Fnord
1. <convention> 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. <programming> 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.
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