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It is an old US military term that means “F*ked Up Beyond All Recognition”
by sorentwo 1y ago
It is an old US military term that means “F*ked Up Beyond All Recognition”
- dingnuts 1y agoFUBAR being a bit worse than SNAFU: "situation normal: all fucked up" which is the usual state of us-east-1
- D-Coder 1y agoMy favorite is JANFU: Joint Army-Navy Fuck-Up.
- joeyphoen 1y agoBut you probably have seen the standard example variable names "foo" and "bar" which (together at least) come from `fubar`
- worik 1y agoFoobar == "Fucked up beyond all recognition " Even the acronym is fucked. My favorite by a large margin...
- sunnybeetroot 1y agoWhich are in fact unrelated.
- jameshart 1y agoUnclear. ‘Foo’ has a life and origin of its own and is well attested in MIT culture going back to the 1930s for sure, but it seems pretty likely that it’s counterpart ‘bar’ appears in connection with it as a comical allusion to FUBAR.
- gregw2 1y agoInterestingly, it was "Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition" when it first appeared in print back towards the end of World War 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_slang_terms#FUBAR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_slang_terms#F... Not to be confused with "Foobar" which apparently originated at MIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar TIL, an interesting footnote about "foo" there: 'During the United States v. Microsoft Corp. trial, evidence was presented that Microsoft had tried to use the Web Services Interoperability organization (WS-I) as a means to stifle competition, including e-mails in which top executives including Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer referred to the WS-I using the codename "foo".[13]'