Re: Fubawaba Fubar:^(

[Dick Eney <dickeney@access.digex.net>]

Poster: Dick Eney <dickeney@access.digex.net>


On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Ed Hopkins <Ed.Hopkins@MCI.Com> wrote:
> 
> A while ago, a gentle wrote:
> 
> > Any harm usually occurred after some fubawaba (read - fat ugly
> > broad and with a bad attitude) approached with the intention of
> > confrontation and conflict.
> 
> Later, this same gentle wrote:
> 
> > Ironically, the term didn't have anything at all to do with physical
> > appearance.  We just labeled some people with the term and when we were
> > asked what it meant, we found a way to explain our acronym.  Terrible
> > choice...too.
> 
> I must say that when I read the the original passage, and the
> commentaries that so many others posted, it never occurred to
> me to try matching the letters of the word with the initials
> in the definition.  If I had done that, it would have tempered
> my reaction to the definition.
<snip> 
> -- Alfredo el Bufon

You could revise the back-ronym to "FU*king BA*tard WAlking BAsketcase".

=Tamar the Gypsy (sharing account dickeney@access.digex.net)

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