I forgot how ot write a "S"

“I was clearing my desk of papers this morning and filing stuff in manilla folderhide away in some dark corner of the office. I grabbed a folder and went to write the project number which contained an S and totally forgot how to form the letter for about 4-5 seconds. My attempt looked like a cross between a question mark and an ampersand. Can you get Alzheimers at 29? Is stuff like this going to happen more often once I hit 30?”

“I also forgot how to spell "to" this morning too it seems...”

“You're losin' it, pal!

Hey, I'm 52 and I still remember the phone number from the house in N.E. Washington, D.C.

We moved in '62.”

“Coffee...you need coffee.

Just check the temperature of it first so you don't end up with a burnt tongue.”

“I've completely forgotten how to write in cursive. I'm not sure if I could read it, in fact.”

“I know what you mean about cursive.

My hand writing is somewhere between cursive and printing.”

“Old timers disease!”

“My signature changes every time I sign something.”

“That's a good way to fake out forgers, Knee Bone.”

“A friend of mine laughs everytime I sign my signature....he claims I write my first name carefully and fluidly but then when it comes to my last name....I start with the first two letters...then ause like I've forgotten how to spell my name...and then I attack the remaining letters like a chicken on crack!


Maybe DeoreDX is preggers?
last edited: 8/02/05 11:08:04 AM”

“Hmmmm.... maybe I'm not getting enough Estrogen?”

“Just wait til you hit 50!”

“Temporary dyslexia. HPM and I get it too.”

“I figure with my signature it's entropy at work, eventually I'll just make a couple of straight lines and call it good.”

“Deo, it has happened to me. I forgot the letter "f". I tried writing a sentence to see if it'd just flow. Nope, stopped mid sentence. Probably lasted half an hour. Really strange. I tried writing the alphabet to no avail.”

“hahahhaha... weirdos!

all I do is sit and look blankly at the computer, waiting for JUST THAT RIGHT, CREATIVE, BEST, WONDERFUL WORD THAT IS PERFECT FOR WHAT I NEED...and it just eludes me. pisser, man!”

“Well I'm such a horrible speller that I've often had to change the word I was typing because I didn't know how to spell it :D”

“i have trouble writing "3". not remembering how, but the mechanics of it. ive always been HORRIBLE at handwriting. very sloppy. my teachers used to make me use those rubber triangle things on my pencils so i would grip better or whatever. didnt work.

on a similar note, long division slows me down. so does borrowing from 0 in long subtraction

also, its "an 's'"”

“you borrow from the next digit over and make the zero a ten, right?

im serious. i dont vuckng know”

“WK, I often leave out the "r" when signing my first name. It's odd.

You feeling better yet DDX?”

“Last weekend I accidently got so drunk I couldn't speak. I was thinking very hard about what I wanted to say but somewhere between my pickled brain and my mouth it turned into some kind of drunkenese.”

“I hate when that happens Nig! LOL!”

““WK, I often leave out the "r" when signing my first name. It's odd.

theres no "r" in "pixie"

nigal, i get like that when im a "firefly"”

“Is that like secret code for "Riding the Underground Railroad"?”

“is the anniversary of the "underground railroad" 4-20?”

“There is only an "r" in pixie when I'm drunk.

"pixxxrrrie." LOL! j/k.”

“I think you are onto something, forgetting how to make an "S". A true minimalist ultra-light backpacking geek would say that they don't need all those letters. You can substitute:

0 = O
1 = I
3 = E (upside down)
4 = h (upside down)
5 = S
7 = L (upside down)
8 = B

Hence you eliminate the need for 7 of 26 letters ... that's almost a 27% savings!

N0w t4at 15 w4at 1 ca11 mu7t1-u53!!!”

“1t'5 a cra54! 8ang! t4ang!”

“No! No! Bad flashbacks of that BrokenLizard guy! Boy I sure don't miss him!”

“04, c0m3 0n, p1x13! l1g4t3n up! try 1t. 1t'5 fun!”

“d0n't 83 a p00p134ead”

“Seek professional help. This is comming from a guy who forgets how to write an S.”

“hey its fun to think of words only using those letters

for instance

name that big mean spider from lotr:

543l08

ok, so i had to use an l

captain america has his..........

5413ld

ok, so an l and a d. 81g d3al

now you try”

“hahaha, I must not be that old then, 'cus I still know how to write in cursive.

BUT on another note: I just tried to check my hotmail.com email, and instead of typing "hotmail.com" I typed "hotdog.com"...umm....
I sort of wonder if that's normal.
I am NOT hungry...I swear!!
last edited: 8/02/05 8:15:13 PM”

“Those are the classic letters/numbers used to tell calculator jokes. The only two I know are:

71077345 = SHELLOIL (was this even a joke?)

and my favorite:

55378008 = BOOBLESS

There was a Dolly Pardon joke that went with this. She goes to the doctor for breast reduction and a bra size of "69" (yes ladies, I know this is not a legit bra size, but this is middle school humor here ... type in "69"). Then the doctor tells her to take 2 pills 2 times a day for 2 weeks (type in "222"). When she came back her size had reduced to "51" (type in "51" ... now the display has "6922251" on it.) She kept this up for 8 weeks (type in X 8 =) and she was ... you get the joke.

Man, I have only been posting on this site a day and I have sunk down pretty low. I am going to go have a belt of scotch.
last edited: 8/02/05 10:43:25 PM”

“yea, you really are the pits”

“DDX - i guess this means that you are moving to Michigen - since you dropped the S you are now a UPer”

“This was wild. Poking around I found this interesting version of "Little Red Riding Hood":

"I wrote it about 1940. ... It was in the days of rationing during the war and I thought about what would happen if we had to ration language. If our vocabulary were cut in half, we'd have to get along with other words."

Professor Chace used the story to show his French classes the importance of intonation in language.

"...if you read [the words] with the proper intonation, the meaning appears for certain people. For other people the meaning never does appear."

http://www.bradmesser.com/J2_LadleRat/LadleRat.html

There is another site that has a Real version of it you can listen to.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/ladle/

There are several other sites and the words chosen are different. Some you have to read like the Swedish Chef to understand, others I can't sort through at all. I am sure there is something in here about how our brain processes language that I haven't dug up yet.”

“It's true then...too much internet, makes people dump....er, dumber.”