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don't know defenestrate is so funny - throw someone out of a window?
by zabzonk 4y ago
don't know defenestrate is so funny - throw someone out of a window?
- dhosek 4y agoIt is funny in the context of a glossary otherwise composed of computer terms. Their definition, incidentally, was “to throw something or someone out of a window.”
- kadoban 4y agoIt's also just, on its own, a ridiculous thing to have a word for specifically throwing someone out of a window.
- rjsw 4y agoThe word came from a specific [1] event, people were not getting randomly thrown out of windows. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague
- kergonath 4y ago“Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window” is a famous Woz quote. It is not really surprising to have something along those lines in an Apple ][ manual. Defenestrate works for objects as well.
- Sunspark 4y agoAlso Russian oligarchs.