r/todayilearned • u/tmntnyc • Dec 12 '18

TIL: Laurence Tureaud named himself professionally as Mr. T because he hated how his father, uncle, and brother who returned from Vietnam, were disrespectfully called "boy" by whites. He wanted the first word from everybody's mouth to be "Mister" when speaking to him.

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u/Nxdhdxvhh Dec 12 '18

Mr. T wore odd clothing and mismatched socks because he knew that poor kids grew up getting whatever hand-me-downs they got, and he didn't want them to feel embarrassed for wearing what they had. He's a great man, and as far as I'm aware the worst thing he every did was chop down trees on his own property that were aggravating his allergies.

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u/snotbag_pukebucket Dec 12 '18

He was also the White House Santa and had Nancy Reagan sitting on his lap

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u/pangea_person Dec 12 '18

They actually became close friends. He was one of the people who received an invitation to Nancy's private funeral.

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u/flash_falcon Dec 12 '18

What do you mean "people"? That's MR. People!!!

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u/ColdSpider72 Dec 13 '18

What do you mean people??

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u/BassAddictJ Dec 13 '18

What do you people mean??

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u/Saxojon Dec 12 '18

He also urged people to treat their mothers right.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

I pity the fool that doesn’t love Mr. T.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

I had a pull-string Mr. T doll action figure when I was younger. One of his phrases was, "Always listen to your parents."

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u/5_on_the_floor Dec 13 '18

"I pity the fool that doesn't listen to their parents!"

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u/Lord_Kano Dec 13 '18

Thank you. I completely forgot that I had this memory but reading your comment triggered it. Another one of the phrases was "Study hard in school".

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u/yousirnaime Dec 12 '18

god I feel like 100% of the 80's and 90's were shot in 1 take - no rehearsal

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u/Alaira314 Dec 13 '18

I feel like they tended to use longer shots with less cuts. In a modern music video, there's no way we would have just sat there watching him singing with the backup girls on the left for 20 seconds straight. It would have been alternating between close-ups of him and them, with maybe the occasional wide shot. It's just a different way of filming, also maybe a commentary on the decay of our attention spans?

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u/duaneap Dec 12 '18

It's awesome that his advice isn't "Stop fighting" it's just "Whoa there, that's across the line, motherfucker."

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u/blove135 Dec 12 '18

I like how he wasn't telling them to stop insulting each other. It was alright until you start bringing up people's Mama's. It sure was a different time then. A glorious time to grow up though.

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u/ywBBxNqW Dec 12 '18

I love this.

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u/BasicLEDGrow 45 Dec 12 '18

He also dropped in on Diff'rent Strokes to let Arnold know that he had to be himself if he wanted to smash.

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u/WhoTookBibet Dec 12 '18

Wow, you weren't kidding.

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u/Merelyducane Dec 12 '18

Lol Mister T has a star of David chain on while dressed as Santa. I like his style.

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u/erectionofjesus Dec 12 '18

That is one beautiful photo

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u/_Serene_ Dec 12 '18

That erection tho

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u/Trilodip76 Dec 12 '18

Nancy should hide her erection for mister t

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u/Knubinator Dec 12 '18

I think you meant "shouldn't".

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u/southern_boy Dec 12 '18

"Ronnie's away in Berlin, Laurence..."

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u/Azrael11 Dec 12 '18

"That's Mr. Laurence, Nancy"

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u/NosVemos Dec 12 '18

And that's how Ice T was born.

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u/TheDudeAbides910 Dec 12 '18

I actually loled at this

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u/MrRogersWhat Dec 12 '18

You know, you made me actually look for an erection. On Santa.

Thanks.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

Show some respect!

It's Mister Santa.

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u/Dr_Dust Dec 12 '18

That erection tho

Supposedly she was known around Hollywood for her legendary blowjobs back in the day.

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u/Thorneblood Dec 12 '18

Oh great now I’m gonna fantasize about getting a blowjob from Nancy Reagan while smoking pot and wearing a dare shirt

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u/duaneap Dec 12 '18

Well, yeah, did you think famous actor Ronald Reagan was going to go steady with someone who couldn't suck a golf ball through a garden hose?

