Re: Faces
>These are radio ham (originally morse code) slang, later adopted in >CB radio, especially international single-sideband CB. > >FUBAR comes from Bell Telephone repairmen, as does SNAFU, >and there was another one for minor damage. >The first meant "<25% damage, <3days to repair." >Situation Normal, All F***ed Up" meant "<50% damge, <7days to repair." >F***ed Up Beyond All Repair meant ">50% damage, scrap & replace entire" > > > I thought SNAFU was a military term. . http://members.aol.com/lester5374/index.htm - Ansi home page FTP://members.aol.com/lester5374/ansi - To download the ANSI format
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,1a37c13813fa0998 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: les...@aol.com (Lester5374) Subject: Re: Faces Date: 1998/06/21 Message-ID: <199...@ladder03.news.aol.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 364766600 References: <bIv...@xemu.demon.co.uk> X-Admin: new...@aol.com Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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