taradiddle
1. a trivial lie;
2. pretentious or silly talk or writing
This seemed funny and appropriate to me somehow.
And I think it is a tribute to my dad that he is still finding words he doesn't know in books he's reading. That's probably the reason he's lived as long (and as independent) a life as he has.
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Taradiddle is a kind of drum roll or flourish that I learned in my high school band. It probably came from military band-speak. It can also be applied to drumming errors, in a sarcastic way, as in, "I don't think that taradiddle is in the sheet music."
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