February 28, 2023
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174 total words
dr 7
re7
Re8
re 8
re7 x 2
re7 x 3!
For want of pe7/44 clue, the game was lost, alas. GOID night.
ohhh. g'night Temple Owl
crafter
shoot... oh well...thats a cr7...sigh
oh phew...its not there...lol
re7 x 4!
No internet. On phone. Tough one. Phone ready to die.
No rodent labyrinths!
nbt, nbs
i'm that top A away from nbt nbs
re7 x 5
Clues are up
the top A is ar 8
huh. thanks for that
yw
and... night, all!
Night, Freep
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ty rain - thought that was spelled with an i
cat on a keyboard ?
yw Nan, it's the British spelling
No new Javanese puppy.....
nbt, nbs and hoet - time to crash :) Good night everyone and thanks for the calls.
Wow! CA 7/48 ! (and plural) Gonna be a good day!
okay for the kitty, but not the rodent
hello all
just noticed the clock is missing for the chat
ca7 another 'no result. s found'
I see the time stamp on every chat message
must be my machine then - thx
it has never shown my time zone, however, always an hour off.
scroll to the right
Duh! Thanks, Harry
:)
Deeha, I have a CA 7 and 8
first pass, 39 to go. just missing that top A
its a relic, Harry
it's a8
well that explains it
weird spelling - ty both
yeah, I thought it used an i (eye) not e
it's the british spelling
30 to go now. have a nice day all!
morning all
I just try all proper old timey names at this point, most of them are words
this brought to you by the be6
hi kiani, how's it going?
hey lindy
hi mael. thanks for the be6
yw :)
Not that old-timey. She was one of the Butt Sisters 😊
Oh dear, blown chat.
I think we're almost out of it Molly
good morning all
hi sukee
morning
hah, we call our 8 year old daughter be7, though I forget how we started it
FW
delay start for the kids today, we got some snow (but not enough to have a delayed start, imho)
We got lots of snow and freezing rain all night
the mixing is the worst
have a great day everyone!
hi aslindy - it goes ok.
currently cold in my office and I took my blanket home to wash and forgot to bring it back
bummer. how's grover?
doing pretty well!
ate wet food last night finally, but had been eating the kibble before that.
we introduced him to Luna, Star, Blizz, and Nova yesterday (one at a time). He was a bit curious about Nova
wow, that's great!
Star got a little freaked out. Everyone else was fine.
he slept on Urchin's bed all night instead of the closet
we're thinking - keep bringing him and Nova together, and also slowly introduce the rest of them over the next few days. Also start doing little times in the rest of the house while the others are in my bedroom
will be several weeks' process
sounds like a good plan
Are these all dogs?
cats
well, Urchin is my sister :)
phantom fracas
it's bad enough that one who passes gas isn't a word, but one who makes things (cr5) is not a word? so, so random.
He who smelt it dealt it
I agree carla-tried them both too
and so random when a A is added to the front of a word too, like the af 6/30
ty for the af6! 19 to go
classtime!
Mr. Hood is off to to the Walter White thing
50 left here. can't find the upper A for HOET. don't like this grid either.
yes I've not been able to find it either but heard it's an ar 8
Don't you only need half of it for half on every tile 😊
I would clue it, but you know, bot
ah, of course it's a big one
I will say it is not a weird word
is it a compound word?
not weird to whom?
No
I am more than sure you know it Carla
does it start like old people feel it in their bones?
First three
hey! i resemble that remark! 'morning, all
And they feel it in their joints.
I was just thinking my grandmother would say something like "I feel it all the way down in my bones"
ends in not fiction
(you'd likely spell that word with a different vowel in the middle)
thanks luv, hadn't even found that word yet
yeah, that's not how I'd usually spell it
The grid version is the Brit spelling
I'm surprised their version doesn't have a bunch of useless vowels
lol
ooh, found another 8
having a hard time with Wordle today. Decided to go back to it after a break to have a fresh look
FW's here so back I go. HAGD everyone
I got Wordle in 5, but it took some thinking
yeah, also took me 5 and a lot of thinking
bottom row gray
ah found that af6
well, leaving 30 for later. TTFN
too bad we don't have an OR on the bottom row
good morning everyone :)
hi nan....lurking here... ;o)
gm all from snowing Montréal...
