VDIF: The FAQ Edition!

In the two weeks since I created this blog to spread the word of VDIF, I've received a number of inquiries about the site. Here are some of the most frequently asked questions. I'll even answer some too.

Q. Why did you start a blog about venereal disease?

A. I didn't.

Q. Well then what does VD stand for?

A. Van Damme.

Q. What is Van Damme?

A. Seriously?

Q. Yes. The site is Van Damme Its Friday. What is Van Damme?

A. You have to leave now. Someone else ask the question.

Q. But...

A. No, you have to go. Make the other guy ask the question. OK that's better.

Q. Van Damme is Jean-Claude Van Damme? The action movie star and martial arts genius with abs of gold and an ass of steel?

A. That's the one!



Q. Sweet. What does Jean-Claude Van Damme have to do with Friday?

A. Nothing really.

Q. So why VDIF?

A. Well you know TGIF?

Q. Yes.



A. Well Van Damme has just as much to do with Friday as God.

Q. Umm...Didn't God create Friday?

A. Well, in the sense that God created time and day and night sure. But actually, assuming that Friday is the fifth day (assuming Sunday as the Sabbath), God created the animals on Friday...he didn't create Friday. (Under the Jewish calendar, Friday is the 6th day, when God created livestock.)



Q. Anyway, can you just explain why VDIF?

A. It's very simple. Friday = Awesome. Van Damme = Awesome. Moving pictures of Van Damme dancing = Super awesome. Hence, VDIF. Also he can kill snakes with his teeth.



Q. Thanks, that's much clearer now. How did VDIF come about?

A. Back in 2005 I was working as a lawyer in Newark, New Jersey. To escape the rigors of the "paradise" that is Newark, one of my colleagues, Leni, started sending out a weekly Van Damme Its Friday email which consisted of the text "VAN DAMME IT'S FRIDAY" and a couple of Van Damme dancing images. That eventually culminated into an office wide "Van Dance-off" shortly after I left the firm to move west to Portland. When I started at my new firm in Portland, I continued the tradition, and began to enhance it by creating "themed" VDIFs.

Q. Wow, that's awesome! Can you show us your VDIF archive?

A. Well, I will recycle some of the classics on the blog for all to see.

Q. I've seen other "Van Damme Friday" work emails and blogs. What about those?

A. They are fakes and imposters and eat babies and kittens. Ignore them.

Q. Will you be updating every Friday?

A. I can't promise substantive new content every Friday, but I can promise that each Friday I will at least repost your favorite Van Dance videos and remind you that it's VDIF!!!

VAN DAMME IT'S FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!