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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!”
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