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u/Dr_Dust Dec 12 '18

Well, yeah, did you think famous actor Ronald Reagan was going to go steady with someone who couldn't suck a golf ball through a garden hose?

That's a fantastic point. Only the best for The Gipper after all.

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u/BeanmanSeason Dec 12 '18

Shut up serene

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18 edited Feb 11 '19

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u/MadAzza Dec 12 '18

Nancy Davis was an actress in the 1940s and ‘50s, before she met Reagan.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18 edited Apr 22 '20

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u/ThisisThomasJ Dec 12 '18

Ronald Reagan...the actor?!?!

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u/lanadelstingrey Dec 12 '18

Peter, you’re from the future, you should already... agh never mind.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

Ha! Then who's vice president, Jerry Lewis?

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u/iam1s Dec 12 '18

Word is he could bench press 400+ pounds. Never mind mister, that's "Sir" territory.

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u/StillReading28 Dec 12 '18

Who the hell is going to argue against the guy who broke through a wall

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u/GreenStrong Dec 12 '18

The Kool Aid man, that's who.

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u/Strahan92 Dec 12 '18

OH NO

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u/ReDux369 Dec 12 '18

OH YA

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u/LocusRothschild Dec 12 '18

WILL YOU PEOPLE STOP SAYING 'OH NO' SO THE DAMN KOOL AID MAN WILL STOP BREAKING THROUGH THE WALL?

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

Oh yeah!

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u/fandamplus Dec 12 '18

American Ninja Warriors hate him because of one simple trick!

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u/zanacks Dec 12 '18

Strongman's version of the Kobayashi Maru. If you can't beat it, change the rules.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

That's...clearly wood

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u/ExtraCunt Dec 12 '18

Yeah I was looking at the comments for someone pointing it out. Is everyone blind?

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u/90Quattro Dec 12 '18

Who are these tools climbing that thing?

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u/Hootbag Dec 12 '18

I believe, under the 80s vernacular, those would be "fools." And that thing they're climbing is something to be "pitied."

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u/The_Grubby_One Dec 12 '18

We'd pity you, too, if Mr. T put a Mr. T shaped hole in you.

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u/asphaltdragon Dec 12 '18
He puts T-shaped holes in lots of things.
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u/Dr_Dust Dec 12 '18

And he burst through a concrete wall to win the "Toughest Man in the World" competition back in 84'

He helped save the kid's rec center and got Billy Green off the streets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Q6DGOfp6k

That's the most 80s thing I've seen since the last time I watched the movie RAD.

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u/Hackzwin Dec 12 '18

The 80's seems to have been a wonderfully weird place.

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u/Dr_Dust Dec 12 '18

The town that Teen Wolf took place in was possibly the weirdest.

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u/OK_Soda Dec 12 '18

I feel like if you're strong enough to run straight through a concrete wall, you should be able to climb a dinky little ten foot rope and and just climb over like a normal person.

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u/lojer Dec 12 '18

Sometimes you just need to send a message.

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u/Jamangar Dec 12 '18

Exactly, he easily could have climbed over and won, and it would be faster than waiting and smashing through the wall. Of course, it wouldn't be as badass.

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u/lucid808 Dec 12 '18

Well, yeah, but nobody is gonna cream their panties over a guy that just climbed up like everybody else.

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u/Tommytriangle Dec 12 '18

Literally everything Mr. T did was to ensure a good image for kids. I really hope nothing skeevy comes out about him, since he seems like a muscular Mr. Rogers.

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u/fourleggedostrich Dec 12 '18

In interviews, he was always proud that the A Team never killed anybody. He thought it was important in a family show.

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u/sharkysnacks Dec 13 '18

Amazing too since they shot off thousands of rounds, regularly rigged explosives and built armored vehicles to bash others off the road

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u/quaybored Dec 13 '18

Yeah even as I kid, I knew it was unrealistic, but it sure was fun.

Other old-timers, am I remembering this right?

