Fact Checking

I am giddy with excitement over what might be my first "we'll fact-check your ass" moment as a blogger. Might. Over here, John of Wuzzadem [ed. -- note that this link leads to a photoshopped picture of Tom Delay giving the middle finger and may not be worksafe at church] has Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons cite the word 'klabdak' as the Klingon word for 'bulls#@t". I grabbed my handy Klingon/English dictionary (Simon and Schuster, 1985) -- which, of course, I always keep nearby just for such circumstances -- and I found no word called 'klabdak'! Trying to remember my rusty Klingon, I broke it down into constituent suffixes and prefixes, but again found no root words for 'klabdak'.

I noted this fact in a comment (sorry, but Wuzzadem doesn't appear to have permalinks for individual comments), to which John of Wuzzadem responded that he had a more recent edition from wa'SaD Hutvatlh HutmaH jav, which means "1995". Can anyone with access to an up-to-date Klingon/English dictionary confirm this translation of 'klabdak'? Journalistic standards of integrity are at stake.


Meanwhile, Ian simply refuses to take this issue seriously:

The geek irony overload of fact-checking the Klingon language used by the Comic Book Guy is making flames come out of my ears.