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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 9:17 am
It appears to me that their communication skills can't go anywhere but up...LOL!
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 9:43 am
LOL Roxi I concur!
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Marameko
Member
07-14-2002
| Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 10:59 am
As soon as I saw Brenchel doing the salami tasting I knew big trouble was in the works. I keep waiting for those 2 to get eliminated so I can once again enjoy this show.Surely there is no other show that those 2 can pop up on. Oh yeah maybe DIVORCE COURT. I would love to see them on Judge Judy............
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Mamabatsy
Member
08-05-2005
| Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 11:39 am
Can you just imagine Judge Judy responding to Rachel's screwed up crying face with no tears? I may spend the rest of the day giggling at that thought. 
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Holly
Member
07-21-2001
| Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 12:27 pm
LOL, Mamabatsy. I can just hear Judy barking at her, "Is there something wrong with you? Are you on medication?"
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Allietex
Member
08-16-2002
| Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 4:53 pm
Wonder why the country boys accents don't bother me. Oh, yeah, maybe because I am from Texas, country Texas, very country Texas. I have heard people talk like them all my life. Now some of the New York and New Jersey accents in past shows, have had me scratching my head and trying to figure out what they said.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 7:16 am
The Kentucky guys aren't using all those stupid country sayings that they seemed to be throwing down every few minutes the first episode...I think now that they rae actually in the meat of the race they aren't overacting for the cameras and it makes them a lot more likeable. Not that there isn't a thing wrong with country sayings...I've been known to say a few myself from time to time...it was just too much the first episode though.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 8:18 am
I concur, Roxip
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 9:50 am
I do love the Kentucky guys, but I have a lot of trouble understanding anything that comes out of their mouths. And I have southern relatives (Arkansas), so I'm not a novice at southern accents. Everything they say just sounds like mush. My 11 yo DS finds them hilarious and giggles uncontrollably whenever they're on-screen. 
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Granjan
Member
05-10-2011
| Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 10:59 am
I'm from Texas, came from a very small country town, but the Kentucky guys don't sound like anyone I've ever heard.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 11:55 am
I'm from Texas too and I don't hear many people with accents like that, but some east Texas people tend to talk more "southern" than those of us here in Dallas. My mother's family came from MIssissippi and they did talk with "molasses" in their mouth.
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Allietex
Member
08-16-2002
| Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 12:15 pm
I have known people who sound just like them. But as I said, I came from a VERY country area. As my mama used to say, So far back in the sticks that the sticks were just twigs. Of course, that was a long time ago, and many people now days have acquired the American TV accent which mutes the extreme accents. But, yeah, a lot of the old timers sounded just like them. That is not to say everyone in Texas sounds like that. Of course they don't. I doubt if everyone in Kentucky does either. And yes, I expect they have been hamming it up some for the camera. Everyone plays to their strengths and it is to their advantage to make the other teams think they are just dumb hillbillies. Their bios show they certainly aren't.
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Maris
Member
03-27-2002
| Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 3:56 pm
I like the guys from Kentucky. they remind me of my cousins in Ireland. They live in an area of Limerick that is very remote and they have an accent like none of you have heard before. Doesnt even sound like they are speaking english and you have to really know the accent to understand them. It is only because I grew up with them that I understand them. My son doesnt understand a single word they say when we go to visit. But a more down to earth, non judgmental and accepting group of people you will never meet.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 6:59 pm
I think i have told this on myself before, but I will repeat it - back in the day when I was a department store buyer and making regular buying trips to NYC, I put on such a thick southern accent I couldn't even understand myself, but the vendors were enchanted! Whatever works!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 8:20 pm
I used to work for Transamerica and the customer service reps and the analysts on our particular system all worked in Atlanta. Most of our analysts were from the south, but had varied accents. But we learned that some of them could switch accents in mid sentence. So they might answer the phone with a really thick accent and then drop it when they knew we were on the other end.. of course on our end we had filipino, chinese, vietnamese and korean accents within our group for them to deal with When I went back for training and orientation, I could tell that the accents on the customer service reps really seemed to go a long way with the callers.
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Allietex
Member
08-16-2002
| Friday, March 16, 2012 - 5:23 pm
I had to call a service company not too long ago and got someone with what I think was an Indian accent. I kept asking the person to repeat so many times that I finally got embarrassed and said I would call back. I hung up and called back immediately and got someone else with the same kind of accent only not so thick. He solved my problem quickly. I felt badly about it, but it was important and I did not want any mistakes made through miscommunication. It's funny how I never notice the Texas accents of people I interact with all the time, but when I see someone on TV with the same accent, it is very noticeable.
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