Oh, my. The first one was obscure enough that I ought to be ashamed of myself. It’s from what John Singer Sargent said of his famous painting of four little girls, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose: “Damnation silly, silly pose.” Hence:
lily - silly - pose
The second link was: Eater - drinker - sot
I’ll guess yours as:
pose - question - answer
sot - drunk - disorderly
And, linking onward:
answer -?- this (try saying it out loud, indignantly)
disorderly -?- medal
Well, EddyTeddyFreddy, let’s see …
I’ll guess you first ML to be:
answer - me - this
And your second:
disorderly - conduct? - medal (to sound like metal)
Now, ever onward and upward:
this -?- other
medal -?- ceremony
Got them both, peritrochoid!
Yours would be:
this - that? - other
medal - award? - ceremony
Is it Sternvogel’s turn now? Try out:
other -?-fry
ceremony -?- passage
I think I’ve got them:
other - fish? - fry
ceremony - rite? - passage
New ones:
fry - ? - large
passage - ? - elephant
Kat, you’re correct on both.
Yours would be:
fry - small? - large (I got it when I tried to work onward from “large”)
passage - India? - elephant
And onward, ever onward:
large -?- burger
elephant -?- steamer
cheese
trunk?
This is too hard!
Three? — night
Hi, Blonde! It was supersize rather than cheese, but trunk is correct.
I’ll guess yours as three - dog? - night.
Still in play: burger and steamer
You were right on both, ETF.
I’ll continue the chain with:
burger - ? - eggs
steamer - ? - whistle
Wow, it’s a lot easier when I don’t have to answer someone else’s first. 
Okay, Kat! Lemme guess:
burger - ham? - eggs
steamer - engine? - whistle
And now mine:
eggs -?- Arnold
whistle -?- go
Yes, figuring out someone else’s missing link is what takes the most time. Well, that and coding. 
Got 'em both.
Eggs - Benedict - Arnold (easy)
Whistle - stop? - go
Arnold - ? - governor
Go - ? - collect
Right, and right, Kat.
Arnold - Schwarzenegger? - governor
go - pass? - collect (ah, Monopoly )
Onward we march:
governor -?- declare
collect -?- house
Hmm.
Arnold incumbent governor? I’m at a loss here.
Allrighty then.
Initial ?? Offering
Financial ?? Standards
ERRORS!! Did I get that one right?
Initial - public - offering, right?
Financial - accounting? - standards, I’d guess.
Errors - way back at the start? Yup, that was one.
Just to make it harder, Blonde, not only do you have to guess the missing link of the preceding poster – you have to devise your own set of words using the previoous poster’s second link word. So not only must you figure out governor -?- declare and collect -?- house; you’ve got to then do your association from declare and house.
No wonder hardly anyone plays this game – it’s a bitch. Even ETF, its fiendish founder, is pounding her head at times.