DILLIGAF

[Jonathan Lighter]

Stupid puter!

1988 Karl Albrecht _At America's Service_  (Homewood, Il.: Dow Jones-Irwin)
15: in terms of what comedian George Carlin describes as "DILLIGAD," or, "Do
I Look Like I Give a
Damn?"

1992 Usenet: de.newusers.questions (July 16):  _DILLIGAD_   Do I Look Like I
Give A Darn?!
2001 L. Paul Oulette _IT at Your Service_  (ed. 2) (Dubuque, Ia.: Kendall
Hunt) 78: _The Dilligad:_...DILLIGAD stands for "Do I Look Like I Give a
Darn?" How many times have you been a DILLIGAD?

2009  [http://www.dilligad.co.uk/]: Coming Soon  DILLIGAD Shirts.

JL

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> DILLIGAD      Do I Look Like I Give A Darn?!
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
> > wrote:
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>> I can't believe I left this out of HDAS I as well. But back then I  had
>> onl=
>> y
>> one cite. Thousands of raw Googlits, far more than for the similar
>> DILLIGAS.  I encountered both in 1980 in a Vietnam War context:
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>> *DILLIGAF 1973 *Stephen A. Rowan *They Wouldn=92t Let Us Die*  (ed. 2)
>> (Mid=
>> dle
>> Village, N.Y.: Jonathan David) 27:  We had a guy named Dilligaf=97
>> DILLIGAF=
>>  =97
>> Do I Look Like I Give A Fuck? And that was his attitude; so Dilligaf was
>> hi=
>> s
>> name. The favorite [North Vietnamese] guard of all.   *1996* Doug
>> Underhill
>> & Herb Curtis *Miramichi Dictionary* (n.p.: Neptune Publishing Co.)
>> (unpaged): *Dilligaf*.   Famous bar in the village of Blackville, about
>> twenty miles south of Miramichi City. Translated, Dilligaf means: Does It
>> Look Like I Give a F---.   *2007 *Stella Hyde *Darkside Zodiac at Work*
>> (Sa=
>> n
>> Francisco: Red Wheel/Weiser) 157: A T-shirt with the=85logo, DILLIGAF (Do
>> I
>> look like I Give a F@?%?).
>>
>> JL
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