Sunday, August 23, 2026

ENTIRE CHAT LOG

12:03 am
MetFan

Howdy all
12:05 am
Gillie

hi - co7
12:07 am
dizgrannie

hi all, qu 7
12:09 am
Gillie

sh7
12:10 am
ursh

hello all
12:15 am
Gillie

am7
12:15 am
Gillie

am8
12:16 am
Rainiqui

nbt, nbs
12:16 am
Rainiqui

Thanks Gillie
12:16 am
Gillie

yw
12:17 am
dizgrannie

nbt/nbs
12:19 am
licketySplitAUS

Clues are up
12:19 am
MetFan

ty lickety
12:56 am
saanichcat

aceta
12:57 am
saanichcat

sorry
2:25 am
jbp

cardio is not a word? yeesh
2:25 am
jbp

Thanks Lickety
2:30 am
dizgrannie

FWs, can't believe my last word was do 4....I'll open it for you to go before me...lol
6:12 am
marilyn992

ua
6:16 am
MollyL

Hmm, I wonder if that word was door
7:27 am
godthaab

Name that proper noun -piano player., not a woman
7:28 am
rururocks

Liberace
7:28 am
ChampFit

Well that was outta left field1
7:29 am
rururocks

that's the only field I play in :D
7:30 am
godthaab

Ruru, that's funny!!!
8:51 am
maccafixx

tu 7/32?
8:52 am
ChampFit

Apparently I eed that one too mac
9:00 am
hurshy

gooooooood morning babbleland
9:00 am
ChampFit

gm hursh!
9:00 am
maccafixx

what about the te 7/36?
9:01 am
ChampFit

Missing that too.
9:02 am
hurshy

ooh that's a fun sh7
9:02 am
ChampFit

Took me so long to see it...was my last S
9:02 am
hurshy

not me, i still need one other one
9:03 am
hurshy

aHA
9:03 am
hokie carla

howdy folks
9:03 am
hurshy

hiya hokie
9:03 am
hokie carla

215 left
9:03 am
ChampFit

The gang's all here!
9:03 am
hokie carla

ah, thought we had emphatic today
9:03 am
ChampFit

phantom: tequila
9:06 am
sandy211

Orad
9:07 am
hurshy

one more T to grey the top row...
9:07 am
hurshy

but i got the tu5/18, what more does it want
9:08 am
hokie carla

struggling a bit with the top row
9:08 am
hokie carla

but just had a hummingbird visit, so that was nice
9:08 am
hurshy

:)
9:08 am
ChampFit

Exactly. btw...the tu7 comes before the tu5.
9:09 am
ChampFit

a-HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
9:09 am
hurshy

o there's a tu7? well that's what i need then
9:09 am
hurshy

tut it's not tuition
9:09 am
hurshy

*but
9:09 am
ChampFit

Just found it. Cool reptile
9:10 am
hokie carla

just typed tuatara without looking and it's not that
9:10 am
hurshy

alt sp
9:10 am
hokie carla

can't rem. what that is - a spider?
9:10 am
hurshy

thanks champ
9:10 am
hurshy

she said reptile. spiders are not reptiles.
9:10 am
hokie carla

I know
9:10 am
ChampFit

Switch out one of the a's for another vowel carla.
9:11 am
hokie carla

that's why I was saying maybe it was a spider since it wasn't there, but then you said alt sp
9:11 am
hurshy

ah
9:11 am
hokie carla

then I realized it was there
9:13 am
hurshy

but you can't alt sp pima cotton :(
9:15 am
hokie carla

phantom ashthma
9:16 am
hokie carla

I meant asthma
9:16 am
BzznBea

mast
9:16 am
hokie carla

can't type today
9:16 am
ChampFit

oooooh...good one!
9:16 am
BzznBea

I can't see today. Sorry.
9:17 am
hokie carla

phantom attic
9:17 am
hokie carla

and attique is not an alt sp
9:17 am
BzznBea

ha!
9:19 am
hurshy

rats, i really thought hematid was something
9:20 am
ChampFit

There's a rodent in the H's
9:20 am
hurshy

ooh thanks
9:20 am
hurshy

now just need one more there
9:20 am
ChampFit

I was blind to it...figured someone else might be too,
9:20 am
hurshy

i still love the ha7dance song
9:20 am
BzznBea

Speaking of rodents...We discovered one has been living amongst us for several months.
9:21 am
hokie carla

