The Moro Islamic Liberation Front is a militant Philippines-based separation group. The other day at the TV network I work at, we were prepping a full-screen graphic, the sort of thing that pops up during a news report so that viewers can read certain facts and, having seen them onscreen, better understand what's being said.
The headline for this graphic, which explained who these separatists are and what they're up to, was going to be:
Philippines MILF
I nearly choked. I wanted it spiked... the young female producer who had written it didn't quite see the problem. I insisted it had to change. To her credit, after some resistance (because the graphic was going to be difficult to alter at this late stage or somesuch), she and the designers tweaked the formatting and put in the group's full name in the headline.
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