http://www.dickness.com/2009/01/26/down-with-the-get-down-with-the-dickness-already/ Spreading All Across the Land Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:45:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.dickness.com/2009/01/26/down-with-the-get-down-with-the-dickness-already/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Why Dickness? Is This Some Sort of New X-Rated Blog? Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:38:05 +0000 http://www.dickness.com/?p=16#comment-4 [...] When we were discussing this new potential business arrangement he kept calling me Dickness. I know that seems entirely unprofessional, but he is related to me so I let it slide and did not really comment on it. Also my last name is Dick. No one has ever called me Dickness before and although I did not comment on it I was slightly annoyed by it.  After I was done talking to him and we had agreed to start this new blog I was thinking about the new blog and what it was going to be. At the same time I was thinking about this strange nickname which had been nothing more than a minor irritation. First I was reminded that on the Chappelle show Charlie Murphy discussed how Rick James used to call him darkness. I got a slight chuckle out of thinking of substituting Dickness for darkness. Not that I could have partied with the legendary Rick James. Cocaine may be a hell of a drug, but I would not know. As a young Celtic fan Len Bias dying from an overdose of cocaine when he was just on the precipice of an outstanding NBA career scared me so much that I never wanted to try it. Anyway even though I knew I did not have what it takes to party with Rick it was funny considering the possibility. The next thought I had was about the Disturbed song “Down with the Sickness”. This is where I got the idea to name the blog Dickness.com. Replace Sickness with Dickness. For example get down with the Dickness, the Dickness is rising, etc. Yeah it is kind of stupid, but it is sort of catchy and an easy way to promote the blog. Unfortunately I was not the only one to think that sounded catchy see here http://www.dickness.com/2009/01/26/down-with-the-get-down-with-the-dickness-already/ [...] [...] When we were discussing this new potential business arrangement he kept calling me Dickness. I know that seems entirely unprofessional, but he is related to me so I let it slide and did not really comment on it. Also my last name is Dick. No one has ever called me Dickness before and although I did not comment on it I was slightly annoyed by it.  After I was done talking to him and we had agreed to start this new blog I was thinking about the new blog and what it was going to be. At the same time I was thinking about this strange nickname which had been nothing more than a minor irritation. First I was reminded that on the Chappelle show Charlie Murphy discussed how Rick James used to call him darkness. I got a slight chuckle out of thinking of substituting Dickness for darkness. Not that I could have partied with the legendary Rick James. Cocaine may be a hell of a drug, but I would not know. As a young Celtic fan Len Bias dying from an overdose of cocaine when he was just on the precipice of an outstanding NBA career scared me so much that I never wanted to try it. Anyway even though I knew I did not have what it takes to party with Rick it was funny considering the possibility. The next thought I had was about the Disturbed song “Down with the Sickness”. This is where I got the idea to name the blog Dickness.com. Replace Sickness with Dickness. For example get down with the Dickness, the Dickness is rising, etc. Yeah it is kind of stupid, but it is sort of catchy and an easy way to promote the blog. Unfortunately I was not the only one to think that sounded catchy see here http://www.dickness.com/2009/01/26/down-with-the-get-down-with-the-dickness-already/ [...]

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