FG Office, broken beyond repair?
Haruchai
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Fugazi Ltd.
Broken beyond repair is the more polite version of what Fugazi means. Done in a ironic way?
As a fan of early Marillion (Scottish rock band) I remember the furore when their second album, called Fugazi, was released in America.
Edit - I wonder how many people will use this without knowing what Fugazi means or what it is an acronym for?
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Fugazi is the name of the PA. I doubt there's more to it than that.
In that case you obviously haven't searched the internet for it. Don't do it at work though. I know it's the name of the PA, it's always surprised me that it's never been brought up before, but now it's blazoned across a product I thought I'd mention it.
Fugazi is an acronym. I'll leave it to your imagination what the F stands for.
Maybe 'Fugazi' is an italian vendor, as (s)he is selling 'fake' (digital) items ......
i always took the name to be a clever riff on the slang meaning 'fake'.
as seen in this clip from 'donnie brasco'.
we've all got a lot of cool 3d stuff in our product libraries. but none of it is real. :)
Not one of my favorite albums, but glad to see another fan here. :)
You're thinking of FUBAR, not FUGAZI. FUGAZI does not mean "broken beyond repair".
fudged up, got ambushed, zipped in [a body bag]
I'm aware.
I tried to coin my own phrase for "Fugazi" back in my I.T. days. A.F.U. You can take a guess at the which words that stands for. It never caught on beyond out floor at the bank. I always loved the use of this word in the 1997 film, Donnie Brasco. Do check that one out.
Were you unaware that SNAFU already existed?
On that note, I also coined an acronym when I was managing a kitchen: RFN, for when things need to happen promptly.
Death by chocolate?
According to wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fugazi
it does mean "broken beyond repair", and is a synonym of FUBAR
The body bag definition may be a backronym rather than an ackronym, ie: words were invented to fit the letters after fugazi was already in common use.
In 6 years in the USN I never heard Fugazi. I heard FUBAR, BDW, SNAFU and some others.
I think most people have more important things to worry about than how slang from 40+ years ago connects to a PA's name.
8 years army, and I've never seen or heard anyone use the word FUGAZI except as a reference to the band or simply discussing what the word means.
Well you know most people assume grunts just grunt at each other. Verbal communication is beyond them :)
I honestly assumed it had an Italian meaning
you'd think but the way things are in the world today. When I was in art school there was one lady who asked one of my friends what his real name was, he was from the Phillipenes and went by the name Victor here, don't what his Fillipino name was but when he told her she lost and told him he was going to burn in hell. I was really popular with her and others too
Sounds like a real sweetie but then again I tend to tack 666 on to my user names just to annoy certain sorts.
I would be curious to know if the vendor name chosen was inspired by the title of the song. The song is the only other media use of the word fugazi that I can personally recall.
The lyrics of the song are way too dense to unpack. And the song itself is 8+ minutes long.
The album also bares the same name, so that's a possible inspiration as well.
So does the band:
If the vendor is Italian ... in Italian slang Fugazi means Fake ...
Maybe it means for them "3d graphics are fake and not a photo"?
All of the above about why the vendor is called that and where they may have got it from is obviouly interesting but if you use this office, say in a commercial render, and the viewer searches for the name of the company it's best you know the potential ramifications. I'm not saying it only has one meaning, I'm saying one of those meanings is not something you might want in your render and if you don't know about it, others might and judge.
I completely understand your concern. To be honest, I had the same issue with another product by a different vendor a couple of months ago.
There was a word, done like neon lights, that was present multiple times on different interior walls. Since the word was open to interpretation and could not be hidden, the room was useless to me.
In this case, the FUGAZI name appears to be on the texture of the sign. So you should be able to change that texture, yes?
I always thought that FUGAZI was a word that didn't mean anything. That it was used as a wink and nudge in place of another F word.
Like Red Dwarf with smeg... and Battlestar Galactica with frack.
I'd have thought if you were doing a commercial render the name to be shown would be dictated by the nature of the commercial purpose, you wouldn't usually want to leave it as a generic default.
I believe you are right. And I was thinking that its use goes further back; i.e. 1950s/1960s war movies. But I have no proof of that.
Common sense does not make for good internet, Richard.