Others recalled her joking in a thick Southern accent about how much she misses eating McDonalds but how she has had to carefully watch her diet since a 2004 quadruple-bypass surgery.
Out for a meal in Leicester Square for my mother's birthday earlier in the summer, our waiter was not only competent, but took the time to have a laugh with us and - most impressively - responded well to my dad's inevitable attempt at banter (explaining to the Geordie, in his best Newcastle accent, just how much we loved watching Ant and Dec as children).
Moreover, faking an accent is extremely difficult; it doesn't matter how good you think your foreign accent is, it matters how much everyone else does.
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The first time she came to my house, she remarked how much she liked my mom's "uneducated" accent.
"What a character," they say, laughing at his posh accent, chuckling at just how much he looks like a drawing of a head-teacher on a biscuit tin.
"We used to have hundreds of letters about how much kids all over the country loved the accent," says Robinson.
His fake accent "highlights the whole issue of how much you're getting of the real me".
Pretend that the speaker is speaking in an Austrian accent, like Arnold Schwarzenegger, it's funny when its a very boring subject, imagine how much energy Arnold would have right now.
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