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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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Hello what does +1 foo mean?

I'm a native English speaker but not a gamer, and a gamer recently described an idea of mine in this format:

Where "idea" was my idea in a single word.

Can ou help me understand what this strange expression means?

Or was this guy just an inarticulate person trying to make an inside job to an outsider?

Thanks.
  

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It seems to me that "foo" usually means 'messed up', 'badly done', and it's slang. I don't know the exact context so I'm guessing. CJ

— CalifJim

  • It seems to me that "foo" usually means 'messed up', 'badly done', and it's slang.
  • I don't know the exact context so I'm guessing.
  • CJ
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It seems to me that "foo" usually means 'messed up', 'badly done', and it's slang. I don't know the exact context so I'm guessing.

CJ
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Hi

There is recently some music out: "Foo Fighters +1"

Jim may well be right - or there may be more to it..

Regards, Dave
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Sorry - it was 1999 - so, not that recently!

Dave
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Anonymousfoo
I believe this is derived from an expression supposedly invented by computer programmers back in the 1960's: FUBAR. It's pronounced FOO-BAR. Most people don't know the origin of this expression, which is why it so often occurs (or used to occur) quite innocently, even in textbooks.

Fkd Up Beyond All Recognition.

CJ
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Hi

I suspect that "+1" means the same as it does on a forum page: it means "I think that" or "I approve that"

Possibly the music title I mentioned earlier, using "+1", has a mild pun..

- There's a new member of the band

- We hope you like him

Less happily, if we fit the meanings into the original sentence, we get..

[your idea is]
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Being an old Digital Equipment Computer programmer, I saw the terms foo and bar appear throughout many programming manuals. Legend has it that these terms (often used for placeholder variable names) came from WWII army slang, as in SNAFU (Situation normal, all f-ed up) and then FUBAR (F-ed up beyond all repair). C Programming language manuals used these terms prolifically. They were
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