...ping the change agent for a brain dump...--Dogbert

Is a brain dump the same as a mind meld

You might want to read about brain dumps (humans), core dumps (computers), and mind melds (Vulcans), and get back to us.

zm: If you're saying, in a very tactful way, that I ought to check the usu online sources for definitions of neologisms before posing them on WC, why then, you're absolutely right

I readily acknowledge a sort of intellectual laziness, occasionally succumbing to it

Of course everybody knows the Vulcan meaning, but this term, as I understand it, is also coming to mean something like "conference"

Nonetheless any further comments on the possible synonymity of the two expressions is greatly appreciated--Thanks guys

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"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it."

[Samuel Johnson]

I suppose this relates to the different knowledge aquisition patterns between my first spouse and me. She and I were in the same classes in school. She would get "A" grades; I would get "C" or worse, yet ten years later she know nothing of the subject, whereas I remembered much of it.

Asa: Except for the grades, where you and I would have a common bond, wish I could say the same

Laverne being much smarter than I in all respects

Laverne? Shirley, you jest!

Asa: I spouse so