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Also compare [[Embarrassing Nickname]] - someone dubbed them something insulting, and it stuck like a venereal disease. |
Also compare [[Embarrassing Nickname]] - someone dubbed them something insulting, and it stuck like a venereal disease. |
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== Anime & Manga == |
== Anime & Manga == |
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* The main character of ''[[Steins;Gate]]'' prefers Hououin Kyouma to Okabe Rintarou. |
* The main character of ''[[Steins;Gate]]'' prefers Hououin Kyouma to Okabe Rintarou. |
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* Inverted by Paul Muni, whose birth name was Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund. His friends and close associates called him "Muni," an Austrian diminutive of Meshilem, which he had been called since birth. Strangers called him Mr. Muni. Only those who were trying to act like they were close (such as meddling executives) called him Paul. |
* Inverted by Paul Muni, whose birth name was Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund. His friends and close associates called him "Muni," an Austrian diminutive of Meshilem, which he had been called since birth. Strangers called him Mr. Muni. Only those who were trying to act like they were close (such as meddling executives) called him Paul. |
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* Zigzagged with John Wayne. People either called him Duke or Marion (his birth name). If you called him "John", it took him a minute to figure out who the hell you were talking to. |
* Zigzagged with John Wayne. People either called him Duke or Marion (his birth name). If you called him "John", it took him a minute to figure out who the hell you were talking to. |
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* Nobody—except their immediate birth family and their co-star Margaret Dumont—ever called [[Marx Brothers| |
* Nobody—except their immediate birth family and their co-star Margaret Dumont—ever called [[Marx Brothers|Adolf (later Arthur), Leo or Julie Marx]] by their birth names. |
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* Inverted with many married or middle-aged adults, who may often prefer to be called by their first names instead of Mr. or Mrs. (or Ms.) Something-Or-Other by everyone but their own children, especially by younger people; their reasoning is that they still want to think of themselves as young, and terms like "Mr." imply adulthood. Example: David Silverman, lead animator for ''[[The Simpsons]]'', was once greeted as "Mr. Silverman" by [[And That Little Girl Was Me|a young boy]] at a film festival - and his response was "Please, call me Dave. Mr. Silverman is my ''father''." |
* Inverted with many married or middle-aged adults, who may often prefer to be called by their first names instead of Mr. or Mrs. (or Ms.) Something-Or-Other by everyone but their own children, especially by younger people; their reasoning is that they still want to think of themselves as young, and terms like "Mr." imply adulthood. Example: David Silverman, lead animator for ''[[The Simpsons]]'', was once greeted as "Mr. Silverman" by [[And That Little Girl Was Me|a young boy]] at a film festival - and his response was "Please, call me Dave. Mr. Silverman is my ''father''." |
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** Could also be an emerging generational preference, with referring to one another as Mr. or Mrs. [[Report Siht|Siht]] in social settings, particularly in cases when the speakers already know one another as opposed to being introduced or meeting for the first time, being seen as stodgy and old-fashioned. |
** Could also be an emerging generational preference, with referring to one another as Mr. or Mrs. [[Report Siht|Siht]] in social settings, particularly in cases when the speakers already know one another as opposed to being introduced or meeting for the first time, being seen as stodgy and old-fashioned. |
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[[Category:Professional Wrestling]] |
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