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12 Nov 2011, 8:34 pm

OneStepBeyond wrote:
beyond looks like beyonce, i could live with that

i'm too young to have been called by surname at school(!) but i did have an old uni professor who called me Miss.********, i thought it was the beesknees


******** is a great surname.


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12 Nov 2011, 8:35 pm

told ya
pronounciation's a b***h though



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17 Nov 2011, 12:49 am

Where I come from, it's generally rude to call people by their surnames unless they specifically tell you to use it.

I could even talk to the president and he wouldn't mind me using his first name when I would greet him for the first time.



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19 Nov 2011, 1:45 am

My friend calls me Roy as a joke. I don't mind. I kind of like being called something other than my first name.


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