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12:02 am

es7

12:02 am

co7

12:10 am

sq8

12:10 am

oh. that is satisfying. thank you.

12:11 am

yes, it was fun to find

12:18 am

hi all -- anyone here tried wordle yet?

12:18 am

ty - reminds me I need to get a new one

12:18 am

I have, nan

12:19 am

I have

12:19 am

yes

12:19 am

just heard about it today and gave it a shot -- found it was really easy -- are they all like that?

12:19 am

yea - one of fave words ts 6

12:20 am

It probably depends a lot on what you start with, but I'm 6 for 6 so far

12:21 am

I always start with one of the spellings of etwee just so it feels like Babble...

12:21 am

But mostly with 5 guesses required - I think the selection of words that it could be is limited (more so than the guesses allowed), so probably common words.

12:22 am

(not really, btw. And yes, I suspect the words are more limited than the full enable dictionary)

12:22 am

I've been starting with "spelt", but I may change that to something with slightly more common letters or more vowels

12:22 am

ok -- got it in 3 today, so guess I just lucked out

12:24 am

my first one was in 3, too. Not all have been, though

12:25 am

sq10

12:28 am

wow. thanks, jessmom

12:28 am

yw

12:28 am

I want it to be related to the sq8, but I don't see how

12:28 am

co7

12:29 am

x2?

12:30 am

yes. sorry.

12:30 am

co7 x 2

12:30 am

I was so excited I forgot the first one

12:30 am

ty - but the sq10 is definitely still eluding me

12:31 am

nbt, nbs Thanks Jess

12:33 am

I'd never seen the word before, Gillie

12:34 am

ty - I'll probably give in and use morewords in a bit

12:37 am

Hmm - I kept trying the last part of it by itself

12:38 am

which seems far more like a word to me

12:38 am

yes

12:39 am

may I have a clue for the F plz

12:40 am

poop to you, dizgrannie!

12:40 am

LOL, thanks nbt/nbs

12:41 am

yw

12:41 am

goodnight my fellow queenagers :)

12:42 am

night, nan

12:42 am

night, nan

12:43 am

phantom - croquet

12:44 am

fireworks!

12:44 am

Congrats!

12:44 am

I'm still 4 short

12:46 am

l's and t's?

12:46 am

No - C, SS, and T

12:47 am

c 6/21 at the end?

12:47 am

ty!

12:47 am

what about a te5/16?

12:48 am

I've got one

12:48 am

hmmm. tu5/18?

12:48 am

Got that too

12:49 am

on the S... se5/14 and 6/24?

12:49 am

Those will be them

12:50 am

ty

12:51 am

whoot and done. no list.

12:51 am

yw. are you missing a 6 still for T?

12:51 am

And I've got the T - t6/18, which for some reason always eludes me

12:52 am

i bet it's te 6/21.

12:52 am

my last was to 4/4, babblet. i always miss it.

12:53 am

I bet you're right on the te

12:53 am

my last was that te5/16

12:53 am

I have to dash for a bit. I can come back later and enter things here in chat, though, if there's not a list

12:54 am

I'm doing a list now

12:54 am

i'm sure if i ask nicely Gillie will post a list. p;lease Gillie?

12:54 am

hah !

12:54 am

great. and thanks. And g'night all!

12:55 am

night freep. and congrats on FW

12:56 am

night freep, and thanks for your help

12:57 am

Okay, the list is up

12:57 am

Goodnight, all

1:03 am

thx gillie

1:13 am

Thanks Qillie!

5:15 am

gm everyone, thank you Gillie for the list!

Good morning!

5:37 am

Hi LBD and IG

Howdy, Scrabbler

5:48 am

What happened to Lickety? Did I miss something?

I done know - been down for days now

5:50 am

I know, but I assumed he'd be back. This is unusual.

6:05 am

Lickety's computer was damaged in a storm - it'll take him a while to get it fixed.

6:10 am

Oh, no.

6:13 am

I passed halfway and must get ready for work.

6:56 am

hi all

7:14 am

oh look, left hand column grayed 45 seconds in :)

7:19 am

Hello, friends.

7:19 am

hi bea!

7:24 am

Morning, all!

7:27 am

hi guys

7:28 am

hey there, how's everyone this morning?

7:31 am

cold

hey mael, got my test results and I didn't have covid. hope you are feeling better.

7:31 am

oh good!

and I am cold too, jmc

7:31 am

yay hokie

7:31 am

I coughed all last night but it seems to be better today, sore throat is gone and everything else feels fine

ugh, hopefully that will clear up too

7:32 am

it was so cold this morning that the eggs were frozen solid in the coop

oh no

7:32 am

looking to Australia I am reminded of my all time favorite book title: Mistakes Were Made But not by Me.

7:32 am

and the coop has a heater! geez

7:32 am

that can't be good mael

I saw on weather .com last night that we might get 5-8" snow on Sun but then one of our weather guys said there was still a lot of uncertainty, it could be sleet and stuff. fun.