eww
9:21 am
ChampFit

They're sneaky like that Bea
9:21 am
BzznBea

This one lives under our wrap around porch. We have named him Gregory Groundhog.
9:22 am
welki

'morning, folks
9:22 am
hokie carla

welki!
9:22 am
hurshy

awww
9:22 am
hokie carla

we have a bazillion chipmunks under our porch I think
9:22 am
hurshy

tell Gregory i said hello
9:22 am
hurshy

oooeee got my first 8
9:22 am
72 Temple Owl

hello babblers
9:23 am
ChampFit

Which one? I'm on my last word and it's one of the cos
9:23 am
hokie carla

is hemastat just something I hear on TV or spelled differently?
9:23 am
hokie carla

TO!
9:23 am
hurshy

sorry, it's am7&8
9:23 am
hurshy

hemostat
9:23 am
hokie carla

ah
9:23 am
72 Temple Owl

carla!
9:25 am
hurshy

phantom: astute
9:25 am
rururocks

and statue for that matter
9:26 am
hokie carla

yep, I thought I saw statue earlier
9:27 am
ChampFit

FW. Had to use morewords for the co8's. Need anything?
9:27 am
hokie carla

apparently the co8s
9:27 am
hokie carla

but I'm still on 2nd row
9:27 am
hurshy

cophetua i think is some ancient greek character from something
9:27 am
hokie carla

vowel obstruction again today
9:27 am
rururocks

steroid is a phantom for me in this grid
9:28 am
ChampFit

One comes from each of the c's. They stand alone. One is a weird compound, and the other has a robotic ending. Enjoy!
9:28 am
hokie carla

no way, ruru
9:28 am
hokie carla

have a good day, champ
9:29 am
penquis

wow....found those co 8s ....hello all...
9:29 am
hokie carla

pen!
9:29 am
hurshy

wait so you finished but you never told mac what the te7 is
9:30 am
penquis

carla!
9:30 am
hokie carla

teamhop - what college football players do now
9:30 am
hurshy

teamster, if we could re-use tiles
9:31 am
hurshy

but that's 8
9:31 am
rururocks

te7 where you buy tea
9:31 am
penquis

ty, ru...
9:31 am
hurshy

oh. well that was not so hard
9:32 am
hurshy

i thought it was gonna be something weird
9:32 am
hokie carla

I liked mine better :P
9:32 am
rururocks

not the way I clued it :D jeez
9:32 am
hokie carla

will save y'all some trouble - enable does not like cardio
9:32 am
maccafixx

I still need one of those co 8/55's?
9:33 am
penquis

just tried cardio...
9:33 am
hurshy

i got the one with the robot ending
9:33 am
maccafixx

me too
9:33 am
penquis

the other stays in the top left corner...compound....
9:34 am
penquis

should say top left quarter of the grid...
9:34 am
hurshy

yes, just got it
9:34 am
hurshy

that is a funny word
9:34 am
penquis

yes...
9:34 am
hokie carla

I thought maybe hens were coopmates
9:34 am
penquis

you are so close...
9:34 am
hurshy

very close
9:35 am
rururocks

yes.. they're often clutching each other
9:35 am
maccafixx

ty got it. One left... that darn tu 7 reptile. Not getting it?
9:36 am
hokie carla

