Saturday, August 22, 2026

ENTIRE CHAT LOG

12:01 am
MetFan

Howdy all
12:01 am
ursh

hello all
12:08 am
saanichcat

hello!
12:11 am
cybernan

hi everyone
12:12 am
Rainiqui

sa 7
12:12 am
cybernan

le 7
12:13 am
Gillie

ra7 (odd one)
12:16 am
cybernan

ne 7
12:19 am
licketySplitAUS

Clues are up
12:19 am
MetFan

ty lickety
12:22 am
dizgrannie

hi all, nbt/nbs, ce 7/8
12:22 am
marksdolly

et 6/7
12:25 am
marksdolly

so 6/7
12:26 am
cybernan

ce 8
12:26 am
cybernan

oh - diz called it - sorry
12:26 am
marksdolly

en7
12:27 am
cybernan

*lol - meant ce not this
12:27 am
cybernan

thats a ne 7 trick, mark - no i
12:29 am
cybernan

ne 4 I mean
12:30 am
cybernan

obviously too tired to be doing this -- good night
12:37 am
dizgrannie

Vs vanquished, all normal Babble words
12:49 am
Gillie

an7
1:16 am
sugar

n
1:16 am
sugar

Flans
1:16 am
sugar

Foes
1:17 am
sugar

Apologies!
1:17 am
MetFan

No need - although it IS common courtesy to do so - We all do that on occasion
1:19 am
MetFan

dalton
1:19 am
MetFan

daltons
1:19 am
SummerBreeze44

Hahaha you talked yourself into it!
1:20 am
MetFan

Sure F***** Up that time!!
1:21 am
MetFan

Sometimes when I'm switching back & forth etween the grid and the clues, my cursor disappears. I should check more often to see that I'm not on the chog!!
1:55 am
dizgrannie

FWs...wasn't too bad a grid
2:32 am
worzel

Roxy Music song in the grid
5:29 am
ivesyj

clue for the ce 7 plz
5:31 am
lbdawger

pottery with a pale green glaze, Ivesyj
5:32 am
ivesyj

ok i will work on that ty
5:32 am
ChampFit

It's a color.
5:32 am
FrenchToast

And plural for ce8
5:32 am
ivesyj

ty ty both!!
7:00 am
bichon

ty dawg
8:33 am
maccafixx

ne 6/18?
8:34 am
maccafixx

nodals
8:34 am
maccafixx

oops
8:48 am
hurshy

morning folks
8:48 am
ChampFit

morning hursh
9:16 am
hurshy

finally greyed a tile
9:17 am
rururocks

It's hard to grey tiles in this one
9:17 am
hurshy

mine was the left N
9:17 am
ChampFit

I have the first column gray, 2 in the 2nd, and 1 in the 3rd.
9:18 am
hurshy

very good champ!
9:18 am
ChampFit

Only one 8 though. The ce that was called earlier.
9:19 am
hurshy

oooh, i'll have to look for that then
9:19 am
ChampFit

It's a 7/8.
9:19 am
hurshy

yes, got i!
9:19 am
hurshy

it!
9:19 am
ChampFit

woohoo!
9:20 am
ChampFit

we need en, no and tr. Peeked at the list.
9:20 am
penquis

i have two .... hello all....
9:20 am
hurshy

phantom: senate
9:20 am
ChampFit

Whatcha got, pen?
9:21 am
penquis

no 8...
9:21 am
hurshy

looking...
9:21 am
hurshy

is it a compound?
9:22 am
penquis

not exactly....it is a shortened version of a compound...i only tried it because it's also the name of a living history center here in Maine...
9:23 am
hurshy

oh! that's the estate from Sense & Sensibility!
9:23 am
hurshy

thanks
9:23 am
hurshy

that should help all the Austenites
9:23 am
penquis

yes...
9:24 am
ChampFit

still wouldn't have remembered it...thx!
9:24 am
penquis

me either...
9:24 am
hurshy

i think i actually remember it more because of watching it in movie form, i feel like my memory of it is more auditory
9:25 am
hurshy

dang, so close to having svelte
9:25 am
ChampFit

tried it anyway!
9:25 am
penquis

i think i read that 50 years ago and saw the movie 30 years ago, lol....
9:26 am
hurshy

there's a very nice 2008 version that i highly recommend
9:26 am
penquis

good to know, ty....
9:27 am
hurshy

and a new one this year but i haven't seen that
9:28 am
BzznBea

found the tr8
9:28 am
hurshy

the way they keep remaking things, you'd think there were hardly any books available to draw source material for films from
9:28 am
ChampFit

