Talk:Diddy Men

I thought they worked in a treacle mine, but this could be my faulty memory. Was it actually a jam butty mine? PatGallacher (talk) 17:19, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

In Knotty Ash, jam butties are mined, but treacle is found in wells.

Snuff quarries, gravy wells, and broken biscuit repair works. Confirmed by Doddy himself on the Arena show in 2007, repeated 10 December 2015. 2.31.162.2 (talk) 22:14, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Actors

"On stage the Diddy Men are normally played by children, little people or aliens."

I can't believe nobody's spotted that yet! Children or adults with dwarfism, maybe, but little green men from Mars? Pull the other one! Mittfh (talk) 08:31, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Is there any evidence that they're played by dwarves? I've only seen them played by children. Andy Dingley (talk) 15:17, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

What are they?

This article is not at all clear at who or what the Diddy Men are. It should be the first sentence. Currently the only description of them is in the third paragraph: "Diddy Men are about 3 feet tall and said to work in the Jam Butty (Jam (US Jelly) sandwich) mines of Knotty Ash." This sounds like a description of the fictional characters as if they're real. M.Clay1 (talk) 02:04, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Diddy

"Diddy is northern slang for "little"."

• But The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English gives just "UK". And Oxford has just "British informal". Are there any sources for Northern UK and/or Liverpool? The piped link of "northern" to Liverpool is certainly not justified. Will adjust article pending better sources. Martinevans123 (talk) 00:10, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

1966 EP

Three tracks from the 1966 EP can be found here, but the copyright status in unclear. Note the Irish accents and idioms. It's perhaps surprising there in no mention in the article of leprechauns. Martinevans123 (talk) 22:04, 9 January 2025 (UTC)