Aucbarpa.823 net.general utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!G:ARPAVAX:arnold Thu Feb 11 12:07:58 1982 Re: what's foobar? Actually, as was stated by some anonymous person, foobar is (as my unofficial Arnold's Computer Dictionary claims) derived from fubar. The CLEAN (i.e., public) acronym is "Fouled Up Beyond (Any) Repair". Those of you with filthy, disgusting, sick, and perverted minds can probably figure out what the militarites REALLY meant by the "F". (Hint: It's one of those 400 some odd words in Webster's latest which has caused the dictionary to be banned from some school libraries.) Another wonderful one (not often used in computer jargon) is snafu: Situation Normal: All Fouled Up. Ken ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.