OT: Only funny if you're a Battlestar Galactica fan.
It seems that hydraulic fracturing, a technique used in the extraction of natural gas, has picked up an unfortunate abbreviation.
Highlights from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/24/business/energy-environment/24gas.html?src=me&ref=business:
Fracking has been around for decades, and it is an increasingly prominent tool...
Roughly 99.5 percent of the fluids typically used in fracking, the industry says, are just water and sand, with trace amounts of chemical thickeners, lubricants and other compounds added to help the process along.
...critics say that the relationship between fracking fluids and groundwater contamination has never been thoroughly studied...
and my favorite:
...softening their rigid positions on fracking-fluid disclosure.
Haha, you have got to be frackin kidding me...
-UMichGA
Oh sandy fracking fluids. That just seems like it would be irritating.
The third one sounds almost biblical...you know, the whole spilling your seed on the ground thing. Damn that groundwater fracking contamination.
I also saw it in the NYT and couldn't help chuckling every time they used the term :) Leave it to the oil and gas industry to keep us all smiling.
Fracking tremendous.