Babble: Archived Puzzle for Friday, August 16, 2024

12:08 am

JoyOh

Cr7

12:10 am

JoyOh

Ci7

12:16 am

Rainiqui

nbt, nbs, cr 8

12:17 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:17 am

jeanne314

ki7

12:34 am

jbp

thanks, lickety! and hi all

12:36 am

dcseain

phantom pekoe

12:36 am

dcseain

thanks, lickety

12:36 am

dcseain

oh, photo updated finally.

12:36 am

dcseain

but not in profile yet. how weird.

12:37 am

dcseain

wine is, indeed, oaked

12:37 am

dcseain

oaked

12:41 am

ursh

not the easiest grid here

12:45 am

dcseain

no, it is rather challenging. I've found 38 while also watching videos and chatting on discord.

12:45 am

dcseain

and good morning, rush, nice to see you.

12:50 am

dcseain

oh, autocorrect. ursh, not rush

12:51 am

dcseain

broth spellings of the Arab currency unit.

12:55 am

ursh

haha dcs I am not in a hurry :)

12:57 am

dcseain

phantom cleat

12:59 am

sprite

morning babblers

1:00 am

dcseain

hello, sprite

1:01 am

sprite

hi seain!

1:02 am

sprite

Ks killed

1:07 am

sprite

phantom: dialect

1:19 am

sprite

interesting grid. Brick wall before halfway. Nice and challenging!

1:27 am

sprite

phantom: riddle

1:52 am

sprite

fireflies. Very nice one. *hugs* and *poof*

6:00 am

aslindy

hello all

6:11 am

aslindy

tried to change my icon to a pic of our new house. I see it on my account page but not in the chog.

6:13 am

periwinkle

I see it

6:13 am

aslindy

ok, great. thanks peri

6:14 am

periwinkle

very nice house

6:14 am

aslindy

I'm really excited, and can't wait until we can move in!

6:38 am

aslindy

wow, first pass only got 59 words. that's not great.

7:02 am

Kiani

morning

7:02 am

aslindy

hi kiani

7:05 am

MollyL

Nice house

7:05 am

aslindy

thanks molly

7:23 am

hokie carla

well, just started. seems like one of "those" grids.

7:39 am

aslindy

8 left. all As.

7:40 am

hokie carla

nice. still 81 here

7:40 am

hokie carla

good luck with your move!

7:41 am

aslindy

thank you

7:47 am

hokie carla

well, 55 left and did not get HOET but I'm off to play tennis. TTFN.

7:50 am

aslindy

fireworks. had to list for the majority of the words.

7:51 am

aslindy

time to pack more boxes. you all have fun!

8:03 am

Shirlockc

i think we've had that ocean snake 3 days in a row now

8:22 am

MollyL

There has been an over abundance of e's this week

8:24 am

MollyL

I'm still trying to get over the cl7 and 8 ðŸ™„

8:27 am

Enomis65

eely

8:27 am

Enomis65

oops sorry

8:28 am

mael

hah

8:28 am

mael

I have a cl8 but not a 7, is it related?

8:31 am

rururocks

yes.. strange word the 8 is a plural

8:31 am

mael

hmm so there's another cl8

8:31 am

rururocks

yup two

8:32 am

rururocks

and a cr8

8:32 am

rururocks

c's are tough today for me

8:33 am

rururocks

got em all now though

8:36 am

mael

nice, I'm still missing 7

8:38 am

mael

I keep trying to make something like claddagh happen and it's not working, lol

8:38 am

mael

... wow, I just threw a mix of letters in that would get me a plural option and... there's the 7 and 8. Never seen that one before.

8:39 am

MollyL

Enable should hang it's head in shame, it doesn't take Claddagh

8:40 am

rururocks

is that like a ring isn't it?

8:46 am

MollyL

Yes, it also means shore in Gaelic

8:48 am

rururocks

some people were speaking gaelic on our trip.. it's an interesting language..

