Army of Mom

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10.30.2006

Greetings and salutations

I can't say those three words without thinking of Happy Harry Hard-On from that Christian Slater movie "Pump Up the Volume" where he played the rogue high school radio DJ. Anyway, other than being as "horny as a 10-peckered owl," I'm stumped by how to refer to a source for a story I'm writing.

When you call to address someone, how do you refer to someone to him when he is listed as something like:

M. Howard Pierce

I mean, the easy way is to simply call him Mr. Pierce. But, do you say "Hi, M. Howard. I'm blah blah blah" or do you call him Howard? or M?

3 Comments:

  • At 2:01 PM, October 30, 2006, Blogger Random and Odd said…

    "Yo what up M. Dawg?"

     
  • At 3:10 PM, October 30, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Ugh, this is almost as bad as the whole Miss/Mrs./Ms thing. I would assume that he goes by "Howard". He wants to show that Howard is not a nickname, nor is it his first name, and he wants you to distinguish him from all the other Howard Pierces.

    Or you could ask him what his friends call him.

     
  • At 5:52 PM, October 30, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I say go with the Mr. thing, but if he quickly becomes a jerk, kindly inform him that only pretentious a-holes would go by M. Howard... or ask him if the M stands for Moe and he just got tired of all the 3 Stooges jokes...

    B-dawg

     

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