Creative Prompt #218: Milkshake

A blended ice cream drink

Milkshake Music

free email featuring all that’s good

milkshake game

June 20, 2013 – National Vanilla Milkshake Day (I missed it, but will look for it next year)

Milkshake eBook

American Milkshake (2013 movie)

Ric Krispie Square milkshake recipe

JAWS Milkshake Limited Edition Blue Vinyl

Definition: “A milkshake is a sweet, cold beverage which is usually made from milk, ice cream or iced milk, and flavorings or sweeteners such as fruit syrup or chocolate sauce. Outside the United States, the drink is sometimes called a thickshake or a thick milkshake or in New England, a frappe, to differentiate it from other less-viscous forms of flavored milk.

Full-service restaurants, soda fountains, and diners usually prepare and mix the shake “by hand” from scoops of ice cream and milk in a blender or drink mixer using a stainless steel cup. Many fast food outlets do not make shakes by hand with ice cream. Instead, they make shakes in automatic milkshake machines which freeze and serve a premade milkshake mixture consisting of milk, a sweetened flavoring agent, and a thickening agent. However, some fast food outlets still follow the traditional method, and some serve milkshakes which are prepared by blending soft-serve ice cream (or ice milk) with flavoring or syrups. A milkshake can also be made by adding powder into fresh milk, and stirring the powder into the milk. Milkshakes made in this way can come in a variety of flavors, including chocolate, strawberry and banana.”

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Kelis performing Mlkshake

Creative Prompt #217: Pen

Fountain pen

Flashlight pen

Pen & Ink

EpiPen

Insulin pen

Pensacola

Pen pal

Livescribe SmartPen

The Nourishing Cuticle Pen moisturizes cuticles effectively

Pilot Pen

poisoned pen

PEN USA- A non-profit membership organization made up of writers that work west of the Mississippi

ballpoint

Anastasia Brow Pen glides on easily, clinging to both skin and hair, for a lush and natural look.

Tensing Pen is a relaxing destination Jamaican resort located in Negril,

Definition: A pen (Latin penna, feather) is a writing implement used to apply ink to a surface, usually paper, for writing or drawing. Historically, reed pens, quill pens, and dip pens were used, with a nib dipped in the ink. Ruling pens allow precise adjustment of line width, and still find a few specialized uses, but technical pens such as the Rapidograph are more commonly used. Modern types also include ballpoint, rollerball, fountain, and felt or ceramic tip pens.[1]

pen a tome

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Parents Education Network

Rapidograph

The hottest spot in town isn’t in Belltown or Ballard. It’s The ‘Pen at Safeco Field, right next to the Mariners bullpen in centerfield.

Brush pen

Bleach pen

Uzi Tactical Defender PenPen with a DNA catcher AND a handcuff key

Pigma Micron

Pen World Magazine

 

Creative Prompt #216: River

Quote: I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. –W. H. Auden

Cry me a river

Digital River

Riverworld

River Styx

Viking River Cruises

River Phoenix

Blue Danube

River Tam is a fictional character and a main protagonist of the Firefly franchise

River Network

Nile**

River of Words® (ROW) is a program of The Center for Environmental Literacy and a part of the Kalmanovitz School of Education.

River Plate can refer to: Río de la Plata, the River Plate in English—a large estuary between Argentina and Uruguay. La Plata Basin, basin of the River Plate.

Russian River Brewing Company

River Poets Journal

 

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Hudson River

Sacramento River Cats

San Antonio River Walk

Amazon River

Definition: “A river is a natural watercourse,[1] usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river. In a few cases, a river simply flows into the ground or dries up completely at the end of its course, and does not reach another body of water. Small rivers may be called by several other names, including stream, creek, brook, rivulet, and rill. There are no official definitions for generic terms, such as river, as applied to geographic features,[2] although in some countries or communities a stream may be defined by its size. Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location; examples are “run” in the United States, “burn” in Scotland and northeast England, and “beck” in northern England. Sometimes a river is defined as being larger than a creek,[3] but not always: the language is vague.[4]

Rivers are part of the hydrological cycle. Water generally collects in a river from precipitation through a drainage basin from surface runoff and other sources such as groundwater recharge, springs, and the release of stored water in natural ice and snowpacks (e.g. from glaciers). Potamology is the scientific study of rivers while limnology is the study of inland waters in general.

