A construction popularized among hackers by the infamous {CPU Wars}
comic; supposedly derived from a famously turgid line in a WWII-era
anti-Nazi propaganda comic that ran "Eat flaming death, non-Aryan
mongrels!" or something of the sort (however, it is also reported
that on the Firesign Theatre's 1975 album In The Next World, You're
On Your Own a character won the right to scream "Eat flaming death,
fascist media pigs" in the middle of Oscar night on a game show; this
may have been an influence). Used in humorously overblown expressions
of hostility. "Eat flaming death, {EBCDIC} users!"
IPM tells us to {eat flaming death}.
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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {CPU Wars}{eat flaming death}]