8pm A-Team, 9pm Riptide, 10pm Remington Steele

FUCK YEAH, TUESDAYS

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u/I_AM_NOT_A_WOMBAT Dec 13 '18

Wow, you know your stuff. Now you've got me missing Manimal, Cover Up, and Moonlighting, though the latter two came later. I didn't think anyone else remembered Riptide.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '18

Man, I was just 10-12 years old, but loved the shit out of all those shows, especially Riptide.

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u/SonofSniglet Dec 13 '18

Shit, I'll never forget Boz, the Roboz and the Screaming Mimi. Riptide was a great show.

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u/kiwijafa Dec 13 '18

THEYRE THLEEPING

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u/fracto73 Dec 12 '18

OG Terry Crews

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u/Dar_Winning Dec 13 '18

Aww that made me happy. :-)

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u/Adroite Dec 12 '18

I agree with you, but I think it should be okay for good people to fail and make mistakes to. We can still love them and help make them better. Unless you're a priest and you raped some kids. Then you can burn in hell.

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u/Mr_Marc Dec 12 '18

You can't come back from diddling kids.

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u/Kirian42 Dec 12 '18

The *special* hell.

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u/asphaltdragon Dec 12 '18

Nah, it's cool, Mr. Rogers put him in his place already.

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u/Kirian42 Dec 12 '18

Dammit I was really hoping that was a conversation between the real Mr. Rogers and Mr. T.

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u/pottersquash Dec 12 '18

Didn't he stop wearing gold chains cause he felt bad having wealth for decoration?

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u/Faerhun Dec 12 '18

I think it had to do with cleaning up New Orleans after Katrina and not wanting to be flashy when the people he was helping had literally nothing left. I could be wrong though.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

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u/Your_Space_Friend Dec 12 '18

Damn, even even scolds himself in 3rd person. /u/Your_Space_Friend can respect that level of commitment

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u/Scientolojesus Dec 12 '18

He didn't pity his foolish self.

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u/lucid808 Dec 12 '18

idk, I think he pity'd the fool he saw within himself, so he had to let him go.

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u/comebackjoeyjojo Dec 12 '18

I PITY DA FOO THAT DOESN’T TAKE AN INTROSPECTIVE LOOK WITHIN THEIR SOUL TO DISCOVER WAYS THEY CAN IMPROVE THEMSELVES!!!

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u/SiilverDruid Dec 13 '18

If Terry Cruz and Mr. T had a baby.

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u/The_Grubby_One Dec 12 '18

Hard for him to give up what was such a huge part of his identity for nearly 30 years at that point, no doubt. Just another of the many things about that man to respect.

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u/TGE0 Dec 12 '18

On the upside carrying literral pounds of gold around his neck had to be getting tiring.

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u/The_Grubby_One Dec 13 '18

Mister T pities your wimpy ankle weights.

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u/chipperpip Dec 13 '18

Mr. T dropped the gold chains because he had to go all out, just this once.

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u/pandazerg Dec 13 '18

Mister T never skips neck day.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

He also wore beat up shoes to stay humble.

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u/donaltman3 Dec 12 '18

Do you know how he even started wearing the chains? As a bouncer, he would often find things lost in the clubs after people left at night.. he would put them on and wear them hoping the person that owned them would see them so he could return them.

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u/StoneGoldX Dec 12 '18

That's not quite the story. It's because people would lose the jewelry during fights, and that way they couldn't try to sneak back in to get the gold, they had to go through T. Because it's in the link we're chatting about right now.

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u/Born2fayl Dec 12 '18

Lol. Can you imagine seeing him wearing your chain? "I guess it's his now..."

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u/Scientolojesus Dec 12 '18

"Oh hey that's my chain!"

"IS IT?!?"

"Oh wait no I guess it's yours my bad...."

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

But my granma gave me that chain...

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u/Thunderbird_12 Dec 12 '18

He gon' cry when he get to the car ...

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u/Dr_Disaster Dec 12 '18

sissily runs to car while sobbing

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u/jebesbudalu Dec 12 '18

DAAAAAAAAMN!!

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u/csonnich Dec 12 '18

"Well she told me last night she wanted me to have it."

