What's a rinkdum?

Subject: What's a rinkdum?
From: GUEST,the chalupskys
Date: 09 Apr 00 - 11:53 PM

O.K. so now that I know the words in the chorus of "ducks in the millpond" really are "lord, lord gonna get on a rinkdum" what is a rinkdum?? Meriam Webster doesn't know, do you? thanks...

Subject: RE: What's a rinkdum?
From: GUEST,Wowbugger
Date: 10 Apr 00 - 12:40 AM

I wishj I knew I tried all my dictionaries and couldn't find it. I'm continuing the search though until midnight my time.

Subject: RE: What's a rinkdum?
From: kendall
Date: 10 Apr 00 - 08:59 AM

In Maine, a rinktum toody is a type of desert, and, a rinktum can be anything from a session "on the carpet" by a superior, or, among folk singers it is a gathering. Sort of a hootnanny.

Subject: RE: What's a rinkdum?
From: GUEST,Jim Dixon
Date: 10 Apr 00 - 01:33 PM

I don't know if this is relevant, but Wizard's Gay Slang Dictionary defines "rinctum" as "rectum", and says it comes from black slang. "Rinctum was also my father's pronunciation of "rectum." He was white, and he grew up on a farm in western Kentucky in the early 1900's.

Subject: RE: What's a rinkdum?
From: DonMeixner
Date: 10 Apr 00 - 04:00 PM

Its a hockey term. When some nearly toothless guy continues to skate into the wall and one hockey cognicenti looks at the other and says " Jean Luc! Dat Ivan he is gone pretty Rinkdum, Eh!"

Subject: RE: What's a rinkdum?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 10 Apr 00 - 04:08 PM

Don, You only got that here first 'cause I just saw this thread. :-)

Art

Subject: RE: What's a rinkdum?
From: DonMeixner
Date: 10 Apr 00 - 11:48 PM

Thank you Art, I take that complimental.

Don

Subject: RE: What's a rinkdum?
From: GUEST,T. Bowie
Date: 18 Jul 24 - 02:20 PM

A rinkdum is a group of folksingers. I didn't read through the thread, sorry if it's repetitive.

Subject: RE: What's a rinkdum?
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Jul 24 - 02:23 PM

Oh my, I just realized my post is only 24 short years later! ????

Subject: RE: What's a rinkdum?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 19 Jul 24 - 06:07 AM

While we're on the subject.
A 'ring-dang-do'
Pray, what is that?

Subject: RE: What's a rinkdum?
From: cnd
Date: 19 Jul 24 - 07:45 AM

Hey, better late than never, right? Good things and all such...

Subject: RE: What's a rinkdum?
From: Neil D
Date: 21 Jul 24 - 01:18 PM

The ring dang doo, now what is that?
It's soft and round, like a pussycat
Got a hole in the middle, and it's split in two
And that's what ya call the ring dang doo

Subject: RE: What's a rinkdum?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jul 24 - 05:43 AM

There was another, much more extensive, thread:



What is a rinktum?

Subject: RE: What's a rinkdum?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 22 Jul 24 - 06:49 AM

Found this online.

An extra special solution or invention for a mechanical design situation.
The custom built carburator for my racing motorcycle is the real rinktum.
by David A. Crook January 19, 2004