# 1506 nix nix **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [April 4, 2001, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1506-nix-nix/60713 "2001-04-04T01:37:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Noxturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8dc957/32.png) [@Noxturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noxturne)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2001, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1506-nix-nix/60713/1 "2001-04-04T01:37:42Z")
Actually, this phrase did finally get an answer. I read it in a Comic’s Buyers Guide years ago. 1506 was the apartment number of a friend of Holman’s who was a womanizer. the Nix Nix was his way of warning women away from that guy’s apartment. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2001, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1506-nix-nix/60713/2 "2001-04-04T06:59:43Z")
A link to the Staff Report is appreciated. What’s the origin of “notary sojac”? 03-Apr-2001 [http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/msojac.html](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/msojac.html) ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2001, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1506-nix-nix/60713/3 "2001-04-04T07:20:52Z")
Another note on this: > [@](#): > > Back in DOS shareware days, old fogeys may remember, “foo” and “bar” were often the default variables used by developers to illustrate how you’d insert an argument into command line input. This, of course, is a tradition that continues to this day in software documentation, books, examples, and actual code.