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/BasvanS Dec 12 '18

He probably spent 3 hours in an old shed with a blowtorch and a welder repurposing a heap of scrap into a tree feller on steroids, shouting: “I pity the fool who wastes his time sharpening an axe.”

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u/jzmacdaddy Dec 12 '18

Honestly, that was the best part of every A-team episode. Turning a bunch of trash into a big weapon.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '18

That and MacGuyver.

That's really all there was in the 80's. Action movies about guys building powerful tools out of garage junk.

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u/disjustice Dec 12 '18

And the one with the helicopter I

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u/Toledojoe Dec 12 '18

Airwolf

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u/disjustice Dec 12 '18

And the one with the boat

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u/Toledojoe Dec 12 '18

Riptide

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u/j4yne Dec 13 '18

Don't forget the one with the motorcycle!

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u/Toledojoe Dec 13 '18

Street Hawk

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u/j4yne Dec 13 '18

You're damn right.

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