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143 2,262
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157 2,100
158 2,099
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160 2,086
161 2,078
162 2,077
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166 2,028
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171 1,935
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179 1,894
180 1,892
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182 1,880
183 1,880
184 1,872
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186 1,854
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188 1,841
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197 1,777
198 1,774
199 1,773
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201 1,765
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203 1,744
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207 1,725
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211 1,675
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214 1,647
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216 1,642
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220 1,620
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223 1,602
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225 1,592
226 1,590
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262 1,403
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265 1,389
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268 1,369
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272 1,361
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300 1,287
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302 1,278
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304 1,276
305 1,274
306 1,273
307 1,269
308 1,269
309 1,268
310 1,262
311 1,261
312 1,256
313 1,251
314 1,247
315 1,236
316 1,235
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318 1,220
319 1,217
320 1,214
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322 1,191
323 1,189
324 1,186
325 1,186
326 1,183
327 1,181
328 1,170
329 1,162
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331 1,155
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333 1,146
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342 1,096
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344 1,094
345 1,086
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347 1,074
348 1,072
349 1,070
350 1,063
351 1,063
352 1,053
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355 1,041
356 1,034
357 1,030
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359 1,017
360 1,016
361 1,014
362 1,010
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364 1,002
365 995
366 986
367 979
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536 54
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283 total words

12:05 am

sm 8

12:05 am

co 7

12:06 am

Mo7

12:07 am

mwah rose

12:09 am

Ac 8

12:09 am

* giggle * ursh

12:11 am

as

12:11 am

po 7 & ro 7

12:13 am

and lo 7

12:13 am

Po8/9

12:14 am

in7

12:16 am

lo 7 x 2

12:17 am

nbt, nbs

Clues are up

12:20 am

hello everyone

12:20 am

Hi nan…

12:20 am

ooh - a lot larger this time

12:24 am

our lover of little french dogs gets the crown today :)

12:31 am

found some teeny bugs

tr7

12:33 am

se7

ro7

12:47 am

More than one ro 7?

12:48 am

found felines

12:49 am

trump and putin are in the grid :)

12:50 am

The lake monster is there in a complete way….

12:51 am

found some birds

12:55 am

Heading to bed with 100 left to find later….bye all….

12:56 am

still have a blank o on the right and haven't found the 9

12:57 am

Ditto….bye!

12:58 am

Found the po 8/9….really leaving now… ;o)

1:02 am

ob 4&5

1:02 am

ty ursh

1:09 am

good night everyone -- that po combo will hopefully jump out tomorrow

2:46 am

noon noons

3:44 am

Noob noobs

5:44 am

C OST

No Noobs here

6:46 am

good morning all. help iwth i and o in right column pls

6:56 am

Ob4 and 5

7:00 am

I only have in 5/6 from that I so far

7:01 am

Is7/36

in7/28 also from there...

Along with its related 6

7:24 am

Good morning. Big grid.

7:29 am

hello all

7:34 am

Good morning, friends.

7:38 am

Hi aslindy and Bea

7:40 am

Scrabs, how is your mother?

7:43 am

She is doing well, thanks. Intact mind, balancing her checkbook to the penny, without a calulator.

good morning

7:46 am

Tx for in6 and 7!

7:51 am

He5/14 please?

7:52 am

Wow, I haven't balanced a checkbook in years. Thank God for online banking.

Female chicken + non religious term for AD

7:53 am

Thanks, matty.

7:54 am

Thanks!

7:55 am

No clue about non religious term for AD but I have the word

Common Era (rather than Anno Domini). And BC is Before Common Era

7:56 am

I am so not up on the politically correct lingo

7:56 am

isn't it BCE?

7:57 am

That's what Google says

BCE is Before Common Era ;)

And it's hardly recent terminology - from Wiki: The expression has been traced back to 1615, when it first appeared in a book by Johannes Kepler as the Latin: annus aerae nostrae vulgaris (year of our common era),[4][5] and to 1635 in English as "Vulgar Era".[a] The term "Common Era" can be found in English as early as 1708

7:58 am

right. you left off the E previously.

And yeah, Lindy, I made a typo. Sorry! :)

7:58 am

No problem, I was just checking! :)

8:05 am

Bach is often referred to as Common Era

8:08 am

Too bad. Nothing common about Bach. 😊

yeah, makes him sound so basic

8:11 am

fyi, a schooner is not a boat that has the ability to schoon

thanks, I'm sure I would've tried it if I would've thought about it

8:15 am

Haha, welki.

8:15 am

Prairie schooners

8:16 am

:)

8:17 am

favorite breakfast food in grid!

