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On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Ross, Matthew wrote:
> > See earlier message. Foo preceeded WWII. We may never know if it was
> > part of the motivation for FUBAR and SNAFU, but it might have been.
>
> It wasn't, those are pretty well known.
What is well known? There were Foo Clubs in the US as the term Foo, from
the comics, had become popular. But your are saying that it's not
possible that the popularity of 'foo' had anything to do with the use of
FU in both SNAFU and FUBAR? I think it is possible, even likely.
Mike
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