pididdle -- when the game started

[Scott Sadowsky]

On 3/7/2002 12:34 PM, Richard Gage wrote the following:

>I first heard about "piddiddle" from my dad, who came of driving age
>in 1945.  I can't recall all the particulars of the story he told
>me, so I've sent him an e-mail.  But apparently, from what I do
>remember, teenagers in mid-1940's central Pennsylvania knew all
>about "piddiddle."  So the game is at least that old.

The only time I've heard the word "pediddle" [sic?] used was by an
upper-middle class, currently 60-ish Pittsburgher of Italian descent who
used it to refer to cars with one (and only one) headlight burnt out.

Cheers,
Scott

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