No extraterrestrial rivers are currently known, though large flows of hydrocarbons described as rivers have recently been found on Titan.[5][6] Channels may indicate past rivers on other planets, specifically outflow channels on Mars[7] and are theorized to exist on planets and moons in habitable zones of stars”

 

River Monsters host and extreme angler Jeremy Wade uncovers the world’s largest, strangest and most dangerous fish.

Quote: I’ve learned from being in the woods that titles don’t mean much and that actions speak a lot louder than words – even in Congress. I always look for the people who want to act – people who want to run the river or climb the mountain – even if they’re not members of my political party. –Mark Udall

 

 

 

 

 

 

**Nota bene: I am not including an exhaustive list of all rivers; just the ones that seem important to me

Creative Prompt #215: Plate

Definition: “a broad, mainly flat vessel on which food is served”

Silver plate

Plating – the deposition of metallic layers

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Plateonline is a community for professional chefs

iPad app

There are a lot of restaurants that have ‘plate’ in their name including The Blue Plate in San Francisco

Plate magazine

‘plate the food’

fundraising license plates

 

 

Creative Prompt #214: Dance

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Disco dance

dance of life

tango

dance card

rhumba

waltz

Ballroom dance

So You Think You Can Dance?

Dance Magazine

Ballet

dance attack

dancewear

Dancing with the Stars

National Dance Association

Definition: “Dance is a type of art that generally involves movement of the body, often rhythmic and to music. It is performed in many cultures as a form of emotional expression, social interaction, or exercise, in a spiritual or performance setting, and is sometimes used to express ideas or tell a story. Dance may also be regarded as a form of nonverbal communication between humans or other animals, as in bee dances and behaviour patterns such as a mating dances.”

dance hall

Dance Moms

hip hop

dance-a-thon

dance moves

Dancer (reindeer)

Irish dancing

“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.” ? William W. Purkey

Ring Around the Rosey

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.Groucho Marx

Creative Prompt #213: Boat

sailboat

Brooklyn comedy sketch group

canoe

Poem: A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky by Lewis Carroll

A BOAT beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July —
Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Pleased a simple tale to hear —
Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die:
Autumn frosts have slain July.
Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.
Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.
In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream —
Lingering in the golden gleam —
Life, what is it but a dream?

boat ramp

kayak

USCG Office of Boating Safety

gondola

Don’t rock the boat

motorboat

Fishing boats

Banana boat song

speedboat

wooden boat restoration

Row, row, row your boat

raft

Let’s go boating!

 

punt

toy boat (say it 3x really fast! toy boat toy boat toy boat)

yacht

longboat

crew

watercraft

logboat

boat builders

Definition:  “A boat is a watercraft of any size designed to float or plane, to provide passage across water. Usually this water will be inland (lakes) or in protected coastal areas. However, boats such as the whaleboat were designed to be operated from a ship in an offshore environment. In naval terms, a boat is a vessel small enough to be carried aboard another vessel (a ship). Another less restrictive definition is a vessel that can be lifted out of the water.”

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Creative Prompt #212: Ribbon

This prompt is a bit of self indulgence. I won 4 ribbons at the County Fair, which is held this past week in our county. I was amazed and awed that I had won the first one I saw, then my eyes must have been bugging out of my head as I visited each of the pieces I had entered and saw ribbons on all. So, ribbon is the word for the week. I can’t wait to see your responses.

American Ribbon Manufacturer

raffia ribbon

Bluetooth Streamer

gift wrap, ribbon & bows

font

grosgrain

spool of ribbon

hair ribbons

First place ribbon

Definition (computing) – “In computing, a ribbon is a set of toolbars placed on several tabs. For example, Microsoft and Autodesk software released since 2007 have popularized a form of modular ribbon as their main interface, where large tabbed toolbars, filled with graphical buttons and other controls, are grouped by functionality. Such ribbons use tabs to expose different sets of controls, eliminating the need for many parallel toolbars. Contextual tabs are tabs that appear only when the user needs them. For instance, in a word processor, an image-related tab may appear when the user selects an image in a document, allowing the user to interact with that image.

