# Free Association

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048>\
**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:** 1117

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 31, 2015, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22329 "2015-08-31T04:13:16Z")

</div>

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 31, 2015, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22330 "2015-08-31T12:25:30Z")

</div>

A sweet disorder in the dress  
Kindles in clothes a wantonness

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 31, 2015, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22331 "2015-08-31T21:28:56Z")

</div>

in some perfumes is there more delight  
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 31, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22332 "2015-08-31T21:35:27Z")

</div>

Wreaks havoc

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2015, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22333 "2015-08-31T22:24:53Z")

</div>

Cry ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 1, 2015, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22334 "2015-09-01T01:49:16Z")

</div>

Christopher Plummer

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22335 "2015-09-01T02:23:17Z")

</div>

Ricardo Montalbán

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [September 1, 2015, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22336 "2015-09-01T02:28:54Z")

</div>

Fine Corinthian leather

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22337 "2015-09-01T08:17:11Z")

</div>

Welcome to Fantasy Island

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 1, 2015, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22338 "2015-09-01T12:33:27Z")

</div>

Boss, de Plane, de Plane!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [September 1, 2015, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22339 "2015-09-01T18:46:21Z")

</div>

bon voyage

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22340 "2015-09-01T20:08:34Z")

</div>

Fantastic Voyage

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22341 "2015-09-01T20:18:28Z")

</div>

Look out for the white blood cells!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 2, 2015, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22342 "2015-09-02T03:54:45Z")

</div>

Agranulocytosis can result in a lack of white blood cells.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [September 2, 2015, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22343 "2015-09-02T06:47:21Z")

</div>

bleeding out

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22344 "2015-09-02T09:30:41Z")

</div>

Bleeding edge

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 2, 2015, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22345 "2015-09-02T13:03:01Z")

</div>

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears, and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call … The Twilight Zone.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22346 "2015-09-02T23:15:19Z")

</div>

Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished. He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so, Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [September 2, 2015, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22347 "2015-09-02T23:32:07Z")

</div>

I tripped and fell down a rabbit hole.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22348 "2015-09-02T23:35:19Z")

</div>

One pill makes you larger  
And one pill makes you small  
And the ones that mother gives you  
Don’t do anything at all  
Go ask Alice  
When she’s ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits  
And you know you’re going to fall  
Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar  
Has given you the call  
Call Alice  
When she was just small

When the men on the chessboard  
Get up and tell you where to go  
And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom  
And your mind is moving low  
Go ask Alice  
I think she’ll know

When logic and proportion  
Have fallen sloppy dead  
And the White Knight is talking backwards  
And the Red Queen’s off with her head  
Remember what the dormouse said  
Feed your head  
Feed your head

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048.md?page=1116)

[Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048.md?page=1118)
