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Subject: Re: Etymology of: " This website is borked ".
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 14:30:47 +0000 (UTC)
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In comp.os.linux.advocacy vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 03:36:04 +0000, owl wrote:
> 
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy Jeff-Relf.Me wrote:
>>> Owl replied:
>>>> > > the term "snit" has evolved into a term much like "Bork" or
>>>> > > "Borked" ( justice Bork ).
>>>> > 
>>>> > "To Bork" ( to fuckup ) refers to the Swedish Chef Muppet because he
>>>> > always screws up and says "Bork Bork Bork".
>>>> 
>>>> It's a slang play on the word broke or broken.
>>> 
>>> While all three of us are technically correct,
>>> I'm using the one that UNIX beards think of.
>>> 
>>> UrbanDictionary.COM/define.php?term=Borked
>>> 
>>>   Something is "borked" when it doesn't work correctly or misbehaves,
>>>   generally due to negligence by the person(s) that are responsible for
>>>   it.
>>> 
>>>   Etymology:  Combine one part "broken"
>>>   and one part Swedish Chef and you get "borked."
>>> 
>>>   This website is borked.
>>>   That mechanic borked your car.
>> 
>> I don't consider myself a unix beard -- maybe a peachfuzz -- but i've
>> put in about 22 years and never heard of that Muppet Chef.  To me,
>> "borked" is like "pr0n" and "lunix."  It's just transposition slang.
>> Poettering borked teh lunix!!!11!
> 
> _[/tmp/c]_(x@x)_
> $ echo How could you not have heard of the Swedish Chef? | chef
> Hoo cuoold yuoo nut hefe-a heerd ooff zee Svedeesh Cheff?
> Bork Bork Bork!
> _[/tmp/c]_(x@x)_
> $ ls /usr/games/chef 
> /usr/games/chef
> _[/tmp/c]_(x@x)_
> $ apt-file search /usr/games/chef
> filters: /usr/games/chef
> 

I never watched the Muppets.  I know the frog and the pig, and that's
about it.  Is that really where "borked" comes from?