hot water bottle at this moment in time. Also a furry cover to go over me too.

9:32 am

it's pretty miserable in BC this year.

9:32 am

and I really like your Winter Poem welki!

9:32 am

never gets warm enough for me. . .

9:32 am

Welki has a way with words. . .

9:32 am

thanks :)

9:33 am

jm, it's not my poem - credit to whomever the author is

9:33 am

well I am finished, nice to see everyone, stay healthy

9:33 am

later, saanich

9:34 am

bye saan

9:34 am

how's the boy, jm?

9:34 am

haha he spent 2020 in Ireland in grad school. . . not his dream study abroad.

9:34 am

Enjoy the rest of your day & evening, Saanichcat.

9:35 am

I just finished reading his master's thesis in financial anthropology.

9:35 am

I am quietly proud as Pogo used to say.

9:36 am

i'll bet you are!! and i'm sure he'd have something to say about economic behaviour in relation to COVID

9:36 am

Sounds like a smart person you raised, Jmc! Congrats to you and your son!

9:37 am

(you did good, mama)

9:37 am

actually his thesis was how rap musicians adapted to the pandemic

9:37 am

I claim some credit but mostly it goes to him

9:38 am

He is a pretty good writer, if I do say so myself. :D

9:39 am

furry cover zooz?

9:40 am

Yes like a throw, dorens.

9:40 am

hi dorens

9:40 am

good to 'see' you, zooz and jm - and dorens - but time for me to get this day going. bye for now

9:40 am

oorie

9:40 am

damn i am so sorry babblers

9:40 am

bye Welkie

9:40 am

ty zooz, I would have never gotten that

9:41 am

Try and stay warm, Welki ❤️

9:41 am

where's Molls to remind everyone when I put a couple of hundred grid words in the chat? :)

9:42 am

Wow how did you do that? Transferring words from lickety?

9:43 am

It was legendary

9:43 am

yep that is how zooz

9:43 am

hiya ru!

9:43 am

hi jm.. very nice to see you

9:44 am

it's my New Year resolution. To reach out to friends and I couldn't think of a better place than Babbleland.

9:44 am

Hello, Ruru. Sorry my time is up for now. Will try and do some more later. Nice to see you, Jmc! Take care babblers!

9:45 am

bye zooz, stay safe and warm

9:47 am

I just realized that one of the reasons I am better at texting than a lot of my age peers is all the hours on the chog.

9:50 am

Hey there jmc. Nice to see you.

9:50 am

hi origami good to see you too

10:01 am

the only thing I can remember from Dr. Suess's "Oh The Thinks You can Think" is Befts go le**"

10:33 am

I seem to be having a bit of trouble with this grid

10:34 am

although i just found the 9

10:40 am

i think bedrate should be a word.. just to keep track of the Kardashians

10:43 am

Who wants to? I wish they would all disappear!

10:44 am

Wouldn't that be bedrot?

10:45 am

you got me three meatb.. i don't understand the fascination with them either

10:45 am

Bedrate is slang for how much for a hotel room. Right?

10:45 am

They make me sick. What they spend on makeup alone could feed a small country.

10:46 am

I just found airtoot. I think I'll try to get my grands to use this word instead of FART which seems to be their favorite right now.

10:46 am

Some of the most vapid, self important, greedy amoral women I can think of

10:47 am

Sophie512 Farts and anything related to them never gets old!

10:50 am

Be7 clue please?

10:50 am

what cowboys sleep on une

10:51 am

Thanks, ru.

10:51 am

thanks ru

10:53 am

Ru, you up for one of my silly stories?

10:53 am

you bet

10:54 am

We have a fancy bed that articulates and we can set the firmness for each side.

10:54 am

ok

10:56 am

my imagination is running wild now

10:56 am

I turn away for a minute. . . .

10:56 am

I had the head of the bed up the other night as I was listening to a pod cast. The bed started going goofy. The head went down then up the foot of the bed went up and down. I'm on my phone trying to get the crazy thing to stop. I felt like I was in a Lucy episode.

10:56 am

probably the batteries :D

10:57 am

:)

10:57 am

haha bzzn! sounds like Lucy to me. . .

10:57 am

where was mr. bea?

