Apparently the main reason Dusty's son Dustin Rhodes took the Goldust gimmick was him not realizing what the word androgynous meant. He was willing to take any gimmick presented to him after leaving WCW and regretted the decision after he looked up the word in a dictionary afterwards.
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"Me and my dad, we were kind of not on the best of terms at that point," Goldust noted. "And I had just gotten released from WCW, so it's like I'm sitting at home and Vince [McMahon] calls and he presents this idea, and then, Bruce Prichard on the phone, he presents this idea. He kept saying, 'this is an androgynous character' and I'm just agreeing with him, but I have no idea what the hell that means, so I'm like, 'yeah, sure. I'll give this a try' because I really wanted to try to do something on my own other than the Dustin Rhodes name, try to accomplish something that is fresh and new and then go from there and see if I could do that." Goldust added, "opened up the dictionary and looked to see what 'androgynous' was and I just shook my head. I'm like, 'well, I can't back out now - let's go and just give it my all.'"
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Came from a recent episode of the Edge & Christian podcast show with Goldust as the guest.