Meta-thread: Word association thread

[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…

[Daniel]

@shirokuro The word I was looking for was "Nelson"!

Foiled again!

[Daniel]

And there's a rule about not using proper nouns? That's not fun. A word is a word.

[AndyD]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttertubs_Pass

[ShiroKuro]

I meant "night" not "dark"...

[Bernard]

@shirokuro Great minds! We must have posted at the same time.

[ShiroKuro]

@bernard I would have missed it if you hadn't pointed that out!

[ShiroKuro]

@jon-nyc

[wtg]

[jon-nyc]

Good one, @andyd

[jon-nyc]

Very Chicago answer, @rontuner

[wtg]

@jon-nyc - too funny that you posted de Blasio.

I meant to post this a long time ago. The guy on the right is obviously de Blasio. The guy on the left is someone I met in Rome when we were traveling to Italy with our respective moms.

https://nypost.com/2017/09/26/de-blasio-reminisces-about-napping-in-college/

Here is Peter, age 16, in the Vatican Gardens in 1977:

Peter is a pulmonologist working in NYC. I always meant to ask @jon-nyc if he has ever met him.