* Test
@ 2002-11-06 10:48 Martin Dowie
2002-11-06 23:11 ` Test Randy Brukardt
0 siblings, 1 reply; 44+ messages in thread
From: Martin Dowie @ 2002-11-06 10:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
foo
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* Re: Test
2002-11-06 10:48 Test Martin Dowie
@ 2002-11-06 23:11 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-11-06 23:41 ` Test Pat Rogers
0 siblings, 1 reply; 44+ messages in thread
From: Randy Brukardt @ 2002-11-06 23:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
Martin Dowie wrote in message <3dc8f30f$1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net>...
>foo
bar
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* Re: Test
2002-11-06 23:11 ` Test Randy Brukardt
@ 2002-11-06 23:41 ` Pat Rogers
2002-11-06 23:55 ` Test chris.danx
0 siblings, 1 reply; 44+ messages in thread
From: Pat Rogers @ 2002-11-06 23:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote in message
news:usj8ab1ppoj725@corp.supernews.com...
> Martin Dowie wrote in message
<3dc8f30f$1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net>...
> >foo
> bar
baz (I think)
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* Re: Test
2002-11-06 23:41 ` Test Pat Rogers
@ 2002-11-06 23:55 ` chris.danx
2002-11-07 1:27 ` Test Jeffrey Carter
` (2 more replies)
0 siblings, 3 replies; 44+ messages in thread
From: chris.danx @ 2002-11-06 23:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
Pat Rogers wrote:
> "Randy Brukardt" wrote in message
> news:usj8ab1ppoj725@corp.supernews.com...
>
> >Martin Dowie wrote in message
>
> <3dc8f30f$1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net>...
>
> >>foo
> >
> >bar
>
> baz (I think)
Where do "foo", "bar" and "baz" come from?
--
for personal replies change spamoff to chris
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* Re: Test
2002-11-06 23:55 ` Test chris.danx
@ 2002-11-07 1:27 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-11-07 11:54 ` Test John English
2002-11-07 17:24 ` Test Robert I. Eachus
2002-11-07 2:09 ` Test Dennis Lee Bieber
2002-11-07 4:07 ` Test Ted Dennison
2 siblings, 2 replies; 44+ messages in thread
From: Jeffrey Carter @ 2002-11-07 1:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
chris.danx wrote:
> Pat Rogers wrote:
>
>> "Randy Brukardt" wrote in message
>> news:usj8ab1ppoj725@corp.supernews.com...
>>
>> >Martin Dowie wrote in message
>>
>> <3dc8f30f$1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net>...
>>
>> >>foo
>> >
>> >bar
>>
>> baz (I think)
>
> Where do "foo", "bar" and "baz" come from?
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.
--
Jeff Carter
"You empty-headed animal-food-trough wiper."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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* Re: Test
2002-11-07 1:27 ` Test Jeffrey Carter
@ 2002-11-07 11:54 ` John English
2002-11-07 17:24 ` Test Robert I. Eachus
1 sibling, 0 replies; 44+ messages in thread
From: John English @ 2002-11-07 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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* Re: Test
2002-11-07 1:27 ` Test Jeffrey Carter
2002-11-07 11:54 ` Test John English
@ 2002-11-07 17:24 ` Robert I. Eachus
1 sibling, 0 replies; 44+ messages in thread
From: Robert I. Eachus @ 2002-11-07 17:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
>> Where do "foo", "bar" and "baz" come from?
>
>
> 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.
Foo actually comes from the TMRC (Tech Model Railroad Club) at MIT. In
the early 60's there was probably ten times as much effort put into the
automatic switching network than into the actual HO gauge layout. It
was all run with telephone stepper switches (moving in 1964 to a
crossbar switch) From any of about a dozen control stations, you could
dial the number of a control block on the layout and take control of a
train sitting there. The system would follow the train from block to
block, avoid moving you into another occupied control block and all that
good stuff. If you were approaching a set of points from one of the
legs, the points would be set correctly. If you were approaching from
the other direction you could dial the number of the points/switch and
change the direction you would take.
There was of course a large display on the wall with the status of the
layout, showing occupied blocks and switch settings, etc. There was
also a display with a character and two digits that showed error
conditions like two trains headed for each other, and so on. The two
digits were the block or switch number associatied with the conflict.
F-codes were used for more general problems, and F00 was an indication
that the system had crashed--the logic had tried to resolve an
unanticipated condition.
Since most TMRC hackers were also into computers, and many worked
part-time on Project MAC, in the MIT AI lab, or with the TX0 and PDP-1
machines in Building 16, FOO became the first metavariable. BAR became
the second metavariable due to the pun with FUBAR. AFAIK, the third
metavariable was always FOOBAR, while the fourth was either FOOB or BAZ.