7:33 am

it's currently 15 which is balmy compared to yesterday, sigh

7:34 am

my husband was supposed to fly a client to DC on monday and that ain't going to happen

we haven't had snow accumulate since 2018

25F here right now

7:34 am

where are you again, hokie?

7:34 am

We had snow last week.

7:35 am

it is 20F here in DC. I am warming up my Tesla so I can drive it this afternoon

7:36 am

we have an etron, jm, and I've never loved a car until we got that one

I am in charlotte, nc, mael.

7:37 am

I loved a lot of my cars. . . almost always fun to drive, the Tesla included

7:37 am

that makes sense then about the snow :)

7:38 am

but I told my boy last night that I thought I was developing agoraphobia after 2 years

well, I've been here since 1995 and we've had some big ones over the years.

7:38 am

I was always a "four wheels and a steering wheel" kind of person but I love my electric car more than is reasonable

my friend loves her tesla. she said she'd never said that about a car before.

7:39 am

We love our new Prius

7:39 am

haha I was standing near my car the other day and saw this guy stare at it and I said would you like me to tell you about it? and so we talked about what a great car it is

I think I need coffee for these c's

7:41 am

there's a 10 in this grid?!

7:41 am

I hadn't noticed.

7:41 am

there was an electric car meet on the National Mall before Covid and I went down there and let people sit in my car and talked about why a car person loved my Tesla. Some of the people said Tesla should pay me because I was doing a better job selling it than the dealers at the other end of the row

my friend loves hers but it did catch their house on fire

7:43 am

wow! mine is parked away from the house but plugged into the garage

luckily it just burned a spot at the outlet in the garage

7:43 am

I can guess why. They used an extension cord to charge it

7:44 am

well that's the problem then

7:44 am

We keep the prius in the garage. Too much theft here

7:45 am

you need a 220 volt outlet, like for dryers!

7:45 am

too hard to steal the Tesla

7:45 am

you can use a 110 outlet. It is just slower

no, it wasn't an ext cord, but like mael said, the wrong outlet

7:45 am

We can't use the microwave while it's charging.

7:46 am

Anyone who gets the 10 off the top of their head wins the Word Nerd of The Month award.

whew, no worry of that for me

7:46 am

And God, it's a sad world if people who own electric cars don't even know what kind of an outlet they take.

7:46 am

I got the 8...Looking for the 10 now.

7:47 am

The 8 and the 10 are not related

7:47 am

Good to know

7:47 am

What are the points on the 10?

well, they did buy it used from a friend, but you think they would've checked that

7:47 am

Tx Molly

phantom ocelot

phantom soccer

7:54 am

we had a charger installed in the garage before we even bought the car haha

7:54 am

or got the car after we ordered it, rather

7:55 am

stats on the 8 and the 10 please? I've been staring at this thing for a while and nothing

well I know it's not a q word

7:56 am

The 8 is sq8.65

7:56 am

and it ain't squeegie

7:56 am

Still looking for the 10

7:56 am

Oh, mael

thanks bea, wasn't expecting that

7:57 am

You may have to eat that word...

haha

good thing I didn't see mael's post

7:57 am

oh shit

7:57 am

haha

7:57 am

accidental PB for me, I had no idea it was spelled like that

well it is sq10 per the flippers

7:58 am

Did the give the points?

oh, is there a separate PB now for accidents and on purpose?

7:58 am

Molly said they weren't related.

7:59 am

lol, i also thought sq was spelt the OTHER way

I do not see any points listed

7:59 am

And I have two letters on Wordle...

was it you, carla, that mentioned the Wordle website? I'm really enjoying it and wish they had more than one puzzle a day.

7:59 am

I guess I've always seen it as PB for typing in the wrong and PB for being a dummy like me that just misspelled a word. Not that it matters, sorry :)

8:00 am

i've also been doing wordle, i like that it's only one a day, won't spend the ENTIRE day on it lol

8:00 am

so the 10 is an sq too?

yes, glad you like it, luv. I haven't tried today's yet but from what I've seen on my other website it looks harder today.

8:00 am

wordle is fun

lol true Shirl

me too, shirl! can move on with my life.

8:01 am

The 10 is a sq, shirl

8:01 am

have you tried absurdle? It's a spoof of wordle which makes every guess you make the wrong one until it backs itself into a corner and there are no more words to disallow

8:01 am

i mean i already have babble on ALL day

8:01 am

it's super fun, unlimited guesses

same

8:01 am

According to the Fllip Gods.

112 pts per molly's profile

8:02 am

It si unlimited quesses? I assumed it was only 6 guesses.

8:03 am

absurdle is, wordle is not

I saw absurdle mentioned on my other website but haven't checked it out yet

8:03 am

Hmm...112 pits...

16 (yes, I had to use a calculator. too early for math)

8:04 am

https://qntm.org/wordle this is the explanation behind absurdle

8:05 am

16 what?

