Book on Vietnam War Slang

[Jonathan Lighter]

Serendipitously and unrelatedly (but too good to pass over), I find a B-29
Superfortress (Serial No. 42-63435) nicknamed by its crew, "Snafuperfort."

JL


On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> Notable is the Asian chigger,  _Trombicula fujigmo_ (Philip & Fuller,
> 1950).
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> (FUJIGMO being an elaboration of FIGMO; but unrelated to KMAGYOYO.)
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> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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> > > FIGMO
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> > Not at *all* peculiar to the Vietnam-War era. FIGMO and "cop a squat" are
> > contemporary, in my experience, in the sense that I learned them both
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> > one older, Army-vet friend, ca. 1953, very possibly in the same
> > conversation. (I was already familiar with SNAFU and FUBAR, of course.)
> >  Before the draft was done away with, damned near "every swinging dick"
> in
> > the country had occasion to get "nervous in the service." I even knew
> black
> > *marines*, when they were as rare as black MD's, instead of figuring
> > prominently in recruitment ads.
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