new member # 484: dingleberry

[Wilma]

Welcome to our forum, dingleberry.  I love this name.  It reminds me of jelly and jam.  Of course, I have never heard of a dingle berry but it should be pretty much like strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, etc., shouldn't it.

[W. Gray]

I can recall that in English class in the ninth grade, someone named Ed said out loud "Oh Dingleberries!" after the teacher said something that was funny.

It was an expression we all used.

The English teacher, Mrs Mothershead, who I thought was old but she might have been in her forties, had a frown on here face and said to the kid, "Do you have any idea what that word means?"

The kid who said it confessed he did not and the teacher then asked if anyone else did. No one knew--or at least admitted to knowing.

Nothing else was said and I don't recall anyone saying it in class again.

The episode was forgotten until a few years later when I looked it up.

[Wilma]

So what did you find when you looked it up?

[frawin]

Well Waldo, put the definition out there.  Don't leave everyone hanging, I am not going to put it out there.

[W. Gray]

I will purposely remain quiet.

[Dee Gee]

Just what I thought, this is what the dictionary says.

Pronunciation: (ding'gul-ber"ē),
—n.,
—pl. -ries.
Slang.a small clot of dung, as clinging to the hindquarters of an animal.

[frawin]

Dale, that is a really nice way of putting it, not the way the internet dictionary defines it. My wife says you have always been a nice young man.

[Wilma]

So, dingleberry, which are you?

[Diane Amberg]

Hi Dingle berry. Frankly, I'd rather have Bumble berries, but hello anyway.

[kshillbillys]

Welcome to the Forum, Dingleberry....IMHO dingleberries can't be picked til ripe and you gotta be careful when plucking them from the vine or you might get pricked! I've never heard of anyone eating them in a pie or any other manner. I can't imagine them tasting worth a chit!

Anyways...WELCOME!           ~~Robert aka half of kshillbillys