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Army slang collected in Mrs. Byrne’s Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words:

  • snafu: situation normal, all fucked up
  • janfu: joint army and navy fuckup
  • susfu: situation unchanged: still fucked up
  • fumtu: fucked up more than usual
  • tarfu: things are really fucked up
  • fubb: fucked up beyond belief
  • fubar: fucked up beyond all recognition
  • sapfu: surpassing all previous fuckups

George Washington said, “An army of asses led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by an ass.”