Wednesday, September 30, 2026

ENTIRE CHAT LOG

12:01 am
MetFan

Howdy all
12:03 am
ursh

hello all
12:04 am
Rainiqui

Hi everyone
12:04 am
dizgrannie

hi all
12:07 am
dizgrannie

dh 5
12:08 am
cybernan

hello everyone
12:08 am
Gillie

hi - di7
12:11 am
Rainiqui

da 7, ra 7
12:18 am
Gillie

hu7
12:19 am
licketySplitAUS

Clues are up
12:19 am
MetFan

TY Lickety
12:23 am
Gillie

I'm just realizing that I called di7 when I meant to call da7
12:28 am
Rainiqui

nbt, nbs, re 8
12:28 am
dizgrannie

nbt/nbs, thanx Rain
12:28 am
cybernan

that dh has me stumped
12:29 am
Rainiqui

yw Diz
12:30 am
cybernan

re 7
12:32 am
justafreep

nan - think of 'do your civic ____"
12:33 am
cybernan

ty freep -- sounds like an Indian language to me
12:33 am
momof5

Cu7
12:33 am
justafreep

a garment. in India, in fact.
12:38 am
dcseain

ra7
12:38 am
Robespierre

Good morning! Tu 7
12:52 am
cybernan

finally found that 8 -- good night everyone
4:55 am
anike

I am having trouble with the fu 6/33. Can anyone help?
5:07 am
MollyL

Not the past
8:27 am
hokie carla

you should go to a psychic
8:27 am
hokie carla

and thank you freep. glad your hint was still in the window.
8:34 am
hokie carla

phantom itch
8:39 am
hokie carla

don't they rekeg all the time at frat parties?
8:55 am
hokie carla

well, just made up 2 F's to gray it so that was nice
9:02 am
hokie carla

well, another tough grid. 35 left and nowhere near HOET. guess I will empty the dishwasher.
9:52 am
hokie carla

oh, 2 tu7s, maybe more
9:56 am
hokie carla

name that 90s sitcom character with the catchphrase "did I do that?"
9:57 am
marksdolly

Steve Erkel
9:57 am
hokie carla

so close, but erkel is not in grid and not the right spelling
9:58 am
hokie carla

I almost gave you the dings. hello dolly!
9:58 am
marksdolly

LOL good morning my sweet friend!!
9:59 am
maccafixx

du 6/24?
9:59 am
hokie carla

I can't find the O or the A. am I just blind? down to 20 and this grid is really tough.
10:00 am
hokie carla

hmm, don't have that one, mac
10:01 am
hokie carla

ends in charged particle
10:01 am
maccafixx

the o is going ahead
10:02 am
hokie carla

argh, thanks
10:02 am
hokie carla

got the similar i
10:02 am
hokie carla

ok, need 8 4s so I guess I will concentrate on that
10:03 am
maccafixx

I'm also missing the tu 7?
10:04 am
hokie carla

there's 2 - one kinda looks like a windmill without the mill but change a cons. the other is a pt of a teenage mutant ninja
10:08 am
BzznBea

Those clues had my head spinning. LOL
10:09 am
marksdolly

the mutant turtle is throwing me way off lol
10:09 am
maccafixx

hint on the du 6/24 please!
10:10 am
hokie carla

did you see my one and not get it? i.e. do I need to go a different route?
10:10 am
BzznBea

dolly, you used the word in your post. just make it pt.
10:10 am
hokie carla

dolly, obviously you know the teenage mutant ninja is a tu6!
10:11 am
marksdolly

I'll look.. thx Hokie
10:11 am
maccafixx

got the tu now need the du! lol
10:12 am
marksdolly

oooh duh me!! lol
10:12 am
BzznBea

du6 ends with tiny particle
10:12 am
marksdolly

got it
10:13 am
hokie carla

well, I was referring to my clue at 10:01 for the du6
10:14 am
hokie carla

oh, tiara for ruru today
10:14 am
BzznBea

He will look smashing in it!
10:14 am
marksdolly

lol
10:14 am
maccafixx

got it thanks!
10:16 am
hokie carla

dolly, you never amended your NTPN answer! I have another one. name that 80s/90s band that you double a word in the grid...
10:17 am
BzznBea

