Foo Bar came from model trains at MIT
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Foo Bar came from model trains at MIT
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Re: Foo Bar came from model trains at MIT
#2neat.
I always figured it was just a tongue-in-cheek purposeful corruption of the 1940s FUBAR military jargon, but admittedly I never went searching for the origin.
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Re: Foo Bar came from model trains at MIT
#4neat. I always figured it was just a tongue-in-cheek purposeful corruption of the 1940s FUBAR military jargon, but admittedly I never went searching for the origin.
FOO came first in the 1930s; it was pervasively used by the Smokey Stover comic strip. Then, students reinterpreted german furchtbar (awful) as the spoken term FOO-BAR. That became the backronym FUBAR.