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Alzheimer's Clarity Moment 

When a person with middle/end-stage Alzheimer's has a brief moment where they snap out of their memory loss. It only lasts a few seconds at most, and is very bittersweet for everyone involved.
Pamela and her friend, Maureen went to the nursing home to visit Pamela's 83-year-old mother, Edna, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease four years prior.

When the two gals got to Pamela's mother, they found her in a wheelchair staring aimlessly at the wall. But when Maureen tried to introduce herself, Pamela's mother had an Alzheimer's Clarity Moment.

"Hello, Maureen" she said, in a soft, barely-audible voice.

Ecstatic, Pamela quickly asked her, "Mom, do you recognize me?"

"Yes," Pamela's mom said after a brief pause. "Yes, I do recognize you...Pam...ela..." And then she reverted to staring at the wall, her sudden moment of clarity forever lost.

Pamela began sobbing, while Maureen did her best to console her friend. That was the last time they saw her mother before she succumbed to the disease.

John Bain Syndrome 

When you die from a disease or other illness that you made fun of in the past.
John Bain Syndrome got its name from John Peter Bain A.K.A "The Cynical Brit." In the early 2010s, he came under fire for telling someone to "go get cancer and die."

Needless to say, the Internet was NOT very sympathetic when he revealed that he had cancer himself, citing this infamous moment many times. They practically rejoiced when he revealed that it was terminal.

Stage Names 

Fake names used by many actors and musicians alike (though not all of them) to at least offer them some sort of privacy. There are other reasons that one might change their name (such as their real name being embarrassing, too mundane, too long, or nearly impossible to pronounce) but this is the usual reason.
There are many actors with stage names. To name a few:

-Harry Belafonte (Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.)

-Richard E. Grant (Richard Grant Esterhuysen)

-Marty Balin (Martyn Jerel Buchwald)

-Lou Gehrig (Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig)

-Anne Rice (Howard Allen Frances O'Brien)

-Alan Alda (Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo)

-Tim Allen (Timothy Alan Dick)

-Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley)

-Boris Karloff (William Henry Pratt)

-Trey Parker (Randolph Severn Parker III)

Fallout 76 

The ninth (?) game in the Fallout series that implemented online gameplay.

It was released in November 2018, to overwhelmingly negative reviews because of the numerous bugs and random freezes. However, Bethesda actually listened to the complaints; they were actually able to salvage the game so that it's least passable, although several bugs (and severe lag issues) still exist.
Props to Bethesda for making Fallout 76 a decent game

Dashboarding

A gaming term used to refer to when a game suddenly freezes for absolutely no reason whatsoever, forcing a restart.

The term was coined by various Fallout 76 players, as the game is absolutely notorious for doing this.
"Don't worry, I got y- GODDAMMIT!"

"Did you dashboard?"

"Yes..."

"Man, dashboarding sucks. I feel you, man."

Sneezing Damage 

When you're so close to dying that you would probably drop dead if someone or something merely sneezed on you.

Has nothing to do with Covid-19.
By the time we finally defeated that boss, most of my squad was at sneezing damage. To make matters worse, we had no health kits...

Early Grave 

A tragically young death, typically at or below the age of 40 or 50.

There's quite a few variations of the phrase. "Digging yourself an early grave", "Meeting an early grave", and "Driving someone into an early grave", to name a few.
1. Rhonda's son, Carson dug himself an early grave at the age of 29, thanks to his drug abuse and alcoholism.

2. Michael and Paula had a son named Harry, who met an early grave at the tender age of eight, due to leukemia.

3. Earl's job forced him to work odd hours, resulting in severe sleep deprivation. He aged very poorly as a result, and it ultimately drove him into an early grave at the age of 36.
Early Grave by Ubeenbamboozledson December 6, 2020