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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: 2005-03-04 09:19 pm (UTC)my favourite, of course, is scottish. like, billy boyd scottish. i love it, it makes me just wanna jump someone. i actually did jump on one scottish boy in the pub one day, after joking with him that his accent was insanely sexy. hey, he dared me to!
in terms of british, i've decided that northern brit is what gets me. wigan, liverpool and manchester are my favourites. (i'm reallyreallyreally in love with the wigan. gah!)
italian and spanish.
bulgarian isn't so much sexy as interesting. but i would not kick a bulgarian man out of bed, either.
german does get me a little. it's not a huge thing, but a little german works for me. it has to be soft enough for me to understand, though.
irish is good, too.
south african.
south american! yum! (i know most people tend to lump this in with spanish, but it's so not. maybe the people i know are just dumb.)
in terms of US accents, none really do it for me. but i have the extremes in my family, so i guess i'm just used to them. i grew up in california, so i think my accent is neutral. my mother is from the south, so she has a bit of southern accent, and my dad is from long island, so he's got a thick new york accent. the fun thing about this is, i can slip into any three of these "accents" at any given time, having grown up with all of this around me. people tend to tell me my accent is "melting pot of america". i never really noticed it, since i'm so obviously used to me, but i do know that i say "tawk" instead of "talk", and other such things. especially now that i live in texas, i get made fun of for my accent all the time. (and i still really don't see where i have an accent at all.)
yeah, done now. sorry about the long ass post. :)