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     CP wrote --   
      
   > I've hung out with enough Southerners I've picked up on it, too, & I like   
   it,    
       
      Its a simple sign of respect.   
      And respect for the person is earned, not the respect for the position   
   they have.   
      
   > as it's an equality thing -- everyone uses the honorific, same as in Japan    
      
     Yep.   
      
   > I used to talk to several men & women in the South, as par t of my job, & I   
   liked being greeted as "sir" by men & women, young & old, CEOs & CSRs all the   
   same.   
      
     It's merely respect for the other person.   
      
   > . . that helped me pick up on it, too -- it's automatic now, if I hear a   
   southern accent, I call them Sir or Ma'am.   
      
      We don't have accents, its everyone else that talks funny.  :)   
      
   > Too bad, she-dog, you said you wanted equality with "Mr."; well, you've got   
   it!   
      
      It's a two way street.   
         
   > I see this in old movies with the house Negro using such addresses.   
      
      I had a black supervisor one time and everyone who worked with him,   
   whether black or white, called him Mr Pete.   
      (While a supervisor he often got his hands dirty with us.  That helped    
   a lot since other supers just stood around an watched the others work.)   
      
   > Bingo! It's like Georgie had a vision of today -- except he, not   
   unreasonably, mistook computer monitors as televisions, as being the means BB   
   kept tabs on all.   
      
      I read once someone said something to the extent "'1984' is a warning,   
   not a blueprint".  I mangled that in the translation I know.   
      Joe   
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