Babble: Archived Puzzle for Sunday, March 30, 2025

12:01 am

Gillie

re7

12:04 am

Gillie

te7

12:09 am

broll

to 8

12:10 am

broll

and to 9

12:13 am

Gillie

so7

12:16 am

Robespierre

fe 7

12:17 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:17 am

crayola

Thanks lickety

12:18 am

Robespierre

Thanks!

12:19 am

momof5

Qu8

12:28 am

Robespierre

re 8

12:29 am

Robespierre

re 8x2!

1:12 am

sprite

morning babblers

1:22 am

grannyrose

hello dearest sprite. wifi has been on and off so it has been difficult to catch up with you.

1:22 am

sprite

hi sweetie, are you back home? How was the birthday girl?

1:23 am

grannyrose

still in Tallangatta. going home tomorrow via strawberry winery...lol got to restock until next time we are up here.

1:24 am

sprite

sounds good :)

1:25 am

grannyrose

birthday girl is amazing. She received her special card from their majesties. hall was full of people..cousins, and i think just about every resident in Tallangatta.

1:25 am

sprite

wow, amazing! Good for her!

1:26 am

grannyrose

we are going over to her home in about 30 mins for a private audience..lol. then on into Wodonga to meet up with other cousins for dinner. it's going to make for a long day but we don't do this often.

1:27 am

sprite

sometimes it is simply worth the price. At least that is how I look at it. I enjoy it to the hilt, then pay the price while gorging on the great memories.

1:27 am

grannyrose

how are you doing honey? i worry about you and Rob so much. it drives me crazy that i am not just around the corner from you...if not in the same house...

1:29 am

sprite

ikr? But we manage. I slept well this night and Rob's gout attack is subsiding. DLS has started (ughhh) which is destabilizing but a good night's sleep does help with that too. So all in all, not bad.

1:32 am

grannyrose

i am pleased to see that sprite. btw, in one of Anne's albums is a photo of all the living Drummond family at that time. I'm about 5-6 years old, i think my mother was expecting my brother, David. My grandmother and Anne's mother were sisters.

1:33 am

sprite

awwwwww a baby rose!

1:34 am

grannyrose

giggle. i must send you a pic of baby me... i have one of my eldest son, Daniel, and his daughter, Sophia, all at about the same age. we could have been triplets. now there's a scary thought.

1:34 am

sprite

the good genes are enduring :)

1:36 am

grannyrose

happy sigh here. so lovely to chat with you honey. i had better go. not telling what i am wearing, it's been rather warm and i'm cooling of in front of the A/C...maybe that should read not wearing...nah.... don't want your brain seizing up.

1:37 am

sprite

she is nekkid!

1:38 am

sprite

have a grand old time, darling. And best of luck on the way home. Better open a bottle of strawberry wine and forget about the long drive :D

1:39 am

grannyrose

need to get ready. will be back home this time tomorrow. in my own little house. with my own little wifi. with my own little hubby. xoxoxoxoxoxox love you sweetie. see you then maybe.

1:40 am

sprite

*hugs* and lots of love

2:18 am

sprite

fireflies and poofing

7:21 am

MollyL

I am always sorry when I read the chat at this time of the morning ðŸ˜

7:35 am

snowygal18

Tone

7:36 am

snowygal18

Whoops, sorry folks. Wrong box. Is there a way to delete?

7:36 am

periwinkle

no

7:37 am

Dorens

nope it's there for the rest of history

7:37 am

periwinkle

Hi Dorens, hello all

7:38 am

periwinkle

help with the to8 and to9 please

7:38 am

snowygal18

Sorry - danger of playing on a phone while nursing a newborn!

