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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.


 
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