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Re: (OFF) Curiosity & It's Relation To Cats...

Just this morning Paul Skinner wrote:

>Read those RFCs! ...

All of them? (I would ask what RFC stands for, but I guess I better
research this on my own.)

He also quoted:

> but it now seems
> more likely that FUBAR was itself a derivative of `foo' perhaps
> influenced by German `furchtbar' (terrible) - `foobar' may actually
> have been the original form.

Which reminds me of another colorful German phrase I learned from an old
girlfriend... who I'd prefer to think was damning me with faint praise.
(I would reproduce the actual German, but simply can't.)

"Better than a handful of sh*t."

Thanks to all who replied.

Peter B.

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