A look inside my mind...

[lordandrei]

(Preface: this post is seasoned with a bunch of links. I recommend taking the time to look at the links because it helps explain and compliment the post)

Occasionally, I post strange fun facts that seem to come out of absolutely nowhere.

For example: The term "Pediddel" (Meaning a car missing a headlight) in fact originates to a 1984 episode of "

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SPADOOGLE, KADIDDLE

[elnigma]

Nope, didn't start as a sniglet, whatever that is...
What to say when you see a car with one headlight - it was an OLD game.
So old, that when my mom told me about the game when we were growing up, she said it used to be you'd say the word when you passed *a white horse.*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padiddle
Because dorks like to spoil fun things - In the late 80's early 90's (at least in DC area urban myth or truth) you didn't want to be driving after a car with one headlight because it was a gang initiation for a new person to shoot someone in the next car they see after a kadiddle.

Re: SPADOOGLE, KADIDDLE

[elnigma]

What I said isn't in Wiki.. its all stuff I know, LOL :>

[z111]

Wondered where pedidle came from

[happi_feet]

And the really scary amusing thing is that I didn't actually need to look at any of those links -- I already knew what they all were. My brother owned, at one time, "Sniglets", "More Sniglets" and (I think) "Unexplained Sniglets of the Universe", and so I already knew what a pediddel was (although at some point I stopped referring to orange pith as "yorange"). I remember Mary Lou Retton's victory, even though I was only five, as I was already a fan of gymnastics and the Olympics by then (and we had only recently acquired a TV, so it, too, was a novelty), and I have been known to randomly call up Torville and Dean's Bolero at random intervals, either to watch them dance or just to hear Ravel, especially since my Ravel's Selected Works CD disappeared.

[alfiechat]

I love watching Bolero on youtube. I still remember when they skated it live at a local ice show they did. fricking phenomenal. Here is another link for you. when you go to youtube, type in library pac man. click on the first link. trust me. and don't drink anything while you watch it.

[mlerules]

Fun wandering through the FunHouse that's your brain - thx for sharing.

Sniglets...ooh, the fun to come w/these...