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Voice of London Underground gets sacked for having sense of humour
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Message to announcer who mocked Tube: You're fired
The woman whose voice can be heard across the Tube network in her role as the official "announcer" has been axed after releasing a series of spoof announcements.
Emma Clarke has been the "voice of the Tube" for eight years, urging passengers to "mind the gap". But in a series of spoof messages posted on her website, the 36-year-old married mother of two attacked the transport system, claiming she avoided it at all costs.
Also singled out for mockery were American tourists, Sudoku solvers and peeping Toms. "We'd like to remind our American tourist friends that you are almost certainly talking too loudly," she says in one message.
In another, she warns: "Would the passenger ... pretending to read a paper but who is actually staring at that woman's chest please stop. You're not fooling anyone, you filthy pervert."
But now the parent company of the Tube has made an announcement of its own. A TfL spokesman said: "Some of the spoof announcements are very funny. But Emma is a bit silly to go round slagging off her client's services. London Underground is sorry to have to announce that further contracts for Miss Clarke are experiencing severe delays."
Ms Clarke today said she was "very disappointed" at TfL's reaction. Speaking from her home in Altrincham, Cheshire, she said: "I don't feel that I have been slagging them off - that was never my intention. It was just a bit of a laugh, I think they have missed the point of what I was trying to do."
The voiceover artist and writer put the messages on the website she set up earlier this month after canvassing friends on what they would most like to hear.
Caught this on the news just now, other announcements included:
"Please do not drop little on the train. Use the tramps provided." and
"Residents of London are reminded there is a f**king world outside the perimetre of the M25.
Fair play to her for having a sense of rumour but to get sacked for it? Deserved or PC gone mad (again).....
11-26-2007, 07:41 PM
Voice of London Underground gets sacked for having sense of humour Post #2
tfl absolutely heartbroken that they're not taken as seriously as they take themselves. basically every other londoner would have acted in the same way so i can't say i'm too surprised.
11-26-2007, 08:34 PM
Voice of London Underground gets sacked for having sense of humour Post #9
Originally posted by Rocky Rockstar:
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Message to announcer who mocked Tube: You're fired
The woman whose voice can be heard across the Tube network in her role as the official "announcer" has been axed after releasing a series of spoof announcements.
Emma Clarke has been the "voice of the Tube" for eight years, urging passengers to "mind the gap". But in a series of spoof messages posted on her website, the 36-year-old married mother of two attacked the transport system, claiming she avoided it at all costs.
Also singled out for mockery were American tourists, Sudoku solvers and peeping Toms. "We'd like to remind our American tourist friends that you are almost certainly talking too loudly," she says in one message.
In another, she warns: "Would the passenger ... pretending to read a paper but who is actually staring at that woman's chest please stop. You're not fooling anyone, you filthy pervert."
But now the parent company of the Tube has made an announcement of its own. A TfL spokesman said: "Some of the spoof announcements are very funny. But Emma is a bit silly to go round slagging off her client's services. London Underground is sorry to have to announce that further contracts for Miss Clarke are experiencing severe delays."
Ms Clarke today said she was "very disappointed" at TfL's reaction. Speaking from her home in Altrincham, Cheshire, she said: "I don't feel that I have been slagging them off - that was never my intention. It was just a bit of a laugh, I think they have missed the point of what I was trying to do."
The voiceover artist and writer put the messages on the website she set up earlier this month after canvassing friends on what they would most like to hear.
Caught this on the news just now, other announcements included:
"Please do not drop little on the train. Use the tramps provided." and
"Residents of London are reminded there is a f**king world outside the perimetre of the M25.
Fair play to her for having a sense of rumour but to get sacked for it? Deserved or PC gone mad (again)..... </BLOCKQUOTE>
Where on earth in there do TfL say they've sacked her for the spoof announcements? They've sacked her for making derogatory comments about the services that the Tube provides. Can hardly blame them for sacking her when she's criticised the service she is supposed to represent.
TfL are massive arseholes, but all they've done here is protect their image. Nothing wrong with that whatsoever.
11-26-2007, 08:52 PM
Voice of London Underground gets sacked for having sense of humour Post #10
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