BAZ is again a homonym--what comes after BAR? BAS. How do you
pronounce it? BAZ. So use BAZ and avoid the confusion which can come
from reading (or thinking) about a program verbally and typing something
other than what was meant.
Why was FU never used as a metavariable? Same problem, there is a
tendancy to read it as eff-you. While often a sentiment you wanted to
express to the computer when debugging, it could again lead to misspellings.
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* Re: Test
2002-11-06 23:55 ` Test chris.danx
2002-11-07 1:27 ` Test Jeffrey Carter
@ 2002-11-07 2:09 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2002-11-07 4:07 ` Test Ted Dennison
2 siblings, 0 replies; 44+ messages in thread
From: Dennis Lee Bieber @ 2002-11-07 2:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
chris.danx fed this fish to the penguins on Wednesday 06 November 2002
03:55 pm:
> Where do "foo", "bar" and "baz" come from?
>
I've always taken "foo", "bar" to be extracted from "FUBAR" (Fouled
(or worse <G>) Up Beyond All Recognition)... A cousin to SNAFU
--
> ============================================================== <
> wlfraed@ix.netcom.com | Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber KD6MOG <
> wulfraed@dm.net | Bestiaria Support Staff <
> ============================================================== <
> Bestiaria Home Page: http://www.beastie.dm.net/ <
> Home Page: http://www.dm.net/~wulfraed/ <
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* Re: Test
2002-11-06 23:55 ` Test chris.danx
2002-11-07 1:27 ` Test Jeffrey Carter
2002-11-07 2:09 ` Test Dennis Lee Bieber
@ 2002-11-07 4:07 ` Ted Dennison
2 siblings, 0 replies; 44+ messages in thread
From: Ted Dennison @ 2002-11-07 4:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
"chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:<s%hy9.197$fX5.934@news13-win.server.ntlworld.com>...
> Pat Rogers wrote:
>
> > "Randy Brukardt" wrote in message
> > news:usj8ab1ppoj725@corp.supernews.com...
> >
> > >Martin Dowie wrote in message
> >
> > <3dc8f30f$1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net>...
> >
> > >>foo
> > >
> > >bar
> >
> > baz (I think)
>
>
> Where do "foo", "bar" and "baz" come from?
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=foo&action=Search
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?bar
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?baz
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* test
@ 2018-02-22 12:50 santu.ottavi
0 siblings, 0 replies; 44+ messages in thread
From: santu.ottavi @ 2018-02-22 12:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
test
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* Test
@ 2016-06-18 16:36 Jeffrey R. Carter
0 siblings, 0 replies; 44+ messages in thread
From: Jeffrey R. Carter @ 2016-06-18 16:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
Sorry about the spam.
--
Jeff Carter
"When and now is this guitar piece from Stottlemeyer?
Yes, it's with Mr. Dog in Gertrude's pinball forest."
The World's Funniest Joke
133
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* test
@ 2013-03-11 11:08 Naveen Hempicca
0 siblings, 0 replies; 44+ messages in thread
From: Naveen Hempicca @ 2013-03-11 11:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Naveen Hempicca
Regards,
Naveen M – BDE
Hempicca, www.hempicca.com
G talk ID: naveen.hempicca, Yahoo Chat ID: naveen.hempicca, facebook ID: naveen.hempicca
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* Test
@ 2009-07-31 19:02 PragmAda Software engineering
0 siblings, 0 replies; 44+ messages in thread
From: PragmAda Software engineering @ 2009-07-31 19:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
Test msg; please ignore.
--
Jeffrey R. Carter, President
PragmAda Software Engineering
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* Test
@ 2004-09-06 5:43 test
0 siblings, 0 replies; 44+ messages in thread
From: test @ 2004-09-06 5:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: comp.lang.ada
Dear ,
We are conducting a survey, and your response would be appreciated.
Here is a link to the survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?A=44080217E8312
Thanks for your participation,
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* test
@ 2004-07-28 13:10 ������
0 siblings, 0 replies; 44+ messages in thread
From: ������ @ 2004-07-28 13:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
sorry
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[parent not found: <20030829223204870+0800@news.tm.net.my>]
* Test
@ 2002-12-10 15:19 Beard, Frank Randolph CIV
0 siblings, 0 replies; 44+ messages in thread
From: Beard, Frank Randolph CIV @ 2002-12-10 15:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 46 bytes --]
Trying to figure out why HTML is being sent.
