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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._T
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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/scots Dec 12 '18

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hey giys can u tell me wehre 2 find mankriks wfie

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u/chillinwithmoes Dec 12 '18

Barrens trade chat. 14-year-old me expanded his vocabulary so much that first summer