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  • I don't understand the connection between Jesse James and Seacoast New Hampshire, but the SeacoastNH site is running a very cool feature called the Dingus Project that looks at as many movies about James as possible and reviews them for historical accuracy.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Michael May 2007

  • I think it was prompted by their mutual realization of like-mindedness, but shortly thereafter, he became their guitar-tech for that particular tour, then ended up as their lead-guitarist (calling himself "Dingus") for the Lips 'freaky 1990 album, In a Priest Driven Ambulance which was engineered by Rev's bassist/engineer, Dave Fridmann.

    "I know love sounds impossible" (Music (For Robots)) 2005

  • “If I’m not out in an hour, call Dingus, will you?”

    The Hanging Tree Bryan Gruley 2010

  • It was a kind of Dingus formerly exhibited on the What-Not in almost every polite Home.

    Ade's Fables George Ade 1905

  • This, the Lips 'lone record with Mercury Rev's Jonathan "Dingus" Donahue as a full-time member, represents the band's first big artistic leap.

    unknown title 2009

  • "We are going to give a 'Dingus' tonight," shouted Betty, "and you are not going to spoil it as you did our ghost party.

    Jane Allen, Junior Edith Bancroft

  • Old Dingus Bob, the cowboy from Texas, remained silent, slowly stirring the campfire coals with his pecker.

    Male Bravado « You Got to be Kidding's Blog 2009

  • He attained commercial success in the mid-1960s with "The Ballad of Dingus Magee," which became the 1970 Sinatra movie "Dirty Dingus Magee."

    David Markson Dead: Author Idolized By David Foster Wallace Dies At 82 2010

  • (AP) -- David Markson, an author who rummaged relentlessly and humorously through art, history and reality in such novels as "Wittgenstein's Mistress" and wrote crime fiction, poetry and a spoof of Westerns made into the Frank Sinatra film "Dirty Dingus Magee," has died at 82.

    David Markson Dead: Author Idolized By David Foster Wallace Dies At 82 2010

  • Texas paleontologist Timothy Rowe and Lowell Dingus, who directed the recent renovations of the fossil halls at the American Museum of Natural History, titled their book on the same subject The Mistaken Extinction.

    Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

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