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Like I said, you don't need artifice, with those dark eyes - wow!
Bob - I am going to pretend that vid was especially produced for me to knock me off the fence! It worked.
The eyes have it, no doubt about it....But the voice - love that accent, and the hint of bashfulness just works so well for you That (occasionally) sarcastic Bob-person that we all know and love now has a sweet face (bet you are mortified that the word 'sweet' is used to describe you ) with a 'hot' Yankie accent.
Maybe you will get ms after all....
Well done you techno-whizz. _________________ Ally
Joined: Mar 26, 2005 Posts: 529 Location: Northamptonshire, England.
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 7:38 am Post subject:
Hey Bob,
These words are going to stick in my throat so I hope you appreciate how difficult this is to say:
It was really great to see and hear you on video… pictures are fine, but you can't beat video for making you realise there are real human beings behind the rather impersonal words on these pages. Thank you for that! _________________ Dom
Joined: May 04, 2006 Posts: 2959 Location: Mid-Michigan
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 11:10 am Post subject:
AllyB wrote:
But the voice - love that accent
Thanks for the kind words Ally, but I thought Americans were the only people WITHOUT an accent??
TwistedHelix wrote:
These words are going to stick in my throat so I hope you appreciate how difficult this is to say:
It was really great to see and hear you on video…
Thanks Dom! I only wish that I could lock that statement so that you can't edit it out later!
Terry wrote:
Here is our perfect proof that miracles occur. Maybe a cure really IS just around the corner.
Ha! In real life I'm not a big talker, but obviously in cyberspace I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut!
Bob _________________ Wife diagnosed with MS in Feb. 2006 and is a participant in the Tovaxin IIb clinical trial.
I actually love American accents - except maybe NY/Brooklyn type ones (sorry to all who have them, but they sounds a little jarring to the ear), but my fav are those guys with Southern drawls, especially if they have a deepish voice - maybe we should all start making recordings...? So polite and so charming - I loved New Orleans
Sadly Bob, you are a Yankie, but it still sounds good to me - I have a horrible clipped Brit accent meshed with a little SA twang, not nearly so smooth on the ear.
Hey, Jack is from Carolina - maybe he has a great drawl? _________________ Ally
Joined: Apr 21, 2008 Posts: 216 Location: New Brunswick, Canada
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 2:53 pm Post subject:
My eyes aren't actually all that dark! They're more a blue/gray color. Just the lighting in that photo makes them look darker than normal .
I do have brown hair and quite dark other features (eyebrows/lashes), so in that respect I guess that's how I've avoided makeup for years. Which works well for me, because I'm a hippie girl when it comes to appearance.
I'm just happy as punch for the weather to be nice so I can wear my Birkenstocks honestly _________________ Dx RRMS March 5, 2008. I achieved my dx in absence of a GP, by being proactive and telling my story. An ENT listened and ordered my MRI, leading to my dx.
Joined: Sep 30, 2007 Posts: 96 Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 4:37 pm Post subject:
Sorry to dissapoint you Ally, but I have no noticable accent. I grew up in deep South, Columbus Georgia to be exact but never had a heavy southern accent. How I missed it I do not know, maybe watching to much Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News growing up, but it probably has more to do with living in a military town and going to school with kids from all over the states.
Most people, when they try to guess, think I sound like someone from the Midwest, say around Chicago.
Personally, my favorite American accent is from the Texas Hill Country. Maybe Arti sounds llike that!
World wide, I'd have to say nothing sounds as good as a gal with an Austrialian accent. When I was in college, we had an exchange student at our school for a semster. Every time she spoke to me I just melted.
Joined: Sep 30, 2007 Posts: 96 Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 5:50 pm Post subject:
Nenu,
Know what you mean about to many other things to worry about. That's one of best things about having long hair. Just tie it back and get on with life. Think how much money you have saved on cosmetics and me on hair cuts.
You look really sweet in that last picture BTW, with that Mona Lisa smile.
You said it was warm enough in new Brunswick to wear you Birks without socks. What is it like up there now, in the lower 80's (F) here.
Joined: Apr 21, 2008 Posts: 216 Location: New Brunswick, Canada
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 7:11 pm Post subject:
Oh it's warm enough here. 20C today. I just always wear socks in my sandals. My feet tend to get cold, no matter how warm it is out _________________ Dx RRMS March 5, 2008. I achieved my dx in absence of a GP, by being proactive and telling my story. An ENT listened and ordered my MRI, leading to my dx.
