Bob Dylan to be the voice of GPS?

[Brad from Georgia]

According to this article, Bob Dylan is considering a gig as the voice of a GPS navigating system.....


You: Geez, this doesn't look familiar at all.

GPS: How many rooaaads must you drive down
Before you just turn around?

You: All I need is to find state route 115! Why can't you show me how to get to 115?

GPS: Ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe.

You: I'm gonna be late! It's already 5:00!

GPS: You've entered the Central Time Zone...and the times, they are a'changin'.....

.....well, you get the picture.

[DawnStorm]

How does it feel to be giving out directions Mr. Dylan?
To be far from home? Like a rolling stone?

[jw]

I can hear the jingle.

"Come gather round people wherever you roam."

[Magdalene]

Originally Posted by jw

I can hear the jingle.

"Come gather round people wherever you roam."

....and admit that the roadways around you have grown
And accept that soon you'll need to leave home
If your life to you is worth seein'

Oh, you better start signalin'
Or that car you'll t-bone
For the lanes, they are a-changin'

Magdalene

[Simply Madeline]

Useful for revisiting highway 61. And for when you have no direction home.

[Tarquin Farquart]

Get off the level crossing! There's a slow train coming.

[Insensible Crier]

Originally Posted by Tarquin Farquart

Get off the level crossing! There's a slow train coming.

Look out kid, you're gonna get hit.

[ARubberChickenWithAPulley]

Looking forward to the Keith Richards version.

[Nick Theodorakis]

We so need an Ozzie Osborne GPS!

Nick

[Ramblin' Dave]

No doubt the directions will always sound a bit different no matter how many times you take the exact same route.
Ramblin' "That was 'Tangled Up in Blue?!'" Dave

[Katness]

Originally Posted by Nick Theodorakis

We so need an Ozzie Osborne GPS!

Nick

I downloaded a pseudo-Ozzy voice.. it was a good impression. If you missed a turn it yelled, "Sharon!! Sharon!! You missed the f*cking turn!!" It was funny the first couple times, then got old pretty fast. I restored the default nav voice after a few days.

[llewtrah]

I'm holding out for a Jean-Luc Picard sat nav voice.

"Helm, lay in a course for Milton Keynes ...."

"Turn left at the next junction - make it so"

A Don Warrington sat nav voice would be nice too, trouble is he has such a lovely voice I'd be distracted from the actual directions.

A friend had a Joanna Lumley voice (or very good impression of it) on his sat nav laptop program - you didn't dare miss your turning! He can't actually drive, but he took the laptop when he was a passenger on long trips and it had an antenna that had to be clamped to the car roof. This was quite a while before Tom-Toms etc for cars were available over here so it was a novelty for the driver as well as something to keep the passenger occupied on long journeys.

[snapdragonfly]

I'm going to get some New England old codger to record "You cahn't get theyah from heyah" and that will be the sum total of the entire program.

[Mycroft]

Unfortunately most of the replacement voices come with really annoying catch phrases; IMO one of the best is the John Cleese voice which just give the directions without too many additions (notably the arrival at destination message which adds that he will not carry your luggage)

[jayjaybear]

Bob Dylan voice, Charlie Brown's teacher voice or Drive-Thru clown-speaker voice? Hmmm...

[Tarquin Farquart]

Originally Posted by Insensible Crier

Look out kid, you're gonna get hit.

Watch the parking meters.

[Radical Dory]

Meh, when it comes to indecipherable singers on my GPS, I'd rather have Dave Matthews.

[MrsLottoTx]

Originally Posted by Katness

I downloaded a pseudo-Ozzy voice.. it was a good impression. If you missed a turn it yelled, "Sharon!! Sharon!! You missed the f*cking turn!!" It was funny the first couple times, then got old pretty fast. I restored the default nav voice after a few days.

I think we have that one. "Then take the f*cking motorway!" and "Take a f*cking left turn!" Other than some odds and ends where he stumbles with ums and uhs, it's basically like driving with some of the worst of these people.

I asked my husband to remove it from the GPS when I'm using it as I have no intention of driving alone with someone cursing at me. I call myself an idiot enough when driving, I don't need the point pounded into me by an aging stoner (for lack of a better word and to keep it SFBSK.)

Mrs.

ETA: By these people, I meant the worst of the passengers, not the posters in the thread.

[DawnStorm]

Now will the GPS mentioned in the OP guide you All Along the Watchtower?

[Tarquin Farquart]

Originally Posted by DawnStorm

Now will the GPS mentioned in the OP guide you All Along the Watchtower?

"There must be some kind of way out of here..."