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Never heard dooflop, but have heard doodad and doojigger. [Good to hear from you, Sparteye!  ]
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Allo Sparteye, nice to see you again.
I've heard, and used, doohickie or doodad to mean a thingie or thingamajig.
Usually though, I only use doohickie for thingies having to do with hardware, like when I needed a doohickie to keep the door open but not a hook, more like a magnetic holder or a pressure thing, or something....
A doodad mans a thingie for anything else. Like all those nameless doodads that Tupperware ladies hand out as freebies at Tupperware parties because you've made the best sweater out of paper napkins or some game like that.
Doodle is a commonly known verb, na?!
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formerly known as etaoin...
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doo dads was also the name of a snack mix (since surplanted by Chex Brand Party Mix I believe). The joy of doo dads was in turning the boxes upside-down on the store shelf.
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About 15 years ago, the MSU Spartan basketball court got a new center circle paint job. Around the exterior of the jump ball circle was the block letter command to "GO SPARTANS". Only, our seats were on the side of the court for which the mandate was upside down, so we started chanting "OG SNATRAPS". The center court decor has long since changed, but we still implore those Snatraps to Og.
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About 15 years ago, the MSU Spartan basketball court got a new center circle paint job. Around the exterior of the jump ball circle was the block letter command to "GO SPARTANS". Only, our seats were on the side of the court for which the mandate was upside down, so we started chanting "OG SNATRAPS". The center court decor has long since changed, but we still implore those Snatraps to Og.
Hey Buckeye, it didn't much prodding for the SROTAG to OG, now did it?
The numero uno SROTAG, you see, OG without implorement.
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The joy of doo dads was in turning the boxes upside-down on the store shelf. Oh, Myr--that's really pitiful. And even worse...I think it's funny! 
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The numero uno SROTAG, you see, OG without implorement.
Yeah, that'll be the day. Let them play a best of five series after a season when they've played every other division I team at least four times. Then I'll believe a national champeen in college football.
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This thread brings up a question I would like to present to this esteemed set of literary scholars (along with anyone else who is reading this).
I have grown-up with a common verbal idiom, denoting something that is loosely assembled and completely without forethought or design:
Jury rig. But I have read/heard it as Gerry rig.
Anyone know the proper expression and the root? I thought, perhaps, the "Gerry" comes as a reference to WWII and the German army building makeshift weapons in the field.
I cannot form any association in my mind to a Jury except that, in an attempt to prove/disprove/understand an assertion made by a witness, the jury would quickly assemble a replica.
ATdhvaannkcse,
THOM
"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world" -Michael Crichton
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