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I have no idea how the subject came around to this, but at my kaffeeklatsch this past Worldcon I found myself describing how I used to be in love with the voice of this one particular announcer at New York's Penn Station. I have no idea where he sat. I never saw him in the flesh. I don't know if he actually had flesh. All he did was read off the track assignments, the station stops, and the last calls of the Long Island Rail Road commuter trains. But I just adored that voice.

I was catching up on communities, and I saw that

unclephil2k had posted this in

blakes7:

(The Onion)
Monday, July 19, 2004
NERD HAS MOST OBSCURE CRUSH EVER

The unrequited nature of area nerd June Manzo's crush on actor Peter Tuddenham, who provides the voice of piloting computer Slave on Blake's 7, is only slightly more agonizing than the process of explanation she must put herself through every time her media obsession is discussed. "He has this slightly sinister but dynamic way of speaking on the show, particularly in the 'Headhunter' episode," Manzo said, painstakingly describing Tuddenham to fellow science-fiction fan Bradley Preakniss. "When I hear his voice congratulating Avon on his 'consummate skill,' I just get shivers... Doesn't that ring a bell? No? Not at all?" Manzo's crush is surpassed in geekiness and obscurity only by that of Denver's Demitri Ostrow, who has a long-harbored passion for author Neil Gaiman's "fabulous" assistant Lorraine.

For the record, Peter Tuddenham also voiced the characters Zen and Orac, two other computer intelligences.

I'd go more for Zen, myself.