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cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
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 Posted - 23 Oct 2003 : 06:32:28
I know where Bork came from!!!Bork was the name of a politician!!! Apparently there was a politician, and he voted down a bill, and in that day in history, 'borked" became a verb in the dictionary!!!! THAT'S AMAZING!!! So, it wasn't me, it wasn't JT (unless JT's last name is bork  ) that popularized it and "bork" is an actual verb! Official 68k videographer
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 23 Oct 2003 : 07:23:30
Interesting...where'd you get that from?Btw, if it was jt, then we would be referring to him as jb. "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers
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cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
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Posted - 23 Oct 2003 : 10:02:45
Actually, what if T is his middle name? ;)JTB  It was on the news this morning, sadly, Dad saw it while I was sleeping, I wouldn't even have seen it otherwise Official 68k videographer
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redrouteone
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USA
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Posted - 23 Oct 2003 : 20:08:03
I always that it was because some one mispelled broke and it stuck. Kind like how pr0n came about.--Eric
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cory5412
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USA
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Posted - 23 Oct 2003 : 20:16:47
heh, that's how I thought it came about too.we learn something new every day huh? Official 68k videographer
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bigsadhu
Junior Member
Cayman Island
462 Posts |
Posted - 23 Oct 2003 : 23:25:07
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_BorkCheers!
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bigsadhu
Junior Member
Cayman Island
462 Posts |
Posted - 04 Nov 2003 : 19:02:41
Now here's something interesting!Robert Bork, former US Supreme Court judge, is currently appealing the Justice department cave-in on Microsoft's antitrust case. Get the full story here... http://news.com.com/2100-1014_3-5101981.html?tag=nefd_top So I guess this is a case where being "Borked" could actually be a good thing! Go Bork! Cheers!
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 04 Nov 2003 : 20:56:08
Since the jargonfile lists "borken" as:quote:
borken: adj. (also borked) Common deliberate typo for broken.
http://www.catb.org/esr/jargon/html/B/borken.html . . . the jargonfile revision-history features a specific reference . . . quote:
The Usenet culture has one tripling convention unrelated to this; the names of `joke' topic groups often have a tripled last element. The first and paradigmatic example was alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork (a "Muppet Show" reference); other infamous examples have included:
http://www.eps.mcgill.ca/jargon/jargon.html . . . the "Muppet Show" ran from 1976 ->1980, the Swedish Chef appeared in the third episode . . . http://vr.ncsa.uiuc.edu/BS/Muppets/episode_guide_ms.html . . . Judge Bork was "Borked" in 1987 during the Reagan Administration . . . http://www.siu.edu/worda/persp/sp99/bork.html ergo, bork/borked/borken almost certainly predates D.C.'s hijacking of the term.  jt  .
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p.s. if anyone owns a copy or is heading to the library, this edition probably contains the definitive answer to the "bork" question.
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. . . a book published in 1983 as "The Hacker's Dictionary" (Harper & Row CN 1082,
ISBN 0-06-091082-8) . . .
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cory5412
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USA
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Posted - 06 Nov 2003 : 19:36:08
ooOOoo! Thankye!I halfway knew that i wasn't making it up! lol! MS got borked? Official 68k videographer
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