Babble: Archived Puzzle for Friday, July 24, 2026

12:00 am

Rainiqui

Hi everyone

12:00 am

MetFan

Howdy all

12:04 am

dofith

G'day folks

12:04 am

justafreep

happy flip

12:05 am

justafreep

no7 and po7 (but not to7???)

12:06 am

cybernan

hello all

12:06 am

Gillie

fo7

12:08 am

broll

hu 7

12:08 am

Gillie

mu7

12:09 am

ursh

hello all

12:09 am

Gillie

da7 (an odd one)

12:11 am

Rainiqui

nbt, nbs

12:18 am

cybernan

not seeing that lone l

12:18 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:18 am

justafreep

lu4/6, nan. Maybe a babblet, but not a familiar one

12:18 am

justafreep

thanks, lickety

12:22 am

mkg

no 7, mu 7, fo 7 if not called yet

12:22 am

MetFan

to me the lu4 is the Chinese place I went to as a child

12:22 am

cybernan

all called mkg -- look at the chog

12:23 am

justafreep

apparently the lu is Scottish in origin. I have never seen it used.

12:27 am

cybernan

keep trying the same combos over and over - havent hit on the correct one

12:27 am

justafreep

welllllll... it's a plural

12:28 am

cybernan

lol - had already entered it and not realized it

12:28 am

justafreep

ha

12:28 am

cybernan

ty -- off to bed

12:28 am

justafreep

g'night

12:34 am

rolin

sp 7

12:34 am

rolin

oodle

12:34 am

rolin

sorry

1:06 am

Rainiqui

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DIZ 11111

2:58 am

dizgrannie

thanks Rain

4:36 am

lshult

only 7 i'm missing is sp7?

4:45 am

frogface

somebody who sp5 18's

5:46 am

Shephard

Put an s before the po4/8

6:33 am

Sugrraleona

gm - anyone have the do6?

6:41 am

markbowers7

how is "foley" not in the dictionary? it's an older term...

6:43 am

bichon

foley catheter?

6:44 am

markbowers7

...as in the sounds added to a film after principle shooting...like footsteps, door creaks, etc.

6:48 am

bichon

foley food mill

7:25 am

TQ

How is doofer not a word, we all have doofers dont we. The doofer that changes the tv channel?

7:49 am

phaeton

lone A clue?

7:53 am

Sugrraleona

Hi Phae -- au * opposite of mom

7:54 am

phaeton

ty sugrra

7:59 am

Sugrraleona

did you get the do6?

8:00 am

Sophie214

Good Morning from Nashville ya'll! TQ like the joke is a doofer similar to a doofus?

8:00 am

phaeton

not yet

8:20 am

phaeton

do6...add extra vowel to the do5/22

8:29 am

origami

Hmmm ... no toodles

8:30 am

saanichcat

You need pips in the grid to make toodles work

8:30 am

origami

😀

8:36 am

hurshy

morning

8:36 am

origami

Hi hurshy

8:37 am

hurshy

top row grey!

8:38 am

Trifioso

hello friends. missing one p word, ugh!

8:39 am

origami

hello trif

8:39 am

Trifioso

hi origami

8:44 am

hurshy

phantom: seldom

8:44 am

Trifioso

oh thats a good one!

8:49 am

hurshy

phantom: dozen

9:07 am

hurshy

well trif, i'm missing 3 P words, so you're doing well in my book!

9:14 am

Book Doctor Gwen

done reading the news; need some babble (hi all)

9:15 am

hurshy

hi gwen

9:22 am

Book Doctor Gwen

corner done woot! hiya hursh

9:22 am

Book Doctor Gwen

(i mean corners all done)

9:22 am

hurshy

sludd

9:23 am

hurshy

scuse me

9:24 am

Book Doctor Gwen

nbt woot

9:29 am

Book Doctor Gwen

nbs woot

9:40 am

hokie carla

the 2nd col A is eluding me

9:41 am

ChampFit

rhymes with mudbugs

9:42 am

hokie carla

thanks

9:42 am

welki

everyone sing! "you get a line, i'll get a pole, honey ...

morning, all

9:42 am

ChampFit

gm!

