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Guys... Since I'm Venezuelan and I don't speak a great deal of english I need some clarifications of some object names in your book.
Excuse my ignorance, but, tell me, let me out of the darkness I live in.
What in the world does FOO mean?
Help me please!
XM
 
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I know I am not Kathy or Bert, but Foo comes from nothing, meaning it has no meaning it is just a variable name. It is a metasyntactical variable as this web site says.

Mark
 
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Thanks a lot Mark!
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You will also see FOO along with BAR a lot... as in FUBAR
 
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Hi guys!
After searching fubar in Wikipedia, I found that fubar is a military term that stands for F#$%& Up Beyond All Repair... Here are some related terms:

1. SNAFU - Situation Normal: All F#$%& Up
2. TARFU - Things Are Really F#$%& Up
3. FUBAR - F#$%& Up Beyond All Recognition
4. JANFU - Joint Army/Navy F#$%&

Others include the following:[citation needed]

* SAPFU - Surpasses All Previous F#$%& Ups
* SUSFU - Situation Unchanged, Still F#$%& Up
* FUMTU - F#$%& Up More Than Usual
* FUBB - F#$%& Up Beyond Belief
* TOFU - Things Ordinary: F#$%& Up
* GFU - General F#$%& Up
* SAMFU - Self Adjusting Military F#$%& Up
* TUIFU - The Ultimate In F#$%& Ups
* FUGAZI - F#$%& Up, Got Ambushed, Zipped In; Refers to out-of-control situation such as a chaotic jungle warfare combat environment
* FUNDY - F#$%& Up, Not Dead Yet; on British medical charts[2]
* JAAFU or JAAFFU - Joint Army-Air Force F#$%&; the use of JANFU combined with a radical increase in joint-forces operations since 1989, has led to the rare but increasing use of JAAFU/JAAFFU


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