Hardcore Denziens, I'm Calling YOU Out!

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

I wouldn't say it was deep, but you're right about the lack of accent. Amazing, considering.

[Nighthawk 0]

Hey Kotz, call me and leave a message, I want to see if this is true.

[Jingus 0]

Meh. I've lived in Tennessee my whole life, yet still have no accent. I win.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Jingus, I recall you having fairly noticable southern inflection in your voice.

[Nighthawk 0]

People in Califonia think I have an accent but I don't. Aside from random images, my real, unedited memory starts in Georgia however.

[KingPK 0]

This didn't go over as well as I thought it would. I should go back to the anonymous, nice mod gimmick.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Do Californians have an accent?

 

I know we have our own lingo, but the way I talk seems to noticeably stand out enough for people to ask me at times if I'm from around here.

[Nighthawk 0]

If you want to count Valley Girl or Surfer Dude, then yes. You probably don't talk like either of those, though.

[Art Sandusky 0]

I say "dude" a lot. A lot.

[Guest Vitamin X]

I probably say it like even more than you do. And "like", also.

 

I mean, I'm sure that aspect of my Californianess has been toned down in recent times since I've tried to speak perfect English, but old habits are like, hard to break.

[Art Sandusky 0]

I dunno, dude.

[Nighthawk 0]

Dude is my normal term when refering to a male, but I don't use it much apart from that. I now say chick for female, but it took me a while to get away from using bitch. I picked that up when I lived in south central. It doesn't come off well most places.

[Mystery Eskimo 0]

Um, everyone in America has an accent. An AMERICAN accent. Until you guys force us to rename the language "American" anyway.

[Nighthawk 0]

I saw a movie where they refered to the language as "United States". I can't remember what it was. In that sense everyone has an accent except the queen of England, anyway.

[Mystery Eskimo 0]

True.

 

On a random aside, I have a friend who visited the States and on telling someone he was from England got asked "Oh, what language do you speak over there?"

[Guest cosbywasmurdered]

When I was a kid we went to California and someone asked us if we were still fighting the indians in Canada

[Guest cosbywasmurdered]

heh. I like that "talking to americans" special CBC did a few years ago. That was so awesome.

[Ted the Poster 0]

Shouldn't you guys be watching today's hockey game or something?

[Guest cosbywasmurdered]

Damn Louie Riel (sp?)

[Guest cosbywasmurdered]

Shouldn't you guys be watching today's hockey game or something?

HAR HAR HAR

 

*weeps*

[Nighthawk 0]

And that reminds me of a joke only Americans will get.

 

I blorgled the zffl, but there were so many ghulois x thought it was khfl!

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

It's funny because it's true.

[... 0]

And that reminds me of a joke only Americans will get.

 

I blorgled the zffl, but there were so many ghulois x thought it was khfl!

Here's a joke only HOWL HOWL GARGLE GARGLE GARGLE HOWL GARGLE GARGLE HOWL HOWL HOWL GARGLE HOWL GARGLE GARGLE will get:

 

[Art Sandusky 0]

Diners enjoy buffet dinner in the buff

Friday, February 18, 2005 Posted: 10:12 PM EST (0312 GMT)

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- The diners arrived at a nice Manhattan restaurant on a cold February night and stripped off coats, hats, gloves and scarves. They didn't stop there.

 

Skirts, shirts, pants, underwear and stockings all ended up stashed in plastic bags by the bar as the patrons got naked for the monthly "Clothing Optional Dinner."

 

"It's exciting to be in a restaurant nude," said George Keyes, 65, a retired junior high school English teacher.

 

Nude yes, but not unadorned.

 

Keyes, a lifelong nudist, wore a necklace, earrings and white sneakers.

 

The dinner was started by a group of New York nudists who wanted something a bit more elegant than the wilderness getaways and beach resorts they generally frequent.

 

"When you go away on holiday it's more you're roughing it in the woods, whereas this is a really nice restaurant," said Keyes, a member of gay nudist group Males Au Naturel, or MAN.

 

John Ordover set up the dining club about a year ago, recruiting members through word of mouth and the Internet.

 

"Next month is our Easter bonnet event, where everybody has to come wearing an Easter bonnet," said Ordover, a heavyset man with a jovial smile and glasses.

 

Something to sit on

Around 30 people arrived for the buffet dinner -- organizers specified no hot soup on the menu -- most of them middle-aged, several married couples, some singles, the youngest perhaps in their 30s.

 

"They're a good class of people, they're no different to you or I," said John Bussi, owner of the midtown restaurant. "They're not hurting anybody, it's not a wild Roman orgy."

 

Health regulations mean staff must remain clothed even if they wanted to join in. And diners must bring something to sit on -- a towel or, for discerning women, an elegant silk scarf.

 

The restaurant's manager covered the windows to maintain privacy at the strictly private party. Extra heaters kept the temperature at a comfortable level for nudity.

 

Ordover's wife, Carol, said they first went on a naturist holiday five years ago and she found the experience empowering. But, she explained, it's "the least sexual thing you can possibly imagine."

 

"Men in nudist resorts are striking a bargain. They get to see as many naked women as they like as long as they are polite and look them straight in the eye," she said.

 

Sherry Stafford, a petite and elegant 51-year-old with blond hair and high heels, brought brochures and videos advertising her travel business, Internaturally Travel.

 

One of the flyers was for a resort called "Hedonism II" whose slogan is "Be wicked for a week." But she said nudists should not be confused with swingers.

 

"Wearing clothes and going to church does not protect you from moral evil," Stafford said, lamenting what she saw as a tendency to demonize people just because they like to be naked.

 

Sandy, a slim woman in her 40s, said she never felt self-conscious about her body and was comfortable dining in the nude. But she did admit to being a bit more nervous before a recent naked yoga class attended by around 25 people.

 

"Everyone was a little concerned there would be people looking around but the good thing is nobody really was," she said, standing at the restaurant's bar before dinner.

 

"If you try to maintain a yoga position you're going to fall if you start looking around -- and that's more embarrassing than anything else."

[Special K 0]

MMm Ravishing.