Babble: Archived Puzzle for Tuesday, August 25, 2020

12:00 am

grannyrose

fl7

12:03 am

grannyrose

sn7

12:06 am

grannyrose

ni4/5

12:06 am

SuzeeQ24

fl7x2

12:06 am

grannyrose

dunker suzee

12:08 am

cybernan

hello everyone :)

12:16 am

Mubner

An 7/8

12:17 am

cybernan

ty mubner

12:18 am

Mubner

Yw

12:18 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:18 am

Lizlin

Thanks, Mubner

12:19 am

Lizlin

Thanks, Lickety

12:19 am

cybernan

ty lickety

12:25 am

cybernan

crashing - good night

1:00 am

movieman

fl7x3

1:06 am

jessmom

FWs

4:11 am

spellit

af

5:17 am

Aussieme

Hi, All. Back from the hospital after my eye injection. Ready todive into todays grid

7:12 am

BzznBea

Good morning, friends.

7:20 am

mkg

hi all.

7:21 am

mkg

anyone have the 8?

7:21 am

mattygroves

Yep. I have, indeed, the opposite ;)

7:22 am

BzznBea

Plural of the 7

7:22 am

mkg

matty what is the stat please? ty

7:22 am

mattygroves

an7/40 and pl for the 8

7:23 am

mkg

what is it the opposite of?

7:24 am

mkg

i am sure first 4 are the an 4 word. not sure after

7:24 am

mattygroves

I....it is ... opposite :) (that's the definition)

7:24 am

BzznBea

It means opposite

7:24 am

mkg

ok got it. got both 7 and 8. ty

7:39 am

MollyL

Danish and coffee/tea for all the patient cluers

7:40 am

BzznBea

My mantra for the day...patience

7:42 am

MollyL

Good mantra Bea

7:43 am

BzznBea

I have to drive into and out of the big city during afternoon/evening rush hour traffic. And I have to sit in a dental chair in between...

7:45 am

Soodle

‘Patient cluers’? What’s intended by that remark Molly? (As if that’s not blindingly obvious).

7:45 am

M3

fa 6 clue please, either.

7:50 am

Soodle

A cooling device, M3 & Sweeney ***d was the Barber of Seville

7:50 am

Soodle

..... she clued patiently...

7:53 am

BzznBea

The other is the plural of the fa5 cooling device + hesitant sound

7:54 am

M3

don have the fa 5 yet lol

7:55 am

M3

found it thx soodle

7:55 am

M3

still looking for the fa 5 and 6 :)

7:58 am

Soodle

Cooling device, & Bah. h**bug, Scrooge used to say. & plural

8:01 am

M3

ill get my monkey on it ...

8:09 am

BzznBea

Today my stinker letter was the D...I'm taking a Danish and coffee to go, Molly. Thank you!

8:10 am

hokie carla

I think maybe upper F was the wrong one to start with today

8:10 am

MollyL

You are welcome Bea. Good luck with your day.

8:11 am

Judi

I came. I saw. I conquered. Now I shall chat. Good morning, Babblers.

8:13 am

hokie carla

nice. and good morning, judi

8:13 am

periwinkle

hi all. help with sn7 pls

8:14 am

MollyL

Hey Judi. How is the day treating you?

8:14 am

Judi

This was a stinker of a grid, Bea. I relied heavily on Lickety. True confessions.

8:14 am

Judi

Well, Molls... I'm 45 minutes into my work day and have run out of things to do. Enter boredom.

8:15 am

Judi

How about you?

8:15 am

hokie carla

now this L. ugh.

8:15 am

MollyL

sn7 past tense of what you call a pigs nose area

8:16 am

Judi

Oinker.

8:16 am

MollyL

Luckily I have plenty to do. The day goes by faster that way.

8:16 am

Judi

BRB.

8:16 am

periwinkle

sheesh Molly thanks. already had the base word too

8:17 am

hokie carla

me too, but wasn't thinking of verb-ing it

8:17 am

periwinkle

there are 3 fl7's and I have 2 of them

8:18 am

MollyL

You probably don't have the one that sounds like a Holiday Inn

8:18 am

hokie carla

got one, thx

8:18 am

MollyL

for fish

8:19 am

periwinkle

I think I am missing that one

8:19 am

hokie carla

I'm sure that will make sense when I see the word

8:20 am

MollyL

Think of a drink you make with root beer and ice cream

8:20 am

periwinkle

that you Molly

8:20 am

periwinkle

thank you even

8:21 am

hokie carla

oh, I was looking at the other F only

8:31 am

HarryHood

I am on the Worst Zoom Meeting Ever.

