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Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Thu Jul 22 12:18:11 UTC 2010


"Ratfucking" goes back to at least the early '60s, as HDAS may someday show.
It entered politics in the era of CREEP.

JL

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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>  A comment on the latest thread (well, only latest at the moment I
> scanned it), from W. Kiernan:
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> > 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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