Your goofiest replacement for a word you momentarily forgot

[Stoid]

go-uppy thing = Escalator

Next?

[Zeldar]

I'll go ahead and get these out of the way so that really creative types can get right into it.

Whodathoughtit
Thingamajig
Doololly
Thingum
Grommet
Gazinta
Whatsit
Giffensnatch
Plunxtrum
Frabostat
Dweezum
Jamfscratch
Cranth
Blimplet
Hyperzootle
Dwelk

[Bam Boo Gut]

Oooojahmaflip

[BurnMeUp]

I and up just swaping other words in and out all the time and leave the real one as an exercise for the listener. Sometimes by brain can't keep up with my mouth :)

The favorite of friends and family is we were going to go to the Cheesecake Factory, which, for some reason, I could not recall the name of. So instead I called it "The French Cake Palace". SO now, that's all any of us call it.

[Khadaji]

bubbly wine for champagne.

[Meyer6]

A friend of mine worked at the Airport. One day I inexplicably forgot that word, and asked him "Hey, how's work at the ... Airplane Factory?". The weird thing is that he worked in a bank branch in the terminal, and did not repair planes or anything of the sort. Of course, now several of us refer to any airport that way.

[Caricci]

You know those water worm things - the slippery toys that are water-filled plastic bags? My husband called it a machine once. It's a lot of things but not a machine.

[LouisB]

I once called the vacuum cleaner a lawnmower; my Darling Marcie seized on that and now, whenever I fumble for a word, she tells me the thing in question is a lawnmower.

[Stoid]

Yer makin' me giggle, that's what I was going for.... thanks! More! (French Cake Palace forever!)

[Kat]

Ha! I do refer to objects in that manner ("go-uppy thing" for "escalator" is very much like a description I would us, though I haven't done that one yet) on purpose so that when I start to lose my mind, no one will notice.

For example, "climby thing" for rope, stairs or ladder.

[Quasimodem]

Just...... "THING". And that goes for all parts of speech!

As in " I need to get a........ thing" (pointing at longish hair).:D

Happens a lot with me.

Q

[matt_mcl]

I sometimes refer to people whose name momentarily escapes me as "What's-his-"prominent physical or psychological feature. I once had occasion to refer to an ex, for example, as what's-his-neurosis.

[Queen Tonya]

Huh, I call all folks who's names I've forgotten whats-his-butt or whats-her-butt, but matt has a much cooler version.

[Mudshark]

I frequently forget simple words like door. I'll be talking and go "open that thing in the wall...you know, that hole in the wall where you walk...but not into the wall, into the hole in the wall, and it opens" and they look at me like I've got something worng with me.

I just usually describe what the thing does until I remember the actual word.

[Taber]

I was playing catchphrase with some friends. The word they had to guess was "bug collector." What one friend guessed was "bugatorium"

[Seeker of Truth and Beauty]

Doomaflajee. (I think I spelled it properly...)

[Kamino Neko]

My usual method is to just go 'uh, eh, er...' while miming how you use the forgotten item.

I pray I never forget the word 'dildo'....

[Dinaroozie]

Just today at work I referred to programmers as "non-artist people". And yes, I am a programmer.

[Zeldar]

How often do you hear (I pray you don't actually use yourself) thing as a verb? A guy I used to work with would always be thinging things, and just as often he would "take and thing" whatever it was.

Every once in a while I will almost say "take and do" or "up and do" when I will catch myself in time to avoid what I consider the ultimate faux pas.

[don't ask]

When I was psych nursing one night I wrote in the report that "Patient A suffered a small contusion when he fell from his sub-upper-extremity-vertical-support apparatus." Of course I was talking about crutches. It was not well received by the senior staff. Nor was my reference to an amputee being found "crawling on all three and a halfs" in the middle of the night.

[Finally]

"Crawling on all three and a halfs" wipes soda off keyboard

My best one was hiker guy for....you know....the guy that hikes the ball in football.

[Lobsang]

The thing that makes the things change on the thing

[Quasimodem]

don't ask is starting to move up on lieu and Tuckerfan for making me laugh and fart at the same time! :)

The imagery!

The IMAGERY!

Q

[tdn]

UHF
UMB
VCR
VCO
URL
EDU

You know, that connector thingy on a computer.

[Hal Briston]

My best one was hiker guy for....you know....the guy that hikes the ball in football.Ok, settle a debate between my wife and I, please. Were you looking for "quarterback" or "center"?

[Buckler of Swashing]

I know someone who forgot the name of the game Trivial Pursuit. She (like myself) is one of those who refers to the wedges as 'pie' pieces (not cake, like some of you heathens).

So she called it Pie Race. Now we only ever call it Pie Race.

The best thing was, when she first said it she went: "Ooh, wanna play, um, that... Pie Race? You know? Where we all... race for pie! With questions!"

[EvilTOJ]

I like to smurf words in at random just to smurf it up.

While this isn't exactly a goofy replacement, my girlfriend once said the word "articulate" like "ar tick uh let". It was highly amusing :D

[TroubleAgain]

I don't recall exactly word it was I lost, but I do remember referring to something as the slidey-uppy thing. :smack: And I've also used "swingy bit" and other descriptors.

[Khampelf]

It's in the the cold food box closet.

[control-z]

My daughter called the alarm clock "The Beep Machine." Of course she was about 5 at the time. :)

[Beadalin]

This all reminds me of this classic "Not Always Right" story:
DE TING! (http://notalwaysright.com/de-ting-de-ting/308)

[Stoid]

I like to smurf words in at random just to smurf it up.

While this isn't exactly a goofy replacement, my girlfriend once said the word "articulate" like "ar tick uh let". It was highly amusing :D

My family has never stopped laughing over my stated intention, when I was about 10, to go down in the "anals" of literature.

[Incensed]

Ssskkkkkiiiiiiirrrrrrrtttttttt.

Which, when fairly shrieked from the passenger's seat, means roughly, "That truck is coming into our lane, hit the fucking brakes or we're going to make the newspaper."

Yes, the driver ssssskkkkiiiirrrrrttttt'ed in time.

[Jettboy]

I always use "hoosimawingus" as a general purpose noun substitute. I have no idea where I picked it up...