Babble: Archived Puzzle for Thursday, January 5, 2023

12:00 am

cybernan

42 left

12:01 am

justafreep

wow. you're fast on this one, nan :-)

12:02 am

vashongin

de 8

12:02 am

broll

se 7, de 7

12:04 am

jessmom

un8

12:05 am

Gillie

fr7

12:06 am

justafreep

fl7

12:06 am

Gillie

cr7

12:06 am

Gillie

fl7

12:09 am

Rainiqui

nbt, nbs

12:09 am

Gillie

Sorry, freep. Didn't see that you'd called the fl7

12:17 am

justafreep

I benevolently and humbly accept your apology

12:17 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:17 am

justafreep

(and also... I do not care :-))

12:17 am

Gillie

:)

12:19 am

ursh

ne 6 & 8

12:21 am

justafreep

thanks, lickety

12:21 am

rastapopolous

Hey one of the Harp Twins is in here

12:23 am

rastapopolous

sweet child of mine, duet on electric harps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIPj3h\nLNYls&ab_channel=CamilleandKennerly

12:28 am

dizgrannie

top row done...de 8 if not called

4:28 am

ivesy3

clue for ar 6 plz

4:30 am

dizgrannie

past tense of arc, but not with the C

4:31 am

dizgrannie

it will Kome to you

4:31 am

ivesy3

whew! tyvm!

4:32 am

dizgrannie

yw, glad you got my crazy clue

4:33 am

ivesy3

it was great.. thats how i got it lol

4:36 am

dizgrannie

refly

4:37 am

dizgrannie

oh crap another great clue...ll

5:04 am

ItalianGreyhound

and it worked!

5:07 am

Scrabbler

I don't get it yet.

5:07 am

ItalianGreyhound

Hi, Scrab

5:08 am

Scrabbler

Howdy

5:08 am

Scrabbler

ally

5:08 am

Scrabbler

Free clue. YW.

5:08 am

ItalianGreyhound

yes, I am sort of your ally

5:08 am

Scrabbler

You sure are.

5:19 am

ItalianGreyhound

have 2 8s so far, both ending with the sometimes vowel

5:20 am

Scrabbler

I have no 7s or 8s.

5:22 am

Scrabbler

I am trying to figure out a gift card for my 33 yr old nephew's birthday today.

5:23 am

ItalianGreyhound

cash

5:23 am

Scrabbler

He is a computer engineer so I am looking at a computer store.

5:23 am

Scrabbler

Cash rules, right?

5:26 am

ItalianGreyhound

Id have no idea what to get a 33 year old, except cash

5:29 am

Scrabbler

OK, I sent an e-gift card for Amazon. He will have many many choices.

5:29 am

ItalianGreyhound

wow - you are on it!

5:30 am

ChampFit

I gave meat to the guys this year. There's a small meat market near us, so I gave gift cards for that. Let them eat meat! ;)

5:30 am

ItalianGreyhound

glad you clarified that first sentence

5:31 am

ChampFit

:)

5:32 am

Scrabbler

Haha.

5:36 am

ItalianGreyhound

last 8 found - nothing to do with meat

5:38 am

ItalianGreyhound

actually, you could chew meat with these

5:38 am

ChampFit

Well that's just boring! ;)

5:40 am

ChampFit

Got those earlier....coincidentally, I'm going to finish up a crown today.

5:40 am

ChampFit

BBL. Enjoy!

5:42 am

Scrabbler

Bye.

6:03 am

ItalianGreyhound

fun grid, overall - I need breakfast

6:03 am

HarryHood

I'm finding those bottom As difficult.

6:07 am

ItalianGreyhound

a couple of babblets, and a weird past tense word, Harry

6:09 am

Scrabbler

I am struggling with this grid.

6:09 am

HarryHood

it's not so friendly

6:10 am

HarryHood

just got HOET

6:10 am

HarryHood

and found my second 8!

6:12 am

Scrabbler

Go Harry, go!

6:15 am

HarryHood

50 to go. have a fun day!