8:18 am

hey, hokie - i made our first reservation for the last week of may, in saskatchewan, on a beautiful lake. another couple is joining us, so they'll tow our boat up there for us. (california trip is still dependent on the weather)

awesome!

8:18 am

Nice, welki

we made it to the beach yesterday, then last night a heavy fog rolled in like a horror movie. and we've had crazy wind all night and morning. currently 57F and cloudy.

8:19 am

ohhh, i love the fog seaside

8:20 am

welki, I looked at a map of CA and, damn, your provinces are so big.

8:20 am

What beach, Carla?

8:20 am

yes, it's 24 hours of driving from our place to our destination

fernandina beach on amelia island, FL

8:20 am

Amazing, welki.

8:20 am

Sounds lovely.

I put my windchimes out and they have been going crazy.

8:21 am

i'd love to flyfish for bonefish in florida - maybe someday

8:22 am

I have been there, carla! Is the sweetgum tree still there? I think near the pastry shop. (I am a tree freak.)

8:22 am

Have you walked around Fort Clinch, carla?

haven't been downtown yet but will look!

we are camping in Ft Clinch.

we rented a house in Jan '21 here and rode our bikes around in here but didn't go in the actual fort, so will do that this time.

8:24 am

hello all....

pen!

8:24 am

carla!

8:24 am

Hey, pen.

8:24 am

hey pen

8:25 am

Hi penquis

8:25 am

hi Bea, welki.....

8:25 am

hi scrabs....

8:25 am

Enjoy, carla!

thanks, I think we might have another bad weather day tomorrow and then should be good.

8:26 am

We saw a family of otters at the piers, near Brett's

I saw an armadillo yesterday

had seen them at disney's campground but didn't know they were this far north

8:27 am

i saw snow this morning... ;o)

8:27 am

And there are bobcats near the golf course at the Ritz

yuck

8:27 am

Me too, penquis

(yuck to the snow, though I do think snow is beautiful)

I'm assuming there are deer here as I saw quite a few trails when I was walking Winston earlier.

8:28 am

it's perfectly fine as along as I don't have to shovel it or clean it off my car....

armadillos in middle TN on the Cumberland Plateau

8:28 am

Cool, donna

really, donna? I didn't know that.

I grew up in NETN area

8:29 am

They are in KS as well.

a friend has a bunch in her compost pile--last summer they pulled up her tomaotes and beans

8:29 am

Yawn...Good morning, everyone, did someone mention ba5/16? 😊

they carry leprosy

8:30 am

Crossy! I have missed you.

finally had to fence with chicken wire to a foot under ground

sounds good, crossy, are you cooking?

8:30 am

hi crossy....

8:30 am

hi, crossy

8:31 am

Isn't it fun when a mistype is a word?

when you mistype it and it takes as a real word? yes

8:31 am

Aww, I have missed you as well, Scrabby.

8:31 am

How is life up north there?

8:33 am

Same, ole, same ole., minus 14C, and gas is $6.40 a gallon today. :(

8:33 am

Yikes!

eek

8:34 am

Yup. $1.60 a litre.

8:34 am

I got wordle in two!

well, that sounds better 😂

nice, bea!

8:34 am

I think it's about $3.80 here, I get less expensive gas at the Indian Reservation.

8:34 am

Nice, Bea!

8:36 am

We are looking at $2 a litre by spring or just over $8 a gallon.

8:36 am

Well, if Ukraine can be free I will pay more.

8:36 am

..depending on how current events 7nfold.

8:36 am

Unfold*

8:36 am

Yup.

8:37 am

enol

8:37 am

enol

8:37 am

enols

8:37 am

Haha, Organic Chemistry 101.

8:37 am

Scrabby, you give the best clues.

8:38 am

No cryptic clues that are useless. Clear and straightforward.

i always try honies. I mean if the fresh prince himself can use it in a song, it must be real.

8:38 am

wouldn't that be honnies?

8:38 am

I think that is honeys. :)

8:39 am

money, monies, honey, honies - makes perfect sense to me

thank you, welki

8:39 am

just like goose geese, moose meese

and it case anyone isn't singing it, it's something like "honking at the honies in front of you with the light eyes. they turn around to see what you beeping at..."

8:41 am

I passed halfway and must get ready to shop for mom and visit her. Enjoy the day.

8:41 am

Tc scraby, say hi to mum for me.

8:41 am

bye scrabs...

nm, looked up the lyrics and he is just talking about one honey apparently.

bye scrabs

say hi to your mom from all of us

8:43 am

and now for a little hotel california 🎶warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air🎶

8:43 am

Leave it to Carla to know Fresh Prnce lyrics

8:44 am

They are coming out with a new Fresh Prince.

