Two different accent stories--- well OK three- the first of which kinda explains the second.

My parents felt it was important to speak clearly and correctly (for the reasons noted above). Being native E. Tennesseans, they were familiar with our "hillbilly" image.

Dad's high school colors were blue and white. He used to say the school cheer- with typical E. TN pronouncation of the letter "i" was:

"Fite blue, fite wite. Fite Fite Fite." (Imagine a nasal twang as well).

So I tried to be careful of my "i's" and to not drop terminal "g's" on -ing words.

Nevertheless, when I went a mere 2 states north (to Cincinatti)- I was immediately tagged for my "Southern accent."

And in New York, a waitress loved the accent and asked if I was from Texas....

It isn't a matter of not dropping consonants, but how far you stretch the word in a drawl that is the give-away, lol.


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She has a point, lol. West Texas is where the typical Texas accent is from. Even with being careful, there are some things I can't NOT mispronounce. Like iron. I pronounce it "arn" and I can't stop XD

I can just see myself struggling to figure out what the heck you are saying.

Most of my family lives in Minnesota, and everyone speaks normally except one uncle that says "sory" instead of "sorry."

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If it takes you nearly 30 seconds to say the word "Roll" - as in "Roll your neighbor's house" (or gods forbid "Roll Tide") - or if you use terms like "I'm full as a tick" while patting your stomach at the dinner table, you may have a southern accent.


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It must be warm down south. It's starting to warm up a bit here on the east coast, but it's still cold

You mean warm as in snowing and in the upper 30's with the wind chill factor? Lol. Not warm here, but I'm in the foothills of the Smokies.

How is it warmer here than where you are?! It's warm enough to rain where I am

I think we had an Alberta Clipper blowing through.

Woah! Be careful mALX.

Blimey, the snow must have melted some to get a boat near you...Up on them - as you say - foothills there... ... ...

That was kind of a joke, but it was gale force winds that were really cold, turned the rain here to snow this morning but nothing lay on the ground at all, it (the ground) was too moist and warm from the three days before.




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Lol, maybe I was seeing/feeling it through Cutty Sark glasses? ROFL !!



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A joke -KoB facepalms himself- Excuse my lack of common sense

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I'm probably the only one who could be dying of laughter from this pic, but Here you go!

Now you know why I can't make it as a comedian: obscure jokes, lol.

You're perfectly fine when it comes to making jokes.

I just have trouble getting jokes I'll read jokes in the forums, and be like:

"I don't get it "

Lol, half the time I think people are joking when they aren't; see something as funny when it isn't; or joke about things that should NEVER be joked about, lol.

You're just as bad as me!

I usually don't get the jokes though. I stay quiet though because I don't want to ruin the joke by saying "I don't get it!"

Oh, I'll ask if I don't get something. "Huh? Wait, I don't get it! Huh? Tell me what it means, I didn't get it...TELL ME! GAAAAAH!"

*mALX turns green, gigantic, rips shirt off*

*Joketeller trembles in fear, quickly explains joke*

*mALX shrinks back to normal size, puts shirt back on.* "BWAAAAHAAA! BUUUWAAAAHAAA!"


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ROFL!

I'm not telling any riddles around you, lol.

I'm the type of guy that glowers on the corner in the back of the room if I don't get something, lol.

Not me, especially if everyone else is laughing. Besides, if the joke is good I might be able to repeat it later, lol.







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Hey, it's better than putting in all that effort to come up with a good joke

Lol, I have more trouble stopping thinking of jokes, or worse - stifling my mouth before they come out at inappropriate times.

I'm really bad about that. I make jokes about my own bad situations and people look at me like "Are you nuts?!" Lol

I'm good at corny jokes

Love that accent

Well, despite saying Wales, we're just over the border really, near England...Hence why our accent tends to head towards Da'Pool...

Ooor ayy! Calm down!! Calm down!!... ...

Happy St. David's Day!

Diolch yn fawr, fy'n hen ffrind Americanaidd arbennig... ...

Although, I did forget... ...That'll explain why the kids were in non-uniform and boy was wearing his Wales rugby top...

He hates rugby...

Clever boy that one... ...

Lol, it's weird, nobody who lives in other parts of England finds my accent posh (or indeed even vaguely posh-ish), yet when we get tourists from America (and especially Japan for some reason) who come on the "Last Of The Summer Wine" tours nearby, they all seem to.

Which leads to another question I've never been able to figure out. Why do people from outside England find "Last Of The Summer Wine" interesting, yet people in England don't... Hmm.

Must need food, my brain's gone into aimless wandering mode.

I wish I had a bag of confetti. It's really fun to throw around

I'm not sure that people really appreciate where the wedding couples wind up rooting confetti out of at the end of the day, you know?... ...

This what you had in mind?

We had bubbles blown at our wedding. My grandmother decided to get right in my face and blow bubbles straight up my nose XD I told my mother no birdseed, no rice, and no confetti. I didn't want to take of my wedding dress and have all of that fall out XD

No confetti?

Hehe, nice idea for bubbles. I don't think I've ever heard of that one.

In other news, I've got the Artwork of the Mass Effect Universe book coming to me in the post. Concept art book happydanceyayayayay!

I've seen that book at Hastings. Want it so badlyyyyyyy!!!!

I've got a massive soft spot for concept art books, and I've been meaning to add this one to my (admittedly not huge at this point) collection for a while. I find looking over somebody else's thoughts on the design processes of worlds, characters and locations is a really good way to help my own writing along, actually.

The concept art for the Illusive Man had me wishing they would have implemented that in some way. Some of the monsters that didn't make it were really good. I'm hoping they add from the book to the next game.

The wife managed to get the Skyrim one off of e(vil)Bay...OOooh, shame they decided to go with the more "Realistic" approach...Some of the cities were things of beauty before they changed them to what they are...

Windhelm was truly...Wow...And Markath...*Sighs*...

Love "Making of..." books...

Oh yeah, I remember seeing that in the copy I thumbed through a while ago. To be honest, though I found the last part with him was better than a boss battle would have been. I remember playing that scene just as the ending firestorm was beginning to blaze and thinking; "What sam hell is everybody talking about? This is superb."

That didn't last all that much longer.

I was expecting a fight, like with Saren at the end of ME1 and the big...thing... at the end of ME2. But we never got a huge boss fight (that I can remember) unless you count the insane amount of banshees(HATED those things) and other nonsense right before heading into the beam.

Oh god, the bit with the Banshees. That was insane.

Also, I just noticed your avatar has some crazy redeye going on there. Scary. *Shudders*

You didn't know Liz was a vampire?

Well it's not as if I'd just ask her if she was. I mean, I suspected, but I find going up to someone and asking them 'are you a vampire?' is generally a bit of a social faux-pas.

Hahaha! I'm a fan of vampires and edited a photo of myself 2 years ago to look like one. I have one where I look like a zombie as well. They're not too bad.

The red eye on her avatar should have been a dead giveaway



Ohh, I can't imagine you as a zombie

I got made fun of a lot in highschool for being pale and hiding from the sun. It makes me sick!!

I can show you the picture if you'd like? XD

Everyone used to call me Napoleon in middleschool because of my height

Sure go ahead. Post the picture

Lemme post it in the "real pictures" forum in case it breaks the rules.