7:38 am

periwinkle

no worries we all have done it

7:40 am

rbud

I absolutely will not to8 you asking for a hint for the to8. (that *is* a hint, haha)

7:40 am

periwinkle

ty rbud great clue

7:40 am

periwinkle

99 left bbl

7:40 am

rbud

:D

7:56 am

crosshair

Ty for to 8 and 9, rbud. :)

8:00 am

crosshair

Love just watching the early morning chat. :) The deep friendship of Sprite and Grannyrose warms my heart--especially during all this global insanity as we, Greenland, Denmark, Panama, and Mexico fight for our du

8:01 am

crosshair

...fight for our survival.*

8:01 am

rururocks

warms your heart.. but the visuals .. yikes

8:02 am

crosshair

Lol, tbh, I would love to see then nattering away ove high tea.

8:03 am

crosshair

Nice to focus on the small, happy things for a moment.

8:18 am

phaeton

hello...bottom corner E stats pls

8:18 am

MollyL

Not the visual Ru was referring to

8:21 am

ChampFit

Not sure phae, but I think it's et6/18

8:22 am

rururocks

ea5

8:22 am

phaeton

ty both...

8:33 am

Sugrraleona

fe8?

8:34 am

ChampFit

Just got that...ends in a rock.

8:35 am

LuvWordGames

Thanks Champ

8:35 am

Sugrraleona

got it ty

8:35 am

ChampFit

yw!

8:36 am

phaeton

clue for the first te7/28?

8:37 am

rururocks

TV + first part of wingless bird

8:37 am

phaeton

ty ru

8:40 am

mkg

wingless bird?

8:41 am

penquis

think very very large bird...

8:41 am

penquis

hello all....

8:41 am

rururocks

sometimes I want to just bury my head in the sand

8:42 am

phaeton

sticks it's head in the sand

8:47 am

mkg

got it. ty

8:48 am

mkg

any clues for the 9 welcome. ty

8:48 am

MollyL

Is there something about a head in the sand?

8:50 am

mkg

that is what the bird is knownfor.

8:50 am

MollyL

ðŸ¤£ðŸ¤£

8:51 am

phaeton

se6/27?

8:52 am

ChampFit

The second movie.

8:52 am

phaeton

ty Champ

8:57 am

mkg

any clues for the 9 welcome.

9:00 am

mkg

just went to lickety and didnt see a 9 listed. hmmm

9:00 am

phaeton

to9...puts up with

9:01 am

ChampFit

to8 and 9

9:03 am

mkg

ty got them.

9:08 am

mkg

missed them on lickety but they are there. ty

9:09 am

phaeton

clue for the fe8

9:11 am

penquis

ends with rock....

9:11 am

phaeton

ty...forgot about that clie

9:11 am

phaeton

*clue

9:11 am

penquis

no problem...

9:13 am

phaeton

the bottom corner E is ea5...not et6

9:38 am

Shirlockc

are you sure that bottom E is a ea5?

9:38 am

penquis

yes...

9:39 am

penquis

there are two of those with the same stats...one comes from that E....

9:39 am

LuvWordGames

yes I agree

9:40 am

BzznBea

Finally got it.

9:40 am

penquis

a little twisty... ;o)

9:42 am

penquis

i am stalled at 39...time for a break...bye all...

9:42 am

Shirlockc

i just facepalmed myself on that ea5

9:51 am

MollyL

Really? You put your palm to your face? Whatever for?

10:46 am

Junttura

Sad, teraton (one trillion tons) is not in the dictionary :(

10:47 am

BzznBea

At least not in the enable dictionary.

10:51 am

MollyL

I think Enable requires words to be in one or two of several accredited dictionaries (like Merriam Webster) and teraton is not in them

10:58 am

Junttura

Ah, that's probably because the tera- prefix and ton have their own entries. Probably works the same with most other similar prefixes (kilo-, mega-, giga-, etc.)

11:06 am

BzznBea

Richard Chamberlain died. I wanted to marry him.

11:08 am

MollyL

Alas, you were not his sexual preference.

11:12 am

MollyL

Chamberlain''s long time partner was pretty cute too.

