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From: dave@murphy.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: foo
Message-ID: <36@houligan.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 13:32:40 EST
Article-I.D.: houligan.36
Posted: Thu Dec 11 13:32:40 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 15-Dec-86 20:08:41 EST
Organization: Gould Electronics, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
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I thought that "foo" came from the old Smokey Stover comic strip.  Whenever
someone told a bad joke, the cat would march across a panel carrying a sign
that read "FOO".
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"I used to be able to sing the blues, but now I have too much money."
-- Bruce Dickinson

Dave Cornutt, Gould Computer Systems, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
UUCP:  ...!{sun,pur-ee,brl-bmd,bcopen}!gould!dcornutt
 or ...!{ucf-cs,allegra,codas}!novavax!houligan!dcornutt
ARPA: dcornutt@gswd-vms.arpa (I'm not sure how well this works)

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