About Maine Humor

Tim Sample explaining Maine Humor

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Entertainment

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• Maine
• Humor
• stand-up
• Tim
• Sample

[pwgbird]

Thanks for all the nice comments. The accent I use onstage is almost exactly the same as the men I heard on the docks of Boothbay harbor when I was a boy in the 1950's. A lot of those guys were born in the 1880's and 90's so this is really pretty close to a 19th century dialect

[njd1117]

It's nice to see that the old New England accents are still around. I grew up in the Boston area and my grandparents spoke similarly. I notice today in the Boston area that accent is mostly gone, except in the elderly, replaced by standard American English (minus the Rs).

[jovialduke]

this is awesome. brilliant accent. like a rural english accent kinda.

[KatahdinBearDog]

I'm a native of Connecticut, then a "transplant" to Maine for college and then a park ranger in Maine's Baxter State Park --I must say that Tim Sample is great, the stories he tells, and the way he tells them are exactly the way folks talk in rural Maine from "The County" down to Eastport and over to the NH border. I've got friends who were born in Maine and lived there all their lives and between them all--I've heard that accent--I'd say as long as u are from New England--you get Tim's humor

[alexandermkoch]

@lithium393 same here. I am proud to be from Maine and to have the accent.

[lithium393]

I love my Maine accent :)

[martinmaniad35]

i'm a native "mainer" living in the maritimes. this guy is good! sounds like he came from norway, maine! thanks for sharing!

[Jrabit207]

ive lived half my life in Mass, and half my life in Maine, im 20, n when I lived in Mass I alway viseted Maine, but never viseted Mass when I lived in Maine I was born in Mass tho, I have the wierdest accent, its Boston, and Mainah, now if one o the older folk from maine heard me say that theyd be someee pissed, I just say I have a new england accent, period

[Jrabit207]

ive lived half my life in Mass, and half my life in Maine, I was born in Mass tho, I have the wierdest accent, its Boston, and Mainah, now if one o the older folk from maine heard me say that theyd be someee pissed

[jovialduke]

@syngar99 it's literally exactly like any given rural english accent

[syngar99]

@jovialduke no cause of all the germans...