16 Nov
1998
16 Nov
'98
9:10 a.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
I used it all the time in the AF, when we had a bad unit we'd mark it FNG,
otherwise known as F***ing No Good.
But in this case, in context, it's F***ing New Guy. We pronounced it
finjy (fin-gee). You could always spot a finjy.
Newby, I'm told, comes from the British educational system, short for New Boy,
for comparison.
-ethan
Hello all, FNG here.
Where did you pick this term up? I know *exactly* what it means, but I've
never seen anybody use it who hasn't been to Antarctica. I'm curious to
learn other contexts this moniker appears in.