The Dumb

There’s a phrase that I like to use sometimes when I have a mental slip up- “I can’t brain today, I have the dumb”. I didn’t make it up, I don’t know who did, but there’s a reason I like it so much. “Dumb” has always been used as an adjective for a person- “You’re so dumb!”- but I’ve never really seen it used as a noun. “I have the dumb” implies that dumb is something that any person, of any level of intelligence, can experience at certain times, kind of like catching a cold. It doesn’t mean that you’re a dumb person; you just “caught the dumb”. At any rate, it’s not as insulting as a “blonde moment”, and it has much better imagery than “brain fart”.