Babble: Archived Puzzle for Sunday, June 1, 2025

12:16 am

Atalante

first in the chog!

12:17 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:18 am

Robespierre

Thanks, lickety!

12:19 am

Atalante

thanks lickety!

12:20 am

dizgrannie

ma 6/7

12:23 am

dizgrannie

nbt/nbs, no 6 for lone N

12:25 am

Atalante

an6

12:25 am

Atalante

pe6/7

12:31 am

dizgrannie

FWs

12:42 am

Atalante

firebirds!

12:42 am

sammysmom

hi

12:51 am

JoyO

Hi there

2:32 am

sprite

morning babbler

2:48 am

sprite

fireflies. In case of doubt: 'guy' a word.

5:03 am

MollyL

*Wonders how many Harry Potter comments will get made today

6:52 am

mael

I want more Lord of the Rings comments, for the no6

7:01 am

mael

FW! short and sweet

7:02 am

MollyL

mael, how is your finger?

7:02 am

mael

much better

7:03 am

mael

still swollen but that's going in the right direction. Now I just forget that it hurts so I'll try to grab something or open and jar and it doesn't work, but not a big deal

7:03 am

mael

how are you, Molly?

7:07 am

MollyL

Glad you're finger is going in the right direction. I'm okay. Still waiting for the summer that seems like it will never come.

7:39 am

Norma

s

7:50 am

Sugrraleona

anyone have a clue for the va6?

7:51 am

Sugrraleona

I also need the pa/6

8:05 am

rururocks

checking time stamp

8:05 am

rururocks

still need them sugrr

8:06 am

Atalante

someone who doesn't have a car

8:07 am

Atalante

pa6 - a 16th century dance :)

8:14 am

MollyL

pa6 ends with the weather rod on top of a barn

8:17 am

MollyL

va6 cargo vehicle guy

8:29 am

hokie carla

not sure I would have tried either of those, thx

8:43 am

welki

*comes in singing camila cabelo's song*

8:43 am

crosshair

Good morning, Babblers. :)

8:43 am

welki

hi crossy

8:44 am

crosshair

I so wanted "ptomaine" to be there. :/

8:44 am

Atalante

hi carla, welki, crossy!

8:45 am

welki

how're you feeling, ata?

8:46 am

Atalante

almost back to normal! just incredible

8:47 am

welki

that's good news - when will you be able to dip your feet again?

8:47 am

Atalante

3 months time :D :D

8:47 am

Atalante

snorkelling till then!

8:47 am

hokie carla

hey everybody

8:48 am

72 Temple Owl

hey

8:48 am

Atalante

hey TO!

8:48 am

welki

that's great!

8:48 am

welki

hi, owl

8:48 am

72 Temple Owl

good news, ata

9:03 am

crosshair

Was listening to some Dire Straits last night, grooving to Mark doing his magic with that guitar, and a person who was listening to D.S for the first time posted the perfect comment. He said Mark is telling the story, but his guitar is singing the song. I liked that. :)

9:04 am

hokie carla

true

9:04 am

hokie carla

well, I am stuck with 11 left. 2-4-3-2

9:05 am

welki

i have 19 - time for breakfast

9:07 am

hurshy

morning all - top row grey!

9:08 am

crosshair

I also fired up the Fleetwood Mac Rumors album for the first time in many years. I had forgotten how good it was, and before I knew it I had sat there and listened to every song. I finished the evening with Floyd"s Shine on you Crazy Diamond. It was a good night for music, and someting I don't do nearly enough anymore.

9:14 am

hurshy

glad you enjoyed yourself crossy

9:15 am

crosshair

It was a nice break from doom scrolling andbthe political nightmare out there.

9:15 am

hurshy

:)

9:17 am

crosshair

That and reading. I don't read nearly enough these days, so I dug through the bookcase and have been going through the James Herriit series. His stories are like a comfy chair by the fire with a cup of cocoa on a winters night.

9:18 am

crosshair

Herriot*

9:18 am

hurshy

i read some of those to my grandmother when she was dying. i don't know if she could hear, she wasn't awake, but, it seemed like a thing to do.