11:38 am

hurshy

heidy ho babblers

11:40 am

crosshair

Good afternoon, Babblers. :)

11:40 am

hurshy

hi crossy

11:40 am

crosshair

Howdy, Hurshy. :)

11:42 am

hurshy

today it is making me feel happy that babble time is an hour earlier than my time. i feel like it is still sort of morning, even though it's past noon for me

11:43 am

hokie carla

howdy folks

11:43 am

hurshy

hi hokie

11:44 am

hokie carla

hey hurshy

11:44 am

hurshy

how's the fire containment going

11:44 am

hokie carla

stone

11:44 am

hokie carla

oops

11:44 am

crosshair

Same here, hurshy, but not so much since I retired. Half the time I no longer know what day of the week it is; I go to sleep when I am tired, get up when I am rested, and I like it like that. :)

11:45 am

hokie carla

well, we went out of town for the night, on our way home now. but the updates I saw earlier seemed promising.

11:45 am

crosshair

No more ge

11:45 am

crosshair

Tting up at three-tirty in the

11:46 am

hurshy

no human being should have to get up before 7 unless they just like to

11:46 am

hokie carla

agreed

11:46 am

crosshair

No more getting up at three-thirty in the morning, :)*

11:46 am

hokie carla

my internal clock is not built for that

11:50 am

hurshy

do you guys know if there are any EQ words?

11:51 am

hokie carla

I haven't really looked at that E. have been haphazard today.

11:52 am

hurshy

well i have two of that E but need the other two

11:52 am

hokie carla

I do have 3 from there, but none are EQ

11:52 am

moolingwa

pretty sure there isn't...only need one E

11:53 am

hokie carla

mooo!

11:53 am

moolingwa

hey hoke, happy Sunday to you :)

11:53 am

hokie carla

thanks, you too

11:54 am

moolingwa

thanks, an overcast, post-rain Sunday here

11:54 am

hurshy

what one do you have that i don't, i have ef4 and el6 (pl of a 5 that comes from the E to the left of the L)

11:54 am

hurshy

oh person who!

11:54 am

moolingwa

yeah

11:54 am

hokie carla

sunny here out on the road, but looks like rain is headed to my house

11:55 am

hokie carla

I think those are the 3 I have

11:55 am

hurshy

oh oh i just remembered the other one

11:55 am

hurshy

ef7

11:55 am

hurshy

Vowels Vanquished!

11:55 am

moolingwa

excellent

11:56 am

hokie carla

hmm, don't recall an ef7 but will work on it, thx

11:56 am

hurshy

it seems old, like shakespeare-y old

11:57 am

hurshy

Ts Toppled!

11:57 am

moolingwa

oh, weird word

11:58 am

crosshair

Clue, please?

11:58 am

hurshy

ef3 + in not too long a time

11:58 am

moolingwa

you may find it in the near future :)

11:59 am

moolingwa

5-7-4-3-3-1

12:00 pm

crosshair

Ty, mool and hurshy. :)

12:00 pm

hokie carla

hmm, not anon

12:00 pm

hurshy

no, the not too long a time from now part is the normal modern word

12:00 pm

hokie carla

ok, that near future

12:01 pm

moolingwa

4OFOET

12:01 pm

moolingwa

3OFOET

12:02 pm

hokie carla

still 86 left here so I don't even want to do the math

12:02 pm

moolingwa

heh

12:05 pm

crosshair

What Q am I missing?

12:05 pm

hurshy

prob the 8

12:05 pm

hokie carla

I need one as well

12:05 pm

hurshy

superlative

12:05 pm

hokie carla

the most

12:05 pm

moolingwa

regular word at least

12:06 pm

crosshair

Ty, hurshy

12:06 pm

hurshy

yw!

12:06 pm

crosshair

Q's quashed!

