h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I must admit I had to read that twice, as at first I pictured Wilfred Brambell of 'Steptoe & Son' fame (also 'A Hard Day's Night'). I'm still picturing Steptoe, to be honest...

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Wilford Brimley appeared in commercials in the U.S. for Quaker oats. The slogan was "It's the right ting to do," meaning that eating oatmeal was a good way to reduce your cholesterol. Lots of other plant foods have soluble fiber that will bind to cholesterol and shepherd it out of your body, but Quaker oats saw a chance to sell some oats. Oh, well.

Eating oats doesn't seem to preclude diabetes, though, which Brimley suffered from. I guess there's no magical food that does everything

Moving around the country has given me a definite lack of any dialect. (people typically think I am from somewhere else regardless of where I am.)

I've met people who doubt that I'm form Massachusetts because I don't talk with a Boston accent. My mother's midwestern accent is partly a cause for this. My father, who lived in or near Clinton, Mass. all his life, worked on his accent to make it less pronounced.

To be honest, it's hard for me to do a Boston accent. I live in Boston, and hear that accent all the time, but I don't always know what people are saying.

Accents are usually thicker in the workshop than in the office. To get stuff done quicker you sometimes have to move with it.