User blog comment:Tama63/The Power of Burs/@comment-168424-20110731191156/@comment-1393830-20110731192131

Or in the case of a wiki, it is a shortening of the word bureaucrat. I don't think a single person here looked at it and thought he meant burr as in the thing that hangs on clothes. Everyone looking at it knew that bureaucrat was meant because we are on a wiki where bur is common slang for bureaucrat.