I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.

Fred ,'A Hole in the World'


Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Trudy Booth - Oct 11, 2010 9:44:00 am PDT #28914 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

The only time I use Dr. is if someone actually asks me "Miss or Mrs?" (which, thankfully, happens very rarely).

And its fun, right? That's gotta be fun.


megan walker - Oct 11, 2010 9:45:25 am PDT #28915 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

And its fun, right? That's gotta be fun.

Yeah, I'm almost sad that feminism has much such progress that that phrasing rarely happens.


§ ita § - Oct 11, 2010 9:45:34 am PDT #28916 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My sister is all "Dr!" and I'm all "You'll always be Missy to me, young'un."


Steph L. - Oct 11, 2010 9:51:30 am PDT #28917 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Me and my lowly B.A. figure if someone put in the time and effort and big brains to get a PhD, if they want to be called "Doctor," that's fine by me.

But not if they want to be called "Doctor Judeo-Christian," because that would just be weird.


Trudy Booth - Oct 11, 2010 9:53:36 am PDT #28918 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Unless, of course, Suzy Christian and Alfred Judeo fell in love at a Who convention and procreated.


Steph L. - Oct 11, 2010 9:54:24 am PDT #28919 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Their kid would have to be Roger Daltrey Christian-Judeo. PhD.


Burrell - Oct 11, 2010 9:57:21 am PDT #28920 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Vibing for nothing~ma, Perkins.


§ ita § - Oct 11, 2010 9:58:12 am PDT #28921 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I will attempt to go my entire life without calling my sister Dr. Ourlastname to her face. Because that's my mother. Also, I was never going to call her Miss Ourlastname to her face anyway. Because that's me. And His Excellency is my father.

She is fourth wheel. She doesn't get a title.


Burrell - Oct 11, 2010 10:05:28 am PDT #28922 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Frequently, people who use the phrase "Judeo-Christian" like that remind me of people with PhDs in botany or some other non-medical field who insist on being called "Doctor".

I'm sure you didn't mean this to sound so dismissive, but what you got against calling someone with a doctorate a Doctor? That degree took work.

Full disclosure: I am a PhD and use the title when I'm teaching, but not socially. But I don't see any difference between calling someone Doctor and calling someone Reverend or Father.


JZ - Oct 11, 2010 10:07:20 am PDT #28923 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I will attempt to go my entire life without calling my sister Dr. Ourlastname to her face. Because that's my mother. Also, I was never going to call her Miss Ourlastname to her face anyway. Because that's me. And His Excellency is my father.

Vague recollections of family invitations to balls in Jane Austen novels makes me want to say that you are indeed the only proper Miss Yourlastname and your sister will have to settle for Miss Herfirstname Yourlastname, or maybe just Miss Herfirstname. She does get a "Miss," but only with a first name appended to distinguish her from the senior and proper family Miss, yourself.

Possibly you could also rightly call her Mistress Herfirstname, if you think she won't try to punch you (in which case, you just break her with your pinky and call her Mistress again).