2003-02-25

Someone was looking for "words that mean verbose".

EAT FLAMING DEATH: From the Jargon Lexicon of the Hacker's
Dictionary:

eat flaming death: imp. A construction popularized among hackers by
the infamous CPU Wars comic; supposed to derive 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 the Firesign Theater's
1975 album "In The Next World, You're On Your Own" included the
phrase "Eat flaming death, fascist media pigs"; this may have been
an influence). Used in humorously overblown expressions of
hostility. "Eat flaming death, EBCDIC users!"

From the Firesign Theater Lexicon, part 2 of 4.

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