Nope, Avon didn't die.

Mine says "Egg fried". I think your rice may be broken.

Well back then it'd definitely be the other way around (more like Three Million Pounds = Six Million Dollars). Post Brexit vote though with sterling dropping through the floor you might not be far off.

Yeah i'm pretty sure i'm in IT due to some weird mental cross-pollination of the two Bionic shows and Doctor Who among others. "Give me the child until they're seven…" and all that.

Plus Oscar came with the briefcase o' gadgets accessory and was consequently awesome.

I didn't even realise it had one because for the first UK run on BBC2 the Beeb removed it. Then I happened to catch part of an episode on maybe something like Paramount Comedy Channel about 10 years back and just kind of sat wondering what clown thought that was a good idea for the 5-ish minutes I could stand it.…

Robosapien will be the end of us !

Excepting Blackadder 1. Switching Blackadder from conniving idiot to conniving cad _surrounded_ by idiots is one of the cleverest decisions made by a sitcom i'd say.

Yeah, it'll get you if you let it. Remembering these words of wisdom from one of our foremost philosophers helps me at least:

In fairness, he would make a great ambassador to a Trump presidency. Those two are made for each other.

Look at it happening all around you !

If the "literally" were part of the joke i'd totally agree (a few comedians have bits about the misuse of literally in common speech for instance) but that the "literally" is meant to literally mean literally is sort of what the joke relies on - it's not playing with it, it's just (mis)using it as a word, which makes…

Well I suppose we don't know if they said nothing at all (maybe people were constantly telling her she looked like Renee Zellweger even if they didn't recognise her and she was constantly coming back with "Oh yeah I get that a lot"). Ultimately we're both speculating and imagining things about a situation we have very…

Nope, I expect it was a pretty big source of conversation for everyone else, just not _with_ her. If she didn't introduce herself as Renee Zellweger then people would assume she had some reason not to. As I say, having a photo of Jim Carrey on your desk is pretty unusual too yet that also apparently went by without…

Interesting but i'm not really sure of your point or what it says about her English accent ? Google tells me her dad was/is Swiss-German albeit mostly raised in Australia so she may have learned from him (her mum might also have spoken it although she was/is Norwegian) - whether that counts as "Texas German stock" I…

Well very true of course, without actually being in a situation we can never know how we'd react. That said, if IMDB is to be believed she also kept a picture of Jim Carrey on her desk where other people would keep a picture of their significant other (Zellweger was going out with him at the time) and no-one at this…

Yeah, actually that wasn't bad in fairness. I dunno if i'd go so far as good, particularly on the "fool a native" metric and it was definitely a bit generic but not a bad effort, although i'm also not from there so maybe it was actually terrible (appropos of nothing at all a pub just outside of Gloucester is the only…

That's a tall order, both quite specific but also pretty different. I can have a stab at Geordie but if I want to make a Londoner smile nothing achieves it quite as easily as me attempting cockney (everything else aside, the vowels are basically the opposite of the Scottish norm).

He really did sound like he was from Cornholia.

I dunno how weird it is really. Your accent is part of your identity, part of signifying your in-group and speaking for the UK at least, is also a class signifier with all the social, political and psychological complexity that entails. It makes sense to me that people might feel a sense of ownership over it.