From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Monday, March 27, 2017 at 1:24:01 AM UTC-4, Popping mad wrote:   
   > On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:53:19 -0700, hancock4 wrote:   
   >   
   > > adly, that human touch has been destroyed with computerized automated   
   > > announcements.  Why spending the money to record, store,   
   > > and playback station announcements, a rather easy task for the conductor   
   > > to do, is beyond me.   
   > >   
   > > Further, some trains have the announcement out of sync, where the   
   > > actually say the wrong station, or even the wrong branch.   
   >   
   >   
   > It is a waste of money and part of compulsion to box people and enslave   
   > people with digital systems, rather than assist them and empower them.   
   > But there was the Pakastani Motorman with a thick dialect who on one new   
   > years eve about a decade ago who kept say on the Brooklyn Bound D train   
   > (which at that time was the Brighton line).   
   >   
   > Welcome everyone and Hippie New Year.  Dis is tha Broken Down D train   
   > going to Coney Island... nix stop ehs Contelu road.   
      
   Motormen don't make announcements, and his English was better than yours   
   is now. Keep your racist crap out of this newsgroup.   
      
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