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It comes from fubar, which stands for “fucked up beyond all recognition”. Foo and bar it seem so innocent and whimsical by comparison
by FredPret 4y ago
It comes from fubar, which stands for “fucked up beyond all recognition”. Foo and bar it seem so innocent and whimsical by comparison
- bitwize 4y ago"Foo" dates earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33747944 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33747944 https://catb.org/jargon/html/F/foo.html https://catb.org/jargon/html/F/foo.html It was probably paired with "bar" because of FUBAR though. My dad referred to the figure known as the "impossible trident" ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trident https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trident ) as a "foobar". It was used as a warning to engineering students to check their technical drawings.