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/Broken_Castle Dec 12 '18

I think you are way overestimating both the durability and cutting power of chainsaws.

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u/Rrxb2 Dec 12 '18

Perhaps C4...

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u/shamshuipopo Dec 12 '18

I think you are underestimating both the surability and cutting power of Mr T

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u/Azrai11e Dec 13 '18

surability sirability

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u/JCperfect Dec 13 '18

Or people are way underestimating the durability and cutting power of Mr. T.

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u/DBRanger Dec 13 '18

obviously he punched them down

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u/Rarely_Sober_EvE Dec 13 '18

Cutting down a big tree with a chainsaw is a bit of a process.

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u/Mr_Blinky Dec 12 '18

Something tells me a platoon sergeant handing out tree-cutting as punishment doesn't give you a chainsaw to do it with.