10:57 am

Nothing I did helped. I was seriously thinking our resident spirit was playing with me. Finally it stopped and I went to sleep.

10:58 am

glad you could go to sleep 🤣

10:58 am

Mr. Bea was tossed on the floor ?

10:58 am

The next day, I was telling Mr. Bea about it. When I looked at him, I knew!

10:58 am

oh...lol

10:59 am

He had been downstairs watching tv and wanted to see about setting the bed to a different favorite.

10:59 am

haha Mr. Bea is a practical joker!

10:59 am

ha!

10:59 am

He keeps me laughing.

11:01 am

I like that guy

11:01 am

we had a sleep number many years ago before you could control with phone apps and before they went up and down. we moved the bed for some reason, I don't know if we had moved houses or just moved it to get new carpet or something. anyhoo, my side didn't get hooked up properly and I woke up in the night down in a hole because it had completely deflated.

11:01 am

:O

11:02 am

speaking of lucy ricardo is in the grid

11:02 am

wow, good find

11:03 am

not seeing much here but made it down to 47

11:04 am

< stuck at 47 too

11:05 am

I have 155 left. I'll work on them this afternoon.

11:05 am

ooh, found a word

11:07 am

wd hokie

11:07 am

🤣😁

11:08 am

:D

11:15 am

well, I'm breaking again. 41 left. TTFN

11:17 am

hello all....

11:17 am

gm to you all!

11:18 am

Hi Hokie :)

11:18 am

hi dolly...

11:18 am

hi Pen! :)

11:21 am

hello and goodbye for a while.... found half

11:23 am

hi sophie...

11:25 am

You say goodbye, and I say hello. Hello, hello. I don't know why you say goodbye I say hello.

11:25 am

:oD

11:27 am

hello hello

11:30 am

hi hi...

11:30 am

JMC I think your training on how to speak with people with whom you disagree should be a mandatory high school course.

11:32 am

I think it would be useful and would be happy to do it.

11:32 am

and thanks for the complement

11:33 am

good morning everyone :)

11:33 am

gm Nan!

11:33 am

hi nan...

11:34 am

phantom: feeble

11:34 am

hi cyber!

11:34 am

hi hursh

11:34 am

hi

11:34 am

hi hursh...

11:49 am

have the feeling that I am missing a common prefix or suffix -- 97 left and stuck already

11:50 am

i haven't found one....76 left here....

11:51 am

suffix - ier

11:53 am

haven't found much use for either one yet

11:54 am

me either...

11:54 am

ooh....found a few more....

11:54 am

just one -- a lot of or's though

11:56 am

i have three with that ending, i think, but they are not all more so words...

11:57 am

ok - just have the one and it is a moreso word

11:58 am

and one more

12:08 pm

sc8 or ca8 pls. hi all

12:08 pm

ca 8 is like the 7....double the consonant....

12:08 pm

ca 8: sang Christmas songs

12:09 pm

ty nan and pen

12:09 pm

sc 8 is what you do when you look back in the chat for clues....pt...

12:09 pm

sc 8: what you did as you went down the chog or word list

12:09 pm

ty both

12:09 pm

*snap pen

12:09 pm

yw...

12:10 pm

hi peri

12:10 pm

hi jmc

12:10 pm

ty for the clues

12:10 pm

yw peri

12:12 pm

ty too cyber!

12:13 pm

yw jmc

12:15 pm

think some liberties have been taken with these words both with spelling and calling two words as a compound

12:15 pm

are you talking about enable?

12:16 pm

help with bottom O in third column pls

12:17 pm

oo 5/10....we have had it before...

12:18 pm

no....i think that is wrong....it's ot 5/10 and pl....

12:18 pm

I have an oo5/10 from the other O

12:18 pm

it's the ot 5....sorry....

12:18 pm

yes it was the ot5 thanks got them both

12:19 pm

yw...

12:19 pm

not happy with 30 C words

12:19 pm

not seeing the to8/9

12:19 pm

i hear ya....

12:19 pm

to 8...think bullfights...

12:20 pm

ah thank you pen

12:20 pm

yw...

12:20 pm

still need one from the left o and 2 from the corner a

12:21 pm

or4/5 , or5/10

12:22 pm

ao5/10 and ao6/18

12:23 pm

have those, ty

12:23 pm

also or 6/18....