8:44 am

People really need to learn to leave well enough alone

boy, it takes me back.

yeah, bea. that looks awful. why would I want to watch a dramatic fresh prince?

8:45 am

Like, who thought it was a good idea to remake Dirty Dancing?

or wonder years?

or karate kid?

8:46 am

did anybody actually watch the remake of dirty dancing?

8:46 am

I only watched the Fresh Prince for The Carlton Dance

I did not, mael. but I have seen the karate kid one and it wasn't horrible.

8:47 am

I jsut can't even figure out how the plot of dirty dancing would make sense at this point

Or I love Lucy with Nicole Kidman. Blah. Btw I like cryptic clues. I don't like clues that basically spell it out for you- why not just give the word?

lones

8:47 am

Kidman was dreadful in that movie

8:47 am

hah, kaplan

can someone help with the right side O? PY&TY

8:48 am

I will never watch the remake of Dirty Dancing.

8:48 am

ob 4 and 5

8:48 am

ob4 and 5

8:49 am

I meant more audiences than individuals, I'd forgotten it had even happened :)

kaplan, that was the joke. scrabs actually gave words accidentally that no one was asking for clues.

8:49 am

Sychronized cluing. It's a new Olympic sport.

gracias, wasn't trying that (obviously)

8:50 am

It did pretty shoddy at the box office

oh, bichon gets a tiara today

8:51 am

oh look at that!

8:52 am

Yup, but not accepted

most dog breeds are proper nouns

well, I have HOET but 88 left. must make some breakfast and then go to the store.TTFN.

8:54 am

bye carla....

9:19 am

I just got to the C. That's why I still have so many left.

postil

sorry not a word anyway

9:22 am

but a nice try though

9:22 am

no, but change a vowel and you have one...

9:23 am

change an ending consonant and you have another

9:23 am

ty, ru....didn't have that one...

i had those, trying to get the last one

9:28 am

Good Monday everyone.. nice to have a biggee for a change.

9:29 am

Hey, Aloy.

9:29 am

agreed...hi Aloy...

9:33 am

it's always about biggies

9:34 am

somehow my concentration has wandered..

9:34 am

add a vowel donna and you have a 7

9:38 am

you really need to compose yourself to find a few of the b's though

9:39 am

lol, good one ru

9:42 am

i just found a vegetable that can go both ways

9:43 am

if only there were a kernel of truth to that

9:44 am

Aw shucks

9:44 am

hats off to you

9:44 am

ha molly we're all ears

9:45 am

Well then, try to cob-ble together a few more puns

9:46 am

that would be a-maizing

9:47 am

need a cup of ru's coffee

9:47 am

I'm sure that just popped out

9:48 am

Let stalk about it some more.

9:48 am

I've just realized with all this dining out lately I've gotten husky

9:49 am

We went to a brewery on Saturday and had some amazing pizza.

9:49 am

pizza sounds great. I love pizza too

9:50 am

what toppings do you like, Bea?

9:50 am

The crust was just perfect. Not to thick but crispy on tbe edges and soft in the center.

9:51 am

The one we had was sausage, tomatoes, fresh mozz, provolone and arugala with a drizzle of balsamic glaze.

9:52 am

now I'm hungry..

9:52 am

You lost me at arugala and balsamic glaze. I was with you up until then.

9:52 am

Our daughter had the Mardi Gras pizza with andoille, crawfish, peppers and onions.

9:53 am

sounds like a special pizza place

9:53 am

Its a brewery first. And they only serve pizza so it better be good.

9:54 am

Molly, do you have Mellow Mushrooms up there?

9:55 am

Pizza is pizza and Cajun food is Cajun food. The two were not meant to meet. Anymore than pineapple and ham were meant to meet pizza. No Mellow Mushrooms around here.

9:55 am

There are some people who get mellow from mushrooms though.

9:56 am

Looks like there are some in Virginia, but I don't drive that far to get pizza.

9:56 am

I have one of their menus and when I do homemade pizza I top our pizzas like they do.

9:57 am

They make a potato pizza that is awesome.

9:58 am

I'm leaving thrity for this afternoon.

9:58 am

i don't like beer so i guess that wouldn't be for me

9:59 am

you need a winery that makes pizza too ru

10:03 am

doing a happy dance, found the 9

10:04 am

what does the 9 begin with

10:05 am

po ru

10:05 am

Po po ru. So sad.

