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Article #54936Re: Q about 2650 Wisconsin Ave NW
From: Richard Drury
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1992 21:46
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1992 21:46
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In article <20806@oasys.dt.navy.mil> smennitt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Stuart Mennitt) writes: > > This reminds me of a bit of urban folklore: The diplomatic plate >prefixes are supposedly randomly assigned every 10 years or so. The >USSR got "FC", which people, including the Soviets, assumed was a deliberate >acronym for F*****g Communists. The US refused to make any revisions. >Anyone else hear this? Yes, and it is true. -- Richard A. Drury drury@helix.nih.gov
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 101049,b05819f27c907d91 X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-06-10 03:20:20 PST Newsgroups: dc.general Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!nih-csl!helix.nih.gov!drury From: drury@helix.nih.gov (Richard Drury) Subject: Re: Q about 2650 Wisconsin Ave NW Message-ID: <1992Jun9.214635.12813@alw.nih.gov> Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster) Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Distribution: dc Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1992 21:46:35 GMT Lines: 12