Re: subliminal slam on Michael Bloomberg??

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 12:22 AM 6/19/2003, Bob Nelson wrote:

>--- SteveOrdinetz <steveord@bit-net.com> wrote:
>
> > A little off topic, but I've always wondered why the
> > NYC fire dept's
> > initials are kind of backwards.
>
>This is just a guess, but if they used "N.Y.F.D.",
>the "F" would look too close to being a "P". You
>might have a fireman (or some sort of official in
>(snip)

I'll hazard a guess: perhaps the fire department dates back to a time when 
they served such a large area it was more than just New York...so they were 
the "Fire Department, period" before they were the "New York Fire Department" ?



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