Fubar?

[Brett Dikeman]

At 12:00 PM -0700 12/2/01, tucker smith wrote:
>I thought the word was "furchtbar" - German for "awful, dreadful, or terrible"

Nope.  Pure American term, used originally to describe the state of
affairs with the US armed forces.  Credited as having been invented
and come into common use during the Vietnam war, I believe.

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