I have noticed that the word "dick" has entered the lexicon of words that are allowed to say on network TV. The newest episode of Mom had Christy call Harry Hamlin's character "a dick" meaning a jerk, but I have also heard it as a sexual term.

These are the George Carlin seven dirty words you cannot say on TV, Warning, "dirty words"!

http://www.erenkrantz.com/Humor/SevenDirtyWords.shtml

Why hasn't any of the network broadcasters sue to be able to say the s-word or the f-word on television? Seems to go against the First Amendment. I want to buy the TV series without the

I have noticed they beep out F**** and other words but they say G*** D**** all the time. In my opinion NOTHING is more offensive than GD.

Just another reason we don't watch the new trash on TV.

Ahh. The good old days when Dick was a man's name!! Dick Van Dyke, Dick Van Patton, Dick York, Dick Sargeant ,Dick Cavett!!!!

Ahh. The good old days when Dick was a man's name!! Dick Van Dyke

How did they get away with "dyke" back in the '60s?

How did they get away with "dyke" back in the '60s?

I dunno, but if the FCC was VERY extreme, The Dick van Dyke Show would be known as The Bleep van Bleep Show!

http://36.media.tumblr.com/d207fc1a373cc80998202b39bf403448/tumblr_nl83b8bBqD1re5w1mo1_1280.png

I dunno, but if the FCC was VERY extreme, The Dick van Dyke Show would be known as The Bleep van Bleep Show!

http://36.media.tumblr.com/d207fc1a373cc80998202b39bf403448/tumblr_nl83b8bBqD1re5w1mo1_1280.png


:lol: :D

Ahh. The good old days when Dick was a man's name!! Dick Van Dyke, Dick Van Patton, Dick York, Dick Sargeant ,Dick Cavett!!!!

Dick Clark

Dick Clark


Yeah! I'm tellin ya'! There were a bunch of Dick's back than!!!!! :eek: :lol: :D :crazy: :wave:

Yeah! I'm tellin ya'! There were a bunch of Dick's back than!!!!! :eek: :lol: :D :crazy: :wave:

It was okay to be a Dick back then.

I have noticed they beep out F**** and other words but they say G*** D**** all the time. In my opinion NOTHING is more offensive than GD.

Just another reason we don't watch the new trash on TV.

There are many reasons not to watch something on TV, but it you're afraid of a couple of words maybe you should get help with this brainwashing called religion.

It was okay to be a Dick back then.


Yep!!! We had a neighbor named Dick when I was a kid, also a family friend named Dick!!!! ;) :D

There are many reasons not to watch something on TV, but it you're afraid of a couple of words maybe you should get help with this brainwashing called religion.

I don't appreciate that comment at all. You have no right to condemn my faith and beliefs!

Dick Clark

Dick Nixon, Dick Trickle, Dick Powell.

There are many reasons not to watch something on TV, but it you're afraid of a couple of words maybe you should get help with this brainwashing called religion.

Well at least we found a "dick" in this thread. Thanks for your tolerance and love of diversity.

I don't think it was ever illegal per say. I think that standards of what is and is not offensive have simply changed. I think that is really all that changed.

I wonder how "Dick" came to mean what it does today? I mean it really WAS another nick name for Richard, besides Rich and Rick!!!


So why Dick????? Why not Rick, Nick or Vic?????? I wonder how they chose Dick to mean an uncool, jerk of a guy or a male body part??? I'm not trying to be funny, I really wonder how this came to be???

I wonder how "Dick" came to mean what it does today? I mean it really WAS another nick name for Richard, besides Rich and Rick!!!


So why Dick????? Why not Rick, Nick or Vic?????? I wonder how they chose Dick to mean an uncool, jerk of a guy or a male body part??? I'm not trying to be funny, I really wonder how this came to be???

My grandfathers name was Richard and of course he was called Dick by family and friends. Back then it wasn't considered nasty but maybe people's minds didn't automatically go to the gutter back then.
My grandparents remember when gay meant happy and so on.....
I think it basically boils down to what people have done to the English language and some individuals interpretation of words.
I have a good friend who is named after her great grandmother, her name is Fannie. It's just a simple old fashioned name. Some might have hated being named that but she carries it with pride because of the stories of the woman she is named after who did so much for others.

I was raised not to label anyone such as those we call gay or anyone of a different name or race . We are all just human, simple. We all bleed red and are all children of God ;) So for me Dick is just a name of someone's father or son or brother, uncle or grandfather. :D

Hal Linden's name was Harold L i p s h i t z. I mean, going through life with that name, but his father was a Lithuanian Jew and "s h i t z" doesnt mean that in Yiddish or Lithuanian.

Dick Trickle came up as a joke on "That 70's Show" and was admonished by Kitty for saying it, without knowing it was a name of a real person. I went to high school with a kid with the last name "Dick" who was a year ahead of me in school. In 9th grade, the gym teacher referred us by our last names, Andrews, Baxter, Charleston, DICK......

I have also worked with a Regina Beavers.

The football player/actor named Dick Butkus had his name joked once on Home Improvement for obvious reasons.

And his named was mentioned on TV many times!

Re watching the 1973 horror film Hex, I noticed a name in the credits: Dick Butz, he was the wardrobe coordinator. He's also done costuming for Logan's Run, and shows like The A-Team.

I'm still trying to figure out which Dick I like. Dick York or Dick Sargent?? haha

I'm still trying to figure out which Dick I like. Dick York or Dick Sargent?? haha

When you figure out your Dick preference, you can vote here:

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=230512

When you figure out your Dick preference, you can vote here:

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=230512

A Dick Poll?

Thanks. I'll use my head to figure out my Dick preference. =)

Elizabeth Montgomery worked with a couple of Dick's! Haha!

She even kissed a couple of Dick's...Untold stories of Bewitched haha

I think Bewitched's alternate title is My Two Dicks.

Bewitched could have been named Two Dick's and a Witch.

This is not really related, but once on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, Dick Cavett was one of the guests, and he told of how he rearranged the letters in the name Spiro Agnew (former Vice-President) into "grow a penis" lol

The last part of that was bleeped out when I saw it, but I don't know if it was deleted in the original airing.

Well at least we found a "dick" in this thread. Thanks for your tolerance and love of diversity.

So all I have to do is disagree with someone and I'm called a dick? So much for YOUR tolerance and YOUR love of diversity. Bring your ego down a notch or two.

Dick Nixon
before he dicks us!