DuranDuran
10:17 am
hokie carla

ding ding ding!
10:17 am
marksdolly

vn Bea!
10:19 am
marksdolly

Hokie, I just remember Erkel..nothing more than that, just that that's what he always said, and had his jeans pulled clear up with his suspenders :)
10:20 am
hokie carla

ok, it's Urkel
10:20 am
marksdolly

ahhhh
10:20 am
hokie carla

one ding
10:21 am
marksdolly

whoohoo!!
10:21 am
hokie carla

:D
10:22 am
hokie carla

well, found some 4s but still 3 left. 3-2-3-4
10:22 am
hokie carla

C H RR U DDD T W A D
10:23 am
hokie carla

dolly, do you ever see moo at serpentine? I think he's Julius Fish there. he has disappeared again and I know you both play the hard room.
10:23 am
hokie carla

found my W, I swear I thought I tried that
10:31 am
marksdolly

haven't seen Moo forever
10:32 am
marksdolly

and there's another game that has started up, Letterskelter.. I've not seen him forever
10:33 am
hokie carla

will have to check that out. just google that word? and thanks
10:41 am
marksdolly

yw :) you will a lot of the Serp players there, some have their same name, others don't.. I'm tiggersgirl there
10:50 am
rururocks

he does vanish from time to time for extended periods
10:50 am
marksdolly

it's been a long while this time
10:51 am
rururocks

i get the sense that he has a pretty demanding job some of the time
10:51 am
marksdolly

don't want you to vanish like that Ruru... where would the entertainment here be?
10:52 am
rururocks

aw thanks. that balances the list of people who'd love to see me gone
10:53 am
marksdolly

LOLOL
10:53 am
rururocks

fortunately
10:53 am
rururocks

I have outlasted a lot of them here
10:54 am
marksdolly

I don't say much here, but if you only knew how much I chuckle
10:54 am
rururocks

oh that's nice to know.. I usually just get a lot of grief for trying to lighten the mood here.
10:55 am
marksdolly

humor is the spice of life
10:55 am
rururocks

so very true
10:58 am
welki

i wouldn't know the first thing about humor :D
10:58 am
marksdolly

hi Welk!
10:58 am
rururocks

OH PULEEEASE
10:59 am
welki

'morning, everyone
10:59 am
origami

Good morning
10:59 am
rururocks

hi ori
11:00 am
welki

nice to 'see' you, dolly - both ruru and ori can confirm that, if you want a laugh, i am not the person you want sitting at your table
11:00 am
marksdolly

lol oh welki,, I'm sure you have it
11:01 am
origami

Nonsense, welki
11:01 am
welki

well hells bells marks, i thought you knew me better than that
11:01 am
marksdolly

lol
11:02 am
welki

tried that new word game - like serp, but i haven't checked the rules
11:02 am
marksdolly

keep with it... it trains your eyes to look for bigger words
11:04 am
origami

What is that new word game?
11:04 am
marksdolly

LetterSkelter
11:06 am
welki

ntpn - first name of great dominican baseball player
11:06 am
hokie carla

well I want to say andruw jones but he is from curacao
11:06 am
hokie carla

rehi, peeps
11:07 am
welki

he's coaching now
11:07 am
origami

Hi hokie
11:07 am
hokie carla

hey ori
11:09 am
hokie carla

moved my sewing machine outside. beautiful day here.
11:10 am
Book Doctor Gwen

greetings, here to get my Nerd on
11:10 am
hokie carla

hey gwen
11:15 am
Book Doctor Gwen

urkel is in the house
11:19 am
Book Doctor Gwen

stuck on the D in the top corner. can anyone give the stats?
11:20 am
hokie carla

dh5/16
11:20 am
Book Doctor Gwen

tv carla, hunting. how do you sew shile boggling? 8 - )
11:21 am
BzznBea

Ru's arch nemesis is in the grid. =)
11:21 am
hokie carla

well, my instructions are on my computer, so I have it open and just have this page up in between steps
11:26 am
Book Doctor Gwen

got the D, adding it to my collection fo weird words for babble
11:27 am
clg47

struggling with last DU, read the chat. Thanks for the clue hokie carla
11:30 am
mkg

