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From: scorpion@titan.rice.edu (Vernon Lee)
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Subject: Re: History: foo and fubar are unrelated
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Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 09:40:32 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 22 09:40:32 1987
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References: <1266@mucs.UX.CS.MAN.AC.UK> <1632@chinet.UUCP> <1539@cognos.UUCP> <313@gvgspd.UUCP> <4881@ncoast.UUCP>
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Summary: what about george and harry?

>As quoted from <313@gvgspd.UUCP> by mrk@gvgspd.UUCP (Michael R. Kesti):
>+---------------
>| In article <1539@cognos.UUCP> roberts@cognos.UUCP (Robert Stanley) writes:
>| >       The choice of particular monosyllables is probably attributable to the
>| >keyboard habits of the local guru.  My own choice has, for many years, been
>| >'fred', which is a cycle of four keys under my frequently idle left index
>| >finger.
>| 
>| I, too, use fred, and, unless it was subliminally supplied to me, thought
>| that I had made this up myself.  I had used it for years, and then began to
>| discover that *MANY* others use it as well!  This never fails to amaze me!
>+---------------

I am surprised by "fred"'s popularity, too.  I don't believe in the
"easy-to-type" theory, though - my backups are "george" and "harry."
I think my motivation was that I thought the name "fred" was funny.
Of course, I'm a touch-typist, so perhaps I just didn't care about one or
two fingers (or three for "george" and "harry").






Vernon Lee
scorpion@rice.edu

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