You might be a VMS Bigot if.....

From: Eric J. Korpela <korpela_at_ellie.ssl.berkeley.edu>
Date: Wed Oct 4 16:16:13 2000

> Uhmm isn't the computer version Foo bar as in Foo bar blatz zam zow
> (I'm not sure about the last ones anymore). I once named a 3B2 310
> Foobar and thought nothing of it. Management came to me and requested an
> explaination until they saw the spelling (I was on a support hotline,
> fubar is a fact of life there).

Were they worried about the language, or the meaning of the acronym?

I once named a Sparcstation "mofo" and it carries that tag to this day.
(128.32.98.214) Then again this is a university and there is no management.
:)

I've alway wondered if Morrison and Foerster thought about it before they
picked the name of their website (mofo.com). I guess it's approprate for
the subject matter.

Eric
Received on Wed Oct 04 2000 - 16:16:13 BST

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