Amira - the stinking overachiever - can't take enough time out of her "busy Oxford schedule" (slacker) to be around as often as I'd like her to be, and Jebus is totally MIA.
We need more British people around here! I need to be reading posts with a foreign accent going through my head. I mean the Polish thing is nice with K.A.M.A., but does a program really have an accent? Bokonon has that Boston thing (I'm pretty sure), and we've got some Aussies running around here, which is bonus. But it's not nearly enough to satisfy my insatiable accent appetites.
What, can we offer them tea and strumpets? Free passes on the rail? A pint of Guinness? Blood pudding?
What does it take?
Posted by Pat (Member # 879) on :
I'm Irish.
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
I shouldn't discredit the accent I associate with your posts, Patrick, but the lilting tones of Gomer Pyle only serve to whet my appetite.
[ August 21, 2003, 07:06 PM: Message edited by: Ralphie ]
Posted by Pat (Member # 879) on :
You got a thing for Gomer? I heard he's gay. Sorry about that.
Posted by tonguetied&twisted (Member # 5159) on :
I'm a Kiwi, so all you guys have funny accents. Does that count? Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Ooh... I agree with Ralphie. We really need to do some Brit recruiting. All my favorite 80's bands come from the isles, and the nation that gave rise to Teletubbies is automatically three rungs ahead of everyone else on the class ladder.
Maybe we should start up a bizarre reality TV series to lure them in....
Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
Well, I've seen a few aussies, but no english. That would be keen. Been liking that island ever since I first watched Python and Dr. Who.
Still, I'm surprised a Major Flashheart hasn't joined.... Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
Um... Ralphie? I'd imagine they're in Britain.
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
Ralphie is wicked smaht.
So who wants a beah?
-Bok
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
quote: Um... Ralphie? I'd imagine they're in Britain.
Oh, good - a lead!
Bok - See, you need to be doing more of that, not less.
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
Believe me, it gets wicked, wicked wicked annoying. In fact, I got "wicked" trained out of me in college, thanks to some pugilistic friends
But anyway, what say you and me go and get a frappe, or maybe some soft serve with jimmies on top?
-Bok
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
I have this eerie feeling that Kiwis (not to be confused with kiwi fruit or, for that matter, the bird) are going to take over the world. I worked with three this summer and they had this... look ... in their eyes.
Weirdness.
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
Huh.
See, I've seen that "look" in one-legged, three-nippled, albino supermodels from the Upper Ganges...
But I just kinda thought fleck of dust was in their eyes.
-Bok
Posted by Lazer King (Member # 4580) on :
Good thing I am Polish! Let's party! Posted by newfoundlogic (Member # 3907) on :
As soon as I saw this thread I was going to post that, Flying Cow. So frustrating. We do need more Brits though. Such a colourful way of spelling things they have.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I wrote an art history paper once in which I spelled everything the British way - even connexion. My stinky prof marked every single one wrong! You'd think after seeing colour used 45 times, you'd figure it was intentional. I think he just wanted an excuse to use his red pen on my otherwise spotless paper. Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
Hey, I may be a computer program, but I'm a high quality program. With an accent.
Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
I have a French accent, if that please to anyone.
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
Oh, that's right! We can add a Frenchie to the Be-accented ones.
But we still need more Brits...
Posted by Lord Cheeky (Member # 5573) on :
My Ralphie, what a randy girl you are. I've a mind to invite you up to my flat if you're ever here on holiday, but I know you just want to get in me trousers.
Now I've got to go. I've left my ale out on the pavement by the motorway all afternoon and it should be warm enough to drink now.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
quote: Um... Ralphie? I'd imagine they're in Britain
Not me! And I'm 100% British Citizen... and a British Citizen ONLY.
(Did you know it takes more than a year for the citizenship people to process a citizenship request. It took them two months to even say that they'd recieved the papers... sssssooooo ssssllllooooowwwww.)
No, I'm living in Canada, and are pretty much Canadian really, since I've been here for seven and a half years now. *shrug* Still a British Citizen though... Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
The look in the Kiwi's eyes is due to devout Rugby fanaticism.
As for me... I like Rugby... does that help Ralphie? If you want cool accents watch Fox Sports World.
