# 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:** 1232
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24629 "2017-04-11T02:10:30Z")
bug ---
**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:** [April 11, 2017, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24630 "2017-04-11T05:25:30Z")
creepy-crawly ---
**Author:** ![Brooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Brooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brooky)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24631 "2017-04-11T11:25:21Z")
creepypasta ---
**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:** [April 11, 2017, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24632 "2017-04-11T19:01:34Z")
Spaghetti pomodoro ---
**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:** [April 11, 2017, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24633 "2017-04-11T20:45:41Z")
Dora Exploradora ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24634 "2017-04-11T23:59:33Z")
_Andrea Doria_ ---
**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:** [April 12, 2017, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24635 "2017-04-12T07:30:29Z")
_Stockholm_ ---
**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:** [April 14, 2017, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24636 "2017-04-14T15:12:30Z")
USS _Kearsarge_ > **[USS Kearsarge (1861)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Kearsarge_(1861))** > > USS Kearsarge, a Mohican-class sloop-of-war, is best known for her defeat of the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France during the American Civil War. Kearsarge was the only ship of the United States Navy named for Mount Kearsarge in New Hampshire. Subsequent ships were later named Kearsarge in honor of the ship. > Kearsarge was built at Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine, under the 1861 American Civil War emergency shipbuilding program. The new 1,550 long tons (1,570... ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24637 "2017-04-14T15:37:11Z")
_USS Springfield_, CLG-7, Flagship of the U.S. Sixth Fleet , homeported at Villefranche sur Mer, France 12/6/64-10/14/66 (_avec moi_) ---
**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:** [April 14, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24638 "2017-04-14T18:27:54Z")
_USS Mount Whitney_ (current Sixth Fleet flagship) ---
**Author:** ![Brooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Brooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brooky)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24639 "2017-04-15T23:50:29Z")
Mt. Elbert ---
**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:** [April 16, 2017, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24640 "2017-04-16T06:24:04Z")
Mt. Vesuvius ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24641 "2017-04-16T14:22:20Z")
Mt. Etna (Have a lump of it I collected from its summit, ditto Vesuvius) ---
**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:** [April 16, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24642 "2017-04-16T19:23:20Z")
Mount Everest ---
**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:** [April 16, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24643 "2017-04-16T19:43:34Z")
Sir Edmund Hillary ---
**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:** [April 16, 2017, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24644 "2017-04-16T20:27:37Z")
St Hilary, Cornwall ---
**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:** [April 16, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24645 "2017-04-16T22:30:05Z")
“If a country doesn’t recognize minority rights and human rights, including women’s rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.” - Hillary Rodham Clinton ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24646 "2017-04-16T23:50:36Z")
“But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.” - Barbara Jordan (February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) ---
**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:** [April 18, 2017, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24647 "2017-04-18T01:11:53Z")
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Michael Jordan ---
**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:** [April 18, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24648 "2017-04-18T21:51:05Z")
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