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Old 11-30-2009, 04:49 PM
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bearisgray
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Originally Posted by dunster
Originally Posted by bearisgray
snafu -

A confused or chaotic state, a mess, generally caused by incompetence

A U.S. military acronym formed from the initial letters of "Situation Normal All Fouled Up"

That's quite a sanitization of the acronym. Not sure my former Marine husband would recognize it.
Well, that's what my Encarta dictionary said - I sort of assumed that "fouled" might not have been the usually used word

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