6:16 am

Scrabbler

Bye

6:25 am

Scrabbler

Time to get to work.

6:58 am

hurshy

woohoo! finally a day where P is EASY! lol

7:32 am

aslindy

hello all

7:37 am

72 Temple Owl

acrabbler, are you still here?

7:38 am

Kiani

morning all

7:39 am

aslindy

hi kiani

7:43 am

mael

good morning everyone

7:43 am

aslindy

hi mael

7:57 am

mael

every time w eget the ya4 I think of Dead Poets' Society

7:59 am

mael

we get, geez. Typing is a problem this morning

8:00 am

MollyL

I sound my barbaric ya4 over the roofs of the world

8:01 am

mael

it's a great poem and a great scene

8:02 am

mael

I love Whitman

8:07 am

hokie carla

well, this is not starting well. someone tell me it gets better.

8:08 am

Aloyisius

finished first pass, didn't see an 8.. hi hokie, hi all

8:08 am

hokie carla

hey aloy

8:08 am

hurshy

do you mean an 8 (an being an article) or an8 (an being the first letters of the word)?

8:09 am

hurshy

i have 2 8s

8:09 am

hurshy

both adverbs

8:09 am

Aloyisius

meant any 8 letter words

8:09 am

hurshy

mk just checking :)

8:09 am

hokie carla

ally

8:09 am

mael

I haven't found any 8s yet either

8:09 am

hurshy

because if there were an an8 then it would be my missing 8

8:10 am

hokie carla

looking for one ðŸ˜œ

8:10 am

ItalianGreyhound

theres no AN 8

8:10 am

Aloyisius

well, I'll remember the adverb hint, ty hurshy

8:10 am

BzznBea

There is no AN8

8:11 am

Aloyisius

ha, found one!

8:11 am

Aloyisius

un8 it was

8:11 am

mael

I just found that too and I wouldn't have tried it without the adverb hint...

8:12 am

Aloyisius

yep, that was helpful

8:12 am

hokie carla

I'm too busy trying to get the first E

8:12 am

mael

yeah I don't have that either haha

8:13 am

BzznBea

en5

8:13 am

MollyL

8's, de, ne, un

8:13 am

dan2bit

NTPN Clapton song

8:13 am

dan2bit

morning all!

8:13 am

hurshy

Layla

8:13 am

hokie carla

layla

8:13 am

MollyL

Layla

8:13 am

mael

layla

8:14 am

mael

wow

8:14 am

hurshy

ty molly

8:14 am

mael

everybody likes that one, huh? :)

8:14 am

Aloyisius

hi dan2.. brb, someone drank my coffee..

8:14 am

MollyL

4-way tie for that one

8:14 am

hokie carla

easiest NTPN ever?

8:14 am

MollyL

Honestly, I don't really like the song and it goes on for freaking ever

8:15 am

hokie carla

same

8:15 am

hokie carla

and thanks bea for the stat. still looking.

8:15 am

hokie carla

gee, it was invisible

8:16 am

hokie carla

name that simple white shoe that's been around forever...

8:16 am

dan2bit

50 left, HOET, still 14 F words

8:17 am

BzznBea

keds

8:17 am

hokie carla

ugh, just noticed there are 33 F's, thanks, dan

8:17 am

hokie carla

âœ…âœ…âœ…

8:17 am

BzznBea

I have a paor that is navy with white polka dots and a pair of hot pink ones.

8:18 am

hurshy

i have 26 Fs

8:18 am

hokie carla

sound cute

8:18 am

hokie carla

I do not have any keds right now but have in the past

8:19 am

mael

got another 8

8:19 am

MollyL

When I was a kid, Chucks ruled the tennis shoe world

8:20 am

BzznBea

But they weren't called chucks then.

8:20 am

dan2bit

the ne8 and the un8 are anagrams

8:20 am

mael

so they are

8:21 am

hokie carla

the converse chuck taylors? yeah, I think calling them chucks came in the 80s, maybe 70s. but I have no idea when Molly was a kid.

