From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Sat Jan 25 2003 - 16:28:57 MST
Lee Corbin wrote:
> Mike writes
>
>
>>Lee Corbin wrote:
>>
>>
>>>P.S. I hereby copyright the above "U-SUK", and
>>>forbid any puns, wisecracks, insinuations, parodies,
>>>etc., whatsoever, based upon it ;-)
>>
>>Proctor and Bergman (the radio humorists) beat you to it.
>>Or it might have been the entire Firesign Theatre ensemble.
>
>
> Tarnation. That's always happening. Just to complete
> my humiliation, may I ask how long ago that began?
>
> Lee
>
>
Thirty years ago, I think. Neither of these sites makes specific
reference to that bit, but they do refer to the album I think it's in--
as best I can recall, it was a throwaway advertising tag line for a
program--"The preceding was brought to you by USUK--US/UK, Litmus
Industries, a limited division of Burns Psychotic Plastics."
The implicit notion being that the United States and the United Kingdom
were two or three mergers deep in the new corporate world.
http://www.doctechnical.com/fst/notes/tvtv.htm
http://www.firezine.net/issue5/fz5_09.htm
And it's not humiliation, it's part of the grand tradition of "college boy humor".
Live it or live with it. :)
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