12:00 am
VolleymomDee
flip
12:00 am
flosey
too big, I'm off to bed, goodnight all
12:00 am
MLFAN17
I had to refresh
12:00 am
grannyrose
nite flosey. and hi dee. decent size again, grid i mean
12:01 am
jmcnrick
wow that was quick for people to quit!
12:01 am
jmcnrick
bye flosey
12:01 am
Bugsaw
I will have to skip this one or tell my guests Christmas dinner will be a day late. Happy Babbling to you brave ones
12:01 am
jmcnrick
14 - 8s?
12:01 am
MLFAN17
lol Bugs
12:01 am
jmcnrick
what there is almost a week until christmas bugs!
12:02 am
VolleymomDee
hi dart, granny, freep, et all
12:02 am
justafreep
he8 x 2
12:02 am
justafreep
howdy, dee (and all)
12:02 am
pugmama763
AQ7 & EQ7
12:02 am
kimmtoats
g'night bugs, Merry merry!
12:03 am
grannyrose
phantom, intricate
12:04 am
MLFAN17
HE 6 as well
12:04 am
Twentynine Palms
ad8
12:05 am
MLFAN17
Must be the same i got freep the tr 7
12:07 am
jillibus
oops-- missed the flip!
12:07 am
MLFAN17
is it only one AQ 7 so far?
12:07 am
rururocks
me too jilli
12:08 am
dart001
phant quadratic
12:10 am
MLFAN17
i got an HE 8 must be the same
12:11 am
dcseain
this is almost like yesterday again
12:11 am
stidmama
hello all
12:11 am
Twentynine Palms
en8 if not called. i've lost track. lol!
12:11 am
dcseain
howdy, stid
12:11 am
jillibus
hi stid
12:11 am
dart001
hi stid!!
12:11 am
jmcnrick
(hi stiddie I am hiding in the corner)
12:12 am
dcseain
evening, jilli
12:12 am
justafreep
there are two he8s (at least)
12:12 am
dcseain
ur up late, jmc
12:12 am
dcseain
there are at least two he8s, correct
12:12 am
stidmama
seain, I am glad you are here. The children's concert this evening was WONDERFUL. and there was a duet of two men singing one of the latin chants... it was lovely. You would have loved it all.
12:12 am
Pinikula
* tripping into room * busy day...am I home yet?
12:12 am
jmcnrick
(shhhh don't tell DC)
12:12 am
jmcnrick
PINI!!!!
12:13 am
Pinikula
jmc! :)
12:13 am
stidmama
hey pini! how are you dear? do we have a date yet?
12:13 am
rururocks
he 7 too
12:13 am
jillibus
hello again, dc :)
12:13 am
stidmama
hey jill!
12:13 am
Pinikula
I still haven't heard from meli, stid...but I'm good for MTW...
12:14 am
jillibus
and hi ruru, pini, freep, everyone
12:14 am
Pinikula
hi jilli ;)
12:14 am
stidmama
I am tending toward Wednesday... what do you think?
12:14 am
VolleymomDee
hugs jili
12:14 am
jillibus
hi dee hi
12:14 am
Pinikula
that'll work...
12:14 am
stidmama
found a th 7, not sure what has been called
12:14 am
Pinikula
keep an eye out for meli ;)
12:14 am
jmcnrick
ok I am tiptoeing to bed in hopes of metro being open in the a.m.
12:14 am
stidmama
okay, let's plan on Wednesday. what time? at the restaurant near powell's first?
12:15 am
Pinikula
NIGHT JMC!!!
12:15 am
jmcnrick
bye all *poof*
12:15 am
jwr
*blinded by blinking redandgreen lights* hello. This looks almost as big as the last one. How many words, please?
12:15 am
stidmama
sweet dreams jmc. stay warm. stay safe
12:15 am
jillibus
night jmc
12:15 am
dcseain
g'night jmc
12:15 am
kimmtoats
Night jmc!
12:15 am
jillibus
253 jwr :(
12:15 am
Pinikula
*innocently asking* is there another restaurant close by? the other was ok, but a change would be nice ;)
12:15 am
jwr
ty jilli - have fun
12:16 am
justafreep
ti8 also, if not mentioned
12:16 am
stidmama
I am open to change, what are you thinking about?
12:16 am
VolleymomDee
ti 8 if not said
12:16 am
MLFAN17
how many QU 7's so far?
12:16 am
dcseain
stid, just read about concert, sounds like it was lovely.
12:17 am
Pinikula
don't know...will have to take a look to see what's up there? is that ok?
12:17 am
VolleymomDee
lol think we have the ti 8 covered
12:17 am
stidmama
me too, kimm. LOL
12:17 am
cybernan
hello everyone -- wrapping done!!!! I wonder how many calories 7 hours of shopping burns?
12:17 am
kimmtoats
shoot!
12:17 am
stidmama
sure. anything but italian/mediterranean. too many allergies now for those cuisines.
12:17 am
stidmama
hey nan!
12:17 am
kimmtoats
LOL! I really am!
12:18 am
cybernan
ea 8 if not called
12:18 am
jillibus
hi nan -- my wrapping is almost done -- can finish tomorrow
12:18 am
Pinikula
OK...lemme see what I can find that we might consider...
12:18 am
stidmama
thanks for that one nan
12:18 am
MLFAN17
OOPS no its a 5 sorry
12:19 am
stidmama
jillibus - the rapping grandma
if she can't wrap then neither canya...
boom boom boom...
12:19 am
VolleymomDee
it 7
12:19 am
dart001
phant inertia
12:19 am
cybernan
he 8 if not called
12:19 am
jillibus
yaya, stid
12:19 am
stidmama
thanks for that phantom seain, now I'll be thinking about it for the whole grid!
12:20 am
stidmama
go MLF go
12:20 am
dcseain
phantom?
12:20 am
MLFAN17
How many He 8's do we have?
12:20 am
cybernan
th 8 if not called
12:20 am
stidmama
inertia...
12:22 am
dart001
phant inherited
12:22 am
justafreep
I have he8 x 2, mlf
12:23 am
MLFAN17
ty freep
12:23 am
pugmama763
uh dart it there sans the ending
12:23 am
stidmama
hey pugmama!
12:23 am
MLFAN17
Freep is that CE you just called a CE 6/7?
12:23 am
VolleymomDee
in 7 singular dart
12:23 am
stidmama
thanks for that in, dart and pugmama
12:24 am
dcseain
hiya pug and dee
12:24 am
dcseain
hi, dart
12:24 am
VolleymomDee
hi dc
12:24 am
pugmama763
hi all
12:25 am
stidmama
oh! passed 1001
12:25 am
stidmama
or passed 100... !
12:25 am
sammysmom
8/50 if not called
12:25 am
justafreep
yes, mlf?
12:26 am
MLFAN17
RA 7 if not called
12:26 am
MLFAN17
that CE you called is it a 6/7?
12:26 am
Pinikula
back momentarily
12:26 am
MLFAN17
sammy 8/50 what?
12:26 am
sammysmom
en 8/50 that is
12:26 am
justafreep
yes, mlf. mighta been called when I blinked....
12:26 am
MLFAN17
oh thanks sammy
12:27 am
stidmama
go sammy goo
12:27 am
jillibus
omg, no S again!
12:27 am
dcseain
many, many of yesterday's words are valid again
12:27 am
MLFAN17
lol freep i found it right before it was called but was checkingot see if was a combo or only a 7 by itself
12:27 am
dart001
phant arthritic
12:27 am
MLFAN17
as usual dc
12:28 am
Erda
Has anyone heard from Lickety?
12:29 am
cybernan
en 8 if not called
12:32 am
stidmama
NBT~!!!!~ *pleased mama look* AND halfway.
12:32 am
broll
he 7 if not called
12:33 am
jillibus
wtg stid
12:33 am
stidmama
hello broll!
12:33 am
dcseain
howdy, broll
12:34 am
dcseain
i've been reading a book partially in French and keep wanting to enter qu5ier
12:35 am
cybernan
can't find that ti 8
12:35 am
stidmama
can't say I have that particular problem seain! LOL
12:35 am
MLFAN17
is the TA 8 a word we should know?
12:35 am
dcseain
ty for ti8
12:35 am
MLFAN17
meeither cyber
12:35 am
stidmama
okay, I am struggling to see the grid, have missed saying hello (I now realize) to about half the people, and I am just beat.
12:36 am
dcseain
sweet dreams, stid
12:36 am
stidmama
see you-all tomorrow. (((hugs all))) *poof*
12:36 am
kimmtoats
bye, stis.
12:36 am
jillibus
bye stid
12:37 am
MPittore
phantom, atari...remember that!
12:37 am
dcseain
oh, wow. cat's in REM rather actively
12:37 am
dcseain
seems to be runnig
12:37 am
kimmtoats
i must be getting to the end of my rope too. I can't spell anymore. nite all!
12:38 am
melonheadjujube
hi, late flipping here!
12:38 am
dcseain
g'night kimm
12:38 am
dcseain
hi, melon
12:38 am
jillibus
hello melon
12:39 am
cybernan
found an it 8, but still no ti 8
12:40 am
tempo
it's a 7/8, nan
12:41 am
melonheadjujube
ti8 is a measuring term - funny clue:- breast evaluated?
12:41 am
MLFAN17
which Ti is it we use for the 7/8
12:41 am
dcseain
LOL melon
12:41 am
cybernan
ty -- got it
12:42 am
tempo
far right, mlf
12:42 am
melonheadjujube
;)8
12:43 am
MLFAN17
Ti 6 go with that?
12:44 am
dcseain
k, halfway. off to bed
12:44 am
dcseain
happy babling, yall! {poof}
12:44 am
sammysmom
lol melon
12:44 am
MLFAN17
i meant i found a 7
12:44 am
jillibus
wtg dc, and nightynight
12:45 am
MLFAN17
oh i had it but it was tellign me its not in the grid that word is hilarious with the defintion that we were told lol
12:46 am
dart001
200 down
12:46 am
jillibus
wow, dart
12:47 am
sammysmom
off to bed with arthur
12:47 am
MLFAN17
i found an EA 8 which was called
12:47 am
melonheadjujube
just got NBT in order L to R, top to bottom. Tricky when there are duplicate letters.
12:47 am
MLFAN17
unless we have more then one?
12:47 am
sammysmom
mr doyle that is
12:48 am
sammysmom
nite all
12:48 am
melonheadjujube
lots of biggies on this board - fun.
12:48 am
jillibus
well done, melon
12:48 am
Pinikula
stid still here?
12:48 am
jillibus
night sammysmom
12:48 am
dart001
she left
12:48 am
warthog
no clues huh?
12:48 am
Pinikula
ok...I'll catch her tmw ;)
12:49 am
warthog
i mean no lickety clues
12:49 am
jillibus
not yet, wart, and if Lickety doesn't show up again I'm outta here
12:49 am
mkg
no lickety. where is he?
12:49 am
ursh
melon - i work like that - left to right - top to bottom and try for more than half of each letter - if i just look for all words i keep repeating myself
12:50 am
warthog
what's the total words availavble?
12:50 am
cybernan
need that single a for nbt
12:50 am
melonheadjujube
i try to get one of each tile in order.
12:50 am
jillibus
253 wart
12:50 am
warthog
i have an ea9
12:50 am
MLFAN17
does it go with the 8?
12:50 am
Pinikula
think "sound" nan
12:51 am
jillibus
there are no 9-letter words
12:51 am
warthog
a word starts with aa?
12:51 am
warthog
oh i thought that meant the number of points. soory
12:51 am
melonheadjujube
ci7 - a musical instrument from the renaisssance - if not called
12:51 am
cybernan
ty dart
12:51 am
MLFAN17
wart i think you mean an 8 which i do have
12:51 am
melonheadjujube
think of a sigh.
12:52 am
cybernan
ty melon
12:52 am
warthog
a--- i see
12:52 am
mkg
i dont see an in grid. is there an an 8????????
12:52 am
melonheadjujube
yw
12:53 am
warthog
don't see it mk
12:53 am
tempo
nice word, melon
12:53 am
MLFAN17
see what mkg?
12:54 am
mkg
i thought someone called "an 8" as a word. but i guess they weremt
12:54 am
warthog
i jut want 5 more then can go to bed
12:54 am
cybernan
don't know how many times I've tried thread and all of its derivatives
12:55 am
MLFAN17
cyber same here i keep thinking that word should work
12:55 am
jillibus
ditto for threat, nan
12:55 am
MLFAN17
me too jill
12:55 am
melonheadjujube
phantom - quatrain
12:55 am
MLFAN17
did someone call a QU 7 or 8?
12:55 am
warthog
melon good one
12:56 am
VolleymomDee
here are the q's minus one.. qu 4, 6, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 5, 6, 4, 5, 5, 4... missing one?
12:56 am
mkg
qu 7. strange word. think of the north pole term, change spelling and ad qu in front.
12:56 am
warthog
I only got qu5
12:56 am
mkg
oops am i too early for cluing? sorry.
12:57 am
ChrissieDee
not too early mkg, thank you for the qu7
12:58 am
ChrissieDee
hi all, nice to have a big grid on a Sunday
12:58 am
MLFAN17
not too early chris buti have no idea i only have 96 words found i am out poof
12:58 am
jillibus
bye mlf
12:59 am
VolleymomDee
nbt
12:59 am
ARB
another qu5 among the last 5's
12:59 am
mkg
too many words. going to sleep.
12:59 am
VolleymomDee
ty so much arb
12:59 am
jillibus
wow, dee!
12:59 am
jillibus
I'm still missing one from the top E
12:59 am
VolleymomDee
ty jili; dart's aa 5 was the one I totally missed
12:59 am
melonheadjujube
shalom ARB and happy belated Chanukah
12:59 am
jillibus
nm, got it -- nbt for me too
1:00 am
VolleymomDee
et 4/6
1:00 am
mkg
why isnt tyed a word????????? i thought it was.
1:00 am
ARB
boker tov melon -- at least my boker ! Erev tov for you
1:00 am
warthog
nan i just got that one
1:00 am
mkg
shalom arb. kol tov kulam.
1:01 am
warthog
i think it's tried
1:01 am
ARB
shalom everyone
1:01 am
melonheadjujube
pretty soon laila tov! hey, my son is applying to go on the Nesiya Institute trip this summer - my grad gift to him.
1:02 am
ARB
yofi. A great introduction
1:02 am
mkg
gee lots of us jewish folk on grid..........
1:03 am
melonheadjujube
almost a minyan! ;)
1:03 am
warthog
shalom chavarim
1:03 am
mkg
havent heard of nesiya inst. trip. great gift though. my kids all have been many times.
1:03 am
mkg
perhaps a minyan. ....never know.
1:03 am
VolleymomDee
ce 7 x 2
1:04 am
melonheadjujube
it's a good program. former clevelander runs it. very diverse and arts-oriented. A good fit for him, plus he will know some of the people on the trip since there is a pretty big Cleveland contingent.
1:05 am
mkg
sounds super. arts orientated? wow.
1:06 am
warthog
good night good people.
1:06 am
cybernan
163/90 and nbt -- good night all :)
1:06 am
jillibus
goodnight wart
1:07 am
jillibus
well done, nan!
1:07 am
melonheadjujube
good, nan!
1:07 am
melonheadjujube
92 so far - I'm off to lickety-land
1:07 am
melonheadjujube
or not.
1:08 am
ursh
hmm live and learn the en7 to beg can start with an i
1:08 am
ChrissieDee
need an i on the second row for nbt - help please?
1:09 am
jillibus
no Lickety, melon
1:09 am
melonheadjujube
so isee.
1:09 am
VolleymomDee
here are the c's: ce 6, 7, 7, 4, 5, 5, 6 ci 4, 4, 5, 7, 7, 8, 6, 7
1:09 am
melonheadjujube
second row i - i7 oftern preceded by re - let me say that again. . .
1:10 am
jillibus
chrissie, ir4/5, angered
1:10 am
ChrissieDee
ty melon
1:10 am
ChrissieDee
ty jilli
1:10 am
jillibus
I think melon's it7 comes from the top I
1:11 am
melonheadjujube
jilli - those irs are 1st row, I believe
1:11 am
pugmama763
melons 7 also makes an 8
1:11 am
melonheadjujube
other way around, dear. but we have it covered!
1:11 am
jillibus
not the ir4, melon
1:11 am
melonheadjujube
yea it does!
1:12 am
ChrissieDee
that i is greyed now, ty pug
1:12 am
MetFan
MISS PUG!!!!!
1:12 am
melonheadjujube
no, ir 4 is top row
1:12 am
pugmama763
Hello Love !!
1:13 am
jillibus
oh yes, I see, melon. I'm half alseep, lol
1:13 am
MetFan
Love the new pic in your icon
1:13 am
jillibus
hi pug :)
1:13 am
pugmama763
haven't changed it in eons dear
1:13 am
jillibus
oh yes, I should change my icon
1:14 am
MetFan
You haven't been on in eons, dear
1:14 am
melonheadjujube
s'OK jill - I PB-ed in one of my replis :o
1:14 am
ChrissieDee
that gave me the ti5 jilli, lol
1:14 am
pugmama763
I'm a lurker
1:15 am
pugmama763
I know we are far too alike
1:15 am
MetFan
Couldn't go out tonite - there's a foot of snow and I can't open my door
1:16 am
melonheadjujube
icon shopping brb
1:16 am
pugmama763
crap ! we got a coating but thats all
1:16 am
pugmama763
DC area got pummeled
1:17 am
Pinikula
I want snow!!! (but I'll settle tonight for a clue for the lower right e)
1:17 am
Pinikula
(for NBT)
1:18 am
MetFan
I know - DC Seain was on before and said they got over 20 inches!!!!
1:18 am
jillibus
new icon -- you have to click on it to enjoy it
1:18 am
ChrissieDee
en6 - the whole lot
1:18 am
pugmama763
we usually get a lot , it's nice to get left out for oncce
1:18 am
Pinikula
thx chrissie!!! NBT and pillows next! :)
1:18 am
VolleymomDee
missing one i... I have: in 7, 5, 8, 7 ir 5, 5, 4 it 7, 8, 5...missing one
1:19 am
ChrissieDee
sweet dreams Pini
1:19 am
jillibus
wtg pini
1:20 am
VolleymomDee
ty dart... just found it so i's are: in 6, 7, 5, 8, 7 ir 5, 5, 4, it 7, 8, 5
1:20 am
pugmama763
hey Met - the landlord switched the valves on my radiators & I've had well over 24 hours of blissfuly NOT being in a fridge!!!
1:20 am
MetFan
What's your count, dear??
1:20 am
pugmama763
156 & you?
1:21 am
MetFan
Hey, great news - if I come back during the winter, the guest room should be toasty.....
1:21 am
MetFan
Only 83 - I came on less than an hour ago.
1:21 am
pugmama763
yOU MEAN YOU MIGHT???!!!!!!
1:22 am
VolleymomDee
the n's are: ne 4, 6, 5, 4, 5 ni 4, 5, 7, 5, 6, 7
1:22 am
MetFan
Well, as of sometime in January, I'll be credited with next year's vacation.....
1:22 am
dart001
n's are ne 4,6,5,4,5...ni 4,5,7,5,6,7
1:23 am
VolleymomDee
lol what a hoot!
1:23 am
MetFan
Five weeks worth.....
1:23 am
dart001
you type faster lol
1:23 am
VolleymomDee
not always... :)
1:24 am
pugmama763
aha I see,just depends if you feel masochistic enough to face the great frozen north
1:24 am
MetFan
maybe it would be better to come more often, a week here and there....
1:24 am
ChrissieDee
that he8 is an odd one - more like the moors?
1:25 am
MetFan
Rather than blowing it all on one long stay per year....
1:25 am
rbud
*wanders through waving hello...*
1:25 am
pugmama763
totally up to you love it always goes too fast regardless
1:25 am
melonheadjujube
howdy rbud!
1:25 am
jillibus
ty chrissie
1:25 am
ChrissieDee
starts mexican wave back to rbud
1:26 am
ChrissieDee
yw jilli
1:26 am
jillibus
mexican wave?
1:27 am
MetFan
Thanks for the he8 clue, Chrissie
1:27 am
ChrissieDee
think it started at sporting events - looks like a tidal wave going through the crowd
1:28 am
jillibus
oh -- we just called it The Wave
1:28 am
rbud
ah, didn't know it had become mexican
1:29 am
dart001
think it started in oakland in the 70's or real early 80's
1:29 am
ChrissieDee
I'm just typing the same words in over and over now
1:30 am
dart001
crazy george
1:30 am
rbud
is it just me, or does this one look a lot like the last one?
1:30 am
ChrissieDee
groundhog day rbud
1:31 am
jillibus
it does, rbud, and no Lickety again
1:31 am
jillibus
I just counted up -- 57 T words
1:31 am
rbud
and no S again...
1:32 am
jillibus
right :(
1:32 am
broll
I have we 4,6,5,4,4,4 wr 6,5,7,8,6,4 Can anyone tell me what I am missing, please?
1:32 am
ChrissieDee
wonder how many words if there was an S
1:32 am
pugmama763
no doubt there will be a spoon feeder frenzy in the chog tomorrow
1:32 am
ARB
another we 4 in the group of 4's
1:33 am
melonheadjujube
4 Ts, 4Es, 3 As, 2Ns, 2 Hs - over half the board is duplicat letters.
1:33 am
broll
Thank you! Fish slap.
1:34 am
MetFan
Please - there was one on earlier (your fave and mine), and I finally asked her if she couldn't find some words on her own, that would be a novel idea
1:34 am
melonheadjujube
and yet quadratic doesn't exist in the puzzle - I so want it to!!!!
1:35 am
broll
my phantom is arthritic
1:35 am
pugmama763
It's about time somebody said it
1:35 am
VolleymomDee
ty bro and arb forgot the wr with the y ending :(
1:35 am
melonheadjujube
good one broll, speaking of which, I'
1:36 am
melonheadjujube
d best hie my arthritic self to beddy-bye
1:36 am
broll
yw. Thanks for all your lists!
1:36 am
VolleymomDee
you are so welcome... glad they help
1:38 am
pugmama763
Think I'm off to bed as well---160 down ,maybe finish tomorrow if I feel motivated
1:39 am
pugmama763
happy babbling one and all.. BIG HUG TO MY BELOVED MET & Le Poof !
1:40 am
pugmama763
or should I say poofters? Te hee !
1:40 am
jillibus
night pug
1:41 am
jillibus
night melon too
1:42 am
melonheadjujube
nite, jilli {poof - hobble}
1:42 am
jillibus
awww, melon!
1:43 am
dart001
missing 1 h...have ha 4,4,4,5,5,6....he 4,6,5,4,5,5,6,8,6,4,5,8,5,4,6,7,4.....
.hi 4,5,6...any ideas?
1:43 am
VolleymomDee
missing 2 h's: I have ha 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6 he 4, 6, 5, 4, 5, 5, 6, 8, 4, 5, 8, 5, 4, 6, 7, 4 hi 4, 5, 6
1:43 am
VolleymomDee
LOL LOL
1:44 am
dart001
he 4 for you volley plus the one i'm missing
1:45 am
dart001
ty dipp arb
1:46 am
VolleymomDee
ty I was missing he 6 (with the y ending again) duh... ty arb and dipp and dart
1:46 am
joshuavorbis
hi and nbt
1:49 am
ChrissieDee
ty all for the h's
1:51 am
VolleymomDee
yw... anyone have the e's?
1:53 am
vashongin
i'm missing 5 e's dee
1:54 am
VolleymomDee
I am missing 3 e's: I have ea 5, 4, 6, 5, 8, 6 4 ei 6 en 5, 6, 7, 6, 8, 7, 8 eq 6, 7 er 4 et 5, 4...
1:55 am
jillibus
Too tired -- all these numbers just make me dizzy -- off to bed -- have fun, you guys -- *poof*
1:55 am
VolleymomDee
slepp well jili
1:55 am
VolleymomDee
ty bro
1:56 am
VolleymomDee
ty arb
1:58 am
VolleymomDee
so still missing one e from the bottom e?
1:58 am
broll
oh blast! I've been so good about that tonight.
1:59 am
VolleymomDee
ty :)
1:59 am
VolleymomDee
so for er I have er 5, 7, 4
1:59 am
dart001
i have 3 er's are th5 3 or 4?
2:01 am
VolleymomDee
so I am still short one e from the bottom e
2:01 am
VolleymomDee
so I am still short one e from the bottom e
2:03 am
vashongin
same here dee
2:04 am
VolleymomDee
driving me crazy... cannot figure out what I am missing there...
2:04 am
hurshy
i don't even have this er5 of which you speak
2:05 am
VolleymomDee
or to build ...
2:06 am
hurshy
ah, silly me
2:07 am
VolleymomDee
not silly at all
2:07 am
ARB
who among us has no been sillier?
2:08 am
grannyrose
it's an ed8
2:08 am
herinfernallady
HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
2:08 am
grannyrose
hey herin
2:08 am
VolleymomDee
ty ty granny!!! hi herin
2:08 am
herinfernallady
how yuo?
2:09 am
grannyrose
much better, am thinking of going to work tomorrow
2:09 am
herinfernallady
Ok
2:09 am
vashongin
ty granny!
2:09 am
VolleymomDee
great to hear granny; finally getting over a sinus infection / virus here
2:10 am
herinfernallady
I am just talking to my mum about hiding Mince Pies from my dad.
2:10 am
grannyrose
ditto, dee. it's taken nearly 9 days
2:11 am
grannyrose
have 1 x ad word. any others?
2:11 am
VolleymomDee
10 plus for me, but finally feeling human. Why herin?
2:11 am
herinfernallady
Poor Rose.
2:11 am
herinfernallady
Because my dad is a piggy with Mince Pies
2:12 am
VolleymomDee
I am really short on a's granny, but I only have one ad so far
2:12 am
grannyrose
good, then i'm not that blind then
2:13 am
vashongin
is that the ad 5/16?
2:13 am
grannyrose
no, ad8/60
2:13 am
VolleymomDee
I have ad 8/60
2:13 am
jillibus
(unpoof) I just found an ad8
2:14 am
jillibus
(repoof -- over halfway now)
2:14 am
vashongin
ty for the ad8
2:14 am
VolleymomDee
nice one vash ad 5/16 would never have found that one
2:14 am
herinfernallady
and I have got all my christmas shopping done
2:15 am
vashongin
it's on that weird word list of mine
2:15 am
VolleymomDee
wtg herin
2:15 am
grannyrose
have ae x 1. any more
2:16 am
vashongin
that's all i have granny
2:16 am
VolleymomDee
only one ae here... one aa 5
2:17 am
herinfernallady
We got my mum a really nice pair of 9ct gold earings. very plain. I also have a stack of Avon stuff for her too
2:17 am
grannyrose
thanx dee, for the aa
2:17 am
VolleymomDee
thk dart granny; sounds lovely herin
2:17 am
hurshy
granny could you clue that ed8?
2:18 am
herinfernallady
Hello Hursh. Long time no see
2:18 am
grannyrose
ed8, with no teeth, put second vowel before de7
2:18 am
hurshy
opposite sides of the world and all that
2:19 am
herinfernallady
You snowed in?
