Word Association #34

Last three entries:

Prime rib

Prime Merlinian

Prime meridian

My contribution:

Tropic of Cancer

Capricorn and the Shadow*

*Inkheart

Burdick's The Blue of Capricorn

Blues Clues
(don't judge, lol)

Delta blues

Delta blues

Deja vu

Arthur Millerʻs A View from the Bridge

Carolina Hurricanes

On 10, 11 and 12:

"Carolina Hurricanes" is ok as a play on my original #10 "St. Louis Blues of the NHL". But I changed it because it was played on #8 not #9.

Hurricanes that I lilved through:

the New England hurricane of 1938.

ʻAfa ko AIsake / Cyclone Isaac, Tonga, 1982

Blizzards I lived through -- Halloween '91 & Dec. 11 2010

Curiosity:

An Oct. 31 blizzard? Even in Massachusetts I never saw snow before November. (Curious about
the location.)

Hurricane 1988 Great Barrier Reef on a boat

16- Minnesota, our weather follows no rules

On 18:

Thanks for giving the location of the Oct. 31 blizzard. I didn't mean that weathers should be helld to any rules. So I can visualize an October blilzzard in Minnesota, though I wouldn't want to experience one. A cliche among New Englanders who comment on the climate is, "I don't mind cold, as long as it's a DRY cold." Our typical cold is on the wet side; on the other hand it rarely went below Zero Fahrenheit.

I always wondered if Minnesotans also "don't mind a Dry Cold",
assuming that you must have more of that than we used to have in New England. (I'll leave Northern N. E. out of it, because I was way down south in Greater Boston.) So I assumed that our Stoic commenders of dry cold in New England were just commending what they never got much of. --Would a place that actually got some dry cold
feel the same way?

Playing off 17: Pustulio

19- haha, our weather is erratic. The unpredictability is a bit of a joke amongst ourselves. The day of the blizzard (2010) was rather mild in the teens/lower twenties, but the dry day after had a windchill of -20 to -30 Fahrenheit. I have to walk a mile to class, so in general I would much rather have it wet out if the windchill stays above zero. We've had days with windchill -60. . . you're pretty much stranded inside at that point as many cars refuse to start at those temps and frostbite occurs in under 15mins.

Playing off 20

"I sup, lout."*

*Anagram of "Pustulio" (which or whom, however, I donʻt know the meaning of).
Meaning of the anagram? -- Hmm, I guess itʻs a medieval lordʻs order to a servant, not to disturb him while dining.

A Knight's Tale

Heath Ledger

Jeff Heath old time Cleveland Indians
Boston Braves* o.f.

*Jeff broke a leg in a meaningless late season game,
09/48, and couldnʻt play as a Brave in the World Series
vs. his old team the Indians.

Panda dog NOW!

lol
Sad Panda?

Fitzgeraldʻs All the Sad young Men

Boston,* Milwaukee, and Atlanta
-- 3 sites where the "Brave" athlete played ML baseball.

Boston Braves was also, briefly, a minor league hockey
team, affiliated with the NHLʻs Boston Bruins

Play ball!

Put me in Coach!

fitness coach

whistle

fowl

Earlene Fowler, mysteries author

Earl of Sandwich

Earl Johnson old time Boston Red Sox pitcher

The Wire

City of Glass; the Graphic Novel
by Paul Auster

Glass Ceiling

glass bottom boat

Jeromeʻs Three Men in a Boat

Three Men & a Baby

Harvard, Princeton and Yale
The "Big Three" of pre-World War I College Football

Poison Ivy

road rash: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6COC-0Ur4Lk&feature=related

(as a deterrent to drunk driving, my boss's driver's ed teacher had his daughters get drunk and *try* to play this game successfully, lol)

motor scooters

motor skills

balance

tight rope

trapeze artist

"trap Ease" --pretentious "translation" of "catch a nap".

"It's a trap!" - Admiral Akbar, Star Wars Return of the Jedi

"Sit APART!" (anagram of "Itʻs a trap!"

Sitting Pretty

Polliniʻs Pretty Maids All in a Row
n ovel, later movie starring Angie Dickinson

"I feel pretty, oh so pretty!"

"Wait! --Are you by any chance a Baptist?"

"Mah folks is, but IʻVE always been putty* liberal."

--classic dialogue in Faulknerʻs
The Hamlet

*Faulknerʻs idea of a Mississipian pronunciaiton of "pretty". Oddly his nephew, Phil Stone, thought
that Mississippians not only retain the -r-, but add another one to it: "prurty".

