strativarius
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I wonder why it is that when Hollywood needs a villain they frequently look for a Brit. to play the part. (Anthony Hopkins is Welsh.)
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F.Bullbait
Oh, a wise guy,eh?
strativarius
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Yes, this character was particularly obnoxious, as was Rolf Harris, an Australian who spent practically all of his life in the UK.Creepy Brits? Hmm...
They awarded this scumbag a knighthood, meanwhile really deserving people who do good works all their lives without seeking publicity for themselves go unrecognised and unrewarded.
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F.Bullbait
Oh, a wise guy,eh?
I wonder how a person like this or the current US president got to be so popular.
One would think that folks would be instinctively repulsed by their mere physicality.
A morbid fascination perhaps?
strativarius
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Possibly, but I think its got more to do with their ability to manipulate others to further their own ends, a trait that is widespread among psychopaths I believe.
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lotus
stubborn rebel sheep!
May be because Britain has the best actors among the best as well as it got the best musical group performers of all times.
(Annibal Lecter was an extraordinary challenge though)
I'd say he has an american fellow villain in Jack Nicholson.
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strativarius
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Annibal Lecter? Have you become a cockney all of a sudden then Lotus?May be because Britain has the best actors among the best as well as it got the best musical group performers of all times.
(Annibal Lector was an extraordinary challenge though)
I'd say he has an american fellow villain in Jack Nicholson.
JustSheila
Crusader
'ats alright, Lotus, annibal, e was an ideous sort o bloke oo dint deserve a capital hache anyhoo.
strativarius
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'Allo Lotus, 'ow's it goin'? Not ready to get some kip yet then eh? I'm orf to bed, see ya in the mornin'. xxxLOL
My bad... typo as usual
guanoloco
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phenomanon
Canyon
Both of those guys are sexy men. As is Barack Obama.May be because Britain has the best actors among the best as well as it got the best musical group performers of all times.
(Annibal Lecter was an extraordinary challenge though)
I'd say he has an american fellow villain in Jack Nicholson.
lotus
stubborn rebel sheep!
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lotus
stubborn rebel sheep!
programmer_guy
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May be because Britain has the best actors among the best as well as it got the best musical group performers of all times.
(Annibal Lecter was an extraordinary challenge though)
I'd say he has an american fellow villain in Jack Nicholson.
(Jack Nicholson was a very versatile actor.)
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strativarius
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Well, in all honesty Sheila, your cockney is a hell of a lot more convincing than mine!
strativarius
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JustSheila
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Mary Poppins! Dick Van Dyke! <3 <3 <3
Wow, funny to see this as an adult. I never thought of Dick Van Dyke as the singing and dancing park bum in Mary Poppins before!
I've been trying to teach one of my cockatiels to whistle, "It's a Jolly Holiday with Mary." She does some parts, but likes her own creative medley of Jolly Holiday mashed together with Pop Goes the Weasel, the first few notes of Beethoven's Fifth, the Gomer Pyle and My Three Sons theme songs and The Colonel Bogey March.
I'm not sure if she has a short attention span or just likes certain bars of those songs and not the others!
(Thanks for the compliment, Strati! IDK if my dramatization of a cockney accent is very accurate, but it's how it sounds to me. I imagine you can do a deep southern US accent far better than I could, too!)
Wow, funny to see this as an adult. I never thought of Dick Van Dyke as the singing and dancing park bum in Mary Poppins before!
I've been trying to teach one of my cockatiels to whistle, "It's a Jolly Holiday with Mary." She does some parts, but likes her own creative medley of Jolly Holiday mashed together with Pop Goes the Weasel, the first few notes of Beethoven's Fifth, the Gomer Pyle and My Three Sons theme songs and The Colonel Bogey March.
I'm not sure if she has a short attention span or just likes certain bars of those songs and not the others!
(Thanks for the compliment, Strati!
IDK if my dramatization of a cockney accent is very accurate, but it's how it sounds to me. I imagine you can do a deep southern US accent far better than I could, too!)
strativarius
Inveterate gnashnab & snoutband
Mary Poppins! Dick Van Dyke! <3 <3 <3
Wow, funny to see this as an adult. I never thought of Dick Van Dyke as the singing and dancing park bum in Mary Poppins before!
I've been trying to teach one of my cockatiels to whistle, "It's a Jolly Holiday with Mary." She does some parts, but likes her own creative medley of Jolly Holiday mashed together with Pop Goes the Weasel, the first few notes of Beethoven's Fifth, the Gomer Pyle and My Three Sons theme songs and The Colonel Bogey March.
I'm not sure if she has a short attention span or just likes certain bars of those songs and not the others!
(Thanks for the compliment, Strati!
Yeah, that Dick Van Dyke accent just makes me cringe!
I thought your example of cockney-speak in a sentence was much better than mine. As for a southern accent, well, I did have a girlfriend who hailed from Atlanta Georgia once. I know she used to say y'all from time to time.
JustSheila
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Ha ha! I can't even understand most of that Dick Van Dyke accent!
Here's a news vid with some good deep southern US accents. I think Georgia is about as extreme as our southern accents get. Friar Tuck understanding them!
I can't even understand most of that Dick Van Dyke accent!Here's a news vid with some good deep southern US accents. I think Georgia is about as extreme as our southern accents get. Friar Tuck understanding them!
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