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| What's your favorite way to greet someone? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 2 2006, 05:20 PM (485 Views) | |
| CrashTest | Apr 2 2006, 05:20 PM Post #1 |
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We all walk by people we know as we go to work or class. We must then greet them as is standard in polite society. What's your favorite manner of greeting? I will proclaim, depending on the type of personage that I am presented with: "How do you do" "How are you" "Hi" "What is it" "How goes it" "Hey" "Yo" "What's good, son" "Holla atch yo boy" |
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| dolmansaxlil | Apr 2 2006, 05:23 PM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I usually go with "Hey". I'll often add "How goes it?" "How ya doin?" "How goes the battle?" or "How's it going?" |
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| CrashTest | Apr 2 2006, 05:33 PM Post #3 |
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Pisa-Carp
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Oh, I forgot: "What it is" (That's only for when I wear my flavor flav gold-trimmed necklace watch.)
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| Optimistic | Apr 2 2006, 05:38 PM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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. . .probably forever stuck on 4:20
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| pianojerome | Apr 2 2006, 05:49 PM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I usually say "hello" (which is not on your list... :tsktsk:) or "hi" and then "how are you?" |
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| CrashTest | Apr 2 2006, 05:52 PM Post #6 |
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Pisa-Carp
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Plain "Hello" is too creepy. |
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| John D'Oh | Apr 2 2006, 05:52 PM Post #7 |
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If I'm greeting a family member or close friend, 'How's it hanging' is always very amusing, particularly if they're female. The D'Oh family have spent many a happy hour laughing at the baffled stare from Grandma. If it's a business acquaintance I prefer the more formalised 'sup, bitch, or when it's a senior manager, the more respectful 'dude'. All of these are much less annoying than 'how are you?', which always leave me unsure as to whether a response along the lines of 'well, my knee's been playing up a bit of late' or 'actually, I'm absolutely sh!t-faced, and enjoying it enormously, your majesty' is expected. The modern world is so complex. |
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| kenny | Apr 2 2006, 06:03 PM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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With a hand outstretched, "Hi, I'm Kenny." Very clear and direct, yet friendly and disarming. |
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| Jack Frost | Apr 2 2006, 06:16 PM Post #9 |
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If it's not business...."Howdy." jf |
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| pianojerome | Apr 2 2006, 06:17 PM Post #10 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Just in case they forgot you already, huh?
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| kenny | Apr 2 2006, 06:27 PM Post #11 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Sorry, this is for people we all ready know. If I see them regularly I just say Hi. If I see him or her 8 time per day I don't say anything the last 7 times. |
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| John D'Oh | Apr 2 2006, 06:33 PM Post #12 |
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Oh, I forgot to add, if it's someone who works for me, or who is on a team that is doing better than mine, I just give them a stony stare and say nothing. As many of them are aware of my prediliction for slightly jokey behaviour, they will usually assume that this is some kind of jape, and slap me on the back. I then report them to Human Resources for inappropriate touching. |
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| Larry | Apr 2 2006, 06:38 PM Post #13 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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I usually just say.... "What do you want this time?"...... |
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| Dewey | Apr 2 2006, 07:49 PM Post #14 |
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Usually "Hi, how are you?" If I know you somewhat better (and sometimes, if I slip, even if I don't know you well) "Hi, how you doin'?" |
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| DivaDeb | Apr 2 2006, 08:02 PM Post #15 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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ohhhhh...PLEASE promise me that is how you will greet me if I ever have the pleasure!!! Heh...that would be great!
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| sue | Apr 2 2006, 08:09 PM Post #16 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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'Hi, how are you?' generally. When passing on the street, meeting in stores, etc., just 'hi' and a smile. One of the great things about living in a small community. Of course, the down side of this is the expectation that we do know everybody, so there is a fair bit of fake 'Oh hi! How nice to see you' stuff, while scrambling to remember names. |
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| kenny | Apr 2 2006, 08:24 PM Post #17 |
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At work I usually don't bother people with a question. This is LA. People are busy. I'm busy. |
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| Improviso | Apr 3 2006, 06:19 AM Post #18 |
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An upbeat, "Wat up Dawg", usually does the trick. |
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| ivorythumper | Apr 3 2006, 08:38 AM Post #19 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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It's all too much trouble -- it's easier to snub people unless you want something from them. |
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| tcmod | Apr 3 2006, 10:28 AM Post #20 |
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wassup my niggaz!! my very favorite greeting ever. |
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| JBryan | Apr 3 2006, 10:44 AM Post #21 |
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I am the grey one
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Around these parts the favorite greeting seems to be "You doin' all right?" which always struck me as rather odd and even obliquely accusatory. |
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| justme | Apr 3 2006, 10:46 AM Post #22 |
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Mark and I will be out and about. For fear that I'll greet someone, he'll elbow me and whisper "No eye contact" to which I respond with a loud "WHAT?" and then he gives me the evil eye. We've mastered not making eye contact with people. but, then, maybe they're choosing not to make eye contact with us.
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"Men sway more towards hussies." G-D3 | |
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| Matt G. | Apr 3 2006, 11:03 AM Post #23 |
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'Sup homes. |
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| Phlebas | Apr 3 2006, 11:04 AM Post #24 |
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"What news from the North, Riders of Rohan?!" |
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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| The 89th Key | Apr 3 2006, 11:09 AM Post #25 |
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I usually roll over in the morning, give her a kiss on the cheek to wake her up, and say, "Hi, I'm Isaac." |
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