12:06 pm

moolingwa

quaint

12:07 pm

crosshair

Quite. :)

12:07 pm

hokie carla

wow, still need 19 r's

12:07 pm

moolingwa

need 3...it's my one 3 remaining

12:07 pm

hurshy

i'm just starting the R, last tile i haven't yet worked on

12:09 pm

moolingwa

1 left

12:09 pm

hokie carla

just need 2 a's to gray a column

12:09 pm

moolingwa

on the r that is

12:09 pm

moolingwa

2OFOET

12:09 pm

hurshy

the As are all "usual suspects"

12:11 pm

hokie carla

any ae on the bottom?

12:11 pm

moolingwa

nope

12:11 pm

hurshy

no, just the one from the top

12:12 pm

moolingwa

phantom sonneteer

12:12 pm

hokie carla

to5

12:13 pm

hurshy

phantom: resonate

12:13 pm

moolingwa

phantom oneself

12:14 pm

moolingwa

not that I need any o's

12:14 pm

hokie carla

lol, that's my move

12:15 pm

hokie carla

looking for words you don't need

12:15 pm

moolingwa

oh yeah, guilty here too

12:15 pm

hurshy

i hate when i do that!

12:17 pm

moolingwa

ah, found my 9

12:18 pm

moolingwa

10 to go...

1-2-2-3-2

12:18 pm

hurshy

2-5-3-3 for me

12:19 pm

moolingwa

almost there hursh

12:19 pm

hokie carla

61

12:19 pm

moolingwa

getting there hoke

12:19 pm

hokie carla

12-13-19-10-6-1

12:20 pm

hokie carla

I'm sure I'll catch you in no time (literally because I'll never catch you)

12:20 pm

moolingwa

ha

12:20 pm

hokie carla

12-13-19-10-6-1

12:20 pm

moolingwa

well I gotta go riding at 1, and get ready before that...so there's a limited time for me :)

12:21 pm

hokie carla

have fun

12:21 pm

moolingwa

tx, usually do :)

12:24 pm

moolingwa

well, found my last 4

12:25 pm

hokie carla

cool

12:41 pm

BzznBea

Hello

12:41 pm

hurshy

hi bea

12:42 pm

BzznBea

Trying to cope with major pollen attack.

12:43 pm

hurshy

sorry to hear that :(

1:02 pm

MollyL

ðŸ˜¥

1:09 pm

hokie carla

bea!

1:09 pm

hokie carla

I literally just bought some flonase

1:09 pm

BzznBea

Carla!

1:10 pm

BzznBea

I use that, two antihistaamines and a histamine blocker.

1:12 pm

hokie carla

yeah, I usually do a zyrtec or something with it but that makes me sleepy for a week or two, so I'm just going to try the spray only this year.

1:12 pm

hokie carla

but my nose has been running for weeks. it's already too late!

1:12 pm

BzznBea

I take zyrtec t night. Allegra in the daytime.

1:13 pm

hokie carla

I tried xysal or whatever last year

1:14 pm

hokie carla

it didn't work great

1:15 pm

BzznBea

Nothing does.

1:16 pm

BzznBea

I was finally starting to feel better then the pines started puking pollen.

1:17 pm

hokie carla

well I agree. I was diagnosed years ago with non-allergic rhinitis and he said only a certain spray had worked in some people with that. but I definitely get worse in the spring so I continue trying stuff.

1:24 pm

hokie carla

still have 12 r's. what are these r's??

1:25 pm

BzznBea

Need 19 r's here.

1:29 pm

hokie carla

guess I will look for 4's
7-7-14-9-6-1

1:30 pm

BzznBea

Want a clue for the 9?

1:31 pm

hokie carla

suer

1:32 pm

BzznBea

We can't to8 pollen. plural

1:33 pm

hokie carla

aha, thx

1:33 pm

BzznBea

yw

1:33 pm

hokie carla

tried to5 several times and didn't think of that word

1:35 pm

hokie carla

and that last T was a 4

1:36 pm

hokie carla

do you have the other e in 3rd row? I have the slippery one.