2:19 am
grannyrose
have ai x 6
2:19 am
VolleymomDee
I am short 2 d's: I have da 4, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 de 4, 6, 6, 5, 4, 4, 7, 5, 6, 4 dr 4, 4, 4 dy 4
2:19 am
dart001
i see we have da4 dee and herin in today's grid
2:19 am
VolleymomDee
looking now for more ai's... I have an ah 5 too
2:20 am
hurshy
de6 after no more life
2:21 am
VolleymomDee
ty hushy, so just short one... what a stupid word
2:21 am
hurshy
i am also short the one D
2:21 am
herinfernallady
can I have that Ed 8 clue in simple form please
2:22 am
broll
paradise + most of a spud
2:23 am
dart001
d's da 4,5,4,4,4,4,5....de 5,4,,6,6,5,6,4,4,7,5,6,4....dr 4,4,4 ....dy 4
2:23 am
VolleymomDee
e + I got a .... in my car when I crashed it + consumed food
2:23 am
herinfernallady
THank you Broll
2:23 am
herinfernallady
I saw all the endings but that what you do with food ending
2:24 am
hurshy
i have 4 ar and 4 at and 3 aq...
2:24 am
VolleymomDee
ty dart was missing the 1st de 5
2:25 am
VolleymomDee
missing 3 a's... I have aa 5; ad 8, 5 ae 5, ah 5 ai 5, 4, 4, 5, 7 aq 4, 5, 7 ar 4, 6, 4 at 5, 5, 6, 7...
2:26 am
hurshy
ar5 betw 4 and 6
2:26 am
hurshy
ai6 betw 4 and 5
2:26 am
crosshair
good morning;)
2:27 am
grannyrose
((((crossy)))))) and how is elegant and you?
2:29 am
crosshair
doing well granny:)
2:29 am
VolleymomDee
so still missing one a
2:29 am
herinfernallady
Morning Crossie
2:29 am
crosshair
howdy herin
2:29 am
nursegladys
ar6 x 2 dee
2:29 am
VolleymomDee
ty nurse!
2:30 am
nursegladys
yw dee
2:31 am
VolleymomDee
ar's are: ar 6, 4, 5, 6, 4 then
2:31 am
VolleymomDee
I have r's and t's left...
2:31 am
hurshy
how bout i's? i have in5,7 ir5,5,4 it7,8,5
2:32 am
dart001
stiil missing an a he4
2:32 am
VolleymomDee
i's are: in 6, 7, 5, 8, 7 ir 5, 5, 4 it 7, 8, 5
2:33 am
VolleymomDee
he 4/6; he 4/5; he 4/ 5 he 4/ 5; he 4/5...
2:33 am
herinfernallady
Crossie do you ahve snow?
2:33 am
dart001
sorry volley it's an A
2:33 am
hurshy
no, "an a", he4, is what dart meant :)
2:33 am
crosshair
we have lots herin,winter is going full steam ahead here
2:33 am
dart001
didn't want to say he4...or pb for me
2:34 am
dart001
like crossy just did lol
2:34 am
VolleymomDee
sorry... do you need the a's listed dart?
2:34 am
hurshy
i'll do a's - can you list me the c's?
2:35 am
dart001
you were missing 3....they gave you 2 that i ould see...wondering what the other was?
2:35 am
grannyrose
pls dee, i'm very confused
2:35 am
VolleymomDee
ce 6, 7, 7, 4, 5, 5, 6 ci 4, 4, 5, 7, 7, 8, 6, 7
2:35 am
hurshy
aa5, ad8,5, ae5, ah5, ai5,4,4,6,5,7 aq4,5,7 ar6,4,5,6,4 at5,5,6,7
2:36 am
dart001
missing 1 t
2:37 am
hurshy
only one??? :)
2:37 am
VolleymomDee
oooh please list the t's
2:37 am
dart001
t's so far are ta 5,4,5,4,4,6,5,4,5,6,8,6,7
2:38 am
hurshy
i'm missing two of those ci7 - have the one that you pt for the 8
2:38 am
dart001
te's are 4,6,4,,5,4......th 4,7,8,5,7,4,6,5,5
2:39 am
dart001
ti's are 4,6,4,,6,4,5,7,5,7,8,5...tr 4,5,6,5,5,7,5,6,4,5,5,4,4,5,5,5...ty 4,4
2:39 am
dart001
missing one t from the row2,col2 t
2:40 am
hurshy
what's that th6?
2:41 am
dart001
think of a number
2:45 am
crosshair
phantoms "thread+threader+thready"
2:45 am
hurshy
could someone do the q list?
2:49 am
hurshy
or just tell me if there is a q7?
2:50 am
hurshy
sorry, i mean, one q7 or 2
2:50 am
dart001
yes th5 is hursh
2:50 am
lynxxx
at least 1 Hursh qu7.44
2:51 am
hurshy
i'm down to one q and dart's t ... and one's a 4 and one's a 7
2:51 am
hurshy
i have 3 q4 and 1 q7
2:51 am
dart001
have a t and 2 r's
2:51 am
hurshy
ohh alt sp!!!
2:51 am
hurshy
ok, so that leaves a t7
2:52 am
dart001
you have r's done hursh?
2:52 am
gran
How many words today
2:52 am
hurshy
ra4,5,6,4,5,5,4,5,6,6,6,7
2:52 am
lynxxx
hi Gran. 253
2:52 am
ARB
qu 4,6,4,5,5,6,7,5,6,4,5,5,5,4
2:53 am
hurshy
re4,6,5,4,6,5,5,6,4,6,6,5,4,5,4,4,7,6,
5,5
2:57 am
hurshy
i love it when we all work together to solve grids
2:57 am
hurshy
now if we could just find that last T7!
2:58 am
lynxxx
How many t7's do you have already?
2:59 am
hurshy
6 if i counted right
3:02 am
lynxxx
ti7.32 I am more worn out than you ?
3:02 am
hurshy
nope, it was a ta7, just found it!!!
3:02 am
dart001
i have that one
3:02 am
lynxxx
Hooray for you!
3:03 am
hurshy
pavement + crabgrass
3:03 am
dart001
fireworks
3:03 am
lynxxx
Congrats!!
3:03 am
hurshy
now to post the list without crashing browser
3:06 am
VolleymomDee
finally fireworks ty ty hurshy and dart
3:06 am
lynxxx
Congrats Volley! You 3 make a great team
3:06 am
VolleymomDee
close and reopen hurshy; sometimes that helps
3:06 am
dart001
yw congrats volley
3:07 am
VolleymomDee
ty I surely agree lynxx
3:07 am
hurshy
what helps is remembering to do it properly :)
3:07 am
hurshy
yes, we do rather make a good team
3:07 am
VolleymomDee
I got behind on the t's... slowed me down
3:07 am
VolleymomDee
lol hurshy
3:07 am
VolleymomDee
we get a system going
3:08 am
VolleymomDee
I still have problems with the words starting with vowels... menopausal brain doesn't help
3:09 am
VolleymomDee
plus my hubby's aunt, who lives with his mom went in to hospital with pneumonia, and they now think she also had a heartattack...
3:10 am
VolleymomDee
have to get pneumonia under control before they can do too much testing on her heart... so a bit scary
3:10 am
hurshy
LOL, bj's list was already there!
3:11 am
lynxxx
hard times Volley, hope she comes through OK
3:11 am
VolleymomDee
yipes are you kidding?
3:11 am
VolleymomDee
we should have looked first
3:11 am
VolleymomDee
me, too lynxx
3:12 am
VolleymomDee
his mom has plans to leave town for Christmas, so hubby will be the one to drive 1.5 hours away... this week could be tricky
3:12 am
VolleymomDee
I have been sick, so can't go... she doesn't need my germs (or vice versa)
3:12 am
o-o
thanks, hurshy
3:12 am
VolleymomDee
and we got snow today
3:12 am
lynxxx
with the bad weather you mean Volley?
3:13 am
VolleymomDee
and tricky for him --- work, having to drive his mom to airport, daughter coming... all sorts of details to work through
3:13 am
VolleymomDee
his mom makes all these plans and then just expects him to take care of them
3:13 am
VolleymomDee
not to be mean, but it drives me nuts
3:14 am
lynxxx
tht's enough to do without working!
3:14 am
VolleymomDee
my parents never did that, so it makes life difficult (and she only lives about 5 miles away)... a little too convenient
3:14 am
VolleymomDee
exactly
3:15 am
VolleymomDee
hubby won't ever tell her no
3:15 am
VolleymomDee
most of the time I keep my mouth shut, but every once in awhile I say what I think, so thanks for letting me vent :)
3:16 am
lynxxx
Well he is probably the only one who could say no to her, so I guess if he wants to carry the load....
3:16 am
lynxxx
How old is she Volley, and his Aunt?
3:16 am
VolleymomDee
here's one tiny example... for my birthday in Sept; she called and left a message on our answering machine, telling me she was taking me to lunch on my birthday (I already had plans); she never asks, she just tells...
3:17 am
VolleymomDee
yes... mother will be 76 on Jan 2, and I think his aunt is 70 ... can't remember exactly ... but I think there is at least 5 years diff
3:18 am
lynxxx
mmm...its hard to keep quiet sometimes isn't it
3:18 am
VolleymomDee
so very true... my tongue gets bloody... pray often for God to muzzle my mouth (and that does help(
3:19 am
VolleymomDee
my hubby is elder son... he does on the sh... and his brother is the favorite
3:19 am
VolleymomDee
his brother just spends more money on her
3:19 am
VolleymomDee
ok, now I'll hush
3:19 am
VolleymomDee
may I help anyone find any words?
3:20 am
VolleymomDee
would listing the 8's help?
3:21 am
ChrissieDee
yes, thank you Dee
3:21 am
lynxxx
May as well go with the flow Volley, possibly not much you can do 'cept be ready with the slippers and a nice hot toddy for your husband when he finally makes it home each day
3:22 am
lynxxx
I'm halfway so will take a break..BBL
3:24 am
VolleymomDee
8's are: ad, ci; ea; ed; en x 2; he x 2; in; it; ta; th; ti; wr
3:25 am
ChrissieDee
ty Dee, have already got down to 30 with all the help in the grid, but missing 3 of those 8's
3:27 am
VolleymomDee
7's are: ai; aq; at; ce x 2; ci x 3; de; en x 2; eq; er; he; in x 2; it; ni x 2; qu; ra; re; ta x 2; th x 2; ti x 2; tr; wr
3:27 am
VolleymomDee
yw Chrissie
3:28 am
VolleymomDee
anyone else need anything before I poof? Did dart leave?
3:28 am
VolleymomDee
thot I missed your ta ta
3:28 am
dart001
just checking emails etc
3:29 am
VolleymomDee
didn't see ruru tonight
3:29 am
VolleymomDee
or lickety for 2 days
3:30 am
dart001
or just1mar
3:30 am
VolleymomDee
right
3:30 am
VolleymomDee
are you ready for Christmas?
3:31 am
dart001
not really....normal work week for me...have to do the day then mid on thurs/thur nt
3:31 am
VolleymomDee
yuk on thursday... that will be tough
3:32 am
grannyrose
whew, finally!!!! fireworks
3:32 am
VolleymomDee
not sure when hubby gets off... he is working most of week, too
3:32 am
VolleymomDee
wtg granny!!!
3:32 am
dart001
wife was in joliet for 4 days...2 weeks ago...and tue-thurs this past week
3:33 am
VolleymomDee
visiting family?
3:33 am
grannyrose
am sorry i have to go so quickly, himself is doing a shark act around the PC, wondering what's for dinner.:( see you at the flip
3:33 am
dart001
for work...she has to travel
3:33 am
VolleymomDee
LOL hugs granny
3:33 am
VolleymomDee
not a good time of year to travel with all this goofy weather
3:34 am
VolleymomDee
will she be gone this week, too
3:34 am
grannyrose
* poof * hugs to all my babble friends
3:34 am
dart001
she will be here..unless something comes up
3:35 am
VolleymomDee
fingers crossed
3:35 am
VolleymomDee
well, I need to go unplug my head; thanks so much for all of the help; was a fun grid this time
3:36 am
dart001
she is always on call..and i have strange hours lol
3:36 am
VolleymomDee
lol interesting household
3:36 am
VolleymomDee
since our daughter has been gone; our hours are weird... never know when dinner will be lol
3:36 am
dart001
gonna run too...night volley...................until i decide to retire that is lol
3:37 am
VolleymomDee
true...
3:37 am
VolleymomDee
*poofing*
3:37 am
dart001
i sleep when i'm tired and eat when i'm hungry and get up at diff time everyday
4:11 am
rubyfoo
hello everybody
4:11 am
rubyfoo
I'm getting the hang of this but VERY slowly
4:12 am
rubyfoo
here it's 11:12AM
4:12 am
rubyfoo
dart, that sounds like heaven to me!
4:29 am
kanet77
where are you ruby? europe?
4:43 am
Soodle
Good morning everybody. I hope the weathers not too bad wherever you all are!
4:44 am
joshuavorbis
phantom quatrain
4:44 am
mom2han8
thanks Josh... that one hadn't bugged me yet, LOL.
4:45 am
mom2han8
I cannot get to work today due to the weather... mass transit bus service has been suspended "until further notice", whatever that means.
4:46 am
joshuavorbis
i think we should declare war on snow
4:46 am
mom2han8
It looks nice, but it really is inconvenient.
4:46 am
mom2han8
I figure because it is Sunday they won't be rushing to resume bus service.
4:47 am
Sally-catlover
Hi Soodle, and everyone.
4:47 am
joshuavorbis
hardly a flake here in nc - but my friends in northern va are speaking in biblical terms
4:47 am
mom2han8
Of course I called work to let them know and they were like.... "so, you can't get in"... I was like, "No, my broom is also out of service"... Really... there is something wrong with people.
4:48 am
mom2han8
Yes... I just saw that VA got hit pretty hard.
4:48 am
mom2han8
The Jersey shore got whalloped as well... almost 2 feet!
4:48 am
joshuavorbis
that's a lot of snow
4:49 am
joshuavorbis
i would happily take about 4 inches of that off your hands
4:49 am
Sally-catlover
2 feet! Uk comes to a standstill with 2 inches.
4:49 am
mom2han8
Oh yeah.... my mother is having a cow!
4:49 am
mom2han8
We got about a foot where I am in Northern NJ.
4:49 am
mom2han8
Some parts of the US come to a standstill at the 2" mark, as well... usually not us, though.
4:50 am
mom2han8
Yeah... 2 to 4 is nice... anything over that is a pain in the patootie.
4:50 am
joshuavorbis
our local school system shut down on friday, i think out of empathy for our chilly brethren in neighboring states
4:51 am
mom2han8
LOL.... last night my daughter asked me if there would be school on Monday! We do snow removal fairly well here, so I told her not to count on it!
4:53 am
mom2han8
Really, I so don't care... if I can't get to work it's no great loss, as I hate my job anyway, LOL.
4:53 am
joshuavorbis
to be fair to our schools, our entire state only has a half dozen or so snowplows, so if the snow does tumble down upwards of a foot, it will take a solid 24 hours to get the main thoroughfares plowed
4:54 am
mom2han8
My New Year's resolution is to find a different one... I don't care what they are saying about the economy, etc... there has to be something better out there.
4:54 am
mom2han8
My husband once got snowed in in Nashville, TN because they had more than an inch plus some ice... they really just have no provisions/equipment for it.
4:55 am
joshuavorbis
just a week ago we were having 60F/17C degree days
4:55 am
joshuavorbis
and probably next week as well
4:56 am
mom2han8
Go ahead Josh.... rub it in! They are saying that the temp will be dropping here tonight... so tomorrow our problem should be ice!
4:56 am
joshuavorbis
i hope it is cleared up by a few days past christmas as i plan on driving all the way up to N.S.
4:57 am
mom2han8
That's quite a drive... hope the weather does cooperate.
5:05 am
joshuavorbis
phantom cithern
5:09 am
lynxxx
Hi Josh, swap 2 letters around
5:10 am
lynxxx
hello everyone
5:10 am
Soodle
Ooo. thanks Lynn
5:10 am
Soodle
Ooo. thanks Lynn
5:10 am
Soodle
Ooo. thanks Lynn
5:24 am
joshuavorbis
hi and ty lynxxx
5:44 am
o-o
an inch of snow ... heck you can clean that off with a broom
5:48 am
Soodle
Hi BabbleRabble
6:16 am
Merk
Good morning everyone
6:19 am
Mudd
I alone am here ... T.Zone music playing in background.
6:35 am
Mudd
Is anyone here?
6:39 am
suefrad625
hi mudd
6:39 am
suefrad625
josh where are you in nc
6:39 am
Brookie
Hi everyone
6:40 am
suefrad625
hi brookie
6:43 am
Brookie
either this puzzle is too difficult today, or i'm too sick to think straight
6:44 am
Uneaixoise
are you snowed in, brookie?
6:45 am
Brookie
I'm snowed in in Philly at my parents' house. Need to return to Delaware by the end of the day. How about you, Une?
6:45 am
Uneaixoise
nothing here in Nashville
6:45 am
Brookie
that's good to hear
6:46 am
Brookie
If the temps stay cold throughout the week, at least we'll have a white xmas!
6:46 am
Uneaixoise
glad weather's cooperating here -- daughter and her boyfriend driving here from Ann Arbor
6:46 am
Uneaixoise
I think people will have a white Xmas all over the world this year! LOL
6:46 am
Brookie
Wow -- how long of a drive is that?
6:47 am
Uneaixoise
USA but also France, England, Scotland, etc.
6:47 am
lawyer-1
either my car has been stolen or it's buried in my driveway.
6:47 am
Uneaixoise
it's not a bad drive -- about 8 hrs -- then they're staying 6 days
6:48 am
Uneaixoise
good luck finding your car, lawyer! :-)
6:48 am
Brookie
lawyer, if your car was stolen, i give kudos to the thieves for commiting their crime in such inclement weather
6:48 am
Brookie
strangely, i dreamt last night that my car was stolen...
6:49 am
lawyer-1
If they stole it, they could've at least cleaned off the driveway!
6:49 am
Brookie
agreed, lawyer, thieves are usually adept at cleaning things out
6:53 am
Uneaixoise
100 to go . . . taking a break -- BBL -- byeee *poof*
6:59 am
suefrad625
stats for the 8's please
7:00 am
Brookie
no clue, sue, sorry!
7:00 am
KatieMcG
ea8 more soil
7:00 am
suefrad625
no clue for me
7:02 am
KatieMcG
yw it's the only one I have got lol
7:03 am
suefrad625
found one he8, more he5
7:07 am
suefrad625
more wr5
7:08 am
suefrad625
look for the 5 words that end w/th. those are all I had
7:09 am
Uneaixoise
8's are: ad, ci; ea; ed; en x 2; he x 2; in; it; ta; th; ti; wr
7:09 am
Uneaixoise
7's are: ai; aq; at; ce x 2; ci x 3; de; en x 2; eq; er; he; in x 2; it; ni x 2; qu; ra; re; ta x 2; th x 2; ti x 2; tr; wr
7:09 am
Uneaixoise
copied from an earlier posting!!
7:10 am
Uneaixoise
yw :-)
7:22 am
periwinkle
good morning all , snowed in her :(
7:23 am
periwinkle
here, even
7:23 am
periwinkle
help with lower A in left column pls
7:23 am
Brookie
hi peri... i don't have that "a" yet, sorry!
7:24 am
lynxxx
hi Peri - aa5.14
7:24 am
periwinkle
ty, will look
7:25 am
Brookie
hi lynxxx, thanks for the clue!
7:25 am
periwinkle
got it, thanks lyn
7:25 am
Brookie
thanks, peri!
7:25 am
periwinkle
help with i under the e pls
7:26 am
periwinkle
uh oh!!
7:26 am
lynxxx
it7.28 & related 8
7:26 am
hego
Morning snow prisoners
7:26 am
Brookie
thanks again for the clues, lynxxx, and hi hego!
7:30 am
Scrabbler
Good morning/day to all. Peri--I have been worried about you, Dan, JMC, JBV, etc, with the snowstorm.
7:30 am
Brookie
hi Scrabbler!
7:31 am
hego
Hi Scrabs, did you get snow?
7:31 am
Scrabbler
Hego & I just walked through the Babble gates together!
7:31 am
Scrabbler
No new snow for us. I wish we had gotten some!
7:31 am
lynxxx
morning Scrabs
7:32 am
hego
We have about 20 inches!!
7:32 am
Scrabbler
Fun, fun Hego!!
7:33 am
hego
How is Sebastian today?
7:34 am
Scrabbler
He seems 100% better--very active, begging (on hind feet) for morning snacks...I am so happy. He had me quite worried on Friday.
7:34 am
hego
Yes, I know. But that's good news.
7:35 am
Trifioso
good morning babble friends -- from siberia!!!
7:35 am
Scrabbler
It's scary when our kids/pets are ailing and cannot tell us how they feel.
7:35 am
hego
LOL Hi Trif.
7:35 am
Scrabbler
Hi Trif! Please deliver some snow to us. How much did you get?
7:36 am
Trifioso
we are at high dr. zhivago status....snow is still pelting down, cannot really say how deep it is yet, as it is quite drifty and blowy right now.
7:37 am
Trifioso
totally bagging church, and hunkering down for a nice day of hanging with the kids, making comfort food, and wrapping gifts, that sort of thing. I LOVE puttering days! Oh, and Primo and I will have to figure out how to use the snow blower. that will be fun!
7:38 am
grant
How many words today?
7:38 am
hego
Where are you Trif?
7:39 am
Trifioso
massachusetts
7:39 am
Trifioso
253 grant
7:39 am
hego
Has the snow stopped there?
7:39 am
Trifioso
not in the least
7:40 am
hego
Not here in NJ either.
7:40 am
Scrabbler
I just look at the radar map for Boston, on weather.com, wowee!!!!
7:40 am
hego
You better get that blowy thing figured out, LOL.
7:42 am
Scrabbler
And get a big stick to use to clean out the blower--never insert fingers!
7:42 am
Trifioso
quick story about why I love bostonians so much: the city has issued a new law, whereby people are no longer allowed to leave items in a parking spot, to block other from using it. the law says things like lawn chairs other items left out will be collected by the garbage companies and removed. took the tough old townies TWO seconds to figure this one out - they now fill the parking spots with things the garbage companies won't remove - old mattresses, old computers, etc. --I about ROLLED when I read that!
7:42 am
Trifioso
and I am happily trotting off to the PB - worth it!
7:43 am
hego
That's very funny. Good for Boston.
7:44 am
Trifioso
don't worry about me and the snow blower/finger thing. I am very, very careful, but thanks scrabbler!
7:45 am
hego
Scrabbler is the voice of reason in all things.
7:45 am
Trifioso
I know, and thank God! Scrabbler, you could have your retirement covered if only there was some way for you to collect on all the free advice you so generously give in the chog!
7:46 am
Scrabbler
I am the Safety Officer for Babble Land.
7:47 am
Scrabbler
And Chief Medical Officer, along with kje + Bubba
7:47 am
hego
I want to be your nurse. It could be the best job I ever had!
7:47 am
Trifioso
yes, let's see - we have scrabbler for CMO, JMC takes care of the legal end, Crossy takes care of handyman duties, Torgone gives computer advice....who am I am missing?
7:47 am
Scrabbler
Phantom = tyranny, and, seriously, I saw a 9 mo old baby girl in the office last week and her name = Tyranny!
7:48 am
Trifioso
I suppose Jacula is in charge of parenting advice....
7:48 am
Scrabbler
We have many experts here in Babble Land!
7:48 am
Trifioso
NO WAY - tyranny? that is the WORST
7:48 am
Trifioso
oh, we have a vet, don't we?
7:49 am
hego
I,ve been doing a pediatric clinic and it's amazing what people name their kids.
7:49 am
Trifioso
and babble rabble take care of all the impossible words, and he is sort of our resident philosopher, wouldn't you say?
7:49 am
Scrabbler
I don't think they are even smart enough to know what it means and what they have done to their daughter. The rural poor/ignorant are an interesting culture out here--hillbilly types, northernmost Appalachian Mtns
7:49 am
hego
Haz's hubby is a vet.
7:49 am
Scrabbler
Jesdraggon = vet
7:50 am
Trifioso
do you find that names come in waves? my mom, a retired physician, used to have, say, 11 Brookes in a row, and then there was the "year of Olivia's"
7:50 am
Scrabbler
Aren't many of the names just horrid, Hego? So many kids are not only doomed at conception but then they get odd names
7:50 am
hego
I've had a long career and never did pedi before. I love it.
7:51 am
Scrabbler
Last several years = Olivia, Sophia, Isabella, Owen, Zachary, Aidan, Jaden .... and varied spellings
7:51 am
hego
Trif you can tell people's age by their names.
7:51 am
Scrabbler
The kids are wonderful, aren't they, Hego?
7:51 am
Trifioso
i have a bigger issue with names that mean something obvious - they always seem cruelly ironic in adulthood - 300 pound girls name willow, clumsy girls named Grace, big lumberjack types named skip...
7:52 am
Scrabbler
True, Trif
7:52 am
hego
Love the kids.
7:52 am
JBV
good morning and happy snow day! (too bad it's a sunday, I could really use a day off tomorrow)
7:52 am
Scrabbler
Hi JBV! How are you? You are one of the people I have been worried about!
7:52 am
Trifioso
oh, the "varied spellings" chaps my ass no end, I am sorry to say - in tertiare's school we enjoy several Rylee, Riley, Reilly, Rilee, Reillee, Rileigh combos
7:53 am
godthaab
Then there is the story of a girl named Le-a. The teacher kept pronouncing it Lea. The mother came in to complain that the teacher was making fun of the girl. "Her name is Ledasha - the dash is not silent" she says.
7:53 am
JBV
no worries, scrabbler, we're fine - it's beautiful. Only my son is supposed to go to work at 12:00. We're hoping the boss will say the store is closed and he can stay home
7:53 am
Scrabbler
As a Lynda, I am very sensitive to varied spellings..."It's Lynda with a Y." Then it is spelled Lydia and I am called Lydia.
7:53 am
JBV
Otherwise there's a lot of shoveling in his future
7:53 am
lynxxx
rofl godthaab
7:54 am
Scrabbler
Hahahaha, godthaab!!!
7:54 am
Trifioso
yes, well, I have a capital B in the middle of my ElizaBeth, so I am no one to complain either, I suppose....
7:54 am
Scrabbler
I noticed, trif
7:54 am
NonnieLight
good morning all and good laugh first thing this morning godthaab!
7:55 am
Scrabbler
Hi Nonnie
7:55 am
Trifioso
morning nonnie!
7:55 am
Trifioso
morning nonnie!
7:55 am
hego
I'm just plain Helen and people mess that up.
7:55 am
Trifioso
and my kids real names are weird, too, but I didn't make them up, or anything - they are all actual names
7:55 am
Scrabbler
I had an Aunt Helen
7:56 am
NonnieLight
Our last name is "Light" and you wouldn't believe how many people ask me to spell it :o)
7:56 am
JBV
mine is easy, but for some reason people cannot remember to put the E on Joanne
7:56 am
hego
Folks put in 2 l's. lol
7:56 am
Scrabbler
I love your son's name--one of my faves. Maybe a future bunny will have that name.
7:57 am
Trifioso
hego, i love the name Helen SO MUCH - it was my beloved grammy's name, and I campaigned HARD for it for one of the girls. Sadly, their last name is Elliott, and my grammy went by "nellie", and I couldn't see a lifetime of calling a girl Nellie Elliott, so we left it
7:57 am
Trifioso
besides, people in boston shorten everyone's name, dooming a child to a lifetime of "Hi Hel!" -- um....no
7:57 am
Trifioso
thanks scrabbler! :) I love it too!
