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!"
    

eat flaming death

   <humour, abuse> 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}]

   (2006-12-12)