Dialect

Dialogue

The Quarrel between Brutus and Cassius
--Shakespeaareʻs Julius Caesar

Cassio and Othello

High School Honors English

SAT verbal score

SAT nominal, adjectival, adverbial, or
exclamatory scores

GRE

". . . just for the record. . ."
pseudo-self-disparaging introduction to sharing a piece of data that may well come under the heading of "dept. of useless Information".

"Told you so. . . "

Mom.

Dad, Sis and other short palindromes

Family

hot mess

"Mackie Messer" / "Mack the Knife"

character in a musical, words by Bertholt Brecht

knife fighting

"i went to a fight in LA last weekend -and a hockey game broke out!" --Jim Leahy

The Mighty Ducks

The University of Oregon Ducks

Origami

Japan

Harajuku

Gwen Stephani

Gwen Perkins Murphy
sculptor

Gwen Stacy

*The Amzing Spiderman #31 (Dec. 1965)

Gwen Verdon dancer

(and author of (?!) Sweet Charity, according
to "Search".

Guinevere (King Arthur)

Sir Lancelot

First Knight (film)

First Kid (film)

The Karate Kid (film)

Mr. Miyagi

G. Morrisonʻs Killing Mr. Quimper
(in the Invisibles Series)

Invisible Children

Wellsʻs and Ellisonʻs 2 Invisible Mans

WellsFargo

bank heist

Was Heisst Denken? / What is Called Thinking? by Martin Heidegger

Stick it

"the Stickies" *

*nickname of the Official Irish Republican Army: those who did not join the Provisional I.R. A. in the late 1960s

Post-It

STOP it
anagram of "Post-it"

Four-year-olds (I hear that a lot around them.)

Mom he's touching me!

Schultzʻs Heʻs your Dog, Charley Brown

Good man

(a la You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown)

old time Red Sox infielder Billy Goodman,
musician Benny Goodman, and writer-activist Paul Goodman

Where's Rube?
(joke from Rube Goldberg projects in hs)

hey rube
obsolete(?) slang phrase for a fight between
locals and carnival workers

Ruby Gentry starring Jennifer Jones
and Charlton Heston* 1952 film*

*Even the Jones/Heston teamup couldnʻt save this
piece of trash.

The Wizard of Oz

Australia

Paul Keating, Bob Hawke, and Malcolm Frasier*

* prime inisters of Australia duriing my years elsewhere in Oceania.

Parliament

". . .Parliament, parliament, ye shall GO . . .
Liberal* OR Con -serv - a TIVE,
.....Into Parliament ye shall GO!!"
-- Gilbert & Sullivan: Iolanthe

*This is of course the Victorian, British meaning of
"Liberal" and not the Australian or American.

owls

"drunk as an owl"
--obsolete(?) simile of the
1940s; ʻDrunk as a lord" was more common, and "as an owl" may have been a misquoting of that.

D. B. Wyndham-Lewisʻs The Stuffed Owl; an anthology of Bad verse

D.B. Cooper

parachuting

What Color is your Parachute?
used to consult this sometimes in whatever spare time serious job-hunting would allow. Still being published.

golden parachute

golden ticket

Ticket Master

PageMaster

Paper Cut

china dolls

Queen's Plate

Faulkner's Knight's Gambit

decision

pros and cons

negative vs. positive

developing pictures

developing countries

Egypt

protests

amateur tests

test subjects... O.o

subjective test

having been hurled to The Top*, and then tested.

*antonym of the literal Latin meaning of the sub -ject root: having been thrown under..."

throw someome under the bus

insurance claim

"Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there" *finger snap*

(I enjoy those commercials, and the Mayhem commercials)

Updikeʻs Of the Farm

animal farm I have a crush on Mr. Mayhem

Howard the Duck failed movie comedy
of the 1980s

Marx Brothers

banned in Latvia

Double Faced Eels (a band from Latvia)

#165--I loved that movie when I was 6, totally not a failure at that age ;P

"Howard the Duck") totally not a failure..." (169)

No disparagement of your view of Howard the Duck iintended. My sayinig "failed" was based not on having seen it, but on the folklore of cursorily-read reviews.

(Playing on 169, because 170 wasn't really an entry into the game, although 171 was played on it.)

Eels: an Exploration ffrom New Zealand to the Saragasso
by James Prosek

jelly fishing (Sponge Bob Square Pants)

Whirlaway and Seabiscuit

sally sells sea shells by the sea shore...

(curiosity: i really dont know how to play the game. did i get it right?)

