Monday, March 3, 2008

A name by any other.....errrr...name

So, I'm a little bit behind the curve here. I only learned about FuBu's last summer through an extremely interesting conversation with a vegan lady (but more on that another time).

I was having a casual conversation with B today, I was trying to work out if her friend, with whom she enjoyed occasional carnal relations was, in fact, a friend or a FuBu. B was saying he was a friend first. I was saying that I thought a FuBu was someone you had gratuitous hot sex with on an occasional basis but, and here's the distinction, you didn't actually have to like.

I mean when you are scuba diving, you have a buddy. You don't have to like them. They are your responsibility and you have to stop them taking off their BCDs and trying to breathe water when the have nitrogen narcosis.

B disagrees. She thinks you have to like your FuBu for them to be a FuBu. Otherwise they are just a GoFu if the sex is good, or presumably a BuFu in which case they don't get asked back for a second go.

Interestingly, the Japanese for Fubu is "secu-frie". This is short hand for "sex friend" for a race of people who like to truncate words and are missing several important english consonants.

A brief sourjon onto the net doesn't show my definition of Fubu. What we get is

AcronymDefinition
FUBUFor Us By Us (clothing brand)
FUBUFouled Up Beyond Understanding (polite form)
FUBUFouled Up Beyond Use (polite form)
FUBUFouled Up By User

As for the second definition, it will never replace FUBAR in my heart.


4 comments:

Anonymous said...

er, dear magicman you are as interesting as a liver biopsy. i can
conclusively tell nothing of note happens in your life but you feel
compelled to write about it nonetheless. one day what you do will be
termed misuse of bandwidth and criminalized.

Unknown said...

so you are going live then? or is this solipsism gone crazy??

LottieP said...

And more to the point what's a GoFu? Explain.

magicman said...

GoFu, good fuck,
BuFu, bad fuck. I realise this should be Bafu but got rather carried away. I was then thinking that Bufu could be Bum Fuck but then saw that there is the tiniest chance this might be misinterpreted.