[tomkat]

It's not that I'm a dummy or have a bad memory, but my recall ability seems to be inversely proportional to my advancing age.

WTH ?   :-\

[be-baw]

When something is inversely proportional to something else when one of those things goes up, the other goes done.

If they were directly proportional, both either go up at the same time, or go down at the same time.