Bovaʻs The Craft of Writing Science Fiction
that Sels

Moliereʻs Scapinʻs Crafty Capers*

*title of a 1940s(?) translation of his Les Fourberies de Scapin The 1970s translation into Hawaiʻi Creole by James Benton was "Da Buggah"

Canopus
once the "New York" or "London" of Egypt

Calliope

"This house is haunted,
This house is HAU --UN --TED!
It fairly makes my
Blood run CO - O-OLD!!!" *

*First lines of a folk song collected by Carl sandburg, which (I donʻt know why) has the title "Calliope".

Wild Man Fischerʻs "Merry-go-Round", background music in the film
Medium Cool (1969)

"Julie Jordan" and "Billy Bigelow"

Benny London great collegiate table tennis player
of the 1940-50s

Reginald Hill novelist

Perrottaʻs Joe College: a Novel

Average Joe

Dodgeball the movie

"Joe Dodge" character in a socological classic:
Street Corner Society by William Foote Whyte

Mary Mapes Dodge author of the classic
Hans Brinker or the silver Skates

Blades of Glory starring Will Ferrell and Jon Heder

Glory Alley
failed 1952 movie, which even Leslie Caron, Ralph Meeker, Louis Armstrong,
Kurt Kaszar, and (briefly) jack Tegarden couldnʻt save

hole in one*

*I was his caddy when one was scored in 1944 by Dr. Frank Sanborn, age 80, at Oakley Country Club, Watertown MA, 15th hole.

My other main memory of "hole in one" is that,
following the 1952 Election, that was the caption of a photo of a pair of shoes held up by losing candidate Adlai Stevenson (D, IL)

Pilot

Pilot Candidate

An unfortunately unfinished anime.

"The candidateʻs a dodger, yes,
a well-known dodger,
And IʻM a dodger, too!"
--19th c. folk song

"Eddie Davis" fictional Dodger 2nd baseman in
John R. Tunisʻs The Kid from Tomkinsville; he was not artful enough to keep the job, and was replaced by the heroʻs ("The Kid")ʻs brother.

Roger Baldwin a co-founder of American Civil Liberties Union

Baldwin Brothers

I. J. SIngerʻs The Brothers Ashkenazi

Fosterʻs The Winston brothers: (Tangled Sheets / Tangled Dreams) / Tangled Images)

(As 216 appears too difficult to play on -- it was an obscure Brothers Karamazov edition, edited by
W. Somerset maugham -- Iʻm cancalling it and replacing it with the above.)

New-ish Disney movie Tangled

Hawthorneʻs Wonder Book, Tanglewood Tales (and Grandfatherʻs Chair (published together0

Lay-Z-Boy

Macaulayʻs The Lays of Ancient Rome

Ruth Roman actress of the 1940s; from* my home town, Cambridge, MA (?)

*from Cambridge, or did she just live there briefly?

aunt

(accepting 224, although I donʻt get the
connection of 223>224.)

Greeneʻs Travels with my Aunt

Gulliver's Travels

(I had an aunt named Ruth)

". . .a malenky pain in the gulliver"
-- "a slight headache" as articulated by
Anthony Burgessʻs character Alex.

Hagar the Horrible

"a collection of Horribles"

-- a sports writerʻs designation of one of the 1970s Texas Rangers teams. (And the Rangers never did get into a World Series until 2010. For a while, they had George W. Bush as a part-owner. Not much help there.)

Anno Horribulus

Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog

Mitch Millerʻs Sing-A-Long

Follow the Bouncing Ball

Lucille Ball and (no relation) Suzanne Ball,
Movie/ TV (LB) star; and film ( SB) star

George Burrows activist of the 1930s--1950s,
reputed co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union; father of actor/panelist Orson Bean*

*Orson Bean#: original name: Dallas Burrows

# knew author

Richard Burns State Librarian of Hawaiʻiʻs statewide Public Library System*

*Know Author.

Richard the Lionheart

The Cowardly Lion

motor city

Detroit Tigers, Detroit Lions, Detroit Red Wings, Detroit Pistons: "Motor City" pro sports teams.

"Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh, my!"

"...and bears" (247)

No Bears in 246, Theyʻre in another Midwestern city, as are their offspring.

In the recent Chicago gubernatorial imbroglio, "selling a senate seat", the defendantʻs wife was quoted as telling him as
he spoke by telephone, something like, "You might as well tell them the f-----g" Cubs deal is out the window, too."

