# Brain clutter

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-clutter/12970>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 21, 2000, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-clutter/12970 "2000-01-21T03:47:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![labradorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@labradorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/labradorian)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-clutter/12970/21 "2000-01-21T23:04:00Z")

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> Hey, I remember the lyrics to “It’s a small world!”

Too easy. I corrected my Grade 1 or 2 teacher on the lyrics. For that, I had to sing it solo at a school concert. The other two years I was at that school, I had to be an elf in the Christmas concert (hated having to wear red tights), and Frosty the Snowman in a cardboard Frosty costume.

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**Author:** ![labradorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@labradorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/labradorian)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-clutter/12970/22 "2000-01-21T23:05:00Z")

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> Though the mountains are high,

## Don’t “the mountains divide,” ?

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**Author:** ![Minxsmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Minxsmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minxsmom)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-clutter/12970/23 "2000-01-21T23:13:00Z")

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> Originally posted by SeaDiver:  
> **When I was in college, I could remember the phone number of every friend and aquaintance my roomate and I had. One day, I decided to write each of them down, in case I forgot any crucial contacts. Low and behold, a few days later, I had trouble recalling many of the less important numbers. By putting it all down on paper, I had given my brain “permission” to forget a lot of useless crap. I felt like I had done a thorough cleaning job on a dusty old attic. Since then, I write down all the trivial stuff, and let my brain take care of the important information.**

Yeah, well that would be great, in theory. But, my brain would forget where I left the paper, too. 😉

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**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2000, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-clutter/12970/24 "2000-01-22T00:36:00Z")

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For some reason I have a knack for remembering obscure names of stuff that inadvertently make people feel foolish for not knowing it:

“So I’m driving across those bumps in the road–”  
“The ‘Botts Dots.’”  
“What?”  
“They were invented by a guy named Bott, they’re called ‘Bott’s Dots.’”  
“Why don’t you shut up?”

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"Hi, I’m Troy McClure! You may remember me from such medical films as “Alice Doesn’t Live Anymore” and “Mommy, What’s Wrong with That Man’s Face?”

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