Talking about quake...
Old video but great

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpUbyirG2xU

haha wow thats some great playing there

SpongeDick SmearPants

One of our friends have the nickname sutcliffe (aka peter sutcliffe the yorkshire ripper)

As hes from yorkshire and looks disturbingly like him....

Eithet that or the guy from the hangover

One thing that I never understood was how "Dick" is used as a short-hand for "Richard." *scratches head*

Rhyming nicknames, possibly. Richard -> Rick -> Dick.

"Dick" as a nickname for "Richard" is very old, known from the 13th C.

"Dick" as a vulgarity is much more recent, 19th C.

Well I figured that much out but didn't know the 13th C. Where'd you hear that?

According to Cecil of The Straight Dope, "Dick" as a name is known in writing from 1220. (Cecil's pretty good about sources, but didn't give one this time.)

A better-known, though later, use is Shakespeare. "Prince Henry: 'Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by their christen names, as Tom, Dick, and Francis.'" (Henry IV, Part I: ii.4: 1597)

In that quote, though, Shakespeare has pulled off an elaborate double entendre: a "leash of drawers" can be taken to mean not only the bartenders with whom Henry spends his idleness and his father's gold, but also the drawstring of his drawers and the three manifestations of his masculinity found within. So Shakespeare actually might have been the first surviving use of "Dick" in that sense, though he had such a gift for using common current speech in his work that the expression already may have been well known.

Interesting, going to have to check that out.

" Hotdog "


... yes I know this is bad from personal experience, no it wasn't any kind of phallic reference, yes I got it while I was in the marines, no it didn't have any kind of "cool" implications like that I was a show off and constantly pulling dangerous stunts (AKA hotdog-ing it).

They just decided one day to start calling me a Hotdog and it followed me like the plague for 4 years.