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From: "Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: F9X twister & ADA (was: n-dim'l vectors)
Date: 2000/04/12
Date: 2000-04-12T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38F4CD7C.5820E0AA@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38F0D0B0.A5F9425@att.net

Dick Hendrickson wrote:
  
> I thought Fubar was a C term ;-)

    Actually, fubar was orriginally a military term, an acronym for
fouled up beyond all recognition--i.e. what normally happens to a battle
plan upon contact with the enemy. I know it goes back to WWII, I don't
know if it goes back further.  Incidently, the current equivalent is a
"goat rope."




  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-04-12  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <38EA0440.1ECBC158@ncep.noaa.gov>
2000-04-06  0:00   ` F9X twister & ADA (was: n-dim'l vectors) bv
2000-04-06  0:00     ` Richard Maine
2000-04-07  0:00       ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-08  0:00         ` Dick Hendrickson
2000-04-08  0:00           ` Richard Maine
2000-04-09  0:00             ` Gary Scott
2000-04-09  0:00               ` Richard Maine
2000-04-09  0:00           ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-09  0:00             ` Dick Hendrickson
2000-04-09  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-09  0:00                 ` Gordon Sande
2000-04-09  0:00                   ` James Giles
2000-04-10  0:00                 ` tmoran
2000-04-15  0:00                 ` Aidan Skinner
2000-04-17  0:00                   ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-04-16  0:00                 ` Ken Garlington
2000-04-12  0:00               ` Robert I. Eachus [this message]
2000-04-10  0:00       ` bv
2000-04-10  0:00         ` James Van Buskirk
2000-04-11  0:00         ` James Giles
2000-04-11  0:00           ` Dale Stanbrough
2000-04-11  0:00             ` James Giles
2000-04-12  0:00               ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-11  0:00           ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-11  0:00             ` James Giles
2000-04-11  0:00               ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-04-11  0:00                 ` James Giles
2000-04-11  0:00                   ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-04-12  0:00                   ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-12  0:00               ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-12  0:00                 ` James Giles
2000-04-12  0:00                   ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-12  0:00                     ` James Giles
2000-04-12  0:00                       ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-12  0:00                         ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-12  0:00                           ` James Giles
2000-04-12  0:00                           ` James Giles
2000-04-12  0:00                         ` James Giles
2000-04-13  0:00                           ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-13  0:00                             ` Debugging (was: F9X twister & ADA) James Giles
2000-04-13  0:00                             ` F9X twister & ADA (was: n-dim'l vectors) James Giles
2000-04-14  0:00                               ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-14  0:00           ` bv
2000-04-07  0:00     ` Erik Edelmann
2000-04-07  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-07  0:00         ` Erik Edelmann
2000-04-07  0:00     ` Paul van Delst
2000-04-10  0:00       ` bv
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