16 total points for the tiles

8:06 am

stats for the top row E?

8:06 am

Aha!

es6/7

8:06 am

es6.21

ok, eureka. what is it?

8:07 am

sq10.112

8:07 am

I monkeyed it.

8:09 am

It's a fish. A real fish.

8:09 am

As well as a harbor in MA.

8:10 am

mael should get it.

well, I gotta get ready. I got a PT appt for this morning! hope she can fix me. maybe the fish will come to me later.

8:11 am

ohhhh, I googled and got it. What a weird fish

8:11 am

thanks for the es!

8:12 am

and duh to me

8:12 am

co7/40, please?

8:14 am

could someone tell me what the 10 begins with

8:14 am

sq10

8:15 am

a clue please....is it related to th 8

8:16 am

NOt related to the 8. Its a fish

8:16 am

just did the wordle, took me all five tries!

8:18 am

not finding it

8:19 am

Yes, it's not just going to jump out at you.

8:19 am

co7.40 is a funeral procession.

8:20 am

ends with sports L*****

8:20 am

the sq10 that is

8:21 am

thanks

8:22 am

thank you!!!!!

yea I got Wordle in five tries too

8:23 am

not a regular word by any means

8:23 am

can I ask a question? is lickety not here anymore?

8:24 am

he had computer trouble, it's going to be back as soon as it's fixed :)

8:24 am

oh thanks

8:38 am

te5/16, please

8:39 am

test

8:39 am

sorry

8:44 am

still need that TE 5, freeman?

8:44 am

hi, babblers

8:44 am

hi welki....

8:45 am

Hello, welki.

8:46 am

yes I do

8:46 am

ends with the start of the avocado dip....

8:47 am

thanks

got the 10 from Morewords

8:47 am

Hi all, haven't been on much lately. I plan to get back to playing every moring again.

8:47 am

wb sukee...

8:48 am

ty penq

8:49 am

yw...

8:54 am

The usual assortment of wigged out words.

8:55 am

It always fun when there is a g and u

8:56 am

es6, please?

8:56 am

plural of the es5

8:58 am

there is no es5. There is an es6 and es7.

8:58 am

Sorry it the singular of the 7

8:58 am

It is another word for a date.

8:59 am

thanks I presumed that but still need a clue for es6?

8:59 am

I just gave a clue

9:00 am

sorry our messages crossed

9:04 am

**Thinks Bea needs to work on her definition of "fun"

9:11 am

well i am done....not too bad a grid for me....

9:11 am

i just realized there's a ten in this tiny grid

9:12 am

Surprise!

9:12 am

It's a humdinger.

9:12 am

what does it start with?

9:13 am

sq

9:19 am

I found the fly

9:21 am

the sq discussions today will sound like the bit from the marx brothers, 'horsefeathers'

9:23 am

the fly was my last word...

9:24 am

someone is going to croaker before they find that sq10

9:24 am

The babysitter will.

9:26 am

I'm finished and I finished wordle. See you all tomorrow...

9:26 am

bye bea....

9:29 am

i am also heading out....bye all....

9:34 am

I do not want to be around for that croaker question about the sq10. Nope, no sir.

9:36 am

Oh and how is it that we are not only getting blow by blow status on the progress of this game, but also of Spelling Bee and Wordle?

10:09 am

Molly, I just got here, have no idea what the question is, but I'll try not to ask it. :)

10:09 am

(was wondering what the question was also)

10:10 am

hi Sophie, I'm equally stumped and I even scrolled back. Hi ru et al.

10:10 am

hi aloy

10:11 am

are you in FLA now?

10:11 am

well, I got the 10 letter word, so just SHHHHH on the questions

10:11 am

yes.. cold front, down in the 70s, lol

10:12 am

wooo you must be freezing :D

10:12 am

I am, heavy sweatshirt this morning

10:12 am

how goes it with you, ru?

10:13 am

The question (from a very specific person) is "Any clues for the 10? Stats or clues?" And the hmmmm that comes after it.

10:13 am

pretty well.. had to cut my schedule back again due to surging numbers here of covid again.

10:13 am

ugh, I know.. bad here too.

10:13 am

70 degrees is a cold front. Oh cry me a river. It's been in the 20's here.

10:14 am

was on a zoom last night with OH friends.. 11 there

10:15 am

And a sweatshirt in 70 degree weather? I would be dripping with sweat.

10:15 am

switching to t shirt when it hits 70

10:20 am

not leaving for FL for another month. rehowdy, folks.

10:20 am

ty for posting Gillie's list, Molly.. makes it easy to access and I'm about to go there

10:21 am

hi there hokie! what part of Florida are you headed for?

10:21 am

we are hitting several state parks, mostly north and central

10:21 am

where are you?

10:22 am

next time try the parks in the SW.. there are some great ones and we haven't gone to them all yet..

