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January 24, 2004

Close personal friends

According to the Butt Ugly Weblog, "orkut" — the name of the Google-affiliated artificial social network — is a slang term for "orgasm" in Finnish.

It turns out it's named after its creator, Orkut Buyukkokten, whose parents were either cruel or not Finnish.

On the other hand, what isn't a slang term for "orgasm"? I mean, even "Finnish" is, as in: "Didn't you Finnish yet?"

(Thanks to Janne Jalkanen for pointing out the dirty Scandinavian words.)

Posted by D. Weinberger at January 24, 2004 10:19 AM

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oh, cum on! :D

Posted by: Adam Lasnik | January 24, 2004 07:00 PM

Since when was "orgasm" a "dirty word"?

Posted by: degistibus | January 24, 2004 10:58 PM

Hehe. But jokes aside, I still have no invitation to join :(

Posted by: Dirk | January 26, 2004 04:45 PM

I want to make personal friends.

Posted by: Debabrata Ghosh | April 28, 2006 11:52 AM

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