Monday
(0)Great story here that the canned voice of Sean Connery, Scotland's greatest living actor, will be used in the lifts at the new Scottish parliament building in Edinburgh.
Brilliant. This idea could run and run. How about characters - still alive, obviously - who played various Bond villains to lend their voices for lifts in, say, the EU headquarters in Brussels?
"Ladies and gentlemen, velcome to my lair heeere in ze Brussels center of my power. Vee haf been expectink you".
They found the only Scot that a non-Scot could understand. Wow!
Posted by Andy at September 15, 2003 07:39 PM
Any other suggestions for organsations and the voices in the lifts? The cast from the Carry On films for Network Rail?
The Welsh Assembly lifts can have the voice of Siadwel from "Naked Video".
Posted by Tim Hall at September 15, 2003 08:05 PM
They can't use Ernst Stavros Blofeld's voice in the EU lifts - he's already running the bloody EU from a Brussels penthouse.
Posted by M. Murcek at September 15, 2003 08:08 PM
What a great idea. Scotland is the only country other than the U.S. in which I could live. I love it there.
Posted by erp at September 15, 2003 11:24 PM
I don't think I'd ever get tired of hear Connery's voice in public places...they should just replace stop lights with Connery's voice saying "Stop you bloody bastard" interspersed with "Ingenious Goldfinger" the possibilities are endless...
Posted by Matt W. at September 16, 2003 01:02 AM
"You expect me to talk?"
"No, Swedish krone, I expect you to die!"
;-)
Posted by Ted Schuerzinger at September 16, 2003 03:44 AM
What about a Darth Vader like voice for elevators in the UN?
Also recorded messages to play at other times. "I find your lack of faith disturbing", to be played when some rogue nation (like the US) refuses to cooperate with the rest?
Great pick in Connery, btw. He has a great voice.
Posted by Chris Josephson at September 16, 2003 05:05 AM
Wasn't he a prominent supporter of the Scottish Nationalist Party? Surely the Labour MSPs must object on that ground? Maybe they'll just boycott the lifts.
Posted by Guy Herbert at September 16, 2003 06:30 AM
One of these days somebody's going to develop some sort of criminal activity recognition software (full of bugs, of course), and those CCTV cameras are going to spout off in Austin Powers' voice, "Oh, behave."
Posted by Alan K. Henderson at September 16, 2003 08:48 AM
At the press of the wrong (right) button will a trapdoor open in the bottom of the lift - leading to a pit of sharks? Please please please!!! :)
Posted by Joe at September 16, 2003 11:19 AM
" Cam een Meester Baund! " [All of the movies]
" Thish ish ACME pesht-exshterminashion, we're cleaning up the world. We've dechided to shtart with EU! " [Diamonds Are Forever]
" Ei don't expect you to talk Meester Baund, I expect you to daei! "
" You'll never get away with this, Prodi "
" Stay out of this referendum, your puny little country wasn't even invited! " [different Blofeld, speaks better English]
" The 'E' and the 'U' of our name stands for "Extortion Unlimited". Why have you failed, Number Eight? " [Number Two, stroking a white Persian cat]
[trap door opens etc.]
Posted by Antoine Clarke at September 16, 2003 05:41 PM