AJ
Posted by Lord Cheeky (Member # 5573) on :
Rugby is a sport for ruffians. Sophisticated men play cricket.
Posted by Cavalier (Member # 3918) on :
Agh, why would you want British people around anyway? *shudders*
The only good things to come out of that country were Monty Python and Cadbury eggs.
-- > U.K. (but England more than the others)
**to anyone who didn't pick up on it, this was made in jest...well half in jest...well 3/4 in jest...so don't get too worked up**
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
quote: well 3/4 in jest...so don't get too worked up
A quarter of me is insulted. Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Cricket may be more civilized but it doesn't affect New Zealand's Prime Minister's approval rating like rugby does.
AJ
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
>> I have a French accent, if that please to anyone. <<
Rowr!
(That's a yes.)
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
I was about to complain you left out Anna, as if we needed more French Bashing debates.
Between everyone you mentioned and those far distant Canadians, not to mention the FLorida people who truly are from another world, I am feeling quite the American minority.
Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :
quote: not to mention the FLorida people who truly are from another world
I was just starting to like you, Dan. Posted by Tristan (Member # 1670) on :
If you're a Brit, how come you have a swedish name?
(Not that that in any way is impossible of course; I'm just interested in hearing the story.)
Posted by Tristan (Member # 1670) on :
My, I would never have guessed.
Posted by amira tharani (Member # 182) on :
*waves* Here, but working full time. Will be seeing Dante in September, so he can prove I'm still alive.
Cricket... bah. Rugby's much better - at least we win from time to time.
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
quote: Believe me, it gets wicked, wicked wicked annoying. In fact, I got "wicked" trained out of me in college, thanks to some pugilistic friends
But anyway, what say you and me go and get a frappe, or maybe some soft serve with jimmies on top?
Jimmies are a New England thing? wow, I'm such a New Englander I don't even recognize my accent!
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
Terminology is very different up here, Dragon. Not as much as it used to be though (tonic, anyone?). Rotaries, the more than semantic difference between milkshake and frappe, jimmies, aunt vs. ant, bubbler, and a few more.
Jimmies was interesting also my first year at college. Apparently, along most of the rest of the Atlantic seaboard, it is a nickname for a prophylactic (short for "jimmy hat", I believe).
I got a few weird looks...
-Bok
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
Wow, I never knew where the word Chowdahead came from. Fascinating!
I think my new favorite word will be Cool Kid, though. Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
Kayla, it sounds even cooler in a Will Hunting-esque accent.
-Bok
Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :
Bok, ask a Brit about their fanny pack sometime.
Posted by Nato (Member # 1448) on :
Juliette was on the Claremont Colleges Women's Rugby team for a while, and she also lived in London for a semester. She's also of English descent on her mother's side. Actually, so am I, for that matter.
Posted by Toes (Member # 4603) on :
This is a bit random, but what in blazin' hades does Wotcher mean? It's in Harry Potter #5 a few times, and it's driving me nutty! Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
I'm Israeli. but I lived in England for 4 years...
Does that count?
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
Those are pretty funny! I got most of 'em but not all since I actually live in
quote: Cow Hampshire
A stretch of toll plazas, liquor stores and fireworks stands on the way to Maine. Also known as New Hampster.
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
Wow. Titled and everything.
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
I had a buddy in college whose full nickname was "Herr Baron Professor Doctor Thrilliam J. von Brown, III, Esq., Defender of the Realm of Huge and Scourge of Its Seven Seas."
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
quote: "Stig" is a name I got from a children's book called "Stig of the Dump"
Ah, Stig of the Dump. Did a book report on that once... still got the book around here somewhere...
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote: I had a buddy in college whose full nickname was "Herr Baron Professor Doctor . . .
While visiting Germany, my dad was referred to as Herr Doktor Professor. He has this whole routine about the Herr Doktor Professor of the Herr Doktor Professor . . . Posted by amira tharani (Member # 182) on :
We have another Brit! Yay! Hello Stig, good to meet you. Where in the UK are you from? Maybe one of these days we'll actually manage a UK Hatrack picnic, you never know....
Posted by jebus202 (Member # 2524) on :
British people ain't all they're cracked up to be, believe you me about that.
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