John Lynch doesn't have a Friday tradition of his own, so he's trying to start one with a free association game…I'll join in.
- Video ::
- Fantasy ::
- Homework ::
- Crush ::
- Late ::
- Husband ::
- Soccer ::
- Wine ::
- Before ::
- Romantic ::
My answers are below the fold. They're mostly predictable, I think.
- Video :: Signal
- Fantasy :: A four-letter word I won't repeat…you can figure it out.
- Homework :: Grading
- Crush :: Kittens
- Late :: Period
- Husband :: Wife
- Soccer :: Fan
- Wine :: Beer
- Before :: After
- Romantic :: Interlude
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Crush ... kittens?
Yikes! I seem to remember you adopt stray cats.
Video :: games
Fantasy :: final
Homework :: death
Crush :: lake (???)
Late :: night
Husband :: find (??? - I'm a married man!)
Soccer :: daily
Wine :: before dinner
Before :: the night
Romantic :: dinner
Woo!
* Video :: Radio
* Fantasy :: Adult
* Homework :: Spaz
* Crush :: Orange
* Late :: Home
* Husband :: Daughter
* Soccer :: Football
* Wine :: Cheese
* Before :: After
* Romantic :: Interlude
did you see this (Attack Of The Killer Jellyfish!)?:
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/index.html#1683
Ooh, this one is tougher than it seems.
"Creationism" is more than 4 letters.
"Astrology" is more than 4 letters.
"Intelligent Design" is more than 4 letters, and "ID" is too few.
"God" is only 3 letters.
"Squid" is more than 4 letters, ditto for "Cephalopod".
May I buy a vowel?
Video::Clip
Fantasy::Final
Homework::Assignment
Crush::Orange
Late::Period
Husband::Wife
Soccer::Moms
Wine::Pinot Noir
Before::After
Romantic::Movie
Ugh. Even my subconscious is boring. Can't figure out what "final" means--I guess it's a game (maybe even a movie?), but I've never played it and, as far as I know, nobody I know plays it. Funny that PZ and I got late periods though.
There's also alliteration, if that helps.
holy crap!
read this:
http://www.harpers.org/rapture-ready-20060718001.html
Video :: dating
Fantasy :: football
Homework :: ugh!
Crush :: date
Late :: night
Husband :: father
Soccer :: mom
Wine :: beer
Before :: after
Romantic :: attachment
Okay, what now?
Oooh! Ooh! I've got it:
Mary has 4 letters.
Video :: Porn
Fantasy :: Porn
Homework :: Porn
Crush :: Porn
Late :: Porn
Husband :: Porn
Soccer :: Porn
Wine :: Porn
Before :: Porn
Romantic :: Porn
Oh. Uh... is that a problem?
I thought yours would be a bit more like this:
* Video :: Squid
* Fantasy :: Squid
* Homework :: Squid
* Crush :: Squid
* Late :: Squid
* Husband :: Squid
* Soccer :: Squid
* Wine :: Squid
* Before :: Squid
* Romantic :: Squid
There's also alliteration, if that helps.
Fantasy fish?
Weird.
Video :: game
Fantasy :: life
Homework :: time
Crush :: awkwardness
Late :: night
Husband :: ring
Soccer :: hot men
Wine :: bitter
Before :: after
Romantic :: date
Man, I'm tempted to associate the words with each other. There's definitely some sort of story there.
* Video :: killed the radio star
* Fantasy :: football
* Homework :: is good for you!
* Crush :: a specific name from my youth that I refuse to divulge, ever
* Late :: is bad
* Husband :: stress
* Soccer :: kids
* Wine :: relaxation
* Before :: the fall
* Romantic :: ...what's that?
# Video ::Action
# Fantasy ::Novel
# Homework ::Garbage
# Crush ::My Brain
# Late ::To the party
# Husband ::dry (ie husbandry)
# Soccer ::fuckup (ie that headbutt thing)
# Wine ::dictator (ie I have no clue)
# Before ::me (ie some kind of narcissm
# Romantic ::novel
* Video :: Game
* Fantasy :: Final
* Homework :: Pencil
* Crush :: Alicia Silverstone
* Late :: Show
* Husband :: Wife
* Soccer :: Ball
* Wine :: Glass
* Before :: After
* Romantic :: Love
Video :: Booth
Fantasy :: Talk
Homework :: Time
Crush :: Depth
Late :: Night
Husband :: Farm
Soccer :: Star
Wine :: Bar
Before :: Now
Romantic :: Evening
Video :: Camera
Fantasy :: 'Life is Just a Fantasy' by Aldo Nova
Homework :: Freshmen algebra(the bitch!)
Crush :: Orange
Late :: Highway traffic
Husband :: Soccer moms in a minivan sitting in the parking lot at the park where their kids are practicing.