8:21 am

hurshy

ha, i didn't even notice that

8:21 am

MollyL

We called them Chucks when I was a kid. What did you call them?

8:22 am

BzznBea

hightops

8:22 am

BzznBea

But I never had a pair.

8:22 am

mael

we called them converse in Italy

8:23 am

hokie carla

well, I was an 80s kid and they were Chucks but I don't remember hearing that until my teen years

8:23 am

hokie carla

and I just remember calling them converse as well

8:23 am

MollyL

The article I just read said "Chucks" evolved in the 70's which is when I was referring to.

8:24 am

hokie carla

interesting. maybe it took longer to reach us in the mountains.

8:25 am

hurshy

the mountains, the mountains, we greet them with a song
whose echoes rebounding their woodland heights along
shall mingle with anthems that hills and fountains sing
till hill and valley gaily, gaily ring

8:25 am

hurshy

oops, WINDS and fountains

8:26 am

MollyL

Okey dokey

8:27 am

hokie carla

well, going for a bike ride. TTFN.

8:28 am

saanichcat

hurshy, out of curiousity, who wrote that?

8:31 am

mael

found the last 8, yay

8:32 am

dan2bit

it is the alma mater of Williams College, per google

8:32 am

saanichcat

thanks dan

8:33 am

Aloyisius

ty dan2, great hint

8:33 am

dan2bit

yw

8:40 am

BzznBea

phantom flannel

8:44 am

mael

finished the Cs

8:47 am

saanichcat

same here bea, have entered it twice, just in case!

8:52 am

mael

don't underestimate the bottom left corner for word endings, hah

8:54 am

aslindy

clue for tu6,24 please?

8:55 am

Aloyisius

it is a past tense

8:56 am

aslindy

thank you

8:56 am

Aloyisius

yvw .

9:10 am

Aloyisius

fw.. any clues needed before I start de-decorating?

9:11 am

Aloyisius

Have a great day everyone! Poof..

9:12 am

MollyL

I am always interested in how long people leave their Christmas decorations up and why. We are ready to be done with them on New Year's Day.

9:12 am

MollyL

I have neighbors who have left their tree up until March in previous years.

9:13 am

BzznBea

Mine stay up until The Epiphany.

9:13 am

bichon

There's Ukranian and Greek Christmas

9:15 am

MollyL

January 5 and 6 seem to be big dates. Epiphany and Twelfth Night.

9:15 am

mael

my husband rips the tree down the morning of the 26th

9:16 am

mael

as a kid we kept everything up until after the epiphany

9:16 am

mael

now the compromise is that I take down the tree on the 26th, but I can have the lights in the windows as long as I want

9:17 am

MollyL

A lot of the Orthodox sects celebrate January 7.

9:17 am

MollyL

Mael when does your tree go up?

9:18 am

BzznBea

In days gone by, the tree wasn't put up until Christmas Eve.

9:18 am

mael

usually mid December

9:18 am

mael

that's how my grandma did it, tree went up on the 24th

9:18 am

mael

we waited until after St Lucia on the 13th

9:19 am

MollyL

I think it would be kind of nice to wait until Christmas Eve. But I don't think my kids would have.

9:20 am

MollyL

Italians seem very festive about the Saints days.

9:21 am

mael

it's very regional :) we had our town fair every year for the patron saint (st anna, july 26). Most other places wouldn't have cared

9:21 am

mael

and st lucia is a thing only in scandinavia and a few regions in italy (trentino, veneto and some places in sicily)

9:22 am

MollyL

I saw some great Saint Lucia candle crowns on Etsy. They are a bit expensive though.

9:32 am

dan2bit

down to 35 left, 11 Fs

9:32 am

mael

they're pretty :)

9:32 am

mael

19 left, heading to lunch

9:32 am

mael

see you all later!

9:34 am

BzznBea

clue for un6.33, please?

9:36 am

MollyL

un + Superman's alias

9:37 am

MollyL

And yes, another Scot word

9:37 am

BzznBea

Thanks. My last one.

