The Off Topic Topic

[Caliga]

George Plimpton was born and raised in NYC and I think may have lived his entire life there.

[Caliga]

Yes...that is it. Tell me more about this Brahmin accent. It is such a weird and distinctive American accent.

In Boston, it's associated with cultural elites.  No specific area of Boston is known for it but you'd find lots of people speaking with it in wealthy strongholds like Newton, Brookline, and stuff.  When I was at Harvard I heard it all the time, especially from people who were 'old money'.  I had a co-worker whose husband was the CEO of State Street Global Advisors (she was a Radcliffe Alum and he was Harvard College + HBS) and we used to jokingly call her "Lovie", after the Gilligans' Island character.

[Admiral Yi]

I think there's a NY accent called Hudson Valley something something.  Used by the old Dutch families who originally settled.  Very old money.

Wouldn't make sense for a New Yorker to have a Boston Brahmin accent.

Not to be confused with Long Island Lockjaw.

[Caliga]

Wouldn't make sense for a New Yorker to have a Boston Brahmin accent.

To me at least, the Brahmin accent sounds pretty much the same as the Mid-Atlantic accent.

[merithyn]

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This is almost as fun as an auction.

[Syt]

This delivery to Australia was mis-sent to Austria not once, not twice, but FIVE times!

[Maladict]

It's already hilarious that they have a customized stamp for it

[Josquius]

Wow. Puts my aunt's Falklands fiasco into perspective

[Syt]

It's already hilarious that they have a customized stamp for it

I understand most places where mail from abroad is collected have those, not just Austria/Australia.

[Maladict]

It's already hilarious that they have a customized stamp for it

I understand most places where mail from abroad is collected have those, not just Austria/Australia.

I figured Austria's stamp was meant to prevent it from happening again, and other countries just chuck missent items back in the outgoing mail.

[merithyn]

Aren't zip codes a thing in those countries??

[Syt]

Aren't zip codes a thing in those countries??

Yes, but it's being sent by US Post, based on the stamp top right, so ....

[merithyn]

Aren't zip codes a thing in those countries??

Yes, but it's being sent by US Post, based on the stamp top right, so ....

We have zip codes!

We also have a generation of people who have no idea how to send mail.

[The Brain]

So they don't have enough funds but they can afford to send something to the wrong place over and over?

[Syt]

From Wiki:

Corn Exchange, Market Square, Kettering, 1853 by E. F. Law. The upper floor was designed as a Town Hall. In use October 2012 as fitness centre and betting shop.

Bit of a drop there ....