# 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:** 963
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/19246 "2014-06-18T12:47:35Z")
The Brothers Karamazov ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/19247 "2014-06-18T16:48:15Z")
The Brothers Gibb ---
**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:** [June 18, 2014, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/19248 "2014-06-18T21:42:16Z")
The Marx Brothers ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/19249 "2014-06-18T21:46:38Z")
The Smith Brothers \ ---
**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:** [June 18, 2014, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/19250 "2014-06-18T21:54:11Z")
yummy red candy! ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/19251 "2014-06-18T22:43:15Z")
M&Ms ---
**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:** [June 18, 2014, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/19252 "2014-06-18T23:22:38Z")
Smarties ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/19253 "2014-06-18T23:42:40Z")
Red Vines ---
**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:** [June 19, 2014, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/19254 "2014-06-19T00:53:18Z")
Chocolate Twizzlers ---
**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:** [June 19, 2014, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/19255 "2014-06-19T03:28:27Z")
licorice laces ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/19256 "2014-06-19T03:49:07Z")
untied shoelaces ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/19257 "2014-06-19T13:29:47Z")
flip flops (Blew out my flip flop, stepped on a pop-top, cut my heel had to cruze on back home, But there’s booze in the blender… Who knows, without looking it up, what a _Pop-top_ is? (Yeah you get extra points,but so what.) ---
**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:** [June 19, 2014, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/19258 "2014-06-19T13:42:15Z")
Pop-tops meant you no longer heard “Who forgot the bottle opener?” at picnics. I will donate my extra points to Pleas for Flea Toast (PFFT) In play: Margaritaville ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/19259 "2014-06-19T18:17:27Z")
Cheeseburger in Paradise ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/19260 "2014-06-19T20:51:00Z")
> [@CheshireKat](#): > > Pop-tops meant you no longer heard “Who forgot the bottle opener?” at picnics. I will donate my extra points to Pleas for Flea Toast (PFFT) > > In play: > > Margaritaville Gkak! wrong answer, try again tomorrow. [This](http://www.google.com/search?q=poptop&client=safari&rls=en&tbm=isch&imgil=zpA5nS2SCyvQtM%253A%253Bhttp%253A%252F%252Ft1.gstatic.com%252Fimages%253Fq%253Dtbn%253AANd9GcQP-jugBNCt_4jGq6Qby1Fq4UQkvMoGLDudgmnDOPogDtW9Gob84Q%253B1848%253B672%253Bo-JSaig8_44nOM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Falamw14.ala.org%25252Fpoptop-stage&source=iu&usg=__qQlTTGR2EL74FWA7waZsgj9l9jw%3D&sa=X&ei=gkyjU6XtKMXfoASCk4LoAw&ved=0CEcQ9QEwBQ&biw=1865&bih=970#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=1A--t9nQnmYsDM%253A%3BT-JKVRau7yP9OM%3Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.neatoshop.com%252Fimages%252Fproduct%252F60%252F1360%252FPop-Top-Bottle-Opener_5384-l.jpg%253Fv%253D5384%3Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.neatoshop.com%252Fproduct%252FPop-Top-Bottle-Opener%3B600%3B400) is a pop top. They were only used from 1965 to 1970, when the current drink can opener was available In play: Parotheads ---
**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:** [June 19, 2014, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/19261 "2014-06-19T22:14:06Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > Gkak! wrong answer, try again tomorrow. > > In play: Parotheads Well, you taught me something! 🙂 I never saw one of those, but as a little kid we called the pull-tabs “pop tops”. I stepped on them several times, so the line from Margaritaville made sense to me. Those pull-tabs were sharp! In play: Happy hippies ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/19262 "2014-06-19T22:16:26Z")
Aversion to bathing. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/19263 "2014-06-19T23:42:17Z")
Scrofula ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/19264 "2014-06-20T00:51:38Z")
Scruffy the janitor ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-association/621048/19265 "2014-06-20T02:15:04Z")
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