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Heh. This is rather amusing. You know that cool, calm female voice that tells you to "Mind the Gap" when you're in the London Tube? She just got fired for announcing in an interview that she thought the transit network was "dreadful."

Now I can understand her reasoning- after all, who would want to regularly use a form of transportation where your voice was constantly broadcast? But bringing it up in a newspaper interview? Stuuupid!

Edit to include a few spoof announcements that this woman recorded and put on her website.

* "We would like to remind our American tourist friends that you are almost certainly talking too loudly."

* "Would the passenger in the red shirt pretending to read the paper but who is actually staring at that woman's chest please stop. You are not fooling anyone, you filthy pervert."

* "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."

* "Here we are crammed again into a sweaty Tube carriage ... If you're female smile at the bloke next to you and make his day. He's probably not had sex for months."

I especially like the reply from the Transport for London spokesperson, on announcing the termination: "London Underground is sorry to have to announce that further contracts for Miss Clarke are experiencing severe delays."