8:32 am

MollyL

Poor Harry. I don't envy anyone those Zoom meetings. They sound awful.

8:33 am

HarryHood

I've got my camera off, so I can roll my eyes and nobody can see.

8:33 am

hokie carla

Did you start school yet, Harry? And did you daughter get moved in?

8:33 am

MollyL

I have heard funny stories about people who forget their microphone is on.

8:33 am

hokie carla

*your

8:33 am

HarryHood

daughter moved in last thursday, we have faculty mtngs this week.

8:33 am

HarryHood

uh oh - gotta go participate in a "breakout room"

8:34 am

HarryHood

bbiab.

8:34 am

hokie carla

bye

8:34 am

hokie carla

*be back in a bit (I'm assuming, ru)

9:01 am

HarryHood

yes. apologies for the acronym. afta.

9:02 am

HarryHood

ffwtg

9:09 am

MollyL

Afta? Is that the Boston opposite of befoah?

9:09 am

HarryHood

hah! afta - apologies for the acronym.

9:12 am

HarryHood

25 and stuck.

9:18 am

HarryHood

23. going to get cookies.

9:55 am

hurshy

C is for cookie, that's good enough for me

9:58 am

hurshy

top row grey!

9:59 am

HarryHood

wtg hursh! I sitll have one missing on F and one on S in the first row

9:59 am

HarryHood

19 to go overall

9:59 am

hurshy

perhaps the 7s, i was slow to see them

10:00 am

HarryHood

is there an S7?

10:00 am

hurshy

yes

10:00 am

MollyL

sn7

10:00 am

HarryHood

got it. ty

10:01 am

cybernan

good morning/afternoon everyone :)

10:01 am

hurshy

morning nan

10:01 am

HarryHood

we're learning covid violation protocols on zoom

10:02 am

hurshy

uh, sounds... fun

10:03 am

HarryHood

we have to turn in kids who are not wearing masks.

10:04 am

MollyL

Ah, a new reason to get busted at school

10:04 am

hurshy

what will you turn them in to?

10:04 am

hurshy

toads?

10:04 am

HarryHood

wishful thinking hurshy :)

10:04 am

MollyL

And the poor teenagers. Now they have "maskne" to add to their angst.

10:05 am

hurshy

hahaha can you tell i'm reading harry potter

10:06 am

HarryHood

ooh found my missing top F

10:09 am

cybernan

just read the chat and discovred that my missing 7 is an fl --- i've gone down the river in an inner tube and gone against convention -- don't see anything else

10:09 am

hurshy

oh it wasn't the 7 on that one? then i suppose it was the 5/16

10:09 am

HarryHood

river - change the last consonant

10:10 am

cybernan

ty harry -- didn't think of that -- thought it was called a bo 6

10:11 am

HarryHood

yw

10:12 am

hurshy

hey look we had that same sy5 yesterday

10:13 am

gemini_J13

I just found it too,,,,

10:14 am

HarryHood

15 here

10:18 am

hurshy

3rd row grey!

10:19 am

hurshy

phantom: buoy

10:21 am

hurshy

phantom: botany

10:27 am

HarryHood

phew mtng over. 13 to go here.

10:28 am

MollyL

Are you a Certified COVID Cop now, Harry?
: D

10:28 am

HarryHood

famiss - like "ooh look at that famiss Khardashian over there!"

10:28 am

HarryHood

molly it's spelled Kovid Kopp

10:29 am

hurshy

"the day you lose someone isn't the worst -at least you've got something to do- it's all the days they stay dead." -the doctor, spot on as usual

10:29 am

MollyL

Careful with those K's. Add another one and you will have a bad acronym.

10:30 am

HarryHood

heh - OK will stay vigilant.

10:30 am

HarryHood

that's heavy hurshy.

