Gramogram

Those letters, pronounced in French, sound like "Elle a chaud au cul", an idiom which translates to "she has a hot ass",[5] or in Duchamp's words "there is fire down below".

A short gramogram dialogue opening with a customer asking "FUNEX" ("Have you any eggs?")

appears in a 1949 book Hail fellow well met by Seymour Hicks[9] and was expanded into a longer sketch of phrasebook-style gramogram dialogue for the comedy sketch show The Two Ronnies, under the title Swedish made simple.

[10][11] The 1980s Canadian gameshow Bumper Stumpers required contestants to decode gramograms presented as fictional vanity licence plates.

Here Come the ABCs, a 2005 children's album by They Might Be Giants, contains the song "I C U", which is entirely made up of gramograms.