Aalice.495
net.general
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!cbosg!harpo!npois!alice!rhm
Wed Feb 10 19:54:47 1982
Re: what's foobar?
The original from which foo and bar was taken was a conglomeration.
I must admit some responsibility for popularization of foo, which
comes from the ancient comic strip 'Smokey Stover'.
Later bar was added from the older 'fubar' whose derivation belongs
in net.jokes.q.

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