Bacon Good For You, Reports Best Scientist Ever
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Ah yes, from my dealings with your friends over the boarder speak slowly, quietly and you can get them to agree to anything. It's just the BBC accent is an oddity, anyone in films or TV shows with it gets to be either a villain or Sherlock Holmes...
You're forgetting Dick van Dyke, but then that's a seriously fake one!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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You're forgetting Dick van Dyke, but then that's a seriously fake one!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
Emphasis on Dick, luv a duck :rolleyes:
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glennPattonPUB wrote:
Dude, I am not messing with the Dude, just can't the Yanks cast another nationality as the bad guys once in a while...like getting an actual German to play a German...
Americans love British villains because they like the idea of sophisticated villains. To the American ear a British accent sounds very sophisticated. Trust me, it is a compliment. Some dope with a southern drawl saying, "But I gots the nucklar device mister bond" wouldn't sell tickets. You cannot have a bad guy who sounds as if he'd trade his death beam laser for a pair of tickets to a mud wrestling competition. I don't know how many times I'm going to have to explain American to the British folks. Sheesh.
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glennPattonPUB wrote:
Dude, I am not messing with the Dude
Wait, what does Jeff Bridges have to do with this? He's not a Brit.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
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glennPattonPUB wrote:
Dude, I am not messing with the Dude, just can't the Yanks cast another nationality as the bad guys once in a while...like getting an actual German to play a German...
Americans love British villains because they like the idea of sophisticated villains. To the American ear a British accent sounds very sophisticated. Trust me, it is a compliment. Some dope with a southern drawl saying, "But I gots the nucklar device mister bond" wouldn't sell tickets. You cannot have a bad guy who sounds as if he'd trade his death beam laser for a pair of tickets to a mud wrestling competition. I don't know how many times I'm going to have to explain American to the British folks. Sheesh.
MehGerbil wrote:
Americans love British villains because they like the idea of sophisticated villains.
To the American ear a British accent sounds very sophisticated.Actually a British accent doesn't sound sophisticated. Pompous is a better description.
MehGerbil wrote:
Trust me, it is a compliment.
Negative on that one...
I'm retired. There's a nap for that... - Harvey
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Some dope with a southern drawl…he'd trade his death beam laser for a pair of tickets to a mud wrestling competition." If done correctly, the mud wrestling match could be a fair trade for the “death beam laser”, Ya’All. :)
It depends on with who/whom. Two naked ladies? Good trade.
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Why is when a serious name is needed they tend to go for Gruber, I immediatelythink dodgy Die Hard villians...
I remember the guy named Gruber in McHale's Navy. Hew was rather dodgy.