# 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:** 1244
**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 27, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24869 "2017-07-27T17:48:52Z")
Heavens forbid! ---
**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 27, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24870 "2017-07-27T18:34:15Z")
The Ten Commandments ---
**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 28, 2017, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24871 "2017-07-28T07:07:15Z")
Charlton Heston ---
**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 28, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24872 "2017-07-28T18:34:07Z")
The parting of the Red Sea ---
**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 29, 2017, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24873 "2017-07-29T06:42:23Z")
Drowning Egyptians ---
**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 29, 2017, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24874 "2017-07-29T19:06:36Z")
In a state of denial ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24875 "2017-07-30T21:45:28Z")
In the land of duh Nile ---
**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 31, 2017, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24876 "2017-07-31T09:50:19Z")
1. Anger ---
**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:** [July 31, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24877 "2017-07-31T18:33:27Z")
the Trinity ---
**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 1, 2017, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24878 "2017-08-01T10:15:43Z")
Trinity Church in Manhattan ---
**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:** [August 3, 2017, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24879 "2017-08-03T18:28:19Z")
At Trinity church I met my doom Now we live in a top back room Up to my eyes in debt for renty That’s what she’s done for me ---
**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 3, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24880 "2017-08-03T20:19:19Z")
Frère Jacques, frère Jacques, Dormez-vous? Dormez-vous? ---
**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 3, 2017, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24881 "2017-08-03T21:42:10Z")
Ding, ding, ding, ding, C’est la cloche du matin, Qui sonne au retour du jour. Bonjour, bonjour ! ---
**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 6, 2017, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24882 "2017-08-06T00:06:28Z")
Je ne sais quoi? ---
**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 6, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24883 "2017-08-06T14:14:38Z")
Sur le pont d’Avignon, L’on y danse, l’on y danse, Sur le pont d’Avignon L’on y danse tout en rond. (I’ve been on that bridge. It goes 2/3 of the way across the river, and just stops.) ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24884 "2017-08-08T00:17:19Z")
Je ne regrette rien ---
**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:** [August 8, 2017, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24885 "2017-08-08T00:35:12Z")
I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried—‘La Belle Dame sans Merci Thee hath in thrall!’ ---
**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 15, 2017, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24886 "2017-09-15T03:09:48Z")
First you will come to the Sirens who enchant all who come near them. If any one unwarily draws in too close and hears the singing of the Sirens, his wife and children will never welcome him home again, for they sit in a green field and warble him to death with the sweetness of their song. There is a great heap of dead men’s bones lying all around, with the flesh still rotting off them. Therefore pass these Sirens by, and stop your men’s ears with wax that none of them may hear; but if you like you can listen yourself, for you may get the men to bind you as you stand upright on a cross-piece half way up the mast, and they must lash the rope’s ends to the mast itself, that you may have the pleasure of listening. If you beg and pray the men to unloose you, then they must bind you faster. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2017, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24887 "2017-09-16T23:24:29Z")
Damn it, I wish they’d turn off the sirens and just leave the lights flashing. ---
**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 16, 2017, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/24888 "2017-09-16T23:44:44Z")
Take the heart and liver, but leave the lights for the dogs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048.md?page=1243) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048.md?page=1245)