eat flaming death
A construction popularised among hackers by the infamous CPU Wars comic;
supposedly 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!"
[Jargon File]
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