Spoof London Underground announcements

Mary Ann macloudt at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Mar 2 20:01:03 UTC 2008


I was flipping through one of my husband's UK railway magazines when I 
spotted an article about Emma Clarke, the woman who does the voiceover 
announcements for the London Underground...or used to.  She will no 
longer be employed by the LU since a newspaper (don't know which) 
article claimed that Clarke would never use the LU herself since she 
thinks it's a disgrace; Clarke claims she's been wildly misquoted.

Another reason the LU will no longer be hiring Clarke is because of a 
number of spoof LU announcements she made on her website:

http://www.emmaclarke.com/fun/mind-the-gap/spoof-london-underground-
announcements

The man in the pinstripe suit one is my favourite.

What a shame, IMO that the LU cannot see the light-hearted humour 
behind these.  I can fully understand the LU not wishing to broadcast 
such spoof announcements for real (but, man, wouldn't that lighten the 
rush hour mood!), but these are on Clarke's own website.  I think the 
LU should lighten up.

Mary Ann, who thinks the world could do with more humour





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