Despite the OP’s starting premise, this has moved pretty well away from Cafe Society material, so I’m going to move it over to, um, yanno, the other forum I moderate.
twickster, Cafe Society moderator
My mom used to have a boss who was famous for these…
“What do you call those little brown things in chocolate chip cookies?”
My mom was giving a buffet. I asked if she was going to get “those frilly things. You know, hors d’oeuvre…uh…uh…” I could think of “hors d’oeuvre” but not “toothpicks.”
When I was in junior high, my school put on a production of Our Miss Brooks. For those not familiar with it, it’s structured around a play-within-a-play: Teacher Miss Brooks and her class are putting on a play. Well, come opening night, one of my classmates forgot her line. The line in question? “I’ve forgotten my line!”.
The…um…er…the Broom?
Technically only some squids have two testicles and some squids have no testicles. I’m guessing the average is somewhere around one testicle per squid.
Only sort of relavent . . .
For reasons forgotten in the mists of time, I was listening to/participating in a discussion of state capitals we had known/lived in/whatever.
A comment was made about Minneapolis being the Cool City, and St. Paul being the Capitol City (of Minnesota).
Someone else claimed that state capitols are often not the cool city.
Guy Three said “Oh really? What about Chicago?” with clear disbelieve that a Chicago native would not claim Chicago to be cool.
“Chicago is . . . NOT the capitol of Illinois”
Guy Three knew that, really, he’d just forgotten.
This happened just last week. Still wondering where my brain was:
Me (holding up house key): Where’s the other one of these. . .these things?
Friend: :dubious:
Me: You know, this thing!
Friend: You mean, the KEY?
Me: Yeah, that’s the word.
A few months ago, I had this conversation with another friend:
Friend: What percentage is 98 out of 100?
Me: You’re kidding, right?
Friend: …
Me: Let me think. What per cent is 98 out of ONE HUNDRED. . .
Friend: :smack::smack: Holy crap. Don’t tell anyone.
Yeah, you bet I won’t.
I worked with a nurse from Belarus and she was studying to get her TOEFL and then her Canadian Nursing exam done. She would ask me about words she encountered and we would explain the meaning to her. Her English was pretty good but some nouns especially had escaped her What is Weeeg?
When I figured out she meant “wig” I drew a blank on how to explain it. I kept pointing to my head and saying “but not real” then finally … the definition.
A hair hat!
I was about to ask, in all seriousness, how many gonads squids do have (I know some lower animals only have one, not sure if cephalopods are among them).
What came out of my brain was “In all seriousness, how many squids does a testicle have?”. :smack:
My coworker and I had apparently attended one too many cable installation classes when we got into a discussion of fruit plants and how they are propagated. Unable to remember the word “grafting,” he got the point across with “…you know, when they splice trees!”