10:23 am

yeah, just going to the ones I could get reservations at 12 months ago!

wonder how much that has changed...although if you carry your own home, no need to panic about travel.

10:24 am

like a turtle!

10:24 am

I know! We tried to get camping reservations years ago in the Keys to take the kids.. no luck for two years

10:24 am

Molly, thanks for the list. I have a roaring 25 so far! :)

10:24 am

it's wayyy harder to get spots in places now than in the before times, and it was already hard then.

10:25 am

esp. when you're in a 40' motorhome, limits the options

10:25 am

we just had a pop up

10:26 am

we started with a pop up but only did weekend camping near here with it.

10:27 am

the pop up was a concession from hubby.. he wanted to tent camp! No thanks, not with three kids.

10:28 am

my husband didn't want to either. I found the pop up and went and bought it myself. they guys at the dealer were giving me a walkthrough and were like, isn't your husband coming? nope, I think I can handle it myself.

10:29 am

lol, good for you

10:30 am

I grew up RVing and he only had done tent camping

10:31 am

well, he got in a lot of tent camping with the Scouts as the boys grew.. in the rain and snow and mud and cold, whoopee

10:32 am

I did tent camping as a kid.. nope, not for me

10:33 am

yeah, my boys did a year in cub scouts each and we did some then. I don't mind tent camping if it's not in bear country.

10:33 am

where are the clues?

10:34 am

In Molly's profile

10:35 am

is the sq10 related to the sq8?

10:35 am

No

10:35 am

nope

10:35 am

let's see if hurshy wins biggest word nerd

10:35 am

well i have 0 ideas for what it could be

10:36 am

I don't even think Hurshy is that word nerdy

10:37 am

well bea monkeyed it at least

look up a harbor off Catuamet MA Cape cod beginning with sque

10:37 am

well i need that and two other S words, which are 5 and 6

10:38 am

hurshy have you heard of those 2 islands in VA that have wild horses? well, one does and then they swim the horses to the other one. ends like those.

10:38 am

I don't know how people have the patience to randomly look for words like that

10:38 am

thankee hokie, that worked!

10:38 am

ok so that leaves S5 and 6

10:38 am

woot!

10:39 am

still 20 left here

10:41 am

done!!

10:41 am

Carla, it's a book from my childhood, wow, that was buried in the cobwebs

10:42 am

the horse islands or the actual sq10 word?

10:42 am

well done, hurshy

10:42 am

No, Misty of Chinqa.....

10:42 am

right Molly

10:42 am

ah, never heard of that one

10:43 am

Seriously? It is classic young girl reading material.

10:43 am

who knows, maybe I read it and forgot 👵🏻

10:44 am

did you all ever have a bookmobile?

10:44 am

No, we had book fairs at school though.

10:44 am

Yes!

10:45 am

Tues afternoon.... grocery store parking lot

10:45 am

we loved the bookmobile. it would come in the summer to my neighborhood and we'd go sit on it a while for the AC (and books of course).

10:52 am

and the bookmobile was from the local library, so you just checked them out with your library card

10:58 am

stick a corque in it

10:59 am

Misty of Chiq. . .is very regional as is Blue Berries for Sal and Make Way for Ducklings.

10:59 am

NIce that the bookmobile made it out to the back country

11:00 am

in Texas it was mainly Lois Lenski books

11:00 am

Regional? Make Way For Ducklings won a Caldecott Medal. It's in libraries all over the country. So are Misty and Sal.

11:02 am

Lois Lenski...everything was little or small.

11:03 am

never heard of it when I was a child. Never said they were good. Just that they tend to be known more in their regions. That is less true these days

11:03 am

yeah, but even if it was regional, I grew up in VA!

11:03 am

just way on the other end

11:03 am

My m-i-l actually knew the cop in Ducklings and annotated a copy with who lived in which houses and whose office was where

11:04 am

The two parts of Virginia do not recognize that they are in the same state. Especially people from Northern Virgina.

11:04 am

well then I am surprised about no Misty hpkie

11:04 am

exactly

11:04 am

good point Molls

11:04 am

and the county next to mine, which is the farthest west, is closer to like 8 other state capitals than Richmond

11:05 am

I always say I'm from the NETN part of SWVA or, the SWVA part of the Tri-Cities. definitely more culturally a part of that than even other parts that call themselves SWVA

11:06 am

I have actually heard Northern Virginia people ask someone where they are from and then say "Oh, the OTHER Virginia." Seriously?

11:07 am

I really got a distaste for northern virginians while at VT.

11:08 am

they would say, where are you from? (very snootily because of my accent), when I would say SWVA, they'd go, but this is SWVA. I would always say, not really, the state goes like 5 hours farther southwest from here.

11:08 am

It's like their vicinity to DC makes them something special. News flash people, you still live in the Commonwealth.

11:09 am

it confuses me when people say Tri-Cities because we have Tri-Cities in mid Michigan, too

11:09 am

I always assumed it was because they were all rich they thought they were special.

