[Ads-l] "The F U train"

[Laurence Horn]

> On Apr 7, 2016, at 1:23 PM, George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu> wrote:
> 
> So, what does FML mean?
> 
> GAT

cf. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fml

LH
> 
> 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
>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__gothamist.com_2010_06_14_fml.php&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=k08bT9WFmMQN5ikDfxoryJR6-wbv1xP4smERWk0Ch9A&s=T5xlgwY3cHH45eYcVmWlhxyKf0rLf3ofZdx0E-d1lTc&e= 
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>>> 
>>> 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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