Where Do We All Live? (With Map Link)

[Garrett]

So, somewhere in Google Land, two search word specialists (read: advertising grunts)are staring at one another with puzzled looks wondering why the word 'borked' is suddenly trending.

[Michele]

A tangential question: if there were an apocalypse, where would you like to be living?

[Cheryl]

Iowa? I've not thought about it, but near food and far from targets?

[Michele]

Cheryl in CC NV wrote: "Iowa? I've not thought about it, but near food and far from targets?"

Well, there's Offutt Air Force Base. I guess it depends on the type of apocalypse :)

[Glynn]

Lincoln wrote: "Nice use of the word "borked"....Before you go and google the term, who knows their history? Extra credit for those outside of the United States. "

I live in the United States but have never heard the word "borked" until now! Is it really a word?

[Glynn]

Amy wrote: "And that's probably far more information than you wanted to know. ;)
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Good information. I like information! :)

[Michele]

Glynn wrote: "I live in the United States but have never heard the word "borked" until now! Is it really a word?"

Well, it is now :) One meaning comes from politics: to obstruct someone from public office, as in what happened to Robert Bork.

The other meaning comes from the online world as a common typo for "broke" (reversing the R and O). As in, "My car is borked." Similarly, you often see 'teh' instead of 'the' or 'ebil' for 'evil' (b is next to v on the keyboard).

So for example, "Extremists are teh ebil."

[C.J.]

Borked in computing comes from the Swedish Chef muppet, and technically it doesn't mean broken, but rather messed up by the person supposed to be maintaining it. On old Linux systems you could send the output of any program to be translated into Swedish Chef speech, and it was turned into the Chef's pseudo-English. This output was described as borked way back in 1992 when I was studying for my physics degree.
I had no idea about the Robert H Bork use, which seems weirdly unrelated.

[Michele]

C.J. wrote: "Borked in computing comes from the Swedish Chef muppet, and technically it doesn't mean broken, but rather messed up by the person supposed to be maintaining it..."

ROFL!! Oh, that's priceless XD I should have known: "Bork! Bork! Bork!"

[Amy, Queen of Time]

Yes, I always think of the Swedish Chef muppet when I say the word "bork". :-)

[Lincoln, Temporal Jester]

Michele wrote: "Glynn wrote: "I live in the United States but have never heard the word "borked" until now! Is it really a word?"

Well, it is now :) One meaning comes from politics: to obstruct someone from publ..."

Michelle,

I got my degree in political science and know the Robert Bork story...that is the story I was wondering if anyone knew when I posed my bork question. Congratulations on being the winner...although the other answers are very interesting as well.