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Ex-gf was an amateur actress, long red hair, pale skin, grey eyes. Sitting at the back patio bar one night and she breaks out a Scottish accent with this group, pretending she's just got here and is visiting. Guys are eating this up, everyone asking her questions. Good god this went on for a couple of hours and not a soul suspected. I sat there in awe, kept my trap shut.
I did something like this once. I was meeting a friend at a bar and she was with another guy I never met. I had just moved back to the US from Germany, so she introduced me and said "he just moved here from Germany," not realizing that it wasn't clear I was American. So he starts asking me how I like it here etc, and I threw on a German accent and went with it (I speak some German too). I pretended that my English was a bit rough but could get by.
We hung out for like two hours and then when I got ready to leave I dropped the accent and said in my normal Midwestern American voice "Ok cool to hang with you bro imma head out," and left.
Over a decade ago now, when Tennant was still The Doctor, (I think during the airing of either the 1st or 2nd season with him), I managed to learn a fairly close approximation of his English accent and verbiage from a few online friends I had at the time (I am American with a PNW accent).
Halloween was coming up. I managed to find a blue pinstripe suit at a thrift store. Told all my friends who were hosting a Halloween party to just pretend I was an exchange student.
It actually worked, I was able to convince everyone who wasn't in on it that I actually was English.
Sadly, practically no one knew of Doctor Who.
I remember multiple times saying 'why I'm the Doctor' as a response to 'What's your costume?'
This was then followed by 'Doctor... Who?' to which I would reply 'Precisely' or 'Yes, you've got it'.
To which they would make a confused face and I would then suggest drinks, as one of my multiple hearts broke and died each time someone had only the vague notion that I was some strange Englishman, out of place, perhaps even out of time.