Hint please Bea!
9:28 am
hurshy

is it weird or normal, bea?
9:30 am
BzznBea

Its sciency. ends with areas of ground
9:30 am
penquis

new word for me...ty...
9:30 am
ChampFit

Thanks...new for me too
9:31 am
rururocks

have all the 8's now
9:31 am
ChampFit

hint for the en?
9:31 am
rururocks

part of a book
9:32 am
rururocks

in the back
9:32 am
ChampFit

just got it
9:32 am
ChampFit

thx!
9:33 am
penquis

ty, ru...
9:35 am
hurshy

yay for 8s
9:39 am
hurshy

phantom: aorta
9:50 am
ChampFit

Back in a few...
10:02 am
Gitel

Seton
10:02 am
Gitel

Sorry
10:02 am
MollyL

Mother...blessesself
10:05 am
Book Doctor Gwen

thunderstorms in my area, might lose connection, gonna babble while i can (hi all)
10:06 am
penquis

hi gwen....
10:09 am
Book Doctor Gwen

hi penquis! and nbt woot
10:11 am
hurshy

i learned a tip recently that the best way to keep mosquitos away from you if you're sitting outside is just to have a regular old oscillating fan near you! why didn't somebody tell me that ages ago??
10:15 am
Book Doctor Gwen

mosquitos keep that fact very secret!!
10:15 am
penquis

makes sense....i live close to the ocean and we often have a breeze....don't have any trouble with mosquitoes here....
10:16 am
Book Doctor Gwen

nbs woot
10:21 am
penquis

i am down to 37 and have only grayed 5 tiles...
10:21 am
penquis

make that 6...
10:21 am
hurshy

ooh i need to catch up, i'm on 38 and 4
10:22 am
hurshy

ok there's 37 and 5...
10:22 am
hurshy

36 and 6!
10:22 am
hurshy

36 is my favorite number
10:22 am
Book Doctor Gwen

go go go hurshy !!!
10:22 am
penquis

it's like playing with mool... ;o)
10:23 am
penquis

35 and 6, lol....
10:23 am
hurshy

i really wanted AVAST to be here
10:23 am
hurshy

can't beat pirate words
10:24 am
hurshy

do we have an ae word, anyone know?
10:24 am
penquis

i don't have one...
10:26 am
penquis

phantom I can't get away from: advance...
10:27 am
hurshy

we are also very close to having evanesce
10:28 am
penquis

good one...
10:29 am
hurshy

left col & bottom row grey!
10:30 am
penquis

go hursh...
10:34 am
hurshy

geez we seem to have a whole squadron flying over the house
10:34 am
hurshy

making the house shake
10:35 am
penquis

odd...
10:35 am
hurshy

and unpleasant
10:37 am
hurshy

name that proper noun! Rivendell elf
10:39 am
penquis

no idea...not good at remembering names...
10:39 am
hurshy

it's ok, if it gets answered it does, if not no biggie
10:43 am
ChampFit

Back for last 19. Getting nitpicky now
10:44 am
Book Doctor Gwen

Elrond !!!
10:44 am
ChampFit

that's it!!!
10:45 am
penquis

well i am stalled at 29...taking a break....bye all...
10:45 am
ChampFit

bye pen
10:46 am
Book Doctor Gwen

still working toward half of every tile
10:46 am
ChampFit

You can do it Gwen. It's really not a bad grid.
10:47 am
Book Doctor Gwen

five tiles to go
10:49 am
LuvWordGames

NTPN Samantha's mother's name in Bewitched
10:50 am
Book Doctor Gwen

now you are just trying to stump me lol
10:51 am
Book Doctor Gwen

agnes moorehead? hmmmm
10:51 am
ChampFit

Endora!
10:51 am
LuvWordGames

Ding!ding!
10:52 am
hurshy

ding ding ding!!!
10:52 am
hurshy

lol
10:52 am
hurshy

sorry, i went to put in my laundry
10:53 am
Book Doctor Gwen

(i cheated and looked it up)
10:54 am
hurshy

elrond or endora?
10:55 am
ChampFit

I got Endora.
10:55 am
hurshy

oh right
10:56 am
hurshy

phantom: sandal
10:56 am
Book Doctor Gwen

a German name than no one like (is in the grid)
10:56 am
ChampFit

phantom: advent
10:56 am
hurshy

adolf
10:56 am
hurshy

it's too bad
10:57 am
hurshy

imagine being so awful that you ruin your name for (at least) a century after your lifetime
10:59 am
Book Doctor Gwen

