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abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
Sat May 22, 2021, 09:58 AM May 2021

Who wants to play the Free Association* game today? I'll start.

*Free Association is a Very Serious Thing for Very Serious people. But since part of it
has been described as a process where " the ideas rush in pell-mell" it's proper to use
here. I think. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_association_(psychology)

Now where was I? Oh yes. To me the perfect real-world example of Free Association are the many performances of Gracie Allen that are available on film and video. So yes,
Free Association can also be described as being distracted or scatterbrained even
though Freud might not agree. see Gracie Allen here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burns_and_Allen

Sorry, I had to take time to look up a reference for Gracie. Then add it to my bookmarks.

And away we go!

So my Free Association this morning involved my reading the world
news then adding bob Dylan to my bookmarks since I didn't have him yet then adding
Charo too since I'd been thinking of her and why not? Then I had to take a break to
take my morning meds/supplements and have breakfast which involved preparing the
chocolate bars I had bought so that the chocolate will be easily accessible in one-half
gram servings for the next two weeks.

But I digress. By now I'm sure you get the idea. There are no rules and no one will
grade you. If you consider yourself a winner then you are. If you consider yourself
a loser ditto. Ho Ho.

Who wants to play?

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Who wants to play the Free Association* game today? I'll start. (Original Post) abqtommy May 2021 OP
Masks and cowboy hats underpants May 2021 #1
Free association lapfog_1 May 2021 #2

underpants

(182,823 posts)
1. Masks and cowboy hats
Sat May 22, 2021, 10:02 AM
May 2021

i saw a picture of someone wearing a cowboy hat and it put the mask thing in perspective for me. As we’ve become accustomed to always having a mask with us it must be like people who wear cowboy hats as a piece of normal attire. Like they purposely grab that as they leave the house.

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