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What do you think it means?

Food Bar
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Another term for FUBAR (F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition.)
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FTP Operation Over Big Address Records
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Other. (State which other in a post)
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JellyFish
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What's the root of the slang term?
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I voted. But seriously, why even have this poll?
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from fubar.
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Everah wrote:I voted. But seriously, why even have this poll?
There are days when it's fun to act like Harry or Lloyd. :D
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Post by Bill H »

While it has distant origins in fubar, C programmers took to using "foo" as one rather meaningless variable and "bar" as another.

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for (foo = 0; foo < bar; foo++)
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It actually means "foo" and "bar." Foo is a term commonly used for describing foo in relation to bar, which is an alias of bar in relation to foo when foo is an accessed member of bar while referencing foo as a property of the bar property of foo. It's very complicated stuff.
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superdezign wrote:It actually means "foo" and "bar." Foo is a term commonly used for describing foo in relation to bar, which is an alias of bar in relation to foo when foo is an accessed member of bar while referencing foo as a property of the bar property of foo. It's very complicated stuff.
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superdezign wrote:It actually means "foo" and "bar." Foo is a term commonly used for describing foo in relation to bar, which is an alias of bar in relation to foo when foo is an accessed member of bar while referencing foo as a property of the bar property of foo. It's very complicated stuff.
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Post by The Phoenix »

Hackers do not generally use this to mean FUBAR in either the slang or jargon sense.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/F/foobar.html / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar
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Post by superdezign »

I read both of those back before I knew that foo and bar were meaningless. I was so confused. I though FooBar was some type of CMS like Drupal. :?
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