I mean honestly, what a perfect name, somewhere between FRAT and FUCK. It sounds like what frat boys do to one another and now they're doing it to Earth, and to everyone's water pipes.
This needs to be on everyone's list to stop now. Those smarmy Chevron ads where they talk about being such high tech sensitive understanders and drillers now make sense.
It’s also an amusing and unfortunate coincidence that everyone’s favourite recent US Sci Fi series, Battlestar Galactica, has used frack in place of fuck. Myself and many friends simply can’t watch references to hydraulic fracking and this form of gas extraction in the news without a smile (or a Beavis and Butthead style snigger, which isn’t a good thing for forty five year old to admit).
ReplyDeleteThe working titles of all of my current book chapters also feature ‘fracked’ (“We’re All Fracked”, “Sytemic Reasons we’re Fracked”, “Psychological Reasons we’re Fracked”, “Escapes from Being Fracked” and “The Inevitablity of Being Fracked”). I doubt I’ll get it past the publishers, but they capture the tone and content quite effectively.