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iwannapullurhair -> Defenestration (5/25/2007 4:16:26 PM)

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?




CuriousLord -> RE: Defenestration (5/25/2007 4:19:07 PM)

Nope, not to my memory.




philosophy -> RE: Defenestration (5/25/2007 4:20:46 PM)

Yup.......think it's in Shakespeare somewhere.......




Aileen68 -> RE: Defenestration (5/25/2007 4:23:18 PM)

If I remember my french from high school...fenestra is window.




philosophy -> RE: Defenestration (5/25/2007 4:23:48 PM)

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"




marieToo -> RE: Defenestration (5/25/2007 4:26:59 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Aileen68

If I remember my french from high school...fenestra is window.


If I remember mine, it had something to do with a 12 year old putting his tongue in my mouth.  Oh what the hell am I talking about? That was grammar school.




Domin8tem -> RE: Defenestration (5/25/2007 4:28:11 PM)

Means throwing something or someone out of a window, literally, or
figuratively, rapid removal, such as a dictator by a military coup.




Domin8tem -> RE: Defenestration (5/25/2007 4:29:42 PM)

and philo, the French is 'fenetre'




Aileen68 -> RE: Defenestration (5/25/2007 4:29:54 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: marieToo

quote:

ORIGINAL: Aileen68

If I remember my french from high school...fenestra is window.


If I remember mine, it had something to do with a 12 year old putting his tongue in my mouth.  Oh what the hell am I talking about? That was grammar school.


[:)]  lol... I didn't even see that one coming.   It's been a long day.




Sanity -> RE: Defenestration (5/25/2007 4:31:36 PM)

Here's some video of some guys being thrown off of a roof, if you're into that sort of thing. (Warning - it's more disturbing than butt pyramids)

Click on chapter 1.

http://fdd.typepad.com/fdd/2006/01/alert_saddams_c.html




Aileen68 -> RE: Defenestration (5/25/2007 4:33:59 PM)

What are butt pyramids?




Politesub53 -> RE: Defenestration (5/25/2007 4:39:39 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Aileen68

If I remember my french from high school...fenestra is window.


Fenstra is Latin for window DE means from. Much of the French Language, and English for that matter, is derived from Latin as it was the common language spoken by nobility and the clergy.
marieToo gave the best reply though. [;)]




Politesub53 -> RE: Defenestration (5/25/2007 4:43:44 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Aileen68

What are butt pyramids?


Lets hope we never have to sit on one. If i am correct they were pyramid shaped blocks used for torture in the middle ages. The victim would be suspended in the sitting position by a rope and lowered onto one. Gravity did the rest.
After time people really did get the point.....[:D]




philosophy -> RE: Defenestration (5/25/2007 4:46:05 PM)

i'm sure it is......but isn't Aileen the french expert?




marieToo -> RE: Defenestration (5/25/2007 4:49:29 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Politesub53

quote:

ORIGINAL: Aileen68

What are butt pyramids?


Lets hope we never have to sit on one. If i am correct they were pyramid shaped blocks used for torture in the middle ages. The victim would be suspended in the sitting position by a rope and lowered onto one. Gravity did the rest.
After time people really did get the point.....[:D]


Oh dear God.




mnottertail -> RE: Defenestration (5/25/2007 4:50:42 PM)

sinestra and fenestra were two characters on the Addams family, but since Lurch couldnt pronounce sinestra they changed the characters name to it.

Ted Post and Richard Keilly






marieToo -> RE: Defenestration (5/25/2007 4:50:55 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: philosophy

i'm sure it is......but isn't Aileen the french expert?


Suffice it to say that's not the only thing she was an "expert" at in high school.




chicagochick -> RE: Defenestration (5/25/2007 4:51:51 PM)

Ive heard it used a few times here and there, mostly in literature and referring to breaking windows or shattering glass. Not so much with butt pyramids, but i'm no expert.




marieToo -> RE: Defenestration (5/25/2007 4:52:11 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: mnottertail

sinestra and fenestra were two characters on the Addams family, but since Lurch couldnt pronounce sinestra they changed the characters name to it.



Yes, but were they perched upon butt pyramids?




mnottertail -> RE: Defenestration (5/25/2007 4:59:09 PM)

unfortunately, John Astin died and the series ended, so that plotline never came to fruition, but I think that was the underlying theme that was waxing towards maturity of that plot.

Pugsly 




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