Lingo

I'm curious to hear your opinions on these -- some of them I've heard, and some of them... not so much.

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Example: I've never heard of the Gordie Howe Hat Trick-- and I'm a Whalers gal.

But seriously, has anyone ever heard a commentator use the phrase "dipsy-doodle?"

Woooooohhh! "Dipsy doodle" I don't think we've ever heard a commentator say "Bitz kibbles it into the corner" either....

After getting into a chippy dance with a cherry picker, he blew a tire.

...that sounds so wrong.

if i remember correctly, a gordie howe hat trick is a goal, an assist and a fighting (or maybe just elbowing) penalty.

I have heard of a dipsy-doodle...and I think I've seen it in an instruction manual for an old hockey game too...I agree that it's probably not a current part of the hockey vernacular.

and I think the Harvard announcers just used that term....

What is it exactly?

According to that link:

“Dipsy-doodle”–Skating and stickhandling skillfully around the ice.

Judy -- the same announcers who went for kibbles and Bitz?

"Dipsy-doodle" - vocab yet to be learned by those Cambridge goons?

I would even take it a step further...I always thought it as being a slalom move through two players (sort of a half figure eight but instead of completing the figure eight, continuing in a straight direction). Not sure if that makes sense...

I've definitely heard the term dipsy-doodle.

I'm assuming that it's the same guys. I tuned in to listen more for the entertainment value than for the game...
Makes me value the quality of announcers we keep.

Although, these guys are much better than whoever those guys doing that Colgate game broadcast last year.

I'm familiar with "dipsy-do". I remember my grandfather and now my father (particularly my grandfather, an avid hockey player in his youth, fwiw) using it on occasion. See: [www.bartleby.com]

I've heard dipsy-doodle, too. It's just a fancy move that gets around the defense.

There's a few things on that list that I've never heard, but most are pretty common terms.

JH

I've heard it mentioned by commentators during several NHL games. Always sounds a bit odd and flowery but kind of makes sense in the context used.

I've definitely heard of the Gordie Howe Hattrick before - almost certainly must have been coined while he was still playing, so it's been around awhile. Pretty funny, IMHO...

peeling the banana?

dss28 wrote:

peeling the banana?

can't say I ever heard that one... at least not at a hockey game.

there you go again

dss28 wrote:
But seriously, has anyone ever heard a commentator use the phrase "dipsy-doodle?"

Amazingly, the ESPN play-by-play guy used the phrase a minute ago to describe a move by a Black Hawk forward in tonight's game with the Wings.

i SAW that game! it was in a bar, so i couldn't hear, but hey.

how crazy was that game? i felt like each team needed to be shorthanded in order to dominate play... but i concede, that's from sporatic viewing...

now i'm waiting for someone to tell me they heard "the cherry picker just peeled the banana, then blew a tire."

blew a tire.

It's too late for that phrase... in any context .

Not to be confused with blue attire.