Isn't that snafu -- situation normal all fouled up? Scott
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Stephen Frazier <[email protected]>wrote: > A related term also from WW2 is SNFU. Widely used in the Navy for > "Situation Normal Fouled Up." In Navy terminology "fouled up" means that > your anchor chain is tangled so you can't raise the anchor and get > aweigh. Aweigh of course means that the ships anchor has been pulled in > enough that it is no longer dragging bottom. What you gave as the > polite definition for FUBAR is what during WW2 the Army liked to call > the Navy. The less polite definition of FUBAR seems to have originated > at about the same time. It is what the Army called the Army. :) > > Ed Long wrote: > >> FOOBAR dates from WW2 where it was more commonly spelled FUBAR. >> The polite definition is fouled up beyond all recognition. >> Guess what the real definition is! >> >> Edward Long >> >> > > -- > Stephen Frazier > Information Technology Unit > Oklahoma Department of Corrections > 3400 Martin Luther King > Oklahoma City, Ok, 73111-4298 > Tel.: (405) 425-2549 > Fax: (405) 425-2554 > Pager: (405) 690-1828 > email: stevef%doc.state.ok.us > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
