How high a standard do you hold your self to?

[pevergreen]

Knoife, Barbie, Kola bear.

I love watching Americans attempt and fail at doing an Aussie accent.


Kniife, Baaarbie, KoalaDrop bear.

Edit: And if you ever try do Australian and say 'shrimp' you've failed.

[Lemur]

I love watching Americans attempt and fail at doing an Aussie accent.

True story: At a bar in NYC with a couple of actors (a guy and a great-looking woman) and an Aussie editor of a magazine. The Aussie is obviously going nuts for the actress, so he declares that he will give oral gratification to any of us who can do a "real" Australian accent.

I know for a fact that the two actors can't do it. What the Aussie doesn't know is that I'm something of a mimic.

The two actors try. They fail. All eyes turn to me, but in a dismissive way, a sort of, "Let's get it over with the writer guy, so we can then listen to the Aussie editor go on for a bit about how he's won the bet."

I set down my beer, and in a dare-I-say-perfect imitation of Paul Hogan, recite a Subaru commercial, phoneme for phoneme.

Embarrassed silence. Shuffling of feet. Finally, the Aussie editor stands up and screams, "I will not **** this man's ****! It is an evil ****!"

/true story

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Now there's a skill I'd like to have. Although I'd settle for just being able to do the twitter tracker voice.

[pevergreen]

I set down my beer, and in a dare-I-say-perfect imitation of Paul Hogan, recite a Subaru commercial, phoneme for phoneme.

I'd like to see that.