12:23 pm

i am also missing one corner A....

12:24 pm

have an or 6/18 from the top o

12:24 pm

oops...you are right....try ot 4....

12:26 pm

have an or 4/5 also from the top o

12:26 pm

the OT 4 is from bottom O....

12:26 pm

and one from the bottom left o

12:27 pm

found it -- the ot 4 that had a submarine named after him

12:27 pm

oh no - a ship

12:27 pm

yes, the OT 4...

12:28 pm

now for the missing a

12:28 pm

yes, we are probably missing the same A....

12:31 pm

I have a medical term (x2), a babblet and a homophone

12:31 pm

found it....ai 4/4...

12:31 pm

no -- the babblet comes from the other a

12:32 pm

oh....you are right....i was excited... ;o(

12:32 pm

is it the compound word? ai 7/32

12:33 pm

it may be....have been trying to compound that...

12:33 pm

oh - looking

12:34 pm

ty jmc - we have had that one before

12:34 pm

from radio

12:35 pm

no doubt cyber

12:36 pm

finally found it...ty....

12:36 pm

ai7 is used for TV too

12:38 pm

way to go pen

12:38 pm

:oD

12:39 pm

one more b and I will have half of the perimeter done

12:39 pm

i have the right side and the bottom greyed...

12:40 pm

I hear it every Sunday evening on WAMU Old Time Radio so that is why I think of it.

12:41 pm

found - me too pen

12:41 pm

still need 68 more though

12:41 pm

48 here...

12:42 pm

I am going to list as soon as I hit 50 :)

12:42 pm

i am probably going to take a break soon...

12:43 pm

<===140 still to go

12:43 pm

i keep wanting to type rotaries....

12:43 pm

lol!

12:48 pm

well i need a break....bbl to find my last 44....bye all....

12:50 pm

bye pen

1:28 pm

just found the or 8 - don't know how I missed that one!

1:46 pm

thanks nan

1:47 pm

yw - have sung Handel's most famous so many times I should have seen it right off

1:48 pm

Tx Nan!

1:48 pm

yw une

1:52 pm

that's like saying that i've eaten a cake so many times, i should recognize the recipe when i see it - not really the same skill :D

1:53 pm

Except that the word is right there at the top of the music every time you look at it

1:53 pm

yes but in that case the letters are written out in an orderly straight line lol

1:53 pm

you should know how to spell it, i'll grant you that. but seeing it when all twisted up is different.

2:02 pm

stuck on my last word - si 6/21

2:10 pm

off for lunch - will have another look after

2:16 pm

We've had that si6/21 before but it is a weird one

2:21 pm

aha, thanks for drawing attention to it

2:33 pm

Well, it was really Nan. I was just responding to her comment.

2:36 pm

Good old si6

2:40 pm

Unless this gets easier, I may be leaving some words in Judi's bucket. I miss Judi.

2:45 pm

Sometimes I talk to myself. And then we both laugh and laugh.

2:45 pm

I miss Judi too.

2:51 pm

I am in shock. I didn't know about all the loses from this community.

2:52 pm

I'm still not seeing it - not matter how many times we've had it. My memory isn't that good any more

2:53 pm

I think Judi is just taking a break.

2:54 pm

clue for the si 6 please?

2:55 pm

si6 - moniker for a knight + truth or ***e

2:56 pm

*!*~*!* ty bea - do remember seeing it before, but I would never have remembered the word and the monkeys died

2:57 pm

anyone want clues before I leave?

2:57 pm

Congrats, nan.

2:57 pm

oh! I went to the FB page and saw Torgone and magazinemom and I assumed the worst. Glad it is just a break. I have had a few of those.

2:57 pm

whoohooo cyber!

2:58 pm

ty bzzn

2:58 pm

mlfan is MIA also.

2:59 pm

on my way -- stay safe eveyone and hagd

2:59 pm

oh dear. I have directed the boy to notify the chog when I die or completely lose my mind. . . whichever comes first

2:59 pm

bye cyber

3:02 pm

haven't seen crossy for a while either

3:02 pm

He comes and goes.

