Word Association #29

Time for a new thread!

Guidelines: Post the first word or short phrase that pops in to your head after reading the previous word/phrase. No need to explain or justify your associations . . . after all, it's your brain.

Last 3 entries:

Harlan Coben
How parents name their children
Children of the Corn

My addition to the game:

Aliens

My Favorite Martian

Mister Ed

Mister Jones

Mrs. Jones you have a lovely daughter

+ Jennifer Jones + , (1919-2010), lovely daughter of Mrs. Isley

Jenny from the block

New Kids on the Block

road block

video game

Mario Bros.

plumbers

crack

lightning

Florida Lightning of the NHL

orange juice

House of Orange*

Now reading Jardine's book on the assassination of the most famous member of the House, William the Silent. Orange was in France, but became closely associated with the Netherlands, then with Northern Ireland Protestants.

Orange Avenue

Connecticut, Oriental, or Vermont Avenue

Fifth Avenue

designer clothing

". . .wolf in sheep's clothing"

Faerie Tales vs Folk Tales

Chesterton's "The Logic of Elf Land"

oxymoron

What did you call me? :o)

call me jacx

Olson's Call me Ishmael

Long... boring... literature

Melville

Herman, Herskovits, or as a last resort, Dewey

decimal

fraction, in its own way

pizza (dang it, now I'm hungry)

". . . oughta get a rope and hang me .. ." *

*line from "Dang Me", possibly the worst C &W song ever written

picante sauce

P - canting hypocrites*

*as opposed to A-O-canting, and R-Z-canting
hypocrites

Hippocrates

medicine

"Medicine used to creep along, in a silent fear"
-- Lucretius

Minerva

Bontempo's Owl of Minerva: Philosophers
on Philosophy

Nelson Potter and phooling
N .L. batters, ca. 1948

Law Firm

L.A. Law

Ally McBeal

Feed me

Eat at Ralphs!

Ralph Cramden

Talking to Ralph

Ralph Lauren

polo

Prince Charles

Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6U_bqIMkI4

Phishing E-mail

fishing through snail (junk?) mail

fly fishing

fish flies

french fries

family ties

funny spies

Spy who came in from the Cold( the movie, anway): funny in its
hostility to Librarians

The Spy who loved me

King's The Girl who Loved Tom gordon

arc flash

Joe "Flash " Gordon, player, later manager

black magic

Magic act

Hart's Act One; an autobiography

Hart to Hart

(ah 80s TV)

broken heart

Andrews's Broken Wings

Pilot light

Show pilot

pilot crackers

pilot's wings

Angel Wings

James's Wings of the Dove

Herald Angels

Only Angels Have Wings

Only Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim lack wings.

>91 rolandperkins: haha, nice!

"Well perhaps angels have no names, only beautiful faces."
~A Knight's Tale

The Name of the Rose is the name of a beautiful flower; as for the Name of the Rose as a book...
forget it.

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."
~Romeo and Juliet

"Name"? or "Rose" -- it's a tough call.

Every rose has its thorns.

Every night has its dawn.

Sunrise, sunset

If I were a rich man

Tradition!

Matchmaker, matchmaker make me a match
Find me a find
Catch me a catch

Swiss bank

secret account

Silone's Secret of Luca

Chrono Trigger

Wilson's Cosmic trigger I: Final secret of the
Illuminati

angels and demons

Service's "Dangerous Dan McGrew"

McGee

**from NCIS

Conway Oemler's Slippy McGee*

* a once very popular novel; now nearly forgotten.

Slippy Toad

**I'll let you guess where that comes from.

Frog and Toad

***I'll let the touchstone speak for itself.

"Intelligent Mister Toad"*

*character in The Wind in the Willows

Willow Rosenberg (from Buffy)

Weeping Willow

Moaning Myrtle

Ardenʻs The Mystery of the Moaning
Cave in the (Alfred Hitchcock & the
3 Investigators Series)

The Birds

Classical Role for Bert Lahr

cowardly lion

"Dorothy" of, "Emerald City" of, and "Land" of

Judy Garland

Auntie Em! Auntie Em!

Mame, or "Travels with My. . ." ,
OR Jane's heroine, familiarly

illicit drugs

Long's Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs

The long and Winding Road

Collins's (and Hollywood's) Road to Perdition

Tom Hanks

Paul Newman*

*co-starred with Hanks in Road to Perdition (134)

Alfred E Neuman
"The only advantage to living in the past is that the rents are much cheaper!"

Jack Handey

Italian

lasagne

noodles

"Do the Noodle Dance!"
~PB&J Otter; from the Disney Channel

Ramin noodles

Chinese Noodles

Chinese lantern

fireworks

Do whatever works

skunk cabbage

cabbage rose

boiled cabbage

hard boiled

Little Dorritt, Great Expectations,
and The Old Curiosity Shop

curiosity killed the cat

cat scratch fever

Ted Nugent

JFK

Oliver S tone, William manchester
or Theodore Sorensen

string theory

twang

southern

fried chicken

the Colonel

Mustard

in the library

with a lead pipe

red herring

herringbone

Salt Herring

Murray River Salt

Morton Salt Company

when it rains, it pours

Poros, the Alexander the Great fighter

fantasy football (Alexander is in my team in the UK)

aerobics

Utah Jazz (formelry New Orleans Jazz)

Zion National Park

John Muir

Hiking

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site

Yellowstone National Park

Theodore Roosevelt

leonardo dicaprio

The dark side

The Dark Mark

Mark Twain

hackneyed

taxied

taxidermy

The Cab beneath the Skin*

*an unpublished, in fact as yet unwritten, parody on Auden's The Dog beneath the Skin

Epidermis

skin graft

Skin So Soft

Calgon take me away

hard water

ice

snow

sledding

". . . a sleighing song, tonight"

Tonights the night

Fortnight

On "the Nature of Prejudice fifty years after
Allport* by John Dovidio

*Oneof my college professors, Gordon Allport; I nev er really met him -- a huge lecture class.

