Say Jim (Owens):
Perhaps a too-convoluted bit of humor about "geeks"
(technophilia and chickens)?
Was that Ozzie or Ted Nugent who REALLY did the chicken thing
on-stage?
;-}
Bob T (weird academic)
PS Less Foss get peeved at all the irrelevant humorous
traffic: Does anyone out there in Jess-land know of a
Java-based semantic network diagramming tool, like SemNet or
better? Seriously.
PPS My favorite expression, from the Air Force, was
"cluster f#ck", which has made it into the movies, but not,
to my knowledge, symbolic programming. Sorta like multiple
instantiations of the FUBAR class object....
.
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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