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"SNAFU" is an acronym meaning things are in a mess – as normal. The most commonly accepted rendering is "Situation Normal: All Fucked Up". In modern usage, this rendering is commonly used, as is a "snafu" referring to an otherwise normal situation that suddenly went awry. The acronym is believed to have originated in the US Army during World War II when Don Taylor and Dominick Trapasso of the 160th Infantry Regiment, 40th Infantry Division, California National Guard at Camp San Luis Obispo, California in April 1941 practiced sending encoded radio messages.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> It is also the name of a cartoon United States Army training video as well as the main character, Private Snafu, in the video. SNAFU's meaning was later modified to "Situation Normal, All Fouled Up" for more polite conversation. There are a number of slang army acronyms that are similar to SNAFU. They include:

SNAFU - Situation Normal: All Fucked Up.
SUSFU - Situation Unchanged, Still Fucked Up.
FUMTU - Fucked Up More Than Usual.
FUBB - Fucked Up Beyond Belief.
TARFU - Things Are Really Fucked Up.
TOFU - Things Ordinary: Fucked Up.
GFU - General Fuck Up.
SAMFU - Self Adjusting Military Fuck Up.
BOHICA - Bend over, here it comes again.
TUIFU - The Ultimate In Fuck Ups.
FUBAR - Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition/Repair/Reason/Redemption.
FUGAZI - Fucked Up, Got Ambushed, Zipped In; Refers to out-of-control situation such as a chaotic jungle warfare combat environment
JANFU - Joint Army/Navy Fuck-Up; apparently used by British troops in WWII.
JAAFU - Joint Army-Air Force Fuck-Up; the use of JANFU combined with a radical increase in joint-forces operations since 1989, has led to the rare but increasing use of JAAFU.
DILLIGAF/DILLIGAS - Do I Look Like I Give A Fuck/Shit? Interogative form of, "(It) don't mean nothing." Both often heard in Vietnam.
TINS - This Is No Shit! Often seen in veterans' forums.
MUBAR - Mash up beyond all recognition. Refers to being proper mash up.
SMUBAR - Semi mash up beyond all recognition. Not quite MUBAR but well on the way.

Note: In situations where 'fucked' is inappropriate, it is often replaced with 'fouled'

Electronics engineers say that SNAFU and FUBAR were used before the war by repairmen sent out to repair telephone booths. They had to report the situation at arrival to the scene, often on a very bad line, so they developed these acronyms to make themselves understood.

Snafu is also used in the Illuminatus trilogy and in the Private Snafu series of World War II animated cartoons.

1 Other uses
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

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Other uses

Snafu is the name given to a mutant gene in the genome of Drosophila melanogaster. Flies afflicted with this gene will start out completely normal in phenotype, but then will start to develop intensely grotesque mutations as they grow up.

Snafu<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> is also the name of a popular 1981 video game title published by Mattel Electronics for the Intellivision console.

Snafu is also a toy maze game<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> produced by Tomy [1]. At some point, the name of the game was changed to "Screwball Scramble." This game has apparently had several different names throughout the last few decades.

Snafu Comics<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> is also the name of a webcomic by David Stanworth.

Snafu is also a BMX bicycle company that manufactures numerous bike products including stems, cranks, pedals, grips, and many other parts for a 20" bicycle. They also sponsor numerous professional cyclists as well, including Morgan Wade, Dave Freimuth, and Tom Haugen.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Snafu is also the second album of the progressive rock band East Of Eden, released in 1970.

SNAFU (with "fucked" replaced by "fouled") is the name of the villain group in The X's.

SNAFU (with "fucked" replaced by "fouled") is also the name of experiment 120 in Lilo and Stitch: The Series

"The Big SNAFU" is also a song on the album, "Pass The Hat" released in 1996 by US rockband "The Brandos"

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