tough grid. stuck at 58 words.
11:32 am
hokie carla

np, clg. it is a tough one, mkg.
11:34 am
mkg

up to 61 words. ugh.
11:42 am
mkg

any clues for the 8 welcome. ty.
11:43 am
BzznBea

8 is re8.55
11:43 am
mkg

ty
11:48 am
Book Doctor Gwen

nbt at last, woot
11:54 am
hokie carla

finally found the A!
11:54 am
hokie carla

3-1-2-4
11:55 am
BzznBea

Looks like you need a few 7's
11:55 am
hokie carla

lol, if it's not the 6s it's the 7s that trip me up
11:55 am
hokie carla

40%!
12:01 pm
Book Doctor Gwen

81 to go, loosing m grip, good luck y'all, see la later
12:06 pm
hurshy

hiya folks
12:06 pm
Trifioso

hello friends
12:08 pm
hokie carla

howdy hurshy and trif
12:08 pm
Trifioso

hello - nasty grid today
12:09 pm
hokie carla

yep
12:09 pm
hurshy

it pains me when people say such things
12:09 pm
Trifioso

sorry hurshy.
12:10 pm
hokie carla

well, if it makes you feel better I am at 10 left. but it was slow going to get here.
12:10 pm
Trifioso

ill be happy enough to hit nbt at the rate I am going
12:10 pm
hokie carla

nbt took me a LONG time
12:11 pm
hurshy

phantom: curdle
12:11 pm
Trifioso

Phantom for me is the "lady exercise" - or do men have to do those too?
12:11 pm
hurshy

i don't think men can...
12:12 pm
Trifioso

sigh. figures.
12:12 pm
BzznBea

Men can do them.
12:12 pm
hokie carla

well, kegel is not actually a phantom, it's here. just not on enable.
12:12 pm
hurshy

really? fascinating
12:13 pm
hokie carla

and I think I've heard men can do them too
12:13 pm
BzznBea

It helps with pelvic floor and bladder control just like for women
12:13 pm
hurshy

then i must have misunderstood what they are and how you do them
12:13 pm
Trifioso

huh. live and learn!
12:14 pm
hokie carla

bea and trif, I decided to just order another set of bias tape makers. :D thank goodness for Amazon.
12:15 pm
BzznBea

That will make life easier. When is the event?
12:15 pm
hokie carla

also, I'm all in on using my serger for gathering stitches. so much easier.
12:16 pm
hurshy

reduct really seems like it should be a word. in fact it did not get a red underline here when i typed it.
12:16 pm
hokie carla

it's a week from tomorrow but we're going camping Sun - Wed, so I need to get it done before then. Doing everything else that doesn't need bias tape now.
12:17 pm
hokie carla

I think I've mastered the french seams on the blouse, but the dress is calling for flat-felled so I've watched a video on that.
12:17 pm
hokie carla

I definitely tried reduct
12:18 pm
hokie carla

was hoping redwine was a word. I know some people named redwine.
12:18 pm
BzznBea

That's an awful lot of work for a costume.
12:18 pm
hurshy

i tried redwine too
12:18 pm
hokie carla

I know, I have thought about just using pinking shears
12:18 pm
hurshy

but i didn't really expect it to work
12:18 pm
hokie carla

with regular seams
12:18 pm
hokie carla

same, hurshy
12:19 pm
Trifioso

flat seams aren't soooo bad, but man are they tedious.
12:19 pm
hurshy

i'm more of a messy hand sewer myself
12:19 pm
hurshy

but i did make Rilla a little hood to wear in lieu of a cone this week
12:19 pm
hokie carla

my bodice fabric is cotton lawn, so not really heavy duty enough for needing flat felled IMO
12:20 pm
Trifioso

do you have a serger, hokie?
12:20 pm
BzznBea

Why does Rilla need a cone?
12:20 pm
hokie carla

yes. I usually only sew with knits, which is way easier with a serger.
12:20 pm
hurshy

she had a little lump removed from her ear last thursday and they didn't want her to scratch her stitches
12:21 pm
hurshy

they said cone for 10-12 DAYS and i was like, um, that is unreasonable. so i made her a hood.
12:21 pm
hurshy

she looks like a little babushka
12:21 pm
hokie carla

and she wears that?
12:21 pm
hurshy

she can't get it off
12:21 pm
hurshy

so yeah
12:21 pm
hokie carla

winston would be pulling it off in like 30 seconds. or trying to.
12:22 pm
hurshy

