Good stuff, Maynard!, remembered by Matt in Waukesha, Wisconsin as his grandfather’s praise after supper, was popularized by a long-running series of Malt-O-Meal commercials. In the ads, a father urged his son to eat the hot cereal with that line...
cog n.— «The drugs, known as “cognition enhancers” could improve brain performance in a number of ways, from sharpening short-term memory and increasing speed of thought. The Academy of Medical Sciences has already advised...
Tom from Phoenix still remembers losing a seventh-grade spelling bee over dilemma, because he had been taught there was a silent n and wrote dilemna. The standard spelling is dilemma, and the dictionaries checked don’t list dilemna. Still, Tom isn’t...
momnesia n.— «Momnesia—the mental fuzziness and memory lapses that set in shortly after childbirth—had struck again.» —“Babies can cause ‘momnesia’” by Liz Szabo USA Today Mar. 3, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued...
destroilet n.— «John says he can still picture in his mind watching the frost build up on the inside cabin walls as warm air radiated from the heater. However, his most vivid memory of the cabin was the toilet. The boys referred to it as...
memory room n.— «The facility also has what’s called a memory room. It’s a peaceful room, decorated in soothing pastel colors, with comfortable chairs and other seating for meetings. “Sometimes the elderly get agitated,”...