If you think American press is weird, look at the British:
Apparently you can google a doodle, because I just did:

From: http://www.oriscus.com/dn/art/
(edited to ask: Does this mean I’m unstable? Or does that even bear asking?
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It appears that the British press includes a lot of [u]doodlebugs[/u].
Why is it that with pen and paper, we “doodle”, but with the whistle, we “noodle”? Whence the nasalization of the initial consonant?
Toodle-oo.
When tweetle beetles fight it’s called a tweetle beetle battle. And when they battle in a puddle it’s a tweetle beetle puddle battle. AND when tweetle beetles battle with paddles in a puddle, they call it a tweetle beetle puddle paddle battle. AND… When beetles battle beetles in a puddle paddle battle and the beetle battle puddle is a puddle in a bottle…they call this a tweetle beetle bottle puddle paddle battle muddle. AND… When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle’s on a poodle and the poodle’s eating noodles…they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.
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Ad, did you ever read The Piggy in the Puddle to your kids? That was my favorite.
See the Piggy
See the Puddle
See the muddy little puddle
See the piggy in the middle
of the muddy little puddle,
See her dawdle,
plump and little
in the very muddy middle…
etc…
Now - and with not a little glee - Downing Street has revealed that the scribblings were not the work of the premier, but that of one Bill Gates of Microsoft.
Insiders at Number 10 are apparently waiting “with amusement” to find out just how the comments about Mr Blair will now be applied to Mr Gates.
And one has to wonder if the rags and the utterly foolish shrinks will do the ethical thing and print a correction… and an apology… to both Messrs. Blair and Gates.
And what was Paul Hewson doing there?
No! I never knew about that one… but Fox In Socks was always one of my favorites, we used to read it so much that I had the whole thing memorized. I used to entertain the kids by seeing how fast I could read it without my tongue getting tied. We’d always dissolve in fits of giggles. I miss those days. ::nostalgic moment::
Saving the Universe , as usual.
Slan,
D. :roll:
“Little Piggy, you are very, very bad. What you need is lots of SOAP!”
“Oofy, poofy, squishy, squashy… NOPE!”
or something along those lines.
We all loved it.
“That trick again?”
– Rocky Squirrel
(friend of Bullwinkle J. Moose)