It’s September 25, 2022. Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).
Today’s word is “snafu.”
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This, That, and the Other 
I have to admit that Snafu is a new one on me. Looking it up, it seems to be one of those words that has remained State’s side of the Atlantic. I enjoy learning new words. Thank you.
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Snafu started out as an acronym used in the U.S. military before it become a word. It stood for Situation Normal: All Fucked Up.
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I think we have a similar term in FUBAR, not used all that often but equally expressive.
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Pretty much the same connotation.
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I’ve just looked it up and apparently FUBAR came from the same source, but i’ve heard it quite widely in the UK but never heard SNAFU before…
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ODE TO SNAFU
Snafu , never heard it
Useless word it is
Useless word is snafu
Useless word is dis
Gotta be American Fan……
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True. It’s an American word.
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ACROSTIC POEM
She walked along the bay
Night suited her
Across the water
Friends waved to her
Up on their balconies
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Quite interesting I am seeing this word for the first time, thanks to this challenge.
A little research about the word Snafu reveals that it is actually an acronym for Situation Normal, all fu..ed up (snafu) which was born during WWII.
For the sake of sanity and world peace, I hope we never experience snafu again.
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It’s commonly used in business these days, as well, of course, in the military.
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https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOVP.aLa-xt8AbVcNwe7Bhg9dDQHgFo%26pid%3DApi%26h%3D120&f=1&ipt=76f24b46911106d17b8e79465e4d17b7a568376573f3d8742371ab4624b665c2&ipo=videos
Private Snafu v Malaria Mike, 1944
My youngest son was dubbed Private Democrat. At boot camp, the sergeant was stating that all soldiers must obey the commands of the current president… and then he added that there is the exception of Obama as to this duty. My son, I’ll call him Sam, piped up to say Obama is Commander in Chief and gives the orders. As the trainees were not supposed to speak (while my son couldn’t keep his mouth shut at this point), some number of push-ups were in store for Sam.
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WWII PRIVATE SNAFU Cartoons
… a collection of … (Situation Normal All [ah-] Fouled [hem] Up) cartoons made by the US Army Signal Corp … Created by Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and Phil Eastman, [mostly] … produced by Warner Brothers Animation Studios — employing … Carl Stalling’s music.
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“Rumors” | These films are saved at the US National Archives (after having been commissioned by the Department of War). When I gave a link for the malaria video — well… it was accidentally only to a still picture — I wanted to show the opening credit to the Archives; it can be seen here.
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https://news.yahoo.com/biden-archives-pick-avoids-gop-173231237.html
(Bloomberg) — The Senate confirmation hearing for President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the National Archives was a mostly perfunctory event Wednesday [September 21] despite the agency’s lengthy public battle to retrieve classified documents from former President Donald Trump.
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https://nypost.com/2022/09/22/dearie-gives-trump-last-chance-to-dispute-fbi-inventory/
The special master reviewing paperwork seized from former President Donald Trump’s Florida home … gave Trump a “final opportunity” [on Thursday] to dispute an inventory of records taken by the FBI.
Judge Raymond Dearie said that Trump has until Sept. 30 to clarify his claims that documents may have been planted.
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https://whatculture.com/tv/24-filthy-adult-jokes-in-cartoons-you-completely-missed-as-a-kid
I can’t find an example of a kids’ cartoon employing the term SNAFU, but I’m sure it exists. That being said:
Mom was watching FOX”news” while talking to a lawyer after she had been fired for incompetence and short skirts from her teaching position.
Sally looked up from her progressive online news when she noticed Mom’d hung up. “It looks like trump has hit a snafu. Dearie isn’t…”
Mom walked over and slapped Sally’s cheek. “You know you’re not supposed to talk that way in this upstanding home. Bewildered, Sally left.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mar-a-lago-national-archives-doesn-e2-80-99t-know-whether-trump-returned-all-records-oversight-committee-says/ar-AA11M7YS
(Forbes) — The National Archives is not sure whether former President Donald Trump gave back all the presidential records he took from the White House, House Oversight Committee chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) wrote in a letter to the Archives on Tuesday [the week before], in which she asked the agency to conduct a review to ensure all documents are accounted for…
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