brain fart

Jimmy says he had a brain fart and that golf isn't a sport anyway.

I like noun-blockage, but how is that different from a "brain fart."

This got a big laugh out of Nick, but the other three looked like I'd just had a brain fart.

Just a fleeting brain fart, if you will.

You probably know this and it was just a brain fart but just in case someone else reading it doesn't.

I mean, the guy had me half convinced, then he has a brain fart on his way out, and I'm back where I started.

Sorry, brain fart on my part.

You're not doomed and dumb, or recklessly high and uncontrollable, you're just feeling what I call 'brain farts'.

Brain Fart (2005)

Level Two: Brain Fart

See also {brain fart}.

:brain fart: n. The actual result of a {braino}, as opposed to the mental glitch which is the braino itself.

Not long ago, I was in a meeting where the speaker went off on a tangent and then apologised with the words "sorry, had a bit of a brain fart there".

According to Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Denis Gauthier a brain fart occurs when one "momentarily loses his sense of logic.

If Valdes hadn't had a brain fart in the first 20 seconds of the game, Barcelona would have beaten Real with a clean sheet... at the Bernabeau.

I did my hair, and I put on my makeup, and then I went to get dressed, and I just sort of had a brain fart,' Carol said.

The effort was there, the results weren't and if we keep putting efforts on like this and limit those little brain farts a little bit, we're going to get on a roll here."

Noun-Blockage is different from a "brain fart" in that a "brain fart" is a total blankness of mind (e.g. "Why am I standing in the kitchen?")

Since Rick Perry's 50 seconds of tongue-tied agony in Wednesday night's Republican presidential debate, argument has raged about just how bad Perry's "brain fart" was compared with the famous campaign flubs of the past.

learn to math *edit* on second thoughts, it is kinda confusing...going by product number and it having a mid-year release is giving me a brain fart Last edited by Jakelshark on Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:36 pm

Tom Eichele, a neuroscientist at the University of Bergen in Norway, was part of an international team of researchers who identified activity detectable in brain scans up to 30 seconds before a mistake, which could be referred to as a brain fart, occurs.

In Family BrainSurge, each team is allowed one "Brain Fart," which allows two other members of the family (the "Brain Trust") to offer an answer for the team; the team stays in the game or is eliminated based on that answer.

A brain fart (may be jocularly derived from "brain infarction") is slang for a special kind of abnormal brain activity which results in human error while performing a repetitive task, or more generally denoting a degree of mental laxity or any task-related forgetfulness, such as forgetting how to hold a fork.

Shepherd later referred to her statement as a "brain fart" brought on by nerves and the following exchange between Barbara Walters and Sherri Shepherd occurred after that particularly embarrassing episode: Walters said "Dear, the Earth is round", and Shepherd responded with "Barbara, I know that!"

A further clarification comes from investigative journalist Louie Pierson, who proffers that while accidents are preventable, "brain farts are unpredictable, unpreventable and universal", and advances the theory that Mother Nature had "added the unfathomable minor irritant of the brain fart as a failsafe backup."