May 15, 2003

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.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:49 AM

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