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CyberKnight

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« #10 : 06-02-2003 14:15 »
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Originally posted by aslate: Connery's Scottish isn't he? There hasn't been an English Bond.
Hmmm...let's see: Sean Connery - Scottish (well, spluh)  George Lazenby - Australian (I think) Roger Moore - Born in England Timothy Dalton - Welsh Pierce Brosnan - Irish And then of course, there's David Niven and Peter Sellers  .
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Melllvar

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« #22 : 06-03-2003 15:26 »
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Originally posted by Zed 85: That's exactly why David Beckham - probably one of the most talked about celebrities and sportsmen in Britain, usually captain of England, was turned down from The Simpsons in Britain episode because nobody in America would know who the hell he is. Of course he plays soccer which thus thwarts any American recognition despite it being Britain's national game. The chance for either of The Beckhams (the people's doofus and his coat-hanger wife) to gain an appearance on Futurama would be a reason to be glad that the show's getting canned. I could not bear to see those repellant people appear on the best show on TV.
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Smitty

Professor

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« #24 : 06-04-2003 10:15 »
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Originally posted by Zed 85: Talking about Brits, in Love Labours Lost In Space, when Fry and Amy talk about rings and that guy turns round and says "Hey, did he just say rings are cool!?!" or something, I'm almost sure its John Di Maggio but does he sound like he's trying a British accent (I'm sure I've heard people round here sounding like that), or do you get people sounding like that in America too? Or conversely do you get people sounding like that everywhere? Struggles vainly not to rant about phrase "British accent"
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Smitty

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« #28 : 06-04-2003 14:47 »
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Insterested eh? The phrase "British accent" was invented by American TV scriptwriters as another way of saying "Bad English accent." Whenever someone on American TV says "British accent" how often do they mean Scottish accent? Or Welsh? Never. Instead its just a commonly used floaty English accent splurdged together with just about every regional accent there is in this country so the sentence "I'm going down to the bloody pub" comes out as "Oim gowing out toaw tha bladdy pab" followed by a bunch of weird noises which I can only assume are an attempt at a cockney accent, as taught at the Dick Van Dyke Academy Of Speech. Lucky I posted that on another board already or that would have taken time to write out 
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ezy234

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« #29 : 06-04-2003 14:59 »
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How about Paul mcartney (check spelling there  ) Or the spice girls , pretty sure they got sold to america, and Sir alec guiness of Obi Wan fame in starwars episode 4,5,6 the list goes on......man......
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