7:57 am
JBV
names are so important, one of the teachers in my program just wrote a beautiful piece in our professional newsletter about teachers who do not even TRY to pronounce names correctly (we have many students from non-English backgrounds) -
7:57 am
NonnieLight
lol trif
7:58 am
hego
My nickname is Helly
7:58 am
Scrabbler
My Aunt Helen was really "Elena" but it was changed when she came over from Italy.
7:58 am
Scrabbler
Hi SeaSpray!
7:58 am
Scrabbler
TY for clue, SS
7:58 am
SeaSpray
morning all sorry for the strange entry lol
7:58 am
hego
Hey, scrabs that was my mom's name.
7:58 am
NonnieLight
Good morning sea!
7:59 am
Trifioso
I hate stupid girly names. dooms a girl to a lifetime of stupid. "hello, I am your lawyer, Star Twinkle." yeah, that inspires confidence!
7:59 am
hego
I always wished they had called me that also.
7:59 am
Read-Knit-Bake
I just had to enter into this conversation. My friend was a teacher and had a student Female (pronounced Fa MAl - E. Parent couldn't come up with a name so left female! Now that seems a little unfair.
7:59 am
Scrabbler
It happens more than you think, RKB
7:59 am
Trifioso
ugh. poor female!
8:00 am
Read-Knit-Bake
really? wow...
8:00 am
SeaSpray
some people are rediculous when it comes to names
8:00 am
Scrabbler
As a pediatrician, I sometimes want to write a prescription for a legal change of name due to a future of challenges with birth name
8:00 am
JBV
RKB, we also know of many parents who are illiterate and are at the mercy of hospital clerks, etc., some of them cannot read the birth certificate and don't know what it says until they come to register at school
8:00 am
harpjane
good morning
8:00 am
Trifioso
we know a woman in ireland whose last name is Cox and her parents named her "attracta" which *IS* an actual irish name, but geesh, come on! give the girl a chance, eh?
8:00 am
Scrabbler
Good point, JBV.
8:01 am
Scrabbler
Hi Jane
8:01 am
Read-Knit-Bake
I had another acquaintaince who name dher girls Cinnamon and Candy. Cute I guess.
8:01 am
Scrabbler
And Mercedes, Lexus + Porsche in 1 family!
8:01 am
NonnieLight
I never understood how someone could not come up with a name. It really gets under my skin when every male child is named after the father. We have a fellow who has fathered about 8 sons with about that many different women and ALL are named Charles...Charles II, Charles III, Charles IV. I think someone lost the concept of the generational thing.
8:01 am
Trifioso
my cousin is a musician, and named his girls Cadence and Melody, which I actually thought was pretty cool
8:01 am
grant
Once met a Pleasant Talk
8:01 am
SeaSpray
saw Poppy, Lovey and Dovey on Dr. Oz show, they were sisters
8:02 am
harpjane
"I always wanted to have a Mercedes?"
8:02 am
Read-Knit-Bake
Oh my gosh...this could be the subject of a book.
8:02 am
Scrabbler
Nonnie, that is pure narcissism, me thinks
8:02 am
SeaSpray
Cadence and Melody are nice
8:02 am
Trifioso
there is also a boy in the next town over whose last name is Baum, and the parents named him Adam. I think that is so mean
8:02 am
hego
You can talk about this forever.
8:02 am
grant
And a Kurt Lurps
8:02 am
Uneaixoise
worked with guy named Vester -- his siblings were Hester and Lester
8:02 am
Trifioso
"not everyone has been in a mercedes" seems more likely
8:02 am
Scrabbler
I have seen several Cadence's over the last few years
8:02 am
NonnieLight
I went to school with a Harry Dingus.
8:03 am
o-o
Quite a few years ago, a long time city administrator legally changed his name to Urban Renewal
8:03 am
harpjane
no lickety, i see
8:03 am
Trifioso
Cadence is a lovely, old fashioned name, isn't it?
8:03 am
Read-Knit-Bake
Oh well back to Babble...I'm not far from Trifioso and still in Blizzard conditions. Good decorating day.
8:03 am
godthaab
I know three kids named Babylon, Niniveh and Jericho!
8:03 am
Scrabbler
I had a patient named Kellie Kelly
8:03 am
hego
No licety! Again!
8:03 am
Scrabbler
Hi BR! LOL
8:03 am
hego
Lickety even
8:03 am
Trifioso
ooh, I like Jericho. that's a cool weird name....
8:03 am
Uneaixoise
hursh posted stats in Babanon
8:03 am
harpjane
ooh, and no licety either?
8:04 am
Scrabbler
Your storm isn't even on our front page of the newspaper.
8:04 am
Read-Knit-Bake
ok... Donald MacDonald !
8:04 am
harpjane
off to the church musician vortex bbl
8:04 am
Trifioso
probably just jealous, scrabbler! :)
8:04 am
SeaSpray
our storm ended this morning, we have 20+ inches
8:04 am
Read-Knit-Bake
William William..the same teacher friend who gave us a yearly report on names!
8:05 am
NonnieLight
Down the street was a Richard Dick.
8:05 am
Trifioso
sea spray, how long did the storm last?
8:05 am
Scrabbler
Where are you, SS?
8:05 am
hego
Us also Sea 20 and counting
8:05 am
Uneaixoise
i went to school with Patsy Titsworth
8:05 am
SeaSpray
went to school with Thomas Thomas
8:05 am
Scrabbler
The last names Dick, Gay, etc should be outlawed
8:05 am
Scrabbler
LOL, Une!!
8:05 am
SeaSpray
in Maryland Scrabbs
8:06 am
NonnieLight
lol une ahahahhaaa
8:06 am
Uneaixoise
one of my best friends, scrabbs!
8:06 am
Trifioso
I vote for outlawing titsworth
8:06 am
Scrabbler
Now I am really in a giggle mood!
8:06 am
hego
We had a Mister Growcock who custodian at the high scool
8:06 am
NonnieLight
Where in MD, Sea? I have family in Waldorf, Huntingtown, and Baltimore!
8:06 am
SeaSpray
about 36 hours trifi
8:06 am
hego
Talk about giggle!
8:06 am
Uneaixoise
her dad owned Titsworth Motors
8:06 am
EspritdJean
would you want to be named Harry Dick?
8:06 am
Scrabbler
My mammogram involved 2 titsworths
8:06 am
Trifioso
my friend cheryl works with a guy named Peter Rickman, which is a fine name. except that the email convention in their office is first initial, last name....oh dear
8:06 am
Uneaixoise
hego! LOL
8:07 am
Scrabbler
Hi Jean
8:07 am
Uneaixoise
trif LOL!!!
8:07 am
Trifioso
LOL scrabbler!!!
8:07 am
Uneaixoise
scrabbs :-D
8:07 am
NonnieLight
lol trif
8:07 am
SeaSpray
Nonnie i am about 30 miles northwest of Baltimore
8:07 am
hego
That was his name!
8:07 am
Scrabbler
I have a friend in Lutherville, MD
8:07 am
Trifioso
and we all know the worst name EVER - mike something???
8:07 am
SeaSpray
thats funny trif
8:07 am
NonnieLight
How many inches now, Sea?
8:08 am
SeaSpray
20 couple
8:08 am
SeaSpray
i don't think waldorf got as much
8:08 am
EspritdJean
yes hunt
8:09 am
NonnieLight
Well, I hope you have wonderful "snow days" and not much worry from it!
8:09 am
Trifioso
my friend Jay swears that school administrators are born, not made - his school vice principal was Mr. Asseltine, and the principal was Mr. Cramp. I giggle every time I think of that
8:10 am
hego
i'm not even going to mention Marie Overfelt.
8:10 am
Trifioso
Ophelia Bumpps?
8:10 am
SeaSpray
I don't really have to go anywhere, i am going to bake cookies with my daugther (if she can get here) and wrap gifts
8:10 am
EspritdJean
Seymour Butz
8:10 am
JBV
this is very entertaining - but must tear myself away to do some Christmas-y things, see you later
8:10 am
Scrabbler
Trif! LOL
8:10 am
NonnieLight
I work with a Mr. Raper.
8:11 am
NonnieLight
bye bye jbv, take care
8:11 am
Uneaixoise
oh, there are lots of "Rapers" in my hometown -- Funks too
8:11 am
Scrabbler
Are we supposed to be finding words?
8:11 am
hego
Mr Dick and Miss Ball two of Hubby's teachers who dated. LOLOL
8:11 am
Uneaixoise
my friend Claudia dated Harry Butz
8:11 am
Trifioso
LOL hego!!!
8:11 am
Uneaixoise
ohmygod, hego!
8:11 am
hurshy
a vein in my lip is twitching. is that weird?
8:11 am
hego
Words? Oh, that. Yes, I guess so.
8:11 am
Trifioso
they absolutely need to get married, and she needs to hyphenate
8:12 am
NonnieLight
I also worked for a Mr. Back and Mr. Pack.
8:12 am
SeaSpray
i will take jbv's cue, must do something constructive, thats funny hego (the dick and ball thing) lol
8:12 am
NonnieLight
Wonderful, baking cookies and watching the snow :o)
8:13 am
hego
I'm going to bake too eventually.
8:13 am
Trifioso
a counselor at the camp where I went as a child was named sue, and she married a lovely man named Patrick Keeney. So what is she now?
8:13 am
SeaSpray
have fun all
8:13 am
Atalante
two of the curators at the museum I used to work in were Dr Cocks and Dr Balls
8:13 am
NonnieLight
bye bye sea
8:13 am
Scrabbler
Hurshy, just a little muscle spasm, like what happens in our eyelids sometimes
8:13 am
hurshy
my friend has a cousin named charity. she married a mr. case and took his name. said she thought it wouldn't be a big deal, thought only kids made fun of funny names.
8:13 am
hego
Nice veggie. :-D
8:14 am
Trifioso
clearly she doesnt
8:14 am
Uneaixoise
hursh, are you serious?!
8:14 am
Trifioso
clearly your cousin does not babble, hurshy!
8:14 am
hego
Yikes going thru life as Charity Case!
8:14 am
hurshy
not MY cousin
8:15 am
Read-Knit-Bake
I have to admit...this was a good laugh day. Thanks for adding a little cheer to the blizzard!
8:15 am
Trifioso
that is cracking me up....charity case! omg....
8:15 am
hurshy
also knew a lisa who married a man whose last name was lisa - i think they're divorced now
8:15 am
hego
Fun, fun ;-)
8:16 am
Uneaixoise
have a friend Susan Hayslip who married Mr. Hay
8:16 am
Atalante
my dad had a secretary called Kris who married Mr Kross
8:17 am
Uneaixoise
LOL!!!
8:17 am
Scrabbler
2 local orthopedists = Dr Bone, Dr Armstrong
8:17 am
hurshy
jump, jump
8:17 am
hego
That made her name shorter, at least.
8:17 am
hego
We had a Dr Stitch.
8:17 am
hurshy
there is a dentist in CT named dr. hurt
8:18 am
grant
Dr. Mangel another CT dentist
8:18 am
hego
I'd avoid him
8:18 am
hurshy
oh, grant, are you in CT too?
8:19 am
grant
no, Massachustts
8:19 am
hurshy
i lived in mass for... let's see... 16 years total
8:19 am
hurshy
that's half my life
8:20 am
Trifioso
did you hurshy? I don't think I knew that - where, dear one?
8:20 am
hurshy
no, 15, i have miscounted.
8:21 am
hurshy
i lived in northboro til i was 9. went to college in williamstown and stayed an extra 2 years.
8:21 am
grant
small world time, Trif. I'm on Mt. Blue St.
8:21 am
Trifioso
GET OUT - seriously????
8:21 am
Trifioso
you don't plow by any chance? :)
8:22 am
Trifioso
coming soon: big babble meet up in norwell! Grant and I live it up at the tinker's son! woooo!
8:23 am
hurshy
ugh, when will my lip stop twitching?!?!
8:23 am
grant
Have you tried the new place yet?
8:23 am
Scrabbler
It must be annoying, hursh
8:24 am
Trifioso
not personally, but lots of the neighbors have - apparently the breakfast on sunday mornings is wicked good, but pricey. they said it is way worth it, though - musicians come in, lots of happy people. it's great
8:24 am
hurshy
kinda. but at least it's not a symptom. was afraid perhaps i have violated the max throat drop instructions and caused some disaster.
8:25 am
Kaplan the Magne
I guess the Queen of Soul is not a noun --yet
8:25 am
Scrabbler
hursh, I just chatted with you on FB if you can flip over there
8:25 am
Trifioso
if she started with a U she would be, kaplan
8:26 am
Scrabbler
Hi Kaplan
8:27 am
hego
Kaplan, are you in a snow area?
8:29 am
Trifioso
how many of the i words are in's, please?
8:29 am
speedfreak
well Tri we got the snow!!!
8:29 am
Kaplan the Magne
Yeah, it snowed- a light fluffy snow
8:29 am
Trifioso
yes we did, speed
8:30 am
speedfreak
I need to finish Xmas shopping
8:30 am
hego
20 inches of light, fluffy snow.
8:30 am
Uneaixoise
trif -- in x 5
8:30 am
Trifioso
merci une!
8:31 am
Uneaixoise
in 6 7 5 8 7
8:31 am
speedfreak
hego after the first few shovel fulls it does not feel light and fluffy
8:31 am
hego
For sure speed
8:32 am
Uneaixoise
FYI just copied the stats from BabAnon to my profile
8:32 am
Trifioso
does the 8 build off the 5?
8:32 am
Kaplan the Magne
Is lickety still not working?
8:33 am
Read-Knit-Bake
Hi SPeedfreak SIs...had nice time last nighe. You just missed a hilarious dialog on names..go back and read form 8 to 8:30! You working in the schools ought to appreciate.
8:33 am
hego
not today Kap
8:33 am
Trifioso
no, it does not. never mind!
8:33 am
Uneaixoise
kaplan, stats are in Babanon and in my profile
8:34 am
speedfreak
hey RKB Did Mom go and did you guys make it home before snow
8:34 am
Kaplan the Magne
I have to print them out then?
8:34 am
Atalante
oh the hardship!!!
8:34 am
Uneaixoise
i just line them up next to the grid like lickety's . . .
8:34 am
hego
Kap doesn't like that!
8:34 am
Uneaixoise
ata LOL
8:34 am
Kaplan the Magne
Any excuse- look, I already skipped the gym because of the light fluffy snow
8:35 am
Read-Knit-Bake
Mom stayed home. Beat the snow...home by 10:30 with a quick stop to see Mom. Will call later sometime to fill you in.
8:35 am
hego
My gym is closed.
8:35 am
Kaplan the Magne
How do you do that une- is it easy?
8:36 am
Kaplan the Magne
Well hego has an excuse then- I am thinking I will go this afternoon
8:36 am
speedfreak
looking forward to hearing about it glad mom stayed home she was getting sick over seeing the other mom
8:36 am
Uneaixoise
kaplan, you know how to make page smaller by clicking on the icon in the upper right, right?
8:36 am
Kaplan the Magne
yeah
8:36 am
Uneaixoise
icon is next to the "x" that allows you to close the page
8:36 am
Uneaixoise
well, you can grab the edge and make it as narrow as you like, then line it up
8:36 am
hego
Yes, then what/
8:37 am
Scrabbler
Hi Speedfreak + Ata.....Hurshy, FB just froze up on me!
8:37 am
Trifioso
okay -- time to address snow blowing, round one. I will be back later to finish, assuming I still have all my digits!
8:37 am
Uneaixoise
then you have the stats next to the grid and your word list
8:37 am
speedfreak
good luck tri
8:37 am
Uneaixoise
thought that's what you wanted to do, hego . . .
8:38 am
speedfreak
morning Scrabbler
8:38 am
Uneaixoise
80 to go -- must go do something productive! Later!
8:39 am
hego
That's a good idea Une. Thanks I'd forgotten about that.
8:39 am
NonoNanette
morning Babblers :)
8:40 am
NonoNanette
could i get some help with the ne6 after the computer ne4 please
8:42 am
Atalante
If I had it, I would help you
8:42 am
Brookie
hi nono, i don't have that ne6 yet, sorry!
8:43 am
NonoNanette
it's been driving me crazy and is my last word
8:44 am
NonoNanette
i found it but it is before the ne4
8:44 am
Brookie
congrats, nono, on just being 1 word away from fireworks!
8:44 am
NonoNanette
FIREWORKS **
8:45 am
Atalante
yay nono!
8:45 am
Scrabbler
Yahoo Nanette!
8:45 am
Brookie
yay nono!!
8:45 am
hego
YAYYYY!!!!! *-8-* *-8-* *-8-*
8:46 am
hego
So clue us the n pls
8:47 am
NonoNanette
it is someone that wants for something
8:47 am
NonoNanette
i was trying to put it in the wrong place in the list :)
8:48 am
hego
Oh gosh, I actually had that. sorry
8:48 am
AshleyNpeyton
thanks nono for the clue and congrats on fireworks
8:49 am
AshleyNpeyton
clue on the single a please
8:51 am
Brookie
the audience oohed and aa***
8:51 am
flosey
good morning everyone
8:51 am
Brookie
hi flosey
8:51 am
AshleyNpeyton
thanks brookie got it
8:53 am
Brookie
yeah anike!
8:53 am
AshleyNpeyton
yay anike
8:54 am
anike
I'm off to bed so happy babbling everyone
8:55 am
anike
If anyone needs help there is a list in babanon
8:56 am
Brookie
good night
8:59 am
hego
Time to bake cookies. Great day all.
9:00 am
Brookie
enjoy baking, hego!
9:01 am
periwinkle
just got in from shoveling driveway and walkway for 45 minutes and I am not done :( and I am not a spring chicken :)
9:02 am
Brookie
i'm trying to will away the snow, peri.
9:02 am
ursh
hello all - please clue the in8 - driving me crazy
9:03 am
Brookie
i don't have it yet, ursh, sorry!
9:06 am
Atalante
I really want it to be intraday
9:06 am
crosshair
go slow and easy peri
9:07 am
ursh
found it - to bury + to fasten
9:07 am
periwinkle
boy do I wish I had something alcohooic to drink. I only have some riesling wine but need something stronger. will need to go out to shoveli ome more in a little while
9:08 am
AshleyNpeyton
how many in8's
9:08 am
periwinkle
I am crossy
9:08 am
periwinkle
can;t spell today
9:08 am
ursh
i think only the one
9:08 am
Brookie
thanks ursh!
9:09 am
periwinkle
thanksa ursh
9:10 am
periwinkle
adequate
9:10 am
periwinkle
fouind the ad8
9:10 am
AshleyNpeyton
ty peri
9:10 am
AshleyNpeyton
lol
9:10 am
Atalante
so you have :)
9:10 am
periwinkle
oh crap!!
9:11 am
Brookie
thanks peri!
9:11 am
crosshair
ni 7/28 is almost like ammonium ni**a** but with an i
9:11 am
periwinkle
maybe there is some vanilla vodka in the PB
9:11 am
Atalante
hopefully!
9:11 am
crosshair
crosy puts some bacon vodka in the pb
9:12 am
Atalante
no! no! vanilla!
9:12 am
crosshair
crossy rolls his eyes at vanillia vodka
9:13 am
crosshair
well maybe we can use that to bake vodka cookies;))
9:14 am
Atalante
vodka cookies??!!
9:14 am
Atalante
vodka and tomato sauce is good on pasta
9:14 am
Uneaixoise
indeed!!
9:14 am
jacq
hello everybody
9:15 am
jacq
how is the grid on a snowbound western world?
9:15 am
jacq
have tasted chilli vodka it was nasty
9:15 am
Uneaixoise
not too bad, jacq :-)
9:15 am
crosshair
howdy jacq:) crosy tosses a snowball at jacq
9:15 am
jacq
ducks behind the giant snowman
9:15 am
periwinkle
help with ed8 pls
9:16 am
Atalante
hi jacq!
9:16 am
jacq
ello crossy brooke une and ata
9:16 am
Brookie
i don't have it, sorry, peri!
9:16 am
Uneaixoise
e + de7/32
9:17 am
periwinkle
thanks Une don't have the de7, wll look
9:17 am
Uneaixoise
a depression in your car fender + consumed food
9:18 am
periwinkle
merci, Une
9:18 am
Uneaixoise
mon plaisir :-)
9:19 am
Uneaixoise
aacckk I keep leaving to go run errands but Babble sucks me right back in -- really poofing now! LOL *POOF*
9:19 am
Atalante
how can there be 15 Cs?
9:19 am
Brookie
i'm wondering the same thing, ata
9:20 am
periwinkle
I have 8 of the c's
9:20 am
jacq
i have 3 c's but cannot fathom how there are more
9:20 am
Atalante
I have 9 but swear there are no more!
9:20 am
crosshair
lol the british cinema was hiding on me;))
9:24 am
Flask1
there are 7 x ce....and 8 x ci's
9:28 am
Scrabbler
Back again after chatting with Hurshy on FB.
9:28 am
Scrabbler
TY for that clue, Crossy!
9:28 am
crosshair
np scwabby:)
9:29 am
Atalante
how's bunny Sbeastian?
9:29 am
Scrabbler
He seems 100% better, Ata, and i am SO relieved!
9:30 am
crosshair
BUNNIES!
9:30 am
crosshair
BUNNIES!
9:30 am
crosshair
lol even stuttered
9:30 am
Scrabbler
He is frisky and active and eating and pooping!
9:30 am
crosshair
plump,eating bunnies....
9:31 am
Atalante
yay bunny :D
9:31 am
Scrabbler
*smacking Crossy upside the he4!*
9:31 am
Atalante
thats wonderful!
9:31 am
Scrabbler
*smacking other side to push brain back over*
9:32 am
crosshair
violence! a medical practitioner doing harm!
9:32 am
Scrabbler
Ata, don't you go crazy when one of your pets is ill? I cannot stand it!
9:32 am
Atalante
that assumes there's a brain there ...
9:32 am
crosshair
bet she spanks her bunnys
9:33 am
Scrabbler
It is therapeutic, Crossy. The bacon has made your brain hard withplaques.
9:33 am
crosshair
what was wrong with sbastian?
9:34 am
periwinkle
glad Sebastian is feeling better, Scrabs
9:34 am
Atalante
I hate it really more than anything else, Scrabs cos I can't explain that I'm trying to help them
9:34 am
Scrabbler
He was ill on Friday--not eating, very inactive, runny nose, not pooping (<--bunnies must keep pooping or GI tract causes potentially fatal problems).
9:34 am
Scrabbler
TY, Peri
9:35 am
periwinkle
saw his pix on FB, he is a cutie, Scrabs
9:35 am
Scrabbler
I have to push half of a tablet into his mouth twice daily and he spits it out 3-4 times before he finally chews it
9:35 am
periwinkle
help with en8's, anyone?
9:35 am
Scrabbler
Isn't he the cutest thing, peri? 7 1/2 yrs ago I went into a pet store to buy supplies and I walked out with him!
9:36 am
hurshy
ah, the wesley bear.
9:36 am
Scrabbler
Did you have a fun conversation with him, Hurshy?
9:37 am
hurshy
the norland estate in its en8 is left to john and fanny
9:37 am
hurshy
yes, he continually makes progress on reading
9:37 am
Scrabbler
TY, hursh!
9:37 am
sciencegeek
morning all\
9:37 am
Brookie
hi sciencegeek!
9:37 am
Scrabbler
he is reading at age 2 yrs?
9:37 am
hurshy
dear sir, i write to you in my hour of utmost ne4 to make this en8
9:38 am
hurshy
he can read some words and he's like ALMOST there on the sounding out and being able to then read anything
9:38 am
periwinkle
ty, hursh, found the 2nd en8
9:38 am
crosshair
when im really hungryperi ill eat an en**** pound of bacon+ abbr fot thank you
9:38 am
periwinkle
working on your first clue, think I know the word but having trouble with spelling
9:38 am
hurshy
i read at age 2, so it's kind of what we have expected.
9:38 am
periwinkle
thank you crossy and hurshy
9:39 am
Scrabbler
Wow, hurshy. I have not seen many kids like you, him.
9:39 am
Scrabbler
BRB, I must get the pancakes cooking. Who wants some?
9:39 am
Atalante
I did too, I can't remember not being able to read
9:39 am
periwinkle
me too, Scrabs
9:40 am
periwinkle
need help with it8, ta8 and th8 pretty please
9:40 am
Scrabbler
OK, huge platter of pancakes are coming up. I made some yesterday, with new baking mix, and they were heavenly!
9:40 am
periwinkle
found the it8 :)
9:40 am
Brookie
th8 - british cinema, adjective
9:41 am
jacq
th8 is an extension of the cinema type place
9:41 am
periwinkle
what mix, Scrabs
9:41 am
hurshy
it's so cute too, he loves to try to learn - we'll get on skype and he'll say "words, auntie!" cause i have lots of words i've written on like flash cards for him.
9:41 am
hurshy
ta8 - wesley loves looking for waldo so much that one of his where's waldo books has now become quite ta8
9:42 am
periwinkle
ty hursh
9:42 am
hurshy
of course he has also memorized where waldo is on each page in that one so it is no longer really looking. luckily he has more than one.
9:42 am
periwinkle
working on the th8, have the th7
9:43 am
jacq
it ends in the far right upper corner
9:43 am
crosshair
if i knew wesley this would be easy:/
9:43 am
periwinkle
aha, was aiming for the wrong corner, ty
9:43 am
jacq
change the last vowel on the 7 and add a consonant
9:43 am
periwinkle
got it, thanks
9:43 am
hurshy
just think of what happens to a book when a kid uses it a lot, crossy - it's not particular to wesley!
9:44 am
jacq
loved books can be quite ta****** and torn
9:44 am
periwinkle
one of the benefits of living in an pat is not having to shovel out the driveway
9:44 am
periwinkle
alas, I now live in a house
9:44 am
crosshair
ty hurshy
9:44 am
periwinkle
wow, have all the 8's now
9:48 am
JBV
hi, i'm back again and thanks for all those clues -
9:49 am
JBV
hurshy, scrolling back to read about your nephew - that's a magical moment when they go from reading whole words to working out the alphabetic code on their own - so fascinating to see
9:49 am
jacq
care to share the it8 peri?
9:49 am
periwinkle
help with ai7 pls
9:50 am
periwinkle
past tense of the it7 to repeat yourself
9:50 am
Brookie
ai5,12, past tense
9:50 am
jacq
oh duh!!! ty peri
9:50 am
jacq
had the 7 too lol
9:51 am
periwinkle
ty, Brookie, will look for the ai5
9:51 am
Brookie
ai5 = what we breathe + 2/3 of definite article
9:51 am
periwinkle
than you, Brookie
9:52 am
periwinkle
*thnks even*
9:53 am
periwinkle
thanks, can't spell worth a damn today
9:53 am
Scrabbler
Ok, pancakes for all! They are light and fluffy!
9:53 am
periwinkle
mmm,. thanks Scrabs, delish
9:53 am
Brookie
may i have mine with bananas, scrabbler?
9:54 am
Scrabbler
*slicing a banana on to Brooke's pancakes*
9:54 am
Brookie
you're so kind...
9:55 am
Scrabbler
I aim to please here at The Hemlock House <--my name for my home
9:55 am
bojazz
thought it was Rabbitat?
