July 25, 2006

defenestration: it was first performed as part of the Thirty Year's War.

There have been several famous people who have had it performed upon them. There are commercial products available to help protect against it. Do you like defenestration?

posted by Berek 18 years ago
  • I cannot think of defenestration without thinking of Trout Fishing in America's "The Window".
  • I have seen these windows.
  • LDB.
  • Point of order -- the defenestration of 1618 was not the first, but the second (although it wasn't really the second either, as we learn here.). The 1618 incident is commonly referred to as the "Great Defenestration", to distinguish it from, you know, other defenestrations, even if it had a low death/injury tally because the people hurled landed either in a pile of shit or snow, depending whose account you choose to believe.
  • It would help if I did my links right. Sorry.
  • it was first performed as part of the Thirty Year's War A quick google shows that there is a biblical example. Ergo, Berek is lying. Hence, he should have all his toes amputated. Thus, I call on tracicle to perform her knifey responsibilities.
  • But, it was not referred to as defenestration when it was done in the bible. The term didn't yet exist. Ergo, Q is mistaken. Hence, he should po9e4* &5 )(@H&6!
  • The term 'defenestration' existed, as all terms exist -- we just haven't discovered them yet. Like how all common law exists before it is revealed bit by bit, or how Platonic ideals exist 'out there' unchanging independent of our own measley existence. So no, quid isn't mistaken. The amputation order stands.
  • What the fuck is wrong with you people?
  • My case worker has no idea.
  • Do you want the full list, or just the top 10?
  • TUM make RTD laugh.
  • all terms exist Mimpurneseance to that.
  • Schmexactly.
  • Fuck it, now I want ALL of you banned.
  • LBELOOYB!
  • LBMF
  • Leave your father out of this. He's a good man.
  • stupid Nickdanger thinks he's so great, I'll show him
  • You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
  • That's right, pete. Instead of "Nickdanger thinks he's so great", you obviously meant to say "Nickdanger is so great".
  • *Defenestrates Nickdanger*
  • I always assumed that defenestration was less a planned sort of thing but more a window of opportunity, so to speak.
  • Also: "Defenestrator" was, iirc, the name of a Culture Rapid Offensive Unit.
  • Sometimes. It became something of a tradition in Bohemia, with certain meetings with certain people scheduled in certain rooms with certain windows of a certain width.
  • *calls Fes' attention to something just below in the courtyard there . . .*
  • My Myspace page is called Defenestration Station. Just thought you all should know. Disclosure: Um, it's my Myspace page.
  • Is Defenestration Station close to Conjunction Junction?
  • What is the function of the junction of conjunction?
  • I dunno, but it gives me the fever for the flavor of some Pringles.
  • Defenestrator will be the name of my next death metal band.
  • The jingle for Pringles gives me the tingles.
  • The Pringle-jingle-tingle can be mistaken for the shingles.
  • *mingles*
  • LBMS!! Really, those sites are soooo fucking ugly!
  • I single Skrik for the shingles or possibly lacking pringles!
  • The Skrik-singling-jingle-shingles should not be consumed with pringles or tingling-singing-Der_Bingle.
  • Der_Bingle ist verboten!
  • Buh buh bah boo bee dooooooo *puffs on pipe*
  • THe Road to Monkeystan?
  • *Jumps out of window by myself*
  • (I can never think of Der Bingle without seeing him pound the living crap out of David Boo-ie on that Christmas Special, The True Meaning of Christmas Specials. Good times, good times...)
  • Now look what you've gone and done, Pete: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /issues/0109/hadju.jpg on this server.
  • Here try this But for the luvvamike, don't do a google image search for it. Some Germans can't spell worth a damn.
  • Wow. I want that book.
  • *slaps every last monkey across the kisser to "snap them out of" whatever has gotten hold of them*
  • Monkey like slappy slappy!
  • I love you all so verray, verray much.
  • brrrrrrr! *rubs arms There's a draft in here.
  • One summer when I was a pimply teenager I worked at a job cutting down trees with an axe.
  • Must've been small trees, cause how else would'a have been able to fit them through the windows? Just sayin', is all.