You can do it easily, Clod. It's more about intonation than pronunciation. Brits have so many different accents that if you get the vowels un-americanized, speak at a reasonable pace, and stress the right syllables, it'll be fine.

One thing I have noticed about impersonating accents is that they often drift through regional dialects. Someone doing a "British" accent might start Queen's English, slide into Educated London, drift into Cockney, and meander through Yorkshire to Scottish, aye?
It might help to have a specific person whose accent you are mimicking in mind - maybe even a picture of them in front of you - to keep you on track.

Oh, stuff it, just drop a lot of "I say" and "Don't you know" and "old chap" into the text. ;)

hehe. just go for educational american, but faster and stress the other syllable.

:lol:

Bwitish? Bwitish? Moy dear chap, if oy was any moah Bwitish, oy wouldn't be abuw to talk at awll.

Saw the ad for this product today:
 

Shark Sleeping Bag

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.parentdis...25ds051810.jpg

That is so cool, I want one for my shark-crazy son but ......it COSTS $200!

I just realized that my little Portia [ who died recently] was featured on the cover of 2010 BT mini calendar this year and I did not even know! She was 3 months old here



http://www.calendars.com/catalog/pro...Id=prod123478&

She is also in another 2010 calendar I cannot seem to find, I saw on my friend's wall, she and her litter sister are on the month of May.

Thats great! How wonderful. Happy for you.

Everything is amuseful today.

There really IS no sense crying over spilled milk. Who'd've thunk?

:lol2:

Don't cry for me, I'm from Xenia.

Not really, but I'd like you to cry for me. kthxbai

Back in University I once asked classmate, who played on the University team, what the differenece between League and Union was, he replied "one is a game for thugs played by gentleman, the other a game for thugs played by thugs", I forget which he said was which.

My first thought is why, Brits are plenty used to hearing american accent, I would have thought a well enunciated regionaly neutral american accent would work just fine for most applications.

Uh, you mean dolphin sleeping bag?

I've always wanted one of these, but I would not prop myself up against a tree in one, that'd be asking to be shot!

We've always wanted to see you in your bare costume.

One thing making me happy is that a SES kid in my class has not intentionally dumped milk on the floor in two weeks. Go me.
I saw a little black bear Thursday afternoon. :)

I'm laugh'n

@ ....private joke.

I would say but it isn't nice. Just funny as hell.

I almost forgot.

Earlier this week there was a baby squirrel hanging on my outside door frame. It was making loud vocal noises. I don't know what the word is for screaming type noises coming from squirrels are called. More than chattering. It was frightened. I was worried it had rabies. It jumped down. I thought at first it was going to run in through my door but then it ran away. I think the neighbors cat chased it. It was amusing in that squirrels don't let themselves be cornered like that or act like it is going to come into your house for safe haven.
( barring attics of course! )

Today I opened a survey envelop. Inside there was a five dollar bill. wtf! I think someone must have accidentally scooped their lunch money up while stuffing envelopes. I want to fill out the survey and sent the five dollars back but unless it got back to the person who lost the money the joke would be lost. I don't know what to do with it. I don't want someones lost money.

Maybe it is some kind of psychological experiment to see what people do with the five dollars.

We've gotten surveys with money in them, transportation surveys. It is an incentive to actually fill out the damn survey and be truthful instead putting down things like "Heywood Jablome"

In total, I think we got about 17 dollars. It was weird and really random amounts, like $5, $3, $7.

Psychologically, it works better to dole out multiple small (but unpredictable) amounts, because people subconsciously like playing the lottery. If you know for sure this task will net you $2 and nothing more, you might not bother. But if you don't know for sure that the next one won't contain $20...

How funny. I've never received surveys with money in them before.

I read the cover letter and it does say that a money has been included for my time.

The survey is a result of having put myself on the waiting list for health insurance lottery but after filling it out I feel I am too healthy to ask for insurance,when there are so many people in actual need. Not only that, by the time my random name gets picked I'll be employed again and won't need it anyway.

I checked out the website.It does say those people put on the waiting list in 08. I was employed then and did not put myself on any waiting list until I had an ear infection 4 months ago.
https://www.oregonhealthstudy.org/en/home.php

Poor Victor! :thepain: He got to meet the electric fence today and he was not impressed! :shock: I was walking with Victor on a longline and Suede my cattle dog loose, and Suede went under the electric fence and naturally Victor wanted to go but, it got his ear or nose and he was sure that Suede was an evil magic dog! :shocking: He shot to the end of the longline and I did a recall [poor baby] :hug: and he got over it pretty quickly but I did have to prove to him that Suede was not Electro dog. :bitching::lol:

Mama guppy dropped off about 10 fry in the turtle tank today. They're about 3mm long. They will probably be et, by turtle or other fish, but it's strangely fun to watch the process.

