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Cue banjo and fiddle music, knee-slapping, foot-stomping, and don't forget the spittoon. Amurrica!

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One day I was sitting on a beach in Morocco (that's a third world beach to those unaware) and a young boy was listening to me talk to his father in English. The boy did not know how to speak English. He leaned over to his father and whispered in his ear and then giggled out loud. His father proceeded to explain that his son thought I spoke in a weird accent and sounded like I had marbles in my mouth.

So I began to understood that people who spoke in weird accents and sounded like they had marbles in their mouths tend to come from developed Western nations with superiority complexes - in a National Geographic sense.

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He seemed to be Hindu, I think they were Indians who ran that news stand. But his voice was higher than the usual high-pitched accent of that region.

Usually high pitched accented voices tend to come from third world countries in a National Gepgraphic sense. Are you able to recall what nationality he was?

As 9/11 anniversary approaches I always wondered about something probably trivial that anyone who walked through the Trade Center to and fro PATH remembered:

There was a news stand in the center of the huge area where the PATH turnsiles stood in the World Trade Center. There was a guy who worked there who had a very high pitched accented voice that sounded quite unique. YOu had to force yourself not to giggle when you first heard him say:"That will be Fifty Cents!" buying your newspaper.

I wonder whatever became of him.

Anyone who ever bought a newspaper at that stand knows who I'm talking about.