# Free Association **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 6, 2012, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048 "2012-05-06T04:21:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1003
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/20048 "2014-08-25T02:05:32Z")
Murray Leinster ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/20049 "2014-08-25T02:28:22Z")
Murray Head ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/20050 "2014-08-25T02:36:39Z")
Head cheese ---
**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:** [August 25, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/20051 "2014-08-25T21:41:47Z")
sweetbreads ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/20052 "2014-08-25T22:55:05Z")
sweet corn ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/20053 "2014-08-25T22:59:30Z")
cob ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/20054 "2014-08-26T00:10:22Z")
Welsh ---
**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:** [August 26, 2014, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/20055 "2014-08-26T00:28:02Z")
Scots ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/20056 "2014-08-26T00:40:04Z")
paper towels ---
**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:** [August 26, 2014, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/20057 "2014-08-26T01:18:08Z")
No use crying over spilt milk. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/20058 "2014-08-26T01:29:38Z")
Yeah, but you’re probably not the one who has to clean it up. 😛 ---
**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:** [August 26, 2014, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/20059 "2014-08-26T01:52:43Z")
Clean up in Aisle 2! ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/20060 "2014-08-26T23:47:17Z")
Curb your child ---
**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:** [August 27, 2014, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/20061 "2014-08-27T00:20:18Z")
How precocious. Kill it now. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/20062 "2014-08-27T00:35:54Z")
He’s not dead yet! ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/20063 "2014-08-27T00:49:38Z")
He’s just resting! ---
**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:** [August 27, 2014, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/20064 "2014-08-27T02:08:06Z")
I think I’ll go for a walk now! ---
**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:** [August 27, 2014, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/20065 "2014-08-27T02:22:41Z")
So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. “What! No soap?” So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as-catch-can till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/20066 "2014-08-27T02:28:25Z")
Well, I can fill an alligator’s butt with gunpowder and blow the Brits to bits. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2014, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/20067 "2014-08-27T02:36:31Z")
Back in 2001 the Taliban dynamited 6th centuries statues of the Buddha: Hey buddy, could y’be much cruder than to bombard Buddha into bits and bits of Bamiyan rubble? Hey bubba, could y’be much ruder than to blast old Buddhas into broken blitz of Bamwam trouble? (to the tune of the Can-Can). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048.md?page=1002) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048.md?page=1004)