The announcement I will miss is on the TWA Express, the little puddle jumpers in the midwest.

When you land they have a tape recorded announcement of a jolly booming voice saying "Welcome to your destination." That's all it said, no keep seated until we park, etc.

I just love a personalized welcome to "my destination"

They didn't even bother to try to personalize it, or -gasp- have the FA (or pilot if the plane was really small) actually make the announcement.

My other favorite is when you are landing in one of those one or two gate airports is when the FA announces "We don't have any connecting gate information, please check the monitors inside the gate area for that information." Many of these municipal/regional airports don't have monitors, and the only connecting flight would be to get right back on the plane you exited and fly back to their hub.

Then last week on a packed American flight going to Palm Springs, the ground crew person gets on the PA and does his traditional pitch, but decides we are going to Palm Beach, correcting it to West Palm Beach, telling us that if our plans don't include W. Palm Beach to get off the plane. Now that announcement did get quite a bit of attention.

Remember, just because you know how to operate the microphone doesn't mean you know what you are talking about. This goes for some television news anchors, who don't know how to operate the microphone, but there are people on staff who do that sort of thing for them.