# 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\
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**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:** [October 7, 2015, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22569 "2015-10-07T10:00:40Z")

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Mean Joe Greene

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**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:** [October 7, 2015, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22570 "2015-10-07T13:58:03Z")

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Meet Joe Black

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**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:** [October 7, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22571 "2015-10-07T14:11:30Z")

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bomb

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**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:** [October 7, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22572 "2015-10-07T17:58:05Z")

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The Unibomber

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**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:** [October 7, 2015, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22573 "2015-10-07T22:14:09Z")

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Bombe glacée

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**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:** [October 8, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22574 "2015-10-08T00:18:20Z")

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blow up the glaciers

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**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:** [October 8, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22575 "2015-10-08T01:58:15Z")

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Ira Glass

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**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:** [October 8, 2015, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22576 "2015-10-08T08:21:44Z")

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Glass half full

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**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:** [October 8, 2015, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22577 "2015-10-08T13:11:07Z")

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Hey, I ordered a root beer!

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**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:** [October 8, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22578 "2015-10-08T17:23:51Z")

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You take the roots, I’ll drink the beer.

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**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:** [October 8, 2015, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22579 "2015-10-08T18:16:32Z")

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Root, root, root for Falstaff! That’s our beer!

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**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:** [October 8, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22580 "2015-10-08T18:41:47Z")

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Glasses, glasses, is the only drinking; and for thy  
walls, a pretty slight drollery, or the story of the  
the German hunting, in water-work, is worth a thousand of  
bed-hangers and these fly-bitten tapestries. Let it be ten  
if thou canst. Come, and 'twere not for thy humours, there’s  
a better wench in England. Go, wash thy face, and draw the  
action. Come, thou must not be in this humour with me; dost  
know me? Come, come, I know thou wast set on to this.

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**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:** [October 9, 2015, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22581 "2015-10-09T07:44:15Z")

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So raise your glass if you are wrong  
In all the right ways, all my underdogs  
We will never be, never be anything but loud  
And nitty, gritty, dirty, little freaks  
Won’t you come on and come on and  
Raise your glass!

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**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:** [October 10, 2015, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22582 "2015-10-10T02:31:20Z")

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Slainte

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**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22583 "2015-10-10T04:12:17Z")

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Salinas

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**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:** [October 10, 2015, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22584 "2015-10-10T04:32:45Z")

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John Steinbeck

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**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22585 "2015-10-10T04:44:19Z")

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Ernest Hemingway

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**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:** [October 10, 2015, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22586 "2015-10-10T10:58:52Z")

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The Old Man and the Sea

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**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:** [October 10, 2015, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22587 "2015-10-10T13:17:36Z")

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Old Man of the Sea

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**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:** [October 10, 2015, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22588 "2015-10-10T23:10:16Z")

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By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea.

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