hello everyone

hi hi

hi : )

howdy

how r we all doing 2night?

good, thanks. you? : )

s'good. good dinner, warm fire in the fireplace, good white wine :)

sounds great Krys! I am glad that I get to have a study break

studying on a friday night? that should be illegal

it should be, so should finals

aw shucks. what are you studying for?

took my econ this morn, got psych and calc that i have to study for

i also have phys, but as long as a i get a 55% on the exam i still get an A in the class

calculus and psych.. two of my favorite things to study for!

oh believe me!, i have a 75 pgs of notes to go through for calc, and over 300 ppt slides for psych

my calculus study sessions in college always involved ben and jerry's ice cream...

if i could afford that, it would too, but right now its just a bunch of caffeine

there aren't enough 1's in this puzzle!

sounds like youv

you've got your prioritiies straight :)

thats right, and i also have my countdown going until next friday when it is all over

where did u go to college?

wesleyan, in connecticut

dual major in math and education. later got a masters in psychiatric social work.

had trouble deciding :)

you?

wow! thats crazy, nicely done!

Georgia Tech, freshman, studying for Industrial and Systems Engineering

i wish i had gone an engineering route. i

m a big time engineering geek now, without the skills

I left GT :)

where'd you go?

work :)

haha, dave, i can totally see why you would want to, but I am gonna get that degree!

yeah, I'm probably going to go to KSU... GT just kills me

need the piece of paper

but the way I see it, by the time i am done next year w/ my sophomore year i will be completely done w/ math, science, english, and all but 1 CS class

then what will you take?

engineering classes and electives

yeah, I got my basics and a few major courses (nuclear/radiological) done with, which is nice

will likely switch to CS at kennesaw

oh wow, NRE, now i really see why u left GT

hehe, it wasn't too bad

my passion is more in CS, and I don't much care for Tech's program

ya, GTs program is nuts!

but you should see the new CoC thats being opened next spring semester

yeah, I've driven by it a bit... was a second year when they started building it :)

gotcha, what sucks is they shut down that part of Ferst Drive, so it causes traffic like crazy on Atlantic

ah, i bet

is anyone else a little stuck on this one?

*this puzzle

i'm putting in green numbers now...

i am slowing down but i think it's my brain not the puzzle.

I'm stuck.... just about to start guessing. ; )

same here

u mean i have resort to subscripts?

probably, there are a few tricky areas it looks like

well, *you* don't have to if you don't want to :P

I ended up putting them in

haha, thanks Krys

i was rolling smoothly, then somewhere messed up...not sure where so I had to start over

ooh, i hate that!

set, that is the story of my life

I'll bounce back though, I know it

setrow - snap. me, too. : ( Think I'll leave it till tomorrow.

good luck everybody. bye for now : )

well good luck when you give it another go

thanks : )

finished... there was something tricky in eliminating possibilities, but filling out greens made it easier to find

good luck all, and good night

all done! row'block intersections, always my downfall.
have a good weekend, everybody.

im getting there, i am seeing a bunch of conclusions that can be drawn slowly but surely

crap, gotta start over

another one bites the dust :)

Good work! Mine's falling, too.

there we go!

done!, have a goodnight everyone

morning/evening everyone :-)

hello

I, for one, welcome our new cucumber overlords.

Hail to the cucumber!

hi Lickety

hello! how's everyone? how's the puzzle today?

ppfftt!

please don't put words from the grid in the log, lickety. oh, wait. wrong game, wrong day. never mind.

how was football, lickety?

i'm too sleepy too tired to think, so i guessed.

Good afternoon all

Oh help, medium. That can be anything.

hi all, have fun

hi thomas

best of luck sprite :-)

I just finished the obvious phase, so I need a bit of luck, lol. Thanks :)

yello sprite!

Today, the obvious phase dissolves smoothly and seemlessly into the stuck phase, lol.

Hi lickety!

how is the monster puzzle going?

Slowly, because I have little time, and on paper it is harder. But it is FUN!!! What a giant.

I really do miss the computerized input though. Typing away is the real fun phase and I cannot do that now. I do hope Dr_G will do something with the idea.

will see if it is feasable

That would be so great. You are really good at programming, aren't you? And website building. I don't know anything about that, I must confess.

