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Vintage presidential campaign rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Also, fuck Dick.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Was "dick" not a moniker for penis back then? Did they really not know...or DID they know and really leaned into it?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It was more common as a name, or nickname, back in the day. But not many people willingly use it anymore because now it primarily means a) penis and b) someone who is a monumental jerk.

I'm sure plenty of people chuckled about it even in the 60's though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What dies "lick" mean in this context?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Defeat

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Wow, that's wild, I wonder where thatcs coming from, this doesn't really make sense to me:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/Lick

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

Republican humor has always been the humor of children.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

The term came to be associated with the penis through usage by men in the military around the 1880s.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_(slang)