Fid

[TheEarl]

Do people, as a group, know this acronym?

Could you work it out if the context in which it's used talks about a sixteen year old using a dodgy driving license to prove she's eighteen (no, this isn't for a Lit story!).

I want to use it, because it fits perfectly with the vocabulary of the character I'm writing. She wouldn't say fake id, but she would say FID. But I'm becoming increasingly of the opinion that it's not an expression that's in wide enough use to be easily recognisable.

The Earl

 

[TheEarl]

Incidentally, it's supposed to be in capitals. FID. Lit tried to help me say what it thought I wanted to say.

The bit of writing in question is: "She had no idea if anyone was still trying to find them, but her paranoia was improving by the day and avoiding direct debits was part of her new security kick. They were difficult to set up without a FID and her £25 fake driving license was designed to fool barmen, not bankers."

The Earl

 

[3113]

Never heard of it before, but then I'm not a teenager Is it international or primarily British?

 

[Guest]

I'll bite... Financial Identification Number?

 

[Elianna]

Um... not that I've ever had one *whistles innocently* but usually in Uni we called it a Fake ID. Sorry. I'm not up on the lingo, but I still deal with enough youths who think they're brilliant that way. They don't call them FID's. Maybe that's different in the UK, but... never heard it.

 

[TheEarl]

Crap. Oh well. I've retooled the sentence to write it out, but I liked it. I think the terms and slang probably differ from UK to US, cause we don't make university students lie about their age to buy beer. Only secondary school students.

The Earl

 

[DesertPirate]

Sorry Earl, that's a new one on me and my 20 year old daughter hasn't heard it either.

 

[Vermilion]

Um, sorry Earl, but I'm English and have never heard it before. Think you must have dreamed it up. Go with Fake ID.

 

[john-the-author]

I wouldn't have known it as an acronym, either. In fact, there's a knot-tying tool called a "fid" (go look it up), which only goes to show that I am far more obscure than you.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I wouldn't have known it as an acronym, either. In fact, there's a knot-tying tool called a "fid" (go look it up), which only goes to show that I am far more obscure than you.

But bang along side of me! For that matter, I 'knot' only know what it is, I have one. You wouldn't happen to have a copy of Ashley, would you?

 

[Stella_Omega]

But bang along side of me! For that matter, I 'knot' only know what it is, I have one. You wouldn't happen to have a copy of Ashley, would you?

I have three or four fids, but no copy of Ashley. Even used, that's a pricey book!

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Fake ID?

 

[john-the-author]

But bang along side of me! For that matter, I 'knot' only know what it is, I have one. You wouldn't happen to have a copy of Ashley, would you?

My man!!! I sure do!! And when my ex-wife stole my copy when I moved out, I got another one because there are some things you just >HAVE< to have in one's library.

 

[john-the-author]

I have three or four fids, but no copy of Ashley. Even used, that's a pricey book!

I checked www.bookfinder.com. It's only about $40 for the first edition, with shipping, it'd probably be about $50. It's a bit much, but there are ALWAYS birthdays.

 

[DesertPirate]

I wouldn't have known it as an acronym, either. In fact, there's a knot-tying tool called a "fid" (go look it up), which only goes to show that I am far more obscure than you.

I too have a fid and my old copy of the Bluejackets manual

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Maybe we could expand Wenchie's knots and bondage seminar to include really fancy ropework. Wouldn't it be cool to held in place by a set of three bight, two overlay Turks' heads?

 

[john-the-author]

Maybe we could expand Wenchie's knots and bondage seminar to include really fancy ropework. Wouldn't it be cool to held in place by a set of three bight, two overlay Turks' heads?

Jesus God!

 

[DesertPirate]

Jesus God!

What he said

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Actually, I think it would be cool to hold someone else down that way. You could just tie one on each wrist and ankle permanently and then slip a eye-splice through and back over itself that was attached to the head and footboards of the bed . . . or other appropriate furniture.

 

[john-the-author]

Actually, I think it would be cool to hold someone else down that way. You could just tie one on each wrist and ankle permanently and then slip a eye-splice through and back over itself that was attached to the head and footboards of the bed . . . or other appropriate furniture.

Well-tied knots and eye splices would be a distinct mark of class, I think. Particularly the Turk's Head, which I have always thought of as the entrance requirement to the ranks of master knotter.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

In my Scouting days I was entranced by rope. I fear that I've grown rusty over the years and really ought to get some good Manila and relearn the craft. But I agree with you. Did you ever manage to tie a decent Matthew Walker? I could never figure that one out.

 

[john-the-author]

In my Scouting days I was entranced by rope. I fear that I've grown rusty over the years and really ought to get some good Manila and relearn the craft. But I agree with you. Did you ever manage to tie a decent Matthew Walker? I could never figure that one out.

Nope. Honestly, I didn't try--I always felt that was beyond my meager knotting skills.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Nope. Honestly, I didn't try--I always felt that was beyond my meager knotting skills.

It certainly was well beyond mine! Of course, in those days I was working strictly with twisted nylon. I really do need to get some Manila. That shouldn't be impossible here in the largest port in the country.