Not all battles are fought with a sword
After a long day of being cultural and scientific in London with Kildegaards a few weeks ago, we got on the Tube back to Liverpool Street and the train back to Colchester. Looking across into the next car on the Underground, I was surprised to learn that a volcano was expected to erupt in Rome!
Turns out it’s a reference to a rugby player in an international match. And here I thought it was gonna be Pompeii all over again, but with more automobiles.
Emma Clarke has been doing the official voice overs for the London Underground since 1999, and she has a page of spoofs she’s recorded in her sillier moments. Definitely fun; I was fond of this one, clearly aimed at Sub-Evil and me:
We’d like to remind our American tourist friends, that you are almost certainly talking too loud.
Given that WeatherGirl’s initial impression of me was “a loud, obnoxious American” (a position 18 years of marriage has only slightly softened), it does seem likely that it applies.