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From: YTHPRGDB@MTUS5.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FOOBAR (aka FUBAR)
Message-ID: <90018.174305YTHPRGDB@MTUS5.BITNET>
Date: 18 Jan 90 22:43:05 GMT
References: <8259@nigel.udel.EDU> <1988@texsun.Central.Sun.COM> <EACHUS.90Jan17184404@aries.aries.mitre.org>
Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
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In article <EACHUS.90Jan17184404@aries.aries.mitre.org>, eachus@aries.mitre.org
(Robert I. Eachus) says:
>
>    I believe that the FOO (actually F00) originated at the TMRC (Tech
>Model Railroad Club) at MIT.  TMRC had an HO layout controlled by more
[...]
>message was installed, but I think it was early sixties.  It was
>certainly old news by 1964.
>

_BUT_

I seem to remember an early Looney Tunes cartoon (circa 1945) which
has Daffy Duck as a crazy doctor holding up a sign that says
"SILENCE IS FOO"!!!  Definitely old news by the early sixties :-)

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