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Daily Discussion Thread: 🐔🐣🐤 🏚️ 💀 🦦 Sunday, July 07, 2024 (aussie.zone)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

do you have one of the systems where the guy saying evacuate now, emergency sounds like pete smith from the old copperart ads?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't know what copehard or who Pete Smith is, but I'm pretty sure the alarm tones and voices are standardised across Australia. It's the same one that the occasional uni and shopping centre evacuation videos posted on r/Melbourne had, and I'm pretty sure it's the same one that was in the Bondi junction videos

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

A classic

and festive!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nah don't think so. This one was more like this (minus the "evacuate as directed"). But this one sounds like that dude

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That first link is the classic pete smith

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I don't hear the resemblance to the first one, only the second

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

true, but I know who pete smith is and am very very familiar with his voice being of A Certain Age. The "Emergency!" is dead on petey

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sure. The commercials you linked predate me by longer than I've been alive, and in any case I don't pay much attention to people who are in commercials

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

the dude was pretty ubiquitous in the 80's / 90's. Even did a slew of stuff for Micallef - you couldn't avoid him. He was everywhere. everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It's the old timie radio advertising voice. Clear and precise. John Deeks has a similar way.

This is Pete Smith speaking.