# word association

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association/229105>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 13, 2004, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association/229105 "2004-02-13T21:44:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 13\
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**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association/229105/21 "2004-02-15T18:33:42Z")

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> [@TeaElle](#):
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> Thunderbolt

007

Oh, damn, that’s Thunder **ball**

My next entry in the suicide-blondes progression would have been ‘fun’, as in what blondes have more of.

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**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2004, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association/229105/22 "2004-02-15T19:59:43Z")

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Acting  
On the cartoon Cyborg 009, cyborg 007 was an actor before he was made a cyborg.

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**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association/229105/23 "2004-02-15T21:34:33Z")

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**genius**

Part of Jon Lovitz’s immortal prose when portraying the “Master Thespian” on SNL.

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**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2004, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association/229105/24 "2004-02-15T22:18:43Z")

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Baby.

> [@vunderbob](#):
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> My next entry in the suicide-blondes progression would have been ‘fun’, as in what blondes have more of.

I would have to say no on that one. trust me-- I have red hair.

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**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2004, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association/229105/25 "2004-02-15T22:30:38Z")

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> [@misstee](#):
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> Baby.
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> I would have to say no on that one. trust me-- I have red hair.

Huey.

A classic cartoon…

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**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2004, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association/229105/26 "2004-02-15T22:40:25Z")

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Duck.

As in what Huey, Dewey, and Lewey are. 🙂

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**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2004, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association/229105/27 "2004-02-15T22:55:24Z")

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> [@misstee](#):
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> Duck.
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> As in what Huey, Dewey, and Lewey are. 🙂

Goose.

So was Baby Huey…

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**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association/229105/28 "2004-02-16T01:01:32Z")

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freud

(i’m a little ‘out of it’ right now, as it were…i forgot the first word that came to mind, so that was the second one)

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**Author:** ![AfterAugust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@AfterAugust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AfterAugust)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association/229105/29 "2004-02-16T01:06:25Z")

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> [@fetus](#):
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> freud
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> (i’m a little ‘out of it’ right now, as it were…i forgot the first word that came to mind, so that was the second one)

mothers

_babble I have to include to go over 10 words_

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**Author:** ![grisham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@grisham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grisham)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association/229105/30 "2004-02-16T05:00:52Z")

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fathers… logical progression of gender I guess Mother to father.

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association/229105/31 "2004-02-16T07:11:14Z")

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> [@grisham](#):
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> fathers

City.

As in the [Homer Simpson quote](http://quotes.prolix.nu/Authors/?Homer) about “never be[ing] the darling of the so-called ‘City Fathers’ who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards, and ask about what’s to be done with” him.

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**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association/229105/32 "2004-02-16T08:57:03Z")

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Slickers

Not “City Slickers” the movie, but slickers as in the waterproof clothing.

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**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association/229105/33 "2004-02-16T12:29:20Z")

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**nor’easters**

big, blustery, rain-filled storms, typical in the northeast US, for which slickers are a good fashion choice.

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