Happy Dingus Day!

Yesterday Derrick was informed by BB that his grandfather had passed away.  The BB house was very quiet for a good long while.  Derrick was emotional, yet reserved. The house guests were thoughtful and supportive.  A very different scene than the one we witnessed the other night  when Frankie received news of his grandfather's death.  We all grieve in or own way. Derrick's way is the quiet way.

To take our minds away from this sadness, we should focus on happy thoughts. Happy, crazy dingus thoughts.  Zach did his cray-zee thing at the nom ceremony and called Nicole a "fruit loop dingus" ! He is such a fooligan!  She was more upset about being nommed than about being called silly names.  This name calling seemed only to confuse Nicole completely.  My chat friends were confused by the word dingus. Both the spelling and the meaning of the word were up for debate.

Being the dork that I am, easily distracted by the most trivial of things during BB, I launched a google quest to discover the true meaning of the dingus!!  So many choices!

• An article whose name is unknown or forgotten:  dingus, whatchamacallit 
• A stupid person, or a person doing stupid things
• A movie! Dirty Dingus McGee ! Listed as an anti-western (?) starring Frank Sinatra as an ass-breaker cowboy criminal! I'm not sure what an ass-breaker is but I resisted all temptation to google it, because gawd knows where I might end up. Maybe it means mule skinner, which is a term I have wondered about now and then, so I google that instead. A mule skinner is someone who drives mules, also known as a muleteer. I picture a rough and tumble cowboy with a Mouseketeer/Muleteer hat and get distracted by that for a while. Okay, back to dingus land.
• A restaurant! Dingus McGee's Roadhouse in Auburn, CA. You can eat there, dingus style! Ready to party? You can ride in the Dingus Limo if you order the Dingus Party Package!! Caleb would be all over that!
• A holiday!  Happy Dingus Day! Actually called Smygus-Dyngus, or Wet Monday, a Polish holiday the day after Easter. Pronounced SHMEE-goos DIN-gooss. Say it out loud, it's fun!! This is a holiday where boys splash water on girls and hit them with switches.  WTF???  A day of  stupid (dingus) pranks.
• It's a town! Dingus, Kentucky!! Famous for its Dingus Food Carts!!  I think Caleb's ancestors founded Dingus, KY    
• One online dictionary asks me "What made you want to look up dingus?" I need to find a good pic of Zach so I can post it there.
• Another site invites me to contribute to dingus development! New and improved dingus for all!!

There, now don't you feel better?  Zach has once again saved the day with all this talk of dingus.

                                                           Have a Dorky Day!

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