It involved murder of opposing political peeps by, yes, throwing them out of a window.
And they landed on manure, so they didn't die. Yea manure!
Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!
Xander ,'Chosen'
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Betsy HP - Sep 24, 2005 4:08:53 pm PDT #4231 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Betsy HP - Sep 24, 2005 4:10:06 pm PDT #4232 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Holy shit (as it were), there were TWO. Two defenestrations.
You've got to admire the Czech stick-to-it-iveness. Anybody else would have stopped at one.
Betsy HP - Sep 24, 2005 4:10:57 pm PDT #4233 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Sorry, I HAVE to quote this bit.
On March 10, 1948 -- a month after the establishment of a Communist-dominated government -- Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia (the only remaining non-socialist minister, and son of the founder of the republic) was found dead beneath the bathroom window outside of his top-floor apartment in the Czernin Palace, the Foreign Ministry building in Prague. The authorities at the time said it was a suicide (and the Czech people were privately impressed at how he had been so fastidious as to close the window after himself on his way out). While it was unclear for a long time whether he was actually murdered, in early 2004 police concluded that he was indeed assassinated and had not committed suicide. The circumstances of how he was assassinated are still unclear. This event is not usually called a defenestration of Prague.
Italics mine.
tommyrot - Sep 24, 2005 4:15:05 pm PDT #4234 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Has there ever been a regicide by defenestration?
Betsy HP - Sep 24, 2005 4:36:14 pm PDT #4235 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Charles III had to step out a window to be beheaded, but they didn't behead him in the window.
tommyrot - Sep 24, 2005 4:47:57 pm PDT #4236 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, what are some other obscure words for murder?
Kevin - Sep 24, 2005 5:26:34 pm PDT #4237 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Tim Minear?
Kiba Rika - Sep 24, 2005 5:30:51 pm PDT #4238 of 10001
I may have to seize the cat.
Has anyone ever used Minear as a verb? Because I think if not, we should all bring it into common usage.
Example:
"He pissed me off so much. I wanted to minear him, but I didn't want to get arrested. It was a dilemma."
Kevin - Sep 24, 2005 5:32:50 pm PDT #4239 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
To minear. I like it.
To be honest, I once made a joke on Whedonesque about using "fillion" as a verb (as in, when you get mad at somebody and want to post rude things about their company online). The problem is, people HAVE started saying to fillion now.
Kiba Rika - Sep 24, 2005 5:45:52 pm PDT #4240 of 10001
I may have to seize the cat.
Ooh or you could say minearize.
"After that guy called it THE Serenity instead of Serenity, I wanted to minearize him so bad."
In my etymology, this means I would write a show wherein he got killed, not actually kill him.
A real-life example:
Topic!Cindy's husband got minearized. Or mineared. Whichever you prefer.