11:09 am

no kidding. Hate all the people who say they are from DC and then when I ask them where they say Arlington.

11:09 am

Tri-Cities TN is Bristol, Johnson City, and Kingsport, lindy. I'm sure you've heard of all those. 🤣

11:09 am

Or Rockville

11:10 am

Cities and states like to bundle up in threes. Around here they speak of The DMV or DelMarVa...Delaware, Maryland and Virginia

11:10 am

Nope. Here it's Bay City, Saginaw, and Midland.

11:10 am

Someone from Rockville told you they were from DC? That is hilarious.

11:10 am

I thought so Molls.

11:11 am

The DC Sniper never actually came into DC.

11:11 am

My friend from Big Stone Gap used to talk about Bristol.

11:12 am

I heard all the towns/cities and just lump them all together in NOVA.

11:12 am

interesting, I would think she would go to Kingsport more

11:12 am

When out of state people ask me where I am from I usually say "a suburb of DC" because everyone knows where DC is. Maryland, not so much,

11:13 am

I drove through there a lot when the boy was at UNC Asheville.

11:13 am

oh, did you drive up to Kingsport to get on I-81, jmc?

11:13 am

She was older than you and me Carla. No telling what it was like back when she was a young girl there.

just finished my 7th call to fedex re the package they left at my door that is not mine...

11:14 am

When you absolutely positively got to get it there overnight.

11:15 am

oh geez, TO

11:15 am

Last time I dealt with FedEx customer service they were useless.

11:15 am

good point, Molly. BSG is definitely closer to Kingsport than Bristol, but maybe Bristol had more going on then.

the shipper, victoria's secret, teold me to return it to them. i have to pay for that.

11:16 am

:P I am not all that much older!

11:17 am

TO tell them you will return it when they send you a postage free label

11:17 am

No, I meant my friend from Big Stone Gap, JMC. She was older.

what do i do? fedex comes uip and down the street all day but still has not come to pick it up?

je they say they will not.

11:17 am

Can you contact the recipient?

i told them it will rot on my porch until fedex picks it up

11:17 am

oh! haha my mistake Molls

no.

11:18 am

Because, I means someone is going to miss a spicy night

11:18 am

then you have no obligation to return it.

11:18 am

wait, how would VS even make you pay for returning it?

11:18 am

it is now abandoned property

11:19 am

yeah, no obligation IMO. the recipient can take it up with fedex.

11:19 am

The cost to return it is higher than the cost of making the item. Lots of stores just say don't return it

11:19 am

FedEx should get their asses over there and get it to the correct address. Slackers

11:19 am

Amazon tells me that all the time. I have gotten a lot of free stuff that way

11:19 am

that reminds me, I need to get a package ready and out to the mailbox. TTFN.

11:19 am

if you can easily find the recipient, the nice thing is to contact them. Otherwise put it in the Goodwill box

readers digest version, one town over made a fake lovley name for townjhouses actually on a major road. for months everyone on the odd side received delivery after delivery...futrniture, refreigertaors, etc and adjoining town refised to change the addresses. many many many hours spent on the phone

11:20 am

Um, do we put Victoria's Secret in Good Will?

je, the people are sketchy. and once they got my package and did nothing unitl i came over with a large male friends to deal with it

11:20 am

even poor people want to get sexy some times

even after the story made local news, nothing was done about it

11:22 am

I must have missed that section of the Good Will Store last time I was in. Seriously, I didn't think they dealt in possibly used undergarments.

i received their harry and davids package over the holidays but H&D would not take it bakc because it was food

molly: sadly, yes.

11:22 am

it's a pain. GPS has the boys address in the middle of a large intersection with multiple roads a mile south of his actual house

11:23 am

Oh I would have kept the Harry and David.

11:23 am

if the underwear is in its original packaging they do

that was the case when the development was new, not now

oh i did. even unopened, they must reship food

um. sadly, i have seen used undies at goodwill. in passing. no smart alecks

11:24 am

I got someone else's Honeybaked ham one Christmas, but I knew who it was for, so I took it to her house.

by this time she should have received a new shipment. too bad she is much larger than me. miuch.

well i do not know these folks except it's pretty darn hard to fire a tenured teacher. which this is.

and she was.

11:27 am

yeah, I make an effort to find them. People are always listing missing packages and mis-delivered packages on the neighborhood elist

this is in another town

lest i sound awful, unless you were a poor soul here when it happened and caught my rant- you have NO idea. i couldn't even get out my door with furniture stacked up on the porchs- that they redelivered three times

it's interesting how different companies deal- or do not deal- with this. usually going over fedex to the supplier works even when fedex kept screwing it up. not this company.

