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111 1,662
112 1,590
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117 1,496
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119 1,470
120 1,447
121 1,443
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124 1,415
125 1,393
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127 1,361
128 1,351
129 1,348
130 1,335
131 1,299
132 1,297
133 1,280
134 1,274
135 1,270
136 1,262
137 1,257
138 1,250
139 1,222
140 1,221
141 1,210
142 1,210
143 1,202
144 1,201
145 1,196
146 1,186
147 1,177
148 1,171
149 1,170
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152 1,160
153 1,151
154 1,143
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156 1,103
157 1,100
158 1,095
159 1,090
160 1,088
161 1,084
162 1,064
163 1,059
164 1,057
165 1,056
166 1,039
167 1,028
168 1,023
169 1,023
170 1,016
171 1,013
172 1,004
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202 906
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446 264
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486 63
487 63
488 52
489 50
490 47
491 44
492 31
493 17
494 11
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191 total words

12:06 am

good evenig all :)

12:06 am

hi nan!

12:07 am

hi all

12:07 am

hi ursh!

12:12 am

ha 7

12:12 am

ro7/8

12:13 am

nbt, nbs

12:13 am

Thanks Jess

Clues are up

12:18 am

ty lickety

12:24 am

this is going to be a tough grid for me

12:25 am

Ma8

12:30 am

every time I think I've found one of the 7's or 8's it turns out to be a phantom

12:31 am

leaving 51 for morning, good night all!

12:36 am

wd dolly

12:49 am

not getting anywhere with this -- goodnight

1:40 am

FWs

2:43 am

hope all are doing okay, haven't been in much for the last couple of weeks, cause I broke my arm, and typing on the keyboard is a chore with one hand. They say they can't cast it because it's right at the top of the humerus going into the ball up there. Not separated, so I just have to not move it for like six weeks, sigh. Hugs to all, I'll be back.

2:44 am

hugs to you. get well soon

2:45 am

thanks. :) At least it wasn't my dominant side, whew.

4:37 am

AL7

5:34 am

Is that a clue request or a blurt?

6:05 am

alms

6:15 am

Add grown boy for the 7

Thx

6:42 am

After Wordle, my new favorite is stardle.org/. You have to guess the name of an actor or actress instead of a word. I think it's harder than wordle but I have gotten it right the first 2 days I have played.

A pop-up ad?

why does it say "spam" does not appear in the puzzle? Am I blind?

7:43 am

spam is not an accepted word in the Babble dictionary

spam is not a word on the enable word list. it was merely a proper noun back then. apparently there was an attempt to add it to this game that didn't quite work. so it always says it's not there when it clearly is, so you are not blind.

name that proper noun - tree company with orange trucks

7:54 am

Asplundh?

✅✅✅

I was thinking the "Prime" company

but their trucks are blue

7:58 am

Meatball421 is asking about spam, that is soooooo appropriate :)

they are like charcoal gray with blue writing, and that's a real word in the grid that I didn't have, thx.

8:15 am

Asplundh trucks are orange here.

yes, IG was talking about the am6 trucks

8:16 am

Ah,the trucks with the giant phallic symbol logo

so, all the man words and northman isn't on the list

NTPN - une's favorite tennis player?

8:21 am

He's the titman, with gloves on

8:21 am

Nadal

🎾🎾🎾

is it just me or is this M really hard?

8:23 am

hi all. not seeing the W words. any stats or help welcome

and the H

I have wr5/20 only

and the other is the same stat

8:24 am

W word think steinbeck

8:25 am

The other is the same word, different vowel

8:25 am

steinbeck? hmmmm...thinking. ty

8:26 am

The Grapes of ?

8:26 am

got them!

8:26 am

ty

8:30 am

stats for the lone A pls?

8:31 am

Guess that proper noun, the devil wore it

8:31 am

shirlock i need that one too.

the gray/blue delivery trucks company, or a jungle, or a tall woman

8:31 am

Prada

prada

8:31 am

yes prada.

I almost posted exactly the same thing molly 😁

8:31 am

eye roll, thx hokie!

8:31 am

Ding ding! Tie between Carla and Bea. Prada bags for both of them.

8:31 am

ty for A word clues. great clues. ty.

8:32 am

i am down to no 7s or 8s. stats welcome.

shirl, don't eye roll, I think it's a proper noun! but I guess it's like adonis.

mkg, I also have no 7s or 8s

8:33 am

Why am I not seeing a word clues?