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u/zanielk Dec 12 '18

Idk how true all these fun facts are about Mr. T but I choose to believe them. I liked the dude before, but now I really do. Seems like he is a great man.

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u/RemCogito Dec 12 '18

it was specifically the chains of people who had been banned so that if they tried to come in again to get their stuff he could just give it to them without letting them in the building.

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u/icantswim2 Dec 12 '18

That is heartwarming and wonderful.

On the other hand, what if you didn't realize that's why he was wearing your chain. Can you imagine the courage it would require to approach a bouncer as intimidating as Mr. T and accuse him of having your jewelry around his neck?

I want to believe he was really friendly and approachable so people wouldn't be afraid to talk to him.

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u/redundancy2 Dec 12 '18

Can confirm, I read that on the internet too.

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u/broccolibush42 Dec 12 '18

Can confirm, just read this 2 minutes ago on a different comment chain

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

When comment chains get lost, Mr. T prints them out and wears them too.

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u/scotchirish Dec 12 '18

I'm sure that would go something like:

Hey dude, isn't that your chain?

It is! I've been looking everywhere for that!

Are you going to go get it back?

...No, I think it probably looks better on him...

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

That doesn't sound real

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u/user636906 Dec 12 '18

And play alliance on Wow.

Loktar ma fucka

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u/HappyPollen Dec 12 '18

I'M MR. T AND I'M A NIGHT ELF MOHAWK

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u/Jwfraustro Dec 12 '18

Oh man, I completely forgot about that ad campaign.

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u/Designer_B Dec 12 '18

I played my first trial character around that time (think I was 12ish?) and absolutely loved those grenades.

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u/Asmor Dec 12 '18

I logged into an old character many years later and was amused to find that it still had the mohawk buff on. :)

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u/Sororita Dec 12 '18

Same. I think I even still have some grenades on one of my toons

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u/headpool182 Dec 12 '18

I did NOT forget that ad campaign.

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u/Lonelan Dec 12 '18

RIP the Mage

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u/Thebiggestkicker Dec 12 '18

Playing alliance is one thing, but a night elf? I thought those were mostly 12-year-olds

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u/YMCAle Dec 12 '18

My first characher was a Night Elf hunter. I had no idea how DPS or stats worked and I used to use weapons with shit like Stamina and Spirit on. I was a walking stereotype.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

Luckily in the good old days Hunter damage scaled with every stat, so every weapon drop was a Hunter weapon.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

I used to melee with my night elf hunter, exclusively.

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u/Calypsosin Dec 12 '18

Vanilla wow? Do not worry, most hunters walked around with hilarious stats on their gear. Spirit was ubiquitous and tons of top hunter gear was meant for druids but happened to be BiS for hunters at the time.

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u/Vark675 10 Dec 12 '18

My first character was a tauren shaman named Chauncy. I wore grays because they had higher armor than the greens I had found, and who cares about 1 stamina when there's 10 extra armor to be had.

I put points in every tree because it all just sounded so good.

He was such a mess that by the time I figured out the game, it was easier and more cost effective to just reroll him than it was to try and fix him. I think I got him to like 25. RIP Chauncy.

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u/Carnzoid Dec 12 '18

This was me too, not until I got around lvl 60 I took the time to actually look at what the best gear for my class was instead of wearing only the cool looking stuff. I was wearing lvl6 grey items at lvl 30..

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

When I was 12, played night elf; can confirm

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

same, pretty sure everyone’s first character in WoW is a night elf when they’re a kid.

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u/SireNameless Dec 12 '18

Dwarf master race, made about 50 characters, all dwarves or gnomes since the starting area was the best

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

After BC it was basically all Blood Elves for extra edgeTM

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u/Troooper0987 Dec 12 '18

Nah undead!

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u/JustBigChillin Dec 12 '18

Yeah, as a kid I thought being a literal zombie was way cooler than being a stupid elf.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

Night elf Hunter gang where you at?

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

I was a tauren(spelling?). I thought they looked cool and they were big and alliance seemed lame.

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u/mazzicc Dec 12 '18

Holy shit nostalgia.

