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"Snafu" is intriguing in both its ancestry and its extensive progeny
The first of these is the well know Fubar, beyond all recognition. After that comes beyond understanding. Many of our nation's youth exhibit this even to the point of being explicitly labeled as such.
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Remember the thread where someone coined the word "thirstifying"? (I really think that ought to be a word...)
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The first of these is the well know Fubar, beyond all recognition. After that comes beyond understanding. Many of our nation's youth exhibit this even to the point of being explicitly labeled as such.
Presumably you presume that "FUBU", a logo on clothing marketed to youth, means "F... Up Beyond Understanding". I'd thought so too. But a knowledgeable youth informs me that FUBU is the name of a clothing company (with its own website), and stands for "For Us By Us.
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Whereas SNAFU, stands for "Situation Normal All Fucked Up."
regardless of what Dear Old Dad told you about the situation being all fouled up -- when he came home from the War!
Now can any Vet tell me the actual meaning for FIGMO which I have heard used about people about to separate from the service and who no longer have any interest in anything military!
For example : Officer says "Get PFC Denver to do that"
Sgt replies : "Better not, sir, he's FIGMO."
Officer : "Ah, yes, you're right, get Jones he still has three years to go."
Thanks.
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I scarfed a pint of ice cream!
Growing up in Central New Jersey that was a common expression for rapid and copious consumption.
But usually we'd say "Man, he really scarfed it up!...or, "They gave me my food and I was so hungry I scarfed it right down!...along with other small variations of these two.
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In Zild (and I think in Britain as well), you say "I found a bowl with two dozen Bluff oysters and scoffed the lot." Or "gutsed the lot".
In NZ, a "scarfie" is a student. It's short for "scarf-dragger", harking back to the days of long scarves dragged along the ground as an affectation.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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scoffed the lot
So a perfect case of one word getting varied first by pronunciation then spelling? - in origin 'scoffed' and pronounced skoff't, then variantly pronounced in some dialects as skahff'd, then transliterated as 'scarved' - seems plausible!
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For Us By Us.
Well of course, *they'd say that.
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