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Subway announcer fired over spoof messages

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071126/tc_nm/britain_announcer_dc_1;_ylt=AmDlx3
d2ceQ6f6fNpwgUB.AE1vAI

LONDON (Reuters) - An official announcer for London's Tube system has been
sacked after making spoof messages mocking American tourists, peeping Toms
and sweaty commuters. 

Voiceover artist Emma Clarke, 36, recorded the announcements in the same
smooth tones that have warned millions of passengers to "Mind The Gap" and
posted them on her Web site.

The messages include:

* "We would like to remind our American tourist friends that you are almost
certainly talking too loudly."

* "Would the passenger in the red shirt pretending to read the paper but who
is actually staring at that woman's chest please stop. You are not fooling
anyone, you filthy pervert."

* "Would passengers filling in answers on their Sudokus please accept that
they are just crosswords for the unimaginative and are not in any way more
impressive just because they contain numbers."

* "Here we are crammed again into a sweaty Tube carriage ... If you're
female smile at the bloke next to you and make his day. He's probably not
had sex for months."

Clarke said it was "just a bit of a laugh." But Tube operator Transport for
London (TfL) failed to see the funny side and dropped her, after eight
years.

"London Underground is sorry to have to announce that further contracts for
Miss Clarke are experiencing severe delays," a TfL spokesman told the
Evening Standard on Monday.

All the recordings are at:
<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/nm/tc_nm/storytext/britain_announcer_dc/25
336861/SIG=12jqkdbe6/*http:/www.emmaclarke.com/fun/mind-the-gap/spoof-london
-underground-announcements>
www.emmaclarke.com/fun/mind-the-gap/spoof-london-underground-ann ouncements.

 

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