Cinderblocks

[Ernestine]

I used my cind..er...cement blocks to make a little staircase down the side of my porch, against the house, so my short legged dog could descend easily and take advantage of the roof overhang on wet days. No one likes to deedle in the rain.

I like your new house, Skunk. Since it's on the West Coast I'll bet it cost about ten million dollars. My brother just sold his San Diego shack for $700,000.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Ernestine

No one likes to deedle in the rain.

What's deedle?

[Ernestine]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

What's deedle?

I picked up "doodle" from Three Men and a Baby. While giving the baby a bath Tom says," You have to wash where the doodle was." I think there was also a thousand dollar bribe for changing a doodle diaper.

So, when my dog was a puppy I started using that term and the logical "lighter" version seemed to be "deedle". So on rainey days, or at three o'clock in the morning, my neighbors can hear me saying , "Go deedle!" in a high pitched cajoling voice. I'm sure they hate me for this.
Probably much more than Bruce wanted to know.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Probably much more than Bruce wanted to know.

Not at all. Now it's in the Cellar archives, so when funk & Wagnall add deedle, they'll have a reference to the origin.

[lookout123]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

so when funk & Wagnall add deedle, they'll have a reference to the origin.

this should be added to the "why we come to the cellar" thread. how many people that you actually see daily would know what Funk & Wagnall is? for all of our ridiculousness, the cellar is a last bastion for the thinking person.

[xoxoxoBruce]

But I never actually saw, the mayonnaise jar on their porch.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by lookout123

this should be added to the "why we come to the cellar" thread. how many people that you actually see daily would know what Funk & Wagnall is? for all of our ridiculousness, the cellar is a last bastion for the thinking person.

I'll see you and raise you the fact that I actually HAD a set of Funk and Wagnall's.

Best damn encyclopedia in the world. Got me through high school, it did ... I loved it especially when the reference would be made on Laugh-In. Because I COULD. It has since gone to encyclopedia heaven, the victim of a move in which that many pounds of books just wasn't feasible.