Reply #9: No, but if you remember when Butch Thompson was on the show

[Lydia Leftcoast]

he had it.

When I first moved back to Minnesota in 2003, I went to visit my 90-year-old great aunt. After living on the East Coast and West Coast for a total of 28 years combined, I no longer have a real Minnesota accent, although I can fake one.

Well, I tried to talk to my great aunt, who is hard of hearing, and we just weren't communicating. In desperation, I tried the Minnesota accent, one feature of which is emphatically pronounced consonants, especially the r's and l's. Once I did that, she understood me perfectly. :-)