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iwannapullurhair -> RE: Defenestration (5/25/2007 10:38:35 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: TheHeretic So is there a nifty word for throwing someone into or through a wall? Besides aggravated battery I mean. I don't know. There must be some sick bastard that has created a word for such an amusing concept. I always enjoyed movies where people act like they are swimming when they are falling.

Sinergy -> RE: Defenestration (5/25/2007 10:41:00 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: TheHeretic So is there a nifty word for throwing someone into or through a wall? Besides aggravated battery I mean. In hockey it would be "checking" them. Wack de bastahrd hagainst de wall hand bash dem to zee fahking hice! Sinergy

popeye1250 -> RE: Defenestration (5/26/2007 12:23:04 AM)
So that's what I did in my younger days. I got into a fight with a guy one time at a party (He started it) He was much bigger than me but I was fresh out of the Navy and in good shape. He threw a punch at me and I grabbed his arm, swung him around using his weight against him and crash......BANG! He landed on the roof of a 74 Plymouth Satelite and shattered the windshield. Why didn't they just call it; "Throwing some asshole out a window?"

Zensee -> RE: Defenestration (5/26/2007 2:45:05 AM)
2 - 4 - 6 - 8 ! Who shall we defenestrate?

MasterGarghoul -> RE: Defenestration (5/26/2007 2:57:22 AM)
I've known the word "defenestrate" for years. But then, I'm that kind of pedant.Oddly, I didn't know about its origins as a reference to a specific historical act. I just knew it meant "to throw out a window." quote: ORIGINAL: TheHeretic So is there a nifty word for throwing someone into or through a wall? Besides aggravated battery I mean. Not that I can think of off hand, but if I needed such a word I would coin "transmuralate" as a neologism. Lucius Alexander House of the Palindromedary

mnottertail -> RE: Defenestration (5/26/2007 4:47:48 AM)
In the old area of Red Lake Indian reservation one of the last closed reservations (I believe Rosebud another) they still hold the wake in the house and pass the coffin thru the window (defenestrate it) so the soul makes it outside in freedom. Ron (I am not shitting)

Alumbrado -> RE: Defenestration (5/26/2007 6:30:26 AM)
The word is popular again, resulting in both overuse, and evolving definitions. Throwing someone out of a window is reportedly the original context of defenestration, but the literal definition is simply to remove ('de', as in 'declaw') a window (fenestra L. - fenster G.). Throwing a brick into a window would accomplish defenestration just as nicely as throwing a person out.

Fnordstrum -> RE: Defenestration (5/26/2007 5:24:20 PM)
Heh, I was just mentioning the word Defenestration to a friend earlier today... I remember talking about it in Latin class one day. It really is a fun word to just use randomly. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤

Arpig -> RE: Defenestration (5/26/2007 5:37:32 PM)
Back in high school there was this girl who claimed to be a Manson fan, going on about being a follower and so on...so I defenestrated her....it was the 1st floor, but I wasn't about to listen to her crap any longer. BTW she and I later became very good friends...one of the best female drinking buddies I ever had

iwannapullurhair -> RE: Defenestration (5/26/2007 8:54:05 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Fnordstrum Heh, I was just mentioning the word Defenestration to a friend earlier today... I remember talking about it in Latin class one day. It really is a fun word to just use randomly. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Don't coincidences seem so odd some times?

michaelOfGeorgia -> RE: Defenestration (5/26/2007 8:56:16 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: iwannapullurhair I ran into this term one day while reading some History. It means throwing someone out a window, like in the Defenestration of Prague in the 1400s. These guys were pissed at a couple guys over a political matter and threw them out a 4th or 5th floor window(The higher the floor the better). The word is pretty rarely heard, but it has been done many times in History. So I was surprised to hear the term used on Dark Angel on the Scifi channel today. They asked this guy if he knew what Defenestration was. He didn't. Then they showed him the hard way. Jezebel from the Bible was Defenestrated and then ripped apart by dogs. Some people think Secretary of Defense James Forestal was Defenestrated. They made that look like a hanging, but the rope broke(maybe that doesn't count). That was supposedly over a disagreement over revealing the existense of UFOs to the World(As in Alien Spacecraft). He wanted to reveal it, the killers didn't. In the movie Braveheart, Longshanks Defenestrates his son's gay lover. Has anyone else heard this term before? just goes to show that people will talk about anything these days...LOL

Fnordstrum -> RE: Defenestration (5/27/2007 6:09:28 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: iwannapullurhair quote: ORIGINAL: Fnordstrum Heh, I was just mentioning the word Defenestration to a friend earlier today... I remember talking about it in Latin class one day. It really is a fun word to just use randomly. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Don't coincidences seem so odd some times? Isn't that kind of the point?.. If it wasn't odd, you wouldn't notice it (most likely.) Fnord. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤

Lordandmaster -> RE: Defenestration (5/27/2007 6:18:49 PM)
Please, "defenestration" has meant "throwing someone out of a window" since the 17th century. It has NEVER meant "removing a window." Anyone can look it up in the Oxford English Dictionary if you don't believe me. Why do people spread misinformation that is SO easily verified? quote: ORIGINAL: Alumbrado The word is popular again, resulting in both overuse, and evolving definitions. Throwing someone out of a window is reportedly the original context of defenestration, but the literal definition is simply to remove ('de', as in 'declaw') a window (fenestra L. - fenster G.). Throwing a brick into a window would accomplish defenestration just as nicely as throwing a person out.

NakedOnMyChain -> RE: Defenestration (5/27/2007 7:36:38 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: iwannapullurhair Has anyone else heard this term before? Yep. In an etymology class I once took.

calamitysandra -> RE: Defenestration (5/28/2007 5:02:25 AM)
I have known it since history class in grade 6. We learned about the defenestrations in Prague, and that the word originated there.

Vendaval -> RE: Defenestration (5/28/2007 1:05:23 PM)
Why does this not surprise me, Arpig? And don't all good drinking buddies need to be trashed and bashed about a fair bit to prove themselves? [;)] quote: ORIGINAL: Arpig Back in high school there was this girl who claimed to be a Manson fan, going on about being a follower and so on...so I defenestrated her....it was the 1st floor, but I wasn't about to listen to her crap any longer. BTW she and I later became very good friends...one of the best female drinking buddies I ever had

Sinergy -> RE: Defenestration (5/28/2007 3:02:54 PM)
"Entrails in or out?" Dr. Hannibal Lector, Hannibal

petdave -> RE: Defenestration (5/28/2007 11:15:17 PM)
i used to go out to the bar with a couple female friends in college, and they decided that my role, should anyone try to bother them, would be toss said miscreant out the window. Therefore, my official nickname was "Dave the Mad Defenestrator". Certainly one of the cooler things i've been called. FWIW, "fenster" is also the German word for window. [:)]

DagnyTaggart -> RE: Defenestration (5/30/2007 2:26:19 AM)
I've known the word for as long as I can remember...my brother and I used to threaten to throw each other out of windows (sweet sibling rivalry...) and in highschool it was a trendy threat in the nerd crowd.

proudsub -> RE: Defenestration (6/3/2007 4:45:05 PM)
I hadn't heard that term before this thread and now i just read it in a book, it's used the James Patterson's "The 5th Horseman".[8\|]

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