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From: radack@cwruecmp.UUCP (Gerald Radack)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Foo joke
Message-ID: <1268@cwruecmp.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-May-85 00:38:43 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 29 00:38:43 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 31-May-85 01:11:49 EDT
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Reply-To: radack@cwruecmp.UUCP (Gerald Radack)
Organization: CWRU Dept. Computer Eng., Cleveland, OH
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Summary: 

> It is said that there is a creature in Africa called a Foo whose excriment is
> so volitile that if it comes in contact with your skin it is fatal to remove it
> which just goes to proove the saying:
>       
> 
>                           "If the Foo shits, wear it"
> 
> 
> (I read this in a book somwhere but I can't remember the title)

It appeared in the story "Dog Day Evening" by Spider Robinson (which is
reprinted in the book "Time Travelers Strictly Cash"). In the story, it
is referred to as "that dumb old gag", so that may not be where the
joke originated.