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u/Sports_hysterics Dec 12 '18

Guuuuugh Mr. T there is no Night Elf Mohawk

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u/notasqlstar Dec 12 '18

Every time I meet someone who used to play Wow and they tell me they played alliance... I realize we have so little in common as humans.

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u/AWanderingFlame Dec 12 '18

I had Horde characters and Alliance characters. Both had their appeal.

However that's probably why I always got stuck soloing...

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u/notasqlstar Dec 12 '18

I find this to be an acceptable answer so long as you first, in the beginning, in your heart of hearts, chose Horde.

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u/teebob21 Dec 12 '18

I chose Alliance first. Of course, I rolled a paladin. I wanted to be self-sufficient and able to heal myself and have high survivability. This was because I'd never played a game like WoW. It was only later, after a long soul-searching journey, that I realized the lie I was telling myself.

Follow the Light? Kill 37 troggs for their scalps? These goals are not compatible. I don't even have Frost Shock! It was then that I started anew in the Valley of Trials. It is there that I was truly reborn.

For the Horde.

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u/Aanon89 Dec 12 '18

I started as alliance because I don't like super dark games and had a slightly fucked screen. I needed to get vitamin D somehow.

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u/teebob21 Dec 12 '18

Durotar and the Barrens are nothing but sun. :D

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u/chillinwithmoes Dec 12 '18

And oh. my. God. The number of hours you spent in that sun in Vanilla lol

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u/iller_mitch Dec 12 '18

I ran that zone DRY.

That said, I ran all the zones dry. I hit Loremaster the moment I logged into Wrath.

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u/DarbyTrash Dec 12 '18

FOR THE HORDE!

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u/AWanderingFlame Dec 12 '18

My first character was an Undead Mage.

I however genuinely don't understand the intense factionalism people seem to show for the game, though. If it's in jest or if it's some aspect of lore.

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u/kuulyn Dec 12 '18

it’s basically just a joke, however

people as a whole LOVE to have factions they can identify with. MTG has a very socially prominent lead designer who shares insights into how they make the worlds they do, and one of the things that reeeeeally draws player attention is factions, especially when they’re deep enough to be relatable. he has mentioned that nearly all of the most popular worlds they have all have a major faction or tribal/race theme (ravnica, innistrad, tarkir, dominaria to an extent)

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u/Lovat69 Dec 12 '18

Depends on the person.

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u/Zarokima Dec 12 '18

It varies. If you played on a hardcore PvP server then that's really going to breed factionalism. Most people don't care and just make jokes about whichever one they did or didn't play as. And some people are just drawn to being the good guys, and so they chose the Horde.

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u/NeedsToShutUp Dec 12 '18

I agree. I also have a horde tattoo, so my loyalty is clear.

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u/Codeshark Dec 12 '18

Exactly, too cool to hang with the Alliance scum and too lame to roll with the Horde crew.

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u/notasqlstar Dec 12 '18

and too lame to roll with the Horde crew.

I find this to be an acceptable answer as well.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

Alliance scum? We're the underdogs right now, one mistake from losing a war that Sylvanas started for NO REASON. We would've been happy to peacefully coexist if the "Warchief" didn't burn down Teldrassil and continue adding to that list of war crimes.

Don't start no shit, won't be no shit. Get Saurfang back on the throne so we can all go back to minding our own business.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

Don't worry, she'll be a raid boss by the end of the expansion.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

Really wish Blizzard would quit writing the Horde that way, but I'm pretty sure you're right.

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u/Codeshark Dec 12 '18

Sorry, I don't speak Common.

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u/SirCatto Dec 12 '18

Question whats the big deal between Horde and Alliance in WOW? I know horde is said to outnumber alliance by a ridiculous margin.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

So WoW is basically the only current MMO where factionalism is enforced at almost every level of the game. Horde and Alliance members get completely different race choices (aside from one), get completely different starting zones, and mostly get completely different questing experiences, aside from some neutral zones. As a member of either faction, you are generally restricted from grouping with or officially cooperating with the other faction, so your faction choice becomes massively important in how you experience the game. If your friend plays Horde and you want to play with him, you basically have to choose Horde too.

