Hour 1: The Origins of Slapdick
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What are the origins of the term 'Slapdick'?
I remember many years ago, Mina Kimes didn't know that she was being heard on Highly Questionable and she was talking and she was saying of listeners of this show That she didn't understand how it is that our audience could listen to all three hours of this a day, given how busy their lives are. And the thing that has flattered me about both Amin and all his hustling and Dominique Foxworth somehow is that they still listen to all of it. And yesterday, evidently, this doesn't happen very often around here. But yesterday, evidently, Amin was listening and there was something about Slapdick that made him want to be a part of the conversation from afar. When was it that Mike Ryan called someone a Slapdick?
He called Gary Furman a Slapdick.
Yeah, that feud has escalated to uncomfortable places.
Cool!
How has the term 'Slapdick' been used in sports?
Anyway, slapdick made an appearance on the show, and I thought it was an excellent word. It's a funny word, but I hadn't heard it for a while. And I don't know what a slapdick is. I don't know what it actually is. It's someone who's standing there and just slapping their dick?
Pretty much. That's what it comes down to. It's basically someone like a masturbatory. You're not doing anything other than just touching yourself, basically, as opposed to doing your job. And so slapdick was a word that we used in basketball all the damn time. He's a slapdick. What are those slapdicks up to? Everyone's a slapdick. Anyone who's not doing their job was a slapdick. And I remember when I left basketball and I entered the media world, I used that term a couple of times and nobody knew what the hell I was talking about. Right. I even tried to use it on air at ESPN. Obviously, I couldn't say slapdick. So I created the euphemism or the clean version, the radio edit of slappy. He's a slappy as opposed to a slapdick, right? But nobody got it.
So I was like, maybe this is just something that we did. Billy, why are you looking at me in that way?
Because you're confused that people didn't know that something you made up, no one knew what the reference was when you just made it up.
Well, no, I was confused nobody knew what slapdick was. And then I went slappy to kind of clean it up.
Did you use it when you were mentoring Diana Taurasi?
1,000%. You should be so lucky to be called a slapdick by Diana Taurasi. I think she would say, who?
No, DT knows who I am. No, she does, and she definitely has seen his jump shot. Like, 100%. She's seen it.
Look, you know what? Again, another journey that I'm glad I took because it built me into the actor I am today. But, Dan, Slapdick I reached a point where I thought maybe this isn't a word that like the common public knows or uses So I was delighted to hear the show you guys are talking about the words I've heard it maybe five times in my life and never thought to myself I wonder why it hasn't been popularized.
I've used a swipe more than I have slapdick
dick that's gross this must come from sports because there's an article here from nbc sports.com pro football talk in 2009 and it was after hearing on parks and rec which our friend mike sure was writing the term slap dick and it said that it came from sports it says as john feinstein points out in next man up quote anyone who is anything less than brilliant at his or her job is in the world according to former ravens coach brian billick a slap dick or a slappy for short damn
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