The F-Word (61 page)

REMF
noun
[from
r
ear
e
chelon
m
other
f
ucker]

a soldier in a support or administrative role; any non-combatant soldier.

1971
Newsweek
(Jan. 11) 31/3: “Those REMF’s don’t even know what Vietnam is all about,” sneered one grunt.
1982
J. M. Del Vecchio
13th Valley
2: Hey, REMF,…you seen Murphy?
1993
Soldier of Fortune
(Feb.) 54/1: One of my favorites is KGB General Vadim Kirpichenko. No REMF here. Vadim has been out in the streets doing things to the bad guys.
1998
T. Clancy
Rainbow Six
Prologue p. 2: He was respectable now as Director of the new agency. Director. A polite term for a REMF.
2007
A. Bay
Embrace the Suck
1: But God—or the first sergeant—help the fake macho and especially the “REMF,” “fobbit,” or “suit” who talks the talk but hasn’t walked the walk.

RTFM
interjection

Computers. “r
ead
t
he
f
ucking
m
anual.”

1983
Wanted VMS BACKUP for UNIX
on Usenet newsgroup net.unix-wizards (Sept. 30): The VMS people have a cute little piece of advice for people who are too slug-headed to read the manuals: RTFM.
1988
MacUser
(Mar.) 73: RTFM [heading of question-and-answer column].
1991
E. Raymond
New Hacker’s Dictionary
:
RTFM
…Used by gurus to brush off questions they consider trivial or annoying.
1993
S. Lambert & W. Howe
Internet Basics
472:
RTFM
(Read The Fine Manual) This acronym is often used when someone asks a simple question for the 100th time. The word “fine” is only one way to translate the acronym.
2003
C. Crawford
Art of Interactive Design
x. 122: Does this line of argument boil down to RTFM?
2008
G. A. Landis in
Analog Science Fiction & Fact
(Jan./Feb.) 109/2: When in doubt RTFM, he thought.

shitfuck
noun

a despicable person;
FUCK
noun
definition 4.

1985
A. Lamott
Joe Jones
26: You’re a rotten shitfuck slut, and I hope you rot in hell.
Ibid.
58: Joe’s shitfuck soul cringes.
1991
M. Weller
Lake No Bottom
71: You fuck. You lunatic bastard king hell crazy shitfuck, this isn’t funny any more.
2004
B. Land
Goat
137: Fuck him. He’s a shitfuck.

shitfuck
interjection

(used to express dismay, anger, disappointment, etc.);
FUCK
,
interjection
.

1970
J. Bouton
Ball Four
ii. 66: “Shitfuck,” he said, using one of his favorite words (“fuckshit” is the other). “Shitfuck. We’ve got a damned good ballclub here. We’re going to win some games.”
1975
J. Wambaugh
Choirboys
v. 45: “Shit fuck!” said Roscoe Rules, an expression he seldom used anymore…“Shit fuck! Give her the handcuffs, partner.”
1989
Blind Fury
(film): “Shit!” “Fuck!” “Shitfuck!”
1995
D. Hays & D. Hays
My Old Man & the Sea
112: Last night I woke up to “
Shitfuck!
” which is how Dad gets himself really angry.
2007
R. Curtis
Twenty Grand
11: Shitfuck! he screamed.

shitfuck
verb

(used as an intensified elaboration of
FUCK
,
verb
, in various senses).

1988
M. Montecino
Crosskiller
233: I didn’t ask for this shitfucking job, and I don’t want it now. I never wanted it.
1994
T. O’Brien
In the Lake of
the Woods
54: “Well, sure,” he was saying. “Shitfuck Jesus.”
2001
S. Lipsyte
Subject Steve
109: How many times have I used my gift of language to explicate myself out of this or that shit-fucked situation?

skull fuck
verb

1
. =
MOUTH FUCK
. Also as
noun
, an act of skull fucking.

