At 16:52 14/10/02 +1300, you wrote: >LOL > >On Monday 14 October 2002 4:36 pm, Martin Baehr wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 04:32:25PM +1300, Nick Rout wrote: >> > real sorry about this paople, mail system snafu being worked on right >> > now :-) >> >> hmm, one misspelled word, and one word that's not in the dictionary, >> the content is not very creative and you failed to keep to the suggested >> topic. >> >> can't give this a better grade than a D, sorry. >> >> greetings, martin. > > I presume he refers to snafu as the 'not in dictionary' word.
It is an acronym, that's why, so it is valid. Like LOL or ROTFL. Its an old military acronym which stands for Situation Normal, All F...ed Up, and is related to FUBAR (nowadays often mis-spelt FOOBAR) which is F...ed Up Beyond All Recognition. There's a whole range of these things depending on how serious the F... Up is, and ending in Daisy F...ed for which there is no acronym. The last is a reference to a Daisy Cutter Bomb which was designed to explode just above ground (when dropped from an aeroplane), and literally flattened everything around it in a daisy pattern, as if someone had used a daisy pattern biscuit cutter. (For the ex-pat Americans on the list, biscuit = cookie) Thanks to my father (ex 488 squadron Singapore) and several members of comp.lang.cobol for this info. Note: F... has been censored to avoid being deleted by those annoying filtering programmes. David Stringer
