New F-word Proverb: The Acronyms

[Jonathan Lighter]

2004 rec.gambling.poker http://groups.google.com/group/rec.gambling.poker/browse_frm/thread/a1197a1367c02b5/6c530f9a571841f1?lnk=st&q=FFOGFYG&rnum=1#6c530f9a571841f1 (Mar.7): Do people have more or less freedom in a society with no laws, I wonder? Depends on the person and depends on the number of laws, I'd guess. DaveM My hero, Wild Bill Hickock, did just fine with or without them. Those with less ability with a pistol were mostly in favor of them. FFOGFYG

  2005 Tony Holmes _US Navy Hornet Units of Operation Iraqi Freedom Part Two_ (Oxford: Osprey Publishing Co.) 95 [ref. to 2003]: And the initials [on the airplane] FFGFYG "Fist Fight [sic] or Go for Your Gun."

  JL


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