Modern Memory Maker Gifts

"Remember when they just used to write the train numbers down?"

"These are the very weapons your mother and I used in our famous duel."

My First Camera

Super Strength, Impervious to Bullets And Explosions

Clever visual metaphor used to personify the abstract concept of thought and memory.

Lady to man taking picture of fish: 'Wiggle him a little and get him to smile.'

'I recognize the face ... I just can't pin down the name.'

"My service animal for Alzheimer's, sonny!"

'Yeah, I don't have trouble remembering my times tables, but I stink at algebra...'

Remember my mum? I took that photo a week before she died. There's one of me...that was a good haircut.

"I always thought of my childhood home as being larger."

'Here comes the Papa-razzi again...'

"It's just a jogger!" "It's just a car!" "There's nothing out there now!" "I was thinking of the squirrel I saw last week"

"Most people forget they've had amnesia."

Dad's old fashioned barbeque

"See those birch trees on the other side of the pond? That’s the exact spot where your mother first called me an idiot."

"Better to have had ice cream and lost it than never to have had ice cream at all."

"To think—this meeting, which turned into the perfect day, filled with spontaneous adventures that will become priceless memories, could have been an e-mail."

"I get it! I get it! Elephants never forget. Now quit bragging about it!"

Mafia Short-Term Memory Clinic. 'Fuhgettaboutit.'

Mission Impossible: The Family Photo

"Gracie, I'm so proud that you made the academic decathlon team! Here...have some of my special green tea! Ithelps you concentrate and improves your memory!"

'What do you mean you 'forgot' the camera?!'

"I figure we can blue-screen the kids in later."

"There's a wonderful book on memory tricks here, but I can't remember what I did with it!"

The Robotics Department. It says here that these guys completely replace all the cells in their bodies every seven years! Wow! What a slow upgrade cycle! If we don't replace all our parts every six months we become obsolete! It makes you wonder why they're in charge! Yeah, like they expect us to remember thousands of gigabytes of data while they forget their passwords! (Published originally on April 19, 2006)

Origins of a family tradition.

'I have the MRI scan of your brain. The right hemisphere is clogged with computer passwords.'

'Don't worry about this meeting. I got everything we need right up here.'

Animal and Human Memory

Felix suddenly remembers what the string on his finger is a reminder of.

'Pictures of your family?'

'Happens every year - I can never remember where I put the tree decorations.'

"Let's see if I understand: your brain can't be upgraded with additional memory, and to make matters even worse, untold thousands of those brain cells die each day?"

"… and a big shout-out to my hippocampus, without which I wouldn’t be standing here saying words."