This DickDay In History
The wizard hurried down the corridor with his heavy robes rustling and his heavy breath panting. "It is never wise to keep the king waiting" he thought as he pushed on the heavy doors of the king's reception hall. "Ah wizard. I almost forgot I sent for you." The wizard was relieved.
"Tomorrow is the Lord Narrator's birth remembrance day and I would like you to conjure up a special potion as a gift from all of me to him. Something he can use and enjoy."
The wizard, never slow to appreciate the politics of any situation, began to quickly compose a list of possibilities in his thoughts but not yet speaking them to his liege.
"My Lord" the wizard said slowly as he bowed in a symbolic obedience. "My god" is what the wizard actually was thinking. That Lord Narrator needed a potion all right. He could use about a hundred. He needs one for:
His abysmal taste in clothes: Does the man even own anything but bed clothes?
His interminable laughter: His "Ahahahaha" that continually interrupts the serious affairs of state that he is forever sticking his nose into.
And that nose: It has poked into so many places where it didn't belong that it has become a common epithet. "By Dickday's nose" as the commoners now say when they mean to voice some objection to the wise policies of their betters.
His happy demeanor: Does he not realize that we are in the darkest of the dark ages? It is a time of dragons and plagues and black knights. This is no time for his frivolous injections of humor and, worse, sympathy.
His irrepressible impulse to talk: The man has more stories than a Prince has vices. None of them are quite true and none of them ever end exactly and none of them make any sense to the august assemblies of the royalty or the clergy. Only the servants seem to understand him.
The wizard realized he didn't know how long he had been thinking about this. He looked at the king whose head was nodding slowly and whose eyes were half closed. The wizard decided it was time to speak.
"Since Your Grace places such value on the contributions of the Lord Narrator I will conjure a potion that will energize him in his efforts for the benefit of all."
"Well thought wizard" responded the King. "A balm for my Lord Narrator it is. Make is so."
The wizard bowed and retreated from the chamber. As he strode down the corridor, the wizard already knew the two ingredients he would use: viagra that is taken from the sweat of a rutting hedgehog and caffeine from the coffee plant.
"And what will I call it? mused the wizard. "How about just "Dickday."
"Ah this wizard stuff is just too easy" he thought to himself and began to improvise on a favorite old tune on his way back to his chamber.
It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a
dog
It's been a hard day's night, I should be sleeping like a log
But when I get home to you and that
bottle of goo
"Dickday" will make me feel alright
(Happy Birthday old darling)
















Joyous Salutations and Grand Appreciation DD!
May 27, 2009 4:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
I dunno Larry. I have to think about this.hahahahah
"None of them are quite true and none of them ever end exactly and none of them make any sense to the august assemblies of the royalty or the clergy."
I cannot stop laughing or I would be more embarrassed. hahahahaha
Sometimes, I really do not know how to complete the thought. And then it comes to me, all of a sudden like, that I could never post if I really 'finished'
uh...THE END
May 27, 2009 4:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is hysterical, Larry, altho I'm not sure that as a broom you should be makin' dizparagin' remarkz on dd's fashun senze. Wot's wrong with green bananaz on purple pajamaz?
May 27, 2009 6:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ah - what a wonderfully funny tribute to our good Friend DD. I wish I had the humor that you both have............one line funnier than the next and so perfectly put.....marvelous gift.
Thanks for this tale and for letting us know that tomorrow is a very special day for a very special man... WOT?
THE END
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
May 27, 2009 5:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wot?
WOT?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOMORROW TO DICKON!
THE END
hahahahahahahahahaha
Larry, great post. I enjoyed it immensely. See you at the party, I hope!
May 27, 2009 5:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes happy tomorrow and many more happy days to come, DD!
May 27, 2009 6:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well done, Wiz.
Happy Happy, Joy Joy, Rock N Roll, Dick!
May 27, 2009 5:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Laughed my way the whole way through this, Larry! A topknotch tickler, I must say. And a fine tribute to our Right Honourable Lord Dick!
It's midnight here now:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DICK!!!
May 27, 2009 6:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
And on the 8th day the Wiz conjured up Dickday. Great job, Larry!
May 27, 2009 6:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
lawlz
May 27, 2009 6:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Feliz cumpleanos Senor Day, from the Universal digit choir, Susan Boyle, and the peeg!
May 27, 2009 6:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
THAT WAS ONE OF THE SCARIEST THINGS I HAVE EVER WITNESSED. hahhaha I usually cannot laugh when I am confronted with terror Miguel. hahahahaha
May 27, 2009 6:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is perhaps the most twisted B-day greetings I know of. Makes me laugh too.
May 27, 2009 7:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
This was great, Larry.
Happy Birthday, Mr. Peabody.
I link being around guys like you guys.
May 27, 2009 6:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Like, even.
May 27, 2009 7:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Excellent!
Happy Birthday, Dick. Thanks for being here.
May 27, 2009 7:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you so much Missy. You of course, made me think of birthdays for the first time in a number of years. You have been so kind to me.
May 27, 2009 7:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
what?
(biggest birthday peck evah)
May 27, 2009 7:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bwak! Think of the children?!?
Oh well, they gotta grow up sooner or later. LOL.
May 28, 2009 11:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, wow, Larry! I was busy working on my poor gift of a blog! And lo! Thou hast writ a veritable feast of words for the dear dd!
Anon, mine will post just before 2 of the clock during the night watches.... god-willing... But my poor effort is but a ghost next to this wonderful tale!
