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Friday, October 29, 2010

Say the word 'tata' and you think of...

goodbye. You also think of the Indian industrial tycoon by that surname. You think of partings specially with little ones. You think of when you'll see the person you are bidding goodbye to, again. What else? A good word for humming, or reciting. Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Say the word 'water' and you think of...

drinking water. water to irrigate farms. the source of life, water famines, waterwater everywhere but not a drop to drink. Also other phrases/sayings using water like "it cannot hold water" or "much water has flown below the london bridge, etc. What comes to your mind? Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Say the word disrupt and you think of...

...a nuisance, a person who is attempting subversion, chaos, traffic jam because of some strike, change in schedules, what else? Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

say the word cow and you think of...

cow as in the animal, of cow as the one that's worshipped, of cow as in holy cow meaning not to be touched, cow as in someone to be milked, cow down as in bend, what else? Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Say the word 'fire' and you think of...

fire to warm the hearth, fire to cook, fire and brimstone, Firewood, someone full of fire in them - we say the person's fiery, Playing with fire - upto a dangerous act, you're fired - in that you are asked to leave, the religious symbol of the Parsis or is it the Jews - Fire temple? I'm sure there... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, August 16, 2010

say the word 'tale' and you think of...

Fables, people who tell nasty things about you, the origin of something as in "thereby hangs a tale", the famous "Tale of Two Cities", what else? Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Say the word Church and you think of a particular religion, you think of

an institution, you think of huge amounts of wealth, you think of robed persons, you think of a flock of people assembled for Sunday mass. What else? Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Say the word 'cake' and you think of...

the delicious range of pastries that are called cakes, if you are into baking, then you think of what ingredients could go into the cake in what proportions to make it more delicious. At another level, expressions like "he takes the cake" come to mind - that expression means he is accepted as the... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Say the word Blank and you think of...

emptiness in the mind, the good ole school "fill-in-the-blanks", space where nothing is written, spaced out, naught. What else? Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Say the word BAN and you think of...

Say the word BAN and you think of all the books that were banned at some stage or the other like Lady Chatterley's Lover or Taslima Nasreen's Lajja or stuff over which there was much debate about a ban be it a film or a book, like Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses or Deepa... Sign in to see full entry.

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