“Don’t tell me! It’s on the tip of my tongue!” That feeling of being unable to locate the word you have in mind can be extremely frustrating. You know exactly what you’re looking for, but for some reason, your mind is hitting a wall. And trying to describe what you’re searching for can make the experience even more excruciating. The suggestions a search engine provides are nowhere near accurate, and your friends may be of little help when trying to complete your sentence.
Sometimes, what you really need is to enlist the help of kind strangers online. And thankfully, there are communities out there like Tip of My Tongue and What’s The Word on Reddit that are eager to assist you. Below, you’ll find some of the funniest posts from these communities, pandas. And we suggest trying to guess the word before reading the answer; it makes for a pretty fun game!
#61 I Saw It As A Kid, So Around 1989 Or So. A Guy Is Telling A Story To The Audience I Think, Yet He Is Falling To His Death, But Everytime He Pauses To Tell More Of The Story, He Pauses In Mid Air, And At The End Of The Movie He's Only Like A Foot Off The Ground...
Digmana:
So he sets his feet on the ground and walks or runs away.
odn:
This is The Hudsucker Proxy, great movie.
So he sets his feet on the ground and walks or runs away.
odn:
This is The Hudsucker Proxy, great movie.
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#62 A Philosopher Who Spent A Long Time Depressed Because He Couldn’t Prove Free Will, Until He Realized He Could Just Choose To Believe It.
PhuckleberryDipsh*t:
I’m not quite sure where I first read it, I think maybe on r/TodayILearned or something. It was kind of interesting but I never remembered the name of the philosopher/thinker now that I wanna read more about him.
anon:
William James
I’m not quite sure where I first read it, I think maybe on r/TodayILearned or something. It was kind of interesting but I never remembered the name of the philosopher/thinker now that I wanna read more about him.
anon:
William James
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#63 Movie Where A Woman Moves To A Neighborhood And Everyone's Invisible To Her Solved
hannakarin:
I have this very vivid memory of a scene from a movie that my mom was watching when I was a kid.
I must've entered her room some day and it was on tv and seemed interesting so I watched some of it with her and was very disturbed by it. I'm posting about it here because I mentioned it to her many times but she has no memory of it.
The premise of the movie from what I remember is a family (mom, dad and maybe two children, I think) that moves to this idyllic suburb, one of those huge neighborhoods with identical houses. It's like a whole community with a town center, school, supermarket, stuff like that.
But, for some reason, and I don't know if that's a thing from the beginning of the movie or if it happens at a particular point in the story since I just watched a part of it, but the main character, the mom, doesn't see the neighbors. Not in a floating-objects and self-driving cars type of way, but the places she goes to just look empty.
And her husband and kids talk about the people in the neighborhood but whenever she goes somewhere all the streets and stores are completely empty. There are cars parked, stuff on store shelves, just no people.
The specific scene that really stuck with me is a moment in which she goes to the supermarket.
It's like a ghost town, there's not a soul in there, including in the parking lot and at the checkout counters. She's already really stressed and scared but she grabs the cart and walks around the empty aisles, picking up groceries and such. Then she goes to the checkout counter but, since there's no one there, she walks through, crying (she's a mess at that point) and goes to her car.
Then, when she arrives at her house her husband scolds her because he says people have been calling him saying that she stole from the supermarket and made a scene, but she starts spiraling thinking she must be crazy or that he must be trying to trick her.
It's really strange and stressful and I have this very vivid memory of it. Hope it wasn't just a dream I had or something.
TL;DR A woman and her family move to this neighborhood but, while to the kids and husband everything is normal, to her it looks like a ghost town, like if there were no one else living there.
Joszef77:
"Ausentes" a Spanish movie from 2005
I have this very vivid memory of a scene from a movie that my mom was watching when I was a kid.
I must've entered her room some day and it was on tv and seemed interesting so I watched some of it with her and was very disturbed by it. I'm posting about it here because I mentioned it to her many times but she has no memory of it.
