# Cb Gb's & O.m.f.u.g. ?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cb-gbs-o-m-f-u-g/146164
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [January 2, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cb-gbs-o-m-f-u-g/146164 "2003-01-02T05:37:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cb-gbs-o-m-f-u-g/146164/1 "2003-01-02T05:37:12Z")
Okay, while shopping I saw this shirt that said " CB’ GB’s & O.M.F.U.G., Home of Underground Rock"
I know what CB GB’s is, its that Bar in New York, but What does the O.M.F.U.G. mean/standfor?
Actually , what does the CBGB Mean/ Stand for?
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### Author:  [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2003, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cb-gbs-o-m-f-u-g/146164/2 "2003-01-02T05:43:50Z")
[How’s this?](http://www.cbgb.com/history1.htm)
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### Author:  [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2003, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cb-gbs-o-m-f-u-g/146164/3 "2003-01-02T05:46:01Z")
From [www.cbgb.com](http://www.cbgb.com)
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> The question most often asked of me is, “What does CBGB stand for?”
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> I reply, “It stands for the kind of music I intended to have, but not the kind that we became famous for: COUNTRY BLUEGRASS BLUES.” The next question is always, “but what does OMFUG stand for?” and I say “That’s more of what we do, It means OTHER MUSIC FOR UPLIFTING GORMANDIZERS.” And what is a gormandizer? It’s a voracious eater of, in this case, MUSIC.
Haj
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### Author:  [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2003, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cb-gbs-o-m-f-u-g/146164/4 "2003-01-02T07:22:53Z")
Thank you. for some strange reason that was eating at me.