[Sca-cooks] OT Air Mattress

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On May 31, 2006, at 2:18 AM, Stefan li Rous wrote:

> <<<
>> I use an electric pump that plugs into a car's cigarette lighter
>> plug.  The
>> pump is about the size of a regulation American football and orange.
>
> Is the orange attached to one end, protruding from one side, or a
> separate unit?
>
> Ada... errr... Stefan
>
> (yeah, yeah, dat's it... _could_ be true...)
>>>>
>
> Except that I don't speak with a Yankee accent. :-)
>
> Stefan
> (Accept no substitutions)

But when imitating John Lovitz, though, you'd pretty much have to.  
His pathological liar character is pretty much a cultural icon at  
this point; that's what all this "yeah, dat's it" is in reference to.  
Yeeeah... Jon Lovitz's pat'ological li-ah. He also invented the  
toastah... yeah...

Incidentally, if you ever listen carefully to a recording of the  
speech of Oliver Hardy, he's a perfect example of a fine Harlem  
accent that contains many elements of stereotypical generic Yankee  
speech, with touches of Brooklyn and the Bronx, among others. But the  
Harlem he was from is in Georgia.

Adamantius




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brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them  
eat cake!"
     -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
"Confessions", 1782

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