10:06 am

well, it isn't a negative word at least

10:07 am

though it is subatomic, so you could miss it

10:08 am

Aloy is the best blurter.

10:08 am

thanks, aloy

10:08 am

(-: ty I think Molly

10:09 am

yw aslindy

10:10 am

in5....clue please

10:11 am

ty aloy

10:11 am

in the beginning..

10:12 am

hi marks, yw

10:13 am

hi aloy :)

10:14 am

need to go start a cake, hubby's bday today.. bbl .. fun grid today, Happy Babbling!

10:14 am

happy baking!

10:15 am

thanks for the po9 hint

10:16 am

phantom nostril

10:17 am

that'd be nothing to sneeze at for sure asl

10:22 am

ruru spoiling the a5

10:23 am

:)

phantom school

10:29 am

phantom: horniness

10:34 am

No one is surprised that is your phantom Ru 😊

10:37 am

well it kind of stuck out at me

10:39 am

There's tits in the puzzle so quite possibly added to that phantom

10:40 am

What's the clue for po9?

10:43 am

Phantom School too

10:45 am

Thanks, the hormones discussion helped me find ho7/8

10:46 am

Argh. Hormones discussion. Imma go make cookies for the pb now

10:46 am

Not electrons, not neutrons but....

10:46 am

….my autocorrect did that

10:47 am

Can you make Famous Amos cookies, please? I haven't had those since my Grandma died. In 1993

10:47 am

I have COVID, so I'd be most grateful, thanks ;)

10:48 am

And yes, I have been vaxxed. 3 times but the last was in December and Boris, in his infinite wisdom, has stopped ALL covid restrictions...including self-isolation (I'm isolating anyway)

10:48 am

Not electrons, not neutrons, but protons??

10:49 am

Close. VERY close.

10:50 am

Not in the spelling but in the idea. Not anti-matter...

10:50 am

Not negative matter...

10:50 am

That is the way COVID restrictions are everywhere these days. The CDC has said we don't need to wear masks anymore if vaccinated. People are going to stick to their COVID ways though.

10:50 am

What the brain of Data or Isaac Asimov's androids consist of (geek alert!)

10:52 am

Thanks Matty, a bit of googling helped get there too

10:53 am

Why I enjoy Babble, learning new words

10:56 am

I would enjoy it more if I learned new words that I could actually use in conversation.

10:58 am

You mean you don't talk about sub atomic anti matter in daily conversation?

11:02 am

If you were a science fiction fan, you might. I do (from time to time) :)

11:08 am

And this I believe.

11:13 am

boy, the Ss are giving me a rough time

11:14 am

phantom: monsoon

11:19 am

good morning everyone

11:19 am

hi nan

11:37 am

all of those clues for the po 8-9 when over my head. I'm not even sure sub atomic particles or antimatter had been discovered when I was born

11:38 am

well there's electrons and neutrons and this one is like not negatrons

11:38 am

^wemt over my head --- just got up, so not awake yet

11:38 am

good morning Nan :)

11:38 am

I've heard of the first 2 hurshy but no idea what they are

11:39 am

anyone got a good breakdown clue instead of all this science talk

11:39 am

you don't have to know, just think about NOT negatron

11:39 am

there is no ton in the grid and no pro, so I am lost

11:40 am

what is a negatron?

11:40 am

well you need some coffee

11:40 am

no i need help I can understand

11:40 am

you are not looking carefully enough at the word parts

11:40 am

If something isn't NEGative it's....POSitive, yes?

11:40 am

Breakdown clue first half of word, is opposite of negative

11:41 am

as far as I know something that isn't negative is pro -- there is no pro in the grid

11:41 am

pro is the opposite of con

11:41 am

Second half is name of a movie beginning with T

11:41 am

something else is the opposite of negative

11:41 am

It's not PROsitive, now, is it?

11:41 am

and the word begins with po not pr

11:42 am

that doesn't relate, matty, but it did give me the word I think, ty

11:43 am

Are you positive? ;)

11:45 am

Any clues for words beginning with O, looking particularly at the one on right side of grid

11:47 am

It all makes sense now, but to someone who does not know much about the sciences it doesn't initially. I know it is difficult for you younger generations to understand, but when I was in school, science, other than the very basics, was not a required or core subject.

11:47 am

I'm young and had to Google to find the answer

11:48 am

my clues were merely intended to deal with word formations. that they all ended in tron, and then opposite of nega-

11:48 am

so there was no science knowledge required

11:48 am

just the tron ending is to do with science, hurshy --- think of the words you know that end in tron...