Well sorry for missing out on all the fun , but i just got in it's like 10:30 pm Sunday and we have been in Louisiana all day fishing and crabing and I am so sun burned. Me and Greta both, the only one that is not is Dalton. Well sorry to miss out but we had a great day and tomorrow looks like we will be having some of those BBQ crabs. MMMMMMMM MMMMMMM good, later arti _________________ "Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction."
"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."
Thomas Paine
Joined: Jul 28, 2005 Posts: 1036 Location: Sydney, Australia
Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 4:40 am Post subject:
GeoGuy wrote:
World wide, I'd have to say nothing sounds as good as a gal with an Austrialian accent. When I was in college, we had an exchange student at our school for a semster. Every time she spoke to me I just melted.
How thick an accent are we talking? "crocodile dundee"? or "city"?
cure what's that show where that pair of ladies are always drinking in the casino while their kids are out in the car - some weird accents on that one.
Nenu, you do look very dark in that pic, so if your eyes are actually a blue/grey then you are indeed blessed with great colouring. Love the hippie look - don't have th estyle sense for it myself, so I am just plain scruffy...Had a pic in my head of it being really cold where you live, guess I have to adjust that! We are still a bit unseasonally hot here (your equivilent of Nov - Southern Hemi) and the last few days it has been hitting 30C with high humidity - just when I thought I could get out my hot water bottles!
I went back to the UK a few years ago to work in a London hospital. I worked with RN's from Oz, NZ and Canada (as well as the UK!), and I must confess to being mistaken for an Australian by many of the Brits! Now if you know both accents, they are vastly different (Zim and SA sound similar in that Oz and NZ sound similar)...Yet here in SA, I am made for a Brit quite easily - so I guess I have a very 'basterdized' accent! The last time I was in the States, I stayed a month, and by the time I left, my 'thinking' voice in my head had an American accent - easily influenced, I guess.
We have lots of Aussies here (as they have lots of SA folks there) and their accents do vary from very pleasantly twangy to almost unintelligible (again, as they do here in SA) - so some are beautifully mellow and others a little harsh...Gotta love diversity though. My girlfriend from Uni married an dAussie Doc and moved to Perth - been over to see them a couple of times, must confess to considering emmigrating to Oz too, but in the end, the decision is just too hard...
Jack, I am very disappointed, I was hearing the lovely voice in my head, but I guess I will get over it...
Agree about the long hair - my husband is always asking me to cut mine, and I refuse because, with 2 small kids and a life to live, it is much easier not to have to style it, just clip it up!
Shannon - I have to move on to you now that Jack has let me down (glad you had a great day, but you should know better about the sunburn!) - do you have a great Texas drawl? Greta's accent must be really cool too...
Anyway...check you later my skaaties! _________________ Ally
Deep voice and Texas draw, both. Sometimes I think I sound like a hick though.
The sunburn wasn't as bad as I thought it is already gone. Guess the whiskey helped the symptoms. HEHE I'm better. Being red headed I still seem to tan fairly well.
Greta I guess has been around me so long I don't notice her accent that much. I think all Texans have a different accent depending were you are. We live so close to Louisiana that alot of our dialect comes from there.
I would love to hear everyones voice. I find it interesting how people sound. The internet is great but hard to appreciate someones sounds through a keyboard and it often lacks the luster of how someone says something too. Sometimes I can be a bit of a smartass , but who would know the difference when you can't hear me.
Wouldn't it be great if we all could meet? I know this is just dreaming but wow what a good time we would have. Lots of laughing and story telling.
later
Some of my friends say I sound like Dr. Phil if that gives you any idea of how I sound. Personaly I don't like the guy but he's from Tx and I guess we do sound alot alike. _________________ "Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction."
"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."
Thomas Paine
Yep - we would be a true United Nations, talking all night round a camp fire, toasting marshmallows and hot dogs, we could sample each others wines and culinary specialities, and just chill .... _________________ Ally
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That (occasionally) sarcastic Bob-person that we all know and love now has a sweet face (bet you are mortified that the word 'sweet' is used to describe you 
) with a 'hot' Yankie accent.
