Brett Kavanaugh Explains ‘FFFFFFFourth Of July’ Yearbook Reference

On Wednesday, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was asked to explain one particular phrase included in his 1983 Georgetown prep school yearbook that had become a topic of discussion over the weekend – “FFFFFFFourth of July.”

After Washington attorney Seth Berenzweig acquired Kavanaugh’s yearbook from an anonymous source last week and made it public, adult film star Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti drew people’s attention to a few phrases from the yearbook that, according to him, hinted at various sexual acts.

“Brett Kavanaugh must also be asked about this entry in his yearbook: ‘FFFFFFFourth of July.’ We believe that this stands for: Find them, French them, Feel them, Finger them, F--k them, Forget them. As well as the term ‘Devil's Triangle.’ Perhaps Sen. Grassley can ask him. #Basta,” Avenatti tweeted on Sept. 23.

Since the Supreme Court nominee had refrained from either admitting or denying Avenatti’s claims in public, the Senate Judiciary Committee asked to hear his version of what the phrase possibly meant.

“Does your yearbook contain the ‘FFFFFFFourth of July entry’ described by Mr. Avenatti?” the Senate asked Kavanaugh.

Kavanaugh proceeded to present an explanation that contradicted Avenatti’s tweet. “So, ‘FFF’ all that refers to is a friend of ours in the class, when he used to say ‘f—k you’ he would often say it with a wind-up like ‘fff—k you.’ And for reasons that are not clear to be today, at age 15 and 16, the whole group of guys thought that was funny, inside thing, and it got shortened to the sound I just made was a number of fs rolling together,” he said.

“And that guy would sometimes get in fights, either on the football field or otherwise, where he would say ‘f—k you’ and then, you know, be in a fight, and that was the reference,” he added.

Urban Dictionary, a site which kept records of colloquially used words and phrases, partially corroborated the definition of the term “FFFF” with description given by Avenatti. It said the phrase often was an acronym for “Find ’em, Feel ’em, F--k ’em & Forget ’em.”

However, Kavanaugh assured the committee he had never heard the term being used as a form of sexual reference.

“I have never heard that as a reference, and I know for a fact that that was not the reference with respect to the yearbook.”

When the Senate probed further, asking him why he included “FFFFFFFourth of July” in his yearbook, the SCOTUS nominee waived off the importance of his high school yearbook.

“I can’t remember. The yearbook is a lot of humor, a lot of farce, a little bit of serious where you list your activities. But it’s a lot of humor and a lot of farce at a time when the editors of the yearbook were probably following a model…”

It is important to mention the phrase in question was not included in officially recognized dictionaries such as Oxford, Merriam Webster or Cambridge and is a colloquial term that has crept up in urban vocabulary, which differs from one person to the other. Hence, there was no way of knowing if Kavanaugh actually had an innocent reason behind including it in his high school yearbook or it indeed referred to the sexual act described by Avenatti.