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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.misc,news.misc
Subject: Re: History: foo and fubar are unrelated
Message-ID: <6484@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 27-Sep-87 02:52:18 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 27 02:52:18 1987
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Keywords: etymology, popular culture, jeep
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In article <1632@chinet.UUCP> editor@chinet.UUCP (Alex Zell) writes:
>Debate was rather heavy on that, but consensus was that it was derived from
>"general purpose" ---> gp  ---> jeep.

I don't suppose the Popeye character had anything to do with it, hm?
So much for consensus.