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Title: What is it?
Post by: grampster on September 04, 2019, 11:41:39 AM: Is it Diddly Squat or Doodley Squat?
Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: Fly320s on September 04, 2019, 11:45:36 AM: Diddly.

This should be a poll.
Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: makattak on September 04, 2019, 11:51:04 AM: Diddly. Who says "Doodley"? ???
Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: cordex on September 04, 2019, 11:52:33 AM: Quote from: makattak on September 04, 2019, 11:51:04 AM
Diddly. Who says "Doodley"? ???
Probably an Australian.
Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: BobR on September 04, 2019, 11:56:19 AM: Quote from: makattak on September 04, 2019, 11:51:04 AM
Diddly. Who says "Doodley"? ???

Canadians.... Doodley Dudright of the Mounties, every one knows that! :)

bob
Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: MechAg94 on September 04, 2019, 12:19:59 PM: Quote from: makattak on September 04, 2019, 11:51:04 AM
Diddly. Who says "Doodley"? ???
Wasn't there are a character in Outlaw Jose Whales who said it that way?
Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: charby on September 04, 2019, 01:15:16 PM: Jack Squat
Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: MillCreek on September 04, 2019, 01:15:21 PM: Quote from: MechAg94 on September 04, 2019, 12:19:59 PM
Wasn't there are a character in Outlaw Jose Whales who said it that way?

Jose Whales was the Mexican whale hunter cousin of Josey Wales. 'que ella sopla' was his battlecry.
Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: MechAg94 on September 04, 2019, 05:29:32 PM: Quote from: MillCreek on September 04, 2019, 01:15:21 PM
Jose Whales was the Mexican whale hunter cousin of Josey Wales. 'que ella sopla' was his battlecry.
Okay, poor spelling on my part.

I was thinking of the scene at the river ferry. The old woman at the general store. She said "doodley squat" at about 1:49.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sNTS8FGoiE

Not that Hollywood writers are the language experts.
Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: T.O.M. on September 04, 2019, 05:53:33 PM: I've always heard "diddly squat" and "jack sh!t." But that's just me in Ohio.
Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: Ben on September 04, 2019, 06:05:48 PM: Where I grew up in CA, it was Diddly squat, though we usually said, "Jack Diddly".

Though:

https://youtu.be/Nxt_7sD9znM
Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: MillCreek on September 04, 2019, 07:00:57 PM: Here in Seattle, we always said 'Diddly'. Same as Ned Flanders. Matt Groening, the creator of 'The Simpsons', grew up in Oregon, so I am guessing he carried on the Pacific NW way.
Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: TechMan on September 04, 2019, 09:27:52 PM: Quote from: Fly320s on September 04, 2019, 11:45:36 AM
Diddly.

This should be a poll.
Done.
Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: MechAg94 on September 04, 2019, 10:30:10 PM: I just call everything coke.
Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: Perd Hapley on September 04, 2019, 11:20:06 PM: Nothin. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Goose egg. Bupkis.

Also, Eric Swalwell's poll numbers.
Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: Sindawe on September 04, 2019, 11:20:53 PM: What is it?

It's alive, afraid, a lie, a sin
It's magic, it's tragic, it's a loss, it's a win
It's dark, it's moist, it's a bitter pain
It's sad it happened and it's a shame
Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: Ron on September 04, 2019, 11:57:16 PM: Quote from: Sindawe on September 04, 2019, 11:20:53 PM
What is it?

It's alive, afraid, a lie, a sin
It's magic, it's tragic, it's a loss, it's a win
It's dark, it's moist, it's a bitter pain
It's sad it happened and it's a shame

You want it all but you can't have it ...

If I'm remembering correctly there was a decent War Pigs cover on that CD also.

The question "What is it?" will always chain reference to that song in my brain.