Follow it to the Wizardʻs place in Oz

(Playing on 248, becaus someone is likely to shout
that it was the "last correct post" -- probably about 15 or 20 posts from now. (249 was a comment on 247, not a game entry.) )

Emerald City

sparkly

vampires

Rufus Scrimgeour (alleged to be a vamp, couldn't prove it by me though)

lion

leo africanus

Leo Giroux, Jr. novelist*

*Knew Author.

Don Nardo popular nonfiction writer

Don Alvaro de Luna 15h century Spanish
politician

Don Giovanni

Don Money
A L infielder; he was sometimes s said to be (if youʻre thinking about WHY ML baseball players play) the most aptly-named major leaguer, but he wasnʻt one of the big all time money-makers.

Peter Dollar songwriter (?)*

*On a lot of Googleʻ entries about songs, (used in another Game Thread), Iʻm not sure whether theyʻre giving me the song-writer, or just the most prominent singer(s). Anyone know?

Marshallʻs A Man called Peter, Nockʻs St. Paul, and Sheenʻs* The Worldʻs First Love...Mary the Mother of God

*Of these 3, Sheen is the only one That I have a copy of -- a not too good condition ex-library. Nockʻs is a "Met Author" and a Wish List item.

Letters to the Corinthians

Tom Wrightʻs Paul for Everyone: Second Corinthians for Everyone

Tom Waits

The Piano has been drinking

"Youʻve been DRINKING!!" *
-- Nathan A. Haverstock**

*a greeting I received from nathan "Mickey" Haverstock upon arriving at a rehearsal of a Latin
play we were both in. A few years later it would have evoked the reply "What else is new?" At the time it (although true) surprised me.

** Knew Author.

Charlie McCarthy dummy* comedian of
Edgar Bergen

*in the strict sense of the word, not the publishersʻ sense as in the "... for Dummies" Series.

Candice Bergen Edgar's daughter

Wilbur the pig

Mary Webb, novelist, author of
Precious Bane

Dr. Samuel "Dictionary" Johnson, Essayist, critic, and lexicographer

Boswell

Boswell, Indiana

Roswell, New Mexico

Rosslyn Chapel, Midlothian, Scotland

"Rosemary, Heaven restores you to life"
--Evil by Interpol

"Lope in, T R"* -- anagram of "Interpol"

"What President T. Roosevelt was assuming Panamanians would say to him; but they didnʻt"

antelope

Cantaloupe

melon

On Elm (anagram of "melon")*

*Meaning? I guess it answers the question "On what street...?"

Birch

perch

bream

Ream B (anagram of "bream")*

*Meaning? If you have 26 reams of paper, Ream B is as opposed to Ream A and Reams C - Z.

"Linear A" Semitic language of ancient Crete deciphered*
by Cyrus Gordon

*Deciphered: Or not. Gordonʻs decipherment, and even his placement of Linear A as Semitic have not been widely accepted by other scholars.

Linear thinking

y=mx+b (model for a linear equations)

algebra

parabola

magazines of spiritual and esoterica

metaphysical poetry

Herbert, Daniel, Cowley, and Vaughan

Tom, Dick and Harry

Thomas E. Dewey (R, NY), Richard M.
Nixon (R, CA)*, Harry S Truman (D, MO)

*A persistent rumor of the early 1950s said that the
"younger" politician most admired by
outgoing president Harry Truman was incoming vice-president Richard M. Nixon, --but that HSTʻs
Party loyalty prevented him from saying so publicly. HST was also rumored to have invented
the nickname "Tricky Dick" for RMN.

Dewey Decimal System

Melvil Dewey and John (no relation) Dewey*

*One of my Classics professors, said that John messed up the "Education of Educators" system in America. I later added the corollary that Melvil
did the same for "Library Science"* education.

*I guess the claim that itʻs a science was not Deweyʻs claim; his original name for it was "Library ECONOMY".

Kuroneko Sama ~ Lord Black Cat (from Trigun)

Poeʻs "The Black Cat"

Behemoth, the large black cat in Master and Margarita

"Black Behemoth" poem (or chant?) by
Edith Sitwell

Thomas Hobbes and Bible. O.T. Job

Calvin and Hobbes

(Steinbeckʻs?)* Burning Bright

*Steinbeckʻs? --Yes, and several othersʻ, too, according to "Search". And who could forget Marion ZImmer Bradleyʻs Tiger, Burning Bright?

I'll go with William Blake

"the much despised ʻBlakeyʻ
ʻTore the cover offʻ the ball..."

very forgettable line in Thayerʻs Casey at the Bat
to go from the sublime
William Blake--(321) to the
ridiculous (Thayerʻs "Blakey" (322).