9:43 am

hokie carla

you get a line, I'll get a pole, babe

9:43 am

welki

you get a line, i'll get a pole ...

9:44 am

Book Doctor Gwen

phantom oreole

9:44 am

hokie carla

we'll go down to the * hole

9:45 am

welki

honey, sugar baby, mine

9:46 am

welki

don't know how you know that song, but i remember it from the andy griffith show.

(and that ends the singalong portion of today's program)

9:47 am

hokie carla

also AGS

9:47 am

Book Doctor Gwen

learned that song when I was little, circle 1974, at girl scout camp. we never saw one of thes critters at camp though

9:48 am

welki

quick visit - be back later, i have to process a ton of rhubarb (some for cooking today, some for the freezer)

9:48 am

Book Doctor Gwen

circle = circa

9:48 am

hokie carla

bye welki

9:49 am

hokie carla

we used to catch them with cups in the creek. lift a rock and they shoot out.

9:49 am

hokie carla

I still remember some songs from girls scout camp but we never sang that one.

9:54 am

Book Doctor Gwen

there were some of those critters in a little creek near my house. in the suburbs. in Michigan. long time ago

9:55 am

ChampFit

I still see them in fields around here. They're very big during the season...people love 'em. Not my thing. Too much work for too little payoff.

9:56 am

hokie carla

I had some in a dish not too long ago and they were a'ight. but they were covered in a sauce.

9:56 am

ChampFit

...and someone had done the work for you. That's the way to do it!

9:56 am

hokie carla

yeah, was going to add I didn't do the work

9:59 am

ChampFit

FW! Weirdest word for me was something I apparently should have known...a type of grass I've seen here. mu5.

10:00 am

hokie carla

well done!

10:00 am

hokie carla

speaking of andy griffith show, name that character who went on to have a spinoff!

10:00 am

ChampFit

Any clues needed before i go?

10:01 am

hokie carla

still working on first pass

10:01 am

ChampFit

It's much easier than yesterday. Enjoy!

10:02 am

hokie carla

thanks

10:11 am

Book Doctor Gwen

only have two words from the O in second column. just want to find one more. Argh!

10:11 am

hokie carla

I just found a weird od4/5 set

10:12 am

hokie carla

od4/7 and 5/16

10:12 am

Book Doctor Gwen

ty, hunting

10:13 am

hokie carla

ooh, just finished the 7s

10:15 am

Book Doctor Gwen

found the od4/5, new one on me! (ty)

10:16 am

hokie carla

yeah, I don't recall seeing it before either. was just trying everything I could since I only had 2 as well

10:16 am

Book Doctor Gwen

hoet at last, woot

10:16 am

hokie carla

woot

10:17 am

Book Doctor Gwen

only 37 to go, BBL maybe, bye y'all

10:17 am

hokie carla

byee

10:22 am

hokie carla

26 left and HOET after first pass

10:36 am

hokie carla

fondo not in dictionary

10:37 am

BzznBea

Nor is zoodles

10:38 am

BzznBea

dole

10:38 am

BzznBea

doles

10:38 am

BzznBea

damnit!

10:38 am

hokie carla

yep, tried zoodles earlier

10:39 am

hokie carla

still raining, bea?

10:40 am

hokie carla

no foley either

10:41 am

BzznBea

No. Not sure what is going to happen this afternoon.

10:41 am

hokie carla

same here

10:41 am

hokie carla

supposed to start at 2:00 and have locally heavy. only got 2 holes of golf in yesterday. trying again today at 3:30 but I expect to be rained out again.

10:42 am

BzznBea

I think we are too far north to get any of the tropical storm.

10:42 am

hokie carla

I'm not sure what we're getting, but apparently we got 1.5" yesterday

10:44 am

hokie carla

well, now that today's stage of the tour is over and it's not raining I will walk winston. 23 left. 5-11-7 and I have already looked for 4s, so not sure where those are.

