The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread
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@GOG said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@boomzilla said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
If that's the case, his actual name is Mario Itsumi
It's customary to switch them around to our convention when speaking English.
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@boomzilla said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@GOG said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@boomzilla said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
If that's the case, his actual name is Mario Itsumi
It's customary to switch them around to our convention when speaking English.
It is, however, very much not customary to refer to someone by their last name only, absent a honorific. I can't think of anywhere outside of the military where constantly calling someone Smith, say, including to his face, wouldn't be considered rather rude.
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@GOG said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
It is, however, very much not customary to refer to someone by their last name only, absent a honorific.
False.
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@boomzilla said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@GOG said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
It is, however, very much not customary to refer to someone by their last name only, absent a honorific.
False.
Guess I can't pedant my way out of that...
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@GOG what if you had a instead?
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@Arantor Nah, guv. Pawned it last week. Inflation is brutal these days...
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@GOG be glad it is not Brutal Deluxe, then you’d have a whole bunch to deal with.
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@GOG said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@boomzilla said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@GOG said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@boomzilla said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
If that's the case, his actual name is Mario Itsumi
It's customary to switch them around to our convention when speaking English.
It is, however, very much not customary to refer to someone by their last name only, absent a honorific. I can't think of anywhere outside of the military where constantly calling someone Smith, say, including to his face, wouldn't be considered rather rude.
LDS Missionaries: "Are we a joke to you?"
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
LDS Missionaries: "Are we a joke to you?"
"No but there's a musical about you?"
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@GOG said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@boomzilla said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@GOG said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@boomzilla said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
If that's the case, his actual name is Mario Itsumi
It's customary to switch them around to our convention when speaking English.
It is, however, very much not customary to refer to someone by their last name only, absent a honorific. I can't think of anywhere outside of the military where constantly calling someone Smith, say, including to his face, wouldn't be considered rather rude.
My son games with someone named Smith. I don't even know whether Smith is male or female, because I've never heard a first name.
Also, I understand it's standard practice among English schoolmates, or perhaps only among schoolmates of a certain class.
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@GOG said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
It is, however, very much not customary to refer to someone by their last name only, absent a honorific. I can't think of anywhere outside of the military where constantly calling someone Smith, say, including to his face, wouldn't be considered rather rude.
My first name is Michael, there are 12 of us at my company, 3 of us in the same department. Most of the office calls us by our last names, except for the two guys who have established nicknames and the CFO who we all call by his full name.
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@HardwareGeek said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
perhaps only among schoolmates of a certain class
Higher class than mine, that's for sure. But then again I was educated by the local 'comprehensive' school rather than a fee-payable 'public school' like Eton.
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@Dragoon said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
established nicknames
I used to be called T.
Until we gained a guy named TDiddy.
Now people are confused because some people also refer to him as T.
Things get worse when we're in the same room....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@Dragoon said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
established nicknames
I used to be called T.
Until we gained a guy named TDiddy.
Now people are confused because some people also refer to him as T.
Things get worse when we're in the same room....
I'm named after my father who was named after my grandfather (who I think was named after his father).
It was fun when my grandma called for someone with our first name.
Edit to add: my second name is also the same as one of my uncle's first, whose second name is the same as my father's/my grandfather's first. Fun stuff.
Interestingly, despite my name being super common I don't think I've ever been in class with someone with the same name, and even at work it hasn't happened as frequently as one would expect.
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@Zecc said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
Interestingly, despite my name being super common I don't think I've ever been in class with someone with the same name, and even at work it hasn't happened as frequently as one would expect.
I used to be in class with someone called John Smith, a name so ordinary it's hyper-cliché. Fortunately there wasn't also someone called Joe Bloggs also in that class.
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@GOG said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@boomzilla said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@GOG said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@boomzilla said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
If that's the case, his actual name is Mario Itsumi
It's customary to switch them around to our convention when speaking English.
It is, however, very much not customary to refer to someone by their last name only, absent a honorific.