3:05 pm

life has been tough lately. . . several of my friends have died from Covid. . . part of why I decided I needed to reach out to people again. I had been hiding for a couple of years except for the boy and my sister

3:06 pm

I am sorry for your losses, jmc but glad to see you again

3:07 pm

I'm sorry for your losses as well, jm. I

3:07 pm

I have always found a welcome in the chog and except for engaging in occasional troll baiting have always tried to keep it a welcoming place.

3:08 pm

thank you. a couple were fairly old (I am no spring chicken myself) and a couple were in Kenya where there was pretty much no vaccine options.

3:08 pm

This has been something we have never had to deal with before.

3:09 pm

I have never felt disconnected from Babbleland since I am friends with several citizens in FB and others in real life.

3:10 pm

I just hate that sometimes we have no idea why someone is no longer here. Especially in this time.

3:10 pm

yes, I guess because I did elder law for so long (mostly before I met y'all) it made sense to me to tell the boy to contact you.

3:11 pm

But we have had a couple of deaths over the years where we were informed.

3:12 pm

I'm going to have either a friend let you guys know or my ex-wife tell everyone when I'm gone.. there will be a giant void of punning for a while Methinks

3:13 pm

Yes, there will be a large void without you.

3:13 pm

I will dig up some puns in your honor ru

3:14 pm

oh thank you jm

3:15 pm

I will deliver them in a deadpan demeanor

3:16 pm

I felt badly when my computer died and I had no way of tell others what was going on,

3:16 pm

we were worried about you bea.. i am a little worried about MLF

3:17 pm

you can at least theoretically connect with a smart phone. . . but you have to choose between finding words and chatting

3:17 pm

perhaps Dr. God could check on him?

3:19 pm

I wondered about Haz, but was tersely told she had a full life and wasn't playing.

3:20 pm

then you know she is okay and she knows she is missed.

3:20 pm

on a cheerier note--I could use some help with the e in the first column.

3:20 pm

ec6 and ea4 jm

3:21 pm

ty

3:22 pm

oh a fish for sure! duh.

3:22 pm

the D is killing me today.. i am really struggling

3:22 pm

nbt/nbs

3:23 pm

we now have new acronyms to use JM.. HOET and GATBO

3:24 pm

I just started the D's. I'm way behind...

3:24 pm

oh do tell ru. . .

3:24 pm

I laugh every time I see GATBO.

3:24 pm

I saw HOET earlier

rehi

ooh, the break worked. I saw a word!

3:25 pm

rehi yourself hokie

3:25 pm

Speak of the acronymer...

I have 5 d's left

acronym was the pangram on spelling bee the other day and it took me a really long time to see it

3:25 pm

this is like pulling teeth guys. . . .

3:25 pm

what do they stand for? I hate not being hip. . .

my biggest problem tiles are the C and the middle A

HOET is half on every tile

3:26 pm

Explain your acronyms, Carla.

GATBO is got all the big ones

3:26 pm

TWSS.

GATBO is not mine

TWSS is that's what she said

3:27 pm

TITT also

3:28 pm

AARRGGGG!

3:28 pm

haha to many texters here

3:28 pm

too

TITT is thought I tried that, though I never use that one

3:28 pm

CArla, it will make you feel better knowing the A's are giving me a problem too.

3:28 pm

I always try things but misspell them

3:29 pm

not TWHS?

3:29 pm

I still need three.

just found an A that was almost the same as the C I just found

3:29 pm

*furiously writing notes*

I still need one on the bottom if you want to guess

3:29 pm

It's probably the one I need.

3:30 pm

I think I need three ar's

3:31 pm

I am sure I will never use GATBO! hahahaha

I have only grayed the i3, E2, R23, i1, T4, V, O3, O2

GATBO is very rare for me too, jmc

3:31 pm

I have not reached GATBO today either.

I found 2 8's, one on my own and no 9. I only have 5 7's too.

3:32 pm

unless the big ones are 6 letter words, it is not even on the horizon for me. I almost never see long words.

me either, and even when people give me the stats and clues I struggle. I have to just stumble onto them.

3:34 pm

My mother, OTOH, when we would play Boggle would find a 15 letter work

3:34 pm

*word

I think that's why certain people here do way better at serpentine than me, they see the big ones!

