Announcer sacked over spoof messages

[Trance]

Announcer sacked over spoof messages
reuters.com/
Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:08am EST
Link (http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN2626202220071126?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews)

Excerpt:

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.

[Rhino]

Figures. Now they outlaw humor.

[PaulRevere]

You can always spot the American tourists - loud, funny fluent English accent, strait teeth.

[BabyBeastie]

It's sad they let her go for something as benign as that.

[Venus de Smilo]

This sure is a sad state of affairs. People have just become too thin-skinned and stodgy for their own good. Brits generally have wonderful dry, wry senses of humor. This makes me sad.