Re: Pronunciation of Station Names

[Bob <gioia@fastlink.com.au>]

tezza wrote:

> Eddie Oliver wrote in message <123144954$Eddie.Oliver@efs.mq.edu.au>...
> >Does anyone remember (or better still, have a copy of) the send-up
> >of Sydney suburban platform announcements which was produced
> >during the "strine" craze maybe 20 or 30 years ago?
> >
> >Standard stopping patterns were rewritten  into what
> >they sounded like in a typical sloppy announcement, e.g. "all stations"
> >might have been written as "orstaish".
>
> I don't think it was strine but taking the piss with "New Australians"
> who almost exclusively did the station annoucements, much to the
> annoyance of passengers.

  Does anyone remember the guy that made the announcements on platform 22 &
23 at Central. His classic was the " all stations to Mortadella"!  I thought
that Mortadella was something you got at a deli.
                                        Bob