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I guess he really borked it. His name is mudd. edit: I guess people understandably think I'm trying to start a reddit pun thread or something. My point is that

by po 15y ago

I guess he really borked it. His name is mudd. edit: I guess people understandably think I'm trying to start a reddit pun thread or something. My point is that there is a long history of this happening. Google delisting this isn't going to change the term now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bork http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bork http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Mudd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Mudd

botker 15y ago
From your second link: Samuel Mudd is sometimes given as the origin of the phrase "your name is mud", as in, for example, the 2007 film National Treasure: Book of Secrets. However, according to an online etymology dictionary, this phrase has its earliest known recorded instance in 1823, ten years before Mudd's birth, and is based on an obsolete sense of the word "mud" meaning "a stupid twaddling fellow".[18][19]