See also: WordGames (the first) and RhymeTime.
Use the words before and after as your guides; build a string of words!
Please try to follow the spirit of this game. If you don't have some idea of what that means, give up now. Also, try to leave the game in a state where other people can still add moderately sensical words. If you need to go nuts or spew gibberish please revisit WordGames, which is already rather free-form.
Personally, I think it's okay to break the mold as long as you return to the pattern yourself (instead of leaving stupid things for the next player). This is fun, but takes some thought. Try it. AriNieh's faceoff->officer-icerink-inkwell is the canonical good example.