This one isn't difficult at all. I even posted about this place here. Enjoy the video below, it's from my childhood when American accents were so cool!
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8 comments:
Ha! and I think British accents are so cool...
BTW, wouldn't it have been quicker to fly from Hawaii to Seattle over the North Pole to London rather than fly east to Boston then England?
My son and I like the old Thunderbirds show. The exaggerated America accents are a hoot. I imagine it's the same feeling you get when you hear Mike Myers doing an English accent.
Come to think of it, they overdid English accents in Thunderbirds as well. Brits always spoke with either a snooty, aristocratic accent or they were trash Cockney.
gigi - I went via Tucson because I had to attend a meeting there. It was a late booking and although I could have got to the UK without an overnight stop from Tucson it would have been very expensive and very inconvenient. Boston was a convenient stop that actually saved money and kept me a little more fresh than I normally am for business in the UK!
Despite that I was still wide awake at 3am this morning...
Lou - Thunderbirds was one of my favourite shows as a kid, I adored it. Watched it every Saturday morning. They re-released it when I was a student and of course it became cult viewing again for students my age! (In the UK of course).
The Bracknell video came shortly after an infamous advert about Birmingham in the 70s which used American accents. It's on youtube somewhere but Bracknell just copied it. I have to admit though that when I first saw this I thought it was a Monty Python sketch, but apparently it's genuine.
Don't really know anything about Mike Myers but Kevin Kline's English accent in "A Fish Called Wanda" was superb.
Tom
Kevin Kline's English accent in "Wanda"? Can't remember that. I only remember that he and Jamie Lee Curtis played Americans.
BTW, Mike Myers' dad is from Liverpool, and he does a good imitation of that accent.
Wish American accents were still cool. Not sure if I can learn to fake any other accent...
I used to be able to do a decent Irish (Belfast) accent. Doubt I could do it anymore though.
American accents are still cool I think, east coast accents especially. The Chicago accent I heard on my first visit to the US was wonderful but I think I'd have a hard time now identifying someone from Chicago but can usually identify someone from NY!
California accents drive me mad. It's not the accent so much as the words they use, y'now, like, wow, these ones. Cool, dude. Have a nice day like, er, yeah.
Tom
(And I wish everyone a nice day of course no matter what your accent!)
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