[Lowfer] LOL?

[WE0H]

Hey Eddy,

Cool. I have heard of SNAFU but did not know what it meant. Awesome...so 
cool the ham radio community knows some of these and is learning new 
ones. A good lesson in learning is going on a forum where there are lots 
of the 20-40 something year olds and reading all their hype. Some of it 
is cool and some of it makes me wonder WTF they are saying...hi 
hi...There was a snipit on our local TV news about the codes teenagers 
use online & in messaging and holy crap they are even worse than the 
older folks...

Mike
WE0H

EP Swynar wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Probably the most surprising "...acronym origin" (to me, at any rate) is the
> one for the term "....snafu"...and I learned about it on PBS (that's "Public
> Television Service", to you acronym-challenged out there reading this, Hi
> Hi)...
>
> At the risk of repeating what many may already know, it seems that during
> the daunting task of constructing the Alaska Highway during WW2, the
> "grunts" doing all of the digging, hauling, etc., would periodically get
> requests from on-high as to why a certain delay(s) may have been
> encountered, slowing progress: invariably, it came to be that the reply was
> simply that the crew had hit a snafu --- i.e. "situation normal: all f**ked
> up".
>
> Interesting --- and on educational TV, at that!
>
> ~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
>