Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!gvgpsa!gvgspd!mrk From: mrk@gvgspd.UUCP (Michael R. Kesti) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,news.misc Subject: Re: History: foo and fubar are unrelated Message-ID: <313@gvgspd.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Oct-87 14:50:39 EDT Article-I.D.: gvgspd.313 Posted: Sun Oct 11 14:50:39 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Oct-87 00:56:18 EDT References: <1266@mucs.UX.CS.MAN.AC.UK> <1632@chinet.UUCP> <1539@cognos.UUCP> Reply-To: mrk@gvgspd.UUCP (Michael R. Kesti) Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA Lines: 19 Xref: mnetor comp.misc:1456 comp.unix.questions:4496 comp.unix.wizards:4835 news.misc:1014 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! Sorry to waste bandwidth for something so trivial, but, as I said, I am amazed! I would also be interested in other's favorites along these lines. -- =================================================================== Michael Kesti Grass Valley Group, Inc. P.O. Box 1114 Grass Valley, CA 95945 UUCP: ...!tektronix!gvgpsa!gvgspd!mrk