What are some of the oddest accents you've heard?
By that I mean ones that one can't place or wouldn't expect to be naturally occurring. A few that come to mind for me:
-I used to work with a woman who was about 35 and had basically spent half her life in Texas and the other half in Minnesota. So you can only imagine what she sounded like.
-Another girl I still work with has parents from Puerto Rico who speak Spanish at home, but has lived in Minnesota almost since she was able to talk, so she somehow manages to sound both as stereotypically Latin and stereotypically Minnesotan as possible. It's kind of a running joke at work when we make fun of her for rolling r's, and yet she still has all the "ya's" and whatnot.*
-My own cousin, who often has a rather stereotypical rural Western drawl, which sounds more like an imitation, even though he grew up in Wyoming. Even odder is that no one in his immediate family talks like that either, and hearing him talk to his sister is kind of funny since she basically has the "newscaster" generic American accent (and of course lives in Des Moines now, which is kind of the heart of the region where that is natural)
My own often confuses people, because the part of North Dakota is kind of the border between the Midwest and whole western interior, so it's not quite a non-exaggerated "Fargo" type one or interior western. The most known North Dakota trait is every word with a double oo (like "root"
is pronounced like the u in "put" which is definitely true for me. But today I found out that I say "continue to download" as "continya ta download" which when I actually stop to listen to sounds funny.
*Actually what's kind of interesting is that if I ever go to a store with a "Se habla Espanol" sign and hear the staff speaking Spanish, they usually sound quite stereotypically Latin American, but if they speak English to me then sound completely Minnesotan. This is true even of some younger Somalis when switching between their native language and English, which is really weird.
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where all of the bad guys had this kind of generic East European accent.
That and the way that movies seem to just use an Englishman to play the part. That's "European." 
Note: Just in case you didn't catch it, the second half of the clip was dubbed in as a joke. The first half was actual dialog from the movie. Good movie BTW.
Engine builder for Richard Childress Racing during the Earnhardt Era. It was a hybrid of Louie's native Brooklynese and Welcome, NC redneck. 
The ND accent is different, has some Norweigen undertones. I am a Texan living in MN, I still have my Texas drawl, but it's not as prominent as it used to be, I have never been able to develop the MN accent, so I will just keep on saying y'all, and I say root "rewt"
It's very interesting. When we were kids my sister said it seemed like she was always saying "fishy fishy fishy..."
A favorite local pastime is goofing on actors trying to do it. Brad Pitt got it done in Benjamin Button, but he has a place down there, so he's a ringer.
with his phony dangy-ding-dong Texas twang when he's sucking up to the "common man"... and then switching to his nasal Connecticut Yankee accent for his daddy's big money pals. Yuck. 