11:30 am

no, you don't sound awful. It is a nuisance to have some delivered that is not yours

and btw apologies for that, i was really at wits' end last year when it was in its prime

11:33 am

sounds like a nightmare

11:34 am

I mainly yell about the delivery of really heavy boxes at the bottom of my front steps when I paid extra for it to be delivered to my door. Ain't no door down there.

it was. so the thought of its beginning again...

yes, that happened to my new christmas tree- it was left on the sidewalk- in pouring rain! i was out there struggling to get it in

my muscles are gone thanks to covid and no more gym.

and it's time to venture out for an errand that needs doing today. happy babbling. will come back later for the final 5

11:49 am

You have to go up stairs to get to my sister's front door and delivery people are constantly blowing that off. I send things for her to my nephew's house now.

11:49 am

Last evening a purple finch flew into our house. We tried to get it to fly out. Don't know whatever happened to it

11:49 am

I hope it got out bichon

11:51 am

We haven't seen it today. Guess it flew out.

11:51 am

my sister has about 30 steps to her house on a hill in DC but the deliver people bring it right to her door. Her problem is they put it in front of the door and she can't get out that door.

11:53 am

That's how it happened here.

11:54 am

bbl

11:58 am

Just saw the bird again

12:00 pm

He flew out an open window

12:05 pm

good morning everyone :)

12:05 pm

gm Nan!

12:13 pm

stuck at 17

12:15 pm

does anyone have a list in their profile?

12:16 pm

molly usually does and so does gillie

12:16 pm

there was an sq 10 called last night -- have the sq 8 -- any relation?

12:18 pm

No (most asked question today)

12:20 pm

clue please?

12:23 pm

Nan add the ag word for flu to the end of it

12:25 pm

wow - ty dolly - what a word!

12:27 pm

co and es 7 - missing please?

12:28 pm

co 7/40 ... funeral parade

12:28 pm

ty dos

12:28 pm

es6/7 ... someone, then two someones, who accompany

12:29 pm

I have the es and the other co

12:31 pm

thanks nan

12:35 pm

dose is coffin up the clues :D

12:38 pm

... don't say that ... the provincial authorities will say "cough ... must be covid ... must isolate" and I lose pay

12:42 pm

I think it should be mandated that employers pay leave time for COVID illness.

12:43 pm

FW! have a good day everyone

12:44 pm

you to mael

12:49 pm

... it's the start of an idea Molly but what about the people who don't work? i.e the elderly and kids ... what about people like me who work day to day if called and aren't paid if not called ... what about hourly workers like servers in restaurants and grocery store stock boys who don't get paid for hours not worked anyways? ... it would be tough to administer ... ... but if we get to the European idea of a guaranteed wage maybe we could make it work ...b

12:50 pm

... ah well ... if only good ideas like your's were easy to implement ... ... must be off ... luck to all who continue the struggle ...

12:51 pm

If you work hourly or on an on-call basis, you don't get paid leave anyway. I

12:51 pm

am talking about full time salaried workers.

1:03 pm

co 5/14 following the funeral procession please?

1:04 pm

nm - found it

1:07 pm

*!*~*!* Another atmospheric river hitting the west coast -- hope we don't have highways washed out again -- we're still getting them repaired from the last one.

nan, we might get 5-8" of snow! or we might not. hope you don't get flooded.

1:14 pm

Same forecast we're getting. It literally depends on which way the wind blows.

I'm watching a video from a local weather guy who's really trying to talk people out of freaking out. "remember there's 3 types of winter precipitation"

1:17 pm

Yes, and this storm system contains them all.

yeah, he's saying right now for us it's trending more sleet or freezing rain. yay. 😭

1:19 pm

I'd rather have snow than sleet or freezing rain. People in 4-wheel drive get out on the ice like they are invincible and WHAM!

yes, those are the worst

and freezing rain not just bad for driving but knocks down trees and knocks out power

1:20 pm

hi all help with lower H and the F please

lol "don't do the silly stuff with bread and milk"

yeah, nice try

hi peri, the F is british poop

the H is he4

1:23 pm

ty for fa6

2:10 pm

that's kind of a crappy clue hokie

2:20 pm

Well shit Ru

2:22 pm

back

2:23 pm

British have their own poop?

2:25 pm

They have their own extra vowel way of spelling it

2:32 pm

we'll have to put Hokie on TP duty

2:33 pm

sorry... I've been a bit scat-tered lately

2:35 pm

JMC is sort of a looky loo

2:35 pm

Thanks inquiring minds guano know

2:38 pm

Got the F. What a relief.

2:45 pm

you must be flushed with pride jm

2:46 pm

I need a throne

are these puns wasteful with only 2 punners around?

ok, stuck on 10 left and 3 are 4s but can I even monkey them? nooo

3:06 pm

people can always look to the start of the roll hokie

is this funeral word something I should know or some old fashioned archaic scottish word?

I've heard it before

kind of sounds like what you get for your prom date

hmm, I see what you're getting at. will keep working, thanks.

got it, thx

yw :-)

just finished, any clues needed?

7 left here, no idea, but thanks.

ok HAGD

you too

6!

