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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,news.misc
Subject: Re: History: foo and fubar are unrelated
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Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 20:02:17 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 16 20:02:17 1987
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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!
+---------------

My friends tell me that I'm the only two-fingered typist they know who can
outtype a 10-fingered typist.  ;-)  Anyway, my personal throwaway is "gorp",
which is easily typed with alternating hands....
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