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+Network Working Group D. Eastlake 3rd
+Request for Comments: 3092 Motorola
+Category: Informational C. Manros
+ Xerox
+ E. Raymond
+ Open Source Initiative
+ 1 April 2001
+
+
+ Etymology of "Foo"
+
+Status of this Memo
+
+ This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
+ not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
+ memo is unlimited.
+
+Copyright Notice
+
+ Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001). All Rights Reserved.
+
+Abstract
+
+ Approximately 212 RFCs so far, starting with RFC 269, contain the
+ terms `foo', `bar', or `foobar' as metasyntactic variables without
+ any proper explanation or definition. This document rectifies that
+ deficiency.
+
+Table of Contents
+
+ 1. Introduction............................................1
+ 2. Definition and Etymology................................2
+ 3. Acronyms................................................5
+ Appendix...................................................7
+ Security Considerations...................................11
+ References................................................12
+ Authors' Addresses........................................13
+ Full Copyright Statement..................................14
+
+1. Introduction
+
+ Approximately 212 RFCs, or about 7% of RFCs issued so far, starting
+ with [RFC269], contain the terms `foo', `bar', or `foobar' used as a
+ metasyntactic variable without any proper explanation or definition.
+ This may seem trivial, but a number of newcomers, especially if
+ English is not their native language, have had problems in
+ understanding the origin of those terms. This document rectifies
+ that deficiency.
+
+
+
+Eastlake, et al. Informational [Page 1]
+
+RFC 3092 Etymology of "Foo" 1 April 2001
+
+
+ Section 2 below describes the definition and etymology of these words
+ and Section 3 interprets them as acronyms.
+
+ As an Appendix, we include a table of RFC occurrences of these words
+ as metasyntactic variables.
+
+2. Definition and Etymology
+
+ bar /bar/ n. [JARGON]
+
+ 1. The second metasyntactic variable, after foo and before baz.
+ "Suppose we have two functions: FOO and BAR. FOO calls BAR...."
+
+ 2. Often appended to foo to produce foobar.
+
+ foo /foo/
+
+ 1. interj. Term of disgust.
+
+ 2. Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp.
+ programs and files (esp. scratch files).
+
+ 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in
+ syntax examples (bar, baz, qux, quux, corge, grault, garply,
+ waldo, fred, plugh, xyzzy, thud). [JARGON]
+
+ When used in connection with `bar' it is generally traced to the
+ WW II era Army slang acronym FUBAR (`Fucked Up Beyond All
+ Repair'), later modified to foobar. Early versions of the Jargon
+ File [JARGON] interpreted this change as a post-war
+ bowdlerization, 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.
+
+ For, it seems, the word `foo' itself had an immediate prewar
+ history in comic strips and cartoons. In the 1938 Warner Brothers
+ cartoon directed by Robert Clampett, "The Daffy Doc", a very early
+ version of Daffy Duck holds up a sign saying "SILENCE IS FOO!"
+ `FOO' and `BAR' also occurred in Walt Kelly's "Pogo" strips. The
+ earliest documented uses were in the surrealist "Smokey Stover"
+ comic strip by Bill Holman about a fireman. This comic strip
+ appeared in various American comics including "Everybody's"
+ between about 1930 and 1952. It frequently included the word
+ "FOO" on license plates of cars, in nonsense sayings in the
+ background of some frames such as "He who foos last foos best" or
+ "Many smoke but foo men chew", and had Smokey say "Where there's
+ foo, there's fire". Bill Holman, the author of the strip, filled
+ it with odd jokes and personal contrivances, including other
+
+
+
+Eastlake, et al. Informational [Page 2]
+
+RFC 3092 Etymology of "Foo" 1 April 2001
+
+
+ nonsense phrases such as "Notary Sojac" and "1506 nix nix".
