Fame at last!

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Fame at last!

by deana24 @ 2008-08-05 – 12:53:05

For reasons that have not been revealed to me, I have been asked to be 'the voice' of our university's student admissions phone service.

Should you ring up it will be me you hear saying 'If you are a British or EU applicant please press 1' etc.

I have been given my lines to rehearse for recording on Thursday.

And, of course, I am curious as to why I've been asked. Perhaps it's because I don't sound like I work in the butcher's on Coronation Street.

Due to having had something of a transient adult life - living in Banbury, Manchester, Chester, Edinburgh, Costa Rica and then Manchester again - my accent is pretty vague, though I think I sound like a posh Minnie Mouse on helium whenever I hear my out-of-office messages. Someone once said I sounded like one of the Mitford sisters, but then she didn't like me much.

I'm thinking of reading my lines in the manner of Fenella Fielding. What do you think?
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- kendersrule ^Pro
- 2008-08-05 @ 12:55:02
Hehehe! Just means you speak clearly!
remember to make six sound like six not sex
- - deana24
  - 2008-08-05 @ 12:57:18
  BOL!
  - - kendersrule ^Pro
    - 2008-08-05 @ 13:01:06
    weeeeeell you could do the opposite...
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- Juzzzy
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- 2008-08-05 @ 13:06:15
'Appen.

* Where did you sub?
- - deana24
  - 2008-08-05 @ 13:57:59
  An evening newspaper group called Tonight, in the late 1980s based in Chester (long gone). We are bound to have journo-chums in common - you know what a village it is.
  - - Juzzzy
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    - 2008-08-05 @ 14:08:46
    I do indeed remember Chester Tonight...
    
    My boss said he knew the editor but can't remember his name...
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      - 2008-08-05 @ 14:21:37
      There was a coup early on. the first editor was called Peter something but he was seen off in what was dramatically referred to as 'the night of the long knives'.
      
      He was followed by Bob someone-or-other. I can't remember his last name either, but I do remember the news editor, Geoff McGowan, shouting down the newsroom, as he walked with his most perculiar gait:
      
      'What manner of man is this
      That wears his balls in parenthesis.'
      
      I worked for Brian Cavern on the subs desk. With Mark Dickinson who is now quite important on a big regional newspaper group, which I believe includes several in liverpool area.
      - Juzzzy
        
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        2008-08-05 @ 14:24:40
        
        Dicko was the editor of the Echo for a while - he's got some upstairs management role unmder "special publications" or something.
        
        McGowan on the other hand was my editor when I was news editing the Sport - what a strange man!
        
        He used to smell of baby oil....
        
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        2008-08-05 @ 14:37:05
        
        Markie (well, I'm a girly) was and still is a sweetie. Had dinner a year or so ago, he was off sorting out the brummies last time I spoke to him. You'll know Rob Irvine then?
        
        Ah, McGowan - Mr Gieves and Hawkes. Paying out more to ex wives than he earned in 1989.
        
        News-editing the Sport? That must have been, err... interesting. I believe our features editor washed up there as well, having found god. I can't believe that was a work-related discovery though...
        
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        Juzzzy
        
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        2008-08-05 @ 14:48:07
        
        I was young(ish), I needed the money...
        
        Did it for two years and scarpered - hated the place.
        
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        deana24
        
        2008-08-05 @ 14:53:32
        
        Yeah, I worked in a PR agency for 18 months... *shudders*
        
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- deleted user (Visitor)
- 2008-08-05 @ 13:45:02
Maybe just because you have a very nice voice, suitable for those kind of things?
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- I_Am_Xenon ^Pro
- 2008-08-05 @ 13:58:26
Cool! Congratulations!
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- EllieGant
- 2008-08-05 @ 14:53:14
Definitely a la Fenella.

And if you could also dress like her, I'm sure that student admissions will soar!
- - deana24
  - 2008-08-05 @ 14:56:19
  Mincing up and down the stairs from my lofty perch might be a problem - not to mention running for my train!
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- ajnspencer ^Pro
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- 2008-08-05 @ 15:09:13
I always feel more than weird when I hear my voice broadcast, not sure I could be a phone voice
- - deana24
  - 2008-08-05 @ 15:42:38
  Perhaps I should develop cold feet that can only be warmed by gu chocolate puds.
  - - ajnspencer ^Pro
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    - 2008-08-05 @ 15:43:56
    Bribery always works well...
    - - deana24
      - 2008-08-05 @ 20:15:22
      You have a broadcast voice? Do you work in radio/tele? That must be interesting.
      - ajnspencer ^Pro
        
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        2008-08-05 @ 20:16:53
        
        I do for another 8 days, 16 hours and 43 minutes
        
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        deana24
        
        2008-08-05 @ 20:26:26
        
        And then what? more radio/tele?
        
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        ajnspencer ^Pro
        
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        2008-08-05 @ 20:34:19
        
        Dunno yet
        
        That's the fun...
        
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        deana24
        
        2008-08-05 @ 20:37:36
        
        Well if your photography is anything to go by you're clearly very talented. Keep us posted.
        
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        ajnspencer ^Pro
        
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        2008-08-05 @ 21:23:39
        
        Thanks I'm hoping I could get some cash from that...
        
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- bunnybunbunbun
- 2008-08-05 @ 20:28:18
hee hee now that you have told us that we will all have to phone it up and have a secret listen so you can expect lots of messages that are just people giggling :¬D
- - deana24
  - 2008-08-05 @ 20:31:45
  Well I shall expect you to order a prospectus and at the very least sign up for a distance learning course in Piracy. It's called Accountancy these days, of course, but it's the same thing.
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- Tentativeplotfinder
- 2008-08-06 @ 13:59:10
It's more than scary enough listening to the sound of my voice on an answer machine, or as I did over the last ten days, have to endure my singing voice being broadcast over the PA sytem in church... The thought of being a 'the voice' of an answering service is enough to induce a long afternoon lie-down and nap!
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- David (Visitor)
- 2008-08-06 @ 22:21:06
Funny you should mention Fenella Fielding, she was on 'Cash in the attic' this afternoon. I was amazed as I thought she was long dead. I met her in 1967 and was really disappointed in her. She looked a lot older than I thought with terrible teeth and looked really hacked. This afternoon she looked better than she did 41 years ago and if she was born in 1930 or 34 then I was born in 1970.
Never liked her voice though, too over the top. You can do better than that.

R'gards, D.
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