Word Association Thread

That's not a balustrade, that's a promenade

 

Brake - Break **

** Tea, in my case

 

break rutabaga **

** other dense root vegetables are also available.

 

rutabaga - Barnacle*

* - the nickname of Trevor Bailey

 

Barnacle - Crab

 

Crab - Bread*

* - from said earlier baker

 

Bread - Bared

 

Bared - Beard

 

Beard - Debar

 

Debar - Barde

 

Finished an am in de bar
Barde - Ardeb **

** a Middle Easter dry measurement, believe it or not, I knew this (via online scrabble vs computer) Did not know your word...do now <op>

 

A horse, a horse .... got a barde to protect it

Ardeb - Bader *

* - Douglas As he said of himself (his Colditz colleagues were not his greatest ‘fans’.... “They think I know effing nothing: they’re wrong, I know eff all ....”

 

Bader - Inebriated **


** legless

 

Inebriated - Brandy*

* - cause and effect?

 

Brandy - Soberano **

** so called brandy, much loved by ex-pats in the Costas, at breakfast

 

Brian Thomas (ex Neath & Wales) told a great story about going to see a Tinplate customer of Velindre’s in the Midlands. (Brian was Works Manager)

The owner of the business was very proud of his ethnically diverse workforce and asked Brian if it was the same in Velindre .... to which Brian responded “Yes .... we’ve got a few effing Turks ....”

 

Soberano - Barolo*

* - much better

 

Barolo (oh yes) - Labrador **

** would lap it up

 

Labrador - Doberman*

* - this thread has gone to the dogs .....