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Posted by italianstallion on Fri Jan 17 17:46:17 2020, in response to Awkwafina 7 Flushing Line Announcements, posted by GojiMet86 on Fri Jan 17 17:08:20 2020. Actually, not as bad as I feared. Sorta cute. They could keep her shtick on permanently, just deleting the references to her TV show. |
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Posted by pragmatist on Fri Jan 17 19:18:43 2020, in response to Re: Awkwafina 7 Flushing Line Announcements, posted by italianstallion on Fri Jan 17 17:46:17 2020. Until a couple of months ago I really didn't know much of anything about her. Then they did a couple of location shoots for her new TV show a block from where I live. At least some of the production money is actually being spent in Queens..... |
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Posted by JRR4 on Fri Jan 17 19:22:35 2020, in response to Awkwafina 7 Flushing Line Announcements, posted by GojiMet86 on Fri Jan 17 17:08:20 2020. Couldn't they have selected a bit more classy person. "My vag", seriously. Show some class. |
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Posted by Andrew Saucci on Fri Jan 17 19:39:35 2020, in response to Awkwafina 7 Flushing Line Announcements, posted by GojiMet86 on Fri Jan 17 17:08:20 2020. I was subjected to this today because I was going to try to catch an LIRR train out of Hunterspoint Avenue, but I got there too late to make the 3:40, and it was too cold to hang around there waiting for the next one over half an hour later. The announcements were so irritating that I chose to switch to the Jamaica-bound E at Court Square (which transfer I ironically only just panned here this week) instead of waiting for the somewhat easier transfer at Roosevelt Avenue. Would have been great to have a staircase straight down to the E, but at least I got some exercise going from the fourth car of the 7 to the second car of the E. |
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Posted by Andrew Saucci on Fri Jan 17 19:41:18 2020, in response to Re: Awkwafina 7 Flushing Line Announcements, posted by pragmatist on Fri Jan 17 19:18:43 2020. Until I saw a bus shelter ad for her this afternoon, I did not even know she existed, but she probably could still say the same about me. If I ever win the lottery... it's bus shelter ads for me. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Jan 17 20:14:07 2020, in response to Awkwafina 7 Flushing Line Announcements, posted by GojiMet86 on Fri Jan 17 17:08:20 2020. Let's not forget my old home Stations official name!!.... |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Jan 17 20:21:56 2020, in response to Re: Awkwafina 7 Flushing Line Announcements, posted by pragmatist on Fri Jan 17 19:18:43 2020. I first heard of her when she hosted SNL. She was in Crazy Rich Asians. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Jan 17 20:24:00 2020, in response to Re: Awkwafina 7 Flushing Line Announcements, posted by JRR4 on Fri Jan 17 19:22:35 2020. It’s to promote her TV show, not her album. |
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Posted by JRR4 on Fri Jan 17 20:58:13 2020, in response to Re: Awkwafina 7 Flushing Line Announcements, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Jan 17 20:24:00 2020. Doesn't matter. Classless is classless. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Jan 17 21:07:22 2020, in response to Re: Awkwafina 7 Flushing Line Announcements, posted by JRR4 on Fri Jan 17 20:58:13 2020. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
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Posted by randyo on Sat Jan 18 02:40:44 2020, in response to Awkwafina 7 Flushing Line Announcements, posted by GojiMet86 on Fri Jan 17 17:08:20 2020. Her announcements were not the first ti inject a bit of humor into subway announcements. In the late 1950s/early q960s there was a C/R who worked the Bway IRT Line by the name of Abe Steinberg who was referred to as the “poet laureate of the subway.” He was one of the C/Rs whose train I rode on he way home from high school And certain days I would ride the whole last trip from V/C to So/Fy and back. Some of his announcements included things like “66 St the 99 upside down station,” “137 St City College for better knowledge,” and “59 St Columbus Circle, change for the IND if you want it.” A few years later another C/R who also worked the Bway Line by the name of Harry Nugent attained a small bit of fame in the news media for making similar announcements. Considering the time frame he worked it wouldn’t surprise me if Abe Steinberg broke Harry Nugent in. |
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Posted by Andrew Saucci on Sat Jan 18 10:39:29 2020, in response to Re: Awkwafina 7 Flushing Line Announcements, posted by randyo on Sat Jan 18 02:40:44 2020. It's a little different when there's no ulterior motive. Hopefully those conductors also knew how to use the microphone. Oddly enough, some of the special recordings on the 7 were muffled and unintelligible, which is unusual for recorded announcements. |
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Posted by snarf368 on Sat Jan 18 19:33:03 2020, in response to Re: Awkwafina 7 Flushing Line Announcements, posted by Andrew Saucci on Fri Jan 17 19:39:35 2020. Andrew Saucci said "The announcements were so irritating that I chose to switch to the Jamaica-bound E at Court Square (which transfer I ironically only just panned here this week) instead of waiting for the somewhat easier transfer at Roosevelt Avenue."In another thread Andrew Saucci said "I'm happy to get on a train that moves and gets me where I'm going as quickly as possible. It doesn't need "2020 amenities." In the end, it's transportation." Wow Andrew I can't imagine what you would do if there were street dancers or a homeless guy in the subway car you were riding. It's announcements that are no worse than manual announcements on R32/46/62/68.Just say that you don't like her and have absolutely no sense of humor. At the end of the day this was much needed money for the MTA. |
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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Sat Jan 18 19:54:38 2020, in response to Awkwafina 7 Flushing Line Announcements, posted by GojiMet86 on Fri Jan 17 17:08:20 2020. I was riding the #7 line today from Woodside to GCT and heard these announcements. The riding public was as unimpressed as was I.Bill Newkirk |
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Sat Jan 18 20:47:37 2020, in response to Awkwafina 7 Flushing Line Announcements, posted by GojiMet86 on Fri Jan 17 17:08:20 2020. I REMEMBER THE REDBIRDS & RFW |
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Posted by Express Rider on Sun Jan 19 03:39:13 2020, in response to Awkwafina 7 Flushing Line Announcements, posted by GojiMet86 on Fri Jan 17 17:08:20 2020. "Pigeons and doves are the same thing..."sounds like it could be a line from an Allen Ginsburg poem about Bryant Park and: Poles are for hands only ? I thought Poles were for Warsaw or Gdansk... |
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