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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