8:31, probably snuck in

8:35 am

Oh, there is no stats before it and I assumed that comment had to do with the earlier conversation about trucks.

well, only found 6 d's so no HOET

8:36 am

There is no joy in Mudville

HOET! just made up a set that took

of course no definition

8:38 am

an 8! i found an 8!

incredible

8:39 am

Monkeypox? Seriously? Haven't we got enough to deal with about COVID?

8:40 am

i don't think viruses care how much we have to deal with

8:41 am

any stats and clues for 7s or 8s welcome.

8:41 am

ma8 person who decrees that it must be so

8:42 am

Of course viruses don't care, it was a rhetorical question.

8:42 am

ty hurshy. thinking.

thanks hursh

8:44 am

The other 8 is an ro and people who live around DC should be very familiar with it

8:44 am

thanks, hurshy

8:44 am

and mooly

8:45 am

Molly.

8:45 am

name that proper noun! phylicia rashad's husband

hmm, I'm too slow this morning for either. maybe later.

ahmad

8:46 am

ding ding ding!!!

8:46 am

well not getting the ma 8. darn. slow day

8:46 am

Carla, most capitol buildings have them under the dome.

what about the people who don't live around DC? ah, thanks, bea

madhat, ain't that what the tea party participant wore?

8:48 am

hello...help with the ps7 please?

I just knew there was going to be a pesky ps word

not sure how I missed the obvious ones though

8:49 am

p + pink fish

thanks, bichon

8:50 am

ty bichon

8:50 am

different spelling of the fish though.

8:50 am

great clue bichon

8:51 am

ty mkg

8:51 am

nope. not getting either 8. darn.

the ro8 is like a little fat, round building

8:53 am

in alice and wonderland, they had a tea party. the mad hatter referred to the fact that hats were dyed and the lead in them made the hatters, the people who worked with the dyes, go insane. lead in the dyes would cause this. the dyes were toxic.

8:54 am

at least i think this is what the story was.

8:54 am

ps5 23: The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want.

8:55 am

name that proper noun! who's the boss star

8:55 am

well the ma 8 is not at all coming to me. nor is the ro and i live near DC. so not getting it at all. hm. blocked brain today

8:55 am

Nope, that is not how the phrase came to be. It has to do with hat making with mercury in the 18th century

danza

8:56 am

Danza

hold me closer tony danza

8:56 am

ding ding ding!!!

8:56 am

got the ro words!!!!!!!!!!!! think of the capitol building.

you must've missed where bea said that earlier

8:57 am

Like Bea said

8:57 am

guess so carla.

8:57 am

apologies.

8:58 am

mkg you might get more of the clues if you actually read the responses in the chat

8:58 am

i see what you mean about the D, hokie

yeah, the whole middle column is bad. I need 5 T, 6 M, 7 H, 8 D. but just one U.

9:01 am

bones

no, I just need one U

9:01 am

ohh i see, sorry, did not read carefully

I keep trying undam but it's not that 🤣

also not unsad

9:02 am

should be though. we can totally remove a dam.

I know!

9:03 am

But you can't unring a bell so you can't unslam a door

so hurshy, I found these HP books in Kindle Unlimited that are bios of characters. pretty interesting reading if you are a series fan.

also can't unslap someone, ask will smith

9:04 am

Ms Managed!

9:04 am

Is it more stuff that was never in the stories, like Dumbledore being gay?

I've only read McGonagall's and am on Lupin's right now.

but it is stuff not in the stories, just extra details about their upbringing and stuff before coming to hogwarts

I'd love to know more about dumbledore's brother being a goat #$%#$. 🤣🤣

9:06 am

McGonagall is one of those characters that you can't believe was ever a kid, lol

yeah

9:15 am

hm. got to genius without finding a pangram :(

9:15 am

me, too

9:16 am

ohh, just got it!

I found the pangram early but just at nice

9:17 am

woot, me too thanks welki! lol

now genius, pretty easy today

only 6 words left for queen bee. guess I will go for it today.

would love to know what indica and indicia are from yesterday, more why were they included?

9:29 am

indicia are things that indicate, i believe

9:29 am

never seen indica, but merriam-webster says it is a variety of cannabis

my point is both words are odd inclusions since he excludes way more common words

9:31 am

yeah go figure

only 2 words left now for queen bee. I don't know if I'll find them or not.

