When my sister got her doctorate, she told her kids now they can no longer call her mama, now it's dr. mama
86When i got mine, my nephews and nieces concatenated uncle and dr, even years later they refer to me as druncle
53Yeah...that's the reason....
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@pastel_de_airfryer @fossilesque WOULD HENRY ROLLINS AGREE??
DON'T MAKE ME TALK TO AXL ROSE
-8@pastel_de_airfryer @fossilesque HENRY ROLLINS WANTS TO TALK TO YOUR SISTER
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Y'all joke, I had a college professor on the first day of class say "if you want to call me by my first name, that's fine. My first name is Doctor."
42A PhD is something that you pour a lot of time in so you can tell most people "nah, just the_third, that's fine" and a few select people "That's Dr. the_third to you."
31"Listen, lady—!"
"Doctor!"
"Doctor Lady!!"
– MST3K, Space Mutiny
27I had an art history professor that insisted on being called doctor; she said she'd put in a lot of time and spent a lot of money to get that degree, and so she wanted to get her money's worth.
She was a lot of fun.
21I bet she was.
I've never meet someone who insisted on being called doctor that was anything except fun and reasonable to work with.
They love it when you let them know you also have a PhD.....
15I was being serious. She made art history--which is normally a fairly dry subject, particularly when you're covering art before 1100CE--a really fun and engaging subject.
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But then they don't use PhD's preferred pronouns to refer to PhD in the tweet 😔
16John Hurt has entered the chat.
9I have a cousin who got a knighthood in the UK, but he won't let me call him 'sir' no matter how funny I think it is. (He also has a PhD.)
8the NB Dr. Who iteration is kind of weird.
6It's the right kind of doctor, it checks out!
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1Well, actually the “pronoun” would be “The Doctor”. And since it applies in both contexts, it’s applicable to both. However it’s really not a pronoun as much as it’s A unique Proper-noun/noun/pronoun tri-brid.
Basically, it’s all really confusing, we should all just acknowledge this as a Quantum-noun and move on.
1@fossilesque HENRY ROLLINS NEVER NEEDED PRONOUNS
-1Dr. Allcome.
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