[thelist] Kinda OT: Where did FUBAR come from?
Megan Holbrook
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Wed Nov 2 17:06:23 CST 2005
Casey wrote:
> I know what it stands for.. just wondering how it got to be so widely used
> in the development world as the standard fill-in for variables and such.
>
> The first time I heard of it was in Saving Private Ryan.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=fubar+acronym+history&btnG=Search
or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar
:) M.
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