Why not "First Name Unspellable" or "First Name Unpronouncable" jp Rudy Rudy wrote: > > 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. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.