What do you call your mother and father?

John   Wednesday, June 08, 2005, 09:35 GMT
I call my mother and father, Martha and Bob.
Jonne   Wednesday, June 08, 2005, 12:21 GMT
in formal finnish it's
mother - äiti
father - isä

i say äiti and isi. not very different. of course there are some other words for them, mutsi for mother (helsinki accent) and some others what i can't remember :/
Fredrik from Norway   Wednesday, June 08, 2005, 16:30 GMT
Although we have the pet forms "mamma" and "pappa", it is quite common, especially in rural Western Norway, to both refer to and adress one´s parents as "mor" (= mother) and "far" (father). I do that myself and when I translate that directly into English I suppose I sound rather formal.
Fredrik from Norway   Wednesday, June 08, 2005, 16:33 GMT
In Norway it saounds a bit childish and bourgeois to refer to your parents as "mamma" and pappa". "Mor" (=mother) and far (=father") sounds more rural, national romantic and traditional.
Soteropolitana   Wednesday, June 08, 2005, 16:45 GMT
I'm from Brazil and I call them PAINHO (daddy) and MAINHA (mommy)
son   Wednesday, June 08, 2005, 16:49 GMT
dad and mom
greg   Wednesday, June 08, 2005, 19:15 GMT
Dziekuje bardzo, KSa. (sorry for the thing missing under the <e>)
Kirk   Wednesday, June 08, 2005, 20:49 GMT
Don,

Are you a googolplexian years old?
Smith   Wednesday, June 08, 2005, 20:54 GMT
Don,

Ignore that person above going by the name ''Kirk''. That's not the real Kirk, but a troll. The real Kirk would not ask such a strange question.
Sander   Wednesday, June 08, 2005, 20:54 GMT
No,I think he would...
Sander   Wednesday, June 08, 2005, 20:58 GMT
A googol is the large number 10-100, that is, the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeroes.
lazy slob   Wednesday, June 08, 2005, 23:51 GMT
i call them ...my meal ticket
Jim   Thursday, June 09, 2005, 00:05 GMT
Sander,

Computer programmers would write 10^100. It's probably caught on across most of cyberspace. I'd go for this over 10-100 which looks more like ten minus one hundred.
Lazar   Thursday, June 09, 2005, 00:17 GMT
A googolplex could be considered "10 duotrigintillion".
Sander   Thursday, June 09, 2005, 14:20 GMT
Jim,

Yeah,your right.Should be '^'.