hi, monty....snowing a little here as well...
ugh! woke up to a heavy hoar frost, but no snow
snow forecast for the rest of the week...sigh...
expecting more here later, too....two more this week...
any snow we get now is lake effect and only within a half mile of the shore.
but march 11 is around the corner, for the time change
1st pass done - no HOET - bbl for last 34 - have a great day nan and pen and all other babblers
bye, monty...
snowing here in alberta, too
hi and bye welki !
hi welki...
later, monty
hi pen
bye mtl
are you back to home welki?
yep, for about two weeks now
no wonder the Arizona economy is now in a down trend, you guys left :D
true enough, but we're supporting alberta's economy. need more payload, so off to bigger truck-land
not going back to the states until they get the guns off the streets --- too much violence for me
sadly, that's not going to happen in our lifetime Nan
I wonder how many mass shootings it will take to finally pass some gun law regulations that mean something
I hope you are wrong ruru - maybe not in mine, but hopefully yours.
it's bad on both sides of the border
that said, we're volunteering at the sportsman's show this coming weekend
At least we don't have a bunch of people with assault weapons in their trucks running around
sure we do
maybe in Alberta, but not here
and if they have them they are illegal
don't you live in kelowna? just did a cursory search and saw a gang related shooting there in 2021
it's all over, nan. doesn't matter where you live, there's gun violence. rare or not, it exists everywhere.
one in how many years and what kind of guns? Thankfully the police closed down the last two hells angels houses last month.
but we don't have people shooting up schools, malls and theatres on a daily basis.
you say that with authority - we've been through this before. gun violence exists everywhere. regardless of whether it's a daily or rare occurrence, it exists. you choose to travel or choose to stay at home, but once again, please stop the america bashing
The NRA is a powerful lobby. It obviously won't take any number of school shootings to get guns off the street. We met our quota long ago
true enough
not bashing america -- just don't like the onlgun control down there. If it were up to me only police, the military and wildlife control would have access to guns. The civilian population doesnt need them. It's not like we live in a hunter/gatherer society.
what a lovely set of R words we have today! i still have two more to find, but it's been so pleasant finding the rest
oh got one of my two!
also a nice word!
you don't, but some do. there is a big population of folks who rely on hunting for sustenance.
thank you welki
got the last one! yes, lovely Rs
I don't know if it is America bashing. Did you know that last Saturday was supposed to be a Day of Hate against Jews, called by some white supremacists, but as far as I know nothing happened. Every Jewish facility had extra police guards. Who wants to live this way?
America has this thing called the second amendment.
I don't know how just making it illegal for civilians to have guns will keep guns out of criminals' hands
If they can afford the guns and ammo, they can afford food. There is all kinds of assistance available to those living below the poverty line, and there are lots of industries looking for workers right now - so that is still no excuse for owning a gun.
well hokie, you might look at the countries that have gun control and compare their deaths by guns to ours :)
also, it's not like we just walk around with people shooting us all over the streets. USA is a very big country
but hurshy that doesn't tell me how they're going to get the guns from the criminals and keep them from getting more. you just basically said other countries do it but didn't tell me how we can.
yes, it is definitely hard to know how to FIX it now that there are so many guns out there
you're living in a box, nan. there are many thousands of indigenous, backwoods and simply poor people who hunt and fish to survive. bringing the cost of equipment into the equation is nonsensical. most have owned their gear for many years and, compared to a trip to the store for a season's worth of meat, you can't compare the cost
more guns than adults in the US
probably more cats, too :D
yes but cats are self-reproducing, lol
my point, welki - is that they do not have to shoot their own food. There are other means if the guns are gone.
sorry, but you're basing your opinion on personal bias. there's more to hunting than guns, and more to food than supermarkets.
I've been around a lot of hunters and everyone of them respect life.
hunters are not the problem
doesn't anyone want to join in my delight over R words in the midst of this serious conversation? LOVELY R WORDS!!
