12:08 am
penquis
And br 8
12:09 am
Rainiqui
nbt, nbs, br 8
12:17 am
licketySplitAUS
Clues are up
12:17 am
justafreep
thanks, lickety
12:25 am
penquis
Ipad keyboard has run out of juice …. Goodnight all…
12:26 am
sprite
morning babblers
12:27 am
justafreep
morning, sprite
12:30 am
sprite
hi freep!
12:31 am
justafreep
how's things? It's bedtime here, but the puppy is sleeping on me, so I'm trying hard not to move
12:32 am
sprite
lol I know that feeling! Things are fine here, how about you?
12:32 am
justafreep
I've got a puppy asleep on me, so they're excellent. :-)
12:34 am
sprite
:D Isn't it amazing, the way they make everything excellent?
12:34 am
justafreep
Yes. And how you can forget all the different things they chewed cuz they are cute and asleep now
12:35 am
sprite
exactly :) Heartmelting monsters.
12:35 am
justafreep
plus, a reminder to be endlessly curious and excited by the world
12:35 am
justafreep
I mean, maybe not THAT excited about EVERYTHING. But in general!
12:36 am
sprite
that too. And a constant reminder to live in the NOW.
12:37 am
justafreep
for sure. And to insist that everyone you meet pets you and... well... okay, maybe not that.
12:38 am
sprite
nah, not that. Just a select few.
12:39 am
justafreep
That's wiser.
12:39 am
justafreep
Plus a fun grid today.
12:51 am
justafreep
an an7 just as I was gonna call it a night
12:54 am
justafreep
enjoy the day, sprite. I'm taking my puppy and calling it a night
1:19 am
sprite
back. Night night, freep
1:35 am
sprite
fireflies and poofing
7:09 am
hokie carla
phantom enact
7:26 am
penquis
hello all...
7:34 am
hokie carla
this looks like another tough one so far
7:35 am
penquis
not too bad for me....down to 12....was up at the flip...
7:35 am
hokie carla
91 left here
7:35 am
hokie carla
but still a LOT left on first row
7:36 am
hokie carla
phantom castle
7:36 am
penquis
missing three Ss and 3 Ts in that row...
7:36 am
hokie carla
and curfew
7:37 am
hokie carla
need 10 S and 8 T
7:37 am
penquis
yes, i kept wanting to type in those words...
7:37 am
hokie carla
is this i word something I should be seeing?
7:38 am
penquis
it's a normal 6...
7:38 am
penquis
we don't see it often here...
7:38 am
hokie carla
keep seeing phantom istle
7:39 am
EmaMaria
phantom menarche
7:39 am
hokie carla
I don't even know what that means🤣
7:40 am
penquis
that will never be my phantom, lol....
7:40 am
EmaMaria
Def. first menstrual period in a female adolescent
7:41 am
hokie carla
I see
7:41 am
hokie carla
here they just ask "when was your first menstrual period"
7:44 am
hokie carla
phantom snatch
7:46 am
penquis
close to another word...
7:47 am
MollyL
Oh don't do that right after the first period conversation
7:47 am
hokie carla
just found a regular set of 4 from top S. not sure how I missed that.
7:47 am
hokie carla
yeah, have that already pen
7:48 am
MollyL
And that menarche word is the way doctors talk, not regular people. The only reason I know that word is from doing medical transcription.
7:48 am
hokie carla
yeah, but I'm wondering if they do actually use it in UK
7:49 am
hokie carla
almost elbow
7:49 am
EmaMaria
No I would say it is more a medical word than commonly used...
7:50 am
MollyL
I am trying to imagine a group of twelve-year-old girls and one of them says "I reached menarche today". Not happening.
7:51 am
hokie carla
I could see Cher in Clueless using it
7:51 am
mael
hah, it's a common word in Italian
7:51 am
mael
I tried it without the E at the end, just in case
7:52 am
hokie carla
I did too after Ema told us about her phantom
7:54 am
MollyL
Here's one for you, oligomenorrhea. Irregular periods.
7:54 am
hokie carla
I thought that was a different word that ends the same. what am I thinking of?
7:55 am
penquis
sounds like a word for the national spelling bee....oh, guess not given the meaning... ;o)
7:56 am
hokie carla
maybe I'm thinking of the heavy period word whatever that is
7:58 am
EmaMaria
dysmenorrhoea is painful periods
8:01 am
penquis
there must be a weird 4 because i can't find it...only have 8 left...
8:02 am
hokie carla
don't think I've found any weird 4's yet but still have 10
8:03 am
hokie carla
what letters do you have left, pen?
8:04 am
penquis
SS TT C RR N...
