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.

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).

what you got against calling someone with a doctorate a Doctor? That degree took work.

Absolutely. The reason my sister doesn't get that from me is because she's my little sister. Also, I had to listen to her complain throughout her entire doctorate. I get a pass.

the senior and proper family Miss, yourself

::fistpump::

if you think she won't try to punch you

She's more than welcome to try.

My dad has his PhD in sludge. Ok, it is waste management or something like that. But he only whips out the Dr. in professional situations.

FB drama alert - Kelly's ex - the lying cheating douchebag - has reappeared on FB. She noticed because mutual friend had friended him and it showed up on her newsfeed. She called me and it sounded like it had been a gut punch for her. Of course his profile picture has him and a girl.

I told her to block him, just in case, and to remember how much better off she is now. She knows that, intellectually, but this is the first time she has "run into" him since all the crap went down over the summer.

She SHOULD block him!

But if she wants to find out if the idiot has the same password I volunteer.

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.

No, it wasn't meant as dismissive. I was under the impression (from my father the PhD, and the many friends I have with doctorates, including the fine PhDs here) that insisting on being called "Doctor" socially or in non-professional settings was somewhat tacky in that it gives the incorrect impression of being a medical doctor.

And the ones I've met that do that are into themselves in more ways than that.

Pretzel Crisps getting bad feedback. You know, the company that had the pro-anaesque slogans, and then took them down, and replaced them with other pro-ana slogans? Is now telling everyone to chill, and taking a poll on how people feel about the ads.

When I went to look, 75% of the respondents hated it. And 12% said "What's a pretzel crisp?"

I was under the impression (from my father the PhD, and the many friends I have with doctorates, including the fine PhDs here) that insisting on being called "Doctor" socially or in non-professional settings was somewhat tacky in that it gives the incorrect impression of being a medical doctor.

Hence the analogy I was trying to draw about certain uses of the phrase "Judeo-Christian". It's not that it's an incorrect use of the phrase, it's that certain groups and people seem to be trying to milk some kind of extra credibility or something out of the "Judeo", rather than out of any care or concern for the cultural history of their religion.

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

I don't think I knew you were Dr.! Or Burrell.

But if she wants to find out if the idiot has the same password I volunteer.

She could get a mutual friend to do this.