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Ahouxf.124 net.general utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!npois!houxi!houxf!rosin Thu Feb 11 12:52:33 1982 Re: what's foobar? alice!rhm is unecessarily discreet in my opinion when presenting the derivation of foobar.

During the Second World War (yes, a few of us are old enough to remember it well!) fubar (pronounced"foobar") was coined as a euphemismfor "fouled up beyond all recognition", where "fouled" is indeed a euphemism for yet another word.

Fubar is closely related to another term - snafu - which, I think predated fubar. snafu means "situation normal, all fouled up" again allowing substitution for "fouled".

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