Aalice.495 net.general utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!cbosg!harpo!npois!alice!rhm Wed Feb 10 19:54:47 1982 Re: what's foobar? The original from which foo and bar was taken was a conglomeration. I must admit some responsibility for popularization of foo, which comes from the ancient comic strip 'Smokey Stover'. Later bar was added from the older 'fubar' whose derivation belongs in net.jokes.q. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.