Not yet one of the seven words you can’t say on TV: “Frak,” a made-up curse word used on the show “Battlestar Galactica,” is entering common use even among people who don’t watch the show.*
The word isn’t technically naughty. However, it will be only marginally less embarrassing to explain in polite company if your 3-year-old starts imitating the way daddy shouts, “Frak! Frak! What the frak?” while he’s trying to fix the plumbing.
A new way to look up frak on the Internet: Hoping to further its domination of online search (and the world), Google on Tuesday released a new Web browser.
“You only have 24 hours a day, and we would like you to do more searches,” Google co-founder Larry Page said. “If the browser runs well, then you will do more searches.”
Translation: We have released a Web browser to tide us over while we figure out how to alter the space-time continuum so you can do more searches.
Everett’s hospital has a new name: Providence Regional Medical Center Everett. Adopting the new, longer name required changes to signs, stationery and ID badges, as well as deep-breathing exercises for operators to help them say all those words in one breath.
* For a crash course in how to effectively use the term frak, check out this helpful compilation of some of the best frak-related moments from the first season of “Battlestar Galactica.”
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