Yes I do not like guns. I was brought up to believe they are a means of destruction (my father was a police officer). And people living in rural areas that live an off the grid life are not using assault rifles and hand guns.
i'm missing one of them
i am missing two R words....
lol - hurshy - getting off my soap box now
...but will gleefully rejoice in your delight
there are no weird ones, everything is either 4 letters, a real word, or a babblet we have very very often
then why would you be against hunting, if as you say, the "rural" folks don't use assault and/or hand guns (and yes, some of them do, indeed)
I grew up in a rural area with a lot of hunters. I even had hunter's safety as part of PE when I was in high school. My dad and brothers had guns. Well, I had a couple too. Never occurred to us to use them for anything other than hunting or protection.
lol, just remembered it is legal to shoot fish in a river in my county. what do you think about that, welki?
I'm jumping in... there is no reason for Assault rifles to exist in society, other than the military I'd guess.
The second amendment applied to unorganized militia, not for random citizens to carry around in Walmart. The amendment was written after the Revolutionary War. Hunting is licensed. Nut to say that people don't need guns to hunt their food because there are all kinds of assistance programs is naive. This is a big country, but I do believe we are becoming hardened by the horrors of school shootings. If Sandy Hook didn't wake Congress up, then nothing will. That said, we are not addressing the cause of the causes. Why are so many people ending their own lives and the lives of others violently? What is the despair?
organized militia I meant
in Australia they had a mass shooting and took away everyone's guns. There hasn't been one since until just recently.
And I could never be a hunter. I couldn't kill a living creature with a weapon.
I firmly believe that if someone wants a gun, they will get one. Gun control or not.
I have never held a gun in my life. But I'm from New York.
stats for the lone top A?
We can't eliminate all harm but we can reduce the possibility of harm.
ar8.60
I would much rather see great access and affordability of mental health options than gun control.
And we can spend more time teaching our kids that violence is not the solution to their problems.
nope sorry
*Greater access
I agree Molly.
we should have an available shrink here at all times
A whole team of them
bea was that "nope sorry" intended to convey that the top A is not ar8.60 after all?
How about gun control and a better social safety net? Why does it have to be one or another?
The top A is ar8/60
I think it is the ar8
ok
hokie - i don't see the point in shooting fish (in a barrel, or in a river). i can see the news, "welki suffered a non-life threatening wound to her left buttocks when attempting to shoot a trout ... the bullet intended for the lucky fish ricocheted off a stone and penetrated welki's gluteus maximus"
And harm reduction support to those people who use substances to cope.
I guess welki if you had an assault rifle to shoot fish you'd have easy serve sushi?
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it's not a compound word by any chance, is it?
nah, you'd just end up feeding other fish. there'd be nothing left to serve
welki, I've always thought it's quite ridiculous. reading the statute now...you are allowed to shoot suckers, redhorse, and carp with a rifle in that river within the county limits for a month and a half per year. not sure how many people actually do it.
no and it is spelled differently than what we usually see
aHA thank you bea!!
hurshy, it is an alt sp. hopefully you can dig it up.
(cute hokie pun)
ahhh, so they're attempting to get rid of nuisance fish by target practice.
phantom: fracas
easier to catch them on a hook, but what do i know. maybe folks don't like killing the fish they catch - so shoot 'em with a rifle. LOL
funny that nobody mentioned the root of the US's gun problem in that whole conversation
funny that nobody mentioned the root of the US's gun problem in that whole conversation
dunno why that comment went through twice!
welki, this says the gun creates a concussion in the water that knocks them out instead of actually shooting them. https://tinyurl.com/3275at9h
Then they drown from being knocked out? :D
then, what's the point? sort of like tossing a lit stick of dynamite in the water
probably, ru
if they're concussed, easier to scoop them up in a net
(note to self, try not to stay in Alberta any time soon, too violent up there)
it doesn't say what happens next. I figured they just grab them with a net.
but hurshy, hokie's scenario is for river fishing - would depend on how far out you can wade
sounds like a "Hey, watch this!" moment :)
"hokie, hold my beer"
lol
i gotta get to work.. you guys all have a great day
I'm sure that scenario has played out many times
bye ruru
26 left - should get some things done before we have to venture out
I would guess there are many different opinions on what the root cause of the US gun problem is.
the profit motive and its relationship to politics
the NRA started out as an organization for gun owners, but later became an organization for the benefit of gun manufacturers. the average gun owner, unlike the NRA, is not against sensible measures like limiting the types of weapons allowed or the amount of ammo, requiring licensure and training, and various things. but anything that would reduce profits is not ok with the manufacturers. and they pay to make sure that nothing does so.
but they are happy when we argue about hunting and so forth rather than noticing that
Big Gun
yes
it's the same with pretty much every problem. until you get money out of politics, you can't do much.
statistics demontrate that it doesn't matter if 99% of the american public agrees on something and wants Congress to take a certain action - there is ZERO correlation between the public will and Congressional legislation. but there is a correlation between what the wealthy few want and what happens in government.