Finished - Green men required

Finished!

I am getting absolutely nowhere. I am pretty sure I am missing something obvious again

I have one column, 7th one.

I was missing one obvious... found the little bugger and everything fell into place in about a minute!

That must be the one I don't see, I guess, lol. Will keep looking.

Congrats on finishing, btw :D

I got the middle columns all filled out before I got stuck

thanks sprite

Thanks for the hint, I will concentrate on those. :)

All done; see ya again, best of luck to youse all

Bye thomas, gj!

Bye sprite

Hi Sprite

Lickety reckons this is a good one... and if you are stuck, I am already a goner!

Hey mrP, brilliant monster maker ;)

thanks

I just started over and things are going better now. Must have made a mistake the first time.

have you found the 17 letter word yet?

Not yet, haven't really had time to work on it. Will today, though!

ok!

It's a real word, right? Not a babblet?

it is a real word.... a really big word too!

I double checked it 25 times in a2z

I simply love it. What a challenge :) I just wish I could type in the words, that would be grand. Guess I am spoiled by the website of babble!

true true!! we all are!! LOL

I will look into it though... promise

Oh, that would be LOVELY! If that works out, I will inform my family I am incommunicado all day then! :)

sprite, will take about 3 hours to write it... will be slow on the initial loading but will get onto it. will email you.

Thank you SO much! :)

This is an odd-lookin' one

Hi David. It is.

Hey, sprite

How are you today?

finished!! wow

Getting nowhere, really. I feel so stupid.

go look in the bottom left corner sprite... there is a naked one in there

Ok, thanks for the hint! :)

MrP, that was it! Thanks, done now.

Congrats, sprite

(yawns) I'm still one-third asleep

I did guess twice, though. Both times right the first time, but still.

David, you can do this one even in your sleep, I am sure ;)

for real!!

Heh

oh good! congrats sprite!

this bites. i had all but 2 single squares filled in and it doesn't fit

blah

not good!!!

this one has been the hardest for me in the past week

i think this one is easier than yesterday's 'easy'

lol yesterdays i flew through, maybe i just can't concentrate properly today.. oh well i'll try again later, toodles :)

hehe i guess it just depends on different peoples techiques

hurray, just got it

i love the roll yo get towards the end!

truly

Got it. :)

not bad...

pretty straightforward, no need to guess...

blah this is my third attemp after restarting (damn not being pro) and i am stuck again

anyone have any tips for strategies ?

finally! I must've been blind for some reason, finally it just clicked

very interesting one today:-)

Now THAT'S what I call a MEDIUM! Yippeee!!! solved :-)

hello everybody

I completed my first sudoku. Today, I am a man.

LOL! well, congratulations on your newfound manhood.

hi yul!

good day

have to green a bit, was hoping not too

done

Hi all

not bad for a medium. i must be getting better

and awaaaay we go!

lol caff, i just saw what you said about manhood and was momentarily shocked

...*raises eyebrows* hey, I come in and see the word 'mahood' XD is it going to be a good evening?

hello all

howdy all

hello

werd

weird, or word?

worrrdd!

wat up dawg?

heh, glad this puzzle's not "hard" this time

hard is a state of mind

and whom are we conspiring against today?

hmm that wasn't quite right

it should be

and against whom are we conspiring today?

it SOUNDS better the first way, but the second way is proper

always raging against the machine, it's a daily struggle for solidarity ;)

machine? hast thou cast thy sabot in as a protest?

i know, i know, you're confused because i'm using king james english and mixing it with dutch... a bit of a melange, yes

all i could come up with for sabot was a wooden shoe.

exactly!

heh, in that case i have no idea. conspiring against pretty much anything is fun

especially if it's repressive neo-conservatives

but we don't need to get into all that here ;)

hear, hear

valeris, in star trek VI, explains that when workers felt their livelihood threatened by machines, they cast their wooden shoes, called "sabot", into the machines to stop them. hence the term, sabotage.

(re: neo-cons)

down with neo-cons!

hurshy has started a soapbox for social revoltion!

*revolution, gee!

no i think that was you

i am merely marius to your enjolras

this is a very quiet revolution.

we need a song.

this is true.

am working on an archive expert - bad.

RED... the blood of angry men

BLACK... the dark of ages past

You say you want a revolution?

