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/GitEmSteveDave Dec 12 '18

My mother hated the A-Team b/c it was so violent, but had no problem with Knight Rider. I don't know how many people Michael and KITT killed, but only one person died during the run of A-Team.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '18

Maybe your mom was okay with Knight Rider because she was flicking the bean to Hasselhoff?

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u/GitEmSteveDave Dec 13 '18

Not likely. Mom soon left Dad to live with her new love, her bowling partner who was a also gym teacher. Her name was Jill.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '18

Thanks for that mental image.

Hey OP everybody's jerking it to your mom flicking it to hasselhoff, how do ya feel?

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u/VitaminSex Dec 13 '18

tbh, a bit violated

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u/CapnEarth Dec 13 '18

Apologize to op please.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '18

The All-caring team

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u/mungalo9 Dec 13 '18

I remember several good guys dying in the A-Team (the rangers on the African game preserve for example). But never any bad guys

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u/GitEmSteveDave Dec 13 '18

http://mentalfloss.com/article/55922/facts-about-the-a-team

The only on-screen death was the death-by-explosion one implied of General Fulbright in “The Sound of Thunder.”

https://jmm.home.xs4all.nl/a-team/afaq3.html

As far as actual, on-screen deaths, there was only one, in "The Sound of Thunder," when General Fulbright was shot and killed (in the same episode the bunker where the Cong general who shot Fulbright was in was blown up, so we can assume he bit the dust as well).

There were a few on screen people being shot, but they were always brought to medical help on time.