When I say FOB...

[rabid_nerd]

Do you think...

Friends of Bill (Clinton)?
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2002/01/31_fob.html

Free on Board? (Shipping Terminology/Transfer of Goods, aka Freight on Board)
http://www.woodweb.com/knowledge_base/FOB_defined.html

Friends of Boyds (Teddy Bears)?
http://www.boydsstuff.com/fob_club

From http://www.m-w.com
fob

1 : n. WATCH POCKET
2 : n. a short strap, ribbon, or chain attached especially to a pocket watch
3 : n. an ornament attached to a fob chain
4 : t.v. To select an entry, click on it.

fob off
t.v.
1 : to put off with a trick, excuse, or inferior substitute
2 : to pass or offer (something spurious) as genuine
3 : to put aside <now fob off what once they would have welcomed eagerly -- Walter Lippmann>

[Not_Giving_Up]

1. Fuck Off Buttwad?

For Optimum Bullshit?

[fob]

2. You rang?

[rabid_nerd]

7. so what are you?

are you a key fob? or a fob key? or a fob tape? or a fob bear?

[fob]

8. Foe of bush*

Taken from Friend of Bill for historical data.

Oh also from shipping stuff. FOB means Free On Board. Of course a destination is usually then given, as in fob 123 main street USA. So the shipper will deliver for free to the location specified, if you need it to be somewhere else after that, it's up to you.

[Shell Beau]

Friend of a Bitch

[WilliamPitt]

3. Former Governor of Alabama

Fob James

[ET Awful]

4. Well as an old Deadhead, FOB to me means

Front Of Board (as in in setting up a recording/microphone set-up) = in front of the sound board :). So an FOB recording was the cream of the crop :)

But that's just me and I'm a long-haired pinko hippie freak.

[bbernardini]

5. "Front Of Board" (taping reference)

Refers to taping a concert in front of the soundboard, instead of from the taper's section behind the board (at concerts where such a section is designated, of course).

[rabid_nerd]

6. What's this "tape" you speak of?

just kidding... before long we'll here that..

[tavalon]

9. Father of Baby

I've worked in Labor and Delivery for oh, about 15 years and we use that 3 letter acronym. :)