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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
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Subject: Re: Acronyms  (offensive language)
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Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 02:34:22 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 25 02:34:22 1984
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> | I heard that F--k itself is an acronym, used on reports by SP's when
> | returning someone to base from houses of ill repute:
> | 
> | 			Found Under Carnal Knowlegde
>...
> Sorry, it stands for
> 
> 	For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

There's two examples which are, no doubt, the beginning of at least a month
of discussion--in which only a very few people will take the time to go
look in a dictionary for a hint of modestly researched etymology for the
word.  A clue--neither of these is even vaguely close...but I'm not going
to tell.  You just might have to get up from your terminal and venture near
a (gasp!) book.
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
   ...Never offend with style when you can offend with substance.