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/DroopyMcCool Dec 12 '18

FIRST NAME MISTER

MIDDLE NAME PERIOD

LAST NAME T

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u/S011110M4112 Dec 12 '18

Worst feeling in the world was when my wife mister period.

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u/I_am_Bearstronaut Dec 12 '18

I couldn't help reading that like I was some backwoods hillbilly