Really? In most animes I've seen, adults are always referred to by their family name, never their given name. And the honorific is used the same regardless of whether you use given or family name.
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@Zecc said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@Dragoon said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
established nicknames
I used to be called T.
Until we gained a guy named TDiddy.
Now people are confused because some people also refer to him as T.
Things get worse when we're in the same room....
I'm named after my father who was named after my grandfather (who I think was named after his father).
It was fun when my grandma called for someone with our first name.
Edit to add: my second name is also the same as one of my uncle's first, whose second name is the same as my father's/my grandfather's first. Fun stuff.
Interestingly, despite my name being super common I don't think I've ever been in class with someone with the same name, and even at work it hasn't happened as frequently as one would expect.
We specifically picked our daughter's name because it wasn't common and we used the less common spelling. In pre-K, the other pre-K had another with her spelling. Kindergarten, 2 others, including the one from pre-K (they were different schools so not a given).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/343179077747736587/901570980906934332/stillfunny.jpg
I'm trying not to LOL so I don't wake my daughter but that was funny.
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What do you call two witches that live together? Broomates...
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What kind of ties do ghosts wear?
Boo ties.
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@DogsB What kind of ties do spiders wear?
String ties.
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@Benjamin-Hall That one took a second...
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@Benjamin-Hall <> It's greengrocers that sell fruit and vegetables; grocers sell general foodstuffs. Supermarkets are the main modern-day grocers. </>
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@Gąska said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
https://assets.thefarside.com/uploads/splash_images/splash_pc_11.jpg
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@Benjamin-Hall brotip: don't check Urban Dictionary.
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@Gąska said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@Benjamin-Hall brotip: don't check Urban Dictionary.
Easy enough. I never do. People scare me with their slang.
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Justice is a dish best served cold. Or else it's justwater.
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@dkf said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@Zecc said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
Interestingly, despite my name being super common I don't think I've ever been in class with someone with the same name, and even at work it hasn't happened as frequently as one would expect.
I used to be in class with someone called John Smith, a name so ordinary it's hyper-cliché.
I was surprised to learn recently that John Smith is only the 4th most common name in the U.S. (according to the Census Dept.)
20,944 James Smith
20,590 William Smith
18,845 Mary Smith
17,938 John Smith
16,307 Robert Smith
13,540 James Williams
13,432 James Johnson
12,980 William Johnson
12,807 Charles Smith
12,625 James Brown
12,366 John Johnson
12,296 Mary Johnson
12,125 John Williams
11,957 William Brown
11,873 Robert Johnson
11,790 William Jones
10,915 George Smith
10,707 Mary Williams
10,690 James Jones
10,514 Mary Brown
10,323 John Miller
10,022 Mary Jones
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@El_Heffe As I used to tell someone I worked with, his parents lacked imagination; every Tom, Dick and Harry is named John.
Some years back, I came up with the idea of an alien who would pick a common Earth name in attempting to pass unnoticed on our planet. He'd know from research before arriving that Earth people typically have a family name and a personal name, and the most common example of each.
Then he'd go around introducing himself: "Hi, I'm Mohammed Chang!"
(It was only several years later that they did their own version of this idea on "The Big Bang Theory". Sheldon was asked something like "guess who" did something or other and played the odds, guessing "Mohammed Lee".
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@da-Doctah said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@El_Heffe As I used to tell someone I worked with, his parents lacked imagination; every Tom, Dick and Harry is named John.
Some years back, I came up with the idea of an alien who would pick a common Earth name in attempting to pass unnoticed on our planet. He'd know from research before arriving that Earth people typically have a family name and a personal name, and the most common example of each.
Then he'd go around introducing himself: "Hi, I'm Mohammed Chang!"
(It was only several years later that they did their own version of this idea on "The Big Bang Theory". Sheldon was asked something like "guess who" did something or other and played the odds, guessing "Mohammed Lee".
I knew/know people who were from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tabogos, Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Venezuela who were also part Chinese.
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