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

["Spurling, Shannon" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I think it came from the French derivation, IIRC, but I think it was
from Fou, not Faux. I was talking about the WWII pilots account. I don't
know where the comic strip came from, but I think it may have been post
war.
 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ross, Matthew [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 11:51 AM
To: MLUG Off-Topic Discussion
Subject: RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Origin of SPAM (Yes! I am a google GOD)

> 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').

Hmm.. what the heck is "Foo" in the original phrase? If it were just the
UFO's the WW2 fighters saw, "Foo" could have been from "Faux" or an
attempt to pronounce "UFO", but the previous use in relation to fire
confuzzles me.

> 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.

Sounds like "Foo" and "Fubar" were independant and simultaneous, as most
sources I've seen credit WW2 soldiers with "Fubar", and yours credits
WW2 pilots with the "Foo Fighters".

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