Lars Rune Nøstdal wrote:
On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:02:57 -0700, Heinrich Pumpernickel wrote:
in c/c++ programming people often call their variables foo and bar
why ?
fucked up beyond all recognition
But that doesn't explain why it's "foo" instead of "fu".
Obviously, when the WWII vets returned home, their wives
would get mad if they swore in front of their children. Hence,
my dad told us that SNAFU meant "Siuation Normal: All
Fouled Up". It was much later that I learned the original
meaning was "Fucked Up".
Not that your wife wouldn't get mad at you even if you didn't
swear. Such as the time my dad refered to our tomcat as
"the ball-bearing mouse trap".
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Lars Rune Nøstdal
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