If you have a British accent, you can be sophisticated bad ass like Bond or Sark (from Alias). If you have a Italian accent, you can have whole mafia thing going. You have the stereotypical bad ass Brooklyn cabbie. You can even sound like a bad ass Red Neck if you’re from the south. But, I’m sorry to say, you just can’t sound like a bad ass when you speak like you’re from Wisconsin.
We were in Denny’s tonight (one of the only 24 hour restaurants around here), waiting to pay, and there were a couple of kids just hanging out. They weren’t doing anything special, just hanging out, but you could tell by the way they dressed they though they were the shit. I didn’t really think anything of it until I heard on them talk. When they did, it was all I could do to keep from laughing. I don’t remember what they said and it really wasn’t important, but what I do remember was this thick Wisconsin accent. I was like getting in a cab in Manhattan, noticing that he hasn’t shaved in shave or changed his beater in three days, then hearing, “where you going to, eh?” It just didn’t sound right at all. Completely ruined the entire image.