PFD, Pioneer homes; Duckfarts (cocktail)

[Barnhart]

Both _PFD_ and _personal flotation device_ are entered in The Third
Barnhart Dictionary of New English (c. 1990) with e.q.'s of 1972.  I
believe that was the year the Coast Guard invented the term.

Regards,
David Barnhart
barnhart at highlands.com


Bapopik at AOL.COM,Net writes:
>   Greetings from Seward.  I go to Valdez in about five minutes.
>
>PFD--Personal Flotation Device.  (Everything's a "Personal"
acronym--ed.)
>
>PIONEER HOMES--Old age homes in Alaska.
>
>MOOSE TRACKS--The ice cream here is vanilla, fudge, and peanut butter
>cups.
>
>DUCKFART--My bus driver is also a bartender.  He comes from Albany,
NY.
>He says he serves Duckfarts here, but not there.  He says it's like a
>B-52, with one ingredient (Grand Marnier) different.
>   Crown Royal, Baileys, Kaluha.
>Bapopik at AOL.COM,Net writes:
>   Greetings from Seward.  I go to Valdez in about five minutes.
>
>PFD--Personal Flotation Device.  (Everything's a "Personal"
acronym--ed.)
>
>PIONEER HOMES--Old age homes in Alaska.
>
>MOOSE TRACKS--The ice cream here is vanilla, fudge, and peanut butter
>cups.
>
>DUCKFART--My bus driver is also a bartender.  He comes from Albany,
NY.
>He says he serves Duckfarts here, but not there.  He says it's like a
>B-52, with one ingredient (Grand Marnier) different.
>   Crown Royal, Baileys, Kaluha.
>