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I can't help but like the voice of the guy who does the recordings of messages sent out by my town's emergency notification service. Whenever there's a big thing in the works- the winter storms this past year, a major change in streets because of water main construction, impending dangerous weather, etc.- the town gets the same man to record a message about it, and then has their robodialer call everybody in town who signed up for emergency notifications and plays the message back. The thing is that the guy has a heavy Boston accent and always sounds as if he's had to rehearse his message so many times that he never wants to see this fuckin' message again, so you pick up the phone and hear the Voice of Boston informing you that there's incoming heavy weather and preparations are under way by the town and that residents should do the following... and thanks to his tone of voice there are all these silent "dammit" moments in between the words.

Last time an emergency call went out was a few days ago, when the town had found mosquitoes that tested positive for West Nile (dammit) and they were gonna be spraying down around (that fuckin') lake after nine p.m., so (dammit) close your (freakin') windows before going to bed.