Re: Call letters in poor taste (was RE: Howie Carr in Seattle)

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On 16 Nov 99,  dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.n wrote:

> Then there is the possibly apocryphal story about the AM 
> in Idaho to which the FCC first assigned one set of 
> requested calls and then required the station owners to 
> select new ones. Someone at the FCC finally recognized 
> what he should have realized from the outset--that the 
> calls kind of spelled an obsecne word. I say "kind of" 
> because the first letter of the sound-alike obscene word 
> isn't K. I think that clue should be sufficient to 
> suggest the word to most readers without my having to 
> spell it out.
 
I guess I'm dense.  I'm guessing something, but it doesn't seem quite 
right.  Also, if it is what I'm guessing, it turns out also to be a 
Yiddish word for excrement.


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