We introduced you to Bagram Batman, the U.S. Army's training video character, last month. The Duffel Blog, a satirical site for American military personnel, gives us the story of the death of Bagram Batman at the hands of arch-enemy Badghis Bane.
Darkness has fallen on Afghanistan’s largest Coalition base, as news has spread that the Bagram Batman is dead. The caped crusader — who shot to fame for providing friendly, if insufferable, safety tips to deployed personnel on Bagram Airfield — succumbed Friday to injuries incurred during a very unsafe brawl with the villain known as Badghis Bane.
“I just can’t believe he’s gone,” said one grieving soldier, who Bagram Batman taught to properly lace and tie his boots. “Without him around, how will I know to protect myself from sun exposure and loud noises? How will I know ANYTHING?!”
Indeed, Bagram Batman’s popular but incredibly patronizing online commercials advised service members on a range of fairly obvious topics, including ear protection, theft avoidance, and basic human decency. Yet for all the rules he espoused, the Dark Knight was unable to protect himself from Badghis Bane’s wicked backbreaker.
Read the story of how it happened, and the reaction of Bagram Batman's few fans and the many who can't stand him. Link -Thanks, AN!
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I've often been told by folks visiting our town from south of the border that they love our Ontario accent. We're always like... what?... we have an accent?
lol...
I'd like to offer this tidbit:
I, as well as others, believe Justin Bieber is living proof that who you surround yourself with (i.e. where you end up) will invariably influence the way you speak. Let me explain. Justin is from the same town I am. The one I am in as I write/you read this post. Nobody in this town speaks the way he does. Somewhere along the way he has picked up not only the dialect but the accent of the folks he is most closely associated with. We notice this most when we see his Proactive commercials on TV. Everyone I know in town comments on it. More often than not people around here will say things like, "what's up with the accent?". "Why is he speaking like an American?". Maybe it's all part of the act, maybe he's been taught to speak like that, but most of us feel it's 'cause of where he's been for the last while and who he's been hanging around with.
Just my $0.02 worth...
Carry on...
2) Really? People in Southern Utah sound the same as people in Seattle?
Man, this is impressive, but I'd really like to know which bits to accept as truth... (And RAF, I don't think Moon Unit was ridiculing the accent she and her friends used. She was documenting it with exaggeration.)
At various times in my life I've had people ask me where I was from, even when I lived in San Francisco, and when I told them they'd tell me they thought I was from, the Mid-West, New York, Texas, New England, and many other places.
It was a woman here in Idaho that pointed out just how I would pronounce certain words, such as: water, daughter, and quarter. She pointed out that they all sound the same and she would laugh hysterically every time I would say the following: Here's a quarter for the water for your daughter.
May be that is why some people thought I lived over on Tirty-Tird & Tird in the Bronx?
Perhaps there is a simple explanation for this, but I don't know what it is. My assumption is that it has something to do with social class. Sort of how like southern-like accents seem to exist among poor white people all over the country; and southern-like ebonics is a trans-regional black accent.