Once upon a long time ago, there was a B-movie called I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name. starring Oliver Reed and an aging Orson Welles, and notable for the first use in a movie of a common four-letter word (once). But I didn't remember those details - I got them off the internet through Google. As everyone knows, people my age who were alive to watch that 1967 production now have difficulty remembering names of people and places - yet, when reminded, the memory is still there.
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