5 - finally found all the 4s

3:30 pm

yay hokie

4 left - C TT T and 2 5's and 2 6's

2 left!

3:34 pm

go hokie go!

now is it C5 T6 or C6 T5??

oh, 'twas a plural C6, so no T5 left

*now

peeked at the list. still took forever. but TADA.

4:00 pm

I'm back from this morning, with about half. Congrats Carla!

hey sophie, you can do it!

4:01 pm

whoohoo hokie!

4:07 pm

And anyone else who gets Fireworks, esp without Mr. Lickety!

4:10 pm

yeah I am lucky to get half way!

4:11 pm

me, too

4:29 pm

Stats on the R in the upper left? I have two of four words.

4:30 pm

flower?

4:31 pm

I have that one--RO4 4, and I also have RO4 5.

4:31 pm

add some endings to that flower

4:32 pm

I got the RO5 5. Thanks. Looking for the other one.

4:33 pm

plural of 5

4:36 pm

Thnx

4:36 pm

you're welcome

hi all, zoom zoom

4:55 pm

hello, Gwen!

hi, i'm zooming, nothing personal LOL

35 to go

4:55 pm

Haha!

4:56 pm

11 here.

26, i'm catching up LOL

5:00 pm

5

noooo!!!

5:03 pm

Fireworks. Last one was TS 6/18

congrts!!! and tanx for the ts6

5:04 pm

Good luck with the rest of the grid, Gwen ❤️ Toodle pip.

hells bell,s no clues?

i mean from lickety

stuck on the F (and some other words)

5:06 pm

molly has them on her profile

got the F

thnks jmc

5:07 pm

wd book

5:07 pm

did you get my email a few weeks ago?

email? don't know. was it about books? (I get toms of email)

5:09 pm

yes. some I thought you might like

5:09 pm

religious books mostly

um, have we done business before? (yeah, i know, dumb question, but unless your email is your babble handle i might not knwo)

i don't find you in my notes except as author of a quilt book, hmmm

might have missed your email, sorry

5:11 pm

well my email and babble handle are the same :) and yes, I sent them to you for reimbursement of the postage with the caveat that in the unlikely event you sold one for a bundle I should get a cut

5:11 pm

no problem. I miss emails too.

hmmm, did i reimburse you?

5:12 pm

the book I wrote is PEACE Work Quilt a collection of essays about peace

oh, not about quilts, oops

5:13 pm

yes but if that way out of the norm for you, you should tell me. I always sent them book rate and I sent photos first so you could say don't bother.

5:13 pm

Again if that is a big hassle there is no problem.

5:14 pm

stats for single H in right hand column

i remember someone sending me books -- quaker topics? hmmm, let me check my notes again

5:14 pm

well it does have the word quilt in the title

5:14 pm

yes, that would be me. Quaker topics

5:14 pm

never found it wvteach

oh, yes, i found you at last, j. e. not je LOL

looks like i did reimburse you for shipping

i still don't have that H, hunting now

5:15 pm

haha yes. Je suis J. E.

5:15 pm

yes the few times we did it

5:16 pm

you are so organized!

that was 4 years ago -- this is why I keep notes LOL

5:16 pm

haha it has been a rough 4 years at my end

5:17 pm

he 4/6

5:18 pm

I will double check I still have the books and resend if you like or leave you alone if you prefer! Just always try to get things to a place where they will be used and not trashed.

5:18 pm

ty broll

5:18 pm

found it - HE 4/6

how did i miss that? fish me!

5:19 pm

haha me too. I thought I had tried that!

not to be rude but please don't just send me books -- only some are even worth trying to sell, and some never sell at all, so I am very choosy

5:21 pm

no, I never did. I sent you photos and if you liked them I would mail them. I understand completely that you are running a business.

however, i be happy to consider your offers, if you can resend the email, thanks

5:22 pm

sure. I will send it probably tomorrow. Just want to make sure the books didn't find a new home in the mean time!

super

phantom secrete

5:53 pm

help with GE 5?

take the first ge4 and add a consonant on the end

5:54 pm

never mind, just found it at the same time

5:54 pm

thanks

woot!

5:55 pm

21 left, be back later

5:56 pm

48 left but I am done good night all

night je

stuck on a T word, 6 letters, anyone left to clue?

(not the ts6 and not a word having to do with incisors growing in)

found it, fireworks, night all

7:56 pm

Fw!!

8:44 pm

ok, back with 21, hope I have some helpers out here in Babble Land

8:45 pm

help on co 7 40 please

9:06 pm

a funeral parade sophie sounds like what you wear to the prom

9:07 pm

thanks RU

9:08 pm

yw need anything else?

9:09 pm

well, I have 15 left, so no, I'll quit in a while

9:09 pm

I'm pretty much resigned to the face that I can't get fireworks without Mr. Lickety! :)

stats for 8 and 10 please and thanks?

9:10 pm

sq8 and sq10

thanks, I'll have to chew on those!

