[Ads-l] "The F U train"

[Dan Goncharoff]

Reminded me of this story:

MTA Will Erase FML From Station Signage
http://gothamist.com/2010/06/14/fml.php



DanG

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The N.Y. Daily News (no friend of "Sleazy Don") gives this headline advice
> to "Lyin' Ted":
>
> "Take the F U Train, Ted!"
>
> See, it's kind of a play on words, since the NYC subway system has no "F U
> Train."
>
> But it does have an "F."
>
> For most of my life, it would have been unthinkable/unimaginable/radically
> subversive and outrageous for a major city daily (or anything else, for
> that matter) to print the letters "F U" in a front-page headline in quite
> this way.
>
> JL
> JL
>
>
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> "If the truth  half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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