Convenient Amnesia
-noun- (until someone starts doing it too much, then it changes to a verb) pr-nounced kun-veen-nunt am-nee-shia
1. pretty much whenever a certain someone/something is wrong (which is plentiful), he/she/it retracts by saying something totally asinine to cover himself/herself/itself up and try to still prove that he/she/it is right. basically used to being remembered facts to twist reality.
2. forgetting certain facts of an area to twist things so you cannot be proven wrong.
-circa 1999, location; phoenix area best buy-
milo: bro, i’ve been waiting 18 years for this new star wars film to come out! you as excited as i am?
conner: yeah! i’ve been a huge fan my whole life!
milo: i hear they’re introducing a whole bunch of new characters, new jedi’s, a young anakin skywalker, and they introduced his mother shmi (pr-nounced shmee)
conner: naw bro, her name is shimmy
milo: i just looked at the book that we sell here and its spelled s h m i and phonetically it sounds out shmee
conner: yeah, but is pr-nounced shimmy
-argument ensues for several months-
-premiere night for phantom menace arrives-
qui gon jinn: h-llo, my name is qui gon jinn
shmi: my name is shmi (pr-nounced shmee) skywalker
-milo looks at conner and smiles. also see getting palled-
-several years later-
conner: incorrect! no bro, it was episode ii, 2002, and it was you who thought it was shimmy!
milo: wow, convenient amnesia!! but here is where your argument is flawed broseph. don’t you think by episode 2 i would have known her name was pr-nounced shmee?
tony: dude, me n my boy were talking about the transformers sound and when it happens in the movie vs. when it happens in the cartoon.
conner: its when barricade transforms in the beginning.
tony: no way, that was blackout. blackout is the helicopter.
conner: no, barricade is the helicopter.
tony: let’s look it up.
-after a quick few keystrokes on the interweb-
tony: there it is. blackout is the helicopter. you just got palled son.
conner: whatever, i never said he wasn’t
tony: wow. what convenient amnesia!
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