phantom: aldolfo
10:59 am
hurshy

and alencon
10:59 am
hurshy

if we're doing obscure ones :D
10:59 am
Book Doctor Gwen

at some point there will be no babies named donald (unless the parents are horrible)
11:00 am
hurshy

i do wonder if the scales will fall from their eyes once he's dead, or what
11:00 am
ChampFit

My name is Susan and they aren't naming babies that anymore. I promise i'm not a serial killer or anything!
11:01 am
MollyL

Names come and go. A lot of names popular long ago are popular again.
11:01 am
Book Doctor Gwen

some will never change but I suspect most of them will turn on him. every year more and more give up the cult. usually when his decisions hurt them personally
11:01 am
bichon

My name is Ilana, very few of them in the US
11:01 am
hurshy

i went to school with a Susan. she was Filipino, and her older sister had a Filipino name. when Susan was born they let the sister name her, and she didn't like how hard it was to deal with having an unusual name, so she picked Susan for her sister, and then of course Susan disliked having a "boring" name, lol
11:01 am
ChampFit

Agree bihon
11:02 am
ChampFit

Ha! It's just old fashioned now. Lots of them over 60 though.
11:02 am
Book Doctor Gwen

Gwen has never been popular but I once saw a collection of the top 100 baby names in the US over a long span of years and I made the top 100 for one year lol
11:02 am
ChampFit

I have a friend who named her daughter Gwen...she's early 20's now.
11:03 am
Book Doctor Gwen

hooray! more Gwens!
11:03 am
ChampFit

The more the merrier!
11:03 am
hurshy

i assume it's originally a Welsh name?
11:03 am
Book Doctor Gwen

def. Welsh
11:03 am
ChampFit

So far today the D is giving me the most trouble.
11:04 am
hurshy

oh really? for me it's the Ss and the V
11:04 am
hurshy

need 4 from each of those tiles
11:04 am
Book Doctor Gwen

my mom said she got the name from her penpal in Wales who was reading a book with a character named Gwyneth. Quintessential Welsh name
11:04 am
hurshy

da5/18 rhymes with a popular Poe poem
11:04 am
ChampFit

I like that, but it would be a lot to deal with as a little kid.
11:04 am
ChampFit

I have that hursh. monkeys.
11:04 am
hurshy

how's that for a phrase, "popular Poe poem", alliteration and more
11:05 am
ChampFit

Couldn't say it 3 times fast
11:05 am
hurshy

oh well i have only 2 D missing and all my others are usual suspects
11:05 am
ChampFit

same. Someone gave a free clue earlier but I didn't think it was a word so didn't use it till now. Looks like a man's name.
11:06 am
hurshy

well there's dave and da4/4...
11:06 am
Book Doctor Gwen

(stealing popular Poe poem for my tongue twister collection!)
11:06 am
hurshy

:D
11:07 am
ChampFit

I need that 4/4 apparently. Mine are all 4/5
11:07 am
hurshy

no no, of course it is 4/5
11:07 am
hurshy

you can't have a d4/4
11:07 am
hurshy

i just wasn't thinking or looking
11:07 am
ChampFit

gotcha
11:07 am
hurshy

silly me
11:07 am
hurshy

then there's, the orange one
11:07 am
ChampFit

it's all a blur now
11:07 am
hurshy

plural
11:08 am
hurshy

and quayle plural but that doesn't count
11:08 am
ChampFit

Orange?
11:08 am
hurshy

we got TOO MANY men's names here
11:08 am
hurshy

yes, the orange one in the white house
11:08 am
ChampFit

have that
11:08 am
hurshy

so i am just not sure which man's name you mean
11:08 am
hurshy

what if it is one i don't have
11:09 am
hurshy

aHA
11:09 am
hurshy

got them
11:09 am
hurshy

were you talking about the 6/7
11:09 am
ChampFit

da6/21. And only because I have a friend who named her son that. It also was a bookstore....way back!
11:09 am
ChampFit

