Hilarious.  You know, somehow I knew it wasn't an accidental mispeling.

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 23 Oct 2009 at 16:54, Richard Stovall  wrote:
>
>> Cool thanks.
>
> De nada ...
>
>> What's a cow-orker?  Sounds suspiciously illegal for some reason....
>
>    cow-orker - Google Search
>    http://www.google.com/search?q=cow-orker
>
> The Jargon file tells it best:
>
>    cow orker: n.
>    http://www.wiccat.net/jargon/html/C/cow-orker.html
>
>        [Usenet] n. fortuitous typo for co-worker, widely used in Usenet, with
>    perhaps a hint that orking cows is illegal. This term was popularized by
>    Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert) but already appears in the January
>    1996 version of the scary devil monastery FAQ, and has been traced back to
>    a 1989 sig block. Compare hing, grilf, filk, newsfroup.
>
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