Robert Blake the actor

Hector "Toe" Blake, old time Star hockey player, Montreal Canadiens

The Mighty Ducks

Underdog

Polly Purebred

". . .the purebred boys, afraid of strangers" -- Archibald MacLeish*

*line in a WW II poem about Nazi attitudes on race and naitonality

The Archies

Archie Leach aka Cary Grant actor

Dyan Cannon

(Iʻll play on 333, despite doubts about how it
follows from 332)

Lou Cannon non-fiction political writer

"...doubts about how (333) follows from 332..."

On second thought, it may be all right, because
this game, unllike the "Silly Game" doesnʻt
require the exact repetition of a particular word.

Nick Cannon

Nora and Nick Charles
fictional detectives

I believe Dyan Cannon & Cary Grant were married once.

dashiell Hamett

"(D C and C G) were married once" (338)
Thanks, varielle. I suspected they might be up to some old fashioned antics like that.

Playing on 338:
Alfred F. Dashiell atlas editor

Alfred Wegener

*known for his theory on Continental Drift

Batman

Robin

Robin Maugham novelist

Robin Hood

Red Riding Hood

Big Bad Wolf

"BIg Bad John" song by the Acuffs

Big Bad Leroy Brown

Fair Eleanor and the Brown Girl
traditional ballad

"Eleanor" The 1967 Shelby GT 500 from "Gone in 60 seconds"

"I HATE war, and so does Elea-NORE,
BUT..." (Anti-FDR* jingle of the 1940s. Anti-Ro

*Anti-Rooseveltians were, however, a minority, and he was elected president 4 times.)

"meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow meow meow meow meow" --Meow Mix jingle

"Come, Mr. Tambourine Man,
Play a song for me;
In the jingle-jangle morning
Iʻll .. .. .."

Mr. Bojangles

...come following you...

"I Donʻt want your Millions, Mister"
-- Woody Guthrie

Candy Island (from the tv show The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack)

Gilligan's Island

the professor

Mary Ann

A haunted ship, I think it's called Queen Mary

Ghost ship

Thurberʻs "The Night the Ghost got in"
classic short story

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Danny Elfman

Jack Skellington - the Pumpkin King

Apocolocyntosis Divi Claudii / The
Pumpkinification of the Deified Claudius
by Petronius

Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Apocalypse of St. John / Revelation* of St.
John by Bible. N.T. Last book
of the New Testament

*Revelation: translation in Protestant Bibles;
Apocalypse in Catholic. Other than the title not much difference in the translations.

Lost in Translation

"Traduttore: Traditore"
"Translator: Traitor" old Italian saying

foreign language

ʻYou DO have to know the language"

article about travel by Sinclair Lewis in his last years
(d. 1951); his title was dissenting from a popular
song (of the 40s): "You DONʻT have to know the language".

All Greek to me

Spanglish

Rostenʻs The Joys of Yinglish*

*The "Yin-" of Yinglish (Yiddish/English) plays the role of the
"Span-" of "Spanglish"

Spike Milligan and the Goons

Mike mulligan

Mike "Pinky" Higgins, Tigers, Red Sox 3rd baseman; later Red Sox manager (2x)

Hurricane Higgins (snooker player)

"Hurricane Smith" *

*Very forgettable movie of the 1950s, starring the very memorable Yvonne DeCarlo

Stan Smith from American Dad

John Smith Scottish Labour politician
He died suddenly and was replaced as party head by Tony Blair

Edith Newbold Jones*

*original name of the famous novelist Edith Wharton

"Who is YOUR idea of a good writer --
C. P. F__ __ __ __ inʻ SNOW?"

-- U. S. novelist JamesJones to a British interviewer

About 388, b t w: Her family (or extended family?) are said to be THE "Joneses" whom, in the catch phrase in 388, other late 19th century families(389) were trying to "keep up with".

Snowflakes

"Doesnʻt get to play very often, but he keeps everybody entertained; heʻs a million laughs! Heʻs what we call, in the trade, --FLAKEY!" *

*a sports writerʻs description of Boston Red Sox
reserve infielder Dick Williams, later an ML manager. (As a manager, he was known as the most unsmiling manager of his time!)

dandruff

Selsun Blue (the shampoo)

Jack Kerouac's
Book of the Blues

Tangled Up in Blue

A Tangled Web by L. M. Montgomery

* sorry the touchstones aren't working for some reason =(

Wilbur the Pig

Continued on a New Thread!