Rules Guidelines:
Post the next word or short phrase that comes into your head when you read the previous post. There is no need to explain or justify your association -- after all, it's your brain!

Last three words:

cap'n

crunch

snap

My contribution:

button

press

release

freedom

dogs

fleas

sneeze

kleenex

disposable handkerchief

introduction

conclusion

The End

Epilogue

Frischʻs The Firebugs (Biedermann und die Brandstifter)

Az üzenetet módosította a szerzője, okt. 13, 2009, 5:02pm.

Andalusian

dogs

feet

toes

Gastropod

snail

mail

N.B. item #14 has been corrected from another Frisch title to his The Firebugs; it has an epilogue, of "Damnation of Faust" tendencies, which, however, is not shown by the directors of most productions of it.

post

post haste

post script

Boston Post*

* defunct daily newspaper in Boston; fairly conservative but nominally Democrat; ceased publication about in the 1950s.

Cliff Claven

Robinsonʻs "Clliff Klingenhagen" (poem)

Meet the Robinsons

Simonʻs Jackie Robinson and the Integration
of Baseball

diamond

Diamondʻs Collapse: How Societies Choose to Succeed or Fail

Harpo

Oprah Winfrey

book club

Club of Odd Vollumes

Hamsunʻs The Women at the Pump

conch

conch stew *yum*

shelf fungus

toadstool

"....intelligent Mr. Toad" --Kenneth Grahame

motorcar

motorized carriage

Gogolʻs The Carriage; The Nose;
(and) Nevsky Prospect

Bainʻs (and Fletcherʻs (?) ) Margaritas and
Murder

Pinky and the Brain (Since I misread that 1st word :P

Greeneʻs character "Pinky" Brown (who refers to himself as "Mr. P.Brown of the Bookmakersʻ Protective Association".

The Pink Ladies, from Greece

Robertsʻs Ladies of Liberty, the Women who Shaped our Nation

"Sweet land of liberty; of thee I sing"

Sting

The Police

arrest

warrant

bail bondsman

court

cage *

*newspaper headline word for "Basketball"

Nicholas Cage

Saint Nicholas

Santa!

Santgeorge w

George W. Bush?

Yes, Santgeorge w = George W. Bush, as much as Santal = Al Gore (or as little!)

Guy Bush

Guy Fawkes

cable guy

cable car

To Espeon:

Sorry I misread #64 ("Santa!) as "SantaL"

George Washington Bridge

S.H.I.E.L.D.

;)

badge

sheriff

deputy

Dawg

Huckleberry Hound

banjo

"Banjo" Patterson

William Thatcher

** main character in the movie "A Knight's Tale**

Az üzenetet módosította a szerzője, okt. 15, 2009, 5:03pm.

"Becky Thatcher"

tea party

Marchʻs The Wild Party; the lost classic

Wild Thing

Max

Max Baucus

Wonderland

Paul Revere*

*Wonderland (#91) is a dog racing track in
Revere, MA.

"The British are coming!"

poem

epic

Odyssey

Homer

single, double, or triple

World Series

Tunisʻs The Kid from Tomkinsville
in the World Series

Count Blah

Crumleyʻs One to Count Cadence

How do Dinosaurs Count to Ten?}
by Jane Yolen

T-Rex *rawr!*

Oedipus Complex

mother

Vonnegut's Mother Night

stalker

Anthony (from Sweeney Todd -- just try to convince me that the song "Johanna" is not somewhat creepy!)

T. S. Eliotʻs "Sweeney among the Nightingales" (poem)

Cats

Old Possumʻs Book of Practical. . .

Practical Magic

*movie w/ Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman*

basketball

Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA

Almost Famous

Mungoʻs* Beyond the Revolution; my Life and Times since "Famous Long Ago"

*Havenʻt read this, but used regularly to read Raymond Mungoʻs articles and editorials in the "B(oston) U(niversity) News" when he was in his 20s, and I was one of those un-trustworthy Over Thirtyʻs.

Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation

boredom

The Harvard Lampoonʻs Bored of the Rings

Sebaldʻs The Rings of Saturn

tree

Beerbohm Treeʻs Thoughts

Ents

"ENTities are not to be multiplied
beyond necessity" -- WIlliam of Ockham

razor blades

Ray Blades

Blades of Glory

Cattonʻs (not Heinleinʻs) Glory Road

One Song, Glory

Rent

Seasons of love

"525,600 minutes, 525,000 moments so dear. 525,600 minutes - how do you measure, measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee. In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife. In 525,600 minutes - how do you measure a year in the life? How about love? How about love? How about love? Measure in love. Seasons of love."

coffee spoons

substitute sugar

Brautiganʻs Watermelon Sugar

Watermelon suckers

Fieldsʻs W.C. Fields in "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break" and "Tillie and Gus"

lollipop

guild

The Best Australian Science Fiction
by Rob Gerrand, ed.

tesseract (is that spelled right? It doesn't look right...)

doubt

Romainʻs God, Doubt, and Dawkins

To catbastet (#150)

Yes, that spelling of "tesseract" is right. (Tessera from the Greek (of most dialects)* meaning "Four".

