You know when something's on the tip of your tongue and — as frustrating as it is — you'd prefer to try and think of it rather than look it up? There should be a word for that.

HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 115 points –

Looking it up just kinda feels like cheating, y'know? Or at least throwing in the towel.

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sometimes it's something that can't be looked up like a song tune or a scene from a show. i tried searching once using humming and it didn't work, but thankfully it only took a couple days for me to remember where it was from

Once, I had a song in my head that I wasn't able to remember much about. I posted on the /r/tipofmytongue community, letting them know that all I could remember was "eh, oppah"

After a few incorrect guesses, somebody realized that it was Moby's "Natural Blues"

Definitely the worst part of being a post rock fan, or I guess a fan of any instrumental music.