Friday, October 13, 2006

Crackberry


I have one of these now. It's the new Verizon BlackBerry 8703e. I received it Monday from work and I've already been told by the young 'uns that I use it too much.

Pray for me.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

You sound like a Dork.

Tattoosday said...

Stop posting anonymously, Ian, and get back to work.

Tattoosday said...

Or it wasn't Ian at all, and I am just a dork.

Dork

Popular etymology would have it that this American slang term comes from a term meaning a whale's penis. That is half right.

The term did originally mean a penis, but human not cetacean. This slang sense dates to at least 1961 and is probably a variant on dick or dirk (another name sometimes used to personalize the phallus). The sense meaning a stupid or obnoxious person follows a few years later, 1967.

Coincidentally, 1967 is the year I was born.

Steve Sherlock said...

Coincidence, I got one just like that at work on Monday as well...