British accent stereotypes - 'news'

[Scot LaFaive]

> and you call yourself a merkin?

You'll have to enlighten me on what a "merkin" is.

Scot

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 4:19 PM,  <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:
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> In a message dated 4/4/08 4:47:26 PM, slafaive at GMAIL.COM writes:
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> > I believe you are right. I hadn't known of this "rain in Spain"
> > exercise in "My Fair Lady" before you mentioned it, on account of I've
> > never seen the movie, play, what have you.
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> > Scot
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> and you call yourself a merkin?
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