Soccer :: Football
Wine :: Yoohoo's
Before :: The Sting(I don't know why but the movie popped into my head.)
Romantic :: Romancing the stone(movies are my thing today)
I guess that's it.
MYOB'
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Video :: tv
Fantasy :: novel
Homework :: boring
Crush :: soda
Late :: latte
Husband :: wife
Soccer :: football
Wine :: pageant
Before :: after
Romantic :: drivel
Fantasy fish?
Weird.
not from where i sit, er swim...
have you embraced your inner fish today?
* Video :: Beta tapes
* Fantasy :: Sleep
* Homework :: Too much
* Crush :: Soda (the orange kind)
* Late :: Nights
* Husband :: Why?
* Soccer :: Ball
* Wine :: Pregnant O,o
* Before :: After
* Romantic :: Cake
video:: audio
fantasy:: good retirement
homework:: delay
orange:: crush
late:: night
husband:: jailer
soccer:: boring
wine:: bordeaux
before:: during
romantic:: sam cooke
Video :: Cutscene
Fantasy :: Genre
Homework :: Neglected
Crush :: ...ing Damage
Late :: Arkalian mod
Husband :: Occupied
Soccer :: What?
Wine :: Analogy
Before :: Backstory
Romantic :: Lovetalk variable
# Video :: pixels
# Fantasy :: sleeping
# Homework :: I miss grad school ...
# Crush :: Kill! Destroy! (garden pest insects)
# Late :: bedtime
# Husband :: hearing aides
# Soccer :: Murderball (I know that's rugby; brain on random)
# Wine :: cheese fondue
# Before :: antecedant
# Romantic :: walks
Video game series, actually. There have been 12 different games released under the Final Fantasy banner (not counting spin-offs and side stories), with a 13th currently in development. And it's one of the most popular series in video game history.
That would be Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
Mainly because it had no connection to any of the then-previous or -current Final Fantasy games, aside from the title. (The CGI work, OTOH, was almost universally acclaimed.)
A later Final Fantasy CGI film, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, was better received, primarily because it was based on the most popular installment of the game series, Final Fantasy VII on the Sony PlayStation.
# Video :: Rangers
# Fantasy :: & Science Fiction
# Homework :: Dog ate it
# Crush :: the lefe from these succkers
# Late :: fee
# Husband :: dry
# Soccer :: balls
# Wine :: and cheese
# Before :: I kill again
# Romantic :: period in art and literature
Video :: That one with the three young ladies who are obviously too hot and needed to shed some clothing, and also appear to be trying to take a sausage of a young gentleman.
Fantasy :: See above
Homework :: balance (home work balance, as in work/life balance, i.e. too much work and not enough....see above)
Crush :: some bananas, add a little muscavado sugar and caramalise in a touch of butter, add dark rum to chef, ignore pan, start fire, apologise.
Late :: Regularly, mainly due to....see above
Husband :: No thank you I'm heterosexual, see above.
Soccer :: No thank you I'm heterosexual, see above. And I play rugby, not kiss chase for hairdressers and overpaid chavs thank you very much.
Wine :: I'll have a 1948 Petrus please, heavy on the gin.
Before :: I then have a pint of creme de menthe please barman.
Romantic :: I love you, no no it's not just 'cos I'm drunk, no I really love you, honest. Fancy a shag?
Hmmmmm I'm concerned.
Kittens? Kittens?!?
Video :: Loserdisc (thanks go to my husband for this association)
Fantasy :: Island
Homework :: that reading my students would rather kill themselves than do
Crush :: Boston marriage (Yeah, I'm a nineteenth-century women's history person. So sue me.)
Late :: papers
Husband :: Sweetie
Soccer :: Mom
Wine :: grading papers
Before :: Christ, er, Common Era
Romantic :: Shelley
Kitten? Hopefully nothing involving octopi here...
Video :: Game
Fantasy :: Game
Homework :: Drudgery
Crush :: Swoon
Late :: Early
Husband :: Wife
Soccer :: Mom
Wine :: Bar
Before :: After
Romantic :: Comedy
Video :: drome
Fantasy :: echo (as a kid I thought "fin de siècle" was "fantasy echo")
Homework :: no
Crush :: fetish
Late :: coffee
Husband :: animal (animal husbandry)
Soccer :: clathrin (soccer balls look sort of like clathrin-coated vesicles)
Wine :: cru
Before :: sunset
Romantic :: Chopin
If I am not precisely un-boring, at least my associations aren't oft-repeated above...
Video :: Game
Fantasy :: Dream
Homework :: Late
Crush :: Flatten
Late :: Work
Husband :: Plan
Soccer :: Football
Wine :: Red
Before :: After
Romantic :: New