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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>eat flaming death</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="previous" href="Easter-egging.html" title="Easter egging"/><link rel="next" href="EBCDIC.html" title="EBCDIC"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">eat flaming death</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Easter-egging.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">E</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="EBCDIC.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="eat-flaming-death"/><dt xmlns="" id="eat-flaming-death"><b>eat flaming death</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">imp.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A construction popularized among hackers by the infamous
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<a href="../C/CPU-Wars.html"><i class="glossterm">CPU Wars</i></a> comic; supposedly derived from a famously
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turgid line in a WWII-era anti-Nazi propaganda comic that ran “<span class="quote">Eat
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flaming death, non-Aryan mongrels!</span>” or something of the sort
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(however, it is also reported that on the Firesign Theatre's 1975 album
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<i class="citetitle">In The Next World, You're On Your Own</i> a character
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won the right to scream “<span class="quote">Eat flaming death, fascist media
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pigs</span>” in the middle of Oscar night on a game show; this may have
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been an influence). Used in humorously overblown expressions of
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hostility. “<span class="quote">Eat flaming death, <a href="EBCDIC.html"><i class="glossterm">EBCDIC</i></a>
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users!</span>”</p><div class="mediaobject"><img src="../graphics/eat-flaming-death.png"/><div class="caption"><p>IPM tells us to <a href="eat-flaming-death.html"><i class="glossterm">eat flaming death</i></a>.</p></div></div></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Easter-egging.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="EBCDIC.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Easter egging </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> EBCDIC</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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