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[highlyeccentric]

Edinburgh has a sexy station announcer.
I'm now picturing a certain French-speaking medievalist of my acquaintance giving route announcements for CityRail. I think if he doesn't get his next research grant I'll recommend it ;) It'd make a nice change from the perpetually surprised-sounding woman on the Newcastle line. ('This train goes to... SYDNEY TERMINAL?' No really, why aren't I surprised? EVERY train on that line goes to either Gosford or Sydney...)
Oh, and the Scottish newsreporter's voice isn't so unsexy either...

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[sea-of-tethys.livejournal.com]

Scottish accents make me go weak at the knees. I'd take the reporter over the announcer any time ;)

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

Me, I like 'em both. Which I'd take would depend on what they were *for*... Merely to listen to, I would take the Frenchman. The Scottish reporter, on the other hand, has a lilt that promises humour and good company.

Not that I'm sure there aren't humourous Frenchmen out there who make for good company. The aforementioned medievalist would be one of these, except he's Belgian, and therefore infinitely superior to all Frogs. Or so he assures me.

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

Plus his voice makes people go weak at the knees.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

You and the rest of the known universe :)

It doesn't help that he's so lovely, either.

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

I wasn't thinking of me, actually...

He IS lovely. Is this a public post?

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

yes.

I don't THINK he reads this anymore, though...

[areyoustrange.livejournal.com]

Well, as the only person here who has already surrendered her dignity by publically admitting to fancying an entire department, allow me to chime in with my agreement to all praise bestowed thus far.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

Yes, fancying an entire academic department is dignity-destroying...

snorfle.

[(Anonymous)]

Evil little belgian man is right - all belgians are infinately superior to frenchies (except my aunt who moved to france from belgium, of course). Of course, he forgot to mention that all flemish-speaking belgians are infinately superior to the french-speaking ones :).

I'm having hilarious, if somewhat naughty imaginings of humerous situations in which the sexy man-voice and the surpirised woman-voice could make sense...
XX, guess-who
(I am not a frenchie, I am a belgie! - some fantastic mystery movie. i forget which. brobably a poirot)

[kayloulee.livejournal.com]

Did I ever tell you that one of my best college friend's(name starts with B, she does English and Philosophy) parents run the recording studio that does the voice acting for the Cityrail announcements?

So the French-speaking medievalist could definitely do the route announcements, because there are connections (pun unintended).

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

really? We were conversing about station announcements the other day, and she did not mention this.
unless you have two friends whose name begin with B, that is.

[kayloulee.livejournal.com]

I mean the one who's got really dark curly hair, and her mum's African-American. The one that's very nearly as geeky as me.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

yeah, that's the one.

I was not aware of this intense geekity. Possibly I was fooled by her social eptitude.

[kayloulee.livejournal.com]

That's probably what got you. She's much better at being social than most geeks, but she's geeky all the same.