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From: brianc@cognos.uucp (Brian Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: foo and fubar
Message-ID: <1702@cognos.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 14:07:03 EST
Article-I.D.: cognos.1702
Posted: Mon Nov  2 14:07:03 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Nov-87 23:21:45 EST
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Reply-To: brianc@cognos.UUCP (Brian Campbell)
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In article <9882@brl-adm.ARPA> BARBANIS@CS-UMASS (George Barbanis) writes:
! My favorite is "psyrglz".  It has obscure origins ...

  Please explain the origin ... it looks like an interesting word ...

In article <1116@wjvax.UUCP> brett@wjvax (Brett Galloway) writes:
! My favorite is "plugh", one of the magic words from ADVENTURE.

  I knew someone would mention that one... I use xyzzy (pronounced 'zizzy?')
also from Adventure.  It has the advantage that, in a multiuser system, no
one else choses the same scratch-file name as I do ... an "rm xyzzy*" is
usually quite safe.
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