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eat flaming death

imp. A construction popularized among hackers by the infamous CPU Wars comic; supposedly derived from a famously turgid line in a WWII-era anti-Nazi propaganda comic that ran Eat flaming death, non-Aryan mongrels! or something of the sort (however, it is also reported that on the Firesign Theatre's 1975 album In The Next World, You're On Your Own a character won the right to scream Eat flaming death, fascist media pigs in the middle of Oscar night on a game show; this may have been an influence). Used in humorously overblown expressions of hostility. Eat flaming death, EBCDIC users! IPM tells us to eat flaming death.
	`eat flaming death`

	imp. A construction popularized among hackers by the infamous CPU Wars comic; supposedly derived from a famously turgid line in a WWII-era anti-Nazi propaganda comic that ran Eat flaming death, non-Aryan mongrels! or something of the sort (however, it is also reported that on the Firesign Theatre's 1975 album In The Next World, You're On Your Own a character won the right to scream Eat flaming death, fascist media pigs in the middle of Oscar night on a game show; this may have been an influence). Used in humorously overblown expressions of hostility. Eat flaming death, EBCDIC users! IPM tells us to eat flaming death.