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From: davidl@tekecs.UUCP (David Levine)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: foo and bar (etc.)
Message-ID: <2007@tekecs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Sep-83 13:36:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekecs.2007
Posted: Thu Sep  1 13:36:45 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Sep-83 04:47:52 EDT
References: floyd.1946
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The appearance of 'foo' in the old Smokey Stover comic strip was the source of
the term 'foo fighters.'  'Foo fighters' was the name given to mysterious balls
of light which occasionally followed aircraft during WWII, and which were never
adequately explained.  I have seen them written up in UFO books, and others
claim they must have been St. Elmo's Fire.

Me, I think they were software bugs with nowhere to go... only in recent years
have they found their niche in Unix systems.

Another modern just-so story from

  -- David D. Levine   (...decvax!tektronix!tekecs!davidl)      [UUCP]
                       (...tekecs!davidl.tektronix@rand-relay)  [ARPA]