# Want Obamacare Care? Call 1-800-F1U-CKYO **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 4, 2013, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-obamacare-care-call-1-800-f1u-ckyo/670360 "2013-10-04T15:03:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-obamacare-care-call-1-800-f1u-ckyo/670360/21 "2013-10-04T16:46:13Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > It’s a new gov program. We got to make fun of it for a little while. Or, alternately, we could pretend to be intelligent, rational adults. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-obamacare-care-call-1-800-f1u-ckyo/670360/22 "2013-10-04T16:54:00Z")
So how much should we be paying the government employee who checks every phone number to make sure it can’t come close to anything an idiotic teenager might think is funny? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-obamacare-care-call-1-800-f1u-ckyo/670360/23 "2013-10-04T17:22:15Z")
I bet you people are a hoot at parties. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-obamacare-care-call-1-800-f1u-ckyo/670360/24 "2013-10-04T17:46:20Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I’m no fan of Obamacare, but this really was just intended as a joke thread. Any big gov program will have startup glitches. > > Somebody goofed with this phone number. Any number published to millions of people should be checked first for any embarrassing words that can be created with the letters. This has been fertile joke material for 75 years. Anyone in communications or public relations knows that. But it doesn’t even spell anything out. I mean, there’s absolutely no way to insure that a number doesn’t spell out something embarrassing or spell out something _kind of close_ to spelling out something embarrassing. If it actually spelled it out, that would be pretty bad. But F1U-CKYO? Hell, you could get away with that on a license plate and nobody would bat an eye. Well, okay, thirteen-year-old boys might, but they can find anything to sniggle at (even the word "sniggle). Honestly, it’s pretty childish. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-obamacare-care-call-1-800-f1u-ckyo/670360/25 "2013-10-04T17:53:12Z")
Ah, for comparison, the official text number for the Republican Party spells out “MY WIMP”. Should that be embarrassing, somehow? ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-obamacare-care-call-1-800-f1u-ckyo/670360/26 "2013-10-04T18:02:47Z")
I tried to buy Super Bowl tickets one time, and the website didn’t work right. Clearly, the Super Bowl should have been cancelled. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-obamacare-care-call-1-800-f1u-ckyo/670360/27 "2013-10-04T18:10:31Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > I tried to buy Super Bowl tickets one time, and the website didn’t work right. > > Clearly, the Super Bowl should have been cancelled. Did their phone number spell out B1G-T1TZ ? ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-obamacare-care-call-1-800-f1u-ckyo/670360/28 "2013-10-04T18:18:54Z")
I’ve been working on this, and the closest I can come to making it sound really vulgar is: Eff one you! Ch-kyo! I guess if your friend Ch’kyo was really upset by the number one, that would work. ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-obamacare-care-call-1-800-f1u-ckyo/670360/29 "2013-10-04T18:40:12Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > I’ve been working on this, and the closest I can come to making it sound really vulgar is: Eff one you! Ch-kyo! I guess if your friend Ch’kyo was really upset by the number one, that would work. OK, I’m Canadian so I have absolutely no dog in this fight, and if I did I’m pretty sure I’d be pro-Obamacare (or affordable health care or whatever the official name is). But no matter what side you’re on, I can’t believe you won’t admit that it’s kind of funny that the official help line is fairly close to being 1-800-FUC-KYOU. It’s not a big stretch to see “fuck you” in F1UCKYO, is it? I think you’re all giving **aceplace** way too much shit about this, and I bet that wouldn’t have happened if he hadn’t made that crack about the “Obamacare mess”. Maybe you’re all a little sensitive about this right now. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-obamacare-care-call-1-800-f1u-ckyo/670360/30 "2013-10-04T18:50:46Z")
> [@MrSquishy](#): > > It’s not a big stretch to see “fuck you” in F1UCKYO, is it? Yeah, it is a bit of a stretch, because there are over 7,000 letter combinations the same number can yield. Obviously somebody sat down and went through all the permutations looking for something titillating, and if that is the worst they came up with, it barely rises to the level of a joke one might hear in the fourth grade (“it almost says 'fuck” :eek::eek::eek:) ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-obamacare-care-call-1-800-f1u-ckyo/670360/31 "2013-10-04T19:00:42Z")
Hey, now. Everybody ease up a little on **aceplaceks**. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-obamacare-care-call-1-800-f1u-ckyo/670360/32 "2013-10-04T19:07:18Z")