8:49 am

MollyL

Very hard to learn and it is the language of my people. But it doesn't come naturally to me.

8:56 am

Soodle

Fluent speaker here. It was a compulsory subject when I was going to school.

8:59 am

bichon

Is gaelic in prod

8:59 am

bichon

sorry

8:59 am

rururocks

it's kind of a musical language the way it flows..

8:59 am

bichon

Is Gaelic in Ireland as it is in Scotland?

9:00 am

rururocks

we had an Irish Taxi Driver on ISlay and she spoke gaelic. she was really fun and full of energy. I could have spoken with her for hours and hours

9:02 am

MollyL

I think the Scot and Irish versions are different

9:02 am

Soodle

Itâ€™s similar, but different! Even in Ireland, there are many different dialects of Irish Gaelic. The Northern Irish dialect is very harsh & guttural, whilst the southern version is much softer.

9:05 am

origami

She drove like a mad woman :D

9:06 am

rururocks

ha..

9:07 am

rururocks

you said I drove like a mad woman too

9:07 am

origami

<--- mumbles under her breath

9:08 am

rururocks

I have to say the people in Scotland (Scots and Irish) were just wonderful, warm, friendly, helpful, and engaging.

9:09 am

Soodle

Ha, Origami. Iâ€™d love to hear what youâ€™re saying ðŸ¤£ And Ru, thatâ€™s nice to hear.

9:10 am

rururocks

well.. I drove safely for 913 miles in Scotland and no one died.. so there's that

9:11 am

rururocks

on the right side of the car and the wrong side of the road on super narrow roads, and a fucking million roundabouts

9:11 am

origami

Those roundabouts were awful

9:12 am

rururocks

THey were nearly the death of me that's for sure.

9:12 am

wingding

what's a roundabout

9:12 am

rururocks

a big circle with multiple entry points that traffic moves through without a stop sign

9:12 am

welki

'morning, folks - i thought we'd run out of gas for all the times we circled the roundabout in England. we were hoping someone would drive by and offer a sandwich, we'd been in it so long

9:14 am

wingding

dc has alot of them, there's where i learned to navigate

9:15 am

welki

we have a lot of them here in alberta, too - some call them roundabouts, some traffic circles

9:15 am

rururocks

scotland has tons and tons of them often in places for no reason whatsoever

9:15 am

wingding

also rotary

9:15 am

rururocks

ori's just complaining because her head kept hitting the window

9:16 am

wingding

was originally used to slow traffic ... it's just confusing, , i had my first accident when a car blew a stop light in the circle and broadsided me

9:16 am

origami

I think the effects of the concussion are wearing off

9:17 am

rururocks

that was from the curb in New York City :D

9:18 am

welki

oh no - ori, did you fall in NYC?

9:18 am

rururocks

she was doing a simon biles impersonation in the street

9:18 am

Soodle

If you want to see the scariest roundabout in the world, Google The Magic Roundabout Swindon. I have to navigate it each time I visit my daughter in Swindon. Itâ€™s terrifying.

9:19 am

origami

I did - not my most graceful momet

9:19 am

origami

*moment

9:19 am

welki

never a dull moment with youse guys

9:19 am

rururocks

no kidding

9:21 am

wingding

whom ever designed The Magic Roundabout Swindon musta been on drugs

9:22 am

welki

soodle, that's insane! we can't seem to educate folks how to navigate a ONE roundabout - but seven? (ori would have to wrap her head in bubble wrap!)

9:22 am

wingding

or a career civil servant leaving their post in a city they disliked ...

9:22 am

rururocks

oh my god there isn't enough xanax in the world to get through that thing

9:23 am

origami

Encasing my body in bubble wrap sounds like a good idea

9:25 am

wingding

there's gotta be a alternate route around that thing

9:25 am

Soodle

I just close my eyes & drive & hope for the best. Then I have nightmares for 3 nights afterwards.

9:35 am

MollyL

Lots of LSD involved in the design of that thing

9:37 am

rururocks

I would never drive through that thing

9:39 am

MollyL

I wouldn't know how to drive through that thing.

