What word is on the tip of your tongue but you just can't think of it?
 

This oughtta be a short thread run...

Ammm, you know, what's that word for the condition of being unable to think of the word you're after?


Alzheimers?

uh... d... d...d...

argh.

If You Hadn't asked I would be able to tell ya !!!

Practically all of them, these days. I'm seriously frazzled.

"What word is on the tip of your tongue but you just can't think of it?"

Clit?

that one... you know, the one where the guy... and then the gal... and then the OTHER gal.... and they....

Yea, that word....about that place, with that guy, and that thing...with that other thing.

Cock!

The word for thingumajig (or was it whatchamacallit)?

Two words actually:

The word for the body part at the end of my leg, towards the ground, I stand on it.

The next word is that word for the thing that lies between butt cheeks.

Anyone know these two items? :)

Heel sweat?

Exactly. The thing between two butt cheeks is sweat. How could I not think of that?!?

foot... hair?

There is a word that describes the similarities of physical constructions (natural) that are duplicated in vastly different scales. Atoms with their shells of electrons and stars with planets, for instance. Or an arroyo in a cow pasture and the Grand Canyon. I wish I could read the tip of my tongue because that word is there, I just know it. :(

According to the Gospel of D.Adams the bead of sweat that runs down between a plump man's buttocks is an elsrickle.

Sweetwater ... I know what you mean, that sort of thing is found widely, especially in fractal geometry. I don't recall having heard any particular word for it though. You should make one up: micro-resemblance; polyscalic similarity; dismensuric tropism....

It's the name of that guy...who was in that movie that was out last year...you know...HIM...

advocate

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oh sorry wrong thread

hehe

I actually walked down the aisle here and asked my neighbor "what's that word where...." and his correct answer was "advocate".

I'll keep you posted on the next oneS. This happens to me all the time. Sometimes I'm able to answer my own question, sometimes not.

Do you mean the guy that did that thing with the other thing and the other guy said something?

Yes! Yes! Those are the one exactly!

Tha movie came out while I was serving time at Blockbuster. It was so ... ACCURATE.

sw: I know this isn't the term you're looking for, but self-similarity has many of the same concepts. As does scale invariance.

frizura... I think.

I wish I knew :(

Sorry. Out of stock.

The not-secretary (she doesn't type, file, organize, or make coffee) at work got stuck on canoodling yesterday. I mean, she wasn't doing it at work, she couldn't recall the word. Once she came up with it out of the dusty reaches of her brain and announced her success, I had to offer a definition to another confused-looking cow orker.

I love that word... canoodling. It's just so fun to say :D

"Anecdotal" That word does not want to stay in my head.

Bizarrely enough one word I often struggle to find is ...fuck, no it's gone again. When you use someone, take advantage of them...wtf, how can i have forgotten that fucker again?

Heh. I have the same problem with the word asshole. But I seemed to have remembered it quite loudly at 6 this morning....:)

What I've been trying to remember for years is the name the french give to lambs brains when they serve them up at restaraunts.

If someone could help that'd be awesome.

Cervelle?

Mine's really bugging the shit out of me.

Ha! no it's not! I remember it!

Exploit *smiles*

Writing essays about early industrialisation and labour history it's a word I find myself reaching for from time to time...and I always have a problem

I think it starts with M or has M's in it. Cervelle isn't the word I've heard though.

I was just going to tell you yours was exploit. lol

Hmm. Actually I think cervelle might just mean lambs brains or something, rather than the name of a dish of lambs brains.

I'm sure if UG ever looks in here he'll be 'worldly' enough to tell me. lol

I just looked up the menu for a french restaraunt in Melbourne and it calls lambs brains 'cervelle'. So you're right Dana. I wonder if the word I'm thinking of is for a particular way of cooking them or something.

Now I guess I'll always wonder. Maybe the word I've been trying to remember just simply doesn't exist!

Dana, I thought you were looking for "capitalism"...

I forget the words "water fountain" on a regular basis, and end up saying something along the lines of: "You know, one of those things... and you press the... the bar, or sometimes it's a button, and water comes out and you drink it? And it's free? Free water-button-come-out-y-thing?"
"...You mean a water fountain?"
"YES."

We call them bubblers over here.

The name of the meat pies served by Mrs Whatsit -Sweeny Todd's partner in crime -the ones really made from Humans.... I'm thinking "Albanian Lamb" but that doesn't come up as a hit for that when I google it....

Anyone? Bueller?

not on the tip of my tongue, but bugging the hell out of me sometimes

I thought they were just called Mrs. Lovett's meat pies?:confused:

The worst pies in London...?

Sticky note on monitor.

That's where I keep anecdotal and orthogonal. They're quite useful words but I seem to have a hole in my brain where those words should go.

Last night...

"Pedometer" was the word. "Peter Meter" is what came out. :headshake

Well, they do say there is a relationship. foot size etc.

OMG. I kept forgetting that there was a word I was forgetting....Utter fail.

i think if you have a particular word that always eludes you, maybe it indicates a trauma or damage to the locale on the brain where that is stored. also, i visualize brain pathways like rivulets, so when you repeatedly go down the wrong track looking for a word, you are reinforcing that error each time. For a few years when i was a kid, i would think yellow, but say red. there is still an association in there, but ive gotten around it.

ORANGE! Bwuahahaaa! :)

Orange you glad I didn't say banana?

how about the opposite of this effect. where you have a word stuck in your head that you keep chanting internally?

husquevarna

Well NOW I do. Or would if I could pronounce it.

That deserves it's own thread.