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Jeff R

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27. Only when there is more than one

Reply to charlie and algernon (Original post)

Thu May 9, 2013, 06:25 PM

May 2013

with the same first name.
I grew up in a time when last names got people in trouble.
Old habits die hard. Still use first names and always have.

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Does anyone still call their friends by their last name? [View all] charlie and algernon May 2013 OP

I call my friends by their first names all the time. And I did back in the 90's, too. Aristus May 2013 #1

not saying anyone had a problem with calling them by their first names charlie and algernon May 2013 #2

I got into an argument with a chief once sarge43 May 2013 #6

Odd, I thought that was more of an Asian thing Xyzse May 2013 #3

A 90's thing? RevStPatrick May 2013 #4

We did that in the '70s as well Art_from_Ark May 2013 #31

Only a few. geardaddy May 2013 #5

The onliest person to ever refer to me by my first, middle AND last names was (occasionally)... MiddleFingerMom May 2013 #7

I can tell you it goes back way before the 90's; but my friends and me never did. Populist_Prole May 2013 #8

Not friends, but co-workers. femmocrat May 2013 #9

Everyone calls me a variation of my last name bigwillq May 2013 #10

No one has ever been able to pronounce my last name graywarrior May 2013 #11

I got that too, as a kid. And it's only 6 letters! nomorenomore08 May 2013 #15

Ha! graywarrior May 2013 #19

So I assume you're some variety of Eastern European... nomorenomore08 May 2013 #20

Polish graywarrior May 2013 #21

Well I assume my name is "Americanized" - i.e. they chopped off the last several letters. nomorenomore08 May 2013 #23

I always know I'm next in the doctor's office graywarrior May 2013 #24

Gurzskyvitch? Is that you? trof May 2013 #25

NO! graywarrior May 2013 #26

I never called people by their last names olddots May 2013 #12

Situationally, some friends by last name, others always the first Spike89 May 2013 #13

Most people use both of mine... Callmecrazy May 2013 #14

Yo, Algernon! 'Sup? KamaAina May 2013 #16

Our group WAY back in high school called each other by our dad's 1st name or nickname benld74 May 2013 #17

Almost everyone always call me by my last name warrior1 May 2013 #18

That is odd truegrit44 May 2013 #35

My old friends from the military Recursion May 2013 #22

Only when there is more than one Jeff R May 2013 #27

At a law firm I worked at HeiressofBickworth May 2013 #28

Interesting. I always thought it was a working class thing and especially male. Smarmie Doofus May 2013 #29

At school we did. Turbineguy May 2013 #30

I have a friend in Taiwan AsahinaKimi May 2013 #32

Is this post just for people that still have friends, or can anybody play ashling May 2013 #33

Stifler by his "American Pie" buddies. n/t RiffRandell May 2013 #34

I have been calling my group of close friends by their last names since the 70s dr.strangelove May 2013 #36