Re: Stand Clear

["RODS" <rods42@hotmail.com>]

Ha ha, yes it does sound a little patronising if you have to listen to it
for a while. I think Charles 'Bud' Tingwell (from The Wog Boy, the Castle,
et al) would make an excellent mechanical man. I think he has the golden
voice and he'd make you feel really good about 'standing clear'!!!!

Actually, I've always wondered why he (the EXISTING mechanical man) keeps
telling us we're on the Ipswich line - "THIS is an IPSWICH train <long
pause>. Stop-ping at AWWLL stations". Surely if you are leaving from Roma St
he could say it once maybe just before Milton in case someone has somehow
got on the wrong train, but is there any need to keep repeating it all the
way down the line? If you get on at any station from Milton and after then
what other line could you be on?

:-) RODS



"Rob Kearey" <robk@powerup.com.au> wrote in message
38FCF27D.70D1D2@powerup.com.au">news:38FCF27D.70D1D2@powerup.com.au...
> RODS wrote:
>
> > Come ride a Citytrain in sunny Brisbane and hear our mechanical man. He
> > always does his announcements in a most beautiful voice, like the woman
who
> > says "Previously on E.R." on the telly, only it's a guy's voice - and he
> > sounds so interested by it all!
>
> That's Rob Brough, the chap who used to do Family Feud. He always sounds
> like a pantomime actor to me.
>
> "The next station is ... Murrarie! Clap your hands three times if you
> love Murrarie, too!"
>
> > He does a really invigorating "<bing-bong-sound> Doors closing
<short-pause>
> > please stand clear", as if to say "Wow the doors are about to close and
off
> > we'll go - how jolly exciting!!"
>
> That's the Brisbane Channel 7 announcer chap. Very mellifluous.
>
> I'd like to hear announcments down by the SBS fellow. It'd be nice to
> hear "Murrarie" and think "Chocolate Sex", instead of "Huge White
> Wharehouse".
>
> > For your listening pleasure (from QROTI):
>
> > Cheers
>
> Rob K