Originally Posted By Lisann22 October 11, 2005 - Question of the day: Do you do imitations? What famous person(s) do you imitate or impersonate best? Can you do different accents?
Originally Posted By Jafar30 As for accents I can to a pretty good Irish and German. Somewhat of a British, but that more of a cockney accent.
Originally Posted By Ursula I used to imitate my mother, but it got too scary what with the whole "you turn into your mother thing." The only person I can do now is this old British lady from Birmingham. I started doing her to poke fun of my ex-boyfriend's mother, but she's since grown into a cackling older lady. I'd say she was a cross between one of the "ladies" from Monty Pyton and a drunk Queen Elizabeth.
Originally Posted By jasmine7 I love to try to do imitations. I think my best is probably Ethel Merman while singing. Ya ain't heard nothing until you hear Ethel try to sing Bohemian Rhapsody. lol I also love accents. I can do a pretty good Southern, a good English, Australian, and I'm working on my French accent. I have a bad habit of picking up the accent of my closest friends. In junior high, my best friend had a Southern accent, and I began to talk with one most of the time, lol.
Originally Posted By DisneyChica I do a mean imiatation of Celine Dion or Christina Agulera in the car. Only Nessa has had the privilege of hearing those though, I don't want anyone to get confused with the real thing.
Originally Posted By GrumpysWife Do you do imitations? What famous person(s) do you imitate or impersonate best? Can you do different accents? Oh man, no no and no. I'm SOOOOO bad at things like this. If I tried any of the above, NO ONE would be able to guess what I was trying to do. The best I could muster would be a poor southern drawl, y'all.
Originally Posted By Big Thunder Not really, nobody well known. Years ago when dating my wife, we hung out with another couple, the gal was my wife's best friend, she is now my daughter's Godmother. I got along well with her and her then boyfriend, even though we probably seemed very opposite people, I liked Fernando, he was a cool guy. Fernie had a very distinct nasal voice and almost stereotypical Mexican accent. One night, I don't know why, but after parting from them I went into an impression of Fernie and Maria, my wife was holding her tummy laughing begging me to stop saying I did a dead on Fernie impression. It wasn't so much his voice, it was more his personality and common phrases he used. A few days later, my wife mentioned to her friend that I did a good impression of her boyfriend, I was stunned and embarrassed, the friend was begging me to do it for her, it was awkward and uncomfortable, but eventually I did a little of him and she too was laughing hysterically. I was concerned that it could be taken in the wrong way if Fernie ever knew I did that. I made a point to explain that I liked Fernie and I had no malicious or harmful intentions. She understood and I trusted her. I never planned to do it again. Later on one evening, we were out and I must have been getting on my future comadre's nerves. I must have done something to irk her, because she purposely exposed me. She said in a sort of... "OK you wanna go there" way.. "hey Karl why don't you do your impression of Fernie for us" My heart dropped, I had the deer in headlights look, stuttering for an excuse and explanation, I could feel the blood rushing to my blush face as I fumbled for words that were no way going to get me out of the awkward predicament. I never did do the impression for them, nor have I ever did my Fernie impression ever since.
Originally Posted By Mrs 2oon Personally I don't do good imitations, but 2oonlet 1 is great at accents....especially Scottish and Irish.
Originally Posted By Labuda No imitations here. But, regarding accents? Well, I can do Texan REAL well! lol I actually speak with no accent for the most part, but if I'm on the phone with a cusotmer who asks me if I'm from the midwest, I slip into an East Texas accent and show them I can talk Texan. Oh, and if I'm mad I say "thang" instead of "thing". Other than that, I really can't do any other English-speaking accents. But, I've been told that my French & Russian accents when speaking those languages re pretty much spot-on for what you'd hear from a native speaker. Not the same with Spanish, though - at least not totally - I can't trill my r's to save my life. If I say pero or perro, it sounds the same. ARGH!
Originally Posted By MissCandice Nope. Well, I do have one person I can kind of "do" but it's a locksmith I used to work with over the phone at AAA, so it's kind of a boring imitation for people who have never heard him speak.
Originally Posted By Big Thunder <"but if I'm on the phone with a cusotmer who asks me if I'm from the midwest, I slip into an East Texas accent and show them I can talk Texan"> So are all your techie counterparts just doing east India imitations? I'd love it if one would talk Texan sometime.
Originally Posted By goodgirl I thought I did a pretty fine job impersonating Lisann22 last fall when she forgot to sign off her screen name on the laptop at SuzieQ's house.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 When I was a little girl we used to do "shows" all the time for family entertainment. My sister and I did Wonder Woman, Johnny Carson, Ali, Cosby, list goes on and on. For some reason I can pick up on people's traits pretty quickly and mimic them. Not in a cruel way. I got the southern, NY, Chicago and hispanic accents down. LOL!
Originally Posted By Labuda Oh, how I wish I could give that a yes answer, Big Thunder. But, sorry, I can't.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 I do a pretty decent Irish Brogue, as when I met my wife her parents had lived in Ireland until their early 30's and I had to pick it up to communicate. as far as voices...........talk like Yoda, I can
