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cleolindaTwo follow-ups on the previous entry:
Re: beignets. The problem with dating, rooming with, or being related to someone who writes anything intended to be funny is that you are inevitably going to get the short end of the stick in terms of the way you're portrayed, because... let's face it: it's not funny when things go right. My sister is actually a much better cook than the stories I tell about her would indicate, unfortunately. For example, she has made excellent fajitas (for dinner last night), cherry cheesecake with almond biscotti crust, tons of cakes that disappear in two days, blackberry cobbler with lemon cream, homemade salsa, duck l'orange ("Chef Whoever said my sauce was the best!"), fruit dessert pizza, truckloads of omelettes, napoleons that her boyfriend and I actually fought over, and beignets that did not, in fact, try to conquer the known universe. But things that turn out well aren't funny, so you don't hear much about them.
The thing about cooking and learning to cook--as my aunt, who recently got the same degree at the same college that my sister's getting, will tell you--is that you're bound to mess something up, try something that doesn't work, or have something blow up in your face through no fault of your own. Cooks, unlike writers, don't have the luxury of being able to revise--it either works or it doesn't, and if it doesn't, they have to start all over. There's no backspace on beergnets, let me tell you what. So please, don't get the wrong impression, because I don't want to die.
Re: accents. I was talking about accents with some folks last night and made some joke about not coming over to my LJ and saying, "So, you guys, which accents do you think are really hot?" But in the course of the conversation, two things kept coming up:
1. Of all accents, everyone loves Scottish.
2. Almost no one finds any American accent, with perhaps an exception or two, to be the least bit attractive.
Since there are a lot of y'all and you're from all over, let's actually take a look at this. So... which accents do you think are really hot, guys?
Re: beignets. The problem with dating, rooming with, or being related to someone who writes anything intended to be funny is that you are inevitably going to get the short end of the stick in terms of the way you're portrayed, because... let's face it: it's not funny when things go right. My sister is actually a much better cook than the stories I tell about her would indicate, unfortunately. For example, she has made excellent fajitas (for dinner last night), cherry cheesecake with almond biscotti crust, tons of cakes that disappear in two days, blackberry cobbler with lemon cream, homemade salsa, duck l'orange ("Chef Whoever said my sauce was the best!"), fruit dessert pizza, truckloads of omelettes, napoleons that her boyfriend and I actually fought over, and beignets that did not, in fact, try to conquer the known universe. But things that turn out well aren't funny, so you don't hear much about them.
The thing about cooking and learning to cook--as my aunt, who recently got the same degree at the same college that my sister's getting, will tell you--is that you're bound to mess something up, try something that doesn't work, or have something blow up in your face through no fault of your own. Cooks, unlike writers, don't have the luxury of being able to revise--it either works or it doesn't, and if it doesn't, they have to start all over. There's no backspace on beergnets, let me tell you what. So please, don't get the wrong impression, because I don't want to die.
Re: accents. I was talking about accents with some folks last night and made some joke about not coming over to my LJ and saying, "So, you guys, which accents do you think are really hot?" But in the course of the conversation, two things kept coming up:
1. Of all accents, everyone loves Scottish.
2. Almost no one finds any American accent, with perhaps an exception or two, to be the least bit attractive.
Since there are a lot of y'all and you're from all over, let's actually take a look at this. So... which accents do you think are really hot, guys?
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Date: 2005-03-05 09:04 pm (UTC)And being half-French, I have to say I loooove most French accents.
Hey!
Date: 2005-03-06 02:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-06 04:07 pm (UTC)Yes, that is vain.
:)
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Date: 2005-03-06 11:01 pm (UTC)I think an Irish accent is the hottest thing in the known universe. ESPECIALLY if said accent is coming from the mouth of Dylan Moran (http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/stage/2002/dylan_moran.shtml), who is uber-sexy and also a comedic genius.
Australian accents, Scottish accents, and, sometimes, French accents are also good.
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Date: 2005-03-07 08:06 pm (UTC)P.S. I find it so wierd that all you people like british accents. Mebbe you have only heard the posh ones. Seriously, come to Luton and they'll put you off for life!
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Date: 2005-03-08 12:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-08 03:44 am (UTC)But aye, the Scots accent is still #1.
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Date: 2005-03-10 03:35 am (UTC)The accents I find sexy? I'm a sucker for Scots and Irishmen, although there are of course regional differences. Edinburghian is wonderful. Some Glasgow accents are too harsh, but then Billeh is a Glasgow boy and has a lovely accent. I also adore RP (received pronounciation, also called BBC English). I am a pervy Watcher fancier partly for this reason - Giles' and Wesley's accents are both thoroughly fake, but still sexy as hell. I don't like northern accents, as a rule, but Sheffiled can be sexy when issuing from the likes of the Bean.
I don't tend to be a fan of American accents - Viggo is so much nicer when being English, as is Johnny. I suppose Boston is quite nice. Southern accents are odd. Sometimes I find them creepy - probably largely thanks to American Gothic - Carolinas accents still give me the creeps. However, I sometimes find myself finding southern accents extremely sexy - Owen Wilson and Ben Browder sound sexy.
For further afield, Spanish accents are sexy, and I rather like NZ - Australian is just not sexy, but NZ somehow is.
My $.02
Date: 2005-03-11 07:42 pm (UTC)British: I *heart* Kate Beckinsale and Minnie Driver
Scottish
Irish
Italian
German
Russian
To that I have to add that I think women of Asian decent are the most alluring in the world, but Asiatic dialects are nigh-incomprehensible. Talking with a beautiful woman is awkward enough without constantly thinking, "I need to hand this woman a tablet and some chalk."
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