Verizon

Dr Herman I. Libshitz is a retired physician who lives in West Philadelphia.

He and his wife own a summer home in Reheboth Beach, Delaware.

The summer place had a simple dial-up service for the internet, which Dr Libshitz decided to upgrade to DSL.

He contacted Verizon to get the service installed.

Who were unable to complete the job because when Dr Libshitz was prompted to create his user name and e-mail address, the system spat his request out.

Why?

He called the Verizon help line, only to be told - and I am NOT making this up - "We can't install it because your name has 'shit' in it"

Annoyed, he asked to speak to a supervisor. Who gave him exactly the same response, having the additional balls to actually suggest Dr Libshitz could simply misspell his last name in order to confirm the account! (WTF?!)

The good doctor, a Vietnam war veteran who had previously signed his own proud name to several hundred academic papers without incident, decided that Verizon wasn't for him and stuck with his AT&T dial-up.

This kind of moronic 'holier-than-thou' censorship nonsense really grips my Libshitz. (I say that with every respect in the world)