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Foo (other)
Foo is a placeholder name in computer-related documentation. Foo or FOO may also refer to: People * Adeline Foo, Singaporean writer * Cedric Foo (born 1960), Singaporean politician * Ching Ling Foo (1854–1922), Chinese magician * Foo Choo Choon (1860-1921), Malaysian businessman * Ernie Foo (1891–1934), Australian rules footballer * Jon Foo (born 1982), English actor, martial artist and stuntman * Jonathan Foo (born 1990), Guyanese cricketer * Mark Foo (1958–1994), American surfer * Ruby Foo (1904-1950), restaurateur * Sharin Foo (born 1973), Danish musician * Stephanie Foo (born 1987), American radio producer Places * Foo Lake, in Wisconsin, United States * Foo Pass, in Switzerland Other uses * Foo (game), a dice game * ''Foo?'', an album by the band Porno Graffiti * Foobar, a placeholder name in computing * Foo Camp, a hacker event * Foo gas or fougasse, a type of explosive mine * Forward observation officer * A nonsense word used in the ''Smokey Stover' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeline Foo
Adeline Foo is a Singaporean short story writer and children's book writer. Career Foo is a graduate of New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Asia The New York University Tisch School of the Arts (commonly referred to as Tisch) is the performing, cinematic and media arts school of New York University. Founded on August 17, 1965, Tisch is a training ground for artists, scholars of the ar .... She started writing picture books in 2006. To date, she has written 16 books, 12 picture books. Her bestselling work is ''The Diary of Amos Lee'' which was published on 2009, it is written in simple and lucid language. She received the inaugural First Time Writers & Illustrators Publishing Initiative Award given by the Media Development Authority of Singapore and the National Book Development Council of Singapore. She has received support to publish 13 picture books for early readers. Three of her books have been adapted into animation shorts, with a fourth new series turned in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foo?
"Foo?" (Stylized as foo?) is the second album by the Japanese rock band Porno Graffitti, it was released on February 28, 2001. Released almost a year after their last album, " Romantist Egoist", the album contains 12 tracks including three hit singles from 2000: " Music Hour", "Saudade ''Saudade'' (, , , ; plural ''saudades'') is an emotional state of melancholic or profoundly nostalgic longing for something that one loves despite it not necessarily being real. It often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of long ..." and " Saboten". The album's title is a play on the words "Hi, Fu, Mi" (ひぃふぅみぃ/One, Two, Three) from the fact that it is their second album, and the English phrase "Who?". The cover photo is a pink square tile, and Akimitsu Honma revealed that the shadow on the tile is Tama. The album ranked #2 for weekly Oricon charts.Oricon source http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/157948/products/432779/1/ Track listing References 2001 albums P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoo
''Phoo Action'' is a BBC Three 60 minute TV pilot, one of six drama pilots that were transmitted in early 2008, and was first broadcast on 12 February 2008 at 21:00 UTC. ''Phoo Action'' is based on the Jamie Hewlett-created comic strip ''Get the Freebies'', which ran in ''The Face'' from June 1996 to June 1997. It stars Jaime Winstone as Whitey Action, Carl Weathers as Police Chief Benjamin "Ben" Benson and Eddie Shin as Terry Phoo. Audience figures were reported at 232,000, 105,000 fewer than the average for the time slot, with a proportionately lower audience share. A six-part series was commissioned to begin shooting later in 2008 for broadcast in 2009. However, just before production was due to begin the BBC announced that the series was cancelled. The show is set from the perspective of the disaffected teenage female protagonist, Whitey Action, who joins together with tough guy kung-fu cop Terry Phoo to form a dubious crime-fighting duo who thwart many mutant miscreants o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FUBAR (other)
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FUBAR is a military acronym for "fucked up beyond all recognition". FUBAR or fubar may also refer to: * ''FUBAR'' (film), a 2002 Canadian mockumentary film **'' Fubar: The Album'', the film's soundtrack album **''FUBAR 2'', the 2010 sequel to the film **'' Fubar Age of Computer'', a 2017 television series * Fubar Films, an Irish film and television production company based in Dublin * FUBAR (TV series), a 2023 Netflix television series starring Arnold Schwarzenegger * ''F.U.B.A.R.: America's Right-Wing Nightmare'', a 2006 book by Sam Seder and Stephen Sherrill See also * Foobar * Foo (other) Foo is a placeholder name in computer-related documentation. Foo or FOO may also refer to: People * Adeline Foo, Singaporean writer * Cedric Foo (born 1960), Singaporean politician * Ching Ling Foo (1854–1922), Chinese magician * Foo Choo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters are an American rock band formed in Seattle in 1994. Foo Fighters was initially formed as a one-man project by former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. Following the success of the eponymous debut album, Grohl (lead vocals, guitar) recruited a band consisting of Nate Mendel (bass guitar), William Goldsmith (drums), and Pat Smear (guitar). After a succession of lineup changes, including the departures of Goldsmith and Smear, the band formed its core lineup in 1999 consisting of Grohl, Mendel, Chris Shiflett (guitar), and Taylor Hawkins (drums). In 2005 Smear returned to the band and in 2017 Rami Jaffee joined the band performing the keyboards and piano. Prior to the release of Foo Fighters' 1995 debut album ''Foo Fighters'', which featured Grohl as the only official member, Grohl recruited bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith, both formerly of Sunny Day Real Estate, as well as Nirvana touring guitarist Pat Smear. The band began with performances in Portla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foo Fighter
