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!

“We’d like to remind our American tourist friends that you are almost certainly talking too loud.”

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