Free Association Thread 4

[JKendallDane]

Bob Hope

Entertaining the troops

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[Handley_Page]

Entertaining the troops

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He had ten script writers in Vietnam, as I recall reading.
They didn't get to see anything outside the huts. . .

 

[MichaelinChina]

He had ten script writers in Vietnam, as I recall reading.
They didn't get to see anything outside the huts. . .

Thai sweat shop workers producing Nike goods for the west.

 

[L1tTleD1fferent]

Thai sweat shop workers producing Nike goods for the west.

Lebron James, good enough for Nike, but not really all that good.

 

[Handley_Page]

Lebron James, good enough for Nike, but not really all that good.

Who?

 

[SamScribble]

Who?

Didn't he used to play for West Bromwich Albion, HP? Or was it Stoke City?

 

[Handley_Page]

Didn't he used to play for West Bromwich Albion, HP? Or was it Stoke City?

Could have been Port Vale, I think

 

[JKendallDane]

Could have been Port Vale, I think

Stevedores

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[PrincepsCyberius]

Stevedores

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Longshoremen.

 

[L1tTleD1fferent]

Longshoremen.

Long underwear

 

[SamScribble]

Long underwear

Winter drawers on!

 

[JKendallDane]

Winter drawers on!

Chest of drawers.

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[Handley_Page]

Chest of drawers.

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Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest
Yo Ho Ho
and a bottle of Rum

 

[MichaelinChina]

Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest
Yo Ho Ho
and a bottle of Rum

quickly adding to longshoremen, et al., ..wharfies in Oz.

Bundaberg Rum? (advertised by a speaking polar bear)

 

[Handley_Page]

quickly adding to longshoremen, et al., ..wharfies in Oz.

Bundaberg Rum? (advertised by a speaking polar bear)

Is that the one that comes in little bottles ?
Ah - no. It was "Underberg" - or was it.
It was a long time ago!

 

[MichaelinChina]

Is that the one that comes in little bottles ?
Ah - no. It was "Underberg" - or was it.
It was a long time ago!

Hotel room drinks maybe.. what are they called, not samples but just like it.
Hotel mini bar?

 

[legerdemer]

Hotel room drinks maybe.. what are they called, not samples but just like it.
Hotel mini bar?

Mini bottles (1.8 oz each)

 

[JKendallDane]

Mini bottles (1.8 oz each)

Princess Minnehaha

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[SamScribble]

Princess Minnehaha

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Or, as the Scots might say, a wee laff

 

[Handley_Page]

Or, as the Scots might say, a wee laff

Very Droll

 

[L1tTleD1fferent]

Very Droll

Southern drawl (sibling had one going to college in KY)

 

[JKendallDane]

Southern drawl (sibling had one going to college in KY)

America...where it's just fine to advertise KY Jelly on television but commercials for condoms are a huge no-no.

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[L1tTleD1fferent]

America...where it's just fine to advertise KY Jelly on television but commercials for condoms are a huge no-no.

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I don't know about you, but I've seen them on TV & heard them on the radio. I got more upset when I saw ads for "for seniors" cell phones, funeral insurance, & things during my favorite TV show when it aired on the weekends (on a channel we suddenly stopped getting).

Which reminds me...

The Monkees

 

[MichaelinChina]

I don't know about you, but I've seen them on TV & heard them on the radio. I got more upset when I saw ads for "for seniors" cell phones, funeral insurance, & things during my favorite TV show when it aired on the weekends (on a channel we suddenly stopped getting).

Which reminds me...

The Monkees

The Archies (about the same time)

 

[Handley_Page]

I don't know about you, but I've seen them on TV & heard them on the radio. I got more upset when I saw ads for "for seniors" cell phones, funeral insurance, & things during my favorite TV show when it aired on the weekends (on a channel we suddenly stopped getting).

Which reminds me...

The Monkees

We get the funerial adverts for Insurance, etc..

Ain't never seen a TV ad for condoms OR KY.

The Archies (about the same time)

Sugar Sugar ?
We're to get a "sugar tax" - sometime.