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RE: FOO vs FO
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] FOO vs FO
- From: Richard Beels <beels at technologist dot com>
- Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 11:45:48 -0400
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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
Cheers!
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