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On Jun 6, 10:21 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
cavedweller wrote in news:ecad1ae9-5348-4dfc-b881-
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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.

cavedweller wrote in
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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.

Pogo, I never got into. It was one of the few, along with Mary Worth and
Mandrake, I skipped. B.C, the Wizard of Id, Moon Mullins, Dick Tracy. It
was, by far, always the most intelligent part of any newspaper..

On Jun 6, 11:08 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

Pogo, I never got into. It was one of the few, along with Mary Worth and
Mandrake, I skipped. B.C, the Wizard of Id, Moon Mullins, Dick Tracy. It
was, by far, always the most intelligent part of any newspaper..


In B.C., my fave was "Curls".

I have one of Pogo's later strips framed. In it he muses on the
prospect that the world won't end "...with a bang, but a wither"

cavedweller wrote in news:cbe80051-3e1b-4107-ad61-
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On Jun 6, 11:08 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

Pogo, I never got into. It was one of the few, along with Mary Worth and
Mandrake, I skipped. B.C, the Wizard of Id, Moon Mullins, Dick Tracy. It
was, by far, always the most intelligent part of any newspaper..


In B.C., my fave was "Curls".


That was the cute girl, was it?


I have one of Pogo's later strips framed. In it he muses on the
prospect that the world won't end "...with a bang, but a wither"



Guess I was too young for it and never got the pogo habit. It was
serialised, wasnt it?



Bertie