Meta-thread: Word association thread

[wtg]

@ShiroKuro said:

For a while now, I have felt we might benefit from a meta-thread about the Word association thread

Excellent idea

[ShiroKuro]

@wtg OMG I forgot all about that!!!

[DougG]

So I make a post to the word association thread, and the first phrase WTG thinks of is “dim wit”.

unfortunately, I’m not smart enough to figure out if I should be offended…

[wtg]

@DougG

[DougG]

dang it. I don’t think there are any words that any of us could possibly think of that rhyme with “shucks.”

[ShiroKuro]

@DougG certainly not me, I don’t have a word for that…

[CHAS]

@DougG Had the word. It was on the tip of my tongue. Sadly, I _______ lost it.

[Bernard]

@DougG Oh I have one... schmucks.

[jon-nyc]

My autocorrect is always suggesting ‘ducks’ but I don’t know if that’s actually a word.

[DougG]

Great, now Jon’s last post expects me to come up with a rhyme for “lits”.

I’m pretty sure there isn’t one. Could this be the end of the word association thread?

[ShiroKuro]

@dougg it doesn't have to rhyme (I know you know that...

More importantly, I didn't know the term wagon lit.

[jon-nyc]

@DougG said:

Great, now Jon’s last post expects me to come up with a rhyme for “lits”.

I’m pretty sure there isn’t one. Could this be the end of the word association thread?

It’s pronounced “lee” if that helps

[wtg]

@DougG said:

Great, now Jon’s last post expects me to come up with a rhyme for “lits”.

I’m pretty sure there isn’t one. Could this be the end of the word association thread?

[AndyD]

Dakota - Dad

Immediate but obscure association...
One of very few WW2 experiences my Dad ever spoke about. He was RAF regiment airfield gunner, and volunteered to 'accompany a package' (wouldn't say what).
So he sat in the back of a Dakota for hours, flew north across India to the Himalayan foothills. And back south again. It would have been in 1944 before we retook into Burma.
You could see in his face him recalling the journey and amazing views of the mountains.
I wonder now if the package was China-related, possibly human.

[jon-nyc]

Interesting. For me the association was very NYC specific.

There’s a memorial to John Lennon in Central Park that has a big mosaic of the word ‘Imagine’. That is right in front of the Dakota building which is where he lived and where he was shot.

[Bernard]

eft

A few posts back was not "Escape From Tarkov" or "Emotionally Focused Therapy".

In case there was any doubt about my meaning, an eft is one of these... I find them in the wood pile once in a while.

[AndyD]

I googled and guessed therapy

[Bernard]

Wouldn't it be cool to use the word association thread to write a story? One would have to add a sentence at a time using one or more words from the thread--in order, starting with post number one. I guess navigating the thread and keeping track of the current word/post number would be tricky though.

[ShiroKuro]

Another fun thing about the thread is when a word pops up that you know/recognize but never use or rarely see.

"Vainglorious" is one of those words.

the thread sort of reminds you "oh yeah, that word." There are lots of fun words in English!

[DougG]

unfortunately, the technical banking expression “glad you owe us” is more than one word, or I would’ve used it as a response to gladiolus…