8:04 am
hokie carla
just found 3 th words I forgot to look for, there is a 4 babblet in that
8:05 am
penquis
i have three TH words and one is a babblet...
8:05 am
hokie carla
also a ti set. not a word I use but we have it here a bit.
8:06 am
penquis
yes....have a set of those...
8:08 am
hokie carla
do you have the word that the umps are kind of?
8:09 am
penquis
yup....and the word that sounds like a plural of the city department in charge of leisure activities...
8:09 am
hokie carla
7-14-13-2 so not sure why I'm trying to help🤣
8:10 am
penquis
lol.... 1 - 3- 4 here...
8:15 am
hokie carla
so are your c's the bottom one? I have that gray.
8:15 am
penquis
no...missing one C in second row...
8:15 am
hokie carla
ok, I still need 3 of those
8:16 am
hokie carla
is my missing 2nd col E a regular word?
8:16 am
penquis
i think all my other Cs are pretty ordinary....
8:17 am
penquis
i think so....
8:17 am
penquis
well ordinary for Babble...
8:17 am
penquis
it's a four....
8:18 am
hokie carla
I have a 4
8:18 am
hokie carla
oh, see it now
8:20 am
MollyL
Ordinary for Babble is an oxymoron
8:22 am
penquis
true... ;o)
8:22 am
hokie carla
well, I gotta get moving. leaving 28 for later.
3-11-12-2
8:26 am
penquis
found a ch 6 word i haven't seen before...
8:27 am
mael
the one that looks like a truncated word for letters?
8:28 am
penquis
not sure what you mean....mine looks like a pl without a singular....
8:31 am
ChampFit
Oooh...thanks for that pen!
8:34 am
penquis
well i am leaving 7 for later....bye all....
8:35 am
rururocks
WE'LL ALL BE DONE WHEN YOU GET BACK PEN
8:35 am
rururocks
sorry for the caps
8:37 am
penquis
ooh....found two odd R words....hard to leave with so few left... ;o)
8:41 am
ChampFit
Are they a 5/6 combo? I need 'em!
8:41 am
penquis
yes...RE...
8:46 am
ChampFit
weird words
8:49 am
penquis
really leaving now....bye all....
8:55 am
rururocks
down to one c 6 and can't find it
8:55 am
ChampFit
Do you have ca6?
8:56 am
ChampFit
I'm sorry...ch6?
8:57 am
rururocks
i don't
8:57 am
rururocks
that was it.
8:57 am
ChampFit
Great. Just finished. Have fun!
8:57 am
rururocks
i'm outta here for the day .. have a good day all
9:12 am
mael
name that may day festival in the grid
9:13 am
mael
ding ding ding
10:14 am
moolingwa
morning all
10:38 am
periwinkle
hi mool
10:38 am
periwinkle
hello all
10:38 am
periwinkle
help with the i please
10:51 am
MollyL
Well, that took care of it6
12:38 pm
hurshy
heidy ho good neighbours
12:44 pm
SamanthaJoy
Hey hey hurshy
12:44 pm
hurshy
howzit sam
12:44 pm
SamanthaJoy
Not bad. I should be at the gym, but here I am instead.
12:45 pm
hurshy
much more fun
12:45 pm
SamanthaJoy
I'll do a quick callisthenic workout in my backroom later and call it good enough.
12:46 pm
hurshy
i approve
12:46 pm
SamanthaJoy
The Hurshy Seal of Approval is a valuable and coveted thing. I shall treasure it always.
1:00 pm
hurshy
left col grey!
1:00 pm
SamanthaJoy
Do you start upper left and work down systematically?
1:01 pm
hurshy
i try to be systematic in some way, but sometimes i move around in a different direction
1:01 pm
SamanthaJoy
Ah. I'm scattershot. Unmedicated ADHD, because wo can even find the meds these days?
1:02 pm
hurshy
is there a shortage or do you have an insurance problem?
1:03 pm
SamanthaJoy
There's a shortage, has been for years. A bunch of people with time on their hands got diagnosed during the pandemic (it's a lengthy process) and it's been in short supply since then.
1:04 pm
hurshy
weird, i'm sorry to hear that
1:04 pm
hurshy
guess i'm lucky that did not happen with any of my meds
1:05 pm
SamanthaJoy
Yeah. I'm lucky that it's not one I need to be functional. If I don't finish Babble most days any more, no one gets hurt, and I've got coping mechanisms out the wazoo for the important things.
1:06 pm
hurshy
that's good
1:07 pm
SamanthaJoy
Weirdly it changed my politics a little. I'm now more supportive of the US government's commitment to subsidizing farmers.
