[Ads-l] "The F U train"

[Jonathan Lighter]

"FML" is too new for HDAS.

Until I looked it up just now, I couldn't even guess what it might stand
for beyond the first initial or two.

JL

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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