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I've been under the firm impression that people HAVE stopped using Dick. My uncle's name was Richard, nicknamed Dick, but he was born in 1929 and passed away a few years ago. And there was Richard "Dick" Nixon, born in 1913 and now gone. Movie star Dick Powell, born in 1904 and long gone, TV star Dick Van Dyke, born in 1925, and Richard "Dick" Cheney, born in 1941. Notice they're all old or dead. They were given the name before the word "dick" acquired its slang meaning. I think Dick is every bit as usable as Fanny these days---meaning, not at all.