Newbie's got a dead 386 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 Nov 1998

...
 Minor locational variations, in Oz it tends to be NFG
(No F***ing Good) or
NBG (No Bloody Good)  or just FUBAR (F***ed Up.......
a) Beyond Any Repair
b) Beyond All Recognition
c) By A Recruit
d) By A Repairman
e) By ARmy  (of RAAF comms gear that was returned u/s after
                        being reluctantly "loaned" to the Army)

and numerous other variations......:^)
or just plain STUFFED. (not an acronym, AFAIK):^) 

At 1 federal lab I used to work at we had an HP terminal that had 1 bad key
switch so I stole the coma from the keypad and moved it to where it was
needed.  I then made a nice label for the bad coma key with NFG on it.  The
person in charge of the section said he would send anyone that asked what
that meant to me.  I was there for another 2 years and nobody asked either
of us.
Dan