06-30-2006, 02:29 PM
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Random Title Change!
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Calgary
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Q: How do you get Dick from Richard?
I've been thinking about this. How do you manage to get the nickname Dick from Richard? I just don't see it. Any help you could give me would be wonderful. 
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Life is all about ass; you’re either covering it, laughing it off, kicking it, kissing it, busting it, trying to get a piece of it, behaving like one, or you live with one!!!
NSFL=Not So Funny Lady. But I will also accept Not Safe For Life and Not Sober For Long.
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06-30-2006, 02:30 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Probably playing Xbox, or...you know...
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Richard - Rick - Dick
Very similar to
Robert - Rob - Bob
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That's the bottom line, because StoneCole said so!
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06-30-2006, 02:32 PM
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Random Title Change!
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Calgary
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I was going to ask about the Robert one too. Thanks.
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Life is all about ass; you’re either covering it, laughing it off, kicking it, kissing it, busting it, trying to get a piece of it, behaving like one, or you live with one!!!
NSFL=Not So Funny Lady. But I will also accept Not Safe For Life and Not Sober For Long.
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06-30-2006, 02:33 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary, AB
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Jarome/Jerome/Jerry
Go Jerry Iginla!
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06-30-2006, 02:42 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Buy him a couple of drinks first?
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06-30-2006, 02:48 PM
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Scoring Winger
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Buy him a couple of drinks first?
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06-30-2006, 02:49 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: South of Calgary North of 'Merica
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 post of the day
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Buy him a couple of drinks first?
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Thanks to Halifax Drunk for the sweet Avatar
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06-30-2006, 03:07 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: insider trading in WTC 7
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or bill, will, william - why no billiam?
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06-30-2006, 03:40 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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per "The Straight Dope"
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Richard and Ricard were equally popular in the Middle Ages, and the abbreviations led naturally to diminutives--such as Rich, Richie, Rick, and Ricket. Rhyming nicknames were also fairly common in the 12th and 13th centuries, and so we also have Hitch from Rich, Hick and Dick from Rick, and Hicket from Ricket.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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06-30-2006, 05:17 PM
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Random Title Change!
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Buy him a couple of drinks first?
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Bahahahahahahahaha!!!
And thanks Bobblehead!
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Life is all about ass; you’re either covering it, laughing it off, kicking it, kissing it, busting it, trying to get a piece of it, behaving like one, or you live with one!!!
NSFL=Not So Funny Lady. But I will also accept Not Safe For Life and Not Sober For Long.
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06-30-2006, 05:48 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sunshine Coast
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Buy him a couple of drinks first?
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Not too many drinks or you'll get sweet dick all.
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06-30-2006, 06:03 PM
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#12
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sunshine Coast
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Buy him a couple of drinks first?
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I guess we don't have to hire a dick to get to the bottom of this.
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07-01-2006, 09:54 AM
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Calgary
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on a similar note, how did Betty ever become short for the name Elizabeth?
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"When he's confident and when he's hungry, he can be a heckuva player because nobody - nobody - can skate like him."
~ Mario Durocher on Matthew Lombardi
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07-01-2006, 10:27 AM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Lombogirl
on a similar note, how did Betty ever become short for the name Elizabeth?
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Elizabeth --> Beth --> Betty
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07-01-2006, 04:34 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Van City - Main St.
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Navdeep --> Ricky
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07-02-2006, 01:47 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Calgary
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Thanks, I was also always wondering this.
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07-02-2006, 04:10 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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If you met my uncle Richard...you'd understand why we call him Dick.
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