[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
Illuminatus!:
I. "The Eye in the Pyramid"
II. The Golden Apple"
III. "Leviathan".
Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
Dell, 1988
ISBN 0-440-53981-1
This work of alleged fiction is an incredible berserko-surrealist
rollercoaster of world-girdling conspiracies, intelligent dolphins, the
fall of Atlantis, who really killed JFK, sex, drugs, rock'n'roll, and
the Cosmic Giggle Factor....