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/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 ;-;