Evil passive voice (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE



>
> It's from the 1986 horror film _The Fly_, in the form "Be afraid.
> Be very afraid."
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
> OED
>

But probably a bigger vector for it was _Addams Family Values_, 1993
(said by Wednesday Addams).
Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

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