9:10 pm

click on molly's icon or gillies and you'll have a list sophie

9:11 pm

I did. Does that tell you how pitiful I am ????? :)

Got the sq8; is the 10 related?

9:12 pm

no they're not

9:12 pm

no

9:12 pm

I'm happy to help sophie.. what do you need still

thanks, good to know!

9:13 pm

I've never seen the 10 before in my life pj.. it's a fish in the atlantic ocean they're called croakers

jeepers, weird word! found it with morewords.

9:14 pm

:D

9:14 pm

I really appreciate the offer, RU. I will try to get a few more and then give it up. Have a good night

9:14 pm

ok.. i'm willing to help

stats for the lone H?

9:17 pm

he4 i think

hmmm, i have an he4 from the first h...

9:19 pm

I don't remember PJ with the Hs so close together

yeah, sophie, it's always hard to know!

9:21 pm

he + quantum **eory

Someone willing to clue me the first se 5 and se 6?

9:23 pm

12 left

9:24 pm

heading there next, soory, UD

9:25 pm

I only have 2 of 6 SEs

Nevermind I got it! FW

Thanks ru, that was it!

9:26 pm

Is the 10 related to the sq 8?

9:26 pm

no MKG

9:27 pm

very weird word

9:27 pm

Ty any clues for the sq ten? Th.

9:27 pm

Ty

9:27 pm

Cant imagine what it is.

9:27 pm

weird fish

9:27 pm

scroll down for clues

9:28 pm

Scort is not a word. I remember when skorts were in style when i was a kid. Very much a word but not used now. Thats all .

9:30 pm

actually, we still wear them for tennis.... but with a K

9:31 pm

well i got that it is a croaker. But when i asked for other names for croaker nothing with a q came up. Any ideas?

9:31 pm

10 letter words starting with

9:31 pm

Sophie, really? With a k? Ok. Very interesting.

9:31 pm

Sq,

mkg i went to morewords and entered squ------- and chose from the list!

(that's 7 dashes)

9:32 pm

Ty

9:33 pm

I'm stuck on the SE 5 and 6, are they unusual or am I just tired?

9:33 pm

10 left total

I don't have them either, sophie!

9:34 pm

they are spanish

9:35 pm

like arroyo Se6

9:35 pm

like most of the ball game that you kick the ball but mixed up

9:36 pm

Got it. Wow. Weird word indeed.

9:37 pm

well it is not a type of croaker. Period. Looked it up.

9:37 pm

thank you RU

9:37 pm

it's in the croaker family yes

9:38 pm

down to one S ST 5

9:38 pm

fish croaker.. not a frog croaker

9:38 pm

When i look in the dict. From the question marks, it says croaker but google says it is a type of weakfish. And in the drum family.

9:38 pm

one st 5 is a plural the other is to rip off something that doesn't belong to you

9:39 pm

oh for goodness sakes, I was missing the plural

9:40 pm

an Atlantic food fish, Cynoscion regalis,

9:40 pm

only Cs and Ts left.....7 total

9:41 pm

you have ts6?

9:41 pm

all are TE

9:41 pm

total of 3 Ts

9:41 pm

well.. then what you bite with and what babies do

9:42 pm

or men's genetalia or te + beginning of batshit

9:42 pm

had one

9:42 pm

testes

9:42 pm

I AM SOOOOO EMBARRASSED

9:42 pm

AND I CAN'T SPELL

9:42 pm

try a person who takes an exam.. sorry

9:43 pm

i knew you were groin to get it

9:44 pm

you're pretty close to one of them with testes

9:45 pm

think I'll leave my last TE

9:45 pm

go on to C

9:45 pm

Any q words to clue?

9:45 pm

Oops got them sorry

9:45 pm

CO 5 and 6

9:46 pm

I have no 7s if any clues are out there. Ty

9:46 pm

es& plural of Es 6

9:46 pm

stats on the one ten letter?

9:46 pm

ES7

9:47 pm

scuba,,,,, scroll down, please

9:49 pm

MKG CO 7 plural of CO 6, old fashioned girdle

9:49 pm

Ty for es words. Got them

9:49 pm

also, look up name of a funeral parade, if you don't know it CO

9:49 pm

Got the co words too. Ty. Super c lue

9:50 pm

Only need the F word to finish. Any hints? Ty

9:50 pm

poop

9:51 pm

Wow sophie. Ty. Got it. Didnt know it was spelled that well.

9:51 pm

That way. Ty.

9:51 pm

I though it was fe. Ty for that clue and education

9:55 pm

I'm down to 4 Cs

9:57 pm

2 CE 2 CO

10:00 pm

got the COs

10:04 pm

Fireworks, if anyone's still out there. Thanks for all of the help.

10:31 pm

I know my geography pretty well. What is the harbor in Maine? Is the fish freshwater or salt water?

10:32 pm

Clue...

11:18 pm

scuba, see ru's clue at 9:40. saltwater.

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