9:38 am

BzznBea

Got wordle in two

9:43 am

rururocks

i couldn't get wordle in 200

9:53 am

MollyL

To me, Wordle is more about luck and guessing than it is anything else. It's kind of lost it's WOW for me.

9:54 am

cherlyq

have a third of the fs lol

9:56 am

MollyL

Is there a bonus for that?

9:58 am

rururocks

f-ing A there is

9:58 am

rururocks

this grid is awful

10:00 am

cherlyq

I am going for one letter at a time thats the one with the most words trying to make myself feel like I accomplished something lol

10:11 am

rururocks

anyone have that un8?

10:11 am

rururocks

that they could clue?

10:12 am

rururocks

ok.. i found it.. thanks

10:12 am

rururocks

peri

10:20 am

Sophie512

thanks, I just found it, too

10:30 am

Uneaixoise

Clue please?

10:31 am

cherlyq

not re6 24

10:32 am

Uneaixoise

Thanks!

10:32 am

cherlyq

yw

10:44 am

periwinkle

hi all. help with the un8 please

10:46 am

aebmusica

not re6/24....make it an adverb

10:47 am

periwinkle

ty

10:47 am

aebmusica

urvw

10:48 am

penquis

hello all...

10:48 am

periwinkle

hi pen

10:48 am

penquis

hi peri...

10:49 am

aebmusica

hi pen!

10:49 am

penquis

hi aeb...

10:55 am

aslindy

clue for un6,33 please

10:55 am

periwinkle

imaginary

10:56 am

periwinkle

sorry clued wrong word

10:56 am

aslindy

that's the 6,21

10:56 am

penquis

isn't that the un 6/21?...

10:56 am

periwinkle

yes

10:56 am

dan2bit

un + superman's alias

10:57 am

aslindy

thanks dan

10:57 am

penquis

ty, dan...

10:57 am

periwinkle

ty dan new word for me

10:57 am

dan2bit

(Molly's clue from earlier)

10:57 am

aslindy

thanks for trying, peri

10:57 am

periwinkle

:-)

10:57 am

periwinkle

I don't like this grid bbl

10:58 am

penquis

bye, peri...

11:26 am

cherlyq

still need 6 more F's they are crazy

11:48 am

penquis

stalled at 30...bbl to finish....bye all...

11:48 am

cherlyq

finally the last two 7s were hard

12:07 pm

hurshy

i'm having trouble enough with ar6

12:08 pm

MollyL

Do you want a clue?

12:08 pm

hurshy

yes please

12:09 pm

MollyL

The _____ of the Covenant, past tense and spelled weird

12:09 pm

hurshy

hm. thanks, weird one!

12:09 pm

cherlyq

lots of weird ones today

12:10 pm

bichon

ty Molly

12:28 pm

Shirlockc

huh, thx molly

12:37 pm

cybernan

good morning/afternoon everyone :)

12:39 pm

cherlyq

uggh keep trying uncut and I know its not there lol

12:49 pm

MollyL

Nan, the flip is hilarious with you saying "42 left" at the exact time the grid came up. I know it was a carry over from the previous game, but it made me laugh.

12:50 pm

cybernan

lol - crashed shortly after that, so I didn't realize then what a tough grid this is

1:15 pm

cybernan

this is impossible

1:30 pm

hokie carla

I just keep seeing funeral

1:40 pm

cherlyq

50 left

1:41 pm

hokie carla

88 here

1:42 pm

mael

FW!

1:44 pm

hokie carla

awesome

1:50 pm

cherlyq

Great job mael

1:53 pm

hokie carla

sometimes in baseball you can have a ra5, then the other team does, so you have to rera5.

1:55 pm

hokie carla

ok, first pass finally finished. 49 left and HOET, though some are just the bare minimum.

2:01 pm

periwinkle

hi all. did not get clue for the ar6

2:01 pm

periwinkle

100 left

2:02 pm

hokie carla

it's a past tense of a curved line, like a basketball shot has an * to it, but it has an extra letter in it.