44 left here. guess I will try to do something productive for a while.

9:33 am

the version of the bee that i found elsewhere only goes up to genius

also, dickie not included. everyone knows that is a fake turtleneck.

9:33 am

queen bee means all the words there are?

yes

9:33 am

how many are there today?

38

9:34 am

ok wow then i need 7 more for that

I already tried making innkeeper a verb 😜

9:37 am

i was annoyed that "kipped" didn't count, it's british slang for slept

well, he definitely doesn't include british slang

9:38 am

well i mean how do you decide when a word is slang and when it isn't, anyway?

9:39 am

i still need 3 there but i found a ke4 that you might not have

it's all very arbitrary. the editor is a guy in his 20s who picks and chooses the words allowed.

yeah, just found a weird one

9:41 am

There are some omissions on his list that really aggravate me.

9:41 am

*from his list, rather

me too

but then it really aggravates me more when he includes ridiculous ones

9:43 am

It would be nice if SB and Babble both used the Scrabble dictionary. Then at least we would know what we were dealing with.

9:44 am

name that proper noun! a planet(?)

pluto

9:46 am

ding ding ding!!!

9:46 am

SB?

you missed my orange truck tree company, hurshy

9:47 am

Sorry, ru. Folks were talking about the Spelling Bee, so I just abbreviated it.

lol, I had no idea what ruru was asking

9:47 am

oh i missed that

9:48 am

thanks O

9:48 am

orange truck tree company???

yes, a neat proper noun in the grid

9:49 am

i'm not sure i know any tree companies

no trees up there?

9:51 am

we have trees but all the companies that deal with cutting them seem to be small, local kinds of companies

ok, it's Asplundh

9:53 am

wow, yeah, never heard of that

wow

9:54 am

90%, woot!

10:05 am

what's for breakfast ori.. cold chicken toast? :D

10:07 am

Ha! No, you can only do that with piccata :D

10:12 am

good morning everyone :)

10:12 am

good morning nan

10:12 am

Hi, nan

10:13 am

LOL.. i've been picturing you eating saffron chicken for breakfast

10:14 am

If I only had that garlic herb butter ...

10:14 am

I eat stuff like that for breakfast.

10:14 am

oh god..

10:15 am

another one

10:15 am

I love a cold hamburger.

10:15 am

He won't even eat cold pizza for breakfast

10:15 am

yikes

10:16 am

hey! in Italy they serve it hot

10:16 am

they would know

10:16 am

Cold fried chicken ... yum!

10:18 am

Julia Child just rolled over in her grave

10:18 am

cold fried chicken is delish

10:18 am

omg there's a zillion of you guys

10:18 am

ntpn - czech capital

10:19 am

We're everywhere, ru. Join us.

10:19 am

lol

10:19 am

not ever ugh

10:20 am

cold chicken is better than cold pizza

10:22 am

agreed. i have enjoyed cold poultry but i always reheat pizza

10:24 am

I can eat sliced cold chicken breasts in a salad ... FOR DINNER.. .but not for breakfast.. that's just barbaric

10:25 am

I'm savage 😀

10:25 am

I saw that .. yep

10:25 am

I could eat the chicken but not the salad for breakfast

10:25 am

Someone is a little uptight about breakfast choices

10:26 am

I also love breakfast for supper

10:26 am

um.. a little..

10:26 am

I eat it with my hands and I am usually am standing with the door of the fridge open

10:26 am

I might go out to the car and have some baguette and cheese.

10:26 am

i think of cold chicken as like a picnic lunch food

10:26 am

oh bea you're a savage too

10:26 am

HAHAHA ori

10:26 am

I am.

10:27 am

I was afraid to wipe off the dashboard in case you ate my arm

10:27 am

With this heat, we have been having cold chicken and salads for dinner.

10:29 am

I guess Ru never has pie for breakfast either. Shame.

10:30 am

Oh, yes. Pie for breakfast!

10:30 am

uh nope

10:30 am

I eat things like toast, scrambled eggs, omelets, bacon, cereal, oatmeal ... ya know.. that kind of stuff

10:30 am

Pie is my go-to breakfast the day after Thanksgiving.

10:31 am

I'm with bea - cold meats and salads for this heat

10:31 am

nan.... your heat is a nice day here in Napa :D

10:32 am

95 is about 20 degrees too warm for me

10:32 am

And I'm sure you eat all that "approved breakfast food" at a duly appointed place setting with a cloth napkin.

