I was expecting "foo" and "bar", honestly. At least things like "data" you can argue the point that the variable contains data (and thus at least isn't a counte

I was expecting "foo" and "bar", honestly. At least things like "data" you can argue the point that the variable contains data (and thus at least isn't a counter or contain state). Which is at least better than "foo". My favorite though is still expletives as variable names. You can tell from the number of them just how frustrating the code was to write. I recall digging through some particularly hairy boot code a few years ago where /every/ variable name was a swear word. Must have given the developer fits to get working. :-)