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“Lick-My-Ass Enterprises”

May 27, 2016May 29, 2016Nancy Friedman15 Comments

This is the story of a bygone Hollywood recording studio whose name was an acronym for a sweary Arabic-Yiddish (and also maybe Turkish) epithet. I learned about it in a comment on a blog post about a Korean-English translator.

Needless to say, I love the internet.

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