DILLIGAF

[Jonathan Lighter]

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
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> 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)
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> Village, N.Y.: Jonathan David) 27:  We had a guy named Dilligaf=97
> DILLIGAF=
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> Do I Look Like I Give A Fuck? And that was his attitude; so Dilligaf was
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> 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*
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> Francisco: Red Wheel/Weiser) 157: A T-shirt with the=85logo, DILLIGAF (Do I
> look like I Give a F@?%?).
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> JL
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