On the Etymology of "Jamf"
Nigel E. Richardson
Nigel at impolex.demon.co.uk
Sat May 20 03:46:39 CDT 1995
Jamf = Jive Ass Mother Fucker
I always suspected Jamf was an acronym, mainly because Johnny Thunders had
a song called LAMF back in the lates 70s, which stood for Like A Mother
Fucker. It's only taken me 15 years to find out what those first two
initials stood for....
Makes me wonder: does *every* name in GR carry a secret (or not so secret)
message? And if so, is it just Dickensian revelry - Mrs Quoad, Edwin Treacle,
Teddy Bloat, Jessica Swanlake, Rollo Groast - mixed with wacky wordplay
(Salitieri, Poore, Nash, De Brutus and Short, took me ages to get that one),
or is there something more serious going on?
Nigel
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Swing low in your weep ship, with your tear scans and your sob probes...
http://turnpike.net/metro/N/ner/index.html - is that photo meant to be ironic?
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