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- From: dking@SunBelt.Net
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Stupid Question: What does "foo" stand for?
- Date: 11 Feb 1996 14:17:15 GMT
- Organization: SunBelt.Net INTERNET Access
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- References: <DLA6o4.8s0@bcstec.ca.boeing.com> <1996Jan16.144939.8745@ohstpy> <31167aab.15607488@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- In article <31167aab.15607488@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>,
- kdq@emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin Quitt) wrote:
- >On 16 Jan 96 14:49:39 -0500, vancleef@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu wrote:
- >>"Foo" stands for "fu" which means "fucked up".
- >
- >No it doesn't. FUBAR and its ilk are from WWII. Foo predates FUBAR by at
- >least twenty and perhaps 30 years. The use of BAR inconjunction with FOO is
- >undoubtedly due to the FUBAR acronym, however.
-
- Foo is nothing more than a replacement for profanity for use where profanity
- is not permitted. I play a MUD where use of profanity will get you banished
- from the game if you continue to use it. Foo is used in place of profanity
- IE. Life's a bear (bear substituting for bitch).
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