Stupid questions...

Tom McLaughlin tmclaugh at sdf.lonestar.org
Mon Mar 8 00:19:52 PST 2004


On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 03:00, DerAlSem wrote:
> Hello freebsd-newbies,
> 
>   Who or what is foo bar?
> 
>   Does any one can tell me? I see this everywhere and everyday in man
>   and other docs...

foo bar is the phonetic way of saying F.U.B.A.R which is a military term
for "fouled up beyond all repair".  (Or some other creative
interpretation of the acronym.)  When you see the term "foo bar" it
means something is seriously messed up.

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci748437,00.html

Tom



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