9:21 am

crosshair

I am sure it was a comfort to both you and your mother. They say the hearing can be the last to go in some cases, so a gentle story told with love can be a balm to ease the pain.

9:21 am

crosshair

Grandmother*

9:27 am

hurshy

:)

9:27 am

hokie carla

that's what I've heard. my mom died in April. I was on vacation and it took me about 12 hours to get up to the hospital from the time my brother called. she died about 10 min after I got there.

9:28 am

crosshair

First run through and 25 left, but I am already sending out the monkeys to help me.

9:28 am

hurshy

condolences, hokie. how are you doing?

9:28 am

crosshair

I am sorry for your loss, Hokie.

9:29 am

hokie carla

pretty good, thanks. every once in a while I randomly get really sad. but I think about how her quality of life in a nursing home wasn't what she would want.

9:31 am

hurshy

*hugs*

9:33 am

crosshair

It was much the same with my father. We had been slightly estranged at the time and had not spoken in eight months ir so. One day I get a knock at the door and two police officers are there telling me to get up to the North Bay hospital as fast as I could. It is a three hour drive and I did not even recognize my own father for a moment because the cancer had gone through him like wildfire. I had twenty minutes with him and he was gone by the time I got there the next morning.

9:41 am

rururocks

I was estranged from my Father for 42 years. Didn't see him pass or reconnect with him. He was a total asshole

9:41 am

hokie carla

sorry. wish I could use emojis.

9:42 am

hokie carla

thanks for that feel good story, ruru

9:42 am

rururocks

my pleasure hokie.. want me to tell you about my last phone conversation with him?

9:43 am

crosshair

Family can be complicated.

9:43 am

rururocks

parents in my generation were far from Model parents in later generations

9:43 am

hokie carla

just went through the section of I-40 that was demolished by Helene it's like, pretty crazy

9:43 am

BzznBea

Carla, I did not know of your mother's passing. I'm so sorry.

9:43 am

rururocks

wow.. and thanks to Trump no FEMA help either

9:43 am

hokie carla

were they greatest generation, ruru?

9:44 am

hokie carla

thanks, bea.

9:44 am

rururocks

kind of a no name generation I think. I'm not sure.. but they went through the depression and WW2

9:45 am

hokie carla

my parents were silent gen I think. greatest gen was the one before that.

9:45 am

rururocks

that's it the silent generation

9:45 am

hokie carla

and my parents were born during WWII

9:46 am

rururocks

they grew up in tragic times and sterner times and had zero parenting skills. They came out of the war and everyone was having babies... even though in my parent's case they shouldn't have had kids

9:47 am

rururocks

But then again, you'd have missed out on all my hilarious punning and goofy comments.

9:48 am

crosshair

I remember my father telling me a story about rationing in the U.K. Food was so tight that he used to sneak into the cold cellat to steal a potato. Every day he would head out into the wood to bake the potato and eat it. My grandmother always busted him because he would firget to wipe the black char off his face afterwards.

9:48 am

crosshair

Cellar*

9:49 am

hokie carla

I asked my grandmother about the depression and she said they were all so poor already nobody noticed (rem. I grew up in the appalachians).

9:49 am

rururocks

my dad was a dustbowl kid left Oklahoma and came to california

9:50 am

hokie carla

my grandmother was born in 1910 and died in 2006. I think about the technology things she witnessed and it blows my mind.

9:51 am

crosshair

Sadly the world has goten in too much of a hurry these days.

9:52 am

hokie carla

her mother died when she was 3 from diabetes, because there was no insulin. incredible invention. was that a canadian?

9:52 am

crosshair

It is good to slow it down once in a while--hrnce the music and the books for me yesterday.

9:53 am

crosshair

Yes, it is.

9:53 am

hokie carla

yep, I should do it more

9:54 am

rururocks

my slow down days are coming before too long.

9:54 am

crosshair

And once I fire up the music or open that book, I always ask myself why am I not doing this more.

