When someone from Britain speaks, Americans hear a "British accent"...

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-06-28, James Stroud <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu> wrote:

> I think James Bond did it for Americans. He always wore a
> dinner jacket and played a lot of backarack--which is only
> cool because you have to bet a lot of money. Anyway, if you
> insist on making distinctions between the backwoods of
> apalachia and european aristocracy,

What, you think they sound the same?

> I should remind you of the recessive genetic diseases that
> have historically plagued europe's nobility.

If don't think the English are willing to laugh at the
nobility, you must not have seen the "Twit of the Year" skit or
the election skit with what's-his-name (pronounced "mangrove
throatwarbler").

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