Bork was the equivalent of emperor Palpatine when I was in college...

[PCIntern]

after he fired Archibald Cox, he became the second-most-hated after Nixon in our little neck of the woods in Rochester, NY. When Nixon resigned during the summer, those of us working on campus put up a sign that said:

"They fired the shit heard round the world"

Little did we reckon that we would have to deal with Bork for another 40 years...