"Let me put my Googles on." - You Heard It Here First!

I've been saying this for a while, so I finally thought I'd write about it...so that I have electronic evidence that I actually started something...cool-ish.

It's similar to the LMGTFY response you might receive if you ask something bloody obvious.  For those that have been fortunate enough not to have received a LMGTFY, http://lmgtfy.com/?q=googling. But it's different in that it's meant to convey a sense of camaraderie amongst the unknowing, equating asker and askee in unknowingness, while still bestowing upon the parties involved a recovery mechanism whereby egos may remain largely intact after the encounter.  LMGTFY, while humorous, is condescending too.

Anyway, so I receive many queries during my normal work day that, I'll be honest, I don't know the answer to and have to resort to consulting "the allmighty" (www.google.com).  Rather than hide behind the veil of silence in a teleconference while feverishly tapping away at my well-formed google query, though, I've decided to admit to my ignorance as often as possible.  Because, quite honestly, ignorance isn't really the culprit...it's sort of a TMI situation.  In my work there's just too bloody much to know, and not enough brain matter to keep it all warm. 

So typically I'll have several of these conversations a day:

coworker-with-urgent-question: "Hey Chris, do you know what memory-bus widths we can configure using the reset config word of the 8270?"

me: "Uhhh...hang on...ummmm..."

coworker-with-urgent-question: "It's OK if you don't know I'm just curious..."

me: "Hang on...let me put my Googles on..."

There, now I've completely revealed the fact that, while I may once have had a clue on the answer, due to recent cache flushes occurring on important cache lines in my main memory, I've lost track of the right answer to that *specific* question.  I am admitting to having had a page fault, having to swap in some pages from permanent storage (www.google.com), and refresh my cache.  And, I think I've done so in a so-far-unique way.  After all, googling for "googles", "put my googles on", etc. doesn't yield anything conversationally relevant.