Re: Foo Bar
Re: Foo Bar
- Subject: Re: Foo Bar
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:11:58 -0600
At 23:24 -0500 4/25/05, John C. Welch wrote:
>On 4/25/05 22:59, "Gnarlodious" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>>> I saw a parked car today in Washington DC with the Tag "Foo Bar"
>>> -- The owner apparently works for the US Naval Research Laboratory.
>>
>> Maybe it's where he goes for his happy hour.
>
>I hope not, foo gas is nasty stuff.
OK. You got to me.
I retired from the US Naval Research Laboratory about the same time I first played with a Mac 128k,
NRL is located immediately north of Washington DC's Blue Plains sewage treatment plant. We were allowed to use expensive gold-plated coaxial connectors. The silver plated ones corroded rapidly because of sulfur in the "foo gas".
FUBAR was a well known navy acronym referring to telegraphy garbled beyond all recognition. Programming in NELIAC for NRL's NAREC computer - all vacuum tubes - was a teletypewriter-tape joy compared to deciphering AppleScript.
RYRYRYRYRYRY
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