Phucerself, Mabelle
Alan J Rosenthal
billing dispute, has reminded me of something I read in some "weird news"
type column more than half my life ago. It might have been in National
Lampoon, not exactly known for sacrificing humour for the sake of accuracy.
It said that someone managed to get a telephone listing in some "white pages"
somewhere which had first name Mabelle, last name Phucerself or something
like that. To be read as "fuck yourself, Ma Bell". Unfortunately googling
for "fuck yourself" doesn't really narrow it down too much, and "phucerself",
which is probably not the exact spelling, yields no results.
Anyone heard of this? As usual for AFU, I'm interested both in the story
and in the real life facts.
regards,
ajr
Ray
> Anyone heard of this? As usual for AFU, I'm interested both in
> the story and in the real life facts.
Haven't heard that one, but the Cleveland phone book some years ago had
a listing for "Meoff, Jack". A friend of mine called Ohio Bell and
asked about it. He was told there were several others also, but the
OBT person wouldn't tell what they were. Another may have been "Sy,
Phyllis", but I don't recall the exact spelling of the first name, or
whether I actually saw that one in the book. The Meoff listing I
definitely did see.
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David Scheidt
there was a "hey would you blow me" (I don't remember how they spelt
the last name) in the South Bend, IN phone book a few years ago. The
number belonged to a radio station.
The whole lastname, firstname makes a joke when said as firstname
lastname idea goes back a long time. It was a running gag on the
first few seasons of the simpsons, and I know it was =n't original
to them.
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Hatunen
When I was still young, in the immediate post-WW2 era and the
1950s, the Warren, Ohio, phone book listed "Natural Peter". The
gentleman's name was Peter Natural, of course, but the gag in
junior high school was something like, if you want know what
women like, see the phonebook, page 87, 13th name down. By the
time I was in the army in 1960 Mr Natural had had his listing
changed to "Natural P", which I suppose was better.
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Jared
> The whole lastname, firstname makes a joke when said as firstname
> lastname idea goes back a long time. It was a running gag on the
> first few seasons of the simpsons, and I know it was =n't original
> to them.
This very weekend a friend (not OAF) was telling me how they were once
asked to phone the local water treatment plant and get hold of Sue
Ridge. The response from the very patient receptionist: This is your
first day on the job, isn't it?
Mike Yetto
In the late '60s there was at least one "information" operator in
the Troy, NY area who knew Avogadro's Number.
Mike "but not his area code" Yetto
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> In the late '60s there was at least one "information" operator in
> the Troy, NY area who knew Avogadro's Number.
There was a running gag in the movie Airplane 2 in which increasingly
inappropriate questions are asked at an airport's information desk,
and answered deadpan serious.
> Mike "but not his area code" Yetto
It's 24 digits *without* the area code?
These days they always ask you "what city" first.
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R H Draney
When I first moved to Phoenix, there was an entry in the phone book for several
years running under the name "Nosmo King"....
R H "went to junior high with a guy named Christopher Saint" Draney
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Nick Spalding
on 16 Nov 2009 00:04:28 -0800:
As has been noted in this very group there was a British comic in the
1940s calling himself Nosmo King.
<http://tafkac.org/misc/nosmo_king.html>
--
Nick Spalding
Goldenwight
mid-1970s for "Mickey Mouse". This was a communal phone in a shared
house whose residents changed frequently.
On the subject of names, though, I used to be a Tax inspector and
nearly wet myself one day when I came across an investment advisor
rejoicing in the name of Robin Basted. He complained that, whatever he
did, he didn't seem to be able to generate trade...
And of course there was the arboriculturalist, Teresa Green- although
to be fair Green was her married name.
Ralph Jones
<dsch...@panix.com> wrote:
>Ray <vortre...@yaxhoo.com.invalid> wrote:
>:fl...@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) wrote:
>
>:> Anyone heard of this? As usual for AFU, I'm interested both in
>:> the story and in the real life facts.
>
>:Haven't heard that one, but the Cleveland phone book some years ago had
>:a listing for "Meoff, Jack". A friend of mine called Ohio Bell and
>:asked about it. He was told there were several others also, but the
>:OBT person wouldn't tell what they were. Another may have been "Sy,
>:Phyllis", but I don't recall the exact spelling of the first name, or
>:whether I actually saw that one in the book. The Meoff listing I
>:definitely did see.
>
>there was a "hey would you blow me" (I don't remember how they spelt
>the last name) in the South Bend, IN phone book a few years ago. The
>number belonged to a radio station.
>
The Car Guys on NPR use a G-rated version of that, crediting their
customer service manager as Haywood Jabuzoff.
rj
Tim McDaniel
David Scheidt <dsch...@panix.com> wrote:
>there was a "hey would you blow me" (I don't remember how they spelt
>the last name) in the South Bend, IN phone book a few years ago. The
>number belonged to a radio station.
The Society for Creative Anachronism is an organization for education
and re-creation of the Western European Middle Ages and Renaissance.
In the 1970s, I'm told, you could sometimes visit an unfamiliar city
and find the local SCA group by looking in the phone book for
Richard the Lionhearted.