Happy Birfday, dearest dd. {{{{ Smootch! }}}}
May 27, 2009 8:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
By Dickday's nose you are too kind.
May 27, 2009 8:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
What does one do when he writes a blog, he thinks vital, of great import, and substance... and receives no comments, no recommends.....?????
He reads what DD is writish, and simply relishes in the intelligence, humor, and wit of others,
rather than getting a trusty old rope and ladder, and becoming geronimo.
May 27, 2009 8:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Happy Birthday Dick. It must be nice having a b-day in late May. Mine in January blows like the wind off Lake Michigan.
May 27, 2009 8:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
His real birthday is Christmas. Just... the weather sucks so bad he had it moved. So let's have a round of...
Joyeux Noel, Dick!
May 27, 2009 9:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
DD: For your birthday, I offer you :
freshly laundered and pressed silk pajamas
a month's supply of cigs, beer and really good whiskey
a heartfelt thank you (and southern thank you's carry weight) for the heartfelt contributions you have made this year at TPM; and,
my personal wish that I could share your birthday with you, along with Seashell, Missy, OG, LisB, Bwak and TheraP, so that we could let you know how essential you have become, to all of us (and to me, personally) for our general well-being.
A toast (of whatever) to you, Dick/Dickons/DD.....
You matter.
So, in Vegas, or DC mode, please imagine Marilyn singing:
"Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you.
Happy Birthday, Mr. TPM,
Happy Birthday... tooo youuu."
May 27, 2009 8:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yez.
er, and everyone on this here blog.
Meet up in Virginia MN next year. Or St. Louis.
Maybe.
May 27, 2009 9:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
OK.
Maybe.
St. Louis???
You rawk.
Also.
May 27, 2009 11:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
{{clink}}
Thank you on behalf of myself, ww. It was a very fine toast for the er, gentleman.
Did you know that somebody once said, "“Once a guy starts wearing silk pajamas it's hard to get up early”.
No need to imagine Marilyn. She's right here.
May 27, 2009 11:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for the link, Seashell -- a picture is worth a thousand words.
May 28, 2009 12:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
And LarryH -- clever, clever post. When is your birthday? Seems as though a similar tribute might be required.....
May 28, 2009 12:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Happiest of Birthdays dd. May this next (birth) year be your best of ages yet!
May 27, 2009 9:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is fine, fine writing Larry and deserves be included in the front matter of the tome of Arthur's Roundish Table when it is published in the bound version.
May 27, 2009 10:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Larry has written a couple--at least in comments besides this. Yeah we can co-author. hahahaha The proceeds have been slim so far. hahahahaha
May 27, 2009 11:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow Larry ,yer some kind of savant broom dude, this is brilliantly funny and delicious as chocolate.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DickDay as loud as a I can shout it!
May 27, 2009 11:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
St. Louis?
I'm here!
May 28, 2009 3:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
Close the schools, the public offices, everyone take the day off. This is a National Holiday!
Does BHO know about this? He needs to make a speech of something.
Happy Birthday, Pajama man!
May 28, 2009 11:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/05/30/now-in-pajamas/
May 28, 2009 1:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey Belle, I cannot let this go with one of those little links...
You may have noticed something different. I’ve joined the Pajamas Media network. In fact we’ve been fellow travellers for some time, as I’ve been writing rants for them for several months now. It’s a mutual kind of thing. You iron my pajamas, I’ll crumple yours. That sounds a little weird. Never mind about that.
The thing about blogging, which I’ve been doing for a little over six months now, is that you actually do end up spending half the day in your pajamas.
I’m sure I’m not the first to observe this. In my case, I never used to wear pajamas. Underwear and t-shirts. Back in the day, when I was a kid in exotic climes among coconut palms and elephants, we’d wear big baggy Chinese pants and sarong kinds of things. It just happens that around the time I started blogging, by pure coincidence, my wife tried a bold experiment and got me some pajama pants. I still wear t-shirts. The whole pajama suit … I don’t think so.
But I started finding myself on a stool at the kitchen counter, on the laptop, in my pajamas, and before I knew it, half the day was gone. I needed to go out, and I really didn’t feel like I wanted to or needed to get dressed. I felt like I was existing in an altered state, like Albert Einstein or some other absentminded genius, only stupider. These trappings of suburban American middle-class existence, clothes, did I really need them?
Are street clothes really that different from pajamas? Not in Pakistan. There and in Afghanistan, they favor apparel that looks a lot like an old-fashioned nightshirt with big baggy pants. Sandals, a lot like house slippers. In Arabia, they might as well be wearing nightgowns. These are very loose and comfortable clothes. Are we really so superior, those of us who stick our legs into constricting trousers, button up our shirts, tighten nooses around our necks and lash down wingtips on our feet? You may be aware that the word “pajamas” is actually derived from the Derkaderkastani for “street clothes.” And when I was a boy growing up in Derkaderkastan and Far Eastnam, we’d sometimes go out in those baggy Chinese pants and Thai pakamas and Bengali longhees and no one would bat an eye, because half of them were wearing the same thing.
THIS IS SO MUCH FUN. THANK YOU FOR THIS.HAHAHAHA
May 28, 2009 2:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, ww. Apparently so many of us have clicked on your link that Jules C. caught on and now references you in an update to the post you linked. He thinks you're a he, by the way. And that you can't count. But otherwise, he's welcoming!
He must need glasses.
May 28, 2009 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
What fun Larry, thanks. Happy Birthday Dick!
May 28, 2009 3:46 PM | Reply | Permalink