Everything seems to work for me but page #50 - I get:
This page isn’t workingforum.classicmotorworks.com is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 500
P49 & P51 on either side seem to be OK....?
Right you are! Page 50 of that thread at
https://forum.classicmotorworks.com/index.php?topic=29822.0 is indeed "borked". I'll bring it to the direct attention of the All-Powerful Admins. I'd wager the cause is just a corrupted database index file from which a "byte" has been taken, perhaps by a random passing neutrino or other cosmic particuloid flying by, or maybe just by Dan's pungent new generic aftershave,
Dataloss for Men, dissolving the data storage media, and so the file may just want re-indexing. It's grown into a fairly ponderous thread after all. A little "data rot" might be expected.
As for "bork" or "borked", that's a stirring and almost sexually onomatopoetic word for "fucked up", ruined or even sabotaged, isn't it? For such a lovely, almost earthy and primitive (like Dan's aftershave) and ancient venerably Anglo-Saxon sounding term, it's actually quite recent. Most etymologies have it as deriving from the failed Reagan Era Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork's abortive or "borked" confirmation for a seat on the Court by the Senate, which is charged to "advise and consent" to such appointments. His past as a foe of some Civil Rights measures and role in the obstruction of the Nixon Era "Watergate" investigations led many in the Senate to do their very best to derail or "bork" his confirmation.
Unsurprisingly for a word so elementally and viscerally "right" for its concept, some speculative etymologies mention the similar but possibly earlier "borken", a simple yet inherently ironic misspelling or typo of "broken" that soon gained some traction as a deliberate typo, and is still found commonly in use in some hacker or computer forum subcultures, akin to the deliberate typos "pron" or "teh".
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