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		BoppreH on June 7, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Could Bill Gates write code? This is called "code golf". You try to get the final program with the minimum of "shots" (bytes, lines, tokens or characters). It's amusingly addictive. And I really hope you misplaced that hyphen in "cow-orkers".

Uhhrrr on June 7, 2011 [–]

Scott Adams popularized this construction, which suggests that one's co-workers are likely to ork cows (but he didn't originate it:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams#Coined_phrases).

EDIT: As far as I know, the definition of "ork" as a verb is left to the imagination.

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