9:39 am

Shirlockc

hmmm according to wiki, The Magic Roundabout. In 2009, was voted the fourth-scariest junction in Britain. which rather begs the question

9:41 am

Shirlockc

Hanger Lane gyratory is supposed to be the scariest -- i won't be driving in the UK anyway, other side of the road and all

9:41 am

penquis

These are the scariest road junctions overall according to British drivers:

1. Hanger Lane Gyratory System, west London
2. Spaghetti Junction, Birmingham
3. Marble Arch, central London
4. Elephant and Castle, south London
5. South Mimms, A1/M25, Hertfordshire
6. M4/M5 interchange, Bristol
7. Magic Roundabout, Swindon, Wiltshire
8. M8 junctions through central Glasgow
9. Mancunian Way junctions, Manchester
10. Sheriffhall Roundabout, Edinburgh

9:43 am

penquis

you couldn't pay me enough to drive through any of those...especially driving on the left side of the road!

9:45 am

rururocks

it's really a challenge.. as your brain is wired for the other side of the road. The scariest thing to me was going around curves and cars coming at me looking like head on.. I couldn't get adjusted to it and jumped everytime it happened.

9:46 am

penquis

i can totally understand that...

9:47 am

Shirlockc

i grew up in hong kong, I still look to the right first then left when I cross the street

9:47 am

Shirlockc

or is it the other way around?

9:48 am

penquis

you're making my head spin,,,

9:48 am

Shirlockc

exorcise me

9:48 am

MollyL

There is someone in my neighborhood with a European car and the steering wheel is on the "wrong side". It freaks me out every time I see him drive by.

9:48 am

MollyL

*Throws Holy Water at Shirl

9:49 am

penquis

*gives Shirl my blessing*....

9:49 am

rururocks

(hands molly the bed restraints for Shirl)

9:49 am

MollyL

*Makes the sign of the cross

9:50 am

Shirlockc

why me? Pen is one who's head is spinning

9:50 am

MollyL

I can still do that in Latin

9:50 am

MollyL

You asked for the exocism

9:50 am

MollyL

*Exorcism

9:56 am

Shirlockc

i thought that aussie animal was a phantom and then it wasn't

10:02 am

rururocks

I know I couldn't bear the phantom either on that one

10:03 am

Shirlockc

it was a kodiak moment when I saw it worked

10:05 am

MollyL

Y'all try to cub your enthusiasm

10:07 am

rururocks

you're just pandaing to the crowds molly

10:07 am

Shirlockc

i'm in p-ursine of the lone E in the right column, can someone give me the stats pls?

10:08 am

penquis

a babblet....a four...

10:08 am

MollyL

No need to be so grizzly Ru

10:11 am

rururocks

this conversation is getting rather teddy

10:13 am

Shirlockc

don't be steiff, ru, or you'll polarize us. and thx pen!

10:13 am

MollyL

There is no need to bruin the moment

10:15 am

rururocks

this is kind of a kodiak moment really

10:23 am

MollyL

Repeat

10:30 am

rururocks

ooops. ok I quit

10:30 am

rururocks

sorry

10:30 am

rururocks

hangs head in shame

10:30 am

rururocks

i was clawing for one more pun

10:31 am

penquis

omg...the pun Yogi made a Booboo.... ;o)

10:31 am

MollyL

We could have morphed into puns involving the show if you were watching it

10:32 am

rururocks

maybe I'm bi-polar (bear?)

10:33 am

MollyL

No, just fozzie

10:41 am

penquis

i have hit a wall....taking a break....bye all....

11:09 am

wingding

phantom "dialect

11:27 am

cybernan

good morning everyone from rainy (thank heavens) Kelowna. A nice gentle rain and really socked in -- hope it lasts all day and tonight. :)

11:42 am

wingding

cyber ,,, is it smokey there .. i heard PHL is supposed to be getting it downwind today ,,, i've not smelled it yet

12:06 pm

mkg

Hi all. Any clues for bottom row C words? Ty

12:07 pm

mkg

Oooh just found one. Sorry.

