Babble: Archived Puzzle for Monday, May 26, 2025

12:02 am

Shellbell_o-well

tr7 tr8

12:08 am

jeanne314

ca7

12:09 am

Robespierre

ar7

12:15 am

Rainiqui

nbt, nbs, tr 7 x2

12:17 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:21 am

Shellbell_o-well

tr8, again

12:23 am

sprite

thanks lickety. Morning babblers

12:44 am

jbp

thanks, Lickety!

12:51 am

lynxxx

da6.24 don't plant these if you have sensitive skin, the night perfume very invasive.

12:54 am

ursh

lots of phantoms today

12:57 am

Shellbell_o-well

ac8 x 2

1:06 am

grannyrose

cooee and g'day all. * hugs * sprite

1:06 am

sprite

*hugs rose* Hello darling, how are you holding up today?

1:08 am

grannyrose

considering not too badly. but had a monumental mess to clean up. glass of drink tipped over. all through my books, and papaers beside my chair. * mutter, mutter, grumble, so and so glass *

1:09 am

sprite

omg that is horrible. I know how that is when you are already running on empty.

1:10 am

grannyrose

how are you holding up? are you able to rest a little more now? how was Tim's birthday?

1:11 am

sprite

we will celebrate with Tim on a separate occasion. We do not do well in a full room so we usually combine a couple of birthdays and make it into a van dijk family day :)

1:12 am

grannyrose

what a good idea !

1:13 am

sprite

I am struggling. Long time with overtaxing and it is getting a bit too much. Didn't sleep much last night, so must be aware of the downward spiral. Might take sleeping pill tonight, to break the downslide.

1:14 am

sprite

it is Tim on may 25, then Rob on June 16, Lisa on july 2, me on july 8 and Juno on August 27.

1:15 am

grannyrose

we are driving up through northern Victoria next Friday. a friend of Don's is celebrating his 70th. i'm not going to gym that day. decided it would be too cold, and possibly wet late in the day. so we are leaving about 12 midday. 4 hour drive. but plenty of time for breaks for both of us.

1:15 am

sprite

sounds taxing

1:15 am

grannyrose

yes darling. do that. break the cycle in whatever way yuou can.

1:16 am

sprite

today, caya will walk the dogs at the end of the afternoon <3 Makes such a difference. Only the noon walk to go.

1:17 am

grannyrose

whoa! that's a lot of birthdays within weeks of each other. i see your point. better for one big gathering than lots of small ones. otherwise you would be on the move continuously.

1:18 am

sprite

we all enjoy it most this way, so it makes sense alltogether

1:20 am

grannyrose

love family gatherings. so much fun for me watching the grand kids interacting with each other. lots of giggling, with even the big 17 year old joining in the fun.

1:20 am

sprite

awwww that is so precious. Who knows, one day we might enjoy grandkiddies too.

1:22 am

grannyrose

i'm sure you will. meanwhile you have all those beautiful young people around you. that too is precious time. i suspect even more so for Juno, with all of you loving them to bits.

1:23 am

sprite

yes, they are loving it, finally in a loving family, lots of hugging and teasing and fun. And lots of support. Their sister, Lauryn, is starting to see us as stand-in parents as well.

1:24 am

sprite

and yes, you are absolutely right, Rob and I enjoy the kids immensely. Beautiful people, amazingly loving and strong and fun.

1:25 am

grannyrose

lovely. i feel so much for Juno and their struggles. i am so proud of you and Rob for making them so welcome and inclusive.

1:26 am

sprite

they make it easy. Juno is a walking heart.

1:26 am

sprite

fireflies

1:27 am

grannyrose

WTG SPRITE !!!

1:27 am

grannyrose

do you have school today? of helpline? i get confused.. lol

1:29 am

sprite

yes, normally I would. But today is school outing day, so I am free. Thank God, tbh. Running on empty.

1:29 am

sprite

fun grid today. Some weirdos but fun.

1:30 am

grannyrose

i know you are honey. i am still praying for you. i do hope you can get some time out from life today.

1:30 am

sprite

a big hug, honey. I hope you will sleep well tonight. Take care of my bestie! *poof*

1:30 am

grannyrose

* hugs *

7:16 am

rbud

in and out w/ fw, laters, all

7:26 am

MollyL

Why isn't Ru here when someone posts "in and out with fireworks"?

8:20 am

crosshair

Good morning, Babblers. :)

8:43 am

rururocks

in and out always brings fireworks... at least in my experience

9:00 am

hurshy

morning

9:01 am

MollyL

See, if you wait long enough, you get your wish : )

9:03 am

hurshy

with that wish, at least

9:07 am

rururocks

must be those ruby slippers molly

9:09 am

hurshy

what a vowelly grid this is

9:10 am

rururocks

yeah a farmer in the dell kind of grid

9:11 am

hurshy

do you mean the E-I-E-I-O farmer? i think that's a different farmer

9:13 am

BzznBea

Old McDonald

9:13 am

hurshy

yeah

9:13 am

MollyL

God Ru, whatever you do, don't say what's in the well

9:17 am

rururocks

oh... shit.. I'm old.. I forgot..

