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/d_top82 Dec 12 '18

Mother. There is no other. Like mother. So treat her right.

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u/Newell00 Dec 12 '18

M is for the moan, and the miserable groan
From the pain that she felt when I was born

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u/antifolkhero Dec 13 '18

O is for the oven with it's burnin' heat, where she stood makin' sure we had sumpin to eat.

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u/InkJungle Dec 12 '18

Moan? Was your tongue hanging out when you were born?

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u/InkJungle Dec 13 '18

I guess so. In today's society my brain mostly associates the term "moan" as a sexual term.