Maine Accent

I would marry that guy in a heartbeat. What a doll!

Watch out for that "nor eastas" chasing that guy OP.

Baw Hawbah

You can't get there from here!

He's a cutie!

So, I guess this is what characters in Stephen King's novels are meant to sound like!

His accent is mild compared to some Maine lobstermen.

Many of them speak with accents so thick you’d think they hailed from another state. Yet, if you go inland just a few miles in most places it’s barely noticeable, if at all.

He's cute.

He's cute but smells like fish. Don't know if I could get over that.

He's cute and all but

POOR LOBSTERS 😥

Is he from down East, ayut?

[Quote]Is he from down East, ayut?

It's ayuH.

As R6 said, it's not that thick. He drops the G off of words ending in ing and some Rs but not all. He's sounds like he's gots more culchah than most of those hicks up there.

very cute and naturally charming.

So many egregious attempts at Maine accents.

Tom Bodley on Murder, She Wrote was particularly terrible.

Conrad Bain’s fleeting stint on Dark Shadows is mostly memorable for his over-the-top accent. (Video of said crime at link.)

I wonder what the cute Maine lobsterman would make of these dialect disasters.

Pepp'ridge Fahm remembahs!

Ty Babb is the cutie's name.

R14, that wasn't as bad as I thought. Tom Bosley's was utter bullshit, though. Check out the buffoonery 40 seconds in.

Almost sounds Australian.

Kathy Bates' accent in Dolores Claiborne wasn't too bad. She got the raw wintery persona of an old Maine bitch down quite well. It's funny how most everyone else in the film didn't even attempt one.

He's straight and is in a relationship with a female according to his facebook page.

So that's the accent Amos was attempting!

R14, what did you think of Kathy Bates' Dolores?

A plea for the terrible Maine accents to stop.

The headliner in this piece is, unsurprisingly, Tom Bosley on Murder, She Wrote.

Any other Orono grads?

IIRC, David Strathairn (played murdered husband of Dolores Claiborn) did attempt the Maine accent. Vera Donovan: no.

Tom Bosely didn't need to do a Maine accent, his character was arguably from Kentucy!

Pepperidge Farm remembers...

I know a native Mainer who went to the University of Maine in Orono. He speaks more with a Kennedy upper-class accent. Maybe all fraternity men at Orono had that accent.

He was ruggedly good looking with blond curly hair. He told me, at the time, no one has ever given him a blow job. I offered to relieve him of that dilemma. I was shocked when he let me. I still remember his curly, blond bush in my nose. He made me gag, in a very good way. It happened only once. Amazingly, we were still close friends. He asked me to be among his groomsmen.

I hooked up with a guy at a Portland, ME bar once. He couldn't pronounce the 'r' in my name, but I wasn't sure if it was because he was a Mainer or because he was really drunk!

^ And his name, Sheriff Amos Tupper!

R28 what was his cock like?

I know him. He comes home every night in his round-bottom boat and he can't seem to lose the smell of fish. The first time he kissed me the whiff of his clothes knocked me flat on the floor of the room. But know that I love him my heart's n my nose, And fish is my favorite perfume!

This guy was a real cutie. I could tell by the way he was talking to the interviewer that she’d end up being an attractive girl and I was right.

Yeh got teh set yeh pohts early if yeh wan’ a good seasin lawbsterin’.

Sounds like the Kennedy accent, and a little Australian almost.

R31, thick with a pronounced ridge around its head. I rimmed it with my tongue, intensifying his response. He was bucking at the end.

We spooned for a good couple of hours afterward. He was soooo relaxed.

Cute, but too bad lobsters are the ocean's cockroach.

DL’s ginger heartthrob has been feuding with a father and son. Sexual tension?

Also, he has a record:

Cohen had brought with him a sheaf of legal documents which detailed two of Babb’s past criminal charges and convictions, including a 1996 conviction of reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon. The weapon was a boat, in the original charge.

Good. So the man's got a bit of testosterone. Precious little of it around nowadays.

“with a Kennedy upper-class accent”

The only thing “upper” about Kennedys is the upper slipped into her drink.

Reta Shaw had a real accent. From South Paris.

R17, the original Pepperidge Farm guy, Parker Fennelley from Northeast Harbor, died in 1971. Was Titus Moody on "The Fred Allen Show" Always played New Englanders.

Ty Babb has a Grizzly Adams beard now.

R28 A template for gay-straight relations!

Are there any Dataloungers who are actually from Maine?

Yeah, I've never thought of the Kennedy accent (e.g., Ted's) as upper-class.

I’m from Mt Desert Island…..some of the guys I weNt to school with in the eighties grew up to have thick Maine accents today….most are lobstermen but not all

[quote]Almost sounds Australian.

As an English person, I hear a lot of the old country in his voice. I should think a lot of people in Maine came from England.

R48 Much of the accents in New England are from areas in England based on where the English settled in the 17th century. Much of Boston's accent comes from the West Midlands. I'm sure since people from other areas of the US or other countries have settled in the US, accents tend to change.

Aww I’d love to find a wholesome small town guy like him.

I went to UMaine Orono—but just one year before going back to the Midwest to finish school. I thought Maine was gorgeous but cold, remote, and the people extremely private and clannish (I was from out of state and it was hard to make friends there).

[quote]Cute, but too bad lobsters are the ocean's cockroach.

More like scorpions if you think about it. They may even be related. There are actually sea cockroaches already.

I do not eat lobster, however I would have loved to eat his ass as he was making this video

Ha, r41. My parents used to subscribe to the Advertiser-Democrat and many years ago, there would be a notice in the “social news” page to the effect of “Miss Shaw is visiting her family”. Something like that. But always, “Miss Shaw”.

The only person I knew from Maine was a former coworker. He had greasy hair, an asshole personality, and talked like he had a dick in his mouth.