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Re: Train set #3225 - new for sale!
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Wed, 21 Jul 1999 04:54:00 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Tamyra Teed ("Mookie") writes:
> I suppose so :) though there really isn't any other polite way to
> address a man other than Mr..
In Southern California, "Dude" is acceptable, just as "Dumbass" is acceptable
in New York.
> where as females we get many more
> choices.. Mrs. Ms. Miss Lady, Ma'am... ugh... and you can never go
> wrong calling a woman Miss,
Yes, it's a nice term. And those women who like "Mrs." will tell you so, and
not unkindly. They're kinda proud of it.
> unless she's a total feminist, then she'll
> chew you up and spit you out :)
Usually when that happens I say in the flattest tone and face possible, "oh.."
and then I force a small smile :-) So many conventions and personal
preferences, so little time... That's so just plain rude to correct someone
like that when they are first introduced.
"Hey, that's *Mr.* Hitler to you!"
"Actually, that's *Sir* Mahatma Ghandi.."
"Nice to meet you, my name is Theresa and I've had no children except the
orphans and no husband but Christ, but I prefer ma'am, thank you."
"Mr. Christ will do, though I forgive you."
> Steve Bliss wrote:
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> > On Mon, 19 Jul 1999 15:22:05 GMT, Mookie <Mookie@execpc.com> wrote:
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> > > ya know... if I gotta take a choice of those two headings... I'll take
> > > sir over that other one!!!! that 2nd one just grates on me for some
> > > reason.. it makes me feel like I'm 70 years old when someone says that
> > > to me!
M[r][s.][iss] Mookie, you'll always be young to us! You *hafta* be young at
heart to play with Lego anyway! :-)
> > A lot of guys feel the same way about being called "sir".
Sir is common to either sex in the United States Navy, is it not? I got used
to it after the first time someone at a fastfood place called me that. Then I
suddenly realized he was probably three or four years younger than I was. I
rarely even hear "sir" anymore when someone uses it to get my attention and
I'm only 32.
> > But I bet they'd
> > like being called "ma'am" even less.
ooo oo, look ma! a can of worms! ;-)
-Tom McD.
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| (...) Tom, whatever debate you were just in, you lost;-) (...) Think her close friends called her "Terry"? (...) lol Ah, Excuse me, Mr. Christ. Shlomo Feldstein, Jerusalem Tribune. Do you deny that you willfully destroyed personal property on the (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Come down south...you'll get ma'amed and sir'ed everywhere. For some reason people tech their chirdren here to refer to anyone older than them as sir and ma'am. Very strange to those of us who did not grow up with it. I'm 25 and I get ma'am (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| I suppose so :) though there really isn't any other polite way to address a man other than Mr.. where as females we get many more choices.. Mrs. Ms. Miss Lady, Ma'am... ugh... and you can never go wrong calling a woman Miss, unless she's a total (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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