[
1972
B. Rodgers
Queens’ Vernacular
34: BJ…knob job…skull job.]
1985
R. Daniell
Sleeping with Soldiers
62: The macho man never asks whether he can indulge in “skull-fucking” (semi-forced oral sex).
1993
B. Moore
Lexicon of Cadet Language
345:
Skull fuck
…the act of fucking a woman in the mouth.
1996
Skull-fuck Me,
title of advertisement on Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.telephone (Aug. 23).
1997
L.A. Weekly
(Oct. 24) 27: A woman advertising over the CB that she would “skullfuck” anyone listening for $50.
1998
Review: “Sex Lies,”
review of pornographic movie on Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.movies.erotica (Apr. 27): Both ladies take turns sucking him off when he says he wants to skull-fuck them.
1998
N.Y. man: You ever hear the term
skull fuck
for a blowjob?
2004
Vice
(Feb.) 63/1: Stop skull-fucking me like that, you’re hitting my gag reflex.
2005
B. Mullen
Whores
281: He just dropped jaw right there in front of me and gave Perry a blowjob on my couch. I was only mildly interested in watching my boyfriend getting skullfucked.

2
. to thrust the penis into the eye socket of (a person).—chiefly as an exaggeratedly violent threat.

1986
P. Nobile & E. Nadler
United States of America vs. Sex
149: She unveiled the new paraphilia of “skull-fucking.”…These are films in which a woman is killed and the orifices in her head are penetrated with a man’s penis—her eyes, her mouth, and so on.
1987
Full Metal Jacket
(film): I’m going to give you three seconds, exactly three fucking seconds, to wipe that stupid-looking grin off your face, or I will gouge out your eyes and skull-fuck you.
1996
C. Logan
Hunter’s Moon
153: Call off the tribe or I swear to God I’ll pop out your left eyeball and skull-fuck you to death.
2000
A. Bourdain
Kitchen Confidential
144: I made the mistake of telling a garde-manger man that if he didn’t hurry up with an order I’d tear his eyes out and skull-fuck him.
2002
J. Goad
Shit Magnet
vii. 93: This from someone who had slaughtered at least thirteen people and skull-fucked an elderly woman after murdering her and plucking out her eyeball.
2002
J. Dee
Palladio
225: I want to rip his head off and shit into it, I want to pop his lying eyes out with a spoon and skullfuck him.
2009
J. Stewart on
Daily Show
(Comedy Central TV) (Feb. 9): This bill will fuck our economy in the eye. And after skull-fucking our economy this bill—this bill and Hitler will laugh and laugh.

snafu
noun
[
s
ituation
n
ormal:
a
ll
f
ucked
u
p; often interpreted in euphemistic variants, especially with
f
ouled].

1
.
Army
. Especially in early use: used as an expression indicating the botched or confused nature of the military.

1941
San Francisco Chronicle
(June 15) 5/4: “Snafu” means “situation normal, all fuddled up.”
1941
American Notes & Queries
I (Sept. 4) 94:
Snafu
—situation normal [
sic
].
1942
Time
(June 15): The Army has a laconic term for chronic befuddlement:
snafu,
situation normal; all fouled up.
2002
T. Lott
Rumours of Hurricane
i. 22: The local binmen are in the midst of a dispute. This does not seem extraordinary to Charlie, merely an irritatingly private blip in an otherwise consistent pattern of public life. “Snafu,” thinks Charlie, his mind skipping back to army language. Situation normal, all fucked up.

2
. Originally
Army
. a botched or confused situation, especially a military operation botched by incompetent planning or execution of orders. Also in mass use: confusion, disorder.

