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From: spike1 on 9 Dec 2006 16:55 Chris Young <chris.usenet(a)mail-filter.com> did eloquently scribble: > On 9 Dec 2006 08:58:00 -0800 da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin' > to MC : >> > Crikey, my Speccy never had that effect on the ladies. (Something to do >> > with using words like "crikey", perhaps? -Ed.) >> >> Crikey would work well enough in this part of the US, as long as you >> had the aussie ocker accent to go with it. > No need. Most Americans can't seem to distinguish between English and > Australian accents anyway. Indeed, they thought my sister was an aussie. She's from oldham. -- ______________________________________________________________________________ | spike1(a)freenet.co.uk | "I'm alive!!! I can touch! I can taste! | |Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)| I can SMELL!!! KRYTEN!!! Unpack Rachel and | | in | get out the puncture repair kit!" | | Computer Science | Arnold Judas Rimmer- Red Dwarf | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Cameron Kaiser on 10 Dec 2006 00:16 "Chris Young" <chris.usenet(a)mail-filter.com> writes: >>>Crikey, my Speccy never had that effect on the ladies. (Something to do >>>with using words like "crikey", perhaps? -Ed.) >>Crikey would work well enough in this part of the US, as long as you >>had the aussie ocker accent to go with it. >No need. Most Americans can't seem to distinguish between English and >Australian accents anyway. Yes. Mom gets insulted when people think her accent is "vaguely British." -- Cameron Kaiser * ckaiser(a)floodgap.com * posting with a Commodore 128 personal page: http://www.armory.com/%7Espectre/ ** Computer Workshops: games, productivity software and more for C64/128! ** ** http://www.armory.com/%7Espectre/cwi/ **
From: agila61 on 10 Dec 2006 10:26 spike1(a)freenet.co.uk wrote: > Chris Young <chris.usenet(a)mail-filter.com> did eloquently scribble: > > On 9 Dec 2006 08:58:00 -0800 da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin' > > to MC : > >> > Crikey, my Speccy never had that effect on the ladies. (Something to do > >> > with using words like "crikey", perhaps? -Ed.) > >> Crikey would work well enough in this part of the US, as long as you > >> had the aussie ocker accent to go with it. > > No need. Most Americans can't seem to distinguish between English and > > Australian accents anyway. > Indeed, they thought my sister was an aussie. She's from oldham. A wide range would work, especially combined with Crikey. Not all English accents, but anything other than Eliza Doolittle and something sounding like Carol Burnett's fake upper crust accent is a great chance, and Eliza Doolittle would be more than 50%, if you included Crikey. If the young lady is attractive enough, you say, "pretty close, I'm from .... So have you ever been to Australia?" In this context, the phrase "pretty close" does not mean, "reasonably close", it means, "you are pretty enough for me to accept that as close". So with a sufficiently fit young lady, the exact opposite side of the globe is "pretty close". When it finally comes out that you're from England, "... but, I thought you said you were from Australia", you say, "No, no, England, but a lot of English live in Australia. We get Australian soap operas on our tellie." Remember, it doesn't actually have to be an explanation, it just has to have the general shape of an explanation. A lass I met in NZ from New Caledonia said that when she was travelling in America, she would say, "I'm sorry, I'm French" whenever she had to ask someone to repeat themselves more clearly. I used to do the Bruce's sketch in a bad midwestern version of a bad English version of a broad Australian accent, and one time in grad school a postgrad from England told me it was the closest fake South African accent he had ever heard from an American. So luckily I wasn't doing that anymore when I got to Oz.
From: Judge Fishy on 10 Dec 2006 11:29 > On the western side of the Atlantic, if you show a Sinclair computer to a > girl she will run away Hahahaha! I'm picturing an American girl running! I'm told by a very reliable source[1] that girls on the other side of the pond wobble more than the ZX81's rampack. [1] Some bloke in the pub.
From: agila61 on 10 Dec 2006 13:53
Judge Fishy wrote: > > On the western side of the Atlantic, if you show a Sinclair computer to a > > girl she will run away > Hahahaha! > I'm picturing an American girl running! > I'm told by a very reliable source[1] that girls on the other side of the > pond wobble more than the ZX81's rampack. > [1] Some bloke in the pub. There are fit lasses in the US, just not as many per thousand. And the ones that are fit often have a very high opinion of their intrinsic appeal as a result. ... or so I am told (married old codger, knives in knife drawer, etc.). But more to the POINT: That Was Number 200, on the CSC side, so we can now pull this turkey out of the oven and call it done. |