http://beyond-beautiful.org/topic/8475/t/-Dirty-Name-Keeps-Man-From-Internet.html en-us Copyright 2006, Kickapps feeds@kickapps.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@kickapps.com (WebMaster) Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:01:26 GMT Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:11:52 GMT Kickapps Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://kickapps.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://kickapps.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Domain q http://kickapps.com/search/direct/ http://beyond-beautiful.org/reply/303196/t/-Dirty-Name-Keeps-Man-From-Internet.html#reply-303196 I know this because I just saw an episode tonight lulz ]]> feeds@kickapps.com (thisismethen17) http://beyond-beautiful.org/sreply/303196 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:11:52 PST http://beyond-beautiful.org/reply/302433/t/-Dirty-Name-Keeps-Man-From-Internet.html#reply-302433
only in America!!!
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by Tim Stevens, posted Aug 4th 2008 at 5:49PM

What's in a name? For most, it's just a jumble of letters. Some people have a word or two mixed in, and a rare few have words in their names that can't be said in polite conversation. That's the problem faced by Dr. Herman I. Libshitz, a retired Chestertown, Maryland radiologist who recently was given quite the run-around by Verizon when trying to upgrade his aging dial-up connection to something a little faster.

There's a certain word contained within the good doctor's last name (Can you find it?) that Verizon doesn't permit in its e-mail addresses. So, when Herman was told he would need to pick another name to set up the account, he told them to shove their DSL where the sun don't shine and went back to dial-up.

Ultimately, Verizon customer service managers gave the Libshitz family an exemption to... ]]> feeds@kickapps.com (JenRox) http://beyond-beautiful.org/topic/8475 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:01:26 PST