Poll: What is the most pointless poll ever?
It may be this one: the “Top 10 Worst American Accents,” by British actors in American film and television, as voted upon by the good people of the United Kingdom! (The winner: Michelle Ryan, the star of the late Bionic Woman.) This poll might be pointless but it also made me giggle. Maybe because the article about it contained paragraphs like this one:
Helen Hackworthy, the editor of RadioTimes.com, which carried out the poll of 3,000 people, said: “Just as Dick Van Dyke struggled with his English accent in Mary Poppins, so too are some Brits failing to pull off convincing American accents.”
This is a NATIONAL CRISIS, people.