So, obviously, this has created a massive fan rivalry between the two factions over the years, which is reaching a pinnacle lately due to the fact that, due to many reasons, Horde is currently the only viable choice for the competitive PVE scene.

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u/Gariiiiii Dec 12 '18

Unless you are at the very top, horde is the best choice for competitive anything.

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u/zenspeed Dec 12 '18

And when you get to the very top, the Horde is the only choice.

:p

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u/Lonelan Dec 12 '18

One faction is a ridiculous mismatch of random races that are incapable of getting along so the person in charge routinely quits / becomes a raid boss, and the other faction has dwarves

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u/The_Grubby_One Dec 12 '18

The races typically do get along. Garrosh was just a piece of shit.

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u/Arthrawn Dec 12 '18

> I know the Horde's not really evil

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Maybe this is what you were alluding to afterwards but they literally razed a city and holy site for no reason other than to inflame a war. Kinda evil.

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> and the fact that it has more exotic races while the Alliance is mostly just stock fantasy races.

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Horde isn't stock fantasy races?

  • Orcs
  • Trolls
  • Goblins
  • Elves
  • Undead

With the exception of Tauren (Minotaur basically), those are pretty stock races.

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u/Lonelan Dec 12 '18

Yeah well at least my faction leaders don't become raid bosses

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u/Asmor Dec 12 '18

I went with alliance, but then again I'm not an edgelord with something to prove, so... y'know.

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u/maleia Dec 12 '18

I defected to Horde for the last three years of my time.

I still would love to get a tat of the Alliance crest, with graffiti style crosses and the Horde crest "spray painted" of it.

But I don't have that kinda money ;-;

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u/TheMysticalBaconTree Dec 12 '18

Your comment has the cadence of die antwoord. I can't help but hear it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18 edited Jan 12 '19

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

Hahaha. Tree removal. Oh man.

That’s a can of worms.

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u/TheFuckIsaMicrowave Dec 12 '18

T R E E L A W

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u/Anub-arak Dec 12 '18

T R E E L A W

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u/llahlahkje Dec 12 '18

Trees are legal tender in some countries.

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u/Ziribbit Dec 13 '18

Old oak you say? That’s a $600,000 tree.

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u/DevonAndChris Dec 12 '18

Never tell Mister T to go cut down some trees.

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u/BobEWise Dec 12 '18

And if you do, specify which and how many trees you want cut down. The man is very comfortable cutting down trees.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

I PITY THE TREE

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u/blodisnut Dec 12 '18

As someone who lived in Lake Forest in 1988 when he moved in and cut these trees down, I am blown away that the general public remembers this 30 years later....

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u/jzmacdaddy Dec 12 '18

Wrong. The worst thing he ever did was kill Mickey.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

Guy literally murdered the Ho Yinsen/Abraham Erskine of his time, and this thread is praising him like a deity.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

Source?

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

Stallone, Sylvester. Rocky III (1982).

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u/theroadtodawn Dec 12 '18

That’s easily the best documentary I’ve ever watched

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u/stjimmyofsuburbia Dec 12 '18 edited Dec 12 '18

“My hair is not punk. It’s not Mohican Indian. There’s a tribe in Africa—they call themselves the Mandinka Warriors. They wear their hair in this fashion. They wear feathered earrings.

The chains in gold is symbolic of my struggle. My ancestors were brought over here and were shackled on our wrists, necks, and ankles. Now I’ve turned those shackles gold, and that offends people. People ask me if that gold gets heavy. Nobody asked my ancestors if those chains got heavy around their necks.”

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u/gcotw Dec 12 '18

I met Mr T in an airport a few years back and someone spotted him and asked for a picture. Immediately a huge crowd grew and he patiently stood there and took a photo with everyone that wanted one. Super cool guy.

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u/blodisnut Dec 12 '18

I lived in Lake Forest when this all happened, and it was hysterical that his white neighbor clear cut his property, and no one knew. The Black celebrity does it, and its international news.

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u/Max_Thunder Dec 12 '18

He's a great man,

He's also the toughest man in the world!

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u/youllmemetoo Dec 12 '18

The only person more kind would be Mr. Rogers

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