The other day a bunch of us were joking around, and I had reason to say “Alex is a big doo-doo head.”
Three of the people present – including the aforementioned Alex – claimed they had never heard that exact expression before. My BIL had, but seemed to think it was something specific to my family (i.e., his wife/my sister and me). I like to think that the level of invective in my family of origin is a little more sophisticated than that, but I could be wrong.
Seriously, though – “doo-doo head” – that’s a common phrase, right?
It was a week at the beach (NJ shore) with friends. The college-age son of one of the friends had a summer job in Atlanta and didn’t come this year – but was going to arrive for dinner on our last night there to surprise his mom. Everyone else knew he was coming. At one point, his sister walked by and held up four fingers behind her mom’s back, indicating “new ETA is 4:00.” I nodded, my BIL nodded, and Alex said “What?” Since the mother was there, I made a joke, saying
something about there being a universal gesture for “Alex is a big doo-doo head.” We managed to get distracted into a discussion of the use of “doo-doo head” rather than a reconstruction of the gesture.
You have odd friends. Of course “doo doo head” is a common phrase. I know I’ve used it before. Google has 3,500 references to it, plus another 6,000 for the variant “doodie head,” and yet another 7,500 for “poo poo head.”