Mind the Gap - Fired!

London is famous for their Underground and the famous phrases that go along with it, such as "Mind the Gap." Something that we recently learned is that there is one woman, Emma Clarke, has been doing all the recording work for that and all the other announcements that get made on the Underground for the last 8 years. Pretty neat.

Interesting you say. But really so what? Well, the reason that we learned this is because that woman got fired this week. And it's gone viral. She has a blog Mind the Gap that has some amusing spoofs of the announcements that she's been making for years and years. She also said that she doesn't ride the tube, and that it was rubbish, to a newspaper, who then printed it - everyone talks some trash about their employers but typically a bad idea to do it in print. Here's a link to one of the many articles about it.

And here, because I love it, is the response from Transport for London:
Some of the spoof announcements are very funny. But Emma is a bit silly to go around slagging off her client's services. London Underground is sorry to have to announce that further contracts for Miss Clarke are experiencing severe delays.