[Coco] talk funny

[jimcox at miba51.com]

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 16:45:18 -0600
  Roger Taylor <rtaylor at bayou.com> wrote:
>At 03:14 PM 12/20/2003 -0300, you wrote:
>>Hello Stan
>>
>>Hehe  You guys always were out sync with the rest ofthe 
>>worlds anyway, and
>>you talk funny too ;-))) <he jeolously said>
>
>I'm sure he'll take that as the joke it was meant to be.
>
>Ofcourse, here in the U.S., we have to be able to 
>decypher some 50+ tounges, one of which sounds 
>embarassingly like this:
>
>A clean-cut well-dressed manager of a large-chain grocery 
>store:
>" sup man, you be in and outta here like a straight cat, 
>I be seeing you fly by so fast, I be like, da**!"
>(an actual comment to me while the manager was strolling 
>the store one morning)
>
>*ANY* fast-food restaurant (mainly McDonalds), from coast 
>to coast:
>" goot mowin'in, can I take yo oda?" (good morning, can I 
>take your order?)
>" hih 'da go? "   (for here or to go?)
>" you be wantin' fries? "  (would you like fries with 
>that?)
>" why 'dis man ain't got his oda yet?, Nookie, you betta 
>be droppin' 'dem fries " (???)
>
>Our most popular local rock station, 106.1, does skits 
>all the time where a very-well-spoken translator follows 
>up on sentences spoken by African-Americans and 
>Southern-American hicks (to be fair).  I have a few .mp3 
>files that will leave you rolling on the floor, and are 
>actual commercials for local businesses!
>
>I also have mcdonalds.mp3, delta.mp3 (Delta Airlines), 
>which are spoof commercials that are so very true.
>
>Anyway, that's the humor in our part of the world.
>

It's funny, up (down) here in the Pacific Northwest, I can 
tell a Californian by their accent.  When talking about a 
freeway, they always put "the" in front of it.  For 
instance, "the I-5" or "the 405"  To me, they are the ones 
who talk funny, plus they can't understand why us "locals" 
insist on dipping our fries in tartar sause.  As for 
people South of the Mason-Dixon line, "you all talk so 
slow" :)

Now regarding our CoCo friends down under.  I know better 
than to assume Austrailians and New Zealanders are the 
same.
Two jobs back there was a engineer from New Zealand and 
one of the other techs incorrectly referred to him as an 
"Ausie"  When the engineer corrected him, the tech replied 
"Hey, you're both the same"  Obviously irritated, the 
engineer could only say "Ok Mexican!!!" and walked away. I 
just LMAO:)

Now hopefully I didn't offend anyone, especially anyone 
from Mexico (Lee Veal?  Still need to send you some money) 
New Zealand, Autrailia, or South of the Mason Dixon line.

Jim 
"Yo hablo a poco espanol"  :)