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Old 06-03-2010, 11:50 AM  
Quentin
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Originally Posted by DamianJ View Post
Heh! I like SWAG, not heard that before.
U.S. military personnel have an unfair advantage when it comes to coming up with great abbreviations; virtually everything in their lexicon is eventually abbreviated.

For example, the cumbersome "Time-Phased Force Deployment Data" became TPFDD, which most personnel end up pronouncing "tip fiddle."

One of my all time favorite military innovations in terminology is the WWII era term "snafu," which stands for "Situation Normal: All Fucked Up."
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