RED... a world about to dawn

BLACK... the night that ends at last!

Hm, are those the colors of the flag of revolution?

i don't know diane, we're only in the fomenting stage right now

haven't you folks listened to the les mis soundtrack?

Marius, it looks as though you've seen a ghost

the ideas seem neutral until convened upon by the council of elders...

i have not listened to the soundtrack, no.

I'm feeling rather revoltish right now. Revolted? revoltable? revolting? Whatever--I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!

Diane was ssuggesting a song... Beatles...

well join us little schoolboys, kittybat, we will wet ourselves with blood

Well, well. This is marvelous!

Not to mention a line from Les Mis . . .

well the trouble is diane, i have not had the funds to see the musical, i only know the songs.

sudoku is a more fitting place for revolution than Babble...

absolutely sherb. move forward with sword in hand!

Or at least a water pistol

with arsenic

hmm, why sherb

you too hursh, diane and kittybat

i would have thought babble, homonym of babel, where man tried to rebel against God, would have been a very fitting place for revolution

babble is very cosy...

done!

now, I can help plan the revolt

congrats, oh child of michael keaton and michelle pfeiffer

lol

eyes drooping... this one can wait until another day... nite all :)

goodnight

nighty night sherb

Not.

Hello World:

What do you guys think about this one?

Medium :)

Thanks

no problem

take it easy .as is

bye . tomorrow

These puzzles fail to compare to the one I solved yesterday

how so

I solved the ultimate Sudoku in five hours

where?

There is a website. The puzzle is called the Dion cube. It is made up of 9 Sudoku puzzles. You must solve them using the basic rules, but now adding 3-D rules

I have never done one like that. I have done one that is 5 overlapping but never 3D

The puzzle isn't 3-D itself but if you were to stack the puzzles on each other like a cube, it would follow the Sudoku rules

oh I see so the new rule goes up & down?

yes on top of the regular rules

that sounds painful

It actually ended up not being that hard

but it made you think

About half an hour of the time was checking to see if it was right

hey hurshy dear, you there?

atalante - i'm here now

an hour and a half later...

la cucaracha la cucaracha doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

uuuuuuuuunited states canada mexico panama haiti jamaica peru, repulic dominican, cuba, caribbean, greeland, el salvador too, puerto rico columbia venezuela honduras guyana and still guatemala bolivia then argentina and ecuador chile brazil...costa rica belize nicaragua bermuda bahamas tobago san juan, paraguay uruguay suriname and french guyana barbados and guam

LOL hurshy!!

that's just the first verse...i'm just getting started

i'll settle in then -)

;-) i meant

my keyboard is a bit sticky for some reason

norway and sweden and iceland and finland and germany now one piece, switzerland austria czechoslovakia, italy turkey and greece, poland romania scotland albania, ireland russia oman, bulgaria saudi arabia hungary cyprus iraq and iran...there's syria lebanon israel jordan both yemens kuwait and bahrain, the netherlands luxembourg belgium and portugal, france england denmark and spain

good heavens, i think you are the only person i know who knows that whole song

india pakistan burma afghanistan thailand nepal and bhutan, kampuchea malaysia then bangladesh, asia, and china korea japan, mongolia laos and tibet indonesia the philippine islands taiwan, sri lanka new guinea sumatra new zealand then borneo and vietnam...tunisia morocco uganda angola zimbabwe djibouti botswana, mozambique zambia swaziland gambia guinea algeria ghana

burundi lesotho and malawi togo, the spanish sahara is gone, niger nigeria chad and liberia, egypt benin and gabon, tanzania somalia kenya and mali sierra leone and algier, dahome namibia senegal libya cameroon congo zaire....ethiopia guinea bissau madagascar rwanda mayhore and cayman, hong kong abu dhabi qatar yugoslavia.........crete mauritania, then transylvania, monaco lichtenstein malta and palestine fiji australia sudan!

there, now i'm done.

it's not REALLY all the countries and of course it's old so some of the countries have rearranged, but it is fun to sing!

rachael?

hmm...if i'm all alone i may have to sing sad songs...

nobody knows...the trouble i've seen...nobody knows my sorrow

not alone

hello jdbarney

hello

any requests?

not at this time :)

ok then i will just go as my whimsy takes me

sittin' on the dock of the bay, watchin' the tiiiide roll away...sittin' on the dock of the bay, wastin' time...

