EPA subpoenas Halliburton over fracking fluids | Reuters

[Lisa Galvin]

Expletive.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frak_(expletive)
 
Lisa 


 

                                                   


 

> Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 18:28:15 -0500
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> Subject: Re: EPA subpoenas Halliburton over fracking fluids | Reuters
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> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It seems doubtful that the writers of the new Battlestar Galactica
> > franchise (recently canceled, apparently) had much of an idea that
> > "fracking" is a real word.
> >
> 
> I've never watched BsG. What does "fracking" mean as used in the BsG context?
> 
> FWIW, I once had no idea that _arse_ was a real word. As a child, back
> in the '40's, I "invented" it as a cover for _ass_.
> 
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