• @shalafi
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    2815 days ago

    Stephen King would laugh his ass off. (He got so addicted to the song, Tabitha about left him. Stuck with him through the booze and cocaine, drove her batshit with Mambo #5.)

    Memorizing names couldn’t be easier. Use mnemonics, the more absurd, the better.

    For example; You meet a guy named Mike. Picture Mike, right then and there, jamming a huge microphone down his throat. Guy named Scott? Imagine him with a talking Scotty dog head. Take several seconds and concentrate on the image. It’ll sink in permanently, I promise.

    • @[email protected]
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      1915 days ago

      New acquaintance: “Why the Hell are you staring at me like that…? What’s wrong with you?”

      • @PoastRotato
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        1715 days ago

        Me? Nothing. You’re the one deepthroating a microphone.

      • @shalafi
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        215 days ago

        Tell 'em straight up, “Hold on. Memorizing your name. OK. Done. Hi Mike! I’m Scott, think of my head as a talking Scotty dog. Now we’ll never forget each other!” And you won’t.

    • @Eheran
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      515 days ago

      By the time I took several seconds to concentrate on that they already walked away and think I am an idiot, rightfully so.

      • @shalafi
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        415 days ago

        Picture a disciple of Jesus washing your feet with his hair and grinning up at you. Done!

        Crazier, better.

        • stebo
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          14 days ago

          but then I gotta remember the names of the disciples of Jesus ://

          what if I accidentally call him Judas?

  • @papalonian
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    2615 days ago

    If it were me, would’ve ended with me happily singing along with my brain, oblivious to the information I failed to retain.

    • Pistcow
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      915 days ago

      I couldn’t remember my wife’s name until about 3 months into dating…

      Brain know names not good…

  • @TimeNaan
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    815 days ago

    Lou Bega does that weird roar

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    415 days ago

    Very relatable. I’ve accidentally said parts of this song out loud without realizing it on multiple occasions.

    Just workshop sounds and suddenly I’m like “the TROMPETS” and everyone looks at me and I realize what I had done. The specific hahaha also escaped a few times but I was only asked what was funny

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    415 days ago

    There’s a group of names I put to this song so I could remember the order, and I still sing it to myself (like the alphabet song) when needed

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    215 days ago

    Well i can neither recollect the names of real live people nor the lyrics of mambo number 5