Posted on 11/23/2005 9:51:31 AM PST by Mike Bates
Michael Fisk is a street fighting man. And the street he's fighting is named Dicks.
Fisk, who lives on Dicks Street in the Los Angeles suburb of West Hollywood, has gone to city hall to get the road's name changed -- saying that its slang meaning has made life difficult for homeowners.
"Since we moved in four years ago its just become such a hassle," Fisk said. "It's embarrassing. Something definitely needs to be changed. I realize that it's a man's name, but words change meaning, and this one has."
Dicks Street is in a neighborhood that fancies first names for its roads, with Keith and Norma among the choices.
Fisk, who collected signatures on a petition from more than half of the residents on Dicks Street, has so far been met with a lack of interest from city officials, who say that changing a street name is too much work.
The street we live on is Robinson Drive.
My last name is Robinson.
More often than not, anyone asking my name and address doesn't believe me, and two different distributors refuse to ship to my house, thinking it's phony.
Here's Michael Fisk in action. Just say no to Dicks.
--I would prefer "Dicks" to "Bad Boy" which some genius gave to a street in Pahrump, Nevada--
In a former neighborhood of mine, we had a Morningwood Lane. If I'd seen that before I had bought my house, I would have waited for a home to go up for sale on that street. Heh, heh, heh...
He grew to hate giving out his address, but realized since his house is on a corner, tried (and succeeded) in getting the mail sent to his house listing it with a different address.
It was pretty slick.
I was somewhere out in the country once - forget what state - and there was a quiet country lane by the name of "Oral Bessie."
The only thing worse than living on Schutz Creek Road,
is telling a delivery driver to take the right to
Upper Schutz Creek Lane.
I never heard of an entire street being neutered.
I used to live on Seaman Road
Legally, it's called moving to the nuisance.
we have hell and climax here in MI.
I've been told I don't know the guy.
That's odd. In many rural parts of the country the streets are named after the original property owners who still live there. That would have been my assumption in your case. I'm surprised people are skeptical.
I have a cousin, big union Democrat, used to live on Easy St. (I swear, it's true - I used to send him a Christmas card every year). I never did get a chance to tease him about that, unfortunately.
Butthead: Ahh...you said "dicks."
Beavis: Yeah...yeah...you said "dicks."
Of course he did. But being a liberal (likely) where the world revolves around him he 'logically' thought he could get the street renamed.
He's just like those who move next to, or close to an outdoor shooting range that's been in existence for generations and then demand it be closed (Hey Martha them Nazi Rednecks are shooting over there, we must stop that PDQ). Or those that move near or along a golf course and complain about golf balls on their lawn.
LOL!
How about "Mike Hunt Road".
Seriously, in NE PA there are some small mining towns named Sugar Notch and Honeypot.
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