9:55 am
JBV
lovely name, scrabs, just don't plan to open a bed and breakfast :)
9:55 am
Atalante
butter and syrup for me :) and maybe some blueberries
9:55 am
72 Temple Owl
grape jam for me please
9:56 am
periwinkle
hi thre Owl, good to see you!
9:56 am
Scrabbler
No rooms available here--occupied my nephew + 4 bunnies!
9:56 am
bojazz
Vermont Maple Syrup please
9:56 am
Scrabbler
Hi bojazz. Yes, Rabbitat is in The Hemlock House
9:56 am
periwinkle
I will accept what ever condiments you have available, Scrabs
9:56 am
Scrabbler
I have no blueberries, Ata, so sorry
9:57 am
Scrabbler
Grape jam for you, owl!
9:58 am
Scrabbler
Yummy, 1 pancake is done, 3 to go...pure carbo heaven.
9:58 am
Sally-catlover
Did someone say pancakes? I have some blueberries Ata. *Throws blueberries to Ata. Lemon and sugar for me please Scrabs.
9:58 am
JBV
low-cal stewed apples for me, scrabs - have some right here
9:58 am
Scrabbler
Lemon on your pancakes?
9:58 am
Scrabbler
TY, JBV.
9:58 am
jacq
i'll have sugar and lemon too please
9:59 am
Scrabbler
Is that a UK thing, putting lemon on pancakes?
9:59 am
Atalante
lemon and sugar is British traditional for british pancakes
9:59 am
Scrabbler
I like butter + syrup, usually maple.
9:59 am
Scrabbler
Fresh berries are great too, if available
9:59 am
Sally-catlover
Lemon and sugar on pancakes is magic!
10:00 am
Atalante
but for crepe pancakes, not american pancakes
10:00 am
JBV
we have received four separate baskets of Harry and David fruit this week - apples/pears, etc. - there's no way we can eat them all before they start to turn, so I'm cooking them -
10:00 am
Scrabbler
But lemon is sour
10:00 am
Scrabbler
Good for you, JBV
10:00 am
Sally-catlover
True Ata. Was forgetting. OK, maple syrup then, in the true transatlantic spirit.
10:00 am
jacq
yes they have to be thin and rolled, but if we are speaking thicker pancakes loads of maple syrup for me please
10:01 am
Atalante
lemon adn sugar is perfect on crepe-pancakes
10:01 am
Sally-catlover
*Drips maple syrup down chin and onto keyboard.
10:01 am
Scrabbler
*pouring on maple syrup*
10:01 am
Scrabbler
*typing with sticky fingertips*
10:01 am
Atalante
try it scrabs, youll be surprised!
10:01 am
Scrabbler
I will, Ata
10:01 am
periwinkle
100 words left
10:02 am
Sally-catlover
Sounds like my keyboard Scrabs!
10:02 am
Scrabbler
Alas, 158 words to go
10:02 am
bojazz
rasberry syrup, anyone?
10:02 am
Scrabbler
phantom = thread
10:03 am
Scrabbler
Yes, please, bojazz
10:03 am
Scrabbler
He5 what, Bo?
10:04 am
Atalante
my favourite pancakes I have are in Astoria - orange and pineapple pancakes with orange sauce
10:04 am
bojazz
wrong entry point
10:04 am
Scrabbler
That's different, Ata.
10:04 am
Atalante
yes! but they are *so* good
10:04 am
Atalante
with maple syrup adn butter on top LOL
10:04 am
JBV
Astoria, Oregon, Ata? must be - we never had those in Astoria, NY (where I grew up)
10:05 am
bojazz
orange sauce sounds scrumps!!
10:05 am
Atalante
yes, sorry, AStoria OR
10:05 am
Sally-catlover
mmm Ata. *Rushes off to shut up hens, trailing pancakes on the way. brb
10:05 am
JBV
that Astor fellow left his name in a few places
10:06 am
Atalante
he did that
10:06 am
Scrabbler
*enjoying the last few bites of my pancakes*
10:06 am
Atalante
they have a great big column above AStoria called the Astor Column
10:06 am
Scrabbler
*moaning in delight*
10:06 am
bojazz
pb&j for lunch...
10:07 am
Scrabbler
I have that a lot, Bo
10:07 am
Atalante
I had very boring oatmeal for lunch
10:07 am
Atalante
but! am going to my fav "Mexican" restaurant for dinner
10:07 am
Scrabbler
Done. That was quite yummy!
10:07 am
bojazz
smart balance peanut butter - it's healthy
10:07 am
Scrabbler
I have that too, Bo
10:08 am
bojazz
smart blance butter - "pam"?
10:09 am
JBV
Astor had a summer home in what is now Astoria (Long Island City), the owner of the property renamed it after Astor in the hope he would endow a girls' school
10:09 am
Scrabbler
TY for history lesson, JBV
10:10 am
Atalante
Astoria OR - the city was named after the American investor (and first millionaire) John Jacob Astor. His fur trading company founded Fort Astoria at the site in 1810.
10:10 am
Scrabbler
*getting smarter with history class he4*
10:11 am
JBV
in our Astoria, the original owner of the property, Hallett, is more well-known (more places named after him)
10:11 am
Atalante
your turn for an interesting fact :P
10:12 am
Atalante
In addition to the replicated Fort Clatsop, a popular point of interest is the Astoria Column, a tower 125 feet (38 m) high built atop the hill above the town, with an inner circular staircase allowing visitors to climb to see a panoramic view of the town, the surrounding lands, and the Columbia flowing into the Pacific. The column was built by the Astor family in 1926 to commemorate the region's early history.
10:12 am
Erda
When I was in St. Petersburg, the Russian one, I stayed at the Astoria Hotel. Its main claim to fame seems to be that the poet Nekrasov committed suicide in one of the rooms. So, where would the name have come from in Russia?
10:13 am
Scrabbler
Most popular accounts hold that the name "Buffalo" is a corruption of the French phrase beau fleuve, "beautiful river," a phrase said to have been exclaimed by French explorers upon seeing the Niagara River.
10:13 am
JBV
that's a great story, scrabbler, very likely
10:13 am
Atalante
well ... the Russians were very into Art Deco, and Astor was around that time ...
10:13 am
Scrabbler
Hi Erda--I saw your name in the grid earlier and now you are he4
10:14 am
Erda
The hotel was built in 1912
10:14 am
JBV
astor must have imported a lot of furs from Russia - was probably prominent there too
10:14 am
Erda
Fur -- of course!!
10:14 am
Atalante
it's also just a very glamorous name in those times; if you wanted to create an amazing swanky hotel in St Petersburg, what better to call it
10:15 am
Scrabbler
Most popular accounts hold that the name "Buffalo" is a corruption of the French phrase beau fleuve, "beautiful river," a phrase said to have been exclaimed by French explorers upon seeing the Niagara River.
10:15 am
JBV
he was the bill gates of his time - the richest man alive!
10:15 am
JBV
just had a sense of deja vu
10:17 am
Scrabbler
The Olmsted Park and Parkway System is the hallmark of Buffalo's many green spaces. Three-fourths of city park land is part of the system, which comprises six major parks, eight connecting parkways, nine circles and seven smaller spaces. Begun in 1868 by Frederick Law Olmsted and his partner Calvert Vaux, the system was integrated into the city and marks the first attempt in America to lay out a coordinated system of public parks and parkways. The Olmsted designed portions of the Buffalo park system are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and are maintained by the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy.
10:17 am
Scrabbler
Sorry, I had pasted the same paragraph in twice.
10:19 am
JBV
that Olmstead fellow got around, too - designed Central Park in NYC
10:20 am
JBV
we should figure out to get accredited as Babble University - and issue diplomas in odd and random facts
10:21 am
Scrabbler
And have a course called Babblets + Other Obscure Words
10:22 am
JBV
we could issue culinary degress -with all the recipes flying around
10:22 am
bojazz
Buffalo was once home to Pratt & Lambert, gobbled up by Shwern-Williams in 1996 and products they made have declined ever since - my only knowledge of Buffalo, besides proximity to Niagra
10:22 am
jacq
and parenting classes and counselling courses
10:22 am
jacq
becayuse we all pour it out here from time to time
10:22 am
JBV
not to mention medical degrees
10:23 am
JBV
even home improvement, right scrabs?
10:23 am
jacq
may i share my wonderful news with you all
10:23 am
Atalante
and vet classes
10:23 am
JBV
oh, yes, jacq, eagerly waiting to hear..
10:24 am
jacq
i had a scare, that lasted 7 awful weeks, i had a lump in my breast and my doc was concerned after the mamogram that there were cancerous changes
10:24 am
jacq
i got the all clear this week
10:24 am
jacq
it is a fibroadenoma, it will still grow but is benign
10:24 am
Erda
Applause for jacq!!!
10:24 am
jacq
i cried like a baby when he told me it was ok
10:24 am
JBV
WOW, jacq - that is a great Christmas present! congratulations - we're all breathing better for you
10:24 am
jacq
so many tests and biopsies
10:25 am
jacq
christma will be wonderful
10:25 am
JBV
never heard of fibroadenoma - what are they recommending? just wait and see?
10:25 am
jacq
wait and see, if it starts to grow rapidly then they will remove it
10:26 am
sixty7stang13
Congrats jacq. I am so happy for you.
10:26 am
Scrabbler
Woweee, Jacq!
10:26 am
jacq
me too sixty, me too
10:26 am
Scrabbler
Fibroadenoma = common benign breast tumor.
10:26 am
JBV
living under a cloud like that is extremely exhausting, you must be so relieved
10:26 am
jacq
i was so worried i couldn't even think properly
10:27 am
Scrabbler
Twice I have found breat masses, freaked out, turned out to be OK. You realize that your life could take a very different and scary course.
10:27 am
jacq
i get lumps anyway, i have fibrocystic breast tissue, but this one was different
10:27 am
jacq
it's been 24 years i have been dealing with breast lumps, and each one is a worry
10:27 am
JBV
taking notes, toward my Babble Univ. degree - on fibroadenoma
10:28 am
Atalante
yay yay Jacq!
10:30 am
CiociaJudy
woohoo for Jacq!! Wonderful news!!!
10:31 am
Scrabbler
It is time for me to go for a walk--the sun is shining and I need to get a dose of sun to make me happy
10:32 am
Locks99
any ideas for ni7/28 between the ni5's ?
10:32 am
JBV
bye scrabs, - enjoy!
10:32 am
harpjane
hello 250 to go
10:32 am
JBV
i have a ni 7/28 - food additive
10:32 am
Scrabbler
Go Jane go! Pace yourself!
10:33 am
Scrabbler
TY for ni7!
10:33 am
Scrabbler
I am almost halfway so will find a few more words then walk
10:34 am
Locks99
need the other ni7
10:35 am
Scrabbler
At 128/125 I shall go for a hike now. BBL
10:35 am
Atalante
bye dear!
10:36 am
jacq
hb scrabbler
10:36 am
Sally-catlover
Bye Scrabs. Just been reading back. Wonderful news Jacq.
10:37 am
harpjane
are there any ew words, and have a good hike scrab
10:38 am
helensgirlkid
Just caught up with the chat - so ahppy for you Jacq. A great boost for Christmas spirit!
10:38 am
Atalante
lots of ew words, but no ew words
10:38 am
sciencegeek
locks - have one ni 7 - it is a preservative found in sausages etc
10:39 am
Locks99
have that one science, but there is 1 more
10:40 am
Atalante
ni7 - like the previous ni5
10:40 am
jacq
thanks everyone and yes it is, my mum and i had huge chocolate cakes and coffee to celebrate
10:41 am
sciencegeek
just got it - ni5/10 plus plus two vowel ending
10:41 am
harpjane
how many letters in the lone a? and the second row i? please?
10:42 am
SamanthaJoy
The only second row "I" I have is seven/twenty eight
10:42 am
Locks99
thanks science, fireworks for me
10:42 am
Sally-catlover
The lone a is aa5/14
10:43 am
sciencegeek
ty sally
10:44 am
jacq
ohhh invite for coffee, be back later, thanks for the good wishes and congrats, have funa nd fireworks please
10:45 am
SamanthaJoy
D'oh, harp, I'm an idiot: the second row I is a 7/8 combo
10:54 am
mkg
clue ofr the aa 5 plz.
10:54 am
SamanthaJoy
the crowd oohed and aa5 at the fireworks show
10:55 am
mkg
would love clue for that i 7/8 combo also.
10:55 am
Sally-catlover
When I saw the Christmas lights I oohed and I aa***
10:55 am
sciencegeek
in and en 7 - to plead and beg for something
10:55 am
sciencegeek
in and en plus trick or tr5/10
10:56 am
sciencegeek
add a y to the end
10:56 am
bojazz
mkg - love what you said in profile - you are so right! my company may go under and their's noone to help us out
10:56 am
harpjane
not from the second i
10:57 am
sciencegeek
oh sorry that one - to repeat one's self
10:57 am
sciencegeek
and past tense
10:57 am
SamanthaJoy
The second I is, well, when you say something you it7 it; when you repeat something to make a point you reit7 it
10:57 am
mkg
glad you agree bojazz. i am still furious about it all.
10:57 am
harpjane
thanks nbt and nbs
10:57 am
mkg
samantha super clues! getting them all! ty
10:58 am
TheLegend
i hear ya loud and clear mkg..couldnt agree more
10:58 am
SamanthaJoy
thanks! and you're welcome.
10:58 am
bojazz
mkg - like you, i no longer watch/listen to news - too damn depressisng
10:58 am
mkg
wow! got the it and the 8!
10:58 am
SamanthaJoy
mkg, I don't think the problem is that you're not a liberal any more; I think it's that there isn't a party that represents libreals any more.
10:59 am
bojazz
there's not a party that represents the people - only interest groups
10:59 am
SamanthaJoy
haallelujah, bo
10:59 am
mkg
have two e 8s and one i 8 and one ti 8. would love clues for other 8s.
11:00 am
SamanthaJoy
there's a ta8 you don't have--past tense of the ta6, to tear up
11:01 am
mkg
samantha you may be right........i see obama as weak internationally too. he actually apologised for what we did in WW2! we saved europes skins and he apologised??????he is a weak wimp........he should be proud of being an american and proud that we destroyed nazi germany. why did he apologise???
11:01 am
mkg
still 111 words left. ugh.
11:01 am
flosey
8s I have are ad, er, ed, enx2, hex2, in, it, ta, th, ti,
11:02 am
Haz1558
Hold on. America didn't win the war on its own, even though you might like to rewrite history. Remind me again, the war started in 1939. When did America join in?
11:03 am
Atalante
and every country did things not to be proud of in any war. That's war for you
11:03 am
grant
th7,8 Shaakespeare's Globe Th***** (brit var) + adj
11:03 am
SamanthaJoy
I missed that, mkg. I got tired of the far right slamming him for not being jingoistic enough and tuned out foreign policy--even though, constitutionally, that's the only real power a Pres. has.
11:03 am
TheLegend
ever hear of Lend/Lease Haz? we were holding you up well before we actually started fighting
11:04 am
mkg
got the th 8. ty.
11:04 am
Atalante
you held us up, we held you up. no-one can win a war on their own
11:04 am
SamanthaJoy
grant, I cannot for the life of me get an 8 out of that
11:04 am
Atalante
though we all try
11:04 am
Haz1558
Of course America has to be credited for its role in the war. Just don't suggest that she was the only one fighting.
11:04 am
mkg
right atalante, but should the u.s. apologise to europe? for what?
11:05 am
Dorens
tis the season to be jolly!
11:05 am
hootowl
How about apologising for screwing up the chat! This is NOT a place for this discussion!
11:05 am
TheLegend
we have NOTHING to apologize for
11:05 am
mkg
she wasnt the only one for sure. no one said that. the issue is that obama apologised for american actions in ww2. what did he apologise for? we came in and helped win the war.
11:05 am
grant
make adj with The **e Man Cometh
11:06 am
SamanthaJoy
political discussions do come and go in here sometimes, hoot, and have for as long as I've been around
11:06 am
mkg
dont know the man cometh
11:06 am
SamanthaJoy
d'oh! of course, grant, don't know how I missed that. Thanks!
11:06 am
hootowl
Not this bad! Out of hand and interferring!
11:06 am
Atalante
never said anyone in an alliance should apologise to anyone else
11:06 am
grant
USA - Amer**a
11:06 am
SamanthaJoy
interfering with what, exactly?
11:07 am
Dorens
i like discussing politics. i don't like ugliness
11:07 am
Atalante
what does Obama think he needs to apologise for?
11:07 am
hootowl
the puzzle, the cluing - hopeless -bbl
11:07 am
SamanthaJoy
the issue, atalante, seems to be that he *did* apologize (I'm taking word for that, didn't hear it myself) and no one seems to know what for.
11:07 am
SamanthaJoy
Absolutely the worst kind of apology! LOL
11:08 am
SamanthaJoy
ah, goodbye then hoot. I wasn't having trouble following it myself. Sorry you are.
11:08 am
Atalante
didn't he explain why he was apologising?
11:09 am
Dorens
if we didn't hear it, and don't know what for, then how on ea*** can we criticize the apology?
11:09 am
SamanthaJoy
I think you'd have to ask mkg. I didn't hear it myself
11:09 am
mkg
i should go find the speech. he made some statements about american actions during ww2 being faulty..to me it was bizarre. he is evasive about specifics in all his stalks. so are all the politicians.........
11:10 am
Atalante
why don't you go see what he actually said :)
11:11 am
harpjane
what is the letter count for the hi words please? I only have hi4
11:11 am
mkg
i read it at the time which was long ago. sorry all. wish i could quote it. but dont know now the exact words. and in egypt he also was cowering. the tone of what he says is always to appease the other side. i guess that is what i dont like. i feel there is no backbone to him.
11:11 am
harpjane
and hi5
11:12 am
SamanthaJoy
Harp, the only H that intersects with the I has three words
11:12 am
harpjane
never mind, got em all (hi6)
11:12 am
Dorens
i disagree. I feel there is much our country has done for which we could be apologetic. He is wise to try to extend a hand to the rest of the world. coyboy diplomacy has not gotten us very far
11:13 am
scribekd
hear, hear. Dorens!
11:14 am
harpjane
thank you dorens, "mission accomplished" echos around the world and we should apologize for THAT
11:14 am
Dorens
hah! coyboy =coWboy
11:14 am
mkg
i have hi 4 and 5 only. hmmm
11:14 am
SamanthaJoy
LOL Harp--I must agree there
11:14 am
grant
Was it deGaulle who wished aloud that he could remove all Americans from France, and was the asked if he meant to include all the ones buried there?
11:14 am
SamanthaJoy
mkg, have you heard of baseballs designated hi6 rule?
11:15 am
Atalante
a lot of countries have a lot to apologise for over the years
11:15 am
SamanthaJoy
yeppers, grant, it was!
11:15 am
SamanthaJoy
OK. In baseball, you have a pitcher, a catcher and a hi6--does that help?
11:16 am
SamanthaJoy
the hi6 is the one at-bat
11:16 am
redturtlehead
Hi All. Its so cold here, but no Snow! How many of you all got snow?
11:16 am
harpjane
how many in words are there?
11:16 am
harpjane
no snow here in my section of Montana
11:16 am
mkg
super clue samantha
11:16 am
redturtlehead
Ooooh, if its going to be cold, you might as well have snow.
11:17 am
Dorens
we have plenty here in NJ
11:17 am
mkg
i wondered when we would use the double cons. other than the space under the roof of a house i hadnt used it.
11:17 am
flosey
5 in words
11:17 am
mkg
the snow is gorgeous here in maryland. totally gorgeous.
11:17 am
SamanthaJoy
I'm in Texas. We get snow in Central Texas once every year or two, and then for not more than a day if it sticks at all
11:17 am
mkg
is there snow now in texas?
11:18 am
redturtlehead
Well, I will never have true cold, but its 43 now. and I am not enjoy ing that.
11:18 am
harpjane
that does it, i'm getting a list.....
11:18 am
SamanthaJoy
I doubt it. Even places that get snow regularly (Dallas, Houston, Amarillo) tend to get it later in the year, though it is cold
11:18 am
sixty7stang13
no snow in south Texas we hardly ever get any.
11:19 am
mkg
we seldom have snow in dec. it has been a good cold month and i am happy. dont want global warming.
11:19 am
SamanthaJoy
Don't the places along the coast get it? I wsa told this AM by a Houstonite that it snows there sometimes, and I know snow in Dallas is nearly a yearly phenomena
11:19 am
dcseain
hello. Have learned that we here got the most snow of anywhere out of this storm.
11:19 am
dcseain
yes, Dec snow is rare
11:19 am
dcseain
esp in this quantitiy
11:20 am
SamanthaJoy
GOD IS PUNISHING WASHI -- Oh, sorry, I was channeling oral roberts for a moment there
11:20 am
redturtlehead
DC, you and My Mom really got it, and Dan2 and gosh, I seem to know a lot of people in the VA area.
11:20 am
dcseain
LOL samantha :D
11:20 am
Dorens
yup, seain. we thought we were getting yours, but only have about 8 - 10 inches here.
11:20 am
redturtlehead
Very funny Samanta!!!
11:20 am
redturtlehead
My mom about 1.5 hours N or DC got about 14 inches...
11:21 am
dcseain
Friends in North Jersey said they got about 5 inches
11:21 am
dcseain
yeah, central NC was nearly as much as us
11:21 am
dcseain
Tom made it to work and back anyway :)
11:21 am
redturtlehead
I really wish I could go and have a white Christmas, but, I am happy to be living away from it. I'm about to post my birding photos from yesterday....
11:22 am
dcseain
oh bummer, red
11:22 am
SamanthaJoy
I'ma go cuddle with my honey for a while; bbl
11:22 am
dcseain
i'd bet this'll melt by Xmas
11:22 am
Dorens
first ar 6 word please?
11:22 am
Dorens
by sj. and i don't think it will up here dc
11:23 am
dcseain
hasta, samantha
11:23 am
redturtlehead
Well, DC, the bright side is that Living in that mess would make me really irate, so its better to enjoy everyones photos.
11:23 am
Haz1558
I have an ar6/21 desire to do something.
11:24 am
harpjane
how's your weather dc?
11:25 am
inge
gUTEN moRGEN, bABBLERS Does any9one have the cluelist in their profile? The Babanon list wont print out right
11:25 am
dcseain
cold, crisp blue skies, sunshine, a nd highly reflective white on the ground
11:25 am
harpjane
how's the city doing?
11:25 am
redturtlehead
Hi Inge. I didnt know we were without clues.
11:25 am
grant
add e to de7
11:26 am
dcseain
ty, grant
11:26 am
dcseain
guten Morgen, Inge
11:26 am
dcseain
ty for ar, haz
11:27 am
Haz1558
You're welcome, dc.
11:27 am
redturtlehead
So far, its sort of a fun grid, but I am only 70 in...
11:27 am
Atalante
haz and the glitterata!
11:29 am
Atalante
has the afternoon's session of paw arranging gone to satisfaction?
11:29 am
Haz1558
Absolutely. Five inches of now= much cavorting and much arranging.
11:30 am
Atalante
gosh, I can imagine!! must get all those little bits of ice out
11:31 am
Haz1558
It's a bit unexpected, haven't seen this much snow for a while.
11:31 am
Atalante
is her fur long enough that she looks like loads of white bobbles are stuck to her?
11:31 am
dcseain
great-grandma used to re**** socks.
11:31 am
redturtlehead
Everyone has snow! Except us southerners, how nice!
11:31 am
Haz1558
No, she was trimmed recently....
11:31 am
Dorens
thanks for the ar haz and hi
11:31 am
Haz1558
Hello, Dorens, you're welcome.
11:31 am
dcseain
our Kiwi and Oz friends don't have snow
11:33 am
Atalante
lucky! Hobbit gets to looking like she has white bobbly socks on
11:33 am
redturtlehead
Well, yes, this is true DC, but if they did, there and in SA, it would be the wrong time of year.
11:33 am
Haz1558
It's nice, dry, powdery snow.
11:34 am
dcseain
a friend from Alpena, MI remembers HS graduation getting cancelled in June for snow
11:34 am
Dorens
speaking of the nice powder snow, i need to go shovel my walk before it gets icy and crusty. bbl
11:34 am
dcseain
some here, haz
11:35 am
redturtlehead
It snowed on my May graduation in NY, upstate.
11:36 am
AshleyNpeyton
never even seen snow b4
11:36 am
dcseain
where you live, ashley?
11:36 am
AshleyNpeyton
st augustine florida
11:37 am
AshleyNpeyton
its a chilly 65 here today
11:37 am
redturtlehead
Theres not snow here in Florida. but it sure is chilly today.
11:37 am
dcseain
65 is what we have our heat set to
11:38 am
redturtlehead
49 here still, maybe I should move to St Aug.
11:38 am
dcseain
FL does get ice sometimes, at least inland, yes?
11:38 am
AshleyNpeyton
it was cold last nite but the suns warming us up now
11:38 am
redturtlehead
Talahassee, way up north has had SNow.
11:39 am
dcseain
hm. lot more traffic today. they must have plowed.
11:40 am
AshleyNpeyton
might go fishin, chilly temp = sheephead
11:40 am
sciencegeek
Hi all! Dc how is the weather today?
11:41 am
dcseain
clear, sunny and bright
11:41 am
Mary
th6 a number in 10's
11:42 am
dcseain
ty, mary
11:42 am
origami
47 and overcast in CA central valley
11:42 am
redturtlehead
Oooh origami, come join me, but we do have abrilant hard light blue sky.
11:43 am
redturtlehead
Seain, In a few hours, I am going to post some nice Roseate Spoonbill photos I took yesterday. I am a bit overproud of them, as I am advertising here...
11:43 am
Aloyisius
61, bright and sunny in Mesa AZ this am... hi Babblers
11:43 am
dcseain
coolio, red! i shall check them out
11:43 am
dcseain
I hope to be in Mesa for a weekend in Feb
11:44 am
Aloyisius
my first visit here, dcs.. I'm impressed!
11:46 am
redturtlehead
Ok, off to edit again. Sorry to be such a self promoter. this time many of the images are much better than normal, so I am pumped up.
11:46 am
redturtlehead
Hi Aloy and Bye everyone. Happy babbling.
11:46 am
sciencegeek
Red - they were doing the Christmas bird count in Galveston this week. I saw a few roseate spoons! So pretty
11:47 am
dcseain
njoy red
11:47 am
dcseain
neat, aloy. on vacation?
11:47 am
Aloyisius
yes, dcs.. family holiday reunion, yay
11:48 am
Aloyisius
we are so spread out, so this is indeed a tr5 ! (-:
11:49 am
Aloyisius
hi hego!
11:49 am
dcseain
morning, hego
11:49 am
dcseain
i had moon pies for breakfast. i should make a real lunch, i suppose.
11:50 am
hego
I was here this AM and we had the best time talkig about funny names.
11:50 am
hego
We got nothing done, however.
11:50 am
Aloyisius
will have to read chog later.. missed the fun
11:51 am
hego
DC you should have Ring Dings for lunch!
11:51 am
sciencegeek
or twinkies
11:51 am
hego
Aloy, it was about 8:30 on the chog.
11:52 am
Aloyisius
ok, ty
11:53 am
Haz1558
Time to go. Bye for now!
11:53 am
Atalante
bye dear!
11:54 am
Haz1558
*gone* in a flurry of snow.
11:54 am
Aloyisius
bbl.. bfast time here
11:55 am
hego
Good breakfast, Love
11:57 am
dcseain
http://tinyurl.com/y8k7jvs
video of the start of a multi-hundred person snowball fight at U and 14th Sts NW in DC yesterday
11:57 am
dcseain
what are ring dings?