Sorry to intrude but if is the case (and I tend to agree) why don't more US citizens vote for Socialist candidates for office?
because we haven't GOT them
bernie sanders is the closest we've had
NONE?
even at local level?
one of the robber barons once said, "sure, let everybody vote! just so long as i control who's nominated"
yeah there's really not much in the way of socialist candidates anywhere that i've seen
when FDR was in office, people kept electing him...
but the campaign to make "socialist" a dirty word in the US has been very successful
I understand that to some extent given the origins of the States. But surely it must be dawning on a lot of people that a left wing (or even centrist) position is the only way forward. Perhaps among the young?
yes, there are more among the young, most likely. but the money in the political system, the revolving door between congress and the lobbyists, there's SO much that goes into maintaining the status quo
it's going to be extremely hard to shift
the more they let the middle class slide out of a decent standard of living, though, the more they risk a large revolt
I HOPE SO
*Puts on "Revolution" by The Beatles
researchers say that meaningful political change can happen with less than 3% of the population engaging in sustained peaceful protests... but, of course, we haven't got anywhere near that.
and "get money out of politics" doesn't inflame the passions and motivate protest as well as, say, racism and other things. but yet, it'd be easier to work on all those other things if we got money out of politics.
weirdest word of the day, a babblet we have occasionally: fr5/20.
well I do not have that weird word as yet
hello all
help with ar8 please
if you dig up an ancient piece of pottery, it is an ar8 (alt sp)
ty hurshy
Hello all I have a question. My words are not appearing in ABC order in my list. Plus, extra words are inserted that I did type, because they aren't in today's puzzle. Help!
ty hurshy
hm, have you tried refreshing the page?
after that the next step would be to quit and restart your brower i suppose
followed by restarting your whole computer
yes they are still there for example poop is there in the list ....... in the g words
*giggle*
clear the cache and history, that's another option to try
last week Wordle started over on me like I'd never played before, so I lost my percentage
yeah i had that happen when i installed the latest OS update :(
Ok I'll try again, but I've cleared everything. Have a feeling the next step is to start over and lose the 68 words I've found...... not counting Poop, of course :)
I'm taking it as a sgn to take Sophie to the dog park and come back later
Have a good day all
wow, that is weird, sophie. I eagerly await an update later.
thanks for the strange archaic word that I forgot about, hurshy
Strange archaic words are a Babble spesh-eee-ality
yesterday's grid was pretty bad. especially if you had to play it on an iphone
I can't play on a phone
I havehave done very little drawing or painting since the pandemic, but I have been writing a long piece. Writing is harder. Much much harder.
al servvices were out yesterday, i finished my book, and the dvd the library sent me turned out to be a blu ray.
Especially on a computer where you have to scroll and find that you have already written that paragraph. And everything I add to the original scaffolding I have to delete.
i read a bit of david sedaris but needed something else. for some odd reason, i cannot do housework at night.
good luck with that, kap.
Read Nora Ephron, not Sedaris. I knew Tiffany Sedaris. David wrote shit about her for years until she got an order for him to stop. She was homeless, couch surfing across the street from me a decade ago. She was an artist, working with glass. She would walk around begging people to tell her why her brother would write about her that way. She committed suicide. There is an improvised memorial for her on the bike path.
She talked to everyone.
Reread books you used to love.
Housework at night? Feh!
It's very personal what I wrote about Tiffany, but her brother used to publish about her filthy apartment in Somerville, MA, and her dirty feet. I decided he was a narcissist. He wrote about her after she was dead, a piece called "the Five of Us" in the New Yorker. No compassion when she needed help.
kap, i suspect if we could know many public figures personally, we would be appalled.
