Nobody likes you when you're dead

[venta]

A new sheep, as invented by cardinalsin:

In the future, scientists will be able to resurrect human beings - but not using DNA. Instead, they will rebuild you from the collective memories of people who know you.

So: Please post a comment describing one thing you know about me. Preferably something interesting, but factual. One day internet archaeologists will use this information to bring me back to life, so make sure what you say is accurate!

Oh yeah, then post this to your journal. Go on, you know you want to.

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, I'm sure we'll get over the upset :)

To be entirely fair - Darlington is on the river Tees, which is the border between Durham and North Yorkshire. Given that the choice of associations is upper crust market towns, landed gentry and sweeping farms (Yorkshire) or grubby mining villages, heavy industry and, paradoxically, unemployment (Durham) Darlington does like to pretend it's part of Yorkshire.

Despite this, Darlington has a markedly un-Yorkshire accent. Annoyingly, although I often slide into it when I'm home, I can't do the accent to order so can't offer a demo.

Accents to order

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Hello? Is that venta's Accents? Good. Yes. Thank you. I'd like to order a Darlington Accent, please?
And yes, if it's not here in half and hour, I get a pound off?
Thank you.

Re: Accents to order

[venta.livejournal.com]

Do you want our special with that, a half portion of Geordie dialect and a bottle of Coke ?

Re: Accents to order

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Oh, go on then.

It's now 12.30. So I'll see you by 1am?

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Darlington does like to pretend it's part of Yorkshire

So insisting that it's Co. Durham is your basic inverse snobbery?

Landed gentry are the worst kind.

[venta.livejournal.com]

So insisting that it's Co. Durham is your basic inverse snobbery?

More just engrained pedantry, I think.

Besides, if it's going to be used for accent identification, I'd far rather have a Durham accent than a Yorkshire one.

[marjory.livejournal.com]

To be entirely fair - Darlington is on the river Tees, which is the border between Durham and North Yorkshire.

Yes - I used to get overly excited as a child when we went to Croft-on-Tees and I could stand on the bridge there with one leg in Co. Durham and one leg in North Yorkshire.

What an odd child... :)