Talk:Dile

Can we get a caption joke about shampoo for this guy? --FFN 19:34, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks :D... not being American, I actually have no idea what that means (Dial products only started selling here recently and aren't advertised), but I wanted somebody to use a joke that's not about a dinosaur or something obvious. --FFN 20:32, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

A memorable Dial soap ad campaign featured a lot of people squeezing into an elevator or some other crowded public place, with a narrator asking "Aren't you glad you used Dial?", then "Don't you wish everybody did?" as still more people packed themselves in. -- Repowers 20:50, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Name

I might be willing to buy this guy's name was "Dile", since it has a certain thematic relationship to his partner Saur (even if he's not actually a crocodile), but..."Dial" and "Dile", at least where I come from, are homophones. One can't be a better syllabic match to "Dai-ru" than the other.

(And there's no way his name is "Dairu". Not when all three other dinocombiners have English names. -LV 11:58, 25 March 2012 (EDT)

And I am wrong, or at least in disagreement with the Japanese on how the two words break down syllabically. In that case, it seems he must be Dile. -LV 12:18, 25 March 2012 (EDT)

Ah, right, I forgot about this. But yeah, Japanese Wikipedia says ダイヤル or ダイアル for "dial". References to crocodiles were the only meaningful things I could find with dairu. —Interrobang 13:30, 25 March 2012 (EDT)

So what you're saying is that I should put Diaru in Recordicons as "Dial" to establish that as his English name. Ha ha ha, I kid. --ItsWalky 14:49, 25 March 2012 (EDT)