Guessing you have completed today's puzzle already?

lol, of course

business before pleasure

I'll be done in a few minutes - just started

hmmm, maybe some jeopardy music is in order

;)

doo doo doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo DOO doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo, DOO doo doo doo doo...doo...doo (bum bum)

LOL

done yet?

is the answer 42?

no

then i am not done yet

luck be a lady tonight...

logic be a lady tonight

a little luck can't hurt even in sudoku

and logic is always a lady

though a lady isn't always logical

now with that - i must agree

if p then q does NOT prove if q then p!

no math - not this late

it is just logic, and what do you think you are doing if not logic?

that's fair

hows about some weird al...

so i heard that you're leavin

sure

gonna leave me far behind

cause you found a brand new lover

you decided that i'm not your kind

so i pulled your name out of my rolodex

and i tore all your pictures in two

and i burned down the malt shop where we used to go

just because it reminds me of you......

that's right, you ain't gonna see me cryin

i'm glad that you found somebody new

cause i'd rather spend eternity eating shards of broken glass

than spend one more minute with you

i guess i might seem kind of bitter

you got me feelin down in the dumps

cause i'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love

and i have to use the self-service pumps

singing to yourself?

ohhh so honey, let me help you with that suitcase

(no to jdbarney)

that's good. I was a bit worried.

and she takes requests

you ain't gonna break my heart in two

cause i'd rather get a hundred thousand paper cuts on my face than spend one more minute with you

i'd rather rip out my intestines with a fork than watch you going out with other men

i'd rather slam my fingers in a door...again and again and again and again and again

oh can't you see what i'm tryin to say darlin...i'd rather have my blood sucked out by leeches

shove an icepick under a toenail or two

ouch

i'd rather clean all the bathrooms in grand central station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you

yes, i'd rather jump naked on a huge pile of thumbtacks

or stick my nostrils together with crazy glue

i'd rather dive into a swimming pool filled with double edged razor blades than spend one more minute with you

i'd rather rip my heart right out of my ribcage with my bare hands and then throw it on the floor and stomp on it til i die....

than spend... one more minute... with you... (ooo ooo ooo ooo)

weird al is a great man - it is nearly impossible to sing that song without laughing.

yet he manages it.

he has talent (and so do you)

i have memory

is that a talent?

yes!

of course

hmmm...artlady, you have any requests?

i know, same idea, subtler humor

eat it

I'm hungry

this is a song that george jones did... he did it so good it'd make you weep. it'd make your dog weep to hear this song

it'd make your roof leak to hear this song

my dog is dead

this is a song called "she thinks i still care"

(oh, i'm so sorry artlady!)

I'm still hungry. Will the jones song take care of my rumbling stomach?

i think you'll have to get some actual food for that...

too many calories in real food. sigh.

just because i asked a friend about her...just because i spoke her name somewhere...just because i dialed her number by mistake today... she thinks i still care

and just because i haunt the same old places, where the memory of her lingers everywhere...just because i'm not the happy guy i used to be... she thinks i still care

and if she's happy thinking i still need her...then let that foolish notion bring a tear....oh but how could she ever be so foolish....tell me, where would she get such an idea?

just because i asked a friend about her...just because i spoke her name somewhere...just because i saw her and went all to pieces.... she thinks i still care

ohhhh sheeeeee thiiiiinks iiiiiii still caaaaaaaaare

i have a food song for you artlady...but it's quite unhealthy

i could do captain vegetable but i did that earlier today on babble

Don't want to repeat yourself. You're in fine form tonight!

ok then, be careful what you eat it is

hurshy, I think you have been delightful lately, but how have you been? Have you been getting enough sleep? How's your energy level?

oh i'm good mab, thanks :)

good!

SPOKEN: hey, let's get some ice cream! how bout this one? pistachio almond fruit fudge butterscotch delight. ingredients: zinc trisodium aspartate, sorbatol and bisulfate, oxide, beta caretene, lactic acid, carob bean

*music begins*

a hush falls over the room...

Hi arty! May I call you that?

you betcha!

