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From: John English <je@brighton.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Test
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 11:54:15 +0000
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Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> 
> I don't know. Foobar is supposed to come from fubar, an acronym for
> fv<ked up badly all round, but this is the 1st I've heard of baz.

"F**ked up beyond all recognition" is how I've heard it.
Baz is presumably just a variant of bar invented as a convenient
way to carry on the sequence.

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