Email from a friend in the Army in Iraq introduces me to a wonderful new (to me) military acronym: GFI. (G stands for “good” and I for “idea.”)
A GFI is the opposite of an appropriate technology: it’s something that would be a good idea under different conditions and with more resources, but which makes no sense whatever in the actual circumstance.
In other words, GFI, for the Larry Niven fans in the audience, is “Crazy Eddie.”
More wonderful military acronyms:
PFM. Used to describe cool technology. “P” stands for “Pure” and “M” stands for “Magic”.
BFM. When you have something even cooler than PFM. “B” stands for “Black”.
you mean like the war in Iraq? Would that have been a good idea under any circunstances, even if the necessary and available resources were employed?
Or do you mean like contesting the vote count in Ohio, home of the “guaranteed GOP victory”? Kerry evidently had the money but not the will…