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On Jun 6, 10:21 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
cavedweller wrote in news:ecad1ae9-5348-4dfc-b881- : On Jun 5, 11:21 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Actually, "Foo" came from Smokey Stover, and was a corruption of the french "feux" ( Smokey was a fireman) He called himself a "Foo fighter" and juxtaposed with the term UFO (which at the beginning of it's life just meant anything that pilots couldn't identify and had nothing to do with little gray men) a UFO became a foo fighter to USAAC pilots in WW2. While I'm sure the Forward Observation Officer thing is also true, Smokey Stover was really popular at the time and was the source of a large number of slang words used during the war. I always loved his car! Bertie Notary Sojac (from memory...not Googled) Oh yeah! Have no idea what that meant! I looked up his website a few years back for some reason. He had loads of weird sayings that probably meant something or another to older guys of the WW2 generation. He almost certainly decorated a few airplanes in WW2 as well.. Bertie There IS a Wiki article. Bring back Pogo, too. |
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