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Unconscious Mutterings game of free association. 1. Exchange:: currency, UK pounds to US dollars, £1 equals about $1.65. 2. Parental Advisory:: Guns N Roses as the voicemail "on hold" music. 3. Blowout:: tyre, Firestone, Ford Exploder. 4. Spider:: brown recluse spider, rumours of houses infested with them.

Unconscious Mutterings game of free association. 1. Warning:: bottle of sleeping pills, label says "Warning, may cause drowsiness." 1. Aspirations:: to go, New Zealand.  To do, try to draw, finish Hubby's sweater. 2. Starvation:: Ethiopia. 3. Lid:: baseball cap. 4. Sketch:: Art class, compulsory fifteen pencil

Unconscious Mutterings game of free association. 1. Blizzard:: "It's the wrong kind of snow, Gromit!" trains out of service for a 4 inch "blizzard"in England. 2. J:: Java, JDK 1.4.2, IntelliJ IDEA, Chronicle, Extreme Programming, coffee cup. 3. Control:: panel, options

Unconscious Mutterings game of free association. 1. Scrooge:: Charles Dickens, improbable coincidences. 2. Ribbon:: cat toy, Quantum the grey tabby rolling around on her back batting at the ribbon, mouth open and tail stump twitching. 3. Physical:: education, playing hockey in the snow on a frozen field in gym skirts.

We went to Hampton Virginia for Thanksgiving, and it was a great road trip.  Wonderful hospitality, lovely people, excellent food.  Lessons learned: * Beef jerky is an acceptable food substance. * It is 890 miles from home to Hampton VA. * Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia combined have less police out on

Unconscious Mutterings game of free association. 1. Concert:: Mannheim Steamroller, with Dennis and Amy. 2. Sydney:: Opera House, Finding Nemo. 3. Shower:: Bathroom. 4. Patterns:: Knitting, green Aran wool, 42 row pattern and 13 row patterns both together, "It'll be ready for our anniversary!" and eight

Unconscious Mutterings game of free association. 1. Plan B:: Three Mile Island, nuclear meltdown. 2. Seattle:: Microsoft, home of the General Protection Fault and the Fatal Exception. 1. The lady wore:: red. 2. Upsetting:: flat cats on the road to work. 3. Tampon:: mouse. 4. Celebrity:: deathmatch. 5. Baja:: Suburu