10:30 am

MollyL

Hurshy's got her rose colored glasses on again

10:30 am

rururocks

gosh that's a cheery thought

10:31 am

hurshy

if you weren't here last week when i mentioned it, i recently had a friend die in a tragic accident and i'm finding that statement to be true

10:31 am

HarryHood

oh dear sorry

10:32 am

MollyL

Sorry Hursh, didn't know

10:32 am

rururocks

sorry hursh.. i must have missed that tragic comment

10:32 am

HarryHood

I went to yet another zoom funeral yesterday.

10:33 am

hurshy

the worst of it is that the circumstances are such that his teen son is probably going to feel guilty about it all his life, even though he shouldn't

10:33 am

MollyL

I think the phrase "Zoom Funeral" is just about the saddest thing I've ever heard

10:33 am

HarryHood

was his son driving?

10:34 am

hurshy

no, they were mountain climbing

10:34 am

MollyL

Is there someone who can get the son into grief counseling? Sounds like he needs it.

10:34 am

hurshy

i'm sure they will arrange counseling, yeah

10:34 am

HarryHood

oh how awful.

10:35 am

hurshy

was your zoom funeral someone who died of covid, harry?

10:36 am

HarryHood

no - my brother-in-law's mother. she was old.

10:36 am

hurshy

ah, well, old is good

10:36 am

hurshy

full life and all that

10:36 am

HarryHood

well, 80s probably. not that old,really.

10:37 am

HarryHood

full life for sure.

10:37 am

HarryHood

and fully expected

10:38 am

cybernan

glad you corrected that Harry -- getting too close to 80 myself to consider it old anymore

10:38 am

HarryHood

:) nan. my dad is now 88, and it's tough to consider him old.

10:39 am

MollyL

It's hard when you get to the ages you used to think of as "old"

10:40 am

HarryHood

gotta go get some lunch. will be back for my last 13.

10:40 am

cybernan

especially when you don't feel much different but see all of your friends getting noticibly old :D

10:40 am

MollyL

I keep seeing celebrities (like Kurt Russel) and thinking "how did he get so old?" And then a voice says "look in the mirror"

10:41 am

hurshy

i think it's most weird when it's a celebrity you haven't seen in years, so they seem SUDDENLY old, not gradually

10:44 am

hurshy

what does the 8 start with?

10:45 am

cybernan

an 7-8 hurshy

10:46 am

hurshy

thanks! 7s and 8 done!

10:50 am

hurshy

why did i feel like floam is a thing

10:50 am

moolingwa

morning all, back to finish off these last 157

10:50 am

hurshy

hiya mool

10:50 am

moolingwa

hey hursh, happy Tuesday

10:51 am

hurshy

same to you

10:51 am

moolingwa

tx :)

10:51 am

MollyL

Floam is that crafty foam substance that was popular when I was a kid

10:52 am

hurshy

ah so it IS a thing, but maybe it's proper

10:53 am

MollyL

It is sort of a made up word. Teachers who use texture love it.

10:53 am

hurshy

all words had to be made up at some point :D

10:55 am

MollyL

True, but they don't all stick. As much as people love brillig, it's still not a legal word

10:55 am

hurshy

i have 144 words. how gross!

10:55 am

moolingwa

that kind of pun is a dime a dozen

10:57 am

hurshy

but it's a baker's dozen that remains

10:57 am

hurshy

and i'm VERY STUCK

10:58 am

moolingwa

I have the answer to life the universe and everything remaining

10:58 am

hurshy

:D

10:58 am

moolingwa

and now I don't

10:58 am

hurshy

you LOST the ANSWER to EVERYTHING? that's pretty sad man

10:59 am

moolingwa

I know, it was so fleeting

10:59 am

cybernan

sy 6 please?

11:00 am

hurshy

looking...

11:00 am

MollyL

*Puts out a copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Universe

11:00 am

cybernan

nm - monkeyed it

11:01 am

MollyL

sy + a wink and a...

11:01 am

hurshy

that's the 5 molly

11:01 am

MollyL

Oh, Nan pulled a Peri

11:01 am

cybernan

that is the sy 5 molly

11:01 am

hurshy

but i still need it! :D

11:01 am

MollyL

Yeah, I realized that. I guess I can't count

11:02 am

cybernan

sy 6 ends in the aliem that wants to phone home

11:02 am

moolingwa

was going to try and clue alien, but difficult word to clue

11:02 am

hurshy

thanks, got it!

11:03 am

cybernan

don't know where to go when an et 5/16 isn't ethyl

11:04 am

maccafixx

bo 6/33?

