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Victor Steinbok
aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Thu Jul 22 03:03:46 UTC 2010
A comment on the latest thread (well, only latest at the moment I
scanned it), from W. Kiernan:
> Commenter jTuba at the Pandagon blog has created a new verb, "to
> breitbart," meaning to maliciously edit videotapes for the purpose of
> (here's another excellent pretty-recent verb that probably hasn't made
> the OED yet) "ratfucking" political adversaries. That's a lot of
> meaning concisely packed into two compact syllables; I like it!
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