# 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:** 1190
**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:** [July 4, 2016, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23789 "2016-07-04T23:50:01Z")
Saturnalia ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23790 "2016-07-09T20:50:33Z")
Bacchanalle ---
**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:** [July 9, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23791 "2016-07-09T21:50:31Z")
The Okay Chorale [sic] ---
**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:** [July 9, 2016, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23792 "2016-07-09T21:59:23Z")
Oklahoma! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23793 "2016-07-10T10:00:20Z")
South Pacific ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23794 "2016-07-11T00:13:51Z")
Hell in the Pacific (starring Lee Marvin) ---
**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:** [July 11, 2016, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23795 "2016-07-11T00:18:57Z")
Tora! Tora! Tora! ---
**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:** [July 11, 2016, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23796 "2016-07-11T02:02:40Z")
Dire Straits - [Skateaway](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQBKUPwG_Gk) (toro toro taxi) ---
**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:** [July 11, 2016, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23797 "2016-07-11T04:38:11Z")
Checker Marathon ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23798 "2016-07-11T12:57:37Z")
Nixon’s Checkers Speech ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23799 "2016-07-11T14:56:03Z")
Republican cloth coat. ---
**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:** [July 11, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23800 "2016-07-11T19:34:40Z")
Made up out of whole cloth ---
**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:** [July 11, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23801 "2016-07-11T21:00:36Z")
Whole Earth catalog ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23802 "2016-07-11T22:01:59Z")
The Martian Chronicles ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23803 "2016-07-11T22:19:44Z")
Martian exploration ---
**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:** [July 12, 2016, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23804 "2016-07-12T01:25:53Z")
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2016, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23805 "2016-07-12T01:33:01Z")
Rocket to Uranus ---
**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:** [July 12, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23806 "2016-07-12T02:04:13Z")
Wiping up Klingons around Uranus. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2016, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23807 "2016-07-12T03:37:04Z")
_“You must maneuver straight in down this shaft, level off in the trench, and skim the surface to this point. The target is only two meters across. It will take a precise hit at exactly ninety degrees to reach the reactor systematization. And only a direct hit will start the complete reaction.”_ - Rebel Alliance general Jan Dodonna, before the assault on the Death Star Trench, in order to gain access to the station’s major weakness - its “thermal exhaust port”. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23808 "2016-07-12T21:50:17Z")
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