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From: wbt@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Abbreviation: RTFM
Message-ID: <9542@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 14 Sep 89 15:52:27 GMT
References: <1854@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: wbt@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker,00440,cb,1D211,6148604019)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1854@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> dune@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (Greg Pasquariello) writes:
>In article <865@becker.UUCP> bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) writes:
>:
>:
>:	It means "Read The F*cking Manual". This is more
>:	recent than FUBAR or TARFU, which are WWII acronyms,
>
>Ok, what does TARFU mean?  And while were on the subject, what does IMHO
>mean?

The Army had an entire compilation of these pseudo-situation reports.
In  all of them, the FU stands for "fouled up" (if you're telling your
girlfriend), or "fu*ked up" if you're talking to your buddies.

The most famous is SNAFU: Situation Normal, All FU.   Others (I've
seen at least a half-dozen) included FUBAR (FU Beyone All Repair)
and TARFU (Things Are Really FU).

IMHO is "In My [Humble, Honest] Opinion".  Some posters just use IMO.

And, BTW, BTW stands for "By The Way", while WRT is "With Respect To"

This allows some really wonderful phraseology;

"BTW, WRT SNAFU; IMHO FUBAR is better.   :-)"

Show *that* line to your English teacher... 8-)


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