3:35 pm

TWSS

3:35 pm

part of it is talent and part is practice. Mother was definitely talented.

3:36 pm

TWWS?

that's what she said

a joke made popular on The Office

for when someone says something that could be taken in a dirtier way

3:37 pm

oooooh I never watched the Office

80-90% of things I say could have that added on. I don't know how it happens.

I mean that in real life. doesn't happen as much here because I guess I catch it before or while typing it out

3:40 pm

I watched a Betty White skit on SNL and it took me about a quarter of the way into the script before I got what the audience saw as a double entendre

😁

oh, found a mermaid

3:41 pm

I guess I got tired of that stuff in high school being in the graduating class of '69 which always elicited snickers

3:42 pm

in the grid?

3:42 pm

when i was a kid/teen i was very naive. at a middle school dance, my friend was upset that they were playing the song "i wanna sex you up", it made her uncomfortable. i was fine, and said to her, "well, they can't ACTUALLY be talking about sex or they wouldn't be allowed to play it on the radio!"

yes, a little mermaid to be precise

I saw Color Me Badd in concert, hurshy. they opened for Paula Abdul. They were surprisingly good in concert.

3:44 pm

disney movies, too, have mostly passed me by

3:44 pm

I am sure I have done something. . . . .

3:44 pm

at that time, i thought only teenagers did stupid things, like taking drugs - i assumed all adults were basically just good and responsible and stuff

ok, this is a disney movie mermaid, jmc

3:45 pm

haha you clearly did not live in my neighborhood hursh

3:47 pm

yes, well in spite of my s-i-l disneyfying my name to Jasmine Esmeralda I managed to miss most those movies.

3:48 pm

i love the little mermaid, for especially the song "Under the Sea" and the colorful and funny animation that accompanies it

3:48 pm

it's just a fabulous song

3:50 pm

I watch Cyberchase and Odd Squad so I cannot criticize people's entertainment choices for light fair.

3:52 pm

i don't really understand the way some people are just like super devoted to disney as a whole, but, i like certain movies.

3:53 pm

I know. I have a justice oriented smart spiritual friend in her 70s who goes to Disney World multiple times a year.

3:55 pm

I went once with the boy when he was young and it was interesting enough. . .but weirdly insectless and I was creeped out by the lighthearted rape on the pirates of the Caribbean boat tour (long before Johnny Depp version)

3:55 pm

i've never been

3:55 pm

I love Disney. They have done some great stuff lately also - Encanto, Soul, the live action remake of Mulan. Good stuff.

3:55 pm

it was fun enough. . . and the food in the international plaza was fairly good.

I love the little mermaid. my boys didn't really get into it though. was thinking it was before their time so I just looked - it actually came out when I was in high school!

3:56 pm

My granddaughter loved Encanto.

3:56 pm

i don't feel like disney films, for the most part, are even the best representation of childlike wonder that we have available

I love Disney too. and the campground at DisneyWorld is one of our favorites to go to.

3:56 pm

I like some of their things but now they have really violent movies.

like what?

I just can't think of any

3:58 pm

I finally GATBO!

wow, well done

some big A's or C's? or maybe D's?

3:58 pm

Greyed All Tiles But One?

got all the big ones

3:59 pm

aha

3:59 pm

hahaha

3:59 pm

The big T's

3:59 pm

if you know about the reddit thread Am I an Asshole, this is the funniest thing i have read in a while

3:59 pm

https://bit.ly/3pTyw2g

3:59 pm

the comic book ones. . . .

ha, shirlock...I need to follow that one. have read a few great ones over the years.

4:00 pm

hit return too fast, but the reddit thread here: https://bit.ly/3pTyw2g about Jean and Jort -- two cats and the office stereoptyping

4:01 pm

I have a good movie recommendation. If you haven't seen The Unforgiven with Sandra Bullock, you might want to give it a look.

4:01 pm

oh yeah my sister read me that one over the holidays

4:02 pm

that was hysterical

4:06 pm

I have move on to my PBS quarter. I spend 3 months watching a particular service and then move to another one. I get to see everything that I want (pretty much, sometimes my timing is off) all for the cost of one service. I find I get bored in three months usually.

4:06 pm

That's hilarious.

4:07 pm

I mean the reddit thread.