1:08 pm
Shellbell_o-well
aaak! ADHD meds shortage is my nightmare as well
1:09 pm
hurshy
well, i gotta get back to work, 9 left for later, ttfn all!
1:09 pm
SamanthaJoy
Since it showed how bad capitalism is at stepping up to meet a sudden demand, it makes sense to have an abundance of absolutely crucial things like arable land at the ready in case of emergency.
1:09 pm
SamanthaJoy
Bye hursh
1:10 pm
Shellbell_o-well
scattershot is a good word...
1:10 pm
SamanthaJoy
Yeah, Shell, I have friends who have been dependent on their meds for years and suddenly can't find them. It's not good.
1:50 pm
Gillie
I knew a wealthy couple with a "ranch" in the Colorado mountains that they visited during the summer, who would buy horses locally to graze there every summer, then resell them at the end of the summer (by pre-agreement), just so that they could claim that their property was a farm and reduce their taxes accordingly. U.S. farm subsidies apparently benefit families with higher-than-average incomes and a lot of corporations beside, and tend to distort production.
1:54 pm
SamanthaJoy
They absolutely distort production. There's no real way for government subsidies not to.
1:55 pm
Gillie
I mean in the sense of determining what actually gets produced, vs what is needed and economical.
1:57 pm
Gillie
A lot goes to low-quality corn that ends up being used as a mandated fuel additive
1:58 pm
Gillie
This was supposed to reduce fossil-fuel use, but in practice it doesn't really do that
1:59 pm
Gillie
Anyway, subsidizing farms may be a good idea in theory, but the way it's evolved is a bit of a mess
2:25 pm
wingding
gillie, i am so sorry to hear about the 'wealthy farmer' the NJ governor did something like that decades ago with 'christmas tree farm' .. i for one, support local farmers whenever possible ... our country was founded / feed by them ..
3:56 pm
hurshy
i'm back too for my last 9 words
3:58 pm
hurshy
looks like ta7 x2 was not called, only one of them
3:58 pm
hurshy
that still leaves one more 7 uncalled
4:00 pm
hurshy
aHA dug it out of the recesses of my babblet memory - an7
4:00 pm
hurshy
*feels very proud*
4:01 pm
hurshy
ooh found my B!
4:02 pm
moolingwa
I have 21 left
4:02 pm
moolingwa
4-6-9-2
4:02 pm
hurshy
found a C!
4:03 pm
moolingwa
found 2 C's and 2 S's :)
4:04 pm
moolingwa
and an R
4:04 pm
hurshy
found 2 S's also!!!
4:05 pm
hurshy
we are on rolls!!
4:06 pm
moolingwa
I'm on a kaiser roll
4:07 pm
hurshy
name that proper noun! author Louis who wrote Holes
4:08 pm
moolingwa
sorry, no idea
4:09 pm
moolingwa
found a b
4:10 pm
hurshy
got my last S!
4:11 pm
hurshy
phantom: caramel
4:11 pm
moolingwa
the best kind
4:13 pm
hurshy
got my Ms!
4:13 pm
hurshy
last word is therefore a C6
4:13 pm
moolingwa
of course
4:14 pm
moolingwa
just found a c6 that is odd
4:14 pm
hurshy
is it ca, ch, or cr?
4:15 pm
hurshy
oHO i think it is CH because i just found it
4:15 pm
moolingwa
found my last 2 n's
4:15 pm
hurshy
go mool go!
4:15 pm
moolingwa
found my last r
4:16 pm
moolingwa
10 to go...
3-3-3-1
6:33 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
hi all, swoosh
6:40 pm
Shellbell_o-well
hey there bdgwen!
6:50 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
wazzap shell-bell-o-well!
6:51 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
are you karen?
6:52 pm
Book Doctor Gwen
guess not -- NM
8:47 pm
Shellbell_o-well
sorry, had to step away!
9:01 pm
Shellbell_o-well
all done.
9:07 pm
dcseain
Yay shellbell!
9:16 pm
Shellbell_o-well
tyvm!
9:28 pm
hokie carla
rehi - let's see if I can find any new words
9:43 pm
Shellbell_o-well
reflect
9:43 pm
hokie carla
on the day?
9:43 pm
Shellbell_o-well
stupid auto-correct... refleb
9:47 pm
Shellbell_o-well
arcats; Noah's feline friends
9:47 pm
hokie carla
how could I miss the madagascar mammal? I type it when there are like only 3 of the letters in the grid.
9:49 pm
hokie carla
oh well, finished with the list. good night!
9:52 pm
Shellbell_o-well
ta!