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To: MosesKnows
Fob (as in key fob) doesn't stand for anything at all. It's simply a word and it originated hundreds of years ago from the German word fuppe - which means "small pocket".

Back in those days, people used to carry pocket watches on a chain. The chain was called a "fob" and many men's suits at the time had a small pocket called a "fob pocket" to contain such watch and chain.


49 posted on 10/27/2013 4:20:25 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

You don’t indicate whether or not you’re married. I suspect not, so I suggest that you do that. That way, you would never get into all this stuff, especially on trips to New Jersey, knowing that she would never believe a word of this
BS.


54 posted on 10/27/2013 5:35:39 PM PDT by GopherIt
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