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HazelKay
We start off with any word - next person gives a different word that must be totally unrelated to the first word. Next person tries to find a justifiable relationship and supplies another unrelated word - ad infinitum


First word:


cannons
piello
Saltanas (i have a strange addiction to them at the moment...)
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DaisyChain
Sultanas can be used as canon balls.

**Is that what you're looking for??**

Tea bags
Dulciana
Sultanas and tea bags can be equally addictive.

shoelaces
HazelKay
tea and shoelaces can be brown blush.gif


candles
piello
Shoelaces could be used as wicks for candles.

french horn
DaisyChain
The very first french horns were made from candle wax.

red ribbon
barry-clari
If you tie a red ribbon round a French Horn, it makes a rather nice decoration if you play in a Christmas concert...

Edam.
katyjay
The original cheeses made in Edam were tied up with waxed paper and red ribbons.


Umbrella
DaisyChain
Holes in umbrellas can be mended with red ribbon.

Milk
HazelKay
an umbrella could protect you if a milk bottle broke over your head



starlight
Miss Ross
You could drink milk at a pinic under the starlight if you really wanted to!


Bagpipes
katyjay
Playing bagpipes by starlight is a beautiful experience



Catapult
HazelKay
a catapult could be used as a weapon against a really bad player of the bagpipes








volcano
DaisyChain
Bagpipes sound best when thrown into a volcano.


shoe polish
piello
A volcano is hot enough to melt shoe polish, and then, as it erupts, spew the melted shoe polish out amongst the lava and ash, the polish possibly having mixed with some of the other melted rocks in the volcano, forming a new rock of shoe polish mixed with molten lava: Shova Lash....

Roses
HazelKay
A man in love buys the roses and admires the way he looks in the shiny shoe polish rock before giving the roses to his beloved.


desk tidy


superpyroman
A tidy desk can have roses on.

The letter P
HazelKay
for perpetually blooming pink roses




zinnia
lizbun
The Letter P can change into a F, which can turn into a E, and E can turn into a M, and M is for Mexico which is where Zinnias grow. tongue.gif



Cheese

pianotheory
zinnias grow in mexico and mexican people eat cheese.

ice skating ring
HazelKay
broad beans
maggiemay
broad beans have a kind of whitish velvety inside to their pods., and ice skating boots have a kind of whitish velvety outside - at least some of them do.

yellow snow
HazelKay
The left over broad beans still in the ground when it snows go yellow

sellotape
pianotheory
sellotape is sometimes yellow

harry potter
BerkshireMum
Don't cry if you've torn a page in your Harry Potter book - mend it with sellotape!

Banana
pianotheory
there either are or aren't bananas in Hogwarts.

dead goldfish
BerkshireMum
Dead goldfish eat no bananas! (Sounds as if it should be a proverb!!)

chimney
sarah123
Chimneys and dead goldfishes can both be orange(ish) coloured

football
HazelKay
If a football gets stuck up your chimney there'll be a lot of smoke


paperclip
sarah123
If you shove a paperclip hard enough into a football, it will pop.

jigsaw
Rosemary7391
You can hold jigsaw pieces together with a paperclip.

truth
pianotheory
You can tell the truth when you say you have completed a jigsaw.

#
BerkshireMum
Does # count as a new word? unsure.gif
sarah123
It is true that the # is probably sensoring something laugh.gif

ok, i'll restart it. link a cat and a lightbulb.
HazelKay
cat's eyes are like lightbulbs in the road



disc
sarah123
on a sunny day, discs (CDs in particular) reflect light and look like a lightbulb.

ooops, need another word...paint pot
BerkshireMum
You can use a paint pot to paint a disc with different colours in rings - then when you spin it, it looks really beautiful. Reminds me of my younger days with whip and top and coloured chalks!

Honey.
pianotheory
the paint in apaint pot can be the colour of

#
HazelKay
I'm guessing the symbol was the stuff we use to buy things
and you need it to get the honey in jars.



hole-punch
pianotheory
QUOTE(HazelKay @ Oct 5 2007, 09:44 PM) *

I'm guessing the symbol was the stuff we use to buy things
and you need it to get the honey in jars.

Correct!


hole-punch

holepunch has the prefix hole and hole and hole sounds the same as whole. # looks like a sharp sign. A sharp sign is to do with music and so is a whole note. Therefore # and holepunch are related.

~
superpyroman
holepunch has the prefix hole and hole and hole sounds the same as whole. # looks like a sharp sign. A sharp sign is to do with music and so is a whole note. Therefore # and holepunch are related and ~ is the same key on a keyboard as #.

UB313
pianotheory
You can type UB313 on a keyboard and ~ is on the keyboard

hoover
superpyroman
you can type hoover on a keyboard.


이것을 번역하는 누군가는 뚱뚱하다
pianotheory
A keyboard is to do with a computer and you can now see 이것을 번역하는 누군가는 뚱뚱하다 on the computer.




(the thing above is not visible on computers)
HazelKay
an invisibility cloak is like the thing above








scream
pianotheory
When you wear an invisibility, you cannot be seen. A scream cannot be seen.

^
HazelKay
The upwards from an arrow cannot be seen either





black hole
pianotheory
^ is black, and a black hole is surprisingly.....black!!!!!!


€
lizbun
€ is a currency, and is usualy printed in black.





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