BS: Memory slums

Subject: RE: BS: Memory slums
From: Janie
Date: 23 Jun 08 - 10:44 PM

A**hole/ex-boss

Subject: RE: BS: Memory slums
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Jun 08 - 10:34 PM

Fruits and vegetables are a particular problem for my lazy mind. I may say "onion" when I'm plainly thinking "tomato", or "lemon" when I mean "onion", or "pomegranate" instead of "nectarine" etc.

Subject: RE: BS: Memory slums
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Jun 08 - 09:45 PM

Haha! The four year old granddaughter of my friend insisted on calling my Morgan "Daniel" when first met him last week. He told me about it. MY friend asked her why. She said he looked like a Daniel. She doesn't know anyone by that name.

Art Thieme - John Hartford and Bruce Utah Phillips

Subject: RE: BS: Memory slums
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Jun 08 - 09:39 PM

Chuck/Eric
Some people just do NOT look like their name at all, so I tend to give them a 'new' one....look, I know who I'm talking about! LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Memory slums
From: Peace
Date: 23 Jun 08 - 09:25 PM

Shania Twain, Ethel Merman

Subject: BS: Memory slums
From: Joe_F
Date: 23 Jun 08 - 09:22 PM

There are a lot of pairs of names (mostly names of people -- I'm weak on people) that seem to have only one slot in my mind. When I mean to mention one, I often have to think, or even look it up, to avoid coming up with the other. Here is a list I have collected over the years. I invite you to comfort me by confessing to your own mental fogs.

Amazon, Ebay
Barry Finn, Shay Walker
Bill Staines, Stan Rogers
butane, propane
Ceylon, Madagascar
Cole Porter, Noel Coward
Cyprus, Malta
Edna St Vincent Millay, Elinor Wylie
Figaro, Tivoli
From Here to Eternity, The Naked and the Dead
George Gershwin, Irving Berlin
Iraq, Pakistan
Jack London, John Reed
J. D. Salinger, John Updike
Jean Ritchie, Margaret MacArthur
John Betjeman, Philip Larkin
Max Eastman, Max Lerner
Peter Drucker, Peter Viereck
Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton
Saskatchewan, Manitoba
Steve Allen, Woody Allen
Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn