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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Idiot of the Day - Emma Clarke’s (The Voice of London’s Tube System) Boss
Dear Transport for London Officials, Emma Clarke has been a model employee for eight years. Okay, I assume she’s been a model employee. After all, she does voice-over work, what problems could she possibly cause at work? Anyway, firing someone for having a sense of humor is really quite pathetic. So she spoofed her own London Tube announcements, so what! It’s funny. Haven’t they seen the movie “Airplane”, where they spoofed the airport parking announcements?
Male announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a red zone.
Female announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a red zone.
Male announcer: The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a white zone.
Female announcer: No, the white zone is for loading. Now, there is no stopping in a RED zone.
Male announcer: The red zone has always been for loading.
Female announcer: Don’t you tell me which zone is for loading, and which zone is for unloading.
Male announcer: Look Betty, don’t start up with your white zone shit again. There’s just no stopping in a white zone.
Female announcer: Oh really, Vernon? Why pretend, we both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.
Male announcer: It’s really the only sensible thing to do, if it’s done safely. Therapeutically there’s no danger involved. - from imdb.com
Here are a couple of her spoofed announcements: “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.” “We would like to remind our American tourist friends that you are almost certainly talking too loudly.” I’m an American and I’m not offended, so give the lady her job back. By the way, you can also join the Facebook group titled, “Reinstate the Tube voice lady!” Join the 154 of us, fighting for truth, justice, and the sarcastic way.
To hear Emma Clarke’s entertaining spoofs, go here. Unfortunately, her website has been so overloaded with traffic that she probably couldn’t afford the bandwidth required to keep her recordings available. I guess maybe I shouldn’t say “unfortunately”, because the traffic means that the word has gotten out that she lost her job because she mocked herself, so she’s probably being offered jobs left and right. She has a lovely voice - I’d hire her to speak for me.
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