While the *rode* is indeed wrapped 'round the anchor (and the globe) in
the USMC logo it is NOT a chain. Many different materials may be used
in the rode, including chain, but there's no chain in the (USMC) logo -
it's a rope rode.. Far enough O.T. for you?
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Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 07/02/2009 06:25:41
PM:
Note the USMC logo. The anchor chain is wrapped around the anchor. So,
all marines are always fouled up. ;-)
The use of the fouled up anchor as a symbol of the marines goes back to
at least the late 1700's. The term SNFU or SNAFU (I have seen it both
ways although the later is now the more common) may go back that far
also. My father told me that he first encountered the term SNFU as
Situation Normal Fouled Up when he joined the Navy in 1932. The other
F word would not have been used in 1700 as at that time it was a
device pulled by a farm horse to plant seeds. It didn't take on its
current meaning until some time in the 1800's. Could it be related to
sowing wild oats?
How far OT do we want to go with this? :-)
bruce.light...@its.ms.gov wrote:
one more view -
3 of my great uncles were marines - 1 in 1918, WW1 in France. The
other 2
in the Pacific in WW2.
All 3 agreed that the terms SNAFU and FUBAR were in general use by the
enlisted Marines even before their time(s).
Was the subject of several memorable conversations at family reunions
where
some of the gentler family members got offended and left the outdoor
festivities to the rougher members - and us wide-eyed young boys.
Was probably a similar saying in use in every military back to the
Sumerian
and pre-Confuscian days.
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