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Posted By: Gray faglork - 04/21/11 07:54 PM
Have you ever heard of the word

"faglork"

What language is it and what does it mean?
Posted By: BranShea Re: faglork - 04/21/11 09:07 PM
It's English and it means a cigarette for which they use meticulously shredded larch wood in stead of tobacco.
Posted By: tsuwm Re: faglork - 04/21/11 10:40 PM
hogwash! :-D
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: faglork - 04/21/11 10:52 PM
Hello, welcome, Gray.
Posted By: Candy Re: faglork - 04/22/11 01:13 AM
Originally Posted By: BranShea
It's English and it means a cigarette for which they use meticulously shredded larch wood in stead of tobacco.


Its English!

fooled me. yes, as Ts said....would have been great hogwash subject.
Posted By: obihave Re: faglork - 04/22/11 02:19 AM
Never heard it before but it's my new favorite.
Posted By: Faldage Re: faglork - 04/22/11 11:46 AM
It might could still be a hogwash word. It has a onelook index of zero.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: faglork - 04/22/11 03:29 PM
Might be fun....
Posted By: Gray Re: faglork - 04/22/11 04:01 PM
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.
Posted By: tsuwm Re: faglork - 04/22/11 04:09 PM
from the Don Martin (MAD magazine artist) Dictionary:

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

dem other words is big water noises; faglork must be the command Moses gave to part dose waters. huh.
Posted By: BranShea Re: faglork - 04/22/11 06:09 PM
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.
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: faglork - 04/24/11 06:42 AM
Originally Posted By: tsuwm
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.

Peter
Posted By: tsuwm Re: faglork - 04/24/11 01:13 PM
>fuh GLORK

d'oh! < slapping forehead w/palm >
-joe (veeblefetzers Я us) friday
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: faglork - 04/25/11 10:11 AM
Originally Posted By: tsuwm
>fuh GLORK


Yeah, that's what I meant; I haven't veeblefetzed in years.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: faglork - 04/25/11 03:08 PM
Is that because of all the snow you all have in Alaska??
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: faglork - 04/25/11 09:10 PM
No, I think it's the rampant pludvorks.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: faglork - 04/25/11 09:21 PM
I hope you aren't taxed for them !
Posted By: Faldage Re: faglork - 04/25/11 11:24 PM
Taxed for them?! Don't you know nothin' bout Alaska? They get paid for them.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: faglork - 04/25/11 11:32 PM
There are so many things I don't know anything about.
Paid for them???
Wow!
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: faglork - 04/26/11 10:19 AM
Each fall we get the PFD, the Pludvork Finder's Dole.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: faglork - 04/26/11 05:36 PM
Wish I could get in on that.
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: faglork - 04/29/11 09:14 AM
I know a guy who knows a guy…
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: faglork - 04/29/11 03:05 PM
Yeah!, Could you.........
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: faglork - 04/30/11 06:17 AM
Uh, sorry; Guido just took him out.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: faglork - 04/30/11 03:00 PM
Dagnab it! I'm always a day late.
Posted By: BranShea Re: faglork - 04/30/11 03:45 PM
Blame it on royalty.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: faglork - 04/30/11 03:52 PM
None of which we have in the real sense, but we do have plenty
of wannabees - Queen of the Dairy Festivals, Pork King and Queen,
King and Queen of the Prom as well as Homecoming, Miss America
and their ilk, all in tiaras. Etc. Etc.
Posted By: Faldage Re: faglork - 05/01/11 12:24 AM
Believe me, the King of the Prom looks absolutely stunning in his diamond encrusted tiara.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: faglork - 05/01/11 01:20 AM
Wasn't it deloverly?
Posted By: Faldage Re: faglork - 05/01/11 10:14 AM
It's delightful, it's delovely, it's DeSoto.
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: faglork - 05/01/11 10:21 AM
Scary how familiar that is.
Posted By: Faldage Re: faglork - 05/01/11 10:51 AM
Tell 'em Groucho sent ya.
Posted By: zmjezhd Re: faglork - 05/01/11 01:08 PM
Swordfish!
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: faglork - 05/01/11 02:57 PM
Ah, yes, I well remember that advertisement.
Posted By: Faldage Re: faglork - 05/01/11 09:27 PM
We did it once. We were about 12 IIRC. My friend and I stuck our heads in the door of the Desoto-Plymouth dealership, shouted, "Groucho sent us!", and ran.

Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: faglork - 05/01/11 11:39 PM
I'll bet even the salespersons got a laugh out of it.
Posted By: Faldage Re: faglork - 05/02/11 10:37 AM
Looking back on it from the perspective of some fifty-odd years (and, yes, at least fifty of them were odd) I'd bet either they did or they muttered amongst themselves, "It'd be nice of some kid could come up with something new once in a while."
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: faglork - 05/02/11 12:21 PM
Still it is a little better, I think, that the prank calls
asking "Do you have Prince Albert in a can?", or "Is your
refrigerator running?"
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: faglork - 05/03/11 11:09 AM
"Do you live on Main St.? Better move: a truck's coming."
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: faglork - 05/03/11 02:38 PM
Ah, yes, I'd forgotten that one.
Posted By: Mike Hunt Re: faglork - 05/04/11 09:38 PM
Faglork Etymology
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: faglork - 05/04/11 10:12 PM
WELCOME, MIKE
Posted By: olly Re: faglork - 05/04/11 10:56 PM
Luke, I gotta feeling that Mike is related to Hugh Jass.
Posted By: Jackie Re: faglork - 05/05/11 02:40 AM
Who's Hugh?
Posted By: olly Re: faglork - 05/05/11 03:52 AM
Mike has just Rick rolled us so I thought his name maybe a joke as well. Hugh
Posted By: Candy Re: faglork - 05/05/11 04:02 AM
I think you are right olly.......I couldn't fathom the connection before.

(not a bad video though)
Posted By: olly Re: faglork - 05/05/11 04:37 AM
Rick was cool back in the day.

Never gonna give, Never gonna give, give you up
Never gonna give, Never gonna give, give you up
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: faglork - 05/05/11 06:23 AM
That was my first time; how was it for you?

Peter

PS: I never heard of Rick back in the day, probably because I was cool a lot further back. Still am, of course.
Posted By: Faldage Re: faglork - 05/05/11 11:03 AM
Rickrolling is so fifteen minutes ago.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: faglork - 05/05/11 03:00 PM
Originally Posted By: olly
Luke, I gotta feeling that Mike is related to Hugh Jass.



I have to agree Olly. Thanks. I am really slow a lot of the time.
I'll try to be more careful. I just see a new name and
welcome. But as said below we won't be seeing Mike again.
Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu Re: faglork - 05/05/11 04:54 PM
Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8
Originally Posted By: olly
Luke, I gotta feeling that Mike is related to Hugh Jass.



I have to agree Olly. Thanks.


and I'm guessing we won't hear much from our newest member: Mike Hunt...

frown
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: faglork - 05/05/11 04:58 PM
Can you spell gullible??
Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu Re: faglork - 05/05/11 06:59 PM
my bad. I don't always catch who's posting what.
Posted By: tsuwm Re: faglork - 05/05/11 09:07 PM
Originally Posted By: olly
Mike has just Rick rolled us so I thought his name maybe a joke as well. Hugh


The internet trend of "rickrolling" (ie. tricking someone into following a link to Rick Astley's video for the 1987 song "Never Gonna Give You Up") first started in 2007, but grew into a pretty mainstream occurrence throughout 2008. - Film Junk
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: faglork - 05/05/11 09:30 PM
Originally Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu
my bad. I don't always catch who's posting what.


Not your bad. I was referring to ME: I'm the gullible one.
Posted By: Mike Hunt Re: faglork - 05/06/11 12:17 PM
Ah, come on...It was funny. Simpson's prank call and a Rick Roll!

It's me...GaryGnu...
Posted By: Candy Re: faglork - 05/06/11 01:51 PM
Ohhhhh its gnuGary. You got us good.
How come you changed you moniker!!
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: faglork - 05/06/11 03:03 PM
wink
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