Aucbarpa.823
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utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!G:ARPAVAX:arnold
Thu Feb 11 12:07:58 1982
Re: what's foobar?
Actually, as was stated by some anonymous person, foobar is (as my
unofficial Arnold's Computer Dictionary claims) derived from fubar.
The CLEAN (i.e., public) acronym is "Fouled Up Beyond (Any) Repair".
Those of you with filthy, disgusting, sick, and perverted minds
can probably figure out what the militarites REALLY meant by the "F".
(Hint: It's one of those 400 some odd words in Webster's latest which
has caused the dictionary to be banned from some school libraries.)
Another wonderful one (not often used in computer jargon) is snafu:
Situation Normal: All Fouled Up.
		Ken