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From: marty1@houdi.UUCP (M.BRILLIANT)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,news.misc,rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: History
Message-ID: <1323@houdi.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Sep-87 13:53:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: houdi.1323
Posted: Thu Sep 24 13:53:50 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 18:48:14 EDT
References: <1266@mucs.UX.CS.MAN.AC.UK> <1252@homxc.UUCP> <1583@killer.UUCP> <4018@well.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
Lines: 12
Keywords: History, foo, bar
Summary: Smokey Stover goes back maybe 50 years
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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" appeared everywhere ...  My favorite
> (remember, it was about 20+ years ago) strip was .....

Right you are.  I remember Smokey Stover from my childhood, which was
about 50 years ago.  That means "foo" came before the military "*fu*",
and long before computers could understand names.

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