Date:         Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:48:13 -0500
Reply-To:     Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE.NET>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE.NET>
Subject:      Re: OT: More FOO
Comments: To: Dianne Rhodes <diannerhodes@COMCAST.NET>

And, has anyone implied the potential relationship betwee foo and phooey
yet?  e.g., http://xrl.us/ubo8

Art
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On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:02:59 -0500, Dianne Rhodes
<diannerhodes@COMCAST.NET> wrote:

>On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:19:33 -0800, jjds101@YAHOO.COM wrote:
>
>>>
>>
>>There are some additional theories to the origins of foo and bar in the
>>computing world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable
>
>Oh, Man, now we are really dating ourselves!  Am I that lonely? Nah.  But
>I do remember run *adventure.  I hadn't realized the familiar "twisty maze
>of passages all alike" that was used in the title of a SAS Inst paper on
>ODS was from Collosal Cave Adventure!  Wow.
>
>Dianne @ bls