On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, John White wrote: > Actually, FUBAR goes back to at least World War 2, when it was coined as > a superlative of SNAFU. ISTR the "FUBAR" version stands for F... Up Beyond All Recognition? I don't know how that evolved into the "foo" and "bar" we tend to use today (or the third member of the set, "baz"), though... James.