i secured with substantial pieces of velcro
12:23 pm
hokie carla

I avoid hand sewing things at all cost. In fact, this blouse said to whipstitch a placket on and I just sewed it on with my machine. It's fine!
12:23 pm
hurshy

last time i did something on my mom's machine, i was even worse at machine sewing than at hand sewing
12:24 pm
hurshy

i need to re-learn how to use it
12:24 pm
BzznBea

I love to hand sew.
12:25 pm
hokie carla

I used to like to cross stitch when I was a teenager, but I just feel like every hand sewing I do on clothes or quilts looks terrible.
12:25 pm
hurshy

name that proper noun! character famous for saying "did i do that?"
12:25 pm
hokie carla

9:56
12:25 pm
BzznBea

Late to the party, hurshy.
12:25 pm
hurshy

ah
12:26 pm
hokie carla

dolly spelled it erkel and then I told her that's spelled wrong and not even in the grid but then she wouldn't make another guess. ;)
12:26 pm
BzznBea

I do hand embroidery and EPP.
12:26 pm
hokie carla

I started one of those wooble crochet kits and need to finish it.
12:27 pm
BzznBea

I want to do sashiko
12:27 pm
hokie carla

I have done some EPP but with machine
12:27 pm
hurshy

ok then how about: when doubled, a british band
12:27 pm
hokie carla

10:16 ;P
12:27 pm
hurshy

man
12:27 pm
hokie carla

but those are the only 2 I've done
12:28 pm
hurshy

is there just one DW word today?
12:29 pm
BzznBea

yes
12:29 pm
hurshy

no, i just found a second one
12:29 pm
hurshy

but hopefully just 2
12:29 pm
BzznBea

sorry.
12:29 pm
BzznBea

just two
12:29 pm
hurshy

yay
12:32 pm
hurshy

of course that makes it even more mysterious what my missing D words can be
12:33 pm
BzznBea

du6
12:33 pm
hurshy

ok thanks
12:34 pm
BzznBea

dh5
12:34 pm
hurshy

yeah have that
12:35 pm
hokie carla

I need 3 + 1 D
12:39 pm
hurshy

same
12:39 pm
hurshy

oh got the lower one
12:39 pm
hurshy

do you have da5/14
12:39 pm
hokie carla

yes
12:39 pm
hurshy

how about da5/12
12:40 pm
hokie carla

yes
12:40 pm
hurshy

my last was a do4/5 babblet
12:40 pm
hokie carla

have one of those too
12:40 pm
hurshy

da6, da7
12:41 pm
hokie carla

have em
12:41 pm
hurshy

3 da4
12:41 pm
hurshy

do5/12
12:42 pm
hokie carla

looks like da4 then
12:42 pm
hokie carla

oh yeah, thx
12:43 pm
hokie carla

2-1-2-4
12:44 pm
hurshy

phantom: fraud
12:46 pm
hokie carla

I did make up 2 F's I've never seen
12:47 pm
hokie carla

if you want the stats
12:47 pm
hurshy

yes please
12:47 pm
hokie carla

fu5 looks like the aforementioned british band, then add a vowel for fu6
12:47 pm
hurshy

