The One with the Video on It

No doubt you've seen this commercial before - well, at least something like it. Don't worry though - I'm not part of a coup trying to usurp and dethrone Google with Bing. I like Google. Google good. Bing bad. Whoa talk about serendipity. Did not plan for that to work so well. Anyways, what I want you to get from this is how the guys who represented the overload were able to jump on to a word or key phrase and quickly run with it to another direction. While I know that their replies are completely scripted, it actually makes for an interesting game.

Start a sentence, and spring to a whole new topic from the last word or phrase. Using the last words of that topic, spring to another, repeating the process until you can't think of anything anymore. While you're pretty much free to roam any topic, the challenge of course is trying to pull something remotely related to those last words out of your brain's sea of knowledge. If anything, this game teaches one to not only think outside the box but also to think quickly. These skills come in handy in writing when you're trying to forge connections from two seemingly unrelated thins (metaphors, reading interpretations, etc.) or trying to finish a timed writing.

Well, maybe. I don't exactly have data to back these claims up. But honestly, who needs any other incentive than that it's actually kind of fun? Give it a shot while you're out there boiling water for dinner or jumping rope or something.

Here. These are the basic rules for "word jumps":

1. 1.  A word jump must sound like an encyclopedic fact or an allusion.
   It can be a logo, a song lyric, a famous quote, you name it. But it can't simply be an inane attachment like "...Anything you say can and will be used –clothes are generally cheaper." That's boring, and you know it. Remember: the more pedantic or crazy the word jump is, the better your score.
   2.  A word jump must be long enough so that the allusion is recognizable.
   "...'the land down under' –Under the sea! Under the sea!/ Down here it's better..."
   3.  Homophones are fair game.
   "...H-I-J-K-LMN –ade. Aunt Michelle's homemade lemonade: Mix three cups..." 
   4.  Fake advertisements are permissible but should be avoided.
   It's gotta sound natural and credible though. "Let's go all the way tonight/ No regrets, just love –birds are 20% off this Valentine's Day only at PetCo. PetCo 'Where the pets go!'" 
   5.  You can jump from the subject as opposed to the last word.
   Be reasonable though. Don't jump all the way back six words just because it was the last noun or pronoun. 
   6.  You can list phrases that share the same word, idea, or even sound.
   Black as the pitch from pole to pole –fishing pole, flag pole, may pole –pole dancing, lap dancing –lap dogs, chihuahuas, Pekingese –Peking duck..."

You get the gist. So, essentially, with these short but important–

Yeah this game's kinda impossible.