2:03 pm

periwinkle

ty got it

2:03 pm

hokie carla

no prob

2:06 pm

MollyL

I thought the ____ of the Covenant was pretty well known

2:07 pm

hokie carla

maybe if you spent a lot of time in sunday school or at indiana jones movies

2:09 pm

MollyL

Well it is referenced in Christian and Jewish religions and got a big boost in the Indiana Jones movies.

2:10 pm

cherlyq

And alot of treasure hunting shows over here like the Curse of Island

2:11 pm

MollyL

Curse of Oak Island?

2:14 pm

cherlyq

Yes sorry did not realize I left out the word thanks

2:16 pm

hokie carla

well, 40 left after 2nd pass. not going well. will go wash my car. TTFN.

2:17 pm

MollyL

Never heard of Canada referred to as "over here"

2:31 pm

cherlyq

No I mean the History Channel

2:40 pm

rbud

hi all... had no idea so many words ended with "um", haha.

3:21 pm

MollyL

That seems to be the prevalent sentiment today

3:32 pm

cherlyq

slowly graying out letters 35 left

3:55 pm

cherlyq

oh found a poison you put on darts

3:56 pm

cherlyq

watching british mysteries and documentaries coming in handy today

4:22 pm

hokie carla

sometimes when I jog I'm not very ru6ly

4:28 pm

moolingwa

at least you're not fally

4:31 pm

Gillie

Yes, being fally is definitely bad when you jog

4:48 pm

dan2bit

isn't a ru6y a place where marathoners live together in seclusion?

5:19 pm

dcseain

sounds right to me.

5:40 pm

moolingwa

arenum - singular of arena ;)

5:48 pm

hokie carla

I have been known to be fally

6:46 pm

periwinkle

re6/27 please

6:47 pm

penquis

look at the last word of carla's last post....

6:47 pm

penquis

it's a dumb word....

6:49 pm

periwinkle

ty pen and done

6:49 pm

penquis

congrats....

6:49 pm

periwinkle

good night all

6:51 pm

penquis

goodnight...

7:00 pm

penquis

i am also done....goodnight all....

7:46 pm

HarryHood

40 to go.

7:49 pm

moolingwa

18 left here

7:49 pm

HarryHood

wtg mool

7:49 pm

moolingwa

HNY HH

7:49 pm

HarryHood

you as well

7:49 pm

moolingwa

tx

7:51 pm

HarryHood

wow just found a bunch. 30 to go

7:53 pm

moolingwa

17 to go :)_

7:54 pm

mkg

Hi all. Any clues for the E first column? Thanks.

7:54 pm

moolingwa

en5

7:54 pm

HarryHood

en5/12

7:54 pm

mkg

Oh never mind. Monkeys just found it. Sorry.

7:57 pm

hokie carla

rehi - 37 left here - 8-11-11-6-1

7:58 pm

HarryHood

25 here. 5-9-7-3-1

7:59 pm

hokie carla

I may have reached max capacity

7:59 pm

HarryHood

uncture is my word of the day. have entered it numerous times

8:00 pm

hokie carla

the guy died of an uncture wound and then had an uneral

8:00 pm

hokie carla

found a word!

8:00 pm

HarryHood

If somebody is very unctious, he has lots of uncture

8:01 pm

HarryHood

and unctitude

8:03 pm

hokie carla

found 3 more words and grayed the 2nd row!

8:03 pm

HarryHood

wtg! I'm very stuck.

8:04 pm

hokie carla

well, I still have 33

8:04 pm

hokie carla

just made up a big one

8:07 pm

HarryHood

ah found my last 8

8:07 pm

hokie carla

that's what I just found - the big one

8:08 pm

HarryHood

nice

8:08 pm

hokie carla

29 - 8-8-9-4

8:13 pm

hokie carla

found a couple of 4s

8:14 pm

HarryHood

missing 4 4s

8:17 pm

hokie carla

just need 1 R to finish off the middle col

8:17 pm

HarryHood

2 here

8:18 pm

hokie carla

and 1 R from the other.

