North Carolina WTF Numberplates

Earlier this summer, New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority announced that it would be rearranging some of its subway signs because they resembled a slightly naughty bit of internet slang.

The signage for the F, M, and L lines read “FML,” which savvy web users know as self-deprecating shorthand for “F — My Life.” The double meaning of its signs caught the transit authority off guard, but they’ve worked quickly to switch around the letters.

New York’s subways are hardly the first victims of acronym problems, though. Let’s take a look at ten other organizations, places, and businesses that have realized a bit too late that their initials meant a little more than they had intended.