Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/20
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KISS is most assuredly not a "Navy" acronym -- its first recorded use was
in 1917 in the 1st Division ('the Big Red One'), and the second 'S' was
assuredly NOT 'stupid', but a more scatalogical, and less complimentary,
term. The Navy usage, while logical, is somewhat later.
SNAFU has already been defined. There are also:
FUBAR "'Fouled' Up Beyond All Recognition"
FIGMO "'Forget' It -- I Got My Orders"
DILLIGAS "Do I Look Like I Give A 'Shoot'" ("Shoot" here complying with the
Carlin rule, that "Sh*t is Shoot With Two "O"'s")
There are a slew of others. Heck, I thought there were a lot more veterans
on the List. The British had even better ones than ours, as did the
Canadians.
Marc
msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315
Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!