Have you ever used the word "frack" or some derivative ("fracking," etc.) in real-life conversation?

[Orrex]

If so, when do you plan to move out of your parents' basement?

[TZ]

1. Does friggen count?

I try to keep my cursing down at work, so I use friggen alot. and for the record I moved out of my Mom's place 10 plus years ago...:)

[Orrex]

4. As a quasi-expletive, "friggin" is just fine

In addition to its masturbatory connotation, it obviously arose as a substitute for situations when the word "fucking" is just a bit too coarse.

[Deep13]

26. Hyper technical point:

"Expletive" is a word that has no meaning and is not a part of speech, but is in a sentence to make it sound better. "Which" and "that" are common examples when used as such. The reason people use the term expletive to mean an obscenity is because when the transcripts of Nixon's secret recordings were first printed, newspapers did not want to accuse the president of cursing, so rather than printing "obscenity deleted" they wrote "expletive" instead, implying that the dropped words had no meaning.

[Orrex]

28. No shit?

Goddamn it that's pretty fucking cool, and never in all my many years had I heard that.

[Deep13]

25. *delete*

[Radio_Lady]

2. LOL. There have been many versions over my radio years to help get around FCC rules.

The most noticable one was "friggin'" -- but there was a lot of variation by a variety of well known folks.

Randi Rhodes still uses it almost every day.

[grasswire]

3. what about freaking?

That's used a lot.

[PassingFair]

5. I prefer, and use, "frikken" .

Everyone else is wrong, or vulgar,
or both.

[SeattleGirl]

6. I do, in public.

At home, I use the real thing. :)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. I have been known to use it at work and other public places --

Frick and Frack :D

[CherokeeDem]

8. Dupe...

Sorry...computer going nuts

[PassingFair]

10. Dr. Evil says it best:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh5Lh-tTSZQ&feature=related

[CherokeeDem]

9. Used it today on DU...

As in "Is this fracking woman delusional?" Guess which woman I was talking about. Use it sometimes in public...been known to use the real version...but it amazes me that you can say frack and it be acceptable and the real word isn't when the sentiment is the same. Strange world we live in...

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

11. Yep.

It's my big sister's nickname. Has been since she was a teenager. It's the only name I call her by- and I talk to her almost every single day.

[Orrex]

12. Well, okay. You and she get a special dispensation

Further allowances will be determined on a frack-by-frack basis.

[Withywindle]

13. Blurted it at work just yesterday when I dropped a bundle of papers....

And I could tell who was on the geek train by who caught it and busted a gut laughing. (That would include my boss.)

It's spelled "frak," by the way.

[Orrex]

14. It's spelled "frak" if you're a hopeless BSGeek, you BSGeek!

Forgive my ignorance--I've never read any of the canonical materials re: the series, and I've never seen it in print except when typed by BSGeeks.


:evilgrin:

[Withywindle]

16. It's terrifying how natural it can become, and how quickly.

ya frakkin' skinjob.

[Orrex]

18. For me, "skinjob" will only ever refer to Blade Runner

And Parche is a Replicant, by the way.

[DarkTirade]

15. Nah. I'm more of a gorram fan.

:)

[JTG of the PRB]

17. Yes. Yes I have... But only with other BSG fans around.

Also, I'm moving out of the basement this Friday after my one month stay between apartments. :P

[petronius]

19. I have never said "frack" without using "frick" in the same sentence

(And my parents don't have a basement; I sleep in the treehouse...)

[YankeyMCC]

20. Several times now

it's pretty much replaced the traditional f-word in my vocabulary and I do it without even thinking now.

And I own my own basement thank you :)

[Connonym]

21. are you implying there's something wrong with that?

:-P

[Orrex]

23. Implying? Nope!

:evilgrin:

[NewJeffCT]

22. Just on DU

I don't think I've used it in real life.

[Chan790]

24. Yes...

actually it started as a joke...kinda. It's grounds for immediate termination to swear at my place of employment. Someone said "frak" and it caught on. We have our own little language of profanity, none of which is actionable. (example: "shit!" became "ship!" became "boat!")

And it's my house, my parents moved in with me. They live in the basement, not me.

[NJmaverick]

27. Fuck no

Never

[mainegreen]

29. I'm about as likely to say 'frak' as I am likely to pray to the lords of Kobol.

Not very.

[texanwitch]

30. Hell no.

I use the real damn words, frack doesn't make it.

I didn't use such words until I joined the Army, really.

[Miss Carly]

31. freakin, friggin, farggin

then on occasion, the real word pops out

Carly