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Sep 21, 2011 at 17:14 vote accept Fixee
Sep 20, 2011 at 21:14 comment added jhocking I would assume that was just someone mistaking the word "whore" for "hoard" (possibly without realizing they are actually two separate words; happens all the time).
Sep 20, 2011 at 20:49 comment added FrustratedWithFormsDesigner @Fixee: Possibly. That phrase doesn't make much sense to me, but maybe in the context it had meaning. Or maybe it was an in-joke.
Sep 20, 2011 at 17:35 comment added Fixee When I google "quit whoring all the" I get 60 hits; one example: "quit whoring all the cookies and beer!" Are these people just conflating "whore" and "hoard" then?
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