You speakee dee eenglish ?? ----- Original Message ----- From: "R.B. Trelease, Ph.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 12:39 PM Subject: JESS: Foo bar, FUBAR, and the problems of etymology
> ;-} > > Fouled up my @sp! > > My time with the military surely demonstrated that FUBAR = "f#cked up > beyond all recognition". > > A concept freqyently well-applied to etymological reconstruction when > the originator of a neologism cannot be definitively consulted.... > > Anyone want to have a go at the sematic relationships between > technophilia and biting the heads of off chickens at a sideshow? > > ;-} ;-P > > Cheers! > > Bob T. > > > > > >Hello, > > > >Probably it's something every native English speaker knows, but as a > >Dutchman I'm wondering for some time already what 'foo bar' stands for. > >These words are not only used in the Jess manual but also in other documents > >about programming. I looked in my (not so good) dictionary and with Google, > >but failed to find anything. So my question is, what do these words mean? > > > >Bye, > >Sander > > > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > >in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list > >(use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list > (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