1:40 pm

Gillie

Well Trump has said (again) that he is open to taking Greenland from Denmark by military force: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/\npolitics-news/trump-military-force-sei\nze-greenland-1235306568/

1:41 pm

BzznBea

Carla, that is et6.18

1:42 pm

hokie carla

ah, that ole chestnut, thanks,b ea

1:42 pm

hokie carla

hey gillie

1:43 pm

Gillie

hey carla

1:43 pm

hokie carla

back to my area and not a lot of rain but there is a lot of smoke

1:44 pm

Gillie

And spreadsheets including sensitive information on organizations working with help from the US State Department or USAID in repressive countries such as China, Russia, Iran, Uganda, Cuba has been leaked days after the the US State Department promised that the information would be kept secret, potentially putting people's in danger: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/\npolitics-features/trump-leak-danger-sp\nreadsheet-state-department-usaid-12353\n06394/

1:44 pm

Gillie

*people's LIVES in danger*, that is

1:46 pm

hokie carla

in bad cell service now so I will have to BBL

2:05 pm

MollyL

The long links blow the chat width

2:05 pm

Gillie

Didn't blow mine

2:11 pm

MollyL

So when you look at your two previous posts, the m in pm is not cut off?

2:12 pm

Gillie

no

2:14 pm

MollyL

Interesting. I wonder why it does for everyone else but not for you.

2:14 pm

Gillie

No idea

2:15 pm

Gillie

How have you checked "everyone else", by the way?

2:16 pm

MollyL

It has been discussed when other people post long links. The inserted \n's blow the chat width.

2:16 pm

Gillie

well, that clearly doesn't cover "everyone"

2:17 pm

MollyL

They also make the link posted impossible to copy, paste and read

2:18 pm

Gillie

They can be removed manually when doing a copy and paste - I prefer that to short links because it's hard to know where the short links are going

2:19 pm

Gillie

Clicking on unknown links is once of the principal ways to get infected with a virus

2:19 pm

Gillie

*one of*

2:30 pm

BzznBea

Namste

2:30 pm

BzznBea

Namaste

2:38 pm

MollyL

Clicking on unknown links is a way to get infected with a virus. That goes for the long ones included in posts.

2:39 pm

MollyL

That's why the \n is included in the code here. To prevent people from being redirected to spam or porn.

2:39 pm

Gillie

the long ones show the name of the actual site, unlike TinyURL links, which redirect to a different site

2:41 pm

Gillie

the "\n" is a character code for a line break, intended to break up long items so that they don't blow the chat width, but in Windows, it needs to be "\r\n" instead to work (long stupid story - "\r" stands for carriage return, "\n" stands for line break)

2:45 pm

Gillie

If they were working as intended, they wouldn't appear at all, but there would be a line break instead

2:49 pm

Gillie

In my case, I guess the position of the hyphens prevented any of the lines from being too long, in spite of the added "\n" characters, but that would depend on the browser, font, and maybe other factors.

3:27 pm

Gillie

Just to be clear, the fact that TinyURL links appear in the chat here without "\n" in them doesn't mean that they don't redirect to spam, porn, or even to a site that looks like what you were expecting, but also installs a virus on the side.

3:37 pm

Gillie

Anyway, now Trump is saying that maybe a journalist ended up in a Yemen bombing chat discussion because there is something wrong with the Signal chat app - unlikely, but it wouldn't have happened anyway if they were following Defense Department instructions NOT TO USE Signal.

3:38 pm

hokie carla

rehi- are you saying that the tinyurl website is doing something or you don't trust us chatters that use them?

3:38 pm

Gillie

No, I'm saying that TinyURL can be used to disguise malicious links (as well as innocuous ones)

3:39 pm

Gillie

And no, I don't trust everyone I meet in a random chat room on the internet, and no-one else should, either

3:39 pm

Gillie

Molly has said that herself

3:41 pm

hokie carla

I agree that's true. I would never trust someone that's never chatted here before. and some of you all could be bots or otherwise.