10:32 am

hey ori momoa is almost in the grid

10:32 am

yes molly with my fork on the left

10:32 am

Speaking of savages

10:32 am

:D

10:33 am

uh watch it molly.. there are jason lovers around here

10:33 am

He played a savage in Game of Thrones

10:34 am

Mmmm ... Mamoa

10:34 am

oh.. I never watched game of thrones

10:34 am

I've never seen him act come to think of it

10:34 am

He is a little too "gamey" for me

10:35 am

I think ori would love him for breakfast

10:35 am

Cold or hot

10:36 am

LOL

10:36 am

with lemon and capers

10:36 am

Guess that proper noun...Girl Scout cookie (a fine choice for breakfast)

10:36 am

Oooooh

10:37 am

samoa

10:37 am

Ding Ding! Hokie wins a box of Samoas.

10:37 am

don't see sawdust in the grid

10:38 am

did y'all know girl scouts have 2 different bakeries and they cookies are the same but with different names? i think samoas are coconut delights or something.

10:38 am

Nan, Girl Scout cookies don't taste like sawdust

10:38 am

*the cookies

10:38 am

they do to me -- like they forgot the butter

10:39 am

Une's boyfriend is in the grid too NTPN

10:39 am

I am talking about Girl Scout cookies. Not Girl Guide cookies. Two very different things.

10:39 am

maybe nan gets the other bakery than what we get here on the east coast

10:41 am

they tasete like Dare cookies here - which also are dry and tasteless, other than the icing in the middle which is mostly just sugar, flavoring and water

10:41 am

I only buy the somosa (sp?) when the kids come to my door. I don't buy from them outside the grocery store

10:41 am

oh, it's caramel delites instead of samoas

10:41 am

All the Girl Guides sell are chocolate and vanilla sandwich cookies and thin mints.

10:42 am

oh samoas

10:42 am

that's what we ge, molly - I will buy the thin mints just to support them, but not the sandwich cookies

10:42 am

just found a map, looks like molly's may be different than mine.

10:43 am

and girl guides is a thing? I thought that was from the 50s. never heard of it being real since I've been alive and never seen any cookies from them.

10:43 am

I just give the scouts money. That way I am not tempted by the cookies.

10:43 am

Girl Guides are Canada's version of Girl Scouts

10:44 am

I do that with the boy scouts and popcorn.

10:44 am

Boy scout popcorn is AWFUL. I always give them money instead of buying.

10:44 am

all of them are under the same umbrella I think

10:45 am

All this talk of inappropriate breakfast foods has made me hungry. I'm going to go eat something cold normally made for dinner :D

10:45 am

I was pack treasurer a couple of years when my boys did cub scouts. there was a grandmother in charge of the popcorn sales and she was called the popcorn colonel. still makes me laugh.

10:45 am

I didn't think the popcorn was bad, just expensive.

10:45 am

LOL!

10:47 am

I'm not getting anywhere with this grid -- still can't find that lone a

10:47 am

well in the US the GS cookies are made by Little Brownie Bakers and ABC Bakers. I've always lived where it's Little Brownie. https://tinyurl.com/3x7j224p

10:47 am

because it's really a proper noun, nan

10:47 am

stats?

10:48 am

am6/36

10:48 am

am6.36

10:48 am

Not when it is used to describe a woman

10:48 am

ty for the A.

10:48 am

that's why I said earlier similar to adonis

10:48 am

I could go for one of those right now

10:50 am

only one I see is Amanda

10:50 am

See how one person's comment can totally misconstrue your comment? Now people think Ru is going for an adonis.

10:50 am

oh of course - got it

10:51 am

Think of tall, strong women Nan

10:51 am

not a name nan. an online bookseller.

10:51 am

the lone "a'" is am6/36

10:51 am

Not a woman's name, nan. A type of woman BIG woman

10:51 am

also describes a large woman

10:51 am

hey, ru can go for an adonis if he wants

10:52 am

I think we have the large, tall, strong, huge woman thing down

10:52 am

can anyone tell me what this word is describing???

10:53 am

No, and it's time for someone to clue it again

10:54 am

weekly coffee gabfest in an hour, so think I will list now

10:56 am

<---looks up amazon match.com

10:57 am

think a huge website you buy things from maybe

10:58 am

that D is tough.

