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TIL: foobar may stem from German "furchtbar"

• nodata 12y ago
  > , but it now seems more likely that FUBAR was itself > a derivative of `foo' perhaps influenced by German `furchtbar' > (terrible) - `foobar' may actually have been the original form. This sounds unlikely... I think I'll stick with FUBAR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUBAR#FUBAR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUBAR#FUBAR