12:07 pm

mkg

Circa

12:07 pm

mkg

Circle

12:07 pm

mkg

Lote

12:07 pm

mkg

Lota

12:07 pm

mkg

Oops sorry

12:07 pm

mkg

Darn. So sorry.

12:33 pm

wingding

mkg, i had those .. along with the di 5/14 / 24(pl) electrical components

12:40 pm

Dorens

you know you've been playing Babble too long when your phantom is deodar

12:46 pm

moolingwa

morning all

12:46 pm

mkg

Ty for di 5

12:46 pm

mkg

Got it.

12:58 pm

hokie carla

rehi - good afternoon

1:00 pm

moolingwa

hey hoke, just turned afternoon for me

1:00 pm

hokie carla

are you just 2 hours difference?

1:01 pm

moolingwa

yes

1:01 pm

hokie carla

not sure why I was thinking 3

1:01 pm

moolingwa

yeah, not west enough :)

1:02 pm

hokie carla

okay, can someone share the right side E stats so I can get HOET?

1:03 pm

BzznBea

ed4

1:04 pm

hokie carla

wow, I kept trying to make that plural but never occurred to me to do the singular

1:09 pm

hokie carla

okay, going to have have to leave 50 in the bucket and finish packing for our camping this weekend.
15-16-10-6-3

1:32 pm

MollyL

Judi will be glad that her bucket is being put to good use

1:49 pm

BzznBea

namaste

2:14 pm

moolingwa

kinda back

2:16 pm

72 Temple Owl

hi

2:16 pm

moolingwa

hey TO

2:31 pm

72 Temple Owl

48 left. only one word greater than 7

2:32 pm

72 Temple Owl

i blame it on playing on phone while on train. not conducive to concentration

2:32 pm

72 Temple Owl

also disappearing words, big surprise

2:46 pm

moolingwa

36 left, only 9 greater than 6 ;)

2:49 pm

72 Temple Owl

!

2:51 pm

wingding

owl, are you signed up for the free train rides ?

2:51 pm

72 Temple Owl

?

2:52 pm

wingding

septa

2:52 pm

72 Temple Owl

no but i know of them

2:52 pm

wingding

senior benefit .. get card at main office basement

2:53 pm

72 Temple Owl

i think your local state rep can also issue

2:53 pm

72 Temple Owl

did you have a question?

2:54 pm

wingding

not sure, got mine downtown, market st

2:54 pm

72 Temple Owl

sorry, not getting it. do you have a question about the benefit?

2:54 pm

wingding

no ? ... just saw train ... some seniors did not know of it

2:55 pm

72 Temple Owl

oh

2:55 pm

72 Temple Owl

alps

3:54 pm

MollyL

I don't think Owl is of "senior age".

4:17 pm

Flask1

yakes

5:32 pm

hurshy

hello all, is anyone around

5:33 pm

penquis

lurking here....hi hursh....

5:33 pm

hurshy

hi pen

5:34 pm

Christa

Greeting to all

5:35 pm

hurshy

hi christa

5:35 pm

hurshy

i'm glad there are some people cause i am feeling lonely and down on myself at the moment

5:35 pm

penquis

hi christa...

5:35 pm

Christa

Hi Hurshy

5:37 pm

saanichcat

ah hurshy, you will never be lonely here

5:37 pm

ch1212

Hi Hurshy, I'm glad you came on here today. It's what I do too on days I feel the same. Sending you a virtual hug.

5:37 pm

hurshy

thanks, saanich

5:37 pm

hurshy

thanks ch1212

5:38 pm

penquis

almost always someone around here...it was nice during the pandemic to know that...

5:39 pm

saanichcat

especially such nice people here, so many

5:39 pm

ch1212

It was. I remember when my brother died a few years back, I felt numb and I didn't want to talk to anyone but I also didn't want to be alone, so I came on here. Just felt better.

