Why Does Dick Chaney has this explicit name?
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His name is Richard and most Richards and called Dick .The term for penis has nothing to do with it.
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Since you used the word "accidentally", then it IS an accident. I noticed you keep asking about various people being shot by the Vice President. It doesn't matter who they are...get over it!!!! It was an accident. I would rather go hunting with Chaney then riding with Kennedy...you may be too young to remember that a woman drowned to death while T. Kennedy was driving under the influence of alochol and HE didn't report it til days later.....look it up....Chappaquidick, Mass...
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Haha, lol at the answer before me... xD\n\nUm, I think it's just a really cutesy name for someone.
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you know how people have control of peoples possessions after they die ex: record titles and movie credits and everything? in movies and such, if their movie or name or song or w/e is mentioned... they recieve royalties of some sort usually.. so its possible that they didnt have permission to use his name and so they changed it
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With a name like Kinky how could you go wrong?
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A corpse or Dick Chaney..........
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awwwww.... lookie here... erudite trying to change his name as to not be recognized....\n\nall the while it just not appear to him that his little FABRICATED stories are SO EASY to recognize
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I have NEVER heard of such a thing. It'd be better for you if you provided actual sources instead of spreading false information.\n\nGoogle pulls up nothing with that name. WHERE you come up with these things?
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Well, heck, why not let a puppet get away with a name like "Handupme?"  If it were a human being, it might be a little more disconcerting.
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lol Anita Dick... ( i need a dick!) lol very silly.... have you ever met someone with the name of Dixie Normus??
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If I had an invisible friend named Bill, they'd throw me in a padded cell. Yet, somehow it's acceptable in society to name my invisible friend Jehovah, Jesus, or Allah. \n\nPretty messed up if you think about it. The only real difference between sanity and insanity is what name  you choose to give your imaginary pal. \n\n-SD-
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It doesn't seem fair that someones gone and named all his films......thats not the way you play the game!....and I was really looking forward to answering!!!
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Richard (but now I just call him Dick)
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If someone would name a freakin' penis why wouldn't they have a name for everything else?
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is that really his name?\n\ni think this may be what you want
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Most men have a pet name for their private part.  They want to be on a first name basis with the one who makes most of their decisions
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"Have you heard of a search engine? "\n\nQuicker to type in to Google.\n\nOne born every minute.\n\nDear Straight Dope:\n\nWhich Dick came first?\n\nOK, so if this isn't too crude of an opener, I will explain myself. My question is a simple one, but one that has troubled me for many years. I am puzzled as to which of these events occurred:\n\n1. Someone (somebody had to be first didn't they?) named Richard thought it was a grand idea to go by a nickname which was also slang for the male genitalia "penis."\n\n2. Penis slang was personified for someone nicknamed Dick who perhaps resembled in appearance or actions the male genitalia.\n\n3. Some "coincidence" which cannot be explained.\nAdding to the uniqueness of this nickname is that Dick only shares two letters with Richard. Can you imagine for example "Pussy" being an acceptable nickname for Priscilla. Or "Tits" for Theresa. Perhaps "Ass" for Osama is on the way into the language and we don't even know it yet. --Justin aka "Kneecap"\n\nSDSTAFF Dex replies:\n\nSure, or perhaps "to Cecil" will come to mean "to be wise beyond one's years."\n\nObviously the name came first. The name Richard is very old, although its origin is disputed. Old English had Richeard, from Ric (ruler) and heard (hard); French had Richart, and Old German had Ricohard. The name Richer was also fairly common until the 13th Century or thereabouts.\n\nIn those days, manuscripts, letters, grocery lists, and everything else was written by hand; it was therefore common and easier to use agreed-upon abbreviations. "Rich." was used for "Richer" and "Ric." for "Richard" or "Ricard."\n\nRichard 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. Some of these later became surnames or parts of surnames. We note that while Dick endures as a nickname, "Hick" has thankfully become obsolete, except when tied to "Dick" in rhymes such as "Hickory, Dickory, Dock."\n\nIn the 13th and 14th centuries, "Hick" evolved, however improbably, into "Hudde," from which derives surnames such as "Hudson." W. Bardsley's masterful work, Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1901) cites a Latin manuscript that mentions "Ricardus dictus Hudde de Walkden."\n\nBack at the ranch, Dick and Hick were among the earliest of the rhyming nicknames, first appearing in writing around 1220. Other rhyming nicknames include Polly from Molly, Bob from Rob (from Robert), Bill from Will (from William); and Hodge from Roger.\n\nThe name Dick (like the name Jack) was used colloquially to mean a man or everyman. The expression "every Tom, Dick, or Harry" attests to the this as a long-established usage; Shakespeare uses "every Tom, Dick, or Francis" in Henry IV Part I.\n\nFrom the usage of Dick to mean average person, other usages appeared. Many other usages. The Oxford English Dictionary cites a dick as meaning a type of hard cheese in 1847, which lead to the usage of "spotted dick" (to be dealt with in an upcoming Staff Report.) The term "dick" was also used to mean a riding whip, an apron, the mound around a ditch, and an abbreviation for "dictionary" around 1860.\n\nDick also meant a declaration, in which sense the OED cites someone writing in 1878 "I'd take my dying dick" to mean "I'd swear a dying declaration." The term "dick" came to mean policeman around 1908, and then detective.\n\nAnd we finally get to where you started. The use of "dick" as coarse slang for penis first arises a