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Thread Number: 6377
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Post# 128989 5/15/2006 at 21:42 (6,552 days old) by launderess  (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Cannot tell from the photograph the exact model, but from what litte one can see of the agitator, looks like "Jet Action". L. CLICK HERE TO GO TO launderess's LINK on eBay | ||
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| Post# 128991 , Reply# 1 5/15/2006 at 21:47 (6,552 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida) | ||
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| Post# 128999 , Reply# 3 5/15/2006 at 21:52 (6,552 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida) | ||
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| Post# 129083 , Reply# 4 5/16/2006 at 08:50 (6,551 days old) by veg-o-matic (Baltimore, Hon!) | ||
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| Post# 129095 , Reply# 5 5/16/2006 at 09:20 (6,551 days old) by irishwashguy (Salem,Oregon.............A Capital City) | ||
They do not build them like they used to........
I am always having these dreams of having my very own Unimatic, Rolermatic,and perhaps even an I-18 in decorator Copertone(, This is just not at all close. I wish that it was. Although, I thought that it was still thoughtful to put up a link to the Fraugudiare.-I think that you heart was in the right place. :)
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Post# 129166 , Reply# 6 5/16/2006 at 14:26 (6,551 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Well, the seller spelled it  | ||
| Post# 129169 , Reply# 7 5/16/2006 at 14:35 (6,551 days old) by oldwasherguy (Ladson SC) | ||
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| Post# 129232 , Reply# 8 5/16/2006 at 21:33 (6,551 days old) by westyslantfront () | ||
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Hi Don, I am originally from New York City and I talk regular, just like everyone else where I came from. Everyone else seems to have an accent. Ross | ||
| Post# 129233 , Reply# 9 5/16/2006 at 21:34 (6,551 days old) by westyslantfront () | ||
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Hi Don. Steve Toggle has been here to Tucson twice and cannot detect any accent on him. He talks regular. Ross | ||
| Post# 129234 , Reply# 10 5/16/2006 at 21:44 (6,551 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida) | ||
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Post# 129261 , Reply# 11 5/17/2006 at 02:05 (6,551 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains) |
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I sink you arrrrre all bee-ing seellee
You just haven't lived until you hear German students speaking "Oxford English". A regional variation which never existed anywhere in England, it is palmed off as the real thing here. I can't count the times I have had a student correct me or one of the (British) lecturers because our "accent" was not the "proper" one. Not that my dulcet tones have improved any over the last 23 years abroad. Or maybe they have... This dreadful practice of selling a sau's ear for a silk purse is very much in fashion over here in Europe right now. Old, honored brand names are bought up (AEG, Grundig, DUAL) and the most incredible sh** sold to an unsuspecting public. I can well imagine there were many people who fell for that scam way back when - their mothers and grandmothers had unimatics going 20 or thirty years long and they just "assumed" a Frigidaire was a Frigidaire. Dire, indeed. | ||
| Post# 129276 , Reply# 13 5/17/2006 at 07:10 (6,550 days old) by jasonl (Cookeville, TN) | ||
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A frigidaire is not a frigidaire I remember someone saying that about GE. He said "I grew up with this only noisy GE thing that had the roung thingy on top the agitator. Then we got this new one and it broke in 3 years." | ||
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Post# 129281 , Reply# 14 5/17/2006 at 07:23 (6,550 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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My Cousin Vinny
Like you New Yorkers don't have an accent? I have a disguisting NY Accent. I ain't neva gonn deny 'dat! Thank you very much. *LOL* But I have fun in the knowledge that others hear it and I don't. (Well, when I get angry it either comes out in Greek or New York-ese)! So pass me my CAW-FEE before yous get on my freikin' noives and suck the last bit of yout'(read: yute) outta me. Sorry did not mean to offend. But how well I do it! I guess my version of *funny* is getting tiring! Actually all kidding aside; the New York City metropolitan ares is so full of the newly-arrived to this country that we honestly don't hear acents at all. They are plentiful! My aunt has been here in the USA for 50 years (yes FIFTY) and arrived fairly young- and still can't get SHEETS and BEACH and CLEATS out to save her life. (substitute and *i* sound). And by *BAD* accent I mean *STRONG/THICK* accent. So please forgive me. my Turrett's medication seems to have run out. Open mouth, insert foot. | ||
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Post# 129288 , Reply# 15 5/17/2006 at 08:07 (6,550 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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Post# 129314 , Reply# 16 5/17/2006 at 09:09 (6,550 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Open your mouth and spit it out already! | ||
| Post# 129332 , Reply# 17 5/17/2006 at 10:32 (6,550 days old) by agiflow () | ||
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Funny, when my father went out to Missouri to see his sister several years back, his niece said "...Uncle Rich i can tell your from back east" Too funny. He was born in the Bronx, but has lived most of his life in central Jersey and i can still hear that NY accent. | ||
