WHAT THE HELL IS A $FOOOOO[bar]

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you just spelled: the Lttt thanks

you need to brush up on your l337
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ph33r

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Foobar is a universal variable understood to represent whatever is being discussed.

It's usually used in examples that illustrate concepts and ideas in computer science.

For instance, a computer science professor may be discussing different file formats. In this case, he would call the generic-example file foo or foobar, then list the extensions associated with the file formats (e.g. foobar.txt, foobar.gif, foobar.exe, foobar.tar).

When foo or foobar is used, everyone understands that these are just examples, and they don't really exist.

Programmers and administrators also use foo and foobar in a similar context. Files or program s named with foo or foobar are understood not to be permanent and will be changed or deleted at anytime.

Foo, bar, and the compound foobar were commonly used at MIT, Stanford and the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. Other generic variables are used other places, but only these three are considered universal.
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Pfft meh l33t > j00rs!!!!!!111oneone
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One pint to whoever manages to translate:

"Break we our watch up; and by my advice,
Let us impart what we have seen to-night
Unto young Hamlet; for, upon my life,
This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.
Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it,
As needful in our loves, fitting our duty?"

(Shakespeare, Hamlet 1-1)

into d00d-sp34k :D
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i got it patrik, translated:

" d00d, i'm hungry as a muth/\ y0, letz grabz su/\/\ gru|3"

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hmmm, nice try, but no, that's not it. :(
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oh shucks!

:? 8O
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I would start it with...

"D00d, t3llz yung 1 H4ml3t...
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33k, th4ts t3h fu><0red gh0st-d00d!!!!!1 1t'5 meh j0bb0r 2 PM Hamlet w1+h t3h 1nf0!!!
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As a bit of a note, Foo Bar comes from the "word" fubar, which stands for "<span style='color:blue' title='I&#39;m naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span> Up Beyond all Repair" or "<span style='color:blue' title='I&#39;m naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span> Up Beyond all Recognition".
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Grim... wrote:
33k, th4ts t3h fu><0red gh0st-d00d!!!!!1 1t'5 meh j0bb0r 2 PM Hamlet w1+h t3h 1nf0!!!
D00D! 1 p1nt goz 2 u! Gr4tz, m0nzt4 d00d-sp34k4!!!!

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H3rz t3h l33t p1nt:
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dorks, the lot of ya. :P
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w00t!
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