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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 22 2015, 06:39 PM (268 Views) | |
| George K | Feb 22 2015, 06:39 PM Post #1 |
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Please address me as Mister. I insist.
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Copper | Feb 22 2015, 06:51 PM Post #2 |
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Shortstop
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Mister George it is. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| George K | Feb 22 2015, 06:59 PM Post #3 |
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[Get off my lawn] Sorry, but I agree with the guy. Having some kind of respect conveyed to someone empowers (I hate that word) him as well as you. Not having that respect diminishes both of you. I always call my patients "Mr. or Ms." I expect the same respect from them. When I call someone with whom I do business, I don't like being called "George." I've never met you, and I don't want that kind of familiarity. When, and if, I become your friend, I will call you by your first name, and you can do the same. Until then, I prefer "Mr. K." Oh, and I am not "George" to my kids, though they are adults. I am "Dad." [/Get off my lawn] |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| George K | Feb 22 2015, 07:02 PM Post #4 |
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Oh, by the way, when Mr. Obama became President (Did you see what I did there?), I started a thread about how he referred to McCain as "John." At the time I thought that he should have referred to him as "Senator McCain," or just "Senator." It shows respect. If it's extended to you Mr. President, you should return it. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Copper | Feb 22 2015, 07:02 PM Post #5 |
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Yup. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Red Rice | Feb 22 2015, 07:23 PM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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It really depends on the relationship. George W. Bush often addressed Vicente Fox by his first name in public, but they had a very friendly relationship, at least initially. I don't know how close the relationship between Obama and Merkel is, though she did address him at least once as Barack. On the other hand, my wife and I are very good friends with an anesthesiologist. We've had dinner together, she's loaned us her cottage, she's treated us to the opera, I helped her daughter move to college, etc. But on those occasions when I'm in her OR, I ALWAYS address her as "Dr. Patel". |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| John D'Oh | Feb 22 2015, 08:11 PM Post #7 |
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MAMIL
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I call pretty much everybody I work with by their first name. There's the odd character who enjoys being called Mr. but it's very unusual nowadays, even in countries where the formality is more common like Japan I'm finding they're using first names much more readily. You'd think that somebody with the surname 'Strain' would be bloody keen to be called by his first name. He certainly seems a lot more worried about this nonsense than I can manage to make myself. There's quite a history of US Presidents making social gaffes - Bush manhandled Merkel on one occasion, and then there was the infamous wink at the Queen. I find it quite amusing that people get their knickers in a twist. They all put their pants on in the morning just like everybody else, and none of them sh!t toothpaste, as one of my English friends once said. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| Red Rice | Feb 22 2015, 08:24 PM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Two words: Royal Family |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| Steve Miller | Feb 23 2015, 12:21 AM Post #9 |
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Bull-Carp
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A distinctly Midwestern point of view. |
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Wag more Bark less | |
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| Jolly | Feb 23 2015, 05:08 AM Post #10 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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Exactly the way it works down here. I've never had a doctor (except my Family guy, who I went to college with) address me as anything but Mr. Jolly. I, in turn, don't address physicians as anything but "Doctor". And have a really hard time getting past that, even in social situations. |
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| John D'Oh | Feb 23 2015, 05:18 AM Post #11 |
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MAMIL
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It's not a gaffe if you've got 1000 years of inbreeding to back it up, it's a charming eccentricity. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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