foo?

[Berry Kercheval]

In article <5426 at brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>(There is an old word "phoo", or "fooey", indicating derision,
>that supplies some of the connotation for this usage of "foo".)

And 'foo' has even been used in 'real' literature...

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"Suddenly he would brandish a paperweight and shout `Foo, you rat!  I'll put
nine grams of lead in your skull!'"  - A. Solzhenitsyn, 'The Gulag Archipelago'
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Berry Kercheval -- berry at s1-c.arpa -- mordor!berry