Subject: Re: Maybe Ben isn't Donna's father
From: rhaller@phloem.uoregon.edu
Date: 1991-07-11, 13:06
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Jul11.191620.1@vax1.tcd.ie> moflngan@vax1.tcd.ie writes:
>> >> Dick is supposed to be British, at least going by his
>> >> variable accent, so for the Doc to have delivered him either
>> >> he was born in TP, moved to Britain, and moved back at a
>> >> later time, or the Doc. delivered him in Britain.
>> >> Perhaps while he was there for another reason?
>> >> 
>> >> Of course this all hinges on accepting Dick's accent as
>> >> genuine, and not affected.
>> >>       Bob.
> >As far as I remember Dick is actually American, probably born in Twin Peaks
> >but just happens to be an Anglophile as well
> >Margaret
> >

Yes. I think all that stuff is just an affectation, and that he has never even
been to the UK much less lived there. Closest he's probably been is Victoria,
B.C. That said, I seem to recall that Victoria has a reputation as being more
English than England :-)

-Rich Haller