Posted Jul 26, 2004 by Cupid Stunt
I don't even know where to begin...
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Posted Jul 26, 2004 by fords (vegetarians DON'T eat fish!)
*puts sellotape over mouth in attempt to keep it clean*
But seriously, great pudding 
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Posted Jul 26, 2004 by Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive
Now, now! Don't start. Even I have managed to keep it clean so far, unlike with A2086247.
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Posted Jul 26, 2004 by Great Omnipotent Tigger (Rum Tum's cousin - call me Tig!)
Does anybody have the OED (you should pardon the expression)handy? m-w.com shows the "Chiefly British" use of the word "dick" as meaning "fellow, chap". So at least once upon a time this was a neutral word. The recipe calls for rolling the dough "into a cylinder". Is this cylinder the source of our linguistic and eponymic confusion? If only the dish could be served to a chorus of "ooh's" and "aah's" rather than snickers. (I'd better quit. Everything sounds like a double entendre now!) 
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Posted Jul 26, 2004 by Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive
You mean this is all a load of eponymous bosh?
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Posted Jul 26, 2004 by Great Omnipotent Tigger (Rum Tum's cousin - call me Tig!)
Actually the artist's brother, but Eponymymous was only his nickname...his real name was The-Garden-of-Earthly-Delights.
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Posted Jul 27, 2004 by Great Omnipotent Tigger (Rum Tum's cousin - call me Tig!)
...being that his name was so long, people called him by his initials, but since it was so ungainly to call "Hey, T.G.O.E.D.!" they gave him his other nickname -- Acronymous.
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Posted Jul 30, 2004 by Cupid Stunt
Thanks for poiting out the innuendo entry, I'll be busy sniggerring and making jokes for the next few hours...
I suppose I should have had an innuendo in there, but I had trouble getting it in...
Some people say I have an obsession with double entendre. Well, they're right! I've got a big one!
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Posted Dec 30, 2004 by FordsTowel
Thanks All for chiming in!
Hey GOT! It may be that the reverse is true. Perhaps it was the shape, coloring, etc., of the desert that became the historical source for the euphamism!?!?
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