cnn.com — There's no question what the word stands for and it's used gleefully, as many as 20 times in some episodes. The word is showing up everywhere -- on T-shirts, in sit-coms, best-selling novels and regular conversation. The word is insinuating its way into popular vocabulary for a simple reason. You can't get in trouble. It's a made-up word.
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datagodSep 3, 2008
FRAK!
phalstonSep 3, 2008
My boss used that yesterday...I knew I was working in the right place.
petebotSep 3, 2008
buried for being a total douchebag.
imayberight8Sep 3, 2008
I thought the other word was "felder carb". But FRAK has a certain ring to it. I watched the first series and liked it at the time, until they took it too far with 'Galactica: 1980'. The arrival on Earth of the Fleet's warriors, incognito, was interesting, but after the wow factor wore off, the show was mercifully cancelled. Some of the original cast was missing and the new characters were grating.New show has a decidedly dark look and feel, good drama and special effects, tho. Eureka! is a very cool show currently on the SciFi Channel. I watch that with almost as much glee as I watched 'FarScape'. But cool to see a word from my old sci fi favorite being used in regular folks conversations. But I usually equate people who dislike science fiction as people who do not like science, either. The United States certainly needs better science education.
nick519Sep 4, 2008
...and "bull puckey".
myztrySep 4, 2008
This is funny because words have no clearly defined points for which people can argue.I think the key is 'common'. And legally as in common law where where you have things like married names becoming legal names through common use, property becoming owned through prolonged use, rights of way through prolonged common/public use, etc. Although common law is more a trait of the English legal system. Case/Court law tends to use it's own definitions for words though, and not always in a manner inline with the common language.
suprfireSep 4, 2008
andFRAK THE MPAA!
kitsuaSep 4, 2008
I'm anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulations. -Blackadder, king of pseudo-babble.
histumnessSep 4, 2008
Sorry :-(
domduncSep 5, 2008
smeg is better