I Don’t Have a British Accent

February 18, 2008 in Other Stuff with 11 Comments

Today’s blog banner was submitted by Lisa from Granger Community Church in Granger, Indiana. I’m displaying it under protest.

Here’s the story. I used to get perturbed with several of the women at Granger who were fond of the teaching of Marcus Buckingham. This, of course, had nothing to do with the content of Buckingham’s message (which is quite good). They love Marcus because they perceive him to be good looking and because he has a British accent.

Call it man jealousy if you want, but I thought this was reprehensible. I think it’s completely inappropriate that women would fawn over a man because of his looks (and accent) rather than his brains.

That aside, for at least the next 24 hours, you can see the blog banner that Lisa submitted featuring the mugshot of Marcus Buckingham…British accent and all.

(By the way, Marcus, if you’re reading, you should really start blogging.)

11 Responses to “I Don’t Have a British Accent”

  1. Adam Lehman February 18, 2008 at 11:23 pm #

    Yeah.
    Marcus.
    Blog.
    It’s a strength of yours.

  2. Jami Ruth February 18, 2008 at 11:28 pm #

    Don’t forget this –
    http://www.tonymorganlive.com/tony_morgan_one_of_the_si/2006/04/ive_been_buckin.html

    you know we liked him for more than his good lucks and accent. that was just bonus. :)

  3. Lindsay Wasik February 19, 2008 at 6:21 am #

    hahaha…I love it! But you see…what makes him so great is the fact that he does have brains AND looks AND an accent. He’s a triple threat! ;)

  4. Ronnie February 19, 2008 at 6:45 am #

    That made me laugh!

  5. Camey February 19, 2008 at 8:38 am #

    So I just read on twitter that you hugged someone? now you mention man jealousy?

    Emotional these days are we? ;)

  6. Lisa D. February 19, 2008 at 9:01 am #

    It’s quite an attractive banner, if I say so myself… :)

  7. Roland Thomas Gilbert February 19, 2008 at 10:20 am #

    Yes. And never mind that it looks like Marcus’ picture was taken of him behind the glass at a visitor’s booth at the state pen. He’s still a handsome man.

  8. Keith Tackel February 19, 2008 at 10:25 am #

    Whoa, got scared for a second, I thought someone hijacked your domain when I first saw the header image!

  9. Jenni Catron February 19, 2008 at 3:02 pm #

    Ok, lump me in with the Granger girls. I too am a bit of a fan of Marcus. I’ve been know to refer to him with the three B’s – Beatiful, Brilliant & British. And I agree – why isn’t Marcus blogging?

  10. Joseph February 19, 2008 at 4:33 pm #

    I say old boy, jolly good show on the post today. You know, there are always elocution lessons to be had, what, what!

  11. Matthew Goodwin February 19, 2008 at 6:43 pm #

    I just started blogging. Can you point me to a tutorial for how to place a custom header? Thanks so much