While you are digesting that sad story, or scrolling past it, I will pretend to straighten up the table.
hell, i suspect if we knew many people here persoanlly, we would be....off put.
This is true.
okay, kap, have a day.
It was just that he wrote about her so directly by name- he was publishing his humor at her expense. . Later.
it's the early stuff, not very funny anyway.
Kaplan, I am writing a very long piece as well. What I do is keep everything regarding that project on a thumb drive. Whenever I write, I send it to that. Because, stars above, if something bad happened to my computer, I would not be happy.
I've done the same thing with my recent book. Everything is on a flash drive, and ... a back-up flash drive.
one drive and google drive are also good options. I have had thumb drives fail.
Don't know if this will bring relief or cause angst, but over 300 new words have been added to dictionary dot com https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/28/us/\ndictionary-new-words-internet-culture-\ncec/index.html
well, it won't make a difference to this game
I suggest an external hard drive to save data you don't want to lose
Chat blown again. Please use tinyurl.com to paste urls in the chat.
I'm back for a minute, while we cool down a bit. Refreshed. Turned off. Restarted when we got back from doggo park. List is fine. Thanks for the assistance. :)
I think you should have left your wacky list as is 🤣
I just walked Winston. It is 77F here. I was overdressed.
72 here.....we will probably get snow in March to make up for it
yep
My writing is all in the cloud. Also I print drafts frequently because I can't read on the computer. I can't read on Kindle. I have paragraphs that I've taken out and put in and removed again. It's hard.
Oh boo and hiss to the snow in March predictors.🙄
17 here
10 here
11
what's my missing B
compound word?
I have 1x4, 3x5, 3x6
woman's name?
ty sophie!!!
that's the team at my daughter's school, and I missed it
you're welcome HH
also my last 71
8 to go. later all!
stats on the top row a?
the 8?
I guess so. I will look for an 8.
I don't look at the List anymore so I never really know.
look below, great clue maybe from Carla? AR
give a punny clue that doesn't give away the whole word.
what time Carla?
sorry, not punny........
something old dug up
ok.
I'm stuck on 2 Ms
a city and plural
mmmmmm wha that's a kiss I'm throwing from N'ville to you in DC
:)
Fireworks! Anyone need a clue?
Ask Seain!
brava on completing, Sophie
I'm not going to get it by monkeying
it isn't spelled correctly, IMO
OH OK it is spelled wrong
Hi all. Seventh day without power. Playing on my phone. Arrrgh
What! where are you Gwen?
Ice storm in Michigan knocked out power for days
In February? How awful.
Clue for ar8 please?
Ice storms in February are not
I'm in Michigan and it's about 35 to 45 degrees these days (Fahrenheit) . Glad to have friend letting us stay overnight
unuausual
Unusual
79 words to go. Hagn all
Well, I certainly hope going without power for 7 days is unusual in Michigan
cart
reach
*waving to the lurkers*....
hi hi. here to look for my last 8 words
go, harry....18 left now....
nice!
6
nice...trying to find my fours...
4 left. 3 fives and one 8
well i still have four 4s to find... :o(
and 12 other words, of course....
14 left now...slow going...
yes indeed
listing...
I went through the log to try to find some words, and got so bogged down in a discussion on gun control. I think I will list as well.
had to go to morewords for that (*$#& fr5
af6 clue please?
a + just off the vine or plant....
omg, i didn't see that H, serious H blindness
done.
thx pen
phew. tough ending there.
good night
congrats, harry....having trouble finding five letter words!...
down to two 5 letter words...
i was down to one last night at 5 till and could not find it. i asked for a clue but no one answered.
i would rather not play than lose by 1
bummer....
all the cable was out, no phone, no internet, no tv, all day. so i played on the phone.
it was very slow going@
yuck....snow here but everything else ok...
we had a coating last night, did not last long in the rain
much snow?
not where i am.....but we are getting two more storms this week....wed. night and fri/sat niight....sat's could be a big one...
i am done...finally....
anyone need anything before I go?
night
goodnight...
so i put in a ca7 word thinking no way but WAY!
I found that one in the litter box
that's a good one molly, pawsome!
help with af6 please
hello all, back to find my last 45
here for my last 174
69 left and I’m happy with how I’ve done today.It’s been a busy day , working on babble has helped keep me calm
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