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RE: foo bar and baz!
by btrott (Parson) on Apr 26, 2000 at 22:37 UTC
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Cool page! Bookmarked... thanks for the input!
#!/home/bbq/bin/perl
# Trust no1!
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Would simply add to the FUBAR possibilities for FOO that the
French word for crazy (fou, pronounced 'FOO') can also be used
in the sense of "Je m'en fous" meaning "I could care less" (as
in "it could be anything"), which isn't a bad name for a variable?
Hein?
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Re: foo bar and baz!
by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Aug 04, 2023 at 12:51 UTC
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Pinky, I was pondering on the words 'foo','bar' and 'baz', and it occured to me... Where did these come from? Is it an american thing?
BBQ, in 2023 I'd say 'baz' is a New Zealand/England thing --
the 'baz' in Bazball is the nickname
of legendary NZ cricketer Brendon McCullum who recently became England's head cricket coach:
The new attacking, positive intention approach, instigated by McCullum and captain Ben Stokes was labelled Bazball
by Andrew Miller, the UK editor of ESPNcricinfo, after McCullum's Baz nickname.
The phrase picked up increasing use across the wider media.
The bazball meme recently trended on social media, spawning many imitations ... such as
CumBall for Australia's cricket captain Pat Cummins (as in the headline "CumBall beats BazBall") ... and BodBall (for Bod) and EyeBall (for me)
in EyeBall stumps BodBall here at PM.
BBQ, if you were still active here at PM, I'd call you BbqBall. :)
Updated: minor changes to wording
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RE: foo bar and baz!
by lhoward (Vicar) on Jul 08, 2000 at 16:46 UTC
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Probably the best resource for learning about words like
foo,
bar, and
baz is the
Jargon File
(available in print as
The New Hackers Dictionary).
To take a brief excerpt about from the "foo" entry
(the complete entry for foo runs over 2 pages):
foo: /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. (very common) Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp. programs
and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples. See also bar, baz, qux,
quux, corge, grault, garply, waldo, fred, plugh, xyzzy, thud.
The Jargon file goes on from there to list several possible
origins including:
- derivitive of the WWII-era Army slang acronym FUBAR
- earliest documented uses were
in the "Smokey Stover" comic strip popular in the
1930s, which frequently included the word "foo".
- that hacker usage actually sprang from "FOO, Lampoons and Parody", the title
of a comic book first issued in September 1958, a joint project of Charles and Robert Crumb.
- FOO: The first syllable of the sacred chant phrase "FOO MANE PADME
HUM." Our first obligation is to keep the foo counters turning.
The Jargon File/New Hackers Dictionary is quite a good read.
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RE: foo bar and baz! (ftp operation over big address records)
by ybiC (Prior) on Jul 08, 2000 at 17:14 UTC
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For yet another FOOBAR explanation, point your browser at RFC1639 for the 1994 FTP Operation Over Big Address Records specification. Tongue-in-cheek humor from a late night beer meeting is my guess. | [reply] |
RE: foo bar and baz!
by redmist (Deacon) on Jul 08, 2000 at 11:54 UTC
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Is it an American thing? I don't know about foo and bar and foobar, but the word
wibble (as in wibble dot foo dot com) came from England.
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RE: foo bar and baz!
by wonko (Pilgrim) on Apr 27, 2000 at 12:38 UTC
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No... thats interesting. Where did you learn that?
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Well, I asked somebody at school, I wondered just like BBQ where 'foo' and 'bar', he told me that and also told me about 'FUBAR'.
Foobar is by the way the name of our student union pub, I guess it's a rather common name for such places at computer science universities
A computer book, I don't remember which, talked abt the phenomena and mentioned foobar and fubar as two different acronyms. The author wrote that the popularity of foobar depended to some extent to the similarity to fubar.
I wonder one thing though; what is 'baz'? : )
/wonko
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RE: foo bar and baz!
by cciulla (Friar) on Apr 27, 2000 at 20:53 UTC
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RE: foo bar and baz!
by Anonymous Monk on May 21, 2000 at 00:00 UTC
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http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/metasyntactic-variable.html | [reply] |
