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Login/Join to ParticipateClassically British
5,689 posts
Location: Epsom, Surrey, England
Thinga-me-bob
Woojit
Whatca-ma-call-it
Thingy
Anyone else?
(Last day of work today? Me?!
)Burner of Toast
Spinner of poi
Slacker of enormous magnitude
2,865 posts
Location: Lake District UK
a do-dar?
have you done a durb on google?
hehe i durbed durbs
Remember.........YOU LOSE!!!
192 posts
Location: Wolverhampton
The oosit from owsit!
sin
"Abashed, the Devil stood and saw how awful Goodness is"
Classically British
5,689 posts
Location: Epsom, Surrey, England
wossname
Burner of Toast
Spinner of poi
Slacker of enormous magnitude
Pirate Ninja
3,882 posts
Location: Galway/Ireland
yerone
yerman
Love is the law.
Classically British
5,689 posts
Location: Epsom, Surrey, England
an "oohhh-it's-on-the-tip-of-my-toungue"
Burner of Toast
Spinner of poi
Slacker of enormous magnitude
Pirate Ninja
3,882 posts
Location: Galway/Ireland
that yoke
Love is the law.
HoP's Barman. Trapped aged 6 months
4,437 posts
Location: Staines, United Kingdom
a whatsaface
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind
Give a man a fish and he'll eat 4 a day hit a man with a brick and you can have all his fish and his wife
"Will's to pretty for prison" - Simian
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
howsyafather
wotsitsname
ooja-maflip (usually applied to a person who's name ya can't remember)
(at work tomorrow as well? me?!)
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
Classically British
5,689 posts
Location: Epsom, Surrey, England
Isn't a "howsyafather" another term for a shag?
Burner of Toast
Spinner of poi
Slacker of enormous magnitude
1,803 posts
Location: Wonderland igloo, Vic, Australia
doobywacker
.:Pink Exocutioner:.
I am Jack's Raging Bile Duct...
Loving you from the deepest part of my loins.
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
yeah, but its what i use when i forget the word 'shag'
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
Carpal \'Tunnel
6,207 posts
Location: "In your ear", United Kingdom
i have long pauses in teh middle of senteces when i forget a word, its rather annoying,
almost like i finish a sentect half way through!
Step (el-nombrie)
Pooh-Bah
1,626 posts
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
"the er.. the thing.. you know.. the erm... that.. thing.. erm..."
That's the common parlance of this 'ere region
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
veteran
1,459 posts
Location: Dublin, Ireland
watchamacallit
thingamajig
yokeybob
My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely 
old hand
863 posts
Location: Berlin, Germany
dings dingsdabumsda you know what I mean
(ding German for thing)
What is psychology?- Looking for a black cat in a dark room. What is psychoanalysis? Psychoanalysis is looking for a black cat in a dark room -- in which there is no cat -- but finding one anyway.
Carpal \'Tunnel
5,814 posts
Location: Perth, Australia
blah blah
you know
Is it the Truth?
Is it Fair to all concerned?
Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendships?
Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?
Im in a lonely battle with the world with a fish to match the chip on my shoulder. Gnu in Binnu in a cnu
member
97 posts
Location: australia, tasmania
"oh, you know, that THING!"
* people who dont like cats were probably mice in an earlier life *
Self-Flagellation Expert
3,414 posts
Location: Bogged at CG, Australia
do-higgedy-watsit
"beg beg grovel beg grovel"
"master"
--FSA
"There was an arse there, i couldn't help myself"
--Rougie
Pooh-Bah
1,626 posts
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
dum-diggedy-ding-dang-dulooleyo?
At least I'll call it that from now one (if I remember.. oh the irony)
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA
Jammie.
Also the old school New York crew's name for an alternating low/high butterfly.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
15,417 posts
Location: South Wales
Doohicky.
Whatnot.
Fing.
(im sure this thread has come up before)
veteran
1,389 posts
Location: Guelph, ON, Canada
Stuff.
Quote, from the move Hackers (1996, I think) 'it's in that place where I put that thing that time.'
Brilliant!
~ Bobo
wie weit, wie weit noch?
fragst mich, wo wir gewesen sind...
du fehlst hier
15,417 posts
Location: South Wales
So obviously its behind the condom machine in the blokes toilets...
Right?
Pooh-Bah
1,626 posts
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
on the millenium falcon.
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
Mistress of Pink...Multicoloured
6,140 posts
Location: Over There, United Kingdom
Oh...um....
is my normal response
Never pick up a duck in a dungeon...
137 posts
Location: Bristol
doobrey
brian
the-jobbie-that-makes-things-change (remote control in normal english)
A warrior always returns to the fray. He never does so out of stubbornness, but because he has noticed a change in the weather - Paulo Coelho
old hand
863 posts
Location: Berlin, Germany
describing things or just say what you can do with them happens pretty often to me then I speak English, at least no native speaker ever laughed at me sometimes they laugh with me What is psychology?- Looking for a black cat in a dark room. What is psychoanalysis? Psychoanalysis is looking for a black cat in a dark room -- in which there is no cat -- but finding one anyway.
Member
98 posts
Location: ireland
yo-keeny-ma-bob
thing-jammy
mogily-heen-tay
or if all that fails an indepth description of what i'm trying to say.
member
121 posts
Location: USA
the guy....the big one....he was in the movie.....with the girl.....the girl with the hair.......and robots......(an actual quote from somebody at my halloween party)
If you're a pyro and you know it, clap your hands! 
1,643 posts
Location: ffidrac
Mostly I make frantic hand movements in an attempt to visually portray the object in question.....
alternatively there are the random noises...
"nehmenehuh..."
"geebedegee..."
or similar...
or the slightly more coherent worded response which usually involves some variation already mentioned, my favourite is "oojamaflip" though
in desperate situations... all three at once!
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