Yes
11:09 am
hurshy

yes yay
11:09 am
hurshy

Ds Done!
11:10 am
hurshy

well the rest of the Ds are all short
11:10 am
ChampFit

HELP ME OH WISE ONE!
11:10 am
ChampFit

I need 3 4/s so that makes sense. Will keep plugging
11:10 am
hurshy

you should just look at what you have and back and forth at the grid, i find that often helps
11:11 am
hurshy

i find things i missed or thought i put or plurals or whatever
11:12 am
ChampFit

Phantom: Savannah
11:12 am
hurshy

speaking of names
11:13 am
ChampFit

exactly
11:13 am
hurshy

<--- this is Rilla, and sometimes people at the vet or whatever who don't know will pronounce it rye-la. and i'm like, do you not know the rules? you never have a long vowel before two consonants!
11:14 am
hurshy

at least people who think it might be spanish and say "ree-ya" make SENSE
11:14 am
ChampFit

I'm constantly amazed at people that mispronounce things.
11:14 am
ChampFit

My last name is Cline. Sometimes I get "cleen". Really? On what planet is that your first guess.
11:14 am
hurshy

ha
11:15 am
ChampFit

Gotta go, Back for last 14. Good luck!~
11:15 am
hurshy

i forgive them though as soon as they start gushing about how cute she is
11:15 am
hurshy

ttfn champ
11:16 am
hurshy

anybody have a guess for a missing upper E?
11:16 am
Book Doctor Gwen

avalon (is not a word)
11:18 am
LuvWordGames

Is is en 7/40?
11:19 am
Book Doctor Gwen

hoet at last, woot
11:25 am
Book Doctor Gwen

time for a snack, later y'all
11:26 am
hurshy

yes, i believe it is, luv!
11:26 am
hurshy

hmm, not envelop
11:27 am
hurshy

aHA
11:27 am
hurshy

got it
11:27 am
LuvWordGames

:-)
11:27 am
hurshy

that just leaves two more middle As to vanquish the vowels
11:27 am
hurshy

phantom: antler
11:30 am
hurshy

and adnate
11:45 am
hokie carla

howdy anyone here
11:48 am
bichon

yup, for a while. Going out to celebrate daughter's 48th bday
11:50 am
hokie carla

nice, HB to your daughter
11:50 am
bichon

ty carla
11:51 am
hurshy

i'm here too
11:52 am
hokie carla

hidey ho
11:52 am
hurshy

just been like taking breaks do do various chorse
11:52 am
hurshy

chores
11:52 am
hurshy

21 left
11:52 am
hurshy

word, not chores
11:52 am
hurshy

i haven't counted the chores
11:53 am
hokie carla

I played tennis this morning. nice and cloudy today, but still muggy.
11:53 am
hokie carla

LOL
11:53 am
hokie carla

I prefer not to count my chores left
11:53 am
hurshy

yes it's best
11:53 am
hokie carla

188 left here
11:54 am
hurshy

you must be in great shape
11:54 am
hurshy

always golfing and playing tennis and things
11:54 am
hokie carla

I wish, but I'm about 20-25 lbs heavy. You would think I have sweated so much it would help, but it doesn't.
11:55 am
hurshy

well there's different kinds of in shape. i was thinking of like, heart and lung health
11:55 am
worzel

thicko here can't see the wood for the trees - can somebody clue me either of the an7's please? I'm kinda guessing if I find one I'll find the other
11:55 am
welki

hi, everyone
11:55 am
hurshy

i have one, it's a musical term
11:56 am
hokie carla

hey welki! sorry, worzel, I don't have any.
11:56 am
hurshy

the other must be one of my 2 last As!
11:56 am
worzel

thank you hurshy
11:56 am
welki

i have the musical one, too - will look with you
11:57 am
hurshy

it has to come from the middle A
11:57 am
hurshy

aHA
11:57 am
hurshy

that one is more of a sciencey one
11:57 am
hokie carla

I'm just on the 2nd row, so that explains why I don't have it. bwahahaha
11:57 am
hurshy

metastable mineral form of titanium dioxide with a tetragonal crystal structure
11:58 am
hokie carla

