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Thursday, June 19, 2008

My job, sometimes.

clusterfuck (plural clusterfucks)

  1. (vulgar) A chaotic mess similar to group rape. Its more precise usage describes a particular kind of Catch-22, in which multiple complicated problems mutually interfere with each other’s solution. The looser usage, referring to any chaotic situation, probably prevails.

Examples:

  • 1995 John Barnes, Mother of Storms. Please note also my request that henceforth I wish to be reminded of the possibility of a clusterfuck in any contigency plan or operations proposal …
  • 2004: Jon Stewart, America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide To Democracy Inaction. … and you will still only begin to get a sense of the constitutionally mandated clusterfuck that is the modern presidency.
  • 2005: Charles W. Sasser, Patton’s Panthers: The African-American 761st Tank Battalion in World War II. It was a clusterfuck, a deadly clusterfuck. When the doughs finally got off the ground in some numbers and charged into the woods, the Krauts broke contact …