A New Type of Brainstorming

Today I was introduced to a new type of brainstorming I was not familiar with.  It's a process devised by advertising executive Alex Osborn that involves taking two key ideas and applying different effects or action verbs to combine them.  I tried this today with some of the short stories my classmates and I had read.
The outcome...

Certainly not something I'd say I'm proud of, but the exercise did open my mind to unfamiliar forms of brainstorming and ideation for all sorts of design problems.