Imagine if Denis Leary did all the announcements on the T
Not that Frank Oglesby isn't the Man with the Voice, but Kevin Flight got a large number of suggestions this morning when he tweeted he'd rather have Gilbert Gottfried making announcements on the train.
Denis Leary: "Hey turn your IPod down slick - yeah you. Now move from the door so people can get out, jackwipe."
Foghorn Leghorn, "Next sto- I say, I say, next stop's Park St."
Yosemite Sam: "It's Park Street Station - now git off ma train, you varmints, or I'll blast ya!"
You gotta go with Jerry Trupiano: "The Red Line is delayed, way back - WAY BACK! - due to a signal problem."
Clearly Jack Edwards is the only choice here.
The obvious answer: Samuel L. Jackson.
Oooh, maybe Christopher Walken. He and Sam Jackson can take turns...or duet.
Another option: Howie Carr, with Irish poetry breaks featuring Billy Bulger during extended wait times.
Lewis Black for PA announcements, "next stop is Downtown Crossing for all you to f*****g asleep to notice and you're late.
Rob:
Joe Pesci - great range - from "You think this delay is funny? Funny how?" to "The MBTA f's you on the Red Line OK!"
Barry White for the late night 57 rides: "Sit back and relax as we take you home. Next Stop Harvard Ave."
Gary Busey. Can you imagine the random comments "Porter Square next. And I really like to smash things with a rock!"
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Twitter, which I don't really get
See now Adam, how did you dig up all of the above tweets? I just installed TweetDeck -- will it follow something like "MBTA celebrity announcements" automatically, or was there a lot of manual stuff involved on your part? I've long suspected that Twitter (like Facebook) is one of those things that qualifies as More Effort Than It's Worth. Geezer Fail.
First thing to do
Set up a column (hit the round + thingee in the upper left corner) to have a perma-search on "mbta." You'll be amazed at what shows up.
To be honest, the other thing is more unique to me: Folks will "@" me with things - such as some of those suggestions.
So the Gaffin-filter algorithm is invoked in wetware
Better you than me -- too much manual labor. (:O)
Wile E. Coyote
- dead silence - (because he doesn't speak)
Oh wait, he's already doing most of the announcements. Silly me.
Wile E. DOES speak, sometimes
And he has an absolutely suave voice. Pure Genius.
Yes, he did speak in some early cartoons
with Bugs Bunny ("Operation: RABBIT" among them). He also spoke in one of the last Road Runner cartoons (Adventures of the Road Runner).
But Mr. Coyote was mute for most of his career. This was a deliberate move on the part of his creator, Chuck Jones.