The usage of the term ribbon dates from the 1980s and was originally used as a synonym for what is now more commonly known as a (non-tabbed) toolbar. However, in 2007, Microsoft Office 2007 used the term to refer its own implementation of tabbed toolbars bearing heterogeneous controls, known as “The Fluent UI”. Thus, Microsoft popularized the term with a new meaning, although similar tabbed layouts of controls had existed in previous software from other vendors. The considerable redesign of the Office user interface caused a backlash and a rejection from some users of previous versions of Microsoft products, as well as from developers because of concerns about copyright and patents.”

toolbar

Pabst Blue Ribbon beer

There are a variety of campaigns to help raise money for research of various diseases, conditions and cancers using ribbons

Colored cloth placed on a uniform to signify rank or status

Ribbon Seal

Personalized timemap

Ribbon Music

Definition – “a: a flat or tubular narrow closely woven fabric (as of silk or rayon) used for trimmings or knitting. b : a narrow fabric used for tying packages.”

typewriter ribbon

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Creative Prompt #211: Map

Google Maps

topographical map

Rand McNally

Mapquest

campus map

Yahoo Maps

Home World Map Shower Curtain

subway map

GPS Navigator

satellite map

Subdivision Map Act

time zone map

flickr.com/map

Harry Potter’s Maurauder’s Map

map tacks

bird migration maps

Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)

map out your argument

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | The Collection

Map of Life

Atlas

Internet map

The MAP Fund

Definition: “A map is a visual representation of an area – a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects, regions, and themes.

Many maps are static two-dimensional, geometrically accurate (or approximately accurate) representations of three-dimensional space, while others are dynamic or interactive, even three-dimensional. Although most commonly used to depict geography, maps may represent any space, real or imagined, without regard to context or scale; e.g. brain mapping, DNA mapping and extraterrestrial mapping.”

Personal Geographies: explorations in mixed-media map making by Jill Berry (book)

how to find your way

Automobile club maps

map maker

cartographer

Map (Java platform)

Map Library

 

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Creative Prompt #210: Treasure

treasure chest

you are a treasure

treasure hunt

Treasure Island Music Festival (San Francisco)

sunken treasure

Book: “A Treasure’s Trove: A Fairy Tale About Real Treasure For Parents And Children Of All Ages is an illustrated children’s book written by Michael Stadther and published in 2004 by Treasure Trove Inc, which he incorporated to do so.[1][2] The “real treasure” was found by deciphering clues in the book that led to fourteen tokens that could be turned in for unique jewels, each representing an insect or character from the book, or a cash prize representing one third of the jewel’s value.[3] Initially, it was reported that there were twelve jewels,[3] however, it subsequently emerged that there were fourteen prizes. In 2005 it was reported that film rights for A Treasure’s Trove had been acquired by Cruise-Wagner Productions,[4] however, apart from a reported trailer being in development in the New York Times,[5] there has been no further news.”

pirate’s treasure

Treasure Island (book)

Definition: [general] “treasure (from Greek ???????? – th?sauros, meaning “treasure store”,[2] romanized as thesaurus) is a concentration of riches, often one which is considered lost or forgotten until being rediscovered. Some jurisdictions legally define what constitutes treasure, such as in the British Treasure Act 1996.

The phrase “blood and treasure” or “lives and treasure” has been used to refer to the human and monetary costs associated with massive endeavours such as war that expend both.”

Japanese video game developer

one person’s trash is another person’s treasure

women’s yoga treasure thong sandal

Timeless Treasures fabric

buried treasure

National Treasure

Treasures of Led Zeppelin

treasure finder

lost treasure

Treasure Island Flea Market (San Francisco)

Google Maps Treasure Mode

treasure map

hidden treasure

Treasure by Bruno Mars

Dritz Printed Treasures Inkjet printable fabric

Tiki Treasure game (kids)

Royal treasure

Treasury

Treasure Detectives (TV)

treasure yarn

Osmosis (also known as Treasure Trove) is a solitaire game played with a deck of 52 playing cards where the object, like many solitaire games, is to put the cards into foundations, although not in numerical order.

