Talk:Droodles

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I think it's worth keeping the "big square, medium circle, little circle... Aerial view of a cowboy in a Port-a-john" description of the image, even though it's slightly redundant for users of graphical browsers. Number one, it is good for users with images turned off; and number two, it lets us wikify the three key terms necessary to understand the joke. Hence my latest reversion. --Quuxplusone 00:25, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Is "nonsense cartoon" a weasel word?

The Novel The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolano, makes use of many droodles. The book actually ends with a droodle. I don't know what to cite for this information, so I'm dropping it here. 24.7.36.11 (talk) 07:24, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Isn't it more accurate to say that "droodle" is a portmanteau of the words "doodle" and "riddle", rather than, as the article states, a nonsense word that may evoke these meanings? B7T (talk) 06:10, 10 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Full Disclosure: I am the author of Droodle Generation http://niquette.com/puzzles/droodlep.htm, which introduced a cybernetic version of this amusing genre in the form of a collection of puzzles when it was published on the web in 1997. I am inviting editors of this entry to consider an external link to a resource that has been amusing thousands of solvers for more than 15 years.Paul Niquette (talk) 07:21, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Droodles used to be a website publishing cartoons of this sort for us to guess. I remember it from my college days but I hadn't realised it had been so long since I last looked at it - going by the Internet Archive [1] the last droodle was put up on the site in 2002, but the ghost site remained there until mid-2010.

Does anybody else here remember this site? It's strange that the article just doesn't mention it. Moreover, did the website actually have any official connection with Roger Price, or was it just an unofficial site that copied the name? It would be nice if we could find some more information about it and write about it here. — Smjg (talk) 23:32, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]