FUBAR Etymology [nac]

[Dave Eaton]

wonderful - check out
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/foobar.html which explains it
all...

dave
'95 rs2
'90 ur-q

-----Original Message-----
From:	Duncan Thomson [mailto:duncan at systemcontrols.co.nz]
Sent:	Monday, 3 December 2001 1:56 p.m.
To:	Dave.Eaton at clear.net.nz; 'Jörgen Karlsson'; quattro at audifans.com
Subject:	Re: FUBAR Etymology [nac]

foo bar wibble wobble wubble etc...

There's a rather amusing list of these and other metasyntactic variables at
the following link:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/metasyntactic-variable.html


> i'd assumed that it was a more polite form of fubar.  maybe not....
>
> dave
> '95 rs2
> '90 ur-q