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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-05 04:36 PM
Response to Reply #18
23. a manufactured accent
He didn't always sound like that.
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  -Was the South REALLY that excited about the Civil War? Placebo  Jan-02-05 03:36 PM   #0 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Jan-02-05 03:38 PM   #1 
  - Errrr...Blueknight  Texasgal   Jan-02-05 04:31 PM   #15 
  - Then you know little about the Civil War.  Maddy McCall   Jan-02-05 04:39 PM   #25 
     - Our 17th president was a Southern Unionist  JohnKleeb   Jan-02-05 04:40 PM   #27 
  - The Southerners said the same thing in GWTW.  Left Is Write   Jan-02-05 03:39 PM   #2 
  - Maybe some were.  Old Crusoe   Jan-02-05 03:45 PM   #3 
  - Not all  joefree1   Jan-02-05 03:50 PM   #4 
  - The rich ones probably were.  deadparrot   Jan-02-05 03:54 PM   #5 
  - Some were, some weren't.  Cuban_Liberal   Jan-02-05 04:16 PM   #6 
  - Yes, Western Virginia even branched out and started West Virginia  JohnKleeb   Jan-02-05 04:21 PM   #8 
  - for the last time dubya is not a southerner, hes a northerner  JohnKleeb   Jan-02-05 04:20 PM   #7 
  - Don't try and dump him on US..  Placebo   Jan-02-05 04:23 PM   #10 
  - Boy last I checked  JohnKleeb   Jan-02-05 04:24 PM   #11 
     - Pssh, whatev.  Placebo   Jan-02-05 04:26 PM   #12 
        - Don't whatever me  JohnKleeb   Jan-02-05 04:27 PM   #13 
           - Everyone knows that W, whether you like it not...  Placebo   Jan-02-05 04:29 PM   #14 
              - hah c'mon man, it's a show he puts on  JohnKleeb   Jan-02-05 04:31 PM   #16 
              - The fact that no one in his family has that accent  Left Is Write   Jan-02-05 04:33 PM   #19 
                 - The fact that he didn't have it pre 1994 makes me even more suspicious  JohnKleeb   Jan-02-05 04:35 PM   #21 
              - he's ADOPTED the South  WoodrowFan   Jan-02-05 04:35 PM   #22 
              - right and its not his damnit  JohnKleeb   Jan-02-05 04:36 PM   #24 
              - That's BULLSHIT!  Texasgal   Jan-02-05 04:40 PM   #26 
              - Wrong. He's a transplant...  Maddy McCall   Jan-02-05 04:40 PM   #28 
              - from what I know about southern values and such last year  JohnKleeb   Jan-02-05 04:43 PM   # 
              - Agreed!  Texasgal   Jan-02-05 04:48 PM   #36 
                 - Hell I am born and raised, and I am even reluctant to call myself one  JohnKleeb   Jan-02-05 04:50 PM   #38 
              - He's a transplanted Texan  Not_Giving_Up   Jan-02-05 05:51 PM   #61 
                 - Yeah his father went to Midland to be an oilman  JohnKleeb   Jan-02-05 05:52 PM   #62 
  - I think he's more a Texan than anything.  Zing Zing Zingbah   Jan-02-05 04:33 PM   #17 
  - still, I believe Ive read that Texans only consider  JohnKleeb   Jan-02-05 04:34 PM   #20 
  - It's a matter of where W thinks he belongs, not  Zing Zing Zingbah   Jan-02-05 04:56 PM   #39 
     - Well then  Texasgal   Jan-02-05 04:58 PM   #40 
     - The point is he chooses to identify with Texas  JohnKleeb   Jan-02-05 04:59 PM   #41 
        - So being from a different state is comparable to  Zing Zing Zingbah   Jan-02-05 05:13 PM   #46 
        - ok not really, sorry  JohnKleeb   Jan-02-05 05:15 PM   #48 
        - You could be a southerner too,  Zing Zing Zingbah   Jan-02-05 05:21 PM   #50 
           - Whatever you "feel" you are  Texasgal   Jan-02-05 05:28 PM   #54 
              - If you say so..  Zing Zing Zingbah   Jan-02-05 05:53 PM   #63 
              - What I am trying to convey  Texasgal   Jan-02-05 06:11 PM   #64 
              - I agree!  Not_Giving_Up   Jan-02-05 06:17 PM   #65 
  - Nope. If you knew any Texans and could compare them to him...  Maddy McCall   Jan-02-05 04:41 PM   #29 
     - hah I like that, rhinestone cowboy  JohnKleeb   Jan-02-05 04:42 PM   #31 
  - no northerner has an accent like that kleeb.  jonnyblitz   Jan-02-05 04:33 PM   #18 
  - a manufactured accent  JohnKleeb   Jan-02-05 04:36 PM   #23 
  - Plus, I've seen b-movies about the south and about Texas that...  Maddy McCall   Jan-02-05 04:46 PM   #35 
     - hahaha Dean Martin  JohnKleeb   Jan-02-05 04:49 PM   #37 
  - He doesn't have a Texas accent.  Maddy McCall   Jan-02-05 04:43 PM   #32 
  - He's a carpetbagger, justifiably despised by both North & South.  Vidar   Jan-02-05 05:20 PM   #49 
  - yep thats better word if any  JohnKleeb   Jan-02-05 05:21 PM   #51 
  - And I'll bet Dubya's ancestors didn't fight for the North.  Bridget Burke   Jan-02-05 05:32 PM   #58 
     - Yeah I would assume the same thing  JohnKleeb   Jan-02-05 05:33 PM   #59 
  - Boy, I sure was.  trof   Jan-02-05 04:23 PM   #9 
  - Did the women really look and dress like Nicole Kidman?  madison2000   Jan-02-05 04:42 PM   #30 
  - Nope. They all looked like Scarlett O'Hara.  trof   Jan-02-05 04:43 PM   #33 
     - Ahh shucks, I thought they all looked like Natalie Portman  JohnKleeb   Jan-02-05 04:45 PM   #34 
        - You must have been QUITE upset...  Placebo   Jan-02-05 05:02 PM   #42 
           - That was pretty sick, those Yankee fuckers  JohnKleeb   Jan-02-05 05:03 PM   #43 
              - You mean when the Aussie and the Brit kicked the ...  joefree1   Jan-02-05 06:24 PM   #66 
                 - I think Natalie Portman is the woman the soldier tries to rape  JohnKleeb   Jan-02-05 06:54 PM   #67 
  - Pretty much, but ...  RoyGBiv   Jan-02-05 05:03 PM   #44 
  - Do you know the story about what happened at the first Bull Run?  JohnKleeb   Jan-02-05 05:04 PM   #45 
     - Yeah ...  RoyGBiv   Jan-02-05 05:25 PM   #52 
        - I believe there was a congressman captured by the confederates.  JohnKleeb   Jan-02-05 05:26 PM   #53 
           - WWI more than the Civil War...  Maddy McCall   Jan-02-05 05:29 PM   #55 
              - Yeah I guess you could say the Civil War changed the US forever  JohnKleeb   Jan-02-05 05:30 PM   #56 
  - They weren't excited  catbert836   Jan-02-05 05:15 PM   #47 
  - Many were not. Many others joined the union side.  Radical Activist   Jan-02-05 05:32 PM   #57 
  - At first  sparky_in_ma   Jan-02-05 05:46 PM   #60 
 

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