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HOW BARBARA WALTERS LEARNED TO LOVE THE ‘BABA WAWA’ ‘SNL’ SKETCH
Ultimate Classic Rock ^ | January 4, 2023 | Allison Rapp

Posted on 01/04/2023 8:52:34 PM PST by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 01/04/2023 8:52:34 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Not surprised she didn’t like the impression.

Womder if she also disliked the Ford, Reagan and Bush impressions, or if she heehawed out loud about those.


2 posted on 01/04/2023 8:56:52 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: nickcarraway

They are so self important, a little silly mockery completely unhinges them.


3 posted on 01/04/2023 9:01:46 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: nickcarraway

I believed Gilda got her on that tree question. “If you were a twee, what sort of a twee would you be?”

“Did you cwy?”


4 posted on 01/04/2023 9:40:21 PM PST by OrangeHoof (No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
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To: Secret Agent Man; DesertRhino

Geez, I’m so tired of this “first female to do this or that” crap. Okay, okay, I believe you: females can do almost everything men can do. I got it. When can we stop this?!? I remember being a youngster even then thinking it had to be some sort of a pity party to award someone that looked and sounded like Walters with a TV broadcast award. C’mon! They had to be kidding us, right?! Aside from the ones she didn’t sleep with, imagine the world leaders who were forced to sit across from this American women and answer questions without laughing! They must have thought there were on Borat or Ali G.


5 posted on 01/04/2023 9:40:29 PM PST by Dr. Pritchett
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To: OrangeHoof

There is a link above that she really asked that of Katherine Hepburn,


6 posted on 01/04/2023 9:41:03 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway; Mears
Walters speech was not a accent but a slang much like ebonics that they are taught as small children.

I learned this in my two years of studying the natives of Massachusetts.

During that period, I found a way to make people like Walters and T Kennedy speak perfect English.

Me doing so pissed off many a Masshole.

7 posted on 01/04/2023 9:43:50 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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Is your name Henry Higgins?


8 posted on 01/04/2023 9:45:21 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Deaf Smith

I have a Boston accent….hardcore.

I hate my voice when I hear it on a recording or video…..just hate it..

.


9 posted on 01/04/2023 9:47:38 PM PST by Mears (.)
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To: nickcarraway

I do not and have never been a hang glider.


10 posted on 01/04/2023 9:49:50 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: nickcarraway

Gilda Radner. Back when SNL had funny and talented comedic actresses. Now they have bitter hacks who rant for abortion on Weekend Update.


11 posted on 01/04/2023 10:03:19 PM PST by MDLION ("Trust in the Lord with all your heart" -Proverbs 3:5)
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To: Mears
Had one customer who spoke perfect English and I asked him where he was from.

Said he was native but went through college in Kansas to correct his speech so he could participate in national and international business.

*I really stuck out in MA when ever I spoke.

My first few days in Massachusetts, I was in Classic Pizza in Mansfield and a young couple was teaching their baby to speak.

They were in a booth behind me and guy had a pepper shaker in his hand and was telling the baby “peppa”.

I was dying laughing and asked them “How do you spell that?”

12 posted on 01/04/2023 10:09:50 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Mears
I have no answer for the bass vs soprano.

The bass worked just as well as saltpeter.

13 posted on 01/04/2023 10:19:43 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: nickcarraway

She self-described her career as “groundbreaking?”


15 posted on 01/04/2023 10:26:22 PM PST by ClarityGuy
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The only good thing about the real Pope’s passing is it flushes news about this individual’s demise from the media.
One of the founding cultural icons of the anti-American left.


16 posted on 01/04/2023 10:34:05 PM PST by ZULU (HOOVER, FREEH, MUELLER, COMEY, WRAY, SUCCESSION OF STATISTS)
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To: Mears

I love hearing different American accents. I think they should be treasured, as some seem to be disappearing in places. We have an odd one here in Pittsburgh. One I find very appealing is the one Earl Hamner (from VA of “The Waltons” fame) had.


17 posted on 01/04/2023 10:51:53 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: DesertRhino

I always found her insufferable, and stupid and OH SO Establishment! Poor John Stossel had the misfortune of being on with her for probably a year or two, maybe more, and he’d do one of his great bits, and the camera would return to the two of them and she’d
always make faces, and say stuff like....”Well.....John...I really don’t agree with your conclusions on this....” “Well, that’s okay, Barbara”


18 posted on 01/04/2023 11:08:39 PM PST by supremedoctrine
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To: Mears

But it is music to the ears of others and you should never remove this source of entertainment from them.


19 posted on 01/05/2023 3:16:14 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: PghBaldy
We have an odd one here in Pittsburgh


20 posted on 01/05/2023 4:14:40 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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