FUBAR and DW780

This is certainly serendipitous, but not the origin of the epithet. FUBAR dates at least to WWII; I read that in an article about tech terms that we tend to think are recent inventions but which have been around for a rather long time. For example, while Grace Murray Hopper is credited with finding an actual moth wedged in a relay in the Eniac 1 (thus "bug" in the system), the term "bug" has been found in the writings of Thomas Edison, referring to a defect in a design. "HAM", referring to amateur radio operators, is a 19th-century invention; it was previously used to describe self-taught telegraph operators. And "to hack" is supposedly an old Yiddish phrase that refers to the making of furniture with an axe (and although a different usage, "hack" has referred to taxis since they were horse-drawn in the early 1800s). And on and on... regards, -dq