11:58 am
hego
Ring Dings are wonderful!
11:58 am
dcseain
I see that tom had whiskey for breakfast. smells like jack, and unusually for him, straight
11:59 am
hego
Patties of choc cake covered in more choc. with vanilla filling! WOW
11:59 am
dcseain
he was way stressed from driving in the snow. Those years in TN made him weak ;)
12:00 pm
hego
I'd have rather had the Moon Pies. whiskey for breakfast. Ugh!
12:01 pm
dcseain
well, he was coming off a 12h shift at the hospital
12:01 pm
dcseain
and i know others must've come in, because he was home at a usual hour for getting of between 7 and 8
12:01 pm
hego
Then it's not really breakfast, but a nitecap, right?
12:02 pm
dcseain
effectively, yes. he's asleep now
12:02 pm
hego
what does he do DC?
12:02 pm
dcseain
RN in ICU
12:03 pm
hego
Oh, that's my old job!
12:03 pm
dcseain
LOL nifty, hego
12:03 pm
hego
He deserves a drink. For sure!
12:04 pm
dcseain
he'll be sitting soon for CCRN
12:04 pm
hego
Yes I was also certified.
12:05 pm
dcseain
Nef also was
12:05 pm
hego
I left in 1991 and have been doing other things since then.
12:05 pm
dcseain
cool. so long as you're enjoying yourself
12:06 pm
hego
I still volunteer at a free clinic though. It's great. No pressure.
12:06 pm
dcseain
:) and the people there really need healthcare. nice combo
12:07 pm
periwinkle
back again from another shift shoveling out the driveway. thanks goodness we also have a snow blower.
12:07 pm
dcseain
good that you're taking breaks, peri
12:08 pm
periwinkle
this is the second most snow this area has received according to the news
12:08 pm
periwinkle
I wish I still lived in an apt!
12:08 pm
periwinkle
then maintenance clears the driveways. but I always had to dig my car out
12:09 pm
periwinkle
maybe I will move to Fla or someplace warm
12:09 pm
hurshy
condo w/ garage is perfect compromise. no digging out car, no clearing driveway.
12:09 pm
periwinkle
we have a shared driveway and our neighbor is a lovely woman who did a lot of shoveling too
12:09 pm
periwinkle
yes, that is great, hursh
12:10 pm
periwinkle
ok, I want a condo with a garage
12:10 pm
hego
I live in a complex of houses where they do all that for you. It's geat.
12:10 pm
periwinkle
and someone to help with the financial aspect, any takers?
12:10 pm
dcseain
i know we set a record for Dec snow.
12:11 pm
periwinkle
where are you in NJ, hego?
12:11 pm
hego
Well, back to the kitchen for me. I'll never finish this today, anyway.
12:11 pm
periwinkle
where are you in NJ, hego?
12:12 pm
hego
I live near Long Branch. On the Shore.
12:12 pm
periwinkle
hopefully we will get little or no snow for the rest of the winter
12:12 pm
periwinkle
oh, ok, hego
12:12 pm
hego
From your mouth to God's ears, my dear.
12:12 pm
AshleyNpeyton
clues on the 2 i's plz
12:13 pm
hego
angry and angered Ashley
12:14 pm
dcseain
those come from top I, no the right one
12:14 pm
sciencegeek
Is there a list anywhere?
12:15 pm
periwinkle
in bab anon
12:15 pm
periwinkle
in bab anon
12:15 pm
hego
those are in's
12:15 pm
hego
there are 3.
12:15 pm
dcseain
no N next to the right I
12:15 pm
torgone
Repeat and repeated ..
12:15 pm
hego
SG in Babbler's anon
12:16 pm
sciencegeek
could i please have a clue for the lower t i have one of the two
12:16 pm
hego
I'm gone now. Poof
12:16 pm
dcseain
fishworthy. thank you, torg
12:16 pm
periwinkle
hey, tor, are you home?
12:16 pm
periwinkle
hey, tor, are you home?
12:16 pm
dcseain
bye, hego
12:16 pm
torgone
I am back in the US of A ..
12:17 pm
hego
They're ty words and now, I'm absolutely gone. bye
12:18 pm
dcseain
ty4 both
12:19 pm
AshleyNpeyton
can i get the stats on the i's please
12:19 pm
dcseain
there is a list in Babblers Anonymous, link below
12:20 pm
lawyer-1
In 5 - ,In5x1,In6x1,In7x2,In8x1
Ir 3 - ,Ir4x1,Ir5x2
It 3 - ,It5x1,It7x1,It8x1
12:20 pm
dcseain
ir5 and ir6 from the right I
12:21 pm
lawyer-1
from the right i? As opposed to the wrong i?
12:21 pm
dcseain
right-hand I
12:21 pm
AshleyNpeyton
thanks
12:22 pm
torgone
it7 & 8 are from the rightmost i ..
12:22 pm
dcseain
wow, my brain is out of it. ty, torg
12:25 pm
AshleyNpeyton
nbt thanks all
12:33 pm
redturtlehead
ooooh for the NBT tiles, could I have a clue for the single A in the left hand column. the one all alone?
12:35 pm
torgone
oohed and ...
12:35 pm
redturtlehead
Oh how silly of me, Thanks Torg. How are you liking being back in the US?
12:36 pm
torgone
Much warmer here ..
12:37 pm
redturtlehead
And its cold here, so it must have been really chilly there.
12:38 pm
torgone
Not much snow here in San Diego ..
12:42 pm
Judi
Good afternoon, everyone! And, shut up, Tor!
12:42 pm
dcseain
hi, judi
12:43 pm
dcseain
the catholic archdiocese of washington says that people need not attend mass today. mighty white of them.
12:43 pm
Judi
Ha. Repent for your sins at home (while shoveling your driveways and sidewalks).
12:44 pm
dcseain
i'm going to go find some food. bbs
12:46 pm
Erda
At the risk of being shooshed up: Not much snow in the San Francisco Bay area either...
12:46 pm
Judi
*glares at Erda over our 17+ inches of snow*
12:47 pm
Erda
Wow Judi, that's TOO MUCH!!
12:47 pm
Judi
Tell me about it.
12:48 pm
Brookie
Hey Judi, I'm traveling back to Newark, DE later today. How are the roads? (My main concern is Churchman's Road off of 95)
12:49 pm
Judi
Hi, Brookie. I'm sure 95 is good. Not sure about the side roads. I'm sure Churchman's is good around 7/1/95 & 52 interchange by Borders, etc. Not sure about further up towards 273. Then again, the County Police have a garage on that road. I'd say no worries.
12:51 pm
Erda
Now THAT's detailed information! A good man, Judi!!
12:51 pm
Brookie
Thanks, Judi. I live within walking distance of Borders, so I won't stress about it. :-)
12:54 pm
Judi
Probably no sidewalks plowed/shoveled, so be careful if you are walking in the road.
12:54 pm
dcseain
someone shovelled the dirt path that connects our building to the park and trail behind :)
12:55 pm
dcseain
back to tending the corn and onions, bbs
12:55 pm
redturtlehead
Uploading my photos on Facebook. I am still learning to edit in Photoshop....
12:55 pm
Brookie
Judi, do you live closer to U of D or closer to Christiana?
12:56 pm
Judi
Closest to UD, Brookie. We live off of Polly Drummond Hill Rd.
12:57 pm
Brookie
Ugh, I can't imagine how the roads are there.
12:57 pm
dcseain
coolio, red
12:58 pm
Judi
Actually, our neighborhood is good. We have pay association dues so we're lucky enough to get plowed out. DelDot has lots more work to do though!
12:58 pm
movieman
the re7/28 plz
12:58 pm
Brookie
don't have it, sorry, movieman!
12:59 pm
origami
re 7/28 .. more rodentlike
12:59 pm
Judi
No gots yet, MM.
12:59 pm
flosey
hello again!
12:59 pm
Dorens
more like what you pay for when you don't own your own home
12:59 pm
movieman
that's the ra7 orogami
12:59 pm
Brookie
hi flosey!
12:59 pm
movieman
ty dorens
1:00 pm
Brookie
thanks dorens!
1:02 pm
dcseain
ty dorens
1:03 pm
flosey
ty dorens, strange word
1:04 pm
Dorens
just monkeyed it.. lucky i guess... but then again.. big grid, no lickety, my son and grandchildren coming in a couple of hours, I had to bacuum thoroughly and wipe down baseboards etc. (he is allergic to my cats), then shovel front walk, and need to do more cleaning and baking.. so every little bit helps
1:05 pm
flosey
wow Dorens, you've been busy!
1:05 pm
Dorens
66 words left... the monkeys need to get into hyper gear!
1:05 pm
flosey
hope you can make a little relaxing time before they arrive
1:06 pm
Dorens
that's what i'm doing here.. babble usually does relax me
1:06 pm
harpjane
hi 167 to go
1:06 pm
speedfreak
college boy came home for winter break and so far I have done 5 loads of laundry do not think he had a clean article of clothing What a smell
1:07 pm
dcseain
lol poor speed
1:07 pm
Dorens
not meaning to be pushy speedfreak, but wouldn't it be easier to teach him how to do it himself??
1:07 pm
Judi
Ewwww. Poor speed.
1:08 pm
Judi
Hee hee. *pictures the Grinch saying "stink, stank, stunk"*
1:08 pm
speedfreak
I have tried but the boy seems allergic to the washing machine he learned quite well from his father LOL
1:09 pm
Dorens
i had no problem with my kids coming home with ons of laundry, and i even helped out with a load here and there, but I made it clear that it was their responsibility. they might have resented it a bit, but in the end it served them well. and made my life a bit less hectic.
1:10 pm
Dorens
(that was Tons of laundry)
1:10 pm
harpjane
how was Tom's shift last night, seain?
1:11 pm
Judi
Phantom: quadratic.
1:11 pm
speedfreak
actually he and his brother also do a lot around the house so I don't have a problem doing laundry he also has been out shoveling 15" of snow all day plus they do all the food shopping and some cooking when home so saves me
1:11 pm
Dorens
ah well.. life is a series of trade-offs.... so long as you don't feel too put-upon, c'est la vie
1:12 pm
Judi
Oh, that's great, speed. Although, I hope it's not just because Santa is watching them.
1:12 pm
72 Temple Owl
hello all
1:12 pm
Dorens
owl, where've you been hiding?
1:13 pm
dcseain
hi, TO :)
1:14 pm
Judi
Poor TO was probably buried underneath the snow like the rest of us east coasters.
1:15 pm
Judi
Time for a snack. BBL.
1:19 pm
Dorens
owl? you there?
1:20 pm
harpjane
does anyone know how the roads between chattanooga and DC would be?
1:21 pm
Dorens
ok well, then.. time for me to go bake my lemon bars
1:21 pm
Dorens
don't know jane, but my guess is that any roads to dc are not their best today
1:21 pm
scribekd
harpjane-it is clear in Knoxville, TN
1:22 pm
inge
does anyone have a clue list in their profile? The Babanon one printed out badly
1:22 pm
harpjane
So western TN is sort of ok?
1:22 pm
scribekd
Knox is in East TN
1:22 pm
Dorens
yes inge,, une has one.... and i am grateful beyond belief
1:23 pm
hootowl
There are 2 in babanon - use BJ"@
1:24 pm
hootowl
harp western tenn is cold - but no snow or rain - just cold
1:24 pm
harpjane
ta 7 48? the one after the sourish word?
1:25 pm
harpjane
well my nephew from Montana won't think it's cold but he has to drive home to DC today
1:27 pm
dcseain
jane - ta7 sticky black stuff and unwanted greeney
1:27 pm
torgone
More shabby ..
1:27 pm
harpjane
thanks seain
1:27 pm
Dorens
ty dc.. now i'm off
1:27 pm
torgone
That's the one ..
1:28 pm
flosey
thanks dc for ta7
1:29 pm
dcseain
yall very welome. for me, it's always fun when points lead me to the word :)
1:31 pm
atropos
i forget, is there a word list when lickety's isn't updated?
1:31 pm
dcseain
in BabAnon
1:32 pm
hootowl
but yuse BJ's!
1:32 pm
atropos
coolie ty
1:32 pm
Scrabbler
Hello again. Seain, how are you + Tom surviving?
1:33 pm
dcseain
he got to and from work, and had some jack before bed
1:33 pm
dcseain
i'm going to my sister's tonight, as i'm watching my nephews tomorrow
1:34 pm
Scrabbler
How is the area? Roads, etc
1:34 pm
Scrabbler
Fun. How old are they, Seain?
1:34 pm
harpjane
how were things at work for him?
1:34 pm
dcseain
Main roads decent. neighborhood hit or miss
1:34 pm
dcseain
we're plowed here, but my sister's hood isn't
1:34 pm
harpjane
ti6 after wee?
1:34 pm
dcseain
i dunno, jane. i saw him off, was asleep when he got home, and he's asleep now :) i'll find out later
1:35 pm
dcseain
i fit of anger, or angry speech, jane
1:35 pm
hootowl
hissy fit jane - like I did earlier
1:35 pm
Scrabbler
I have ti7 = more fatiggued
1:35 pm
Scrabbler
*fatigued
1:36 pm
Scrabbler
Hootowl, you had a hissy fit?
1:36 pm
dcseain
lunch was very satisfying :)
1:37 pm
Scrabbler
What did you have, Seain? I must decide on lunch. I just came back from a 1 hr hike into the park.
1:37 pm
Scrabbler
What happened, Hootowl?
1:38 pm
Scrabbler
I have a question for everyone. I discovered something on my hike and don't know whether to call the police.
1:38 pm
dcseain
i sauteed some onions and corn in some sesame oil, added some fried garlic and a pinch of vanilla sugar. when onions soft, added 2.5 C water, brought to boil till onion soft. added a thing of ramen noodles, some soy sauce and a cube of vegan beef bullion
1:38 pm
hootowl
Go back & read it. Trying to forget it.
1:38 pm
dcseain
garnished with some green onions greens
1:38 pm
Scrabbler
Yummy, Seain!
1:38 pm
dcseain
can you share what you saw?
1:40 pm
Scrabbler
Innards of a large creature, with bloody towel next to that. I saw lungs, heart, liver, stomach, intestines....nothing else, lying on top of snow near woods. Probably a deer but human?
1:40 pm
dcseain
i'd report to police or game warden, yes
1:41 pm
hootowl
gross. but no harm done if you call cops. They can decide how important it is
1:41 pm
Scrabbler
No fur. So maybe a hunter gutted the deer and tossed innards?
1:41 pm
hootowl
gross. but no harm done if you call cops. They can decide how important it is
1:41 pm
dcseain
probably from a deer, but good to be sure
1:41 pm
dcseain
probably so, scrabbs, but i'd still report it
1:41 pm
Scrabbler
OK, TY for your input. After I walked away I wondered about the origin of the parts.
1:41 pm
harpjane
either way it shouldn't be there scrabb, at least in Montana they can't leave that stuff behind
1:42 pm
speedfreak
hoot was it just the political talk or the bashing of obama
1:42 pm
harpjane
draws too many predators
1:42 pm
Scrabbler
OK, I will look up State Police #. BRB. TY for alleviating my anxiety + indecision.
1:42 pm
hootowl
and if you can walk there it is probably not legal to hunt
1:44 pm
hootowl
Speed - bashing bothers me no end. especially when there is no facts to put forward. Just personal rancor. That's not a discussion
1:44 pm
aknitter
hi there speed. enjoying the snow?
1:44 pm
speedfreak
aknitter if I never saw snow again I would not miss it
1:45 pm
rururocks
I am off to visit my new puppy.. will report later.
1:45 pm
aknitter
i was thinking of boxing it all up and dropping it on your door step. can't get out though
1:48 pm
speedfreak
thanks aknitter got enough of my own
1:49 pm
aknitter
i want a can of snow-b-gone like on the frosty the snowman cartoon.
1:53 pm
speedfreak
need to take a break from this 30 left and my eyes are crossing
1:54 pm
harpjane
the first qu6?
1:54 pm
flosey
add a vowel to previous word jane
1:54 pm
flosey
oops, sorry, not the first
1:55 pm
flosey
add another vowel before cons. in qua5/16
1:56 pm
flosey
that's the first qu5/16
1:57 pm
cybernan
hello everyone -- 77 to go :)
2:01 pm
cybernan
I see that lickety is not here today -- does anyone know if they are ok? -- hope it's just a Christmas vacation
2:01 pm
dcseain
i'm thinking vacation with the timing
2:02 pm
cybernan
is there an hy?
2:02 pm
Scrabbler
OK, I called the county sheriff's dept re the bloody pile of guts
2:03 pm
Scrabbler
The dispatcher said that my call was not unusual
2:03 pm
cybernan
just found it -- ty
2:03 pm
dcseain
good, scrabbs, and most interesting
2:03 pm
hootowl
that would disturb me no end scrabs
2:04 pm
Scrabbler
Not surprisingly, I love anatomy, so I studied it for a while
2:04 pm
hootowl
not the body - the dispatcher. Not unusual????
2:04 pm
cybernan
ni 4, 5, 5, 6, 7 -- what am I missing from the top n?
2:05 pm
hootowl
gotta go - 41 left and too many things to do. Like the tree........
2:05 pm
dcseain
be well, hoot
2:05 pm
cybernan
bye hoot
2:06 pm
dcseain
interweb is very slow here today.
2:08 pm
Scrabbler
I see, hootowl..yes, disturbing
2:11 pm
o-o
ni 4 5 7 5 6 7
2:12 pm
cybernan
ty babrab -- are you finished and have you posted a list in your profile?
2:12 pm
o-o
no .. but there are two at babanon
2:13 pm
cybernan
clue for the first ni 7? -- or the call?
2:13 pm
harpjane
thanks folsey, and keep us posted if you hear anything scrabb
2:14 pm
o-o
extend the 5 with vowels
2:14 pm
cybernan
nm found it, although I find it hard to believe that it's a areal word
2:17 pm
cybernan
*sigh* --- 4 more h's from the left to find
2:17 pm
o-o
Hello, Dorens
2:17 pm
Dorens
"bigger sigh" i have 7 more from there.
babrab, long time.. how've you been?
2:18 pm
o-o
Been doing some intensive ambiguity and have concluded I excel at being deliberately obtuse
2:19 pm
stidmama
((((((((((BR)))))))))) hello! I have missed seeing you!
2:19 pm
stidmama
hey all!
2:20 pm
stidmama
sounds like scrabs had something bad happen? should I review the chog?
2:20 pm
redturtlehead
Afternoon all...
2:20 pm
redturtlehead
Hi BR, how have you been keeping?
2:21 pm
stidmama
BR, intriguing poem you came up with for today.
2:21 pm
dcseain
some ass just drove by with 10 inches of snow on the roof of their cr-v
2:21 pm
dcseain
hi, BR, red, stid
2:21 pm
redturtlehead
Hi Stid. Are you ready for the Holiday? DO you Celebrate X mas?
2:21 pm
redturtlehead
Hi DC again.
2:22 pm
Scrabbler
Back from researching whitetail deer anatomy
2:22 pm
redturtlehead
hi Scrabbs.
2:22 pm
Scrabbler
Red, I just commented on your photos--is that a spoonbill?
2:22 pm
Kaplan the Magne
Hey. I guess I have to print out the stats and pencil in what I have? Or is there another way to do it?
2:22 pm
Kaplan the Magne
Snow sucks. Actually, winter sucks
2:22 pm
dcseain
i past into a spreadsheet and enter Xs
2:23 pm
dcseain
paste even ;)
2:23 pm
redturtlehead
Yes Scrabbs it is!!!! I spent several hours yesterday at the Wildlife Preserve, and I am very full of myself.
2:23 pm
dcseain
oopsie. not valid, at least :)
2:23 pm
stidmama
we don't celebrate christmas, red -- thanks for asking. So yes, we are ready for it! LOL
2:23 pm
Kaplan the Magne
A spreadsheet that you already have set up?
2:23 pm
Kaplan the Magne
I feel like a teart sometime.
2:24 pm
stidmama
actually we celebrate a different holiday and the children just got their single present for the year: Beatles Rockband for the wii.
2:24 pm
dcseain
i have a spreasheet for that pupruse in me google docs
2:24 pm
Kaplan the Magne
We celebrate Jewish Christmas- it has two time honored rituals...
2:24 pm
dcseain
how cool, stid!
2:24 pm
redturtlehead
Beatles Rockband is an awesome gift.
2:25 pm
hurshy
what do you celebrate - festivus?
2:25 pm
Scrabbler
Happy Festivus!
2:25 pm
o-o
I did not realize rocks were so talented
2:25 pm
o-o
HowDy, hurshy ... thanks for the list
2:26 pm
Kaplan the Magne
Happy everything
2:26 pm
redturtlehead
whooo hooo Festivus, and I thin kso Babble. hi Hurshy
2:26 pm
hurshy
oh, don't thank me today, BJ had already done it!
2:26 pm
stidmama
the winter solstice -- call it what you like. It's a big day for our family. :-D
2:27 pm
stidmama
easy to be happy when my two kids are in the same room getting along... LOL this was a good gift decision.
2:27 pm
hurshy
isn't it not til tomorrow?
2:27 pm
stidmama
at some point I get my chance to try an instrument
2:27 pm
dcseain
i grew up with channuakah, solstice, and xmas. Yay for combined families. :)
2:27 pm
redturtlehead
I want my dinner now.
2:27 pm
stidmama
it is not until tomorrow, but of course Tom doesn't have tomorrow off. So we gave the gift today.
2:27 pm
Scrabbler
Stid, when I hiked to the park a short time ago I came upon the innards of an animal, probably a deer, but no fur, and there was a bloody towel next to the pile.
2:28 pm
redturtlehead
We are a Xmas family. with St Lucia day and some odd little fam traditions thrown in...
2:28 pm
Dorens
wow-- ;left for a few minutes and missed a lot in the chog. am buying beatles rockband for David and Jaime and not sure what to order.. there seem to be three choices
2:28 pm
stidmama
*curious about Kaplan's two time honored traditions*
2:28 pm
stidmama
oh scrabs, how strange
2:28 pm
Dorens
and red, i'm going to sanible next week and expect to see see lots of roseate spoonbills
2:28 pm
redturtlehead
Scrabb for sure it is a deer, as hunters tend to leave the stuff they dont want to carry. My dog used to get sick off the stuff when I was a kid.
2:28 pm
Scrabbler
It was fascinating for this anatomy lover
2:28 pm
stidmama
we already had a wii, dorens, so we got that variety. Which one you want depends on what gaming system(s) they already own.
2:28 pm
redturtlehead
the fur, and carcass went with the hunter.
2:29 pm
Scrabbler
That's what I assume too, red.
2:29 pm
stidmama
that would be my assumption, too.
2:29 pm
Dorens
they have the xbox.. but even then there seem to be choices. valuepack, complete, etc.
2:30 pm
Dorens
scrabs I hope that is the answer.. and it is the most logical one
2:30 pm
Scrabbler
The he5 looked like a human he5
2:30 pm
Dorens
babrab, it is nice to have you back, obtuse, abstruse, or whatever
2:30 pm
Scrabbler
I bought myself a Shop-Vac for Xmas and used it for the first time yesterday--wonderful experience. This girl is easily amused.
2:31 pm
Scrabbler
I was missing you, BR
2:31 pm
o-o
Thanks, Dorens
2:31 pm
stidmama
LOL scrabs! I was saying on FRiday that my dream gift this season would have been a new blender or crockpot.
2:31 pm
Dorens
i used shopvac, regular vac, and hand vac today, trying to catproof my house for son who will be here soon. nearly broke my back too. and he'll still end up wheezing
2:31 pm
o-o
Scrabbler, that is
2:31 pm
redturtlehead
Hope we will warm up at Sanibel for you Dorens... and you shoudl see tons of spoonbills.
2:31 pm
cybernan
last ci 7?
2:32 pm
Dorens
red, you are near sanibel?
2:32 pm
Kaplan the Magne
If the word for getting rid of certain rodents os OK, why not the one who gets rid of those rats? Just wondering.
2:32 pm
Scrabbler
I was so thrilled with my vac and attachments--and laughing that I am so low maintenance for future husband
2:32 pm
redturtlehead
I dont know, I dont think so, let me look.
2:32 pm
o-o
ci 7 -- most of a town and sea bird
2:33 pm
dcseain
ah, fixed interweb. paused the bittorent. Egads, those chew bandwidth
2:33 pm
stidmama
I am like that with come felids too doren -- not a thing that can be done except take massive doses of antihistamine and pray.
2:33 pm
cybernan
ty scrabs
2:33 pm
redturtlehead
Ok, No no, I am not near Sanibel. It looks to be maybe 5 hours south. Maybe.
2:34 pm
Dorens
he thinks i should get a hepa filter attached to my furnace... mucho dinero and not sure if it would be worthwhile.. but one more day like this and I will think about it
2:34 pm
Scrabbler
He should where a mask and gloves, Doren
2:34 pm
stidmama
a good hepa filter can help, for sure. I would love ANYTHING that cut down on the dust from our furnace. *swears again to NEVER get central, forced-air hear*
2:35 pm
Scrabbler
Put the HEPA filter on him
2:35 pm
Dorens
heehee scrabbs
2:36 pm
stidmama
well. they just made it through another song... it only took them 80 millions tries
2:36 pm
Aloyisius
hi all! .. back to find some more
2:36 pm
stidmama
okay, my turn on the mike. back soon.
2:36 pm
Dorens
i can't remember ever spending so much time on cleaning, and then shoveling the walk as well.. oh go break a leg stid!
2:37 pm
Kaplan the Magne
I have 85 left without stats- Ugh it is hard this way.
2:37 pm
Scrabbler
I was a cleaning maniac yesterday
2:37 pm
Scrabbler
It sure is tough, Kaplan
2:37 pm
Kaplan the Magne
I cleaned yesterday and today spouse is blaming me for every missing important piece of paper...that's the way it always it
2:37 pm
Aloyisius
Dorens, for my SIL, I covered the furniture, and it really helped! As much as I would vacuum, I could never get the all the allergens (he is allergic to dogs and cats)
2:38 pm
dcseain
i track all the stuff that matters, and produce 'missing' items on demand. easier that way.
2:38 pm
Dorens
hm, that is an interesting idea aloy. sheets over everything?
2:38 pm
Aloyisius
so, old chenille bedspreads saved the day and didn't look so bad either
2:38 pm
dcseain
that way there's order, and over time the spouse learns where to look for many things.
2:39 pm
Aloyisius
you could certainly use sheets
2:39 pm
Kaplan the Magne
sheets over everything...that's a cultural thing...
2:39 pm
redturtlehead
139 left here, but I'm just picking little by litte, crud to do today after my social nuts day yesterday.
2:39 pm
Kaplan the Magne
Plastic slipcovers!!!
2:39 pm
dcseain
micrfibre blankets - hair washes right off in the laundry, and they vacuum well.
2:40 pm
Dorens
still.all the fur that finds itself along the edges of the rooms... even the kitchen..stuff everywheere it seemed. But sheets over the chairs and sofas would help. I draw the line at plastic though, kaplan!
2:40 pm
Aloyisius
a lot softer than the plastic too
2:40 pm
Kaplan the Magne
Did anyone grow up in a house with plastic slipcovers?
2:40 pm
sciencegeek
omg no kaplan creepy
2:40 pm
Aloyisius
NO! can't stand 'em
2:40 pm
dcseain
my great-grandmother used plastic slipcovers.
