Joe Geiser writes:

> On Saturday, July 12, 1997 9:53 PM, Nick Demos
>  [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] wrote:
>  > Hey, I can handle that one - FUBAR is an acronym for "Fouled Up
>  > Beyond All Reason".  What else?  ha ha.
>
>  Nick,
>
>  Thanks for keeping it clean <g>  (It really is not 'fouled' - but we
>  all knew that now, didn't we)

I'm old enough that I thought everyone knew what FUBAR stood for. But I'm not
sure that everyone has always recognized the "inside joke" of the program
name, FOO, that is used when a generic program name is needed -- and is by
far and away the most common such name in HP documention.

It is simply a respelling of the first two letters of FUBAR.

Wirt Atmar