Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 15:01 12/07/97 -0600, you wrote: >>I have to say, you calling your slides "bad boys" gives me a whole new >>slant >>on photography. I shall in future have that phrase in mind as I press the >>button! >>Joe Berenbaum >> >Joe "Bad Boy" Berenbaum, you have to be careful to use the correct accent >when repeating the words. If you can muster a Brooklyn, NY affect it will >work. If you sound like you came out of Eton, you might want to practice a >few times in private. >,/8^) I find that the Eton accent is far easier for my permanently-curled upper lip. I did see a black American comedian once do a spiel about "hanging" with his "home boys" etc, all in an upper-crust English accent. It was most amusing. That is how I shall be pronouncing "bad boys" when the need to do so arises. I shall use it as an incantation with an unapologetically plummy English accent, as I walk the streets of London and pause among the urban strife and decay to set the controls of my gazelle-hide upholstered Lord Snowdon edition M6.... Joe Berenbaum