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death, x of
(jargon) | Death, X of
[common] A construction used to imbue the subject with campy menace,
usually with intent to ridicule. The ancestor of this term is a famous Far
Side cartoon from the 1980s in which a balloon with a fierce face painted
on it is passed off as the “Floating Head of Death”. Hackers and SF fans
have been using the suffix “of Death” ever since to label things which
appear to be vastly threatening but will actually pop like a balloon if you
prick them. Such constructions are properly spoken in a tone of
over-exagerrated portentiousness: “Behold! The Spinning - Pizza - of -
Death!” See Blue Screen of Death, Ping O' Death, {Spinning Pizza of
Death}, click of death. Compare Doom, X of.
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death, x of
(jargon) | Death, X of
[common] A construction used to imbue the subject with campy menace,
usually with intent to ridicule. The ancestor of this term is a famous Far
Side cartoon from the 1980s in which a balloon with a fierce face painted
on it is passed off as the “Floating Head of Death”. Hackers and SF fans
have been using the suffix “of Death” ever since to label things which
appear to be vastly threatening but will actually pop like a balloon if you
prick them. Such constructions are properly spoken in a tone of
over-exagerrated portentiousness: “Behold! The Spinning - Pizza - of -
Death!” See Blue Screen of Death, Ping O' Death, {Spinning Pizza of
Death}, click of death. Compare Doom, X of.
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