+ According to the Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion [WBCC] Holman
+ claimed to have found the word "foo" on the bottom of a Chinese
+ figurine. This is plausible; Chinese statuettes often have
+ apotropaic inscriptions, and this may have been the Chinese word
+ `fu' (sometimes transliterated `foo'), which can mean "happiness"
+ when spoken with the proper tone (the lion-dog guardians flanking
+ the steps of many Chinese restaurants are properly called "fu
+ dogs") [PERS]. English speakers' reception of Holman's `foo'
+ nonsense word was undoubtedly influenced by Yiddish `feh' and
+ English `fooey' and `fool'. [JARGON, FOLDOC]
+
+ Holman's strip featured a firetruck called the Foomobile that rode
+ on two wheels. The comic strip was tremendously popular in the
+ late 1930s, and legend has it that a manufacturer in Indiana even
+ produced an operable version of Holman's Foomobile. According to
+ the Encyclopedia of American Comics [EAC], `Foo' fever swept the
+ U.S., finding its way into popular songs and generating over 500
+ `Foo Clubs.' The fad left `foo' references embedded in popular
+ culture (including the couple of appearances in Warner Brothers
+ cartoons of 1938-39) but with their origins rapidly forgotten.
+ [JARGON]
+
+ One place they are known to have remained live is in the U.S.
+ military during the WWII years. In 1944-45, the term `foo
+ fighters' [FF] was in use by radar operators for the kind of
+ mysterious or spurious trace that would later be called a UFO (the
+ older term resurfaced in popular American usage in 1995 via the
+ name of one of the better grunge-rock bands [BFF]). Informants
+ connected the term to the Smokey Stover strip [PERS].
+
+ The U.S. and British militaries frequently swapped slang terms
+ during the war. Period sources reported that `FOO' became a
+ semi-legendary subject of WWII British-army graffiti more or less
+ equivalent to the American Kilroy [WORDS]. Where British troops
+ went, the graffito "FOO was here" or something similar showed up.
+ Several slang dictionaries aver that FOO probably came from
+ Forward Observation Officer, but this (like the contemporaneous
+ "FUBAR") was probably a backronym [JARGON]. Forty years later,
+ Paul Dickson's excellent book "Words" [WORDS] traced "Foo" to an
+ unspecified British naval magazine in 1946, quoting as follows:
+
+ "Mr. Foo is a mysterious Second World War product, gifted with
+ bitter omniscience and sarcasm."
+
+ Earlier versions of the Jargon File suggested the possibility that
+ hacker usage actually sprang from "FOO, Lampoons and Parody", the
+ title of a comic book first issued in September 1958, a joint
+
+
+
+Eastlake, et al. Informational [Page 3]
+
+RFC 3092 Etymology of "Foo" 1 April 2001
+
+
+ project of Charles and Robert Crumb. Though Robert Crumb (then in
+ his mid-teens) later became one of the most important and
+ influential artists in underground comics, this venture was hardly
+ a success; indeed, the brothers later burned most of the existing
+ copies in disgust. The title FOO was featured in large letters on
+ the front cover. However, very few copies of this comic actually
+ circulated, and students of Crumb's `oeuvre' have established that
+ this title was a reference to the earlier Smokey Stover comics.
+ The Crumbs may also have been influenced by a short-lived Canadian
+ parody magazine named `Foo' published in 1951-52. [JARGON]
+
+ An old-time member reports that in the 1959 "Dictionary of the
+ TMRC Language", compiled at TMRC (the Tech Model Railroad Club at
+ MIT) there was an entry for Foo. The current on-line version, in
+ which "Foo" is the only word coded to appear red, has the
+ following [TMRC]:
+
+ Foo: The sacred syllable (FOO MANI PADME HUM); to be spoken
+ only when under obligation to commune with the Deity. Our first
+ obligation is to keep the Foo Counters turning.
+
+ This definition used Bill Holman's nonsense word, then only two
+ decades old and demonstrably still live in popular culture and
+ slang, to make a "ha ha only serious" analogy with esoteric
+ Tibetan Buddhism. Today's hackers would find it difficult to
+ resist elaborating a joke like that, and it is not likely 1959's
+ were any less susceptible. [JARGON]
+
+ 4. [EF] Prince Foo was the last ruler of Pheebor and owner of the
+ Phee Helm, about 400 years before the reign of Entharion. When
+ Foo was beheaded by someone he called an "eastern fop" from
+ Borphee, the glorious age of Pheebor ended, and Borphee rose to
+ the prominence it now enjoys.
