I was going to say, I've never had to say it, 1st thing anyone says is - "woah, u must be from New York!!"  I guess I do have a pretty thick accent...

Being from NY i'd equate it to 2 drunk shmucks, jawwing at each other before they fight and one of them 'warning' the other he's gonna kick his ass b/c he's from Brooklyn!!   I'm sure another NY'er can vouch for that!

And every Engineer I've ever met or worked for, was SURE to immediately let me know that he is in fact an Engineer...  Well Whoopdy freaking doo!!!  Always find it amusing..  That's just their way of letting us know that they can do our job better than we can..  Which is odd since we always have to rip out and fix their disaster of a science experiment.