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Gray #199305 04/22/11 06:09 PM
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Originally Posted By: Gray
first saw it in a cartoon of Moses parting the Red Sea. Faglork was the Sea talking? responding? burping? don't get why this is supposed to be funny. Thanks for all the posts.

Don't get what is wrong with a funny word, welcome Gray! I wonder how it could be pronounced, Fa-glòrk or fàg-lork or otherwise.

tsuwm #199334 04/24/11 06:42 AM
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from the Don Martin (MAD magazine artist) Dictionary:

RUMBLE ROR FAGLORK SWOOSH Moses Parts the Red Sea MAD #186, Oct 1976, Page 16


If it's from Don Martin, I would pronounce it fuh-Glork,'cuz that's what sloshing water sounds like, at least in my washing machine.

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>fuh GLORK

d'oh! < slapping forehead w/palm >
-joe (veeblefetzers Я us) friday

tsuwm #199378 04/25/11 10:11 AM
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Originally Posted By: tsuwm
>fuh GLORK


Yeah, that's what I meant; I haven't veeblefetzed in years.

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Is that because of all the snow you all have in Alaska??


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LukeJavan8 #199402 04/25/11 09:10 PM
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No, I think it's the rampant pludvorks.

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I hope you aren't taxed for them !


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LukeJavan8 #199408 04/25/11 11:24 PM
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Taxed for them?! Don't you know nothin' bout Alaska? They get paid for them.

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There are so many things I don't know anything about.
Paid for them???
Wow!


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Each fall we get the PFD, the Pludvork Finder's Dole.

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