2:40 pm
sciencegeek
64 words left and no list
2:41 pm
dcseain
horrible things
2:41 pm
redturtlehead
heck no. I dont think I ever even saw them except on television.
2:41 pm
stidmama
okay, Tom's turn again.
2:41 pm
Kaplan the Magne
I swear my mother had them for about 2 years in the sixties- she otherwise had good taste, but her big lapses were the plastic slip covers and --contact paper!
2:41 pm
stidmama
a friend's mother had plastic on all the furniture on all the floors... and sanitized everything daily.
2:41 pm
Aloyisius
hiya stid.. we love the winter solstice too (-:
2:41 pm
sciencegeek
creepy
2:42 pm
stidmama
The children were banished to the garage unless they were asleep or for special occasions (it was carpeted and all, just not the house)
2:42 pm
Aloyisius
egads, that is too too obsessive
2:42 pm
dcseain
i remember my mother painstakingly removing the contact paper from the cabinets when we moved into the new house.
2:42 pm
Kaplan the Magne
In the summer, you would kind of make an adhesive sounding noise when you got off the couch
2:42 pm
sciencegeek
i think querty should be accepted~
2:42 pm
stidmama
(((Aloyisius))) hi there! long time no see
2:42 pm
Aloyisius
I know, ((stid))... too long
2:42 pm
stidmama
yes, I remember that sound! *scrunchy plastic crinkle*
2:43 pm
Kaplan the Magne
Yeah, but it's really qwerty
2:43 pm
helensgirlkid
There's a list up on BabAnon
2:43 pm
stidmama
hey helensgirl!
2:43 pm
Kaplan the Magne
Were any of your ancestors German Jews?
2:44 pm
Scrabbler
Hi Aloy
2:44 pm
helensgirlkid
And putting in my bit on plastic slipcovers - they outgas things like formaldehyde, just like other plastics, only more because they are constantly being stressed by bending and stretching.
2:44 pm
Kaplan the Magne
Not to stereotype people but my mother always said it was a German Jewish thing to cover the floors and furniture with sheets
2:44 pm
dcseain
my great-grandma with them was married to a german jew
2:44 pm
Kaplan the Magne
Hmmm.
2:45 pm
helensgirlkid
The covering furniture with sheets (and mirrors) is after a death, while sitting shiva.
2:45 pm
stidmama
back on vocals...
2:45 pm
Kaplan the Magne
No- I meant covering them so people wouldn't get them dirty- at shiva it's only the mirrors, not all the furniture...
2:45 pm
cybernan
de 7 following expiration?
2:47 pm
Kaplan the Magne
speaking of shiva...
2:47 pm
helensgirlkid
A lot of jews in Iowa (mostly German) always covered the furniture, too, as a reminder not to sit on chairs, sofas, etc. - not the tables, of course, so I overstated it.
2:47 pm
dcseain
congrats, flosey
2:47 pm
Kaplan the Magne
Wow flosey!
2:47 pm
flosey
must run, hubby just made lunch, be back tonight
2:47 pm
Aloyisius
yippee, yay for flosey, congrats!!!!
2:48 pm
helensgirlkid
Flosey, are those your pets being so adorable on your icon?
2:48 pm
Kaplan the Magne
Like I said, it's a cultural thing. I once had a boyfriend whose mother was an immigrant from Vienna, and the floors in her house were covered with sheets!
2:48 pm
stidmama
bye flosey!
2:48 pm
flosey
no helen, just a picture I found but our dog did look like this
2:48 pm
Scrabbler
Yippee Flosey!
2:48 pm
cybernan
congrats flosey
2:48 pm
cybernan
de 7 following expiration?
2:49 pm
helensgirlkid
Taking off for the afternoon (finally) must get some exercise before we're snowed in again.
2:49 pm
Kaplan the Magne
I have a good friend whos ancestry is german Jewish, and she has sheets on the seats in her car!!
2:49 pm
Kaplan the Magne
I think so cybernan
2:50 pm
cybernan
I'm looking for a clue Kaplan
2:50 pm
flosey
de4 before it + consumed
2:51 pm
Kaplan the Magne
I cant find that one, cy.
2:51 pm
cybernan
ty flosey
2:52 pm
dcseain
i think i'm not going to finish this one so i can get on the road before they refreeze
2:52 pm
flosey
yw nan, and now I'm off before lunch gets cold
2:52 pm
Scrabbler
Be careful, Seain.
2:52 pm
dcseain
thanks. happy babbling, yall! :D {poof}
2:55 pm
Kaplan the Magne
Is Lickety ever coming back or do I have to adjust to this inconvenient new reality?
2:55 pm
redturtlehead
I try to not use Lickety so each day is the same for me! But I rarely finish these days, I just seemed to stop caring.
2:55 pm
Scrabbler
He will be back--sometimes he is out of town. I wish on these occasions he would assign the program to someone else
2:56 pm
Kaplan the Magne
What do you do- just play till you cant see anymore?
2:56 pm
Scrabbler
Good for you, Red. Life is easier now, isn't it?
2:56 pm
redturtlehead
Well, Life is a little bit messy right now, which is probably why I am not concentrating on the grid too much! to be honest.
2:56 pm
Kaplan the Magne
Lickety should really consider the starving masses
2:57 pm
Kaplan the Magne
Life is messy- makes me concentrate more- to block things out
2:57 pm
redturtlehead
Pretty Much Kaplan. I can finish without the clues. I actually dont find the clues that helpful, probably because I think differently.
2:57 pm
Kaplan the Magne
You must be very very smart!
2:58 pm
redturtlehead
No, if I start out with the clues, I get really confused. If I can get it down to 30 left then the clue list helps, otherwise its a mess.
2:58 pm
redturtlehead
I finish without the clue list by gleaning clues from Chat!!!!! Not smart!
2:58 pm
Aloyisius
e +de8, nan
2:58 pm
lynxxx
Hello all. ed8 e & d7.32
2:59 pm
Scrabbler
I still cannot figure out that de7 clue
2:59 pm
Kaplan the Magne
I do that too- I try to do them on my own, then I go to Lickety to see if I missed any 4 letter words, and I monkey them, then I look for 5's and glean the rest from chat
2:59 pm
Aloyisius
a booboo in the car frame + ingested food, Scrabs
2:59 pm
redturtlehead
I think it has to do with teeth the ed word.
2:59 pm
Kaplan the Magne
Or demand the clues from chat by having a meltdown
3:00 pm
periwinkle
de7/32 ding in car fender and consumed
3:00 pm
redturtlehead
I don't do that. I get very annoyed when people come into chat and ask for clue after clue after clue. I just dont care if I finish or not. Its not getting me a work promotion or anythign...
3:01 pm
cybernan
ty -- had it, but wasn't accepted on the first 2 tries
3:01 pm
Scrabbler
TY--I was confused--thought it came before expiration word
3:01 pm
periwinkle
hello all, tired from shoveling, my car was snowed in tho. just looked out the window and my dear nephew is shoveling my car out!!! what a dear
3:01 pm
Kaplan the Magne
Sorry if I annoyed...usually it's just my last few
3:01 pm
periwinkle
hello all, tired from shoveling, my car was snowed in tho. just looked out the window and my dear nephew is shoveling my car out!!! what a dear
3:01 pm
periwinkle
hello all, tired from shoveling, my car was snowed in tho. just looked out the window and my dear nephew is shoveling my car out!!! what a dear
3:01 pm
redturtlehead
No Kaplan, you have never done that!!!!!!
3:01 pm
Scrabbler
Yay for him, Peri!
3:02 pm
sammysmom
LOOKS LIKE I M GONNA GIVE ON THIS ONE
3:02 pm
redturtlehead
As far as I know!
3:02 pm
periwinkle
hello all
3:02 pm
periwinkle
hello all
3:02 pm
sammysmom
checked the list on ba and don t have the patience to folow it
3:02 pm
Scrabbler
Kaplan, you never lose your patience. Even toward the end you remain calm.
3:02 pm
Aloyisius
hi peri
3:02 pm
Scrabbler
Sam, I will not finish this one
3:02 pm
sciencegeek
I suppose I was ver irritating to some of you when I first started and need clues a lot....
3:03 pm
sciencegeek
very...
3:03 pm
sammysmom
i am irritated that i depend on lickety so
3:03 pm
sammysmom
his list is the easiest to use
3:03 pm
redturtlehead
Actually I can only think of two people who cause me to avoid the chat. and they are not present.
3:03 pm
Kaplan the Magne
Are you kidding me? I nearly had a coronary the other night! Seriously, it seems to be what people do.
3:03 pm
sammysmom
he has spoiled me
3:03 pm
sixty7stang13
hello all. Hope every1 is having a great babbling time.
3:03 pm
sciencegeek
well have worked this one without any list and have 52 left. not too bad I have come a long way
3:04 pm
redturtlehead
I must admit though I use a lot of clues others ask for!!!
3:04 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
hi all, and remember to b r e a t h e ! 8-)
3:04 pm
elder
Good evening everyone.
3:04 pm
sammysmom
still need 64
3:04 pm
sciencegeek
I use whatever clues I can get LOL!
3:04 pm
sciencegeek
Well need to continue with the mess here in the house....nevereneding
3:04 pm
sammysmom
me too science
3:04 pm
sciencegeek
ending
3:04 pm
sammysmom
he elder
3:04 pm
redturtlehead
Science I love your icon!
3:04 pm
sciencegeek
one day I will type better
3:04 pm
Scrabbler
Hello new entrants!
3:04 pm
sciencegeek
ty red
3:04 pm
Kaplan the Magne
I have 84 left with no list, but I'm afraid that the rest will be all those dyslexic obscure words...I am proud of some of the long ones I got on my own tho
3:05 pm
sciencegeek
still think querty should be a word! I have two missing qu's....
3:05 pm
redturtlehead
I have 124, Kaplan is doing awesome.
3:05 pm
Kaplan the Magne
Everytime I get the house clean, husband spends the next 48 hours ransacking it blaming me for all of his missing scraps of Important Paper that he was keeping in a Special Place
3:06 pm
Scrabbler
I need 111 and am just staring at the grid
3:06 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
139 to go here
3:06 pm
sciencegeek
this grid is giving me a headache and eye issues!
3:06 pm
Aloyisius
20 "re" words, phew
3:06 pm
periwinkle
92 to go here but I was out shoveling twice and then took a 2 hour nap
3:07 pm
Scrabbler
But staring at grid and chatting is still relaxing and help me to delay cleaning chores
3:07 pm
Kaplan the Magne
Think of a lot of the words being something more-so
3:07 pm
Kaplan the Magne
I hate snow.
3:07 pm
sciencegeek
lol scrabs that is why i am on day 3 of cleaning the studio!
3:07 pm
periwinkle
me too Kap
3:07 pm
periwinkle
me too Kap
3:07 pm
cybernan
er 7, please?
3:08 pm
Scrabbler
I cleaned a lot yesterday and am doing laundry now.
3:08 pm
Uneaixoise
er + et5/14
3:08 pm
sciencegeek
dont have nan
3:08 pm
Uneaixoise
i really really really need to clean . . . ugh
3:09 pm
cybernan
ty une -- another new one
3:09 pm
Scrabbler
et5 is missing
3:09 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
et5, the science of right and wrong
3:09 pm
redturtlehead
I want itch.
3:09 pm
EspritdJean
on the moral up and up
3:09 pm
sciencegeek
et 5 - moral
3:09 pm
Uneaixoise
me too, red :-)
3:09 pm
redturtlehead
some politicians have un - et ***al behaviors.
3:09 pm
Scrabbler
TY, and that er7 is weird
3:09 pm
cybernan
might have known it would be something medical
3:09 pm
sciencegeek
hi gwen
3:10 pm
sciencegeek
Who wants coffee?
3:10 pm
EspritdJean
"some"? lol
3:10 pm
redturtlehead
I want foodo,
3:10 pm
Scrabbler
ether, ethereal
3:11 pm
redturtlehead
ok, food, Must go make food.
3:11 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
eratic, tantric
3:12 pm
Kaplan the Magne
Careful, folks
3:12 pm
Dorens
anyone have a clue for the in 8?
3:12 pm
cybernan
need to go and make some lunch
3:12 pm
sciencegeek
to repeat again
3:13 pm
sciencegeek
oops wrong clue sorry
3:13 pm
Kaplan the Magne
I do- i will say it again
3:13 pm
Uneaixoise
in5/10 + men's neckwear
3:13 pm
cybernan
in 8: pt of in 7 -- to state
3:13 pm
Dorens
thanks une.. and thanks for your list... the only way i could h oep to finish today
3:13 pm
Uneaixoise
yw :-)
3:13 pm
cybernan
oops -- that was the it 8
3:14 pm
Dorens
thanks anyway nan
3:14 pm
onespecialk
How many words are in this grid?
3:15 pm
Kaplan the Magne
253
3:15 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
way too many!! 8-P
3:15 pm
Dorens
about 35 too many (253)
3:15 pm
onespecialk
TKS Dorens
3:16 pm
Aloyisius
ooh, must go.. good luck with this biggee, folks.. see you next grid! byee
3:16 pm
Uneaixoise
byeee, aloy!
3:17 pm
onespecialk
I'm so bad at this I have no idea why i even try....LOL
3:17 pm
Dorens
am missing the qu7... any help please?
3:18 pm
Uneaixoise
add 2/3 of frozen water to qu5/16
3:18 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
qu7, part of a gallon + adjective ending
3:18 pm
Dorens
muchas gracias
3:19 pm
Uneaixoise
de nada!
3:19 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
is there a lickety list (haven't opened it yet)
3:19 pm
Scrabbler
TY for that qu7
3:19 pm
Uneaixoise
nope, but check my profile
3:19 pm
Uneaixoise
hursh and BJ both posted in BabAnon
3:20 pm
Dorens
i find the ones printed in profiles easier to use than babanon. so am quite grateful
3:20 pm
onespecialk
my daily babble clues are not loading only Fridays is there
3:20 pm
Uneaixoise
same here, dorens!
3:20 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
TY une, gots de clues
3:21 pm
periwinkle
phantom: airhead
3:21 pm
periwinkle
phantom: airhead
3:21 pm
Uneaixoise
peri :-)
3:21 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
one special, there are no official clues -- the guy who does those is on vacation (or something)
3:24 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
oy finally found all the Qs
3:28 pm
Scrabbler
I need 4 more Qs
3:29 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
ynuk ynuk ynuk 8-)
3:29 pm
Scrabbler
I will focus on the Q now
3:30 pm
Scrabbler
*getting annoyed with the Q*
3:31 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
thar be some nasty Qs in them thar grid
3:31 pm
Scrabbler
I reckon you are right, Gwen
3:32 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
and a nasty ea6 that i can't find, too
3:32 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
ea6,27, if anyone could oblige
3:32 pm
Scrabbler
I don't have an ea6
3:32 pm
LuwandaHL
pasttense of ea4
3:33 pm
EspritdJean
having to do with the planet or the soil
3:33 pm
Scrabbler
TY, Luwanda. That was simple
3:33 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
OMG, fish me! TY jean
3:33 pm
Scrabbler
And TY, Jean
3:33 pm
LuwandaHL
ea8 is more ea5
3:33 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
looking all directions but NW
3:33 pm
EspritdJean
whap!
3:34 pm
Scrabbler
*wiping fish slime off*
3:35 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
had the ea8 and it blinded me
3:35 pm
LuwandaHL
almost finished organizing my office/workroom. taking a break before getting the boys for the night
3:35 pm
Scrabbler
Good for you, Lu.
3:36 pm
LuwandaHL
i'm ready for some grandson time!!!! been busy with school
3:36 pm
dan2bit
anybody checked in with Lickety this weekend?
3:37 pm
AshleyNpeyton
qu5,16 x5, 4,7 4,8 6,27 7,44 4,9 x2 what are the stats for the other 3 please
3:37 pm
Scrabbler
Not that I know of, Dan.
3:38 pm
Scrabbler
Lists are in BabAnon and in Hurshy's profile, I heard
3:40 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
scroll down and click on Uneaixoise's icon to get the stats
3:40 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
Here are the Qs
qu 4/8
qu 6/27
qu 4/7
qu 5/16
qu 5/16
qu 6/27
qu 7/44
qu 5/16
qu 6/27
qu 4/9
qu 5/16
qu 5/16
qu 5/16
qu 4/9
3:42 pm
AshleyNpeyton
thanks need 2 more 6,27
3:42 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
qu + 2 diff vowels + pirate mating call + vowel
3:43 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
and the Q that had me stuck: one fourth + the color of a can of coca-cola, minus last letter
3:43 pm
sciencegeek
ty gwen all done now with those qu's
3:44 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
woot!
3:44 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
cute icon, BTW
3:45 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
wr 6/39 anyone?
3:45 pm
EspritdJean
pirates have a mating call?
3:45 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
ACK, just found it, same problem as the last word i asked for
3:45 pm
Scrabbler
I need the first and last qu6's
3:46 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
just clued 'em, scrabbler
3:46 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
Ws and Washed up
3:46 pm
Scrabbler
Pirate mating call???
3:47 pm
AshleyNpeyton
done with the q's thanks gwen!!!
3:47 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
the Pirate channel! ARRRRRRRRRR
3:47 pm
AshleyNpeyton
how about the 3 top E's?? please
3:47 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
well, i still have 106 to go, stopping for now
3:48 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
et4, rhymes with Mr Idle of Monty Python
3:48 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
et5, same rhyme
3:48 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
bbl
3:49 pm
EspritdJean
medicine that makes you pee is a diur**** ashley
3:49 pm
EspritdJean
then same word with a H in the middle
3:50 pm
periwinkle
thanks for the help with the q's
3:52 pm
phaeton
hello...last T! ta7/48..help,please
3:53 pm
lynxxx
ta7 more ragged or ripped
3:53 pm
phaeton
isn't that the ta7/28?
3:54 pm
torgone
Road stuff + unwanted plant
3:54 pm
lynxxx
oops. Sorry. Ta7 black stuff and what you rip out of the garden beds
3:54 pm
phaeton
ty torgone
3:58 pm
phaeton
done! thanks for that last clue
3:58 pm
phaeton
gotta check on the fruitcake...happy babbling
3:58 pm
lynxxx
Congrats Phaeton!
4:01 pm
lynxxx
I'm finished too. Thankyou BrandyJack. Bye all!
4:08 pm
hootowl
and I haven't been on for an hr or so! ohwell
4:09 pm
hootowl
didn't know I had left the curser up here :(
4:11 pm
Joanne123
i am having the most amazing fun wrapping presents for newest member of the family..."first Grandchild"and loving every minute of it!
4:15 pm
stidmama
hello again, tried to come back and babble had frozen on me!
4:15 pm
stidmama
*happy mama look at first grandchild's big holiday*
4:16 pm
lbdawger
clue for the i in the 4th column. Plz...for nbt
4:17 pm
lbdawger
hi stiddy
4:18 pm
hurshy
do i have to reit8 what i told you before?
4:18 pm
lbdawger
thanks hursh! how are you feeling today?
4:18 pm
stidmama
hey again hurshy
4:19 pm
hurshy
still sick but hoping for quick recovery
4:20 pm
hurshy
luckily i can nap whenever i feel so inclined! between that, fluids, and zinc, i'm doing all i can
4:20 pm
stidmama
*offers lovely rice and veggie soup for hurshy*
4:20 pm
hurshy
and i found a pair of pseudoephedrine in my drawer from before they went behind the counter, that was a nice score.
4:21 pm
hurshy
thank you for soup, stiddy, just what i need.
4:21 pm
stidmama
I hope you feel better quickly hurshy. Will you be doing anything special for Christmas?
4:22 pm
hurshy
if by special you mean anything out of the christmas-ordinary, then no, but if you mean out of the ordinary-ordinary, then, yes, visiting both my family and husband's.
4:23 pm
stidmama
:-D I guess I meant both -- I know traditional celebrations are important; but some families "mix it up" occasionally and throw a really big bash
4:23 pm
Minveryork
Good evening to my fellow babblers!How is everyone?
4:23 pm
Minveryork
By the way, congratulations to all the finishers! YAY!
4:24 pm
hurshy
well, it's also my grandparents' 60th anniversary on boxing day, so that's an extra bit of special
4:24 pm
stidmama
hello Min! welcome to the grid!
4:24 pm
sciencegeek
Min is that you kissing Santa?
4:24 pm
joshuavorbis
i have 103 left and only 14 of them are 4 letter words. i think this is going to take awhile
4:24 pm
stidmama
That's really wonderful, hurshy! what a milestone!
4:24 pm
stidmama
go everyone go!!!
4:25 pm
stidmama
I am down to 93 listless so far, not going to list today I think, just play until I stop making progress and then look at my new cookbook.
4:25 pm
stidmama
oh joshua.... you'll need this... *hands large bag of choclit*
4:25 pm
JBV
Hi everyone and happy babble snow day - I'm using the list in Une's profile - is there something missing, I have all the a's listed, but i'm still missing one!
4:25 pm
sciencegeek
sam here, stid. i do not have this list and am stuck at 57 left
4:26 pm
Minveryork
No,that isn't me.I do not know who that is in my icon
4:26 pm
stidmama
hey JBV!
4:26 pm
stidmama
I think the list is also posted on babanon you could check to compare
4:26 pm
stidmama
Min is camera-shy apparently. Not sure if it's the purple antennae or the green skin or the orange eyes... *wicked mama look*
4:28 pm
stidmama
I, of course, wear the regulation invisibility cloak when in public so people don't see the extra eyes or ears...
4:29 pm
Minveryork
I have a list in my profile for everyone who needs list
4:29 pm
Minveryork
Hello JBV! How are you doing? Welcome to the puzzle
4:30 pm
JBV
hi min, how are you?
4:30 pm
Minveryork
I am well. Disappointed in the amount of snow we got
4:31 pm
stidmama
poor min, i bet there are plenty of babblers who would donate more for you!
4:31 pm
JBV
where are you Min? we got about 8 inches here in NJ
4:32 pm
Minveryork
Believe today's grid seems to be the same version of yesterday's grid w/the letters just mixed up. There seems to be a lot of the same words in the grid today
4:33 pm
Minveryork
I am in New York and we only got a few inches.Didn't even need to use the snowblower to do the driveway
4:35 pm
Minveryork
2 phantom words for me today are retired & theater
4:36 pm
Mudd
Clue please for the final re 6.
4:36 pm
Minveryork
Hello Mudd!How are you doing?Welcome to the puzzle
4:36 pm
joshuavorbis
minveryork - switch the last two letters on one of your phantoms
4:36 pm
JBV
try the british version of the second word, min
4:36 pm
Brookie
re6 - a politically incorrect term for a mentally disabled person
4:37 pm
Minveryork
Thanks, joshuavorbis! Guess I should goto the PB for almost spilling a word. Never going to finish the grid!
4:37 pm
Mudd
And thanks for the hello. I've been buried in the grid.
4:38 pm
Minveryork
Hi Brookie! How are you doing? Welcome to the grid!
4:38 pm
stidmama
how are you doing mudd? seems I haven't seen you for a while.
4:38 pm
stidmama
hey brookie
4:38 pm
Mudd
I just started babble yesterday
4:38 pm
stidmama
well, I am stumped, and ready to move to a different activity. got to 83. see you-all later! *poof*
4:38 pm
Minveryork
Goodbye stidmama! I will see you tomorrow in the log
4:39 pm
Brookie
sorry i missed saying hi to stid before poofing!
4:40 pm
stidmama
*pops back in* hm. must have you confused with someone else with a similar name, Mudd! LOL welcome to the madness! *repoof*
4:46 pm
Brookie
two 8's elude me... the ci8 and the 1st en8... any clues please?
4:49 pm
JBV
en 8 is the noun made from the en 6 before it
4:50 pm
JBV
the whole enchilada
4:50 pm
JBV
and the ci 8 is the first part of New York C**y, plus sea bird
4:50 pm
Brookie
thanks jbv!
4:50 pm
JBV
sure, we can't do this without help today - I'm struggling to find my last 45 -
4:50 pm
joey
i can not get to babbler's anon to get the word lists. does anyone have the list in his or her profile? thanks
4:51 pm
Brookie
got the en, working on the ci... thanks for the clues!
4:51 pm
JBV
i picked up that ci 8 from someone else's clue earlier
4:51 pm
JBV
Yes, Uneaixoise has it in her profile, joey
4:52 pm
Brookie
having trouble identifying the sea bird... another hint for that portion, please? Sorry i'm so clueless!
4:52 pm
JBV
te 4 = rhymes with burn
4:54 pm
Alycia
isn't that a ci7?
4:54 pm
periwinkle
help with ea6/27 pls
4:54 pm
Brookie
that gives me ci7,32. oooh, just got the ci8...
4:54 pm
JBV
yes, alycia, you're right the ci 8 is a past tense of a chemical term ci 7/32
4:54 pm
JBV
sorry about that
4:55 pm
Brookie
sorry, peri, that's the only ea i don't have!
4:55 pm
JBV
ea 6 - the planet plus the high point tile at the end, peri
4:55 pm
JBV
goes up to the right
4:55 pm
JBV
i mean to the left
4:55 pm
JBV
you see what a day of babbling and snow does to the brain?
4:55 pm
Brookie
thanks, jbv!
4:55 pm
periwinkle
thanks JBV did not see the Y in upper left
4:56 pm
JBV
me, too, peri, missed a few up there, til I opened the list and that is helping a LOT!
4:56 pm
periwinkle
still 75 to go but I am determined to finish. I still have 7+ hours :)
4:56 pm
Brookie
i have 30 left and might be able to help with some clues... hopefully...
4:57 pm
joey
i have 101 to go...... you can do it peri!
4:57 pm
Brookie
joey, are you originally from the Philly area? if so, where?
4:58 pm
joey
yes, I am. about 60 miles northwest - Reading, Allentown
4:58 pm
Brookie
originally from the city of philly. was just there earlier today
4:58 pm
joey
in the snow? any problems?
4:59 pm
mixi6
I lived outside of philly for some school years. Abington township.
4:59 pm
Brookie
the only problem was my parents' street. other than that, smooth sailing
4:59 pm
joey
i have a good friend who works at Abington Hospital
5:00 pm
joey
glad to hear that Brookie, where do you live now
5:00 pm
Brookie
mixi, i went to school on old york road @ abington in 5th and 6th grades
5:00 pm
mixi6
we moved before I finished high school.
5:00 pm
Brookie
i now live in newark, delaware
5:01 pm
JBV
have to take a break - be back later for my last 33, good luck everyone
5:01 pm
Brookie
thanks for all your help, jbv!
5:02 pm
Brookie
i'm gonna take a break too. have a good evening, everyone!
5:03 pm
periwinkle
I cannot se any of the er words, help pls
5:03 pm
periwinkle
see, even
5:04 pm
mixi6
sea eagle er4
5:04 pm
joey
i only have the er 4 - the sea bird
5:04 pm
mixi6
er5 to stand er5
5:04 pm
mixi6
don't have er7
5:04 pm
periwinkle
duh, thanks mixi
5:05 pm
CiociaJudy
er7 - er + vowel + opp of thin minus last consonant
5:06 pm
CiociaJudy
think a ***** milkshake at the end
5:07 pm
CiociaJudy
yw peri
5:07 pm
CiociaJudy
and mixi
5:11 pm
Nancy Boy
Evening everyone :)
5:12 pm
mixi6
HI Nancy Boy
5:12 pm
Nancy Boy
it's quiet in here...everyone's out christmas shopping :)
5:14 pm
CiociaJudy
Just finished baking red velvet cupcakes *passed out cupcakes* sorry, no icing yet. will give you some more when I ice them!