+
+ 5. [OED] A 13th-16th century usage for the devil or any other enemy.
+ The earliest citation it gives is from the year 1366, Chaucer A B
+ C (84): "Lat not our alder foo [devil] make his bobance [boast]".
+ Chaucer's "Foo" is probably related to modern English "foe".
+
+ 6. Rare species of dog.
+
+ A spitz-type dog discovered to exist after having long been
+ considered extinct, the Chinese Foo Dog, or Sacred Dog of
+ Sinkiang, may have originated through a crossing of Northern
+ European hunting dogs and the ancient Chow Chow from Mongolia or
+ be the missing link between the Chinese Wolf and the Chow Chow.
+ It probably derives its name from foochow, of the kind or style
+
+
+
+
+Eastlake, et al. Informational [Page 4]
+
+RFC 3092 Etymology of "Foo" 1 April 2001
+
+
+ prevalent in Foochow, of or from the city of Foochow (now Minhow)
+ in southeast China. [DOG]
+
+ foobar n.
+
+ [JARGON] A widely used metasyntactic variable; see foo for
+ etymology. Probably originally propagated through DECsystem
+ manuals by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1960s and early
+ 1970s; confirmed sightings there go back to 1972. Hackers do not
+ generally use this to mean FUBAR in either the slang or jargon
+ sense. It has been plausibly suggested that "foobar" spread among
+ early computer engineers partly because of FUBAR and partly
+ because "foo bar" parses in electronics techspeak as an inverted
+ foo signal.
+
+ foo-fighter n.
+
+ World War II term for Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) noted by
+ both German and British military. See [FF] and entry above for
+ "foo".
+
+3. Acronyms
+
+ The following information is derived primarily from the compilations
+ at University Cork College <http://www.ucc.ie/acronyms> and Acronym
+ Finder <http://www.AcronymFinder.com> generally filtered for computer
+ usage.
+
+ .bar:
+
+ Generic file extension which is not meant to imply anything about
+ the file type.
+
+ BAR:
+
+ Base Address Register
+
+ Buffer Address Register
+
+ FOO:
+
+ Forward Observation Observer.
+
+ FOO Of Oberlin. An organization whose name is a recursive
+ acronym. Motto: The FOO, the Proud, the FOO. See
+ <http://cs.oberlin.edu/students/jmankoff/FOO/home.html>.
+
+ File Open for Output. An NFILE error code [RFC1037].
+
+
+
+Eastlake, et al. Informational [Page 5]
+
+RFC 3092 Etymology of "Foo" 1 April 2001
+
+
+ FOOBAR:
+
+ FTP Operation Over Big Address Records [RFC1639]. (Particularly
+ appropriate given that the first RFC to use "foo", [RFC269], was
+ also about file transfer.)
+
+ FUBAR:
+
+ Failed UniBus Address Register - in a VAX, from Digital Equipment
+ Corporation Engineering.
+
+ Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition/Repair - From US Military in
+ World War II. Sometimes sanitized to "Fouled Up ...".
+
+ FUBARD - Past tense of FUBAR.
+
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+Eastlake, et al. Informational [Page 6]
+
+RFC 3092 Etymology of "Foo" 1 April 2001
+
+
+Appendix
+
+ Below is a table of RFC occurrences of these words as metasyntactic
+ variables. (This excludes other uses that are reasonably clear like
+ "vertical bar" or "bar BoF".) Many of these uses are for example
+ domain names. That usage may decrease with the specification in [RFC
+ 2606] of a Best Current Practice for example domain names.
