# 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:** 1197
**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 27, 2016, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23929 "2016-08-27T04:07:41Z")
Memphis, Tennessee ---
**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:** [August 27, 2016, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23930 "2016-08-27T19:24:11Z")
Tennessee Williams ---
**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:** [August 29, 2016, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23931 "2016-08-29T16:31:07Z")
sashay ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23932 "2016-08-29T22:41:05Z")
prancer ---
**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:** [August 29, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23933 "2016-08-29T23:16:26Z")
Blitzen ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23934 "2016-08-30T00:06:55Z")
The ninth reindeer, Olive. ---
**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 30, 2016, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23935 "2016-08-30T03:48:16Z")
Vodka gimlet ---
**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:** [August 31, 2016, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23936 "2016-08-31T13:34:28Z")
Lime juice ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23937 "2016-08-31T23:22:08Z")
Lemonade ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23938 "2016-09-01T01:22:21Z")
recalls ---
**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:** [September 1, 2016, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23939 "2016-09-01T08:14:41Z")
remembers ---
**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, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23940 "2016-09-01T20:42:56Z")
memoirs ---
**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, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23941 "2016-09-01T22:56:53Z")
"Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical - summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we’d make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds, pretty standard really. At the age of 12 I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it’s breathtaking, I suggest you try it." ---
**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:** [September 1, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23942 "2016-09-01T23:52:52Z")
overly verbose ---
**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 3, 2016, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23943 "2016-09-03T01:41:23Z")
\*‘The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.’ \* - Thomas Jefferson Agree. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2016, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23944 "2016-09-03T04:06:14Z")
Never parsimoniously use just one word when using two would be more accurate or expressive. ---
**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 3, 2016, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23945 "2016-09-03T12:32:06Z")
Eschew obfuscation. ---
**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 4, 2016, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23946 "2016-09-04T03:20:32Z")
Chew your cud ---
**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:** [September 6, 2016, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23947 "2016-09-06T00:15:09Z")
Chew with your mouth closed. Please. ---
**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 7, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/23948 "2016-09-07T19:03:34Z")
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