NOT THE SHARPEST KNIVES IN THE DRAWER: FML=MLF
A massive budget shortfall forced NYC’s Metropolitan Transit Authority to merge the M and V lines, and signs alerting riders to the route change that takes effect June 28th have already been put up at one of the busiest transit hubs in the city. But CNET News reports that when subway riders see the sign, they are likely to do a “WTF” double-take:
Displays that list the color-coded subway services running at the 14th Street-6th Avenue underground station now display a bold "FML." …
It's all the more visible because trains operated by PATH, a rapid-transit service that connects Manhattan with northern New Jersey, stop at the same complex.
[I]t's unclear whether transit authorities were aware of the explicit pop-culture reference. "FML" - as the name of an extremely popular "microblog" [contextual link added by The Stiletto; site contains raunchy language] that aggregates reader tales of frustration, annoyance, and general dissatisfaction and of a book published last year - is reasonably mainstream enough for, say, a state's Department of Motor Vehicles to ban it from use on vanity license plates.
The M line goes back to the early 1960s, whereas the V line was only 8 years old, and when the MTA originally announced plans to rename the merged route the V, there was “[a]n outcry at public hearings” reports The New York Times, which “led transit planners to rethink the nomenclature.” The MTA may need to rethink the rethink because FML is an MLF (Major-League Fail).
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