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>>>No, they didn't take it from MASH. That sign has been around since before the TV show, and probably before the Korean War.
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>>Then probably the other way 'round, since Hawkeye is supposed to be from Maine (though he doesn't sound like any Mainer I've ever met <g>).
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>>Tamar
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>Tamar;
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>When it comes to accents, I think that Percy Kilbride who played in Ma and Pa Kettle movies, sounded like he was from Maine. He was actually from San Francisco. Each neighborhood of San Francisco had an accent and you could tell where a person was from by his/her accent. Most accents were from the east coast – Maine, Massachusetts, and New York being represented in the areas South of Market in the City. My grandfather sounded like he was from Boston, and my mom had a New York accent. Today many residents of those once Irish Catholic neighborhoods cannot speak English.
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>Alan Alda has an accent I cannot place.

Assuming you refer to Hawkeye, but remember the original was from Canada, wasn't he, Donald Sutherland :-)

>In fact his accent is very different from his fathers. Did you know that Alan Alda had Polio as a child?

Hmmm, most people beget a boy or a girl :-)