+
+ +------+-----+-----+---------+-------+-----+
+ | RFC# | bar | foo | foo.bar | fubar | # |
+ | | | | foobar | | |
+ +------+-----+-----+---------+-------+-----+
+ | 269 | X | X | | | 1 |
+ | 441 | X | X | | | 2 |
+ | 614 | | X | | | 3 |
+ | 686 | | X | | | 4 |
+ | 691 | | X | | | 5 |
+ | 733 | X | X | | | 6 |
+ | 742 | | X | | | 7 |
+ | 743 | X | X | | | 8 |
+ | 756 | | X | | | 9 |
+ | 765 | X | X | | | 10 |
+ | 772 | X | X | | X | 11 |
+ | 775 | | | X | | 12 |
+ | 780 | X | X | | X | 13 |
+ | 788 | X | X | | | 14 |
+ | 810 | X | X | X | | 15 |
+ | 819 | | X | | | 16 |
+ | 821 | X | X | | | 17 |
+ | 822 | X | X | | | 18 |
+ | 882 | X | X | | | 19 |
+ | 883 | | X | | | 20 |
+ | 897 | X | X | | | 21 |
+ | 913 | | X | | | 22 |
+ | 921 | X | X | | | 23 |
+ | 934 | | X | | | 24 |
+ | 952 | X | X | X | | 25 |
+ | 959 | | | X | | 26 |
+ | 976 | | | X | | 27 |
+ | 977 | | X | X | | 28 |
+ | 987 | | | X | | 29 |
+ | 1013 | | X | | | 30 |
+ | 1033 | X | X | | | 31 |
+ | 1035 | | X | | | 32 |
+ | 1037 | | X | | | 33 |
+ | 1056 | X | X | X | | 34 |
+ | 1068 | | X | | | 35 |
+ | 1137 | | | X | | 36 |
+
+
+
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+
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+
+ | 1138 | | X | X | | 37 |
+ | 1148 | | X | X | | 38 |
+ | 1173 | | | X | | 39 |
+ | 1176 | | | X | | 40 |
+ | 1186 | | X | | | 41 |
+ | 1194 | | X | | | 42 |
+ | 1196 | | X | | | 43 |
+ | 1203 | | X | X | | 44 |
+ | 1288 | | X | | | 45 |
+ | 1291 | | X | | | 46 |
+ | 1309 | | X | | | 47 |
+ | 1327 | | X | X | | 48 |
+ | 1341 | X | X | X | | 49 |
+ | 1343 | | X | X | | 50 |
+ | 1344 | | X | | | 51 |
+ | 1348 | | | X | | 52 |
+ | 1386 | | X | | | 53 |
+ | 1408 | | X | | | 54 |
+ | 1411 | | X | | | 55 |
+ | 1412 | | X | | | 56 |
+ | 1459 | X | X | X | X | 57 |
+ | 1480 | | X | | | 58 |
+ | 1505 | | X | | | 59 |
+ | 1519 | | X | | | 60 |
+ | 1521 | X | X | | | 61 |
+ | 1523 | | X | | | 62 |
+ | 1524 | | X | X | | 63 |
+ | 1526 | X | X | | | 64 |
+ | 1535 | X | X | X | | 65 |
+ | 1536 | X | | X | | 66 |
+ | 1537 | | X | X | | 67 |
+ | 1563 | | X | | | 68 |
+ | 1564 | | | X | | 69 |
+ | 1572 | | X | | | 70 |
+ | 1573 | | X | | | 71 |
+ | 1622 | | X | | | 72 |
+ | 1635 | | | X | | 73 |
+ | 1636 | | X | X | | 74 |
+ | 1642 | | X | | | 75 |
+ | 1645 | | | X | | 76 |
+ | 1649 | | X | | | 77 |
+ | 1664 | | | X | | 78 |
+ | 1681 | | | X | | 79 |
+ | 1697 | | X | | | 80 |
+ | 1716 | | X | | | 81 |
+ | 1718 | | X | | | 82 |
+ | 1730 | X | X | X | | 83 |
+ | 1734 | | | X | | 84 |
+
+
+
+Eastlake, et al. Informational [Page 8]
+
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+
+
+ | 1738 | | X | | | 85 |
+ | 1783 | | | X | | 86 |
+ | 1784 | | | X | | 87 |
+ | 1786 | X | X | | | 88 |
+ | 1813 | X | X | | | 89 |
+ | 1835 | | X | X | | 90 |
+ | 1856 | | | X | | 91 |
+ | 1861 | | | X | | 92 |
+ | 1866 | | X | | | 93 |
+ | 1894 | | | X | | 94 |