Definition: [legal] “Treasure trove is a term that may be broadly defined as an amount of money or coin, gold, silver, plate, or bullion found hidden underground or in places such as cellars or attics, where the treasure seems old enough for it to be presumed that the true owner is dead and the heirs undiscoverable. However, both the legal definition of what constitutes treasure trove and its treatment under law vary considerably from country to country, and from era to era.

The term is also often used metaphorically. Collections of articles published as a book are often titled Treasure Trove, as in A Treasure Trove of Science. This was especially fashionable for titles of children’s books in the early- and mid-20th century.”

“You are His special possession… His precious Treasure” Malachi 3:16-17

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Creative Prompt #209: Mug

something in which to put coffee, tea or other hot drinks

a type of assault.

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“don’t show your ugly mug around here!”

British slang for a fool or someone who will do anything for you if you just ask.

mugshot

mugrug

Definition: A heavy cylindrical drinking cup usually having a handle.

travel mug

mug makeup

MUG – Michigan-based Linux and UNIX Free and Open Source Community.

Swedish mugg “mug, jug,” Norwegian mugge “pitcher, open can for warm drinks”

Creative Prompt #208: Bar

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dive bar

Bureau of Automotive Repair, State of California Department of Consumer Services

saloon

Clif Bar

Genius Bar

granola bar

belly up to the bar

candy bar

“A man walks into a bar….”

State Bar of <name your state>

bars and wine cabinets

“A duck walks into a bar…”

Bar stools

blow dry bar

chocolate bar

BeautyBar.com

BASF

Hello Bar – Hello Bar is a fun, unobtrusive yet highly visible web toolbar that sits at the top of your website and is a great way to engage users and get them to take…

navigation bar

toolbar

pull-up bars

Browning Automatic Rifle

towel bar

Lara Bar

address bar

bar mitzvah

milk bar

Barr (placename element), a pre-Indo-European linguistic root meaning ‘wooded hill’, ‘natural barrier’

Definition: “a retail establishment that serves alcoholic beverages, also the counter at which drinks are served by a bartender”

OR

“in a legal context has three possible meanings: the division of a courtroom between its working and public areas; the process of qualifying to practice law; and the legal profession

  • Bar (heraldry), an ordinary consisting of a horizontal band across the shield
  • Bar Confederation, an 18th-century Polish association
  • Bar mitzvah
  • Bar (form), a cell phone form factor
  • Dowel, pole, or beam used as a support structure
  • A type of gatehouse in city walls of the Middle Ages
  • Medal bar, a thin metal bar attached to the ribbon of a military decoration, civil decoration, or other medal
  • Bar examination, an examination conducted at regular intervals to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in a given jurisdiction
  • Bar association, a professional body of lawyers. Some bar associations are responsible for the regulation of the legal profession in their jurisdiction; others are professional organizations dedicated to serving their members; in many cases, they are both”

computer science, a metasyntactic variable, like foo

tropical cyclone, a layer of dark cloud near the horizon

American Bar Association

And you thought we were just going to talk about a place to get drinks!

Creative Prompt #207: Shadow

Sunshine and shadow

Definition: A shadow is an area where direct light from a light source cannot reach due to obstruction by an object. It occupies all of the space behind an opaque object with light in front of it. The cross section of a shadow is a two-dimensional silhouette, or reverse projection of the object blocking the light. The sun causes many objects to have shadows and at certain times of the day, when the sun is at certain heights, the lengths of shadows change.

An astronomical object casts human-visible shadows when its apparent magnitude is equal or lower than ?4.[1] Currently the only astronomical objects able to produce visible shadows on Earth are the sun, the moon and, in the right conditions, the planet Venus. (Wikipedia)

Shadow the hedgehog video game

2009 movie

Me and my shadow

shadow government

Shadow Hills, Los Angeles

Shadow Dancer – 2012 movie

shadow puppetry

beyond a shadow of a doubt

Silver Shadow

Sea Shadow (IX-529) was an experimental stealth ship built by Lockheed for the United States Navy to determine how a low radar profile might be achieved