10:58 am

still need 8 D's

10:59 am

10 here

10:59 am

there's a set that is an alt sp of the "comedian" who uses a ventriloquist dummy

10:59 am

I use quotes because I don't think he's funny at all

11:00 am

what was his name? charlie mccarthy?

11:00 am

jeff dunam

11:00 am

dunham?

11:00 am

current guy

11:01 am

hah

11:01 am

yes, ru

11:01 am

I actually know that word - should have had it. middle eastern unit of land area

11:01 am

now that is a dead giveaway 🤣

11:01 am

I never heard of the comedian though.

11:02 am

no def on the link, so thanks for sharing

11:02 am

got another 5/6

11:02 am

ends with male.

11:02 am

thanks, also weird

11:03 am

There are three dh

11:03 am

my nephew did his phd in hyrax communication

11:03 am

I tried all kinds of dh this morning

11:03 am

ah got 2 - ty bea

11:04 am

got the d words only because I had the stats and monkeys that decided to work

11:04 am

The dh is a 6

11:05 am

other

11:05 am

got it!

11:05 am

Middle eastern unit of land measure is a word you have committed to memory? Oy

11:05 am

I've spent alot of time in Israel - the lots are measured in du6

11:06 am

Oh good, at least you have a frame of reference for it then

11:06 am

Has any one done the NTPN - First Lady?

11:07 am

eve?

11:07 am

Martha...hello all...

11:07 am

let's hear more about this dh6...

11:07 am

hi pen!

11:07 am

dingdingding

11:08 am

funny harry

11:08 am

double vowel

11:08 am

hey pen

11:08 am

you're good at ribbing

11:08 am

hi harry...., bea, ru.....

11:08 am

carla!....

11:08 am

you're so bad, ru

11:08 am

well adam is there too :)

11:08 am

pen!

11:10 am

39 left - 4-15-15-5 - usual look for the grids I struggle with - heavy in the 5s and 6s.

11:10 am

48 here. will bbl

11:10 am

Slammo looks like something you would see in a Batman cartoon

11:11 am

morning all

11:11 am

oh, found a 5/6

11:11 am

moo!

11:12 am

hi mool

11:12 am

hey hoke, how's your tuesday going?

11:12 am

hi nan...hi mool....

11:12 am

hi molly...

11:12 am

this is a tough one

11:12 am

hey nan, good to see you here

11:12 am

same as monday, having trouble getting motivated

11:12 am

ah

11:12 am

well I had road construction at around 7am to motivate me

11:13 am

it was like 82F earlier, now up to 88. why do I do this??

11:14 am

well, I just now got a 6 from an 8 earlier. why do I do this??

11:15 am

100 to go

11:16 am

36

11:16 am

104 here...

11:16 am

hey pen

11:19 am

well, I've had enough for now. PS - made it to queen bee. I did check the list for the last word which I don't usually do, but was so close.

11:19 am

BBL

11:20 am

cool....

11:20 am

bye...

11:20 am

very nice, I think I might be able to get there, 35 words so far

11:21 am

38 total, was very fast this morning

11:21 am

yeah, I got there in about 5-10 minutes

11:40 am

even with the list I don't see that ma 8 I've been looking for ever since ru called it last night

11:41 am

it's the only 8 i have...

11:41 am

a normal word? or discipline specific?

11:41 am

an order is a ma***e.....add a one who ending (not the common one)....

11:42 am

should be ma****e...

11:42 am

ty pen

11:42 am

yw...

11:42 am

what are the stats for the other 8?..

11:42 am

ro8

11:43 am

ty, molly...

11:44 am

I am certain that moonart is a word

11:45 am

Really? What does it mean? The google doodles of the moon submitted by third graders?

11:45 am

of course, art made by craters on the moon

11:46 am

no moon doodles by professional "artists" who paint like 3rd graders

11:46 am

Molly, great idea......one I didn't think of when teaching 3rd grade all those years :)

11:46 am

Surely that kind of word emerged after the ancient Enable word list was last updated.

11:48 am

Sophie, I was a third grade teacher as well.

11:49 am

I taught grades 3-7, but mostly grade 4

11:50 am

loved taking them from the spoonfed stage to being capable of doing some research on their own.

