# Memory is the first thing to go **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 25, 2022, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memory-is-the-first-thing-to-go/972182 "2022-09-25T02:46:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memory-is-the-first-thing-to-go/972182/1 "2022-09-25T02:46:35Z")
I started a new post in FQ, and the new “Your topic is similar to…” window popped with an older post that was exactly what I was about to ask. And I had posted it. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memory-is-the-first-thing-to-go/972182/2 "2022-09-25T02:48:57Z")
I came here to post something similar, but I forgot what I was going to say. Apparently it’s contagious and you’re a (the?) carrier. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memory-is-the-first-thing-to-go/972182/3 "2022-09-25T02:50:21Z")
Well, at least you recognized your own username. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memory-is-the-first-thing-to-go/972182/4 "2022-09-25T04:42:34Z")
The technical, SDMB approved term is “threadnesia”. (We won’t get into the other suggestions that didn’t make the cut. 😉) > [@Why do we call Galileo by his first name?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-we-call-galileo-by-his-first-name/774649): > > When we talk about the great early astronomers, we refer to Brahe, Copernicus and Newton, not Tycho, Nicholas and Isaac. But we always refer to Galileo Galilei as Galileo, not Galilei. How come? confused > [@Why Galileo? Why not Galilei?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-galileo-why-not-galilei/151144): > > Why do we remember Galileo Galilei as “Galileo”, his first name, and not as “Galilei”, his last name? We remember the other astronomy greats of that time by their last names: Newton, Brahe, Kepler (or a Latinized version of the last name, in the case of Copernicus). So why the special treatment for Galileo? Was he just a back-slapping, friendly guy: “No, no, just call me Galileo, thanks!” Or is the “-leo” ending easier for anglos than the “-lei” ending? Any thoughts? confused ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memory-is-the-first-thing-to-go/972182/5 "2022-09-25T13:54:14Z")
Often when a zombie thread is resurrected I don’t realize it’s a zombie right away, and I decide to post in it. But I usually do at least a cursory skim of the whole thread to see if I’m the first to say whatever I’m about to say, and find out I already made the same point back when the thread was fresh. I almost did that in a Colombo thread just yesterday— someone had said “Mrs. Columba didn’t really exist, right?” I was about to make a Kate Mulgrew joke when I discovered I already had made almost the same joke awhile back. Or… I often read on my iPad, with the screen widened for easier reading, so avatars are unseen off the left side of the screen. And I often read a post first, then look at the username. So I’ll be reading through a zombie thread, not realizing it’s a zombie, and I read a post and think “hey, that exact thing happened to me too!” Yes, because it was posted by solost. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memory-is-the-first-thing-to-go/972182/6 "2022-09-25T14:41:32Z")
Memory is actually the second thing to go. I forget what’s first. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memory-is-the-first-thing-to-go/972182/7 "2022-09-25T15:27:45Z")
“My brain? That’s my second favorite organ!” -Woody Allen ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memory-is-the-first-thing-to-go/972182/8 "2022-09-25T21:03:16Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I came here to post something similar, but I forgot what I was going to say. I hope you keep all those checklists and that ol’ QRH handy when at work! 😀 Personally, I enjoy the fact that I very rarely actually have to remember anything any more. Mostly, I have to remember my grocery list when going grocery shopping (and to put my pants on). Though if I ever forget the grocery list and have to go from memory, I am doomed. You can imagine the utter disaster that ensues – the absence of critical grocery items matched only by the overflowing abundance of unnecessary replicates! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memory-is-the-first-thing-to-go/972182/9 "2022-09-25T21:04:46Z")
Grocery shopping gets even funnier if you forget your pants. When you go to check out, there’ll be no wallet to pay with. Oops. Imagine how red your face will be then! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memory-is-the-first-thing-to-go/972182/10 "2022-09-25T22:33:38Z")
“These stockings,” he Grinched, “are the first things to go.” MERRY XMAS! ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memory-is-the-first-thing-to-go/972182/11 "2022-09-25T23:02:06Z")
I think it is curious that you used the same emojis both times back then but a new one today. That must ~~😲~~ something. PS: Leonardo and Micheangelo are known by their first names too. Wich I probably would have written and forgotten by now had I answered your threads when you wrote them. I believe I did not, but somebody else probably has, and has forgotten about it. It’s all right, you have forgotten too. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memory-is-the-first-thing-to-go/972182/12 "2022-09-26T01:25:31Z")
Did I start a thread on that? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memory-is-the-first-thing-to-go/972182/13 "2022-09-26T02:15:27Z")
I don’t remember why I entered into this thread. But I’m sure it was important. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memory-is-the-first-thing-to-go/972182/14 "2022-09-26T02:24:39Z")
_Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most._ -S. Clemens ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memory-is-the-first-thing-to-go/972182/15 "2022-09-26T02:54:07Z")
Why the hell did I visit this thread again? ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memory-is-the-first-thing-to-go/972182/16 "2022-09-26T05:33:33Z")
It’s very simple: Earlier post in this thread: Northern\_Piper: > The technical, SDMB approved term is **“threadnesia”**. (We won’t get into the other suggestions that didn’t make the cut. 😉) From the thread: > [@Why do we call Galileo by his first name?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-we-call-galileo-by-his-first-name/774649): > > When we talk about the great early astronomers, we refer to Brahe, Copernicus and Newton, not Tycho, Nicholas and Isaac. But we always refer to Galileo Galilei as Galileo, not Galilei. How come? confused There were several other suggestions, one of which you made: Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan: > I dunno, I like **Northernesia**. LSLGuy’s suggestion: > I suggest **“Pipernesia”** for asking the same question years later. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memory-is-the-first-thing-to-go/972182/17 "2022-09-27T01:40:47Z")
Wow! I totally forgot I said that. But it sure sounds erudite now 😉