The nature of man

On the Nature of Things / De Reum Natura
by Titus Lucretius Carus

Cicero, translated by Roland F. Perkins
(unpublished)

Pliny (the elder)

John Peterson "Peter" Elder*

*He taught Latin authors, though he didn't ever teach Plliny the Elder that I remember. For some reason, in Touchstones, he evokes King Richard II by Shakespeare!?

peter Jackson

jesse owens

Jesse James

David, son of Jesse

son of a gun

Thom Gunn, poet

Tim Gunn

under the gun

Lowry's Under the Volcano

under fire

Baldwin's Fire Next Time

bonfire

vanity bonfire*

*as in: Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities

Fair Deal

Let's Make A Deal

Let's make it official

improvise

second city

Paradigm City

Eye to Eye: the Quest for the New Paradigm
by Ken Wilber

an eye for an eye

"The Hawaiian Eye"

eye of the storm

Churchill's Gathering Storm

British bulldog

Red Bull

Big Bad Wolf

Grandma's House

"Grandma" Moses and "Grandma" Johnny Murphy

Grandma's chicken and dumplings

Comfort Food

Food Network

"I'm mad as hell, and I'm not taking it any more!"

"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

Media frenzy

Media Control: the Spectacular
Achievements of Propaganda
by Noam Chomsky

yellow journalism

William Randolph Hearst

or

The Truth

Hearst Castle

Patty Hearst

Hamburger Patty

Burger King

Flame-broiled

Whopper

tall tale

"I could a tale unfold. . ." --
The Ghost in Hamlet

The Big Book of Canadian Ghost Stories by John Robert Colombo

The "Big Book" of Alcoholics Anonymous

Big brother

oh brother!!

Richler's Oh Canada, Oh Quebec: Requiem for a Divided Country

Fantasia

Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo and Pocahontas

Disney

merchandising

advertising

marketing

get ram ink*

anagram of "marketing"
meaning? -- Newspaper headline way of saying "Publicize a prize male sheep"

Aries the Ram

"aries" the Roman Army ramrod

Ares the God of War

Mars, the Roman god of War and Ag

chocolate

mmm, I've not had a Mars bar in years

chocolate mousse

happiness

bliss

nirvana

Smells Like Teen Spirit

gym locker

smelly socks

sport socks

Ratatouille

Disney

Wizarding World of Harry Potter

Washington Wizards

warlocks

peace keys

Tower of London

the little princes

Antoine de Saint Exupery's
Little Prince /Le Petit Prince

airplanes

boats and trains

Ships, buses, trolleys and (for me, as
a last resort) cars

hitchhiking

galaxy

Ford Galaxy 300

Ford Mustang GT 500

Ford Cobra

flying Ford Anglia

Model A Ford

horseless carriage

horsepower in "carriages"

Red Rum

I. Morris's World of the shining Prince

The Princess (movie) Theater,
Wakefield, MA

princess phone

Salter's A Phone Call to the Future

Back to the Future

Is it true that, after Soylent Green appeared, the SF Society seriously considered changing the spelling of "Future"* to "Food-Sure"?*

*probably not, because, when you stop and think of it, Sf writers don't have to use the word "future" very much; they p;resent it as already the presen t.

future perfect tense

"Eureka!" --the best known (and only well-known?) use of a Greek perfect tense in English.

castle

windsor

windsor castle

The Queen

The King

Checkmate

T.G. Longʻs Beyond the Worship Wars

"War is just murder with a noble name." ~Living Things

Noble House by James Clavell

"I took a hippocratic oath, and I did NOT take it as a hypocrite!"
--Sid Caesar in a comedy sketch role as a quack doctor.

Hamlet

The Hamlet, first book of Faulkner's
Snopes trilogy

( Trying to bring this thread back to a current menu; it has been dormant for over 24 hrs.)

The last post was:

The Hamlet, first book of
the Snopes Trilogy
by William Faulkner

urban legends

S.Johnson's Who Moved
my Cheese?

S. Johnson's Dictionary
(of 18th c. English)

Mr. Thomas Bob, Thingum Bob's* daddy, co-wrote the only poem T. ever got published.

*hero of a little known Poe story: "The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.

Camus's Man in Revolt

(I didn't read beyond word 6
in 370.)

Youth in Revolt

Werewolves in their Youth; stories
by Michael Chabon

" . . . after they.ve seen
Paris" (pronounced Par-EE)

Notre Dame

Hunchback

dream

Miley Cyrus

scary 8)

nightmare

Peacock's Nightmare Abbey

"Bouge PAS, petit! / Don't move, kid!" *

*Classic in line in the -- I forget which work -- of Georges Simenon

S. Barr's Purely Academic

Galbraith's A Tenured Professor

The absent minded Professor

Cather's The Professor's House

The house of the rising sun

Crichton's Rising Sun

Seventh Son

The Seventh Seal

chess match

Golden fiddle

fiddlehead fern

Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest

The Great Charles Schulz's Always Stick up for the Underbird

1969-1970 New York Jets or 1963 Brooklyn Dodgers

Baseball

basketball

Only (?)Sport absolutely invented within the U.S. -- in Springfield MA, by James Naismith

YMCA

Forgotten meaning

Tsoukalas's Unitarian-Universalist Association:
Cult or Christianity?

athiest

". . . is cast!"
(signed: Caius Julius Caesar

Loss of many disappointed drama-going spectators

rocket launch

Nelson's Rocket Men: the Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon

mouse

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