RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Origin of SPAM (Yes! I am a google GOD)

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Spurling, Shannon wrote:

> I don't believe so. More likely foo came from the origin of the foo in
> foo fighters.

What is "foo fighters"?  I've heard of the band, but don't remember
hearing that term before the band came out.  Oh, I just found it....

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A944282

The Foo Fighters' name was derived from a phrase in the Smokey Stover
comic strip1 that ran along the lines of 'Where there's Foo, there's
fire', but the actual term 'Foo Fighter' was coined by US Airforce pilots
in the Second World War to describe the anomalous balls of light that they
saw flying alongside them at high altitudes. As well as naming the band
after a form of UFO, Grohl also named the band's second album The Colour
and The Shape after the two most common questions asked of a person
claiming to have seen an Unidentified Flying Object (for the record, he
also named his record label 'Roswell Records').

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More here:  http://www.toonopedia.com/smokey.htm

So Shawn has a pretty good point there.  If 'foo' existed before 'FUBAR,'
that could explain the use of 'foo' instead of 'fu'.  I would think the
use of 'bar' in combination with 'foo' was motivated by FUBAR.

Mike
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