A new word?

Mullins, Bill AMRDEC Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Tue Aug 15 20:29:51 UTC 2006


Movie reviewer Joe-Bob Briggs has been suffixing words with "-fu" in a
like manner for at least ten years.


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> Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      A new word?
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> From Slashdot:
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> If you've got what it takes [to write good code], and more of
> it than anyone else, then you can take home up to $10k for
> your _code-fu_."
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> ca.98,000 raw Googlits.
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> -Wilson
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