[comp.unix.questions] foo

dave@murphy.UUCP (12/11/86)

I thought that "foo" came from the old Smokey Stover comic strip.  Whenever
someone told a bad joke, the cat would march across a panel carrying a sign
that read "FOO".
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Dave Cornutt, Gould Computer Systems, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
UUCP:  ...!{sun,pur-ee,brl-bmd,bcopen}!gould!dcornutt
 or ...!{ucf-cs,allegra,codas}!novavax!houligan!dcornutt
ARPA: dcornutt@gswd-vms.arpa (I'm not sure how well this works)

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