9:18 am

rururocks

but ask me about any wine..

9:19 am

hurshy

what wines were served on the titanic before it sank?

9:20 am

rururocks

they had a lot of champagne.. Piper Heidsieck

9:22 am

rururocks

back in those days Chablis was really popular in England and France so likely a bunch of that too

9:23 am

rururocks

I just googled it and I'm right

9:23 am

MollyL

Wow, a bottle of wine recovered from the Titanic sold for 1.4 million dollars

9:24 am

hokie carla

way too many i tiles in here

9:24 am

hurshy

and it says they probably wouldn't have had a lot of reds because the vibrations of the engine would dislodge sediments

9:24 am

hokie carla

and I played at the flip and have no idea what the 8 lw called are.

9:25 am

BzznBea

lw?

9:27 am

rururocks

yeah.. white bordeaux makes sense too.. likely a lot of brandy, cognac, and whiskey too

9:28 am

hokie carla

8 letter words

9:29 am

BzznBea

oc

9:29 am

MollyL

Probably some poteen smuggled aboard by the third class Irish passengers

9:29 am

MollyL

I didn't get lw either. Let us spell out our words.

9:30 am

BzznBea

Of course

9:30 am

hokie carla

thought I'd seen it used here. must've been another word game

9:31 am

hurshy

well i found an 8 now

9:31 am

hurshy

it is a normal word

9:31 am

MollyL

Of the 4 eights only one is normal to me

9:32 am

hurshy

then that is the one i found

9:32 am

BzznBea

Agreed, Molly.

9:34 am

rururocks

well if you're into african flowers it's a normal word

9:35 am

hurshy

what's that one start with ruru?

9:36 am

rururocks

tr8

9:36 am

hurshy

so two tr8s?

9:36 am

rururocks

yup

9:37 am

rururocks

and two ac 8's

9:37 am

hokie carla

yes, 2 TR8 and I can find neither

9:37 am

MollyL

One is Benedict Arnold

9:38 am

hurshy

hmmm

9:38 am

rururocks

I wonder if they named a breakfast dish after him

9:40 am

hurshy

nope

9:40 am

hurshy

https://tinyurl.com/5xustn53

9:40 am

MollyL

Useless trivia of the day...it was named after Lemuel Benedict, a retired Wall Street stockbroker who reportedly ordered the dish as a cure for his morning hangover

9:41 am

MollyL

I guess he never heard of a Bloody Mary with lots of tabasco

9:41 am

BzznBea

Sounds like brunch. Back later.

9:43 am

hokie carla

oh, I thought tr5 was a phantom

9:45 am

hurshy

funny how a flower can sound more like a medical condition

9:50 am

rururocks

like petalphelia

9:53 am

rururocks

STem-cell research?

9:55 am

rururocks

I have a oopsy-daisy condition

9:56 am

hurshy

lol

10:02 am

MollyL

Celilac disease

10:13 am

hokie carla

darnit, missed the whales again. but now just need a 2nd row A for HOET.

10:35 am

mkg

Any help with the ac 8s welcome. Not seeing them. Ty.

10:38 am

mkg

. Just found one of them.

10:38 am

mkg

Ty anyway

10:40 am

MollyL

*Stunned look*

10:48 am

periwinkle

hello all

10:49 am

periwinkle

found the tr8 , the Benedict Arnold one. help with other tr8 please

10:49 am

swmbo

No, see, to me, the tr7/8 sounds more like a triple cancer

10:51 am

periwinkle

ty swmbo

10:51 am

swmbo

:)

11:07 am

hokie carla

thanks

11:08 am

hokie carla

are the ac8s from the 2nd row? is that why I can't find the 2nd row As?

11:11 am

nrkii

at least one is from top corner

11:11 am

BzznBea

They are both from the first A

11:11 am

nrkii

I haven't found the other

11:12 am

nrkii

there is an a 4/5 from 2nd row.

11:13 am

hokie carla

ok, thanks nellie and bea

11:13 am

hokie carla

not sure how I couldn't see that a4

11:13 am

hokie carla

HOET!

11:17 am

BzznBea

I totally ingnored the M.

11:18 am

nrkii

Down to 9.
2-3-2-1-1

11:18 am

hokie carla

happens to me sometimes. I think I have gone through each and then see a tile with 0.

11:19 am

hokie carla

35 left here. 14-13-4-2-2

11:20 am

hokie carla

have only grayed 6 tiles and none of them are higher than 3 words

11:21 am

nrkii

found the other ac8... medical term I actually know

11:21 am

hokie carla

what's the other one?

11:22 am

hokie carla

do either relate to the opposite of base?