8:18 pm

HarryHood

got all those

8:21 pm

hokie carla

phantom tunnel

8:21 pm

HarryHood

I'm about done with this. 22 left. listing.

8:21 pm

hokie carla

I think I'll look for 4s and then list

8:22 pm

hokie carla

found a 4! it was an F, still have 8 F's left

8:23 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

hi all, gonna see how far i can get before i fall asleep

8:23 pm

hokie carla

hey gwen, it's kind of a slog today, so prob not long

8:23 pm

dcseain

hello. I have 63to

8:23 pm

dcseain

go

8:23 pm

hokie carla

hey seain

8:24 pm

dcseain

hi, Carla

8:24 pm

dcseain

I ate a bit more than half an apple pie I made today.

8:24 pm

hokie carla

phantom fiance

8:24 pm

dcseain

poor food choice Thursday

8:24 pm

hokie carla

and lance, and a bunch more

8:25 pm

hokie carla

well, it sounds delish. did you have a la mode?

8:27 pm

hokie carla

ok, I'm throwing in the towel and listing too

8:34 pm

dcseain

Nah, ate the last chunk straight from the pie plate at room temp.

8:36 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

nbt, halfway done, 71 to go

8:40 pm

HarryHood

got distracted. 8 to go. 0-3-2-3-0

8:41 pm

hokie carla

still 12. have had to skip several.

8:41 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

okay, i'm lost. what do the numbers mean?

8:41 pm

hokie carla

how many left of each word length

8:42 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

aaaahhhh, ty

8:43 pm

HarryHood

6 left - all Fs.

8:45 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

nbs, 56 to go

8:45 pm

HarryHood

grrr I thought I'd entered that already.

8:45 pm

hokie carla

I've had several of those

8:45 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

uncle

8:45 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

oops

8:46 pm

dcseain

not a word, all good.

8:46 pm

hokie carla

ok, skipped 7, all 6s and 7s

8:46 pm

hokie carla

I keep wanting uncly to be a word

8:46 pm

HarryHood

3 left - all f7 :)

8:47 pm

dcseain

me too

8:47 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

how bout narly LOL

8:48 pm

hokie carla

2 of mine are F7, harry

8:48 pm

hokie carla

I think I tried knarly this morning just in case, gwen

8:48 pm

dcseain

yes, but gnarly, las

8:48 pm

HarryHood

done!

8:48 pm

dcseain

alas

8:48 pm

dcseain

yay harry!

8:48 pm

HarryHood

my last word was yiddish beef

8:48 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

so close to HOET

8:49 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

wtg harry !!!!!!!!

8:49 pm

hokie carla

huzzah, harry

8:49 pm

HarryHood

that was a rough finish.

8:49 pm

hokie carla

since I don't know yiddish I guess I'll be looking that up

8:49 pm

HarryHood

but thankfully did it w/o morewords :)

8:49 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

kosher brisket? LOL

8:50 pm

HarryHood

gefilte steak

8:52 pm

HarryHood

anybody want any nudges?

8:53 pm

HarryHood

ok good night all!

8:57 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

phantom of the century

8:57 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

2/3 done, 50 to go, officially falling asleep now, nights all

8:58 pm

dcseain

sleep well, gwen

9:01 pm

hokie carla

I got distracted. 3 left.

9:01 pm

hokie carla

good night, gwen, if you're still here.

9:08 pm

hokie carla

well, I'm done. had to look up those last ones.

10:30 pm

NANCY

CLUE for an 5, last word and cannot see it

10:35 pm

NANCY

GOT IT

10:42 pm

harpjane

found a goose!

11:58 pm

rbud

was doing great, a few words left, and morewords went down for "migration" - whatever that means. Ah, well, so it goes...

11:59 pm

m9f9l

I'm predicting ... 326

11:59 pm

hokie carla

what are they, we have 1 min

11:59 pm

hokie carla

I'm hoping for an easy one, no matter the size. have had some tough ones lately.

12:00 am

m9f9l

an5 is a babblet

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