10:50 am

Flask1

Hi all,,,,any clues please for the single A on the top row?

10:51 am

BzznBea

au5.16

10:52 am

Flask1

thanks Bzzn..

10:52 am

BzznBea

yw

11:05 am

dcseain

Where i live, we’re in drought. We need rain. Or a hurricane or tropical storm desperately.

11:06 am

bichon

surprisingly, we've had over 5" of rain this month

11:07 am

BzznBea

Yes, parts of North Carolina are in extreme drought. We have had about 5 inches over the last week, but that is not near enough to ease our drought situation.

11:07 am

dcseain

yeah, we’ve had rain, enough to make the ground moist, but not muddy, even on the day the streets flooded.

11:14 am

Flask1

Does anyone worry about all these fires, a wee country like our has them in three different....If I say am worried, I would just get laughed at....:(

11:17 am

bichon

I worry about wildfires. Our sky turned yellow for 3 days until it rained. Then it turned delightfuly cool

11:20 am

dcseain

Fire season has spread here in North America. Yay climate change. :/

11:21 am

bichon

I that was a "hoax" DC

11:21 am

dcseain

LOL

11:22 am

bichon

I knew you'd find that funny

11:22 am

dcseain

the beer-steamd hot dog restaurant is aw ord in the grid today.

11:22 am

dcseain

:)

11:43 am

Gillie

Smoke season is here in Calgary - sent to us from BC's forests. I don't remember this ever being a problem when I was a child.

11:45 am

bichon

We certainly had no smake problems when I was young. I guess we screwed up the earth

11:46 am

Gillie

It's possible there were times it happened when I was young that I don't remember, but it certainly wasn't one of summer's defining features.

11:47 am

bichon

I grew up at the shore. Summer was blue skys and the surf

11:51 am

bichon

Thursday night we went to the boardwalk to see fireworks

11:57 am

Gillie

I think we get a bit jaded of fireworks during Stampede week, when they have them every night (although not a fabulous show, usually)

11:59 am

Gillie

I'd never heard of mu5 grass before, but I guess there are varieties that can grow in parts of Canada. It's pretty.

12:00 pm

bichon

We had an idyllic life. My parent's biggest worry was polio. We were so happy when Jonas Salk developed a vaccine. Everyone got one.

12:01 pm

Gillie

And I'm young enough never to have worried about polio - but I guess that could change

12:02 pm

bichon

We had Ike and life was good

12:10 pm

dcseain

same Gillie, re polio

12:11 pm

bichon

I had measels. I was very sick, but recovered.

12:18 pm

hokie carla

I live in a measels area right now. I need to get checked because every time I have been over the years I've been "not immune" and had to get another shot.

12:18 pm

hokie carla

rehi, folks

12:19 pm

Gillie

I should maybe get checked - I can't remember having them, or my parents saying that I did, but I'm of an age where it's assumed that I must have had exposure.

12:21 pm

Gillie

But we're not currently having an outbreak here, at least (that I've heard of)

12:23 pm

Flask1

The Polio Vaccine was too late for me.....I caught it in 1974......was affected from the neck down to my toes.

12:24 pm

Gillie

I take it back - there is "ongoing transmission" in Alberta

12:24 pm

Flask1

sorry that should 1954

12:24 pm

bichon

That's too bad Flask

12:24 pm

Gillie

Yikes - did you recover?

12:25 pm

bichon

46 left and I'm gone girl

12:26 pm

Flask1

Its been difficult....hower, I will be 72 in September, but I'm very very weak now....but alive!

12:28 pm

Gillie

When I think of polio, I think of the iron lungs - which were horrible machines to be in, from the look of it.

12:29 pm

Flask1

Yes....I was in one for a short time only....

12:35 pm

Gillie

Anyway, I'm done. Sorry if my conversation has been a bit depressing - I have a hard time avoiding it these days. Good babbling, everyone!