9:54 am

hurshy

i'm always slow

9:55 am

hurshy

i have a magnet with a sloth on my fridge that says "don't hurry, be happy"

9:55 am

crosshair

:)

9:59 am

crosshair

Found one of my favourite books yesterday buried on the bottom shelf of the bookcase. It is called "Down to a Sunless Sea," by David Graham, and I highly recommend it to those who love post-apocolyptic stories.

9:59 am

hokie carla

will check it out, thx

10:00 am

hokie carla

just looked on audible and was like, this can't be right. it was a book 4 in a series, same title but by a David Poyer.

10:01 am

crosshair

It focuses on airplanes that were in transit as global nuclear war was unkeashed below them.

10:01 am

hokie carla

doesn't appear to be on audible

10:01 am

crosshair

David Graham is a British author.

10:02 am

crosshair

It is an older title. I would look for a hard copy at biblio.com or a used book store.

10:03 am

crosshair

I dont believe it has ever been digitized--at least I have never seen an e-pub copy.

10:04 am

hokie carla

yeah, seeing some resell on amazon. will have to get a library card. ;D

10:05 am

crosshair

It is so good. It is one of those stories you srart in the morning and dont put down until the last page is turned in the wee hours of the night.

10:08 am

crosshair

It is the cover blurb that first caught my attention. I still know it by heart: "WE COMMEND ALL PASSANGERS AND CREW IN TRANSIT TO THE MERCY AND LOVE OF ALMIGHTY GOD ON THE NIGHT OF ARMAGHEDDON--MESSAGE ENDS."

10:10 am

hokie carla

finally found 2 words

10:10 am

crosshair

When I first saw that cover at my local book store I pulled it off the shelf so fast I am surprised I did not set it on fire. That was many, many years ago now. Think I picked it up in 1989.

10:11 am

crosshair

I have babble blindness fir the moment. :(

10:13 am

hokie carla

well, I obviously had it for my last V. finally found and it's a very common 3lw pl

10:13 am

hokie carla

now 0-3-3-2

10:14 am

crosshair

I am 7-9-4-1

10:15 am

hokie carla

ok, checked the flip for the 7s and monkeyed one

10:15 am

crosshair

The pe7?

10:16 am

hokie carla

ma7. still trying to get the pe6/7

10:18 am

crosshair

The pe sounds a bit like mast flags used on sailing ships.

10:19 am

crosshair

Not the same ending, but it may get you close enough.

10:19 am

hokie carla

finally got it. rhymes with beatle john

10:19 am

crosshair

That too. :)

10:20 am

hokie carla

okay, saving last 4 for later. good luck and goodbye.

10:20 am

crosshair

Tc

10:22 am

crosshair

The ma 7 is elusive. :(

11:06 am

BzznBea

Namaste

11:49 am

cybernan

good morning everyone :)

12:06 pm

cybernan

bbl

12:19 pm

Sugrraleona

va 6 anyone?

12:26 pm

MollyL

Clued when you asked earlier

1:10 pm

rolotom

Need to update the babble dictionary, vape is definitely a word

1:48 pm

Dorens

well that idea will go up in smoke

1:49 pm

rururocks

beat me to it Doren

4:02 pm

cybernan

hi againn

4:02 pm

cybernan

need help with that va 6 if anyone is here

4:03 pm

cybernan

no I don't - what a stupid word

4:03 pm

cybernan

done :)

5:18 pm

periwinkle

first to5 please

5:18 pm

periwinkle

nm

6:00 pm

mkg

any clues for 6s and 7s welcome. ty

6:06 pm

mkg

is good.

7:06 pm

mich_pdx

va 6 - guy who drives the moving truck

7:07 pm

mich_pdx

ma 6/7 - it's like what comes from heaven, but with an extra letter at the end (and plural)

7:14 pm

mich_pdx

po 6 - male drug dealer?

7:17 pm

mich_pdx

there are some idiotic compound words in this grid!

7:19 pm

mich_pdx

firewords for me, yippee kayay yay!

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