--
Tim McDaniel, tm...@panix.com
Ralph Jones
McDaniel) wrote:
>In article <hdpq5o$glk$1...@reader1.panix.com>,
>David Scheidt <dsch...@panix.com> wrote:
>>there was a "hey would you blow me" (I don't remember how they spelt
>>the last name) in the South Bend, IN phone book a few years ago. The
>>number belonged to a radio station.
>
>The Society for Creative Anachronism is an organization for education
>and re-creation of the Western European Middle Ages and Renaissance.
An exuberant crowd, that. We had a house mover once who was active in
the local chapter...a big dude, who said he weighed 350 pounds in his
armor. We later saw him fight at the Renaissance Faire, and he did
some serious smiting and smoting.
rj
R H Draney
Ooh, funny names thread!...
Several times in the last couple of weeks, I've passed a big office building
with a sign outside reading "Loose Brown Attorneys"....
I don't think I need to say anything further....r
Boron Elgar
wrote:
>Goldenwight filted:
>>
>>There was certainly an entry in the Lincoln, England phone book in the
>>mid-1970s for "Mickey Mouse". This was a communal phone in a shared
>>house whose residents changed frequently.
>>
>>On the subject of names, though, I used to be a Tax inspector and
>>nearly wet myself one day when I came across an investment advisor
>>rejoicing in the name of Robin Basted. He complained that, whatever he
>>did, he didn't seem to be able to generate trade...
>>
>>And of course there was the arboriculturalist, Teresa Green- although
>>to be fair Green was her married name.
>
>Ooh, funny names thread!...
>
>Several times in the last couple of weeks, I've passed a big office building
>with a sign outside reading "Loose Brown Attorneys"....
>
>I don't think I need to say anything further....r
There is an OB/GYN in my neighborhood whose name is Les Burns. The one
who delivered my firstborn is named Gideon Panter.
Boron
Keith F. Lynch
> As has been noted in this very group there was a British comic in
> the 1940s calling himself Nosmo King.
> <http://tafkac.org/misc/nosmo_king.html>
There's also a Wikipeda page about him:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Vernon_Watson
Wikipedia and Tafkac disagree on what year he died. One or the other
should be corrected.
Warren Oates
"Keith F. Lynch" <k...@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
> Wikipedia and Tafkac disagree on what year he died. One or the other
> should be corrected.
Both of them note that he took his name from the way the "No Smoking"
signs were painted on the stage doors. Now, when I was a boy, my father
always told me it came from the way "No Smo" "king" was painted across
the windows of the non-smoking railway compartments in England. And,
you know, I vaguely remember seeing those signs ...
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Nick Spalding
on Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:47:08 -0500:
> In article <hdsrlk$i67$6...@reader1.panix.com>,
> "Keith F. Lynch" <k...@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
>
> > Wikipedia and Tafkac disagree on what year he died. One or the other
> > should be corrected.
>
> Both of them note that he took his name from the way the "No Smoking"
> signs were painted on the stage doors. Now, when I was a boy, my father
> always told me it came from the way "No Smo" "king" was painted across
> the windows of the non-smoking railway compartments in England. And,
> you know, I vaguely remember seeing those signs ...
That doesn't sound right to me. The compartments had two windows
separated by the door and I am pretty sure each window had the complete
"No Smoking" on it.
--
Nick Spalding
Paul Tomblin
>fl...@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) wrote:
>
>> Anyone heard of this? As usual for AFU, I'm interested both in
>> the story and in the real life facts.
>
>Haven't heard that one, but the Cleveland phone book some years ago had
>a listing for "Meoff, Jack". A friend of mine called Ohio Bell and
A person who has been active in AFU for years and years used to (or
possibly still does) have his phone number listed under the name "N.
Ritchie Kernighan". Which if you were a C programmer in the late 80s, was
*hilarious*. Or not.
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fail at install time.
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Don Freeman
> In a previous article, Ray <vortre...@yaxhoo.com.invalid> said:
>> fl...@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone heard of this? As usual for AFU, I'm interested both in
>>> the story and in the real life facts.
>> Haven't heard that one, but the Cleveland phone book some years ago had
>> a listing for "Meoff, Jack". A friend of mine called Ohio Bell and
>
> A person who has been active in AFU for years and years used to (or
> possibly still does) have his phone number listed under the name "N.
> Ritchie Kernighan". Which if you were a C programmer in the late 80s, was
> *hilarious*. Or not.
>
>
Being a lowly RPG programmer may I request that you explain it to me?
--
-Don
Paul Tomblin
>Paul Tomblin wrote:
>> A person who has been active in AFU for years and years used to (or
>> possibly still does) have his phone number listed under the name "N.
>> Ritchie Kernighan". Which if you were a C programmer in the late 80s, was
>> *hilarious*. Or not.
>
>Being a lowly RPG programmer may I request that you explain it to me?
The first and most important reference book on the C Programming Language,
known variously as "K and R" or "the white bible", was written by Brian
Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_and_r
I was probably the only C programmer in the world who didn't own a copy,
although I did read it once.
