The not-secretary (she doesn't type, file, organize, or make coffee) at work got stuck on canoodling yesterday. I mean, she wasn't doing it at work, she couldn't recall the word. Once she came up with it out of the dusty reaches of her brain and announced her success, I had to offer a definition to another confused-looking cow orker.

I love that word... canoodling. It's just so fun to say :D

"Anecdotal" That word does not want to stay in my head.

Bizarrely enough one word I often struggle to find is ...fuck, no it's gone again. When you use someone, take advantage of them...wtf, how can i have forgotten that fucker again?

Heh. I have the same problem with the word asshole. But I seemed to have remembered it quite loudly at 6 this morning....:)

What I've been trying to remember for years is the name the french give to lambs brains when they serve them up at restaraunts.

If someone could help that'd be awesome.

Cervelle?

Mine's really bugging the shit out of me.

Ha! no it's not! I remember it!

Exploit *smiles*

Writing essays about early industrialisation and labour history it's a word I find myself reaching for from time to time...and I always have a problem

I think it starts with M or has M's in it. Cervelle isn't the word I've heard though.

I was just going to tell you yours was exploit. lol

Hmm. Actually I think cervelle might just mean lambs brains or something, rather than the name of a dish of lambs brains.

I'm sure if UG ever looks in here he'll be 'worldly' enough to tell me. lol

I just looked up the menu for a french restaraunt in Melbourne and it calls lambs brains 'cervelle'. So you're right Dana. I wonder if the word I'm thinking of is for a particular way of cooking them or something.

Now I guess I'll always wonder. Maybe the word I've been trying to remember just simply doesn't exist!

Dana, I thought you were looking for "capitalism"...

I forget the words "water fountain" on a regular basis, and end up saying something along the lines of: "You know, one of those things... and you press the... the bar, or sometimes it's a button, and water comes out and you drink it? And it's free? Free water-button-come-out-y-thing?"
"...You mean a water fountain?"
"YES."