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.

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(1994-11-28)