(my Wisconsin roots strike again...)

grade A milk emulsified, malto-dextrin alkalide, silicon deoxylite, lots of sugar (hey alright!)

calcified synthetic salt, artificial barley malt, glycerine and aspartate, folic acid (that tastes great!)

You need to find better reading material, hurshy. I'm reading a chapter on Pacific art....well, I took a break from it!

Easter Island, etc.

monosodium glutamate, dehydrated calceinate, soybean oil, butter, fat, caramel center (i'll eat that!)

No dairy or artificial sweeteners in mine please, hurshy. You don't mind whipping up an extra batch, do you?

hoooooray for sugar cause we love it chocolate chips we want more of it cake and ice cream watch us shove it down our throats real fast

(it's a SONG, and i WARNED you it was unhealthy)

here's a candy bar, you tried it? hey let's all see what's inside it!

Ah, now I 'm seeing the music...

or facing it

gelllllatinized triglycerin, phosphate, soybean, lecithin, deoxylite trisilicon, dipped in chocolate (bring it on!)

citrus enzymes, BHT, powdered milk (sounds good to me!), baking soda, carob gum, carbohydrates (yummy yum!)

monosodium glutamate, zinc disodium algenate, whole grain flour, yeast and fat (time to eat it - i'll do that!)

we like sweets a lot, but they make your insides rot, so remember it's your body and the only one you've got!

well you know artlady there just aren't that many songs about food

alcohol, yes

TEQUILA!

yes, tequila!!!!

course there aren't really any other words to that one

im stuck!

you can just imagine the music in your head

in a warp bubble?

jump into the vortex, i know it looks dangerous but just do it

it's the only way out!

no? nobody's seen one of the best episodes of TNG???

well, I finished, so I have to go back to my reading. A song about farewells?

goodnight my love

pleasant dreams, sleep tight my love

oh but you're reading not sleeping

sound of music?

so long, farewell, auf wiedersein, goodbye...

Ooh, forgot the next line

(depends on the verse, i'll just pick my fave)

we flit, we float, we fleetly flee we fly

THAT reminds me of a GREAT song

try and say that 5 times fast

ciao

night artlady!

ciao arty

said the flea to the fly in the flue, said the flea oh what shall we do, said the fly let us flee said the flea let us fly so they flew threw the flaw in the flue!

let's mellow out a bit, shall we? some jay and the americans...

in a little cafe just the other side of the border

she was a-sitting there giving me looks that made my mouth water

so i started walking her way...she belonged to that man jose, and i knew yes i knew i should leave when i heard her saaaaaay

come a little bit closer you're my kind of man, so big and so strong, come a little bit closer, i'm all alone and the night is so long

so we started to dance in my arms she felt so inviting

and i just couldn't resist just one little kiss so exciting

then i heard the guitar player say...vamoose! jose's on his way, and i knew yes i knew i should run when i heard her saaaaaay

come a little bit closer you're my kind of man, so big and so strong, come a little bit closer, i'm all alone and the night is so long

then the music stopped... when i looked, the cafe was empty

then i heard jose say man you know you're in trouble plenty

he was hallucinating!

so i dropped my drink from my hand, and through the window i ran, and as i rode away i could hear her say to jose...

come a little bit closer, you're my kind of man, so big and so strong, come a little bit closer, i'm all alone and the night is so long

no he was not hallucinating, everyone just cleared out so jose wouldn't beat them up, i think.

And his lifeless body was found in a dumpster in the alley the next day.

nah, he rode away! he's fine.

Well, that's not very realistic.

but it's so funny!

she says the same thing to jose that she'd been saying to him!

Yah, I get it. I like the melody.

i think jellyzero is still stuck in the warp bubble.

mab, tell me something...

ok

am i starting to get a reputation as "that crazy lady" now?

yep

yep

lol, blackr, i don't even know you!

No, definitely not. I am wondering if you are becoming a bit manic.

only virtually, mab.

that's okay, there's nothing wrong with being crazy

anyway, everyone else is doing it

Insanity does fit with the romantic ideal of genius.

everyone else is not singing in the chatroom, blackr :)

but i'm only a genius in the technical sense.

well, you've got me there

not like einstein.

hershy I think your a little crazy, or drunk lol

hi scribble's mom, don't worry, i don't drink!