The term ''foo fighter'' was used by Allied aircraft pilots during World War II to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific theaters of operations. Though ''foo fighter'' initially described a type of UFO reported and named by the U.S. 415th Night Fighter Squadron, the term was also commonly used to mean any UFO sighting from that period. Formally reported from November 1944 onwards, foo fighters were presumed by witnesses to be secret weapons employed by the enemy. The Robertson Panel explored possible explanations, for instance that they were electrostatic phenomena similar to St. Elmo's fire, electromagnetic phenomena, or simply reflections of light from ice crystals. Etymology The nonsense word "foo" emerged in popular culture during the early 1930s, first being used by cartoonist Bill Holman, who peppered his '' Smokey Stover'' fireman cartoon strips with "foo" signs and puns. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smokey Stover
''Smokey Stover'' is an American comic strip written and drawn by cartoonist Bill Holman from March 10, 1935, until he retired in 1972 and distributed through the ''Chicago Tribune''. It features the misadventures of the titular fireman and had the longest run of any comic strip in the "screwball comics" genre. Overview Holman was born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, and moved to Chicago, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts while working as an office boy in the ''Chicago Tribune'' art department. He relocated to New York City where he worked as a staff artist at the '' New York Herald Tribune'' and submitted freelance cartoons to magazines, including '' Colliers'', ''The Saturday Evening Post'', ''Life'', '' Judge'', and ''Everybody's Weekly''. He began ''Smokey Stover'' as a Sunday comic strip for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate on March 10, 1935. The daily comic strip began on November 14, 1938. Characters and story The goofy situations in Holman's comic strip usually fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forward Observation Officer
An artillery observer, artillery spotter or forward observer (FO) is responsible for directing artillery and mortar (weapon), mortar shooting, fire onto a target. It may be a ''forward air controller'' (FAC) for close air support (CAS) and spotter for naval gunfire support (NGSF). Also known as fire support specialist (FiSTer), an artillery observer usually accompanies a tank or infantry maneuver unit. Spotters ensure that indirect fire hits targets which the troops at the fire support base cannot see. Because artillery is an indirect fire weapon system, the guns are rarely in line-of-sight of their target, often located miles away. The observer serves as the eyes of the guns, by sending target locations and if necessary corrections to the fall of shot, usually by radio. More recently, a mission controller for an Army Unmanned Air System (UAS) may also perform this function, and some armies use special artillery patrols behind the enemy's forward elements. Special forces such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foo Gas
A flame fougasse (sometimes contracted to Fougasse (weapon), fougasse and may be spelled foo gas) is a type of land mine, mine or improvised explosive device which uses an explosive charge to project burning liquid onto a target. The flame fougasse was developed by the Petroleum Warfare Department in Britain as an anti-tank weapon during the British anti-invasion preparations of World War II, invasion crisis of 1940. During that period, about 50,000 flame fougasse barrels were deployed in some 7,000 batteries, mostly in southern England and a little later at 2,000 sites in Scotland. Although never used in combat in Britain, the design saw action later in Greece. Later in World War II, Germany and Russia developed flame throwing mines that worked on a somewhat different principle. After World War II, flame fougasses similar to the original British design have been used in several conflicts including the Korean War, Korean and Vietnam Wars where it was improvised from easily avail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foobar
The terms foobar (), foo, bar, baz, and others are used as metasyntactic variables and placeholder names in computer programming or computer-related documentation. - Etymology of "Foo" They have been used to name entities such as variables, functions, and commands whose exact identity is unimportant and serve only to demonstrate a concept. History and etymology It is possible that ''foobar'' is a playful allusion to the World War II-era military slang FUBAR (''Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition)''. According to an Internet Engineering Task Force RFC, the word FOO originated as a nonsense word with its earliest documented use in the 1930s comic ''Smokey Stover'' by Bill Holman. Holman states that he used the word due to having seen it on the bottom of a jade Chinese figurine in San Francisco Chinatown, purportedly signifying "good luck". If true, this is presumably related to the Chinese word '' fu'' ("", sometimes transliterated ''foo'', as in '' foo dog''), which can m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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