Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ll-xn!ames!lll-crg!mordor!solaria!berry From: berry@solaria..ARPA (Berry Kercheval) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: foo? Message-ID: <17346@mordor.ARPA> Date: Thu, 4-Dec-86 19:10:31 EST Article-I.D.: mordor.17346 Posted: Thu Dec 4 19:10:31 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Dec-86 04:49:49 EST References: <246@polyslo.UUCP> <5426@brl-smoke.ARPA> Sender: news@mordor.ARPA Reply-To: berry@solaria.UUCP (Berry Kercheval) Organization: S-1 Project, LLNL Lines: 11 In article <5426@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) writes: >(There is an old word "phoo", or "fooey", indicating derision, >that supplies some of the connotation for this usage of "foo".) And 'foo' has even been used in 'real' literature... -- "Suddenly he would brandish a paperweight and shout `Foo, you rat! I'll put nine grams of lead in your skull!'" - A. Solzhenitsyn, 'The Gulag Archipelago' -- Berry Kercheval -- berry@s1-c.arpa -- mordor!berry