Discussion Forum—A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

This is crass and contains obscenities—which is standard fare for the PopBitch newsletter in which I found it—but it's funny and compelling at the same time. The scene is somewhere in the U.K.

"On Monday I wandered out at lunchtime to take pictures of the snow and see what was going on in the real world. There were three blokes outside my house, two of them shouting at each other and laughing. I found out from the other that the two shouting men had Tourettes. And as they walked back from Sainsbury's together they were playing word association - like 'color', 'red', fire engine', 'nee nah' etc - The usual game - so I joined in walking up the street in the snow.

"Don't get me wrong and think I'm taking the piss out of Tourettes - it was the best word association game I have ever played. Here's a sample:

"'Snow' - 'Sparkling' - 'Twat' - 'Sparkling - Oh, I've said that before, Hahahahahahaha. OK - Snow' 'Shit my pants' - 'Nob' - 'Snow' - 'You've said that before! Start again!' 'Fuck you - Snow'."