On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Norm/Ilene Tyler wrote:

> We need an identifying pin for those in the know to find each other.
>
> By the way, no accents in southern Michigan, either.  It's too close to
> northern Ohio.  However, there used to be a Detroit accent that sounded
> a little like NYC, but I think it is long-diffused into the suburbs.
>
> Ilene
>

hey I thought Ralph said everyone should recognize pinheads in public
by the pinhead salute?
wasn't there some talk about that earlier between himself and Signor Gray?

and are you kidding?
as a child, the very first foreign accent I picked up was the southern
Michigan, NW Ohio accent..... some friends moved to Jackson   ;)

and I've been thinking about the southern Ohio accent that Phil McP
mentioned.... I'm originally from Indianapolis, and I'd say there's
a band of non-accent stretching along I-70 from Indy to Columbus-

if you go too far north or south of it, or east or west, you start
to pick up the accents of the adjacent areas   ;)

Deb