ends in the first part of 1000 gigabytes
9:36 am
rururocks

well I laid an egg on that pun
9:37 am
hokie carla

you're just gonna roost there now, aren't you
9:38 am
rururocks

no not at all just typing up pullet points
9:39 am
rururocks

and trying to put a capon on it.
9:39 am
hokie carla

do you wear a comb-over, ruru?
9:39 am
hurshy

don't you think the french should call a cork a corque
9:40 am
hokie carla

yes, just like attique
9:43 am
hurshy

if we had an L we could have caracal
9:43 am
penquis

phantom: aquatic...
9:43 am
hokie carla

and equate/equator
9:44 am
hokie carla

and camphor
9:44 am
hurshy

the Cs are a slog, even already having the 8s from the clues
9:45 am
hokie carla

and create
9:45 am
hokie carla

I'm actually better on the c's than the top S
9:46 am
hurshy

all 4s and 5s except one normal (from hindi!) sh7
9:46 am
hurshy

it's from hindi but it's normal because it came into english so long ago we are very used to it
9:47 am
hokie carla

I have sh7 that you use on your hair, but I don't think that's the one
9:47 am
hurshy

yes, that is the one
9:47 am
hokie carla

wow, who knew
9:47 am
hurshy

so all the others are 4s and 5s
9:48 am
hurshy

i knew
9:48 am
hokie carla

I meant who else knew that's not a super word nerd
9:48 am
hurshy

it's all what random facts one happens to come across in life
9:51 am
hurshy

that one is pretty easy to remember once you have learned it, i think
9:51 am
MollyL

area
9:55 am
hokie carla

phantom cardiac
9:55 am
hurshy

stretch phantom daiquiri
9:56 am
hurshy

see hokie that's how you guard against phantom gatekeepers - you just call it a stretch phantom to declare upfront that it's not as close to being there as some other phantoms :D
9:56 am
hokie carla

lol, was just going to say no way ruru lets that one in
9:56 am
hurshy

what can he say, i admitted it's a stretch already
9:57 am
hokie carla

phantom audit
9:57 am
hurshy

did you get the babblet that is very close to being that
9:57 am
hokie carla

the mine opening? I don't really think of that as a babblet
9:58 am
hurshy

oh is that what it is? i never found out
9:59 am
hokie carla

I learned it in scrabble vs my dad years ago but it used to be in crosswords a lot too.
9:59 am
hurshy

ah
10:00 am
hurshy

my grandmother only knew about the sport of jai alai from crosswords and she therefore pronounced it "Jay Allay"
10:00 am
hokie carla

LOL
10:00 am
Shirlockc

is that not how you pronounce it?
10:00 am
hurshy

no, it's "high lie"
10:00 am
hokie carla

it's like high a-lie
10:01 am
hurshy

dread
10:01 am
Shirlockc

huh, a word I've only read and never heard out loud
10:01 am
hurshy

whoops
10:01 am
penquis

i saw it on tv when i was a kid....
10:01 am
hokie carla

was thinking it was spanish, hence the pronunciation, but google tells me basque
10:02 am
penquis

i am supposedly 2 percent Basque... ;o)
10:02 am
hurshy

well, the basques are next to spain, but i believe linguists say their language is like nothing else on earth
10:02 am
hokie carla

it's big in FL I think.
10:02 am
penquis

true...
10:02 am
hurshy

or, like nothing else modern, anyway
10:02 am
hokie carla

nice, pen!
10:03 am
penquis

the Basques were great navigators in the 15 and 1600s....
10:03 am
hurshy

oh really? i thought they were more stay-at-home types
10:03 am
hokie carla

anyone else read the Longmire books? I guess there are Basques in WY.
10:03 am
penquis

apparently they were known for their sea navigation skills...
10:04 am
hurshy

well when i found am7&8 and champ said there were 2 co8, i thought hopefully i would find whatever the fourth one was along the way
10:05 am
hurshy

but i haven't
10:05 am
hokie carla

google ai tells me if you can read spanish, it shares many similar vowel and consonant sounds with a few unique exceptions
10:05 am
hurshy

