The repository of knowledge one retains but doesn't realize one has until such knowledge is necessary in a given situation (e.g. recalling the name/face of an old acquaintance/friend/girlfriend)
"I was walking to work and some guy asked me where I went to school; I thought he was a creep until my backbrain kicked in and I realized we lived on the same floor freshman year."
"I couldn't figure out why she slapped me until my backbrain kicked in and I remembered that I slept with her best friend a few years back."
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).