4:09 pm

LOL!

4:10 pm

haha I assumed that is what you meant origami. . . timing is always an issue.

4:11 pm

We have a male cat that thinks he was born to be a sphynx cat as he licks all his hair off.

4:19 pm

Be7/40 clue please

4:20 pm

Could say what happens if you fall out of your slumber onto the floor.

4:20 pm

cowboyssleeping place

4:23 pm

Could say it is a compound word.

4:25 pm

yeah i think it's used in military and other minimalist contexts like that, you carry your be7 with you as you march to the front or follow the cattle

4:25 pm

hello, just started today!

4:25 pm

Go, jane!

4:29 pm

found a sea creature

hmm, found a regular be6 I'd missed but not that 7. will keep putting 2 words together.

4:32 pm

Last one is like a finger bread.

4:32 pm

think crescent and bread, hokie

duh

4:32 pm

how would you put your sleeping bag into a smaller shape in order to carry it, hokie

oh, I saw it all, thanks

4:33 pm

ah you got it

4:33 pm

stats for the top E please?

4:33 pm

er5/12 x 2

I think both er5

4:34 pm

Finally got all the A's!

awesome and amazing, bea

4:34 pm

Goodnight babblers! 🥱😴😴

I still need 4 + 1

night, zooz

4:35 pm

your 1 might be ar5.12 There are two

I have 2 but one from each A. are there 2 from the bottom?

4:36 pm

That could be from the 4.

4:36 pm

That's what got me messed up.

4:37 pm

Tx for be7 :-)

4:38 pm

I think it is one from each

4:38 pm

when

4:38 pm

when

I don't know, when?

4:39 pm

(fat figures) when i was a kid we didn't have sleeping bags so we puts sheets and blankets in a be4/40 to go camping.

4:40 pm

*fat fingers and bad typing

4:40 pm

Yes! We did too, jm!

4:41 pm

saw my first sleeping bag when I was 20

4:41 pm

I greyed all the tiles today. I'm off to fix some food for the elders.

4:41 pm

bye bzzn

nice, bea

37 left here

when I was in elementary school, I had a sleeping bag that looked like a box of crayola crayons. we had a lot of slumber parties and everyone had a different sleeping bag.

4:42 pm

stats for the 9 please?

no idea, jane

4:42 pm

I hope all my Virginia friends are getting thawed out!

je?

4:44 pm

seain?

well there's no j, so not je9

4:45 pm

Something similar happened in Portland, OR a few years ago. People just left their cars on the freeways and walked home.

4:55 pm

there was a bad storm here one time where the snow just came really fast and everyone happened to decide to leave work early at roughly the same time, which was also when schools released students, and there were kids stuck on school buses til like midnight or something as a result.

pretty sure people left their cars and walked home the last time it happened in ATL

4:59 pm

OMB i just realized there are TWO disney princesses here from back to back films. i guess i wasn't attending closely to the earlier conversation.

oh, what's the other one?

5:00 pm

beauty and the beast

ah, didn't have that one

thx

1 B left

5:02 pm

nothing else weird or hard since you got the 7

5:03 pm

Hurshy missed a Disney princess? I am shocked and awed.

5:03 pm

can anyone help me with ca7/32? have the 7/36s but not the 7/32

5:03 pm

II am baffled by the finger bread for some reason. French?

5:03 pm

you have your burger on a bun, aka a ____

I only have one ca7/36

5:04 pm

the first ca7/36, the end rhymes with the disney princess we were just talking about

5:05 pm

molly - i was just saying how i'm not that into disney. like some of the movies but not at all fanatical and have never been to disney world. have no disney collectibles, shirts, mouse ea4, or anything.

am I seeing this right, there's only 2 2pt tiles on the board?

5:06 pm

yes

is that a real word hurshy or one that you think is normal but may not be?

5:07 pm

the ca7/36 is not normal

5:07 pm

the first one, that is

5:07 pm

TO I am lurking a lot since I am theoretically working

5:08 pm

lurking working shirking smirking

5:09 pm

I NEVER smirk. . . .I sneer occasionally. Actually it dawned on me the other night that the Jeopardy Champions I don't like stand up there and smirk.