The premise of the movie from what I remember is a family (mom, dad and maybe two children, I think) that moves to this idyllic suburb, one of those huge neighborhoods with identical houses. It's like a whole community with a town center, school, supermarket, stuff like that.
But, for some reason, and I don't know if that's a thing from the beginning of the movie or if it happens at a particular point in the story since I just watched a part of it, but the main character, the mom, doesn't see the neighbors. Not in a floating-objects and self-driving cars type of way, but the places she goes to just look empty.
And her husband and kids talk about the people in the neighborhood but whenever she goes somewhere all the streets and stores are completely empty. There are cars parked, stuff on store shelves, just no people.
The specific scene that really stuck with me is a moment in which she goes to the supermarket.
It's like a ghost town, there's not a soul in there, including in the parking lot and at the checkout counters. She's already really stressed and scared but she grabs the cart and walks around the empty aisles, picking up groceries and such. Then she goes to the checkout counter but, since there's no one there, she walks through, crying (she's a mess at that point) and goes to her car.
Then, when she arrives at her house her husband scolds her because he says people have been calling him saying that she stole from the supermarket and made a scene, but she starts spiraling thinking she must be crazy or that he must be trying to trick her.
It's really strange and stressful and I have this very vivid memory of it. Hope it wasn't just a dream I had or something.
TL;DR A woman and her family move to this neighborhood but, while to the kids and husband everything is normal, to her it looks like a ghost town, like if there were no one else living there.
Joszef77:
"Ausentes" a Spanish movie from 2005
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#64 A Black Comedian Telling A Story About A Time He Was “Tricked” Into Watching Birds And/Or Flowers And Was Inspired By The Beauty, Then Later On Showing His Black Friend And Inspiring Him
unique-username:
I can’t remember much more about it. The birds and flowers could have been butterflies, I’m not sure.
In the video he was doing his stand up show, and this story was part of it. It was one of those “white people are like this, black people are like that” segues, but the payoff for this one was the heartwarming perspective taking moment he then shared with his black friend later that was even funnier.
AbuDhabiBabyBoy:
Ali Siddiq
I can’t remember much more about it. The birds and flowers could have been butterflies, I’m not sure.
In the video he was doing his stand up show, and this story was part of it. It was one of those “white people are like this, black people are like that” segues, but the payoff for this one was the heartwarming perspective taking moment he then shared with his black friend later that was even funnier.
AbuDhabiBabyBoy:
Ali Siddiq
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#65 Soldiers Are Being Trained To K**l Aliens But One Soldiers Helmet Gets Damages Or Malfunctions And He Finds Out They're Actually Sh**ting People
BadAtCorrectingYou:
Might be a tv show or short film, I can vividly remember soldiers in full combat gear and visors that actually made it look like innocent humans were horrible alien creatures.
Marvelsquash:
It’s Black Mirror Men Against Fire
Might be a tv show or short film, I can vividly remember soldiers in full combat gear and visors that actually made it look like innocent humans were horrible alien creatures.
Marvelsquash:
It’s Black Mirror Men Against Fire
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#66 Movie Where On The Night Before Her Birthday Each Year, A Girl Has The Same Dream Where She Is On A Train. Each Year It Gets One Stop Further Before She Wakes Up
teerobz:
I'd have seen this between 1997-2007 but it was on TV, so I suppose it could be a little older.
Every year, in her dream, the train the main character is on gets one stop further before she wakes up. She's coming up to a milestone birthday (perhaps 30th?) and the train is approaching the last stop. I remember the plot being that she needs to find out what the dream means before it reaches the last stop but have no idea how it ends.
I've been thinking about this for years and no amount searching has unearthed anything. I'm close to accepting that I've totally invented it.
averyaaaples:
the movie Code 46 with Tim Robbins
I'd have seen this between 1997-2007 but it was on TV, so I suppose it could be a little older.
