Re: Totally cornfield associations

Scotius <wolvzbro@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:34:58 +0100, Arkadiusz Dymek
> <arkadesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >What could it mean if some woman is said to have 'totally cornfield
> >associations'? I guess that's some US idiom, but I cannot trace any
> >usage of it besides the text I'm working on.
> >
> >cheers,
> >Arkadesh
>
>
> That means she associates things said, or seen, etc, with
> things that most people would find odd. For instance, if a friend says
> "The oil for food scandal has opened a Pandora's box of misdeeds at
> the UN", and anther says "I knew a girl named Pandora in high school,
> but I never did get to see her box", that's kind of a "cornfield
> association".

Out of left cornfield, that sounds like.
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