11:48 am

that is why i thought coffee would help

11:50 am

ob 4/6, aj

11:50 am

yes but when you put the opposite of nega, which starts with po, combine it with tron, it gives you the entire thing!

11:53 am

I think you are missing my point --- how many of these things were discussed in elementary school or high school in the 1950's? If the words, prefixes and suffixes are not part of your vocabulary it doesn't help. I don't think mega as a prefix even existed back then -- at least not in the regular world

11:54 am

negative and positive being opposites is an extremely everyday pair of opposites

11:54 am

mega didn't hit my common usage vocab until computer language

11:54 am

MEGA is not involved

11:54 am

perhaps you should get an updated prescription for your eyes :D

11:55 am

you are seeing two humps where only one is present

11:55 am

I don't think you are even trying to understand what I am saying --- I am not talking about positive and negative

11:55 am

but you should be talking about positive and negative, because those are the words i was endeavoring to get you to think about in my clue.

11:56 am

i never said anything about mega, only nega

11:56 am

but with a scientific application for which I was not familiar.

11:56 am

I think, Nan, the clues were all given in good faith - I know there's no tone of voice in chat, and you (I hope) don't mean it this way, but it really sounds as if you're blaming the cluers for clueing badly, rather than simply admitting that YOU didn't get it. Not getting it isn't anything to be ashamed of, but that isn't the cluers fault, and google could have been your friend here. As it is, it seemed (and again, I'm aware of the no tone of voice thing) that you were not happy until the whole word was given to you.

11:56 am

whatever, i am very tired of talking about this

11:56 am

Nan, just out of interest, how would you have clued it?

11:57 am

Thank you Cybernan, not heard of ob word before

11:58 am

hurshy.... did you hear about the dromedary who married a camel.....they had a little boy with no hump....what did they name him.....Humpry(lol)

11:58 am

stop and think --- where did you learn about chemistry, physics and biology? and what if you had never had those subjects taught to you? How aware do you think you would be of all the scientific terms that come up in this game?

11:59 am

can you please stop asking me questions about this cnan? i disagree with you, i really feel that you only needed to think about word parts. but i am not interested in arguing about it all day, i am trying to get rid of a migraine here

11:59 am

i understand what you are saying and i still disagree, that's all.

11:59 am

po + not stand + mr. reagan

12:00 pm

ty nan

12:00 pm

Mr Reagan... Would be lost on me...

12:00 pm

hahaha

12:00 pm

Ah first name....

12:00 pm

Ronald

12:01 pm

then don't start and argument, hurshy -- I do not like being put down because I never had the opportunity to learn something

12:01 pm

i am not putting you down for not knowing science. i am only saying that my clue did not require that science knowledge that you seem to think it required.

12:01 pm

What's the other 8s.... I hope not scientific words...

12:01 pm

still missing 2 of them here aj

12:02 pm

i haven't gotten any other 8s

12:02 pm

Got ho and po

12:03 pm

I also have an sm8

12:03 pm

there is an sm 8

12:03 pm

Thanks Champ

12:03 pm

ooh thanks champ, missed the plural on that

12:03 pm

Nan, did you read my comment below? I'm sorry that our clues did not meet with your approval. We clued how we thought to - your way of clueing isn't the only way to do so (and neither is mine, but I'm not having a go at you for your clueing style)

12:03 pm

and an ac 8

12:04 pm

There are loads of clues here that reference things I know nothing about - pop culture, things that are American post 1988, very old songs or singers. But I don't blame the cluers ;)

12:05 pm

Smo.... Hmmm... Can I ask for a clue... I've got another word for a kiss

12:05 pm

plural it

12:05 pm

matty I am not judging anyone's clues -- I was just saying they didn't make sense to me. and I certainly agree with your last post. It was Hurshy arguing with me when I said they didn

12:06 pm

didn't make any sense to me, that I had an issue with

12:06 pm

Ahhh es plural

12:06 pm

Thanks Hurshy

12:06 pm

well, not trying to pile on but hurshy's opposite of negatron when thought about literally and not in a scientific way is a complete giveaway

12:07 pm

just to be clear, cnan, the only thing i was saying was that my clue did not actually require science knowledge, as you think it does. absolutely no putdown of you was intended.

12:07 pm

What's the ac word then

12:07 pm

..

12:07 pm

muscle pain

12:07 pm

my head is full of ac8 because of this migraine

12:08 pm

Thx for the clue!

12:08 pm

not fun, hurshy - do you get an aura with it?

12:08 pm

no, i have "common" not "classic" migraines. classic has auras.

12:09 pm

Thanks, ends with the ess...

12:09 pm

Between Hurshy and Aloy, the 8/9 were definitely given away.

