# Word Game: The primrose path of least resistance **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 2, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676 "2014-03-02T16:12:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/41 "2014-03-06T14:45:02Z")
Come on baby! Let’s do the Twist and Shout! ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/42 "2014-03-06T14:51:27Z")
Honda Civic duty Personal Space:1999 ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/43 "2014-03-06T14:52:06Z")
May the Lord bless you and keep you far away from me. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/44 "2014-03-06T14:57:23Z")
Schindler’s List of Adrian Messenger ---
**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/45 "2014-03-06T15:04:25Z")
A home where the buffalo roam was not built in a day. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/46 "2014-03-06T15:05:24Z")
Say it loud, I’m black and I’m proud to be an Okie from Muskogee! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/47 "2014-03-06T15:24:25Z")
You came a long way from St. Louis Armstrong. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/48 "2014-03-06T15:32:16Z")
Do you know the way to San Jose, can you see by the dawn’s early light? ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/49 "2014-03-06T15:37:12Z")
Once you pop you can’t stop in the name of love. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/50 "2014-03-06T16:01:17Z")
Ghost Busta Rhymes ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/51 "2014-03-06T16:14:50Z")
Never give up the ghost ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/52 "2014-03-06T18:21:12Z")
In Post #40 I mentioned an older thread with this same basic premise and I have been trying to find it with no luck so far. Here’s an example of what was going on in that thread: **Three-card Monte Halls of Montezuma’s revenge of the nerds** My memory is very fuzzy on it, but I think we were splicing together as many as five expressions and phrases that went all over the map. Feel free to indulge in such. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/53 "2014-03-06T18:30:31Z")
Neat as a Pinball Tilting at Windmills of Your Mind Is A Terrible Thing to Waste Not, Want Not ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/54 "2014-03-06T18:52:34Z")
Look before you quantum leap forward into the battle rages on and on and around it goes, where it comes down, nobody knows anything, I can’t find Pussy anywhere. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/55 "2014-03-06T18:53:33Z")
Down by the old mill stream of consciousness ---
**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:** [March 7, 2014, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/56 "2014-03-07T01:17:41Z")
Boy George Michael Jackson Browne The Deep Red Dawn of the Dead Zone ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/57 "2014-03-07T02:07:43Z")
**Zeldar:** I had to go back ten years (Awk!) and search for every thread in the Game Room in which I had posted. I found several good word games, but not the one I believe you’re looking for. I remember it being started by **It’s Not Rocket Surgery** and titled the same, because his username was a corruption of two common phrases which was the whole idea of the thread. When I searched for that, it told me that was an invalid username. (?) I tried to search for one post I remembered where I said, “You can’t fight fire with city hall,” but although I tried twice, the search freezed up both times. I’ll post the other game URLs in a minute, my phone is ringing. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/58 "2014-03-07T02:18:04Z")
Found it!! [It’s not rocket surgery](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=455464&highlight=%22city+hall%22) by **Shai’tan.** ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/59 "2014-03-07T02:32:44Z")
Huh. I remember my contributions to that one being better than that… Well, it was six years ago. **That was then and This- Is- Sparta!** [Malapropogation 1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=469256) [Malapropogation 2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=466196) [Malapropogation 3](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=464140) [Use the whole alphabet in the first letters of words in a sentence.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=464591) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/60 "2014-03-07T02:41:24Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > Found it!! > [It’s not rocket surgery](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=455464&highlight=%22city+hall%22) by **Shai’tan.** Excellent thread, but there must be at least one more of that type, because I think I posted several times in one. What I’m remembering is one where we spliced together multiple old saws and cliches into one meaningless jumble that was fun to read and giggle at. Does that even sound familiar to you, **brujaja**? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676.md?page=4)