1943
Best from Yank
(Sept. 10) 9: They worked hard and steadily, with a minimum of snafu.
1946
W. W. Haines
Command Decision
11: But yesterday they [
sic
] was a SNAFU at the Quartermaster’s and he run clean out of Spam.
1948
J. G. Cozzens
Guard of Honor
184: It’s a stupid damn snafu.
1953
M. Dibner
Deep Six
23: He’s chasing down another of your snafus.
1958
A. Hailey & J. Castle
Runway Zero-Eight
9: It would have to be a big show in Vancouver to justify this snafu.
1962
E. Shepard
Forgive us Our Press Passes
60: On the housing snafu, he displayed the statement of a leading Soviet lawyer [etc.].
1963
T. Doulis
Path for our Valor
223: There’s gonna be a big snafu.… It means situation normal, all…fucked up.
1982
J. M. Del Vecchio
13th Valley
1: It was one more snafu in a series of snafus.
1983
J. Groen & D. Groen
Huey
105: John, your orders won’t be coming in for two or three weeks. Some kind of a snafu.
1984
N.Y. Post
(Aug. 2) 60: Bettors furious over Big A snafus.
1992
H. N. Schwarzkopf
It Doesn’t Take a Hero
xvii. 311: All were competing for space in the same airplanes and cargo ships, and an enormous amount of my time was devoted to untangling snafus.
1999
Scientific American
(Nov.) 35/3: Two years ago corporate and individual domain name registrants were united in their hatred of Network Solutions, complaining of billing snafus, unwarranted suspensions and technical ineptitude.

snafu
adjective Army.

1
. Of a situation, etc.: hopelessly botched or confused. [Most early quotations refer to WWII.]

1941
Kansas City Star
(July 27) 5A: That time you wrote you’d been talking to your captain for half an hour and everything was snafu, you got us terribly worked up.… Everything is strictly snafu.
1942
in C.R. Bond & T. Anderson
Flying T. Diary
183: What a SNAFU operation.
1943
J. Twist
Bombardier
(film): You’ll be plenty snafu if Captain Oliver hears about this.
1943
R. L. Scott
God Is My Co-Pilot
22: And so we began our airmail flying—slightly SNAFU, as we have learned to say from the gremlins in World War II.
1944
Collier’s
(Apr. 1) 21: This all sounds snafu.
1945
Chase
This Man’s Navy
(film): This place is all mixed up, snafu.
1945
Scowley & Friel
513th Retrospect
(unpaged): Once on shore things began to go SNAFU.
1947
Startling Stories
(May) 112/2: Poor printing and snafu artwork keeps this Detroit zine down in the doldrums despite a high-powered lineup that includes Brazier, Elsner, Tigrina and Joe Kennedy.
1948
A. Murphy
To Hell and Back
1: If the landing schedule had not gone snafu, we would have come ashore with the assault waves.
1953
K. Dodson
Away All Boats
285: This is the most snafu beach I ever did see.
1959
B. Cochrell
Barren Beaches of Hell
84: “Jesus,” Willy said. “Sounds sort of snafu.”
1970
J. W. Corrington
Bombardier
53: The coffee splashed out, and the sugar fell into the eggs, and it was snafu.
1995
T. Clancy
Op-Center
xxxv. 157: They were all part of the same SNAFU scheme of things.

2
. Or a person: worthless, useless; mentally confused; crazy.

1946
I. Gershwin
My Son-in-Law
in R. Kimball
Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin
(1993) 346/2: He may look good to you,/Your son-in-law:/To me he’s just snafu,/Your son-in-law.
1975
J. Stanley
WWIII
87: He’s snafu, Sarge, snafu. I’m on your side. I swear it.

snafu
verb
Originally
Army
.

1
. to bring into a state of great confusion; ruin through incompetence; botch; confuse;
FUCK UP
. Usually
snafued
,
adjective
.

1943
L. Cane
Letter
(July 6) in
Fighting Facism in Europe
(2003) 56: Gosh everything seems to be snafued for me the past few days.
1943
F. Wakeman
Shore Leave
66: “There you go,” the P-Boat pilot said. “Letting a lot of big sloppy words get you all snafued.”
1944
B. Stiles
Serenade to the Big Bird
74: It can snafu the works.
1948
B. Lay & S. Bartlett
Twelve O’Clock High!
45: The warning order just came down.… Snafu’d as usual. It says we’re low group at
nine
thousand feet.
1970
J. R. Lincke
Jenny Was No Lady
20: St. Jude, the patron saint of snafued ventures.
1979
in J. Raban
Old Glory
348: He ain’t going to allow some dumbhead bargeman to snafu the whole rest of his life for a can of Bud.
2002
J. J. Gobbell
When Duty Whispers Low
74: Whoever snafued that plane’s engine saved my life.