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Subject:Re: Fubar From:Randy Allen Harris <raha -at- WATARTS -dot- UWATERLOO -dot- CA> Date:Tue, 5 Oct 1993 17:38:28 -0400
>Randy,
>Your students are so well-behaved! In Tucson, FUBAR is an acronym that
>stands for F (obscene four-letter word + "ed") Up Beyond All Recognition.
Actually, my students quite cheerfully gave me the syllable in question;
the modesty was mine.
Randy Allen Harris raha -at- watarts -dot- uwaterloo -dot- ca
Rhetoric and Professional Writing 519 885-1211, x5362
English, U of Waterloo FAX: 519 884-8995
Waterloo ON, CANADA, N2L 3G1
