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English Dictionary: barney by the DICT Development Group
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From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Barney, GA
      Zip code(s): 31625
   Barney, ND (city, FIPS 4940)
      Location: 46.26651 N, 96.99919 W
      Population (1990): 79 (27 housing units)
      Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 58008

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   barney n.   In Commonwealth hackish, `barney' is to {fred}
   (sense #1) as {bar} is to {foo}.   That is, people who commonly use
   `fred' as their first metasyntactic variable will often use `barney'
   second.   The reference is, of course, to Fred Flintstone and Barney
   Rubble in the Flintstones cartoons.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   barney
  
      In Commonwealth hackish, "barney" is to {fred} as {bar} is to
      {foo}.   That is, people who commonly use "fred" as their first
      {metasyntactic variable} will often use "barney" second.   The
      reference is, of course, to Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble
      in the Flintstones cartoons.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1994-11-28)
  
  
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