5:15 pm
mixi6
mmmm. I like choclit.
5:15 pm
mixi6
Thanks Judy.
5:15 pm
Nancy Boy
How productive, Judy - I'm parked in front of Scream Queens with 238 words to get and 28 minutes of battery life ;)
5:15 pm
bojazz
LOVE chocolate
5:16 pm
stidgmere
We're ready for angel food cake and candles with grandboys.
5:17 pm
CiociaJudy
yum stid's Mom! Say hi to everyone for me!!
5:17 pm
CiociaJudy
you're going to have to work double time to finish NB!!
5:18 pm
Nancy Boy
LOL Judy, it's just not happening :D got my low battery warning...hm...might be -just- scream queens this evening. Which is fine, 'cause it's awful TV, but I'm addicted
5:19 pm
CiociaJudy
Don't know what Scream Queens is --British?
5:20 pm
CiociaJudy
NB, are you on FB?
5:20 pm
stidgmere
Yes Ciocia will give regards to all.
5:20 pm
jesdraggon
afternoon all
5:21 pm
stidgmere
Bonjour jes and all.
5:21 pm
Nancy Boy
Seems originally American, Judy - it's a reality show about 10 actresses competing for the leading role in Saw VI. So yes, it's awful, but I blame your country ;)
5:21 pm
Nancy Boy
Hi, Jes!
5:22 pm
CiociaJudy
Hi Jes
5:22 pm
CiociaJudy
LOL NB
5:22 pm
jesdraggon
how's the weekend tr5ing ya
5:23 pm
Nancy Boy
And, I'm a pathetic example of an English teenager, because I actually get confused by facebook. Things happen WAY too fast - at the end of the day, I much prefer to phone people :)
5:23 pm
stidgmere
We are in a comfortable temperature range here in the NW. A little drizzly this afternoon.
5:24 pm
CiociaJudy
shoveled out this morning. sunny day actually.
5:24 pm
Nancy Boy
Ugh, laptop can't cut it - gonna have to go. Good luck, everyone :)
5:25 pm
mixi6
bye Nancy Boy
5:25 pm
jesdraggon
14 q words!?!
5:25 pm
jesdraggon
bye, nancyboy
5:25 pm
CiociaJudy
bye nb
5:26 pm
Nancy Boy
some help, Jes - at least two of them are rude names for me ;) seeee you!
5:26 pm
jesdraggon
thanks :)
5:28 pm
CiociaJudy
BBL gonna hop in the shower
5:28 pm
jesdraggon
bye, judy
5:34 pm
inge
can someone clue ta7/48 please
5:35 pm
jesdraggon
wish i could, inge
5:35 pm
dan2bit
compound inge - road stuff + unwanted plant
5:35 pm
jesdraggon
thanks, dan :)
5:37 pm
stidgmere
Enough words already. Need to wander off and sit by the fire. Poof!
5:37 pm
jesdraggon
bye], stidg
5:41 pm
periwinkle
down to 57 words, bbs
5:42 pm
jesdraggon
bye, peri
5:42 pm
mixi6
3 left. need help.
5:45 pm
suefrad625
i have no idea how to clue it
5:46 pm
suefrad625
ci+one, two, Th**+letter after m
5:50 pm
mixi6
I am sick of this grid. Fireworks!!!!!!!
5:50 pm
jesdraggon
yay mixi!
5:52 pm
redturtlehead
OK I am back to try to get my list down to like 90 left....
5:53 pm
redturtlehead
running hot bath water...and watching the muppets!
5:53 pm
jesdraggon
hullo, red
5:53 pm
jesdraggon
yaymuppets!
5:53 pm
redturtlehead
Hi Jes, How are you?
5:53 pm
Minveryork
Congratulations mixi6 on your fireworks! Good for U!
5:53 pm
redturtlehead
Yaaaay Mixi!!!
5:54 pm
jesdraggon
not too shabby, red. bf made cookies of yum this morning :0
5:54 pm
redturtlehead
Cookies are yum, very nice!
5:54 pm
mixi6
how are you doing redturtlehead? haven't seen you in the chat for a bit.
5:55 pm
redturtlehead
busy busy. but good, I think. I have enjoy the holiday hoopla, but I think I'm ready for regualr days ahead.
5:57 pm
AshleyNpeyton
clues on the 3 top E's plzz
5:57 pm
mixi6
I haven't done much for the holiday yet. going to my mother=in-law's Tuesday
5:58 pm
redturtlehead
I'm probably starting a new Job in January, so I am sort of overwhelmed.
5:59 pm
Brookie
i'm sure you're excited too, red
5:59 pm
mixi6
still in florida?
6:00 pm
redturtlehead
Not really, I have to admit. Job was offerred, I resigned current job then the new job changed my shift, so I am non plussed.
6:00 pm
redturtlehead
Yes, still in Florida, I still love it so much, though there looks to be a lot of fun snow in some places lately.
6:00 pm
Brookie
ugh, sorry to hear that.
6:00 pm
redturtlehead
Yes, it is odd. but not impossible to surmount, but I dont feel very excited.
6:01 pm
AshleyNpeyton
red where in florida are you? im in st.augustine
6:01 pm
redturtlehead
I live near Disney.
6:01 pm
mixi6
we had a little sleet the other night, but no snow. Greensboro got about 4 inches.
6:01 pm
redturtlehead
Jes, what kindof cookies?
6:01 pm
redturtlehead
No snow? oh sleet, I do not miss.
6:02 pm
redturtlehead
hi Mudd.
6:02 pm
Brookie
yeah, mudd!
6:02 pm
redturtlehead
congrats.
6:02 pm
redturtlehead
Ashley, I am thinking about starting a Vacation with my Mom in St Augustine. I have never yet been, I hear theres a lot of nice resturaunts, etc.
6:02 pm
jesdraggon
hurrah, mudd!
6:02 pm
jesdraggon
ginger chocolate cookies
6:03 pm
Brookie
clue for in6,21 and is it replaced to in7,32?
6:03 pm
redturtlehead
Ohhhhh, Jes, they sound very very nice.
6:04 pm
jesdraggon
they are
6:04 pm
mixi6
in + not there
6:04 pm
Brookie
*related*
6:05 pm
Brookie
thanks mixi!
6:05 pm
Brookie
thanks mixi!
6:05 pm
mixi6
in7. who will in7 the ea5?
6:05 pm
Brookie
got the 7, thanks
6:06 pm
Brookie
my 7-year-old liked your clue too!
6:06 pm
Mudd
ty, good to be done.
6:10 pm
Brookie
nm, got it
6:15 pm
Merk
... and fireworks!
6:17 pm
Merk
Everyone appears to lurking. See you tomorrow.
6:18 pm
sciencegeek
clue for the ar 6/21 pls?? :)
6:20 pm
Brookie
yeah merk
6:20 pm
Brookie
i don't have that one yet, science, sorry!
6:21 pm
fuquayvarina
his ar6 wooing won his lady's love
6:26 pm
cybernan
ar 6 wooing? mmmm
6:26 pm
cybernan
oh -- ty
6:36 pm
car.eeyore
I am missing 1 N from the top row....I have ni 4, 5, 5, 6 and 7. What am I missing please?
6:37 pm
sciencegeek
another 7! car - ni 5/10 plus diminutive
6:38 pm
car.eeyore
Is that the one I have? Ni 7/28?
6:39 pm
inge
Can someone clue the first ni 7/28 please?
6:39 pm
joey
the prior 4 with two vowels
6:39 pm
inge
funny, we need the same word
6:39 pm
joey
sorry the prior 5 with two vowels
6:41 pm
car.eeyore
Clearly the snow has gotten to my brain! I am just NOT seeing this word!
6:41 pm
cybernan
*!* ta da *!* - thanks for the help :)
6:42 pm
sciencegeek
first ta pls :)
6:42 pm
joey
car - you know the saying * before * except after c or when sounded etc, etc
6:42 pm
cybernan
ni 7/28: a 24 hour diner?
6:42 pm
Minveryork
Congratulations cybernan on fireworks!Good for you
6:43 pm
sciencegeek
both ni 7 are 28's. Thje first one add an ie at the end of the ni5/10 the second one is a chemical used as a preservative
6:43 pm
sciencegeek
good clue nan
6:44 pm
car.eeyore
Good grief that was painful! TY for your patience all!
6:44 pm
sciencegeek
Could I please have a clue for the first ta 5???
6:44 pm
cybernan
ta 5/16: late
6:44 pm
inge
thanks nan, I kept wanting to add it to the other ni 5. Got it now.
6:44 pm
sciencegeek
dont get it and dont see it
6:45 pm
sciencegeek
duh! i am a teacher and should know that one lol ty
6:45 pm
cybernan
another word for late, geek -- yes you should!!!
6:45 pm
Jacula
science - sounds like ta*red & feathered with a sometimes vowel at the end.
6:46 pm
sciencegeek
lol been looking at this too long today while looking at small pieces of jewelry all over my studio!
6:46 pm
cybernan
christmas red for your toenails jacula?
6:46 pm
Jacula
Hi all. Back afte a busy and slightly boozy evening with Other Half, sorting out house decorations, tidying up et, whilst listening to music. 2 words to find.
6:47 pm
Jacula
cybernan - they're not MY toenails. They were my pic for the 'ugly Christmas decorations' theme from a day or so back.
6:47 pm
joey
sciencegeek, where in Texas are you?
6:47 pm
periwinkle
hello all, 33 left, plodding along, driveway all shoveled out with the help of 3 other people. we have a wonderful neighbor
6:48 pm
Jacula
I finally iced and decorated the 4 Xmas cakes today, too.
6:48 pm
cybernan
we've had nothing but fog and a drizzly rain all day -- but at least we don't have to shovel it!
6:48 pm
sciencegeek
clue for the last te 5 pls
6:48 pm
sciencegeek
I am in Houston Joey! Where are you?
6:49 pm
Jacula
Shovelling fog sounds like some kind of punishment from Hell, cyber. LOL
6:49 pm
cybernan
lol -- don't bother icing mine -- have just been applying a liberal brushing with apricot brandy every week for the last 6 weeks.
6:49 pm
sciencegeek
NM I see you are 6 hours away from me
6:49 pm
joey
fort worth. i perked up when you said jewelry, i love to see handmade, i will look at your website
6:49 pm
Jacula
science - te + the first 3 letters of the second sort of weather cyber just mentioned.
6:50 pm
Minveryork
The te 5/10 is anagrame of ir 5/10 word sciencegeek
6:50 pm
sciencegeek
sneaky word always miss it! ty
6:50 pm
periwinkle
I love apricot brancy
6:50 pm
Jacula
cyber - if I didn't do the marzipan, icing and decorating thing, all the cake recipients would be very disappointed!
6:51 pm
cybernan
it's 4:50 here, so I guess it's time to go and put some supper together.
6:51 pm
periwinkle
I love marzipan too. have a recipe somehwhere for a Frangipani cake made with almond paste. it is delish
6:51 pm
cybernan
If you have any marzipan left over, try stuffing mejool dates with it -- delicious
6:52 pm
cybernan
on my way -- back at the flip :)
6:53 pm
Jacula
Leftover marzipan? Fat chance of that in this house with daughter, Other Half and his daughter all waiting for any trimmings. LOL
6:56 pm
Jacula
Okay - back to Babble business - diving into grid for an ni 7 snf a ta6 to finish.
6:56 pm
Jacula
Sorry about the boozy typing. LOL
6:58 pm
Jacula
Found the open when the sun's down place.
6:58 pm
Kaplan the Magne
My studio is still a mess. The house was neat for half a day- then husband trashed it looking for his important papers he is sure I threw away- only I didnt, of course.
6:59 pm
Brookie
hi everyone! clue for ri6 please?
6:59 pm
Jacula
and the potato.
6:59 pm
Jacula
FIRWORKS!:-)
6:59 pm
Kaplan the Magne
WOW-congrats
6:59 pm
Brookie
yeah jac!
6:59 pm
Jacula
Kaplan - if he made the mess then he should clear it up!
7:00 pm
Kaplan the Magne
Ya think?
7:00 pm
Kaplan the Magne
This is a 20 year argument
7:00 pm
dan2bit
re + late, Brookie
7:00 pm
Jacula
Hi Brookie. Ri6 is like the backward re6 but with different 1st vowel.
7:00 pm
dan2bit
also ri + late
7:01 pm
Kaplan the Magne
Piles of mail! Piles of papers! Piles of crap! (Im venting)
7:01 pm
Brookie
thanks for the clues, got it!
7:01 pm
Jacula
Kaplan - I do think! Maybe you should punctuate your side of the argument with a frying pan? You know what to do with it!
7:02 pm
Kaplan the Magne
I have given up and often resort to passive aggression.
7:03 pm
Brookie
i'm all about passive aggression, kaplan. good for you.
7:03 pm
Kaplan the Magne
lol
7:03 pm
Jacula
I guess setting fire to his study is not an option? LOL
7:03 pm
Kaplan the Magne
passive aggression is much more satisfying
7:04 pm
Brookie
i always feel better about myself that way
7:04 pm
Kaplan the Magne
No, but throwing away his shoes works.
7:04 pm
inge
still missing a ta 6/28. Did thet clued 10 minutes ago and i Missed it? Please reclue. It is my last word.
7:05 pm
Jacula
Having said that, I'm the one responsible for the long term piles of stuff in our house, but I, and both of us together, have been steaming through it all lately. The house looks almost presentable again but the study will need the door keeping closed when Christmas guests arrive.:(
7:05 pm
Brookie
ta6,28 - more ragged
7:05 pm
Kaplan the Magne
ta628- something that is more ragged
7:05 pm
Kaplan the Magne
Brookie beat me, but great minds think alike
7:05 pm
Jacula
ta6/18 (before the more frayed ta7 word) - just leave the last letter off.
7:06 pm
Brookie
speak for myself
7:06 pm
Brookie
just joking!
7:06 pm
Brookie
lest you punish me in a passive agressive way
7:06 pm
Brookie
may i ask for the clues for the last 2 ce's? they're killing me!
7:07 pm
Jacula
ce5/12 = ce + Spanish word for 'river'.
7:08 pm
Brookie
thanks, jac!
7:08 pm
Jacula
ce6/21 = ce + ****s of passage.
7:08 pm
Jacula
y/w Brookie.
7:08 pm
Brookie
still trying to get the 6...
7:08 pm
Brookie
got it, thanks!
7:09 pm
Jacula
ceremonal ri**.
7:09 pm
Jacula
*ceremonial, I meant.
7:09 pm
inge
thanks for all the ta help. I finally figured it out and have fireworks. This is the hardest I ever worked a grid.
7:09 pm
Jacula
Well done inge.
7:09 pm
Brookie
yeah, inge!
7:10 pm
Kaplan the Magne
Good job. I am too lazy tonight and get lost without lickety telling me exactly what I have.
7:11 pm
Jacula
I'm going to nip off to Facebook now and see if it will allow me to upload photos; it wouldn't earlier. I want to show both my kids, who are sunning themselves in Thailand right now, the snow they are coming back to on 23rd Dec. *evil grin*
7:11 pm
Brookie
you're not lazy, kaplan. i have 13 left and am tempted to call it quits.
7:12 pm
harpjane
hello 109 left and three of the six gables on my house now have CHRISTMAS LIGHTS!
7:12 pm
harpjane
(the three easiest, but still....)
7:12 pm
Kaplan the Magne
I have 78 left but really haven't been applying myself
7:13 pm
Brookie
congrats on your xmas decorations!
7:19 pm
joey
help with the last ta 6/18, please.
7:19 pm
car.eeyore
I need 1 more E in the top row...have et5/14 and et4/5. What am I missing?
7:20 pm
joey
NM, i got it.
7:20 pm
Brookie
ta + consonant + *** your shoelaces
7:20 pm
Brookie
you're missing an ei
7:21 pm
Brookie
help with the er7 please
7:22 pm
car.eeyore
TY Brookie...will keep monkeying! How many letters in the ei?
7:22 pm
Brookie
6 letters. it's a common word
7:22 pm
car.eeyore
Got it!
7:22 pm
jesdraggon
hi again alls
7:22 pm
car.eeyore
I don't have the ER 7 yet...but will let you know if I figure it out!
7:23 pm
Brookie
thanks car
7:23 pm
Brookie
how about the wr6,39?
7:23 pm
HarryHood
adjective on the wr 5/20
7:23 pm
car.eeyore
I have the wr 6/33 not the 39.
7:24 pm
Brookie
thanks harry, i'll work on it
7:24 pm
inge
did you mean er 8? thais the lanet we ive on by more so
7:24 pm
car.eeyore
That one I DO have! tee hee!
7:26 pm
inge
drop teh i from the wr 6. amd tje mext 4 wprds are a cinch
7:26 pm
Brookie
got the wr, thanks!
7:26 pm
inge
got to wrap a present yet. Gute Nacht, Babblers.
7:27 pm
Brookie
good night, inge!
7:27 pm
car.eeyore
Bye inge!
7:28 pm
jesdraggon
g'night inge
7:28 pm
Brookie
i hope no one minds if i shamelessly ask for clues for my last 9 words...
7:29 pm
car.eeyore
Go for it...but I don't know if I have any of them!
7:29 pm
Brookie
starting with... qu7,44
7:30 pm
car.eeyore
measure of milk + don't slip on the **e!
7:30 pm
Brookie
thanks car, got it!
7:31 pm
Brookie
ce7,32, please
7:32 pm
car.eeyore
Oooh...only have the ce 7/36....
7:32 pm
Brookie
how about the ci6,21?
7:34 pm
car.eeyore
New York &***y + throw away the watermelon ***d when you are done with it!
7:34 pm
Brookie
yeah, thanks!
7:35 pm
bookwomen
ce 7/32 ce+price-e+type of can
7:35 pm
Brookie
my 7-year-old likes your clue too. in fact, he was in NYC yesterday seeing the xmas show at radio city music hall, featuring the rockettes
7:35 pm
car.eeyore
Ty Bookwomen!
7:35 pm
car.eeyore
Cool Brookie!
7:35 pm
car.eeyore
I have a 7 YO too!
7:36 pm
Brookie
that's an awesome clue, book!
7:36 pm
Brookie
in 2nd grade?
7:37 pm
bookwomen
yw. still slogging through my last 68. I miss lickety.
7:37 pm
HarryHood
I have a 7 year old too! (until next saturday)
7:37 pm
Brookie
bday party coming up!
7:37 pm
car.eeyore
OK...I need to go read to the boys! Will be back in a few!
7:37 pm
HarryHood
was today
7:38 pm
HarryHood
postponed by snow :)
7:38 pm
Brookie
see ya, car
7:38 pm
Brookie
my two sons are turning 8 and 2 next February, with bdays just 2 days apart. looks like we'll have one big event!
7:39 pm
Brookie
ad5,16 please?
7:40 pm
bookwomen
ad+sometimes vowel+short british goodbye
7:40 pm
jillibus
ad5/16 -- a + chnge the colour of a fabric minus the last letter + brit thanks
7:40 pm
Brookie
hi jilli, thanks for the clue, never would have monkeyed it
7:41 pm
jillibus
book's clue was better, but yw
7:42 pm
jillibus
I have 66 left -- it's such a struggle!
7:42 pm
Brookie
oops, sorry book, i didn't see your clue for some reason, yes it was a great clue!
7:42 pm
HarryHood
80 here
7:42 pm
HarryHood
not gonna finish tonight
7:43 pm
Brookie
gonna check on laundry, take a shower, and go to sleep. have a good night everyone! *poof*
7:43 pm
jillibus
night brookie!
7:43 pm
bookwomen
63 here and yes it is slow going. good night Brookie
7:45 pm
jillibus
I finished my Christmas wrapping this afternoon so I figure I'm entitled to torture myself with this horrible grid, minus Lickety! Thanks, hurshy, for your BabAnon clues.
7:49 pm
bojazz
only 132 left - piece of cake! lol
7:50 pm
welki
hi folks .. 63 left here and i'm to the point where i'll just catch some clues in chat before i call it a night (again) Z*lol*
7:50 pm
Mooch
any clues for the ad8?
7:51 pm
bookwomen
ad 8. this clue is probably not ad 8
7:51 pm
welki
ad8 -- fine, so-so, just enough to make do
7:51 pm
Christine
ad8 - good enough, or passable.
7:52 pm
Mooch
Thanks so much all!
7:52 pm
kimmtoats
hello babblers!
7:59 pm
sammysmom
i have 9 qua and 4 que- think i am missing a qua7 help??
8:00 pm
welki
unit of measurement + don't slip on the **e!
8:00 pm
kimmtoats
ad+equal to
8:01 pm
sammysmom
thats only 6 welki and i have that one
8:01 pm
welki
it's qu 7/44
8:01 pm
car.eeyore
No, that is a qu 7
8:03 pm
sammysmom
i have that one welkie and i think soneone said that there are 2 7 s
8:03 pm
sammysmom
not 2 7 s??
8:04 pm
sciencegeek
one qu 7
8:04 pm
welki
i only have that one
8:04 pm
sciencegeek
three qu 6
8:05 pm
sammysmom
thanks- then it is a 6 tht i am missing
8:06 pm
bookwomen
done res. only 37 left. there are 3 qu 6s
8:06 pm
sammysmom
i have 2 qua 6's - is there another?
or isit a que??
8:06 pm
sciencegeek
all qua
8:07 pm
bookwomen
3 qua 6
8:07 pm
lbdawger
hi everyone
8:08 pm
lbdawger
hiya welki!
8:08 pm
car.eeyore
Hey Dawg!
8:08 pm
lbdawger
hiya car
8:12 pm
72 Temple Owl
dhave ni7/28 baby louse + ri4/4 ceremony. clue pls for the other ni7? ty
8:13 pm
lbdawger
baby louse + religious ceremony
8:13 pm
72 Temple Owl
um th eother ppls?
8:13 pm
periwinkle
hello, back to findmy last 25 words
8:14 pm
lbdawger
oops sorry about that, TO ni5.10 + Pumpkin p**
8:14 pm
72 Temple Owl
ty. good ngiht.
8:15 pm
EvaNadine
evenin babblers!
8:15 pm
lbdawger
night night, TO
8:16 pm
kje
no list again? is lickety and clan alright?
8:16 pm
sixty7stang13
hello all.
8:17 pm
lbdawger
hi kje. i hope all is alright with the family.
8:17 pm
kje
maybe just a holiday break
8:18 pm
kje
well, I won't start one this big, this late in the evening without that safety net, so toodle-loo
8:18 pm
lbdawger
that's what i'm hoping.
8:18 pm
lbdawger
there's a list in babanon
8:19 pm
sciencegeek
last re 7/29 pls
8:19 pm
lbdawger
re7.28 perchance? to slow down
8:20 pm
kje
aaah science... love your icon - my fave christmas show!!!
8:20 pm
lbdawger
re + leo****, what dancers wear under their tutus
8:21 pm
kje
your a mean one, mr grinch
8:21 pm
periwinkle
19 r words left to find
8:21 pm
sciencegeek
that is what i am!
8:21 pm
kje
You're as cuddly as a cactus,
You're as charming as an eel.
Mr. Grinch
8:21 pm
lbdawger
i wore my grinch sweatshirt to work today. no one made a comment. harumph
8:21 pm
kje
now I will be singing all night
8:21 pm
sciencegeek
that is the re 6 i need the 7
8:22 pm
sciencegeek
i need the 7 28 right aboe it
8:22 pm
sciencegeek
above
8:22 pm
kje
Your brain is full of spiders,
You've got garlic in your soul.
hahahahaha
8:22 pm
sciencegeek
nm got it
8:22 pm
lbdawger
more so of the lease you have with your landlord
8:22 pm
kje
Your soul is an apalling dump heap overflowing
with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable
rubbish imaginable
8:22 pm
car.eeyore
Share please!!!! I need it too!
8:23 pm
kje
I need to remember that last line the next time i break up with a guy
8:23 pm
sciencegeek
to pay more in re 4
8:24 pm
kje
ooo - and car has claymation.... guessing today's theme was christmas characters?
8:25 pm
sciencegeek
ri 6/21?
8:25 pm
lbdawger
use that ending on a lot of the 7's and you should get the word
8:25 pm
car.eeyore
No, that is just my family portrait!
8:25 pm
lbdawger
alternate spelling of to slow down.
8:25 pm
kje
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPBS7dV
rE1U
8:25 pm
aslindy
they guy who sang that song is also the voice of Tony the Tiger. =)
8:25 pm
sciencegeek
7 more t words
8:26 pm
kje
really, aslindy? I never knew that
8:26 pm
aslindy
yes, really... I heard it on the radio
8:27 pm
periwinkle
12 re words needed to finish
8:27 pm
car.eeyore
Boris Karloff is Tony the Tiger?
8:28 pm
lbdawger
go peri!
8:28 pm
kje
OK, see you babblers later... gonna go download grinch and watch it
8:28 pm
lbdawger
bye bye, kje
8:28 pm
sixty7stang13
bye kje have fun.
8:28 pm
kje
*humming on the way out*
8:28 pm
dan2bit
i think Karloff was the voice of the grinch, not the singer of the song?
8:29 pm
car.eeyore
I thought the credits of the Grinch said that Karloff sang the song too? I may be wrong.
8:30 pm
car.eeyore
OMG! I just realized I don't have NBT!
8:30 pm
aslindy
I am looking for the info now, hang on
8:31 pm
sciencegeek
finally
8:31 pm
car.eeyore
Well done!
8:31 pm
lbdawger
whoooo hoooooo SG
8:31 pm
sixty7stang13
congrats SG
8:31 pm
dan2bit
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060345/fu
llcredits
8:31 pm
dan2bit
Thurl Ravenscroft (uncredited) singer
8:32 pm
car.eeyore
I need a clue for the second row i please.
8:32 pm
sciencegeek
This was not my best grid. I am better than I used to be however...
8:32 pm
lbdawger
let me reit**** what i tried to clue
8:33 pm
car.eeyore
Thanks Dawg!
8:33 pm
car.eeyore
And thank you dan!
8:33 pm
aslindy
so I am too slow
8:33 pm
kimmtoats
I don't know how anyone finishes one of these! I have a hard tome getting 100 words!
8:33 pm
aslindy
Thurl Ravenscroft did a lot of songs and voices
8:34 pm
lbdawger
what a wonderfully romantic name...ravenscroft
8:35 pm
dan2bit
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0712391/bio
8:35 pm
periwinkle
first re5/16 pls
8:35 pm
periwinkle
8 more to go
8:35 pm
EvaNadine
hints for the A beside the Q or the top-row E?
8:35 pm
dan2bit
are you re*** for the clue, peri?
8:35 pm
lbdawger
on your mark get set get re***
8:35 pm
dan2bit
oohed and aa5
8:35 pm
periwinkle
stupid but yes, thanks
8:36 pm
periwinkle
thanks lbd too
8:36 pm
lbdawger
a by the q is latin for water could also be spanish for water
8:37 pm
EvaNadine
TY dan. got the top row E?
8:37 pm
dan2bit
morals and et5s
8:37 pm
dan2bit
drop one consonant for et4
8:38 pm
EvaNadine
thats NBT and NBS for me. :)
8:38 pm
lbdawger
how's momma doing, dan?