+ | 1896 | | X | | | 95 |
+ | 1898 | | X | | | 96 |
+ | 1913 | | X | X | | 97 |
+ | 1945 | X | X | | | 98 |
+ | 1985 | | X | X | | 99 |
+ | 2015 | X | X | | | 100 |
+ | 2017 | | X | | | 101 |
+ | 2033 | X | X | | | 102 |
+ | 2045 | | | X | | 103 |
+ | 2046 | X | X | | | 104 |
+ | 2049 | X | X | | | 105 |
+ | 2055 | | X | | | 106 |
+ | 2060 | X | X | X | | 107 |
+ | 2065 | | X | | | 108 |
+ | 2068 | | | X | | 109 |
+ | 2071 | | X | | | 110 |
+ | 2088 | | | X | | 111 |
+ | 2109 | | X | | | 112 |
+ | 2110 | | X | X | | 113 |
+ | 2111 | X | X | X | | 114 |
+ | 2141 | | X | | | 115 |
+ | 2150 | | X | | | 116 |
+ | 2152 | | X | | | 117 |
+ | 2156 | | X | X | | 118 |
+ | 2163 | | | X | | 119 |
+ | 2167 | | | X | | 120 |
+ | 2168 | | | X | | 121 |
+ | 2169 | | | X | | 122 |
+ | 2180 | X | X | | | 123 |
+ | 2193 | X | X | | | 124 |
+ | 2224 | | X | | | 125 |
+ | 2227 | X | X | | | 126 |
+ | 2233 | | X | | | 127 |
+ | 2234 | X | X | X | | 128 |
+ | 2243 | | X | | | 129 |
+ | 2255 | | X | X | | 130 |
+ | 2280 | X | X | | | 131 |
+ | 2295 | | X | | | 132 |
+
+
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+ | 2302 | | X | | | 133 |
+ | 2311 | X | | | | 134 |
+ | 2326 | X | X | X | | 135 |
+ | 2342 | | X | | | 136 |
+ | 2348 | | | X | | 137 |
+ | 2349 | | | X | | 138 |
+ | 2359 | | | X | | 139 |
+ | 2369 | X | X | X | | 140 |
+ | 2378 | | X | | | 141 |
+ | 2384 | | | X | | 142 |
+ | 2392 | X | X | X | | 143 |
+ | 2396 | | | X | | 144 |
+ | 2401 | | | X | | 145 |
+ | 2407 | | | X | | 146 |
+ | 2421 | | X | | | 147 |
+ | 2425 | | | X | | 148 |
+ | 2434 | | X | | | 149 |
+ | 2446 | | X | X | | 150 |
+ | 2447 | X | X | | | 151 |
+ | 2458 | | X | X | | 152 |
+ | 2459 | | | X | | 153 |
+ | 2476 | | X | | | 154 |
+ | 2483 | X | X | | | 155 |
+ | 2486 | | X | | | 156 |
+ | 2505 | X | X | | | 157 |
+ | 2518 | X | X | X | | 158 |
+ | 2535 | | X | | | 159 |
+ | 2538 | | X | | | 160 |
+ | 2543 | X | X | X | | 161 |
+ | 2554 | | | X | | 162 |
+ | 2557 | | X | X | | 163 |
+ | 2565 | | X | X | | 164 |
+ | 2569 | X | X | | | 165 |
+ | 2593 | X | X | | | 166 |
+ | 2595 | | X | | | 167 |
+ | 2608 | | X | | | 168 |
+ | 2609 | | X | | | 169 |
+ | 2616 | X | X | X | | 170 |
+ | 2622 | X | X | | | 171 |
+ | 2626 | | X | | | 172 |
+ | 2633 | X | | | | 173 |
+ | 2640 | | X | X | | 174 |
+ | 2645 | | | X | | 175 |
+ | 2650 | X | | | | 176 |
+ | 2659 | | | X | | 177 |
+ | 2673 | | X | X | | 178 |
+ | 2693 | | X | | | 179 |
+ | 2704 | X | X | | | 180 |
+
+
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+ | 2705 | X | X | | | 181 |
+ | 2717 | | X | X | | 182 |
+ | 2725 | X | X | | | 183 |
+ | 2731 | X | X | X | | 184 |
+ | 2732 | | X | | | 185 |
+ | 2782 | | X | X | | 186 |
+ | 2803 | | X | | | 187 |
+ | 2806 | | X | | | 188 |
+ | 2812 | X | X | X | X | 189 |
+ | 2818 | X | X | | | 190 |
+ | 2828 | | X | X | | 191 |
+ | 2830 | X | | | | 192 |
