That's the FUNNIEST one I have heard... Over the last four years, many friends had come up with funny stuffs trying to decode FNU. By far, yours is the funniest! and to Jinx, may be you are right about that being First Name Unavailable. I have no way of checking, except by going back to the Indonesian embassy in Jakarta (flooding, killing, fire, bomb scare, demonstrations, etc, you name it!) and asked them what the hell it stands for (which I am not going to do). ------------------ Rudy Rudy http://www.rudyrudy.com rudy@rudyrudy.com ------------------ > > I'm pretty sure FNU stands for FNU Not Unix. :-) > > I used to work on a navy base, and the I.D. badges that people were issued were > all printed with a first name, middle initial, and last name. One of my > coworkers had a middle initial of NMI. It wasn't until I met somebody else with > a middle initials of NMI that I realized NMI weren't the initials for three > middle names. They were an acronym for No Middle Initial. > > -Mike > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.