rcj (11/19/82)
Anyone ever seen this one before? (I hadn't) de-fen-es-tra-tion: n. -- An act of throwing something or someone out of a window. [DE- + FENESTRA] If you have any words along these lines (little-known and humorous, that is); please drop me a line. I will report on the interest in net.general and, if it seems to warrant, I will also suggest a new net group entitled something like "net.words" or maybe "net.trivia.words". The MAD Programmer Western Electric - Burlington, NC (919) 228-3814 or Cornet 291
wombat (11/22/82)
#R:burl:-10400:uicsl:5400001:000:182 uicsl!wombat Nov 22 09:22:00 1982 I ran across defenestration in high school. Seems it was a common practice in Albania and some other Slavic countries -- that's how they announced a change in government leadership.
hamilton (11/25/82)
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uicsovax!hamilton Nov 25 03:38:00 1982
in the same vein (heh heh), consider "exsanguination"...
wayne ({decvax,ucbvax,harpo}!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsovax!)hamilton