The turtle has signed a non-aggression pact with the other guppies. Not hunting them for sport, nor for food.

Or perhaps the turtle is smart and realizes that the parent guppies are producing food.

The fry are all et. The tank is not big enough for them to hide. The population is already too big for its area.

Touchdown Jesus was struck by lightning last night and it burned to the ground.

This is amusing to me.

I thought that was scorching your grove - what ever that means.

That's something to do with a burning bush, isn't it?

That was Cheney.

It does both.

So I'm taking defensive driving online, and I was surprised to discover that a childhood friend is the hostess of my 6-hour video. Then, a few minutes in, they interviewed one of my college professors... I'm waiting with baited breath to see if I know anyone else in this dang thing.

My granddaughter has been living with her aunt who is a trauma nurse.
The g-daughter got a ticket for not wearing her seat belt.
The g-daughter has to take a 3-hr course on driving safety.
Guess who teaches the course...

Tonight I'm just mildly amusing myself.

:)

This morning I finally understood the true difference between men and women in the way they communicate:

Wife: Bill, come watch TV with me
Bill: Sits down on the couch

Wife: Would you like a cup of coffee ?
Bill: No, I just finished a cup

significant pause...

Wife: Well, will you get me one

This is "classroom" (or whatever) only? There's no actual driving practice?

normally there isn't AFAIK. Its just a moneymaking scheme. Having it done online just saves them even more money.

There's never been actual driving involved in defensive driving, at least not in Texas. I remember even back in the 80s you could rent the 6 hours' worth of VHS tapes from Blockbuster and mail in your quiz results to prove you watched them. But my understanding is that the state doesn't make any money off of the actual classes, which are all offered by private companies.

Did you do a bad thing, then Clodfobble? or you just fancied trying to improve your skills?

I got caught speeding, through a tiny town between here and Houston where the speed limit secretly drops to 55 for about a mile, then goes back to 70.

Of course, I would have been going above the limit even if the signs had stayed at 70...

When I worked for Dupont, everyone was required to take the course in the evening at a high school, or you couldn't drive on company time.

Don't most people take it for a discount on their auto insurance? I believe you only need take it every three years. Seems worth it to me.

Yeah, that's about how often I take it, but it's never been for insurance. :blush:

<knock knock>
on wood ;)

Helping out the neighbors

My wife, Edy, and I were sitting on the couch and our chocolate Lab, Vicky, started licking herself the way dogs do.

Edy yelled, "Vicky, Stop that ! If you're going to do that, do it somewhere else ! "

Vicky looked up quite defiantly, and I thought I heard her say under her breath:
"If you think you can do it better, come over hear and do it yourself ! "

Best abstract ever:

Vouched for as genuine by yours truly. Frankfurt (2005) On Bullshit is a real book and is in my uni library.

that belongs in the politics thread.

Bullshit.


:p:


:)

I get an average of 50-60 phone calls and roughly 100 emails a day. I'm very good at responding and organizing (I apologize if I sound like a braggart - that's not my intention). Anyway, yesterday afternoon I busied out both my incoming lines - that was fun :D

...and my email. Ohhh... I was a bad boy. I forwarded it to my boss - all of it! :D:D ...and he's on vacation!!! :D:D:D For a week! Oops!

I'm going home pretty soon and I'm calling in sick tomorrow.

Sometimes rebellion has a sweet flavor.

They won't fire me. Not that I'm indespensible - I'm not. I'm just too reliable.

Overheard in town today, two old wifies:
"You can't even tell what colour girls are these days, what with sunbeds and fake tans"

I think she meant you can't tell a girl's ethnic heritage.
Because after all you CAN tell what colour she is. You just have to look.

HAGGIZ!!!! So close, but yet so far.

Space Exploration Monster Boy.

I also have a three minute video of his monologue as he narrates his adventures, but it's somewhat shaky as I was lmao silently so he wouldn't notice me videoing :D

.

Very serious business.

Looks like he's about to frib some aconite.

They need to hurry up the development of a reliable Android screenshot app; I've taken pictures of my phone with a friend's phone and then sent it to my own phone too many times, I'm always afraid I'm going to get sucked into a black hole.

Never moreso.

Indeed. I looked up instructions, and it involves doing arcane things with the Android Software Development Kit--which I actually already had installed on my computer. But I didn't have time to deal with it.
My favorite is the beagle roast.

(JEEZ!! Can't you people take a joke??)