I’m shocked and furious. I work for the government and we explicitly ordered 1-800-FUK-U-GOP from the phone company. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-obamacare-care-call-1-800-f1u-ckyo/670360/33 "2013-10-04T19:17:22Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > I work for the government and we explicitly ordered 1-800-FUK-U-GOP from the phone company. Now see?..That’s how you do funny. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-obamacare-care-call-1-800-f1u-ckyo/670360/34 "2013-10-04T19:24:19Z")
I think it’s pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-obamacare-care-call-1-800-f1u-ckyo/670360/35 "2013-10-04T19:32:42Z")
> [@MrSquishy](#): > > OK, I’m Canadian so I have absolutely no dog in this fight, and if I did I’m pretty sure I’d be pro-Obamacare (or affordable health care or whatever the official name is). > > But no matter what side you’re on, I can’t believe you won’t admit that it’s kind of funny that the official help line is fairly close to being 1-800-FUC-KYOU. It’s not a big stretch to see “fuck you” in F1UCKYO, is it? I think you’re all giving **aceplace** way too much shit about this, and I bet that wouldn’t have happened if he hadn’t made that crack about the “Obamacare mess”. > > Maybe you’re all a little sensitive about this right now. I think it’s the “Yet another indication how poorly this Obamacare mess was planned.” bit is why the OP is being given a ration of shit. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-obamacare-care-call-1-800-f1u-ckyo/670360/36 "2013-10-04T19:39:26Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I bet you people are a hoot at parties. I think posters’ reactions aren’t so much about the phone number joke but because it’s yet ANOTHER **aceplace57** thread that shows 1- 97% of his information comes from Fox News, the Daily Mail or the Drudge Report. 2- he loves to make clearly partisan jokes … Until someone (or multiple someones) calls him out on it, which is when he becomes TOTALLY shocked and hurt that people took it “that way”. 3- said jokes always rely on his ignorance of whatever the topic is (Obamacare, Bengazi!!!111, the government shut down, and on and on), which isn’t surprising given #1 above. 4- he somehow thinks he comes across as non-partisan in these threads! And finally 5- his complete INABILITY TO ACTUALLY **READ AND COMPREHEND** THE REPLIES DIRECTED TO HIM SO HE REPLIES WITH THE SAME CONTENT OR SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT, UNRELATED AND JUST AS WRONG SO HE MAY AS WELL JUST TALK TO HIMSELF IN THE MIRROR INSTEAD OF STARTING A THREAD. :: deep, cleansing breath :: ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-obamacare-care-call-1-800-f1u-ckyo/670360/37 "2013-10-04T20:21:58Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Yeah, it is a bit of a stretch, because there are over 7,000 letter combinations the same number can yield. Obviously somebody sat down and went through all the permutations looking for something titillating, and if that is the worst they came up with, it barely rises to the level of a joke one might hear in the fourth grade (“it almost says 'fuck” :eek::eek::eek:) Christ. :smack: Somehow it didn’t even occur to me that there is more than one possible way to translate a phone number to letters. Duh. I get it now. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-obamacare-care-call-1-800-f1u-ckyo/670360/38 "2013-10-05T01:15:16Z")
> [@zweisamkeit](#): > > I think posters’ reactions aren’t so much about the phone number joke but because it’s yet ANOTHER **aceplace57** thread that shows > > 1- 97% of his information comes from Fox News, the Daily Mail or the Drudge Report. > > 2- he loves to make clearly partisan jokes … Until someone (or multiple someones) calls him out on it, which is when he becomes TOTALLY shocked and hurt that people took it “that way”. > > 3- said jokes always rely on his ignorance of whatever the topic is (Obamacare, Bengazi!!!111, the government shut down, and on and on), which isn’t surprising given #1 above. > > 4- he somehow thinks he comes across as non-partisan in these threads! > > And finally > > 5- his complete INABILITY TO ACTUALLY **READ AND COMPREHEND** THE REPLIES DIRECTED TO HIM SO HE REPLIES WITH THE SAME CONTENT OR SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT, UNRELATED AND JUST AS WRONG SO HE MAY AS WELL JUST TALK TO HIMSELF IN THE MIRROR INSTEAD OF STARTING A THREAD. > > :: deep, cleansing breath :: Take it to the Pit. This is MPSIMS. **twickster** , MPSIMS moderator ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-obamacare-care-call-1-800-f1u-ckyo/670360/39 "2013-10-05T02:21:13Z")
Just ignore this post. I messed up my search and it looks like 1-800-FUCK-YOU might not be a number for anything. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-obamacare-care-call-1-800-f1u-ckyo/670360/40 "2013-10-05T03:27:36Z")
[Apparently](http://gawker.com/1-800-f1u-ckyo-the-birth-of-a-beautiful-conservative-m-1440810020) this number was first assigned and used as a Medicare hotline in 1999. Nothing to see here, just another made up scandal, move along. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-obamacare-care-call-1-800-f1u-ckyo/670360.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-obamacare-care-call-1-800-f1u-ckyo/670360.md?page=3)