5:10 pm

hmm, i think i may smirk but never sneer

5:10 pm

better: shirking working smirking lurking

5:10 pm

but I sound like a stalker then.

5:10 pm

lurking smirking?

5:11 pm

i just wanted to say rhymes really

5:11 pm

not particular about the order

5:12 pm

haha I know but it makes more sense shirking working lurking smirking.

5:12 pm

perking clerking twerking

5:13 pm

jerking

5:13 pm

i am fezzik, hear me ro4

5:13 pm

hahaha go fezzik

5:14 pm

(Andre has a posse)

5:14 pm

he IS the posse

5:15 pm

Iits one of those blocks where a small crescent bread is being blocked from my mind. Arghhh.

5:16 pm

II think I know the last four letters of the bread....

5:16 pm

there goes the baker with his tray like always the same old bread and ro4s to sell every morning just the same since the morning that we came to this poor provincial town

5:16 pm

the be7 is not bread. ONLY the last 4 letters of it are bread.

5:16 pm

think of the little mouth, drawn up like a bow, and the beard on his face was as white as the snow. BE that mouth.

5:18 pm

ca7 and da7 rhyme with ar6/18. you're welcome.

5:18 pm

scuba it is what people used before sleeping bags.

5:20 pm

lo6,7,8 come outta nowhere to assert themselves as words, sheesh. i will click the ?

5:21 pm

*bites nails in suspense*

5:21 pm

lo6 is a hard protective shell or sheath

5:21 pm

7 is latin pl, 8 is adj that describes it, though if one did not know that, one might easily mistake it for a verb.

5:22 pm

and i warn you, i have a doctor who clue prepared if anyone asks

5:24 pm

ooh the to8/9 are so fun, i can't believe i haven't seen them mentioned

5:25 pm

there, i'm done at last.

5:25 pm

whoohoo? or done cluing?

5:26 pm

done finding

5:27 pm

whoohoo hursh!

5:31 pm

did you know that peanut oil can be used to make dynamite? i did not.

5:31 pm

found an uingulate

5:32 pm

that's just nuts

5:32 pm

did you know that for every 3.14 onions there is an opinion?

5:33 pm

haha

hello

5:36 pm

hi TO

5:37 pm

hi to!

hey je

hi jane

i am attenpting, as i do each year when the weather turns cold, to find flannel lined jeans. good luck

carhartt seems to be the brand to get

5:40 pm

I usually find them at lands end I think

5:40 pm

but I haven't looked in a while. Landsend may have ended.

5:40 pm

vermont country store?

i need them for shorties. lands end did not have them last year nor this as far as i see

regular length interferes with boots

5:41 pm

ll Beans seems to have them. . . not sure if they are what you want

thanks i will look, did not come up with search

5:42 pm

I got boot cut jeans from Torrid (for the fashionably well rounded woman) but they appeared to be for ski boots and not cowboy boots

how much snow did you have, he? i know dc shuts down

someone today asked me why. they don;t realize dc is the south

5:43 pm

it was 5 to 8 inches depending on where you were. People were stranded on I95 for 24 hours

5:44 pm

But mostly things were already shut down because of the covid spike with hundreds more cases that ever before

i saw. i have been in freak storms in SC to FL. not something i would repeat!

i know. my company has, thankfully, not arrived. not vaccinated, too stubborn

5:45 pm

you or your company too stubborn?

those who have been saying why bother now have some basis for their arguments

hahaha both

i do not want company. that ship has sailed.

5:46 pm

not really. stats still show that more non-vacs get sick and way more die.

today my non vaccinated colleague said why botgher? we're all going to get this new one

well, at the same time, look at all the talk about omicron being mild. i now know more people who have it than i ever did before

5:47 pm

Evening all

5:47 pm

but we are not all going to die from it. that is the critical point that is missing

5:48 pm

hi christa

i know, but je, i can;t even get some people coming for drive in food to wear a mask. seriously. if we get sick, they'll be SOL

5:48 pm

as a doctor said Serena Williams and I can both play tennis.

and i am now working two days. alongside teens from special ed classes. who have had covid whilst working with us

well, i find people have become very insular and it's made them inconsiderate of others

5:49 pm

we all have to make our choices in life.

you're right. i don't have to do any charity work during this time

today there were three of us where there should be 6

5:51 pm

I have been pretty insulated by choice. When I went out to shovel snow three different neighbors offered to help.

stayed an extra hour to prepare for tomorrow's crew, we were just keeping up no time to get ahead.

that's not the kind of insular i meant. it's survuval mode, that does not include any thought for others. i understood that when there were food issues, but now...

