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From: travis@cucca.UUCP (Travis Lee Winfrey)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: origin of foo
Message-ID: <202@cucca.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 00:33:08 EST
Article-I.D.: cucca.202
Posted: Fri Mar 21 00:33:08 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Mar-86 04:19:25 EST
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Summary: janfu, too.

In article <2072@rayssd.UUCP> asa@rayssd.UUCP (Asa B. Simmons) writes:
>'fubar' is a member of
>a set of three terms: 'snafu', 'tarfu', and 'fubar'. 

I've also heard of "janfu", meaning "Joint Army-Navy Fuck Up."
Perhaps that was just for bureaucratic specialists. :)

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