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<<Does it work? And if so, is the death traceable?
<Nah, but Dave the Resurrector will just bring 'em back again.
Don Freeman
> In a previous article, Don Freeman <free...@cosmoslair.com> said:
>> Paul Tomblin wrote:
>>> A person who has been active in AFU for years and years used to (or
>>> possibly still does) have his phone number listed under the name "N.
>>> Ritchie Kernighan". Which if you were a C programmer in the late 80s, was
>>> *hilarious*. Or not.
>> Being a lowly RPG programmer may I request that you explain it to me?
>
> The first and most important reference book on the C Programming Language,
> known variously as "K and R" or "the white bible", was written by Brian
> Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.
>
Programmers, they are such crackups.
--
-Don
R H Draney
That's why this was always known as "The Brown Book":
http://members.cox.net/radishman/brownbook.jpg
Charles Wm. Dimmick
> There was certainly an entry in the Lincoln, England phone book in the
> mid-1970s for "Mickey Mouse". This was a communal phone in a shared
> house whose residents changed frequently.
The Lockhaven, Pennsylvania phone book used to have a listing for Donald
Duck.
Ralph Jones
wrote:
>Don Freeman filted:
>>
>>Paul Tomblin wrote:
>>> In a previous article, Don Freeman <free...@cosmoslair.com> said:
>>>> Paul Tomblin wrote:
>>>>> A person who has been active in AFU for years and years used to (or
>>>>> possibly still does) have his phone number listed under the name "N.
>>>>> Ritchie Kernighan". Which if you were a C programmer in the late 80s, was
>>>>> *hilarious*. Or not.
>>>> Being a lowly RPG programmer may I request that you explain it to me?
>>>
>>> The first and most important reference book on the C Programming Language,
>>> known variously as "K and R" or "the white bible", was written by Brian
>>> Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.
>>>
>>
>>Programmers, they are such crackups.
>
>That's why this was always known as "The Brown Book":
>
> http://members.cox.net/radishman/brownbook.jpg
>
>....r
Likewise "BMW"...
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71BZNAV3R5L._SS500_.gif
rj
Mike Yetto
> Don Freeman filted:
>>
>>Paul Tomblin wrote:
>>> In a previous article, Don Freeman <free...@cosmoslair.com> said:
>>>> Paul Tomblin wrote:
>>>>> A person who has been active in AFU for years and years used to (or
>>>>> possibly still does) have his phone number listed under the name "N.
>>>>> Ritchie Kernighan". Which if you were a C programmer in the late 80s, was
>>>>> *hilarious*. Or not.
>>>> Being a lowly RPG programmer may I request that you explain it to me?
>>>
>>> The first and most important reference book on the C Programming Language,
>>> known variously as "K and R" or "the white bible", was written by Brian
>>> Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.
>>>
>>
>>Programmers, they are such crackups.
>
> That's why this was always known as "The Brown Book":
>
> http://members.cox.net/radishman/brownbook.jpg
>
What color is your Brown Book?
Mike "or Orange Ford?" Yetto
David Lesher
>>> A person who has been active in AFU for years and years used to (or
>>> possibly still does) have his phone number listed under the name "N.
>>> Ritchie Kernighan". Which if you were a C programmer in the late 80s, was
>>> *hilarious*. Or not.
Sniff.... sounds dubious.
>The first and most important reference book on the C Programming Language,
>known variously as "K and R" or "the white bible", was written by Brian
>Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_and_r
I was in Warsaw before the Wall came down. Not much to buy but did find a
newsprint-quality paper book:
{Polish} {Polish} C {Polish}
Kernighan and Ritchie
So I bought it (and also a RSX-11 manual..) for presents. ISTM they were
had for less than one US$. The K&R went to an Indian cow orker....
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R H Draney
Why?...is there anybody who could understand him on a telephone?...r
Lon
> Charles Wm. Dimmick filted:
>> Goldenwight wrote:
>>> There was certainly an entry in the Lincoln, England phone book in the
>>> mid-1970s for "Mickey Mouse". This was a communal phone in a shared
>>> house whose residents changed frequently.
>> The Lockhaven, Pennsylvania phone book used to have a listing for Donald
>> Duck.
>
> Why?...is there anybody who could understand him on a telephone?...r
>
>
Donald. . .
Alan J Rosenthal
would like to point out that the subject-line-immortalized epithet goes beyond
the examples being cited because it is not just sneaking in the F word, but
sneaking in a criticism of the party publishing the telephone book it's in.
Lee Ayrton
In the 1970s the Windham CT phone book had a listing for Enola Gay.
Hatunen
I reckon she would have still been alive then.
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D.F. Manno
"Keith F. Lynch" <k...@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
> Nick Spalding <spal...@iol.ie> wrote:
>
> > As has been noted in this very group there was a British comic in
> > the 1940s calling himself Nosmo King.
>
> > <http://tafkac.org/misc/nosmo_king.html>
>
> There's also a Wikipeda page about him:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Vernon_Watson
>
> Wikipedia and Tafkac disagree on what year he died. One or the other
> should be corrected.
Or both.
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