A Purple Monkey Dishwasher by Scott Gowell
I don’t speak German but I love German loan words. It is in this spirit that I am coining these two neologisms, speicherschmerz & speicherfreude. They translate literally as ‘memory pain’ and ‘memory joy’ respectively.
I hope that they can capture that awful pain of searching through one’s brain for the particular Simpsons’ episode that someone has quoted and conversely the joy of getting the reference, the more obscure the better.
eg.
“Damn this speicherschmerz, where the hell have I heard ‘Purple Monkey Dishwasher’ before?”
“Ah, such sweet speicherfreude, that’s from The Simpsons episode where Bart gets the teachers to go on strike.”
LOL I didnt know those words existed…I speak german so its quite funny to see this, thx for the post!
Haha, awesome. That doesn’t surprise me though because I just made them up!
LOL!! I didnt mean those words didn exist, they do, I just didnt know about them being used in English, too!