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Is There A Word For This?
Defenestration is death by being thrown out a window. What do you call it when you die from being sat on?
Besides stupid, that is...
[Update at 3:50 PM PDT]
Fritz Anderson has an excellent candidate. He suggests "subglutication."
I might add a syllable, to it, though. How about subglutification?
Posted by Rand Simberg at June 19, 2002 12:19 PM
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Subglutication?
Posted by Fritz Anderson at June 19, 2002 03:26 PM
It could only be... assassination?
Posted by ken anthony at June 19, 2002 05:28 PM
Groan...
Posted by Rand Simberg at June 19, 2002 05:31 PM
Defenestration doesn't have necessarily to involve death. In the most famous incident - the Defenestration of Prague in 1618, which triggered the 30 Years War - the victim, a legate of the Austrian emperor, was fortunate enough to land in a very large pile of horse shit, and so was able to run off and tell his superiors how much the Bohemians needed smacked around.
Posted by Evan McElravy at June 22, 2002 08:50 PM
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