Jimmy Carr teaching Banderas and Hayek how to speak with a Liverpool accent nearly made me hurt myself laughing.

plagiarism update:

I wrote a formal memo to the student and sent it off to various associate deans, department chairs and the student's advisor. I included the highlighted portions of the paper that I found as uncredited, and included references for the passages that did not appear in the reference list.

So I ended up giving her a zero on the final paper, so this puts her in the "D" range for the course. At the graduate level you need a "C" or better for the course to count towards degree.

ND, Pix - so sorry to hear about Byron.

Matt - so sorry for your loss.

I just got back from knitting group - got a ride back with the other half-Japanese woman in our group and found out that Rockford has an internment camp. And that there are these little houses in Kirkland (kind of midway between here and Rockford) where Japanese men who were able lived during the week - while they worked at local farms because most of the local farmboys were at war. Then during the weekend they went back to the camp where the women and children were.

Still a few of those building left - and there are still people living in them despite the smallness.

I had no idea.

It just occurred to me when Jimmy brought it up--Scouse, Geordie, and Cockney accents: it's not like they give you any idea where they're actually from or anything. If you don't know they refer to Liverpool, Newcastle, and that wee bit of London, you'd have no idea. Does the US have accent names like that?

Salma is enough to make on believe in miracles before you even get to her origin story.

LeN, that sound plenty reasonable, and perhaps a lot less meaner than I'd ahve been tempted to be.

Does the US have accent names like that?

Not that I can think of.

Dear DirecTV. If I lose my job, I will no longer be able to pay your exorbitant monthly fees.

Therefore, please to stop running back to back episodes of The Wire late Sunday nights.

Ta, me.

Does the US have accent names like that?

How about Hoosier? Is that an accent?

Salma is enough to make on believe in miracles before you even get to her origin story.

The miraculous origin story of her boobs!

Banderas was impressing me. I knew he'd come to the US not speaking English at all, but I didn't realize he'd gotten his first movie role before he learned it!

Banderas was impressing me. I knew he'd come to the US not speaking English at all, but I didn't realize he'd gotten his first movie role before he learned it!

He's just that pretty.

If you don't know they refer to Liverpool, Newcastle, and that wee bit of London, you'd have no idea.

I've known what a Geordie accent sounds like for a while due to all the British television I watch, but it wasn't until just the other day that I put it together with Newcastle while watching an old Graham Norton episode with Diddy, Vince Vaughn, and Sarah Millican.

Hoosier accents vary significantly depending on what part of the state you're from, so I'm going to say, "no" on that one.