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From: farren@well.UUCP (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FOOBAR (aka FUBAR)
Message-ID: <15638@well.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 90 12:23:48 GMT
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Several people write on FOO:

>>It was certainly old news by 1964.
>"SILENCE IS FOO"!  Definitely old news by the early sixties :-)

Check out Smokey Stover comic strips.  Absolutely old news by the early
fifties.

Doen't have anything to do with FUBAR, anyhow, which was old in the forties.
-- 
Mike Farren 				     farren@well.sf.ca.usa