1. He said they would page him over the public-address system.

2. Stern warnings broadcast over the student public-address system in the evening of 8 October exacerbated the situation.

3. She said she would page him over the public-address system.

4. Suddenly an air-traffic controller came over the public-address system and announced loudly, "Attention to the airman at the end of the runway. You are cleared for takeoff."

5. Or persuade the operators of a slow train to Ulan Bator to put his Beatles cassette on the public-address system?

6. In an even more pointed joke, Werner Heisenberg was repeatedly paged over the public-address system for two days running.

7. In the peaceful stillness of a library the slightest hiccup sounds like a rhinoceros belching thunderously over a public-address system.

8. One day Andy plays Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro over the public-address system.