All the neighborhood guys were hanging out in our backyard. I forget who used the word first, but soon we were all using it:
"Don't be such a dildo."
"I'm not a dildo. You're a dildo!"
"Man, you suck! You totally hit that ball like a dildo!"
At its peak, every sentence had at least one "dildo" in it. It sounded even better if you really hit the emphasis on the first syllable (i.e. "You are the biggest DIL-do of all DIL-dos!"). Just then, the sliding glass door to our house slid open with a bang.
"What the hell are you guys saying?!?" We had no idea my mom had come home. My mom could be pretty intimidating back then, too. I'd actually seen her toss one of our Alaskan Malamutes from the sidewalk to the front porch in anger. The level of intimidation was evidenced in the way we all froze, speechless, in our tracks.
"Did I hear you guys calling each other 'dildo'?" Silence.
"Do you have any idea what that means?" *blink, blink*
"I thought so. How stupid are you guys? Why would you call each other something when you have no idea what it means? For your information, it means 'fake penis'!" The sliding glass door slammed shut with a bang.
It was, quite possibly, a full minute that we sat there in stunned silence. Then...
"You are TOT-ally a DIL-DOH!!!"