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From: vlb@magic.apple.com (Vicki Brown)
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Subject: Re: 'foo bar' <- What's the meaning of?
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Date: 8 Aug 90 22:17:26 GMT
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In article <994@netmbx.UUCP> docbrain@netmbx.UUCP (Frank Seidinger) writes:
>
>Hi Netters!
>
>   Maybe i am really stupid, but what i never understood is the meaning
>   of 'foo bar'. What stands this for. I really see it everywhere as
>   examples for nearly everything. It's a real problem to me (and maybe
>   for the million others, they don't try to ask).
>
>   Is 'foo bar' better to understand if you are not german?

As I have always understood it, this is a corruption of FUBAR, which 
supposedly was coined in the US Army.  The Acronym stands for:
		Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition
(Other F-words may be substituted :-)

Has anyone heard a different etymology?
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