Yesterday, as I was getting dressed for my son’s play, I said to myself, but aloud, “I wonder if I still have that cardigan sweater.” I immediately repeated it, doing a John F Kennedy impression. I didn’t even realize I was doing it until I got to “sweatah.”
What phrases or sentences have found need repeating in a voice other than your own?
The fen is ring-ging (in a Clouseau French accent).
Sons-a-bitches! With a nod to Darren McGavin in Christmas Story.
“I’d like to report a burglary.”
When someone says “thank you,” I’ll often respond with a Grouchoesque “thank you!”
Cap’n! I canna gie her anny more poower! –James Doohan, Star Trek
Verrrrrry interrrrrrresting. –Arte Johnson, Laugh-In
What’s all this then? –Terry Jones, MPFC
you’ll be swimmin, with the fishes, see? mmeeaaahhh…see?
seriously, nobody in the history of the friggin planet could have talked that way naturally. i just don’t think it’s possible. maybe that’s why the chicagoland gangsters resorted to violence…they had to make cement shoes for all the kids that picked on them through childhood…see?
All be bock.
All be bock.
Uh, I only hit Enter once. The hampsters stuttered.
“Ex-cellent!”
“Ve haf ways ov making you talk.”
StG
ET phone home
[singsong falsetto] My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. [/singsong falsetto]
“Never mind!” Must be said in a high, nasal voice like, um, Lily Tomlin? Gilda Radner? One of them, from early SNL.
Tengo el gato in mis pantalones.
My favorite student says this in his grandfather’s heavy Indian accent. Always funny.
That was Gilda in her Emily Litella character.
Also “Ay wood laik a rheum” or “Ay em cheer to eenspenkt ze peul.”
Wilburr-rr-rr!
I am not a crook.
Would you like a blueberry squishy?
Go away, or I shall taunt you some more.
mmmmmmmmyeah