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What is your prefered name? What name would you prefer when we refer to you? I ask this so that I dont seem rude, I never like to seem rude it makes to many potential friends into enemies.
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My son REFERS to me as "Card," which is the officially correct method of referring to an author who is not present, to avoid calling me "Dad" all the time, which is (a) ambiguous among those who don't know he's my son and (b) potentially annoying to those who might assume he's stressing our relationship.
Of course in private, like the rest of the family, he calls me "Sir."
Yeah, as if.
I really do go pretty equally by Scott and Orson. People I like call me by either name.
People who hate me tend to call me either "That Homophobic, Intolerant, Sexist, Bigoted, Rightwing Religious Fanatic Card" OR "That Communist Race-mixing Leftwing Jack-Mormon Dirty-book-writing Evolution-preaching AntiChrist Card."
I answer to any of them.
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quote:I really do go pretty equally by Scott and Orson. People I like call me by either name.
Notice how ambiguous he left it? It still doesn't answer the question of whether he expects any of us to call him by those names. Posts: 1814 | Registered: Jul 2004
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Wait. Zotto! just called me "dude" on another thread. I have never felt so included in my life. That's the name for me.
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All three of us are insanely lagged. We went to bed at something close to a reasonable hour, but none of us could sleep, and now it looks like we can't send Z to school tomorrow because she's hardly slept a wink tonight.
quote:Wait. Zotto! just called me "dude" on another thread. I have never felt so included in my life. That's the name for me.
Dude, I'm happy that you recognized my oh-so-subtle way of assuming familiarity with you enough to include you in my circle of friends & close acquaintances. Good on you.
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Rivka, if you're asking about the No Jet Lag tabs, yes. They're fantastic. I used them on my way from Canada to Sri Lanka - 40 hours travel time including layover in Hong Kong with some napping on the plane, and while I wasn't fresh as a daisy when I landed, it didn't take much to get used to being on a clock 12 hours different than what I was used to. Yep, worked like a lucky charm. And that's me, with sleep disorders. Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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You're just not old enough to get the joke. There was once a news commentator on ... CBS? CNN? ... named Sasha Foo. David Letterman would play a tape of her signoff: "This is Sasha Foo."
Letterman would then repeat, over and over (as is his wont), "I am Sasha Foo" whenever he did something dumb.
Because "Sasha Foo" sounded vaguely like then-current Ghe-to slang for "Such a fool."
So for a while there, lackwit sheep like me were saying "I am Sasha Foo" when we meant what would now be "My bad."
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Memsahib Dude Sir, I sincerely doubt it's my age. It's more likely a dislike for American news and David Letterman that does it. Hmm. Yeah, that's pretty much it. I think I've watched Letterman all of once in my life. Twice if you really stretch it.
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A-ha. So when speaking to him directly, it's "Memsahib". When making a third-person reference to him, it's "the Dude". When referring to him in the third person plural, it's "Messrs Card".
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if OSC (thats what i'll call him, darnit) says "the dude abides" i'm gonna lose it. I really hope he has seen The Big Lebowski, because thats what i'm going to picture him looking like from now on.
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So, That Communist Race-mixing Leftwing Jack-Mormon Dirty-book-writing Evolution-preaching AntiChrist Card, how you been lately? Posts: 1735 | Registered: Oct 2004
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So for people you like it's Card or Scott. But for your family its sir ? Is it possible that I can just say sir since I don't know if I'm the annoying type of fan you wish would jump off a bridge or the okay fan who you don't mind talking to. By the way since you seem to like Risk may I suggest playing Hearts of Iron 2? http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/heartsofiron2/ index.html?q=Hearts+of+iron+2
This I swear is the last time I suggest playing the game. Since I don't want to end up on the "Fan who must jump off of a bridge" list. Anyways Uber job on Shadow of a Giant, kept me reading for hours.
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here's my question: when someone refers to you as, say, Mr. Card, do you a) let the "Mr." stand, b) say "Please, call me Orson", c) say "Please, call me Scott" or d) other?
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The Grand Ooorgle = OCS As in: The Grand Ooorgle's new book Shadow of the Giant was fantastic and wrapped up everything except Achilles II.
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I must say that I have a new image of "the Dude" in my head. Sorry Labowski, but OSC has the name now.
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Quoth SarcasticMuppet: "here's my question: when someone refers to you as, say, Mr. Card, do you a) let the "Mr." stand, b) say "Please, call me Orson", c) say "Please, call me Scott" or d) other?"
Answer 1. It depends. Are they trying to sell me insurance?
Answer 2. It depends. Have they given my books bad reviews or insulted me in public, recently enough that I remember it?
Answer 3. Is it my daughter-in-law? Dang, I keep meaning to tell her she can call me Sir like her husband does.
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Just call him the way my mother addresses cards she sends to me.
Master Card. (I am quite sure you heard the one before but I threw it out anyway, dude.)
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I prefer to call him "Mr. Card". The reason for that is probably my [sarcasm]undying repect for my elders[/sarcasm].
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I'm inclined to keep using "Mr. Card" simply because he's a man my parents' age whom I have never met. Calling him "Orson" or "Scott" would be a level of familiarity I would be uncomfortable with unless he insisted on it himself. I know that seems kind of strange in today's society, but I can't help it. I was raised to respect geez--uh, my elders.
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Yeah, definitely don't start calling him Master. It never turns out well. I had a friend by the name of John Bates...he never heard the end of it.
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quote:My son REFERS to me as "Card," which is the officially correct method of referring to an author who is not present, to avoid calling me "Dad" all the time, which is (a) ambiguous among those who don't know he's my son and (b) potentially annoying to those who might assume he's stressing our relationship.
Just wanted to point out that my father is the first person ever to catch on to why I refer to him as "Card" without my having to laboriously explain it I guess it arises from the way I was raised ...
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