Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Legacy I.
Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 00:00

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In article <5m5evt$hoa@felix.cc.gatech.edu> ulmont@cc.gatech.edu (Richard Campbell) writes:
>From: ulmont@cc.gatech.edu (Richard Campbell)
>Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
>Date: 23 May 1997 21:07:09 -0400

>In article <kigraeyqeaz.fsf@jagor.srce.hr>,
>Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@srce.hr> wrote:
>>> Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
>>> > Greg Hayes <greg@hayford.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>> > > Where does 'foo' come from
>>> > File: jargon.info, Node: foo, Next: foobar, Prev: fontology, Up: = F =
>>> > :foo: /foo/  1. /interj./ Term of disgust.  2. Used very

>>File: jargon.info, Node: bar, Next: bare metal, Prev: banner, Up: = B =
>>:bar: /bar/ /n./  1. The second {metasyntactic variable},
>>   after {foo} and before {baz}.  "Suppose we have two
>>   functions: FOO and BAR.  FOO calls BAR...." 2. Often
>>   appended to {foo} to produce {foobar}.

>Fucked
>Up
>Beyond 
>All
>Recognition

>=FUBAR ~= foobar.

Its an old military tern, I've heard from as far back as WWII..  Used to 
describe a commrade who's been... terminated... in a disfiguring way.  Also 
see  as "Fu'ed" (Fucked up)

-Legacy

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From: legacy@ieighty.net (Legacy I.)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/24
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