Word Disassociation
 

This game was inspired by the "Word Association" game crossed with a song by Lemon Demon.

So first off, watch this video. Get the idea? I hope not; if you did, something's wrong. :P

In this game, your goal is to come up with a word that is COMPLETELY UNRELATED to the word in the previous post.

But how do you judge whether or not the word is completely unrelated? Well, that's where the fun part of the game comes in: Before you post your word, you have to try to explain how the last two words actually ARE related to each other, despite the previous poster's best attempts to make them independent.

So if player 1 said "football" and player 2 said "turkey", player 3 would have to explain how football is related to turkey -- they're both something that people see on Thanksgiving Day, for example. Player 3 would then try to come up with a word as unrelated to "turkey" as possible.

If nobody can figure out how your word relates to the word before it, you get a point!

Ready?

First word: "begin"!

I'll also make the second post, because otherwise the first player won't have a word to compare against.

"purple"

The last color of the rainbow is purple, and the opposite of begin is end, and so begin/end are both words related to position, and hence "purple" is related to "begin." OR, if you look at the rainbow backwards, the beginning of the rainbow is "purple."

"Folder"

I had a purple folder for my math class in 7th grade.

"lawnmower"

A lawnmower really is a folder. It folds grass along metal blade lengths such that the blade breaks and grass is cut!


"Teddy bear."

Teddy bears and lawnmowers both have stitched-up fabric enclosures that get stuffed with shredded material.

"space station"

Teddy bears in astronaut suits are a thing--people sell these. Teddy bears and space stations are both related to astro-teddies.

"Ink"

The story goes that NASA put a lot of effort into making an ink pen you could use on the space station. (Supposedly, the Russians just used pencils instead.)

"Magma"

I mean, magma (lava) can be ink. Anything can be, with enough effort and the write right mentality.

Inimitable.

With the stuff I have at home, magma is inimitable. I can't make it.

Straw

There's a band who calls themselves Straw Bear, and one of their songs is "She's Inimitable". I smell a connection here.

Vampire

Two vampires are arguing and one of them attacks the other's argument by creating a similar (but ultimately flawed) representation of that argument and attacking that. He has created a straw vampire.


beer

Puh-lease. Great Lakes Brewing Co has their Nosferatu Imperial Red Ale, Cumbrian Legendary Ales brings you the Croglin Vampire Doppelbock, the Belgian Brouwerij Van Steenberge offers Vampire Pale Ale... we could spend a whole night watching vampire movies with a full cooler of vampire themed beers!

Mercury

Beer and mercury are both liquid at room temperature

Triangle

I would have said that both vampires and straws suck. :P

March 27, 2017: The Moon, Mars, and Mercury were in positions in the night sky known as a celestial triangle.

Osmosis

Okay, so, think of there being two sides in a bucket One side has one molecule, and the other side has two molecules. The two sides are separated by a semipermeable membrane. One molecule is water, and the water passes through the membrane into a more concentrated solution to equalize the two concentrated solutes. The triangle comes in because the membrane, the water, and the other thing that makes the concentration higher is three, and a triangle has three sides.

Pluto

There's a water treatment analysis software package called Plutocalc, which includes datasheets for various osmotic filters.

Banking

Pluto looks like a flat circle on an old diagram of the planets. Coins are flat circles. Coins are from banks.

Ginger

Neither gingers nor bankers have souls.

The Moon

@Coda I like the "both suck" connection XD

It's called mooning to show someone your bare buttocks. Horse traders used to place a piece of ginger between a horse's buttocks to make it appear more lively and carry its tail higher.

Corduroy

Corduroy is that teddy bear book I read when I was young. That teddy bear went around places at night. At night the moon shows up.

Arson

Corduroy is a flammable fabric, and there has been cases[citation needed] of arson caused by corduroy jackets left too close to the fireplace.


Chocolate

W-what... you mean I can't eat a chocolate bar in front of my enemy's burning house? o.o

Uranium

When radioactivity first entered the public consciousness, people made all sorts of radioactive stuff, including a radium-infused chocolate bar and uranium-infused glass.

Shadows

Uranium sounds like uranus and that's in space, and space is dark looking and so are shadows.

weeds

Weeds often grow in the shadows of other plants, since they're sturdier and need less sunlight.

Coca-Cola

I hate them both :| Plus, one's bad for your lawn and the other's bad for your stomach.

And if we're just going by "weed", well, you can easily find both around campus if you know where to look. (CMU's vending machines only sell Pepsi products, but.)

Ethereal

Ethereal beings are ghosts. Ghost signs are old, faded, hand-painted ads on the side of a building. Coca-Cola has many such ghost signs around the country.

Rope

Like you said, ethereal beings are ghosts. There are many ghosts around who came to exist because of a rope tied around their necks...


router

A cable is just a rope made of metal, and you connect cables to routers.

Unicorn

Unicorns are called unicorns because of the one horn on their heads. Uni=one. I have one router in me home.

Me

An old folk tale says unicorns can only be touched by virgins. I am a virgin.

Unless "me" refers to Boris. Then unicorns exist in stories, and Boris can write lots of stories with a pen that big.

Paraphilia

I believe that's called "narcissism."

Nothingness

They're both extremes :|

Torrid

Sahara is pretty torrid and you can feel the vast nothingness among the dunes.

Macrame

I mean, some people think knotted ropes are pretty hot.

Brittle

Both get handmade. Rope knotting and baking brittles.

Rainbow

Rainbows can be made by passing light through glass, and glass is brittle.

Taxicab

According to folk myths there's a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but if you can't find it, it's still possible to earn a living as taxicab driver.

Stegosaurus

They've both got things jutting out from their hoods/backs.

Consistency