# 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:** 1148
**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:** [November 23, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22949 "2015-11-23T15:24:02Z")
I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up. I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won’t bother to talk about, except that it had something to do with the miserably weary split-up and my feeling that everything was dead. With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life you could call my life on the road. Before that I’d often dreamed of going West to see the country, always vaguely planning and never taking off. Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was born on the road, when his parents were passing through Salt Lake City in 1926, in a jalopy, on their way to Los Angeles. First reports of him came to me through Chad King, who’d shown me a few letters from him written in New Mexico reform school. I was tremendously interested in the letters because they so na•vely and sweetly asked Chad to teach him all about Neitzsche and all the wonderful intellectual things that Chad knew. At one point Carlo and I talked about the letters and wondered if we would ever meet the strange Dean Moriarty. This is all far back, when Dean was not the way he is today, when he was a young jailkid shrouded in mystery. Then news came that Dean was out of reform school and was coming to New York for the first time; also there was talk that he had just married a girl called Marylou. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22950 "2015-11-23T16:41:59Z")
Monte Carlo ---
**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:** [November 23, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22951 "2015-11-23T22:38:39Z")
Casino ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22952 "2015-11-24T04:28:21Z")
Royale ---
**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:** [November 24, 2015, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22953 "2015-11-24T04:53:31Z")
Isle Royale ---
**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:** [November 24, 2015, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22954 "2015-11-24T09:22:59Z")
Quarter Pounder ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22955 "2015-11-24T13:43:38Z")
Big Mac ---
**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:** [November 24, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22956 "2015-11-24T14:04:32Z")
Mac Davis ---
**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:** [November 24, 2015, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22957 "2015-11-24T16:18:27Z")
Jefferson Davis Ptui! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22958 "2015-11-24T17:26:51Z")
Mount Jefferson, Oregon ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22959 "2015-11-24T18:12:27Z")
Oregon Trail (the video game) ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22960 "2015-11-24T18:31:52Z")
Intel 286 processor ---
**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:** [November 24, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22961 "2015-11-24T18:36:49Z")
Got a chip in your shoulder? ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22962 "2015-11-24T19:40:00Z")
buffalo chips ---
**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:** [November 24, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22963 "2015-11-24T20:24:57Z")
Oh You can’t Rollerskate in a buffalo herd… ---
**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:** [November 24, 2015, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22964 "2015-11-24T20:25:14Z")
Buffalo gals, won’t you come out tonight? ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22965 "2015-11-24T20:29:37Z")
‘The Far Side’ ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22966 "2015-11-24T20:37:30Z")
This cow belongs to Daryl Jones so hands off. One of my favorites: [https://www.google.com/search?q=the+far+side+this+cow+belong+to+daryl+jones+so+hands+off&client=safari&hl=en-us&biw=1024&bih=672&prmd=ivsn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWld6J9anJAhVY22MKHccfBbsQ\_AUIBigB#hl=en-us&tbm=isch&q=the+far+side+this+cow+belongs+to+daryl+jones+so+hands+off&imgrc=BvMvtn97ktrF5M%3A](https://www.google.com/search?q=the+far+side+this+cow+belong+to+daryl+jones+so+hands+off&client=safari&hl=en-us&biw=1024&bih=672&prmd=ivsn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWld6J9anJAhVY22MKHccfBbsQ_AUIBigB#hl=en-us&tbm=isch&q=the+far+side+this+cow+belongs+to+daryl+jones+so+hands+off&imgrc=BvMvtn97ktrF5M%3A) ---
**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:** [November 24, 2015, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22967 "2015-11-24T20:51:19Z")
Brand continued on other cow. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/22968 "2015-11-24T21:33:46Z")
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