[at-l] The Rat's Ass Society: A personal view

[vhoyt@mediaone.net (Victor Hoyt)]

FUBAR is from WWII, and stands for Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition. Of
course there is a more commonly used word that begins with F.

v


> FUBAR is pretty standard in computer science circles, even though I think
> it's an old military "term".  It often gets broken down into "fu" (or
"foo")
> and "bar", which are then used as nonsense words.  I think the original
> meaning got pretty well lost in translation.  Oh well, it's the folk
process
> at work.
>
> On the other hand, Mags seems to be using it in something closer to the
> original sense.
>
> -- Jim