Lollygag

A coworker born in France was enjoying the word “lollygag.”

It’s one of my favorites, and unfortunately reflects how I spend altogether too much of my time. See the first section of this New York Times article for some background on the word.

Of course, that reminds me of one of my favorite parts of the baseball movie Bull Durham:

Skip: You guys. You lollygag the ball around the infield. You lollygag your way down to first. You lollygag in and out of the dugout. You know what that makes you? Larry!
Larry: Lollygaggers!
Skip: Lollygaggers.

Perhaps you have to see Robert Wuhl’s turn as Larry to fully enjoy this exchange. It’s not a great movie, and it suffers too much from its smart characters being nearly as dumb as its dumb characters, but it is a baseball movie, after all, and probably my favorite one of those.

My coworker says his son was mulling over a variant called “lollygaggling.” Dunno whether that’s a group of lollygaggers, or what.

I was amused and disappointed to find several search results for lollygoogle and lollygoogling. I have much the same feeling as I did when I realized that silly.us was already registered, so I couldn’t set up super.silly.us.