# Free Association v2.0 (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 23, 2020, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association-v2-0-part-1/912581 "2020-06-23T23:46:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 86
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2021, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association-v2-0-part-1/912581/1701 "2021-09-16T16:19:50Z")
The Four of Clubs. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2021, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association-v2-0-part-1/912581/1702 "2021-09-16T19:33:48Z")
_The Lords of Discipline_ ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2021, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association-v2-0-part-1/912581/1703 "2021-09-16T19:42:42Z")
_Lord of the Flies_ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2021, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association-v2-0-part-1/912581/1704 "2021-09-16T19:46:45Z")
Piggy đź‘“ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2021, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association-v2-0-part-1/912581/1705 "2021-09-16T19:56:56Z")
Kermit ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2021, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association-v2-0-part-1/912581/1706 "2021-09-16T21:06:01Z")
Frog legs ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2021, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association-v2-0-part-1/912581/1707 "2021-09-16T21:11:13Z")
Escargot ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association-v2-0-part-1/912581/1708 "2021-09-16T21:29:44Z")
Peugot Deux Chevaux ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association-v2-0-part-1/912581/1709 "2021-09-17T03:15:06Z")
Citroën 2CV ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association-v2-0-part-1/912581/1710 "2021-09-17T03:31:00Z")
Charles de Gaulle ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association-v2-0-part-1/912581/1711 "2021-09-17T03:40:44Z")
Orly 🛫 ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association-v2-0-part-1/912581/1712 "2021-09-17T13:26:00Z")
D’Oyly Carte ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association-v2-0-part-1/912581/1713 "2021-09-17T13:30:53Z")
I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical; I’m very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem, I’m teeming with a lot o’ news, With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. I’m very good at integral and differential calculus; I know the scientific names of beings animalculous: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. I know our mythic history, King Arthur’s and Sir Caradoc’s; I answer hard acrostics, I’ve a pretty taste for paradox, I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus, In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous; I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies, I know the croaking chorus from _The Frogs_ of Aristophanes! Then I can hum a fugue of which I’ve heard the music’s din afore, And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense _Pinafore_ . Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform, And tell you ev’ry detail of Caractacus’s uniform: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. In fact, when I know what is meant by “mamelon” and “ravelin”, When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a Javelin, When such affairs as sorties and surprises I’m more wary at, And when I know precisely what is meant by “commissariat” When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery, When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery In short, when I’ve a smattering of elemental strategy You’ll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee. For my military knowledge, though I’m plucky and adventury, Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century; But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association-v2-0-part-1/912581/1714 "2021-09-17T13:40:11Z")
patter song ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association-v2-0-part-1/912581/1715 "2021-09-17T14:04:05Z")
This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter isn’t generally heard, and if it is, it doesn’t matter. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association-v2-0-part-1/912581/1716 "2021-09-17T14:08:08Z")
irrelevance ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association-v2-0-part-1/912581/1717 "2021-09-17T14:15:24Z")
What’s big, grey, and eats peanuts? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association-v2-0-part-1/912581/1718 "2021-09-17T14:28:18Z")
pachyderm ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association-v2-0-part-1/912581/1719 "2021-09-17T17:10:43Z")
Today the pits, tomorrow the wrinkles - Sunkist marches on! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association-v2-0-part-1/912581/1720 "2021-09-17T18:48:22Z")
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