# 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:** 4
**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, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/61 "2014-03-07T02:49:44Z")
Actually, not that specific one. I’ll try searching \*your \* contributions to the game room for the last ten years. 😉 ---
**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, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/62 "2014-03-07T02:52:33Z")
[Subvert a saying?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=704212) (Boy, you are really into football!) ---
**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, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/63 "2014-03-07T02:56:03Z")
[Games You Either Invented Or Introduced To SDMB](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=639080) ---
**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, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/64 "2014-03-07T03:09:24Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > 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**? > [@brujaja](#): > > Actually, not that specific one. I’ll try searching \*your \* contributions to the game room for the last ten years. 😉 Thanks for the links! You found what I was remembering. In > **[What gives? (Alphabet Game)](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=464591)** > > A boy can do everything from getting his interesting job kept low-key, making no obvious protest, quietly reading stories to us very weary xenophobes, yet zombify. What gives? (Alphabet Game) 04-19-2008, 11:39 AM Zeldar [This post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9726527&postcount=67) includes > [@](#): > > Roy Rogers and Hammerstein > > A Long Day’s Journey Into Night Of The Hunter > > Don’t Be Cruel Intentions > > A Farewell To Arms And The Man Who Came To Dinner > > Stuart Little House On The Prairie Home Companion > > They Call The Wind Mariah Carey Grant which we batted around for several posts. So it was only part of a thread but it made a big impression thet I just couldn’t recover without your help. My day is saved! 🙂 ---
**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, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/65 "2014-03-07T04:11:24Z")
That’s what friends are for she’s a jolly good fellow. ---
**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 7, 2014, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/66 "2014-03-07T04:11:50Z")
Steve Austin Martin Luther King John Henry Aaron Burr ---
**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, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/67 "2014-03-07T04:27:13Z")
Bronco Billy Bob Thornton Wilder Napalm in the morning smells like victory memorial daylight come and me want go home on the range. ---
**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 7, 2014, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/68 "2014-03-07T04:31:26Z")
Sailing on the seven seize the day tripper diem’s ready Jack the Ripper Owens Wilson Phillips and my supper’s ready Lucy in the sky with diamond Dave’s not here I come to save the day for nightmare cinema show me the way to get back home again Flying off the handle with careful with that axe Eugene Gene the dance machine messiah light my fire gabba gabba hey hey my my generation’s home again (Note: this one’s [not original.](http://dt.spatang.com/octavarium.php)) ---
**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 7, 2014, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/69 "2014-03-07T04:34:57Z")
All we hear is Radio Lady Gaga ---
**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, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/70 "2014-03-07T20:00:50Z")
I’m a joker, I’m a smoker, I’m a midnight cowboys work is never done, Jenny’s got a gun, I fought the law and the law won, but we’re not the same, we have to carry each other, carry him, he ain’t heavy, he’s my brother Louie. ---
**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 7, 2014, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/71 "2014-03-07T20:18:13Z")
Meet the new boss, same as the old man down the road goes on forever and a day in, day out of sight, out of mind the gap back to school sale of the century 21 gun salute your shorts. ---
**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, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/72 "2014-03-07T20:32:57Z")
I’m going off the rails on a crazy train come in the station, it had two lights on behind every man is a good woman, no cry. ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/73 "2014-03-08T05:25:40Z")
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush league of extraordinary gentlemen prefer blondes have more fun, fun, fun till her daddy takes her T-Bird away we go for the gusto. Whew. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/74 "2014-03-08T07:51:16Z")
You win some, you lose some people have all the luck be a ladies and gentlemen never tell. ---
**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 8, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/75 "2014-03-08T18:15:59Z")
There is a house in New Orleans, it’s called the Rising Sun High School. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/76 "2014-03-24T18:40:28Z")
When in Rome wasn’t built in a day ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/77 "2014-03-24T18:41:30Z")
Carpe diem the torpedoes, full speed ahead! ---
**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 24, 2014, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/78 "2014-03-24T21:46:36Z")
Veni, vidi, Leonardo ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/79 "2014-03-24T21:49:33Z")
I’m burning the midnight candle at both ends against the middle ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-the-primrose-path-of-least-resistance/682676/80 "2014-03-24T22:11:06Z")
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