chat says there is a di7 btw
12:48 pm
hurshy

thanks
12:48 pm
hokie carla

yeah, but I think she corrected saying she was calling da7
12:48 pm
hurshy

oh ok
12:49 pm
hurshy

also cu7
12:49 pm
hurshy

got that one now
12:50 pm
hokie carla

I missed that one
12:50 pm
hokie carla

got it, thx
12:50 pm
hokie carla

H RR U DDD T
12:51 pm
hurshy

bottom row grey!
12:51 pm
hokie carla

will try 4s again
12:52 pm
hurshy

i assume you have the 8
12:53 pm
hokie carla

yes
12:53 pm
hurshy

not sure what Rs you'd miss
12:53 pm
hokie carla

2-1-2-3
12:53 pm
hurshy

ra5/18 perhaps?
12:53 pm
hurshy

two ra5/12s
12:53 pm
hokie carla

no, have that
12:53 pm
hurshy

no wait it's the other R
12:53 pm
hokie carla

correct, upper R
12:53 pm
hurshy

they are all normal or short
12:54 pm
hurshy

do you have the 6/7 combo
12:54 pm
hokie carla

no
12:54 pm
hurshy

pretty normal words
12:54 pm
hokie carla

re?
12:54 pm
hurshy

yeah
12:55 pm
hokie carla

ah, I see
12:55 pm
hokie carla

thx
12:55 pm
hurshy

i need a C
12:55 pm
hurshy

oh i found it
12:56 pm
hurshy

otherwise i just need more Ts than you
12:56 pm
hurshy

one upper, two lower for me
12:56 pm
hokie carla

did you get both tu7?
12:56 pm
hurshy

ooh found one of the lower ones, it was a second tu7 indeed
12:57 pm
hurshy

i'm still missing TWO sevens after that tho
12:57 pm
hurshy

so i suppose you are also?
12:57 pm
hokie carla

nothing on the upper that we don't have here (not gonna say they're not weird)
12:57 pm
hokie carla

yes, still need 2 7
12:57 pm
hurshy

for upper i have all 4s and 5s
12:58 pm
hurshy

aha it was another 5
12:59 pm
hokie carla

I just can't figure out how I can't find 2 4s in 4 tiles
12:59 pm
hurshy

i bet at least one of the 7s is D then, if not both
12:59 pm
hokie carla

found a di5 thought I'd tried
12:59 pm
hurshy

aHA just found 2 di5s
12:59 pm
hurshy

so i guess the 7s cannot both be D
1:00 pm
hokie carla

found a d4
1:00 pm
hurshy

me too!!
1:00 pm
hokie carla

phantom hurdle
1:00 pm
hokie carla

oh, now 1-0-1-2 didn't notice I finished the 5
1:00 pm
hurshy

so no more D7 after all
1:01 pm
hurshy

both d5s i found were di
1:01 pm
hurshy

oh tu6 for soup
1:01 pm
hurshy

so H7, U7
1:02 pm
hokie carla

yep, needed that T
1:02 pm
hokie carla

so my other D is a 4 then
1:02 pm
hurshy

got the U7!
1:03 pm
hokie carla

nice
1:03 pm
pcal2

hi all, can I get a clue for the re 8. Last word and it's eluding me completely!
1:03 pm
hokie carla

UR?
1:03 pm
hurshy

yes
1:03 pm
hokie carla

like maybe there was a problem with the hall of fame, so they had to re8 someone, pcal
1:04 pm
pcal2

tks much, i'll work on it
1:04 pm
hurshy

like they kicked you out and then you were found innocent
1:04 pm
BzznBea

re8 - do be added to the hall of fame again
1:04 pm
hokie carla

finally got the d4
1:04 pm
pcal2

tks bea
1:04 pm
BzznBea

yw
1:04 pm
hokie carla

wow. LOL
1:05 pm
hurshy

used list and MW to get hi7/40
1:05 pm
pcal2

Got it! Tks to both of you.
1:06 pm
hurshy

ttfn! :D
1:06 pm
hokie carla

think I will look up both these 7s. adios
1:10 pm
hokie carla

okay, both incredibly weird and sciency
1:25 pm
MollyL

Who discusses a naturally occurring peptide in the saliva of blood sucking leeches?
1:30 pm
cybernan

good morning/afternoon everyone
1:47 pm
cybernan

always miss that el 4
1:51 pm
cybernan

ty molly
2:00 pm
cybernan

surprised turdier isnt a word!
2:32 pm
rururocks

no shit nan.. I agree
2:50 pm
MollyL

Scatologists!
2:56 pm
rururocks

oh a blast from the past. I sure don't miss that old asshole
4:15 pm
ivesyj

clue for the last th5 plz
4:22 pm
MollyL

Sounds like what you do to your hair with a roller
4:22 pm
montreal13

thanks Molly !
4:36 pm
ivesyj

thurled
4:36 pm
ivesyj

oops
4:36 pm
ivesyj

not it anyway lol
4:40 pm
montreal13

...if you chop off the past tense...
4:40 pm
montreal13

FW !
4:41 pm
montreal13

see you all demain - "poof"
4:59 pm
ivesyj

ty!
5:11 pm
ivesyj

clue for the re 8 plz.
5:14 pm
MollyL

What you lead a horse by + the all purpose silver "fix it" tape