Moooon riiiiiiiver, wider than a mile, I'm crossing you int style some daaaaay....

i have never had any alcohol except dipping my wafer in the communion wine

aww, mab is trying to help me look less crazy, that is so sweet

And it's not even Sunday.

good you had me confused

right.

i just like to sing, that's all.

and it sounds better when i type than when i actually vocalize

....my huckleberry friend, moon river, and yooooooo.

:)

I can not carry a tune in a bucket

waitin' round the bend....

see but online, you CAN!!

I know one

go for it, scribble's mom!

Jesus loves the little children...........

lol

all the children of the world

Anybody can sing. Some people just need some pointers, maybe a little coaching. I learned that in my bat mitzvah class years ago.

red yellow black and white

they are precious in his sight

Jesus loves the little children of the world!!!

*claps*

see you did a fine job :)

*CLAP AND BUW*

BOW LOL

perhaps with mab here we should have changed Jesus to YHWH, since we can agree on him :)

hinay hinay hinay, ma tov uma na'im, shevet achim gam yachaaaaaaad....

MAB! did you see that frasier episode...

my absolute favorite...

if you did you will know what i mean i'm sure

when the brother is in a christmas paegent and frazier's girlfriend thinks frazier is Jewish?

no...

freddy's bar mitzvah, with frasier's speech in klingon!!

nope

you have to be a trek fan to really appreciate it i think

but it is pretty funny either way

Is he trying to sound like he's speaking hebrew?

see frasier wants to give the blessing at the end and he wants to do it in hebrew but he's not jewish, so he asks noel to translate what he wants to say and teach him how to say it

in exchange noel asks him to get scott bakula's autograph at a star trek convention, and frasier messes up and doesn't get it

that is funny.

so in retaliation, noel teaches him to say it in klingon instead

and he says it and the rabbi goes, that's not hebrew, that's gibberish

and one of freddy's friends gets up and says "that's not gibberish, that's klingon!"

and later he translates it into english for freddy

and then he says "but it's a lot more beautiful in the original klingon"

I must see that one

there is also a VERY funny and true-to-trekkie scene between noel and roz

i mean i love frasier to begin with, the wit and all, but when you throw trek into the mix - it is the perfect half hour.

Did you ever see the Shakey the Moil episode of Seinfeld? Very very funny.

yes :)

i saw them all...i worked for one of my profs who loved seinfeld and would show clips in class and one of my jobs was to watch all the tapes and summarize each episode and catalog them

hey hurshy :) and mab :)

YAY!

i have been singing for almost two hours hoping you would return!

:)

hi atalante! where are you now?

if everybody had an ocean...

sorry! I went off to have chocolate cake!

and I'm in California .... heading to Oregon in the morning

mmm chocolate cake.

you're seeing more of the US west than I've ever seen == it is good?

had a traumatic experience today - our mutual friend tried to talk to me on msn ......

OH NO, how did he know your name?

I had it in my profile. Wah.

silly girl.

i suppose you'll have to wait until later to tell me what you did

I know ... but people kept asking me ... but luckily I wasn't here so I couldn't reply :):)

oh, i see

then it's not that traumatic

traumatic enough!

I wouldn't know what to say to him!

ok now we're being rude, tell mab how the west is fun

he does pop up at the oddest moments

and did you both like how i answered mab's question in song??

ok that time i really thought we were subtle enough, how do people always know who we mean?

LOL yeah really!

I'm on the list too

the list?

so much for subtlety :)

have we got a club? with a treehouse? i have always wanted a treehouse.

yay! with a secret password?

I don't want to intrude.

you could never intrude mab we loooove you :)

intrude? but it was your idea, you brought up the list

But I do want to join a club that has a tree house

same here!

what did you mean by the list anyway??

and yes we can have a secret password but we can't say it here or it won't be secret

I'm afraid to say too much in this forum

but there's a list?

Not that I have anything dramatic

for real?

of some sort?

No, just seems like it

I think it should be 'chest hair'. did I say too much? ooops! *giggle*

Hey Hurshy

hello, limer

Sup, babe?

hahaha -- yes, I think you might.

escuse me, why you call me babe? am i a pig who herds sheep?

Hershy, I am now crazy from this Puzzle, I give up and Im going to bed. If I dont make it back this weekend I'll see you on Monday. Have a good weekend!!!

you too, scribble's mom!!! and really, i'm not crazy :)

she's not.

