Comments on: Yankee Doodles Part 2 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/01/26/yankee-doodles-part-2/ Scattered values and the chance of philosophy. May contain funny. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:21:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Bonnie http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/01/26/yankee-doodles-part-2/#comment-455 Sat, 28 Jan 2006 05:44:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/01/26/yankee-doodles-part-2/#comment-455 *giggle* I know how Leemer sounds! ;) *giggle* I know how Leemer sounds! ;)

]]> by: Ed R http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/01/26/yankee-doodles-part-2/#comment-454 Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:30:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/01/26/yankee-doodles-part-2/#comment-454 Do you honk like a goose while walking like a penguin? That would pretty much be Tony Randall ( in his Felix Unger guise ) and Dick Van Dyke ( a la Mary Poppins ). Do you honk like a goose while walking like a penguin? That would pretty much be Tony Randall ( in his Felix Unger guise ) and Dick Van Dyke ( a la Mary Poppins ).

]]> by: Cliff Jones http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/01/26/yankee-doodles-part-2/#comment-453 Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:38:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/01/26/yankee-doodles-part-2/#comment-453 Nice story Leemer. Bonnie, me or Leemer? I sound like Dick van Dyke crossed with Tony Randal. Not, it's not very traaahns Atlaaaahntic at all now. Some words, but mostly I have an English newsreader accent. That is, until recently, before the stations changed their newsreaders to journalists with regional accents so they wouldn't get accused of sounding like newsreaders. Nice story Leemer.

Bonnie, me or Leemer?

I sound like Dick van Dyke crossed with Tony Randal.

Not, it’s not very traaahns Atlaaaahntic at all now. Some words, but mostly I have an English newsreader accent. That is, until recently, before the stations changed their newsreaders to journalists with regional accents so they wouldn’t get accused of sounding like newsreaders.

]]> by: Bonnie http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/01/26/yankee-doodles-part-2/#comment-452 Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:03:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/01/26/yankee-doodles-part-2/#comment-452 So on a scale of 1 to 10 Madonna, how does your accent sound? So on a scale of 1 to 10 Madonna, how does your accent sound?

]]> by: Ed R http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/01/26/yankee-doodles-part-2/#comment-451 Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:01:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/01/26/yankee-doodles-part-2/#comment-451 Are you asking me or Madonna? Are you asking me or Madonna?

]]> by: Ed r http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/01/26/yankee-doodles-part-2/#comment-450 Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:45:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/01/26/yankee-doodles-part-2/#comment-450 LEEMER! You've gone into accent-slippage! You said 'mum'! LEEMER! You’ve gone into accent-slippage! You said ‘mum’!

]]> by: Leemer http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/01/26/yankee-doodles-part-2/#comment-449 Fri, 27 Jan 2006 05:55:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/01/26/yankee-doodles-part-2/#comment-449 Wow. Hotboy said everything I was going to say. Dammit. Now I am at a loss. So I'll just say that I got a lot of teasing while growing up from my friends because of the way my parents talked. You see, my parents were both born/raised in Rhode Island but we moved to Texas when I was five. Here is an example of what that was like for anyone not familiar with the Yankee accent: My mom, while working in the ad office of a junior high school in Texas, had to make a PA announcement regarding the female basketball team remembering to get their shorts. All anyone heard, thanks to the accent, was "get your shots". And, due to the age range we are talking about here, the thought of drinks didn't cross any minds. Only needles. Needless to say, there was a minor panic followed by a story we can rib my mum about for the rest of our lives. Wow. Hotboy said everything I was going to say. Dammit. Now I am at a loss.

So I’ll just say that I got a lot of teasing while growing up from my friends because of the way my parents talked.

You see, my parents were both born/raised in Rhode Island but we moved to Texas when I was five.

Here is an example of what that was like for anyone not familiar with the Yankee accent: My mom, while working in the ad office of a junior high school in Texas, had to make a PA announcement regarding the female basketball team remembering to get their shorts.

All anyone heard, thanks to the accent, was “get your shots”. And, due to the age range we are talking about here, the thought of drinks didn’t cross any minds. Only needles.

Needless to say, there was a minor panic followed by a story we can rib my mum about for the rest of our lives.

]]> by: hotboy http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/01/26/yankee-doodles-part-2/#comment-448 Fri, 27 Jan 2006 04:02:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/01/26/yankee-doodles-part-2/#comment-448 Hi! Got you under vajrayana. I'm RaBlissBlog, doing the juju and trying to raise inner heat. Just to say hello. Hotboy Hi! Got you under vajrayana. I’m RaBlissBlog, doing the juju and trying to raise inner heat. Just to say hello. Hotboy

]]> by: Ed R http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/01/26/yankee-doodles-part-2/#comment-447 Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:40:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/01/26/yankee-doodles-part-2/#comment-447 Viva' le Difference, my friend. No, wait- that was something else, wasn't it? Viva’ le Difference, my friend.
No, wait- that was something else, wasn’t it?

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