@Sturgis,
Sturgis wrote:
Hey dat ain't no fair man I ain't got me no accent. I tawk poifectly good Englush!
If you are affecting a New York accent, it really doesn't exist anymore. The old Bowery Boys black and white movies affected that accent. Today, many young, and not so young. people sound like the local tv news anchors that are often native New Yorkers that wanted some upward mobility.
What is interesting is that many New Yorkers I went to school with could affect a Southern accent, a British accent, even an accent from India; however, few non-New Yorkers can affect the "toidy-toid a toid street" New York archaic accent.