[Ads-l] "The F U train"

[George Thompson]

So, what does FML mean?

GAT

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "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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George A. Thompson
The Guy Who Still Looks Stuff Up in Books.
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998..

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