I have seen this idea on a few forums of late so i thought i would try it here and see if it takes off.
The game: word association!
you all (should) know it, one person says a word and someone else posts a word that is linked to it (explanations are always useful!) then we go on for many units of time and see where we end up.
I will set the ball rolling, tell me what you think...
<thinks>...<thinks some more>...<gets a cup of tea>...
how about: Squirrel?
(again)












Nuts
Screws

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furniture
Windle shook his head sadly. Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. !!!!!
comfort
nelly - currently not packing a trunk.
An explosion of soup made the bumblebee fly, so I'm told.
GO MARROWS
(the vegetables, the vegetables)
eating (and lots of it!)
I'm Meeeellllllltttttiiiiiiiinnnnnggggg!!!!!
drinking
is see it has got off to a flying start
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Games
I'm Meeeellllllltttttiiiiiiiinnnnnggggg!!!!!
fun
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splash
(as in water fight)
nelly - currently not packing a trunk.
An explosion of soup made the bumblebee fly, so I'm told.
GO MARROWS
(the vegetables, the vegetables)
clever...
cash
(as in splash for cash!)
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Stri...UM
Wallet
Windle shook his head sadly. Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. !!!!!
Leather
nelly - currently not packing a trunk.
An explosion of soup made the bumblebee fly, so I'm told.
GO MARROWS
(the vegetables, the vegetables)
Belt
fan
(fan-belt, geddit?!)
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fick
(as in fan-fic; and as in 'dem trolls is too fick for der Watch.')
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good one!
i will have to thin!
(fic - thick - thin)
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salvation
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i don't get it...
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Well, (ath Igor remindth me)
*TH*alvation ithn't a real word, ith it?
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ooo thats too clever
now this is tricky...
Prophet!
have at you!
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Turtle!
[/i]IX. I think you will make a little prophet, Dhblah,
pg 352 small gods (paperback version)
WP
Windle shook his head sadly. Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. !!!!!
Turtle!
Bald!
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Witch (normally not bald, and if they are they'll probably use some ointment to fix it).
sand
(sand-wich, geddit?!)
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beech
(note spelling
)
nelly - currently not packing a trunk.
An explosion of soup made the bumblebee fly, so I'm told.
GO MARROWS
(the vegetables, the vegetables)
nuts !!!!
I was going to have microchips (upmarket sand) for the one b4 but was beaten to the post so here is opportunity for Ponder to have his Mornington Crescent moment if he is quick enough.
bursar (as in insane like som1 who's nuts)
Plateau? What does that make aristotle? Aristoner? Wait he didn't do drugs...
nuts !!!!
I was going to have microchips (upmarket sand) for the one b4 but was beaten to the post so here is opportunity for Ponder to have his Mornington Crescent moment if he is quick enough.
????????????????????????????????????
Frog
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Frog
Headbutt
)
(I am missing the football gene but somehow popular culture insinuated itself into my brain
nuts !!!!
I was going to have microchips (upmarket sand) for the one b4 but was beaten to the post so here is opportunity for Ponder to have his Mornington Crescent moment if he is quick enough.
????????????????????????????????????
And to answer Ponder with "squirrel" you could have got back to where you started from using one of the famous loop manoeuvres from Mornington Crescent.
Headbutt
Nobody
GENIUS
its like saying eggburt no bacon, only funnier
any way...
Ghost
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ok - im goin for very obscure here-
block
nelly - currently not packing a trunk.
An explosion of soup made the bumblebee fly, so I'm told.
GO MARROWS
(the vegetables, the vegetables)
how are ghost and block connected?
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ghostbusters
blockbusters
yeah ok, maybe too obscure
nelly - currently not packing a trunk.
An explosion of soup made the bumblebee fly, so I'm told.
GO MARROWS
(the vegetables, the vegetables)
ok let's go again
Headbutt
Zinedine Zidane, heheheh
By theby I heard that italian defender said some really awful things (e.g. insulting his mother who had just been admitted to hospital...)
Italians did not deserve to win and I wished Zizou had just taken the trophy and legged it!
Plateau? What does that make aristotle? Aristoner? Wait he didn't do drugs...
hmmm thats un called for by those italians.
i was un-decided who i wanted to win really...
any ways
French man
obviously
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English man
You believe but what you see
You receive but what you give...
Gilbert & Sullivan
(wanders off singing:
"For he himself has sa-aid it
and it's greatly to his cre-edit
that he is an English man
He rema-ains a-an En-en-en-en-en-en-en-en-en-glish MAN")
"LOOKS PERFECTLY LOGICAL TO ME"
boats
and i love the singing btw
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Water
You believe but what you see
You receive but what you give...
Water boatman- don't see as many as you used to.
I'm Meeeellllllltttttiiiiiiiinnnnnggggg!!!!!
wat is a Water boatman ???
You believe but what you see
You receive but what you give...
wat is a Water boatman ???
...and whos "wat"?

A water boatman is a kind of insect
so my word will be "Trout"
one of the reasons that you "don't see as many as you used to"
Mask
Jim Carey (sp?!)
Wot a magnificant man!!!
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Bruce Almighty
nelly - currently not packing a trunk.
An explosion of soup made the bumblebee fly, so I'm told.
GO MARROWS
(the vegetables, the vegetables)
God
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Obviously the next word is
pTerry
bow down to the lord!!!!
erm...
Wiltshire!*
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*see! i know somthing about him! that means i must be some sort of king surely!
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