Toes = foot-fingers

"How far machine" is brilliant! I shall use it from now on!

Pretty close

As someone who speaks five languages fluently, that happens. All. The. Time. it is incredibly annoying - you'd be speaking along and suddenly, blank. The word you're looking for in French is just not there... and instead you brains offers you this Italian word, which might not even be the correct one, but just homonym and simply won't take no for an answer. Nine times out of ten I end up having to either resort to a third language, like English in order to avoid "Buffy Speak".

Sounds like one of my best friends who once asked for "woody music thingy with moving pins". Guitar was just too hard to remember...

My pregnant friend once forgot the word for coconut and called them "milk balls"

... and ten men in the courtroom broke into a sweat.

i like it much better

"Thank you, Person From My Last Flight."

I feel terrible for thinking it, but that is tremendously phallic...

Now that is a good description of a tremolo. I think I'll adopt it.

This could have gone way worse than it did....

you know how the get the attention of the audience... :D

My son couldn’t think of the name of his once favorite animal and kept referring to “lawn pigs” as if I should know exactly what he was talking about. It took me a minute to realize he was referring to ground hogs.

I know words, I have the best words.

Actually, that sounds very stylish and dignified

Lol. A friend of mine wanted to ask for the menu in a restaurant and asked for the map instead. The German word for both is Karte (card) btw.

That's almost a Malapropism. Some good ones are "The neighbours cooking fat just did its business in the garden again" and "Nancy is such a boiled sprat". We used have a clip show and I remember one reporter had trouble with "hypodermic needle" and called it a "hypodeemic nerdle". God bless Mrs Malaprop. :D

They prefer to be called IRS agents.

Great minds think alike

Okay, at this point it seems clear that even if we forget EVERY OTHER WORD, we will always remember the word puppy.

By saying that last thing it will immediately grab the attention of everyone, though.

And how much beer did he already have?

That’s cute!

This is how I come up with half the words I use a lot. Buddhist monk is now 'boonk'.. my brain goes faster than my mouth lol

Well, it's not wrong

Ooh, good one. I'm stealing it and using it from now on. Next time someone chastises me that I should say "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays" because F- all those other cultures and religions which also have celebrations around that time, some of them a lot older than Christianity, I'm going to tell them I personally don't celebrate Christmas, I celebrate "Light Bush Day".

Why use simple words when you give it a long intellectual name

Ouch, that makes it extra awkward.