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Much earlier. See http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=fuck Stephen Frazier wrote: > Note the USMC logo. The anchor chain is wrapped around the anchor. So, > all marines are always fouled up. ;-) > The use of the fouled up anchor as a symbol of the marines goes back to > at least the late 1700's. The term SNFU or SNAFU (I have seen it both > ways although the later is now the more common) may go back that far > also. My father told me that he first encountered the term SNFU as > "Situation Normal Fouled Up" when he joined the Navy in 1932. The other > "F" word would not have been used in 1700 as at that time it was a > device pulled by a farm horse to plant seeds. It didn't take on its > current meaning until some time in the 1800's. Could it be related to > "sowing wild oats"? > > How far OT do we want to go with this? :-) > > [email protected] wrote: >> one more view - >> 3 of my great uncles were marines - 1 in 1918, WW1 in France. The >> other 2 >> in the Pacific in WW2. >> All 3 agreed that the terms SNAFU and FUBAR were in general use by the >> enlisted Marines even before their time(s). >> Was the subject of several memorable conversations at family reunions >> where >> some of the "gentler" family members got offended and left the outdoor >> festivities to the "rougher" members - and us wide-eyed young boys. >> Was probably a similar saying in use in every military back to the >> Sumerian >> and pre-Confuscian days. >> > > -- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.13.2/2214 - Release Date: 07/02/09 > 05:54:00 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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