| He was a kind and absentminded man, and on the night when he was stabbed there was a sort of requiem for him in the heating system. |
| He has a jolly, ready laugh and mannerisms like an absentminded professor. |
| Should have remembered to bring a flashlight, but he was old and absentminded, and there was no one to remind him. |
| There can be increased forgetting as people grow older – for example, forgetting names or being absentminded. |
| Making memorable appearances are an absentminded surgeonfish, a hammerhead and a great white shark, voiced by Barry 'Edna Everage' Humphries. |
| It was with an absentminded nod that he acquiesced in the man's announcement that he might arrange about the boat for him. |
