Fanny Dooley

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I already told you...because she's an idiot.

she likes dummies, but hates idiots...

so she's probably a dummy.

 

[Twinkles6892]

She likes Hanname, but doesn't like Megan.

I wonder why that is?

Actually I don't! Because I get it now!

 

[greenyskp]

She likes Hanname, but doesn't like Megan.

I wonder why that is?

Actually I don't! Because I get it now!

 

[dizneegirl]

I think Fanny likes doobies, but hates joints...

 

[bananiem]

Fanny Dooley loves KittieKat, Lisa loves Pooh, greenyskp, and dizneegirl but she hates bananiem.

 

[SetzKitten]

OMG, after 24 posts I finally understand Fanny!!

still don't like Fanny much, and I even googled her

BTW, Fanny loves google searches, but hates MSN searches.

 

[JuliaEeyore]

Fanny Dooley loves KittieKat, Lisa loves Pooh, greenyskp, and dizneegirl but she hates bananiem.

Hey, that means she likes me too! Woohoo!

 

[HTH]

Fanny Dooley likes terror, but hates towers.

 

[Briarmom]

OK, I have never watched Zoom, so I don't know what you are talking about, but if she hates Mickey shouldn't we shoot her?

 

[Rajah]

Fanny hates Gabi and Leo, but loves Sienna and Bagheera. She's very particular about her kittens.

(Took me a minute. I hadn't heard of her before.)

 

[Rajah]

OK, I have never watched Zoom, so I don't know what you are talking about, but if she hates Mickey shouldn't we shoot her?

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Fanny loves Cinderella, Belle, & Princesses but doesn't like Snow White or Jasmine.

She loves Goofy, but not Pluto
She loves Minnie, but not Mickey

 

[denisenh]

Fannee Doolee (the correct spelling, which Fannee loves by the way) loves Donny but not Marie.
(I met Donny last week!! What a hunk of burning gorgeousness he is. And he is really nice too. Get his new CD. He wrote most of it himself.... it is awesome! )



I LOVE YOU DONNY!!!!

 

[MinnieM3]

Fanny Dooley loves the moon but not the sun;
loves mullets, but not crewcuts;
loves the middle but not the center
loves summer and fall, but not spring and winter

(ps if anyone knows a link with a lot of these, I'd love to use them with my 3rd graders!)

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Fanny Dooley loves the moon but not the sun;
loves mullets, but not crewcuts;
loves the middle but not the center
loves summer and fall, but not spring and winter

(ps if anyone knows a link with a lot of these, I'd love to use them with my 3rd graders!)

I think you can just make them up--googling doesn't produce one website with a list--but several search forums...here's some I found (I would ditch the word "hate" for you class--and just say doesn't love, or "not" as you did)

Fannee Doolee hates e-mail, but loves letters!
Fannee Doolee hates rowing but loves paddling
fannee doolee loves school but hates teachers
Fannee Doolee loves kittens but hates cats!
Fannee Doolee hates margarine but loves butter.
Fannee Doolee wants to be a queen and not a king

F: She Likes Puzzles
(10 August 1997)

Besides introducing me to Ubbi Dubbi, Zoom (see also column u) provided a game called "Who is Fannee Doolee?" The cast members would say things like "Fannee Doolee. She likes doors but she hates windows." The idea was to find out why Fannee Doolee liked some things but hated other similar things. For instance, these statements are true of the original Fannee Doolee:

She likes eggs but she hates yolks.
She likes butter but she hates margarine.
She likes tabbies but she hates calicos.
She likes drizzles but she hates rain.
She likes swimming but she hates diving.
She likes surrealism but she hates art.
(If you don't get it, you can go read the answer now.)

The game is apparently not original to the show; Wendy Cope, one of my favorite poets, has a fun poem called "Does She Like Word-Games?" in her collection Serious Concerns, which uses exactly the same criterion as Fannee Doolee. I don't have permission to reprint the poem, but it's worth reading if you can find it.
Anyway, the Fannee Doolee idea can be extended to other sorts of patterns as well. For instance, Fannee's sister Georgia:

likes voodoo but hates magic
likes blue, white, and ecru, but hates red
likes H2O but hates water
likes radii but hates diameters
likes cocaine but hates crack
likes Boggle but hates Mastermind
likes alpha, beta, gamma, and delta, but hates epsilon
likes quiche but hates custard.
And their brother Hal:

likes pots but hates kettles (he and Fannee agree to disagree on this...)
likes bugs but hates insects
likes pain but hates pleasure
likes Macs but hates Windows and UNIX
likes soup but hates gazpacho
likes strength but hates weakness
likes ten but hates eleven
likes men but hates women
likes socks but hates stockings.
Their Aunt Isabel, a somewhat complicated sort:

likes trembling but hates timidity
likes rain but hates downpours
likes vanity but hates mirrors
likes oceans, and likes liners, but hates ocean liners
likes hawks but hates eagles
likes Quakers but hates Penn
likes history but hates memorizing
likes charity but hates giving
likes you but hates everyone else
likes men, and likes women, but hates androgyny.
(And she doesn't get along with Fannee at all.)

Finally, their cousin Jack likes Anglo-Saxon roots and hates French roots, but he seems to be on vacation at the moment (which is to say, my dictionary is inaccessible).

And the poem referenced in above quote:

Does She Like Word Games? by Wendy Cope

She likes sonnets but she doesn't like poems.
She doesn't like sestinas or whiskey.
No, she doesn't like limericks either, or water, or television or cats.

She likes sweets but she doesn't like eating.
She likes apples too.

She likes Schumann but she doesn't like Stravinsky.
She's fond of jazz and piccolos.
She dislikes songs.

She was a warm regard for Russian dancers,
Spanish jugglers, little people,
Especially if they're green.

She likes especially as well. And as well
For that matter. And for that matter.
She can't stand Shakespeare.

Among her favourites are spelling bees,
Football, the Book of Common Prayer.
And there are great loves--

James Russel Lowell, the Mississippi.

She likes sonnets but she doesn't like the sky.

She doesn't like repetition.
She doesn't like repetition.

She doesn't like endings.

internet reference: http://www32.brinkster.com/kellybirinyi/archive.html

 

[HTH]

Fannee Doolee likes Tee Jay, but hates TJ.

 

[philaround]

Fannee Doollee loves the Hoop de Doo but hates the Luau.

 

[philaround]

Fannee Doollee loves All Stars but hates Pop

 

[MinnieM3]

Thanks Lisa! I'll try to think of some! maybe short vowels, long vowels, uh.... my mind is mush today......open for suggestions...... it was a LONG first 3 days of school! But my class is great!

 

[greenyskp]

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