kinetic energy poisoning

[Wilson Gray]

Looks like an updating of the horse-operatic, "died of lead-poisoning"
= "was shot dead."

-Wilson

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> "kinetic energy poisoning": apparently, injury by a bullet or
> shot/thrown weapon. <20 googits, many of them quotes/repeats. I first
> saw the expression in a blog comment by a friend, about his father's
> cancer:
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>   He was in remission when he died of kinetic energy poisoning
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