5:39 pm

penquis

same here...

5:39 pm

hurshy

*hugs* to you ch1212

5:40 pm

ch1212

And right back at you.

5:41 pm

saanichcat

this site is always reliable for friendly talk, I just dropped in to see what was up and here you are hurshy!

5:42 pm

saanichcat

and now dropping back out, see you all tomorrow!

5:43 pm

hurshy

wow ch1212 i just went to your book website

5:43 pm

hurshy

you look like Sela Ward!

5:44 pm

hurshy

more importantly your book sounds amazing

5:44 pm

ch1212

What?! Okay, where do I send the check? lolol. Thanks.

5:46 pm

ch1212

I hope it reaches people who need some hope and light.

5:46 pm

hurshy

i hope so too

5:47 pm

ch1212

I took the photo a few months ago. Not bad for someone who is turning 69 next month. I thank my mom's genetics. I've never been the girly kind of person, and still don't wear makeup unless I have to.

5:48 pm

hurshy

there is one kid i chatted with online who i haven't heard from in a long time now and i'm so worried about, he aged out of foster care and went into a homeless shelter. last i heard he had landed a job at target or someplace but he'd just been through so much and i just hate that there isn't more of a social safety net

5:49 pm

hurshy

when i think of people who need hope and light he springs to mind

5:50 pm

ch1212

kids aging out of the system is one of the huge gaps in our social service network. Particularly if they are single and male. Teen moms have a much wider network of resources. My adopted cousin was in the foster system for some years before he came to our family, and he still has unaddressed trauma from that time.

5:51 pm

hurshy

yeah. :( i mean the reasons he was put IN foster care in the first place were traumatic enough, then he picked up more trauma there...

5:53 pm

ch1212

i agree. For a country that claims to value children, we have a horrific history of abusive treatment. In one chapter of my book I wrote about the history of child abuse, from early Greek and Roman times through to the first U.S. legal act passed to protect kids -- in 1971. We have so far to go.

5:54 pm

ch1212

ooh! daughter calling on caller id. bbl.

5:55 pm

hurshy

i have an adopted cousin also, but she has kind of withdrawn from the family. my aunt & uncle who adopted her later got divorced, during her teens, so i think that was rough.

6:06 pm

ch1212

And I'm back. Daughter likes to call when she is between meetings or travelling from one place to another.

hurshy, i understand. Divorce can be life changing for some kids, in a negative way.

6:11 pm

hurshy

my sister calls my mom at those times also haha

6:12 pm

hurshy

i tried to get her to stop calling while driving because mythbusters showed that even hands-free phone use is the equivalent of driving drunk, but she wouldn't listen to me

6:14 pm

ch1212

YES! THANK YOU. I have told my intelligent daughter that same thing. Her response is the same as your sister.

6:16 pm

hurshy

i've heard that for certain people with certain traumas, mindfulness meditation can actually be really bad for them - i'm curious if you have utilized that or tried it and found it not good or what

6:20 pm

ch1212

Yes, I practice breath work and meditation, but I wasn't able to settle into it until years into my recovery. Like many people who have buried trauma, I had developed maladaptive coping skills that created intense internal pressure/pain to stop me from looking too deep within. Today, I enjoy my own guided imagery and quietness within my mind. There are so many avenues to assist people's processes, and I say if one is counterproductive for you, let it go.

6:21 pm

hurshy

yes, it is funny how everyone is different

6:22 pm

hurshy

i remember one patient on House who had some weird genetic mutation such that the recommendation for her was to like, eat more things that for most of us would be UNhealthy to eat more of, like cake!

6:23 pm

Soodle

Hey Hursh. Sorry you are going through a hard time right now. Please be assured of my very best wishes.

6:24 pm

ch1212

and also the same in our primal response. I researched several assessment tools to screen someone for trauma, and I was startled to learn that whether it's ACES, the DSM-V, the 12-step assessments, the standard marks a doctor or teacher looks for, they ALL name the same identifiers. Not everyone has every symptom, but it's remarkable how our brains respond to trauma. Okay... feel like I'm talking too much.