Uh......no. uh......sorry?

and mab, i can get my husband to tell you how i've been acting in the non-virtual world so you'll know i'm not manic either if you want :)

limer - it's ok but... i don't like to be called babe... :)

toots?

mmm, how about pally-o

Sure thing, Sunshine...er...Pally-O

That's very sexy

now, mab, you really must get AIM so we can chat more freely

what's sexy?

can I call you babe, hurshy? *kisses*

Pally-o.

ahhh... yes, you can ata

hurshy is you husband a Brit?

no, why?

The lime ref.

BIAS!

:)

my husband's a Brit!

limer, you're a boy, right?

Well that seems logical, Atl.

I have enough hair on my butt to weave an Indian rug. Don't call be boy.

well when i say "boy" i mean "male"

Just trying to be funny and failing miserably. Yes, I am male.

so yes, there is bias - girls may call me babe, but not boys :)

I'm getting a very bad visual on the hair rug thing

uh oh. butt hair now

k

limer - it would probably be funnier if we didn't have some bad experiences with body hair recently

mab: saw you and Ren talking about books on Babble earlier as I was reviewing log. Great source of books by mail is E.R. Hamilton. They have website, but haven't visited in ages. Half-Price Books (stores) have clearance section in back with great $3, $2 and $1 bargains. Borders Outlets also have good buys.

I do not think "we" have had ANY bad experiences.

by we i mean mab, atalante, and i

oh, thanks broll, I'll look.

*still shuddering*

k

atalante, sprite was so mean to me today

Forgive me for dredging up bad memories

lol, it's all humorous, really limer

I'm so confused.

it's ok limer - just don't worry, nobody is upset with you, ok?

Awww..

LOL! Sprite!!

k

we can't really explain without being rude, is all, limer.

YES sprite

k

she comes on with 78 words to go and i have 13 to go

and she goes and beats me, which i expect

It's just sometimes I get "foot in mouth" disease.

bwahahaha you poor thing! I hate it when she does that!

but she has the gall to be saying things about how i am not really trying, holding back so i'll be right about her beating me!

i mean she could at least have the decency to acknowledge her superiority! condescension!!!

yeah, she seems to think I'm as good as her, I just get sidetracked so she finishes quicker LOL

oh yes she gave me that getting distracted line

modesty is one thing but that gal is out of touch with reality!

limer, i'm sorry, i am afraid in trying not to be overly rude to someone else, we were a little rude to you... and i know what you mean, i have the same thing and i call it "fat marker syndrome"

Sprite is self-conscious about her speediness, and she gets so much feedback.

You have no offended me at all.

poor spritey. the curse of genius!

mab, of course i am saying all this with the utmost love. i don't really mean sprite was mean to me :)

I think she gets tired of responding, and wants to deflect.

she must get most of the feedback when i'm not on then, i haven't noticed that.

i deflect such things by telling people how amazing sprite is :)

Oh, oh, well, there you see? I'm so terribly slow....

what? why? slow? huh?

Well, I felt I had to throw in some support for Sprite when really you weren't attacking her.

oh, i see...yes my tongue was firmly in my cheek that whole time :)

Sprite! Sprite! Sprite! yay yay yay! *does cheerleader stuff*

see i forget that tone is not always clear online... and i knew ata would know what i meant bc we have talked about such things before...

We love sprite and everyone else!!!! Well not EVeryone

the wizard of oz quote was the BEST.

Oh Ok, but I am a little thick.

to paraphrase al borland, "i don't think so, mab"

you picked up on our mutual friend talk awfully fast

um yeah!

stil not sure how you did that :)

i'll be interested to hear more about that some time. Not now, clearly.

nor me!

yes, mab - are you going to get AIM, then? *smiles hopefully*

Well it was pretty obvious, and since I'd had contact too....

I'll check aim out tonight.

ahhhhh :) Contact with a capital C I think

clearly, subtlety is not my strong suit

then we just need vicuna to get it

Oooh, vi is a sharp one. I like her.

yes, i LOVE vi

she was the one with the wizard of oz quote

brilliant

What was the quote?

some people without brains do an awful lot of talking

he he he. that's good.

but it was so nicely woven into the conversation, too...

only the trouble is, i think certain people didn't know it was a quote and took it at face value, when the whole beauty of it was the quote disguising the meaning

in general, there is not a lack of block headedness about.

