Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site burl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!wjb From: wjb@burl.UUCP (Bill Buie) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Personalized License Plates in California Message-ID: <402@burl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 09:29:33 EST Article-I.D.: burl.402 Posted: Tue Jan 31 09:29:33 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 6-Feb-84 16:33:40 EST References: <1175@sdccs6.UUCP> Organization: Western Electric, Burlington, NC Lines: 10 -- FUBAR (and its homonymn FOOBAR) can be alternatively understood to abbreviate Fouled Up Beyond All Repair. Whereas it may be difficult believe this if you don't know anyone who uses the alternative interpretation, there are some people (like me) who *think* of the acronymn as "Fouled..." The acronymn you quoted apparently has no recognized rendition which is not obscene. -- --Bill Buie