never believe what AI tells you
10:05 am
hurshy

it might be right, it might not, it's a crap shoot
10:05 am
hurshy

phantom: droop
10:06 am
hokie carla

just like wikipedia
10:06 am
hokie carla

and if ai is pulling from wiki, double whammy
10:07 am
hurshy

wikipedia is actually a lot more accurate on a lot of topics - they have a lot of checking done by a lot of people
10:07 am
hokie carla

yeah, I think the articles are way more accurate than they used to be, esp. the ones that are very technical.
10:07 am
hokie carla

ok, all I can see on the top E is emphasis and related words
10:08 am
hurshy

i tried to add something to a page one time, about something said in a star trek episode, and they were like "you can't put this unless you cite a source" and i'm like "i don't want to bother trying to figure out how to properly cite a star trek episode"
10:08 am
hokie carla

oh, found a plural
10:08 am
hurshy

they are all EP
10:08 am
hokie carla

and the other. nm
10:09 am
hokie carla

almost pheasant
10:10 am
hurshy

yes! i wished for an N for that, and ocean, and maybe one other one
10:10 am
hokie carla

oh, i just found sh5 - saw that used on a show last night
10:10 am
hokie carla

and just found my last O
10:11 am
hurshy

rats, the chog doesn't seem to say what the other 8 is
10:12 am
hokie carla

still 35 left. not my favorite grid. 11-12-7-3-2
10:12 am
Shirlockc

there's 2 co8s right?
10:12 am
hurshy

yes
10:12 am
Shirlockc

i don't have either darn
10:12 am
hurshy

0-4-4-1-1
10:12 am
hokie carla

ok, just found the am7/8 set
10:12 am
hurshy

well they aren't exactly normal, shirl
10:13 am
Shirlockc

that's the hint to ask for a hint :D
10:13 am
hokie carla

there were some hints earlier but they may have scrolled off
10:13 am
hurshy

deal with something + spouse (or friend, in british lingo)
10:14 am
hurshy

the other one starts with the mom from Downton Abbey and has the robot ending
10:14 am
hurshy

aHA just remembered that el do6 counts
10:15 am
Shirlockc

got the downton abbey one ...
10:15 am
hokie carla

guess I'm going to do some productive things. TTFN.
10:15 am
penquis

the other is a compound word...
10:15 am
penquis

bye, carla...
10:16 am
Shirlockc

k, got both those C8, thx for the hints
10:17 am
hurshy

i got a text purporting that there is a message from my amazon delivery driver. i AM expecting a package today, but the link looks weird and suspicious.
10:17 am
hurshy

i hate that
10:18 am
Shirlockc

yeah, never click on those
10:23 am
hurshy

why do i keep trying 4s when i am done with 4s
10:23 am
penquis

found the last 8...dr 8...
10:25 am
hurshy

*puzz puzz puzz*
10:27 am
hurshy

well, do you think i'll need a clue?
10:28 am
penquis

compound word....
10:28 am
penquis

british word for convertible....never heard of it myself...
10:29 am
hurshy

ty
10:29 am
penquis

yw...
10:29 am
hurshy

name that proper noun! ______ Scott King
10:29 am
penquis

coretta
10:30 am
hurshy

ding ding ding!!!
10:31 am
penquis

need a break....leaving 35 for later....bye....
10:43 am
hurshy

well THAT's a weird one
10:43 am
hurshy

ac7/44
10:43 am
BzznBea

which A does it come from
10:44 am
hurshy

left
10:46 am
BzznBea

thanks.
11:02 am
hurshy

another bee that i wouldn't have gotten the pangram without morewords today
12:33 pm
hokie carla

LOL, I just got it 4th word
12:34 pm
hokie carla

we are opposites a lot
3:38 pm
hokie carla

well, listed and there were 2 4s that I entered earlier but weren't here. 8 left now, all As and Cs but impossible to know which one to look from.
3:39 pm
saanichcat

growling here, this was a horrible grid. GRRRRR.
3:40 pm
saanichcat

hey hi carla!
4:41 pm
hokie carla

hey saan
5:17 pm
Book Doctor Gwen

almost forgot to babble today! (hi all)