You Can't Say 'Frak' on TV, Except All Those Times When you Can

This one goes out to the Battlestar Galactica nerds in the house. How can you spot a BSG nerd in the wild? Well, when she drops something heavy on her toe in mixed company, she just might yell, "Frak!" That's because "frak" is every third word spoken on the gritty SF/military/political drama, and it's obvious from context that their language evolved or devolved an f-word that means exactly the same thing as ours, with both swear word and sexual functions (and Katee Sackhoff managing to make, "I wanna frak" sound hot means she's a better actress than I'll ever be). I seem to remember this word being in existence in the original 1978 version as well. Anyway, pretty much the whole point is that you can't say "fuck" on TV, but you can say "frak", and the actors relish doing so as often and emphatically as possible.

Enter KFC, which stands for Kompletely Frakkin' Clueless, who joined with the Sci-Fi channel for a promotion where you sign up for a contest and win, in addition to BSG swag, something originally called a "Frak Pak," which is basically a big ol' bucket of chicken.

Somewhere down the line, somebody dropped a dime, so the contest is now the "Can't Say That Word on Television Sweepstakes." Especially hilarious when those frakkin' commercials run during the frakkin' show itself.

Topless Robot broke the story last week, hilariously.