* -t- or --tt- rather than -ss- in classical Attic Greek, as in the English "teTrachloride".

lettuce

(#153: Oh, good! I was having a moment where I thought it was right, it didn't look right any other way, but it still didn't look right the way I had it. And the longer I looked at it, the worse it looked.)

pray

mantis

Applegates

Christina

Queen of Sweden

Royalty

Mosleyʻs Blue Light

special

Allbeuryʻs Special Collection

library

cloud berry

I have absolutely no idea what a cloud berry is.

So I will say ...

blackberry

Boo Berry

David "Boo" Ferris

Ferris "Boo"ler's Day Off

A Day Off: Two Short Novels and
Some Stories by Storm Jameson

X-Men

Hugh Jackman

pier

Orwellʻs Road to Wigan Pier

farm

Schreinerʻs Story of an African farm

safari

Haggardʻs She

who

Grinch

wench

wrench

drench

Judy Dench

Pride & Prejudice

country western

western sandwich

the Earl of Sandwich

Ham Sandwich

"That'll do pig, that'll do"

Babe

Ruth, Dahlgren, or Phelps

Michael Phelps

Space Jam

outer space

supernova

Televisionʻs Nova

Nova Scotia

Dunnʻs Highland Settler; a Portrait of the Scottish Gael in Cape Breton and Eastern Nova Scotia.

The future Yankee

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

A Connecticut Yankee in Criminal Court
by Peter Heck

Criminal proceedings

Sutherlandʻs Henry V: War Criminal?

War Trash by Ha Jin

"Glorious Trash" *

*Designation used by the Friendly Islands Book Store, Nukuʻalofa, Tonga, for the books they periodically placed on Sale (mostly thrillers and romances).

trash talk

Baldwinʻs If Beale Street Could Talk

Blues

St. Louis hockey

field hockey

lacrosse

incense (I have no idea how my brain connected that)

India

elephants

good memory

Nabokovʻs Speak, Memory!

Speakesʻs Speaking Out: Inside the Reagan White House

Tanganyika

+ Zanzibar = Tanzania

Tarzana

Integrated Behavioral Health Care

mind control

Association for Creating Really Obscure Names Yet Meaningless

Major Tom

Az üzenetet módosította a szerzője, okt. 23, 2009, 9:04am.

Party candidate, Dewey

Lib Dems

British "Liberals" + "Social Democrats"*

*Their merger formed the "Liberal Democrats", the UKʻs current 3rd party.

today's lecture

La Lecture rapide / Speed Reading
by Tony Buzan

Go Speed, Go!

Speed Racer

Car

Beep Beep, Beep Beep, Yeah!

R2D2

3 C P O

droids

cyborgs

Teen Titans

transformers

shape shifters

mythology

Graves, Campbell, and Hesiod

Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe.

The Firm by John Grisham

Tom Cruise

Splinter Cell

Third Party politics

Socialist Labor Party

Australian Labour Party (ALP)

Dingo

short stories

lukewarm

>#255: you know, it's actually spelled "Labor". There's a story behind that, but it's boring.

To Mr. Andrew (#260)

I thought it might be -or, but that -our was the probability.

Iʻve never been in Australia, but acquired some interest in Australian politics while living in Tonga in the 80s, so the story wouldnʻt necessarily bore me.

#260 (lukewarm) >

Republican support for candidates, McCain, Dole, Bush I, Ford and Dewey

Kill the poor

Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned
by Kinky Friedman

Easy to Kill by Agatha Christie

headache (I don't like time anomalies)

Luke "Old Aches & Pains" Appling

Thomas Paine's Common Sense

muppets

Miss Piggy

Muppets in Space (space, space, space)

the Swedish chef

space ships

"I'm a rocket, WHOOOSH!"

"Wait a minute... I just lit a rocket. Rockets explode!"

Buzz Lightyear

Woody

Harrelson (sp?)

Ford

Henry, Gerald, and Jack

Betty

boop

beep

road runner

coyote

sign

Wily

Az üzenetet módosította a szerzője, okt. 25, 2009, 9:53pm.

wabbit

Elmer Fudd

hunting

be veeeewy quiet!

we're hunting wabbits!

Meditations on Hunting
by Jose Ortega y Gasset

working angles

Flatland

George, Bud , and Jim

Airbud

Lite Beer

Bud Lite

This Bud's for you.

"For you, Jaibo: the bullet"*

*a closing line in the classic film Los Olvidados
(The Young and the damned)

The Magic Bullet (the blender)

T. Mann ʻs Magic Mountain

Depressing German literature

Nietzsche, Boll*, and Hesse**

* but not for all his works

** for his Demian only

Philosophical discusion

"NO discussion!" *

* a favorite saying of one of my elementary (or was it h.s.?) teachers, for heading off outbreakds of casual conversation.

