Two stories with foreign accents today. First, the guy who did the voice of the Geico gecko has been fired.

Gecko voice actor D. C. Douglas has been fired by Geico after leaving a nasty phone message for a Tea Party group. The group posted the message online, telling their members to call Geico and complain. The following day, Mr. Douglas was fired.

They said to him, "Dude, this is a prestigious, quality company you're working for. You aren't the Aflac duck."

That must have been weird. The Geico gecko calling, all rude and abusive, even before the dude filed a claim.

Still, it seems like Geico opened a big can of worms. It's barely eleven in the morning and already I've gotten four phone calls saying, "Hello! I'm the Geico gecko. Your mother sucks cocks in hell!"

Next, here's a news item that confirms my suspicion that even native Australians can't understand their crazy accent.

An Australian restaurant that refused to admit a blind man because a waiter thought his seeing-eye dog was gay has been ordered to apologize and pay compensation.

A misunderstanding arose when a waiter thought Ian Jolly said he was bringing a gay dog, rather than a guide dog, into the restaurant. The waiter subsequently refused to admit the pair.

"The staff genuinely believed that Nudge was an ordinary pet dog which had been desexed to become a gay dog," the owners said in a statement. They were ordered to pay Jolly $1,400 and apologize.

If we reenact the scene with an Australian accent it almost, kind of makes sense.

WAITER: G'day, mate! That's a fine looking dingo you got there. What kind of pup is that?

BLIND MAN: Nudge? He's my guide dog. I couldn't do anything without him.

WAITER: He's a gay dog?

BLIND MAN: Yes, a guide dog.

WAITER: A gay dog.

BLIND MAN: A guide dog.

WAITER: If I'm not poking too much in your outback, how do you know he's a gay dog?

BLIND MAN: I trained him specially.