Can’t help you with the question, but would the answer, perchance, be “42”?
I am absolutely confident I will be awakened from a sound sleep at 3AM tonight. However, it will be a seven-month-old baby who does it, and what I will be thinking of is not my forgotten word, but something along these lines: “Dammit, baby can’t sleep through the night, seven months old already, shouldn’t need to eat in the middle of the night, dammit, here’s your milk, drink it, drink it!! Oh, no, don’t tell me you’re complaining about a wet diaper too, what do you think I am, your personal manservant? Oh, wait, I am, now, where was I, I think I was supposed to remember a word or something right about now, but I’m too tired to think straight, I can’t find my pencil anyway, so I’m going back to bed. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.”
Why did I even trust myself to remember it? I think there is some kind of self-defeating self-deprecation going on, like my mind said: “Oh, you think I’ll keep this data stored for you? You’re pretty cocky about that, aren’t you? Well, we’ll just see about that…”
I attribute all the recent atrophy in my brain to that meddling baby.
Which is why, if you’re me, you’re known to exclaim apparently meaningless things at odd and sometimes inappropriate times.
ME [thinking]: *What is that little country in Europe, starts with “L” not Luxumborg . . . *
:: Days go by ::
MEETING SPEAKER: So as we can clearly see if we compare Chart A to Graph B, the projections for –
ME: LICHTENSTEIN!
I was gonna reply to this thread, but I forgot what I was going to say.
Seriously though, this happens to me a lot. I often think of something to look up or research online, and then by the time I get to the computer and start going through the motions of my typical webpage-checking ritual, I have no idea what it was that I came to check in the first place, even when only ten seconds have gone by since when I first had the thought. I am 26, so this makes it pretty clear that I’ll be senile by the time I’m 40.
Sorry I couldn’t help find your question, Spiral Stairs … just wanted you to know you’re not alone.
Well, any amount of forgetfulness is forgivable, then. (I was thinking of re-hypnotizing you to wake up, remembering the word and question, two days after the baby starts sleeping through the night, but that would be too cruel.)
Hug the baby for us. We’ll keep trying to remember for you. Did it have anything to do with asphalt?
The answer to the question is yes, but not for the reason you were thinking of. It relates more to the GDP of Brazil.
Which was $620.7 billion for 2006.
In an effort to help you find your missing word, I present to you the lyrics to “Word Disassociation”.
I forget common words - my friends are used to me saying things like, “Um…making fun of something, but in a critical way?” “You mean satire?” “Yes!” :smack:
I’m also 26…I might not make 40.
Is the answer: 14 k of g in a p d? Did I get that right? …
f p d, dammit. 14 k of g in a f p d. Don’t ever forget that.
If it had anything to do with an object being placed on a treadmill, I think we’ll all thank you not to remember it!
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Unless it was more like an Old Yeller question that starts off real good but then turns bad at the end so you have to kill it and everybody cries.
Was “Rio” by Duran Duran playing while you were contemplating this question?
Your pain is as nothing compared to mine. :eek:
Look at my signature. I seriously impressed a Moderator. 
But I can’t remember what I did (neither can he). :smack:
And the original post appears to have been deleted. :rolleyes:
To the OP, I’ve found the best way, when discussing with others something you want to find the answer to, is to bet a six-pack on it. The one most likely to win has an incentive to remember.
Many of us never will. 
Cool, thanks. I never would of known if you hadn’t pointed it out. Thanks!
Just kidding with the “of”. 
The word was “hyperphagia.”
The question was, “If a bat bit the head off of a live Ozzie Osbourne on stage, would it be able to fly carrying a coconut 25 years later?”
Is it “Was Mittu banned?”?
Did it have anything to do with Opal? Or a band name? Or Cecil’s godlike wisdom? Or being on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean for 20 minutes in 1962?
‘Cause otherwise, I got nothin’.
I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned this before, but I didn’t want to go searching for where, so here it is more likely reworded.
When you’re out stargazing with the naked eye and there’s a star (or nebula or galaxy or dim object of some kind) you know ought to be there, but you can’t quite make it out, you can use what’s called “averted vision” to see the object indirectly.
I have used a similar approach to bringing back almost forgotten or poorly remembered stuff. The trick is to think almost about the thing and thus set up a task for your brain to go looking for similarities, the way it does when you’re into Free Association mode. I can’t give much more specific instructions for how to do this, but it has worked for me when I’ve tried to think of an old song, an actor who played some obscure part in an old movie, the name of somebody I caught a glimpse of on the news who resembles somebody else, etc.
It’s most like if you’ve been straining to remember something and the just decide to “let it go,” odds are within a fairly short time it will just “come to you” out of the blue. At least it works that way for me as often as not.
Just a thought.