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Old 02-12-2006, 10:31 AM
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Is he ever gonna hit Krazy Kat, or what?
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Originally Posted by Sa'ar Chasm
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Arcata: GAH! You're going to die, Lionel! DIE!
Clark: No, don't kill him! We must rely on fair judicial process to convict him.
Lionel: Listen to him! LISTEN TO HIM!
Arcata: Meh. I'd rather disappear into the night after defenstrating Lionel.
Clark: In front of the impressionable kids watching this show? You're sick!
(SUPER-THROW!)

Clark: Oh, that's what defenestrating means.
That's one of my favourite words. It amuses me to think that people and objects were being thrown out of windows so often that they had to coin a new word to express the concept.
Yeh, great word, as opposed to transfenestration (if you've read Pynchon's Vineland), which is when one jumps through a closed window (though I suppose it would also apply in the case of Axel Foley.)
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