Matilda

("Listen, you little wiseacre: I'm smart; you're dumb; I'm big, you're little; I'm right, you're wrong, and there's nothing you can do about it.")

Waltzing...

The King and I

Taufaʻahau Tupou IV and* Roland

*we were on the same stage a few times, at graduations.

The Town of Tittipu

Between Faulknerʻs Hamlet
and his Mansion

Luigi's Mansion

Luigi Pirandelloʻs Six Characters

Sixteen Candles

1958 song by The Crests.

tubes of toothpaste, or plumes

tooth fairy

kelpie

selkie

give key away

invitation

RSVP

posh

nosh

feeding frenzy

renown frenzy*

*As in Braudyʻs The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and its History

fame and fortune

" . . . is no flower that blooms on mortal soil"
--Milton on Fame

Cheeverʻs Oh What a Paradise it Seems

Barryʻs Dave Barry is not making This up

Alfred, C. S. "Jack", John L. and Sinclair

Jack Johnson

eclair

John Jackson

Az üzenetet módosította a szerzője, okt. 27, 2009, 6:43pm.

bananas pancakes

Az üzenetet módosította a szerzője, okt. 27, 2009, 6:44pm.

blitz / lightning *

* guerre eclaire is French for "blitzkrieg"

thunder

Thunderbird Casino

List of All-Time Movies Least Worth Doing a
Remake of*

*#347 is on my list, 2nd only to Oceanʻs Eleven. Or, taking a different view of it, Movies that Most NEEDED a remake

Oscars

Wilde, Kokoschka, and Williams

literal interpretation

Sontagʻs Against Interpretation

Whatever it is, I'm against it

" I DIDNʻT read it, and Iʻm AGAINST it."
--MLB manager Dick Williamsʻs
comment on Jim Boutonʻs second book.

Meltzerʻs Anarchism: Arguments
for and Against

Fascism

Az üzenetet módosította a szerzője, okt. 28, 2009, 4:58pm.

Mangioneʻs Mussoliniʻs March on Rome,
October 30, 1922

North Africa Campaign

*my grandfather was in it*

African Trilogy: the North Africa campaign
1940 - 1943 by Alan Moorehead

African Safari

pith helmets

Goodappleʻs German Helmets

pineapple
sausage
scuttle

sorry, that's what my brain does when there is more than one word in a WA post.

scuttlebut

scuzzlebutt

scuzzle or, and, or if

Conjunction Junction, what's your function?

Form and Function

interior design

by design

intelligent design

The Supreme Being

genius

Einstein

Relativity theories: general or special

the big bang theory

pulsars

...among the most regarded stars...

shooting stars

"Our ʻnational sportʻ is shooting, and always
will be!*

*from the film: The Great Northfield Raid; a Missourianʻs answer to a Minnesotanʻs remark
"Baseballʻs our national sport!" --Most of the dialogue wasnʻt this (?) good.

skeets

snipes

(*clapclap* Here snipey-snipey-snipe!)

shoots from out in the open

Whitmanʻs Leaves of Grass

raking

*sigh* endless, endless raking.

slaking

thirst

quench

Heineken

Grab a Heiny (Ok was that a slogan at one time or a joke on a movie?)

(I believe it was a slogan)

Crude

"....And Tyler, too" . ... "You never had it so good" and "He kept us out of war"

Politics and Lies

flies

Time does it -- and a baseball

Willinghamʻs Natural Child

(Francis) Child Ballads

McCullersʻs Ballad of the Sad Cafe

Mahfouzʻs Houseboat on the Nile

Miss Marple

Hercule Poirot and Parker Pyne

moustache

tickle

Chaplin, Hitler, and Dewey

non-sequitur

Az üzenetet módosította a szerzője, okt. 30, 2009, 9:39am.

nonsensical

Seusical

the Musical

Down to Earth*

*musical, in which Rita Hayworth plays a muse

The Man Who Fell to Earth

bowie

david

goliath

beetle

Sgt. Snorkel, General Halftrack, and Lt. Fuzz

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

L. Gardnerʻs Survivors Club

rules

broken

....made to be. . .

born for more

"Please, . . . more?" --Oliver Twist

porridge

Pease .... hot or cold

bears

shoes

"Them Memphis women donʻt wear no . . ."
-- Furry Lewis

shocking

Burkeʻs Gender Shock

Futurama

Wolpertʻs Nine Hours to Rama

Rani

*means Hindu princess, don't know why i connected that.*

Az üzenetet módosította a szerzője, okt. 31, 2009, 3:53pm.

Letters of a Javanese Princess
by Raden Adjeng Kartini

"the peopleʻs princess"

Princess Diana

paparazzi