"Oh that awful Cockney accent!"
I have met Cockneys who regarded it with affection, as the funniest parody ever, but they're few and far between.
You're not gonna jokey-rhyme your way out of this one.
Willow ,'Sleeper'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 16, 2002 8:59:36 am PST #933 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Theodosia - Dec 16, 2002 9:10:06 am PST #934 of 9843
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I reserve my Mary Poppins- ire for the American robin that shows up singing at one point. Clearly this is some England in an alternate dimension, perhaps where it's a few miles offshore of Massachusetts.
billytea - Dec 16, 2002 9:30:00 am PST #935 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I have met Cockneys who regarded it with affection, as the funniest parody ever, but they're few and far between.
My mother is, strictly speaking, a Cockney.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 16, 2002 9:32:31 am PST #936 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
My mother is, strictly speaking, a Cockney.
What kind of strict? And I have to go back to my grandfather at least, probably great-grandfather, to find a Cockney.
billytea - Dec 16, 2002 9:35:38 am PST #937 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
What kind of strict? And I have to go back to my grandfather at least, probably great-grandfather, to find a Cockney.
In that she's Australian, and sounds Australian; but she was actually born within the sound of the Bow bells.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 16, 2002 9:38:15 am PST #938 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Right. So Cockney born but not Cockney spoken.
P.M. Marc - Dec 16, 2002 9:38:29 am PST #939 of 9843
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Strictly speaking, my husband's a Texan.
But you get the death glare for mentioning it.
DXMachina - Dec 16, 2002 9:38:54 am PST #940 of 9843
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I reserve my Mary Poppins- ire for the American robin that shows up singing at one point. Clearly this is some England in an alternate dimension, perhaps where it's a few miles offshore of Massachusetts.
Would that be the same alternate dimension where they have tea parties on the ceiling and you can jump into chalk paintings?
Maybe the robin hitched a ride on a freighter and got stuck in London.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 16, 2002 9:40:32 am PST #941 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Would that be the same alternate dimension where they have tea parties on the ceiling and you can jump into chalk paintings?
Don't be silly, DX: people do that all the time in England.
erikaj - Dec 16, 2002 10:42:31 am PST #942 of 9843
Always Anti-fascist!
Explains a lot. Morehead Ita wants to be a Bond Girl, although tougher than Holly Goodhead and Pussy Galore, Ita Moorehead. And I'm a little stunned there would be anyone American who does not know who Dick Van Dyke is, but Too Much Television rears its ugly head again.I spent way too much time with reruns in formative years.