Hmmmmm... We are already going to be in the city on Saturday for a party anyway. Hmmmmm... And if Durban Bud is all alone, a game of home invasion could be lots of fun. Hmmmmm... We could sneak in and catch him having anonymous buttsex and take pics and put them on our blog. Hmmmmm... No, I better not. Tos might get mad and kick my ass.

Dinger is away at a NASCAR race this weekend in B-F, Virginia. He always comes home talking like he grew up in Alabama. It's kinda hot.

I grew up in PG County in Southern Md. it was rural in the 80's when I was a teenager but now it is just a congested suburb.

My Mom is from West Virginia and my Dad is from Alabama. My Dad had 14 aunts and uncles so I am related to the entire state. We like to refer to ourselves as Hill Williams. In addition to the accent I got from my parents....I went to school at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC and can fall into a really deep accent with just a phone call from a friend. In fact it is sort of a joke around the office....they can always tell when I have been on the phone with a friend from the south.

I don't believe Hillary was being phony...I understand the experience!

Why are you alone sweetie? Where is Rob

dBud: Then there is a good chance we're related. Rob is spending some QT with his family.

It's the non-Southern accent that Hillary fakes. When I was in high school, I heard her as a guest speaker at the Arkansas Governor's School for the Gifted and Delicate. She sounded just like the rest of us.

OH my god Rolonda! I used to come home after long nights of partying and she was always on late at night and sponsored by Miss Cleo 'Call me now'.

All it takes is about an hour talking to/being around any of my family, and my accent comes right back. But I can't do it on demand. Going to school at Miami University (of Ohio), I purposely lost my accent and my mullet (yes, I was that much of a hick and was treated as such). I miss the accent, but not the mullet.

Has your accent ever flared up while talking long distance with your family?
I love that.

Dude...you're alone for the weekend? Where are you heading tonight, bro? Up for checking out tits and then heading to the Eagle?

So true on the hanging with the straight friends... after about 10 minutes the word Dude comes out my mouth and it is down hill from there... I am also heading to the country today to see my southern mother... I will have the southern draw when I get back tomorrow... ughhh

She lived in Arkansas for the better part of three decades. If she didn't have an accent after that, it would be like living in France an equal number of years and never learning French.

This seems to me like an example of "code-switching," where you move between language registers depending on the social context.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching

Rather than an example of inauthenticity, it is more likely a sign that she is a natural, empathic communicator.

It's also probably how she sounds at home when she's talking to her husband and her daughter.

Driving north, I suddenly speak lower Bostonian by just coming off the Cross-Bronx Expressway.

I just read your "intruder" story...that would freak me out like nothing else. I'd feel like Audrey Hepburn in "Wait Until Dark."

Judging by your picture, I doubt you'll have any trouble finding anonymous buttsex.

I imagine gets all nasal and says "pap" when she goes back to suburban Chicago, too. What's the big deal?

I had my home intruder story this weekend.

I woke up at three am on Saturday morning. And there was a naked man by my bed. And it wasn't my partner.

Luckily, he was hot, so we had sex.

Turns out, he was invited over for a threeway without my knowledge (I was sleeping) by my other half.

Like I said, luckily, he was hot. But I still feel kinda violated.

Set Rolanda free! Peace now, freedom now!