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Subject: Re: History
Message-ID: <1768@crash.CTS.COM>
Date: Thu, 24-Sep-87 12:08:11 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 24 12:08:11 1987
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Reply-To: adamsd@crash.CTS.COM (Adams Douglas)
Organization: Deep Space Network--JPL/NASA
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Keywords: History, foo, bar
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In article <4018@well.UUCP> booter@well.UUCP (Elaine Richards) writes:
>First saw the word "foo" in a comic strip called Smokey Stover.
>

The word FOO is used several times in the 1930s WB cartoon "Porky in
Wackyland."

I don't know if this predates Smokey Stover or not (I remember it
too!).

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