Versatile expression of confusion, annoyance, anger, boredome, or surprise, meaning may vary based on accompanying punctuation and prefix. Origins are believed to be in the internet slang used in ID Software's computer game Quake.
> omblurg! the rabid hamsters escaped
> blurg, im bored, lets watch the turnip channel
> wtblurg... i just wasted a minute of my time reading the definition of blurg

W: would you like to come over for dinner tonight? A: sure, but I have to tell you that I've become a vegetarian. I don't eat any kind of meat. W: when did you decide to become a vegetarian? A: I saw a program a few months ago about how animals are r

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By Katherine Cole Washington 31 July 2006 The lineup at this year's Grey Fox Bluegrass festival reads like a who's who of modern bluegrass: Grammy-winners Ricky Skaggs, Tim O'Brien, and Jerry Douglass all traveled to take part in the musical weekend

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IN THE NEWS – March 23, 2002: INS Re-Organization By Caty Weaver This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS. President Bush is considering ways to re-organize the agency t

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AGRICULTURE REPORT – June 25, 2002: Organic Farming Study By George Grow (Photo -Scott Bauer) This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Agricultural scientists in Switzerland have demonstr

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By Mil Arcega Washington 21 February 2008 Japan's Toshiba Corporation effectively ended the format war over the next-generation DVD players after announcing this week that it would no longer manufacture HD DVD players and recorders. The announcement

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. World leaders are meeting in New York to discuss progress on the Millennium Development Goals they set ten years ago. Five years remain to meet eight goals to reduce hunger, poverty and disease and

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By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 01 August 2006 watch Transplant report The new lease-on-life enjoyed by organ transplant recipients comes with a price: patients must take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives. But a promising new procedu

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By Ron Corben Bangkok 19 June 2008 The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization is calling for urgent aid for thousands of farm families that suffered losses during last month's cyclone in Burma. As Ron Corben reports from Bangkok, while aid experts s

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By Katherine Cole Washington 16 December 2006 Multi-instrumentalist Sam Bush has been taking his music beyond the boundaries of traditional bluegrass for almost 35 years. As a founding member of the New Grass Revival, Sam pioneered a whole new direc

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Broadcast: March 6, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- our guest is Anu Garg, the man behind a popular e-mail service called A.Word.A.Day. RS: And for the past nine years, that's exactly what subscribers hav

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By Kay Maddux Washington 05 January 2006 A top U.S. diplomat in Ethiopia says the government there should drop treason, genocide and other charges against five Ethiopian-born journalists working for t

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Joel: Hey, Tom, when you were in Thailand, did you, were you good at bargaining? You know how you have to haggle to get the price lower. Tom: Once I got started it was OK, but, oh, getting started was so difficult. Joel: What do you mean? Tom: I just

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 12 March 2008 The battle between two rival high definition formats for video disks has been decided in favor of Blu-ray, which was jointly developed by Sony, Samsung, Philips and other companies. Mike O'Sullivan reports

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