oh, that ole thing?
11:58 am
hurshy

sadly not part of a pair :(
11:58 am
hurshy

the ending made me think it was an enzyme until i looked it up
11:58 am
hurshy

if that helps
11:58 am
welki

thanks - got it
11:58 am
hokie carla

that does help, thanks
11:58 am
worzel

piece of p"ss when you give a clue like that haha!!!
11:59 am
hurshy

teehee
11:59 am
hurshy

oHO i found an S
12:01 pm
hurshy

oHO i found another one
12:03 pm
hurshy

4-3-7-3
12:04 pm
hurshy

does anyone have MORE than 4 SN words?
12:04 pm
hokie carla

haven't really done the S
12:04 pm
welki

haha - i have two
12:04 pm
hokie carla

hung up on the left N
12:04 pm
hurshy

that's funny, that was my first grey tile
12:04 pm
hokie carla

oh, there's some
12:04 pm
hokie carla

ha, of course
12:05 pm
hokie carla

I have only grayed both O's
12:05 pm
hurshy

woot, found a pair of SO
12:06 pm
hurshy

and a T! now i'm down to 2 or fewer per tile!
12:09 pm
hurshy

300 words! Rs Routed!
12:13 pm
hurshy

Ls Lambasted!
12:17 pm
hurshy

think i'll get the list
12:18 pm
hokie carla

still grinding it out here
12:19 pm
hurshy

just feel pretty stuck at 11
12:19 pm
hokie carla

97 left here
12:21 pm
hokie carla

almost svelte
12:21 pm
hokie carla

ugh, have just noticed 25 v's
12:22 pm
hurshy

they're not TOO terrible really
12:25 pm
hokie carla

found 18 but moving on
12:26 pm
hurshy

ok of my 11, only 3 were fishy. one babblet, one plural, one i thought i'd entered.
12:26 pm
hokie carla

well done
12:30 pm
hokie carla

well, going to lunch. 64 for later.
12:30 pm
hokie carla

63, had to look briefly at the bottom L for HOET. :D
1:22 pm
mrloser

vaes
1:48 pm
mkg

hi all. any clues for 7s or 8s welcome. ty
1:50 pm
ChampFit

Mkg, no offense, but way too many 7's to clue. ;) 8's are ce7-8, en7-8, no7-8, tr7-8
1:50 pm
ivesyj

any clue for no 7 plz
1:51 pm
mkg

champ just one or two are fine. but ty for the stats.
1:51 pm
ivesyj

oops just found it.
1:51 pm
ChampFit

The estate in a Jane Austen novel.
1:51 pm
BzznBea

There are clues for the 7/8s scattered in the chat as usual.
1:52 pm
ChampFit

Hi bea! Just found that my last 2 D's were those I KNEW I'd typed. Moron!
1:54 pm
ChampFit

Calling bull@#$% on the fl7
2:02 pm
ChampFit

Done! Last word va5 rhymes with not truth. Enjoy!
2:23 pm
MollyL

I'll call straight up bullshit on the fl7
2:26 pm
BzznBea

Champ agrees
3:02 pm
hokie carla

lol, what is that, a cruise ship? thx for stat. rehi!
3:02 pm
BzznBea

a a floating hotel
3:04 pm
ChampFit

Ha! Just came back online and babble was up....Molly and I are in agreement.
3:04 pm
ChampFit

Re-bye!
3:09 pm
Trifioso

hello friends.
3:09 pm
Trifioso

so much to love about a big grid on a rainy saturday afternoon!
3:10 pm
hokie carla

so...a cruise ship
3:10 pm
hokie carla

definitely a portmanteau I've never actually heard used, like elhi
3:10 pm
hokie carla

hey trif
3:10 pm
hokie carla

hi/bye, champ. hi, bea!
3:11 pm
Trifioso

hello hokie. I agree, that is a silly word indeed
3:18 pm
hokie carla

I wonder if people thought motel was silly and how long it took to catch on
3:19 pm
Trifioso

I finally took a cruise last year, kicking and fussing....had an absolute blast! Would love to do an Alaskan cruise sometime
3:29 pm
hokie carla

would also like to do that
3:29 pm
hokie carla

have been on 2 in caribbean.
4:08 pm
hokie carla

well, I have 38 left and only one 4, so I think this grid is too hard for me.
4:34 pm
BzznBea

I have 75 left. Another day of not finishing.
4:39 pm
clg47

On a fl 7 now, headed to Reykjavik. It’s been fun.
5:06 pm
MetFan

I have an S word that's not registering on "MY Word List"-any suggestions?
5:07 pm
MetFan

It keeps telling me I've already added it, yet the S box is not greying
5:07 pm
MetFan

I've refreshed and all is well
5:08 pm
MetFan

valos