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Re: WBZ-AM protects purity of airwaves again

At 06:52 PM 1/19/99 -0500, lglavin@lycosmail.com wrote:
>This morning (Jan 19) WBZ-AM briefly reported the 
>story of a rap performer called Old Dirty Bastard 
>getting in trouble with the law.  But they referred
>to this surely talented and estimable personage as 
>"O.D.B."  I thought for a minute it was some agency
>of the Federal government.  Howie Carr mentioned the
>story and gave the full sobriquet and THEN called him
>(I believe it's a him) O.D.B.  Is this another
>example of WBz-AM Puritanism (no rats' asses here)
>or is O.D.B. interchangeable with Old Dirty Bastard?

The names are used interchangably...even by his record company.  O.D.B.
seems to be used when he's the artist, but Ol' Dirty Bastard is used when
he's the producer.

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