8:39 pm
dan2bit
pretty good - we
8:39 pm
dan2bit
we have a bit of cabin fever here with all the snow
8:40 pm
dan2bit
not used to it down south
8:40 pm
lbdawger
oh, i bet! that's a lot of snow for your part of the country
8:41 pm
dan2bit
we have our 20-week U/S scheduled for tomorrow, actually
8:42 pm
dan2bit
or Tuesday
8:42 pm
lbdawger
how exciting! hope you get some clear pictures!
8:42 pm
car.eeyore
I can't get over 253 words and no S!!!!
8:43 pm
lbdawger
no s but two Y's
8:43 pm
periwinkle
need 4 re words to finish and can't find them
8:43 pm
periwinkle
need a break bbs
8:44 pm
car.eeyore
Hey, does anyone know what happened to Brittany Murphy and how she died? I don't think I will last until the news comes on.
8:44 pm
sixty7stang13
cardiac arrest
8:44 pm
lbdawger
i don't know who brittany murphy is or was
8:44 pm
SeaSpray
internet say cardiac arrest
8:45 pm
car.eeyore
Good grief! Poor thing!
8:45 pm
SeaSpray
possibly due to drug abuse
8:45 pm
SeaSpray
possibly due to drug abuse
8:48 pm
stidmama
hello friends.
8:48 pm
lbdawger
hi again, stiddy
8:49 pm
stidmama
I didn't know who she was either LBD -- watch so few movies that anyone more recent than Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn rather confuses me!
8:50 pm
Jacula
B Murhpy was in Girl, Interrupted.
8:50 pm
car.eeyore
How many equ words are there?
8:50 pm
stidmama
still, it's sad when someone so young dies unexpectedly
8:50 pm
lbdawger
so she was an actress? not a fluff and puff or something
8:50 pm
Read-Knit-Bake
just finishing up and am stuck on the first ni 7.
8:50 pm
car.eeyore
Also in Clueless and 8 mile. Also a regular voice on King of the Hill
8:51 pm
stidmama
hello READ!
8:51 pm
lbdawger
rkb, ni5 + i like pecan p**
8:51 pm
car.eeyore
And what was the name of that movie she did with Ashton Kutcher..they were newlyweds on their honeymoon?
8:51 pm
herinfernallady
Hi. And everyone always forgets Brittanys marvellous role in Girl Interrupted.
8:51 pm
stidmama
hey lady!
8:52 pm
car.eeyore
Hi Herin!
8:52 pm
lbdawger
hi Herin!
8:52 pm
car.eeyore
I also thought she was good in Don't Say a Word with Michael Douglas.
8:52 pm
herinfernallady
Hi. Sorry had to put my 2cents in. I loved her work. It was really sad. I am also going to hell for saying damn wrong Britany
8:52 pm
Read-Knit-Bake
THX IBD...couldn't get that at all.
8:53 pm
Jacula
is a best-selling[1] 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen. In the book, Kaysen relates her experiences as a patient in a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. The memoir's title is a reference to the Vermeer painting Girl Interrupted at her Music.[2]
While writing the novel Far Afield, Kaysen began to recall her almost two years at McLean Hospital.[3] Once done with the book, she obtained her file from the hospital with the help of a lawyer and began to write Girl, Interrupted.[4]
In 1999, the memoir was adapted into a film of the same name starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie. It was directed by James Mangold. Can you believe that they allowed that video to be shown in the clinic for girls interrupted where my daughter was? I'd already watched the film privately and cried buckets over it, given the circumstances.
8:53 pm
Jacula
Hi Herin! Haven't crossed paths with you for ages! How are you?
8:54 pm
herinfernallady
Jac It was a brilliant movie. I have yet to find the damn book :(. I am good. I am also procrastinating
8:54 pm
Jacula
I've got the book, Herin, but I'm hanging on to it.
8:55 pm
car.eeyore
Oh! I am done! Can't even see straight anymore! Good night my friends!
8:55 pm
lbdawger
night night Car
8:55 pm
stidmama
YAY car! sweet dreams!
8:55 pm
sixty7stang13
good nite Car
8:56 pm
Jacula
'Night car says Jac after a busy day and a boozy night.
8:57 pm
herinfernallady
opoo. You just reminded me I was meant to pick up a book on Olive Schreiner
8:57 pm
herinfernallady
Night Carie
8:58 pm
Jacula
Havin said, I've got the book, I'm not actually sure I still have now. I purged my shelves of many anorexia related books after my daughter, who now eats again (but isn't 100% well) got cross about seeing them there.
8:58 pm
lbdawger
hello, baby4
8:59 pm
Jacula
I don't need books on my shelves to remindd me of the horror we went through.
8:59 pm
kimmtoats
Hi Becky!!
8:59 pm
baby4
what horror?
9:00 pm
herinfernallady
Jac I understand but I don't if that makes sense
9:00 pm
Jacula
Baby, if you knew me, you'd know. It's an anorexia tale that began when my daughter was about to drop dead.
9:01 pm
Jacula
Herin - erm... not sure there.
9:02 pm
stidmama
okay, the kids and Tom and I are going to watch stidkid #1's bday movie -- the most recent star trek movie!
9:02 pm
herinfernallady
I read in the paper that Vic beckam was only going to eat 4 bites of the meals on Christmas day and that she restricts to 900 cals a day. Needless to say a lot of people wrote in and said why publish this
9:02 pm
stidmama
(((hugs ))) *extra hugs and choclit for jac* see you-all tomorrow *poof*
9:02 pm
herinfernallady
Is it Stid Kids birthday?
9:02 pm
stidmama
was last wednesday.
9:02 pm
stidmama
*real poof*
9:02 pm
herinfernallady
Ok well happy late birthday
9:03 pm
Jacula
'Night Stid. xxx
9:03 pm
herinfernallady
Jac. What i mean is I understand why you cleaned out the book selves and I can feel what you went through but I will never understand it as it didn't happen to me
9:05 pm
Jacula
Oh well, all that I saw and experienced in the 3 years my daughter was in the clinic has certainly left me well able to deal with my screwed-up stepdaughter. (God or Gods move in mystreious ways, wot?)
9:05 pm
herinfernallady
May be the powers that be decided that you were a great person to handle what could be thrown at you next
9:08 pm
herinfernallady
back soon have to hang out laundry
9:08 pm
Jacula
Herin - yes, I see what you are saying. I can understand, since I teetered on the very brink of it myself in my early 20s, and understand the 'high' of 'feeling empty' and the 'victory' you feel. However, food won over what it said on the scales, even if the sales did keep showing a pummeting weight for a few weeks after I upped my food intake.
9:09 pm
herinfernallady
Jac. I will be back in 10min someone has to hang this laundry out and the cats don't have thumbs.
9:09 pm
Jacula
Hanging out laundry... that reminds me - my mad as a box of frogs neighbour had all her pyjamas hanging out on the rotarty airer in the garden in the snow yesterday.
9:10 pm
herinfernallady
well at least in the cold they would get starched for free
9:12 pm
herinfernallady
brb
9:21 pm
kimmtoats
hey, Bec! 64 now. you?
9:22 pm
rururocks
ad 5/16 ?
9:24 pm
periwinkle
hello first re5/10 pls
9:27 pm
harpjane
hello 58 to go
9:27 pm
lbdawger
ad+ sometimes vowel + brit slang for bye
9:28 pm
rururocks
thank you lbd
9:31 pm
periwinkle
2nd re6/21 pls
9:31 pm
rururocks
not there yet peri
9:32 pm
periwinkle
it is my last word and I am tired
9:32 pm
Jacula
to put the day and time on again, peri.
9:33 pm
Jacula
Or maybe to see a guy you liked again?
9:33 pm
herinfernallady
Hello again
9:33 pm
lbdawger
pt of backend, peri
9:33 pm
Jacula
Hi again Herin.
9:34 pm
herinfernallady
Just got the first lot of laundry done. I am here for 6 more minutes then I have to clean up for 15 min
9:34 pm
Jacula
Oops, I was clueing 3rd re6.
9:35 pm
Jacula
3rd is past tense of backended, or sttod up in anger.
9:35 pm
lbdawger
night everyone.
9:35 pm
Jacula
I'm off to bed now, Happy Babbling all. xx
9:36 pm
herinfernallady
Night Jac
9:36 pm
herinfernallady
Can someone come over here and do the crappy housework I don't want to do
9:36 pm
kimmtoats
nite jac and lbd
9:36 pm
periwinkle
sorry it is the last re6/21 that I need
9:38 pm
harpjane
where a bear lives, and charles manson's murdered girlfriend
9:38 pm
harpjane
(that was de7)
9:38 pm
Jacula
Peri - colour + hearing organ.
9:38 pm
herinfernallady
any takers on this housework?
9:38 pm
Jacula
I just had to log back in to post that, peri.
9:38 pm
Jacula
herin - NO CHANCE!
9:39 pm
Trifioso
hello babble friends!
9:39 pm
herinfernallady
Hi Trifs
9:39 pm
herinfernallady
:( Jac
9:39 pm
Trifioso
HERIN!!!
9:40 pm
Jacula
Hi and 'bye Trif, I'm off for the night now.
9:40 pm
herinfernallady
Hi Trifs. I have to disappear in 5 to clean up for 15min
9:40 pm
Trifioso
doing flylady again? :)
9:40 pm
harpjane
flylady rocks!
9:41 pm
harpjane
what time is it for you, infernal?
9:41 pm
herinfernallady
get back into it next year.But I am doing the principles. I have so much to do if i don't do small bits I will cry.
9:41 pm
herinfernallady
Harp its 1440 here
9:42 pm
harpjane
amazing, and is it Monday?
9:42 pm
harpjane
2042 Sunday here
9:43 pm
herinfernallady
It is Monday.
9:43 pm
herinfernallady
Does anyone mind if i fly into a rant at Perez Hilton saying that Brittany Murphys death was a drug over dose when the poor girl had a heart murmur
9:44 pm
hurshy
brittany murphy died?
9:44 pm
harpjane
who is that?
9:44 pm
herinfernallady
Yes Hurshy she did this morning of a heart attack
9:44 pm
rururocks
man..am I going to need a lot of help with this one
9:44 pm
Trifioso
yes isn't that sad? And Perez Hilton should be ashamed of himself!
9:45 pm
hurshy
she played tai in "clueless" and she's been in a lot of stuff since then
9:46 pm
Trifioso
ruru, I thought your icon was a photo of a can of heinz's beans, until I enlarged it. LOL!
9:46 pm
Trifioso
ruru, I thought your icon was a photo of a can of heinz's beans, until I enlarged it. LOL!
9:47 pm
herinfernallady
And now they are saying that her hubby was wandering about dishevelled and in his pj pants no shoes and he is seriously he is hiding something by not allowing an autopsy. They poor guys wife just died. I hate the paparazi. They shit me. They had a go at poor Elin Woods in front of the kids
9:47 pm
herinfernallady
Ru I love your icon
9:48 pm
hurshy
i can't believe it, she was like 3 months younger than me
9:49 pm
herinfernallady
It is very sad. She did have a heart murmur. I loved her acting. I actually made the very bad comment this morning that it was the wrong Britany
9:49 pm
periwinkle
finally fireworks
9:49 pm
sammysmom
clue please for the re 5/12??
9:49 pm
Trifioso
huzzah for peri! a huge accomplishment today!
9:49 pm
Trifioso
huzzah for peri! a huge accomplishment today!
9:50 pm
Trifioso
sorry for the dubs posts - not sure what is up with that
9:50 pm
herinfernallady
Yah Peri
9:50 pm
periwinkle
ty and now off to bed
9:50 pm
herinfernallady
Trifs you got exited
9:50 pm
herinfernallady
excited opps
9:51 pm
herinfernallady
If you can have inert why cant i have nert
9:56 pm
JBV
the only thing you can't escape besides taxes, hi harp
9:57 pm
harpjane
thanks, i had it, i'm so confused...
9:57 pm
rururocks
de + ballon filler
9:57 pm
Jellen
Hi, all...
9:57 pm
herinfernallady
hi JBV
9:58 pm
Jellen
No lickety?
9:58 pm
harpjane
correct jellen
9:58 pm
herinfernallady
Hi Jellen. Volley posted heaps of stuff last night in the chog
9:59 pm
Jellen
Sigh...I'm pretty lost without him...
9:59 pm
Jellen
Herin how are you?
10:00 pm
Jellen
I'm just waiting for a poker tournament to start...
10:00 pm
herinfernallady
tidying up. I have stopped babbling but choging
10:01 pm
Jellen
I've been a bum today...
10:02 pm
herinfernallady
no comment still in my pjs here at 3pm
10:02 pm
kimmtoats
me too, Jellen!
10:03 pm
Jellen
Ahh...tourney's started...I'll pop in later...
10:06 pm
harpjane
at 6 & 7?
10:08 pm
sammysmom
ta 7/48?
10:09 pm
herinfernallady
no idea sorry
10:10 pm
sammysmom
at 6 and 7.......... wearing something
10:10 pm
bethn
at 6 what you are wearing, and pt Hi all!
10:10 pm
kimmtoats
I just broke 1000 pts, first time!!
10:11 pm
rururocks
ni 7/28?
10:11 pm
rururocks
# 1 the first one?
10:11 pm
bethn
ta7 tackier
10:11 pm
geli01
grats, this puzzle is rediculously hard. I fail. Bye
10:12 pm
harpjane
i only have 19 but i might as well plod through
10:12 pm
geli01
I only have 24
10:13 pm
harpjane
thanks sammy and congrats kimm
10:13 pm
geli01
I do NOT have the patience for this.
10:13 pm
kimmtoats
ni7 is a chemical
10:14 pm
kimmtoats
thanks jane! I LOVE your icon!
10:15 pm
kimmtoats
ni 7 = NO 2
10:16 pm
kimmtoats
I should be cleaning my bathroom right now!
10:18 pm
harpjane
7 left, there'e hope
10:19 pm
harpjane
kimm, we should ALL be cleaning our bathrooms right now, that's the beauty of babbl!
10:22 pm
rururocks
1st re 6/18?
10:22 pm
rururocks
I mean 1st ra 6.18
10:23 pm
herinfernallady
I am getting set up to that bathroom task next after I eat lunch
10:23 pm
harpjane
add not loose, ruru
10:23 pm
kimmtoats
if only my husband could agree!
10:23 pm
bethn
roden
t, not loose?
10:23 pm
rururocks
thank you
10:23 pm
herinfernallady
Kimm if he doesn't like it tell him to do it himself
10:24 pm
kimmtoats
I know...off to the PB.
10:24 pm
kimmtoats
I've tried that. it doesn't work
10:26 pm
herinfernallady
Then tell him to have a whinge elsewhere
10:27 pm
torgone
We are browsing the in***net + neckwear ..
10:27 pm
herinfernallady
My other half was all bored on the weekend I told him to go the vacuuming
10:29 pm
kimmtoats
funny herin!
10:29 pm
kimmtoats
thanks torgone! good clues!
10:29 pm
torgone
Man .. I learned that one way back when .. Don't ever complain of being bored around your wife ..
10:31 pm
herinfernallady
GOod one TOrg. He needs lessons from you.
10:33 pm
sammysmom
hurshmeister put a stat list in the ba and it is wonderful but i am still stuck for 2 words
10:33 pm
sammysmom
did i miss a clue for the re 5/12??
10:34 pm
sammysmom
also stuck on the ta 7/26
10:35 pm
rururocks
ta 7/48 please
10:35 pm
sammysmom
ta 7/48 that is
10:36 pm
sammysmom
i think they have all left us ru
10:36 pm
sammysmom
wahhhhh!!
10:37 pm
bethn
sorry, dont have either
10:37 pm
herinfernallady
no I am here I am just drinking a cherry coke and have no clue sorry
10:37 pm
kimmtoats
me niether
10:38 pm
herinfernallady
Hehehe I am watching Rick Stien cooking on my tv and he said Ghee smells like rancid clarified butter. Which i have to agree
10:40 pm
kimmtoats
what the heck is Ghee?
10:40 pm
herinfernallady
Ghee is Indian Clarified Butter
10:41 pm
herinfernallady
It smells fairly gross cooking
10:41 pm
torgone
ta7/48 = road goo + unwanted plant in garden ..
10:42 pm
sammysmom
thanks tor
10:42 pm
kimmtoats
so then...what does it taste like?
10:42 pm
sammysmom
just one left that is the re 5/12 and my monkey went on strike from exhaustion
10:43 pm
rururocks
ti 5/10?
10:43 pm
herinfernallady
no idea. Its used in curries and such
10:44 pm
rururocks
that is the ti 5/12 beth
10:45 pm
torgone
boob + again prefx
10:45 pm
bethn
like the ni4
10:45 pm
torgone
Then reverse the last 2 ..
10:46 pm
sammysmom
ti 5/10-.. t + louse egg- the n + to lease - the last 2 letters
10:46 pm
bethn
ni 5 i meant
10:46 pm
rururocks
thank you
10:46 pm
sammysmom
ylurs was much better than mine beth
10:46 pm
rururocks
wr 6/39?
10:47 pm
sammysmom
wr 6/39. in the manner of being angry
10:48 pm
rururocks
thank you
10:48 pm
bethn
that is an awful word
10:51 pm
rururocks
ci 8/50? I need help on a bunch
10:52 pm
torgone
pt of ci7/32
10:52 pm
sammysmom
past tense of ci 7/32
10:53 pm
rururocks
I see.
10:53 pm
sammysmom
tor did you get fireworks yet?
10:53 pm
rururocks
I had that and was missing others
10:54 pm
torgone
60 left here ..
10:54 pm
rururocks
ci 7/36?
10:54 pm
bethn
me too tor
10:54 pm
bethn
think oranges, grapefruit etc
10:55 pm
bethn
sorryn wrong word tired going to bed
10:55 pm
sammysmom
nite betn
10:56 pm
rururocks
ci 7/36 anyone?
10:57 pm
stidmama
bye bethn
10:58 pm
stidmama
hello everyone again, just dabbling now, down to 69 which is about 40 better than I expected
10:58 pm
rururocks
in 8/40?
10:59 pm
sammysmom
ci + one, two , . . . . e, and a consonant
10:59 pm
stidmama
stidkid notes that student + dying = stu-dying... *sigh*
10:59 pm
Jellen
in***net + *** your shoes
10:59 pm
rururocks
thank you
10:59 pm
stidmama
thanks for that Jellen -- how are you and Tim getting along? did the snow get as far west as you?
11:00 pm
Jellen
No snow...
11:00 pm
rururocks
er 5/12
11:00 pm
stidmama
that snowstorm sure has caused a lot of trouble -- glad it didn't bother you
11:00 pm
Jellen
Getting ready for our Christmas trip to New Orleans!
11:01 pm
sammysmom
er 5/12 + wqalking upright
11:01 pm
sammysmom
good posture
11:01 pm
stidmama
woo-hoo jellen! that sounds exciting!
11:01 pm
Jellen
Should be fun...meeting my sister's family there...
11:02 pm
Jellen
Then, we go to Tim's mom's for a late Christmas...
11:02 pm
Jellen
THEN we go to Las Vegas again, because Tim won a trip!
11:02 pm
stidmama
it just gets better and better! I hope you have a lovely time
11:03 pm
Jellen
oops! time to pop out again...
11:03 pm
stidmama
later jellen, love to tim
11:04 pm
sammysmom
hi stid- did you get fireworks??
11:04 pm
stidmama
no sammysmom, down to only 63
11:04 pm
stidmama
multi-tasking now, watching a movie with the family and catching up on the chog
11:06 pm
sammysmom
have to rest the eyes for a while
11:06 pm
stidmama
how about you? still working on the grid?
11:09 pm
stidmama
sorry ruru
11:09 pm
stidmama
got it. start with biblical first garden
11:09 pm
stidmama
add little man ****
11:09 pm
stidmama
it has something to do with toothiness
11:10 pm
rururocks
little man?
11:10 pm
stidmama
er 5/12 which is the only one I have is straight up and down, the er***or sets little kids like to play with
11:10 pm
stidmama
or **** short for potato word
11:11 pm
stidmama
that's a (T4) on the end of the e 8
11:12 pm
rururocks
thank you
11:12 pm
rururocks
er 5 anyone
11:12 pm
stidmama
yes! down to 60!
11:15 pm
rururocks
en 7/32?
11:17 pm
rururocks
ugh I have 8 to go
11:19 pm
sammysmom
er5- in an upright position
11:19 pm
rururocks
thank you
11:20 pm
sammysmom
er - moral
11:20 pm
sammysmom
er + moral
11:21 pm
rururocks
thank you
11:21 pm
rururocks
help me get outta these e's
11:21 pm
rururocks
en 7/32?
11:22 pm
sammysmom
en 7/32- one who tries to get you to do something by making it attractive
11:22 pm
rururocks
not getting that
11:24 pm
sammysmom
en + fleas and - - - s + vowel
11:25 pm
sammysmom
that wouyld be the en 6- ... the en 7 is one who does it
11:25 pm
rururocks
thank you
11:26 pm
rururocks
en 8/50 I need too please
11:26 pm
stidmama
en 8: a plea en + an agreement between nations
11:26 pm
stidmama
go ruru go
11:27 pm
sammysmom
in its en - - - - - -/ the whole thing
11:27 pm
rururocks
that is the 28 stid
11:27 pm
rururocks
thank you
11:28 pm
rururocks
I need the last ci 7/32
11:28 pm
rururocks
the first qu 6/27 and the ta 7 please
11:28 pm
sammysmom
did anybody ever find the re 5/12??
11:29 pm
rururocks
like a recreation room + do re me fa so la ** do
11:29 pm
rururocks
anyone help me on those three?
11:29 pm
sammysmom
7/32= NEW YORK - - - Y + A SEA BIRD
11:29 pm
grannyrose
sammy, e****, to build + third vowel
11:30 pm
grannyrose
ruru, ci7, ci+ cross letter + sea bird
11:30 pm
rururocks
thank you
11:30 pm
rururocks
ta 7 /48?
11:30 pm
sammysmom
THANKS RU GOT IT
11:31 pm
grannyrose
pavement + crab grass
11:31 pm
sammysmom
TA 7/48- BLACK STUFF RAODS ARE MADE OF AND GARDEN PLANTS YOU DONT WANT
11:32 pm
grannyrose
okay, ta7, stuff for paving roads + unwanted plant
11:32 pm
rururocks
thank you
11:32 pm
sammysmom
doe4s my shouting help? it walays works on walter
11:32 pm
rururocks
just need the qu 6./27 the first one
11:32 pm
rururocks
thanks one more please
11:33 pm
grannyrose
qu6, qu + anagram of *** you being served + second vowel
11:33 pm
sammysmom
qu + first vowel + before
11:34 pm
rururocks
thank you.. made it
11:34 pm
rururocks
got to run to the kitchen
11:34 pm
sammysmom
yw bring me back a beer
11:34 pm
grannyrose
now, i can say, hello, hello.
11:34 pm
sammysmom
hi grannyrose
11:35 pm
sammysmom
how are you tonight?
11:35 pm
grannyrose
hey sammysmom
11:35 pm
sammysmom
hi mkg
11:35 pm
grannyrose
doing better thanx, just the tail end of this viral thingy.
11:35 pm
mkg
dont get those qu clues. help?
11:35 pm
kimmtoats
which sea bird???
11:35 pm
grannyrose
hey mkg
11:36 pm
grannyrose
qu + first vowel + h*** or there
11:36 pm
sammysmom
i dont listen to news either mk- haven t for 20 years- newspapers either- except the the comics coupons and crosswords- sincde i quit reading and listening- i have not been nearly as depressed
11:36 pm
grannyrose
kimm, te4
11:37 pm
ursh
hello all please clue the ta7/48
11:38 pm
mkg
ty. got that one granny rose.
11:38 pm
grannyrose
black stuff on roads + unwanted plant
11:38 pm
mkg
how bout other one?
11:38 pm
sammysmom
what other one
11:38 pm
mkg
is lickety up?
11:38 pm
flosey
more ragged mkg
11:38 pm
grannyrose
which one, mkg?
11:38 pm
flosey
no he isn't
11:39 pm
mkg
the qu 6 27 i think. not sure. i have 11 of the 14 and need others.
11:40 pm
sammysmom
qu 6/27- liquid measure and a vowel
11:40 pm
grannyrose
have you got qu6, one fourth - hook letter
11:40 pm
mkg
i have one qu 6 27, 2 5/16s, 7/44. 5 16, 4/9, and then 3 5/16s , then a 4/9. would love clues for the other qu words
11:41 pm
mkg
ty got the qu 6 27 clued sammysmom
11:41 pm
mkg
missing two more qu words.
11:41 pm
grannyrose
mkg, the list is in babanon
11:42 pm
kimmtoats
Becky, are you still here??
11:43 pm
grannyrose
qu6, qu + see you ** the fair + i **cognize you, know your face
11:44 pm
beckys
I'm still here
11:44 pm
kimmtoats
haha! I just came back.
11:45 pm
flosey
mkg, I think you're missing 2 qu4 words? 4/8 meaning 4, the other alternate spelling of first qu4/9
11:45 pm
kimmtoats
did you get that sea bird clue?
11:45 pm
beckys
no help me
11:46 pm
kimmtoats
I didn't get it either!
11:46 pm
grannyrose
seabird, in****, a new doctor at a hospital
11:48 pm
grannyrose
sounds like u-****, go about 180 degrees
11:48 pm
grannyrose
how you doing kimm and becky? got it yet?
11:49 pm
kimmtoats
I got it now, but when I type it in it says that word isn't in the dictionary.
11:49 pm
sammysmom
you are much better at clueing than me grannyrose- i think i see things differently than most people- guess im warped-lol
11:49 pm
eman
can i please havea clue of onof the eight letter words
11:49 pm
kimmtoats
it's a ci 6 right?
11:50 pm
grannyrose
yes, ci + cross letter + seabird
11:50 pm
grannyrose
i'm nuts, it's a ci7
11:51 pm
grannyrose
ci6 before it, ci + cross letter + ***go starr, beatles drummer
11:52 pm
beckys
kim what does ci6 mean
11:52 pm
Jellen
Yay, passed halfway point!
11:52 pm
grannyrose
becky,it means a 6 letter word beginning with ci
11:52 pm
grannyrose
yay jellen
11:52 pm
sammysmom
beckys- ci6 means that the word begins with ci and has 6 letters init
11:54 pm
grannyrose
ci8, ci + cross letter + x-*****, naughty film, kids should not watch
11:55 pm
grannyrose
ad8, ad + second vowel + fluid measure minus the hook letter + second vowel, means enough
11:56 pm
kimmtoats
finally got it!! TY granny!!
11:56 pm
grannyrose
ea8, means more like our planet
11:56 pm
kimmtoats
did you get it mom?
11:56 pm
eman
please give me another clue
11:57 pm
grannyrose
ed8, ed+ Ear, Nose & Throat + past tense of to eat
11:57 pm
sammysmom
ea 8= start with the name of our planet and make it more so
11:57 pm
jillibus
PHEW!!!! Finished!!!
11:57 pm
sammysmom
hi jil
11:58 pm
Jellen
Yay, jilli!!!
11:58 pm
grannyrose
en8, means utterly, completely
11:59 pm
grannyrose
en8, en + pact between countries
11:59 pm
dart001
nj jilli hi
11:59 pm
grannyrose
he8, more like the he5
11:59 pm
jillibus
hi dart and all