> From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > 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. > Actually, it could be something like that. If I weren't reading this offline right now, I'd try to do a quick search and would probably come up with the exact meaning. But I can't. Oh well...
IIRC, another one was "feldercarb". Or was that from Mork and Mindy? - John H