[-- Attachment #2: winmail.dat --]
[-- Type: application/ms-tnef, Size: 1629 bytes --]
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* Test
@ 2002-11-11 5:31 Michael Erdmann
0 siblings, 0 replies; 44+ messages in thread
From: Michael Erdmann @ 2002-11-11 5:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
Sorry for the test
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* Re: Test
@ 2002-11-07 6:22 Grein, Christoph
0 siblings, 0 replies; 44+ messages in thread
From: Grein, Christoph @ 2002-11-07 6:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com>
>
> Pat Rogers wrote:
>
> > "Randy Brukardt" wrote in message
> > news:usj8ab1ppoj725@corp.supernews.com...
> >
> > >Martin Dowie wrote in message
> >
> > <3dc8f30f$1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net>...
> >
> > >>foo
> > >
> > >bar
> >
> > baz (I think)
>
>
> Where do "foo", "bar" and "baz" come from?
Fubar: Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition
Baz: Is it a short form of the Bavarian Bazi?
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* test
@ 2002-09-17 14:02 Sergiu Dunca
0 siblings, 0 replies; 44+ messages in thread
From: Sergiu Dunca @ 2002-09-17 14:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
**** Post for FREE via your newsreader at post.usenet.com ****
test
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
*** Usenet.com - The #1 Usenet Newsgroup Service on The Planet! ***
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* test
@ 2001-12-09 22:57 xiaohang zhu
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From: xiaohang zhu @ 2001-12-09 22:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
test
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* test
@ 2001-08-31 19:29 Angoos1
0 siblings, 0 replies; 44+ messages in thread
From: Angoos1 @ 2001-08-31 19:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
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* test
@ 2001-02-21 20:56 Larry Hazel
2001-02-21 21:00 ` test Larry Hazel
0 siblings, 1 reply; 44+ messages in thread
From: Larry Hazel @ 2001-02-21 20:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
Haven't been getting any new messages on CLA. Just want to see if this gets
through.
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* Test
@ 2001-01-08 19:42 Samuel Tardieu
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From: Samuel Tardieu @ 2001-01-08 19:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
Test
--
Samuel Tardieu -- sam@ada.eu.org
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* Test
@ 2000-04-10 0:00 Jeff Glenn
0 siblings, 0 replies; 44+ messages in thread
From: Jeff Glenn @ 2000-04-10 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
Just testing my posting capabilities.
Jeffrey Glenn
ITT Industries Tinton Falls Facility
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* Test
@ 1999-11-18 0:00 Snezana Kurtovic
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From: Snezana Kurtovic @ 1999-11-18 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
Test
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* TEST
@ 1999-11-08 0:00 Didier WILLAME
0 siblings, 0 replies; 44+ messages in thread
From: Didier WILLAME @ 1999-11-08 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
Sorry, this is a test.
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* test
@ 1998-01-24 0:00 rulzyy
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From: rulzyy @ 1998-01-24 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
test
Please remove the "y's" from my email address when writing to cut down on my junk mail.
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* test
@ 1997-05-21 0:00 System Administrator
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From: System Administrator @ 1997-05-21 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
This is a test, please ignore it.
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* test
@ 1997-03-28 0:00 gadget
0 siblings, 0 replies; 44+ messages in thread
From: gadget @ 1997-03-28 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
test
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* Test
@ 1997-03-06 0:00 Adam C. Bacon
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From: Adam C. Bacon @ 1997-03-06 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
This is a test. I have been having difficulty posting lately. Sorry for
the inconvenicene.
PLEASE IGNORE
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* test
@ 1996-12-11 0:00 schulhof
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From: schulhof @ 1996-12-11 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
this is only a test, john do you see this.
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* test
@ 1996-06-10 0:00 Tod Trowbridge
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From: Tod Trowbridge @ 1996-06-10 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
this is a test of my mailer
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* Test
@ 1995-02-09 3:21 Lance Kibblewhite
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From: Lance Kibblewhite @ 1995-02-09 3:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
This is a test. For some reason I am unable to post followups to this
newgroups.
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* test
@ 1993-07-30 17:15 Allen M. Dewey
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From: Allen M. Dewey @ 1993-07-30 17:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
please excuse test. - al
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* test
@ 1991-07-30 17:05 Gabriele Cressman-Hirl
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From: Gabriele Cressman-Hirl @ 1991-07-30 17:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
test
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* Test
@ 1991-07-03 17:42 cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.e
0 siblings, 0 replies; 44+ messages in thread
From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.e @ 1991-07-03 17:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
This is just a test.
- Hwang
--
*====================================================================*
Chio-We Hwang (Michael)
chwang@cse.uta.edu
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* Test
@ 1991-04-23 17:04 SIMMONS VALERIE J
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From: SIMMONS VALERIE J @ 1991-04-23 17:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
Please ignore. This is a test
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* test
@ 1989-09-20 15:59 Jun.Lee
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From: Jun.Lee @ 1989-09-20 15:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
this is a test to see if this bboard is ok.
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