I see these two terms a lot. What do they mean/refer to?

Thank you.

-- ANON (anon@wherever.now), November 05, 1999

Answers

Three stages of readiness (an old post by someone much wittier):

1. GTO - Guaranteed to Operate - Niagara Falls, Li's Rickshaw, Social Security Administration*

2. FURBY - Fouled Up Real Bad Ya'll - Your bank and your utility company

3. FUBAR - Fouled Up Beyond All Repair - Everybody else

*Depends on what the meaning of "operate" is. If it means getting checks to old people, then see FUBAR.

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), November 05, 1999.

FUD = Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt FUBAR = F*ed Up Beyond All Recognition (or alternately Repair) SNAFU = Situation Normal, All F*ed Up

The last two are slang from US military WWII.

-- ..- (dit@dot.dash), November 05, 1999.

FUBAR is military in origin. It is an acronym for F'ed Up Beyond All Recognition, a worst-case scenario. Not quite as bad is TARFU, Things Are Really F'ed Up. At the bottom you have SNAFU, Situation Normal -- All F'ed Up.

FUD comes from Fear -- Uncertainity -- Doubt. It essentially means public pessimism. It is a term used by pollyshills rather frequently to ad hom attack us GIs.

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-- MinnesotaSmith (y2ksafeminnesota@hotmail.com), November 05, 1999.

TARFU = Things Are Really F*cked Up

BOHICA = Bend Over, Here It Comes Again

FUBAR = F*ucked Up Beyond All Reality

Y2KY = Substance needed during BOHICA moments

-- Billy Boy (Rakkasan@Yahoo.com), November 05, 1999.

Thanks dot, I thought FUBAR was an old programmers
acronym. I've seen it in lot of source code.

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), November 05, 1999.

People who astound you with their stupidity are NAFOD's. No Apparent Fear of Death. I see them all the time on the highway. I suspect a few pollys fit into this category.

-- really don't (like@being.tailgated), November 05, 1999.

BILLY BOY,

ROTFLMAO

-- (PeeingDa@pants.com), November 05, 1999.

Watch "Saving Private Ryan" to learn the true significance of FUBAR. It will give you a new respect for the word. After watching the movie, I don't use it to describe anything but WWII.

-- Cable_man (tlangan@iname.com), November 05, 1999.

A more modern complaint, common among computer users:

FOBIO: Frequently Outwitted By Inanimate Objects.

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), November 05, 1999.

And don't forget SOL: Sh*t Outa Luck

(This acronym used frequently by a buddy who is former 82nd Airborne)

-- farmbeet (farmbeet@.mil.com), November 05, 1999.

Then there's a previously common one, that's rarely heard anymore, but really more appropriate, given what the general publics attitude towards the problem seems to be:

F.U.B.B. - F*
-- Bokonon (Bok0non@my-Deja.com), November 05, 1999.

First time I heard about FUD was in relation to IBM's use of it as a marketing weapon back in the late 1970's. They would announce some product or other, spreading FUD throughout their competitors and the marketpace. Some time later, it would come to light that some of the announced products were really "vaporware", but that the delay caused by the FUD bought Big Blue enough time to develop what they really wanted to sell.

Micro$oft later adopted this tactic and has wielded it even more effectively.

-- Mac (sneak@lurk.hid), November 05, 1999.

Dahhhhhh! Guess it never occured to me, that if you use a triangular bracket, in place of the C, you have some really interesting html effects....ok...here's the rest of the above post:

F.U.B.B. - F*[k*d Up Beyond Belief

-- Bokonon (bok0non@my-Deja.com), November 06, 1999.

Curious question ANON.

(Coming from you).

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), November 06, 1999.

Bok!

Were you giving us a practical example...:)

Sorry, couldn't resist :)

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), November 06, 1999.