Pvt. Snafu "Fighting Tools"

[Subdeacon Joe]

[Tennessee Stud]

Is there a difference 'twixt a "Snafu"... and a "FUBAR"?

 

ts

[Subdeacon Joe]

Is there a difference 'twixt a "Snafu"... and a "FUBAR"?

 

ts

 

What a question!

 

A FUBAR ... well, think Snafu on steroids. If Gomer Pyle and Pvt. Hargrove got together they would have a FUBAR.

Andy Griffith in "No Time For Sergeants."

[Tennessee Stud]

Well... UnderDeacon Joseph... I would never dispute a "current events" poster... who is well respected and regarded, such as yoreself.

 

But I have know some folks in the past... that interchanged 'em terms.

 

Why don't you look up... and email a fella named... Maj. John L. Plaster. Ask him what he thinks.

 

ts

[Subdeacon Joe]

[Pat Riot]

Sounds like Mel Blanc did the voices.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Is there a difference 'twixt a "Snafu"... and a "FUBAR"?

 

ts

They aren't spelled the same. Other than that not much difference.

[H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619]

Snafu...

 

Situation

Normal

All

Fouled

Up

 

Fubar...

 

Fouled

Up

Beyond

All (or Any)

Repair (or Recogniton)

 

Tarfu

 

Things

Are

Really

Fouled

Up

 

 

Mel Blanc did indeed do the voices

 

The cartoons themselves were directed by some guys named Bob Clampett, Robert McKimson, Friz Freleng and Chuck Jones.

[Alpo]

This is simply my opinion, but -

 

SNAFU is a WW2 term. "Private Ryan" to the contrary, FUBAR did not exist. First time I ever heard the term was in the late 70s. That and BOHICA.

 

I believe the terms are, pretty much, interchangeable. They're just from different generations.

[Subdeacon Joe]

Let us not forget some of the other "FUs"

JANFU - Joint Army Navy Foul Up

 

JAMFU - Joint Army Marine Foul Up

 

JAFFU - Just Air Force Foul Up

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

I remember fubar from some texts in the 60s. FOO and BAR were common computer variables.

[Tascosa, SASS# 24838]

I like "JATWISH".

[Subdeacon Joe]

I like "JATWISH".

 

 

Had to look that one up. Always nice to add a new one. Thanks.