11:04 am

MollyL

An sy6 is a young trainee in the military who looks like all the other trainees

11:04 am

hurshy

think about the way that words develop in language, cnan

11:04 am

hurshy

macca, watch out or i might put a bo6/33 on your head and all the bo6 hunters will be after you!

11:05 am

moolingwa

nan, ends in a mother

11:05 am

maccafixx

ty hurshy!

11:05 am

moolingwa

and thanks for the letters for that and the sy6

11:05 am

moolingwa

and tx hursh for the clue too, didn't have that one

11:05 am

cybernan

ty hurshy

11:06 am

MollyL

Gratitude abounds!

11:06 am

moolingwa

I'd like to thank all the people that helped me get here

11:06 am

moolingwa

my mother and father of course...

11:07 am

cybernan

*!*~*!* cooler today, so gardening ahead -- any clues wanted before I leave?

11:07 am

moolingwa

congrats nan

11:07 am

moolingwa

still have a double baker's dozen left here

11:08 am

hurshy

generous baker

11:08 am

cybernan

hagd everyone - stay safe :)

11:08 am

moolingwa

indeed, all that left over dough

11:09 am

moolingwa

down to 20 now

11:10 am

MollyL

Yes everyone. Wear your mask or Nan will hunt you down and kick your butt.

11:11 am

moolingwa

as long as you're in canada

11:11 am

moolingwa

although perhaps you can still fly

11:11 am

MollyL

Do you think the border patrol could stop Nan? I don't.

11:12 am

moolingwa

they would just bureaucracy her to a standstill

11:12 am

MollyL

Me, I wouldn't mess with Nan.

11:16 am

moolingwa

apparently you cant out [swiss/cowboy] sing someone

11:32 am

MollyL

Even the mannequins in the Bloomingdale's store window are wearing masks. Thank God, because I was really afraid they would get COVID.

11:38 am

KnightTime

i bought a package of masks the other day. THEY were all wearing masks.

11:43 am

MollyL

Well thank God for that too. I wouldn't want the masks to get COVID either.

11:48 am

KnightTime

sometimes wearing a mask is not a good idea: https://tinyurl.com/ybwbc5cd

11:48 am

HarryHood

I've now completed 6 of my 7 letters of rec for college.

11:49 am

HarryHood

finishing is the best feeling.

11:49 am

MollyL

I will never understand wearing masks while driving

11:50 am

HarryHood

not sure why sinh and cosh are accepted, but not tanh

11:51 am

KnightTime

it's too hyperbolic

11:51 am

HarryHood

badum - math joke!

11:52 am

clg47

If I am driving a friend to a doctor's appointment I will wear a mask.

11:52 am

HarryHood

belody - a song sung by somebody with a very stuffed nose

11:53 am

HarryHood

sometimes I come out of the market and I'm driving home and halfway home I realize I'm still masked.

11:53 am

clg47

beta

11:54 am

clg47

oops!

11:55 am

HarryHood

listing my last 9.

12:00 pm

HarryHood

argh! I missed one of my favorite words!

12:00 pm

HarryHood

fa6 from Infinite Jest

12:01 pm

HarryHood

done.

12:01 pm

HarryHood

bye!

12:14 pm

hokie carla

ah, I missed Harry again.

12:14 pm

hokie carla

I mean, I didn't miss him this morning but I missed seeing him again

12:20 pm

hokie carla

is it just me or is the D super tough? can only find 4.

12:22 pm

hokie carla

just made up 3 that worked

12:26 pm

moolingwa

It's just you ;)

12:26 pm

moolingwa

just jokes

12:27 pm

hokie carla

it could just be me, that's why I asked!

12:28 pm

moolingwa

I have 13 of 15, but there's some unusual words

12:28 pm

marksdolly

I only have 9 of the 15

12:29 pm

moolingwa

there are 4 that start with the same 4 letters

12:30 pm

hokie carla

hmm. does it rhyme with legolas?

12:30 pm

moolingwa

no, that's a different pair

12:30 pm

marksdolly

well I have 3 of those will look for the 4th

12:30 pm

moolingwa

or trio I should say

12:30 pm

hokie carla

I have 3 that start with those 4

12:30 pm

moolingwa

yes, the four I'm thinking of are different

12:30 pm

marksdolly

good then I have those

12:52 pm

gramma

Clues for AN 7 & 8. Please?

