/disappointed

The way I see it, if your name is Richard, and you personally choose to go by Dick, you MUST be one, and proud of it. Otherwise, why wouldn't you go by Rick, Richie, Ricky, etc?

SpinStopper: Tim Allen's last name is really Dick.

His wife is a Dick, and their kids are both Dicks.

Damn. Even I don't think that's funny any more ;)

I worked with a chick who married a guy whose last name was Dick. We must have exhausted every possible joke regarding the matter, including asking why she married a Dick, how she felt about becoming a Dick, pointing out that she now had a Dick, and asking if she was planning on having any little Dicks. And of course, giving advice on what she should and shouldn't name her kids.

Luckily, she was a cool chick with an awesome sense of humor about it. If she was single I would have been ON that.

Britney Spear's Speculum: FlyingPig: Luckily, she was a cool chick with an awesome sense of humor about it. If she was single I would have been ON that.

So she was a chick with a Dick?

Yup.

Cheney will probably be last dick to ever hold such high office.

Unfortunately he won't be. Maybe the last man named Dick but far from being the last dick.

People get paid to write that stuff?

Phil Herup: People get paid to write that stuff?

I thought the same thing.

It's a shame, too, because the topic has some potential for funny.

I just came to call bullshiat on the "PITA." That thing is almost always stuck in the middle, which is a load of crap.

/back to your regularly scheduled farking

According to Cleveland Evans, the past president of the American Name Society, the name had suffered the same fate as Fanny, which was once a perfectly normal nickname for Frances. "It didn't mean buttocks in American English until after World War I," Evans says. "It was something that the doughboys brought back with them."

In Britain, fanny means something else entirely.

I don't know why but that article made me think of this:

Earl of Sandwich: Douchebag, how are you? I haven't seen you in the House of Lords in ages! Don't tell me for the first time in memory we are going to have a House of Parliament without a Douchebag?

Lord Doucebag: My dear Sandwich, Parliament has always had its share of Douchebags, and it always will.

Lord Salisbury: Spoken like a true Douchebag. I have often heard the King speak of your family.. [ to Earl of Sandwich ] ..and of yours, as well: "Give me a Sandwich and a Douchebag, and there is nothing I cannot do."

Phil Herup: People get paid to write that stuff?

Actually I thought it was a blog.

I hope these snapperheads write as much when Barry and Biden take over as they have the past eight years (especially the past five years.)



/Amazing the number of people on the internet who devote time to write blogs when in actuality few read them, and even fewer care!

bmongar: Unfortunately he won't be. Maybe the last man named Dick but far from being the last dick.

Very, very true. Look at the guy on-deck.

FlyingPig: The way I see it, if your name is Richard, and you personally choose to go by Dick, you MUST be one, and proud of it. Otherwise, why wouldn't you go by Rick, Richie, Ricky, etc?

My ex-husband's name is Richard. He says he's Rich, but I know he's really a Dick and always will be.

jcooli09: Phil Herup: People get paid to write that stuff?

I thought the same thing.

It's a shame, too, because the topic has some potential for funny.

Tina Brown's investors don't read this shiat.

Larry Mahnken: According to Cleveland Evans, the past president of the American Name Society, the name had suffered the same fate as Fanny, which was once a perfectly normal nickname for Frances. "It didn't mean buttocks in American English until after World War I," Evans says. "It was something that the doughboys brought back with them."

In Britain, fanny means something else entirely.

When did it move from the back to the front? Or did the Doughboys get this wrong? Did the writer?

/"Fanny means your arse over there...not...your minge"

True story: my grandfather's name was Richard James and went by "Dick". My father, born in 1944, was named after him, but my grandmother didn't want "Big Dick" and "Little Dick" running around the house.

So they called my dad "Jimmy".

Grandma didn't think her cunning plan through.

CaptainSmartass: True story: my grandfather's name was Richard James and went by "Dick". My father, born in 1944, was named after him, but my grandmother didn't want "Big Dick" and "Little Dick" running around the house.

So they called my dad "Jimmy".

Grandma didn't think her cunning plan through.



Disagrees.

/Yeah I realize James was your grandfather's middle name, not last, but it's funnier this way.

AmericanMensan: I just came to call bullshiat on the "PITA." That thing is almost always stuck in the middle, which is a load of crap.

/back to your regularly scheduled farking

So should this be a commie link, or a fascist link? I don't understand your point.

Speaking of Cheney, has anybody Spotted that Dick lately?

He may be the biggest dick ever, but is unlikely to be the last.

Doubt it. There's probably still a Dick born every minute.

CaptainSmartass: True story: my grandfather's name was Richard James and went by "Dick". My father, born in 1944, was named after him, but my grandmother didn't want "Big Dick" and "Little Dick" running around the house.


In this case, the other nickname for Richard would have been most highly ideal for your grandpa.



/IRJB!

My father's name is Dick, and I'm Peter, so I'm getting a kick...

KrustAsian: CaptainSmartass: True story: my grandfather's name was Richard James and went by "Dick". My father, born in 1944, was named after him, but my grandmother didn't want "Big Dick" and "Little Dick" running around the house.


In this case, the other nickname for Richard would have been most highly ideal for your grandpa.



/IRJB!

Ha!! I don't know why that never occurred to me before. I know how I'm addressing the old man when we go out to dinner tonight!

How about this gem FTFA:

no fewer than three historical figures known as "Fighting Dick." The latter group includes the Civil War General Israel B. Richardson, who spread carnage across a stretch of Antietam battlefield that came to be known as "Bloody Lane."

So Fighting Dick made his name in Bloody Lane? Talk about NSFW language, geez where's the disclamour?

I'm just glad the Bush administration set so many precedents for Executive power. They really made sure the Obama administration will have free reign once in office.

KrustAsian: CaptainSmartass: True story: my grandfather's name was Richard James and went by "Dick". My father, born in 1944, was named after him, but my grandmother didn't want "Big Dick" and "Little Dick" running around the house.


In this case, the other nickname for Richard would have been most highly ideal for your grandpa.


/IRJB!

you beat me.

/charlie murphy!