What happens when you mock the London Underground (affectionately known as the Tube) and make spoofs of the announcements and post them on your website? Most likely nothing, unless you are the official announcer, aka Emma Clarke. You may have heard that today she was relieved of her duties for criticizing the London Underground. An Underground spokesman had this to say, “Some of the spoof announcements are very funny. But Emma is a bit silly to go round slagging off her client’s services.” Read more of the story here.
I was only able to download one of the spoof announcements before her site (EmmaClarke.com) went down from the rush of traffic; but now have the rest of them. You can download the Emma Clarke spoof announcement (MP3), “We’d like to remind our American tourist friends that you are almost certainly talking too loud” right here. To stream other of the spoofs, look to the right. Now I know to keep it down on the Tube; wouldn’t want to out-noise the drunks!
Download A Reminder for American Tourists
“We’d like to remind our American tourist friends that you are almost certainly talking too loud.”
Spoof tube recordings She was taken out of context on the “dreadful” part–her personal tube experience was “dreadful” because it made her uncomfortable to hear her own voice over the speakers.
This just demonstrates why the legal fiction of corporations as “persons”, along with corporation-like government organizations, is flawed. Corporate “persons” work, at best, like bad computer simulations of people. They don’t pass the Turing test. Humor is one of the real-person things they don’t do very well.
Too bad.
Very Funny She should not have been fired for those, well, maybe the “residents of London” one was unacceptable but other then that, they were funny.
I’ve found the other files I’ve found the other files here to download.
SPAM URL
- copy and paste this in your browser – it’s a bit of a fuss to download them from SPAM URL without an account but be patient it does work. This is the only place I’ve seen that you can download them from as Emma Clarks site is now down.
They’re all really funny, she shouldn’t have been fired and it just shows London Underground have no sense of humor.
BRILLIANT! Give her a RAISE don’t FIRE her! Someone expresses a sense of humour and they lose work? That’s rediculous! After all this talk about the london underground, I’m subconciously going to be more likely to do something that involves using the underground, right? So this is all good publicity!