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Foo Fu

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Foo Fu	type	FeatureClass
Foo Fu	label	Foo Fu
Foo Fu	page	FooFu
Foo Fu	comment	As You Know, "Kung fu" or actually "Gongfu" in pinyin (Chinese: 功夫, literally "achievement through sustained effort") is a collective term for a number of fighting styles which have roots as ancient as the 18th century BCE and have continued to evolve to this day. The greatest spike in popularity and variety of Kung Fu came in the 20th century; not only did the now-iconic "drunken boxing", "five animals" and "tai chi chuan" styles develop during that period, but upon exposure to contemporary western pop culture, Kung Fu experienced a veritable explosion of applications to a variety of professions, aspirations and walks of life other than the canonical kung. Evidently, there was something exotic and evocative about the phrase Kung Fu and the excellence it symbolized that western culture found irresistible. Soon, those privy to the great secrets of juggling liabilities and equity professed to be practicing the art of account fu, green-thumb enthusiasts the world over discovered the inner focus allowing them to transform their mere gardening skills into snip fu, and high-brow enthusiasts began polishing their assorted gambits and defenses into bona fide chess fu. Skills that were previously thought to be mundane were revealed to be awesome beyond imagination, with those graceful enough in their application often finding time speeding up and slowing down in the appropriate dramatic fashion as they snip a particularly difficult bonsai tree, perform en passant or locate the source of the $0.03 imbalance. The term "Foo Fu" for this general phenomenon was coined for the sake of puns, and basically means the same as "X Fu" or "Whatever Fu". It comes from "Foo", a placeholder often used by programmers as a stand-in for whatever should be there instead (the technical term for this kind of placeholder is "Metasyntactic Variable"). Has nothing to do with fighting foo, despite Mr. T's confusion. Trope Fu was originally considered as a name for this trope, but it was ultimately decided that Trope Fu is the sublime art of tending to examples and descriptions which we all practice in This Very Wiki.
Foo Fu	fetched	2023-10-15T11:20:06Z
Foo Fu	parsed	2023-10-15T11:20:06Z
Foo Fu	processingCategory2	Foo Fu
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Foo Fu	processingComment	Dropped link to Arthur: Not a Feature - ITEM
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Foo Fu	processingComment	Dropped link to CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew: Not a Feature - ITEM
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Foo Fu	processingComment	Dropped link to Exalted: Not a Feature - ITEM
Foo Fu	processingComment	Dropped link to GrrlPower: Not a Feature - ITEM
Foo Fu	processingComment	Dropped link to HowardTheDuck: Not a Feature - ITEM
Foo Fu	processingComment	Dropped link to Munchkin: Not a Feature - ITEM
Foo Fu	processingComment	Dropped link to PatoFu: Not a Feature - IGNORE
Foo Fu	processingComment	Dropped link to QuestForGlory: Not a Feature - ITEM
Foo Fu	processingComment	Dropped link to RanmaOneHalf: Not a Feature - ITEM
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Foo Fu	processingComment	Dropped link to TheSmurfsAChristmasCarol: Not a Feature - ITEM
Foo Fu	processingComment	Dropped link to TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow: Not a Feature - ITEM
Foo Fu	processingComment	Dropped link to TheUltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: Not a Feature - ITEM
Foo Fu	processingComment	Dropped link to Wakfu: Not a Feature - ITEM
Foo Fu	processingComment	Dropped link to WhatTheFu: Not a Feature - ITEM
Foo Fu	processingComment	Dropped link to YinYangYo: Not a Feature - ITEM
Foo Fu	processingComment	Dropped link to buffythevampireslayer: Not a Feature - ITEM
Foo Fu	isPartOf	DBTropes
Alt Text	processingCategory2	Foo Fu
Cane Fu	processingCategory2	Foo Fu
Car Fu	processingCategory2	Foo Fu
Chairman of the Brawl	processingCategory2	Foo Fu
Cloth Fu	processingCategory2	Foo Fu
Confusion Fu	processingCategory2	Foo Fu
Door Fu	processingCategory2	Foo Fu
Dung Fu	processingCategory2	Foo Fu
Forklift Fu	processingCategory2	Foo Fu
Gun Fu	processingCategory2	Foo Fu
I Know Kung-Faux	processingCategory2	Foo Fu
Improv Fu	processingCategory2	Foo Fu
Juggle Fu	processingCategory2	Foo Fu
Kung-Shui	processingCategory2	Foo Fu
My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours	processingCategory2	Foo Fu
Shamu Fu	processingCategory2	Foo Fu
She-Fu	processingCategory2	Foo Fu
Waif-Fu	processingCategory2	Foo Fu
What the Fu Are You Doing?	processingCategory2	Foo Fu
Wire Fu	processingCategory2	Foo Fu
Wok Fu	processingCategory2	Foo Fu

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Foo Fu	processingCategory2	Naming Conventions
Foo Fu	processingCategory2	Snowclones
Foo Fu	processingCategory2	This Index Knows Kung-Fu
Foo Fu	processingCategory2	This Trope Is X
Foo Fu	processingCategory2	This Trope Name References Itself
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_c30a1170	type	Foo Fu
Night at the Museum / int_c30a1170	type	Foo Fu
Sly Cooper (Franchise) / int_c30a1170	type	Foo Fu
FooFighters	seeAlso	Foo Fu
TechFu	processingCategory1	Foo Fu
TreeFuTom	seeAlso	Foo Fu
Bunnies & Burrows (Tabletop Game) / int_c30a1170	type	Foo Fu
Munchkin (Tabletop Game) / int_c30a1170	type	Foo Fu
Frogger (Video Game) / int_c30a1170	type	Foo Fu
Super Power Beat Down (Web Video) / int_c30a1170	type	Foo Fu
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c30a1170	type	Foo Fu
Babar and the Adventures of Badou / int_c30a1170	type	Foo Fu
Yin Yang Yo! / int_c30a1170	type	Foo Fu

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