You've clearly never been to Portsmouth.thelordharry wrote:Oh Jesus. Please. Nobody I know actually speaks like that, it's all put on. Somebody give that young man a slap (the guy in the video, not you KieranReliant121 wrote:I dont use my real accent. I sound very posh and polite when I talk now, but I actually have an accent similar to Hagrid's only mines more feminine sounding, and slightly less gutteral. Ironic from someone whose accent should sound like This)
Why did Tucker have a southern accent?
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Re: Why did Tucker have a southern accent?
People in Hampshire put on fake Essex/Cockney accents? I'll loan you my air rifle...
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Re: Why did Tucker have a southern accent?
I bet I can make you sound Jamaican, Nutso.Nutso wrote:Sounds Jamaican.Reliant121 wrote:I dont use my real accent. I sound very posh and polite when I talk now, but I actually have an accent similar to Hagrid's only mines more feminine sounding, and slightly less gutteral. Ironic from someone whose accent should sound like This
Say the words 'beer can'. You sound like a Jamaican saying 'bacon'
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Re: Why did Tucker have a southern accent?
No, people in portsmouth specifically.thelordharry wrote:People in Hampshire put on fake Essex/Cockney accents? I'll loan you my air rifle...
Hampshire is a lot different.
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Re: Why did Tucker have a southern accent?
If I were from Portsmouth, I'd be very grateful that my natural accent sounded nothing like Estuary English, let alone trying to sound like it!!!Reliant121 wrote:No, people in portsmouth specifically.thelordharry wrote:People in Hampshire put on fake Essex/Cockney accents? I'll loan you my air rifle...
Hampshire is a lot different.
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Re: Why did Tucker have a southern accent?
Where as mine either sounds like a posh twit from Surrey, or a farmer.
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Re: Why did Tucker have a southern accent?
Here is a very mild version of what I remember, though the announcer seems to taking pains to make himself understandable. IIRC, this is a lot less inflected than some of the old die-hards.
I can't stand nothing dull
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
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Re: Why did Tucker have a southern accent?
Ahh....i might shed a tear.
Re: Why did Tucker have a southern accent?
They should have included a Hawaiian with a strong pidgeon accent on Enterprise. THAT would have made things interesting and challanging to understand.
Captain Archer: "Mr. Kimo, we need warp speed and we need it five minutes ago!"
Lt. Kimo: "Ho Cap, pump da brakes huh? She go when she go. Jus' slow da roll."
Captain Archer: "Mr. Kimo, we need warp speed and we need it five minutes ago!"
Lt. Kimo: "Ho Cap, pump da brakes huh? She go when she go. Jus' slow da roll."
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Yeah, in my limited experience giving a Hawai'ian a deadline is an excercise in futility.I can't stand nothing dull
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
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Re: Why did Tucker have a southern accent?
Maybe Rochey had a few Hawai'ian computer chips in him 
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Re: Why did Tucker have a southern accent?
I can't stand nothing dull
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
Re: Why did Tucker have a southern accent?
That would explain SOOOO muchReliant121 wrote:Maybe Rochey had a few Hawai'ian computer chips in him
They say that in the Army,
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
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Re: Why did Tucker have a southern accent?
ZING!Reliant121 wrote:Maybe Rochey had a few Hawai'ian computer chips in him
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Re: Why did Tucker have a southern accent?
Hawaiian? Me? Not at.....hang on...."made in Oahu"? What the hell?
Well, I guess that does explain my love of coconuts and grass skirts.
Well, I guess that does explain my love of coconuts and grass skirts.
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