# 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:** 1171
**Author:** ![Calla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Calla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calla)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23409 "2016-01-19T14:23:54Z")
Grey Gardens ---
**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:** [January 19, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23410 "2016-01-19T19:42:48Z")
Fifty Shades of Grey ---
**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:** [January 19, 2016, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23411 "2016-01-19T22:06:27Z")
mirror sunglasses ---
**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:** [January 20, 2016, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23412 "2016-01-20T04:53:54Z")
Aviators ---
**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:** [January 20, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23413 "2016-01-20T05:14:57Z")
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines ---
**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:** [January 20, 2016, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23414 "2016-01-20T06:42:17Z")
Those Daring Young Men in their Jaunty Jalopies ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23415 "2016-01-20T17:23:34Z")
The Great Race ---
**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:** [January 20, 2016, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23416 "2016-01-20T19:37:06Z")
“Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.” ---
**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:** [January 21, 2016, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23417 "2016-01-21T05:40:03Z")
“There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin’. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.” ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23418 "2016-01-21T09:43:15Z")
No man is an island…he’s a peninsula. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23419 "2016-01-21T13:29:32Z")
Quasi-diabetics need peninsulin. ---
**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:** [January 22, 2016, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23420 "2016-01-22T04:55:38Z")
Thanks for reminding me that I have just been found to be in the "pre-diabetic’ category. Is that quasi enough? (I know, it’s a downer. But it is really what I thought when I saw this.) ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23421 "2016-01-22T07:26:25Z")
Wilfred Brimley ---
**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:** [January 22, 2016, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23422 "2016-01-22T08:40:47Z")
Quaker Oats ---
**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:** [January 22, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23423 "2016-01-22T17:57:17Z")
A strange man in a broad brimmed hat. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23424 "2016-01-22T18:20:22Z")
Curious George ---
**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:** [January 22, 2016, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23425 "2016-01-22T22:02:04Z")
Monkey shines ---
**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:** [January 22, 2016, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23426 "2016-01-22T22:13:33Z")
Shoe shine boy ---
**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:** [January 22, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23427 "2016-01-22T23:06:14Z")
Underdog ---
**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:** [January 23, 2016, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23428 "2016-01-23T04:37:03Z")
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