11:51 am

huh, I get a message that "spam" does not exist in this puzzle when... it clearly does

11:51 am

it doesn't say "was not found in the dictionary". That's odd

11:52 am

Long story there, mael

11:52 am

I noticed that, too

11:52 am

omg, how have you been here this long and never seen the spam discussion, mael?

11:53 am

wow, really? I've been here ten years!

11:53 am

i always try it but I've never noticed it was odd like that

11:53 am

off for coffee hour - 30 to go

11:53 am

it comes up literally every time it's in the grid, which is often

11:53 am

hah, wow

11:54 am

bye nan...

11:54 am

I must not pay enough attention

11:54 am

when enable was made it was only a proper noun so not included. legend has it dr. god tried to add it to the game but then it just says it doesn't exist.

11:55 am

i love me a good legend

11:55 am

some years back a player said she was writing a paper (dissertation?) on the culture of babble....wonder if she ever finished that...

11:59 am

A dissertation on the culture of a word game chat board?

12:00 pm

yes, i guess....not sure if it was a dissertation....memory is spotty....

12:00 pm

I mean, it's valuable insight into the psyche of people :)

12:00 pm

it is sort of like a community that has evolved over time....with rules, language oddities, etc....

12:01 pm

There are some psyches here that could be the entire focus of the paper

12:01 pm

I think it's cool, personally

12:01 pm

i think it was more of a sociological study,..

12:02 pm

yeah, I said psyche but I meant more the social aspect of it

12:10 pm

It is one of the remaining internet communities from when internet communities first started. There have been babies born, children grown and gone, deaths of long time players.

12:10 pm

yes...relatively long history....

12:12 pm

I can see writing a sociology paper on it but it is not in-depth enough for a dissertation.

12:13 pm

in depth is a matter of research, though

12:17 pm

I can see using Babble as an example of the changing culture of the internet, but not as the sole topic of a dissertation. For one thing, there is no way to "research" Babble

12:21 pm

I mean, like any other sociological research

12:21 pm

you interview players

12:21 pm

you look up stats and dates and trends

12:22 pm

Okay mael. You win. When you find a sociology professor who will accept that as research, let me know.

12:23 pm

why is this an argument?...

12:23 pm

also, chat logs can be accessed for past dates....i am sure those could be analyzed....it's just an interesting thought to me....

12:23 pm

It's not. It's a disagreement.

12:24 pm

I only mean that it's possible to research an online community, nothing more

12:24 pm

"research" is just gathering information in a diligent way

12:25 pm

I've read plenty of dissertations on fan communities, for example, it's a popular topic

12:25 pm

i am down to 52....need a break....bbl to finish....bye all....

12:26 pm

bye pen!

12:28 pm

Have you read a dissertation on one specific fan community? That is all I was saying. Fan communities is a broad topic. A dissertation solely on Babble is too narrow a scope. Just my opinion.

12:29 pm

yes? they have dissertations even on ONE single fanfic, never mind fan communities. You can find something to write about anything, really :)

12:32 pm

because the dissertation wouldn't be about babble qua babble, it would be about how babble reflects X or Y trends in social media use and what the author thinks it proves about internet audiences or whatever

12:33 pm

I wouldn't write it. but I can absolutely see a fascinating dissertation there :)

12:37 pm

That is what I meant. The dissertation wouldn't be about Babble (too narrow a scope) but use Babble as an example of those X and Y trends. That is what I have been saying all along.

12:41 pm

but that's a dissertation about babble

12:41 pm

in that the research would be about the babble community

12:41 pm

then you talk about how that relates to the world, but again, that's any dissertation

12:43 pm

Didn't you just say it wouldn't be a dissertation about Babble?

12:44 pm

sure, not about "Babble is an online game! let me tell you about babble!" and nothing else

12:44 pm

but no dissertation is just descriptive, right? It's always an analysis

12:45 pm

otherwise it's not a dissertation

12:46 pm

I just think it's possible to research, well, anything. There is data and there are logs, you could track plenty of things if you wanted.

12:47 pm

as someone who's read a lot of the early chat, I think a great story could be told about the society here and how it's changed over the years, as well as the how gameplay, etiquette, and rules have evolved to what it is today.

12:48 pm

but I'm not a researcher nor a dissertation writer or reader

12:50 pm

what I'm saying is there's a buttload of info for almost 20 years here

12:50 pm

clue please for the pr 7

12:51 pm

sorry, not on P yet

12:51 pm

guess that's my missing P

12:55 pm

got the other PRs working

12:57 pm

i have a pr 7...want clue?

