Hey James,

The one phrase that I have not seen used yet (by the PC crowd) is DILLIGAFF.
Maybe it takes too much energy to speak it PC-like.

Bubba (dee Rules Katt)

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From: "James C. Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: JESS: Foo bar, FUBAR, and the problems of etymology


> Finally an Ex-GI jumps in.  I've been watching in wonderment at the more
"modern"
> explanations.  :-)  It seems that the more PC Programmers couldn't abide
using
> FUBAR, nor FU BAR so they did the "correct" thing and changed it to Foo
Bar,
> which makes no sense whatsoever.  Just as a side note, when I was overseas
> working on NASA Radar, our maintenance depot had a "huge" sign inside that
read,
> "Malfunction Junction" and directly underneath was the acronym FUBAR.
Techies
> are weird.  GI's are weird.  Techie GI's are the weirdest of all.  :-)
>
> There was a "take-off" on FUBAR in the movie "Blue Thunder" where the
Observer
> was given a cap with JAFO on it and couldn't figure out what JAFO meant.
>
> Technophilia meaning "love of technical (things)" has nothing to do with
Ozzie
> Ozburne nor with Side Shows at the county fair.
>
> "R.B. Trelease, Ph.D." wrote:
>
> > ;-}
> >
> > 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
> > >
> > >
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