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RE: Defenestration - 5/25/2007 5:00:13 PM   
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[pronounciation omitted] [mod. f. L. de- I. 1, 2 + fenestra a window: so in mod.F.]
The action of throwing out of a window.
Defenestration of Prague, the action of the Bohemian insurgents who, on the 21st of May 1618, broke up a meeting of Imperial commissioners and deputies of the States, held in the castle of the Hradshin, and threw two of the commissioners and their secretary out of the window; this formed the prelude to the Thirty Years' War.
1620 Reliq. Wotton. (1672) 507 A man saued at the time of the defenestration. 1837 Southey Lett. (1856) IV. 521, I much admire the manner in which the defenestration is shown [in a picture]. 1863 Neale Ess. Liturgiol. 238 Which commencing at the defenestration of Prague+terminated in the peace of Westphalia.

Hence (as a back-formation) de"fenestrate v. trans. (usu. joc.), to throw out of a window; de"fenestrated ppl. a. (in quot. 1927 punningly = ‘windowless’?).
1620 H. Wotton Lett. (1907) II. 199 Two of the defenestrated men. 1915 Lit. Digest 20 Mar. 668/3 The word defenestrate means ‘to throw out of the window’+but there is no good authority for its use. 1927 C. Connolly Let. 27 Apr. in Romantic Friendship (1975) 298 Prague+seemed a good place, gloomy and defenestrated. 1958 J. C. Herold Mistress to Age (1959) xii. 246 ‘I am like the Irishman who kept coming back until he was thrown out of a fourth-floor window.’ So confident was she of not being defenestrated that she rented a house at 540 rue de Lille. 1974 Publishers Weekly 30 Sept. 52/2 Anne Ramsdell, a brilliant math professor at Oxford,+escapes death by stabbing but is thrown out of her third-story window.+ Anne meets and falls in love with the man who had defenestrated her at Oxford.

- From the OED, 2nd Ed., 1989

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RE: Defenestration - 5/25/2007 5:03:45 PM   
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Oh dear God.


http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1375/images/pyramid.jpg

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RE: Defenestration - 5/25/2007 5:05:31 PM   
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Seems the modern day version isnt quite as painful.
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RE: Defenestration - 5/25/2007 5:09:38 PM   
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lol..just found on this page http://worddaze.blogspot.com/ the following text....

"One interesting new meaning of defenestration that has appeared recently on the Internet but not in the dictionary - yet - is: The act of removing a Windows operating system from a computer in order to install an alternative one"


Ah, the new name for a Linux takeover!

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RE: Defenestration - 5/25/2007 5:13:32 PM   
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ORIGINAL: SugarMyChurro

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Oh dear God.


http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1375/images/pyramid.jpg



LMAOoOoOOOOOOoooo

Is that the one they made for King Kong?

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RE: Defenestration - 5/25/2007 5:14:51 PM   
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Blushes deeply !

Seems the modern day version isnt quite as painful.
http://www.ubersite.com/m/35409


Ha!  That was actually what I first pictured when I heard the term "butt pyramid".

<Such awesome research you guys do.>

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RE: Defenestration - 5/25/2007 5:25:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		MarieToo....Being in the Uk i have a love of historical buildings and Castles in particular. I remembered reading a book about the middle ages and when i say the words butt pyramid....Well lets just say im glad im sitting on a chair.

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RE: Defenestration - 5/25/2007 5:35:48 PM   
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ORIGINAL: philosophy

lol..just found on this page http://worddaze.blogspot.com/ the following text....

"One interesting new meaning of defenestration that has appeared recently on the Internet but not in the dictionary - yet - is: The act of removing a Windows operating system from a computer in order to install an alternative one"


Ah, the new name for a Linux takeover!




We call that, generally, a mindwipe.





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RE: Defenestration - 5/25/2007 5:38:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		Wikipedia has an entry on Defenestration(I haven't looked up Butt Pyramids!).

Apparently Prague has had two major Defenestrations- in the 1400s and  the 1600s.

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RE: Defenestration - 5/25/2007 5:39:37 PM   
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RE: Defenestration - 5/25/2007 5:40:00 PM   
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RE: Defenestration - 5/25/2007 5:52:48 PM   
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please get back to us on the history of butt pyramids in the wiki.


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I believe the device in question is called the Judas Chair. Butt Pyramids has no entry. The Judas Chair is a pyramid and the individual was lowered so the point would impale either the anus or the vagina. There is a picture if you want to go there and look.

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RE: Defenestration - 5/25/2007 5:58:25 PM   
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please get back to us on the history of butt pyramids in the wiki.


Bill Gates



I believe the device in question is called the Judas Chair. Butt Pyramids has no entry. The Judas Chair is a pyramid and the individual was lowered so the point would impale either the anus or the vagina. There is a picture if you want to go there and look.


Perhaps a new wiki page needs to be formed, and cross linked...

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RE: Defenestration - 5/25/2007 6:09:04 PM   
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RE: Defenestration - 5/25/2007 8:16:19 PM   
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RE: Defenestration - 5/25/2007 8:26:38 PM   
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Has anyone else heard this term before?


Yes. There's a great story about defenestration in the Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes.

A French king (I forget which) had a soothsayer who was terrifyingly accurate. So the king hatched a plan to dispatch him. The soothsayer would be summoned to the palace for one final audience. At a signal from the king, courtiers would pick him up and hurl him out the window.

The soothsayer was summoned and duly arrived. The king asked, "You've made so many great predictions that I can't help wondering if you know when you will die." The man replied, "I shall die three days before your majesty does."

The king did not give the signal.



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RE: Defenestration - 5/25/2007 8:30:51 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Politesub53

Blushes deeply !

Seems the modern day version isnt quite as painful.
http://www.ubersite.com/m/35409


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RE: Defenestration - 5/25/2007 9:23:16 PM   
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Has anyone else heard this term before?


Yes. There's a great story about defenestration in the Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes.

A French king (I forget which) had a soothsayer who was terrifyingly accurate. So the king hatched a plan to dispatch him. The soothsayer would be summoned to the palace for one final audience. At a signal from the king, courtiers would pick him up and hurl him out the window.

The soothsayer was summoned and duly arrived. The king asked, "You've made so many great predictions that I can't help wondering if you know when you will die." The man replied, "I shall die three days before your majesty does."

The king did not give the signal.




That Soothsayer was so clever! Cool story.

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RE: Defenestration - 5/25/2007 9:24:06 PM   
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That Soothsayer was so clever!


Seriously. Talk about thinking on your feet.

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RE: Defenestration - 5/25/2007 9:46:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		        So is there a nifty word for throwing someone into or through a wall?  Besides aggravated battery I mean.

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