Earth’s shadow

eye shadow

lengthening shadows

shadow play

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Creative Prompt #206: Soft

Softies

soft drink

soft tissue regeneration

soft focus

soft law

soft story building

L-Soft is the exclusive provider of LISTSERV brand mailing list software, email marketing software and email list hosting services for email newsletters.

soft pretzel

soft-point bullet

Soft systems methodology (SSM) is a systemic approach for tackling real-world problematic situations. (Wikipedia)

Definition: A texture which is the opposite of roughness (Wikipedia) or 1.yielding readily to touch or pressure; easily penetrated, divided, or changed in shape; not hard or stiff: a soft pillow. 2. relatively deficient in hardness, as metal or wood. 3. smooth and agreeable to the touch; not rough or coarse: a soft fabric; soft skin. 4. producing agreeable sensations; pleasant or comfortable: soft slumber. 5. low or subdued in sound; gentle and melodious: soft music; a soft v (Dictionary.com)

soft serve ice cream

Soft Scrub

soft rock

software

Soft Cell

soft reboot

soft shell clam

 

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Creative Prompt #205: Starfish

Sea star

starfish therapy

Asteroidea

class of echinoderms

Rutger Hauer Starfish Association

Throwing starfish – World of Warcraft

Crown of thorns starfish

Starfish stay-put bath sticker

 

Definition: Starfish or sea stars are echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea.[2] The names “starfish” and “sea star” essentially refer to members of the class Asteroidea. However, common usage frequently finds these names also applied to ophiuroids, which are correctly referred to as “brittle stars” or “basket stars”. About 1,800 living species of starfish occur in all the world’s oceans, including the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Southern Ocean regions. Starfish occur across a broad depth range from the intertidal to abyssal depths of greater than 6,000 m (20,000 ft).

Starfish are among the most familiar of marine animals found on the seabed. They typically have a central disc and five arms, though some species have many more arms than this. The aboral or upper surface may be smooth, granular or spiny, and is covered with overlapping plates. Many species are brightly coloured in various shades of red or orange, while others are blue, grey, brown, or drab. Starfish have tube feet operated by a hydraulic system and a mouth at the centre of the oral or lower surface. They are opportunistic feeders and are mostly predators on benthic invertebrates. Several species having specialized feeding behaviours, including suspension feeding and adaptations for feeding on specific prey. They have complex life cycles and can reproduce both sexually and asexually. Most can regenerate damaged or lost arms.

The Asteroidea occupy several important roles throughout ecology and biology. Starfish, such as the ochre sea star (Pisaster ochraceus), have become widely known as an example of the keystone species concept in ecology. The tropical crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) is a voracious predator of coral throughout the Indo-Pacific region. Other starfish, such as members of the Asterinidae, are frequently used in developmental biology.

(Wikipedia)

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Creative Prompt #204: Laughing

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Laughing Yoga

Laughing Squid

Laughing Gull

Laughing Brook

The Laughing Owl Press

 

Definition:

Laughing is an involuntary reaction to certain external or internal stimuli. Laughter can arise from such activities as being tickled,[1] or from humorous stories or thoughts.[2] Most commonly, it is considered a visual expression of a number of positive emotional states, such as joy, mirth, happiness, relief, etc. On some occasions, however, it may be caused by contrary emotional states such as embarrassment, apology, or confusion (“nervous laughter)” or courtesy laugh. Factors such as age, gender, education, language, and culture are determinant factors[3] as to whether a person will experience laughter in a given situation

Laughter is a part of human behavior regulated by the brain, helping humans clarify their intentions in social interaction and providing an emotional context to conversations. Laughter is used as a signal for being part of a group — it signals acceptance and positive interactions with others. Laughter is sometimes seen as contagious, and the laughter of one person can itself provoke laughter from others as a positive feedback.[4] This may account in part for the popularity of laugh tracks in situation comedy television shows.

The study of humor and laughter, and its psychological and physiological effects on the human body, is called gelotology.

Laughing Coyote Project | Where human nature meets mother nature.

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine. Carol Vorderman

Laughing Sal at the Musee’ Mechanique in San Francisco

Who’s laughing now?

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Michael Pritchard