Re: foo?

[Damacus <damacus@bastion.yi.org>]

Hmm. Nope, I never saw it.  At the tender age of -51, I wasn't able to watch
TV to have caught the original or the subsequent, endless, re-runs. 

But interesting, nonetheless. :)

On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:36:12AM -0700, Robert Threet wrote:
> Did you see the cartoon from the late '30's called "Daffy
> in Wackyland"?  There was a cartoon character that was
> supposed to be a do-do bird.  It held up a sign that saif
> "foo".  Maybe it was "Porky in Wackyland", I dunno, anyway
> I saw this listed as the earliest reference to "foo".
> 
> --- Damacus <damacus@bastion.yi.org> wrote:
> > FUBAR -> fubar -> foo bar
> > 
> > F.ined U.p B.eyond A.ll R.ecognition
> > 
> > (... and the other, more abrasive variant for F, if you
> > want the initial
> > acronymn expansion. :)  )
> > 
> > -Dam
> > 
> > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:23:15AM -0700, Travis Davies
> > wrote:
> > > What is foo? I've seen it before in source code, but I
> > > have never been able to figure out what it is.
> > > 
> > > Davies
> > > 
> > > =====
> > > "I refuse to prove that I exist", says god. "For proof
> > denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." "But",
> > says man. "The babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it?
> > It could not have evolved by chance. it proves you exist,
> > and so therefore by your own arguments, you don't." QED
> > >            --The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
> > >                     By Douglas Adams
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