12:58 pm

Yes please

12:58 pm

got it, no idea how to clue it

12:58 pm

it's like being FOR (not against) a memo....ends in a vowel...

12:59 pm

thanks

1:00 pm

yw...

1:00 pm

Thank you both

1:00 pm

yw...

1:02 pm

Carla you are the only one I know who has read over the entire chat log from 2004 to present.

lol, I haven't read all that, just a lot in the beginning and then I tried to find what years I took my long hiatus and never could.

1:04 pm

67 left taking a break

I'm going rollerblading. TTFN

1:06 pm

bye, carla...

1:06 pm

You don't know the years you didn't play?

129 words and not one 7. not wven a prospect

1:11 pm

i have 141 words and one 7....not much better...

1:11 pm

145 words and one 7 and one 8

anyone here play nyt spelling bee?

1:12 pm

yes, we both do

it looks as if it reverts to the free bee the next day, but am not sure if that is the case or if the free one has a different puzzle

i've also found a totally free bee

1:14 pm

Not sure

1:15 pm

i don't know anything about the free Bee at the NY Times...i am a games subscriber....

1:15 pm

9-14-13-6-1 Not looking good

1:16 pm

i am stalled at 50...

1:16 pm

40 left here now...puttering along

https://nytimes-spellingbee.com/

https://freebee.fun/

1:18 pm

i play the bee every day at the NY Times as a subscriber...

1:18 pm

me too

1:18 pm

well only sometimes on weekends

but no way to tell if it's actually the same game free the next day

1:20 pm

all you have to do is ask for yesterday's pangram or letters....

just checked out today, it looks like piked with a c and an n

1:21 pm

or compare what you have for letters today....

1:21 pm

today is PICKEND...

that is what i see in free bee. how many words? do they tell you how many there should be>

1:22 pm

I'm told there are 38

1:23 pm

you can see that by clicking on Today's Hints....38 words today....and one pangram....

i got genius at 31/98

1:23 pm

up to 35 so far

1:23 pm

36 so far :)

working on the pangram now. sometimes they are obvious, not today

1:24 pm

i am at 34 but don't have the pangram yet...

1:24 pm

Genius was 95 points it appears

the site says it's yesterday's game

1:24 pm

135 points today...

1:24 pm

I also don't have the pangram yet

1:24 pm

maybe it can see into the future

1:25 pm

Managed to find the pangram very early

1:25 pm

mine says it's the bee for today's date...

1:26 pm

yep, August 2nd

1:26 pm

maybe you're in the future TO

1:26 pm

30 to go

okay i got it. moo, a distinct possibility

1:27 pm

taking another break....bye all...

1:27 pm

oh, found another 7

1:27 pm

not a regular word tho

1:28 pm

yeah, I'm at genius without the pangram, that rarely happens

well i put the url in here. that's what i use, found it while googling for a free clone

1:28 pm

maybe it's the same thing then

do not know why, but glad. i really like free bee because you can play anytime with a random game

36/128. but still no 7s here.

break time. later happy babbling and some 7s

1:35 pm

I've got no sevens here either, today

1:49 pm

I have two 7s pr 7 and ps 7

1:59 pm

and now a ro 7 36

2:00 pm

make that a 7/8 combo

rehi, made it back from rollerblading. didn't die, did burn up.

2:21 pm

The Bee, Free Bee. what's next? Fris Bee?

just tried tomahto just in case the enable guys know the famous song

2:27 pm

Quilting Bee?

2:29 pm

BeeBee? Take a "shot" at it.

2:30 pm

Wanna Bee? (For people who only think they are good with words)

went to list, first 2 are words I would have never ever tried

wonder if the other 33 are like this

2:37 pm

hi again

hey nan

2:37 pm

help with lone A please/ hi all

2:37 pm

A better dissertation would explore the psychology of people who continue playing a word game based on an outdated word list. 😊

2:38 pm

Peri, they deliver your packages

2:38 pm

Carla, get ready with your adonis comment.

no, i'm tired of discussing this one today

trying to find to7

2:39 pm

for $11/mo. you get free delivery and prime

2:39 pm

I have one 7. do not have either 8.

2:40 pm

tough grid for me

nan has quite the lag up there in canada. I have noticed that before.