12:09 pm

What's the average age here?

12:10 pm

average? hmmm i think at least 60

12:10 pm

70

12:10 pm

no idea, aj - I would guess 40-50. Not many of us my age.

12:11 pm

Sometimes it feels like it's 85

12:11 pm

I'm 34, anyone younger?

12:11 pm

funny, I think there are more 65-80

12:11 pm

so avg of 60 seems right to me too

12:11 pm

mael is low 30s I think

12:11 pm

we used to get tweens and teens playing sometimes but that doesn't seem to happen these days

12:11 pm

68 here. I'm just average in many ways, but don't know about my age!

12:11 pm

Interesting, I used to play word games with my grandmother

12:12 pm

Definitely over 60 because most people who play consistently are retired or don't work.

12:12 pm

could be -- it just seems that when I play, the chat is all about stuff that was current when my kids and grandkids were young.

12:12 pm

most of us signed up almost 20 years ago and I don't know how many younger people stumble onto it these days.

12:13 pm

I call myself 'retired pjs' because i retired but then went back to work! So i'm both.

12:13 pm

cute

12:13 pm

Kids don't stay interested in games like this for very long. And a lot of the "kid players" we have had were fakes. MehnameisHannah

12:14 pm

Hello all. Well, today's total lets me know I'll play for a while and then move on. I've only been playing since last summer, and I'll be 71 in May.

12:14 pm

but there was bex :) i know she was real, for i visited her and her family in Newcastle!

12:14 pm

who will ever forget her!

12:14 pm

that fake must've been while I was on hiatus

12:14 pm

we recently had a real or fake 8 yo in england

12:15 pm

oh you're probably a fixture now sophie :)

12:15 pm

8 is too young, you just don't know enough words yet, so of course you'll lose interest quickly

12:15 pm

She wasn't as good of a fake as Nancy Boy. That one took the cake and fooled a lot of people. In a very cruel way.

12:15 pm

12 is probably a decent age to get into it

12:16 pm

and there was a teenage girl recently, can't think of her name

12:16 pm

my daughter was in her 40's when she found it and put me on to the game (that was in 2005), but she doesn't play anymore -- prefers sudoku

12:16 pm

could i have a clue for that ho8?

12:17 pm

Women need them.

12:17 pm

things that cause PMS

12:18 pm

ah, doh!

12:18 pm

thanks

12:18 pm

Well, technically so to men. Testosterone, estrogen, progesterone...

12:18 pm

I think a lot of us came in 2005 when the game was mentioned in some newspaper

12:19 pm

and it is so much better of a game than wordle!

12:19 pm

stomach thinks my throat's been cut, so off to find some breakfast. :)

12:21 pm

i heard about this from serpentine

12:22 pm

I still play wordle everyday - a challenge to myself to get it in 3 or less

12:23 pm

yeah i mean it's fine to play but it only takes a couple minutes. this is more fun cause there are so many words to find

12:24 pm

All I ever hear from Mr. B is wordle and querdle

12:24 pm

hello cowexploder, that is an interesting name

12:24 pm

*hands bichon the tiara*

12:24 pm

soes

12:24 pm

CRAP! Sorry

12:24 pm

I don't get the big whoop over wordle.

12:25 pm

it's not a word, champ, you just gotta play that off like it was part of your chat

12:25 pm

The less I hear about it, the better. Mr. B always trying to get me to play it.

12:26 pm

Next time, carla!

12:26 pm

And for those of you obsessed with wordle, hellowordl.net lets you play all day.

12:27 pm

did anyone notice the weird clue in the Atlantic crossword yesterday? it claimed that Idaho was one of two states with panhandles...

12:27 pm

The thing I like about it (when I remember to play) is that it's only one word.

12:28 pm

i was like, um, Oklahoma, Florida, Texas even thinks of their top as a panhandle... definitely more than two.

12:30 pm

phantom: schooner

12:30 pm

welki has already informed us one cannot schoon

12:31 pm

:D

12:31 pm

well that makes sense since a schooner is a boat, not a person doing something

12:31 pm

DOH, pb for me

12:32 pm

I'm still hoping for Famous Amos cookies in the PB

12:33 pm

i will accept any cookies, unless they are stale

12:33 pm

RE Wordle...anyone tried this? https://www.quordle.com/

12:33 pm

or are anise flavored, blech

12:33 pm

You're welcome ;)

12:33 pm

Double blech to anise flavored cookies

12:34 pm

the people on my other internet place play quordle every day. and now they've started playing an 8 one. I drew the line at dordle.