Every year, in her dream, the train the main character is on gets one stop further before she wakes up. She's coming up to a milestone birthday (perhaps 30th?) and the train is approaching the last stop. I remember the plot being that she needs to find out what the dream means before it reaches the last stop but have no idea how it ends.
I've been thinking about this for years and no amount searching has unearthed anything. I'm close to accepting that I've totally invented it.
averyaaaples:
the movie Code 46 with Tim Robbins
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#67 Video Of Black Dude Saying The Same Word But Really Is Different Words
Omanjarrez:
The dude is speaking to the camera and speaks out a sentence with their reginal accent and it sounds like he's just saying the same word. But it's just different words said similarly. At the end he's surprised about how they speak.
johnnyhouston87:
Aaron earned iron urn
The dude is speaking to the camera and speaks out a sentence with their reginal accent and it sounds like he's just saying the same word. But it's just different words said similarly. At the end he's surprised about how they speak.
johnnyhouston87:
Aaron earned iron urn
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#68 I Swear This Movie Has Been Erased From History. Both Me And My Father Have Typed In The Entire Synopsis On Google Multiple Times And Nothing Has Come Up. I Need Serious Help, As This Was One Of The Best Movies I've Ever Seen
anon:
I can remember almost every detail about this movie, except for the name. I can't find anything about it online, anywhere. Here's the rough synopsis: a man comes home to find that his wife is missing, kidnapped. He gets a call from the man who kidnapped her, and eventually gets in contact with her. She tells him that she is trapped inside of a box underground, buried alive. She is accompanied by a man in her acting class in the box. The man is now on a race to find his wife and the man trapped with her. In the end, it is revealed that the antagonist was in an agreement with the two supposedly kidnapped people. They were never buried alive, they were just fine. They just wanted to get her away from her husband, so they wanted to fake their deaths in a bravado way so she could run off with this actor dude. So in the end, the protagonist man tracks down the antagonist and puts him in a box underground for real. This movie was friggin awesome, so it'd be great if someone could help me find it, it would really make both mine and my dad's lives 1,000x better as we've been searching for the past 8-9 years for this movie. It had to be pretty big, since we first rented it at a Redbox in Walmart. I remember there was one scene in the movie where the protagonist meets up with the antagonist at a bar to try to cut a deal, so when the antagonist gets up to use the bathroom, he tries to roofie his drink, but the patrons at the bar notice and alert the antagonist, which leads to a big car chase. Hope all this helps, thanks to anyone who decides to help me look:)
SparxIzLyfe:
Coffin (2011) with Kevin Sorbo
I can remember almost every detail about this movie, except for the name. I can't find anything about it online, anywhere. Here's the rough synopsis: a man comes home to find that his wife is missing, kidnapped. He gets a call from the man who kidnapped her, and eventually gets in contact with her. She tells him that she is trapped inside of a box underground, buried alive. She is accompanied by a man in her acting class in the box. The man is now on a race to find his wife and the man trapped with her. In the end, it is revealed that the antagonist was in an agreement with the two supposedly kidnapped people. They were never buried alive, they were just fine. They just wanted to get her away from her husband, so they wanted to fake their deaths in a bravado way so she could run off with this actor dude. So in the end, the protagonist man tracks down the antagonist and puts him in a box underground for real. This movie was friggin awesome, so it'd be great if someone could help me find it, it would really make both mine and my dad's lives 1,000x better as we've been searching for the past 8-9 years for this movie. It had to be pretty big, since we first rented it at a Redbox in Walmart. I remember there was one scene in the movie where the protagonist meets up with the antagonist at a bar to try to cut a deal, so when the antagonist gets up to use the bathroom, he tries to roofie his drink, but the patrons at the bar notice and alert the antagonist, which leads to a big car chase. Hope all this helps, thanks to anyone who decides to help me look:)
SparxIzLyfe:
Coffin (2011) with Kevin Sorbo
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