LOL

subtlety is usually wasted *sigh*

You know? those hwo will misunderstand and begin wingeing.

wingeing?

whiiiiiiine

ah

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

A britishism I picked up from my ex.

having trouble deciding what is sayable

I'm still looking at this stupid puzzle, so you two can carry on. Discuss.

oh not because of you mab

because it's a public chatroom

I know, but I don't want to be a third wheel.

we can make code words to go with our treehouse and sekrit passwords :P

silly mab, join right in

we're not a clique

i mean we are

but you fit in nicely

:)

show dog? is that a good code phrase?

for you know who

woot!

it is just so ironic that the use of the quote relied on a certain level of stupidity so as not to be rude, and a greater level of ignorance than anticipated revealed the true meaning

furry spider

ok, so mab, were you there for the whole nobody-likes-the-showdog incident?

I like show dog. or show poodle!

No.

i am not really sure what the deal was... someone was looking for the showdog, someone else said the showdog was sad because nobody liked the showdog and the showdog needed consoling

I wasn't!

oh, brother!

but at that point, i could see nothing that would indicate to the showdog that nobody liked the showdog

in the chat log

i wondered if the showdog felt disliked if not perpetually fawned over?

however, later someone said that the showdog was never sad to begin with, so perhaps the someone who said the showdog was sad was mistaken.

mmmmm. All of those photos?

*shudders again about photo*

I'm soooo glad I missed those!

indeed you are. but the madness may not end.

wah

i am afraid that someone else finds me as irksome as we find the showdog.

which is too bad because i like that someone just fine.

Maybe we're not talking about the same person. Show dog has multitudes of self pics, yes? I like the one of just the snout. Same person?

lol, i didn't see the snout one, but yes mab

oh maybe i did...snout not meaning nose...

Everybody doesn't like everybody. I know several who aren't wild about me.

More of the maw, than snout.

well i know but it is one thing if... i mean i wouldn't mind the showdog not liking me, for instance

but someone nice and normal, it is different

People get bees in their bonnets. I assiduously avoid getting bees in mine.

the funny thing is, mab, that the people who said they didn't like me before seem to like me ok now.... unless they are just being polite.

bzzz bzzz bzzz

ata guess what else? pfft was in the grid one day and it COUNTED!

I know LOL! Almost as good as brrr

You are fine just the way you are, to paraphrase Mr. Rogers.

but i want haz to like me!

I'll bet she does.

i dunno, i think she is annoyed by GWHIM and finds me annoying, obnoxious, pretentious, and arrogant. just a vibe i get.

she's so much nicer than me, that is the problem. she is probably horrified because i am not as nice.

She really avoids any non-puzzle related goings on. I love GWHIM

but I know what you mean, there are those who I wished liked me.

i probably need to tone myself down anyway...

being on the zoloft i feel better - not manic, but good enough, and then online i feel uninhibited.... but i hope people don't think i am seeking attention or showing off

I doubt they do. you're just you

And then there are those who are whimsy-impaired, they lack scope for the imagination (Anne of Green Gables)

but i would sort of think that if i were whimsy impaired, i would be confused by whimsy, but not necessarily bothered by it

Don't tone down. You don't need to.

agreed

I don't understand non-whimsical creatures, so I couldn't say.

use your imagination, mab :)

if sprite is tired of deflecting, then i should stop pointing people toward her to deflect myself.

we'll just deflect onto you from now on :P

we deflected well as a team today :)

sprite and i

no no no

i'm getting pretty tired of deflecting myself

that is the downside of the whimsy

lets all deflect to show dog :P make people ask him everything

but i deflect onto sprite by complimenting her abilities

how can we...?

I have no need to deflect. How sad. Perhaps you could think of a few enigmatic phrases to toss out instead of deflecting.

i've had 28 years and haven't come up with any yet, mab. i always hated it when i was a kid and other kids would say, "you're really smart, aren't you?"

i thought of trying, "no, you must have mistaken me for someone else"

or, "why yes, thank you for noticing"

but... in real life... never had the guts to say such things