Some of History's Funniest Honorifics, Part One: The Babymaker, the Debauchee, and More

Ridiculous History

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🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Honorifics are perhaps best described as the fancier version of nicknames, with some of the same familiar rules: just like nicknames, you don't get to give yourself an honorific. And, again, just like nicknames, not all honorifics are particularly flattering. What do we mean? Join Ben, Noel and Max to learn more about ridiculous honorifics in today's episode.

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0:00.0	Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show.
0:28.0	Thank you, as always so much for tuning in.
0:31.9	Let's hear it for the man, the myth, the legend, our super producer, Mr. Max Williams.
0:37.2	Max, the maximum, Max Williams. Max the maximum Max Williams.
0:40.4	Yeah.
0:40.7	We all need honorifics.
0:42.3	We always assign honorifics to Mr. Max Williams as well as to Mr.
0:48.5	Noel Brown.
0:50.1	Go ahead.
0:51.1	Lay it on me.
0:52.0	You want one?
0:52.8	Yeah, man.
0:53.6	I told you the bag man earlier.
0:55.3	Oh, you did?
0:55.6	That was a good one.
0:56.3	Okay.
0:56.7	Yeah, we've been using that one for a minute.
0:58.2	It is my wish to be a bag man in a heist type scenario.
1:02.7	Speaking of a heist type scenario, One, Two, Three. Yes. It's so cool. It's a, it's a, it's a heist movie about, it's a heist movie about these criminals who hijack a New York City subway train in an effort to extort the government of New York City for a million dollars. And it's got Walter
1:28.9	Mathau in it. And it's like, it's funny. It's exciting. It's the classic 70s vibes, a heist
1:35.5	type picture. Highly recommend. Unrelated. I don't know that there, you know what, this first time
1:41.2	I ever heard like a Mr. Color thing, like in Reservoir Dogs.
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