12:35 pm

I guess for some people there is no such thing as overkill

12:36 pm

Just found another 8. Bi8

12:37 pm

Eight? What's that called - octurdle? (sorry not sorry)

12:38 pm

Sometimes I wonder how people passed the time before internet word games.

12:38 pm

something like that. hold on...

12:38 pm

my grandma had crossword puzzle books. i do too actually!

12:38 pm

and she went swimming at the YMCA

12:38 pm

octordle.com

12:43 pm

I discovered this via a newspaper, that referred to it as the cross between boggle and scrabble, recently returned to see if it still exists

12:44 pm

Disappointed Lochness isn't in dictionary

12:44 pm

try 'em seperate

12:44 pm

would you expect Lakeerie to be in the dictionary?

12:47 pm

Nope

12:47 pm

well there ya go then :)

12:47 pm

dang it i HATE is words

12:48 pm

oh, I was looking for some earlier because I only have 2 i's there and didn't find. but I just now realized I called HOET and it wasn't true!

12:49 pm

To the stockade with you missy

12:49 pm

I know, premature HOET

12:52 pm

What's HOET?

12:52 pm

Half Of Each Tile

12:52 pm

still not getting any is words

12:52 pm

hokie made that one up

12:52 pm

HOET is half on every tile

12:53 pm

that is because the 3 is words are all very weird and require morewords to find

12:53 pm

it's harder than NBT, so it's what I strive for

12:53 pm

hurshy, what are the stats, please?

12:54 pm

6/24, 7/40, 7/36

12:54 pm

no combos

12:55 pm

found the 6, was working all around that

12:57 pm

those and 2 ce words, all weird

monchichi monchichi, oh so soft and cuddly

1:18 pm

are the is 6-7-7 lonely?

1:19 pm

yes

1:20 pm

mmm not a lonely banana pen

1:24 pm

hursh, I also still don't have HOET because of that I :)

I found the is6 but looked up the is7's

1:26 pm

I will wait until after I've listed before I resort to looking up the words

1:27 pm

I did the same but did not get the sevens eva

1:27 pm

even after looking them up,,,clue please

I resorted early since hurshy said she had to look them up

the 7's are the same except for the 4th letter

one ends in what girl and boy scouts sew on their uniforms minus a silent letter

they both are lines drawn on maps but are for different kinds of maps

1:31 pm

Boy and girl scouts sew badges on their uniforms not pa7

1:31 pm

got that one, ty carla

they have pa that are not badges too, i.e. the troop numbers

1:32 pm

depends on where you live molly, what they are called

the council name

1:33 pm

in Britain, ba's are called pa's

there are the merit badges, but there are other pa*

1:34 pm

No pa7s when I was a scout. Only badges that we sewed on a sash that went with the uniform. That was back in the olden days.

1:35 pm

we didn't have sashes - they were sewn on your sleeve

I got different pa* for selling cookies that weren't badges. plus the aforementioned troop numbers and council name.

1:35 pm

The only thing uglier than girl scout uniforms back then were Catholic school uniforms and I got to wear BOTH!

1:36 pm

I still have my GS sash and beret.

and I still have my sash!

1:36 pm

you're talking about those ugly dark blue dresses with the multitude of pockets and black leather belt?

1:36 pm

THANKS nan, got them

1:37 pm

Bea, you didn't keep the attractive yellow bow tie?

1:38 pm

Girl scout uniforms here are green

I don't rem. a yellow bow tie. I think I went as high as cadet and that was it.

1:38 pm

good going, nancy - only got one of them

1:38 pm

I thought y'all Canadians had Girl Guides

1:38 pm

we do, Molly

1:38 pm

You were not wearing the 1960's version of the uniform Carla

1:39 pm

I am currently in the process of ironing on all my daughter's pa*, she bridged to brownie recently :)

1:39 pm

NAN are you still missing one seven? which one do you have? tile count wise

1:40 pm

in the 50's our uniforms were dresses -- so ridiculous going camping in dresses. What were they thinking?

1:40 pm

There is something before Brownies/

1:40 pm

yes, daisies

for your reading pleasure, a history of girl scout uniforms https://tinyurl.com/bdf3cw2d

1:41 pm

sad that st* is not an accepted word, while we're talking about that word ending

like short for tom selleck's trademark? I tried that.

and with an e

1:43 pm

yep

1:43 pm

me too

1:47 pm

no idea what selleck's trademark is -- a moustache?

yes

well, I thought I was doing well getting 3 or less on each tile, but I still have 41 words left since I need 10 c's and 6 b's. argh.

