Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!jim From: jim@uw-beaver.UUCP Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: !FUNKY!STUFF! Message-ID: <677@uw-beaver> Date: Fri, 24-Jun-83 14:01:43 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beave.677 Posted: Fri Jun 24 14:01:43 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 27-Jun-83 21:41:31 EDT References: <602@cwruecmp.UUCP> Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 12 I'm sure you are tired of hearing about this by now, but since I originated the use of the phrase in shell archives, I thought I'd try to shed some light on its origin. It comes from the "Kool and the Gang" song by the same name ("Can't Get Enough of that Funky Stuff"). After exhaustive research I determined that this phrase was the least likely of all English language phrases to appear in Unix source code. This has proven to be a safe choice, as there have been no reported cases of archives failing because of the appearance of this phrase in the code. Hopes this helps to clarify this knotty issue.