I once lapsed on the word headphones and came up with "ear goggles".
I am currently of the opinion that this approach describes the entire history of the development of the Chinese language.
Saffron: You just had a better hand of cards this time. Mal: It ain't a hand of cards. It's called a life.
'Trash'
Natter Five-O: Book 'Em, Danno.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
billytea - Mar 13, 2007 3:50:15 pm PDT #6901 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Kathy A - Mar 13, 2007 3:50:34 pm PDT #6902 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I suspect you have to treat them with something to get continued no-fog. Of course, this was a decade ago, so.. I usually just slimed my goggles each swim with vaseline.
That works? Cool!
::adds Vaseline to shopping list::
Hey, Mike Rowe is doing Ford commercials now!
Sue - Mar 13, 2007 4:00:04 pm PDT #6903 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Ear goggles always reminds me of my granmother after her stroke. She could understand everybody, but the part of the brain that connected her thoughts to her words was gone, so she mostly she communicated by saying "Yes, yes, yes." or "No, no, no." until someone figured out what she wanted. One night they were trying to out her to bed without giving her a shot of brandy. (Her Dr. suggested sleep aid.) She grew more agitated and they couldn't figure out what was up and the yeses and nos were flying. Finally she blurted out "Bootleggers!" and my aunt realized that she had forgotten her brandy.
Kat - Mar 13, 2007 4:03:50 pm PDT #6904 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
My memory used to be scary good, and everything was kept in my head. Now that my brain's foggier, I've never developed the organizational skills to cope with not remembering everything.
Sue is me.
I spent the other day in class trying to remember To Kill a Mockingbird. It was like something out of a game show: Gregory Peck in a movie. Harper Lee. The South. Atticus Finch. Couldn't remember the title.
I can't remember words for shit. And now things are worse because I have too much to remember.
Lee - Mar 13, 2007 4:03:55 pm PDT #6905 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Announcement: I am officially on vacation.
Analysis:
screw it. I'm too filled with Squee to analyze jack.
tommyrot - Mar 13, 2007 4:05:10 pm PDT #6906 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm too filled with Squee to analyze jack.
You don't need to analyze Jack. Just mix it with Coke.
Cashmere - Mar 13, 2007 4:05:48 pm PDT #6907 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I lose words in the middle of conversations a lot. My dad does as well. It's very annoying, I'm sure.
I am officially on vacation.
Woot!
Lee - Mar 13, 2007 4:06:41 pm PDT #6908 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Very good point.
Except for the part where I have to be on my way to San Jose at 6:30 tomorrow morning, so jack will have to wait until tomorrow.
Cass, you have Jack, or Jose, or something, right?
sarameg - Mar 13, 2007 4:12:25 pm PDT #6909 of 10001
Kat, you definitely have well-known extenuating circs. Pregnancy is weird. One friend felt infinitely sharper (despite being on bedrest- her boss was blown away by some of the things she came up with from her hospital bed) and another (with a textbook boring preg) would stop mid sentence and screetch because she'd lost a word. I know it is all hormones, but it is freaky. I feel significantly stupider (not to mention crankier) when I'm oding on them.
WHOSE PLAN WAS THAT. Is dumb.
Kat - Mar 13, 2007 4:14:05 pm PDT #6910 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
no. I've been losing words for years, actually. It got much worse recently a few months ago, then seems to have gotten a bit better.
But the words are still MIA sometimes.