[Jolly Amaranto]

I moved to Texas while I was in high school. One of my best friends there had a very thick East Texas Piney Woods Accent. It got to where I could mimic him very well. While in college I took a summer job as a life guard at a summer camp in northern New Hampshire. At the beginning of each weekly camp session all the new campers would have to line up at the beach on the lake and get the standard safety lecture before they could enter the water. I would pour on my best imitation of a "Texas" accent and leave the poor kids really confused. "What did he say?" Then I would speak real slow and answer their questions till they were satisfied and got to go swimming. Of course my nick name after that was always "Tex". Little did they know I was really a Cheese Head from Wisconsin.