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1. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003)
fnord
 n.

    [from the Illuminatus Trilogy]

    1. A word used in email and news postings to tag utterances as surrealist
    mind-play or humor, esp. in connection with Discordianism and elaborate
    conspiracy theories. ?I heard that David Koresh is sharing an apartment in
    Argentina with Hitler. (Fnord.)? ?Where can I fnord get the Principia
    Discordia from??

    2. A metasyntactic variable, commonly used by hackers with ties to 
    Discordianism or the Church of the SubGenius.


2. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)
fnord

   1.  A word used in electronic mail and news
   messages to tag utterances as surrealist mind-play or humour,
   especially in connection with Discordianism and elaborate
   conspiracy theories.  "I heard that David Koresh is sharing an
   apartment in Argentina with Hitler. (Fnord.)"  "Where can I
   fnord get the Principia Discordia from?"

   2.  A metasyntactic variable, commonly used by
   hackers with ties to Discordianism or the Church of the
   SubGenius.

   The word "fnord" was invented in the "Illuminatus!" trilogy by
   Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.

   [Jargon File]

   (1995-02-28)


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