+ | 2831 | X | X | X | | 193 |
+ | 2839 | | X | | | 194 |
+ | 2846 | X | X | | | 195 |
+ | 2853 | | X | | | 196 |
+ | 2863 | | X | | | 197 |
+ | 2910 | | X | X | | 198 |
+ | 2912 | | X | X | | 199 |
+ | 2915 | | X | | | 200 |
+ | 2926 | | | X | | 201 |
+ | 2942 | | X | | | 202 |
+ | 2965 | | X | | | 203 |
+ | 2967 | X | X | X | | 204 |
+ | 2970 | | X | | | 205 |
+ | 2993 | X | X | | | 206 |
+ | 3010 | X | X | | | 207 |
+ | 3023 | | X | | | 208 |
+ | 3028 | | X | | | 209 |
+ | 3075 | X | X | | | 210 |
+ | 3080 | | X | | | 211 |
+ | 3092 | X | X | X | X | 212 |
+ +------+-----+-----+---------+-------+-----+
+ | RFC# | bar | foo | foo.bar | fubar | # |
+ | | | | foobar | | |
+ +------+-----+-----+---------+-------+-----+
+
+Security Considerations
+
+ Security issues are not discussed in this memo.
+
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+References
+
+ [BFF] "Best of Foo Fighters: Signature Licks", Troy Stetina, Foo
+ Fighters, October 2000, Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation,
+ ISBN 063401470.
+
+ [DOG] <http://www.rarebreed.com/breeds/foo/foo.html>.
+
+
+ [EAC] "Encyclopedia of American Comics", Ron Goulart, 1990, Facts
+ on File.
+
+ [EF] "Encyclopedia Frobozzica",
+ <http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Prince%20Foo>
+
+ [FF] Foo Fighters - "The Rainbow Conspiracy", Brad Steiger,
+ Sherry Hansen Steiger, December 1998, Kensington Publishing
+ Corp., ISBN 1575663635. - Computer UFO Network
+ <http://www.cufon.org> particularly
+ <http://www.cufon.org/cufon/foo.htm>.
+
+ [FOLDOC] "Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing",
+ <http://www.foldoc.org>.
+
+ [JARGON] The Jargon File. See <http://www.jargon.org>. Last
+ printed as "The New Hacker's Dictionary", Eric S. Raymond,
+ 3rd Edition, MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-68092-0, 1996.
+
+ [OED] "The Oxford English Dictionary", J. A. Simpson, 1989,
+ Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198611862.
+
+ [PERS] Personal communications.
+
+ [RFC269] Brodie, H., "Some Experience with File Transfer", RFC 269,
+ December 1971.
+
+ [RFC1037] Greenberg, B. and S. Keene, "NFILE - A File Access
+ Protocol", RFC 1037, December 1987.
+
+ [RFC1639] Piscitello, D., "FTP Operation Over Big Address Records
+ (FOOBAR)", RFC 1639, June 1994.
+
+ [RFC2606] Eastlake, D. and A. Panitz, "Reserved Top Level DNS Names",
+ BCP 32, RFC 2606, June 1999.
+
+
+
+
+
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+
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+
+
+ [TMRC] The Tech Model Railroad Club (The Model Railroad Club of
+ the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Dictionary,
+ <http://tmrc-www.mit.edu/dictionary.html>.
+
+ [WBCC] "Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion",
+ <http://members.aol.com/EOCostello/>.
+
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