"Horn, John" wrote:
>
> > From: Steve Sloan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> > On Farscape, frell is actually pretty nasty, since it seems
> > to mean the English "f" word... It's that show's contribution
> > to the long list of slang words invented for sci-fi. :-)
>
> In college, I had a friend who used the word "frak", which if you recall,
> was the "f" equivalent from "Battlestar Galactica". (This was in 1986 or
> so.) We all politely looked the other way whenever he did it so he couldn't
> see us smiling and/or grimacing...
I didn't know that's what it was. I picked it up from my husband, who
might use it partly because it doesn't sound like any of the words his
mother would object to. :) I was using it more as a substitute for the
"s" word (at least in the exclamitory way; if I'm talking about actual
excrement, I use the "s" word without apology, mostly in the case of
talking about what is excreted by a dog or human, and not so much by any
other animal); I guess that was the wrong usage. Sigh.
> I maybe a geek but I'm not *that* much of a geek!
How much of a geek are you? And how would you rate me, now that I've
made this confession?
Julia
who didn't watch "Battlestar Galactica" in her youth