12:53 pm

MollyL

Words that mean the opposite

12:55 pm

gramma

TY

2:22 pm

hoyamd

i think outyo*** should totally be a word

2:23 pm

hoyamd

ante

2:33 pm

moolingwa

yeah, I had mentioned that earlier

2:56 pm

MollyL

*Gives Moolingwa a gold star for being "the first one"
: D

4:20 pm

bichon

sy 6/37, pls

4:39 pm

moolingwa

ends in a certain alien

4:40 pm

bichon

ty mool

4:40 pm

moolingwa

yw

5:21 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

hi all and nbt

5:28 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

fanbot is not a word

5:32 pm

penquis

i will take your word for it...

5:36 pm

bichon

bo 6/33, pls

5:36 pm

Bethjt

I'm looking for the bo6 now.

5:37 pm

PastorJ

bo6, the quicker picker upper

5:38 pm

bichon

ty

5:38 pm

Bethjt

Thanks

5:38 pm

PastorJ

yw!

5:46 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

fatobe = a microbe that needs to go on a diet

5:49 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

ante-bo4 = bo4 from your past life

5:54 pm

hokie carla

outyon - "go hang the clothes outyon on the clothesline"

5:55 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

LOL

6:00 pm

hokie carla

outbed - one might say wilt chamberlain did

6:01 pm

penquis

how can you be un 4/7???

6:02 pm

hokie carla

that is the question

6:02 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

loufa = upholstered bench that can seat up to four people -- no, wait

6:04 pm

hokie carla

coining words is fun

6:05 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

yepper

6:07 pm

penquis

i am done...

6:08 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

woo hoo penquis !!! !!!

6:08 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

catching up, 15 to go

6:15 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

nbt at last, 5 to go

6:16 pm

penquis

ty....

6:17 pm

dan2bit

evening all! today I learned that bouffant has TWO Fs

6:18 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

fireworks and hi, dan!

6:19 pm

dan2bit

woo hoo BDG!

6:30 pm

penquis

congrats....

6:30 pm

penquis

heading out....goodnight all....

6:30 pm

dan2bit

gnight pen

6:32 pm

dan2bit

wow autonym too specialized for enable?

7:12 pm

rururocks

Dan spends the rest of the day in the pb

7:12 pm

rururocks

With mint chip ice cream

7:21 pm

hokie carla

ooh, I want to go

7:21 pm

hokie carla

ooh, I want to go

7:48 pm

hokie carla

finally finished a row!

8:38 pm

hokie carla

really, sy6?

8:48 pm

dan2bit

can you clue it carla?

8:49 pm

hokie carla

it's two shortened words stuck together that are the opposite of natural soap for washing clothes and dishes

8:50 pm

hokie carla

kinda like physed for physical education we had recently

9:04 pm

dan2bit

thanks carla that's firewords

11:20 pm

Uneaixoise

Fu5 please?

11:22 pm

Uneaixoise

Nm!!

11:22 pm

Uneaixoise

Fw!!

11:39 pm

mich_pdx

congrats, une aixoise, I just got 'em too :)

11:43 pm

origami

Worked so long today didn't even get to finish the grid. Waiting for the flip :D

11:45 pm

mich_pdx

how's Sacremento? Can you breathe at all?

11:46 pm

origami

It's been pretty bad mich. But it is supposed to lighten up tomorrow. We'll see :D

11:50 pm

mich_pdx

I was supposed to go to Lake Almanor this week, up at Mt Lassen, but between covid and a cough I can't shake, I didn't go. I hope Cali can recover sooner than later.

11:54 pm

origami

I as well, mich. What sort of dog do you have? Looks like a hound of some kind. I have a couple of hounds myself.

11:55 pm

mich_pdx

That's my yellow lab, I joined when she was a youngster. Unfortunately at 15+ she passed last November.

11:56 pm

mich_pdx

What do you have?

11:56 pm

mich_pdx

joined babble that is :)

11:57 pm

origami

Duh, a yellow lab. Sorry for your loss

11:57 pm

origami

I have a Black-and-tan coonhound and a foxhound mix.

11:58 pm

mich_pdx

thanks, she was my dear companion. They sound delightful! I do like hunting breeds :)

12:00 am

rururocks

I love labs

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