Funny this thing with words. The word stool meaning chair in english, you know
the swedish word for chair is 'stol' !
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Tore Agblad
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Agblad Tore wrote:
Funny this thing with words. The word stool meaning chair in english, you know
the swedish word for chair is 'stol' !
Don't imagine that stool means chair in modern English. One sits on
either, but a stool has no back and is used less formally. Perfectly
consistent with
Erik N Johnson wrote:
and I believe Australia the word rutting
is used to mean the same activity with which most English speakers
commonly associate the F word.
Not commonly, but it's known. However, there's a (probably) related
four-letter word that is considered vulgar. It's always amused
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 20:33:41 +0800
John Summerfield deb...@herakles.homelinux.org wrote:
Agblad Tore wrote:
Funny this thing with words. The word stool meaning chair in english, you
know
the swedish word for chair is 'stol' !
Don't imagine that stool means chair in modern English. One
2009/7/7 Agblad Tore tore.agb...@volvo.com:
Funny this thing with words. The word stool meaning chair in english, you know
the swedish word for chair is 'stol' !
For all it's worth: it's 'stol' in Slovene, too. :}
Cheers,
Andrej
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On Wed, July 8, 2009 00:33, John Summerfield wrote:
Agblad Tore wrote:
Funny this thing with words. The word stool meaning chair in english,
you know
the swedish word for chair is 'stol' !
Don't imagine that stool means chair in modern English. One sits on
either, but a stool has no back
I worked with a young lady, fresh out of college, a few years ago who is
a very sharp programmer. Apparently, foobar, fubar, etc, were used
frequently in her class examples, to the point that she included them as
variables in programs she wrote for the company. A senior programmer
was helping
Old usage: SNAFU - Situation Normal, All F**ed up
Old usage: FUBAR - F**ed Up Beyond All Recognition
Current Usage: SNAFUBAR - Situation Normal F**ed Up Beyond All
Recognition
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FUBAH - F**ed Up Beyond All Hope / F**ed Up Beyond All Help
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I would think the F word is most likely quite old indeed. And it is
worth noting that in the UK and I believe Australia the word rutting
is used to mean the same activity with which most English speakers
commonly associate the F word. Moreover, the German 'ficken' which
has precisely this
On Monday, 07/06/2009 at 09:44 EDT, Gentry, Stephen
stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com wrote:
I worked with a young lady, fresh out of college, a few years ago who is
a very sharp programmer. Apparently, foobar, fubar, etc, were used
frequently in her class examples, to the point that she
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Much earlier. See http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=fuck
Stephen Frazier wrote:
Note the USMC logo. The anchor chain is wrapped around the anchor. So,
While the *rode* is indeed wrapped 'round the anchor (and the globe) in
the USMC logo it is NOT a chain. Many different materials may be used
in the rode, including chain, but there's no chain in the (USMC) logo -
it's a rope rode.. Far enough O.T. for you?
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Scott Rohlingscott.rohl...@gmail.com wrote:
Hmmm.. Disabled cpu topology, added processor degradation capability...
Those sound, well.. bad. I'm sure they're not, but something gets lost
in the 8 words or less synoposis ;-) I passed your post on to a
Rob,
Maybe you could get a position at the ITSO as an editor and flag
the phrase kill a daemon
I recently got a variable named foo edited out by an ITSO editor.
Because everyone knows that foo is a variant of fubar which is an acronym
with a *bad word* in it - foo might offend a reader. The
Actually, foo is unrelated to fubar. Foo was the licence plate on Smokey
Stover's two wheeled car in the comic strips, dating back to the 1920's or
1930's. Fubar and foobar came into use later, as far as I can tell, but
it's hard to trace things like that.
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Robert P. Nix Mayo
FOOBAR dates from WW2 where it was more commonly spelled FUBAR.
The polite definition is fouled up beyond all recognition.
Guess what the real definition is!
Edward Long
--- On Thu, 7/2/09, RPN01 nix.rob...@mayo.edu wrote:
From: RPN01 nix.rob...@mayo.edu
Subject: Re: OT (was Re: RHEL 5.4
Hello!
I can confirm your posting (or musings) regarding the word foo. It was
indeed the license plate indicator for that illustrious gentleman. I
remember seeing the comic strip someplace and the plate struck me as
amusing.
I believe the words Fubar and foobar surfaced during the Un*x epoch,
Yup, beyond all doubt.
But foo was still the license plate on Smokey Stover's car and has nothing
to do with fubar or foobar.
It may have been Pascal, but I had a textbook whose favorite variable names
were foo, bar and foobar.
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RO-OE-5-55
I see no real reason why someone at ITSO would get his proboscis out of
joint concerning the meaning of words such as these
Personally I liked the way some vaxen and pdp's reported failed unibus
transactions. One thing reported was the failed address. Naturally enough
it was reported in the
A related term also from WW2 is SNFU. Widely used in the Navy for
Situation Normal Fouled Up. In Navy terminology fouled up means that
your anchor chain is tangled so you can't raise the anchor and get
aweigh. Aweigh of course means that the ships anchor has been pulled in
enough that it is no
Isn't that snafu -- situation normal all fouled up?
Scott
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Stephen Frazier ste...@doc.state.ok.uswrote:
A related term also from WW2 is SNFU. Widely used in the Navy for
Situation Normal Fouled Up. In Navy terminology fouled up means that
your anchor chain is
one more view -
3 of my great uncles were marines - 1 in 1918, WW1 in France. The other 2
in the Pacific in WW2.
All 3 agreed that the terms SNAFU and FUBAR were in general use by the
enlisted Marines even before their time(s).
Was the subject of several memorable conversations at family reunions
Note the USMC logo. The anchor chain is wrapped around the anchor. So,
all marines are always fouled up. ;-)
The use of the fouled up anchor as a symbol of the marines goes back to
at least the late 1700's. The term SNFU or SNAFU (I have seen it both
ways although the later is now the more
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