11:22 am

nrkii

the other one is the "non" version of a c7

11:22 am

BzznBea

yes, carla

11:22 am

nrkii

the one I just found is a compound of 2 4-letter words

11:23 am

MollyL

Not two four letter words that are accepted in this grid

11:23 am

BzznBea

the one opp of base ends with pee

11:24 am

nrkii

true

11:24 am

hokie carla

thanks, got that one

11:24 am

Atalante

ty Bea

11:24 am

hokie carla

so the c7 is a word in the other one? I don't have a c7 either.

11:24 am

BzznBea

The other ends with a space on the calendar

11:25 am

BzznBea

That's the one with the c7

11:26 am

hokie carla

mmkay. that leaves me one letter to find between ac and that calendar word and yet I can't get it to work. I feel drugged from zyrtec.

11:26 am

Atalante

having studied c7s for a long time, the a8 feels a very wrong word

11:27 am

hokie carla

wait, 2 letters

11:27 am

nrkii

atalante, I was wondering about that :)

11:27 am

Atalante

2 letters between ac and the caldendar word

11:28 am

nrkii

hokie, if it helps, that ac8 is the first ac word

11:28 am

hokie carla

I love I love I love my calendar word

11:28 am

hokie carla

thanks, nellie. that helped.

11:33 am

BzznBea

Ha! Got wordle in 2!

11:37 am

hokie carla

took me 6 but a couple of people at my other place got 2

11:38 am

MollyL

Your other place?

11:55 am

Atalante

clue for the ar7?

11:56 am

Atalante

got it

12:08 pm

hokie carla

yeah, I have 2 places on the internet I hang out at

12:10 pm

Atalante

aha firebirds

12:11 pm

hokie carla

congrats

12:17 pm

BzznBea

Need to prep for Memorial Day dinner. 10 left for later.

12:32 pm

Kaplan the Magne

You do Memorial Day Dinner? Is that a thing?

12:32 pm

Kaplan the Magne

atme

12:32 pm

Kaplan the Magne

atom

12:32 pm

Kaplan the Magne

oops

12:33 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Penalty Box.

12:34 pm

clg47

When I was young, we would take flowers to the cemetery and either have a picnic or a nice family dinner.

12:42 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Who’s lyric is this:

12:43 pm

Kaplan the Magne

“When I was young I carried a gun/But i never got the chance to serve/I did not serve.” for 10 points or door number 2.

12:44 pm

MollyL

Paul Simon

12:44 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Correct.

12:45 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Do you take the 10 dollars or what’s behind door number 2?

12:45 pm

MollyL

Door number 2 of course Monty

12:45 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Ha! It’s an elephant!

12:46 pm

MollyL

And that was the beauty of Let's Make A Deal

12:46 pm

Kaplan the Magne

A full grown African elephant with aa natural leather hide, ivory tusks, and self cleaning mechanism.

12:47 pm

MollyL

**Orders peanuts in bulk

12:47 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Female. @0 months pregnant.

12:47 pm

Kaplan the Magne

20 months.

12:48 pm

MollyL

Cool. Dumbo is on the way

12:49 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Do not shoot elephants. And don’t dress him up like a gentleman.

12:51 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Identify lyric” The gun the gun. We both reached for the gun. the gun

12:52 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Now you can keep your genuine pregnant African lion, or take home what’s behind door number 1.

12:55 pm

Kaplan the Magne

The gun the gun we both reached for the gun the gun the gun...

12:57 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Anybody? Molly, it’s your guess. Do you want to keep that elephant or identify the new lyric.

12:58 pm

Kaplan the Magne

For $500 or a chance at Door Number One. By the way, do any of you ladies have a hard boiled egg in your ourse?

12:59 pm

Kaplan the Magne

purse. Monty sorry for mistake.

1:01 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Monty kills chat.

1:02 pm

MollyL

It's from the musical Chicago but I don't know who wrote it

1:03 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Good enough. Who sand it in the movie.

1:03 pm

Kaplan the Magne

sang

1:04 pm

MollyL

Richard Gere I think. Is it an elephant or a lion?

2:23 pm

BzznBea

Namaste

4:23 pm

periwinkle

hi all. help with first ac8 pls

4:24 pm

montreal13

hi there peri - the 1st AC8 ends in, say March 1st...or July 3rd...

4:25 pm

periwinkle

i figured that out from earlier clue but no getting the begining

4:25 pm

periwinkle

bu ty

4:26 pm

montreal13

AC + abbr for Astronomical Unit + ...

4:26 pm

periwinkle

ty got it

4:27 pm

MollyL

Well you can't miss with that one. Spells out the word

4:27 pm

montreal13

bonus= the last 4 letters make up another word !!

4:27 pm

montreal13

make that the last 6 letters

9:35 pm

cybernan

hello again -- just a quick peek - exhausted from a 6 hour drive that normally take 4-1/2

9:38 pm

Christa

Hello cybernan

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