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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
See, every cloud has a silver lining.
:-)
Owww...
That quiz was rigged. That’s all I’m sayin’.
superwalmart is no fun :(
I never remember to hit Aldi’s either.
Wal-Mart may have good prices, but I lose my mind every time I walk in the door.
Jen is my witness...
I don’t function in Wal-Marts. Which is why I’ve been to the one here about once, at six in the morning, to get Harry Potter.
Does it think you’re from Boston or something? ;-)
| What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Inland North
You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop." |
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Yes, the questions about my "accent" are annoying. Regional vocabulary is a different matter. Yes, I drink pop, not soda. I put water in a bucket, not a pail. Things like that. Nothing wrong with either usage, and I can usually figure out what someone means.
Other regional accents are fine, as long as you don't come off sounding like a liberal.
| What American accent do you have? Your Result: The West
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Worse. Philly.
I usually get Midwest on those tests, but I didn't really see that as an option. And it was just based on pronunciation, so I don't take it too seriously.
Eek, Philly? That test is obviously flawed.
‘zackly
Heh...for what it’s worth, having met you, there’s no *way* I’d guess you were from Philly. ;-)
er, ouch.
Big’ol and I just compared answers. His results were way off for him. He’s an New Englandah but it put him in the inland north. He just spent the last 5 minutes telling me my answers were wrong and how I don’t pronounce things correctly (”Can’t you see they spelled differently??”) Woah, buddy, I’m the one with no accent here *and* I say my H’s. *grumble*mumble*
er, can’t you see they’re spelled differently.
(he was glaring at me when I wrote the previous)
HARUMPH
Let me guess...like my dad, he drops the h’s on “humor,” “human,” “humid,” etc...
Grrr... he's still laughing at me.
Dad also says “ruff” for “roof” and “melk” for “milk”. OK, so I do that last, too. And my younger siblings ridicule me. I apparently also say “wush” instead of “waaawwsh”. So sue me...
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