| Post# 129338 , Reply# 18 5/17/2006 at 11:18 (6,550 days old) by davy1063 (Pennsylvania) | ||
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Toggle, you are right...... When I get fired up, most of what flies out is Greek. It seems to add emphasis. They know I'm pissed, but don't know the language to be offended. And as you probably did too, I learned the best words from my Mom. Yia Sou, kai Xristos Anesti. | ||
| Post# 129364 , Reply# 19 5/17/2006 at 13:18 (6,550 days old) by jasonl (Cookeville, TN) | ||
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And you yankees think us Cajuns have funny names, just take a trip to Massachussetts and to Worcester (and it's not pronounced "war-chester" either) LOL. | ||
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Post# 129365 , Reply# 20 5/17/2006 at 13:22 (6,550 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains) |
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accents
Asked my friends here in Munich what sort of accent I had. They said either "horribly, typically US-American, Canadian, Dutch". And those were my friends. My US friends all say I sound like a Professor at a German University or a Panzergeneral. This is, I suppose, not much better. Which is why I am making no comments on anybody's accents here - not even about the Texans. Whoops. | ||
| Post# 129368 , Reply# 21 5/17/2006 at 13:40 (6,550 days old) by agiflow () | ||
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I don't really know if us "yankees" even give it a thought at all. | ||
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Post# 129438 , Reply# 22 5/17/2006 at 18:45 (6,550 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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| Post# 129493 , Reply# 23 5/17/2006 at 21:31 (6,550 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida) | ||
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Post# 129496 , Reply# 24 5/17/2006 at 21:36 (6,550 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Post# 129507 , Reply# 25 5/17/2006 at 22:27 (6,550 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Jason you have a slight accent, Toggle you have an accent, Ross, your accent is calming down since you went west young man, Steve (Mayken4now) I was really surprised you were orignally form LA cuz I didn't detect a cajun nuttin'. I have a somewhat of a Texas accent, but even people in Tucson couldn't believe I am a native cuz I apparently just don't have a really thick one (WATCH IT TOGGLE).
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| Post# 129524 , Reply# 27 5/17/2006 at 23:43 (6,550 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ) | ||
*shrug*
Nah, Bob, you don't have much of an accent, but maybe that means we Arizonans match your accent. Hard to say, isn't it? :-D It's like when I called my friend in Australia. He said, "You have a most delightful Yank accent." I told him I was about to say the same thing about his Aussie accent :-P I've lived in Arizona all my life, but it appears I've picked up Will's Massachusetts accent. Go figure. :-) --Nate | ||
| Post# 129775 , Reply# 28 5/19/2006 at 05:07 (6,548 days old) by irishwashguy (Salem,Oregon.............A Capital City) | ||
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I think that the New England/Mid Atlantic accient sounds sex | ||
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Post# 129805 , Reply# 29 5/19/2006 at 09:03 (6,548 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 129897 , Reply# 30 5/19/2006 at 14:43 (6,548 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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| Post# 130326 , Reply# 32 5/21/2006 at 07:43 (6,546 days old) by laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii) | ||
FRIGI-DARE | ||
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Post# 130359 , Reply# 33 5/21/2006 at 12:50 (6,546 days old) by sudsmaster (SF Bay Area, California) |
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My family moved from New Haven to San Francisco when I was 11. We were told we all had New York accents when we got there. I couldn't tell, of course. seven years later I was at a California Aggie school (UC Davis) and immersed in folk music. My brother told me I had developed quite a country twang. I lost it as I moved back to the Bay Area (Berkeley). I visited the old neighborhood in Connecticut some 10 years later, and was shocked at all my neighbors' strong New York accents. When I visited Ireland on business in the 90's, I recall having a sort of out of body experience, as I was complaining on the phone to a computer tech support line back in the USA. I could hear my own flat California-American accent echoing through the cubicle area, in start contrast to the gentle tones of my Irish co-workers. Nowadays I don't really notice other Americans' accents that much. They seem much more subtle these days than they did some 30 years ago. I think with TV/Radio/Films people have been gradually losing their regional accents, and it's all becoming more or less one American accent. It is interesting to hear various Germans speak English. The ones from Frankfurt seem to have an American accent. I guess the Munich crowd sports the ersatz-British accent. The only time I think I reverted to an East Coast accent was when my jaw was fractured and I started dropping my R's like a Bostonian. Fortunately that healed enough so I could sound like a Californian again. Like most people, I think, I tend to adopt the accent of the location where I'm staying for a long time. I think when I came back from only about a month in Ireland I had a slight lilt to my cadence. But that also soon passed. | ||
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