2:40 pm

to7?

this is a tough one for me too, peri

sorry, ta7

and I know the 3rd letter but can't get it

2:42 pm

All I can think in the way of a clue is Tibet and Bob Segar

hmm, perhaps I will look it up, thx

2:43 pm

pr 7 please?

2:43 pm

Like the capital of Nepal,it ends like that

2:44 pm

For prefix + word for a musical symbol (sharp, minor, etc) with a different last vowel

couldn't remember the capital, but looked it up and saw the word and immediately knew based on that, thx

2:46 pm

thank you, Molly

2:46 pm

mmmm - sharp, flat, major, minor, key, clef, note - can't think of anything else

2:46 pm

variant on that last on, nan, also a 4 letter word the ending.

2:47 pm

oh - got it

2:47 pm

ty molly

2:49 pm

first am6 please

2:51 pm

got it and now I get Mollys clue ty

2:52 pm

It was noallt clear because

2:52 pm

not clear because all my packages do not come from them.

3:01 pm

ps 7 please?

3:03 pm

not unlike ps5 and 6, if changing one letter.

3:05 pm

got it - ty seain

3:05 pm

*!*~*!* a huge number of new words for me today

3:06 pm

any clues wanted before I leave?

3:08 pm

hagd everyone :)

3:50 pm

Peri, how many packages do you get from another company that starts with am?

3:53 pm

And Nan guessed the no4 but didn't put it together with the prefix and a different vowel ending. Hard to clue for this crowd today.

4:15 pm

if anyone is still out there, clue please for the al 7

4:21 pm

Nancy - it works off of the al4.. would be someone who collects the al4

4:23 pm

which al 4, there are two

4:24 pm

ty, got it ibu

4:40 pm

18 to go...another slog

4:53 pm

slog, indeed!

4:58 pm

still 18 :)

4:59 pm

and 11 of them are from that center column

5:00 pm

unsad - happy

5:01 pm

roadham - roadkill

5:04 pm

ah, a word

5:06 pm

on a roll, down to 15

5:06 pm

i’m down to 86 :)

5:07 pm

ah, I feel for you

5:07 pm

3-3-5-2-1

5:09 pm

i have a friend whose surname is sp5.12

5:10 pm

yeah, I tried asplund/h for a similar reason

5:10 pm

Asplundh is a major Virgina DOT contractor for traffic signals.

5:11 pm

right

5:11 pm

and I believe they might make some heavy machinery too?

5:11 pm

yes, i think so.

5:11 pm

bright orange trucks

5:11 pm

yeah

5:12 pm

still have three 4s, but they elude me

5:12 pm

nm, there's one

5:12 pm

just figured out the not-intuitive-to-me method of dismissing calendar notifications on iPad

5:13 pm

ah

5:13 pm

not sure I have any calendar notifications on my ipad

5:14 pm

I’ve long coordinated my calendar across devices.

5:16 pm

yeah, I have it on my phone...but not ipad

5:18 pm

oh yikes, an easy 4 I'd missed

5:18 pm

had the plural too

5:19 pm

i hate when i do that

5:22 pm

6 of my last 8 tiles have a single word remaining, which suggests a lot of one-off words...*sigh*

5:23 pm

and still haven't found the lone a

5:28 pm

am7 comes from there like a river.

5:34 pm

oh, thanks

5:34 pm

10 to go

awaiting a boring overlong zoom meeting...

5:53 pm

may it go quickly, TO

bot a chance

oops, not a chance

can you get into zoom before the start time?

6:10 pm

sometimes, yes. Up to 15 min before if the set it that way. If they enabled waiting room, you’ll be there until they admit you.

i hate this meeting.

can they see that i am on another tab???

seain, do you work for VDOT?

Huh?

life is good

8:38 pm

I entered a word in Babble, and it is valid [shows up in and shows 191 words, but it doesn't show up in the word list as entered--even after trying 6 times...what gives, and how to fix?

8:41 pm

Maybe try refreshing the page (or closing it and then reopening it), then re-enter it if it still isn't in the list.

8:42 pm

Jason, sign out of the game then reenter.

8:44 pm

gotcha

8:45 pm

yay--thank you very much...it worked

9:58 pm

DC, Asphlund are tree experts in big Shiny Shiny orange trucks (got a little "Judge Judy" there, lol!)

11:21 pm

Apparently, they have a subsidiary that also deals with traffic signals

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