5:55 pm

not my personal experience.

5:55 pm

okay I need to wander off. see you all tomorrow God willing and the creek don't rise. . .

5:55 pm

good luck with your jean hunt TO

5:56 pm

not really the same thing, but we were both injured this fall so we tried to find someone to shovel our sidewalks for the winter. Ended up having the neighbors offer to do it, free.

thanks, je see you

jane i have two neighbors like that. out of 17. i am grateful for them

oops let me rephrase - there are about 35 on this cul de sac

i have one neighbor who clears snow, god bless him. i cook for him periodically in thanks. he helps when i need help with mechanical things

i thought that 005/10 had a comparative? if it were ae or ee it would.

6:45 pm

Anyone going to watch this is us tonight?

6:48 pm

watch what nancy?

6:49 pm

This is Us is the name of the show mab

6:51 pm

Oh, not familiar with it. Enjoy.

i will

6:53 pm

Already sad that this is the final season. One of the very best tv shows ever.

6:54 pm

Nancy, I've gotten behind on this one. I'll need to catch up with this season.

i do like it. only a few episodes were sub par, but still above most shows

6:54 pm

HI ALL. Any clues for the 8 or 9? Thanks.

and time to go get things done before it begins. have fun.

sometimes they get the bull. sometimes they get the horns.

night1

6:59 pm

Any clues for the 8s or 9 please? Ty

mab: I just gave you one

pwl out

owl out. night all

7:00 pm

mkg - dancer with deadly animal. it will end badly for latter.

7:02 pm

Ty. But not sure what the word is. I keep thinking of mattadore for a bull fight. But no m’s in grid. Hmmm. Also gladiator would fight lions. Again no g in grid.

7:02 pm

you're very close with the m word

7:03 pm

it's to 8/9....

7:03 pm

Ok ty. Got it. Ty

7:08 pm

worked on grid a little last night, but now finding it pretty difficult. the 8/9 were my only 'big' words.

7:53 pm

any hints for be 7/40?

7:54 pm

what you bring when you go camping...

7:54 pm

tyvm

7:55 pm

tyvm

7:55 pm

yw...

8:04 pm

i am done....goodnight all....

8:25 pm

found a whale

11:02 pm

re7? it just out of my reach....

11:07 pm

to play with the dice again, past tense?

11:08 pm

ugh sorry that was re 8. re 7 to put in a wooden box again.

11:09 pm

thanks. I knew it was something like that!

11:09 pm

yw.

11:11 pm

ty grannyrose - just got several re's from those clues :)

11:12 pm

yw mich

11:12 pm

me too, 28 left and it's turning into one of those slow motion bad dreams....

11:14 pm

52 left for me

11:19 pm

25 left here, still stuck on the re7, even with rose's clue

11:20 pm

put the dog in the kennel again, Sophie

11:20 pm

sophie, re + what God did, minus a vowel in the middle, comes from bottom r tile

11:23 pm

I am so embarrassed.....thanks rose and mich

11:23 pm

no need for embarrassment. it's a very twisty one.

11:24 pm

no worries, Sophie. We all get grid blind from time to time!

11:34 pm

17 left..... I'm yawning...... night all thanks for the chat and help

11:35 pm

Sleep well, Sophie. Luckily I'm on the west coast -- 33 min and 25 minutes -- it's possible!

11:41 pm

de7?

11:44 pm

what obi wan tells luke to use -- if he was from brooklyn

11:45 pm

thanks

11:50 pm

10 to go

11:50 pm

12!

11:54 pm

Hi Babblers, Just signed in for the flip. Last minute clues available if needed.

11:57 pm

Hi Jax, first ta 5?

11:58 pm

mich - ta5/12 = ta* (black stuff) + 2-letter word for to make something happen.

11:58 pm

lovely! firewords

11:59 pm

almost the Tardis, lol

11:59 pm

Well done, mich!

12:00 am

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