1:54 pm

just got to 80 and off to get some chores done before it gets any later in the day.

we are trapped inside with crazy wind and rain so I think I'll work on my t-shirt quilt.

1:57 pm

hi all. help with is7 or in7 please

look at my is7 clues around 1:28

1:59 pm

the in7 is a plural, in6 is similar to the in5 that means at the start

in + 80s sci-fi movie with one of the bridges boys

2:00 pm

no idea carla

2:00 pm

not seeing it mael but will keep looking

ok, look at mael's then

2:02 pm

your clue's better hokie haha

2:03 pm

like a scan**** machine for ballots

2:04 pm

got the in7 thank you both

2:05 pm

help with po8/9 please

2:05 pm

it's a particle, peri

2:05 pm

hmm

2:06 pm

got them ty mael

2:06 pm

yw :)

2:07 pm

sorn

2:07 pm

oops

2:18 pm

80 to go......what a tedious grid ....

2:28 pm

70......

sc 6/24 anyone?

3:53 pm

could I get the stats for the left column S and the right column O please?

3:54 pm

ob 4

se5/10, I don't have th o yet

3:57 pm

don't have it cow, but looking

3:58 pm

sc 6/24 - begins like an educational institution + either's partner + consonant

3:59 pm

se5/10, se6/18, se6/21 and se+7/32

thanks cyber

se 5/10 and 6/18 are what a waiter at a mexican food restaurant may call a diner

the se 6 and 7 are variations

make it a portuguese restaurant

4:03 pm

the 6 and 7 are Portuguese

4:03 pm

oops - rasta beat me

4:06 pm

when ac 8 is accepted, shouldn't ic 8 be accepted as well?

you'd need a t

loch

sorry

4:10 pm

i was thinking of gooiness, not scratching, cow

4:13 pm

I think we all had it, rasta. Oddly enough as I am converting a bunch of my old photos to jpeg's for a video program, I am now working on Urquhart Castle which is on the shores of lo 4 in today's grid :)

urquhart is the last name of one of my best grade school friends, who later started up a few video game companies

4:26 pm

missng 4 b's -- the ones I have are all "normal" words

4:28 pm

going to list now

4:34 pm

first ch 5/14 please?

4:35 pm

nm - found it

4:44 pm

is 6 please?

i need that one too

5:02 pm

so 7-8 please?

5:07 pm

down to that is 6 now

5:08 pm

is + the **** pet where a plant grows out of a ceramic figure of an animal

5:08 pm

So. Consonant. Scottish exclamation. *** aye. Vowel & plural. (If that makes any sense)

5:10 pm

*!*~*!* thanks hurshy :D

5:10 pm

ty soodle - had monkeyed it, but I know there are others who are looking

5:11 pm

some really strange ones today. Off to wordle - have a good one :)

5:11 pm

headache gone, hurshy?

5:13 pm

Ukraine does not look good. If Putin goes nuclear do you think the western allies will declare war?

5:13 pm

Love your profile words Nan.

5:13 pm

ty soodle

5:13 pm

I don't know how we could avoid it -- he has to be stopped

thanks soodle

5:16 pm

on my way -- see you at the flip :)

5:17 pm

Things are not going Putin’s way. Ukraine has put up huge resistance. To his credit, Biden didn’t rise to the bait of possible nuclear war. (Trump would have exacerbated the situation). I have faith that democracy will win out.

6:09 pm

nbt nbs with a mere 230 to go

7:32 pm

found some birdies

7:38 pm

I don't know. Trump called Putin "smart" and called US leaders "dumb". I am doubting he would have made this situation worse. I'm glad he is no longer President.

hey y'all, anyone have a clue for os6/18?

it's my last one so I can help with clues for any others!

8:18 pm

think of sadam's last name, and change the first two letters to os

lol nice clue, thanks! had to look that one up and I'm completely unsurprised that I didn't know it haha

8:19 pm

Glad it worked. Congrats on fireworks!

8:32 pm

Trump would probably have phoned Putin to congratulate him, and refused to participate in sanctions or any kind of military aid to Ukraine.

sad but true

can anyone help on the bi 7 and bi 8?

8:35 pm

cooee

8:35 pm

Do you have the bi6? Think hats.

8:36 pm

bi 7. bi + fruit of oak tree, minus first two letters + vowel

thank you gillie, granny

didn't think of the alternate spelling

9:33 pm

cybernan - excellent icon!!!!

9:46 pm

52 left put a fork in me, I'm done night all take care

10:05 pm

boat

10:07 pm

sorry!!!!!!

10:50 pm

WooHoo Took me all day, but I got FIREWORKS!

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