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ah. I'll try to remember that.
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here's a Jabberwocky of 'em: http://www.math.luc.edu/~vande/jabglossary.html[our own slithy toves may be offended you couldn't recall any of these..]
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It's not in the OED. I ain' sayin' no more'n that.
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I dunno, Bel - I think of it as "immediate memory" and "fetching from the archives". Little elves sit at the desk in my brain, and they're pretty good about coming up with the stuff I ask them for. Sometimes they have to run up to the attic to get the answer, though...
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But dontcha hate it when they can't find the key?  It's the "coming up with the answer an hour later" that annoys me. If I know it, why didn't I know it when I needed it.
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worrying about coming up with the answer blocks the pathways to the answer...
performance anxiety.
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Well, you may be right in some circumstances eta, a neurologist told me recently that stress hinders memory, and that people under extreme stress can even break connections to some memories permanently.
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And that sometimes would be a good thing.
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How about at 3 o'clock in the morning? The *worst* is when the answer wakes me up and then I can't get back to sleep. 
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Absolutely. A few weeks ago a bunch of us were trying to remember who recorded the 80s song, "True". We thought for hours (with no Internet handy to consult) and never did think of it. Last weekend the same gang was together again, and someone asked if anyone had figured out who sang "that song". At first I couldn't remember what the song had been, but as soon as someone said "True", I said, "Oh, that was Spandau Ballet." I hadn't thought of it for a second in the intervening time, but because I wasn't searching for it, the answer popped up with no problem.
Oh, and Bel, "chortle" and "galumph" are probably the most well-known examples of the "Jabberwords".
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