Sunday, June 13, 2010

Is the MTA hip to this Internet meme?



Caroline McCarthy at CNET notes the following:

This week, an alteration in New York City transit signs to address forthcoming route changes have placed an unfortunate Internet acronym on a heavily trafficked subway station: Displays that list the color-coded subway services running at the 14th Street-6th Avenue underground station now display a bold "FML."

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or MTA, may or may not have been aware that this is an acronym for "f*** my life," a profane exclamation of disgruntlement that arose in Web forums, in text messages, and on a popular blog several years ago.


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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 14, 2010 at 12:42 AM

    The M train and the L train only intersect at Myrtle and Wyckoff in Brooklyn. This image is spurious.

    -nyc

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  2. AnonymousJune 14, 2010 at 12:49 AM

    I am recanting my previous comment regarding the authenticity of this image. I should have verified the routing changes with the MTA website beforehand.

    -nyc

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  3. AnonymousJune 14, 2010 at 9:32 PM

    nope. it's the 14th street station, where you can transfer to the f, v (now m) and l from the 1/2/3.

    the path should have given it away.

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  4. Bob FingermanJune 15, 2010 at 2:25 AM

    As someone who takes the subway all the time it's certainly a sentiment I can appreciate down there. Often.

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