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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jolly C. Pancakes)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,news.misc,rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: History
Message-ID: <1386@osiris.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 20-Sep-87 08:41:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: osiris.1386
Posted: Sun Sep 20 08:41:52 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Sep-87 23:42:16 EDT
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Organization: The Electric Otter Sushi Bar
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Keywords: History, foo, bar
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In article <1252@homxc.UUCP>, lewisd@homxc.UUCP (David Lewis) writes:
> I seem to recall reading something in William Safire's column in the
> New York Times Sunday Magazine about the term's stemming from the
> Marine (?) acronym "fubar" and from an early computer instruction
> "BAR".  But Safire is generally further off only on teenage lingo than
> he is on computer stuff. Anybody else?

	This is a good time to point out that the acronyms "snafu" (situation
normal all fucked up) and "fubar" (fucked up beyond all recognition) were
kicking around in WWII, if not earlier. Beats me how fubar got transmuted
into everyone's favorite Mutt & Jeff file names.


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