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avevale_intelligencer ([personal profile] avevale_intelligencer) wrote2010-04-20 07:45 am

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Sometimes I'm convinced I'm being experimented on by aliens.

I give you my word I had never, before Saturday, encountered the phrase "keep buggering on" in connection with Churchill or anyone else. I'd have remembered.

Yesterday morning, I listened to a Benny Summerfield audio I hadn't heard before, and there it was. No mention of Churchill, just the phrase.

This keeps happening.

[identity profile] little-cinnamon.livejournal.com 2010-04-20 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
That happens to me *all the time*. Not with that particular phrase, but the thing where you've never heard a word or phrase and then it crops up four times in one day. Weird.

[identity profile] keristor.livejournal.com 2010-04-21 08:39 am (UTC)(link)
There's a word for that. I can't remember what it is, but there's definitely a word for it. It's part of pattern recognition, that something newly learned will be noticed more often; it isn't happening more often but it will stand out as important instead of being ignored.

[identity profile] soren-nyrond.livejournal.com 2010-04-21 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I think your word is "synchronicity"