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) ----- Original Message ----- From: "James C. Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > > > > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >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] > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > SDG > jco > > --------------------------------- > James C. Owen > Senior KE > Knowledgebased Systems Corporation > 6314 Kelly Circle > Garland, TX 75044 > 972.530.2895 > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