Hi Soodle!

6:24 pm

hurshy

thank you soodle. i just tend to be really hard on myself for mistakes and forgettings and so forth.

6:25 pm

hurshy

well, i mean, we are the same species, so that makes sense, ch1212 (you're not talking too much)

6:28 pm

ch1212

Soodle, I know we've talked about this before, but I love the fact you live in Meath County, where several of my ancestors came from.

6:31 pm

hurshy

don't they say it the other way round in Ireland

6:31 pm

ch1212

I had my DNA tested, and was surprised to learn I'm 99.2% Irish-Scots, specifically from 2 small regions in Scotland and 1 in Ireland. Incredible that my ancestors landed between 1630 - 1790, and yet they continued to marry only other people from those 3 areas, from then until now. I broke that streak with my daughter - hahah!

6:31 pm

hurshy

County Meath

6:32 pm

Soodle

I was out socially recently & one person said that they had just bought a new chest deep-freeze unit. I replied that I had one of those, but I had completely forgotten what lay underneath the top layer of frozen goods in my freezer. The conversation changed to people having therapy. I (probably too honestly) remarked that I regarded therapy as I regarded the contents of my freezer. Happy to deal with what I can see - but very reluctant to delve any deeper!

6:32 pm

hurshy

wow that is interesting - so what other ethnicity or ethnicities did your daughter get from her father, ch1212?

6:32 pm

hurshy

that is a funny metaphor soodle

6:33 pm

ch1212

LOLOL! Soodle, I love your honesty!

Hurshy, my daughter is half French-German-English on her father's side.

6:37 pm

ch1212

It's been wonderful chatting today, and I regretfully need to let go the rest of this grid and get dinner started. hugs all around!

6:39 pm

hurshy

ttfn ch1212

6:40 pm

Soodle

Lovely chatting with you Ch 1212. And you too Hursh! It always gladdens this old heart of mine to see you flying the Irish flag.

6:41 pm

hurshy

:)

6:42 pm

hurshy

glad you like it

6:44 pm

hurshy

the cutest animal that's almost certainly going extinct is in the grid

6:53 pm

Soodle

Heading for 1.00 am here. Need to get to bed. I have an old school friend, whom I have only met at our parentsâ€™ funerals over the past 15 years, coming down here for a sleepover tomorrow night. Imagine! 2 sixty-something year olds getting together for a sleepover.Seepovers werenâ€™t a thing back in the last century. Wine is being chilled as I type. ðŸ˜Š

6:55 pm

Soodle

â€˜Sleepoverâ€™. Not seepover. ðŸ¤ª

7:32 pm

hurshy

that is great you're having the sleepover :)

7:53 pm

lynxxx

my mum made beautiful ec6.21s - a lovely memory

7:55 pm

hurshy

i made them once. they were the most difficult food item i have ever tried to make.

7:56 pm

lynxxx

my 2 attempts were inedible -- even gave away the special ec6.21 trays

7:57 pm

hurshy

i am feeling very, very stupid today

7:58 pm

lynxxx

I think the last few grids have been like that

8:00 pm

hurshy

no, not about the grid

8:00 pm

hurshy

about other things

8:04 pm

hurshy

like this parking garage i have to park in for my new internship. i was told i could park on levels 1, 5, 7, or 8. but level 1 is closed for construction, and i couldn't see a 5 or 7, either. at least, not when driving. it appears that the odd numbered levels are like, separate from the evens somehow? but i can't figure out how to access them because one entrance is blocked off for construciton. yet, there were cars parked on 5 when i got to it via the stairs. but i can't figure out how they got there, or how the whole thing is put together, and i feel like a massive idiot.

8:05 pm

hurshy

and 8 is the top, exposed to the sun, so i just would prefer not to have to park there.

11:48 pm

mcurlschool

ta roal

11:48 pm

mcurlschool

sorry folks!

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