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Comment by Udo Sprute
Submitted on 11/23/2005
Related RFC: RFC 3092
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Foobar is also a simple interpretation of the starting letters of the Runic alphabet. So it would be an expression in analogy to Qwerty or Abcde, which might have attracted one or the other computer programmer. In a museum at Aarhus, for example, you can find a big old wooden bar with the runic enscription f u þ a r, and learn that continental fu is being pronounced foo.