3:41 pm

hokie carla

but I do trust some of you ðŸ¤£

3:42 pm

Gillie

I think, in a chat room, trust should always be limited. I really don't know who you are

3:43 pm

hokie carla

you could always edit yours to remove the \n and then break it up to not all post in one long word and people would have to just remove the spaces.

3:43 pm

Gillie

I don't put the "\n" character in - that's Dr. God's code at work

3:45 pm

hokie carla

yes, I forgot. I really meant whoever was copy/pasting it would have to remove the \n. but you would still need to put the spaces in so it doesn't create the \n to begin with

3:46 pm

Gillie

If you copy it from the chat, then paste it in the address box, you can edit it to delete the "\n" characters before hitting enter. Spaces would mess up the address, and would also need to be deleted.

3:47 pm

hokie carla

I will just avoid it all by not going to any websites directed to.

3:47 pm

Gillie

But maybe I can see if I can put in my own line breaks in future - I'm not sure if that will work

3:48 pm

Gillie

Your choice - at least with my links, you can see what site it is going to

3:50 pm

MollyL

I get spam in my email that say they are going to PayPal or Yahoo, but they are not.

3:51 pm

MollyL

The original advice is the best. Don't follow any links from someone you don't know or have no reason to trust. Safer that way.

3:54 pm

Gillie

https://www.rollingstone.com is not going to redirect

3:54 pm

Gillie

But if you want to Google the story, you know where it's supposed to be

3:59 pm

Gillie

One line

4:00 pm

Gillie

Well, control-enter doesn't work

4:06 pm

Gillie

E-mails are another story, because links in e-mails commonly use text that doesn't match the actual link address, although you can usually see the link address by hovering the mouse over it (it may appear at the bottom of the window). Of course, it could still be a TinyURL address (or some such), but that should be obvious.

4:27 pm

MollyL

It's raining in western North Carolina. Yay!!!

4:28 pm

dcseain

Yay!

4:50 pm

hokie carla

yeah, it was wet when I got back home and there was a huge downpour just a little bit ago.

4:56 pm

MollyL

Hope it takes some affect on the fires.

4:57 pm

hokie carla

yeah, it's so dry I think we need a lot, but hopefully will help with the containment lines and stuff

4:58 pm

MollyL

It's time for the people in that area to get a freaking break.

4:59 pm

hokie carla

green river area got absolutely hammered by helene and the black cove fires are mostly around there

5:00 pm

MollyL

Plus, my sister said there are still huge piles of debris left over from the hurricane on the sides of the road that are like tinder for a runaway fire.

5:01 pm

hokie carla

yeah, we just came back on this stretch of I-26 that had hundreds of huge trees down

5:03 pm

hokie carla

also they said the tree canopy was so destroyed that it doesn't hold in moisture and humidity, leading to even drier conditions.

5:03 pm

MollyL

Well, hopefully all the rain this week will improve conditions there. My sister said the smoke in the air is fierce.

5:04 pm

hokie carla

I think I read that was worse than the downed trees because they weren't dead enough

5:04 pm

MollyL

Oh good the long link scrolled off the chat and chat width is restored.

5:05 pm

hokie carla

mine actually wasn't messed up either. not sure why.

5:10 pm

MollyL

Okay then. I guess I didn't check in with "everyone" ðŸ¤£

7:26 pm

suefrad625

evening all

9:09 pm

cybernan

hello everyone - first time on line today

9:58 pm

NANCY

clue for re 7 and 8, the second set please

10:42 pm

dcseain

hm. I just got to ask as an re7/8

10:54 pm

NANCY

DESAIN, tyvm, you saved my sanity tonight

10:56 pm

NANCY

DCSEAIN

11:24 pm

dcseain

:)

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