12:35 pm

Flask1

OK....am outta here....I really don't know enough weird words to get thro' it.....G'nite all.....

12:46 pm

hokie carla

rehi again. polio was terrible. I can't believe people won't vaccinate their kids for that.

12:58 pm

mkg

agree carla. amazing to think anyone doesnt get that one.i remember the horror of polio.......i was in a group who got the vaccine first: it was a trial and my parents had phone calls with their entire familes as to whether or not to put me into that test group. i am an only child so what if i got polio from the vacinne? that was the risk. there were kids who died from the test i think. anyway they decided yes and i therefore had to get vacinnated over and over and over again since the first test strength was very weak. as i recall every six months or year our entire small town had to line up again at the high school in line to get re-vacinated. so many injections! but we wiped out polio.

12:59 pm

mkg

i am not sure why our town was a test site. perhaps because it was small? but i know i was vaccinated before all my cousins who lived elsewhere.

1:00 pm

hokie carla

I was born in the 70s so didn't have to witness it. I think that's the problem with new parent anti-vaxxers - like 3 generations removed so no collective memory

1:02 pm

mkg

while i dont want to burst any bubbles, the idylic life was really not so idyllic if you were not a white wasp. lets remember in the 50s blacks were still suffering terribly in the u.s.a.

1:02 pm

mkg

i dont get anti vax people at all.

1:08 pm

hokie carla

me either. let's believe random people on the internet over actual scientists.

1:24 pm

periwinkle

hi all

1:26 pm

periwinkle

da7 please

1:28 pm

Shirlockc

my ex was super healthy, never got sick, i think that's part of it, didn't know anyone who got sick and then yes, only reads/listens to maga BS

1:31 pm

Shirlockc

i didn't get covid until after i got vaxxed so i wasn't that sick

2:02 pm

crosshair

I was in the food industry when covid first came out, so I did not have the option of only thinking of myself by deciding not not get vaccinated.

2:03 pm

crosshair

Our store, on average, gets 3000 customers per day, so we were amongst the first in our area to get vaccinated in order to protect the customs mers and our families.

2:11 pm

crosshair

We were deemed an "essential service," so no staying at home for us. We got the early shots, then took the risk with all those unvaccinated customers each and every day for months. My first shot was the India-sourced Astra-zenica (sp) because of the severe shortage of other brands of vaccine at the time.

2:13 pm

crosshair

So, anti-vaxxers temd to annoy me unless there is a underlying medical condition that prevents them from getting vaccinated.

2:27 pm

crosshair

Just found a yl4 and 5 :)

2:58 pm

Gillie

Apparently, the oral polio vaccine used in some places in the world (not North America) can cause an infection in roughly 1 in 2.7 million cases, and it can also (rarely) lead to community infection in under-vaccinated populations. Also, in 1955 there was a manufacturing error (the Cutter incident) that resulted in vaccines where the virus was not properly deactivated. Of 200,000 children who received the vaccine, 40,000 developed polio symptoms, including paralysis to some degree in about 200, and 5 died. Maybe that's what mkg was thinking of.

4:06 pm

rururocks

better salk than sorry I guess

4:09 pm

Shirlockc

another measley pun run

4:12 pm

rururocks

I was vaccinating on the idea of punning or not

4:13 pm

rururocks

then I thought.. what the heck, just take a poke at it anyway

4:14 pm

rururocks

shirlockc won't let that pass for sure and will start needling me in other ways I guess

5:07 pm

MollyL

Wow, it's like reading Google right here in Babble chat

5:14 pm

rururocks

I've never seen google pun

5:47 pm

wildcat17

W

6:07 pm

saanichcat

"full as a goog"is Australian slang for being pissed drunk

6:29 pm

MollyL

Australian slang is in a class all of its own.

6:38 pm

MollyL

Google pun...Siri-ously, Google can find it for you.

6:53 pm

saanichcat

good one Mollly

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