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RE: FOO vs FO


The RFC makes a simple error though.  In asking "why foo", they fail to see 
the obvious origin of the word.  It's from the French "foutre".  Which 
means exactly what the F in FUBAR means.  Nothing German at all, except for 
the fact that they started the war that got us over in France in the first 
place.  American doughboys brought back many corrupted French (and German) 
phrases but that's a discussion for another list.


At 08:37 9/6/2001,  Michael Kay was inspired to say:
> > Does anyone know why FOO was chosen to mean anything?
> >
>
>No, but someone has tried to find out...
>
>See ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3092.txt
>
>Mike Kay


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