3D = Double Dipsy Doodle, in this case
I wrote that whole post the other day without actually explaining why "the ol' Dipsy Doodle" had come to mind (not that my nonsensical ramblings usually require inspiration). It's because after years of never hearing that phrase ever mentioned by anyone other than my grandfather, I inexplicably heard it twice in a two-day span.
1. my car was being serviced at Canadian Tire, and they were wheeling it out of the garage. I could look into the garage and see my car moving, only to be confused when it was being driven towards the back of the facility rather than out the actual front door. The guy at the desk explained that there was some kind of machinery taking up the entire central area of the garage, so the mechanic in my car would have to do "the ol' dipsy doodle" around the thing in order to leave.
The clerk was in his early 50's, which still makes him ostensibly too young to know that reference, but I was tickled nonetheless. Maybe he heard it from his grandfather too, or maybe a parent, or maybe it just fits in with Canadian Tire's vague old-timey vibe that eighty-year-old slang can still be heard on the reg. Just imagine, you could go into a Canadian Tire in 2099 and some clerk will use the old-timey phrase "on the reg."
2. while listening to the Maple Leafs on the radio, Joe Bowen mentioned that a player did "the ol' dipsy doodle" while making a clever move with the puck. This mention was less surprising, since Joe Bowen is 68 years old and is as old-school as it gets. The man may talk exclusively in old-timey references, and/or references to anyone who has ever played for the Maple Leafs since World War II.
Do I currently have a fantasy hockey team that I have just renamed "the ol' Dipsy Doodles"? You are 100 percent correct.
I wrote that whole post the other day without actually explaining why "the ol' Dipsy Doodle" had come to mind (not that my nonsensical ramblings usually require inspiration). It's because after years of never hearing that phrase ever mentioned by anyone other than my grandfather, I inexplicably heard it twice in a two-day span.
1. my car was being serviced at Canadian Tire, and they were wheeling it out of the garage. I could look into the garage and see my car moving, only to be confused when it was being driven towards the back of the facility rather than out the actual front door. The guy at the desk explained that there was some kind of machinery taking up the entire central area of the garage, so the mechanic in my car would have to do "the ol' dipsy doodle" around the thing in order to leave.
The clerk was in his early 50's, which still makes him ostensibly too young to know that reference, but I was tickled nonetheless. Maybe he heard it from his grandfather too, or maybe a parent, or maybe it just fits in with Canadian Tire's vague old-timey vibe that eighty-year-old slang can still be heard on the reg. Just imagine, you could go into a Canadian Tire in 2099 and some clerk will use the old-timey phrase "on the reg."
2. while listening to the Maple Leafs on the radio, Joe Bowen mentioned that a player did "the ol' dipsy doodle" while making a clever move with the puck. This mention was less surprising, since Joe Bowen is 68 years old and is as old-school as it gets. The man may talk exclusively in old-timey references, and/or references to anyone who has ever played for the Maple Leafs since World War II.
Do I currently have a fantasy hockey team that I have just renamed "the ol' Dipsy Doodles"? You are 100 percent correct.
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